The Straits Budget, 3 February 1949

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  • 33 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED O VEK a CENTUBY] ft.* Qtij ies No. 131. Singapore Thursday, February, 3rd 1949 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or. 1 ah.
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    • 608 2 nURING the great slump of the early thirties there arose a body of men planters miners, merchants, lawyers (many of them unfortunately now dead) who during those years were jealous for Malaya and who were fearless and vigilant in speaking and writing on
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    • 73 2 I RECENTLY visited the Registrar of Marriages in Fullerton Building to witness a wedding, and could not help but notice the unsuitability of the room for such an important undertaking. Can't Government spare some money to decorate this room? Government should do away with its present
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    • 78 2 ITS wrong for Malay girls to play hockey. It’s also wrong for Malay girls to smoke, ride bicycles, use lipsticks, have their hair permed, type, work in offices, walk about alone, go to school, read newspapers and novels. But it’s light that Malay girls should be
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    • 155 2 IT seems to me that Mr. 1 A. Majid has appointed himself the spokesman for all seamen’s unions. He has taken matters in his own hands without consulting the other unions. Mr. Majid alleges that there is no co-operation with the unions on the part of
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    • 587 2 T WI8H to direct this 1 letter to all progressiveminded Malay Muslim women. I am sure 1 was not the only one surprised and disappointed to learn that the Malay women’s hockey team of Kuala Lumpur had raised a storm of protest and
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    • 140 2 THE letter “TRAGEDY A OF THE TRANSFER” which appeared on Jan. 22 was very interesting. It gave me great pleasure to know that at least someone in this unjust world has got the feeling of sympathy towards the unfortunate individuals being transferred to God-forsaken places.
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    • 236 2 will deny th;<t the r rotan is a cruel and humiliating punishment Few will deny that a nation’s advance towards a true civilisation can often be meausureci by it s humane treatment of criminals. And yet in these davs 0 f the “re-awakened Asia" one
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    • 212 2 MR. Nehru proclaims “freedom” for his more distant neighbours. a bitter and disgruntled India at home; with Communism growing strongly underfoot, he seeks to unite a continent. We have seen in India, we have seen in Burma and In China, what weak and inexperienced government brings.
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    • 676 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 27. It is too soon to tell whether )U t of the Pan-Asian conference at Delhi will come an Asian bloc, within the United Nations, that will give the most populous Continent its rightful voice in world affairs. If such a bloc does
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    • 426 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 27. Siam was the first of the Axis collaborators with whom the British Government reestablished normal diplomatic relations at the end of the war, through a treaty signed in Singapore on the first day of 1946. One of the provisions of this treaty called for
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    • 746 3 —Straits Times. Jan. 28. The Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones, apparently is satisfied with the progress being made in the suppression of the terrorists, but it is not a satisfaction that will be generally shared in Malaya. It is a question whether there is progress at
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    • 329 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 28. Mr. Bovin and the Labour Government did not come out well from the Palestine debate, yet well enough for the Foreign Secretary’s position to be seen to be in no danger. There were whispers last week that Mr. Bevin might be leaving the Foreign
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    • 615 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. There is point to Major General Boucher’s remark that resolute public support of the campaign against the terrorists would make a bigger contribution to the suppression of banditry than anything else. But this does not invalidate the suggestion that perhaps more troops are
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    • 307 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. In a letter on another page, a correspondent takes the Commissioner General to task for several of the statements which Mr. MacDonald made in his last broadcast. Whether the broadcast was uninspiring those who heard it may judge for themselves, but it was
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    • 242 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 29. It is a common resort of the politician and speaker, when caught up in the web of events, to blame the press for misquoting him. Sometimes the press hits back. It simply records what really was said. “Time,” which plays so many tricks, has
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    • 876 4 —Straits Times, Jim. 31. Some figures given the Singapore Municipal Commissioners at their last meeting continue the surprise contained in the 1947 vital statistics for Singapore, statistics which revealed the lowest death rate and the highest birth rate on record. The figures for 1948, quoted by the
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    • 260 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 31 The Burmese Government, which appeared a few weeks ago to have gained the upper hand against the main rebel forces, is now facing new dangers. The extent of the threat is uncertain, censorship being severe, but land and rail communication with Upper Burma
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    • 1029 4 —Straits Times, Feb. 1. The suspicion that Stalin’s statement of his willingness to meet President Truman to discuss world peace has no more meaning than previous affirmations of this kind will not deter Washington from closely studying Moscow Radio’s announcement, or from seeking clarification through the usual
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    • 995 5 —Straits Times, Feb. 2. The “emergency” has thrown across the Malayan scene a shadow so dark that it is not easy, as the Federation moves into its second year of life, to estimate properly the worth and the working of the Constitution and the Federation Agreement. But putting
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  • 115 5 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. DATO C. J. Pagiar, personal physician the Sultan of Johore, has received a cable from the Sultan: “Return at once, I am very ill.” Dr. Paglar was in Australia with the Malayan Boy Scout contingent when he received the message. An A.P. message
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  • 215 5 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. A BUDDHIST monk attached to a Singapore monastery, who said he had “renounced the world”, was sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Taylor in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. He was 24-year-old Kee Seng Wong who was
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  • 139 5 Trishamen Must Not Smoke Ring SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. A TRISHA rider who smokes or spits while carrying a “fare” may have his licence suspended under the Singapore Municipal Trisha Bylaws, which were gazetted yesterday. Under the code, a trisha driver must not: Sleep in his trisha when it is stationed
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  • PERSONAL
    • 205 5 MESTON. To Joan, wife of J. P. Meston., at K.K. Hospital 25th TJan- a brother for Anthony and Michael. BALFOUR. At Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on 25th January, to Mary, wife of A. S. Balfour—a son. Both well. 1 TO SEOK LUAN, wife of 8. C. Ting of Raffles Institution,
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    • 107 5 THE Engagement between Yeo Kim San Miss Lim Ban Kim has been dissolved by mutual i consent. CHUA-LEE: The Engagement is announced between Boon Yew, I third son of Mr. Mrs. Chua Cheng Liat of Singapore, and i Alice Slew Kheng, eldest daughter of Mr. Lee Pang Soo of
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    • 81 5 A marriage has been arranged for the 14th February, 1949, between Miss Susan Nichols—“Sandycroft” Penang, niece of Mrs. R. Campbell Rltson, Southampton, England, and Stanley W R. Marsden. Malayan Police, Penang. Singapore <fc Malayan Papers please copy. HUNTER-THOY: On Jan 22nd, 1949, at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore. John William
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  • 228 6 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 31 WHITE ants have forced the Johore State Government to prepare the council chamber in the Johore Bahru Government offices for its proper use. It has never been used for a council meeting. A recent examination of the
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  • 105 6 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. THE Singapore Regional in--1 dian Congress might support a few Progressive Party candidates in the municipal elections, said Dr. K. Chandra, secretary of the Congress Election Board, yesterday. “We will run our own candidates. wo will support some? independents and we will
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  • 64 6 1 rnm Our Own Correspondent MALACCA, Jan. 31.—The Chamber of Commerce at its annual meeting called for the restoration of the TampinMalacca railway and for Malacca’s return to pre-war status as a free port. I rom Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Jan. 31. A new Malay school was opened
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  • 853 6  -  By JAMES F. AUGUSTIN [The writer is indebted to Urn Swee Him, chief clerk of Penang Library, for several dct i in the above article.] THE name of Light, “Malaya’s first British pioneer’’ has aU but died out in Malaya, but few people know that
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  • 545 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. \|R. Kenneth Clarke, 28-year-old open-cast 11 superintendent at Malayan Collieries’ coalmine at Batu Arang, was shot dead by bandits this morning as he travelled by jeep to a mine. He was unescorted. More than 300 Scots Guards
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  • 237 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. j “\JO one is to be blamed for 1 1 the collapse of house number 68 Upper Chin Chew Street, Singapore, on Dec. 29 last. The collapse was due to the age of the premises.” This was stated by the Singapore Coroner (Mr. W.
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  • 43 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. MORE than 90 per cent of Malaya’s Chinese miners have signed statutory declarations pledging not to pay protection money to the bandits. This was stated today by the AllMalaya Chinese Mining Association.
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  • 59 7 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. Tlie last of 1948’s Mecca pilgrims have arrived back in Malaya from Jeddah by the Blue Funnel ship Cyclops. The Cyclops which is making her first voyage to the Far East, landed 101 pilgrims in Penang last week and 45 pilgrims disembarked in
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  • 77 7 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. MIGHT hunting is permitted in Kedah and Perils, but the Chief Police Officer (Mr. R. F. Mallard > warns hunters of the “consider.! ble risk” of encountering security forces with consequences that might prove fatal. Night hunting, the statement
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  • 167 7 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. SPHERE is no reason to expect a water shortage in A Singapore, although the amount of rainfall this month has been exceptionally low, the acting Water Engineer (Mr. S. B. W. Williams) told the Straits Times yesterday. Rainfall recorded at
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  • 209 7 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. THE Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force (Air A Marshal Sir Leslie Hollinghurst), who i s inspecting R.A.F. units in the Far East, arrived in Singapore yesterday morning by Lancastrian from Ceylon. He was met by the C.-in-C., Air Command Far East
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  • 183 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. THE Commissioner General’ staff and the personnel of the Far Eastern Defence Secretariat will have vacated Cathay Building by Feb. 15, the Straits Times was told last night. When the move out is completed Cathay Building will be free of all its "guests” except
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  • 54 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. One of Britain’s leading travel experts and deputy general manager of Thomas Cook and Son Ltd. (Mr. Cecil Garstang) arrived in Singapore yesterday by air from the United Kingdom. Accompanied by the general Manager for the East (Mr. George Brown), he i£ visiting
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  • 234 7 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. INJURED in a rugby game on the Singapore padang last Monday, Mr. Wee Bin Chy e died in hospital on Wednesday night. He was 26 years old. He played in the recent Singapore All Blues trials, and turned out regularly for the St.
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  • 121 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. FAREWELL gifts were presented to the Bishop of Singapore (the Right Rev. J. L. Wilson) and Mrs. Wilson, yesterday afternoon at an “At Home” in Robinson’s Cafe which was attended by 200 people, including the Com-missioner-General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald). Mr. R. F. W.
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  • 220 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. AN armed bandit spy and subscription collector was killed in a swamp alter a chase near Sen* Keng village in the Johore Bahru area yesterday morning. Gurkhas spotted him near Fraser Estate. Thev challenged him and he Med leaving behind six
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  • 62 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. rpWO European estate oflii eials who investigated a “bomb” observed on the railway line near Kengam Estate by a Tamil mandore found it to be a rusty old fire extinguisher. Mr F. J. Blowers (senior assistant manager), and Mr. E. Mitchell
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  • 228 8 From Our Stair Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. THE emergency did not seriously atTect the mining industry during the last quarter of 1948 and further progress in rehabilitation continued, states the Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics, just issued. The price of metallic tin remained steady
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  • 77 8 MUAR, Sat. Eurasians in South Johore are to be asked to lorm their own association and ultimately to join up with the North Johore Eurasians’ Association. This was decided .at the annual meeting of the North Johore Association yesterday when Mr. H. N. McLeod was
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  • 117 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. ST. MARYS CHURCH, in Kuala Lumpur, without an organist for many months, has heard its organ played on most Sundays by Sir Alec Ncwboult, in official life the Federation's Chief Secretary. Yesterday, Sir Alec was organist at the wedding of Croup Captain M.
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  • 164 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31. SINGAPORE Indians at a mass meeting yesterday paid homage to the late Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated one year ago. The meeting was called by the Singapore Regional Indian Congress and was held at the New World Arena. •Now known to Indians as
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  • 128 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 31. JOHORE Malay tennis team J which visited Kuala Lumpur during the Chinese New Year holidays to play against the Selangor Malays was entertained to dinner at the Istana, Kuala Lumpur, by the Sultan of Selangor on Friday. Sheik
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  • 167 8 From Our Stall Correspondent JOHOKE BAHRU, Jan. 31 riiffE Chinese Association of Johore sent a gift o) 1 700 loaves of bread, four cases of oranges ami 12 dozen tin s of sardines for distribution among the prisoners, irrespective of race in the local
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  • 25 8 MALACCA. Mon. Since last October clinics have been functioning in two Malay, one Chinese, and one Tamil vernacular schools in Malacca.
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  • 121 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31 NINETY-TWO cases, involving more than 150 accused people, were heard in two hours yesterday in the Eighth Police Court, the only Court to sit in Singapore on the Chinese New Year Holiday. Most of the accused were Chinese who, celebrating the New
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  • 312 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 30. HPHE report of Dr. T. Bauer that the administration had failed to look after the interests of the rubber smallholders “seriously misrepresented” Government policy according to a statement which has been issued by the Government. Dr. Bauer,
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  • 91 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 31 The District Officer, Dungun. Haji Dol Abdullah bin Alias, T.C.S., was married tu Che Hafsah binte Abdul Jalil youngest daughter of •Tengku Kadir and Che Fatimah binte Haji Haron, Singapore Malay woman J.P., at Arab Street on Saturday. The bridegroom was formerly the
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  • 192 8 w SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. lAIRECT shipments of raw materials such a s rubber, sago, coconut, and timber—mostly from Indonesia —to consumers are depriving Singapore mills of raw materials. To stay in business, some Singapore industrialists are contemplating building factories in the areas from which they
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  • 106 8 RICE SUGAR COME IN THROUGH PENANG From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Jan. 30. WITH the arrival of two more shipments from Rangoon, Penang has received over 25,000 tons of rice and sugar this month. Two vessels, the Hiram and Kamunina, will between them discharge 4,300 tons of rice. Altogether 2,010
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  • 288 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. T* HF. free education scheme first-year primary fc children will cost fc r Singapore Government fe j5.000 this year. The > cue me came into fc w :a:i on January 1 and fcpp;; t > to all children betK a ,rr. :h< aces
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  • 30 9 Jj c *APORE, Jan. 27. at $250 llr <? in the vP? of a mat.i 1 Victoria Street Le rnoon. Twelve “iDok were desi fne Brigade be blaze.
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  • 344 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. l T 100 Indians and Chinese in the ®Y \ie\andra Road area were homeless last L hf following a fire which occurred during an P'lfray in which about 50 Malay L.E.P.s were Kf>voi\ od. 1 ne fire destroyed practically the whole of
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  • 126 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. JAGJIT Lall, the manager of C. R. Pawa and Co., Winchester House, was yesterday fined $l,OOO by the Second District Judge, Mr. J. L. McFall for attempting to export textiles other than specified in an export permit granted him. Jag jit Lall pleaded
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  • 198 9 To Study Latest Phone Equipment In U.K. SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. employees of the Oriental Telephone and Electric Company in Singapore will leave for England tomorrow by the Canton for an instructional course in the latest type of telephone equipment shortly to be installed in Singapore. They are Mr. Hector Claude
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  • 210 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. /ANE of China’s most brilliant film producers, Mr. Hsia Yun Hu, who produced the record-breaking Chinese picture “Tears of th e Yangtse”, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the S.S. Canton. Mr. Hsia told the Straits Times that one of the main objects of
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  • 99 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. MR. Justice Brown yesterday reserved judgment in the bank draft case in the Singapore High Court. Ban Hin Lee Bank is trying to recover $31,000, being the equivalent of a draft for R 5.50,000, from the United Chinese Bank. The third and fourth parties
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  • 156 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. rpHE public of Singapore donated $215,930 to the United Nations Appeal for Children which was launched towards the end of last year. Of this, $209,910 will be used for the benefit of children In Malaya and other parts of the world. The money will
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  • 50 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 26. The Blake Fund has reached $5,137.02. Latest donations are: Anonymous $25, anonymous $lO. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Grieve $25.31, Prinsep Street Presbyterian Sunday School $10.50 officers, warrant officers and sergeants of the Kluang Garrison $64, Selangor Golf Club $67.
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  • 374 10 SINGAPORE, Ian. 27. rlH Rishop of Singapore (the Right Rev. .1. L. Wilson), after laying and blessing the foundation stone ot the new hurch ol St. Hilda, Katong, yesterday afternoon, spoke of the old Church of St. Hilda and the spirit of
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  • 189 10 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 26. IF more troops were needed to stamp out terrorism, they should be made available without further delay, said Mr. W. M. Warren, the chairman, at the general meeting here today ol Tongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Ltd. “It is of
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  • 99 10 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 26. Abdul Rahman bin Md. All and Abu bin Manap of Teluk Anson, aged 13 and 12, respectively. Pleaded guilty here today to a charge ol theft of 75 empty bottles from a se-cond-hand dealer’s store on Jan. 12.
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  • 113 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. gINGAPORE cannot expect a building boom until its economics are steadier and prices come down, considers a building expert, Mr. Magnus Pearce, who is visiting branches of George Wimpey and Co. in the Far East. Manager of the overseas department of
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  • 242 10 I rum Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 20. wear tile graves of other I 11 Selangor miners and planters murdered by terrorists during the past, tew months. Mr. George Henry R'Tilard Green and Mr. Matt hew Bai hour, who were killed yesterday by terrorists al
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  • 370 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. “THE Association of British Malaya in Malaya A House acts as a bridge between England and the territories out here,” Mr. C. E. Wurtzburg, M.C., past president of the A.B M, told Singapore Rotarians at the weekly luncheon at the Adelphi Hotel
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  • 366 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 26 THE full Army statement or. the requisitioning ol the house in Prince’s Road, Kuala Lumpur is as follows: "The Fourth Hussars arrived z Kuala Lumpur as long ago u September of last year. Since their arrival the officers of the regiment have
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  • 124 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. Twenty- four-year-old Tay Kheng Huat. of Cecil Street, was fined $2OO in the First District. Court yesterday for negligent driving. The Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks) suspended Tay’s driving licence for a year. Tay and a party of friends wore driving along
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  • 469 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 2f>. nKTWEEN 30 and 50 armed terrorists stopped U a train on Malayan Collieries’ private railwav near Ratu Arang yesterday evening, drove away the crew and passengers, damaged the lines and then derailed the train. The train was carrying
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  • 24 11 r ’A?ORE. Jan. 27. 1 two of them n '('ported late J* ni \ve entered a mji Hoad and qoods and '51.000
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  • 120 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. lUEARNE Brothers have installed taxi meters in some of their Yellow-Top Cabs as an experiment. Mr Walter Wearne said yesterday: “We are trying them out to see if they are satisfactory. Before the war. we experimented with a taxi meter but it was
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  • 127 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Jan. 26. PRIVATE John Hunter, of the Seaforth Highlanders, was found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced to 18 months’ rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thompson in the Ipoh Assizes today. Hunter had been charged with the murder of
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  • 102 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. The film appeal committee set up under the Cinematograph Films Ordinance has been nominated as follows. Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. G. W. Webb (Chairman); Commissioner of Police, Mr. R. E. Foulger; Rev. JTN. Handy, Social Welfare Department; principal. Raffles Girls’ School, Mr. Lee
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  • 460 11 From Our Staff Correspondent SEKEMBAN, Jan. 26 T'HE 26-day “educational” tour of the two-man mission appointed by the Negri Sembilan Plantation Workers* Union to study conditions on estates ha s just concluded. Headed by Mr. P. P. Narayanan. Federal Legislative i Councillor, and assisted by
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  • 24 11 SEREMBAN.Jan 30. —Ball ln $250 was allowed to Perumal when charged with injuring Annamalai by beating him with a piece of wood.
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  • 165 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. HPHERE were big queues at two of Singapore’s amusement parks—the Great World and the New World—yesterday morning when Shaw Brothers, Malayan film magnates, gave Chinese New Year gifts to 2,000 people over 60 years of age. From villages miles away and
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  • 163 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. in Djambi caused Jf by Republicans before the Dutch occupation is now estimated at Straits $15,000,000. according to Batavia authorities who have received a report, by the Chinese Affairs Adviser. Mr. Thio Thiam T.iong Mr. Thio made an inspection trip to Djambi recently.
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  • 126 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Jan. 26 Raja Bendehara of Perak, the Mentri Besar, Perak, and the British Adviser, Perak, accompanied by leaders of the Malay and Chinese communities yesterday visited trouble spots in Bruas and urged the Malays and Chinese there to
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  • 58 11 SINGAPORE, Jan 27. SINGAPORE Police suspect that a 25-year-old unidentified Chinese man, whose body was recovered from the sea near the Esplanade yesterday, had been murdered. The Assistant Commissioner of the C. 1.1). (Mr. I). K. Hroadhurst) said there were injuries on the body which were
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  • 1053 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28. THE remedy against bandits lay not so much in the provision of more troops as in the adoption of a more resolute attitude by the people of Malaya, declared the G.O.C. Malaya District (Major-Gen. C.
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  • 645 12 S’ PORE DEATHRATE IS LOWEST EVER SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. THE death rate of the population of the Singapore Municipality in 1918 was the lowest ever recorded —13.15 per 1,000 people compared with 14.30 per 1,000 in 1947 the Deputy President (Mr. W. L. Blythe) told in his report on 1918
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  • 130 12 Tlie secretary of the Penang recession Committee (Mr. N Ponnudurai) told this to the Straits Times today. Refuting Lord Listowel’s recent statement in the House of Lords that the secession movement was not widespread or general. Mr. Ponnudurai said the public meeting held on Dec. 13
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  • 157 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. USING powers conferred on him by the Emergency Regulations, the Registrar of Trade Unions (Mr. Sng Choon Yee), has ordered the freezing of the funds of the Singapore Rubber Workers’ Union. Mr. Sng told the Straits Times last night that he issued the order
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  • 139 12 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Jan.—It was because life was easier in the jungle that Pek Lam Seng, became a bandit. He was sentenced to death yesterday for being in unlawful possession of a Sten gun and ammunition. Sgt. Henderson of the Inniskilling Fusiliers told
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  • 87 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. The proprietor of a coffee shop at Lorong 3, Geylang. Singapore, held up and robbed by two armed men, gave chase after the men had left his shop. He overpowered a man who was later handed over to the police.
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  • 69 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. fll dawn yesterday, Npitm fires from an airfield in caP ore again iormed spiarhead of an attack W military forces on huts, Sdden by thiek jungle, and Mine used by a large party 3 bandits, in an isolated Ira of Central Johore. lifter
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  • 132 13 Mia a LUMPUR, Jail. 27. K A L Birse. British Ad- v:>er. Selangor, who this mo :<.nckd his last mo -:.0 Selangor Bun State before going hlu on leave nrior to retires'.: received an official you" for his services. Ifr. Mentri Besar (Da to [:o.n Abdullah)
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  • 109 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. I\ty and not ThaiH uld bo a public K;?' 1 T j* Malaya, urges R Kaz hakam. an orga- i,C South Indians Singapore. B T ;l: has written Secretory to >v! :1 V m nt of Singapore V■ -nding this change. H Thangavelu.
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  • 369 13 j f rom Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Jan. 27 m l k-YEAR old Chinese child and her mother A v flown to Melbourne on Saturday to receive o-eatment for cancer to save the child’s only ffP 11 1 surviving eve and her life surviving eye
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  • 90 13 SEGAMAT. Thors.—A vimdiet of 'murder against some person or persons unknown” was returned at the end of the inquest on Mr G. A. Swanson, senior assistant of Johore Labis Estate yesterday. It was stated that Mr. Swanson, a Malay special constable and an Indian conductor
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  • 252 13 HOMELESS SAY: “NO AID NEEDED SINGAPORE, Jan 28. r PHIRTY people made homeless by fire in Alexandra J Road after the disturbance involving 50 Malay L.E.P.’s on Wednesday night, have declined an offer of help by the Social Welfare Department. One of four Malay L.E.P.’s i injured was yesterday stated
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  • 99 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. THE wedding took place at the Singapore Registry yesterday of Mr. E.S.P. Kulatilake. son of Mr. A. Kulailake of Colombo, and Miss S Enid Fernando. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs S. P K Fernando of Singapore She wore a white
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  • 47 13 From Our Own Correspondent KLUANG. Thurs.—Over 43.000 peop!« have registered so far in the Kluang district. Authorities in charge report that the work had gone smoothly. The Registration Office. Kluang. will remain open until further notice for those who have not yet registered.
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  • 146 13 F\ Al>< >KK Jan 28 |1 -old On R B'-c 1 aMr Panjang i,. (1 S2s by the m Judge (Mr. P < rday for B ■•'■i 1 alsc declarP Judavlt in a Ifl l °batc in Sept- ai(i d that he was the sole beneficiary of the
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  • 161 13 From Our Staff Correspondent KIIALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27 A REQUEST that the Government set up an employment bureau for Malays was made by Inche Kamaruddin bin Haji Sulaiman at this morning’s meeting of the Selangor State Council, but was not approved. He said that the bureau
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  • 147 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28 THE United Kingdom Trade 1 Commissioner in Malaya Mr. R. B. Wiilmot) has been appointed United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner in one of the Dominions. He will take up his new appointment, in the middle of April. Pending the appointment of a
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  • 149 13 frrom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 27. CIX Kuala Lumpur residents u four of them Chinese, reccived awards today for scr* vices rendered to British troops and prisoners of war during the Japanese occupation. They were Messrs. Kok Chong I Dat, Kok Chong Loong, Gorbex Singh
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  • 141 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 28. V-RAY equipment 5,000 A quinine sulphate tablets and 7 ib. ol sulphanol are among gifts lrom the Australian Government which have arrived in Singapore. Other gifts, which include 80.000 yards of canvas tarpaulin. are already being distributed by the Social Welfare Department. Some canvas cloth
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  • 489 14 Singapore City Fathers Deplore “Legal Quibbles SINGAPORE, Jan. 29. AT THEIR meeting yesterday, the Singapore Municipal Commissioners deplored the delay caused by “legal quibbles” in the building ot workmen’s dwellings from the Princess Elizabeth Wedding Celebrations Fund. A resolution containing the words ’Commissioners express very strong disapproval of the delay
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  • 48 14 Malay recruits seen at their passing-out parade at Blakang Mati. Singapore. Jan. 29 when they were inspected by the G.O.C. (Maj-Gen. D. Dunlop). The men will be posted to Engineer. Ordnance. Motor Transport. R.E.M.E., Signals and Catering Corps units in Malaya.—Straits Times picture. —Straits Times picture.
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  • 224 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 28 THERE is no evidence that action by ‘he Security Forces against squatters is affecting the economic life i of Malaya, stated the Chief Secretary Sir Alec Newboult at this morning’s Press conference. He said that the report of
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  • 152 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. qualities that go to make a good soldier are precisely tho se required to make a good citizen, 160 Locally-Enlisted Personnel were told yesterday a i* BIa an Mati by G.O.C. Singapore District “'th n un l°P) a their passing-out
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  • 78 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. TWO Indians were taken to 1 hospital last night after a brawl between Malay soldiers and Indian civilians in a lane near Alexandra Terrace, Pasir Panjang. About 10 people who were involved in the fight quickly dispersed when the police, who had been
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  • 443 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 28 \T this morning’s Press conference, the G.0.C., Singapore District (Maj.-Gen. D. Dunlop), said in a statement read on his behalf that, more than ever before, it wa s necessary to be on the alert in
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  • 181 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan 28 TiHE most complex A machinery for negotiation in any Government Department i: Malaya was agreed tc today when the general manager of railways and officials of the All-Malayan Railway Workers’ Union signed a memorandum introducing Whitley councils
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  • 79 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. Nearly 100.000 sch children are today listen;; in to weekly school broadcasts. the Department Broadcasting announced It is estimated that tl ’re are now 300 schools in M aya tuning in to these bn casts, including a Chi’, school in Sumatra. The number of
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  • 383 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. r5 ('ommissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, wishing the Federation of Malaya “manv happy returns of the day” yesterday, said: ‘‘I am certain that it will endure and that it will bring increasing benefits not only to the Malays but also to the
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  • 93 15 KUAi' i’otrespondent Mr H A J;V, M,> U r 31. nhih- no Chua n. whose in c S u Paintings is beoil Ct iii f tbr Bn tish Counborn 1 vf ro m Feb 5 was catod H U P a Umpur edu Victoria Institu‘un;,r
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  • 171 15 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. WHEN John Forteath joined the Air Training Corps fT at-Edinburgh in 1945 he did not imagine that at the a £e of 18 he would have visited Athens, Aden, Colombo, and Singapore. He stepped from a Lancastrian yesterday as
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  • 404 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27 A STATEMENT issued yesterday by Lovelace and Hastings, the solicitors of Mr. Yap Pow Sun, who was evicted from his house in Prince's Road by the Army authorities, questions the official Army account of the moves
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  • 87 15 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 30. AN application was made before Mr. W. B. Sutherland, Sessions Court President, by the Customs Department, for the case against Chiang Sia to be struck out. Accused was charged on April 21, 1947, with being in possession of chandu and
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  • 71 15 SUNGEI PATANI, Jan. 27. THE two members of the crew of the R.A.F. Mosquito, missing since Tuesday morning, landed by parachute ten miles north-east of Sintok, Siam. They are uninjured. In Singgora, and will return tomorrow in an R.A.F. aircraft to be sent for them.
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  • 68 15 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Jan. 27.—Kesavan, a Tamil goldsmith, was yesterday ordered to enter into a bond of $5OO in one surety for a period of six months when he was convicted by the President of the Sessions Court (Mr. B. V. Rhodes) of committing
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  • 181 15 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. A FAIR proportion of scrap metal from wrecks salvaged in Hong Kong waters had been turned into reinforced material for the rehabilitation of the Colony’s old buildings and the construction of new ones, the Director of Marine, Hong Kong, (Mr. James Jolly)
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  • 150 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 28. Twenty-one members have been elected to the board of directors of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. President. Mr. Homer Cheng Hui Miftg; vice-presidents, Mr. Lam Iu Cheung, Mr. G. H. Kiat; English secretary. Mi. Chew Peng Yam; Chinese secretary. Rev. Paul S. H. Hang; treasurer. Mr.
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  • 135 15 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 26. IT is understood that the Superintendent of Police. Johore. has turned down a proposal by the president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Yong Yit Lim) that the squatters evicted from Hylam Kang be interrogated the innocent
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  • 119 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. THE Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) proposed a toast to Australia at a reception given in Singapore yesterday by the Australian Commissioner for Malaya (Mr. Claude Massey) and the Trade Commissioner (Mr. James Payne) in celebration of Australia’s 15lst birthday. The Governor (Sir Franklin
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  • 129 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. Two members t.f the Ceylon Corps of Military Police, M. de Silva and D P. Dhanapala. were yesterday acquitted in the Singapore Assize Court, on a charge of unlawful possession of ammunition. It was said that they were arrested at Woodlands as the
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  • 736 16 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. THE HIGH Commissioner (Sir Henry Gurney) in a broadcast tonight on the first anniversary of the Federation ot Malaya promised to remove “some of the grievances felt by the people of Penang. In a statement apparently directed at
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  • 152 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. OPTIMISM about Far East trade, despite changing events is felt by the Earl of Inchcape. senior partner of MacKinnon, MacKenzie who is on a routine visit to Singapore. Lord Inchcape is accompanied by Lord Craigmyle. son of a previous chairman of the P
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  • 356 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. CINGAPORE-BASED Spitfires yesterday attacked an area in the Segamat district which was bandit infested and from which the terrorists were occupying strategic positions for ambushes. The target was well flushed with cannon and machine gun fire, said an R.A.F. communique
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  • 47 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. FIGURES for the United Nations Appeal for Children collections ir Britain show that Birmingham raised ‘2 36,000, the largest sum. The next largest was Liverpool with 117,000 about Straits 5140,G00. Singapore’s figure of over 5200.000 was beaten only by Birmingham.
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  • 86 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. MR. Kwa Siew Tee has resigned from the Singapore Municipal Commission, owing to pressure of office work. As a member of two standing committees—the Establishments Board and a special market committee—he gave sound advice, said the Deputy President, Mr. W. L. Blythe, in an
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  • 75 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. A nine year-old boy appeared in the Eighth Police Court, Singapore, yesterday on a charge of theft. He was alleged to have stolen a propelling pencil from 7 Malabar Street on Jan. 30, in the company of a 15 yearold boy.
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  • 237 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30 DECAUSE a single speck of dust settling in the right place could give you a wrong number, the new telephone exchange at the headquarters of the Telephone Company in Hill Street will, like the present exchange, be air-conditioned. Equipment in the new
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  • 127 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2 IMMUNISATION again.' tuberculosis with tn< serum BCG has been considered by the Singapon Government and Municipal Medical Departments. However, the director of Medical Services. Dr. W. J. Vickers, said yesterday that such campaign needed a special technique. In any case the serum was immunising
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  • 484 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 31. i li\pER conditions of complete secrecy, comIH’ b j nw j security forces made a sea-borne i Indinc on Pulau Ketam, nine miles east of Port llnettenham on Chinese New Year morning to
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  • 201 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. lEUT. Gen. Sir Eric Mansergh, new Military Secretary to the War Office, arrived in Singapore from London yesterday evening to “hold routine discussions*’ in Singapore, Malaya and Hong Kong. Gen. Mur.sergh, was met by Lieut. Col J. C. Church, the assistant Military Secretary,
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  • 160 17 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Jan. 31. A NEW $23,000 modern-type X-ray plant is on order for Seremban Hospital. The hospital authorities hope it will arrive about the middle of the year. Negri Sembilan’s Medical and Health Officer (Dr. A. Bearblock) said today that when
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  • 40 17 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Feb. I.—Loke Theatres Ltd. has taken over the Capitol Theatre at Malacca. Mr Lawrence Lee, the company’s representative, said today that Malacca would get many of the best films soon after Singapore.
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  • 208 17 NEW SALE’ POWER FOR ENEMY CUSTODIAN KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. Custodian of Enemy Property is being given 1 power to sell any property under hi s control which is unclaimed and not easily identifiable. This power is to be granted in a Bill—to come before the Federal Legislative Council on
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  • 201 17 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 1. Representations have been made to Government for the release of Madame Au Kwee, the 53-year-old mother of a Roman Catholic priest, who Is being held in a detention camp at Tanjong Bruas in Malacca under the “squatter area” Emergency
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  • 87 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. MY adopted parents were forcing me to marry a man I did not like,” pleaded Lee Git Heng, aged 18, when charged yesterday before the Singapore Eighth Police Magistrate (Mr. R. A. J. Wait), with attempted suicide. She said she tried to
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  • 50 17 SINGAPORE, Feb. 2. Two Indians—a motor cyclist and a pedestrian with whom he was in collision were injured at the Junction of Anson Road and Cecil Street last night After the collision the motor cycle burst into flames and the rider, Koleneayvellu, fell from his machine.
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  • 641 19 SINGAPORE, Jan 28. 1*0 RE Turf Club will oppose most strongly payment of Entertainment Duty in addition (ax on totalisator and sweep turnover and tax and is awaiting the outcome of repref ions which are being made in the Federation pursuing the matter further. is
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  • 109 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. A N exciting and keenly-contested soccer match was played on the Raffles Institution ground yesterday between the Raffles Institution and the Star Soccerites. The score at the final whistle was four-three in favour of the Soccerites, who deserved to win. Within seven minutes of
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  • 45 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. ¥N keenly contested game, the Jollilads football XI drew with a Combined Europeans team oneall at Farrer Park yesterday. The Europeans opened the scoring through Jenson in the first tenth minute. while Hussain equalised for the Jollilads before the interval.
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  • 51 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 29. WITH the Singapore Cricket Club Women’s hockey XI improving bv leaps and bounds, their “A" eleven proved too good for a strong G.S.C. “A” team and beat them by three goals to nil on th„* padane yesterday. Scorers for the S.C.C were S. Still. McCaw
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  • 30 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. Telegraphic communication with Bagan Si Api Api, in Dutch occupied Sumatra, have now been restored. All cables must be written in English or Dutch.
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  • 341 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. IN spite of fielding seven 1 State players the Singapore Recreation Club had a close call against the Armv in a hockey match on the Club padang yesterday, winning by I the odd goal in three. The Army played a grand
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  • 63 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 27. IN a rugger match played at St. George’s Road yesterday. H.M.S. Consort defeated 223 8.0. D. by eight points ta goal and a try) to five ta goal). Sykes scored two tries for the winners, one of which was converted by Oldsworth. The
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  • 64 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. pULAU BRANI beat the GHQ Signal Regiment by two goals to nil in a game of soccer at Pulau Brani yesterday. Pulau Brani got their first goal in the first half through A Gabos. After the interval Pulau Brani got a gift goal when
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  • 30 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 27. Changi Ladies’ Hockey XI beat the Singapore Cricket Club women’s hockey team by one goal to nil in a game played at Changi yesterday.
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  • 956 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 30. MPSETTINE the calculations of practically every armchair critic in the country. North beat the South in last evening’s Malaya.. Rugby finale, scoring a try and a penalty to South’s lone try. It was a thrilling game from the word go and up to
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  • 171 19 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 27. riiHE newly-formed Selangor Malay Women’s Hockey Team, at present the centre of a controversy regarding whether or not Muslim girls should take part actively In sport, has found a supporter in Dato Onn bin Ja’afar, President of the
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  • 124 19 SINGAPORE. Jan. 31. THOUGH showing superiority In every department of tho game, the Eag’e Sports Club failed to beat the Rocklites In a soccer match at Geylang Stadium yesterdav. Bird. the Rocklites centreforward. wno scored the first goal of the evening, played an aggressive and
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  • 617 20 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets had a quiet week last week, a fact to which the impending Chinese New Year holidays contributed. Many years ago this festival was sometimes preceded by annual liquidation of shares and goods by Chinese holders.
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  • 26 20 rKKA has declared an Interim dividend of 3d nor .-hare pav* iibU‘ on Fob. 14, 1949, on account or the year to March 1919.
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  • 282 20 VfALAYA’S foreign trade last year was a past-war record. December, however, was the month with the worst showing of the twelve; exports in that month fell ‘o l.ttle over three-quarters of November’s. The over-all figure for the year was $3,521,000,000 ($834.000.000 above the 1947 figure). The December
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  • 142 20 SINOAPORE, Jan. 29. MALAYA last year produced 45.257 long tons of palm oil and 8.471 lone tons of palm oil kernel compared with the 1947 figures of 39.115 and 5.355 long tons respectively. Total exports of palm oil for the vear were 48.176
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  • 62 20 THE total area of tappable rubber estate* in the Federation of Malaya last month was 1,828,256 acres. Of this, 1,624.947 acres was tapped, according to the Registrar of Statistics (Mr. H. L. Barnett). Estates which had entirely ceased tapping during the month covered 24.224 acres, those in
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  • 79 20 THE Federation of Malaya i n December exported 1,779.59 tons of copra, 3,623.62 tons of coconut oil and 371,500 coconuts, according to the Registrar of Statistics (Mr. H. L. Barnett). In the same period 453.13 tons of copra and 5 27 tons of
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  • 33 20 T HE Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s annual general meeting will be held in Hong Kong on Mar. 5. Transfer books will be closed from Feb. 18 to Mar. 5 inclusive.
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  • 215 20 SINGAPORE, Jan > nUBBER prices were r ln tained early in the < eek by covering for Russian inn mental but when this mand appeared satisfy f( the time being a declin se t in, says Lewis Peat’s ..t ly market report. This setback howev< i
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  • 116 20 Malayan Tin TIN -ORE concentrates and tin metal content mined during th: last quarter of 1948 totalled 28.646 long tons and the total number of mine, and dredging units operating at the end of 1948 *as 633 in all parts of the Federation of Malaya. There is no
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  • 805 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 1. INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Atlas Ice 14.00 15.00 Alex Bricks Prof. 2.85 2.924 Ord. 1.974 2.024 B B. Petrol 43/6 44/6 B M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con Tin Smelters Pref. 23/6 24/6 Ord. 17/9 18/6 E Utd Assur. 40 75 41.75 Est. <k Trust Ag
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