Singapore Standard, 18 August 1956

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    16 1 Standard Singa pore V,,|. VII. No. 47 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1956 14 PAGES 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon Oh, What A Rush To Cross This Bridge Of Hope!
    126 1 Oh, What A Rush To Cross This Bridge Of Hope! THE Union Jack unfurls (top picture), to ••vpal a 30-foot-tall monument dedicated to Singapore's new $8,000.--iWO coastal road— Nicoll Highway and Merdeka Bridge which was offlriaJly declared open yesterday by the Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock. In the foreground
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    Lock icon Use Of Force Would Spark A World Conflict
    812 1 Shepilov Warns The West LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter) Mr. Dmitri Shepilov, the Soviet Foreign Minister told the 22-nation Suez Conference this afternoon that the use of force could flame up into a large conflict covering the Near and Middle East and possibly
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    Lock icon Verdict Of 11 Judges
    295 1 Visitors had to have special passes and go through several police checks. The court president Professor Josef Wintrich read out the decision immediately after the 11 judges ten men and one woman had filed in in their purple robes and purple birettas. The West German Constitution
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    Lock icon ASSASSINS CONVICTED
    36 1 SEOUL. Aug. 17, (AP).— Five South Korean soldiers today were convicted of assassinating the Army's Coun-ter-intelligence chief last January. Two of them were given death penalties and three others three to twenty years' imprisonment.
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    Lock icon R.I. VOLUNTEERS
    34 1 FOURTEEN Indonesia i veterans yesterday asked the Egyptian Ambassador in Jakarta here to help them enlist in the Egyptian army so they could serve "in an eventual war against foreign imperialists." UP
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    Lock icon OFF CAME HER DRESS, & BENCH DIDN'T MIND
    129 1 OFF CAME HER DRESS, BENCH DIDN'T MIND SHE DID IT TWICE NEW YORK. Aug. 17 (AP) —A New York court yesterday twice had the pleasure of watching a shapely petite dancer slip out of her dress. Genii Pricr, 24, had to prove to the court that the Bikini bathing suit
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    Lock icon WEST GERMANY OUTLAWS REDS
    271 1 Court Orders Ban And Police Raid All Party Offices KARLSRUHE, West Germany Aug. 17 (Reuter) Police raided Communist party offices all over West Germany today after the Supreme Court had outlawed the party and ordered confiscation of its property. But Herr Gerhard Schroder, Minister of the
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    Lock icon Marshall Arrives In Peking
    146 1 Marshall Arrives In Peking HONGKONG. Aug. 17 (Reuter)— Mr. David Marshall, former chief minister of Singapore, arrived in Peking today. Peking Radio announced. He was met at the airport by Mr. Kuo Mo-jo. President ot the Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Marshall is visiting Communist China on a
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    Lock icon WIDOW LEAVES
    40 1 MRS. Arthur John Clifford, widow of well-known British barrister who was stabbed to death by a Malayan in Hongk6ng on Aug. 4. left by BOAG yesterday for London wi two sons, aged 2 and 10 months respectively. UP
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    Lock icon MINERS CALL OFF AUG. 21 STRIKE
    220 1 MINERS CALL OFF AUG. 21 STRIKE IPOH, Fri.— The projected strike of 17.000 mining workers employed in 170 European-owned mines and dredges in the Federation was called off tonight, and there will be no stoppage of work from Aug. 21 as announced. This follows a top-level meeting here tonight between
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    Lock icon SESSIONS JUDGE WAS WRONG TO FREE DOCTOR: DPP
    224 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A subordinate Judge had erred in freeing a doctor here on charges of issuing false medical certificates, since under the law, such certificates had to relate to facts concerning the real medical condition of the applicants. This was the
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    Lock icon Questions By Back Benchers
    90 2 SINGAPORE Coalition Government back- benchers will figure prominently during question time at the next meeting of the Legislative Assembly on Aug. 29. A recent meeting of the Labour Front Parliamentary Committee decided that backbenchers who hitherto had only been taking part in voting should now be
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    Lock icon Arrest Order For Mother, Daughter
    94 2 Arrest Order For Mother, Daughter BEXTONG. Fri.— Magistrate Mr. J. R. Whimster today ordered the arrest of a mother and daughter who failed to turn up to give evidence as prosecution, witnesses after being subpoenaed. Theong Oi Klew. 18. and her mother Hock Foong Kheng. rubber tappers at Chamang N°x
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    Lock icon Dato Nik Meets Cabinet
    141 2 DA T O Nik Ahmed Kamil bin Haji Mahmood, appointed Commissioner for Malaya in Australia, chats with Australian Cabinet Ministers before the luncheon given in his honour by Minister for External Affairs Mr. R. G. Casey. Dato Nik arrived in Canberra on Aug. 8 and is
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    Lock icon Formula For Citizenship And Naturalisation
    250 2 Formula For Citizenship And Naturalisation JUS SOLI: A COMPROMISE IS REACHED AT LAST MCA CALLS A SPECIAL MEETING TO STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The UMNO-MCA-MIC Alliance has or last evolved a compromise formula on the controversial "jus so. demand, whereby every local-born with five years' residence can obtain citizenship
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    Lock icon WATERHOUSE STRIKE: SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT
    212 2 HOPE of an early settlement of the dispute between Fred Waterhouse Company in Singapore and its Employees' Union brightened yesterday. A 12-man delegation from the Union met the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, and discussed the situation for more than 90 minutes. Immediately after
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    Lock icon Service For Penfriends
    61 2 TWO Singapore businessmen, Messrs. Lee Soo Him and Goh Seek Kee, have formed a pen-pals club in the Colony Called the "Alliance Penfriends Service," membership is open to all. irrespective of age. creed, race, or religion. All Inquiries and correspondence about the club should be addressed to
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    Lock icon Court Is Told Of Stabbing In A Tent
    198 2 Court Is Told Of Stabbing In A Tent A STAB wound misled penetrating the heart of a young jungle fighter, Private C. J. C. Dunlop. of the King Own Scottish Borderers', an Army doctor told a Singapore General Court Martial yesterday. Capt. M. E. OSullivan wa^ giving medical evidence in
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    Lock icon Build Schools Or Else Hang Heads In Shame
    151 2 Build Schools Or Else Hang Heads I n Shame KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— The Federation's Labour Minister, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan, long accused by trade unions of "glorious inactivity," tonight urged the Indian community in Malaya to follow the lead of the Chinese and build more schools "or hang our heads
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    Lock icon Ordinance For Servants?
    63 2 THE Singapore Catering Services Staffs and Workers Trade Union yesterday decided to urge Government to take necessary measures to apply the provisions of the Labour Ordinance to all domestic servants. The Executive Committee of the Union has decided to approach the Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr.
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    Lock icon New FARELF Chief Believes In – Good Press Relations
    331 2 New FARELF Chief Believes In Good Press Relations I Like It Here, Says Festing THE new Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces, Lt. General Sir Francis Festing, arrived by air in Singapore from Britain yesterday to be greeted by martial music played by the band of the South Wales Borderers. Impeccably
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    Lock icon EXHIBITION OF SCIENCE
    40 2 THE contribution thst science makes to industry be featured in an exhir to be opened at the Singaprr« Institute of Science in Seran* goon Road today. The exhibition will be open from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
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    Lock icon Welfare Fund
    31 2 A THREE-DAY fun fair n the compound of the I I Kampong Glam is being p ned by the Singapore lu Union to collect educatK il and welfare funds
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    Lock icon CATHOLICS CONDEMN A STAGE PLAY
    200 2 THE Malayalee Catholic Community in Singapore yesterday strongly protested against the presentation of a play for which the police have issued a permit to the sponsors The play called "Vazhi Thurannu" will be staged at the Beatty Road Secondary School by the Kerala Samajam. tonight.
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    Lock icon Attendance At FPA Clinics Shows Jump
    146 2 ATTENDANCE at the Singapore Family Planning Association clinics during June rose 25 per cent over that in May, and 78 per cent over that in June, last year, an F.P.A. report said yesterday. This increase has caused congestion at headquarters, both for those who
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    Lock icon vs Fight For A Bishop Moves Into Battle Of The Ages
    289 3 vs Fight For A Bishop Moves Into Battle Of The Ages EXPERIENCE ■youth TWO powerful camps of Methodists from Southeast Asia are engaged in a bitter tug-of-war to elect a new Bishop for the region. They have met for three days in succession, and have voted 18 times, but are
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    Lock icon HOW THE BALLOTS WENT
    234 3 HOW the ballots went so far Ist BALLOT: Amstutz 19, Jones 12, Ho 5, Doraisamy 4. Hang 3. Aim 1. Berckman 1. (one vote was invalid as it was voted for the retiring Bishop Archer). 2nd BALLOT: Amstutz 26, Ho 12. Aim 3. Berckman 2. Jones
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    Lock icon BEER CASE WILL BE HEARD NEXT WEEK
    121 3 THE preliminary Inquiry Into a charge of criminal breach of trust of beer valued at $278,000 belonging to the East Asiatic Company has been postponed for a week. Mr. F.R XH. Massey. who on Thursday applied for a month's postponement. told the Court
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    Lock icon FILM LECTURE
    33 3 VICE-President of the Singapore Geographical Society, JA.F. West, will give a film lecture on ''Elementary Geographical Aspects of Soil Erosion," at the British Council Hall, at 8.30 p.m.. on Sept. 5.
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    Lock icon A PINCH FROM A PUNCH IN A PUNCH-UP
    74 3 A SINGAPORE bus conductor nipped a passenger's leg with a ticket punch during an argument in a moving bus yesterday. The conductor had "words" with a passenger over his fare. This resulted in blows and the conductor was knocked down. Producing his
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    Lock icon Qantas Make Printer History In Colony
    254 3 MESSAGE GOES ROUND WORLD IN 18 MIN. TELEPRINTER history was made in Singapore yesterday, when the first direct circuit between Qantas Singapore and Sydney was opened by Mr. R. L. Harry, the Australian Commissioner in Singapore. From the Cable and Wireless offices in Robinson
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    Lock icon 53 May Go On Strike Because Pretty Doris Is Under Notice
    308 3 FIFTY-THREE employees of the Union Insurance Society of Canton Ltd. in Singapore have threatened to strike over the management's decision to terminate the services of one of their colleagues a petite stenographer, Miss Doris Phua. The workers members of
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    Lock icon Mr. Lazarous Summons A Taximan
    249 3 Mr. Lazarous Summons A Taximan A TAXI-DRIVER S. fjengasamy, claimed in a Singapore Civil Court yesterday that he was asked to sign two «1.0.U. chits for a $500 loan. Rengasamy appeared in court on a summons issued by Mr. A. R. Lazarous. Singapore Assemblyman and City Councillor, who was claiming
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    Lock icon HK EXCHANGE
    36 3 HONGKONG, Aug. 17. Special Standard Service: Closing price of the Hongkong Exchange were: 515.08 to £1 Sterling; $6.***** to US$l; $1,837 to. Malayan $1; $0,190 to One Indonesian Rupiah; Gold $261,875 to a tael.
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    Lock icon 'I WAS CHARMED INTO BEING A PROSTITUTE'
    212 3 A 19-YEAR-OLD girl told a Singapore Court yesterday that she was "charmed" into prostitution by an elderly woman, at a house in Tiong Bahru Road. Chow Khan Hoi was testifying at the trial of Ho Tuck Kec(f), who was accused of living on
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    Lock icon Colony Sailors Complain To Minister
    167 3 Colony Sailors Complain To Minister SINGAPORE seamen yesterday protested to the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy. over the tendency of foreign-flagged ships employing alien seamen in preference to local crews. Led by Capt. Mohd. Said bin Elias, of the Malayasian Ship Officers' Union, and the Secretary
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    Lock icon Freedom Day Is Celebrated
    151 4 Freedom Day Is Celebrated THE Indonesian ConsulGeneral in Singapore, Dr. Herman Kartowisastro, last night save a cocitail party to more than 300 people, to commemorate Indonesia's 11th year of independence. Among those present were the Governor, Sir Robert Black and Lady Black, the Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Yew Hock and
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    Lock icon 7 Could Not Stop Train In Time: Driver
    479 4 7 Could Not Stop Train In Time: Driver 4 SOLDIERS DIED WHEN CAR STUCK ON TRACK IPOH, Fri.— The engine driver of a train said today that although he saw a military truck stuck on the railway track when he was 80 yards away, it took him 330 yards to
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    28 4 THE Nationalist Chinese Government is seriously considering purchasing 1.400 television sets from an American company for educational purposes, it was disclosed in Tai- pei yesterday. U.P.
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    Lock icon Husband-Wife Music Team
    81 4 TWO young American musicians, with a significant reputation in Europe and the United States, will be presented to Singapore audiences at Victoria Memorial Hall, on Sept. 27. under the joint auspices of Donald Moore Productions and the Singapore Chamber Ensemble. The couple are Carroll Glenn. violinist, and
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    Lock icon We Won't Be Influenced By 'Red's; Yap
    153 4 MR. Yap Pheng Geek, organizer of the Singapore trade delegation to China and Japan, said yesterday, that the members of his mission would not be influenced by Red China's Communism. "We go in search of a better understanding with China and to promote
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    Lock icon AIR CHIEF PRAISES MAAF MEN
    65 4 THE Air Officer Commanding Malaya, Air Vice-Mar-shal W.H. Kyle, yesterday complimented men from the Singapore. Kuala Lumpur and Penang Squadron of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force on their "excellent turn out and bearing" at an inspection parade held at the Royal Air Force Station, Seletar.
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    Lock icon COMMODITY PRICES
    57 4 CLOSING rubber prices (cents per lb.) in Singapore yesterday were: Kuyers Sellers Spot (nom.) 96 96i Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 96} 962 No. 2 R.S.S. 931 94 No. 3 R.S.S. 92} 93 Tone: Easier. SPOKt UN The price ot tin on the local market yesterday was S387 (Up
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    Lock icon $50 FINE FOR A $2 BRIDE
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    Lock icon Dragon Dancers
    52 5 THE start of the dragon dance by 120 members of the Chinese Physical Culture Society. The procession began from the old Kalians Airport and ended at the Esplanade covering a distance of nearly two miles over Nicoll Highway. One thousand packets of crackers were let off by the
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    Lock icon Tribute To M.R.N.V.R. Officer
    174 5 Tribute To M.R.N.V.R. Officer Standard Shipping Reporter THE Singapore Division of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve yesterday paid tribute to one of its pioneers, when the new Laburnum Gate6 at Telok Ayer Basin, erected in memory of Commander Frank Cable, were opened. The gates were opened by the Commanding
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    Lock icon Death Of Sir Otto Lund
    68 5 THE Singapore branch of the St. John Ambulance Brigade yesterday received a cable from its Headquarters in London informing it of the death of Commissioner-in-Chief, Sir Otto Lund. Sir Otto visited Singapore in January last year, on a routine inspection tour of Southeast Asia and
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    Lock icon A Symbol Of Our Path To Freedom, Says Lim
    489 5 A Symbol Of Our Path To Freedom, Says Lim 60,000 SEE MERDEKA BRIDGE, NICOLL HIGHWAY OPENED 'Through Calm, Thoughtful Planning Success IN the most colourful ceremony in Singapore since the Coronation in 1953, the Colony's new $8,000,000 coastal road Nicoll Highway and Merdeka Bridge was declared open yesterday by the
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    Lock icon FIRST STEPS ACROSS NICOLL HIGHWAY...
    38 5 A SECTION of the huge crowd who turned up at yesterday's ceremonial opening of Singapore's new coastal road. This picture was taken a few minutes after the opening by the Chief Minister. Standardpic.
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    Lock icon It Rained Roses And A Big Rush Started For Souvenirs'
    380 5 It Rained Roses And A Big Rush Started For Souvenirs' WHAT was undoubtedly the most exhilarating moment of yesterday's ceremony was the aerial "bombardment'' of Merdeka Bridge by tens of thousands of fresh roses. The "raid"' was carried out by a speciallychartered Mosquito aircraft which winged over the teeming crowds
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    Lock icon Lib-Socialist Campaign
    55 5 THE Singapore LiberalSocialist Party is to organize a new campaign to eradicate corruption and attain the general upliftment of the standard of morality of the people of the Colony. With this object in view, the Party has called a public meeting of all organizations and communities today to
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    Lock icon HE DREAMED' WHILE HIS FRIEND DROWNED
    182 5 PENANG, Fri.—A schoolbody, Moshin bin Ahmad, admitted he was dreaming while waiting on the beach for his schoolmate, Ng Chee Keong, who was lost in the sea off Tanjong Tokong Mohsin was a witness at an inquiry before the Coroner. Mr. Au Ah Wan,
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    Lock icon Open Verdict On Granite Blaster
    188 5 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. Giam Chong Hing. yesterday returned an "open verdict" at the inquest on Chan Kam, a 63-year-old granite quarry blaster, who was found dead after an explosion. Inspector T. E. Hong, who conducted the inquiry, told the Court that Police were unable
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      509 6 fFHE Suez Canal flare-up is now in its conference stage. Vital discussions have opened on the opposing viewpoints of Egypt and the Western Powers by the 22 nations represented at the talks. The problem which these delegates have to solve is whether the canal should be controlled
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      Lock icon Border Action
      381 6 the Emergency years sporadic sorties into Thai territory have been carried out by Malayan security forces against the terrorists who hopped across the border to find sanctuary in a stretch of no-man's land there. In ihe early period of the Emergency. Malayan forces, under an agreement with the
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    Lock icon THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME
    586 6  - THE NEWS AS IT STRIKES ME ASTER GUNASEKERA f\NE service, probably throughout the world, where a labourer is not considered worthy of his hire, is the Government and in this respect the administrations in Malaya are no different. They, however, are not the worst. The Governments of Malaya, except m
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    Lock icon Love Problems In China
    802 6  -  RAWLE KNOX by HONGKONG. T OVE can be the devil in i i China, too. When Su Yuan, a 24-year-old Youth League member and prospector, wr,ote to the magazine "China Youth" about his troubled romance, the comrades of the editorial board received ti.OOO letters on the
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    Lock icon IN MEMORMAM
    283 6 IT is about a week now since Dr. Lcuis Sammy passed away and in his demise the Colony has lost one of its distinguished medical practitioners. Dr. Sammy was educated at the Raffles Institution and won a Queen's Scholarship which enabled him to pursue his studies at the
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    Lock icon INDIAN RIOTS OVER BILINGUAL ISSUE
    489 6  -  Jonathan Swayne By 1 New Delhi. ItPHE Ahmadabad riots demonstrate once again how quickly an Indian city can be taken over by a mob. Trouble in Ahmadabad began when a three-day strike 1 was called by students i to protest against the Government's decision to
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    Lock icon Rumania Turns To The Kulaks
    922 6  - Rumania Turns To The Kulaks DANIEL NORMAN By LONDON, RUMANIA'S collectivization drive, slowed down since Stalin's death, has been revived in the last six months and is to be further intensified, according to a resolution passed by the July 16 plenary meeting of the Rumanian Workers' (Communist) Party central committee,
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    25 6 "Olm an 'tindred to-day, zur, an' moi ambition be to live to be an 'undred an' ten and be shot dead by a jealous husband!"
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    Lock icon EX-SUPREMO DIES
    41 7 NEWPORT. Rhode Island. Aug 17, (Reuter) ViceAdmiral Lynde McCormick, former Supreme Allied Commander of the Atlantic, and President of the Naval War College since 1954, died at the naval hospital here yesterday of a heart attack. He was 61.
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    Lock icon Trial For EOKA Truce Bid
    91 7 Trial For EOKA Truce Bid NICOSIA, Aug. 17 (Reuter) —The Cyprus Government has accepted the EOKA terrorists' truc« declaration published in leaflet form last night— as genuine, but they clan to give it a month's trial before officially responding, sources close to the Government said today. The Government has not
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      Lock icon $150,000 Jewel Theft
      79 7 GENEVA. Switzerland. Aug. 17, (AP)— Police said on Thursday they were taking part in an international investigation into the theft of US$5O,OOO (M$150,000) worth of precious stones from a plane to Israel. The jewels were put aboard a Trans World Airlines plane at Geneva "several weeks ago."
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      Lock icon Three-Year Pact
      32 7 COLOMBO, Aug. 17. (Reuter) Ceylon and Czechoslovakia signed a three-year agreement yesterday for mutual economic co-operation —the first of its kind ever entered into by Ceylon with a Communist country.
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      Lock icon Newsman Pardoned
      38 7 VIENNA; Aug. 17. (Reuter) —Andre Marton, correspondent for the Associated Press, who was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for espionage in January this year, has been pardoned by the Hungarian Presidial Council. Budapest Radio announced yesterday.
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    Lock icon THE LITTLE HUT' SET IN ROME
    88 7 photo. attFRiPAN actress Ava Gardner co-stars with British actors Stewart Granger and O™d NivJn in the* new film version of Andre Roussins play "The Litt e Hut" .at nresent filming at Cinecitta. Rome. Other parts of the film will be shot in London Snd
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    Lock icon They Light A Fire To Cool Off
    93 7 photo. WITH the temperature at 93 degrees in the shade, this group of Tokyo shopkeepers got out into the sun, lit a bonfire and sat around it in their winter clothes. After a while they strip down to their normal summer wear. This
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    Lock icon Unionists Want Nationalization Of 3 Industries
    191 7 Unionists Want Nationalization Of 3 Industries HASTINGS, England, Aug. 17, (Reuter)— Union leaders yesterday demanded nationalization of the British shipbuilding, aircraft and engineering industries. The 200 delegates representing 40 separate unions and more than three million British workers began the perond day of their session by calling on the Trades
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    214 7 World Has Been Given False Picture Of Chiana Govt. Australian Leader Says: TAIPEI, Aug. 17, (Reuter)— Sir John Latham, leader of an Australian Parliamentary mission to Formosa/ said in a broadcast here last night that the Chinese Nationalist Government had been "grossly misrepresented to the world." Sir John, a former
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    39 7 CAIRO. EgyDt. Aug. 17 (UP) Israeli troops penetra'ed Egyptian territory last night and killed nine Egyptian soldiers, according to U.N. reports reaching here today. Reports of two incidents came from the U.N. trure supervisory organization in Jerusalem.
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    32 7 ROME. Aug. 17. (Reuter)— Mrs. Clare Booth Luce. American Ambassador to Italy, returned here yesterday after a three months' stay in the United States to undergo treatment for arsenic poisoning.
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    105 7 OTTAWA. Aug. 17 (Reuter) Canada plans to claim the Gulf of St Lawrence and similar Canadian stretches of water as its territorial waters, the Canadian Press News Agency reported yesterday. It wa.s understood that the claim would be set out before the United
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    112 7 TOKYO, Aug. 17, (UP)— A Japanese diver in the Araiura Sea. north of Australia. was reported today to have discovered the largest pearl in the world. Uji Huma. a diver with the japane.-e pearling expedition in the Arafura. wrote to his family in Wakayama Prefecture that
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    556 8 He Wins Democratic Presidential Nomination Chief Challenger Harriman Suffers Crushing Defeat CHICAGO, Aug. 17, (AP)— Mr. Adlai Stevenson on Thursday night won the Democratic presidential nomination, and a second chance at the nation's highest office. Mr. Stevenson won 910£ votes, and his stiffest competitor, Mr.
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    69 8 photo. BANGKOK: Field Marshal P. Pibulsonggram, Prime Minister of Thailand, bids goodbye with a hug and a kiss on the departure of his wife h.uk to camera) for the World's Federation of United Nations Associations in Geneva where she will preside at the session. Their daughter (facing
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    259 8 Britain Keeps Watch For EOKA 'Revolt' NICOSIA, Aug. 17, (Reuter) British officials here today are anxiously watching for signs of a ''revolt" in EOKA ranks after the dramatic terrorist truce offer in thousands of leaflets distributed throughout the island, yesterday. Officials believe the extremist EOKA elements will refuse to lay
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    176 8 PARIS, Aug. 17, (AP)— French police Thursday announced the arrest of four men including one American sailor— in a US$3OO,OOO ($900,000 Malayan) dope smuggling attempt. The men were part of a long-standing trans-Atlan-tic smuggling operation, police said. The American, identified as Egberth Gordon cf Detroit,
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    106 8 The Most Humane Punishment WINNIPEG (Manitoba), Aug. 17 (UP) British At-torney-General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller said yesterday that hanging was the most humane punishment for a murderer. "Why, it only takes about two seconds to break a man's neck," he explained. "It's the only deterrent against the professional criminal." Sir Reginald
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    50 8 VIENNA. Aug. 17 (UP) The first political mass trial for leaders of the antiCommunist uprising at Pcznan. Poland, will start in September, informed sources said yesterday. The sources said that some 120 participants in the Poznan outbreak are awaiting trial in the Polish jail of Rawicz.
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    33 8 PRINCE Mikasa. younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, and Princess Yuriko arrived in Colombo yesterday for a 12-day visit connected with the 2,500th anniversary celebrations of Buddha's death.— A.P.
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    214 8 STRAFORD-ON-AVON, England, Aug. 17, (Reuter) A two-year-old Police dossier on an unsolved murder of a nurse whose body was flung into the River Avon weighed down by a tombstone, has been reopened here following an attack on a middleaged spinster. Police with
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    126 8 'Collective Colonialism' Is Nonsense —Says Times NEW YORK. Aug. 17 (Reuter) The New York Times said today that there must be "agreed international operation" of the Suez Canal under agreement with Egypt. The newspaper said that the Suez Canal Company "had never questiond Egyptian sovereignty over the canal zone and
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    34 8 CAIRO, Aug. 17, (Reuter)— Air raid sirens wailed here last night as Egyptian air force planes flew over the city in a mock air raid. The capital was completely blacked out.
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    320 8 Shepilov And His Tuxedo -Oh, What A Valet Couldn't Do LONDON. Aug. 17 (AP) The magazine "Tailor and Cutter" high authority on the well dressed man turned up it s editorial nose today at Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov's new tuxedo. "We heartily applaud the revolutionary act of Mr. Shepilov
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    25 8 VIENNA. Aug. 17, (Reuter) —President Nasser has postponed his State visit to Hungary which was planned for early September. Budapest Radio announced yesterday.
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    201 8 MY HEART IS FULL. I'M DEEPLY GRATEFUL MR. STEVENSON CONVENTION Hall, Chicago. Aug. 17, (AP)— Mr. Adlai Stevenson appeared before the Democratic National Convention last night shortly after ft had nominated him as its Presidential candidate and said: "The choice of a Vice-Presl-dent has become almost as important as the
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    59 8 TOKYO, Aug. 17 (UP) A hydrogen-filled balloon released by a group of Japanese scientists Wednesday soared to a height of more thaft 17 miles, It was disclosed yesterday. The balloon, 95 feet high and 65 feet wide, was released by the Cosmic Ray Research Corp It
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      662 9  -  Nurse Kathleen STORIES FOR rHn.TißF.ivr b> T r-LU the Siamese cat 1 is very beautiful. She has big blue eyes and her paws and her tail and her face are the colour of a chocolate bar. Sometimes she carefully fits in the middle of a pretty
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    464 9 Shopping around K.L. with LANE THE new MCA building A in Ampang Road promises, in a month's time. to be a wonderland for shoppers, judging by the number of firms setting up headquarters there shortly. Kuala Lumpur's Indian shop, sponsored by the Indian Government, and to be renamed the "Handloom
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      140 10 Easing Of Tension Hits Rubber —3 3 /8-c. Drop TIJE Singapore rubber market yesterday continued to ease, first grade rubber for September shipment closing at 96| cents per lb., a drop of 3g cents on Thursday. The easier prices were attributable to the easing of tension in the Middle East.
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      71 10 IMPORTS of tin into Malaya dropped from 1.031 tons in June to 973 tons in July, according to official statistics. During the first seven months of this year the quantity of tin imported amounted to 5.650 tons compared with 5.779 tons for the same period of
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      20 10 THE first private commercial fishing agreement between the Republic of Vietnam and Japan has been concluded at Saigon.
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    156 10 MR. R. V. FARRELL, vice-president of Union Carbide International, New York, is in Singapore to see the $3,000,000 expansion programme of the National Carbon (Eastern) Ltd. in the Colony. He arrived at Paya Lebar Airport by Pan American Airways on Thursday from Manila. With him were
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    89 10 MALAYAN sharebrokers yesterday reported the following business done F. N ords $1,971: Gammon $1,924, $1.93: M. Breweries $2,874, $2.80 overnight: M. Colls $1: Spore Cold Storage $1: Robinson ords $1,524. $1.51; U.E. ords $8.70; Wearne Bros $2,924. Austral Amal 16/10*. 16/74; Berjuntai 25/14: Hongkong 5/3; Johan $1
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    84 10 CONTINUED steady conditions prevailed in all sections of the share market yesterday, according to the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association. Prices fluctuated within narrow limits. Price changes announced by the Association yesterday were INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Fraser Neave: Ords. 1.95 2.00 Robinson Co: Ords. 1.50 155 Wearne Bros. 2.90 2.95
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    40 10 NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (UP). Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS: 30 Industrials 517.19 20 Rails 165.33 19 Utilities 70.70 65 Stocks 181.90 BONDS: 40 Bonds 94.44 The Dow-Jones Commodity futures Index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 16U.85.
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    70 10 SOME rubber dealers in Ceylon were paying a small premium for good quality rubber over the Rubber Commissioner's prices as reports circulated that the U.S. Government was in the market for such quality. The Ceylon rubber market has reacted in line with the world markets on the Suez
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    150 10 SHIPS IN PORT OUTER ROADS Olori Maru, Asakasan Maru, Tokai Maru. Reginald Kerr, Kota Gede, Caltex Cebu, Bali, State of MadTas. SumbaAa, Chunchi, Blitar, FernclifT. INNER ROADS Darvel, Resang. New Asia. Pangkor. Cambay Breeze Torina. Juliana. Lawu. Hong Tat, Kim Hai Seng. Aik Leong. llin Seng, Caltex 9. Buana. Tong
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    364 10 'Merdeka Can Help Tin Mining Industry' KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The coming of Merdeka would hold promise of better conditions for the tin mining industry in the future, Mr. Chong Khoon Lin, president of the All. Malayan Chinese Mining Association, told the annual general meeting of the association today. He said
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    136 10 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were Copra. August $26J buyers. $27 sellers; coconut oil (bulk) $41J sellers, coconut oil (drums) $43J sellers; Muntoic white pepper $129 sellers, Sarawak white $128 sellers. Special Sarawak black $90 sellers. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: Straits mixed
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    79 10 tons in 1955, the magazine pointed out. World consumption of rubber this year is expected to hit 2.8 million tons, the report estimated. Natural output, it said, will total about 1.8 million and output of synthetics about 1.1 million tons. ft noted that nearly all the output of synthetio
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    188 10 Standard Shipping Reporter VETERAN Captain Robert W. Sweetser. who commands the newest ship of the American President Lines U*****,000,--000 replacement programme the President Adams, on her maiden voyage has distinguished himself with many notable "firsts." The 12,800-ton new luxury cargo liner will arrive in Singapore on
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      667 10 SALE OF GOVERNMENT STORES BY TENDER HpENDERS will be received up J- to noon on the 31st August 1956 for the purchase of 1475 ammunition pouches. These pouches are made of green canvas. 10" x 10" in size, and closed with a flap with two turn buttons. These ammunition pouches
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      292 10 NOTICES TENDERS TINPLATE SCRAP rjiENDERS are invited for A the removal, in loose form, of the whole of the tinplate scrap produced by the Company over the twelve months period commencing Ist October. 1956. The form of Agreement to be completed by tenderers is available upon request from the Company's
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      73 10 Synthetic A Record THE synthetic rubber industry will make the United States entirely independent of all other sources of the strategic material by 1957 should war break out. Chemical Engineering Magazine said in New York Synthetic rubber aecounted for 59 per cent of aJI the rubber consumed in the U.S.
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    966 12 ft This Meet Began In Sunshine And Ended In Moonlight ft But Misses The Malayan Record PENANG, Fri.— FASTER. FASTER FASTER chanted the crowd In monotone, and the man who responded most to this call for speed was Selangor's ROLAND PARRY who cracked the 10-second barrier
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    72 12 The MAAA meet today will resume at 2.30 p.m. according to the pro rramme. Only the following chances are made: (3.35 p.m.) 440 yards final. (4.40 p.m.) 4x440 yards relay. Heats. (5.95 p.m.) 4xllo yards relay. Women. Heats. (.~>.lo p.m.) 4xllo yards relay heats, t-.li) p.m.) 4xllo yards
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    279 12 COLOUR SPECTACLE AND SPECIAL CHEER FOR AUSSIE PENANG, Fri. Blue skies above, closely-cropped grass below what could be better for today, for this opening of the 35th Malayan Amateur Athletic Association Games here today. The crowd is filling in, like most holiday crowds, gay, good-natured, peeping out from under light
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    1975 12 Following are the full sults:--440 Yards Low Hurdles. HEAT I. 1 1. Chan Onn Leng (S'pore) f>6.ss 2. Yeap Lien Tarn (Pg) 3. H. Parry (Sel) Scratching: K. Laxman of Selangor and L. Labuthala of Ceylon. Only three started. Onn Leng led from start to finish with
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    334 12 Prepare For Independence Days Big Meet Tunku Tells Athletes PENANG, Fri.— Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Federation's Chief Minister, called upon the athletes of Malaya to 'prepare yourselves from now for the great day' when the "Malayan Championships will be held in the Federation's two-million dollar stadium next year. Speaking at
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    405 13 NEW YORK, Aug. 17, (AP)— Sad Sam Jones, whose mildness sets up batters for strikeouts, set a one-game crayon high for the National League by fanning 13 as the Chicago Cubs trimmed Cincinnati 4-2 Thursday and knocked the Redlegs out of second place. Jones'
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    36 13 H.M. Dockyard playing their last game ni the SAFA Div. 1 league failed to add a point when thev were beaten by Argonauts bv six goals to four at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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    178 13 LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter)— The following are fixtures for football matches to be played tomorrow, Saturday: LEAGUE DIVISION I Arsenal v Cardiff: Villa v Charlton; Bolton v Blackpool; Burnley v Chelsea: Leeds v Everton: Luton v Sunderland; Manchester Utd. v Birmingham; Newcastle v Portsmouth: Preston v Tottenham:
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    53 13 R.A.F Changi proved too strong for S.H.B. Police "A" whom they trounced by ten goals to nil in a SAFA Div. 3B league soccer match played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Scorers for the Airmen were: Cooper (5). McManus (2). Skelton. Springthrope and Stringer. The Airmen lead 5-0
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    43 13 Today's Sport CRICKET FRIENDLY: S.R.C. vs. Wanderers "A" at Wanderers at 2.15 p.m.; R.E.M.E. vs. Indian Association at I. A. ground at 2 p.m. BADMINTON Chinese Y.M.C.A. 1956 championships. BASKETBALL Taiwan Girls vs. Chung Hu-a Girls' School at S.B.A. Hall at 8 p.m.
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    151 13 THE non-arrival of the Vietnamese team has left the organizers of the inter-pnrt tennis competition for the Dato Yeap challenge cup in a dilemma. At last night's draw for the competition which will be held from Monday to Wednesday, the organizers decided to hold two draws instead.
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    222 13 LONDON, Aug. 17 (Reuter)— Surrey beat Sussex by seven wickets today to tighten their grip on the English Coun ty Cricket Championship. Only a complete breakdown of form can now prevent the southern county from setting a record by winning the championship outright five years
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    78 13 Big Win For Taiwan Girl Cagers TAIWAN'S Soon Tak girl cagers overwhelmed Ihe combined Nan Chiau and Chung Ching girls team by SH-18 in a basketball match at the Singapore Badminton Hall last niaht. The visitors took a 17-8 lead at the end of the first quarter. stretched it to
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    33 13 A solitary goal scored by centre forward Sahar Hussein helped Fathul Karib Sports Club to beat Royal Air Force Seletar in a SAFa Div. 2A league at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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    312 14 Marcelle Looks Best In Open Field SHE HAS THE FORM, SPEED AND COURAGE Over The Tricky ILL Course Early Pace Is Important Says WINDSOR LAD THE MAIN sprint over 51 furlongs (Race Six) at Kuala Lumpur today, first day of the Selangor Turf Club's August Meeting, has a wide open
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    1214 14 RACE li 2.30 p.n*.— Horses Class 4, Div. 4—7 Furs. 1. 40« Golden Rebus 4y 9.00 Valiant Stable Yong FranSin 2 38- Jackpot II «> MJ Mr. Kwik Hobbs l-ranKJin 3 738 Dragon Seed 4y B.U M^and Mrs. Tan Cheng (Unfixed) 4. 80S Good Andrew 3y 8.1 1 Diamond Stable"
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    765 14 RACE TWO FLAXLEY GREEN has been pretty consistent in recent starts and should make a safe each-way bet in this seven-furlong race for Division One perfcrmers. This Pandemonium 5-year-old won cleverly over seven lurlongs* here in June, inflicting a two and a half lengths beating
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    75 14 Chance For Royal Fresco RACE FOUR On his third to Periwinkle and Pleasure Park over five and a half furlongs here in June I expect Royal Fresco to show improvement and take this race. Royal Frescos track effort 1 have been encouraging. He has been dropped a division with five
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    356 14 Periwinkle Is A Nap RACE FIVE PERIWINKLE has been showing sparkling form on the trark and I do not propose to look beyond him for the winner in the sprint event for Division Two horses. I make him my nap of the day. On Wednesday he ran three furlongs in
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    206 14 RACE THREE What Happened has been working in great heart during the past week and Is definitely running back to his peak fcrm. I take him to beat them home in this Division Three event. In his efforts here in June he finished
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    207 14 RACE EIGHT Square Deal has been going great guns in his track efforts and I do not propose to oppose him in the seven furlongs race for Class Four, Division Two horses. He has made much headway since his two races here in
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      70 14 THERE w»s heaw downpour, which lasted for more than an hour, at Kuala Lumpur last eveninf. But unless there is further rain toda> thr going will probably be (rood. Broadcast RedifTusion will broadcast commentaries on ali races toda). Big Sweep Forecast Pool will h held on Races 3, 5 and
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