Singapore Standard, 11 February 1958

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  • 16 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD SMCAPQRI, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 19:3 VIM- N3 223 15 cts. 12 Pages [FINAL EDITION]
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  • 250 1 THAILAND WILL HELP MALAYA Border No More A Refuge For Fleeing Bandits KUALA LUMPUR, MON.— PRIME MINISTER TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN WILL OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE THE PROPOSED "JOINT OPERATIONS PACT" BETWEEN THE FEDERATION OF MALAYA AND THE THAI GOVERNMENT AT THE WEEKLY MEETING OF THE ALLIANCE CABINET HERE
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  • 211 1 MINISTER TO HOLD 'PEACE TALKS' TO END DISPUTE Hope Rises In Teacher Crisis KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Minister of Education Inche Mohamet) Khir Joban Wil] hold "peace talks" I n Xi idav to end the dispute between the 10,000--strong Federation ol Malay Teach re 1 Association and bis Ministry. TWs d
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  • 62 1 LONDON, IV 10 (Reuter)— r.\o oil companies decided tori thi pi Ices ol petrol I by ihreefarthin v and a half-penny res- i ringing them back to the re-Suez level. Other ni( a v, ill pro >ab!y follow V The m m price ci Fc rtive
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  • 66 1 LONDON. Feb. 10 (Reuter) Police were today Investigating a mysterious explosion boiit ved to be an earth tremor which shook the East side of England late last night. It was particularly felt in Norfolk and Suffolk, including Bandrlngham, where the Queen, the Duke ol Edinburgh and
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  • 163 1 LONDON*. Feb. 10 (Reuter> —Senior officials and experts ol 11 Commonwealth countries meet here tomorrow morning to prepare for a tuil- 1 C■ c Commonwealth trade and economic ministerial conference to be held later this year. \n authoritative source oUid today "hat the private London
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  • 37 1 NICOSIA. Feb. 10 (Router)— The Governor, Sir Hugh Foot. left today for Athens to loin Mr Selwjrn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, who to have talks there with the Greeks on Cyprus.
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  • 20 1 THE COMMUNIST PARTY of Syria and the Lebanon has gone underground, the Damascus evening newspaper Al Massa, reported. Reuter
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  • 173 1 SINGAPOREANS consumed Ics.s liquor during the first four week.s this year than the same period, last year, a Customs spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman was commenting on the drop of $1,730,000 in revenue on liquor for the first month of this year. The
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  • 262 1 Lets Have Summit Talks' LONDON, Feb. 10 (Router) Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, today urged th< S t Union to agree to summit talks prepared, prefi rably, rv Foreign Ministers, or llternatively through diplomatic char. In a 1< tter I the S t Prime Minister,
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  • 121 1 THE HAGUE, Feb 10 (Reuter).— Britain's Queen Elizabeth and her husband the Duke ol Edinburgh will travel to Amsterdam on board the Royal yacht Bri-annia for the.r State visit to Holland from March 25-27, it was announced today. They will leave at the end
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  • 220 1 We Won't Give In To Demands, Says Djuanda JAKARTA, Feb. 10 (Reuter) Premier Djuanda announced today the Indonesian Government could not comply with a demand by the leaders of restless Central Sumatra that it resign, PI A news agency reported. Trie demand was contained in a resolution adopted li mass
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  • 89 1 ANOTHER COLONY SHIP FREED TIIE SINGAPORE freighter, Segajnat, which was intercepted by an Indonesian gunboat on Sunday, was released yesterday. The vessel was en route to Singapore from Palemba,ng, Sumatra, when it was held up by the gunboat and escorted to Tanjong Pinang. A spokesman for the owners. Straits Steamship
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  • 49 1 TWO rival gangs clashed in Singapore's busy Maude Road last night, over the collection of protection money in the area. After '.he gang battle between groups 24 and 13. the Police found a Chinese youth, Ng Swee Huat. injured and sent him to hospital.
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  • 73 1 ORANG Kaya Kaya Panglima Bukit liantang. Sri Amar Di-Raja, Tuan Haji Abdul Wakab bin Datoh Abdul Ariz, one of the eight major chiefs of Perak and former Mentri Besar. kisses the hand of Sultan Sir Yussuf Izzuddin Shah, in homage, before receiving hi s Perak Meritorious
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  • 151 1 CHOU TELLS U.S: -QUIT FORMOSA, KOREA PEKING. Feb. 10 (Renter) Chinese Premier Mr. Chou En-iai, in his first major foreign policy speech foi> almost a year, today coupled support for in East-West summit conference with the demand for the United Stated withdrawal from Taiwan and the evacuation of all foreign
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  • 24 1 A BRITISH European Airways aircraft left Munich yesterday carrying the bodies of the 21 victims of last Thursday's Munich air disaster. Reuter
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  • 22 1 THE American earth satellite Explorer is helping United States cartographer! correct errors on their mans, two army scientists said yesterday.
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  • 64 2 SINGAPORE AmMsjbH Oh ner. Inche Ahmad bin IfMifffln. yesterday returned an open verdict at the close of an Inquest into the den 4 h of Wee Ah Hoo. fin. Wee, sustained HVfjfjSj injuries when he fel! ofl a moving bus at Collyer Quay on Jan
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  • 387 2 CHIEF Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lim Yew v 1 conference yesterday gave his views on on advertise Ck ed in the Sunday Standard asking "ail clear thinking Crt *J circular for the suspension of complete internal vu ce pl{ J Singapore. The Chief Minister, referring j to the appeal
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    • 685 2 HOUSES O LAND FOR SALE NANYANC CAROEN: 2-Storcy Terrace Houses. St Michael's 3rd mile StIIHJPOn Koart Cat Port. ipac ous Hall. Dining room. Store, Kitcncn, Ut.lity room. 2 Lavatcv Bathrooms, 3 b'g Bedrooms, Front and B.ick Balcor cs and Cardens. tenant. -on gate Near to English and Chinese Sr> ools,
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    • 610 2 TENDER NOTICES CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE TENDERS. 1. G A S DEPARTMENT: Purchase of Scrap Materials. Tender Deposit $100/-. Forms from Gas Department Meter Reading Section, Mansoor Street, on production of City Treasurer's Deposit Receipt, which will be made in the name of the tenderer submitting the tender. Sealed tenders
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    • 651 2 NOTICES NOTICE is hereby g.ven that I. LIM JEE YIN (w) of No 393 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, have applied for a First Class Public House licence in respect of premises No. 6 PhilliD Stree-. Singapore, and that this application will be heard in the Court of the District Judge
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    • 97 2 HUME INDUSTRIES (far east) LTD. Irish thvir t'hittvsv (uslnnti>rs A VERY HAPPY AXH PROSPEROUS XEW YEAR They also wish to inform all Customers that the Head Office and Factory at Bukit Timah will be closed from 5 p.m. 14th February 1958 to 8 a.m. 26th February 1958. PUCHi THE ONLY
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    • 367 3 'c ::jnfrv in the world are people so c>' M:i» >n survival as are certain sec- ;::-'zren of Singapore. Local leaders ""3 couldn't-care-less' people to 'v danger that will assuredly engulf ="d roll, imitating the mannerisms of > ::-d beard Yankees in phony cowboy :n Norses with borrowed money,
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    • 315 3 w- fhat the big bosses of Singa- plotting to seize control of Actions, adds emphasis to the n these columns against the I, n of gangsters into the r -.no. The recent kidnappings -om notes and threats against :n no longer be treated as just f nmal activity. Secret
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  • 1358 3  -  Illtud Evans By O.P. (Prior of St. Dominics's Prior); London) £'HE story could scarcely be simpler or more extraordinary. It happened exactly a hundred veais ago this month, when a girl called Bernadette had gone gathering firewood down by the river just bey?nd the town of Lourdes,
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  • 741 3  -  Dennis Bloodworth By A COLD wind of anxiety has blown sudden]v across the Malayan Peninsula with the report thai the Tha:s are planning to cut a canal across the Isthmus of Kra. There is evident disagreement over the project in the Thai Cabinet for although
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  • We the PEOPLE
    • 154 3 Sir I read with interest the letter in The Standard of Fe':\ 4, for a compulsory winding up of all company provident funds. Before determining the necessity of the act we have to see whether the benefit derived would justify the trouble. When the Central Provident Fund replaced
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    • 435 3 Sir—The First Ci'.izcn of Singapore recently claimed that his new scheme of transport allowances to C.tv Council officers would save the ratepayers at least $500,000 per year. I wondered how a man Inexperienced in public administra'ion could at short notice carry out this drastic cut in expenditure. I
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  • 395 3 the NEWS as it strikes me ONE very good lesson emerged from the 15--hour City Council meeting last week that with an un. selfish, sane crew the good ship Singapore un be pilotted through safe waters in the future. It set at rest the grave fear, dread and apprehension now
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  • 233 4 SMELTERS' UNION MAY DISSOLVE 'Most Members Not Taken Back After Strike' PENANG, Mon. Secretary of the Eastern Smelting Company Employees' Union, whose members recently went on a 54-day strike, may decide to close shop. The secretary Mr. Cheah Sin Kang, told The Standard today the Union's executive committee has been
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  • 257 4 Morning Sessions For City Council FUTURE meetings of the Singapore City Council will start a: 9 30 a.m. instead of D.30 p.:r.. A **-at» :r _>::•! the C.iief r t'r.e C Information B ireau. Mr. Gary Wong, last Bight >„: i -r.;. arr\inqc.v.c\t WM to **fac. .to newspapermen covering the
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  • 70 4 THE Dec ir.rr.er.t N Engineering. University of Malaya. v... he i an exhir/.ion engineering equ.prr.en* at the University for to.ree cla\> this week T -.c -i.-r.ay. he -j by the staff and students of the Eng.neeiir 5 Department, will be open 4 the lur 1 fro^ 5..~n
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  • 49 4 BRITISH COUNCIL CHIEF DIRECTOR of the British Council. Sir Paul Sinker, who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Malayan Airways from Kuala Lumpur for a three-day visit. Sir Paul, who is visiting: the Colony for the first time, will discuss with the Government, study awards and scholarships for this year.
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  • 89 4 THE inquest into the death of Theresa Tay. 37. which was originally fixed for Thursday, ha« been postponed to a later date, the Singapore Coroner. Mr. Giam Chong Hin. told The Standard yesterday. Mr. Giam said Police 'asked for the postponement as they wished to
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  • 141 4 THIRTY-ONE people Usl :r. nth repotted lo the Singapore Police that their had vc "c;.c.i extortion threats. Thii io 1 n w& rombei el cases lot a ::'.h The Bacrai Boctetlei bran h of the c.i.d. during the period arrested N secret society gangsters
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  • 94 4 SINGAPORE Sea Cadet Corps wAI h.v. ri its first annual ball at the Raffles Hotel on Friday. Highlights ol the evening's programme will be a fashion show by Charmaine and her mannequins, with dresses provided by Salon New Yorker and Majestic Company ol Orchard Road.
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  • 44 4 GOVERNOR Sir William Goode will inspect the St. John Ambulance Brigade at its annual parade on the S.R.C. Padang on Sunday at 4 p.m. with Sir Wilnam will be Major-General J, M- Kirkman. Commissioner-in-Chicf. The parade will last two hour?.
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  • 28 4 A hawker. Hassan bin Zakir. was yesterday filled $200 or ill d4faull two months' jail in a Singapore Court for altering particular! on bii identity card.
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  • 167 4 Talentime Contest Heats Begin RADIO Malaya Singapore's 1958 Talentime Competition got into its swing last Thursday when the first and second heats were decided at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus hall. Victoria Street. Singapore. More than 300 entries have been received and auditions are still being carried on
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  • 28 4 HASHIM bin Haji Ismail who pleaded guilty to stealing four fowls belonging to Zaina! binte Kassan. wa- yesterday jailed for 12 months in a Sincaoore Court.
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  • 46 4 MEMBERS of the Malayan Association < Youth Clubs enjoy folk dances conducted by the Square Dance expert from America, Mr. Ricke\ Holden, at the Association's Dance Jamboree .it the Chen Woo Auditorium in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday Standardpic by Fah.
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  • 184 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —A Royal Air Force spokesman told today how one of it* Sycamore helicopters saved the life of the daughter of a Malay soldier last Saturday. Immediately on receipt of the distress call, the Joint Operations Centre at the RAF Station in Kuala
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  • 44 4 BAKBLH snops ana nent wave saloons In Singapore are advised I either on Friday or Su: if -.hey want to cl 19, the day after Ch n Year. Employers who wish ter the closing da: notify the Con;m:b>;on» for Labour.
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  • 57 4 I I tables c I Or. H tern v. I man, a man to: terday. nundred the miri that far: I products M I markettec I prices M Wtb rural r ties, plan to qH cwtra at better bplai: M the prop'ic I co-opera* be eneo;:- tables ai. I
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  • 491 5 [MISTRESS GETS 7 YEARS P. &t*d away. woman fSTdork from Ztat courtroom. Bated to the L r- ve as his i h only i Mlty to m -ported I rZms of E Ft^-— onth-o!d the couple PJpßtur.ity to Deputy 2 fcrhe Abdul f defence as the -last ins Cam*
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  • 99 5 SINGAPORE film magnate. Mr. Runme Shaw, yesterday distributed more than $40,000 worth of gifts to the aged at the Great World and New World parks. The gifts were given to people over 60 years of age. They represented the annual Shaw Brothers'
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  • 229 5 THE r.ewley elected 32-man 11*1 tee of the Singapore L\ ::iese Chamber of Commerce nut abort a Mil to -c its president if r.o ints or withdrawals are re civel. a spokesman of the rhamber told The Standard lay. Sir: c by a system of
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  • 53 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A combined patrol of the Fifth Battalion. Malay Reniment and Police, killed a C immunist terrorist in the Kuala Pilah district of Negn Sembilan. today. The terrorist has been Identified as Leong Yik Cho A pistol, some ammunition and a food packet
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  • 86 5 AUSSIE PORTRAIT CONTEST ARTISTS from Singapore. Maiaya and Borneo are invited to participate in an Australian portrait competition. The competition is sponsored by the Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales and the proprietors of the Australian Women's Weekly. Prizes totalling $17,500 will be awarded, and $6,800
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  • 30 5 KARTAR SINGH, 47. was fined $75 in the Penang Magistrate's Court yesterday for using his car for hire without a permit at Penang Road on Jan. 15.
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  • 61 5 FILM magnate and internationally known ornithologist, Mr. Loke \Van Tho, has been awarded a German prize medal for his contribution of photographs to the ISM "Photokina" exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Above: the German Ambassador to the Federation of Malaya, Dr. Hans U. Granow, presents the
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  • 83 5 CAR tntftfl in Singapore must be stopped, said District Judge, Mr. J. F. McWilliam, when he sentenced a lorry attendant to six months' jail 3'esterday. The lorry attendant, Teo Ah Kirn. 22, was convicted of stealing a car worth $3,000 from a Police Inspector,
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  • 94 5 SATA will benefit from the ;>r .ceeds of a charity dance, r^anized by a group of Singapore teenagers, to be he:d on Mundav. Chinese New Year's eve at '.he Fraser and Neave hall, at River Valley Road. Highlight of the dance will be the election
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  • 57 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Interim figures released by Government today showed that during January revenue from imports and exports amounted to $40,151,503. The two main export items. rubber and tin. brought $7,250,315 and $4,192,610; respectively. Under imports tobacco cigarettes, cigars and snuff amounted to $10,164,950:
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  • 219 5 City Council To Wage War On Illegal Huts THE Peoples Action Party dominated Singapore City Council yesterday declared war on builders of illegal attep huts in the City area. As a first step in its fight against "unauthorised builders." the Council will today serve 14-day quit notices on 40 families
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  • 25 5 A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl was alleged to be raped near her house in Joo Chiat Road, Singapore, yesterday. She was sent to hospital.
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  • 314 5 RURAL ELECTION ROLLS FOR SCRUTINY THE electoral rolls for the district council elections will be ready lor public inspection by the end of this month at the latest. Ihe first batch of name? were sent to the government prin.er last week. The last of them would follow in a day
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  • 125 5 MINISTER'S NEIGHBOUR IS ROBBED TWO masked men armed with daggers held up a housewife and robbed her of $700 cash and jewellery in Siang Lim Park yes:erday. The housewife, Madam Tan Neo Nigh. 40, is a neighbour of the Assistant Minister for Labour and Welfare, Mr. Mak Pak Shee Madam
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  • SPORTING WORLD
    • 58 6 RUGBY: Seven-aside at the Padnng; Police 'B' :s S.C.C. 'B'; Royal Signals rs Seletar B 1 R.S.Z.A-F. 'A' M Johorc SOCCER: Pnur Paniang S'^oidary School v s St. Joseph Institution at SJ.L, Ist a^d ;> t d tei*>\ inter-schry-l C j !>(: Z < HOCKEY: Fnr e '>'
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    • 260 6 THE star* of the champion Pandas took a backseat on Sunday on the St. Josephs ground when tv»o unknown outfielders, leftfielder Robert Lim and centrefielder Lawrence of the Flashes stole the how with spectacular catches. The P-\r.<A* pounded -he Fli^he* 18-2 on a 19-hit power *h v
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    • 29 6 RESULTS of the Royal Singapore G Cub monthly medal played yesterday nn A" Div— Mrs. F. M. Johngon—one d"wn B Dlv -Mrs. N. K. Beadle-— ai: square.
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    • 290 6 THOMAS CUP PROSPECTS IMPROVED BAM's HAPPY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Badminton Association of Malay? officials, after watching the improved per. formances of the Malayan Thomas Cup prospects in the trials during the weekend, were unanimous In tneir opinions that Malaya will make another
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    • 69 6 TEI.OK ANSON Mon Tapah Police again defeated Telok Anson Police thii time by fotS pMll |q one in h MC md round fixture of :heir Knter-diatrid circle football leu* MM foi (he PAFA cup here last Saturday. Donteatinf the exchanges throughout, Tapah nened through ceotr ef or ward
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    • 46 6 KUALA LUMPUR Mon.— S M. Yong. president ol the Selangor Gun Cub. won the nn >nthly clay pigeon shoot with 19 "birds" out of a possible 26 "birds* 1 on the Selangor Gun Club ranfc --.ere I idajr. Mr. Moe Foo Km: was runnerup.
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    • 85 6 LATIFF Wanderers, strong contenders for the Singapore Hockey Association junior knockout title, entered the semi-final round in the competition by trouncing the Navy Nomadi by four goils to nil on the Girls Spirts Club ground yesterday. Matchwinner in the Wanderers side was inside left, Mohd.
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    • 133 6 Govt. Takes Over B'ton Stadium THE Singapore government yesterday took over the control of the Bad- minton Stadium in Guilleraard Road from its honorary manager, Mr. Lim Chuan Geok. The official handing over of the stadium to Mr. Hon Sui Sen, the Commissioner of Lands, took less than 15 minutes.
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    • 63 6 THE draw for the Singapore Hockey Association Semi-final rounds of the Senior and the Junior sections |g as follows:SENIOR: Police vs winner at University vs Wanderers RAF Changi: Singapore Recreation Club vs winners of Smsnporc Cricket Club v s STU YMSA. JUNIOR: Latiff Wanderers v>
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    • 20 6 AMK'ABLE Athletic AssociaQon beat Indian Recreation Club "A" 5-4 in a friendly soccer played at Farrer Park yesterday
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    • 28 6 PARWANA Invitation XI improved in the second half to hold Singapore Recreation Club to a one-all draw in a friendly hockey match on the padang yesterday.
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    • 218 6 POLICE Sports Association maintained their unbeaten record when they boat Malayan Royal Navy Volunteer Reserves by two goals to nil in a SGBFA Div. 1 league at the Geylans Stadium yesterday. A second team player, Awalludin who led the Police attack cave bii side
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    • 560 6 Dissension In Their Ranks ONE of Singapore's leading soccer teams, Star Soccerites, 1954 first division league champions, have been shut out of this year's Singapore Amateur Football Association's league and cup competitions. The decision to keep the Soccerites from SAFA's competitions was taken last night
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    • 290 6 A STRONG Selelar U A n| by 23 points (four goals and a tn Ir(JU WM first team to enter the quarter "fi^M SV&f. the see Se r^J| The Whiles r.cvcr had ing chance ag,i.r..-' the -^'*i Airmen who dorr..r iie-d throughout. In the first minute D*V made' a
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    • 27 6 JAKARTA. Feb in —Spartak, the Russia: team was expected to srr- c Indonesia r.cxt week r a series of matches :r. Java and Celebes.
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  • 124 7 K\- LOWER OF ENGLAND'S FOOTBALL ft» p fck3se o' the earner which at \mn tut rhurs- -puke ok board. J t«d football twin return-:-.3 'j E-.j":-:^ ;>o iy B:\grv.de htrt theu payed ign.'v.sr -.c Vug i:..- Red Star in :he Seen p'aiyers d'ed in '/ie Tommy Taylor, England's centre forward,
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  • 106 7 Kiwis Will Not Change Travel Plans WELLINGTON. Feb. 10 <Rcu•er>—The lead of European football teams switching from air travel to land travel following the Munich air crash is not to be followed in New Zealand. The New Zealand Rugby Football Union whose under 23 team leaves by air from Auckland
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  • 165 7 Air Expert Questioned On Crash MUNICH. Feb. 9 (Reuter) A British European Airways air accident expert, Mr. John Gibbs, was questioned here tonight about a report issued l?.st night that the plane carrying the Manchester United football payers probably did not leave the ground on Thursday because of iced-up wings.
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  • 129 7 New U.S. Davis Cup Captain NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (Reuter) Perry Jones, known as the "Czar" of Pacific Coast tennis, was named United States Davis Cud captain last night to succeed Bill Talbert. Talbert has served since 1953. The surprising change was announced by Mr. Victor Denny of Seattle, new
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  • 1264 7  - THE GREATEST SOCCER SIDE IN BRITAIN IS SHATTERED PETER WILSON By LONDON, Mon. It was the blackest day in Brif sh sport. At four o'clock Thursday afternoon when the news came stuttering into this office over the Teleprinters, the first reaction was one of numbed disbelief. MANCHESTER UNITED SHATTERED. The
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  • 115 7 MAGYAR STARS WANT TO PLAY FOR UNITED VIENNA, Feb. 10 (Reuterj Ferenc Puskas, Zo 1 1 a n Czibor and Sandor Kocsis. three of Hungary's star footballers who remained abroad af:er the Hungarian uprising last year, are prepared to play for Manchester United, their manager said here today. Mr. Emile
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  • 46 7 LONDON. Feb. 10 (Reuter) —The Football Association today confirmed that they had received a letter from the Chairman of Manchester United, involved in last week's air crash at Munich, asking for a postponement of their F.A. fifth round cup tie against Sheffield Wednesday next Saturday.
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    • 1119 8 Tel: 2405 MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. Tel: 2412 (18 lines) I ncoroof a teo m bingapore* (12 lines) "ST *HE BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS te LIVERPOOL GLASGOW LONDON b CONTINENTAL PORTS Carriers option to proceed via other ports to load and discnart* cargo (Via Suex with liberty to proceed via
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    • 862 8 MITSUI ]jJJ LINE Spore P. Sham Penang FOR JAPAN. Mikagesan Maru via Manilo for Yokohama, Kobje Moji 23 Feb FOR U.S.A. For New York. Philadelphia, Baltimore via Bombay Akoshison Maru from Japan 1 5 Feb 18 Feb FOR COLOMBO KARACHI. BOMBAY. Akakurasan Maru from Japan 21 Feb 24 Feb 25
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    • 566 8 EAST ASIATIC i OUTWARDS So.l.ng. to. Bon«* O k *l "LALANDIA" 23 24 KOREA 25^26 P cb Accepts corgc foi Bonqkofc o I "CUbUANGA" 26 27^ h °f :f "SELANDIA" 9/10 Mq HOMEWARDS So.l.ng, r o A<3rn W Rott<»rdom Hamburg Bremen Co E *S j "MEONIA" 24 25 fn Coll*
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  • 140 9 London Buying Rates Lowered EASIER conditions in tne London money market nave caused the Malayan Exchange Banks Association to lower several of its London buying rates to merchants. Tne Association yesterday lowered its London buying rates against the Malayan "dol•ar to 2/4 7/33 for SO days' sight, 2 4 U/8
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  • 149 9 MALAYAN Exchange Banks Association rates to merchants In force yesterriav were London: selling. T.T. or O D 2/3-7 8. buying, airmail T.T. 2. 4. 0 D 1 4-1 fit, M d/St 2 4 7/32. 4."> d si 2/4-5/lfi. HO d/fl 2/4-3/S, 90 d/St 2 4-7/32. 120 d, st
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  • 59 9 MALAYAN copra imports in 1957 totalled 188.345 tons, i against 121.881 tons in the previous year>. Exports amounted to 116.627 tons i 39.332 tons'. Other figures are: Crude coconut oil: imports 1135 tons i 1.074 tons); exports 84.237 tons (98.426 tons >. Refined oil: imports 11
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  • 30 9 JANUARY rubber crops announced are: Malaka Pinria l">7 000 r ri United Malacca 145 100 lb.; Aver Molek 18^20 Ifa Lcor.2 Hin San 60,700 lb.; Nyalaa 47,812 .b.
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  • 182 9 Usage In Natural Shows Rise KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Manufacturers in the United States. Britain and other countries have been using more natural rubber in preference to the synthetic product because of the steady decline in the price of the former over the last 14 months. This was stated last night
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  • 94 9 FOREST OFFICERS MEET THE results of 'investigation that have been going on for the last few years in the management of ramin forests and methods to be adopted for their management were discussed at the recent annual conference of the Sarawak Forest Department. It was held in Kuching and was
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  • 98 9 SHIP IN PORT OUTER ROADS Felipes. Tees Breeze. Dankil. Tai Poo Ann. Frankfurt, Chungking Hallvard, Sunny. Hydra. Norvets. Rogceveen. Kian Ann, Thet;} Star. Glory, Shona, Saroena, Siberoet INNER ROADS Hu a Heng. Torino. Charti Navee. Tons Hnck. Hibiscus. Sin Hai. Toboali. Bruas, Hee Hork, Spert.io. Seremban, Tong Nam. Padjonge. Debora,
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  • 297 9 INDUSTRY EXPERT ARRIVES KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. There are very good prcspects both in Singapore and the Federation for industrial expansion, particularly in the field of secondary industries, Canadian industrial development expert, Col. S.J. Lyle, declared today. Col. Lyle, who is on loan to the government of Singapore and the Federation
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  • 160 9 Business In Shares MALA YAM sharebrokers reported the following business done: F. N. ords $2,574 ready and delayed; Hammer $2 overnight and yesterday; Hongkong Bank $451 cd.; Hume ords 5/44: M. Cement $1.25: M Cement (s()c paid) 66c: McAlister $1 424 to 51. 40; It Box $15:U: Robinson ords. Sl.To
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  • 114 9 Industrials, Tins Are Firm INDUSTRIALS and tins were firm yesterday, largely as a result of lack of sellers at current values. Rubbers were dull. Price changes announced bythe Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers 8.8. Petrol 38/- 40 Fraser and Neave: Ords 2.55 2.fiO Gaftimon 2.17 2.22 Henry Waugh
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  • 69 9 A FULLY mechanized cheese-making plant which eliminates much labour and reduces the cost of manufacture, has been demonstrated to members of the Australian dairy indusry by the dairy research section of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. It is claimed to be the first successful attempt
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  • 448 9 Finance Commerce THE Federation has built-up a "Favourable Atmosphere" for establishing new industries, declared Mr. David Lee, President of Singapore Manufacturers' Association and Chairman of the Colony's Industrial Promotion Board, interviewed yesterday by The Standard on the future of industrial expansion in Malaya.
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  • 49 9 MR. H. L. RISELEY, export sales manager of Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Co. Ltd.. England, was entertained to a dealers' dinner at the Mak Yee Restaurant by the company's Malayan agents. Kee Huat Radio Co. Ltd., Kuala Lumpur. Photo shows Mr. Riseley speaking at the dinner.
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  • 71 9 MR. CHEONG Seng Hock, (seen above), a laboratory assistant at the National Carbon (Eastern) Ltd., who has just returned from a study tour of America, Canada and the Philippines. He was sent by his firm to visit National Carbon plants in those countries. His trip abroad is
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    97 9 duce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: copr.. Jan -Feb UK/ Continent $30i buyers $31 i sellers: coconut oil in bulk $45£ sellers; in drums $49 sellers Mumok white Depper $102 sellers; Sarawak white $101 sellers; special Sarawak black $63. Singapore Copra Association closing prices: fair merchantable
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  • 111 9 IPOH. Mon. President of the FMS Chamber of Mines. Mr. J. T. Chappei. today "wholeheartedly" supported the Federation Government's announcement on the International Tin Council's recommendation for the creation of a special buffer fund to be put at the disposal of the buffer stock manager. The
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  • 124 9 Rubber Down 1/4 Cent A QUARTER cent drop for rubber was recorded yesterday in the Singapore market. The lone was steadier at the close. Internal.onal first grade for February was quotrd buyers at 77A cents per .b. against 111 on Friday The market opened unchanged on last FridavV final prices,
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  • 69 9 TOTAL imports of r ber, all grades, from all countries into Singapore and thp Federation of Malaya during January, amounted to 31.883 tons, a.s shown by final documents received. The figure includes 16.549 tons imported on provisional permits in previous months for which final documents have been
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  • 232 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Federation Government is to establish a number of refrigerating plants en the East Coast to assist the fishing industry. This was announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz Ishak, when he visited fishermen on the coasts of
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  • 41 9 PRODUCTION of tin-in-concentra'.es In Malaya. :n December last, amounted to 5,298 tons, against 4.997 tons in the previous mon.h. The December figure brines the total output in :he whole of 1957 to 59.293 tons against 62,295 tons In 1956
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  • 31 9 JOHAN tin ore output in January was 306.86 picuLs, resulting in a tribute to the company of $6,871. From this is deducted $920 for Kinta Valley Home Guard allowance.
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    • 253 9 Jburma shipping board .PYIDAWAYE" FV SIN GAPORt 20»h FEBRUARY A L s: FfBRUARY. «o«l-.ci- b R.» 9 ..n. u ngcrt and cargoes r czsc contact tl()nd l Shipping Agency. Burma Shipping Board Ncl Road. Tc\ *****—*****. -TffSl-LINES sSON ROAD. Through Cargo Dept). Ttfr ***** Manager). 11 -j^N/fc**** feb. 12 1
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  • Article, Illustration
    211 10 A FILM BASED ON ♦HAPPENINGS' IN MALAYA TV ITU the release of the film The OILYMAN (Orang Minyak) Keris Film Productions again presents a memorable movie born from today's headlines about recent happenings of the Oilyman which have gripped the minds of the people of Malaya. Based
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  • 615 10 in SING, BOY, SING r TOMMY SANDS. a twenty-year-old. is a veteran of eleven years in the entertainment world. He became an overnight star when he appeared on a national TV show. "Singing Idol." Before he had time to appreciate his hit. Executive
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  • Show Business HIGHLIGHTS
    • 587 10 Special lighting for the Lights of Broadway TAMES WONG Howe, J the Academy Award winning cameraman, admitted that he set him* self a meticulous and exhausting job when he brought lighting equipment from Hollywood to dramatize the lights of Broadway while working on the streets of Manhattan for SWEET SMELL
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    • 168 10 4 NTHONY Kimmins, icho is now in Australia to produce and direct the British CinemaScope film for 20th Cen-tury-Fox release, SMILEY GETS A GUN, a sequel to "SMILEY", has signed an impish 10-year-old boy from Victoria, Keith Culvert, as the rapscallioyi .s-fnr of the film in the
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  • 138 10 Greg Peck to star in The Bravados r yHE contract of Produ- ccr Herbert Bayard Swopc Jnr, has been renewed and Director Henry King has been assigned to direct THE BRAVADOS, starring Gregory Peck, which will be Swope's first production under his new contract. King, who recently completed THE SUN
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 58 10 Contest Winners J'HE following are the first five all-correct entry winners of the "BEAU JAMES CONTEST": NURSE MABEL ROSARIO, Middleton Hospital, Singapore 8. MISNAWI M. Lorong 3. Geylang (5.1. T.) Singapore, TERRY LEE. 3, Nassim Road, Singapore 10, MOHANA DAS, Block 10, Room J5, Naval Base, Singapore 27, and MRS.
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 453 10 TOUAYIS QUOTATION H^^^>J "We are all ready to he I fefekl Ravage in some cause. The I difference between a food I man and a bad one t« I L^Vl (he choice of the cause." I 9J William James consideration^, -v -.<■■/ formation, plan? ri EAVI pend o:i prom ses
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  • 1795 11 Reading Of Exchange Case Charges Occupies An Hour Lv i 34 char «es under the Exchange Control Ordinance involving U553,694,--jo against Aik Hoe Co. Ltd., which took more than an hour to read in the Singapore Assizes yesterday, will have to be re-read this
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  • 183 11 Burglars Active, Warn Police THIEVES stole $15,000 in cash, jewellery and goods in Singapore over the week-end Police Secretary. Mr. Eu Cheow Ean?, attributed :h.s spate of housebreaktafs to seasonal increase prior to Chinese New Year. He warned the public to make sure that doors and
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  • 162 11 RUBBER TIN PRICES t M>SIN(i rubber urn c* (cents per Ib.) 1 D Sin*a pore ve*terday were: Buyers Seller*. Spot (nom.) 774 772 R.S.S. No. 1 774 772 March R.S.S. No. 1 76? 77 RS.S No 2 February 74A 75 RS.S. No 3 February 70$ 71 Tone: Steadier at the
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 138 12 BANGKOK. Feb. 10 (UP) Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Prince Wan Waithayakon said today Thailand "welcomes closer relations" between South-east Asian countries but he gave a cool reception to the idea of a union or commonwealth. Wan made the statement to reporters who pointed out
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    • 141 12 COMMUNIST MENACE IN U.S. MORE THAN EVER SERIOUS WASHINGTON, FEB. 10 (REUTER) MOKE THAN ONE MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED BY THE SOVIET UNION TO CARRY OFT POLITICAL SUBVERSION IN THE UNITED STATES, ACCORDING TO THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN
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    • 337 12  -  ANDREW ROTH From LONDON, Mon. Can Prime Minister, Mr. Mac- j millan hold on? This question is being raised by experts as hi starts on the last lap of his Commonwealth j It is not thought that his steely nerves will be, damaged
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    • 177 12 TUNISIAN BOMBING HAS FRENCH EMBARRASSED PARIS. Feb. 10 (Reuter) The French Government is evidently acutely embarrassed by the bombing b> French military planes of the Tunisian frontier \illase of Sakiet Sidi Youssef. The official position is that expressed by .he Defence Minister. Mr. Jacques Chaban belmas on Saturday that the
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    • 20 12 ONE TON ol medical supplier will be tlown from Australia to Ceylon by Qantas airliner tomorrow.— Reuter.
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    • 242 12 HE WILL LIVE IN 'SPACE' A WEEK SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Feb. 10 (Reuter) A 23-year-old airman trawled int;> a lour foot wide hermetically sealed steel ball here yesterday to begin a week-long experiment of living in "space." Donald Gerald Farrell, more than six feet tall, will not emerge from his
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    • 35 12 THE Indonesian Government was trytm to contact a friendly country to look alter the interests of Indonesian nationals in Paramaribo. Surinam. Foreign Minister Subandrio said yesterday, according to TIA news agency. Reuter
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    • 131 12 ...Should Labour Come Back GLASGOW, Feb. 10 (Reuter) Britain's next Labour government will re-nationalize the iron and steel industry as its first big task, a Labour Member of Parl'airent, Mr. Alfred Rcbens, told a Labour Party meeting here last night. Road transport would also
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    • 115 12 A Happy Birthday To Premier HOBART. Tasmania. Fob. 10 (Reuter) Three hundred Hobaii citizen* sans 'Happy Birthday To You" when Mr. Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister 64 today I arrived at a civic reception here. City councillors, businessmen and then- wives joined in khe Chorus alter the Lord Mayor. Sir
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    • 70 12 FOGGIA. Italy. Feb. 10 (UP)— Eight persons, including three women and four children, were feared killed today following the collapse ot a centuries-old building in which they had taken refuge The victims were members of homeless families squatting hi a long-deserted building that once served as
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    • 52 12 NAGASAKI, Japan, Feb. 10 (UP>.— The Japanese Government today freed 76 Korean nationals from the Omdura Detention Camp in accordance with the ROKJapan New Year's Eve agreement for the mutual release of de:ainees. Today's group constituted the fifth and last batch of Korean nationals freed lor residency
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    • 21 12 THE Russian ship Bagdan Khmelnitsky unloaded 481 Russian jeeps for the Indonesian Army at Sourabava. East Java, yesterday.— Reuter
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    • 92 12 NEW DELHI. Feb. 10 < Reuter) President Rajendra Prasad opening a new session of the Indian Parliament called today for a summit meeting of great states "with any others on whom they might agree" to help ease world tensions and bring about an atmosphere oi peaceful
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    • 40 12 SOUTH Korean national police reported .n Seoul yesterday that 26 passengers were killed when a crowded bus skidded and fell off a bridge over the Kum River, near Tanjon, cen.ral Korea on Monday night. Reuter
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    • 62 12 TOKYO, Feb. 10 (ReuteM— A Kappa 122-S type rocket was test fired successful iy this afternoon at the Tokyo University's rocket centre at Iffichikawa Beach, Northern Japan, by the University's rocket experiment team. The rocket, launched at an angle of 70 decrees, reached an altitude of
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    • 218 12 LONDON. Feb. 10, (Reuter)— The British Film Academy today chose as the best film from any source in 1957 "The Bridge On The River Kwai," British picture lellin? the story o f prisoners-of-war in a Japanese camp in Siam.
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    • Summit Talks
      • 303 12 BRITONS MAIL MAC'S REPLY LONDON, Feb. 10 (Rcuter).— British public opinion, is reflected by this morning's newspapers, warmly welcomed the attitude to sum mil talks by Mr Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, in his latest letter to Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Vlmister, and believed that a hopeful
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      • 76 12 PARIS. Feb. LO (iv itei >-- Kins Mohamed Fifth I Men:.-, o i day n i Ie I Ora i d Prin< c •ay Elassan in I M >roccan Foreign Ministi r Ahmed Bali frej froon visit to Pan.-. the Moroccan Embassy here ann in L
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