Singapore Standard, 16 February 1956

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  • 30 1 Singapore TIGER Standard i% m STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lines) 2400 FIRE BRICADE CENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 Vol. VI. No. 221 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 565 1 SEATO 'TEST' CRASH Warning By Rice PIPE LINE AMBUSH SURVIVOR KILLED KANGKOK, Feb. 15 (Keuter)— lf Thailand is attuked the United StJtes would send assistas a member of VTO in conjunction w.tli other SEATO membe r». Rear Admiral Lester K. Rice, Commander ot the United States joint Task Force 19,
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    62 1 photo. SIX hundred miles an hour Venom fighterbombers of No. 60 Squadron, Royal Air Force, taking off from their Singapore Base to participate in the SEATO exercise "Firm Link," at Bangkok. Venom aircraft of No. 14 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Canberra aircraft of No. 82
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  • 170 1 IBADAN. Feb. 15— The Queen today opened new Parliament buildings here for the Western region of Nigeria one of her last official functions before she returns to London by air tomorrow night. She turned a golden key In the main door of the buildings, raised
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  • 51 1 BANGKOK. Feb. 15 (UP) tltlsh destroyers sighted an Identified submarine in the Suth China Sea on Monday a.> S E.A.T.O. naval forces med towards Thailand, it was reported in Bangkok today. Robert Pierpoint. of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys>aid he learned of the ■r.c.rient from American I
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  • 365 1 Spiked Bamboos Block Escape Bid Enemy Used 'Mines/ Bombs, Automatics TELOK ANSON, Wed. Communist terrorists this morning ambushed an Area Security Unit section from Langkap New Village near Teluk Anson and killed five Special Constables and their sergeant. The terrorists also took some weapons and a
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  • 153 1 Master Own Destiny MALAYANS CANBERRA, Feb. 15 (Reuter) Governor General Sir William Slim declare^ here today that Australian, troops now in Malaya were, not trespassers or a deterrent to selfgovernment there. On the other hand, he said, after opening the Australian Parliament. Australian soldiers were in Malaya to "assist the
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  • 179 1 HALT THIS WAR MCP TOLD: NEW DELHI. Feb. 15 (Reuter) The pro- government Hindustan Times said today that the Malayan Communists no longer had any justification for continuing their war against government now that Malaya wa s to have Independence. "If the Communists had all along been capitalizing on Malayan
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  • 138 1 Threat To Peace CHINA SITUATION NEW DELHI. Feb. 15 (Reuter).—lndia's President Dr. Rajendra Prasad today said that the situation over Communist China continued to be the "gravest threat to world peace." In his presidential address to the Indian Parliament's Budget Session. Dr. Prasad said the exclusion of China from the
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  • 65 1 HEREFORD, West England. Feb. 15 (Reuter) Sir Anthony Eden's Conservatives held this parliamentary constituency In a by-election polled yesterday. Mr. David Bigson Watt, gained the seat. His opponents were Mr. Frank Owen. Liberal; Mr. Bryan Stanley, Labour. In Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the Conservatives retained another seat. Major Marcus
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  • 25 1 SHEEHAN. 33-year-old exIrish guardsman from Limerick, has regained the world talking marathon championship by completing a non-stop word-spinning session of IOQ minutes. Reuter
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  • 37 1 EARL Attlee. former British Labour Party leader, who fractured two ribs in a car accident on Friday night, had a comfortable day and is "progressive," it was stated at his home last night.— Reuter
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  • 25 1 GENERAL Sir Gerald Templer. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, left London Airport yesterday for Gibraltar He was accompanied bv Lady Templer.— Reuter.
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  • 414 1 MEN LOSE $1% MIL SINGAPORE Traction Company buses will be on the roads at 2 p.m. today after a lapse of 142 days. A draft agreement settling all disputes between the Traction Company and its 2,800 employees was signed at 9 p.m. last night by both
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  • 88 1 LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter) Presses in 400 newspaper and printing offices in London's suburbs began to slow down today as hundreds of printers were dismissed for "working to rule." By tonight 8,000 printers will be out of work because they refused to stop a goslow campaign
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  • 42 1 A DIRECTOR of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children thinks young girls who spend much time in front of mirrors are less likely to become delinquents than those who don't care what they look like. Reuter.
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  • 146 1 MOSCOW. Feb. 15 (Reuter). Soviet men are to be encouraged this spring to wear shorter "stove-pipe" trousers instead of the wide 'bellbottoms" by which a Russian can always be picked out abroad. The latest fashion designed by Moscow's "fashion house" is for overcoats shorter than
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  • 59 1 NICOSIA. Feb. 15 (Reuter). —British troops today found a large cache of arms and ammunition hidden in caves near Nicosia. In caves in the Acropolis quarter of Nicosia's suburbs they found eight doublebarrelled shotguns, one sin-gle-barrelled shotgun. 2.000 12-bore cartridges. 100 unfired cartridges. 18 rounds of .22
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  • 36 1 FISH in the coastal waters off the south coast of Norway are freezing to death. The temperature in the water yesterday was nearly a degree below freezing at a depth of 15 metres.- Reuter
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  • 134 1 LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reuter)— Two leading British barristers Sir Hartley Shawcross and Mr Geoffrey Cross left London airport tonight for Singapore to take part in an appeal there over a big war damage claim. Sir Hartley Shawcross is representing three Dutch oil companies in the
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  • 47 1 MELBOURNE, Feb. 15 (Reuter) Most of Australia's 27.000 dockers were back at work today after a three-week wage strike which crippled the country. The only one idle was the Victorian wool-shipping port of Geelong where today was reserved for the dockers' annual picnic.
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  • 44 1 THE Aga Khan, spiritual leader of ten million Ismaeli Muslems, was carried on a stretcher from his aircraft when he arrived at Nice by air yesterday from a holiday in Egypt. An ambulance took him to his villa near Cannes. Reuter.
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  • 18 1 THIRTY-ONE persons died during Rio De Janeiro's hectic four-day pre-lenten carnival owH RaA nrerp injured. A.P.
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  • 265 2 'I'll Have Them Banned,' Says Mr. Braga Minister Hits At The Noisy Nuisance SINGAPORE'S Minister for Health, Mr. A. J. Braga, yesterday angrilly denounced the use of rocket crackers during the Chinese New Year and said: "I'll have them banned." Mr- Braga said: "I was shaken the other day when
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  • Article, Illustration
    79 2 Singapore-born Dr. Lee Wee Kit in traditional Chinese wedding gown holds aloft a pair of glass-heeled sandals after her marriage with Australian-born civil engineer Kenneth Hoey Ying Doon Gin in Melbourne recently. A resident doctor attached to Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne, the bride and her husband will
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  • 130 2 PENANG, Wed. Two men, one armed with a knife, entered the home of a Malay woman in Permatang Manggis, KepaU Batas and took jewellery worth $200. The woman was eating her food when somebody shouted that her son had met with an accident. She opened
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  • 79 2 Colony's 1,518 Teen-Age Car Drivers MORE than 1.518 Singapore youths under 19 years are now in possession of provisional driving licences, a licensing department spokesman told The Standard yesterday. Some of them have undergone tests and are already full-fledged drivers, he said. The number of these teenage drivers and provisionally
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  • 30 2 A BUTCHER, Chan Fook Leong, was fined $400 on two charges in connection with riding a motor cycle without a licence on Sunday night, Chinese New Year's Day.
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  • 91 2 Give New Address Or Lose Vote SINGAPORE'S Minister for Local Government, Housing and Lands. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, yesterday urged the people to notify their change of address so mat their names will be included in the next electoral register. He revealed that 20 per cent of local
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  • 49 2 THE Governor of Singapore. Sir Robert Black, will be the guest of honour at a welcome dinner of the Straits Chinese British Association to be held at the Capitol (Mandarin) Restaurant on Saturday. All committee members are requested to be present by 7.45 p.m.
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  • 46 2 BRITISH industrialists will extend a very special welcome to a Singapore engineer, Mr. Kirpal Singh, when he arrives in London tomorrow. Mr. Kirpal Is the 100th holder of the scholarship under the Overseas Scholarship Scheme operated by the Federation of British Industries.
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  • 50 2 SEMBAWANG Rural District Committee gave a farewell tea party recently to the retiring acting Chairman of the Singapore Rural Board Mr. S. G. Burlock (seat- j ed fourth from right). I Mr. Burlock sails today for Britain on board the P O liner Corfu (Tong Photo Service). j
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  • 70 2 Burst Mains Cause Low Pressure RESIDENTS of Katong, Siglap and Kallang areas will experience reduced pressure in their water supply for the next two days. This was because of rupture of two supply mains between Pierce Reservoir and Woodleigh Water Works, a City Council Water Department spokesman told The Standard
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  • 92 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Special Constable Alimat bin Seno's anger cost him $500 in the Kluang Sessions Court today. Alimat was angry when he saw Corporal Yacob bin Yusof embracing his wife, when he returned home from duty at the Southern Malay Estate on Oct.
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  • 64 2 FOUR Chinese students from Maiaya have arrived in Hongkcng to study, under scholarship awarded by the Hongkong Jcycees (Junior Chamber of Commerce). The students. Lim Chin Ycang. Lim Yeu Chan, Wong Kung Lin and Ting Sia Kit. will enroll in Chung Chi College or the New
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  • 38 2 THE annual general meeting of the Chinese Recreation Club, Taiping, will be held on Feb. 25, at 2.30 p.m. and a reunion dinner will be held at the club premises in Station Road at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 150 2 They're On Religious Tour PENANG, Wed.— Nearly 190 "Nonyas" from Singapore and the Federation are going to Bangkok on a pilgrimage tour, organized by the Buddhist Bikkhu Training Institute. Accompanying them will be ten priests and three nuns. Ninety-three Nonyas are from Penang. Leader of
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  • 52 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Six fishermen were fined $60 each here today for being out at sea on the night of Jan. 28 without written permits. The six fishermen were Tong Bak Kay. Moi Teng, Ng Lai Hai, Chu Kong Teng, Tay Chia Ho and Tan
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  • 105 2 First Step To No. 1. New Town: 800 Acres SINGAPORE G merit has bought m, acres of land in the Woodlands area to estal first satellite town under the Master Plan. Disclosing this yestc: Minister for Local .Tient, Lands and H Xnche Abdul Hamid bin jVaji Jumat, said that prc
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  • 117 2 Gun Hidden After Lovers' Tiff SINGAPORE Police ha\* established that the Mar.ne detective corporal m recovered on Tuesday alter being missed a week, vis deliberately hidden by a r ber of his family a: r a quarrel. The revolver, complr holster and 12 rounds ol ammunition, disappeared from the detective's
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  • 248 3 UK. Says: Well Consult You First KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The British Government has agreed to consult the Federation in future before effecting any changes in its policy regarding imports of synthetic rubber into the United Kingdom. This assurance was recently conveyed to Mr. H
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  • 143 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Representatives of the chambers of commerce in the Federation today admitted before the Minister for Economic Affairs, Mr. Oscar A Spencer, that there is no justification for any rise in the wholesale or retail prices of bread or flour because of
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  • 99 3 Deaf Mute Denies Theft Count INTERPRETERS in a Singapore magistrate's court yesterday had to resort to pen and paper and sign language to interpret a charge of theft of a fountain pen on Feb. 14 to the accused. At the end of it all, the case was postponed till Feb.
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  • 58 3 THE new surgeon for the Lady Templer TB Hospital at Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Walter Gordon French, is expected to arrive in Malaya shortly. Mr. French met Lady Templer. founder of the hospital and the hospital's vice-chair-man. Mr. H. S. Lee. the Federation Minister for Transport.
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  • 50 3 ABOUT a thousand people gathered at the Ipoh airport to welcome back the Mentri Besar, Perak, Dato Panglima Bukit Gantang on his return from the Merdeka talks in London, Picture shows a section of the large crowd around the Dato (marked X) who was cheered heartily.
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  • 295 3 Many Think Highly Of You SINGAPORE'S Acting Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will do his best to persuade the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Mr. L. W. Donough, not to retire prematurely. Two weeks ago Mr. Donough submitted his application for retirement in April
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  • 56 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Yu Loke Ming, 21, was today charged before Group Captain, G. V. Howard, in the First Magistrate's Court for armed robbery. He was said to have robbed Lai Kam with a revolver at Petaling Jaya on Feb. 4. Preliminary inquiry was fixed for
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  • 534 3 Mr. Kon Kim Ciuan, a War Department clerk, was testifying in a suit against his wife, Choa Yoke Wah. for divorce on grounds of adultery Mr. Koh was granted a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months. Mr. Justice
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  • 224 3 'RESTORE OPIUM' MONOPOLY CHEERED Customs Are Also Happy KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Chinese leaders in the Federation today welcomed the efforts of the Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman in London, to have the opium monopoly restored to Government. The Customs Deparlment, The Standard understands also regards the Chief Minister's move with
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  • 99 3 Scouts To Repeat 'Job Week KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The 40,000 scouts in the Federation will launch another "Job Week" from March 1 to faise money for training equipment, camp sites and headquarters buildings. They will tackle any sort of odd jobs, provided that they will not result in taking away
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 67 3 Weather Report MINIMUM Temperature: From 7.30 p.m. Feb. 14 to 7.30 am Feb. 15. Singapore (72F). Penang (71). Kota Bahru (70F> Kuala Lumpur (71F), Ipoh (69F). Kuantan (G6F). Maximum Temperature: From 7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Feb. 15. Singapore <87F), Penang <91F». Kota Bahru (86F). Kuala Lumpur OOF), Ipoh (95F).
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  • 331 4 Freedom Charter Men To Decide KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Federation of Malaya may become independent earlier than August 1957 if the constitutional commission to be appointed shortly completes its work quicker than expected, Dr. Ismail bin Datoh Abdul Rahman, Minister for Natural Resources, told The Standard today.
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  • 32 4 BALA Krishnan Pill ay. 53. an engine driver, was killed when he was hit by a truck while he was working on the Batu Barendam fishery project in Malacca yesterday.
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  • 112 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malaya's rubber workers have emphatically declared that they would not accept as a member to the industry's joint consultative council any clerical representatives who are themselves not members of an estate staff union. This "closed door" policy has been adopted by the workers following
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  • 70 4 MALACCA. Wed.— Chinese > T tw Year here was free f p om serious road accidents or fire. Police spokesman told Thf Standard no call was received by the Municipal Fire Piigade or the Ambulance unit. Large crowds of villager* fkxked to the town, and
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  • 159 4 SINGAPORE UMNO leaders will today consult the Commissioner of Police, Mr. N. G. Morris, on traffic arrangements and security measures to be taken at Paya Lebar Airport for the arrival of the Federation Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, from London on sunttay. The Tunku will
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  • 109 4 Triumphant Return To The Capital KUALA LUMPUR, Wed The Federation Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, wili land in Kuala Lumpur at 6 p.m on Sunday on his triumphant return from the Merdeka parleys in London. The Chief Minister's office said tonight that the Tunku ira part will travel from Singapore
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  • 143 4 In His Fingers, banishee RAUB. Wed— An ex-Mala-yan banlshee who said he had been brought bfcck to Malaya by the Japanese to do hard labour was sent to jail for five years by the Federation Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mathew at the Assizes today. Liew
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  • 36 4 STUDENTS irom Southeast Asian countries studying in Melbourne, recently, held an "International Night" during which various national items uere presented. In picture above students from Indonesia go through the paces of a folk dance.
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  • 198 4 -SAY MR. MRS. PUBLIC NATIONALIZE all Singapore bus companies This was the opinion of most of the people interviewed by The Standard yesterday. They disagreed with a letter published in The Standard yesterday, criticizing the recommendation of the Transport Commission on the question of
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  • 79 4 IPOH. Wed.— The Perak Appellate Judge. Mr. Justice Thomson, today set aside the conviction and sentence imposed on the former O C.P.D cf Krian. E. A. Reynolds, who was found guilty m a lower court of cheating the Government of $17.88. Reynolds was alleged to have submitted
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  • 80 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. An unknown number of terrorists fired at a Police vehicle on Bukit Siput Estate in Segamat. Johore. yesterday, but fled when Police returned the fire. A followup with a tracker dog is now in progress. A Patrol of the First Battalion the Fiii
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  • 52 4 SHAIK ALLAUDIN yesterday claimed trial in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate's Court to a charge of criminal breach of trust of gold ornaments valued at $900 belonging to Malkit Kaur at New Bridge Road between October and December last year. He was allowed $1,000 bail till
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  • 137 4 Coroner Orders A Charge KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Yew Kok Ming, 9. was holding the skirt of his 16-year-old sister while walking past the National Museum here, when a car knocked him down from the rear, the Kuala Lumpur Coroner was told today. Kok Ming's sister. Wai Fah and three other
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  • 46 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The appointment of Mr. V. T. Doraiswamy as ;he Registrar of the Sessions Court has been confirmed. The former registrar. Mr. Reja Singh, has been missing. Prior to his new appointment. Mr. Doraiswamy was Senior Tamil Interpreter of the Sessions Court.
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  • 140 4 COMMODITY PRICES CIUSINCr rubber prices Urots per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Bovat* Seller* Spol fob. 105$ 105g No. 1 R.S.S. Mar. 104J 105 No. 2 102£ 103 No 3 102 102i Tone: Steadier. UN PKICE lhe price of tin yesterday was 5385& per picui (Down $62) •ONIiO.N KIUKL'K No
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  • 301 5 Central Malaya Reds Tottering Bit More Effort And They've Had It KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— The Communist terrorist organization in Central Malaya is today in a "rotten state" and it needs only a little extra military and public pressure to crumble it, Lt.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, the Director of Operations, said
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  • 226 5 Gamblers Claim 'Tecs Retained Their Cash MONEY taken from their pockets when they were searched were not returned to them by detectives, live men told a Singapore magistrate yesterday. Tan Chit Heng, Chung Kim Ers. Chens Liang Seng, Tan Sen? Yik, and Tan Peng Lok, Ci nvicled of gambling in
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  • 80 5 13 Died In Road Accidents THIRTEEN people were killed in 12 traffic accidents in Singapore in December, last year, a traffic report stated yesterday. Among those killed were two children, four adult pedestrians and two trishaw passengers. Pedestrians who crossed the roads heedless of traffic were responsible for 61 accidents.
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  • 68 5 Crackers Latest Fire Hazard CRACKER happy children Uft night sent four Police Lana Rovers and two fire engii.es rushing to Pagoda Street in Singapore's Chinatown last night. Alarmed residents of a house had phoned the Brigade cfter crackers, tied to a oxygen filled balloon exploded and burst into flames on
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  • 191 5 THREE of the nine committee members of the Royal Singapore Flying Club walked out of a meeting in the new clubhouse in Paya Lebar Airport last night after tendering their resignations. The trio who resigned were well-known racer C.F. Pope, magistrate J.M. De-vercux-Colebourn (vicepresident of
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  • 91 5 Assaulted 'Tec— Man Fined $25 LEE Kok Quce was fined $25 in a Singapore Ccurt yesterday for assaulting a detective. Charlie Yeo. at the Chcttiar Temple in Tank Road on Jan. 27. Yeo told the court that Lee punched him on »he shoulder while he was searching the latter, who
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  • 56 5 THE Commissioner-General for South-east Asia. Sir Robert Scott, will speak on the work, the prospect and the aims of Phoenix Park in the South-east Asia region at the monthly luncheon of the Singapore Union of Journalists at the Capitol Blue Room on Monday. Lady Scott will also
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  • 45 5 SPARKS from fire crackers yesterday set ablaze the attap roof of a hut in Petain Road in Singapore The occupants, however, put out the flames before the ariiva. of the brigade. Only a ssnal] portion of the roof was destroyed.
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  • 42 5 THE Singapore YWCA Square Dance Club will celebrate the Chinese New Year with a "China Night" at Raffles Hotel on Friday Original Chinese costumes will be used. Admission will be by programmes available at the YWCA.
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  • 49 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Ibiahim bin Ahmad. 4ti, of Kahang Estate, was fined $400 ip the Sessions Court, Kiuang. yesterday for moving on Jan. 23 restricted articles, a tin of dried milk, two katis of dried peas and three katis of beans, without a permit.
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  • 83 5 SIM'S Avenue Community Centre. Singapore, will hold a variety concert on Saturday, in an endeavour to break "stage fright" in youth. With this object in view, the Centre's social committee nas successfully induced several teen-agers to make their debut at this concert, which is under the patronage
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  • 91 5 MYSTERY shrouds the $40,--000 allocation which Government approved to the 'Singapore Federation of Boys clubs, last year. The president of the Federation, (Liberal-Socialist) Assemblyman Lim Choon Mong, said that Government's withholding of the grant was stalling a comprehensive scheme submitted to Government. The Acting Chi^i
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  • 112 5 Cup $200 For Koran Winner TELUK ANSON, Wed. Inche Ismail bin Hashim of Kedah won the All-Malaya Koran reading contest held at Telok Anson on Monday. The contest sponsored by the Lower Perak Muslim Welfare Committee, was declared open by H.H the Sultan of Perak. About 3.000 people including the
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  • 309 5 SUN YAT SEN CUT OFF HIS QUEUE FATHER FUMED IN early Singapore when it was no longer fashionable for Chinese men to wear queues, young Koh Hoon Teck decided to have it off. This historical ceremony is one which the Koh family today deeply cherish. For ii was the great
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  • 72 5 MR. Justice Whitton in the Singapore High Court yesterday, quashed the conviction and sentence at two months' jail each imposed on O. S. Rengasamy and V. Vadivellu on a charge of causing hurt to N. Valoo. The appellants were represented by Messrs. Kenneth Seth. Lee Kuan
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  • 56 5 STAFF Nurse Mrs Molly Cheng of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. Singapore, leaves today on A.I.F. scholarship for a year in Australia. At the College of Nursing. Mrs. Cheng will sit for a Ward Sisters' Diploma Course and later study the wider aspects of child health in
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  • 41 5 THIEVES broke into the Singapore Restaurant and Bar. Bras Basah Road, in the early hours vesterday and got away with $1,000 and tinned provisions. Police later found that three locks were forced open. No liquor was missing.
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  • 363 5 Jungle Fighting Makes Men Of Mere Boys KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. British National Servicemen come to Malaya like "kindergarten boys", and the Emergency turns them into fighting men, Lt.Col. O. H. Mann, Officer Commanding the First Battalion. Royal Hampshire Regiment, declared today The Colonel was telling his experiences of National Servicemen
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  • 87 5 Farewell Party For The Watts JOHORE BAHRU, Wed. Voluntary welfare workers turned up in full force here today to give a farewell tea party to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Watts on the eve of their departure to Britain. A State Welfare Officer. Mr Watts paid tribute to all voluntary
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    • 228 5 For straight backs 1 and T^ fl sturdy limbs give your baby this pure milk Mothers do well to ask for Ostermilk when breastfeeding is not successful. Vitamin D has been added to this fine nourishing milk to build strong bones and teeth; iron has been added to enrich the
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    • 56 5 j Today 2..50 «.O0 9.15 p.m. j "ISTANA ASMARA (Malay|' liniiJiiimmm Today 700 A 9.15 p.m. J "SON OF SINBAD" (Tech.| Z SLTLRSCOPL. Todav 7.00 915 p.m. J'MAN FROM LARAMIE"(Iecb|" < CINEMASCOPE TAJ CINEMA PHONE ***** TODAV 3 SHOWS 3.15 615 and 9.15 nnu "ANDHFR MAGRI (HALT AT RAJA" (Hindi)
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    • 793 5 sStandard eJllmanac Information at a Glance .mCtoaijn ii M .ji Announcements and Programme (1682m); 3.25 Newspaper Opinion If I a m^y^K.' flt r summary iS); 6.02 House at Pooh tie.B2mi; 330 Happy to Know 111 MfiflD fl V Y Corner iSi: 630 Radio Dance Yoi (16.82m1; 4 Dm Sporting •_T
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    • 938 6 'Merdeka'ln 'Malaka THE residents of Malacca are being shaken out of their lethargy. The "Sleepy Hollow" has been plunged into a state of excitement and political rousing such as it has seldom experienced as preparations, plans and fresh demands are being voiced to give Federation Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman
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  • 849 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME Aster npWO diametrically opposed news stories concerning opium control in Malaya were printed in the local newspapers yesterday. Both came from London and referred to the last conference Federal Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman was having with the Colonial Office on the eve of
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  • 380 6 Sir: I was very pleased to read your editorial about a certain newspaper's coverage of the Merdeka talks in London. The behaviour of this newspaper is most peculiar. For years it was difficult to get a letter printed which attacken the Colonial Government. Now it is impossible to
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  • 115 6 Knowing the Language Sir: S. Ramachandra is right that a Malayan who docs not speak Malay fluently "is not a very good Malayan." I should add he is NOT a Malayan at all. There is a saying In Malay: "Bahasa menunjokkan bangsa" your language shows who you are. How on
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  • 135 6 Sir: It is really startling to note the complete ignorance of a "Singaporean" who described the Marshall Mission to London last December as a 'fiasco.' It seemed that was not his own opinion but just the reflection of the distorted statement of some irresponsible politicians. It is
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 1361 6 Sir: With reference to my speech at Kampong Makam, Penang, last Saturday evening, may I be permitted to make some observations on the criticisms raised by Mr. A.M. Abubakar as reported in your issue of Feb. 14 and the comments of Mr. Aster Gunasekera with regard to
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    • 195 6 Sir: It is not understood why the Chinese buses, as well as the S.T.C. buses, have glass windows, fixed in the partition separating the driver and passengers. I would strongly urge the removal of the glass Tor the following reasons: it often happens that just as
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    • 152 6 Sir; In reply to the Chief Minister's attack on the Englishman in Singapore, I would like to point out that the normal decent Englishman in England would probably be equally unsympathetic towards Mr. Marshall's policy if its fulfilment endangered his employment, as is the case here.
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  • 194 7 JAKARTA, Feb. 15 (UP) Indonesia today officially told the Netherlands she has abrogated the Dutch-Indonesian Union agreement but offered to establish normal diplomatic relations. An Indonesian Foreign Office official this morning handed Dutch Commissioner at Jakarta, Count W. F. L. Van Bylandt.
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  • 148 7 Sharp Jolt For Tories LONDON. Feb. 15 (Reuter) —The Government of Sir tay Eden received a jolt today when results ting in two of three par ianentary by elections showed a drop in Conservative >rt. In a straight fight at TaunSomersetshire, the govretained its seat with a majority of only
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  • 72 7 TOKYO. Feb. 15 (UP)— Red Chinas Premier and Ign Minbter. Chou Envesterday gave a cocktail party for Prince Norodom S.hanouk. Premier of neutra] C r.Vibodia. and later enter--1 him at a dinner in I ni Communist Peking Radio v reported that Prince Sihanouk was a guest of
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  • 63 7 Back Forth For 20 Hours HONGKONG. Feb. 15 (Reuter). Countess Mountbatten wife of Britain"s First Lord of the Admiralty, who spent 20 hours yesterday shuttling between Manila and Hongkong aboard a commercial airliner, finally arrived here by air today on her way back to London. Fog twice prevented her aircraft
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  • 53 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 15 t Reuter) The Chinese Communist authorities have executed a ycuth for trying to smuggle newspapers out tc Hongkong, according to a report in the Hongkong newspaper Kung Sheung Daily News today. The report said the youth named Ng, was shot at Shumchun. near
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  • 33 7 if> CAMBODIAN military mission headed by the Cambodian Chief of Staff left Pnom Penh by air for New Delhi, yesterday, on a tenday visit to the Indian armed forces. Reuter
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  • 25 7 HERR Julias Raab. the Austrian Chancellor, told his cabinet that President Tito har^ invited him to p«v a state visit to Yugoslavia.- Reuter
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  • 51 7 ATHENS. Feb. 15 (AP) Four children returnins; home from school were attacked and detoured by a pack of huncry wolves near Kalamh.tka in Central Greece, reports received here said. Parents and villa sers searching: for them found only their caps, books and scattered bones, the reports
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    42 7 photo. MARIA ROLANDA, a young Italian actress, as a slave girl in the Italian film "Nero's Big Weekend," now being made in Rome with Gloria Swanson and Vittorio De Sica. It is a hui""»*"»« v#»rsinn nf Mwo's private life.- AP
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  • 241 7 SWANK N.Y. AREA YIELDS ANOTHER CALL-GIRL' RING NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Reuter)— Police said yesterday that they expected to detain a dozen or fcore high-priced call girls soon, in the biggest suspected "love-for-sale" ring since the arrest three years ago of Minoi F. (Mickey) Jelke, heir to a margarine fortune.
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  • 44 7 HONGKONG, Feb. 15 (UP) —More than 1,000 Chinese queued up before the Hongkong police headquarters today to apply for permits to return to Rod China They had come to this British colony to celebrate the Chinese new year on Feb. 12.
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  • 91 7 India To Make Jet Aircraft NEW DELHI. Feb. 15 (Reu- ter) India is foon to start manufacturing supersonic jet fighters at the Governmentowned Hindustan Aircraft Factory at Bangalore. South India. The Indian Government has almost completed negotiations with a British firm, the Folland Aircraft (^ompany. for permission to build the
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  • 53 7 HONGKONG, Feb. 15 (UP) Nine children were injured yesterday when a hydrogen container used to fill balloons exploded in a resettlement area. The container exploded as a number of children gathered around a oeddler selling balloons. The children suffered slight injuries but the peddler disappeared before
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  • 44 7 HONGKONG. Feb. 15 <AP) Billy Graham addressed a packed meeting of Christian workers. missionaries and pastors today on the Christian Revival anl Evangelism. Later tonight, he spoke asain at a mass rally to a capacity crowd at a stadium accommodating 40.000.
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  • 249 7 THE BIG BOSS SAYS IT MOSCOW, Feb. 1 5 (AP) Nikita S. Khrushchev rewrote two major points of the Communist creed yesterday. He said war is not inevitable and that Red revolutions may be achieved in some coses by parliamentary means. The stocky
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  • 89 7 SANTA MONICA. Feb. 15 (AP)— Gilbert Roland has filed a $950,0U0 damage suit against two film studios, charging the reissue on television of "The Cisco Kid" film series he made 11 years ago has hurt his status as an actor. The suit, filed on Tuesday in
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  • 47 7 TAIPEI. Feb. 15 (UP) Nationalist Chinese warships and Communist shore battaries fought an 11-minute gun battle on Monday aiternoon midway between Quemoy and Matsu Islands, Nationalist navy headquarters announced last night. The navy communique claimed that one Communist gun position on Lutse Island.
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  • 51 7 TOKYO. Feb. 15 (AP) Radio Peking said today thf Soviet Union is arranging to set up a 6.500-kilowatt experimental atomic reactor in Red China. The radio said the reactor would be used to help train Red China scientists and technicians in the peaceful use of atomic
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  • 17 7 SOVIET scientists and ship designers are planning an atomic icebreaker for use in the Arctic. Reuter
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  • 62 7 LONG BEACH, California, Feb. 19 (Reuter) A 75--year-old dentist complained to Long Beach police that a woman asked for treatment suddenly threw her arms around him, declaring, ''what I really need is affection." Dr. Linus West said that after he disengaged himself and sent the woman
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  • 252 7 Commons Hears Merdeka Report From ANDREW ROTH LONDON, Wed. What is the Commonwealth strategic reserve which Malaya has agreed to have stationed in its midst? This question was raised repeatedly by Members of Parliament questioning Colonial Secretary Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd on his statement in the
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  • 52 7 SANTIAGO. Chile, Feb. 15 (Reuter) The crews of two trains which collided near here yesterday, killing 15 people and seriously injuring 90. have all been sacked or suspended, the Chilean state railway authority announced. The Cabinet la meeting today in a special session to consider
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    72 7 JUST ONE OF... ...THOSE BREAKS photo. SAFETY pins fail to solve the problem of a broken shoulder strap on thf low-cut sown worn b> shapely blonde actress Marilyn Monroe during a news conference held in New York. last week. With members of the Press, Marilyn Monroe and Sir Laurence Olivier
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  • 98 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 (AP)— President Eisenhower's doctors say he is physically able to serve a second term They go further and say that from a medical standpoint he appears fit for "another five to 10 years" in the presidency. That is the optimistic report
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  • 135 7 WASHINGTON. Feb. 15 (Reuter) A group of American business leaders today urged greater public ana private investment of American funds in under-developed countries. The new Soviet offers of aid to these countries underlines the urgency of the issue they said but American economic assistance is
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  • 227 8 PWD Is Always Holding Us Up Says Braga SINGAPORE'S Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga. yesterday blamed the Publie Works Department for the delay in getting ready a new out-patients dispensary to be housed at the disused Kallang Airport "No matter hew keen we are with our plans, we
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  • 60 8 TAIPING. Wed. Mr. T Mathews was elected chairman of the North Maiaya branch of the Federation Civil Staff, following a general meeting held at the Hokkien Hoay Kuan here yesterday. Other office-bearers: Vicechairman—Mr. Frank Dibble: secretary Mr. M. Victor, and a committee of four comprising two
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  • 332 8 THE DEAN of the Faculty ol Medicine. University of Malaya. Dr. D. W. G. Faris, yesterday blamed parents, for the current dearth of specialized medical officers among local men in Singapore. Dr. Faris. who came to Malaya in March 1926, will letire in
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  • 195 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Armed with a gun and parang a housewife threatened to "finish" her niece because the latter's husband had flirted with her teenage daughter, the Magistrate's Court was told today. Inche Abdul Rani, the Second Magistrate, found the housewife, Minah
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  • 130 8 Five Blood Donors Get Medals KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Mentri Besar, Trengganu. Dato Kamaruddin bin Haji Idris. presented medals to five blood donors at a ceremony held at Kuala Trengganu yesterday. They were Abdul Aziz bin Wan Mat, Mohamed Nor bin Elias, Yeo Tian Guan. Soh Khek Sin and Sa'ad
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  • 85 8 Cyclist Stabbed In Stomach PENANG, Wed.— While bicycling along Sungci Pinang Road with his girl friend last night, Lee Say Hun was suddenly attacked by two unknown persons, believed to be Malays. As a result. Lee received a stab wound in the stomach. The motive is unknown. Police, are investigating.
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  • 240 8 He Bargains For Freedom Mother Cries In Court Detective Cannot Find Guarantors 50... I'M THE ONLY ONE AT HOME, HE SAYS AN ELDERLY woman cried in a Singapore Court yesterday while her detective son "bargained" for his freedom pending trial on a charge of absenting from duty. The detective S.
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  • 203 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Johore terrorists hove o new name for their Kluang district committee member, Oi Wan They coll her "Dutch-wife" becousc of her loose morals. Oi Wah was o student in Kluang before moving to Lava^a Layang with her fam;ly. When the war broke out,
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  • 31 8 THE Malayan Tamils' Association in Kuala Lumpur has sent a "congratulatory'' message to the Federation's Chief Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, in London on the success of the Merdeka mission
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  • 158 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Mrs. S. P. Helton, a visitor from New Zealand, claimed today she was "caught" in a gun battle between Police and Communist terrorists while returning from a Cameron Highlands holiday over the week-end. She said the incident happened about 10 miles
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  • 76 8 PENANG. Wed. Seventy-year-old, Lim Choon Suen. told the Magistrate's Court here today that when friends refused to give him money and loans for medical expenses, he got "fed-up" and wanted to take his own life. Lim pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit
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  • 176 8 By A Muslim Leader SINGAPORE Malays unanimously agreed >*ster. day that members of Malay Roval families should b« allowed to marry anyone they liked, provided thev u2 Malays. i 1 LZ.J They were commenting on the recent fear expressed by certain sections of the
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  • 95 8 Sent For Mental Check Up KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Lai Wah. 30, charged causing grievous hurt to MmM was today ordered by the^^H Magistrate to be kept ur.;a medical observation. 1 Lai. it was said, attacked Lai See Weng. with an axe at Sew voy Road here on the Chinesd New
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  • 742 9 Letter FROM INDIA mKOCIIIALISM or militant «fitarianism of a most venomous type that has of late been demonstrated in several Indian cities has fortunately been bridled for the moment, and the nat. <>n now looks up to Arnritsar in the Punjab. uiurt' the open session of ihe Indian National Confess
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  • 733 9 five precepts taught by the Buddha they were banded over to the Maha Bodhi Society. At the formal exposition of the relics Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. U.K. High Commissioner, said it was time they learnt at least the lesson of our age and lived together in peace, sharing
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  • 1354 9 For A King's Love The Royal family was evacuated from Athens in the spring of 1941 in the face of the German advance. They stopped en route at Souda Bay and became involved in "The Battle of the BedBugs." rpHE next morning everybody was scratching like people obsessed Angry red
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  • 846 9 Undeterred by my first carelessness Aunt Marie then demanded I should set her hair. I had some vague recollection of how my hair was pinned In curls when I went to Antolnes in Paris, so I said grandly "I'll do it as Antoine does it." I
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    • 223 9 IT IV* IH^ IHP' HF^ IHT 2 BBP Rfl I'.LI'KN 5. Newspaper leading article \CROSS or nstance t Feeble gold threaded mate- 6 Against other side (5) (4) 7. Centre of 11 acro-s (4) :v a general location (10) organi2ers like a good Wit from Greece' (8) namc to turn
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  • 227 10 THE Financial Times has claimed there was little doubt that rubber prices for 1956 would move substantially lower than last year. FINANCIAL TIMES PREDICTS "Nevertheless, the question is whether the prices may, for the time being, have come down a little faster than 1
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  • 93 10 •THE Burmese Government authorities yesterday announced that the price of Small Mill Special quality Burmese rice for 1956 has been fixed at £36 ss. (Sterling) f.o.b. Burma ports as against £42 for 1955. STANDARD PHOTO shows (from left): Mr. H. B. Tan, acting sales manager of
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  • 146 10 AN AMERICAN company is making a bid to get more and more Malayans "gourmet powder conscious." Malayans were now consuming about one million pounds of gourmet powder in a year and this amount could be doubled within five years, said Mr. J. F. Faems, assistant
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  • 162 10 INDUSTRIALS in the Malayan share market opened steadier after the Chinese New Year holidays. Tins generally showed improvements while rubber shares were easier on balance. Only small business was reported from Federation centres. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association yesterday were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Con Tin
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  • 113 10 'Wider Field For Trade With China THE Marquis of Reading. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said in London on Tuesday there could be a wider field for trade with China, and that the British Government would like to see this happen. Britain had to some extent increased the number
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  • 168 10 MR. R.G. LAGDEN. sales manager of St. Andrew Mills Ltd., London, manufacturers of naper products, is now on a business tour of Malaya and Borneo. The firm Is an integral part of the well-known Bowater organization. Muller and Phipps (Malaya) Ltd., local agents for the firm. held
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  • 40 10 NEW YORK. Feb. 14. (UP> —Dow-Jones Closing averages: STOCKS 30 Industrials 465.72 20 Rails 154.51 19 Utilities 64.44 65 Stocks 165.73 BONDS 40 Bonds 99.15 The Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 153.22.
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  • 142 10 SINGAPORE rubber prices yesterday dropped 1J cents to $1,043 per lb. for first grade rubber for March shipment. Prices opened easier, first business being around $1.06i for February shipment, the lower quotations locally being largely due to lower overnight London and New York prices. Advices
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  • 126 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done: Con Tin Smelt, ords 29/-: Fed Disp rights 48 rents; F N ords 51.82J $1*0; Gammons $2.35. $2.30, "$2.32 odd lot; M. Breweries $3.52J: OTEC 86/-. 86/3: Sime. Sime, D?rby $2: Straits Traders $26.50; U.E. ords $9.20: Wearnes $2.90;
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  • 314 10 Britain's new Chancellor ot the Exchequer, Mr. Harold MaclVlillan, will tell Parliament soon how he proposed to tigtiten the Government's squeeze to stop Britons, prosperous and fully employed, from disturbing the economy by overspending at home. Throughout last year the Government issued warnings that
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  • 194 10 WHEN the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange held its traditional Chinese New Year Party yesterday, its oldest member, who has never missed the photo. yearly function, was again present. He is Mr. Beng Saik Geok. who is nearing 70 and still active in business.
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  • 96 10 BRITISH Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd was asked in Parliament on Tuesday about the nature of the official representations made by Malayan Chief Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman on the subject of the embargo on the export of Malayan rubber to China. Mr. J. H. Hare. Minisf^i
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  • 126 10 MEMBERS of the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange have traditionally celebrated Chinese New Year with a party on the fourth day, and yesterday was no exception. Standard photo shows. (seated from left): commit tee members Mr. Ye«, s an Twee, Mr. Lim Rian la\ Mr. Arthur Lim. Mr
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  • 186 10 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Straat Soenda. Caltex 9?.. Kj roshio Maru, Mui Heng. I bank North Star. FernruU Lyngheim. Sandviken, Ks: Japara, Tak Sang. Fene H Inchula. New Susanna. So mis.Blyth Explorer. Medon. Hi Hung, Horaya Maru. Olyn-.p: Mail. Zelongorsk, Segei Kirov Visut Kastri, Laos. Saint N«zai re. Stephan
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  • 119 10 THE 12th session of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East ended in Bangalore on Tuesday on a note of Some 200 representatives and observers from 32 countries generally felt that the Asian countries have n^\ emerged from a long peri i of
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  • 118 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul ye3terday: copra Feb. $27 buyers. $27£ sellers; March $271 buyers. $275 sellers; coconut oil (bulk) S4OJ sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43J sellers; Muntok white pepper $135 sellers, Sarawak white $134. Special Sarawak black $95 sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing
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  • 73 10 NEWS of President Eisenhower's favourable medical report on Tuesday touched off heavy trading and a price upsurge on the Los Angeles Stock I Exchange. Prices of key issues advanced one to two points not long after the news reached the floor. The Los Angeles Exchange, along
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    47 12 UP DUTCH skaters stream along a canal near Leiden in the Netherlands near a mill in the typical wintry "Polderlandscape" of the Lowlands. The nrnll skating tour along the canals is a traditional winter past-time, the skaters traveling 40 miles and more the frozen waterways.
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  • 29 12 U.P THESE smiling Eastern Nigeron beauties danced for the Queen and on audence of some 45,000 ot the Enugu n, during the Q"»" vivt to Enugu, Nigeria.-
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    48 12 A.P. A VAST gig, which in former days carried provisions, spare weapons and ammunition in the river wars of Nigeria, sails past for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during a display by traditional war canoes on the Bonny River at Port Harcourt, Eastern Nigeria.
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  • 31 12 A.P, AN INTENTLY interested Princess Margaret questions Ronald Waldman, head of Television Light Entertainment, in studio "G" at Lime Grove, where she watchad "The Tin Pan Alley show."
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  • 72 12 -A.P. SCREEN star Marilyn Monroe and British Shakespearean actor Sir Laurence Olivier together at a press conference in New York, when it was announced they have completed on agreement with Terence Rattigan to make a film of Rattigan's play "the Sleeping Prince." When the play was performed
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  • 39 12 JOAN SMITH, 17-year-old Sydney blonde telephonist, who is the recognised but uncrowned pillow fight champion kat Sydney surfing beach carnivals. She says she has never been knocked off the pillow-fight log in two years of battle.
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  • 52 12 A.P, EVANGELIST Billy Graham who is visiting South India during his tour of Asia, takes a little relaxation and rides on an Indian elephant at Kottayam. This was his first ride on an elephant, which he described as "quite an experience". With him ore some of his
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  • 53 12 AS ANDREAS Joannides, 26, married 20-year-old Zoulla Joannidou in a village church near Nicosia, Cyprus, armed guards stand both inside and outside the church. Joannides, held in a detention camp under suspicion of terrorist activities, was taken to the church handcuffed and after the ceremony was taken back
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  • 5 12 A Knockout But Never Kayoed!
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  • 37 12 A.P. THE DUKE of Kent (Centre) smokes a cigarette whilst enioying a party with his young friends in the bar of the Gnschuna Hotel, Klasters, Switzerland. wheni he is on a ski-ing holiday.
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  • 49 13 An HMS Cockade XV beat RAF Seletar Greyhounds in their Rugby match played Naval Base. Scorer were: D. R. Williams <2 tries). Broben <I>. Anson (2> and Naylor (1> for Cockade. Naylor converted two of the tries. Greyhounds' two tries were scored by Johnson. Leggett converted one.
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  • 457 13 Standard Tests To Push School Athletes Forward It's A Grand Idea, As BILL FUNK Sees It physical Education. a conversation I had .-.inn yesterday, I'm sure -.thing in his physical t itional career could have I aCd him as much as this impulsory Standard Test s for all boys and
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  • 69 13 May 2 v. Worcs. (Worcester). May 16 v. Surrey (Oval). May 26 v. M.C.C. (Lord's). June 2 v. Sussex (Brighton). June 7 First Test (Nottingham). June 21 Second Test (Lord's). July 7 v. Hampshire (Southampton). July 12 Third Test (Leeds). July 21 v. Middlesex (Lord's). July 26
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  • 334 13  - WE ARE COMING ON THE ATTACK! lAN JOHNSON Australia's Skipper Cables By FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS ARE COMING TO ENGLAND AS HUNTERS OF THE ASHES WHICH MAKES THEM DOUBLY DANGEROUS. AND lAN JOHNSON, CAPTAIN OF AUSTRALIA, CABLED THIS WARNING YESTERDAY. WE are
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  • 108 13 lAN JOHNSON (Victoria capt), 37 off-spin bowler KEITH MILLER (N.S.W., vice-capt.), 36 all-rounder RON ARCHER (Queensland). 23 all-rounder RICHIE BENAUD (N.S.W.), 26 leg-break bowler, forcing batsman PETER BURGE (Queensland), 23 batsman JIM BURKE (NSW). 25 batsman lAN CRAIG (N S.W.). 20 batsman PAT CRAWFORD (N.S.W.), 22
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  • 386 13 'Safety-first' side will take some beating A I Cf D mC CD -W/iofs Down l/n</er Watching C AVC. SYDNEY, Wed. One thing that seems obvious to me is that the Aussies are relying on experienced Test men and are not taking any risks in an attempt to win back the
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  • 69 13 r^UBBY ALLEN, chairman of the England selectors last season, said yesterday: M 2 am sure we can field a better team." PETER MAY, England's probable captain: "I have played against all of them and there is no doubt we can expect a hard fight." LEN
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  • 165 13 M.C.C. In Winning Position SIALKOT. Pakistan, Feb 15 (Reuter> Some bright batting followed by a fin e spell of bowing by left-arm spinner, Tony Lock, who had fiv e for 34. placed the M.C.C. in a winning position on the second day of their three-day match against the Bahawalpur Cricket
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  • 274 13 SOUTH JOHORE gave another impressive display to oust Changi "A" by 18 paints (3 goals. r y' to three (try) to qualify for the quarterfinal round of the seven-a--side rugby competition on the padang yesterday. One of the features of the match was that both
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  • 177 13 PENANG. Wed.— The first Malayan road cycle meet for this year will be held at Kuala Lumpur during the Easter holi days with the usual events at the Gardens Circuit. This will be the All Malayan Road cycling championships organized by the Malayan Cyclists Federation. The
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  • 66 13 KOH Mr. Koh Hoon Teck passed away at 168. Carpmael Road, age 78. on 14 2 56. leaving behind 3 sons-. Kong Swee. Kong Leong and Max Koh; 4 daughters, 4 son-in-laws; Chin Chye Fong, Thio Keng Tiang Wee Tiang Siew and Pang Pee Nang. many grandchildren and great
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 302 13 Li 1 Abner By Al Capp fn Jpl -BUT, I'M NOT CRAZV -A Cc4A9^\ I VOT »S CRAZV A^ l£.'S GIT THIS X MXJ ENOUGH TO MARRV Al/ <ZU,\i. S 'NLJFF T'MARFJV /<? WCDDJM r GMCR AM IS IS«i VARS OLE, ,f^^ ARE < PENNILESS, IGKORAMT %J_ ucv/^\ A PENNILESS
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  • RACE WEIGHTS & PROBABLE FIELDS
    • 25 14 FOLLOWING are weights and probable starters for all eight races on Saturday, concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club Gold Cup Meeting:
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    • 160 14 Horses Class l, Div. 1— 1»/ 4 Miles 115 Bearer Bond 6y 9.09 Mr. Mrs. S.K. Foo R. van Bkelen 286 South Pacific 6y 8.12 O. K. Kongsi Spencer 231 Dantesque 5v 8.12 Mr. Mrs. S.K Foo R. van Bkelen VIZ Barakat 6y 8.10 Salamat Stable Rodgers
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    • 138 14 Horses Class 1, Div. I—6 Furs. 711 Shamrock Slipper 5y 9.07 Mr. T.V. Mitchell Daniels 540 Sovereign 5y 808 Mr. Mrs. S.K. Foo R. van Bkelen 571 Golden Dolphin 6y 8.07 Mr Tay Seng Chuan Madam Lee Chio Nio M. van B'kelen 212 Solidarity 5y 8.06 Asia
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    • 118 14 467 Determination 7y 9.00 M 's. Robert Ng Ng Kin Khoon M. van B'kelen 445 Sir Francis 6y 8.13 Mr. W. McGregor Watt Hobbs 139 Malayan Scholar 4y 8.11 Kwik Stable Rodgers 238 Star Signal 5y 8.10 Mr. E.J. Tan Rodgers 713 Father Christmas
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    • 146 14 367 Krakatoa 5y 9.00 Shaw Stable Spencer 076 Cinder's Prince 7y 8.13 Drs. Tan Cheng L,eng. Loh Chong Leng Mr Tan Cheng Hock Tjoa 293 Kin* Crow 7y 8.12 Inche A. Shaik Ahamed M. van B'kelen 420 Fair Weather 5y 8.11 Mrs. F.H Atkinson
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    • 108 14 949 Harringay 6y 9.00 A. C. Stable Rodgers 00-,' Karthquake 7y 8.13 Mr. S.W. Kim Yong 006 Mirandola 5y 8.13 Kentucky Stable Daniels 669 Cargo Rice 6y 8.12 Mr. S.W. Kim Yong 778 Miss Winnie 6y 8.12 Mr Kwik Hobbs 938 Wonder Gold 6v
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    • 96 14 160 Canterbury Bell 5y 900 Pil Stable Donnelly Now Showing latr Bleriot 4y 8.12 Shaw Stable Martin 094 National Trust 5y 8.11 M/s Ong Peng Hock T.W. Ong Hobbs 087 Percussion 5y 8.10 Mr Kok Hoong Tjoa 875 Lillibullero 7y 8.09 Mrs. A. Gordon
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    • 89 14 742 Nota\erse 5y J»C2 Federation Stable Bagby 269 Cliona 5y 8.10 Tanah Rata Stable Dcnnellv 325 Scots Grer 7y 8.09 Mr. C Prosper Liston Bagbv 391 Korset Me- Not 7y 8.08 Pil Stable Tjoa 561 Dapple Grey 4y 8.08 Blue Green Combine M. van
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    • 77 14 518 What Happened 7y 9.00 Mr. Y.L. Lee Bagbv 486 Sadoora 4v 8.10 Branksome Stable Spencer 733 Emprror 6y 8.1)7 Mr. Kok Hoong Tjoi 453 Winters Journey 4y B.W> Mr. IF Wong Daniels 797 Harwood 6y 8.01 Mr. J R Rodgers Owner 747 Colorado
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  • 149 14 TWO goals by the English Olympic player, Neil Nugent, enabled Royal Air Force to beat Royal Navy 2-1 in an Inter-Services Triangular hockey match at Changi yesterday. The Airmen will meet the Army in the next game on Wednesday, and must beat them to
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  • 399 14 HK GUNNERS TO MEET THE FIJIANS Colony Sappers Outclassed In FARELF Semi-final 74 LAA (HK) 19- S'pore Engineer Regt 6 (2 goals, 3 tries) (penalty, try) Referee: Lt. Col. R. B. S. Eraut THE 74 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, KA. Hongkong's champion unit whipped Singapore Engineer Regiment by 19 points to
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  • 53 14 YMSA beat Tamil Brotherhood Association 3-1 in a soccer friendly at Farrer Park yesterday. A hattrick by Avtar Singh decided tor the Sikhs. Ramahneam scored for T.B.A. In another match. Alexandra F.T. beat Fathul Karib 2-1. Scorers for Alexandra were Wandin and Pereira. Lazim Adam scored
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  • 116 14 SEREMBAN, Wed The Fijians once again chalked up a cricket score in their rugger match This time it was against a Negri Sembilan Invitation XV whom they beat 54 points (9 goals, three tries) to three points (one try). This was a farewell match for the
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  • 735 14 PENANIi, N.-d Poor entries have been recehed by the Penan* Turf < lub for its Spring meeting on leh 25. "1 and March 3. Only 111 class two and class five b«>ises have entered. Due to insufficient entries, the committee have decided to transfer the
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  • 58 14 RAF Seletar Saracens played one of their best ever rugger matches of the season when they beat GHQ Farelf 21-11 ai Seletar. W Seletar won because of a fitter pack which dominated ihe scrums and showed such terrifir sneed in their moves that the GHQ defence
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  • 35 14 LONDON. Feb. 15 (Router) Association Football results: F.A. Cup fourth round fourth replav: Chelsea 2. Burnley 0 (played at Tottenham. London>. Chelsea are now away to Everton in the fifth round on Saturday.
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  • 336 14  -  Verity Gill by COLONY hockey coach, Noel Hay, wants to start a school for hockey, and hopes to win the approval of the Singapore Hockey Association to train certain Colony players foj Colony representation ii# the World Olympics this year. The one-time 'great' of Singapore pre-war
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  • 106 14 VICTORIA SCHOOL, plaving with superior speed and combination, trounced Johorc I zglish College 5-1 in an Inierschool first Division soccer match played on the VS ground yesterday. Johore Collece opened accounts two minutes from (he start through Hussain Ahmad The Victorians equalized five minutes later when Senc
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  • 147 14 Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, presid ent of the Singapore Hockey Association, said yesterday that if Hay would submit his scheme and ideas on the training of the Olympic team, the SHA committee would 'study them.' Mr. Oehlers said that there was no
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  • 387 14 CHINESE AND POLICE IN K.O. SEMI-FINAL POLICE Sports Association and the Chinese Recreation Club entered the semi-finals of the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout competition yesterday. At the GSC ground, the Police beat a strong Ceylon Sports Club team 3-1, and on the padang, the SCRC ousted BODCA by a
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  • 107 14 The following is the schedule of racing: Horses class two division i and 2. First day: mm en furs., second day six furlongs, third day: six furlongs and 8\ furlongs. Horses class five div. one. First day: 5J furlongs and seven furs., second day. six turs. and
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 50 14 RUGBY S.C.C. scven-a-side at Padang (Quarter-finals)— S.C.C. "A" vs. Signals "A" (5.00); Blakan Mati vs. RE. "A" (5.20); Fijian vs. R.E.M.E. "A" (5.40); K.0.5.8. "A" vs. South Johore R.F.C. (6.00). SOCCER Inter-School: R.I. vs. A.C.S. at R.I. (Ist 2nd); Victoria School vs. Arsenal at V.S.; S.J.I, vs. J.T.S. at S.J.I.
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