Singapore Standard, 18 March 1959

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  • 24 1 SINGAPORE STANDARD leiepnone z:>«8l —5 Cable "TIGERNEWS" SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18. 1959. Vol. IX No. 258. 15 c. 14 Pages. 9fl JL (FINAL EDITION)
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  • 418 1 fdsaffafsa Plan to suspend Ong*s authority Deadline today for handing over report of walk-out meeting THE SINGAPORE Government intends to suspend the authority of the City Council, The Standard learns, if the Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, persists in defying the Minister for Local Government,
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  • 70 1 LONDON, March 17 (Reuter) Two men won top prizes of £140.154 sterling each today in a national football pool. One of them. Mr. Albert Taylor, 41-year-old coach and restaurant owner said number 13 was his lucky number. HUs house number is 13. He posted the winning
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  • 173 1 $560,000 CASETHE TALKS ARE ON OFFICIALS of the Indonesian Consulate and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, yesterday had informal discussions on the alleged $560,000 swindle by two Singapore firms. After the morning's consullaticns, Mr. O. H. R. Beadles, Acting Permanent Secretary to the Ministry, told The Standard: "We have
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  • 131 1 Australians told to open factories in Malaya MELBOURNE, Australia, Mar. 17 <UPD Commerce Minister Tan Siew Sin of the Federation of Malaya said tonight that South East Asia could become a major influence in world markets when its buying power improved. Tan flew :o Melbourne from the ECAFE conference for
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  • 94 1 LONDON, March 17 (UPI) Tan Joe Hock. Indonesia's favourite for the All-England badminton singles title starting at Wembley tomorrow, was today reported to be in fine fettle following his recent attack of influenza Malaya's Teh Kew San, another recent 'flu victim, has recovered
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  • 254 1 Indian Govt does NOT object to the boot for Ramiah KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Indian High Commission in the Federation has raised no objections to the deportation of "emergency convict" P. Ramiah who is now serving a sevenyear jail term. Ramiah. who came to Malaya after the war took up
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  • 173 1 TAXI MAN DIES IN BID TO STOP CLASH A SINGAPORE taxidriver was stabbed in the stomach last night at the 12 milestone Jurong Road. He died half an hour later in the General Hospital. The driver, Koh Tian Fook, 34. was attacked with a kris when he tried to stop
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  • 251 1 SAME MAY APPLY TO C'WEALTH CITIZENS KUALA LUMPUR, Tuos.— Aliens in the Federation who are considered "undesirable and a liability to the nation "will be deported, if the Alliance is returned to power in the first post-merdeka elections this year, The Standard learnt today.
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  • 120 1 THE GROOM MUST BE A THIEF TO WIN BRIDE LOMROK. Indonesia. March 17 (I'PI) The marrying season has »et in on this cast Indonesian island and a young man's thoughts turn to love and STEALING. In neighbouring Bali, prospective bridegrooms steal only their brides. But here, a young man with
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  • 227 1 Grivas, my conscience is clear, flies off ATHENS. March IT. (Reuter) —Co!. Gptkp Gnvas returned to Groere today after four years fighting the British in Cyprus. Ho was erected !<y hi> wife. a hra«s band, euard of honour and a corps of welcoming gov» ernment and <hurch leaders. On his
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  • 41 1 THE Royal yacht Britannia, with the Duke of Edinburgh aboard, sailed yesterday Into the waters of the Solomons islands group an^ prepared to drop anchor at Giro, a tiny island on the Western fringe of the group.- Reuter
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 273 2 Blades on those extra po^ Fight thugs move in Queenstown praised SINGAPORE'S Commissioner of Police, Mr. A. E Q. fold a public gathering here last night that the police hod ne»» widely the powers of preventive arrests and detention because i that people arrested and
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  • 121 2 Stabbed Inspector critical' SINGAPORE Police have still not found a motive lM the attack on Inspector Neo Guan Choo, 30. of the Volunteer Special Constabulary. Inspector N"g was stabbed bv two thu^s when he was washing his car in Wayang Street at 8 a.m. on Sunday. The thugs escaped after
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  • 162 2 Let's debate it, Le tells SAT A chie BCG for children SECRETARY-GLNLRAL of t; Party, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, last rush? Director of Singapore Anti-Tuh. Dr. Sen Gupta, for a debute with 1. rompulsory BCG vaccination lor Childn The v\v mm* on Sund.t;. that, 10 ;> r lntr-'dut vaccinat i
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  • 181 2 Murder: Police hold man (From Pauc car suddenly stopped. A man rushed out and began to abuse me." explained Mr Loh The taxi driver Rot out of his car. said Mr. Loh and tried to intervene But in a flash a man "hipped °ut a kns and lunged at him.
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  • 33 2 A GOLDS! five ibOt door. causinj f v! wife to thi bath t S2on for end*- g< hi<> home. I.im S<wttli nine to have fired the nours of <
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  • 90 2 Stabbing in school: 4 detained IPOH, Tues.— Police have detained four schoolboys f iff questioning after an inc. in which a junior middle three student of the Yuk Choy School here. Lam Kow. 18. received a minor stab wound in the neck this morning. I -am was said to have
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  • 60 2 FILM actress Jean BifIUMM and her actor husband. Stewart Granger, who air to s*ar in "The Nicht Comers" with Singapore as the !<• ation. may now come later in the year. Mr. Loke Wan Tho. Colony film magnate, told The Standard last night. Mr Lok< I from
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 1084 2 ICES ANY OLD SHIRBURNIAN interested in an O. S. Dinner should write or telephone LtCol. G. A. W. Hungerford (Rtd) Hq Singapore Base Dis;rict. Tel: Singapore 2805 Ext. 206. before 25th March, 1959. NOTICE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE A SHIP'S NAME We, CHUAN ANN SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED of 158 Cecil Street,
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    • 84 2 NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, having sold his shares in Hock Bee Rubber Company Limited is no more a Director of the Company with effect from 16th March, 1959. CHUA VAN HOO CROWN CORK CONTEST SINGAPORE CONSTITUTION EXPOSITION CORRECT NO. OF CROWN CORKS lit PRIZE FRANCIS YUEN
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  • EDITORIAL SINGAPORE TIGER STANDARD
    • 385 3 Federation Government is not going to deterred in its determination to ensure that t security of the country is preserved and its jxens protected against any threat to their cdom and welfare. This policy was made clear by the acting Premier, Dato Abdul Razak Huss:m. when he courteusly,
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    • 350 3 Labour Front what remains of it tself in a dilemma in its plans to contest ning elections. To which of the political m Singapore does it turn? The fact that its ouncil has instructed its representative in e Legislative Assembly, Mr. Francis Thomas, to 'or the resignation
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  • Article, Illustration
    48 3 Although plants have no muscles, they are capable of many movements. Some move into sunlight; others move away from it. Certain plant organs reach out and grab like hands, pull like arms, or snap shut like mousetraps. Some are even capable of changing their locations.
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  • 880 3  - Macmillan's Aim In Washington ROBERT STEPHENS by LONDON. I^E ta^s which Mr. Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, will have in Washington this week, following his visits to Moscow, Paris and Bonn, will clearly be decisive in shaping Western policy for dealing with Russia during the next few months. They are
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  • 691 3  -  GORDON MACLEAN by MOMBASA A FEW hours after the Zambia African National Congress had been suppressed in Northern Rhodesia, the Governor of this British Protectorate in the Rhodesian Federation accused the Congress, in a radio broadcast, of starting a reign of terror by witchcraft and "unmentionable cursings."
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  • 838 3  -  RAWLE KNOX by Nicosia, Cyprus, 'J'HE apparent defeat of the Army of the Revolution in Northern Iraq justified those who believe that the military control of the Iraqi Premier, Major-General Abdul Karim Kassem is exercised through his divisional commanders and through an appeal to the men
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  • Voice of MALAYA
    • 180 3 Sir— Over the big drain opposite the Geylang Police Station is a dilapidated and rickety timber bridge. A painted notice placed near its Geylang Road end warns in four languages:"THIS BRIDGE IS DANGEROUS ANYONE WHO USES IT DOES SO AT THEIR OWN RISK". It reminds of
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  • 570 4 ANGRY HAWKER ALLEGES HOSPITAL FAILED TO TELL HIM OF FATHER'S DEATH: APPEAL TO ASSEMBLYMAN A SINGAPORE hawker yesterday alleged that because of official negligence his father, who died In the General Hospital recently, was buried in a pauper's grave. The hawker, Goh Say
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  • 312 4 Big Perak jump in juvenile crime: Request for more parental control IPOH, Tues. The Perak Juvenile Welfare Committee, which had held only one meeting since its formation four years ago, was revived today at a meeting presided over by Mr. J. R. Whimster, President of the Sessions Court here. Mr.
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  • 165 4 KLM cut to cost S'pore $7,000 SINGAPORE Government will lose about $7,000 a year in landing fees because of the British Government's decision to reduce KLM's twice-weekly flights to the Colony to one. The decision to cut KLM's services to the Colony was announced in Britain on Monday. It Is
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  • 210 4 HARI RAYA PUASA PARTY Urgent call for iron lung in Ipoh CHEMPAKA Puteh Hiboran Party in Singapore will hold a party on Aprii 12. at 130 p.m., to <?elebrate Hari Raya Puasa. The partv will be held at Embassy Hotel. Persons wishing to attenri are asked to contact Miss S
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  • 137 4 More blood please, from NEW donors A doctor's plea THE demand for blood in hospitals has always been greater than donations received at the Singapore Blood Transfu s ion Centre, Dr. M. M. H. Gibson-Hill, officer-in-charge of the centre, said yesterday. The call for more blood during the past week
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  • 245 4 A FILM ON S'PORE YOUTH FOR THE WORLD TO SEE 'Something to die for 9 A FILM is now being made in Singapore to show teenagers around the world that they can have a positive, living faith that will withstand any troubles no matter how stormy. It will have a
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  • 245 4 UMSU has nothing to do with China tour THE University of Malaya Students' Union, Singapore will not participate In the proposed tour of China, the Union's president, Mr. Donald Wyatt, said yesterday. The All-China Students' Federation last week asked the vice-president of the Trade Union Congress. Mr Lim Chwee Seng,
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  • 1211 4 Soldier: I had the ticket before rival claimant lost SURPRISE TURN IN LOTTERY WRANGLE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The case of the disputed $125,000 prize-winning Social Welfare Lottery ticket took a surprise turn in the High Court here today when Shafli bin Shahid, a soldier, declared that he was in possession
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  • 24 4 HONGKON ScmcUl rinsing pn koriß Ex 'o 1. I SUM r UJ9 to Ma >j^ to on e Gold $252.5:: to t3U
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 203 4 WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD Stiff exams lie ahead of this student. Hard and sustained study will be necessary to gain the credits he requires for the results will have an important bearing on his future career. Neither can sports be neglected and THE STRESS and STRAIN much energetic practice
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  • 390 5 fiey can now choose Lf> own candidates for the State polls ux i.i MPIR, Tues.— The UMNO Central nr ummittee, headed by Party President Tunku Rahman, has given "full freedom" to State divin tin choice of candidates contesting elections to islativc Assemblies this year. Secretary-General,
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  • 139 5 ANSWERS H? DATO IETARY-GENERALoI Action Party, ee Ku in Yew, in a terday said re instances ige, perhaps l done to trity by certs by Singaleader, Dato bin Haji ying to the •atement that any "inflamr a communal UMNO rally isi week. "II li reas-
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  • 61 5 Superintendent Mr Koh Lian Wah, Hukkien section -J Criminal Investigatment left Singa- for advance n Britain. secret society r and an expert 'fid movements w iH do a threep n i o r officers' the Scottish Police Nyen a big sendWfagues, friends ned the
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  • 21 5 II Polire are s till 'he rase of -.body of a girl i in the old early yes ter-
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  • 119 5 NOT ENOUGH CHEST SURGEONS MORE urgent work demanded of the surgeons available in hospitals had made the facilities for chest .surgery in Singapore inadequate, permanent secretary to the Health Ministry, Dr. M. Doraisingham, said yesterday. He was replying to a query why surgeons were not invited to Singapore under the
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  • 337 5 TWO 'PERISHED' IN BLAZE -BUT IT WAS ALL PLANNED A SINGLE-EXGINED Proctor aircraft "crashed and burned out" at the Singapore Airport yesterday shortly after running off the runway. Except for the fact that the fire had to be started by a fireman who had earlier poured 500 gallons of petrol
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  • 86 5 TUN LEONG LEAVES FOR LONDON MALACCA, Tues. The Chief Minister. Malacca, Date Osman bin Talib and councillors were at the Governor's House this morning to bid farewell to Governor Tun Leong Yew Knh who left by ear for Singapore on his way to London. The aging Governor accompanied by his
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  • 47 5 THE King will address Muslim listeners over the Malay Service of Radio Malaya on "Puasa" at 5 p.m. today. For the benefit of those who will be unable to listen at that time the Royal broadcast will be repeated the same evening at 9.45.
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  • 351 5 CITY COUNCIL MAY APPEAL FOR A RETRIAL Chartered Bank premises case A SINGAPORE City Council committee will be asked today to decide on whether the Council should seek a retrial on its bid to increase the annual values of the Chartered Bank premises and its chambers In September last year,
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  • 321 5 Students rush for planters jobs on the rubber estates KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Although the Cambridge School Certificate results were published only today, response to Guthrie and Company's offer of careers in the rubber industry to young Malayans is "fantastic", an executive of the firm's estates department told The Standard today.
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  • 176 5 ASSEMBLY FORECAST FIREWORKS POSSIBLE TODAY'S meeting of the Singapore Legislative Assembly the last session before the general election is expected to provide even more "fireworks'' than usual in debates on its crowded agenda. A motion by the Peoples Action Party leader, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, asking the Government to resign
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 713 6 Green Goddess brings in the gold dollars Big welcome awaits tourists eager to see sights of S'pore CUNARD LINE'S fabulous world cruiser, Caronia, on a route eastward following the Sun, docks in Singapore at daylight today. The Green Goddess as she is affectionately known by the thousands who were j
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  • 241 6 fcii\<JAPORE Government has scrapped $600,000 plan to build 12 flats for medical officers at the Kandang Kerbau Maternity Hospital. This was stated in the report of the Estimates Committee to be tabled at today's meeting of the Legislative Assembly. Noting Government's decision with
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  • 23 6 TWO armed thugs on SunrfX, morning raided a petrol k osk in MacPherson ftoad $156 aP re and esca »«d with
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 179 6 I WELCOME TO THE S. S. CARONIA MALAYAN, INDONESIAN AND INDIAN HANDICRAFTS J^^PE Keep the memory of your wlllr vlsl^ to the Eost 9 reen b y buying an exquisite sous|& Jfe^ venir of the Orient. Unso'^^W phisticated yet beautiful. iW i^fl^^i^ Inexpensive yet dignified. mß*^ Gif fs and souvenirs
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    • 32 6 Welcome to /tajJehferJ erf S^CARONIA I Row Silk, Silk Stoles, Dress Moteriol, Sarees, Scarves, etc. NO EXPLOITATION CONTROLLED PRICES VUit 23 R... r IGOVIRNMINT OF INDIA) "7. ,°T.^" Stro 9 s por# >|
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    • 304 6 SALE of SALES! MOW IN Ft/U SW/NG ALL PRICES SLASHED UNBELIEVABLE REOyJ You May Never Get Another Chance Lik e tJ Don 't Wait Get Here For Best Select] i «.i«t heady-made American' "SET DACIION ™<MKH« I I ENGLISH NOW! XXNXV SHi^ I 5 r e Oocron Trouttr. $10.50 5
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  • 146 7 RUBBER TIN PRICES CLOSING rubber prices (cents per Ib.) in Singapore yesterday were-.— Buyers Sellers Spot 89i 893 R.S.S. No. 1 April 90 901 R.S.S. No. 1 May 902 91 R.S.S. No. 2 88* 89 RS.S. No. 3 88 88* Tone: Quiet. The tin price in Singapore was $404* per
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  • 293 7 Anc/ 6y August next year the Commissioner will be a local man KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The post of Chief Police Officer in all states in the Federation will be completely Malayanized by the end of this year, The Standard was told today. The
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  • 34 7 A SINGAPORE Police officer was interdicted yesterday following disciplinary action taken against him. The officer concerned was attached to the courts as a prosecutor. Charges have preferred against another court prosecutor.
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  • 44 7 THE M.V. Anshun will now leave Singapore on May 13 and Penang on 15 for Jeddah instead of May 9 and 11 respectively as previously mentioned. The Anking will arrive in Penang on April 1 and sail at noon the following day.
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  • 149 7 Mystery hands: Did Reds hack them off a comrade? IPOH, Tues. Police investigating the possibility of murder following the finding of a pair of decomposed hands in a disused mining pool near Chemor yesterday, are awaiting a pathologist's report. A search was mad* over a wide area for several hours
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  • 152 7 Housewife gagged and robbed A SINGAPORE housewife. Lau Min Kee, was on Monday morning tied and gagged by four masked men. who broke into her house in Dunlop Street and robbed h of cash and jewellery worth $440. Lau was cooking when the men entered the house. Armed with knives,
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  • 259 7 TEACHERS TURN 'TECS TO CHECK BAD HATS MALACCA, Tues. A "vigilante corps" comprising school teachers have been formed here to combat the increasing menace of hooliganism and gangsterism among schoolboys. This group of "detectives" was set up a few days ago following a hush-hush conference among heads o f school,
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  • 77 7 THE Standard Vacuum Oil Company in Singapore will, on Friday, present three sets of survey equipment to the University of Malaya for use by teams of research students of the Geography Department when they conduct a survey of villages in Thailand next April. Mr. Robert Ho. acting
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  • 236 7 Students' campaign against drunken driving A DRUNKEN driver ruins his own life and the lives of others, said a student of the South-east Asia Union College in Singapore, yesterday. The student, Ee Teck Ee, president of the school's 500 strong International Temperance Association was launching a safety first campaign against
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 325 7 I CAIHAY ORGANISATION If 1 1 j GEaa v/nT opens roftArfttv&%L J FREE LISTS SI^Pi:VI)FJ> H51U31 sa? opt ns today; JVI it p^ 1 J v The Matchmaker i SSS' iast day/ a RdSiTi j^ JfIMESSTEW/IRT KIM NOVfIK T J •K TOMORROW! "Gunmen from Laredo"^!^ 1 1 ■K Plff'TWlfffil *S8
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 342 7 fIHRH9MPNRNfM§| Ing at the YMCA. Orehacd Road BJ WITfItI MtJ M^S —5 34) v m. MUMSAM^jm Toe H (Talhot House): Recorded music recital by Maior A. P. D YMCA (Orchard Rd.): Body build- Hareton in the Church "Hut." ing weight lifting 400 p.m British Military Hospital. AlexJudo practice for Seniors
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    • 205 7 Share Market Report. 700 Time Signal and News. 7. 10 Newstalk. 7 15 Sports Reel. 7 30 Wednesday Concert. 830 Mid-Week Theatre. 9.00 Hear Them Again, •.30 p.m Time Signal and News y.40 Singapore Sport* Results. 9.45 Report on the Singapore Legislative Assembly meeting by A Kajapathy. 10 00 Four
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
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  • Finance And Commerce
    • 176 9 RUSSIA BUYING MORE RUBBER Local Price Tops 90-Cenf Level RUSSIA which has bought more than 26,000 tons of rubber worth $52,000,000 from Malaya up to February this year, is in the local market for more supplies, a trade source told The Standard yesterday. Russian purchases to date have shown a
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    • 100 9 £7½m Plant Can Meet AussieNeeds SYNTHETIC j MELBOURNE. March 17, (Renter). All Australia's synthetic rubber requirements I for general purposes could now be supplied by the £7J i million sterling plant of the j International Synthetic Rubber Co. Ltd.. at Hythe. Engj land, the company's general sales manager. Mr. H.
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    • 160 9 RUSSIAN support in the Singapore rubber market yesterday resulted in the local price closing at 90 cents per ib. for International first grade April, up i cent. It was the first time in more than two months that the price reached the 90-cent level. Selling pressure from upcountry
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    • 85 9 MOSCOW. March 17. (Reuter). Soviet Russia will stop importing natural rubber "in the course of the next seven year?," according to Tass. the Soviet news agency. The agency was quoting a ?latement yesterday by Mr. Viktor Fedorov, deputy chairman of the Soviet Government's Committee for Chemical Industry. Mr.
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    • 30 9 COL. Nyun Lwin, director of the Burma Five Star Line (right) and Mr. Eilon, the general manager, arrived in Singapore by U.B.A. aircraft yesterday for business inspections.
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    • 261 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Japan will increase her imports of Malayan iron ore this year to some 2,500,000 tons, valued about $150,000,000, it was disclosed to The Standard today by the Federation representative of the Japan Export Trade Promotion Agency, Mr. ,N. Okamoto. Last year,
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    • 57 9 MALAYA exported 3.668 tons of tin last month, against 3,474 tons in January. Of the total exports, 2,195 tons went to the United States and 628 ton s to Japan. Malayan imports of tin concentrates in February amounted to 694 tons, of which 512 tons came
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    • 23 9 INDONESIAN shipping ministry sources said Indonesia would make a new order of U5532.3 mil, worth of ships from Japan. Reuter
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    • 400 9 MALAYAN sharebroker s reported the following business done yesterday: C. T S. ords. 30/- overnight; Gammon $1.75; W. Hammer $1.55 cd: Hume ords. A5/1* (and o v ernight); M. Breweries $2.85; M. Cement $1.60 cd. $161 cd. delayed; Metal Box $1,514. $1.51; Robinson ords. $1.25 cd\ S. Steamship
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    • 328 9 Loan To Help Start Selangor Rice Mill KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Federation Government will advance $800,000 to the Tanjong Karang Rice Milling Union during the early part of next month to enable the union to operate its rice mill. This was stated by the Minister for Agriculture, Inche Abdul Aziz
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    • 100 9 SINGAPORE Chinese Produce Exchange noon closing prices per picul yesterday were: Copra Mar.-Apr. $43 buyers; $44 sellers, coconut oil in bulk $63$ sellers, in drums $67 sellers; Muntok white pepper $163 sellers; Sarawak white $162 sellers; special Sarawak black $86. Singapore Copra Association closing prices fair merchantable mixed
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    • 186 9 All Sections Of Shares Are Firmer ALL SECTIONS of the Malayan share market were generally firmer yesterday, and prices were higher, where changed. There was a sood turnover. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were Buyers Seller! Gammon 1.73 1 76 Malayan Cement 1 r>0 1 55 xd
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    • 177 9 OITF.R ROADS '•.'yndoreus. Dktel. Myrmiden. Nagoya Maru. Batocla Nissho Maru, Barito Sagafjord, Sabang State of Madras, Mactra. San Roberts. Fernside, Ophir Nae?? leader. Reynold. Steel Chemist. Camphuys Sairija. Yumei. Nayadi. Chosui Maru Manjussn Maru. Kian Ann. Falstria. Stv Canberra. Baud. Sin Hong Seng. Maetesy cker Kalianda. Keraton.
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    • 66 9 HAVANA, Cuba, March 17. (Reuter) A Japanese floating fair arrived here yesterday on the. Atlas Maru for a fourday stay before sailing on to other Latin American ports. A Japanese delegation aboard the ship headed by Mr. Noburo Inamura, Japanese International Commerce Minister, pointed out that
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    • 42 9 THE Malayan Exchange Banks Association made the following changes in its rates to merchants yesterday:— Selling. T.T. or OD. ready: Swiss Francs 141-1/2. French Francs *****: Belgian Francs 1633-1/4: Deutsche Mks. 136-3/4. Italian Lire *****. Other exchange ratci remain unaltered.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 446 9 |OYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD A 2M&£> I r l irTri J^^ aKaat v SIBAJAK" (12,340 tons) I INC SINCAPORE 13th Mar. ADEN 23rd Mar. PORT SAID 27th Mar. COWES (Opt.) sth June ROTTERDAM 6th June I to SOUTHAMPTON CABIN CLASS £171 £158 THIRD CLASS £126 £115 to ROTTERDAM Both classes £3
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    • 205 9 FEELING WEAK? TIRED? In the home and at work life seems verT depressing wher% you ferl weak and tired. Take Sanatogen U'hich helps to givf good appetite, tound sleep and ENERGY I Sanatogen TONIC Corrects d'Ct deficiencies Itch Germs Killed 1n. 7 Minutes »*Y««r ski* Ma *»«rt y M miliw*
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    87 10 mi i, »•>(] an .1 udi«-ii'. the K Neuu, k I on s.ttMM 1 P""". \ho» k I Ham mi r kiMrH on his uiaii A DINNI K n Mr. ll.imtnar>kj|3 givt-n h> tn, Minister Dai bin Hu^m n u d«*nr>. Kn,', Fnd.i> Kifhl i 8«>« >s t>
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  • 94 10 Standardpic by |stanoarJv 1 MR DAG HAMMARSKJOELD being served with prawns during a luncheon siven by the Minister for Labour and Social Welfare Mr. Ong Yoke Lin at Le Coq d Or. Kuala Lumpur last Friday. (From left to lifrnV.. M r P P Nara ya«an. Secretary General
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    81 10 A RECEPTION in honour of Mr Hammarskjoeld was given by the Minister for External Affairs. Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman at Istana Telamu, Kuala Lumpur, last Friday. Photo shows Mr. Hammarskjoeld being greeted by Che' Norashikin, wife of Dr. Ismail who is in the centre. (BfcLOtt Mr Robin
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  • 199 10 (ABOVE) Five Postal Department officers who recently completed a successful two-year training course in Australia, were congratulated by the Minister for Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Inche Sardon bin Haji Jubir at his office in Kuala Lumpur. Photo shows the Minister (right) shaking hands with Mr. D. Madrigal.
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  • 46 10 THE Commissioner General for South .mm W>, Robert Scott, visited this ancient Buddhist trirpf < Rorobudur in Indonesia recently Wiih him* rials of the Indonesian Foreign Ministry Sir Kol>< li Lady Scott were guests of the Foreicn Miimtf their weeks informal lUy in Indonesia
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  • 251 11 itineer Reports... DOWNING STREET, with Barratt up, and Highness II (Franklin) matched strides 3f tryout, clocking 38 4/5 sec. Your ness 11, on the inside, was a neck in front line, but Downing Street appeared ,vc something in hand. >\I>F.R. ridden by Abdul
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  • 151 11 Gettysburg Throws Kitson PINTU BESI fitable's Gettysburg caused quite a itil at the Bukit Timah training: track yesterday when he did an unscheduled workout on his own. and eventually ended up on his back under the rails As he uas being trotted to the back stretch, he suddenly whipped round,
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  • 415 11 'INTERNATIONAL' FOR THE BOYS Schools Plan Big Athletic Meet KL'ALA LUMPCJB, Tues. A Schools International* athletic meet between the Federation and Singapore may be held this year, Mr. Toh Boon Huah, Secretary of the Federation of Malaya Schools Sports Council said here today. Mr. Toh said that the meet is
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  • 75 11 LONDON. Mar. 17 (ReuteD Results of ]a.>t night's English league football matches were 1 LEAGI'E I Preston North End 3 Nottingham Forest 1 LEAGI'E 111 Acerington Stanley versus Norwich City, postponed. Newport County 3 Notts C 1 Queen's R 3 Bradford C 0 Rochdale 0 Colchester U.
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  • 203 11 I) EF E N I> IN Ci champions Singapore Recreation Club, entered the final of the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout competition when they beat Police Snorts Association by two goals to nil on the Girls' Sports Club ground yesterday. The Recs wi'l now
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  • 76 11 IPOH, Tues.— Members of the country's premier motoring club— Perak Motor Club will not be taking part in the coming Easter Mobilgas Economy Run. Unlike two previous runs when the P.M.C. members swept the board with he major prizes, the club has not organised any trial
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  • 80 11 Today's sport SINGAPORE SOCCER: Intcr-fchool: R.I. v s V.S.. RJ Friendly: Jollilads vs S/S Caronia, Farrer Park. IPOH SOCCER: Div. 1 Hussars vs Ramblers /poh Padnng. Div. T Eagle Troop RA. vs 3 Coy R.A.S.C. Coronation ground Dir. a K.I. A. 'B' vs Rnifnnw RC. Jalan Abdul Jalil ground. TAIPING
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  • 100 11 RKME entered the final of the SfIA junior knockout hockey competition when thev beat Combined Schools by three foals to one in extra time at Aver Rajah Road yesterday. REME will now meet Navy Nomads in the final to be played next week. Combined Schools took
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  • 224 11 INDIAN Recrration Club opened their 1959 soccer season with an impressive four-one victory over the Amicable Athletic Association in a Singapore Amateur Football Association division league match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. This is the second consecutive defeat for the Amicable*. In their first out me.
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  • 398 11 The Men To Run Asian Youth Cup Soccer KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Asian Youth football tournament Rahman Cup Organising Committee ha s set in motion the marh -y for the smooth running of t ie competition which is scheduled In take place at the Merdrka Stadium in April. Ten nations
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  • 31 11 TOKYO Mar 17 < Renter) The Orient flyweight boxing champion, Sadao Vaoiu ia«t nifht be.it a challenc^r, Larry Li of the Philippine? point, m-rr 12 round: in Tokyo Metropolitan G>mra«ism.
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  • 23 12 CH4ROE\: LuUy youth and abundant stamina. He has the distinctive mark of a champion he hates to lose.
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  • 1468 12 CHAROEN TO TAKE SINGLES TITLE but WATCH CHONG TEIK In a wide open tourney, a doubles victory is the main hope for Malaya THIS YEAR'S All-England badminton championships, which open today at the Wembley arena near London, lack some of the international glitter which has surrounded the tournament during the
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  • 233 12 Indon Swim Stars For S'pore TWENTY Indonesian swim stars will compete against the cream of the Colony's top notcher s from March 20 to 23 at the Singapore. Chinese and Tiger Swimming Clubs. Besides their one week stay in the Colony, the Indonesians will also be participating at the annual
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  • 38 12 LOUSVILLE, Kentucky Mar. 16 (Reuter).— Lew Hoad (Australia) former Wimbledon title holder beat Pancho Gonzales (U.S.) world professional lawn tennis rhamnion 6-3 6-3 yesterday to take a 6-5 lead in their series of matches.
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  • 34 12 BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 17 (Reuter) Brazil World Cup holders, beat Chile 3-0 in the South Americon soccer championships here last night. Thev led 2-0 at halftime. Paraguay beat Bolivia 5-0 (halftime 3-0).
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  • 137 12 SINGAPORE'S forgotten man. Olympian Burdette Coutts. is recalled for the Colony team to meet the Federation in the return hockey 'international' at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Coutts, ignored despite several good performances until now, takes over from Osbert Rozario. There are two other changes. Whey Ah
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    400 12 They should take the li, lk Nielsen, are not defending the title and the Malayan pair share top seeding with Thailand's Kanrnl Suthavanit and Charnen Watanasin. They may well Justify \hat estimate of their capabilities. Confidence in Iheir chances i.s strengthened by the unexpected defeat of the
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  • 119 12 TAIPING CRICKET LEAGUE TAIPING. Tucs. Eight teams will be taking paM in the Taiping Cricket League which starts next Sunriny when three ties will be olayer; ofT. J Absentees in this vc.ir'i competition are the Ta:p»ng Colts and the Kuala Kangsar Cricket Club. The lciicue will be a oneround alTair
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  • 22 12 Has bout flu spoil his chane dmm unh fi 0 may tint l> r in y tion for thf mntrhr.% intfomlitinn*. I
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  • 61 12 DAVIS cj MANILA Malaya in th«> champio- x mor:al ita Th* tic 1 The I Davi< Cup pltyfn fi Ampon and R arc '4 Nth lava n Cup Bro .r d Thp Pb, 1 Johnny J brothers- The PI jrti i are h< •vtf M
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  • 46 12 The Tests Big Storm No Play v CKI U*l (Renter).— Rai~ morning H third To>t mat arirj New Tho < .in' John R< insportion I pit'-h but •ontinucd Tho lull pro Sc wrhich New Ze (B Bute Fn^'an f\i I 7 (P Rirhardso n 67, T» 46).
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  • 25 12 Charted Bank Are The Champs Chartered II Union ki c tition for I ground I cd Th« i' \n min through full umy, K thorv.ilw
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  • 15 12 BABTBOUI Man h IT. (R< mark beat f their Internal match here t<
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    • 133 13 ■&3gD RITA DEL MAR Ip.ll s (^i OTATION: li on trial "orlr] mi .i more il scale than rver Fielrbet I>ole Y FOR INK: Th( e who tovai at he city, RIRTHDATE AM) !'.!K!IMI,N 21 to jj rione i or difficulties. UR| 2(J to ■r dway; '.■;-.nn c be upset
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  • 2 14 WORLD NEWS
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  • 338 14 Iraq Reds will meet same fate Egypt's Marshal Amer CAIRO, March 17 (Reuter) Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, Commandcr-in-Chicf of the United Arab Republic's armed forces said in a speech here yesterday that the Communists in Iraq would meet the same end as the imperialist agents. Cairo Radio broadcasting his
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  • 287 14 LABOUR CENSURE FAILS SUEZ: LONDON'. Mar. 17 (Reuter) A Labour opposition seeking to censure the British Government over the recent Anglo-Egyptian financial agreement resulting from the Suez operation in 1956 and the operation itself was defeated in the House of Common:, last nigh:, by 300 votes to 230. The vote
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  • 224 14 RAF officer accused of stirring up revolt in Maldives COLOMBO. Ceylon. March 17 (t PI) The government of the Maldive Islands today accused a British Royal Air Force officer of stirring up revolt on three atolls af the Indian Ocean group. It a^ked Britain to withdraw Maj. W. W. A.
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  • 38 14 CALIFORNIA. March 17. (Reuter). Actress Anna Ka?hfi yesterday filed suit for divorce here against Actor Marlon Brando. She alleged Brando had caused her "grievous mental suffering, distress and injury" but she did not elaborate.
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  • 170 14 MASSACRE PLAN DID EXIST BLANTYRE. Nayasaland March 17 (Reuter) Lord Perth. British Minister of State for Colonies, said today he had no doubt whatever that a plan for massacre existed in Nyasaland before the African National Congress was outlawed there. Lord Perth who spent yesterday in talks with Nyasaland government
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  • 271 14 IKE: I AM READY for SUMMIT But US won't budge one inch over Berlin WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuter, UP I)— President Eisenhower declared last night that the United States was ready for a Summit Conference with Russia this Summer on Berlin and Germany, provided developments warranted such a top-level meeting.
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  • 147 14 Optimism as Mac leaves LONDON. March 17 (Reuter) British officials here said today that President Eisenhowers television speech last night on Berlin and Germany was a very clear statement of the position. The President had made clear the difference between negotiations raid, appeasement. There was no divergence between the British
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  • 110 14 Australia and Russia resume ties BRISBANE, March 17 (Reuter). Australia and Russia will resume diplomatic representation after a break of nearly five years, it was officially announced today. They are abo considering joint moves on the following three problems affecting bo'h countries, the Australian Minister for External Affairs. Mr. R.
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  • 149 14 35 engines fight London's fire of the century LONDON. March 17 (UPI) —A raging fire that recalled World War Two blitz days destroyed a giant iurnhure store and adjoining shops at suburban Ilford last night. A spokesman for the Essex County Fire Brigade Headquarters said it was "definitely the country's
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  • 54 14 HONGKONG, Mar 17 (UPI) Police normally !SL Cl aS L" ff P^P^kets but in Hongkong today they were lopkinif for a pickpocket's victim y Notices in newspapers asked the victim who was robbed on Sunday as he s.epped off a streetcar to eSntact the police. The person's
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  • 20 14 THE SHEIKH of the oilrich Persian Gulf State of Kuwait has promised £5 million to the Arab League.
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    • 68 14 British customs swoop a Far East troope SOUTHAMPTON, March 17. (Reuter). Customs officers in Southampton swooped today on 1.200 British servicemen disembarking grom the troopship Empire Fowev (19.212 tons) on her arrival from Cyprus and the Far East. Thousands of cigarettes an d cameras, watches and other articles were seized
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    • 33 14 A 20-YEAR-OLD ships's messboy was devoured by sharks when a lifeboat, he and 17 other persons were iidinjj. capsized off the coast of Davao City on Mindanao Island in the Southern Philippines— Reuter
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    • 37 14 THE STATE Department announced last night that Mr. C. Douglas Dillon. Under-secretarv of State for Economic Affairs, wil] head the L'nited States delegation to the South ea5t Asia Treaty Organisation meeting in New Zealand next month. Reuter
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    • 32 14 MR KHRUSHCHEV. the Soviet Premier, ha* invited Mr. D.juanda, the Indonesian Premier, to visit Russia at a convenient time this vear. Tass the Sovie* Nawi Agency, said fn Moscow yester- day.— Reuter
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    • 25 14 A NEW PLAGUE of horned Artona bttli has destroyed 4J.000 ro» conut trees in Bangkalan. Madura Island, the main copra producer in East Java Reuter
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    • 32 14 THE Malta Labour Party vesterday announced it had expelled four of its members -one < f them a former Memh< r of Parliament for cooperating with Mm island's present British colonial administration. Reuter
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    • 33 14 THE SOVIET President. Marshal Klementi Voroshiiov is recovering" from an attack of bronchial pneumonia from which he has been suffering for several week*. I Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Moscow yesterday. Reuter
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    • 13 14 und,, -icn.,| M hl<l '■rinlfd m.C' (about x;j ft Russi., K||, various Reuter
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