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Title Section32 1947-08-21 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES fESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] I t Series No. 56. Singapore Thursday, August 21st, 1947 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.32 words
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Advertisement63 1947-08-21 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May last year and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For63 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article918 1947-08-21 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 14. There is a very unpleasant shock for the public of the Malayan Union in some figures which were disclosed in the House of Commons last month. Commander D. Marshall, M.P., asked for comparative figures of the Government establishment in the Malayan Union—Straits Times, Aug. 14. - 918 words
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Article281 1947-08-21 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 14. Most people in Malaya will probably be surprised to learn that a comprehensive bulletin on Malayan affairs is being prepared in London and circulated in exMalayan circles at Home. This is the A.B.M. Bulletin, a new addition to the activities of the Association—Straits Times, Aug. 14. - 281 words
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Article1098 1947-08-21 2 —Straits Times. Aug I Today, India is free. In Delhi and Karachi are born two dominions. They may choose to remain within the British Commonwealth, or they may decide upon the severance of all ties with Britain and the Commonwealth other than the friendly contacts—Straits Times. Aug I - 1,098 words
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Article1006 1947-08-21 2 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. This week’s proceedings at lA Success (ironical name) hA presented two unedifying spA tacles —Holland trying to prevA the Indonesian Republic irA appealing to UNO. and GrA Britain trying to do the saA thing with respect to Egypt. TA week—Straits Times, Aug. 16. - 1,006 words
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Article1065 1947-08-21 3 OVER-STAFFED COLONY —Straits Times, Aug. 18. The comparative figures of Government staff in the Malayan Union in 1947 and 1941 were discussed in these columns last week, when it was pointed out that there was an increase of nearly four hundred in “Administrative and comparable staff” and an increase of—Straits Times, Aug. 18. - 1,065 words
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Article1120 1947-08-21 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 19. Singapore today has the distinction of being the scene of the first international Social Welfare Conference ever held in Asia. Similar conferences have been held in the West Indies and South Africa since the war, and now the Killearn Mission has—Straits Times, Aug. 19. - 1,120 words
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Article1022 1947-08-21 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 20. The Government of the Malayan Union is maintaining an Olympian silence in regard to the criticisms recently made by its former Technical Adviser, Rice Mills, Mr. N. M. Clark, of its padi-purchas-ing operations. It is difficult to believe that the—Straits Times. Aug. 20. - 1,022 words
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Article146 1947-08-21 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Aug. 19. DATO Panglima Kinta, senior Perak chief, died today at the age of 60 after a short ill ness. An outstanding sportsman in his youth, the Dato represented Perak at soccer, cricket and hockey ar.d also excelled in golf and146 words
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159 1947-08-21 4 The Officer Alnvnisteritu he C AP 1 0Rk Aug in McKerron, clung to an upturned yacht for Mr P.' a'I the yacht Marjorie capsized during a*? alf an h «ur IftH The mishap occurred off Tanjone Para!- i e 0,1 Su nday the Singapore159 words
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Article236 1947-08-21 4 SINGAPORE. Aue >fl I 1 HE unusual nature of Singapore's population—four ill immigrant and, of its adults, two-third male—was I men ted upon yesterday by the chief Singapore deleeatVl the International Social Welfare Conference. Mr T p I McNeice. j r The conference, which op-.n ed236 words
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274 1947-08-21 4 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. AS a preliminary to the total lifting of the moratorium in Malaya, a scale of valuation of the Japanese scrip during various periods of the occupation was provisionally decided on at a meeting in Singapore yesterday. The meeting comprised members of a274 words
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Article103 1947-08-21 4 SINGAPORE Aug. 2|)fl Balakrtshna. one of three A dians charged in th.e Third PuH Court yesterday with the thpftM' a bottle of beer, asked why. if H was guilty, he had not been haiA cuffed and taken to the police tion instead of having a rupe103 words
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Article194 1947-08-21 4 HAINES—On August 8. 1941 H Radciiffe Maternity Home, Oxford H Winifred Dorothy (nee Deason), ifl of C. J. A. Haines, of Singapore hB Weslgate-on-Sea. a daughter, stillbciH MACLENNAN. On 16th Aug. at KB Hospital to Nancey nee Dixon wife Hamish Maclennan. Johore. a Son PI CONCEICAO. To IRENE, wife194 words
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Article23 1947-08-21 4 The engagement is announced tween Robert C. Thom. Mai®ice Force Kelantan. and PMJj; K Briggs. Malayan Nursing Sen ice. m lantan. I23 words
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Article58 1947-08-21 4 The marriage of Charles Fh Smith of the Shell Company Patricia, younger daughter ot a Mrs. G. Hall of Burley. Hampshi^ formerly of Malaya, will ta 1 Penang on 21st August 14 a rH BAKER-OGDEN SMTH m riage took place on n' {e 1947. at St. Michael Square. London,58 words
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Obituary80 1947-08-21 4 deaths cavprshaB Florence Myram. at h Reading, England n J uj> %Iari ,cerl Reading. England BIRT. Philip Harold, lat u rtjl Nestle Anglo-S*"iss M Ltd. Colombo. Died d South Africa Deeply rr-i his manv friends. I 1947 his manv friends. ]<)47 4 rab-TOHN. On auk- r ot? nO.J Ditton Lodge80 words
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674 1947-08-21 5 IE sorry story of Singa )ore financial plight u shadowed by the still sor story <»f Britain’s financial ht, and we are now fa.ec i two problems: How tc Britain conserve hei ►rican dollars, and how U money to finance oui expenditure.674 words
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Article128 1947-08-21 5 THE monument in th e form oi an elephant standing on a pedestal opposite the Old Supreme Court building was erected in 1871 to commemorate the visit of King Chulalongkorn of Siam to Singapore. This monument is now obsol ete and few remember anything128 words
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Article97 1947-08-21 5 ALLOW me to congratulate through the medium of your paper, the members "f the St. Andrew’s School l Sketching Club and others who were responsible for organising the Inter-School Art Exhibition. Judging from the number of visitors. It is undeniable that the exhibition has aroused the attention97 words
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618 1947-08-21 5 1AM greatly obliged to Mr. John Laycock for his letter. The subject matter is of such great importance that perhaps a reply of some length may be excusable. In the first place, electoral procedure is new to this country. Elsewhere there are organised parties618 words
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695 1947-08-21 5 In conversation with a sea i .<oned skipper on one of the uest-known lines on the U.K.Far East run recently, I was told thin 1 Singapore has uc quired the unenviable reputation of being the least efficient and most expensive amongsit the larger ports of695 words
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Article198 1947-08-21 5 Iwas interested to read in the newspapers that the M.D.U. protests against that oart of the Trade Union Ordinance which disallows the collection of funds for political purposes Let us not pretend that the trade unions are not eventually going to be a political weapon198 words
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2172 1947-08-21 6 TUAN DJEK - A Malayan Countryman’s Diary TUAN DJEK. r PHIS morning I was watching what lam sure was the Long-billed Spiderhunter. The scene was an area of the rubber estate whose forestry cover needs attention but, as things are, will have to be left alone. This neglected area2,172 words
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158 1947-08-21 6 Fr,>m ,r SU A PENANG. Au AaffiUia* I sir,; S' Balik Pulau under th. manship of the r,.n cha Bfe Land Revenue and the Th! r M ,L V K lne walking stieks .^1 w' ,y roni coconut trun^V Mr. Dawson, expresvintr [rr' on158 words
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Article147 1947-08-21 6 From Our Staff Correspond?! KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. lfl OF 55,250 tons of rice harves! in Australia this season.! least 47.000 tons will be sent! Malaya and other British poss! sions in the Pacific area. I Announcing this, the Secret! of the Rice Marketing Board si147 words
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274 1947-08-21 6 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. i# RAILWAY engineering units at Mentakab in Pahang start® work this morning on the four-year task of re-laying 270-mile length of the East Coast railway line which the W nese tore up for their Burma-Siam death railway.274 words
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262 1947-08-21 7 I From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. I 16- YEAR -OLD Chinese boy, whom police describe asa c rack shot and a desperate character, made a Knsational escape from the Selangor Boys’ Home this ■fternoon by holding up the gate-keeper262 words
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Article253 1947-08-21 7 SINGAPORE. Aug. 17. ■WO Malay boai serangs. B Karim bin Saleh and Ahmad Bn Osmai alias Mat Banduar., Bpear d in the Second Police Burt at Singapore yesterday on Brrupu .i r arges in connection Bith tl of sailors. B-Mr p a. Gordon, A.S.P., Bid that tin*253 words
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Article97 1947-08-21 7 HUap V* poii c A ug> 17.—A Chinese VDort of nii! :,ve ust received a mh so •‘i ar y w hich occurred 16 gji; of the Muar River m A i n August 11. ■‘°ad«(j v .j,V 1 -bound tongkang, j 1 J oDer from Sumatra, ln97 words
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Article72 1947-08-21 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. A BLIND witness gave evidence in the coroner's court yesterday in an inquiry into the death of Goh Seng Yat, who jumped 20 feet to his death from the first floor of the General Hospital. A Malay. Mohamed bin Haji Said, a fellow patient, said72 words
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Article122 1947-08-21 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. OUR struggle for better salaries and conditions of service has not ended,” said Mr. Wong Pak Choy, president of the General Clerical Service Association, at the annual meeting of the Association today, when presenting a voluminous report of122 words
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Article73 1947-08-21 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. TWO weii-Known Singapore Malayalee families, bearing the name of Pereira, were united by the marriage of Mr. Henry Pereira, younger brother of the late Mr. Gaspar Pereira, the land bailiff, and Miss Victoria Pereira The marriage which was held at the Church of Our Lady73 words
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Article178 1947-08-21 7 Negri Helps T he Needy From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Aug. 16. RELIEF work in Negri Sembilar. cost $9,625 in July. Miss Joan Vickers. Welfare Officer for Negri Sembilan, Malacca and Joho’e, told the Sunday Times today. This includes relief given to widows, orphans, the blind, a"ed and infirm, casual178 words
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Article94 1947-08-21 7 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Aug. 16. AP.W.D. labour gang repairing Brewster Road Bridge in the heart of town today came across a number of wires. They were found to be attached to metal objects so the labour gang downed tools and reported to the94 words
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Article135 1947-08-21 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. CAPT REX WALKER, the new A.D.C. to the Governor, who is from the second Battalion the West Yorkshire Regiment, is an Australian and an all-round sportsman playing football, tennis and cricket. He is also Interested in amateur theatricals.135 words
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Article115 1947-08-21 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. TO help deal with the hundreds of cases awaiting hearing in the Singapore Police Courts, new court is to open, on Aug. 25, to be known as the Fifth District Court. The court, over which Mr. J. L. McFall will preside, will sit115 words
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Article73 1947-08-21 7 PENANG, Aug. 15. IN remembrance of hundreds of Penang residents who died, or were killed by the Japanese during the occupation, a three day Chinese “Mass” is to be said at the Ayer Temple on August 29, 30 and 31. Buddhist priests from various temples73 words
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Article390 1947-08-21 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. pORMER Green Dragon Society haunts in Salak South and Pudu were raided by Kuala Lumpur detectives last night and today in a state-wide search for Chan Tham Lin, 16-year-old member of the gang. He escaped yesterday from390 words
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Article55 1947-08-21 7 KUCHING, August 18. Mr Chan Ah Cheng who had been awarded the M.B.E In the recent honours list, having died yesterday, his son received the decoration today from the Governor at a public ceremony. Other recipients Were: Mr. J. B. Archer. U.M.G.. Dato Bander. O BE. Mr. Ong55 words
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Article188 1947-08-21 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18... MALAYA’S Queen Scholarship winner, Mr. Lim YeW Hock, has announced his intention of taking an honours degree in geography at Cambridge to enable him later to carry out 1 research in the geography of MalayaV, ahd South188 words
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Article143 1947-08-21 7 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. MR. Anthony Brooke, who has instituted legal proceedings against the Attorney-General for Sarawak, Mr. K. H. Digby, and the Sarawak Press, Company, with respect to alleged libellous publications in the Sarawak Tribune. has been refused permission to be present in Kuching on September143 words
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Article486 1947-08-21 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. MALAYA’S shortages and special needs are to be placed before the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far Eafet at its meeting in the Philippines at the end of November. The Commission, which is an organisation of the United Nations, has forwarded486 words
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Article206 1947-08-21 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, Aug. 17. A FORMER dresser, Paliah, pleaded guilty in tv/o Sungei Patani courts yesterday to charges arising from a clasn between police and strikers at Bukit Semblan Estate, in February. Paliah was charged before the District Judge. Che Azmi Mohamed,206 words
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Article96 1947-08-21 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. rE Price Controller, Malayan Union, says in his weekly report that the trend >f prices of the 18 essential commodities under close observation has been downward and a new “low” had been reached on Aug. 9.96 words
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Article44 1947-08-21 8 PENANG, Aug. 17.—A Singapore ChiiTese, Tan Kim Cheng, was discharged in the Third Magistrate’s court here yesterday. Tan was alleged to have murdered another Chinese Hay Ah Lee. in Singapore on August 2. The charge was withdrawn and accused was discharged.44 words
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Article206 1947-08-21 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. MALAYA will have a sports stadium emulating London’s White City if a project to organise greyhound racing in Malaya, put forward by a syndicate of British and Chinese businessmen representing interests in Selangor and Singapore meets with Government approval. The plan is206 words
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Article548 1947-08-21 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, W THE President of the Malayan Association and f Federal Councillor, Mr. E. D. Shearo today that Government had not shown that the n enhanced taxation was not sufficient to pav f„, ministration of the country if conducted'548 words
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Article142 1947-08-21 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI Aug. 15. THE fate of the Siamese immigration officer Nai Pairojna, abducted by bandits three weeks ago, is by now a matter of the gratest concern in Haadyai. The Kedah police said today they had no news of Nai Pairojna.142 words
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86 1947-08-21 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 14. A Chinese whose alias is Litt Mouse” was charged in the Sine pore Second Police Court veste day with committing two m ime in Sungei Besi Street. Kuala Lui pur. on Nov. 5. The man, Lau See Chai. w arrested in86 words
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Article63 1947-08-21 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15THE Singapore Coroner Mr. G. Porter, yesterday recff ed a verdict of murder agau an unknown person who alleged to have stabbed to d‘' Chinese squatter in a track, off Jurong Road, on a The squatter, 35-year-old Ah Lee, was found lying n l t stab63 words
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Article80 1947-08-21 8 SINGAPORE. Aug.** TT'ORTY Greeks who aw in Singapore passage to Australia ellJ housed by the Sotud H()n Department at York J 0l t Chin Swee Road. be< high cost of hotels. ta u The Greeks compn.se trfl lies. They are emigrating Europe and India. ore A minister80 words
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374 1947-08-21 9 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Aug. 13. HlfEK witnesses yesterday described to the War B Crimes Court at Kuala Kangsar how several Lps ot a Japanese sword had failed to sever the Id of a Malay and how, as he lay writhing in pain his374 words
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Article103 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. Wearing in the Second Police es i erd a y with his head Lin, anda ed and bloodishi” 1 s l irt a 22-year-old |L; r u ld, r Kong Heng Huah. bv M 1( ut bad been assaultKoro U pollC( lly ‘"il103 words
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Article63 1947-08-21 9 0 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. :M fn lr U Thursday.—The ]J at five pi or the month broke 0 n v nu tes 10 midniKht i he Residency. de led b riva i °L the flre brlSj n an, i)rov(>nf l^i' 0 A^ cer Osman fading to blaze from63 words
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Article285 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. CURE and Steadfast, the magazine of the Boys' Brigade in Singapore, has reappeared after an interval of exactly six years. The 1947 issue, just published, tells how, since the liberation, the Boys’ Brigade was rehabilitated and built up to its present strength. Today,285 words
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Article283 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. THE Australian Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. Claude Massey, said yesterday that, Australia was prepared tc undertake great responsibilities to see a perpetual and ir.ir peace established in the world. Mr. Massey was speaking on “My Country” at the Singapore Rotary Club’s weekly283 words
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Article267 1947-08-21 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. HRAFT legislation on the relationship between debtors v and creditors during the period of the Japanese occupation is to be published in both the Malayan Union and Singapore soon. It is understood that a pan-Malayan meeting called267 words
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Article223 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. THE Army will return Changi Gaol to the civil authorities on Oct. Is, when it will be used for convicts serving long sentences. The overcrowded Outram Road Gaol will take shortterm prisoners. Chapgi Gaol at present houses about 350 Japanese convicts and223 words
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277 1947-08-21 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. WALL writing, found chalked in Chinese characters confirms a belief that the vicinity of the huge arms dump discovered yesterday ir Uatu Caves was the centle of a wartime guerilla an iJapanese stronghold. A cave entrance exaipim-d277 words
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Article282 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. MR. Wallace R. Campbell, a director of the lord Motto: Company of Malaya and chairman of the board of the Ford Motor Company of Canada, died suddenly on Sunday at th e age of 65. He is survived oy his wife, two sons282 words
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Article111 1947-08-21 9 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. Three robberies took place within eight hours in various parts of Singapore on Tuesday. At 3 p.m. at Teluk Ayer Street, three Chinese robbed a Chinese inside his house of a $95 wrWt-watch and a $45 fountain pen. Half an hour later,111 words
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Article423 1947-08-21 10 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Aug. 13. THE Special Commissioner for South-East Asia, Lord I Killearn, who is on a visit to Siam, said in an interview here that the next few months were going to be grim ones for deficit areas in South-East Asia.423 words
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Article70 1947-08-21 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 13. Seventeen nurses of the Johore Bahru General hospital yesterday received their certificates at a graduation ceremony. Former Acting Resident Commissioner of Johore. Mr. W. C. S.. Corry. distributed the prizes. Miss Jenny Wong, who gained the highest marks, was awarded a silver70 words
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Article128 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. THE Officer Administering the Government of Singapore, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, has sent congratulatory messages on India’s independence to the Governor-Generals of the two new Dominions of India and Pakistan. They are: To the Governor-General, New Delhi—. “All communities in Singapore unite with128 words
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Article123 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. Lord Killearn, Special Comm- j tesioner in South East Asia, yesterday sent the following telegram to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: “This day's momentous devtvopjnent in the history of your country moves hk tc send you my most sincere good wishes for the peace123 words
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Article, Illustration325 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1*. A reminder of “Scotland the brave” was seen in Singapore on Thursday—two “fiery crosses” sent from Edinbuigh to summon the scattered clansmen of Australia and New Zea- land. The fiery crosses were not a call to battle with, broadsword, dirk and target asrport Singapore, on Aug. 14.—Stra is Times picture. - 325 words
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Article50 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. Hadar Hussein, a Bengali, who said he was an S.H.B. policeman, was charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with theft of a wrist-watch in a Serangoon coffee-shop on Wednesday. Bail in $100 was allowed and hearing of the case was fixed for Nov. 3.50 words
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Article342 1947-08-21 10 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15. pASSENGER fares for all classes on the Malayan Railway will be increased by 25 per cent, from September 1, the Straits Times was officially informed today. Coinciding with the introduction of the new rates, the342 words
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235 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE. Aug 14 l Py® Chinese who robbed' l Chinese house j n Michael’s Road, SingapS early yesterday mornin* tnM-" off their footwear for th S H of silence. A little later ever they created an uproarH breaking open th e back i® with an235 words
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Article70 1947-08-21 10 From Our Staff Correspond® KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14.® AN unarmed Malay constable was shot dead® the village of Bekok, to® last night when he fearle® rushed to intercept five a® ed Chinese who attacker Chinese shop. I Despite the fact that he no weapon the constant70 words
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Article103 1947-08-21 10 SINGAPORE. Aug. 1 Capt. D. W. Kirby Bn., the Queen’s Royal described in the f’ JJH Coroner’s Court yesterday 1 Chinese was fatally FVyal Wavy stfcl lcin n H Changi on Aug. 5. The officer said he* a N truck following the R j ar103 words
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Article43 1947-08-21 10 KUALA LUMPUR. A M;l p® —Governor ct G n t. m Union, Sir „f f® commuted the sen on A K passed on Alang Sam r For the murder c hai. Manong on March l r of rigorous imprisonn years. I43 words
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1006 1947-08-21 11 A EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TO By AN ECONOMIST IOFESSOR T. H. Silcock’s letter the j its Times of Aug. 8 a timely injection of iroon-sense an*i decv into the vgnous posals being discussed “resent for smfting burden of rehabiliti2 Malaya on to the j.pressed people of1,006 words
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Article437 1947-08-21 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. A GLORIOUS future lies ahead, y said Mr. S. K Chettur, retiring representative of the Government of India, in an Independence Day message to Malayan Indians “This is indeed a great day for our country,” he said. “After several decades *of thraldom our437 words
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352 1947-08-21 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. THE China Democratic League, in a lebter yesterday to the Government of India representative in Singapore, Mr. Jr A. Thivy, said the “tremendous progress achieved by the Indian people was a source of inspiration to the Chinese in their struggle for freedom and352 words
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Article194 1947-08-21 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 10. A revised table of fares issued by the P and O Steam Navigation Company for passengers travelling from the United Kingdom to Malaya and China, shows a “surprisingly small increase” over pre-war figures. The first class fare from Malayan ports to the United194 words
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Article196 1947-08-21 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. On the eve of Hari Raya Puasa ►Mr. Anthony Brooke has sent the following telegram to the Sarawak indigenous associations and to the Chief Secretary to the Sarawak Government: “I welcome the assurance given mo by the Secretary. Young Malay Association. that the196 words
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Article133 1947-08-21 11 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. Because a mandore did not appear in the Fourth Police Court yesterday as complainant in a rioting case, tne magistrate, Mr. H. W. Nightingale, discharged three Indians. Mr. Nightlngle said that the accused. Mohamed bin Sail, Joseph, and Slvanandi, had been in prison since133 words
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Article, Illustration1084 1947-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. INDIAN civilians and soldiers of every political and 1 religious group in Singapore yesterday celebrated India’s independence with flag-hoisting ceremonies, mass rallies and prayer. The ceremonies oflicially began at 2 a.in. yester day, coinciding with the swearing-in ceremonies in Delhi of the Ministers of1,084 words
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Article427 1947-08-21 12 (The following letter comes to the Straits Times from a small island off the coast of Singapore. > It is good to b e able to retain a sense of humour these days, especially when reading in your respected journal accounts from you**427 words
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Article34 1947-08-21 12 MR. W.C.S. Correy, until recently acting Resident Commissioner of Johore, will go on leave to Australia on Aug. 18. Mr. E. E. F. Pretty has resumed his duties as Resident Commissioner.34 words
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Article249 1947-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. TiHE United Malays NationA al Organisation will shortly discuss the establishment of a Malay National Studentship Fund for which the Rulers of the nine Malay States.have each donated a month’s income. Tfr-e subject will come up for discussion at the seventh general assembly249 words
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Article137 1947-08-21 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15H “WISDOM. fairness and >*§ will be ranged agaiH whatever difficulties may I ahead,” says Lord KillcaH Special Commissioner South-East Asia, in an infl pendence Day message sH from Singapore to Governor-General of Pakis'fl Mr. Mohamed All Jinnah. H 'Pakistan today take its in the137 words
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Article134 1947-08-21 12 SINGAPORE Aug. 1* Cigarette transactions bet*« sailors on board the trooper S.S. Pasteur and sajW in the outer roads oi bHWJJ Harbour, on Aug. 12 had ajj* in the Third Police C ;’irt. day. when 12 Chinese w**r' with the possession tobacco. Fines amounting to so134 words
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82 1947-08-21 13 I From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. LtffY’EIGHT representatives of 16 bodies in the Malayan r nion and Singapore decided today that the report on Imp tax bv Mr. R. B. Heasman should be considered by all btions and public bodies82 words
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Article91 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. The International Red Cross Representative for Malaya has received (Aust.) £2,000 trom the Australian Red Cross Society for the purchase of medical supplies. The supplies are to be distributed Impartially through the I.R.C. Committee. Malaya, to the Indonesian Red Cross Society.91 words
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Article62 1947-08-21 13 KUALA LUMPUR, August 13. The death sentences in connection with the Bekoi massacre of March, 1946, have been commuted to varying terms of imprisonment bv the Go verm >r of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent This followed the consideration of petitions addressed to the Governor, including one62 words
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Article115 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. When Ho Loke Hui, the licensee of the Wing Chin Yuen Restaurant, at the Great World, and Ong Chin Ho. the licensee of a stall in Kreta Ayer Market, again appeared on bribery charges in the Second Police Court yesterday, the cases were postponed to115 words
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Article81 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. THE rules of an unregistered Chinese secret society, “The Chinese Racial Justice and Traitors Extermination Corps,” were produced in the Second Police Court yesterday when a Chinese Lee Eng Khoh was sentenced to six months' R.I. for being a member of an unlawful society, on81 words
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Article89 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. MORE than 2.000 British books M were on display at the exnibition which opened yesterday at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Th e exhibition was opened oy the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKcrron. The exhibition was arranged and designed by Mrs.89 words
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Article125 1947-08-21 13 as a registration office. Standing in Yan Kit Ro*d, a cul-de-sac which is really a continuation of Narcis Road, off Tanjong Pagar Road, the Po Toh Se e Temple is one of the mosit frequently visited Buddhist temples Singapore. Chinese priests hovered in the background of125 words
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Article356 1947-08-21 13 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Auf. 16. A BILL setting up special juvenile courts in the Malayan Union is to be introduced into the Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting on Aug. 25. Such courts will consist of a District Judge assisted by two advisers,356 words
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Article115 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. WONG KIM HONG and Yeo Kah Mun were charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with possessing housebreaking implements with intent to commit an offence, at the junction of South Bridge Road and Upper Cross Street Inspector Yeo bin Chiat said that three detectives115 words
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Article124 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. A SINGAPORE Sinhalese Jeweller said yesteiday that he was so taken in by a European’s conversation about Indian and Chinese barbers that he did not suspect for a moment that the European was a swindler .The Jeweller, Mr. S. Sena, manager of Messrs.124 words
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Article96 1947-08-21 13 MALACCA. August. For erecting a shrine without the permission of the Malacca Municipality, a 32-year-old Buddhist vegetarian nun. Sek Chong Seng, was fined $75 or three weeks' simple imprisonment, by Mr. J. McEllit in the Police court. She elected to go to prison. The Municipality96 words
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Article109 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. HASSAN bin Tarus, a Malay constable attached to the Beach Road Police Station, was yesterday killed in a trolley bus accidejft at the junction of South Bridge Road and Circular Road. Hassan was standing oh the footboard of a trolley bus going109 words
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Article123 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. A COPY of a Straits Times photograph taken within a few seconds of a fatal accident In Robinson Road on Aug. 8 in which a Chinese rag-man was knocked down by a Royul Naval Air Station mail truck was produced at a Singapore Coroner’s inquiry123 words
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Article71 1947-08-21 13 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. An exhibition of the Hula Hula by Miss Dolly Jeremiah and Miss Jenny Gwee was one of the highlights of a social held by the Red Rocket Badminton Party on Saturday. Orgqjnised by Mesrs. J. B. Pestana. Vincent Seow and Sim Seng Chiang,71 words
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Article370 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Corresponded KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. TWO far-reaching recommendations are understood to have been made by the Malayan Union Housing Committee in its final report, which may be presented to the Advisory Council next Monday. One is that the Government should apply to370 words
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Article161 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Aug. .16.—A total ban on pillion riding in Penang is among a series of “don’ts” for cyclists published today by the traffic police. Pillion riding was introduced during the Japanese regime and was allowed on the reoccupation. The ban was first161 words
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Article195 1947-08-21 14 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Aug. 16. ONE of the largest batches of students for Britain will be leaving Penang tonight by the Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon. The group included Miss Nancy Yeap, a grand-daughter of the prominent millionaire banker, Mr. Yeap Chor Ee. Miss Yeap is the195 words
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Article86 1947-08-21 14 PENANG, Aug. 17.—A Chinese youth who pretended he was dumb, but was heard talking to a hotel clerk, was yesterday convicted by the Listrict Judge, Mr. B.J. Jennings, on a charge of fraud. The accused, Lim Ah Chye, was articulate enough in court when he pleaded for86 words
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Article38 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16. Under the recently published Post Office Ordirance for the Malayan Union, the title of the head of the Postal Service Department, Malaya, r.ow becomes Postmaster General, Malaya.38 words
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Article94 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. —Mr. Budh Singh, who has succeeded Mr. J.. A. Thivy as president of the Malayan Indian Congress, has called on all Indians to abstain from all alcohol tomorrow as a token of the great work done for independence by Mahatma94 words
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Article202 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 17. rLL over 600 people attended the carnival dance at the Lake Club, in Kuala Lumpur, on Friday night in aid of the army families welfare fund. With dancing to the music of the Union Jack Club orchestra,202 words
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204 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff Correspondent I DUS1NESS men, AUB 16 1 D are among the “clients” of a new Governmen* T* *1 which is doing highly scientific work and is nl»,^ Patc l portant role in the rehabilita- an l tion of Malaya. It is the204 words
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Article123 1947-08-21 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 16. The following have been appointed members of the Malay College (Kuala Kangsar) Board of Governors: the Resident Commissioner. Perak (chairman), the Resident Commissioner for Selangor. the Resident Commissioner Pahang, the Resioent Commissioner, Negri Sembilan the Director of Education. Malayan Union. Y A.123 words
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Article132 1947-08-21 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. rRNOVER of the Singapore Co-operative Stores has reached $2,000 a day and membership 4,000, states a report on the progress of the movement in the first issue of a monthly magazine published by the S.C.S. These figures compare Vvith a daily turnover132 words
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232 1947-08-21 14 Aug. 17. THE state of the* Malayan fisheries industry and how it can be Improved, and the welfare of Malayan fishermen, will be among the questions which will be examined by the fisheries exppert. Mr. G. L. Kesteven, who has arrived in Singapore. Mr. Kesteven.232 words
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Article98 1947-08-21 14 From Our Staff CorresnJI KUALA LUMPUR AuTB Representatives cM Singapore and Malfl Union Government will J in Singapore this week toB cuss the measures which I be taken to assist the Uifl Kingdom in the dollar cifl A definite policy with rl to imports from98 words
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Article108 1947-08-21 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. Low Chee Tong, said to H member of the Three Star P® who was convicted or. a of using criminal fo:c police constable, was sente® teday by the District Jude® eight weeks’ rigorous impn® mer.t. B Two policemen on duty at K® arrested108 words
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Article108 1947-08-21 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. A YOUNG Chinese Ng Ah H was sentenced by Mr. JU Brown at the Assize Court j day to seven years' rigorous in sonment and 12 strokes o rotan for attempting w $10,000 from a Chinese snopw at River Valley Road on May The prosecution stated108 words
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Article92 1947-08-21 14 SINGAPORE. AUg Qr rpHAT a new method 1 landing permits by covered was rev sin? al Immigration Om c <r jnter Mr. Chateworth. in -m with the Press on Sana pa This involves inak*!-. on a work of the phot 0 1 J it the 1 landing permit92 words
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Article945 1947-08-21 15 R.E. HOLTTUM - The Malayan Gardener By R.E. HOLTTUM, Director of the Botanic Gardens Singapore M Holttum this week cor.i,i S notes on small to f im ,izc bedding plants. k |,e will begin a series ,j*oer shrubs and climbers CDBECKIA. (Black-eyed c lis m i Herbaceous per„ial‘945 words
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Article181 1947-08-21 15 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. THE two Rockfeller Fund chairs in bacteriology and biochemistry at the King Edward VII College of Mediciac, Singapore, are at present vacant, and efforts are being made to find candidates to All the two posts. Professor W. J. Young, who was the181 words
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Article91 1947-08-21 15 From Our Staff Correspondent RAUB, Aug. 16. INDIA Independence Day was celebrated in a most fitting manner by the Raub Indian Association. At dawn tnanksgiving and prayer meetings were held in the temples and following free transportation of Indian nationals from the rural areas, men. women and91 words
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457 1947-08-21 15 HOW beautifully quiet it was on the estate! I suppose all of us get romantic at times about the place we live in and imagine it is vastly superior to other places. Estate life can be quiet, too quiet at times but a457 words
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Article610 1947-08-21 15 J N MILSUM; JRP. SOPER - Grow Your Own Vegetables By J N MILSUM and JRP. SOPER of the Department of Agriculture, Malaya. THOUGH many gardeners have failed to grow onions in this country it is by no means an impossible crop if the right types are selected. The large-bulbed610 words
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Article431 1947-08-21 16 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Aug. 17. WHEN the back door of his house was being broken open by armed gang robbers, Liew Hin, a contractor, bored a hole in the attap roofing, crept through it and from the roof-top watched two masked men,431 words
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Article132 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. More than 2.000 British books are on display at the first British Books Exhibition now being held at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore. Since its official opening on Aug. 15, more than 2.200 people have visited the exhibition.' At ihe exhibition yesterday was132 words
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Article186 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. NOT only the civilians «n Singapore but also the services are being counted in the forthcoming census fot which the preliminary «n-i umeration begins on August, 25. The Navy has agreed to enumerate everyone within the dockyard area while the Army and186 words
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133 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. “This is one of those tea money cases,” said Mr. P. S. Gordon, A.SJ*. in charge of the Anti-Corruption Branch, in the Second Police Court yesterday, when a Chinese businessman, Chan 800 Koon, alias M. K. Chan, of 98, Market Street, was133 words
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Article180 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Two sailors rowing out to their prahu off Beach Road last night heard the gasps of a drowning man. pulled a young Chinese into thtir skiff by the hair, rowed ashore fast, held the Chinese up side down by the feet and resuscitated him. The180 words
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Article, Illustration252 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. MUSLIMS all over Singapore heralded Hari Raya yesterday with morning prayers in the mosques. Sultan Mosque, in North Bridge Road, was packed to capacity and Muslim women, for the first time in Singapore attended, after the men. ior prayers at the252 words
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Article250 1947-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. THE chairman of the Singa--1 pore branch of the China Democratic League, Mr. Hu Yui Tsu, said yesterday he had protested vigorously to the Netherlands Consul-Gene-ral in Singapore, Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman, against the arrest by Dutch authorities in Sumatra of250 words
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Article256 1947-08-21 16 From Our SI all CorroponiB IPOI1. Aug. 1H Liau kon kiau, who is Malay States legal his<H to be the second wonMflMf have received the sentence, has been repriej by the Governor. Sir Gent, and will now seven years' imprisonment In the Perak Assizes, on April256 words
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178 1947-08-21 17 From Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Aug. 19. rKU robbing a house on the Union Estate n i£ht, four Chinese gunmen into a crowd oi about 500 of the estate’s n labourers who were attempting to prevent their i. and shot one of them178 words
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113 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. snector Veo Bin Chiat told Singapore Second Illagis- yesterday that a tuberJis patient in the Tan i Sens hospital chased a ser with a bread knife until r patients stopped him. ie patient. 31-year-old Teo Chians, was charged with ntarily attempting to113 words
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Article232 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. r Rafael l iiento said in a o broadcast from Singu* last night that the Unit lations regarded SoulhAsia as a priority area to ive U. N. social welfare stance. Rafael is Director of Social flies tor ihe United Nations is attending the232 words
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Article53 1947-08-21 17 °fS Aug. 20. d p °Hce r, ,Y a s all °wed in the a f'nld inri/ri* sterda y to a c hargf. f j j'n Chelllah. who yards of the theft of P r,| Dertv (1 f ,°u h value $1,944 *’n 12 tie S.H.B., from case*53 words
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109 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. Sago flour worth $20,400 is involved in a case of alleged criminal breach of trust brought before the Second Police Magistrate yesterday. The charge was against a 26-year-old Hokkien. Seng Siong Toh. The ofTence was alleged to have taken place109 words
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Article120 1947-08-21 17 PENANG. Thursday.—Two armed robbers who had been routed by a whole village were today sentenced to eight years’ rigorous imprisonment, and twelve strokes of the rotan each. They were convicted in the Alor Star Assize Court oefore Justice R. D R. Hill of having held up an120 words
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Article147 1947-08-21 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 18. Representatives of 44 local organisations decided at a meeting yesterday afternoon to protest to the Government against the outlawing of API. The meeting, which was under the chairmanship of the Malay Nationalist Party also passed resolutions asking the147 words
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55 1947-08-21 17 Wing Commander and Mrs. K. R. S. Slater, who were married in the Roman Catholic chapel at the R.A.F. Station, Changi. The bride was formerly Miss Alanna h Mary Sanderson, daughter of the A.O.A., Air Command. Far East. Air Vice-Marshal A. C. Sanderson and Mrs. Sanderson. The Rev. Group Captain55 words
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704 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. £JRITICS who object to the imposition of income tax in Malaya on the ground that there will be wide evasion are answered by the income tax adviser, Mr. R. B. Heasman, in the words: “The apprehensions are not well founded.” “I have704 words
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Article164 1947-08-21 17 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Aug. 18. A PUBLIC meeting in Penang yesterday passed a resolution to send a joint, petition to the Governor General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald), asking him to urge tl\e British Cabinet to stop the war in Indonesia. Th e meeting was164 words
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Article99 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Four Chinese and two Malays, all armed with pistols and masked, who robbed an attap house In Mergui Road on Monday night ordered their Chinese victims not to make a report until 20 minutes after they had left. The victims ignored the warning99 words
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Article46 1947-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. The acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. H. P. Bryson, has been appointed Deputy Officer Admlnisterin?; the Government of Singapore. The Officer Administering the Government. Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, who is In Kuala Lumpur. Is expected to be away for some time.46 words
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417 1947-08-21 18 From Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, Aug. 14. XWO of Malaya’s leading trainers —Lt.-Col. T. L. Fox and Mr. M. van Breukelen —welcome the Straits Racing Association’s circular to all owners to take more interest in the management of their horses. Lt.-Col. Fox and Van Breukelen have417 words
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Article54 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. At the committee meeting of the Singapore Hockey Association, held yesterday at the Singapore Recreation Club, it was decided that the Association should affiliate itself with the Singapore Olympic Sports Council. The association will hold Its general meeting on Sept. 8 at 5.3054 words
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Article18 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. Tlie Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police defeated the Jollilads Athletic Union by one18 words
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Article261 1947-08-21 18 From Our Staff Correspondent 1 PENANG, Aug. 15. DETAILS of the inter-state rugger competition to be run in two sections —North and South—were revealed t>y j Mr. J. E. A. Clark, who presid-1 ed at the meeting of th e Per.- j ang Rugby Union held261 words
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Article84 1947-08-21 18 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. A MAGNANIMOUS gesture by Malaya’s champion hurdler has solved one of th<f problems of the Selangor Amateur Athletic Association. Eu Eng Hock, who still holds the Malayan hurdling record, is presenting the Association with full sets of both84 words
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196 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. THE Singapore Turf Club Committee is importing a batch of 20 Australian griffins, which are expected to arrive about November his year. These griffins may be subscribed i for by ordinary members of the Turf Club and will be drawn for on196 words
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Article65 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. The Johore Cricket Club drew with the Colonials C.C. of Singapore at cricket at Johore Bahru on Sunday. Johore C.C. made 210, L. K. Cheah topscoring with 78 not out. and the Colonials were seven wickets down for 187 when stumps were65 words
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239 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. SINGAPORE Gun Club enthusiasts have decided to re-start clay pigeon shooting, says the honorary secretary, Mr. F. A. Bickerdike. Various sites have been surveyed and the most suitable appears to be Seletar Range at 9Vs» mile, Thomson Road, which will be used239 words
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Article379 1947-08-21 18 From Our Staff Correspondent B KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. \M FOURTEEN delegates from Malayan State f Ql B associations at a meeting here today unanimtl decided to resuscitate the Football AssodB of Malaya, and for their first post-war pr( 9 elected Mr. J. E. King, who379 words
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Article112 1947-08-21 18 From Ou r Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15.—An early first half spurt by the fast-moving T.P.C.A. forwards broke down theJ3elangor Eurasian Association deflnce and resulted in the former winning by four clear goals in the second round of the Selangor Soccer League this evening at112 words
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Article282 1947-08-21 18 From Our Stull Correspo^B 11 KUALA LUMPl’R. Aug* 1 SELANGOR won shfp honours at thefl8| Malayan Indo-(Vylunese tic Meeting today seven points lead overBg runners-up, Perak. H Outstanding performance^® 1 by R. Munro (Sel.) who 11 ft. 5 ins. in the pole Munro also won282 words
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Article22 1947-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, WW Kranji wireless stall, n to M Jollilads by three a soccer match at Kranj h yesterday. I22 words
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Article38 1947-08-21 18 TELOK ANSON. Entries from team. a A& S the Lower Pe ak P /v!tt d :fl tion are now beiiv u r .dJ Teluk Anson ana bt hockey tournamen September. a W Entries will clo.v38 words
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Article2019 1947-08-21 19 Vital Need’ For Revenue SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. p imposition of income-tax in Singapore and the Malayan Union at identical rates on a pan-Malayan basis is recommended in the report submitted to the emors of the Malayan Union and Singapore by Mr. R. B. Heasman,2,019 words
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542 1947-08-21 19 The table below shows the amount of tax payable on personal incomes of $6,000 a year and over, finder the Headman proposals, single men would begin to pay on incomes of $3,000 a year, and married men when earning S4,5(KI a year. The542 words
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Article595 1947-08-21 20 Weekly Share Market Review By A Market Correspondent THERE local share market has remained undisturbed during the past week, notwithstanding the gloomy news of Britain’s finances which now seems a daily adjunct to our early morning tea. That the City of London distrusts the ability of595 words
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Article170 1947-08-21 20 TWO recommendations affecting the benefits of the Subordinate Civil Service Benefit Fund, Penang, were adopted at the 20th annual general meeting on Aug. 9 They were—“To pay maximum death benefits In respect of those y« ars i here it wa", not possible to do so,” and “to increase170 words
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Article205 1947-08-21 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1G AS there was little support from the United States during the week, the market showed a tendency to move to lower levels, but this was checked by the covering in this market of considerable sales made recently to Russia, and offerings at the low-1205 words
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Article33 1947-08-21 20 British Malay Rubber details were: Loss for 1946 £29,342, compared with the previous year's loss of £3,971. Brought In £1,627, plus £28,000 from reserve, leaving a credit of £285.33 words
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Article457 1947-08-21 20 PENALTIES lor into in* tax ollences rimeim. iv $lO,OOO or three years’ gaol or both lodines provided for in the report of th e Governnu-ntv i» #O,| i advisor, Mr. R. B. Heasnian, ,nc °me Mr. Heasman says in nis report: “The penalties are admittedly457 words
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Article117 1947-08-21 20 THE estate of the Rubber Company LtdaB now in full production H crop of 463.500 lbs. was hafll vested up to the end February this year This is revealed in the report the directors which is to be sented to the annual meeting shareholders in Kuala IumpurBj Friday.117 words
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Article722 1947-08-21 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 19. some markets up-country still closed conditions on the local market, which re-opened yesterday after the holiday, were very quiet. Very few features were reported but among tin shares there were some inquiries for Petalings, Tronohs and Southern Kintas. Price quotations given by the Malayan722 words