Singapore Standard, 14 February 1956

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    28 1 Singapore V STANDARD POLICE ***** lines) 2400 j% m FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 < Vol VI. No. 222 SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1956 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon LAST CHANCE FOR S.T.C
    613 1 Mr. Marshall Issues A Parting Shot Roll Your Buses Or Face Legal Action SINGAPORE'S CHIEF Minister David Marshall yesterday issued an "ultimatum" to the Singapore Traction Company to get its buses on the roads tomorrow or face possible Minutes before the Chief Minister emplaned for Switzerland
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    Lock icon Farewell Crack
    73 1 THE joke which Chief Minister David Marshall cracked must have been a good one for Chief Secretary W. A. C. Goode to be caught in this pose. The occasion was the departure of Mr. Marshall to Switzerland and the place was the VIP room at Paya Lebar Airport.
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    Lock icon Ambush Did Not Stop Car, Truck
    106 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— .p of 10 to 15 terrorists on a police scout car and a four-ton truck as they wound up the road to Cameron Highlands yesterday. Both vehicles drove through the ambush and there were no casualties. A terrorist food dump hich
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    Lock icon SULTAN FOR PARIS TALKS
    40 1 PARIS. Feb. 13 Reuter) Trie Sultan of Morocco arr.vod here by air today to a week of talks in which French Government will the problems of all its three North African terrin its hands at once.
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    Lock icon London Off Marshall's Itinerary
    88 1 SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall who left Singapore for Switzerland yesterday will not visit London on this trip. Mr. Marshall told newsmen that he might have a "few hours" with constitutional advisers in Switzerland after his fortnight's complete rest. "I must be back at a
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    Lock icon Rulers Back MerdekaPact
    221 1 THE MERDEKA agreement signed in London has the unqualified support of all the Rulers of the Federation. This was revealed by a representative of the Rulers, the Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang, who is also the Mentri Besar of Perak, on arrival at Singapore Airport yesterday. The Mentri
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    Lock icon Goa Border Violations
    97 1 NEW DELHI. Feb. 13 (UP) Two border violations occurred on the frontier between India and Portuguese Goa last week, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today. He said on Feb. 5 Portuguese police, pursuing two Goan nationalists, entered some 1.000 yards into Indian territory and fired shots which
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    Lock icon DROWNED IN POOL
    28 1 MARK Creighton. 6. son of a lieutenant commander in the Royal Malayan Navy, was found drowned in a pool in the H.M.S. Terror. Singapore, yesterday.
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    Lock icon TERRORIST BATTLERS SHUFFLED
    123 1 THE First Battalion Rhodesian African Rifles is coming to Malaya to replace the Northern Rhodesian Regiment which ha s fought the Communist terrorists for the last two years. An advance party of 40 officers and men of the Battalion is expected to arrive at Paya Lebar Airport,
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    Lock icon 20,000 Will Greet Tunku
    80 1 THE Federation's Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, will address a 20.000 strong public meeting outside Paya Lebar Airport when he arrives in Singapore from London with other members of the Merdeka Mission on Sunday. The Minister for Local Government. Lands and Housing. Inche Abdul Hamid bin
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    Lock icon Another Purge Is Ended
    160 1 Another Purge Is Ended NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (AP) Reports in Pravda show that in recent weeks the Kremlin has purged governors of some of the most important Soviet provinces. Analysis of a series of more than a dozen dismissals ot veteran first secretaries ol Communist Party organizations in important
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    Lock icon New Year In Chinatown
    66 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 13 (UP)— Residents of San Francisco's fabled Chinatown yesterday celebrated the first day of the Chinese New Year with a limited fireworks display. Included in the events for the week were athletic contetls, dances, art exhibits and fashion shows. It will end with
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    Lock icon FOUND AND LOST – ONE APARTMENT
    151 1 FOUND AND LOST ONE APARTMENT CHICAGO. Feb. 13 (AP) James McDonough found an apartment the same day he arrived in Chicago. But for more than a month now he hasn't been able to find it again. Virtually all hi? persona] belongings are in the misplaced quarters McDonough, 32, a machinist,
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    Lock icon Operation To Kill Last 32 Begins
    143 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. After a lapse of five months due to the amnesty proclamation, fullscale anti-terrorist operations were launched today in Trengganu. The operation, preceded by an air strike in which 500-lb. bombs were dropped on targets, is aimed at eliminating the State's 32
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    Lock icon Indonesia Impresses Sir Robert
    89 1 THE people of Indonesia are very interested in Singapore and would like to develop friendly relations with the people of Malaya, said Sir Robert Scott. Com-missioner-General for Southeast Asia, on his arrival from Jakarta at the Singapore Paya Lebar Airport yesterday. Sir Rooert was in Indonesia
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    Lock icon Aussies For SEATO Games
    43 1 CANBERRA. Feb. 13 (UP) A small detachment ol Australian troops serving with the Second Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment in Malaya will take part in the SEATO exercises off Thailand later thi s week, the Defence Ministry announced.
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    Lock icon NEW CONSULATES
    19 1 THE Egyptian Government has decided to open consulates in Singapore. Hongkong. Port Arthur, Aden and Kuwait. Reuter
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    Lock icon Loewen Promoted, Festing Due July
    111 1 LT. GENERAL Sir Francis W. Festing, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, JI.K., will succeed General Sir Charles Loewen, as Com-mander-in-Chief Far East Land Forces in July, this year. Sir Charles has been appointed Adjutant General to the Forces with effect from October. As Adjutant General.
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    Lock icon Returning TO U.K.
    8 1 Returning TO U.K. GEN. LOEWEN A step rip
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    Lock icon 'Surrender' In Malaya — Crossman
    141 2 'Surrender' In Malaya Crossman WOLVERHAMPTON, Feb. 13 (Reuter) Mr. Richard Crossman a leftwing Labour M.P. said here last night that the present Conservative British Government had given away as much of the Empire as Labour when it was in power. Mr. Crossman. speaking at a meeting to mark the Parliamentary
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    Lock icon ATOM ICEBREAKER
    22 2 THE Soviet Government announced on Sunday that a Russian shipyard has started preparations to build the world's first atomic icebreaker.
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    Lock icon ENGAGEMENT
    35 2 WONG-CHIN: On Chinese New Year's Day. between Dr. Mary Masdaline Voon Sim. third daughter of Mrs. Wong Thcan Shi of Ipoh, and Philbert Soon Siang. fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Chin Chye Fong.
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    Lock icon RED TRADE BARRIERS STAY
    226 2 But Chances For 'Peaceful Goods Look Brighter WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. An official report published here today said no major increase in the toral trade between the Soviet bloc and the free world could occur unless there were basic changes in the Soviet government's political outlook. The
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    Lock icon HOW WEALTHY?
    42 2 PIERRE POUJADE. the anti-taxation leader with 91 followers in the French National Assembly, said in a speech his party will introduce a bill requiring members of parliament to disclose how wealthy they are and where their money comes from. A.P.
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    Lock icon Eden To Report On U.S. Talks
    118 2 LONDON, Feb. 13 (Reuter) —Sir Anthony Eden will tell the House of Commons here today of the serious concern with which he and President Eisenhower viewed the Middle-East situation in their recent review of the world scene The Prime Minister will be making his
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    Lock icon Dutch May Lose Privileges In Rl
    173 2 JAKARTA, Feb. 13 (AP) Prime Minister Burhanuddin Harahap said yesterday his government is "seriously considering" cancelling Dutch financial and economic privileges in Indonesia after failure cf the Geneva Dutch-Indonesian Ministerial conference. He did not elaborate but added failure would bring already strained IndonesianDutch relations
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    Lock icon TOWNSEND MARRIES
    39 2 LONDON. Feb. 13, (UP).— Peter Townsend got married yesterday but not the one you know. Townsend, 25-year-old advertising copy writer, married actress Elizabeth Seal, 21-year-old star of the British production of "Pajama Game." the successful broadway miracle.
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    Lock icon REFUGE FOR WORKS OF ART
    43 2 PARIS, Feb. 13 (Reuter) The tiny neutral republic of San Marino, near Italy, with no army, and no arms factories, is offering its territory as a refuge for other countries works of art in time of war. Reuter.
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    Lock icon NASSER LAUDED
    44 2 WORLD Bank president Eugene Black arrived in New York, from the Middle East by plane on Sunday with high praise for Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, after completing an understanding that the West would help Egypt build its huge Aswan dam.— AP.
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    Lock icon FERRY TRAGEDY
    28 2 TWENTY-TWO high school boys and girls including four pairs of brothers and sisters, were drowned when a ferry boat capsized on a canal near Mansoura. UP.
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    Lock icon Meteor Seen In California
    58 2 LOS ANGELES. Feb. 13, (AP) A flaming bluish-white meteor, with an orange tail which streaked across the California sky early on Sunday, was observed from cities 600 miles apart. Fragments of the meteorite appeared to fall on the army's Camp Irwin on the Mojave Desert near
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    Lock icon Merdeka Men Return
    76 2 FIRST group of the Federation's Merdeka Mission which successfully negotiated for the independence of Malaya by 1957, returned to Singapore yesterday by 8.0.A.C. Picture shows them at the Paya Lebar Airport with Singa- pore ministers, who went to welcome them. Members of the mission are left to
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    Lock icon STC Union Claims Totalled $6M.
    274 2 THE Chairman of the S.T.C., Sir Thomas Strangman in a statement yesterday said, that the S.T.C. Union called a strike last Sept. 27 in support of claims made on July 14 amounting to nearly $6 million. If acceded to, this would have involved the company
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    Lock icon Farewell Dinner
    49 2 A FAREWELL dinner party was given recently at the Diamond Restaurant, in honour of Mr. J.A.. .Dragon, Engineering Assistant, Public Works Department, Singapore on his retirement after 37 years of service. Photo shows Mr. J.A. Dragon (centre) being "toasted" by members of the Works and Buildings section.
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    Lock icon E.D.M.A. Open To All-Says Dowse
    271 2 E.D.M.A. Open To All -Says Dowse PENANG, Mon. The President of the Europeans Domiciled in Malaya Association, Mr. S. Dowse today declared that his Association was not confined to Europeans alone, but was open to persons of all races and nationalities who were truly domiciled in Malaya, as associate members.
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    Lock icon Top Reds Converge On Moscow
    84 2 Top Reds Converge On Moscow MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (AP) Top Communists from all over the world jammed Moscow's fanciest hotels yesterday prior to Tuesday's opening of the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. Among the first to arrive was a delegation from Britain I headed by Harry Pollitt. Communist
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    Lock icon Study Award Winner To Talk
    40 2 STANDARD'S Chief Reporter James Peter Chin, v. i returned to Singapore recent, y after a year's scholarship in America under the Rotary Foundation, will speak at today's tea meeting of the Johore Bahru Rotary Club.
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    Lock icon UK AND EURATOM
    28 2 GREAT BRITAIN ha offered to associate herself closely with continental Europe's new bold "atoms for peace pool" Euratom once it is in full operation. U.P.
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    Lock icon LINER DELAYED
    32 2 THE P. and O. liner Carthage which was due at T:.bury last night from Honjrkong has been delayed by bsd weather. It is not experod to dock this morning. U.P.
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    Lock icon ENGLISH LINGO STAYS
    234 3 THERE'S BIG NEED FOR IT -MINISTER Dato Abdul Razak Says In London LONDON, Feb. 13-Edu-cation Minister Dato Abdul Razuk assured today that English, a world language, "will have a place in Malaya for many years to come." He said this before going into conference with experts in
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    Lock icon PenangSends Welcome Delegation
    94 3 PenangSends Welcome Delegation PENANG. Mon.— About 30 representatives of the Penang Alliance will travel in six cars to Malacca on Saturday to welcome the Federation Chief Minister, Tunku' Abdul Rahman, on his return from London. The president of UMNO. Pdiang Division. Mr. S. M. Zainal Abidin. said today that they
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    Lock icon UK Course For Two
    63 3 KUALA LUMPUR Mon Two officers of the Trade Union Adviser's Office. Mr. B Xumaran and Inche Amanshah bin Bukhari. will be leaving foi the United Kingdom for a s.ix-month training course on trade unionism, industrial reactions and other related sub-u-cts under the auspices of the British
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    Lock icon 144 To Take Varsity Exam
    54 3 PXNANG Mon.— A total of 144 Chinese students will sit for the entrance examination of the Nanyang University on Feb 16 and IV. at the Han Chiang High School. On the first day the students will be tested in English and Chinese; second day, mathematics,
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    Lock icon 2,00C ATTEND EXHIBITION
    55 3 MORE than 2,000 people attended the first day of the Science Exhibition of the University of Malaya. Science Society, at Cluny Road yesterday. The exhibition which Is the fifth of its kind is entirely organfzed by the students and will be open to the public from 9
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    Lock icon School Official Posted To Raub
    37 3 RAUB, Mon Mr Huang Hung Ming, the Senior Assistant Inspector of Chinese Schools, Pahang, and the two Chinese writers Mr. T. P. Chang and Mr Ti Teow Peck have been transferred nere.
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    Lock icon SERVICES CLERKS' BIG PAY DEMAND
    193 3 Committee Drafting Claims FOURTEEN thousand monthly rated civilian employees in the three Services in Singapore will soon demand a general wage increase, The Standard was told yesterday. A working committee appointed by the Federation of Services Employees' Union representing workers in the Army, Navy and
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    Lock icon Contractors Form Association
    85 3 Contractors Form Association KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Army contractors from all over the Federation at a meeting here last evening formed an association to promote goodwill among themselves and safeguard their interests. The all-M ala y a Army contractors' Association (A.M.A.C.A.) will also deal with trade problems affecting its members. The
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    Lock icon SIX CYCLISTS RODE ABREAST
    218 3 CAB TRIED TO PASS 3 DIED NIBONG TEBAL. Mon.— A verdict of death by misadventure was returned by the Coroner. Enche Hassan bin Hussein recently at the conclusion of an inquest intc the death of three people in a motor accident The accident occurred on the
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    Lock icon 4Ang Pows' By Air
    42 3 4 Ang Pows' By Air R.A.F. OFFICERS from the Kuala Lumpur RAF Station who have "adopted Salak South New Village, hand out New Year "Ang Pows" to children. The presents arrived by helicopter which landed on the school basket ball ground Standard
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    Lock icon Shopkeeper Entertains Customers
    79 3 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Gooa weather here, enabled Chinese New Year revellers to mak an open air event of thp occasion. The seaside and the zoo were the favourite places visited. A general store announced that the premises were closed because we are holding a cccktail party to
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    Lock icon 1000 Guests At Wedding
    42 3 MUAR. Mon About a thousand guests attended the wedding ceremony of Mr. V. iViailvaganam of the Postal Department, Singapore and Miss Pavala Thevy, daughter of Mr. K. Manickam, held in the Hindu Temple at Jalan lUeriam. here recently.
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    Lock icon Two Killed In Road Accidents
    100 3 Two Killed In Road Accidents TWO people died in two road crashes in Singapore yesterday. First victim was Dollahlim bin Haji Metah Mon. 68, a cyclist who was involved in a collision with a lorry at Wayang Satu at 7.45 a.m. Second victim was Veronica Tan. 3. who was in
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    Lock icon TWO CARS CRASH IN RACE TO QUEUE
    111 3 BUTTERWORTH, Mon. Iwo cars racing for the queue at Pier Road outside the Mitchell Pier, Butterworth, came to grief during the Chinese New Year holidays. The first car carrying a party of Indians to Penang on New Years night ended with its four
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    Lock icon Youth Groups New President
    39 3 FENANG. Mon. Mr. C. Ajit Singh was elected president of the youth Association, Penang, at the annual meeting over the weekend. Others elected were: vicepresident, Mr. Ambigapathy, secretary, Mr. Rajendran. asst sec. Mr. Karam Singh,
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    Lock icon Children Quizzed On Death
    74 3 Children Quizzed On Death RAUB. Mon.— Police have questioned a number of children in connection with the death of five-year old Tan Ah Chye. 5, in Sempalit New Village yesterday. The children were reported to be behind the steering wheel of the lorry when it started to back down a
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    Lock icon SPEECH DAY PRIZES
    29 3 Wife of the District Officer. Che Zaidah binte Mohamed Yunos gave away prizes at the annual Speech Day of the St. Andrew's Continuation School In Muar
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    Lock icon Broken Window Mystery
    65 4 Broken Window Mystery MYSTERY surrounds the case of a broken window in Singapore's Dover Road at dawn yesterday. Police were called in when neighbours reported that the window of a house was smashed. Occupants of the house were not at home throughout Sunday night Investigations revealed that nothing was stolen
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    Lock icon Wild Pigs Show Signs Of Poison
    89 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Wila pigi have been reported in be affected by arsenic poisoning. Hunter's attendants report thai from time to time in their bunting expeditions they come across sickly looking pigs. Some have been found to be rcnered with blisters which are attributed
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    Lock icon Court Rejects Guilty Plea
    49 4 A SINGAPORE Court yesterday rejected a guilty plea by Ng Ping Siong to a charge of causing hurt with an axe to his wife Teo Kiah Shuag at Yio Chu Kang Road on Feb. 12. He was allowed bail of SI. OOO till Feb. 20.
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    Lock icon DON'T SEVER PENANG FROM THE FEDERATION
    237 4 DON'T SEVER PENANG FROM THE FEDERATION Alliance Whip Hits Out At Dato Onn's Address PENANG, Mon. The taking away of Penang from the Federation of Malaya now would mean nothing but "Hari-Kiri" for the people of this settlement of Penang. This statement was made by the Alliance whip in the
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    Lock icon Two Bible Classes
    64 4 Bible ciasses and services in two languages will be held at Kim Hong School in Kreta Ayer Road, Singapore, every Sunday. Preacher Charlie Ng Fock Lam will conduct the Cantonese Service and Preacher Ira Y. Rice, Jr.. the English. An English singing class meets every Saturday at
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    Lock icon Slashed At Ghosts-Hurt Girls
    101 4 Slashed At GhostsHurt Girls TELUK ANSON, Mon.— Thinking he had encountered ghosts, a farmer slashed at two figures in the dark, and found that he had slashed two little girls instead. This was revealed in the Magistrate's Court here recently, when Ismail bin Awang, 20, was charged with causing hurt
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    Lock icon Guilty Plea To Illegal Distilling
    51 4 RAUB. Sat.— ln the Sessions Court here. Lee Hoh, 58. pleaded guilty today, to manufacturing liquor and possession of feimented mash at 8 ms. Cberoh Road Another man Yan Fong, 68, who was also charged, claimed trial Both were allowed $500 bail each till Feb.
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    Lock icon Farewell Dinner
    40 4 THE St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association will give a farewell dinner to Canon R. K S. Adams on March 3, at Singapore's Sky Palace Restaurant. 14th floor Asia Building. Tickets at $7 each will be available from tomoriow.
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    Lock icon $3,000 Bail On Trust Charge
    43 4 LIM Teow Kiat claimed trial in a Singapore Court yester day to a charge of criminal breach of trust of $200 belonging to Loo Lay Jock on Feb. 11 at Beach Road. He was allowed bail of $3,000.
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    Lock icon BOARD OF HOSPITAL VISITORS
    164 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— The following have been appointed to serve on the Board of Visitors to the General Hospital, Johore Bahru, for the current year: Datin Fatimah binte Haji A. Majid. Datin N. S. T. Mootatamby, Mrs. Enid Watts, Che Hasnah binte Ahmad, Mrs. Beh Cheng
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    Lock icon Bandits Hold Up Development Plan
    161 4 i APITOL: SEPANG, Mon.— Sixty Indian rubber workers were told here today that three terrorists were holding up a Government scheme to open up and develop thousands of acres of jungle land at Kuala Langat This was revealed by Mr. M. Read, Assistant District Officer.
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    73 4 (ABOVE) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Seah Ke Sing after their wedding in Singapore on Saturday. The bride is the former Miss Lucy Leong and the groom is an Inspector in the Singapore Police Force. (LEFT) tAr. Cheng Ching Tang and the former Miss Soh Meng Choo, who were
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    Lock icon Goodbye Party By The Head
    49 4 MUAR, Mon. The Headmaster of the Government High School, Che Satari bin Haji Yahya, entertained the tutorial staff of the school, to a tea party here on Saturday. He will take up his new post as principal of the M«lay Secondary School, JoMor« Bahru.
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    395 5  -  M. A. Glasgow LONDON T>ZCE\'TLY. medical authorities have been seriously perturbed by the large increase in the nuf.ber of people suffering from mental illnesses of one kind or another. It has been estimated that from one third to one quarter of all absences from work are due to
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    1124 6 Possible.... 1 rTHERE has been much speculation in Singapore and the Federation on the implication of the two words "if possible" which were tacked on to Tunku Abdul Rahman's "independence by August 1957" achievement at his talks with the British Government in London. While no one was prepared
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    905 6 20th CONGRESS OF U.S.S.R. COMMUNIST PARTY OPENS NIKITA KRUSCHEV MOSCOW TH E TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.S.R. WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY IN MOSCOW, AND WILL DECIDE ON SOVIET POLICY FOR THE NEXT THREE OR FOUR YEARS. At the moment preparations for this Congress
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    Lock icon The NEWS as it strikes me
    935 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me country as by her. The Sunday Express, by the fears it has stated in its editorial columns, has made it clear that having lost the bounty enjoyed for centuries from India and Ceylon in the past, Britain is now dependant on Mala- ya's principal
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    109 6 Sir: The Indian Parliamentary delegation which visited this country recently came to investigate the difficulties experienced by "deck travellers" to Madras. One serious complaint was the scarcity of deck tickets. To understand this problem, one has to remember that there are only two ships plying between Malaya
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    75 6 Sir: With the recent transfer of the Chinese interpreter from Kampar it is most astonishing that no one has filled his vacant post yet. There is a considerable volume of work to be done daily at the Court House and the remaining members of the staff
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    89 6 Sir: The article by Mr. T. G. Sim in the Standard (Feb. 9) about the smearing campaign on the Malayan Chinese by irresponsible people is factual. Because Malaya is composed of cosmopolitan people and because the majority of its population are Chinese, and also because the majority
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    169 6 Sir: In a recent Issue of The Singapore Standard. a notice of the Institute of Architects of Malaya arA peared stating that all future candidates sitting tor Draughtsman Proficiency Test Preliminary (A) must submit, with their application forms, a tracing of a "Test Study" in order to satisfy
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    148 6 Sir: The City Councillors who opposed the remodelled layout might not have been to the present lower Victoria Memorial Hall at all If they had, it is difficult indeed to understand why they could have objected to it. The hall as it stands now is ideal for exhibitions,
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    102 7 Customs Smash Big Dope Ring DALLAS, Texas. Feb 13 .—Federal agents have ;nced that they have :.ed an international •tics smuggling ring n was doing US$l,OOO,--worth of business a :n Mexico, Texas. York and Illinois. ScharfT. U.S. customs •-:n-charge for the east rn half ol Texas, said the was the
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    85 7 VALETTA. Feb. 13 (Reuter) Malta's 300.000 people will declare in the next 24 hours I, whether they want to in- icsrate with Britain. iday officials were busy ntins the votes in the George Cross Islands' two-day referendum in which Just under a third
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    65 7 LONDON. Fob 13 (AP) The British Film Academy last night judsed "Richard III" as the best film shown in Britain during 1955. Sir Laurence Olivier, who directed and barred in the picture, was credited with ng the best performance I oi the year by a
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    25 7 THE third earthquake within _'4 hours shook Valparaiso, at 8.15 p.m. on Sunday. of the three quakes has d damage or injuries. A.P.
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    66 7 BRITAIN besan to thaw under bright sunshine -rday after a three-day ireeze-up that paralyzed transport. Reuter PARACHUTES fill the .k% .»\er Fort Bragg, N.C., during a mass jump by men »t Ike 82nd Airborne Division. They're hitting the M !k from C-119 cargo planes during a training
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    19 7 tGARIAN Deput y DeM mister Sandor Nogradi I is been relieved of his post .en another "important
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    143 7 Masked Men Raid Monastery NICOSA, Feb. 13 (AP) British paratroopers blockaded Nicosia's Metaxas Square area yesterday in a lightning search for the weapons with which two British airmen were killed and a third gravely injured on Saturday. Some men were detained but it
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    245 7 Margaret May Attend Grace Kelly's Wedding In Monaco LONDON. Feb. 13 (UP) Note to the Philadelphia Kellys: Buckingham Palace cannot accept your invitation to Grace's wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, if you're thinking of sending one. But that's not to say there won't be a British representative at the
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    86 7 S.E.A.T.O. Readies For Exercises BANGKOK Feb. 14 (AP)— With all SEATO nations either actively participating or observing Operation "Firm Link in Thailand this week, the Thai Government has issued invitations to other governments in the Treaty area and in the neighbouring areas to send observers to the exercises. Announcement of
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      38 7 BELGRADE. Feb. 13 (AP) Yugoslav troops dug through great masses of snow yesterday in search for possible survivors of an avalanche which reportedly buried scores of workers employed at the Mavrovq hydroelectric power station in Macedonia.
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      23 7 VIENNA, Feb. 13 (AP) Poland and Portugal have concluded a trade and moneidiy agreement in Warsaw, the Polish radio announced yesterday.
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      34 7 TOKYO. Feb. 13 (AP) Peking Radio c aid yesterday Red China will produce more than four million tons of steel a year by the end of 1957 and 10 million by 1962.
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      27 7 WASHINGTON. Feb 13 (AP)— U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to the Bahama Islands yesterday for 10 days of fishing and rest.
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      21 7 NEW DELHI. Feb. 13, (UP) India and Greece will establish diplomatic relations in the near future, diplomatic sources reported.
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      34 7 NASHVILLE, Tennessee. Feb 13, (AP) A U.S. Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcarcrashed and burned east of heic yesterday but its foui Cl cw members, the only occupants, parachuted to safety.
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      33 7 NEW DELHI, Feb. 13, (UP) Roving Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon will be sworn in on Tuesday by President Rtjendra Prased as a member of India's Cabinet, it was announced yesterday.
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      25 7 TOKYO, Feb. 13 (AP)— Red China's millions launched the Year of the Monkey with parties, gifts, dragon and lion dances and sports celebrations.
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      28 7 ATHENS, Feb. 13. (Reuter) Three children were killed ard 15 injured when a school roof collapsed under the weight of snow in Grevena. western Macedonia.
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      24 7 LONDON. Feb. 13, (UP) Cvprus High Commissioner in London Soterios Christou Terez Poulous died here last week-end.. He was 62.
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    65 7 Service In African For Queen IBANAN, Nigeria. Feb. 13 AP) The Queen yesterday attended a service conducted in the Yoruba language, one of the tongues o f this land's western region. She listened at St James Cathedral to a sermon b v an African clergyman and heard the 23rd psalm
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    207 7 STRANGE SCANDALOUS REPORTING' IBADAN, Nigeria, Feb. 12 (I'P) —Queen Elizabeth took a quiet Sunday out in her trip around this British African colony. But top Nigerian ministers shattered the day's calm with an official blast against British newsmen covering the royal tour. While the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
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    294 7 Ex-Red Agent Challenges British Turncoats DISCOVERY LEADS TO ESCAPE TO RUSSIA CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 13, (AP)— Vladimir Petrov, former Soviet spy chief in Australia, yesterday challenged the Moscow statement turncoats Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean made that they were never Soviet agents while
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    209 7 U.S. Awaits Next Move WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (Reuter) Officials here are waiting to see what use the Soviet Government will now make of the two British diplomats whose presence in Moscow was announced on Saturday. They assume that the sensational Press conference given by Donald Mac-Lean and Guy Burgess is
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    215 7 PARLIAMENT REVISE SPY WILL CASE LONDON. Feb. 13 (Reuter)— Parliament's controversy over Burgess and MacLean will be revived today with questions to the Government on the men's week- end statement in Moscow. Reaction of highly placed officials to the sudden reappearance of the diplomats is that its timing was planned
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    41 7 Charles Anne For Sweden LONDON. Feb. 13. (UP) Biitain's Prince Charles and Princess Anne are to accompany Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on the rojal family's state visit to Sweden in June. It would be their first state visit.
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    67 7 BRUSSELS, Feb. 13. (Reuter). The reappearance in Mcscow of former British diplomats MacLean and Burgess dominated the lobby conversations of the six-nation foreign ministers conference here. Delegates said the news wcs ptrhaps a timely reminder of the importance of one of the subjects of their discussion.
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    414 9 IMPORTANT advances in the U.S. chemical industry in the past 35 years have opened up new fields of research and developed new products that, in many ways, have altered and improved the daily life of millions of people. These products include many
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    127 9 UNITED STATES manufacturers' shipments of passenger car tyres in 1955 reached the peak of 93,729.709 tyres compared with 77.712.667 in 1954. according to the Rubber Manufacturers' Association, New York. The previous peak was 84.--422,966 units shipped in 1950. Production of 97.233.165 tyres was also
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    102 9 BRITAIN continues in Its role of maker of the world's coinage. The annual report of the Royal Mint, published yesterday shows that of the 506 million coins made in 1954 over 250 million were sent overseas. Some 18 countries both Commonwealth and foreign looked to the
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    129 9 THE new million dollar Shaw Brothers' Capitol Theatre built recently at Jalan Raja Lout, Ipoh Road. Kuala Lumpur. It was officially opened by the Sultan of Selongor on Saturday The theatre, which is one of the biggest and most modern in the Federation, can seat
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    81 9 PAINT 'BRAIN 4 TESTS technical manager o* Blundell, Spence Co. Ltd.. it is probably the most complex and delicate instrument ever used fur testina paint. It can measure with close accuracy the amount of floio or drag of a film of wet paint three-thousandths of an inch thick. The hun
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    59 9 MORE cement was produced in Britain in 1955 than in any previous year. Out of the 12J million tons delivered, 1J million tons were exported, equalling the 1954 figure despite serious losses of tonnage caused by dock strikes Of the total exports nearly 1J million tons
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    270 9 PROSPECTS of the car market' in Singapore for the current year would depend largely on the level of the principal commodity prices, Mr. J. H. Wheeler of Borneo Motors Ltd. told The Standard yesterday. The rubber trade had a good year in
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    69 9 THE Standard Oil Company of New Jersey earned a net income for 1955 estimated at US$7l7 millions, or US$lO.--96 a share. Mr. M.J. Rathbone, president, told stockholders at a special meeting in Newark that 1955 was the best year in the giant firm's history. The
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    30 9 JAPAN'S newsprint production in December totalled 89,--640.000 pounds for a new postwar rtcord. The last high was in March, 1955. when 18,160,--000 pounds were produced
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    13 9 THE output of Jimah Rubber estate for January was 33.300 lbs.
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    115 9 Best Year For Japan's Trading FOR Japan. 1955 is described by leading financiers as the "best postwar business year" and possibly the best since that country opened trade with the West last century. Prosperity is linked to that in the United States and Western Europe, and the Japanese hope for
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    213 9  -  ARNOLD C. BRACKMAN, By Standard's New York Bureau Chief RED China is today upsetting the soyabean market in the United States. Traders in New York are eagerly watching the development since they are unsure whether Peking's move is a "one-shot" affair or a serious market competition.
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      345 9 TENDER NOTICE CENTRAL ELECTRICITY BOARD. FEDERATION OF MALAYA. rr EN DERS are invited for A the construction of: t"ONE SENIOR OFFICER'S HOUSE, TYPE 18, AT < SEREMBAN." CEB. registered Class A. B and C Contractors to apply the Architect, Central Eectricity Board, P.O. Box >o. 1006, Kuala Lumpur, with a
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    391 11 Welsh Fusiliers To Fight RAOC In The Colony KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Hundreds of Welsh throats yelled "up the saucepans" as the 2Bn. Royal ffdrii Fusiliers slugged their way to an 18 points to 15 win over the 15 19 Royal Hussars, defending champions in the final of the Malaya command
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    95 11 New 25 Miles Record By Johnson PENANG. Mon. William Brian Johnson of the Royal Air Force. Butterworth, created a ne.v record in the 25 miles cycling race held on the Esplanade toc?ay with the time of 1 hour 5 min. 6 sees., clipping 7 min. 54 sees, off the old
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    147 11 S'pore Dates For Harlem G-Trotters The world famous Harlem Globetrotters will play a series of three matches in the Colony and" two in Kuala Lumpur in December. This was revealed after the two basketball chiefs Mr. Goh Chye Hin of the Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation and Mr. Abe Saperstein
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    585 11  - FEDERATION SELECTORS IN FORM LEONG HEW MENG By IPOH, Mon. The Federation Hockey Selectors are to be commended for picking a very fine team to play against the Pakistan Navy at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The team, as announced, look solid and workmanlike a combination which should produce good results. There
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    189 11 IPOH. Mon. J. R. Whimster of Kuala Lumpur, the leading qualifier in the elimination round entered the final of the North Malaya Golf Championship today. Whimster was one up in the semi-final against G. Halliday of Penan 2. the 1950 North Malayan title holder. Whimster's
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    231 11 IPOH, Mon. Possessing what must be regarded as the strongest set of forwards in the Federation, Negri Sembilan were deserving winners of the hockey championship of Malaya when Negri beat Penang by three goals to nil here yesterday. The winners were so markedly superior right
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    497 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. There were two upsets in the All-Malaya Malays tennis championships which were continued at Kuala Lumpur today. A.G.B. Pakir of Singapore was beaten in the quarter-final round by Malacca's Abdullah Lincha in straight sets at 7-5, 6-2. The
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    72 11 The following teams will play in a trial match today to select the Colony team to meet the Federation on Saturday ;i1 Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m.: Colours: Pillai: Mosbergen. Ajit Singh: Pennefather, Hay, Devadas; Winckley Hon Yam. Nugent Mansoor, t)e Witt Whites: Dol'.ah; Arkell. Sullivan: Gunendran.
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    43 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Royal Air Force (Tengah 1 who won the RAF triangular hockey tournament with an unbeaten record won six players into the RAF Malaya side that will meet RAF (Singapore) in their annual hockey match on Saturday. Tommand Stadium here.
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    19 11 Pictures by HOW they finished at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday opening: day of the Selangor races. Lean Kup Seng
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      323 11 CLASSIFIED ADS ACKNOWLEDGMENT THE FAMILY oC the late Mr. William Lim Choon Ghee thank friends and relatives for their wreaths. condolences, night-visits, assistance and attended the funeral. SITUATION VACANT THE RUBBER INDUSTRY ('REPLANTING) BOARD THE RUBBER INDUSTRY (Replanting) BOARD invites applications for the post of deputy to the Executive Officer,
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      260 11 SINGAPORE SOCCER: R.I. v. Bartley at Raffles Institution ground; Beaty v. Victoria School at Victoria School ground: Indian Brotherhood Soccerites v. R.A.P.C. at Farrer Park. RUGBY: seven aside rugger competition at SCC. HOCKEY: S.H.A. hockey triai at padang. IPOH GOLF: North Malaya Championship... .Perak Turf Club Sports Club course. Li
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    355 12 THIS 'STAR' IS A BRIGHT ONE TODAY STAR SIGNAL, run-ner-up to Mazooka in the P&OCup at Penang, should find his winning turn this afternoon in Kuala Lumpur. Star Signal is meeting a bright Class 1 sprinting field over six furlongs (Race 6) but; this game speedster should be more than
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    41 12 THE GOING for this afternoon's races in Kuala Lumpur should be good, reports Windsor Lad. RAIN has kept off for the past two days and at the moment there is little likelihood of any break in the weather. Saturday's
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    1045 12 RACE ONE ABOVE ALL who is making an appearance after five months' lay off. is fighting fit. On Saturday morning he headed home Bridgelaw II over three furlongs in 37 4/ssec. And he needs only to repeat his morning track form to
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    121 12 BOMBAY, Feb. 13 (Reuter) Jack Egan. the British lightweight jockey yesterday rode the Maharaja of Gwalior's Star of Gwalior to a head victory in the Indian Derby, run over a mile and a half here. In one of the keenest finishes seen to
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    198 12 IF THE GOING REMAINS FIRM Photo. LADY OSPREY BEST IN CLASS 4 SPRINTS RACE TWO AFTER her fifth to Dapple Grey over 7 furs, on the first day. I am inclined to go for Lady Osprey in this six furlongs sprint for Class 4
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    391 12 and go close, having boen dropped a division with 9 lbs. mure. Kinsiold finished ?ixth behind Dapple Grey over the seven arid may improve in this. He drops 1 lb. in this. For an outsider I recommend Jambatan Mas who missed his race on the
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