Singapore Standard, 27 May 1957

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  • 35 1 Singapore Standard 254 T«^ A, RD v POLICB ***** (5 (met) 2400 ?6 VW J\j J Jl» .Wl BRIGADE GENERAL HOSPITAL 281| 2414 lvi. v>. :\27 SLNGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1957 12 PAGES 15 CENTS
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  • 124 1 C'wealth Forces Supremo Named LUMPUR, Sun •1! R. N ir-old com17th Gurkha will omc t* the I I Hid forces ed in -Malaya r -:a, the S: id rsan, who la ral ol the is, will sueBil Etagei Bow- ir veteran with I >r service in Italy, General en in
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  • 109 1 LON T DON. May 26 (Reuten Mr. Lim Yew Hock. Chief Minister Of the island crown colony of Singapore, is expected to arrive here by air later today from Singapore. He la on his way to Geneva to attend an International Labour Organization conference. An
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  • 57 1 THE ASSISTANT Senior Commissioner of Police, Mr. J. W. Chilton and Mrs. Chilton wore injured when a light bulb in their residence In Scotts Road. Singapore, exploded last night. Mr. Chilton received cuts on his hand while Mrs. Chilton was injured on the leg. They were
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  • 37 1 FINLAND'S biggest party, the Social Democrats, which has 54 seats in the 200-mem-ber Parliament, decided yesterday to go over to the opposition after negotiations with the Agrarian party on a common wage policy had failed. U.P.
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  • 30 1 THE United States legation in Budapest has boen ordered by the Hungarian Government to reduce its staff by more than one-third within six weeks, usually reliable Ameriyesterday. Reuter
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  • 24 1 TWO time bombs exploded yesterday in deposed President Juan D Peron's automobile, driven by Peron's private chauffeur. Isaac Gilaberti. in Caracas U.P.
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  • 28 1 GROUP Captain Peter Towns^nd arrived in Tokyo yesterday from Hongkong on a world tour and is expected to stay In Japan for about two weeks. Reuter
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  • 350 1 RETRIBUTION HOUNDS THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS 2,000 Condemned To Die In Another Purge BUDAPEST, May 26, (Reuter) A massive purge of "counter-revolutionaries" still sweeps Hungary amid demands for even harsher sentences six months after the crushing of last year's nation-wide revolt. Hardly a day passes without a newspaper
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  • 278 1 CHIANG SACKS 3 TOP ARMY COMMANDERS I AIPLI, May 26. President Chiang Kai-shek totoy dismissed three top army commanlers for "mishandling the anti-American riots in Taipei on Friday The decision was announcifter he had held a conI today with the American ambassador, Mr. Karl L. HanK.in. Some Americans who witnessed
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  • 161 1 Japan To Try U.S. Soldier i TOKYO. May 26 (UP) Two of Japans top officials emphasized today that, Japan is going to try an American soldier for manslaughter no matter what objections there are in the United States. Acting Japanese Prime Minister Mitsujiro Ishii and Director-General Akira Kodaki of the
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  • 34 1 THIRTY-FIVE young men began a hunger strike in front of the United Nation? on Saturday. They said they would picket day and night until the U.N. Human Rights Commission discusses Cuba. A.P.
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  • 163 1 Delegates Leave For Home LONDON. May 26. (Reuter)—Several members of the Malayan Federation delegation to the AngloMalayan constitutional negotiations which successfully concluded here on Tuesday last left London by air today for home. The delegates who left today included: Education and Labour Ministers, Dato Abdul Razak and Mr. V. T
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  • 37 1 Chairman Mm Tfe-tung has accepted sn Invitation to vi;t the Soviet Union "at a time convenient to Mm," according to a communique issued yesterday the end ot Ras^ian President VoroshUov'i visit to China. Reuter
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  • 178 1 Leave Her Atone Or Get Out Of India, Director Rossettini Told NEW DELHI. May 26. (UP)— Official sources said yesterday the Indian Government has refused to extend the visa of Roberto Rossellini, who has been linked romantically with a married Indian scriptwriter. A top Foreign Ministry official was
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  • 175 1 FOUR BRITISH seamen from a cargo ship who went to a local cinema last night to see a film landed themselves in hospital before the show was over. In the theatre, they were involved in an argument with a woman. They left the hall
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  • 24 1 A STRONG earthquake was felt in parts of Turkey, including Istanbul, yesterday, and police said four people were killed. Reuter
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  • 79 1 KANSAS CITY, May 26 (Rcutcr) Eleven American states have now been atfecied by what the Federal Weather Bureau has termed the worst week of tornadoes since the Bureau wa.s founded. New Tornadoes roared across Texas yesterday following 20 which had hit the state on
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  • 33 1 CAIRO, May 2fi, (Renter) Dr. Abdul El Kaissuny, Egyptian Finance Minister, said today that Egypt had not yet granted "official permission" tor British airlines to resume activities in E^ypt.
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  • 231 1 BUSMEN STRIKE TODAY THREE hundred and fifty workers employed by two Chinese-owned bus companies in Singapore will go on strike from 5 p.m. today. They are striking over the demand for the reinstatement of 82 workers dismissed by the two companies Tay Koh Vat and Hock Lee bus companies last
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  • 68 1 COPENHAGEN. May 26 (Reuter) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip today are sailing across the North Sea on their way home after a five-day visit to Denmark. Although it was bitterly cold when the Royal yacht Britannia sailed last night from Elsinore the whole population appeared to
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  • 24 1 MARSHAL Klementi Voroshilov, Soviet President, arrived by air in Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia, yesterday from Communist China, Moscow Radio reported. Reuter
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  • 154 1 SCARBOROUGH, England. May 2G (Reuter) A bedding expert here has ollered to design a bed that would improve the temper of Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Communist Party leader. Mr. Charles Cook, president of the National Federation of Bedding and allied trades, told a
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  • 135 2 Angry Workers Eject Director WARSAW, May 26, '(Router) Angry workers voicing grievances at a factory in South Poland ejected the director and two top officials, the Polish Government newspaper. Zycie Warsawy, said today. H Bid the three were led r of the gate of the Sola'i paper factory at Zywiec
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  • 54 2 LONDON. May 26 «RputPD All omatlon has come to th: aid r new-born babies wh difficulty in breathing, it was announced here. a new type ol resplratoi Insl tiled at a Glasgow, Scotland hospital automatically resp r s when the baby u-an* to breathe and Oils his
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  • 28 2 :ation Ministry In Seoul said I South Korean G<~ i impose an rt of soy. m films featuring ;ts between the white and American Indians."- Reuter
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  • 26 2 BOMB 1,200 Australian t ts are expected in H ngkong this fall aboard the 20. 000-ton Orient Lines steamer "Orcades." officials Mild yesterday. U.P.
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  • 78 2 The Vice-President of E. W. Scripps and Co. which controls a chain of 90 newspapers in the United States arrived in Singapore by air yesterday. He is Edward W. Scripp s, who is on a world tour accompanied by his wife. Standardpic taken at
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  • 168 2 Plan For Protest Fleet TOKYO, May 28, (Keuter)— Mr. Kaoru Yasui, chairman of the Japan Council against A and H Bombs, in a Japanese-language magazine article, said here today the Japanese plan for a protest fleet to the Christmas Island area failed because of Japanese
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  • 69 2 taipei. May 26 (Renter)— Mr. Geoffrey de Freltas, a British Lahru: M.P., said he re today the O m:r.un;.-: Chinese had no chance of taking the offshore elands of Quemoy group In face oi ■ly knit defence fire of Nationalist d< U nd< rs, A group
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  • 195 2 Mr. Keng Ban Ec Tells Taxi Drivers LABOUR FRONT candidate for Cairnhill, Mr. Keng Ban Ec told 300 members of the Singapore Hock Poh San Taxi Drivers Union yesterday that his party had worked successfully for the de-limitation of taxis in the colony. Speaking at the
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  • 28 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Mr. Victor Morais, a journalist, was re-elected president of the Solangor Indian Association for the third time at its annual general meeting today.
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  • 420 2 At Their First Annual Delegates Conference There's Been Tendency For Despotic Practices Tan THE Chairman of the Liberal-Socialist Party, Mr. C. C. Tan, yesterday warned the people of Singapore "against the gradual assumption of despotic and dictatorial powers by an elected government." He was addressing more than
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  • 163 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun.— The Kuala Lumpur and Ulu Selangor District Estates Staff Union today renewed its protest against rubber companies ignoring promotion claims of their senior men and recruiting schoolboys for training as the future "planters" of Malaya. 1 Chairman of the Union. Mr. R.
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  • 126 2 KTALA LUMPUR. Sun. A trade unionist today advocated fragmentation of bis estates which is causing some concern to labour and Government as a means of diversifying Malayan agriculture now dominated by rubber. Said Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur and Ulu Selangor District Estate Staff Union.
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  • 152 2 TEMOH. Perak. Sun. Health Minister Leong Yew Koh. who had been thrice attacked by Communist terrorists, warned Malayans today that "only when the whole lot of the Malayan Communist Party bandits are wiped out, will we be able to enjoy a free and happy life
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  • 47 2 ALGIERS. May 26 (Reuter) —French security forces killed 738 Algerian insurgents and captured 163 in fierce fighting during the past week, accord. ng to reports reaching here yesterday. Losses among French troops were put at 37 dead. 43 wounded and six missing. Reuter
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  • 186 2 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Sun.— Small Malay businessmen, who have floated a syndicate for tin mining in Central Province Wellesley are waiting for the "green light" from the government to start tin prospecting. This was revealed today by Tuan Haji Sulaiman bin Hafi Ahmad. Chairman of
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  • 198 2 SINGAPORE Government has announced the sit ing: of polling: stations in the two constituencies of Cairnhill and Tanjong Pagar in the by-elections to be held on June 29. n r The stations will V e opened nr\ that day from 8 a.m. to
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  • 34 2 BUTTERWOR7H S out calling for their defence, the Magistrate acquitted and discharged four BjOJL's, G.B. Stevei 20, g.K. >od. '19, R.H. Bergerstiff, 19, and RB. r.T rday on 1 1 me
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  • 30 2 Goodwill Is Not Weakened By Merdel BATU TAilythe* 7* day. Sir aI "It ae!i ing con.' *Wi Of Good, Sir D The comn the per.- "Dm Sir D har ;.-P2
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  • 79 3 f pic by TOP Mr >Uk Fook >on of Mr. M >.k I. ens* Kow, tie the former i V.'k En?, of 1 •^nham. pictared af' iheir wedding: i ■i Cho Honsr in J Klan;. last week. Mei >YE: Capt Peter t John Law ml Dalley at- to
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  • 91 3 KIWI. A LUMPUR. Sun. Govejninent ol India baa n 000) for the buildtrial in the Fedto the late Ifahatma Gandhi. The Federation Government given a quarter acre of i for the project near the gro rada of the Selangor Indian Association at Taylor Road here.
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  • 44 3 IPOfl. Sun A 34-year-old businessman, Leong Sau Seng, was admitted today to the District Hospital, He was found ning in a hotel room early this morning. He was removed to the hospital where his condition was reported to bo serious.
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  • 83 3 Gift For Muslim College KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Lever Brothers (Malaya) Limited have donated $353.79 to the Muslim College in Klang. The sum represents the cost of tea saved from the Company's Muslim workers during this year's puasa month. Free supply of two ciips of tea daily la One <'f the
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  • 244 3 Police Hold Youth For Questioning The Robbery Which Fizzled Oat KLANG, Sun.-Police today detained a youth for interrogation in connection with an attempt by three armed thugs to rob an expectant mother in Club Road here yesterday. Although alone and unarmed the woman waded into the dagger-wielding thugs and disarmed
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  • 292 3 Row Over Who Should Be Union Members THE Department of Broadcasting Employees' Union of Singapore yesterday deferred a decision to amend its constitution confining membership exclusively to locally-recruited staff. Although a resolution to this effect was voted by a majority of members at the Union's annual general meeting held at
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  • 51 3 KLANG, Sun. Assistant District Officer Inche Mohamed Ghazali last night praised local councillors of Neru Village near here for their efforts to make their community "civic minded." Openrng the new council Office, Inche Ghazali said the councillors had set a tradition by '"bringing democracy to the little
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  • 140 3 CHANGE IN MUSLIM LAWS IS URGED SEREMBAN, Sun. Muslim religious leaders want drastic changes to be made in this country's Muslim laws with regard to inter-Muslim marriages. They point out that this is necessary in view of the current political and constitutional changes leading to Islam becoming the official religion
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  • 150 3 KUANTAN, Sun. Rock 'n Roll which recently hit Kuantan like a whirlwind, is dying out as fast as the proverbial typhoon. The reason? Would-be hepcats, first can't get hep. They have been unable to find an instructor on the rock. Meanwhile, ballroom
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  • 69 3 KOTA BHARU, Sun. The Principal of the Teachers' Training College, Mr. R. Williams, today said he saw no reason why the college should not continue co-education. Last week the UMNO division passed a resolution urging a ban on co-educational institutions in the country. "The UMNO resolution was
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  • 62 3 THE following were elected office-bearers of the Bukit Panjang branch of the Malayan Indian Congress, Singapore, at its inaugural meeting yesterday. Chairman— Dr. R. V. N. Naidu, Vice-chairman Mr. H. Basha, secretary Mr. K. Arumanathan, treasurer Mr. R. Mariappan Committee Messrs. V. Bathumalai, P. R. Kolanthai.
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  • 207 3 PENANG, Sun. In an independent country, which Malaya is soon to become, people should not sit idly on the fence and watch others work for them. This advice was given by Mr K. Kumarasamy, chairman of the Penang Branch of the Malayan Postal
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    • 177 3 MONDAY FOR EVERYONE: Get an early start, make gains in connection with completion ot tasks and solutions of problems. This day la mainly constructive planetarily, and you .should make progreM in some practical matter YOIR ItIRTIIDATE AND BIRTHSIGN ARILS March 21 to April 19 Promote financial interests; buy or sell.
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  • 58 4 "AN AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE," ore of six exhibits submitted by Mr. Ho Kok Hoe for display in the Singapore Art Society's Photographic Group Pictoria.l Exhibition now open at the Brit'sh Council Hall in Stamford Road. The above picture was taken in Australia by Mr. Ho. A total of 228
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  • 269 4 ALLIANCE HOSTILITY TO UNION MTUC speaks oS labour unrest in the country and blames it on- KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. T h c of the Selangor Division of the M Q Qy C^ Union Council, Mr. Lum Kin T U ck t o j° n Ed the Labour Ministry's 'Worrpc^ the
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  • 409 4  - Eastern Cultures Promote Harmony Lee Siow Mong EMERGENCE of a Malayan culture in the independent Malaya is possible only if "we throw away our conceit for our i n,d ivid v al cultures," Permanent Secretary to the Education Ministry, Mr. L^e Siow Mong told a forum on Saturday. The forum
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  • 94 4 MR. LEE SIOW MONO, President of the Singapore China Society yesterday put the finishing touches to the painting of a carp (fish) transforming into a dragon after jumping through the Gate of Learning* at the new Cultural Centre at the Singapore Adult Education Council in Fort Canning
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  • 31 4 LUM CALLS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND CO-OPERATION leaders and a union soluti- I ernn I and 1 1 I Emp. "^m for t! I giarr I I He J ers or h
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  • 43 4 THE 2.000 strona Singapore Traction Onipain Employees' Inion ycrtcfday gave a fareue-11 i< t party to the r^tirins Tratlu Superintendent of th c company. Mr. J L. Patti.-<tn Among those present rs: Ih. 1 11 Slandardpit s p. Has!
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  • 673 5 IN THE KITCHEN: Meat Cookery MEAT cookery is the corner-stone of good family meals. Let's take a quick refresher course and e^t better, work less and save money. Lei's start with veal. There are plentiful stocks of lightweight veal on the market. Of all cuts, the most popular and versatile
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  • 266 5 TT is time to give your feet sojne extra attention. Most women develop some rough skin on the jcet. These are going to look ugly later on, when you begin wearing play sliocs and are going in swimming. As a mutter ot fact, your face, your feet and
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    • 513 6 /CRITICISM and protests against Britain's H-blast Continue particularly from Asian leaders as far from the area of the explosion as India and Ceylon. In this clamour fcr banning any future nuclear explosions, these prophets of doom, among whom are supposedly eminent experts, have taken on themselves the
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    • 372 6 'pHE influenza epidemic which is still sweeping Asian countries, affecting as it has done the health of hundreds of thousands of children whose education has been interrupted as a result, has brought up the vital need for increased child health services in Malaya and a closer watch
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  • 851 6 IN little more than one generation the Western world has fenced off mass penury from its old people. The safeguards are not complete beggary has been banished from most but not all homes; and the very act of resolving the problem has built for each country a
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  • 1021 6 HISTORIAN EN ROUTE: IX Impressions of South Asia by world famous historian, Arnold Toynbee, in this new series. \\E were slung into the air at half-past four in the morning: a bad hour at its best, and it is at its worst when one has had
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  • 794 6  -  UNKNOWN What is this thing ca//J A professional review by INFLUENZA which is the correct name for 'Flu' is caused by a virus. And what is a virus? A virus is a germ once thought to be ultramicroscopic, that is to say it is too small for even the
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  • 69 7 Royal Bargemen On The Menam rnoto. ONE hundred oarsmen chant the Buddhist script ores as they row one of the ancient Siamese Royal barges along the Menam Chao Bhraya in Bangkok, during the ceremonies to celebrate the 2.500 th anniversary of the Buddhist era. Hundreds of illuminated river craft t«M>k
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  • 53 7 Atom-Subs: UK, US To Swap Data I Stai m powered subX F 'hree repre■p 0S N and 27-28 f r joint the B X m nines. B' c atomic coWm veen R tries authori X of classified and m. on the deveX c I reactors m pro] sr m ML
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  • 162 7 LONDON, May Cti (RevI Eishtoen-ypar old > kerton list ni^ht hy .tnswrring "n ancient Japanr% on a quiz prunmme i the British omIfrcia! V-kvision Service. i is his spfontl anon the "64.000 -ter that he had ber* «;tPd in Japanese history after being
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  • 27 7 THE Aga Khans yo inger ion, S t Satui m «d his engagemeni Nil i D er, former wife of era an Bar m yon Ttaya-
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  • 158 7 Heart-Massage Saves A Woman's Life LOS ANGELES, May 26 (AP) For approximately 2| hours, a surgeon massaged a woman's exposed, non-func-tioning heart with his two to keep partial circulation Bowing to her body and brain. Mrs. Dorothy 8011, 37. sal up on Friday in her hospital bed and said: "I
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  • 255 7 CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN HAITI PORT All PRINCE, I May 26 (UP)— Civil erupted here yesd a battle of two fad as for control divided nation. l Brig, den Stall of I of the a:: I insurgents Supporting Col Pierre r Port An c poli v chief, staged a
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  • 301 7 Tass Starts With An Accusation, Ends With Warning LONDON, May 26 (Reuter) The Soviet news agency Tass said in a statement yesterday that "an undisguised reactionary dictatorship has been established in Jordan" with the purpose of suppressing partiotic forces. The agency added: "Behind the scenes
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  • 64 7 GATOOMA, Southern Rhodesia, May 26 (Router)— Two farmer brothers. P.Z. and C.J. Gooscn, followed a leopard into the bush when a trap they had set failed to cat^h it. The animal attacked C. J. and mauled him, but his brother forced its mouth open and broke
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  • 309 7 AMMAN, May 26 (Reuter) Major-General AH Abu Nuwar, Jordan Army commander who fled to Syria last month, planned to overthrow King Hussein and set up a republic with himself as president, the weekly magazine Hawl El Alam reported yesterday. The magazine published the
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  • 31 7 ENVOYS of France, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and Luxembourg on Saturday visited the Internationa! Nuclear Institute at Dubna, the atomic city near Moscow, the Soviet News Agency Tass reported Reuter
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  • 236 7 Annual World Population Increase Is 43 Mil. NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters—The United Nations reported tonight that the world's population was 2,700 million in 1955 and growing at the rate of 5.000 an hour, or 43 million a year. Coupled with a birth rate of 34 per 1,000 and a
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  • 34 7 Marshal Gcorgi Zhukov, Soviet Defence Minister, and Mr. Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, are due in Budapest today to sign the Soviet-Hungarian agreement on the stationing of Soviet troops in Hungary. Reuter
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  • 173 7 MEAVY, Devon. May 26 (Renter) Iris, a four-year-old South Devon cow, is in disgrace today on farmer Bill Vanstone's farm here. Farmer Bill has been puzzled by a decline in the milk yield from his herd. The rain and the sun had
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  • 58 7 DI.ION, May 2H (Renter) Police investigating a post ofTico robbory found a has, containing nearly 20 million francs (nearly M$170,000) buried in a heap of coal in the cellar of the post office buildina at Vesou near here, Their find represented the thief's entire haul,
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  • 32 7 THK first direct shipping line between the Soviet Union and Egypt is to open, in June, the Soviet Ministry of Shipping announced last Saturday, according to Moscow Radio. Reuter
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  • 51 7 PARIS. May 26 (Reuter) British artress Vivien Leigh is to receive the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honour, the French Foreign Ministry announced here yesterday. The award is for "services rendered to cultural relations between the two countries and to Franco-British friendship, the announcement
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  • 83 7 Azerbaijan, Land Of Longevity MOSCOW, May 26 (Reutor) Longevity is a feature of Azerbaijan, the autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in East Trans-Cauca-sia, where several people have reached the age of about 150 and more, the Soviet News Agency Tass said. A man, Garash Eivazov, was said to be 155 and
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  • 251 7 SANTA FE. New Mexico, May 26 *Reuter)— Dr Thomas Shipman. medical expert it United States nuclear tests, urged people to have cnnfideilCC In atomic w who he said were striving I bright and prosperous new era In n spcf'-n to a convention here last night,
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  • 165 7 WEST MALLING. Kent, England, May 26 (Reuter) Britain's Royal Air Force broke a 20-year-old record, set up by two Japanese fliers, just before midnight last night when a sleek red-paint-ed Canberra jet bomber touched down here just over 17 and a half hours after leaving
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    • 143 7 BUDGET JlJf* COTTONS You CQn be a Cotton Queen of Singapore' It's so jfl rrilV^rV easy to have that well-dressed look all M wk^\ L the time in these easy-to-care-for cottons M W^w ti a priced so reasonably so as to M Jp. |J| qM \^^>^ barely dent your wardrobe
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    • 809 8 ANGLO-FRENCH TRADING CO., LTD Tel. *****/6. *****/4 132/6 Robinson Roa THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE NORTH AMERICAN SERVICf To Halifax, Montreal, Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia Cult Ports S'por* P.Sham Penang ULYSSES nMagMingmnHi 7/15 |une 16 |une 17/18 June AENEAS 19/24 July 25 Jul» 26/27 |ul> Carriers option to proceed via
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    • 1144 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD dc CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) (Incorporated In Singapore) (12 lints) THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE &T* SAILINGS to LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS (VIA SUEZ) Carriers option to proceed via other port* to load and discharge carte (with liberty to proceed via Panama or Cape
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    • 897 8 MITSUI 1g LINE Spore P.S'haiß Penonc FOR JAPAN Amagisan Maru for Yokohama, Kobe Moji vio Hongkong 6 June 3 June Bapsei Maru for Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama 12 June 8 June Mikagesan Maru for Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe 23 Juae FOR USA. For New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore via Bombay Akibasan Mam
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    • 486 8 EAST ASIATIC li OUTWARDS Sailing, tor Bongkofc m4l "H fti *io Suei. c,. "KAMBODIA" hcfr "SAMOA" 9/10j U ne 1,/,? HOMEWARDS Sailings tor Gcnoo Am* Hamburg, Copenhagen Gofr via Sutt W1 Spore pr "SARGODHA "LALANDIA" ss>^ NOT LOADfNG SINGAPORE PASSENGER a- AVAILABLE. MM OD*T| :"SONGKHLA" "SELANDIA 515 June Hnsi,, SPACf
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  • 168 9 Company Reports Issued Oriental Teleph me A Electric Co. Ltd.: Profit for 195R which accrued brom interest on Government stocks rind dividends on the Hongkong Telephone holding amounted to £27.998 and dividend of 1/9 is proposed At Hoc. SI, 1956, net liquid assets showed in balance sheet at £1.003,742 or
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  • 265 9 OUTLOOK BLEAK FOR NEW COPRA SUPPLIES OUTLOOK for fresh supplies of copra in Singapore is presently rather bleak, but it is quite impossible to judge how long the present contraction in arrivals will continue, as trading conditions and politics in India are the cause of the interruption, says Lewis Peat
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  • 339 9 Public Life Reports Steady Cain In New Business m Public Life Assurr (1 ltd., established I i half years a^o, E steady increase in iess and average R ed. showing that iiiv is rapidly 1 IMtjitil.irity and W the public. X I in the I report submitted j .i.inual meetX
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    • 357 9 volume of business was well maintained in m share market throughout the week. Indusi established an all-round advance, but in inces, the market was found to be none too p supplied with stock, r fter earlier tere^ i buyii tying of both g rubbers ref turnover
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    • 63 9 U.K. Airlines' 2,000 m. Miles f I carried I beduled I r per cent |r i In 195! i enger miles, I i 5 trafTic r < by 12 per cent I nort ton miles f miles by 6 per cent i --lies. rs carried I e> in tea I
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    • 18 9 |c B a to n t S iturday: TT or OD I nge rates remain t
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    • 516 9 ted done In rted b n May 18 Industrials: A'ex. Brick Od<. 521 c Consolidated T.n tei Orda 35, -to 35> 3 Eastted Ass, $30.75, Federal '■>• $2-00 to $2.02}, Fraser O $2 4i> to c 51.95 to $2.02}, Ham- to $2 14. Hongkong B
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    • 51 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Customs revenue from imports and exports collected in the Federation in April amounted to $39,7 16.869 of which $26,--019,862 was contributed by import duties. Export duty on rubber yielded a sum of $8,843,051 while another $4,513,932 was realized from tin exports. The figures released by
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    • 94 9 MALAYAN exports of ribbed smoked ?hcets for the first four mnn'hs this year amounted to 18!). 197 tons, compared with 200.523 tons for the same period last year, according to official statistics. During April exports amounter.' to 46,284 tons compared with 4(5,333 tons for the same month
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    • 37 9 A NEW dry dock capable of taking oil tankers of up to 43,1)00 tons d.w was formally opened by the Duchess of Northumberland for Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson at Wallsend -on Tyne recently.
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    • 85 9 ernment revealed that the Malayan palm oil industry has Jumped well ahead of the coconut industry. Exports of palm oil and palm kernels enriched the Federal Treasury by $107,600. Coconut oil and copra exports yielded $59,195. Duty on six items of imports topped the million dollar mark. Leading
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    • 38 9 SCOTTISH Oils and ShellMcx Limited are building a sea-fed oil depot with a storage capacity of more than 1,500,000 gallons at Srrabster, Caithness, northern Scotland, to supply the Dounrcav atomic plant and the surrounding countryside.
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    • 40 9 NEW YORK. May 24 (UP) Dow-Jones closing averages: STOCKS 30 Industrials 504.02 20 Rails 145.86 15 Utilities 74.36 65 Stocks 175.67 BONDS 40 Bonds 89.24 The Dow-Jones commodity futures index (1924-26 average equals 100) closed at 157.26.
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    • 195 9 sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsd BARBER-FERN-VILLE LINES 1 Soticft n«w »o«li. fhiU<J«iphU. baltimoK. Mobil* N«w Orlet«» Mowitoa Sport P S ham Penjni Ntw York fcVILLI 26 28 May 30 |un .1 3OMay'B|ui» 9 |un 12/14 |un 17 July (Proceeding via Suex) h*tr N t Yotk, Lot Angel*. Saw rt«nc«<o. fvla Hongkong) N. Yoik L.
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    • 597 9 NATURALISATION T OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 11 that the following persons whose names and addresses are given below are applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that an> person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to
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    • 691 9 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 53) (Section 34 (2) NOTICE OF CONTESTED ELECTION The Electoral Division of CAIRNHILL. NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of the electoral division af n I d that a Poll has been granted for the election now pending for the said
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  • 488 10 One Match Drawn THREE victories were registered out of the fouf games played yesterday in the Singapore Cricket Association league. The other in which the Royal Air Force was involved ended in a draw, time intervening to save the University of Malaya. The highest
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  • 669 10 CSC beat SCRC by sixwickets at Balestier Road. SCRC Khoo Ong Le e c Segar b Nagaiah 37 Cheong Thiam Siew c Thuraisingam b Sooceleraj 4? R. Lam c Anthoniz b Nagaiah 13 Wee Chong Jin Ibw b Nagaiah 8 Cecil Wong st Anwar b Nagaiah 6 Ong Chew
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  • 382 10 WILLIE Ponnambalam of Ceylon Sports Club hit the highest score in the SCA junior league matches played yesterday. His 7 4 against YMC A included 1- fours. Only two Other batsmen Smith and C Fernando t,58> passed the fifty mark. Best bowling performance? were by A vrs of
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  • 179 10 Campbell Misses Century In Forresters Win A grand innings of 91 by Campbell coupled with some fine bowling by Capt. P. Pike (5 for 30) enabled Singapore s Free Forresters to snatch a two wicket victory over Singapore Cricket Club in their two-day cricket match which ended on the padang
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  • 50 10 RAJAJI Sports Club beat Red Star Sports Club by 4 goals to one in a friendly soccer match played at Farrer Park yesterday. Scorers for Rajaji were: Ramanathan (1), Govindasamy (1), Lingam (1) and Syed Osman (1) while the losers only goal came from Ah Hong.
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  • 42 10 MAXWELL Sports Club beat Indian Brotherhood Soccerites by 9 goals to nil in a SAFA Div. 3A soccer match played at Jalan Besar yesterday Scorers for the winners were: Ramlee (5), Hassan (1), Ahmad Sitri (1), Masuri (1), Ali (1).
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  • 210 10 Spore Cricket Club Ist inns 140 Free Forresters Ist innings Cochrane b Smith 1 McConneQ run out 0 Campbell b Woodhousa 01 Webb b Willings 28 Hudson lb\v WiUings Gore b Willings 9 Hinde not out 21 Myrtle b Woodhouse ]2 Pike b Woodhouse 0 Extras is Total (for
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  • 320 10 PARIS, May 25, (Reuter) Several leading players in the French international lawn tennis championships here were under pressure today as the third round of the men's singles ended and tussles began for places in the last eight Ashley Cooper, the Australian champion, who took over
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  • 51 10 MING Chong beat Green Eagle by 81 points to 78 in a charity basketball encounter at the Happy World Stadium last night. In another clash, Tong Keng beat The Rest by 80 points to 62. Both games were in aid of the Gan Eng Seng School Scout Troop
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    • 403 10 guy* .a 3{d a Shaw &ftaa> ■d the UjcM *hew I; y^ ATTRACTIONS 7^ j 3 phone 1/I*L HAY TAfIAVI 1*00» 5.00 rf I 14th DAY TODAY! 8 45 p m jiw^ Elizabeth TAYLOR Rock HUDSON James DEAN mr |j taJb Warners' fl IA M Warnercolor EE ffi i.l Today
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  • 61 11 PORTLAND, Oregon, May 25 (Reuter)— Car! 'BobO 1 former world middleweight champion, will have his Hi eback fight against Maxim, former world tight-heavyweight title-bolder, over ten rounds here on July 18. Olson's manager] Mr, Sid Flaherty, announced earlier this month that Olson, who "rvtm October, planned to
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  • 74 11 LONDON, May 2*; (Reuter) Major L IV Holliday'a Crot■t won the Oaka Ttial Stakes run ovei I hali miles at L Park yesterday. Mr. A:-» id PI <■ i*s Lobewaa i eond after a photo :i >r ecoi I i ace with the Queen's Almeria third. Six ran.
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  • 830 11 Hoad Isn't Worried About His Defeat Coach Hopman Says "Love Afteefed His Play" LONDON, May 26 (Reuter)— Lew Hoad, Australia's Tl year old lawn tennis star, is not the sort to worry about his recent surprise defeat in the French championships in Paris. He more than likely slept it away.
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  • 676 11 LONDON, May 26 (Reuter) Centuries by John Ikin (Lancashire), Don Smith (Sussex) and John Kelly (Derbyshire) featured the English County Cricket championship matches today. Ikin stayed for five hours 29 minutes and was undefeated with 141 Including 18 lours, out of the Lancashire total
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  • 705 11 BRAVES' FIRST BIG INNING CRACKS KIWIS NINE runs in the first inning, featuring a homer by George Irminger, a two-bagger by Tom Morgan and lour walks issued by pitcher Gray, carried Consulate Braves to a 14-11 victory over the 41st Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force in a league softball
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    • 143 11 LjOMAD the best milk Lorn the country of milk si O MAD milk powder 9// nei better L s M.M.* (rPO COW«, j^ I, NUTRITIOUS ral pMMMt mine-^, Ifcir WASTE s flcally &^T eactl llme y° u want m 'lk you J proportion*. «i'w n jko f«actly ths quaniitf t
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    • 745 11 CLASSIFIED ADS SI Hi AIU)\S VACAMI SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL. D Required for electricity department: :a; assistant harck knGINEI K>. Pasir Panjang Power Station, two for Turbine Room and one for B -vr r agreemei I I ."it in- i Allowance Must pos ROT or M 0.1 Certificate Steam or Local
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    • 146 11 &i flbaer By A/ Capp r^C" >nc SPEEDtIME B But the dqgpatchers are ready (they r^x) k N LCD, THiEVJMGTORNMP S -v —-T'N AMI, HEADED FOR THEIR tV'RY DCE-LISHUS f AN'MOW-OrF ID COGFATCK/' I Tu-^R SOAKED < ATO THE i\ \IN TMET DISGUSTIN' 1 |>AM/*Pf^ I f) J ">> I!
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  • 20 12 pic. HOW they finished on Saturday, First Day of the Singapore Turf Club's May/ June Sleeting. Standard
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  • 1008 12 THE following: are weights and probable starters for all seven races for Wednesday (May 29), second day of the Singapore Turf Club May/June Meeting:— Horses Class 1, Div. I—6 Furs. 611 Distine 5y 10.03 Mrs, B N Robbfl tnd Mr. W McGregor Watt Hobbs 145 Amusement
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  • 537 12 AFTER a magnificent first half in which they held their formidable opponents to a two-all draw, the Selangor Rangers football team crumbled against the might of the Colony side to concede ten goals in the second half. This 12-2 trouncing followed closely
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  • 62 12 MR. Robert Teo (centre) of Singapore was last niffht named Mr Tar/an" Theatre where the MGM film "Tarxan and the lost Saiari"oj><m- i „l J^ was acclaimed a popular winner and in addition to Ihr title n< M sented by MGM and Cathay Organization. Second Prize umi
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  • 327 12 England's Test Team Selected LONDON', May 26. (ReuteD England's cricket selectors have played safe for the first Test against the West Indies by choosing 13 players from whom the side to take the field at Kdgbaston, Birmingham, on Thursday will be finally named. In doing so they have left themselves
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  • 191 12 15-Year-Old Springs A Surprise PENANG, Sun. Fifteen- 1 year-old Penan z Free School boy, Lee Cheng lice, created a surprise in the Penang Junior B a d tninton Championships which started yesterday. He beat L. Barbosa, an experienced player, En three sets at the UMNO hall today. Today's results: (Men's
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  • 168 12 THE GOVERNOR'S CUP Horses Class 1 Div. 1 11 miles Little Pappa 9.02 Brilliant Scholar 8.09 Flying Princess 8.06 Bearer Bond 8.05 On Stage 8.04 Crimson Pirate 8.01 Nazakat 8.0(1 Windlewell 7.13 Adelaide Star 7.13 Byzantium 7.12 Blue Ice 7.11 Dantesque 7.10 Rao Rajah 7.07 NOTE:
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  • 283 12 NOTTINGHAM, May 26 (Reuter)— Garfield Sobers. 20-year-old left-hander, led a West Indies massacre of Nottinghamshire's weak bowling on the typically esus> Trent Bridge wicket here today, scoring 219 not out. Clyde Walcott (115), Everton Weekes (68) rod Collie Smith (67 not out) helped
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  • 26 12 1 £*>•* i Sttm I B rters n.o J Ihu J'' I thref titknj of wku Warn 1 12-4, i| 139-1, Kpllv Im3| i 3, legf
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