Singapore Standard, 15 May 1957

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  • 629 1 'FLU -STRUCK ISLANDERS FACE STARVATION I THE GREAT EPIDEMIC I I——— I WELFARE COUNCIL ANSWERS SOS FOR ODD AND MEDICINE RATION makvaiiu.v mounted by the L M.ilav Welfare Council yesterday prothe U\e> of many of the 9,000 islanders fund most erfolk. were on the >n brought about by a raging
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  • 28 1 Justold were eta m news■ta d and •s--r .id Ukferrc I it Council. id discusD H en his ■grefd that DM other Id have to Into the
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  • 205 1 DECISION TO USE SUEZ IS A PRACTICAL STEP CANBERRA, May 14, (Reuter)— Australia supports Britain's decision on the use of the Suez Canal, Sir Arthur Fadden, Australian Acting Prime Minister, 1 said here today. In a statement to the House of Representatives, Sir Arthur said the British
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  • 17 1 THE Nationalist Government will soon start re-education courses for Communist Chinese agents discovered on Formosa. Reuter
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  • 72 1 'May We Invade Malaaya?' THE HAGUE, May 14, (Reuter) Last night's liberal Amsterdam newspaper "Algemeen HandHsbald" asked in jest whether Holland may rightfully send troops to occupy Malaya after Aug. 31. when the territory gains independence. The paper recalls that in the London Treaty of 1824 Holland ceded Malaya 'to
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  • 48 1 NICOSIA. May 14 (AP) The Communist general secretary of the Cyprus Federation of Labour returned to the island after 17 months compulsory exile and told a news conference last night his 35,000 members would work conditionally for a peaceful settlement of the dispute with the British.
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  • 35 1 MR. NEHRU, the Indian Prime Minister, said yesterday India would not raise the Kashmir dispute at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference to be heln in London from June 26 to July 2.— Reuter
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  • 78 1 BUENOS AIRES. May 14 (AP).— An Argentine airliner with 16 persons aboard was reported down last night on a flight from Buenos Aires to the mountain resort of San Carlos de Bariloche. Eleven passengers and five crewmen were said to oe aboard the twin-engine Viking of
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  • 42 1 JAKARTA. May 14 (AP) Former Information Minister Sjamsuddin Sutan Makmur is to be tried soon on a charge of being "allegedly involved" in a swindle of 1,000,000 rupiahs belonging to the State Printing Office, it was learned today.
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  • 23 1 DANISH electors went to the polls yesterday to choose 175 members of their 179-member Folketing (Parliament) from among 750 candidates. Reuter
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  • 201 1 Quacks Rake In $150m. A Year WASHINGTON. May 11. (AP) Postmaster General Summerfield says that "sure cure" medical quackery by mail has reached "the highest level in history." Mr. Summerfield said that so far this year postal inspectors have prepared cases representing an annual
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  • 216 1 MGR. MICHAEL Bonamy, 55, Vicar-Generai of the Archdiocese of Malacca and Singapore and parish priest of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, died at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday morning if a heart ailment. Father Bonamy had been under observation at the hospital for
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  • 66 1 DEYOXPORT, England. May 14 (UP)— The 10.000-ton Royal Navy cruiser ILMS Cumberland is due to leave here on May 24 for trials linked with Britain's H-bomb tests this year. An Admiralty spokesman said she would test British and American systems of washing ships down with water
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  • 25 1 DOROTHY DALE. 74, former beauty of the silent films. was burned to death last aight in her tiny cottage in Holly wood. Reuter
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  • 34 1 PRESIDENT Soekarno yesterday got a salary raise of 2,000 rupiahs, making his total salary 5,000 rupiahs or Ms4so a month at the present free market exchange rate. A.P.
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  • 128 1 REDS TAKE STOCK OF THEIR LOSSES PARIS. May 14 (Router) The Central Committee cf the Fren^n Communist Party today opened a three-day stocktaking" session at Arcueil, in the southern suburbs of Paris. M. Maurice Thorez, ailing party leacer. is expected to make a strong call for a world ban on
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  • 24 1 VISCOUNT Lamhton has resigned from his post as parliamentary private secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, for personal reasons. Reuter
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  • 114 1 JAPANESE and Malayan rubber merchants were unable to agree yesterday on whether arbitration re garding quality claims on Malayan rubber shipment to Japan sould be heard in Singapore or Tokyo. The meeting between the 10-man Japanese Rubber Mission and members of the Rubber Trade Association
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  • 236 1 Rest And Don't Worry KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Kuala Lumpur Municipal Health Officer, Dr. JF. McGarity assured the public in a broadcast tonight that influenza is not a killer by itself. i If a person catches flu, the best treatment is to rest
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  • 310 1 Accord By End Of Week? Merdeha Talks Open In London LONDON. May 14* (Reuter) The MalayanBritish working party met here today to opeu discussions on outs t a n ding points of the Federation of Malaya's draft constitution The working party has been formed to settle the technical details that
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  • 174 2 Absent MP's Are In Prison JAKARTA, May 14, (AP) The Indonesian parliament began its second session of the year yesterday with only 167 of its 273 members present Some of the absentees were in jail for corruption and some were still on the way to the capital. President Soekarno was
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  • 79 2 Illicit Drug Traffic 'Critical' UNITED NATION'S, May 14 (AP>. Britain ha? described BS "critical" the illicit drug traffic in Malaya, Singapore and Hongkong, according to a report bv an eight-member committee of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The commission approved a resolution submitted by France, India, Turkey and Yugoslavia.
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  • 51 2 AMMAN, May '13 (Reuter) Security forces arrested nine people suspected of subversive activities last night in Hebron, Zerka and Ramallah. it was announced today. The forces were today still looking for Communists, especially party members who have been accused of inciting others durins the recent Jordanian
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  • 308 2 WeWillOppo, Aggression By Communist NEW YORK, May 14, Ngo Dtn u President of South Vietnam, promised I M that his country would oppose a r 0 $t| attack. "Our people hate war," he said, "i also hate to be slaves." I "*^S The President made the
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  • 80 2 WASHINGTON, May 14, (Rruten— The 1957 annual meeting of the 19-mcniber Colombo Plan for Asian development will be held In Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, it was learned from authoritative sources today. Diplomatic sources snid that the decision to held the meeting in Saimm was
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  • 36 2 THE RockefGlior Brother? Fund of New York yesternay gave a US$5OO,OOO grant as a starting contribution to finance the Ramon Magsaysay Award to honour and perpetuate the ideals of the late Filipino president.
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  • 62 2 CARRYING trenching shovels, soldiers run to battle a fire on a new front after a wind change had altered the direction of the creeping menace of the two-day forest fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts. The fire cut a ten-mile path through the parched woodlands. At right a soldier,
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  • 189 2 'IF WE WISH TO SURVIVE../ BELGRADE, May 14, (Reuter) President Tito of Yugoslavia said today that efforts for effective disarmament must also have as their aim the prohibition of atomic and thermo-nuclear armaments "which, in their essence, as means for mass annihilation are above
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  • 53 2 German Plan Is Good— Mac LONDON. May 13 (Reuter). The Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, said today he considered the Western proposals for German reunification put forward at the 1955 Foreign Ministers Conference provided "the most satisfactory basis for a European settlement." The proposals included the Eden Plan for German
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  • 64 2 BOGOTA, Colombia, May 14 (UP). Jails throughout Colombia were being emptied yesterday of hundreds of students and other political opponents of ousted dictator Gustavo Rajas PiniliaA five-man military government junta which succeeded Rojas Pinilia, added fay a national union cabinet in which the various political shades
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  • 26 2 THE Ceylonese entry "Rekava" (The Destiny Line) was shown to an almost empty theatre at the international film festival in Cannes, France, yesterday.— U.P.
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  • 34 2 THE wreckage of a TransCanada Airlines North Star aircraft, missing since last December with 62 persons aboard, was reported sighted in the Mountains Sar Hope, the airline announcedd in Montreal yesterday U.P.
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  • 126 2 Atom Tests Can't Be Called Off WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuter)— The United State? yesterday rejected Japan's request that it call off atomic tests scheduled for Nevada this month. The U.S. note blamed the Soviet Union for having "obstructed progress toward control of the nuclear threat and the ending of nuclear
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  • 53 2 WASHINGTON, May 14 (AP).— The United States todav protested to Russia that "road blocks and other forms of police action" are restricting the travel of Americans inside Russia. A U.S. note complained that. in peace time, the Soviet government restricts American travel beyond the rules Moscow
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  • 119 2 WASHINGTON, May 14 (UP) A new world cold record of 100 degrees below zero has been registered by scientists at the South Pole, the Navy announced yesterday. The previous record 90 below was recorded in February, 1892, at Verhoyansk in Northern Siberia. The Navy
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  • 141 2 CHICAGO, May 14 (AP).— Two small boys have admitted setting at least 15 fires, including two that destroyed a church, Police said yesterday. Polire Captain Richard Lawler said the boys also told of stealing a United States mail truck and using a key chain
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  • 31 2 (UP) WtdU 1 < tonight that the w of pe» travr to 1 top levc: K II- use. But H "ai t] ret an ted \o the C
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  • 157 2 Ike Doctrine Begins HELP FOR FOUR M-EAST COUNTRIES KARACHI, May 14, (AP)— The United States will sign Eisenhower doctrine aid agreements with the four Middle East members of the Baghdad defence pact in Karachi in the next two or three days, officials said today. The agreements will cover U551 2.500,000
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  • 16 2 Iraqi Loan To Jord an BAGDAI I i 000 > more tan Mh 5 fairs, became time.
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  • 315 3 HGFHGF TJUDDHIST devotees in thousands flocked to the main temples of worship in Singapore to pay homage to Gautama Buddha, whose birth 2,500 years ago they were commemorating yesterday. Thousands streamed into the centres of Buddhist worship since dawn yesterday. At the Sakya Muni Temple in
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  • 223 3 r IN THE FEDERATION "1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. To the chanting of "sadhu, sadhu. nidahas wewa" (hail, hail go unto freedom), 1,500 birds were freed at the Buddhist Temple in Brickfields here early today. This was part of the Vesak Day observance by Buddhists in
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  • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Telecommunications Department installed 441 new telephones in the Federation in April; 402 new applications for service were received. A new edition of the Post Office Guide will be placed on sale at the larger post offices in the Federation and Singapore on May 16.
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  • 355 4 Fed, Police Launches To Get Electronic Eyes' Radar Unit Can 'See' Pirates 3 Miles Off KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Federation Police launches are to be equipped with radar shortly to improve their efficiency in tracking down pirates and smugglers. The first radar unit for the Marine Police has just been ordered
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  • 93 4 PROUD winner of the Merdeka Stamp Competition held recently is Inche Mohamed Abu Bakar Saman (centre) of the Muslim Religious Council of Kota Bharu. Flanking him are Captain Mohamed Salleh bin Haji Sulaiman (left) and Mr. Jimmy Tan Cheng Hoe, run-ners-up of the competition. On Monday. Inche
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  • 134 4 KUALA TRENGGANU, Tues. Minister for Agriculture. Inche Abdul Aziz bin Kshak, who is on a three-day tour of Trengganu to discuss with fishermen the working of the Government fishing aid scheme, yesterdav visited fishing villages at Kuala Kemaman, Kemasek Paka and Telok Bedira,. The
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  • 77 4 KUAI A LUMPUR, Tues. The $300,000 Monb Tuberculosis Centre on the Selangor coast will be completed before mid-1958, the Standard was told today Mr, T. Sivapragasam, committee member of the Selangor branch of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, disclosed today that work en the
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  • 165 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The General Officer Commanding, Major-General F. H. Brooke, will submit a "rehabilitation plan" to the Federation Defence Ministry under which demobbed soldiers will be heloed to find civilian jobs. The "Brooke Flan" is a result of a survey of exservicemen in
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  • 28 4 THE First Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers will sail from Penang in the troopship, "Dilwara." on May 17 and not on May 15 as previously announced.
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  • 90 4 ALOR STAR. Tues The Sultan of Kedah, Sir Baciiishah, has appointed the following Justices of the Peace on the eve of his birthday. Mr. M. Y. Samsuddin. retired Headmaster of Badlishah English School in Kulim, Mr. Le e Kok Sun, community leader of Baling, Haji Ismail
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  • 99 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Federation Telecoms need a watchman to watch the watchman's bicycle. He is the latest of Telecoms Accounts Department employees to have his machine stolen by a resourceful bicycle thief. Telecoms' magazine "Mercury" said today that frequent thefts of bicycle parts
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 539 4 i^tandcird cJtlmcuicic Information at a Glance Singapore Diary SEREMBAN "IS pm e!ua a To '"> l 3 «■«> '"w^rtee^" 1 Y.W^t SA S TpT Pa na 6 45 nd "^'SU St% J"*" Ve cijpSfe VoS Bund,n S PL^V:3o Ru p^ For Cover 230 3 TELOK ANSON Indian Information Service: Free
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  • 490 5 MANAGEMENT HAD TO SATISFY 19 CONDITIONS TO QUALIFY \I A LIMPIR, The Federation {cr for Education, \7.\bdul Kazak, to- m .idc public the tro v. rsial grant-in- j.irement forced Lgtn the government V* i; i him? Ling s v 1 L Penan?. the man
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  • 265 5 UNO POSTAL CLERK IS FREED LUMPUR, Tues.— Sessions Court PresiEe Hashim today reprimanded the Qg badly investigated cases to the courts. He said: "1 hav e to sav over and over again that the police do not lean to have a know--;e of procedure and their ignorance results in
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  • 22 5 Reverend Engaged 8* r Sup- and in x aho is r i r K. K. I I r mghter D. S I
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  • 57 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Sultan of Pahang this morning installed Enche Abdullah bin Tok Muda Ibrahim, Acting Mentri Besar, Pahang. and Enche Ismail bin Mohamed Jamil Acting State Secretary. The ceremony took place at the Royal Court of Istana Kota Beram in Pekan and was attended by
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  • 41 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Tunku Mahkota of Pahang on Sunday opened the new Arabic School at Padang Tunku, in Lipis district. The school with accommodation for about 40 students, was built with public donations of about $4,000.
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  • 152 5 THESE are WINNERS' SMILES. Sophisticated Rosalind Ttßg Pei Yuen (right) in her glamorous silver-coloured eheongsam. and petite Anne Lamond in her lovely, youthfully designed dance frock, smile with immense happiness for the cameraman. They were photographed with their silver challenge cups on Monday night after
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  • 153 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. Wong Siew Kheong, 30-year-old ice water seller was today released on bond by Mr. Jus tice Buhagiar for causing grievous hurt to a fruit stall holder. Wong, nicknamed "Wong Ngow" (Yellow Ox) was alleged to have attacked fruit
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  • 181 5 IPOH, Tucs. John Stephen Cross was today acquitted in the Sessions Court of three charges of falsifying accounts and three alternative charges of fraudulently- using as genuine certain documents which he knew or had reason to believe to be false, involv- ing $2,963.93
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  • 47 5 KUALA KANGSAR, Tues-— The body of a woman weeder, Ammini was found lying in a rubber estate in the Bukit Berapit area, nine miles north of here. Ammini had a head injury and her left earring was found missing. Police are investigating.
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  • 67 5 BTJKIT MERTAJAM, Tues. A 13-ycar-old boy was committed for trial at the next Penang assizes by Sessions Judge Mr. David Anthony yesterday following a preliminary inquiry. The youth faced a charge of murder by causing the dealh of an adult YusofT bin Ibrahim, at Machang Buboh
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  • 30 5 THE Kuala Langat District Alliance committee yesterday passed' a resolution urging State councillor Inche Saaidan Khadri to take immediate action on the requests and demands ol the people.
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  • 130 5 SFSWU-MEN ARE ACTIVE IN UNION FIELD AGAIN SEVERAL former members of the dissolved Singapore Factory and Shop Workers Union are active again organising trade union activities. Their efforts since the dissolution of the Union in February this year has resulted in the formation of four new unions catering for workers
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  • 138 5 220 STUDENTS BEGIN SPECIAL TRAINING TANJONG MALIM. Tues.— Two hundred and twenty students, specially selected for further secondary education in the new English Secondary School which is nearing completion in Tanjong Malim, started work today. They began their studies in improvised classrooms in nearby Sultan Idris Training College for Malay
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  • 68 5 Terrorist Body Found KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A platoon of "A" Company, Ist Battalion, Loyal Regiment, exchanged fire with three Communist terrorists they contacted in the Batu Gajah district of Pcrak yesterday. The terrorists fled. Following up, the patrol found the body of a terrorist who has been identified as Ng
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  • 59 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The RIDA-run Malay magazine "Maju" (Progress), may be shut down soon because it is losing money, the Standard learnt today. Maju which was established in 1952 has a monthly circulation of about 3,000. A spokesman for RIDA said: "We have sent our report
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  • 32 5 THE Right Rev. S. Kulendran. Bishop of Jaffna, will give a talk at the Singapore Ceylon Tamils Association Hall tomorrow at 6.50 p.m. on "The Ceylon Tamils— Past. Present and Future."
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  • 199 5 Penang to launch big drive for tourists PENANG, Tues.— The Pcnang Tourist Association today announced plans to launch a big overseas publicity drive to attract tourists to the island. The Association is a successor to the Penang Tourist Board and Bureau set up just over a year ago. Its formation
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  • 99 5 Police nab 12 suspects in village KAJANG. Tues.— Police raided Sungei Chua new village late last night and arrested twelve people under the Emergency Regulations. Ten of the twelve are women. The Standard understands that the arrests the fourth so far this year are in connection with "Operation Bonanza" under
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    • 528 6 TT IS reported that a Malacca member of the Chinese guilds' delegates now in London will draw the attention of Britain to the clause of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 stipulating that Malacca cannot be transferred to any other country. For years the people of that Settlement have
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    • 390 6 gELANGOR State and Municipal Councillor, C'r.e Abdullah Yassin. while encouraging traditional feasts and merriment during celebrations by Malays, deplores the adoption of western customs at Malayan parties. He points out that, since Malaya would be independent soon, Malays should revive their customs, arts and culture, and urges
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  • 776 6 The future of Christianity in Asia LONDON DECISIONS significant for the future of the Christian faith in Asia have been taken at a meeting at Prapat in north-west Sumatra of 130 leaders of the Protestant churches in Asia. Although Christianity is Asian in origin, as arc Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
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  • 1159 6 Struggle for POWER in Laos. rmm bloodwotith reports from saigon two years of unremitting: pressure from dissident pro-Com-munist forces and their supporters in North Laos the Royal Laotian Government in the administrative capital of Vientiane earlier this year seemed on the point of cracking. A provisional agreement was reached between
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  • 387 6  - The NEWS as it strikes me! ASTER GUNASEKERA By WHEN a person is distracted his mind works in strange ways. When it is a case of death, the bereaved, in a state of deep sorrow and mental confusion, do not hesitate to believe that the life could have been saved
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  • 185 6 We the PEOPLE La visit Expeiu Sir— At the Federal C cil Meeting of May 7, 7, very interesting information was revealed that reflects on the present Cabinet. It appears to the mftn-fo-the-street that the -present Government is more anxious to put an outward show of pomp and glory while
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  • 54 7 Israeli send a 1 the S lei .> fen act ■aeli Foreign in said (10 fer- think I be to 'iif itional tl .1 i:o- e C mal I r to maa 1 BniU be u->t. to com- f S,:ez was Of iO.'s
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  • 29 7 1 sai I lon ooard a ip in to report) was i tal i j ired to ship iV ar 11. the F~rknew i eft
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  • 58 7 JfDON It (Kpu- of jeeidonn»rdpd at a r n esterdaj on I thp Prime Hn Margaret i 7n. who hud drowned in her I H Baa was the M- D -nitl dp Mrndi publisher aid there was ••bt that Mrs. Hacis she was was overand feli 1 hilo the
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  • 313 7 Eight Quit Ranks In Commons, One In House Of Lords LONDON, May 14 (Reuter) Eight members quit the British Conservative Parliamentary Party last night in protest against Government's announcement earlier in the day that British ships could again use the Suez Canal. About 18 Conservative critics
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  • 76 7 SHELLS explode, bullets whine and these British troops take cover in the sand against this bomb explosion. This is Dunkirk 1957. The troops, men of the York and Lancaster Regiment, are re-enacting the 1'.»40 "miracle" for Ealing Studios, who are making at Camber Sands. Sussex, a
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  • 208 7 SURACARTA. May 14 (£eu'er> Prea Soekarno of had to appeal to a huge a m I 250,000 in Surantral -Java, yesterday that the RusPresident, K. Voroshilov, could ad tress them. Marsha] Voroshilov, who is on a two-week tour of Indo i ands had just began
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  • 80 7 TAIPEI, 14 (AP>— Fu Lin-Sheng. 39. decided to renew a marriage proposal which had been rejected. His hoped-for-bride, Sung Ching. and her father would not let him into the house in the village of San Hsia,, near Taipei. "It's no use wasting your time." said the father. "My
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  • 109 7 The Wrong Man Was Stabbed NEW YORK. May 14 f AP) "You ruined my life." a woman screamed on a Manhattan Street yesterday and plungrd a knife in the back of a 57-year-old salesman. But while Sam Smith was taken to a hospital in serious condition It became apparent that
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  • 214 7 KATMANDU, May 14 (Reuter) The Chinese Communists have undertaken a "considerable thinning-out" of their troops in Tibet during the past two months, according to Tibetan sources here. These sources, which are in regular contact with Tibet, said the Chinese appeared to have accepted Tibetan
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  • 62 7 LONDON, May 14 (Renter) Moscow Radio said last night that it was technically possible to spot nuclear explosions and every test so far had been recorded. In a broadcast beamed to Britain, the radio declared that .anyone who said that tests could not be spotted
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  • 292 7 Claim On Canal Will Top £60 M. Talks Begin In Rome May 23 LONDON. May 14 (Renter). Britain will press "considerable"' financial claims against Egypt in discussions starting in Rome on May an authoritative source said here last night. The composition of the British delegation was not yet settled, but
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  • 102 7 Soviet Sub Fleet The Biggest Ever LONDON. May 14 (AP)— The British government warned yesterday that Russia now has the "biggest submarine fleet the world has ever known." Christopher Soames, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, told the House of Commons that the Soviet Navy has 500 submarines in Commission, over
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  • 37 7 SIR Anthony Eden spent a quiet day indoors at Government House, in Ottawa, on Monday. Rain forced him to abandon his usual practice of sitting in the garden as he convalesces from an operation. A.P.
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  • 19 7 AFGHANISTAN Premier Sardar Mohammed Daoud arrived in Cairo on Monday for a six-day official visit. A.P.
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  • 146 7 London-Los Angeles Flight Longest Ever For Single Jets LOS ANGELES. May 14 (Renter) Three U.S. Air Force Super Sabre jet fighter planes landed here yesterday after a non-stop flight from Blackwell, England the longest flight ever made by single engine jet planes. General OP.
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  • 44 7 THE U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday a commercial airliner in trouble over the Atlantic with 104 persons aboard had made a safe landing in Bermuda. The plane developed engine trouble and proceeded to Bermuda with one engine out of commission. A.P.
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  • 213 7 LONDON. May 14 (Reuter) British newspapers were nearly unanimous today in supporting government's decision announced yesterday to give the all clear to British shipping through the Suez Canal. But opinions were divided on where responsibility for the present situation lay and on what Eritain's next moves
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  • 40 7 DR. C. V RAMAN, the Indian physicist who wnm a Nobe] Pcar-e Prize in 1930, has appealed to scientists of the world to refuse to have anything to do with the manufacture of weapon? of mss^ destruction. Reuter
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  • 21 7 MORE than 6.000 Chinese born in Vietnam have registered to return to Taiwan, a Chinese legation source said. A.P.
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  • 217 7 LINDA'S KISS OF LOVE WAS PORTAGO'S KISS OF DEATH MILAN, May 14 (Reuter) Film star Linda Christian emerged from her secluded hotel bedroom last night to express indignation at ports that she ga\p cratk racing motorist Marquis Alfonso >e Portago a "kiss of death." "Some newspaper said that, at the
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  • 50 7 AWARD FOR DOCTOR GENEVA. May 14 <Reuter) —Dr. Paul F. Russell of the Rockefeller Foundation yesterday received the Darling Foundation Medal and Prize f nr outstanding achievements in the control of malaria" from Dr. Sabih Hassan Al Wahbi. President of the 10th World Health Assembly which opened here last week.
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    • 145 7 HALLITE WEAR EVER P Here's a boon to all housewives! Wonderful Hallite by Wear ever. These lovely kitchen utensils are made of a special e^, plcfising-to-the-pye tarnish-proof copper- £q coloured cover, and they're so light too! jL. jUgsa^Bßl^^^P faster than ordinary metals and not only up the sides and over
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    • 750 8 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD TeL *****/6. *****/4 132/6 Robinson Roa THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE To Halifax, Montreal, Boston, New Y'rk, Baltimore, Philadelphia Cult Port S'pjre P.S ham Penan ULYSSES BaMSHMaHHSieMa 7/15 Inn* 16 |un. 17/18 |un AENEAS .......,..^.r.^... 19/24 |uly 25 luly 26/27 |ul Carriers option to
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    • 1164 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 d (18 lines) (Incorporated in Singapore) (12 lines) ■SJ THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINCS to LIVERPOOL, CLASCOW LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo (with liberty to proceed via Suez or Panama or Cape
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    • 837 8 MITSUI Jgl LINE S'pore P^'hcrn Penong FOR JAPAN Azumasan Moru for Mojl, Kobe, Yokohomo via Hong Kong ...G. 27/28 Nasuson Man. for Moil, Kobe, Yokohomo 19 May Bonsei Mara for Moji, Kobe, Osako, Yokohomo ....31 May 28 Moy Hakoneson Moru for Yokohomo, Nogoyo. Kobe via Manilo and Pusan 21 May
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    • 522 8 EAST ASIATIC 1 OUTWARDS Soilings foi Bangkok ond/ B i Ol 1+ Penong p^.^ "BOGOTA" M "SELANDIA" 16/!7Moy 18/ISm BANGKOK ONLY Hj HOMEWARDS Soilings for Genoa. Anr» #rfi D Hamburg, Copenhagen. Gothenburg *"JAVA" «2<,M Oy "SARGODHA" m,, "LALANDIA" 2s :S m 0 NOT LOADING SINGAPORE. SPACE AVAILABLE SINCAPORi KUALA LUMPUR
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  • 256 9 More Jobs Soon When Caltex Expands In R.I. LoISAXDS of Indor i n Sumatra will I read employment i ff ins thf Caltex Paci--si] Company a addi- multi million-dollar i,, n programme in nll producing area of r il Sumatra. major conmme, states r in, is to link e of
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  • 58 9 m no at to" rc- prociu netala and In the First Five- offi rially con* the val ae of minin 1955 rose '54, w employ- i by ;o si»li of min-. Rl. 47 lon against R-> million I I at of j including materials was
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  • 22 9 THE Rootes Gtoud in Britain, who recently formed a company in Kenya, have opened the company's first branch in Mombasa.
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  • 215 9 Imports Of Cotton Cloth To Malaya Show Rise IMPORTS of cotton piecegoods from all countries into Malaya during the first two months this year amounted to $22,402,328 compared with $21,442,005 in the same period last year, according to the Indian Cotton Textiles Promotion Council. Of this amount India sent $6,246,280
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  • 217 9 JUST 50 years ago the first ball bearings made by SKF of Sweden were introduced to the engineering world. Since then, spurred by the challenge of keen international competition, SKF has amassed a vast fund of Knowledge about ball and roller bearings, and a
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  • 96 9 THE volume of wool exports from Australia increased In the seven months ended January 31. 1957, compared with the shipments for the corresponding period ended January 31, 195fi. The exports up to the end of January 1957 were 643.95 million pounds with a total value of £*****
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  • 69 9 DEVELOPMENT of the ilmenite deposits in the Bun-bury-Capel district of Western Australia has reached the production stage, and shipments are being made overseas. The installed capacity of the two plants operating Is about 120.000 tons of concentrate yearly. Likely entry of another company Into the Industry
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  • 20 9 THE price of tin on the Singapore market yesterday was $384$ per picul (Down by 50 cents.)
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  • 1332 9 94 Years Of World Trade Through Golden Gate SAN Francisco's worldfamed harbour is in its 94th year as a stateadministered utility for world trade. It is the only state-operated port on the U.S. West Coast. It is also San Francisco's biggest public enterprise a U*****,000,000 stake in the harbour's historic
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    • 243 9 BARBER-FERN-VILLE LINES Sotrcn n«* to:*. PhtUdtlphU. Baltimore, Mobil* Ntw Orteam Hoatter Spent P. Sham Pcnang New Yorli r.-v .>£ 14 May 15/16 May 17 Jun „.i 4 21 May 22 May 26/28 May 30 Jur lit procttrfini via Cap* arrival data New York 4 days Utfr) s<* Tcrh Los Angels,
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    • 55 9 NOTICES MUNICIPAL NOTICE LOW COST HOUSING APPLICANTS for Low Cost Houses at Dato Kramat are informed that the 150 houses recently constructed have now been allotted and the successful applicants Informed. No further applications for Low Cost Houses will be entertained after the 10th May, 1957, until further notice. C.A.J.
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    • 599 9 NOTICES TENDERS FOR GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS TPENDERS IN SEXTUPLIA GATE are invited for the supply of Foodstuffs, Firewood and Charcoal and carrying out of Burials to Hospitals in the State of Johore and Tampoi Settlement (excluding the Tampoi Mental Hospital). The terms of the contract is for 6 months beginning Ist
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  • NEW FILM STARS PARADE
    • 581 10 It all started with a hoax and now Carolle is a new star PRETTY, 19-year-old South Australian Carolle Boyce, got herself a part in Pinewoods ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. How? All because of a phoney talent scout who stopped her in the street and asked her if she would like a
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    • 28 10 Singer Vic Damone happily reunited with his h«*autiful younjj wife Pier Anjjeli after she returned to Hollywood on completion of her latest picture THE PURPLE HARVEST.
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    • 723 10 Two qreat personalities in GIANT ELIZABETH Taylor who stars in George Stevens' production "Giant", never had an awkward phase. Even as a teen-ager she was always beautiful and poised. At the age of eleven she was a perfect cameo of a child with chiselled features, an alabaster complexion and incredible
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    • 89 10 JJ^FE you measured yourself lately? If not, better do so the first thing today, for here's an open invitation by SHAW BROS, to all Malayans to be their GUESTS at the 5 o'clock evening performance of Warner Bros. GIAIST at Capitol Theatre on Friday, May
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    • 182 10 Flashes From the Studies M-G-M's "The Law and Jack Wade." a romantic adventure story of the West which will be produced by Willian Hawks. In the screen play adapted from the novel by Marvin H. Albert, Taylor will portray a man who risks his own future and happiness to pav
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    • 359 10 Ballet in time of Moses T IKE many other top Holly- Lj wood figures, Leßoy Prinz. ranked as one of the most active choreographers in show business, credits Cecil B. DeMille with his start in Hollywood. It's been a fullsome career ever since in film town, with more than 200
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    • 64 10 ffltgAu/ Ccmmmded. ""^y ~v I^k I ji i /J -:<<•:■■■ >>x^!^ftSy Mi i t nd E0 THE "MILO FEDERATION SCHOOL-CHILDREN'S ART COMPETITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS 1956 1 Well done Yong Inn. Lim Yong Inn Jj won a "Highly Commended" in the 13-16 years age-group of the Johore /Malacca m Section of
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 43 10 winmJ r fHREE fcM will eochred a double Ml from Uniti Artists lot pro identification the "MYSTS GIRL QUIZ" i Ahmad Noof 478 Joo CM Road, Wong Sj Tai of Block 1 Room 9, Nil Base, ond Geok Enc I 481-C, CM Road.
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  • 218 11 ONDON, >^y 14 (Renter)— Japanese table ten- vrrs have learned from Europeans and that is j the reasoM why thej^are at the top of the i 1Q the ?ame. bv vicborn i"g p ayer who e fi v imes. .v people 1; i the partjjig p<>ng" ami the strides
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  • 54 11 American League standings indadiag games of Monday. May 13 bgp *he AtMCiatcd Press. W L, Pet. Hd Chieagi 14 7 .6^7 New Yn.-k 14 8 M j B<sion I.) 11 .542 Kmmm c.ty u n .4«r> 4 Dttroli 11 13 JM 4} B IIttBMHN 9 13 .409 5j Washinfton
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  • 151 11 SINGAPORE SOCCER: SBHFA League: Div. 1 Hongkong Bank vs Breweries at STC ground. Sivie Darby vs Ford at Farrer Park. Div. 2: Malayan Airways m Jncks Sports Club at MFA ground. Frascr and Neavc vs United Engineers at F N ground. TABLE TENNIS Federation of Boys Club Annual
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  • 141 11 CAPORr Si "J x~ r j ps terday (i 1 e ton) f c e wei Ditch Eu were -oon in trouble three quick wickets with oi.ly 12 runs scored. Tfcw f ho-.vever retrie\-ed (he situation when Ashraff joined Yija>ingam and together they took tne
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  • 146 11 Swimmers Shock Experts MELBOURNE. May 14 (AP>— Two of" the world's fastest sprint swimmers, Jon Henricks and Dawn Fraser, shocked Australian swimming experts on Monday when they revealed the new training methods they have adopted for their coming overseas trips. The swimmers who each won two gold medals at the
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  • 446 11 SURREY BEGIN TITLE DEFENCE WITH A CRUSHING VICTORY LONDON, May 13, (Reuter)— Surrey, ceunty cricket champions since 1951, began their defence of the title with a crushing victory over Glamorgan, whom they dismissed twice in 32 hours at the Oval today. Tony Lock, their England left arm spinner, was in
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  • 440 11 IPOH. Tues— Perak Amateur Football Association have selected "two top teams"' to play friendly games during the week-end one against Negri Sembilan at Ipoh on Sunday and the other against Lower Perak District at Teluk Anson Perak "A" to play Lower Perak will comprise Yip Wan Thong.
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  • 212 11 Italian Title To Shirley ROME, May 14 (AP)— ShirIcy Bloomer of Great Britain on Monday won the women's singles title of the Rome international tennis tournament with a dramatic 1-6, 9-7. 6-2 defeat of Mrs Dorothy Head Knodo of the United States. The tall muscular Mrs. Knode started out with
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  • 62 11 SYDNEY. May 14 (Router) Young British welterweight Jimmy Newman is in Sydney for a series of fights against Australian boxers. Newman, 22. was brought to Australia by Stadiums Ltd., of Sydney. Newman said he had been boxing since he was 11. was a former British amateur lightweight
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  • 30 11 CLEARWATER, Florida, May 14, (Reuter) Total prize money for the American Professional Golfer's Association's championship in July has been increased from $24.--600 (about £8.700 Sterling) to $40,100 (£14,000).
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 714 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SITUATIONS VACANT CINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL: O Required for CITY ARCHITECT BUII.bING SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT: BUILDING INSPECTORS in salary scale $3b'x A2O-505/Exam'nation Bar/535 x A2O-615 pins Variable Allowance. Must possess School Certificate or equivalent, the Institute of Architects of Malaya's Intermediate "A" (Building Inspectorate) Certificate be able to speak colloquial
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    • 742 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENT MR. and MRS K VADIVELU and family of 464 Da:o Kramat Road. Penar.g wish to thank all friends and relatives who came in person or sent messages Of condolence by letter or telegrams on the death of their beloved ion V Bascran ion Mondav 6?h May at Perth. Western
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 181 11 Li 1 Abner By At Capp L- TH4TIS 6UXMES \> HA^T^* K^ 7T. rf\ ONL^ON^)' A SCRAGG/^ /fl tTTOTW'^ SOT NOT AS BAD LOvtRBOVMX, //LiAw/»f r i CRITTF.RX A/l Esic^ A >^^ y^&Nt&'i ■ey Oop By V.T. Hamlin *MBBI I RUT I CANTT CfeT *PN^ BBSTwELL CANJ GET ONE I'
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    • 350 11 TODAY'S QUOTATION:) "Common sense is very i 1 uncommon." Homee i i Gropley. I WEDNESDAY FOR EVERY- ONE: The major trend is favourable and progress may be made by those who are i 1 poised, moderate, self-reliant, i i Keep clear of complications. i involvements, extravagance. however. YOl R BIRTIIDATE
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  • 1031 12 Fields TODAYS PROBEBLE Riders RAGE is 2.30 p.m.-Horses Class 5, Div. 4~Ab«. 7 Furs. 1. 783 Santa CaUrina 4y 9.00 Amazon Stable Yo ng nJSSp? 2. 009 John Silver 4y 8.10 Sunny Stable Ba S b > waxier 3. 771 Southern Cross 6y 8.08 Mr. Raja Kamaralzaman Cnon/ or TVmn#>iiv
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  • 744 12 Lingfield Stands Out As An Extra Good Thing RACE FOUR LINGFIELD put up two splendid displays at Ipoh, and as he has plenty of scope for improvement. I take him to whip his opposition in the main 7 iurlong event for Clasb Five, Division One performers. After a creditable second
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  • 219 12 HONGKONG Ist INNINGS H. s. Keelson c Johnson b Lee 23 l>. <i. Coffey b Lee 30 IV. Greenhalgh v. and b Johnson 6 B. P. Dhabher b Gurcharan Singh 47 F. findlay b Lee o P. V. Dodge e and b Lee 11 A. Taylor b Giircharan Singh
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  • 624 12 FEDERATION IN SOUND POSITION Brilliant Maniam Wanless Partnership PEXANG, Tues.— With six wickets in hand, the Federation of Malaya is only 20 runs behind Hongkong in the first innings of their cricket match at the close of play on the Western Road gTound today. Highlight of the game was a
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  • 331 12  -  WINDSOR LAD Winged Warrior a lively threat Says PLEASURE PARK, an up-and-coming four-year-old won in great style over seven furlongs last Saturday, and with seven pounds less to shoulder, he looks good enough to complete a double in the main 6 furlongs sprint (Race
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  • 137 12 Standard Selection Windsor Lad Scrutineer The Spectre I r *m &INGSBSAG PEPPEft DEALBB s«>i TIIFRN CKOSH *> 1 Southern Cross Record Time Pepper Dialer 1 Pepper Dealer king>l>eau Satellite MAGIC NOTE MVGIC NOTE STOREKEEPER M IIM "*> Z Actor II Mysterious Golden Rebus t KF -I>j» Gellang Star storekeeper Actor
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  • 177 12 Crepello Early Derby Favourite LONDON. May 14 (Reuter) Closing prices at last nights callover at the Victoria Club here on the Epsom Derby, to be run over one mile four furlongs on June 5 were: 7 to 4 against Crepello, 11 to 2 Mourne, 100 to 9 Pipe Of Peace,
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  • 53 12 THREE goals in three min utes by Awang Bakar enabled Police Sporting Association to gain an easy 4-1 victory over Pulau Brani United in yester day's Div. I league match at Jalan Besar. Kok Seng scored the remaining goal for Police while Sarian netted the Islanders' only goal five
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  • 105 12 HEAVY rain fell in the evening yesterday, and the going for this afternoon's races at Kuala Lumpur is likely to be yielding again. Best outsider BEST longshot at K.L. today is Devon Belle in Race 6. Pearl Snap in Race 3 should make a good each- way bet.
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  • 198 12 RACE THREE Over the seven I am giving Grandeur a great chance to show his hand. He did not show ud in his 8i furlongs eii'ort at looh, but going back to his early season form, he can win this. He scored over the Ipoh
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  • 339 12 RACE SIX Sentimental has been twire third in his recent outings, and over the six I am giving hi:n a chance to score his maiden win. He ran promisingly over the seven on Saturday when beaten by Pleasure Park. He raced to the front a farlong out, and looked
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  • 11 12 DUE b a i sport met' Sal rday, lab r.
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