Singapore Standard, 28 February 1956

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    31 1 Singapore Standard #6 a m a. STANDARD POLICE ***** (5 lint) 2400 FIRE BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 2811 2414 Vol. VI. No. 236 14 PAGES 13 CENTS SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1956
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    Lock icon NARROW SHAVE FOR MAO
    338 1 Plane Explodes Hours Before He Uses It N list Paper Hints At Moscow Plot HONGKONG, Feb. 27 (Reuter) The personal aircraft of Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese Communist leader, exploded and crashed near Peking on Feb. 13 a few hours before he was due to fly in
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    Lock icon RUBBER RESERVE: U.K. NOT DECIDED
    157 1 LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reu|er) British Board of Trade has not yet made up i:s mind to include rubber among stockpile commodities which will run down in coming months, according to a spokesman here today. Commenting on Press reports that the Chairman of the Singapore Chamber
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    Lock icon Aussies To Send MPs For Merdeka Study
    321 1 Aussies To Send MPs For Merdeka Study AUSTRALIA and New Zealand will send Parliamentary delegations to see for themselves if Singapore is ready for "merdeka." But they cannot come till late April or early May, the External Affairs Ministers if both countries, Mr. R. G. Casey and Mr. T. L.
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    Lock icon BRITISH TEAM FIRST TO COME
    86 1 THE first of several AllParty Commonwealth Parliamentary delegations invited to Singapore to report on whether the Colony is ready for "Merdeka" arrives next month. The acting Chief Minister. Mr Lim Yew Hock, told The Standard yesterday that the British delegation, will be the first to
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    Lock icon Goodwill Tour By Japanese
    31 1 THE first official Japanese parliamentary delegation to visit Britain since World War II arrived in London by air today from Tokyo on a 10--day goodwill visit. Reuter
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    Lock icon PHONE CONTACT
    11 1 YUGOSLAVIA and Red China established telephone communications yesterday.— A.P.
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    Lock icon COLONY HUNT FOR LOST BOMBS
    206 1 ...After Arms Cache Find POLICEMEN will this morning scour the jungle in the vicinity of an Army armament depot in Kranji, Singapore, in search of lost explosives. This hunt follows the discovery of 312 primers and 31 fuses for mortar bombs outside the perimeter fence
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    Lock icon BALLOONS OF HATE'
    52 1 VIENNA. Feb. 27 (AP) Prague Radio charged on Monday that the United States has been flying spies and subversives into Czechoslovakia by means of gon-dola-equipped balloons. Prague Radio announced that an exhibition ot balloon* captured over Czech territory had been opened in Bratislava under the title "Balloons
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    Lock icon MELBOURNE VARSITY SHUTS OUT ASIANS
    116 1 MELBOURNE, Feb. 27 (UP) A University of Melbourne decision to reject applications of 40 Asian students to study medicine left many of them today with a feeling of being duped and "disgusted." Many of the applicants had been in Australia for a year studying for
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    Lock icon NEW LOOK IN SOVIET HISTORY
    96 1 NEW LOOK IN SOVIET HISTORY BELGRADE, Feb. 27 (Reuter) The newspaper Politika said today the 20th Congress ot the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow had removed barriers to the development ot Socialism which arose because of a refusal to admit there were different roads to reach it. The newspaper, quoted
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    Lock icon IT'S SO AWFUL,' BURSTS DR. EDITH
    145 1 DEATH TO KHRUSHCHEV SIGN ON HER WALL LONDON, Feb. 27 (UP) Premier Nikolai Bulganin Authorities today investigat- g^V^™ 01 ed a "death to Khrushchev" The Russian language sign sign painted in Russian in was found yesterday on the, two- foot letters on the gar-
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    Lock icon MP ARRESTED
    33 1 KHARTOUM police yesterday arrested Member ot Parliament. Hassan Taher Zarrough. in Kosti on charges ot participating in the demonstrations which followed the 'black hole' prison disaster there, it was announced. U.P.
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    28 1 PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee on Monday appointed Colonel Chung In Paik as Chief of South Koreas Counter-intelligence Corps (CIC). succeeding assassinated Major-Gen. Kim Chang Yong. A.P.
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    Lock icon From Soccer Field To See Sick Mother
    186 1 Mercy Dash By Colony Navy Man LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter) Leading Writer, Bernard Smith, of the Royal Navy, flying home from Singapore because his mother is dangerously ill, found a special aircraft waiting for him at London Airport yesterday As he stepped from
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    Lock icon Red Boss Gives Up With All His Men
    257 1  -  K. C. ARUN Prom BUT THEY'RE STILL 'CAPTURED ENEMIES' KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The North Selangor Bureau of the Malayan Communist Party toppled today when a district committee member and hi& ten followers came out in a body and surrendered near Kuala Kubu.
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    Lock icon Mr. M. Cuts Short His Holiday
    81 1 Mr. M. Cuts Short His Holiday SINGAPORE Chief Minister. Mr. David Marshall has curtailed his holiday in Switzerland and will land at Paya Lebar tomorrow. The acting Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock told newsmen yesterday that he had a radio-telephone talk with Mr. Marshall over the weekend informing him
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    Lock icon FUNG KEONG ROW, TUNKU URGED TO STEP IN
    213 2 FUNG KEONG ROW, TUNKU URGED TO STEP IN KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The National Union of Factory and General Workers today petitioned the Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, urging him to "take stern measures" against the Fung Keong Rubber Company or there would be a danger of "grave labour upheavals.' A
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    59 2 Teachers Offer Five Scholarships IPOH, Mon. The Perak Malay Teachers' Union has offered five scholarships to Malays for studies abroad. At present, only one Malay Student is studying abroad on the Union's scholarship. He is taking up civil engineering at Glasgow. Scotland. A Union spokesman said the Union now has
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    Lock icon Use Malay Words Only SaysZainal
    108 2 TELUK ANSOX. Mon. Malays should form the habit not to use foreign words? in place of Malay words. This advice was given by Inche Zainal Abidin bin Abdul Wahid when he spoke to over 100 Malay youths here on Sunday. Inche Zainal Abidin. who is
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    44 2 THE Khoon Eng Dragcn Dance Party put up a grand exhibition to celebrate the Chinese festival of the 15th day of the Ist Moon at Teluk Anson on Sunday. The party held dances to collect funds for the Kuala Lumpur fire victims.
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    34 2 PENANG. Mon. Chinese youths for the regular Police will be recruited here in the middle of March. Recruits will be trained as drivers, mechanics, signallers, telegraphists, detectives and marine policemen.
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    Lock icon Exam Results In Next Week
    45 2 RESULTS of the Higher School Certificate examinations are expected to arrive in Singapore within the next two days, the Education Department Examination's Secretary. Mr. A. G. Meyer, told The Standard yesterday. The School Certificate results will be in next week.
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    17 2 CALCUTTA has been declared a small-pox infected port It was announced In Singapore last night.
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    72 2 MISS Sharmini Tiruchelvam, described in London recently as "one of the 48 most beautiful women of our time." photographed at Paya Lebar Airport, Singapore, yesterday, before leaving fo r London, where she hopes to make a successful career in ►.hurt stc.iv writing. Elder daughter of Dr.
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    Lock icon Clerk Faces Five Charges
    70 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A clerk of Art Printing Works. Yen Heng Hock. 31. faced five charges of criminal breach of trust of his employer's money to the total sum of 51.210.50 in the First Magistrate's Court yesterday. He was alleged to have committed the offences between
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    Lock icon SENTENCED TO JAIL
    34 2 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Lee Boon Yee of Scrangoon. Singapore, was sentenced by the Sessions Court to two years' jail for disposing stolen property belonging to Lee Eng Hock of Johore Bahru.
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    64 2 !IOH, Mon. The District Officer, Telok Anson Datoh Mdda Abdullah will be the i.ew State Secretary of Perak The Standard was told today. He succeeds Inche Hashim bin Mat Dris who leaves for England by the Cantcn on Mrr. 16 on six months' holi(Oy. Inche Hashim will
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    Lock icon Filthy' Word Could Not Be Repeated In Court
    399 2 ...So Judge Has It Written Down prefer would nor verbal KAJANG, Mon. A word used by women rubber rappers to Police searchers at Semenyih New Village was so filthy that an intery translate it at the Court of Inquiry here today. Miss
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    Lock icon Malays' Rubber Scheme
    87 2 IPOH. Mon.— The Malay Smallholders' Co-operative Society in Bagan Serai is planning to plant rubber on a big scale. A committee has been formed to obtain shareholders for a scheme to plant 1.200 acres of land in this area with rubber Shares at $50 each are being
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    Lock icon Curfews To Be Lifted In B.M.
    40 2 PENANG. Mon.— Residents of Bukit Mertajam heaved a sigh of relief when they learnt that three curfew and exclusion orders now in force in their district will be lifted from 6 a.m. on Thursday.
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    Lock icon Dutch Firms Didn't Own Oil Seized—Says Counsel
    279 2 Dutch Firms Didn't Own Oil Seized— Says Counsel THAT IS THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE CASE' MR. Geoffrey Cross, Q.C., appearing for the War Damage Commission, submitted in the Singapore Court of Appeal yesterday, that the $6,000,000 claim lodged by three Dutch oil companies was not a meritorious one. The
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    Lock icon Tec Shoots Man: Misses
    33 2 A SINGAPORE Secret Societies Sub-Branch detective shot at a man escaping from his custody yesterday, but missed The wanted man was originally being held for suspected secret society activities.
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    Lock icon Statement Was Not Quite Correct
    224 2 KAJANG. Mon. Chairman of the Court of Inquiry investigating allegations of misconduct by security force personnel at Semenyih New Village Mr. Justice J. B. Thompson, said when the Inquiry resumed this morning: "My attention has been invited to a report in the Singapore Standard of
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    182 2 Police Arrived On Doorstep 50... KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— A mother and her daughter were sitting together writing up "Chee Fan" slips in a kitchen when they were interrupted by a Police Inspector at the door. They frantically began to crumple and tear up the
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    Lock icon No Licence, So Housewife Is Fined
    89 2 No Licence, So Housewife Is Fined BUTTERWORTH. Mon. mk A house\v:ie. Ooi Cheng. 2i^, Perak Road. Penang, was fined $100 by Inche Hassan bin Hussain in the Magistrate's Court today. She was found guilty on two charges of driving a car without a valid driving licence driving while not being
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    Lock icon TRISHA ASSN. OFFICIALS
    93 2 TAIPING. Mon.— The following were elected oflic bearers of the Tnsha Pedallers Association. Larut and Matang: President— Che Kassim bin Muhamad. vice -president —Mr. Tan Seng Bee: hon. secretary— Che Shaari bin Hamid; hon. treasurer— Mr. Lim Hin Loo: hon. auditors,— Che Osman bin Yahaya and Mr.
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    57 2 THREE women, Wah Lin. 47, Veong Foong Heng. 46. and Au San Chan, 45. appeared in the Singapore Eighth Magistrate Court yesterday on a charge of bringing a woman into the Colony from Serdang Bahni. Selangor. on Feb. 20. for Immoral purposes. They claimed trial. Bail
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    Lock icon GROW MORE, DO. URGES
    48 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Segamat District Pacii competition was held at the Malay Girls School, Banda' Rendah. Segamat over tht weekend. The District Officer. Sepamat, Che Sahm bin Sabtu told the people to takkeener interest in iar and to grow more and better padi.
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    Lock icon Mohd. Comes To Court Nine Years Late
    356 2 Mohd. Comes To Court Nine Years Late A 37-year-old Indonesian, with a string of previous convictions and once given 12 strokes of the rotan, was sent to ]au in Singapore yesterday for offences he committed nine years ago. Mohd. bin Haji Majid alias Mohd. Abdul Rachim, was sentenced to a
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    60 2  -  Ch'ng Seng Poh. photo MASTER Bunny Sivanesuaren Nadarajali. son of Mr. Mrs. C Nadarajah of Klang celebrated his sixth birthday with a tea-party for friends. In the absence of mother, who is away in England, father plays the accordion to entertain the children as Bunny wearing
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    Lock icon ROW OVER BIKE. THEN A DEATH
    395 3 Mother, Sons On Murder Charge A MIDDLE-AGED mother and her two sons, yesterday appeared in the Singapore High Court on trial for murder. The mother, Tan Ah Keow, 55. and her sons, Yiap Swee Seng and Yiap Huat Kim were alleged to have caused
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    44 3 THE annual dinner of the Singapore Graduate Teachers' Association will be held at the Beatty Secondary School, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Mar. 10. Members who wish to attend are requested to contact Mr Ngui Jim Chiang, at St Joseph's Institution.
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    Lock icon Hungarian Pianist To Play
    68 3 Hungarian Pianist To Play TICKETS are still available for the Robert Weisz piano recital tomorrow at 8.45 p.m. at Victoria Memorial Hall, a spokesman of the Singapore Musical Society said yesterday Mr. Weisz. a young Hungarian pianist, is a pupil of the e r eat Dinu Lipatti. Hi s programme
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    102 3 Twas A Chestful Of Laughter THE bosomy young gypsy "maiden" who seems to have more curves than roller coaster, presents quite a problem to "her" Romany Rejneo icho is unable to get "his" arms around "her." Notwithstanding physical difficulties, this charming gypsy couple had the gathering at the Purim fancy
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    Lock icon DUTCH CAMP FOLK SEEK GOVT. HELP
    168 3 Braga Speaks For Them THE 78 families who have been asked to quit their homes in the former "Dutch Camp" in Haig Road, yesterday approached Singapore's Acting Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, for assistance. A ten-man deputation, representing the 1.000 residents, told the
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    Lock icon Thief Fishes $500 From Hotel
    111 3 Thief Fishes $500 From Hotel PEXANG, Mon.— A long pole was used to "fish out" from a room in Nam Kok Hotel, Penang Road, a pair of trousers containina $500 cash late last night, according to a report lodged with Police. On "Chap Goh Meh" ninht an unknown Malay cyclist
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    Lock icon BOOK GIFTS FOR MUSLIM COLLEGE
    61 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Muslim College of Malaya at Klang has received 91 books on literature and science from India and Iraq. At a ceremony at the College recently. India's Commissioner to Malaya. Mr. R. K. Tandon handed over 21 bocks on Arabic literature while
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    Lock icon THERE WAS A PRINCE AND PRINCESS IN THE AUDIENCE
    230 3 THERE WAS A PRINCE AND PRINCESS IN THE AUDIENCE THOUSANDS of Singapore music lovers recently at the concerts by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, the well-known British composer and tenor, were probably unaware that among the audience were two members of the German Royalty. The pair were Prince Louis of
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    Lock icon Carpenter, Mason Held For Robbery
    94 3 A CARPENTER and a mason were charged in the Singapore Fourth Magistrate's Court yesterday, with robbing Tan Ah Keng of cash and jewellery valued at $50,000 last Saturday morning. The prosecution alleged that Chew Yoon Thim, the carpenter, and Chua Teow Ghee, the mason, were
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    Lock icon Ex-Cashier Unable To Get Bailors
    94 3 SOON KUAT SENG, a former cashier of the South Branch of the Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Limited in South Bridge Road, was allowed bail of $20,000 in two sureties by a Singapore court yesterday. Soon was tentatively charged with criminal breach of trust of $105,658
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    Lock icon Pharmacists Seek Mote Protection From Quacks
    236 3 Pharmacists Seek Mote Protection From Quacks PHARMACISTS in this country hope that there would be a drop in caustic soda poisonings following Singapore Government's tightening of the law. New amendments to the Poisons Ordinance seek to limit the use of caustic soda, and the public must sign a poisons register,
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    Lock icon Comber To Give Up Meet-People
    108 3 Comber To Give Up Meet-People SINGAPORE'S Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, ha? told Mr. Leon Comber that he can no longer aftord to pay Mr. Comber's travelling allowance as a member of the Public Advisory Bureau. Mr. Comber, who has been assisting Mr. Marshall in the Bureau without salary lor
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    225 3 Aim Is Unify Of Action Seamen Councils A SEAMEN'S Council of Action to co-ordinate and unite activities of member Unions in seamen's welfare was launched in Singapore over the weekend. The Constitution of the Council of Action envisages, among other things, the setting up of a single union to look
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    Lock icon Aided Schools Want Provident Fund Adjusted
    138 3 Aided Schools Want Provident Fund Adjusted THE Malayan Aided Schools Council wants the existing provident fund scheme of the mission schools in Singapore to be adjusted to conform with Government's Central Provident Fund regulations. A four-man delegation of the Council's Singapore division yesterday met the Acting Chief Minister. Mr. Lim
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    Lock icon Six Men Face Riot Charge
    72 3 SIX men were tentatively •■barged in the Singapore Sixth Magistrate's Court yesterday, [01 being members of an unlawful assembly and causing rurt to Tan Yong Kui and Ihree other men at Kampong Chantek. off Whitley Road, on Feb. 25. The men. Chua Ker Ming. Ooi
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    Lock icon General Pay Rise For 250 Busmen
    81 3 General Pay Rise For 250 Busmen THE Changi Bus Company. Singapore, has given a general wage increase to its 250 employees. Nearly 200 workers who run the Capitol-Changi route get 70 cents per day and those operating the .lalan-Eunos-Gey-lang route receive 35 cents a day. The increases were given voluntarily
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    27 3 TODAY'S speaker at the J-<hore Bahru Rotary Cub will be Mr. A. Robertson, manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai B&nk His subject will be Banking.
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    Lock icon Mr. Udick Succeeds Symonds
    94 4 TOKYO. Feb. 27 (UP) The appointment of Robert E. Udick as United Press Manager lor South-east Asia was announced today by Earnest Hoberecht, United Press Vice-President and General Manager for Asia. Udick will make his headquarters in Singapore. He succeeds the late Gene D. Symonds. who
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    51 4 PROFESSOR oi Mathematics. Dr. A. Oppenheim. of the University of Malaya is now in Bombay attending the Asian Conference on Mathematical Education. This is one of two mathematics conferences which Dr. Oppenheim is attending in India. Dr. Oppenheim is expected back in the Colony early next month.
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    Lock icon T.U.C TO TELL TUNKU: MALAYANIZE EARLY
    213 4 Narayanan Will Head Deputation KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The Malayan Trade Union Council will send a deputation to the Chief Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, on Friday to urge him to speed up Malayanization of the Malayan Public Services. Heading the deputation will be Mr. P.
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    219 4 Hotel Assault Charge Fails PENANG, Mon.— A 17-year-old student, Peter Lee Hock Poh, told the Magistrate's Couit today that while he was in the room of a hotel a little girl suddenly took off her underwear. Lee. who was charged with assaulting a five-year-old European girl,
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    Lock icon Funeral Of Johore PWD Engineer
    92 4 Funeral Of Johore PWD Engineer JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The funeral took place yesterday at the Jalan Mahmoodiah Cemetery of Inche Tahir bin Awang. assistant engineer, PWD, here. Inche Tahir went to Britain on a Sultan Ibrahim Scholarship to study engineering and on his return in 1934 he joined the Johore
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    89 4 THE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivray, presented honours and awards to 36 people at Queen's House on Saturday. Picture on left shows Lieut. L. L. Nasilivata of the Ist Fijian Infantry Regiment receiving the Military Cross. Centre picture shows Dato Setia Wangsa Mahmud bin Mat. C.M.G.. 0.8.E.,
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    Lock icon The Court Is Annoyed While Witness Blushes
    256 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Magistrate Inche Abdul Rani put away his pen in annoyance and reprimanded a prosecution witness, Special Constable Mchamed Ali bin Yusop. on several occasions when the witnesb had to repeatedly tell hi? story of what he saw and did at
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    Lock icon DROPPED WALLET TEMPTED SOLDIER
    217 4 DROPPED WALLET TEMPTED SOLDIER A YOUNG British soldier of the R.A.O.C. in Singapore got "flushed with temptation'' to steal for the love of a Japanese girl he left behind in Japan six weeks ago The soldier, L/Cpl. Robert James Morsely, 22, said this at a Court Martial yesterday, when he
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    139 4 COMMODITIES PRICES (LOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Spot fo.b. 94V 95} March 93ij 935 No. 2 ill 92| No. 3 91J 91| Tone: Quiet. TIN PRICE The price of tin yesterday was $402j per picul (Up $2i) LONDON RUBBER No. 1 R.S.S. Settlement
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    Lock icon Farewell Party
    57 4 MR. Chin Koon Seng Chinese Affairs Officer, Lower Perak, who is returning to his former post, interpreter in the Supreme Court. Johore B a h r u, was entertained to a farewell party by Assistant Resettlement Officers, chairmen and secretaries of New Village local councils at the Cheong
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    38 4 HONGKONG. Feb 27 Sreeia] Standard Service. Cosing prices of the Hongkong Exchange were: $15.71 to £1 Sterling; $5.91 to US$l: $1,841 to Malayan $1. $0,163 to one Indonesian Rupi a h; Gold 5259.125 to a tael
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    29 4 MR. Robert Edward Stevens. 30. a general clerk of the. United States Consulate in Singapore, who was found dead outside the Cathay building early on Monday morning.
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    33 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. A fifteen-year-old Chinese student was fined $100, or a month's jail in the Juvenile Court. Pontian today for moving half-a-kati of salted vegetables without a permit.
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    Lock icon MISADVENTURE
    39 4 A VERDICT of misadventure was recorded in a Singapore Coroner's Court yesterday, on the death of Mr. E. F. Williams, 53. a Naval Base chargeman. who died in a motor accident at Upper Serangoon Road on Feb. 5.
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    180 4 PENANG, Mon. The president of the Government Non-pensionable Officers' Association, Federation of Malaya. Mr. Thomas R. P Hanson, today expressed surprise that a new union of temporary clerks in Government departments was to be formed. "I can only presume that Mr. J. P. Noel Emmanuel, who is reported
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    55 5 THE Sultan of Perak (on raised dais) takes the salute at the marchpast on the Ipoh Padang on Saturday during the Trooping of the Colour by the 4th Battalion, the Malay Regiment. The parade was led by Lieut. -Colonel D. D. Zvegintzov, Officer Commanding the
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    Lock icon Rulers' Talks Today Will Set Wheels Of 'Merdeka' Going
    258 5 Rulers' Talks Today Will Set Wheels Of 'Merdeka' Going KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The conference of Rulers in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow will set in motion the machinery that will pare the road leading to Malaya's full and complete independence. PThis historic conference of the Rulers will make iorough study of the
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    Lock icon Have You Got This $10 Note?
    54 5 HAVE you in your possession a Malayan Ten Dollar Currency note bearing No. E *****862 Check carefully, this note is believed to be forged. If you have this note or any information about it, set in touch with A.S.P. R.C Hoy of Orchard Road
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    Lock icon Breadseller Loses Shirt
    44 5 TWO Singapore thugs stopped a breadseller. Shik Balatusan. on his early morning rounds yesterday at Onan Road and peeled off his shirt. The men then ran off with the shirt containing $25 and a gold ring hidden in a secret pocket.
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    35 5 BENTONG. Mon. The District Crimes Officer, Bentong Inspector Ismail bin Mahmud has been granted three months' vacation leave. Inspector Jerome Lim from the Criminal Investigations Department. Kuala Lipis, has taken his place.
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    335 5 6,000 For Libel That Got School Head The Sack PENANG, Mon.— As a result of three articles published in the Cheng Pau, a Singapore Chinese biweekly newspaper, Professor S.L. Hsiong lost his appointment as headmaster of the Han Chiang School in Penang. This was alleged during a libel suit instituted
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      426 6 the talk of an independent Malaya opening consular offices abroad, we have not neard of any scheme for training our future ambassadors and consuls being put into operation apart trom the three now undergoing training in Britain It would seem that preference would be given to Malays. However,
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    1233 6 THE NEW MALAYA Between today and August 1957, Malaya will see a period of transition, fusion, preparation and tentative endeavour. WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS FACING THE MALAYAN PEOPLES? In this concluding article, SHEN CHAO ER surveys the possibilities of resolving any issues that may arise. tween the Chinese and the
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      116 6 Sir: On February 20 the Merdeka Mission arrived at Malacca. Radio Malaya organized a regular commentary in English. Malay. Chinese and Tamil. The Tamil commentary was very poor. Commentary of that nature may be fitting for football matches and Thaipusam Festival, but not to describe historic events.
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    189 7 Is This The Perfect Crime? LONDON, Feb. 27 (UP) —A gravedigger found the unburied body of a young woman with her fist clenched in death yesterday in the centre of Hampstead cemetery. The discovery set Scotland Yard's famed murder squad off on an all-out battle today to crack what may
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    124 7 LONDON, Feb. 27. (UP)— Catholic clergymen in North London yesterday started up a petition urging the povernnot to let the forthcom(^^3 visit of Russian leaders be .^Misinterpreted. Soviet Premier Nikolai BulItanin and Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev will visit Britain in April. Jesuit
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    66 7 LUCKXOW, Feb. 27. (Renter)—The Shah and Queen of Persia who arrived here yesterday by special train for a one-day visit were unable to fulfil most of their engagements because both were slightly inci.>posed. They had taken anti-cholera injections at Bharatpur last v eo< and were running
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    94 7 MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (Reuter)— Dismissals and demotions withm the upper ranks of the Soviet Communist Party are believed by observers here to point to the growing power of Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Party. The new Central Committee, announced yesterday, has been
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    90 7 Some of the provincial leaders taken off the Central Committee had already lost their posts in the years since Stalin's death in March, 1953. Others may have been associated with the policy ol more consumer goods denounced at the time Mr. Georgie Malenkov resigned as premier in February
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    68 7 Radio Toys Feature At Exhibition J^UREMBERG, West Germany, Feb. 27, (Reuter) Rodio-eontrolled toys are a febture of the annual German toy exhibition which has .ipened in Nuremberg the centre of West German toyrnaking. Most notable exhibits were the many elaborate electromechanical miniature cars, lonics, tractcrs and aerocianes. >'ot conspicuous, however
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    84 7 LIMA. Peru. Feb. 27. (AP)— The opposition newspaper La Prensa failed to publish for the 10th consecutive day yesterday. Its editors said it would not come out ss long as censors make their daily visits to ready copy. Constitutional rights were suspended in Peru when the
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    29 7 THE East German Trade Ministry yesterday announced the conclusion of an agreement with North Korea providing for a four-fold trade increase this year compared with 1955. Reuter
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    192 7 VAN NUYS, California. Feb 27 (AP) A 34-year-old flying school teacher, Miss Jan Wood, took off yesterday in her single-engine plane, accompanied only by her dog Cindy on a leisurely 30.000-mile sightseeing tour of the world. The tall physical
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    135 7 4000 'Hot Rod' Fans Start A Riot DAYTONA BEACH. Florida. Feb. 27, (Reuter)— Nearly 4 000 teenage "hot rod" enthusiasts fought police and firemen for five hours yesterday before reserve troops rarrying rifles finally dispersed them. About 100 youngsters were arrested. The youngsters also stoned film actors Barton MacLanc and
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    52 7 HELSINKI. Feb. 27, (Reuter) Finland's Finance Minister, Penna Tervo was killed in a car accident near Helsinki last night. He was one of three occupants in an official car which slid on the icy road surface near Tusby 40 kilometres from Helsinki and collided with
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    98 7 SAIGON. Feb. 27, (Reuter)— Groups of Frenchmen gathered around their radios here yesterday to hear the last broadcast over "Radio France Asie," the French station which has been closed at the request of the South Vietnam Government. The French Ambassador. M. Henri Hoppenot, said
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    195 8 BONN, Feb. 27 (UP)— Chancellor Konrad Adenauer emerged from his biggest government crisis yesterday with a sharply reduced majority. An open break with the Rightist Free Democrats (F.D.P.) and their expulsion from the government ended seven years of political alliance and virtually destroyed the coalition
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    88 8 Britain To Invest In Uranium BRISBANE. Feb. 27. (Reuter) A British firm, Rio Tinto Limited, is to go ahead with plans to invest about nine million Australian sterling in the Australian uranium industry. it was announced here today. Mr. C.P. Tilley. chairman of the Australian Oil Exploration Proprietary Limited, said
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    54 8 COLOMBO, Feb. 27, (UP)— Clark Gable. James Cagney and Sophia Loren will visit Ceylon soon to make the film of Col. J. H. William's famous adventure story "Elephant Bill." The Hecht-Lancaster Company plans to bring out to Ceylon a team of 10') smaller players and technicians
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    36 8 photc AT Ponthierry, 40 kilometres south of Paris, the River Seine is frozen solid and the inhabitants had a great time walking across the frozen ice in preference to using the bridge. AP
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    105 8 EDINBURGH, Feb. 27 (Reuter) Professor Norman Feather of Edinburgh University told housewives here that they would not have atomic energy in their kitchens in their lifetime. "I do not want to prophesy but I am quite certain that in our lifetime there will be
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    30 8 AACHEN, West Germany. Feb. 21 (Reuter) The Suermondt Museum in Aachen is preparing an exhibition of paintings by Sir Winston Churchill the first o its kind in Germany.
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    258 8 Big Thaw In Europe Begins Cautious Step Out Of The Ice Age LONDON, Feb. 27 (UP) Frigid Europe yesterday took a first cautious step out of a new Ice age which killed nearly 1.000 people in a month-long reign of terror. Welcome reports of thaws and warm sunshine began to
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    82 8 KARACHI, Feb. 27 (Reuter) Pakistani Buddhists have launched three months' celebrations to commemorate the 2.500th anniversary of the birth ot Lord Buddha, whose teachings are embraced by 150 million people in Asia. Thousands of saffron-robed Buddhists assembled yesterday at Rowzan. near Chittagong in East Pakistan, to inaugurate
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    61 8 WASHINGTON. Feb. 27 (Reuter) President Eisenhower, bronzed and cheerful after a gun and golf holiday in Georgia returns to his White House desk today to begin the week in which the nation expects him to announce his decision on whether to run for re-elec-tion. He has
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    132 8 Indonesian Ambassador Explains CANBERRA. Feb. 27 (Reuter) No one had even a shred of moral right for the unctious horror that Indonesians "cooperated" with Japanese occupation forces during World War II in the Pacific. Indonesian Ambassador Doctor R. H. Tirtawatina said here today. He was commenting on "recent statements by
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    163 8 ALGIERS. Algeria, Feb. 27. (UP)— A decisive week in the history of French North Africa opened today amid increasing bloodshed from Western Morocco to Eastern Tunisia and mounting tension between French settlers and natives. In Oran yesterday, Arabs and Police battled when rioters rushed
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    73 8 MELBOURNE. Feb. 27 (Reuter) Britain's new Comet IV jet airliner will be flying the world's air lanes before American jetliners are in service. Lord Rennell of Rood. Deputy Chairman of the British Overseas Airways' Corporation, said here today. He told the evening newspaper Melbourne Herald that
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    61 8 LANGLEY. Virginia. Feb. 27 (Reuter) Two air force pilots flew two FB4 fighter bombers 2.400 miles across the United States yesterday nonstop without refuelling at an average speed of more than 670 miles an hour. The flight was made at altitudes of between 31.500 and 41,500 feet
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    33 8 TOKYO, Feb. 27 (AP)— Rear-Admiral R. Subiato. Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff and a vi.siting delegation, flew into Peking late on Sunday, the Red Chinese radio reported.
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    219 8 Soviet Envoys Duped Britain Despite Warnings WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, (AP)— Documents held secret for 17 years disclosed on Saturday that Soviet diplomats deceived Britain and France despite at least six American warnings that Russia was negotiating with Nazi Germany on a pact which helped
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    155 8 PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 27 (UP)— Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, served notice on Congress yesterday that he will press his fight for a long, range foreign aid programme to meet the threat of Russia's ■'new economic policy." Aware of strong congressional opposition, he warned
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    160 8 West Is RelyingOn H-Bombs' LONDON. Feb. 27 (Reuter)— The Manchester Guardian today claimed that the Western powers are relying on hydrogen bombs as their main defence in Europe and that the effort to build up another form of defence has come to a standstill. "To reply on the (hydrogen) bomb
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    128 8 Reds Loot Pearl Factories RANGOON, Feb. 27 (AP) Eighteen Japanese and Burmese pearl divers have been kidnapped by Communist rebels who sacked an island 150 miles south ol Mergui, on the Tenasserim coast, according to delayed reports reaching here today. In a 14-hour attack, they burned seven oyster boats, pearl
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    64 8 THE new British gravity submarine HMS Acheron which was reported missing recently while on Arctic trials in the Denmark Straits «fl the coast of Greenland. Kadio rontact was later made With the submarine. The Admiralty said the failure of the submarine to make her routine check
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    38 8 TWO elderly men killed each other in a duel after quarrel over the right of children to play in the streets of a residential area in Guadalajara 280 miles north-west cf Mexico City. Reuter. 'Rains of
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    28 8 DOYLESTWON. Pennsylvania. Feb. 27 (Reuter) A huge $12,000 screen collapsed in a "drive-in" cinema for motorists during a rainstorm here. The film showing Ranchipur."
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    104 8 LONDON, Feb. 27 (Reuter). The chairman of a round-table discussion programme on 'commercial television refused to appear last night because the subject was prostitution. The. chairman. Mr. Kenneth Adam. 47, told reporters: "There was a division of opinion between myself and the team of
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    77 8 OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 27, (Reuter) A painting of President Eisenhower by a Dutch artist, Fran Debruin Valeri^ boucnt by an eight-year-^»\ Oklahoma boy for U552.29 1^ been sent to the White House. Tht boy Bill Stockwell. offered it to Mrs. Eisenhower Valerius, who now
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    40 8 MR. Harold MacMillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade left London yesterday to attend the council meeting of the organization for European Economic Co-operation in Paris. Reuter
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    157 8 JORDAN PLEDGER TO BACK SYRIA AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 27 (AP)— Premier Samor Rifai said that should diversion of the waters ot the River Jordan lead to an armed clash between Israel In an exclusive interview the Premier declared that the Israelis are trying to instigate the Arabs to start a
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    29 8 MORE than 56.000.000 rats were killed last year "by all methods of rat extermination" in the Philippine Province of Catabato, the Department of Agriculture proudly announced. UP
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    442 10 Copra Trade In S'oore Declines IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DOWN Standard Market Reporter SINGAPORE'S entrepot trade in copra is steadily dwindling. Imports of the commodity last year amounted to only 90,820 tons, against 105,336 tons in 1954, Reexports fell from 53,994 tons to 41,755 tons. Market circles point out that adverse
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    200 10 ONE of Germany's leading manufacturers of electric lamps and bulbs will set up a factory in the Far East, if there is a substantial rise in the demand for the goods. Mr. Carl J. Behncke. Far East export manager of the company. Osram G.
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    180 10 MALAYAN tin shares were steadier in many countries yesterday as a result of the continued improvement in the metal price, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers Association. Rubbers and industrials were inclined to drop in sympathy with the lower rubber prices. Price changes announced b> the Association yesterday
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    109 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done F. and N. ords $1.72. $1.72?.; Gammon $2.10: Breweries $3.40: M*. Colls 85 cents: Robinson ords $2.60; S"pore Cold Storage $1,524. $1.5L 1 Straits Times 12.70: Strait Traders $25.50 overnight: Wearncs $2.85, Wm. Jacks $2 77i xd. Austral Amal.
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    58 10 CROWDS of bargain him-, ters packed Wassiamull's department store in High Street, Singapore, yesterday the first day of the firm's, annual sale. Price reductions up to 50 per cent in all departments are being offered, according to a spokesman of the firm. Standard photo taken yesterday shows
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    22 10 NEDERLANDSE Aardolie Mij has for the second time been successful in striking oil near Piinacker (Province of South Holland).
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    288 10 THE German Industries Fair at Hanover this year will display an entire range of German industry producing internal combustion engines as well as those from some wellknown foreign- firms. The most modern systems will be shown, including exhajst gas turbo-charging of dicsel engines, gas turbines MIC
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    140 10 SPORE HANDLES MORE CARGO TOTAL cargo discharged by ships at Singapore Roads and wharves last year amounted to 10,433,420 tons, 1.349.650 tons more than in 1954. The cargo discharged consisted of mineral oil-in-bulk (5.991.620 tons); cool (50.670 tons); live animals (6,710 tons) and general cargo (4.384,350 tons). The December figure
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    119 10 SHIP IN PORT OUTER ROADS Japara Ole Bratt. Inchiura. Caltex Medan. Kalianda, Sigli. Tasutmaa Maru, Langsa. Beech Hill, Artimis. Sandviken INNER ROADS Perak. Tai Tiong. Tong Nam. Nangkachindr. Giang Seng. Larut, Hin Seng, Hin Cheong. Reinhardt. Serdang. Tong Hai, Sirusa. Puseng. Kah Khong. Sumpitan, Naga Mas, Teck Hong. Min Huang.
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    188 10 New Ship For Knutsen Line's Far East Service Standard Shipping Reporter THE Knutsen Line scr. vices from the Pacific Coast to the Far East and Western Australia will be further improved by the i addition of the m.s. Kristin Bakke in April in substitution for m.s. Ogeka Bakke. She is
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    185 10 I inam o And i ontntvrvo Standard Market Reporter THE Singapore coffee market resumed its downward trend in prices after a brief spurt of activity in the past week, following recent improvements in New quotations. i Traders here explained that African coffee was
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    169 10 SELLING from upcountry centres was largely responsible for the drop in Singapore rubber prices yesterday, first grade March shipment being quoted at 93| cents per lb.. a drop of 1J cents on Saturday. Prices opened unchanged from the weekend closing quotations with the marki uncertain. |i Sentiment in
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    122 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copra Feb. $271 buyers, $27| sellers; March 5272 buyers. $28jk seller?; coconut oil (bulk) $41 seller*, coconut oil (drums) $43J sellers; Muntok white pepper $132 fellers, Sarawak white SI 3I sellers, Speria 1 S?rawak black $95. Singapore
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    22 10 THE U.S Department of Agriculture has disposed of nearly 50% of its lm. bales 0 surplus cotton it was announced.
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    139 13 TOKYO, Feb. 27 (UP)— The Australian Universities Rugby Union team won its first scheduled game in Japan today with a convincing 34-11 score over an all Waseda University side. An enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 saw the goodwill players from Down Under lead 22 to 3 at
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    79 13 SAINT NAZAIRE. France, Feb. 27 (UP)— West Germany's Gerhard Hecht retained his European light heavyweight title yesterday when he won a technical knockout victory over France's Charles Colin in the 13th of their 15 rounds title bout. Both weighed 78.700 kilos. A large crowd watched the
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    35 13 TOKYO. Feb. 27 (AP)— The Japan Table Tennis Association announced on Monday eight nations have so far stated they would participate in the world table tennis championships scheduled for April 2-11 in Tokyo.
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    92 13 MANILA, Feb. 27 (AP) South Korea's national football team defeated a Manila Chinese selection 2-1 on Sunday night in a game before 6,000 fans at Rizal Stadium. All goals were scored in the first half of the match. The Koreans defeated the Philippine National team 2-0 last
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    414 13 By TONY HORSTEAD LONDON, Mon.— Four games to set the fans alight '—that's the sixth round of the F.A. Cup. The F.A. couldn't have made it a bigger crowd-puller even if they had planned it. They can be sure of a full house
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    280 13 Army Soccer Teams Prepare By DONALD NAWS ARMY football on the island is now well under way with most units holding trial matches to ensure that their teams consist of best players available Unlike their Civilian coun- Th Si e 3ase District terparts unit teams
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    104 13 PATTY BEATS DROBNY IN TENNIS FINAL NICE, France, Feb. 27 (AP) —Budge Patty of the United States and Paris defeated Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, 15-13, 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday in the finals of the Gallia lawn tennis tournament. The first hotly-disputed set lasted an hour and 20 minutes. Play was
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    71 13 LONDON, Feb. 27. (Reuter) England's team to play Scotland in the rugby union international match at Murrayfield. Edinburgh, on March 17 is the same as that chosen for the postponed game with France last Saturday. Team is: D Allison. P. Jackson, J. Butterfield, L. Cannell. P. Thompson,
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    416 13 Selangor's Kim Thiat To Race In Spore Sprint By EDIN PETERS SINGAPORE Motor Club's first ever standing-start speed trial programme to be held on a circuit in Princess Elizabeth Estate, off 8!- mile Bukit Timah Road, on Sunday is expected to draw a crowd of more than 5,000 people. last
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    176 13 AMSTERDAM. Feb. 27. (Keuter) A special International Football Federation (FIFA) committee yesterday asked West and East Germany to decide by March 15 whether to field a unified team for this year's Olympic Games, failing: which only West Germany would be allowed to participate.
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    125 13 SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad. Feb. 26 (Reuter) GeofT Elliott stocky, fair-haired British pole vault champion went record-chasing In the two-day southern games which ended here today. Elliott, Britain's main Olympic decathlon hope, set a new Trindad all-comers' record for the discus with a throw of 123 ft.
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    15 13 /^ORDOX to Anne and Jock. on February 25th at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, a son.
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    57 13 LEE:-MRS LEE KWEE CHUA (nee Madam Teo Siew PohJ beloved mother of Yang Bak, Keow Seng. Sing Bak. and Swee Bak. passed away peacefully at No. 27 Paya Lebar Crescent, on 2.ith February 193*> leaving behind four sons 3 daughters. 4 daughters-in-law, 2 sons-in-law and 30 grandchildren. Funeral on
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    265 14 SASA Wants Water-Polo Team For Melbourne SINGAPORE Amateur Swimming Association last night decided to ask the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council to send a water-polo team to the Olympic Games at Melbourne in November. "S.A.S A. will also ask the S.O.S.C. to write to the Games Organising Committee to have
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    109 14 Shorter Rounds— lAWF Move AMSTERDAM. Feb. 27 (Renter) Future Olympic and other international amateur wrestling bouts may be reduced from 15 minutes to 12 minutes. The International Amateur Wrestling Federation, meeting here during the weekend, decided to submit this proposal to the Olympic Congress to '^e held in Melbourne later
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    62 14 ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL bea' Beatty Secondary School 2-1 at soccer at Bras Basah Road yesterday. Beatty opened accounts in the 10th minute when Rahmat Basro scored with a powerful drive. Bay Bee equalized for ACS through a penalty in the 18th minute. Two minutes after the interval Chee
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    115 14 PRAGUE, Feb. 27 (Reuter)— Emil Zatopek Czechoslovakia% triple Gold Medallist in the 1952 Olympics, won his first race in the 1956 Ohmpic year here yesHe covered a frozen cross-country course of 8.300 metres in 26 min. 49.6 sec. Zatopek finished less than 20 metres ahead of a
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    51 14 THE final of the Singapore Hockev Association's senior knock-out hockey competition between Police Sports Association and University of fcalaya will be played on the Padang today This match will be played for the challenge trophy put up bv Mr G. E N Oehlers. the President of
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    44 14 MERCANTILE Bank beat Indian Recreation Club 6-5 in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yeterday. Indians led 4-2 at half-time E Do Silva (3) Mahesa. Kim Swee and Kassim scored for Bank; Salahudin (3) Narayanan and Subra for Indians.
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    28 14 As the fields race to the post our cameraman catches them in their finishing order at Penang on Saturday, the opening day of the meeting.
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    70 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mohamed Noor Amin, Selangor Malays' junior champion, claimed two titles in the finals of the Selangor Bawean badminton tournament here last Noor Amin retained his singles title which he won las' year when he beat Sidek Ah mad 1954 holder in straigh sets
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    73 14 YOUNG Men's Sikh Association will meet Singapore Cricket Club 'A' in the Singapore Hockey Association's junior hockey knockout competition final on the Padang tomorrow. This final is played for the Bhaskaran Cup. YMSA team will b e selected from: Avtar Singh. Sewa Singh, Mohinder Singh, Jogindar
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    95 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Football Association of Selangor invites entries for their 1956 League competition and the Business Houses League Closing date for entries for both competitions is March 8 SAW Kim Thiat of Selangor, receives one of the three first prizes he won. from the Raja Muda of
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    119 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Selangor Rangers Football Association, the Selangor League and knockout Cup runners-up last season will open their 1956 campaign with a match against Sentul Youngsters at Sentul tomorrow. Bert Foster, manager and coach, said today that Rangers have arranged two charity matches against
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    54 14 MURRAY ROSE is the Australian champion m the 220 yards, 440 yards, and 880 yards events. He is also tcor.i champion in the 880 yards freestyle. JOHN DEVITT, of Sydney, a New South Wales representative in the national championships, 1956, is regarded as one of
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    237 14 Records Will Topple, Says Grange By JACK TALBOT SYDNEY, Feb. 27— "1 believe that every Olympic swimming record and most world records will be broken during the Games in Melbourne this year,'' the secretary of the New South Wales Swimming Association, Mr. Sid Grange said when commenting recently on the
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    44 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.Dawn Agency held Low See Tham to a 1-1 draw jn the Selangor Chinese Recreation Club seven-a-side soccer league at Pudu Road today. In another game Malayan Lorry Services sprang a surprise when they slammed fancied Keang Teow Sang 4-1
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    29 14 THE Rest beat Wales and West country by 9 points (3 tries) to three (try) in a rugger match at Seletar yesterday. At half-time Rest led 30
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    79 14 SINGAPORE SOCCER: Friendly— King's Own Scottish Borderers vs. S.A.F.A., Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m.; St. Joseph's Institution vs. St. Andrew's School, 5.J.1.; Beatly Secondary School vs. Siglap Secondary School, Siglap; Boys' Town vs. Raffles Institution at R.I. HOCKEY: S.H.A. senior knock-out final University ot Malaya vs. Police
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    48 14 THE following players will represent Chartered Bank S.C. against a Singapore Indian selection at soccer at Farrer Park today. Osman Angulia. Wee Fook, Kim Beng, Tien Chong. Samah. G. Nadarajah. Moharned Chibu. Wari. Hami<j Ibrahim, Ismail. A. Sattar J Chan, Sian Hock. C. Marshell.
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    34 14 R.A.F. Seletar Greyhounds beat All Blacks by 19 points (2 goals, penalty and 2 tries) to 10 (2 goals) in a friendly rugger match at Seletar. At half time Greyhounds ied 13-5.
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    25 14 NET practices for members of the Singapore Non Benders will begin tomorrow on the padang at 5.15 p.m. Practices will take place every Wednesday.
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    70 14 KING'S Own Scottish Borderers will field a formidable team against a Singapore Amateur Football Association selection in a friendly soccer match at Jalan Besar today. The following will represent Borderers; Wallace; McCourt; Martin: McClelland; Ainslie; Hall; Smith; Bryce; Nisbett; Bennett; Massey. SAFA team:— Fook Teng; Ivan Vass;
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    420 14 final team after trials in Melbourne late in October. Mr. Grange said that on recent form* and performances swimmers practically certain of selection were: MEN... Jon Henricks (NSW), 100 metres and 4 x 200 metres relay; Murray Rose (NSW); 400 metres. 1500 metres and
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