The Straits Budget, 24 January 1952

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    30 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY] Series No. 286. Singapore Thursday, January 24, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.
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  • STRAITS TIMES POST-BAG
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      ‘THE ENTIRE PUBLIC WANT TO KNOW’
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      Marked absent
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      THE TAMIL EFFORT
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      POWERLESS
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      Temple, monastery: question and answer
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      LABOUR PARTY FUTURE
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      THE BUILDING BY LAWS AND THE FARMER
      315 2  -  lt.s. LEGISLATION. if thoughtlessly mad#- and ind ihmmstered, is liable to beco: i to progress and a cause of mu The pom: in mind is the application of t: Knral 3care Bui'.ding Bylaws to cover farm bui. frr J-Tescoci As Mr Koec. Teck
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      STREET URCHINS AT WORK
      60 2  -  VICTIM 'triTw^rf a i «mg cf street 1 a: wcrk near the Brig* Rc-si toxf park;r.£ their :ar< i* l bfir.c v-.cti-T'rifT demand money itrcf whether the i~-> in the car or i t-P 15 refused they nit: a note cf the car in: next time
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      ESTATE SCHOOL
      77 2  -  ANXIOl S Ka.»anjc I AM a Tamil school teacher cr. an estate, and mv pav hen. paid to the estate tr the Education Department e J*ann of a School £i* r i I have no other either from the Department cr front the estate Ar medically tit. mentis.
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      TEMPER IN THE OFFICE
      159 2  -  BO THL&X POOR IpA. AS JOOc u I read aij m kc Si .snUji Fy. on 2H2j people wcili ip« with =e bectsje •dnoc n by ic.jcrf rji: Kltirti Ir !»r. I wroc* sort Mri »id :Pft: :pe Got*—sc *ref* Ue *aeep- i>r ire rwe-r vaere&i
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      NEW HOUSES IN PAHANG
      91 2  -  OBSERVER Pahang. 1C®SHRVE iroci the Stn Times od Jan 5 it someone was Sued Singapore for bizildmr charcoal shed without 51 miniiut a plan to the C Council This is in a r:: dance with the Law Pre-war ir. Pahang the. used to be a la-:
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      A HUMPY, LUMPY JALAN
      76 2  -  K r CHANORASEGAR Singapore. DURING the recent C Council election. Mr A Rajah promised to ask for reconstruction and repair the bad roads and Jalan> Singapore. Has that t done? Jalan Ampas in Balestier Roa<| area, is or. the Wivrst j a lans I hav* aeen
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  • The Straits Budget
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      Mr. Lyttelton Explains
      991 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 17. jjcat many things were do dearer by the Secretary c ~-0 at the Press confer:*t which he announced appointment of General i ierald Templer as High C n issioner for the FcderaBut whether the new High Commissioner is a “supreme minder” was not
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      Tin Pact Doubts
      750 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 18. It is odd that although Mr. Eden is so satisfied that the tin-steel pact with America is such a fine thing for everyone, there should be an unexplained delay in announcing the details. News of the possibility of a deal leaked out before
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      Rising Terror In Egypt
      409 3 —Straits Times, Jan. 18 The arrest of an Egyptian general and 160 police by British troops in a raid on sniper hideouts in the Tel el Kebir area throws further light on the rising terror in the Canal zone. In the past ten days there has
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      Warning To Wantons
      651 3 Straits Times, Jan 19 The Far East was not at the top of the Churchill-Truman agenda, nor did the Prime Minister give it more than modest attention in his address to Congress. But it is not improbable that America will find nothing in Mr. Churchill’s speech of
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      Empire Troops in Malaya
      323 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 19 )Ui»* arrival of the Ist Fiji r *huiiry Regiment and the Ist and 3rd Battalions of the King’s African Rifles this week-end is a welcome reinforcement in Malaya’s war against Communism. They J join Malay and British troops and the small contingent
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      The Battle Of The Truce
      534 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 21. Everyone must still hope that Peking will see reason, and that the long drawn out armistice talks in Korea will reach a successful conclusion. But patience is sorely tried. There has been no significant progress of any kind since the new
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      The Tin Mystery Deepens
      392 4 —Straits Times. Jan. 21. Second thoughts on the British Government’s tin for steel deal with Washington are becoming a popular pasttime. Nor is this surprising, for the more that Press correspondents unearth about the deal, the less we really know. It is now disclosed that the
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      The Rice Ration
      229 4 —Straits Times, Jan. 21. The familiar complaint of the poor quality of rationed rice, raised in Singapore as well as the Federation, can be dealt with effectively only if those who complain are prepared to do something about it. That some of this rice is poor stuff
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      K.L. Election Campaign
      586 4 ms- straits Times, Jan. 22. From a relatively quiet beginning, Kuala Lumpur’s election campaign has developed into a struggle of unexpected interest. Malacca accepted the franchise, but did not use it. Penang campaigned and went to the polls on matters of almost exclusively local interest—and these arc
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      The Left Wing and China
      496 5 —Straits Times, Jan. 22. When Parliament sits again pex t week, Mr. Churchill must expect a Labour attack on one at least of the undertakings he gave to President Truman. The Bevanite group, whose influence has grown iince the general election, will press for an
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      New lease for sterling
      739 5 —Straits Times. Jan. 23. The decisions concealed in the official statement on the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ conference are believed. in financial quarters in London, to be a correct answer to the problems of the sterling area. The decisions are certainly concealed. The communique hints much, but
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      The Japanese Treaty
      356 5 —Struts Times. Jan. 23. Not all the evidence given the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favour of ouiek ratification of the Japanese peace treaty will he read here with pleasure. Admittedly it would he hard to find anv valid argument against ratification of the treaty, hut that
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    They want del Tufo
    176 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 16. I?UALA LUMPUR politico I lv and community leaders yesterday recommended Mr M. V. del Tufo. Officer Administering the Federation Government, for the nost or Deputy Hitffi Commissioner to be created shortly. His confirmed ndminis‘rative ability and wide experience of the country fitted
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      217 5 TAN- To PEGGY. W»fe of K. S. Tan. at K K Hospital, on ?2nri January 1952 a son. LAWLEY: To DORRIE. wte of R. L. Lawley. Postal Services Oenartment. a fine daughter. Dorothy Anne and a welcome s’sler for Dinah Marv. at Kuala rr**Ti&«mnu. on 20 1 52 HANSON
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      ENGAGEMENT
      22 5 MR JACKSON Vincent Wooif Of Pilmoor E tate. Se'angor. and M;s- Irene Ch r ah Oeok Lan of Norfolk Rond. Sineanore.
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      MARRIAGE
      97 5 CIIEE-GOON: At Ipoh. on 20.1 52. Yam Kong, third son cf Mr. Mrs Chee Lin Scong to Swee Chin, e'der daughter of Mr. Mrs Goon Kwee Khoon THE marriage took p’ace between M s Tan Sock Cheng and Mr. ')uahe Hup Swe*. at The Registrar of Marriages today IP
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      ACKNOWLEDGETMENTS
      115 5 MR. MRS. QUAHE HUP SWEE wish to thank a l relatives and friends for the valuable gifts, on the occasion of th r ir marriage OATO SIR CHENQ-LOCK TAN thanks all those uho have sent congratulations and will send proper aeknowledgments as soon as possible Mr. A: Mrs. Chee
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    246 5 1 MRS. TAY LEE SENO thanks friends :ind relatives for their kind help and sympathy and for attending the funeral of her late husband. Peter. MR. Ac MRS. RAMCHANDVIS. wish to thank all relatives and triends for attending cremation ceremony <f their daughter Rajdularl on 16th Jan. at Bidadarl. She
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    A SINGAPORE DIARY
    2627 6  -  Stanley Street. From The Straits Times of Jan. 17 —Jan. 23. Freemen YESTERDAY'S news report of preparations for the ceremony at which the free 1om of the City of Singapore will be conferred on the Governor of the Colony, Sir Franklin Ciinson. calls f o mind, amony
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    SISTER AND BROTHER
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    Countryman’s Journal
    805 7  -  TUAN DJEK. ,1'ITHIN the memory \V ,f the oldest inhalant of Kota Tinggi i hot e has never before h( wv.i a flood on two con-L-utive years. But this war’s follows that inich hit us in 1951. The town was under four i(‘it of water on the morning
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    Not victims of the floods but young dulang washing girls.
    19 7 Photograph by Mrs. Birte St eincko of Kuala Lumpur.
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    Penang first in flying rally
    249 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 20. OENANG Flying Club, at Kuala Lumpur today, won the Dane Cup in the first Malayan air rally since the war. The Dane Cup was competed for annually before the war and the award made for proficiency in a series of competitions.
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    GUN SHOT STOPPED THE MUSIC
    75 7 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. A SHOT rang from the charge room of the Bukit Mertajam Province Wellesley police station during a kenduri in the compound outside on the occasion of the doubfi wedding of the daughters of a police sub-inspector and a police constable. The shot
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    Gaoled for theft of watch
    65 7 SEREMBAN. Sun.—G A. Distagir was sentenced to onday’s imprisonment and lined $75 in default one month’s imprisonment for theft of a $45-watch at the Cathay cinema. Chin Meng Shing, a cinema operator, said that, he kept his watch in a hole in the wall of
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    Suspected of aiding bandits
    45 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 20. Raub police arrested fourteen suspected bandit helpers in raids during the weekend Ten other suspects were rounded up in Kedah After finding a bandit camp in the Kuala Kangsar area of Perak yesterday, police arrested three suspects
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    2 MILES OF TRACK BROKEN
    148 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 16 A BOUT two miles of raf.«*ay track Las either bi*en washed away or is badly out f>f alignment as a result of the recent floods in North Johore. t hi* Malayan Railway AdminLs:ration announced today. Normal services between Kuala Lumpur and
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    Johore C.D. chief
    78 8 JOHORE BAHRU Jail. lf>. BRIGADIER W K. Bordas has arrived In Johore Bahru from Britain to take up the 1 newly-created appointment of Assistant Commissioner. Civil Defence. Johore. This brings Johore Ir.to line with Penang. Perak and Selangor. Brigadier LJordas will have administrative control over Home <hi
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    Killed a man with pistol, fined $500
    195 8 Killed a man with pistol fined $500 KUANTAN, Jan. 16. \|R JUSTICE Whitton in the Kuantan Assizes today, fined Richard John Davies, a miner. $5OO for carrying firearms while under the influence of liquor. Davies, who is 36. was employed bv the Pahang Consolidated Mint* at Sungci Leming. The Deputy
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    ‘Schools plan must be joint effort’
    190 8 D SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. ATO E E. C. rhuraisinpham. Mombor for Education, Federation, said in Singapore yesterday that it would bp unrealistic for the Colony and the Federation to approach the subject of a unified education service n n different lines •Speaking at a
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    MANAGER FINED
    43 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. Tan Cheng Kang, manager of an import and export firm in Market .Slr< < t. lound guilty of making a false declaration to tin- (fontroller ol Foreign Kxehange, wa.s fined $5,000 in *c Singapore First, Distriit Court ye t.erday.
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    POLICE GUARD TOWGAY EXPERIMENT
    227 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. THE Singapore towgay controversy was taken a step further on Tuesday when a comparative towgay growing experiment, using both tap and well water, was begun by the City Analyst, Mr. T. A. Spillane. The experiment is being held in a hut in Minto
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    Tip—and a bandit died
    60 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 16. JJOME Guards and men of No 6 Federal Police Jungic Company joined forces in the Kuala Krau area of Pahang yesterday to followup information given bv a member of the Dublic. Thev killed a bandit. Four other bandits were killed elsewhere in
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    ASST. CHIEF OF CIVIL DEFENCE
    33 8 JOHROE BAHRU. Jan. 16. Brigadier W H. Bordas has arrived in Johore Bahru from Britain to take uo the new appointment of Assistant Commissioner ol Civil Defence. Johore
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    88 GUNS HAIL CARRIER’S ARRIVAL
    173 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. riGHTY-EIGHT guns thun. dered in >alute at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday afternoon when’ *he French aircraft carrier, Arromanehes, escorted hv the latnous R.N. frigate, Amethyst, arrived from Indochina. Tlie Arromanchcs, formerly H M S. Colossus, which has been serving in Indo-Chinese
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    Sales of New Year cards drop
    143 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. “CiALES of Chinese New Year lO greeting cards are not as good as last year”, the manager of n Singapore stationery store said yesterday. ‘This i s probably due to the general rise in prices everywhere. Chinese, however. must send cards
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    HAD GUN—TO DIE
    35 8 IPO H. Wed.—Forty-one year-old Teoh Long Kce was sentenced to death today in the Supreme Court for being found in possession of a rifle on an estate in the Sungel Siput area.
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    AXE ATTACK DRAWS FINE
    58 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 16. Suklma binte Abciul Rahman was flned $5O in the Sessions Court- today for causing hurt with an axe to Paiman bin Kartomo at Senai. Boih a quarrel over the possession of some sheets of corrugated iron and Sukima picked up an axe
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    Plans for better Govt. paper work
    174 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. QINGAPORE Governments organisation consultant., may recommend within the next two weeks improved methods of filing and minuting for the various Government departmets. Mr. K A Blacker. Organisation Secretary. told the Straits Times yestrday. Mr. Blacker said that the three resident consultants
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    German idea may protect estates
    216 8 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. 4 PISTOI.—FIRE test on samples of plastic armour and bullet-proof glass which recently arrived in the Colony from Germany was carried out by a bullet expert at the Singapore Police Training School yesterday. If these and further tests prove successful the armour
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    Status change affects union
    46 8 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. The Singapore Government and Municipal Labour Union i<? to change its name to the Singapore Government and City Council Labour Union. This follows the granting of City status to Singapore The committee also plans to alter the union’s constitution.
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    33 8 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed r cannot consider cases lik” this lightly,” said Inche Snllch bin Eckhardt at Bagan Serai, when he fined Lim Then” Seong $7O for driving his lorry at an excessive speed.
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    MAN WHO GOT BAIL IS HELD, HE SAYS
    316 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. SUGGESTIONS that a Singapor e-born Chinese had been illegally detained by the Crown since Jan. 2, under a banishment warrant cancelled on Thursday were made in the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. M B. Brash was applying for .i writ
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    BODY BY ROADSIDE
    26 9 LUTTERWORTH, Sat.—The of a 53-year-old Malay, a n bin Ahmat, was c n *ght on the roadv i Pen aga, Province drsley North.
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    BAIL WAS REFUSED
    28 9 r, Sat —Bail was b no Chee Long. 34. r the Segamat v -ith bring in posses\f 'K terrorist documents 4 j ules Estate, Tenang
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    TEST SHOWED NAYLOR NOT DRUNK COURT TOLD
    399 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. /nmPORAL Abdul Bakar bin Abdul Manap, of the l pi i Hit* Police, said in Singapore City Police Court •sicrday that after an accident In Tanglin Road, ill# driver, Ralph Naylor, was sent to the General i !Lni< ii for
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    New cars not for S’pore
    69 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. Hundreds of new cars. chiefly Austins, Fords and Studebakers. have arrived in Singapore during the past week. The spokesman of a Singapore motor car lirm said yesterday: “Most of these hew cars are for clients upcountry. They need large vehicles for getting
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    500th AIRSTRIKE
    34 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. The Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln Bomber Squadron at Tengah has just made its 500th airstrike against a bandit target in the Federation, the R AF. said on Thursday.
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    DRIVER FINED
    21 9 SEGAMAT, Frl— Yeo Soo Lim. aged 20 a motor-cyclist, was fined $lO at Segamat for ignoring a traffic signal.
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    Bandit is killed over the border
    163 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. A BANDIT patrol near Sadao, South Siam, clashed with Siamese police at dawn on Wednesday. The Siamese killed a woman ban/it and captured another. One Siameso policeman was slightly wounded. This is the first bandit to be killed by the Siamese
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    10,000 HIT BY FLOODS
    88 9 MUAR. Fri. M°. RE than 10,000 people have been made homeless or are in distress as a result of the recent floods which caused considerable damage to property in several villages, particularly in Bukit Kepong, Lenga and Panchor in the Muar District. Muar Flood Relief Fund
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    Cyclist accused of causing hurt
    64 9 MUAR. Fri.—A motor cyclist, Chew Choon Seong, was charged at Muar with causing grievous hurt to Ramlan bin Sokirin and Joo Eng Seng by negligent riding at Jalan Paya Mas. Tangkak, and with riding without a licence He was allowed $3OO bail on the first
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    Union for Negri clerks planned
    185 9 SEREMBAN, Jan. 18. INCHE AZIZ, a businessman, and Mr. A. Llewellyn, of the Plantation Workers' Union of Malaya, will call a meeting of all commercial employees in Negri Sembilan at 10 a.m. on Feb. 3 on the top floor of the Seremban Public Restaurant, in
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    Gaoled for robbing strolling couple
    153 9 IPOH, Jan. 18. A 25-YEAR-old store mason, Lim Kim Chang, charged with having robbed a Chinese special constable and his girl friend of a fountain pen and their identity cards on Oct. 8 last year, was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment by the Sessions
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    Johore Bahru fenced in
    66 9 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. JOHORE Bahru town is now surrounded with a perimeter fence erected to prevent food supplies being sent to bandits. The fence approximately six miles long extends from Tampoi to Pandan. It was erected at a cost of nearly $164,000, Other towns in the
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    Judgment for $13,000
    116 9 JUDGMENT for $13,338 was entered by Mr. Justice Fletcher-Rogers in the Singapore 4 High Court yesterday in a claim brought by Tav Liong Kee. trading as Leons Hin and Co., against Marine Supply Co. Mr. P. F Leonard, for Tay. said that in an action for $47,942
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    COFFEE GIRLS WARNED: ‘BEHAVE’
    149 9 PENANG, Fri. 1ZEDAH police have warned Alor Star coffee shop waitresses they must behave. And the coffee shop owners have been told they will be held responsible. In a circular just issued, the OCPD, Alor Star, outlines a three-point code of conduct for the girls. They
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    Trade with India hits record
    92 9 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. TRADE between Malaya and India last year reached a record of $322 million. Malaya exported to India $ll6 million worth of goods and imported $206 million. The increase is attributed to the steadily increasing flow of Indian imports into Malaya Malayan exports
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    TWO RAID HOUSE
    37 9 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Sat. Two armed bandits in plain clothes raided a house in Brapit, two miles from Bukit Mertajam, at about 8.30 o’clock last night ar.d escaped with an air rifle and some ammunition.
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    CAR ABLAZE
    41 9 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19 A private ear owned oy Chinese was partly destn yed by lire at the junction of Read Street and River Valley Road. Singapore, last night. Cause of the fire was a short-circuit in the car’s wiring
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    20 9 SEREMBAN. Sat,—Dr. D. K. Matunuihar left Negri Sembilan yesterday for a year’s holiday and medical treatment in India and Britain
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    ROTARY TO BUILD $60,000 SCHOOL
    144 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. r rHE Singapore Rotary Club has chosen as its service to the community for 1952 the erection of a $BO,OOO hall and school for the Trafalgar Leper Home. This was announced at the club’s weekly luncheon, yesterday by Mr. L. Cresson. head
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    Alleged entry without visas
    94 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. SEREMBAN. Wed. Moburned bin Malan. 35, and Ino bintc Pi 1. a 29-vear-old Indonesian woman, claimed 1 rial today on a charge that they, being aliens, had ent<red the Federation without a passport visa. Mohamed and Ino were alleged to have entered the
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    TWO YEARS’ GAOL FOR WOMAN, 60
    67 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Teong Ah Ling, a 00-year-old widow, was at the High Court today sentenced to two years’ Imprisonment for having been found in the company of men who were carrying arms unlawfully. Teong was one of the two women found in the
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    DEALER CHARGED
    38 10 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Ng Boh Lai a secondhand goods dealer and Ali bin Orna' a Medical Department litter, were charged with fraudulent possession of motor spare parts. They were each allowed $5O bail pend nt» trial
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    $250 FINE
    35 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. hum Hon Kin was lined $230 in Singapore ve.sterdav lor ulvine a private ear for hire at Woodlands Road on •Jan 11 hum’s driving licence ’aas suspended lor 12 months.
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    GIVE US MEN WHO STAY HERE, HE URGES
    234 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. SENIOR Government oilicers should serve for a longer period in Singapore, .Mr. Chin Chye Fong urged at a meeting of the Rural Board yesterday. Mr. Chin said that during live years’ service with the Hoard ho had seen five
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    25 bandits routed by three P.C.s
    96 10 IPOH. Wed. OUTNUMBERED eight to one. three Malay special constables this afternoon drove oIT four bandit charges and killed three of their attackers. Three special constables Wan Ambran, Musa and Noordin were the only survivors and for 20 minutes they stood by their dead
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    17, on criminal force charge
    49 10 Gucharan Singh, aged 17. of Kampong Bahru Road, was charged in Singapore yesterday with using criminal force on Lee Yeok with intent to outrage her modesty in Towner Road He claimed trial and was offered $250 bail. The case was postponed to Jan 23
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    REVENUE GOES UP IN J.B.
    151 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. THE general revenue collected by the Johore Bahru Town Board last year amounted to $478,008 $44,679 more than in 1950 Tuan Sheikh Abubakar, Offi-cer-in-Charge of Town Boards, Johore. told the members of the Johore Bahru body when they met today for the
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    Singapore to get riot ‘strong man’
    173 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. T'HE Singapore Government will probably appoint Lt.-Col. W. E. Falrbairn, “strong man’* of the prewar Shanghai Police and founder of the Shanghai Riot Fnit, to organise and train the Colony’s Riot Unit. He is in Britain at present. His services have
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    Move to raise assessment fails
    61 10 MALACCA. Wed.—A motion to revise the assessment of owner-occupied buildings in Malacca was turned down today by a majority of Councillors at the monthly meeting of the Municipal Council today. Opposition to the proposal was that, if adopted, it would remove inducement to build and
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    North and South traffic again
    180 10 TRAFFIC between North and South Malaya was resumed yesterday on a temporary road built round a gap in the main trunk road at Windy Corner, five miles north of Labis. The gap was caused by heavy flooding eight days ago when 140 ft. of the
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    Woman sues tenant
    117 10 jyjADAM M. A. SEAH, sued Mr. K. Sankaran in the Singapore Civil District Court, yesterday for possession of 9. Barker Road, a compound house said to have been rented to him at $BO a month. She alleged that neither the tenant nor any member of his family
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    Muar declared restricted area
    54 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The district of Muar has been declared a controlled area for the purpose of the Emergency (Restriction of Movement of Foodstuffs) Regulations. The movement on all the the roads in the district of all foodstuffs, other than rice, are exempted from the pi
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    Man missing from launch
    48 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Omar bin Sahan, employed in a Marine Department motor launch, was missing when the boat arrived at Mersing recently. It is presumed he fell off the launch and was drowned. His wife is beine assisted by the Mersing District Welfare Committee.
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    32 10 PARIT BUNTAR, Wed.— Narayanasamy was fined $4O when he pleaded guilty to two charges of being in possession of toddy and destroying the contents of a pot containing toddy to prevent seizure.
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    Mail crashes into pilot train
    97 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 17. r pHE night mail train from Kuala Lumpur to Penang last night crashed into the wreckage of a pilot train which had been derailed a few minutes earlier between Tcmoh and Kampar in South Perak. There were no casualties. Last night’s
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    Court claim after fatal road crash
    159 10 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. M R Justice Fletcher-Rogers reserved judgment in the Singapore High Court yesterday regarding an action arising out of a collision between a motor car and a lorry. Ng Seow Hee, a porkseller, was killed. The collision occurred at the junction of
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    $500 fine on ‘pirate’ taxi
    104 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. A PIRATE taxi driver. Tan Nam Heng. was in tlie Singapore City Police Court yesterday fined a total of $5OO and had his driving licence suspended for one year. The City Magistrate. Mr K. J. L. Jamieson, said he would not hesitate
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    5 FINED FOR OBSTRUCTION
    81 10 The Singapore City Police Court Magistrate. Mr. K J.L Jamieson, yesterday warned carpenters that he would treat them very harshly unless they discontinued obstructing tne live-foot wav with furniture. He fined Teong Theng, a carpenter of Joo Chiat Road. $5O for causing obstruction there. Goh Choon
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    Forestry chief joins FAO
    63 10 SINGAPORE. Jan. 17. Mr. H. G Keith, Chief Conservator of Forests. North Borneo, has joined the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations as a technical assistance expert. He served with the Forestry Department in Borneo for 27 years. After visiting F.A.O. headquarters in Rome
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    Actor beaten up by mob backstage
    143 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. i MOB of Hainanese A swarmed into the siunprilla Cafe, in the ew World, Singapore, j. ist nitjht and smashed diairs and threw bottles lt the stage while a Chinese drama was being performed. TV aalienee panicked and n were called
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    U.N. photographer in Singapore
    52 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 18. A United Nations photographer. Mr. Donald Fraser, who is making documentary dims in Asian countries, arrived in Singapore yesterday by Qantas-BOAC. Ho has shot more than 35.000 feet of film in Pakistan, India, and Indonesia for a newsreel on the United Na:ons Technical
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    65 m.p.h. ride ended in star’s death
    176 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. U -LAY film star, JafTar bin Ahmad Shah, who died on Dec. 8 after he had been thrown from a ’r-cycle, in Mountbatten Road, was travelling a 1 miles an hour immediately before the accident, Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh,
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    CYCLIST FINED
    18 11 v -n Poo. a <*hop assisfincd in the City Police Court for failing to rehis bicycle.
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    HOSPITAL BOARD NAMED
    71 11 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri. The following have been appointed to serve on the Local Hospital Board, Kota Tinggi, for 1952. Ir.che Safiah binte Mohd. Noi'i Mia ..l H. Edmett, Ungk’.i vo- i i binte Abdul Rahman, Naib Penghulu Mohd i bin Awang. Mr. Tan F g Toon, Mr.
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    Dyaks,Ibans get a club
    93 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 18. WHEN the British Malayan Petroleum Company at Seria opened a club for its D.vak and Iban employees recently, the ribbon across the entrance to the club was cut in Iban fashion—with a parang. The parang was later presented to the managing dir- ector
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    Death boat carried too many
    254 11 KUALA LUMPUR Thur. The owner of the motor--1 boat which capsized in the Perak River at Mannong on Dec. 14 had grossly neglected the safety of his passengers, said Mr. M. Garton when he gave his findings in Kuala Kangsar Court today. Mr. Garton held
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    SCHOOLS WON’T HAVE 3 SESSIONS AFTER ALL
    183 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. CjINGAPORE’S plan for three sessions a day in some schools to ease the shortage of schools in the Colony, has been called off. The Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, said yesterday: “There are several factors to contend with
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    Seaman had opium charge
    39 11 William Bunnewell, a seaman wa.s charged In Singa pore yesterday with naving 68 lb of opium at the Harbou* Board He claimed trial and was offered $15,000 bail. The case was postponed to Jan 22
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    Co-op for settlement
    54 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 17. THE Settlers’ Co-operative Societv Provision Store and Coffeeshop at Subang resettlement area. Selangor. began business today. It was declared open by Mr. J A R. MacDonald. Assistant District Officer. Kepong. The organisation has 800 members who hold shares worth $25,000. More shops art*
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    Mrs. del Tufo visits home
    56 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Mrs. del Tufo, wife of the Officer Administering the C eminent in the Federation, today visited the State Welfare Home, Johore Bahru, accompanied by Miss Enid Fernandes, State Social Welfare Officer. Mrs. del Tufo spoke to Maimunah, a girl, shortly to be
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    Cobra bites boy playing in garden
    245 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. PROMPT action on the part of the Singapore General Hospital staff saved the life of Noel Gamba, a 14-year-old schoolboy, after h e was bitten by a cobra. Noel, the son of Mr. Charles Gamba, lecturer in economics at the University
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    The fish that went for 7 cents a kati
    170 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. TWO hundred piculs of ikan tamban were sold at seven cents a kati in April last year for use as manure because there were no wholesale marketing facilities in the Jurong area. The chairman of the Singapore Rural
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    $15,000 bail on opium charge
    54 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. Lim Cheng Mei, a bumboat man, was charged in the Singapore Third District Court yesterday with possession of 68 lb. of raw opium at the Singapore Harbour Board on Wednesday. He claimed trial and was offered bail of $15,000. The case was
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    NOT VALID: $10
    24 11 MUAR, Thurs. Rahman bin Ahmad, who used hi.s car ‘it Jalan P'*tr w>th m f.-nireri licence was fined <5lO w Muar
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    SAPPERS BEAT UP SERGEANT
    144 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. 'TTIREE Sappears of the SinA gapore Engineer Regiment were yesterday found guilty by a District Court Martial of punching and kicking their sergeant on Christmas Eve. David William Price, who was found guilty on an additional charge of assaulting a Malay Other Rank
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    MORE SUGAR
    112 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. BECAUSE of the fear of deterioration in stocks of brown sugar landed in Singapore for transhipment, the Controller of Supplies has agreed to release some of the sugar for sale In the open market here. The price Us not controlled and the public will be
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    2ND SUPER BLACKOUT
    70 11 SINGAPORE, Jan. 18. For the second time in four days, residents living in the western portion of Singapore had a longer-than-usual blackout last night. A fault traced to the mains at the Pierc<* Road sub-sta-tion resulted in uncooked dinners, no radios and no lights for residents in
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    $60 FINE ON 2 MOTOR-CYCLISTS
    55 11 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.— Bakanperi bin Sotar, and Attan bin Awang, special constables, were lined $6O each for riding a motor cycle without a driver’s licence and third party insurance. The Court was told that the two were learning to ride a motor cycle each hiking
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    CHEATING IS ALLEGED
    40 11 SINGAPORE. Jan. 18. Wee Kim Hock, aged 47. of Now Bridge Road was charged in Singapore yesterday with cheating Thllappon Arumugam of $80 on Dec 31. He was ollered $2,000 ball and the case postponed to Thursday
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    SIR JOHN OPENS NEW OFFICES
    619 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. yHE history of Guthrie and Company largely typified the course of the trade and commerce of Singapore, said Sir John Hay. London managing director of Guthrie and Co., when he opened the new offices of the company in the Chartered Bank Building,
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    HE FOUND GRENADE
    88 12 SINGAPORE. Jan. 20. T IGHT-KEEPER A E. BapJ tist of the Malacca Marine Department. stationed at Cape Rachado lighthouse, went for a walk along the bench a few days ago. It was a lovely day and the light-keeper thought he would look for some shellfish He came
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    DIDN’T REGISTER FOR CARD: $40
    42 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs.Abdul Rahim. a worker at the Central Store, was fined $4O lor failing to get, an identity card. Hf. said he had not re"istered for a card because he did not have a permanent address.
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    RAF HAMMERS RED HIDEOUTS
    68 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. The hideout area of a bandit gang in Northern Perak received a dawn-to-midday hammering yesterday from relays of R.A F. and R.A.A.F, aircraft. The hideout area, in thick jungle on steep ground overlooking an important road, was bombed and strafed by R.A F.
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    WOMAN HAD 7 RED DOCUMENTS
    205 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. CHINESE woman of 22, admitted in the Singapore Firs* District Court yesterday that she had in her possession seven seditious documents on Oct. 28, 1951. She was Tan Yan Choo, who said she did not know that it wa an offence to
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    4 BANDITS KILLED
    21 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 19. Four bandits were killed and two terrorist suspects were captured in the Federation yesterday.
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    POLICE SEIZE 4 ROBBERS
    395 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. PROMPT ACTION and co-operation between the police anl the public on Friday night led to the arrest of four suspects following an armed robbery in a house in Farrer Road. Ten minutes after the robbery, radio patrol car had rounded up two suspects
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    OIL MILL FOR MERSING
    102 12 JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 19. IT is proposed to establish a coconut oil mill at Mersing. The initiative has been taken by Inehe A. Ghani bin Elais who has been a copra merchant in Mersing for several years. Inche Ghani is putting up a working capital of
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    MOVED FOOD
    46 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 20. Wong Koon Yeow. found removing foodstuffs from a restricted area at Gelang Pateh without a permit, was fined $.15 and Lee Ban Hoi, a factory worker found carrying a small quantity of fish in the sam area, was fined $5.
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    TWO FINED $100
    31 12 MUAR Thurs Two motorists. On<’ Slew Chuan and Ahmad bin Hamid, wnrp -ach fined $100 or 50 days’ imprisonment at Muar for using their private cars for hire.
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    Biggest trade fair opened
    202 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20 USING gold scissors worth $l,OOO. Mrs. William Addis wife of the Deputy Commis-sioner-General, yesterday opened the largest trade fair Singapore has ever seen—the Great Eastern Trade Fair at Geylang. The fair, the first of its kind organised in Malaya has 200 stalls displaying
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    DR. AMSTUTZ FOR LEAVE
    93 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20 Dr. Hobart B. Amstutz senior Methodist minister n Malaya, and his wife leave Singapore todav bv sea or. i year’s vacation to the Unit* States. Dr. Amstutz will visit 1 son who is studying in Wasl ington and his daughter w lives in
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    A SHOUT RANG OUT AT 1 A.M.
    78 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. PENANG, Sat. A mechanic, Ho Geok, who arrived in Penang yesterday from Kampar, Perak, died sudden ly this morning at a hotel in Leith Street. He had taker a room with his wife earlir. the same day. They went, on:
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    20 12 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21 Singapore firemen wen yesterday called to Bend' 1 meer Road to deal with a rubbish dump fire.
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    Requiem for Marshal de Lattre
    241 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. j )il’l OM ATS, Service chiefs and local leaders yesterday attended a Requiem May* at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Singapore, Cor Marshal •P'.ui de I.attic de lour British soldiers and tour French sailors from he French aircrift-carrier Arromanclies took turns
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    Pleads guilty to car theft
    52 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. Hong Kee, aged 37. uuil-y in Singapore :i V to the theft of a a! belonging to Loo i; >n on Jan. 16. <> pleaded guilty to ;r from the custody of corporal on ‘the when he was de'he Central Police remanded
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    No reason for arrest, says magistrate
    155 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. FIVE hawkers, charged in Singapore yesterday with causing obstruction told the magistrate. Mr. P. Clague. that they were detained in a police station for three hours before being released on bail. Inspector G Tolson the Prosecuting Officer, said it was necessary
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    30 13 JOHORE BAHRU. Jan. 18. Low Bok Bai, a Muar teacher, was charged with attempting to smuggle 15 yards of cloth valued at $9O. She was allowed $l2O bail pending trial.
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    Fined $130 for food offence
    56 13 SERLMBAN. Fri A line ot $l3O or one months imprisonment. was. imp >sed at Seremban on Leong Pak Kin. aged 40. a lorry attendant, for carrying restricted foodstuffs without a permit. Inspector Bacnan Singh said Leong's lorry was stopped at a road block and 48
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    MALAYA PLANS MANPOWER REGULATIONS
    139 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. manpower regulations are being drafted for the Federation and Singapore. The Federation regulations will be considered by the Federal Legislative Council in March. Details are expected to be announced in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore early next month. The regulations do not entail a
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    S’pore rubber mart in the doldrums
    235 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. A FTER the relative activity of last week the rubber market has again entered the doldrums. There is no particular selling pressure, orders generally are below this market, but occasionally there is some demand for lower grades, says Lewis and Peats
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    TWO TEACHERS TRANSFERRED
    40 13 MUAR. Fri. Two Muar teachers, Inche Anton bin Jenain. of the Government English Preparatory School, and Che Azizah binte Abdullah. of the Sultan Abu Bakar Girls' School. have been transferred to the Government English School in Merslng.
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    It was a soldier’s birthday
    255 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. TO celebrate his 32nd birth1 day. Gunner William McKenzie, of the Royal Artillery attached to R.E.M.E., decided to have a few drinks with three friends. But by the end of the evening he had "a blackout,” during which he hit a lance
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    Round clock air raids
    48 13 SINGAPORE. Jan. 19. gANDIT targets in five States were attacked in air operations during the 24hour period ending at midnight yesterday. RAF. Sunderland flying boats. Hornet fighters and Brigand light bombers attacked suspected bandit camp areas in Perak. Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Selangor and Johore.
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    LAW ON FLAG
    42 13 SINGAPORE, Jan. 19. Government last night announced that on India Day, Uie Indian national flag can be flown outside homes, public buildings and oilices. But it cannot be carried or displayed in any procession, or flown on any vehicle.
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    8 bandits killed in two days
    196 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 18. TAN San Quee, district committee member of the Bi'.kit, Pasar (in the Muar area of Johore) branch of the Malayan Communist Party, wa.s among the eight bandits killed by security forces in the last two days. Six other bandits were
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    Wounded -routed bandits
    171 14 IPOH, Sat. THOUGH he received ♦our wounds in an ambush while wading Hirough a swamp to a bandit camp, Lieut. Lionel Scott-Langlcy of the 45 Commandos continued to lead the attack on the camp and later made his way back on foot with the patrol to base,
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    BANDIT CAME OUT TO EAT
    139 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. HUNGRY bandit, having a meal at a foodstall in the Bon tong aroa of Pahang admitted ho had “come from the jungle” when a policeman asked him for his identity card. The man was arrested.. Two bandits outside a resettlement area near
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    Constable dies of wound
    38 14 IPOH. Sun.—A young constable, Haida bin Jallaluddin working in a resettlement camp at Jelapang was taken to hospital last night with a gunshot wound in the chest. He died a few hours alter admission.
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    NEW PHASE IN JUNGLE WAR
    684 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 20. the next six weeks, a new phase in the light against the Communists in the Federation is expected. The new High Commissioner for the Federation. Ceneral Sir Gerald Templer, who will have taken up his job, will have summed up the situation
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    They must tell quality of the meat
    135 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. lICENSED Muslim meat. j stalls holders in Singapore have been told by the Health Committee of the Citv Council to display signboards in English. Malay and Tamil describing the quality of the meat they offer for sale in future The
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    BUKIT TIMAH FLOOD SURVEY UNDERTAKEN
    228 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. PIE City Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, is conducting a survey of the Clu Pandan region of Singapore to see if his plan to drain off the flood waters at Bukit Timah through this district is possible. The Joint Committee set up by
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    GOVT. TO CHANGE HOTEL GRANTS
    290 14 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. SINGAPORE Government will from March 1 pav only reduced hotel allowances for its senior officials who cannot set Government Quarters The rates have been unchanged since 1946. and the revised rates were drawn up by the Temporary Quarters r Ymrrittee with special
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    Fireworks ablaze in the G.P.O.
    77 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 20. THE Fire Brigade was called to the Singapore General Post Office yesterday afternoon to deal with a fire in the mail section. Two parcels, containing fireworks, were ablaze. Prompt action by the firemen prevented th e fire destroying other mail. Postal authorities
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    2 ARMED MEN ROB WOMAN OF $2,000
    115 14 IPOH, Sun. IN a daylight armed robbery in Green Town yesterday two men took about $2,000 in cash and jewellery from a Malay clerk’s quarters. The men arrived at the semi-detached house on bicycles at noon when the woman, with her little daughter,
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    Stabbed and robbed
    114 14 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21 \BILL collector. Mr. V* Hock Seng, was stabb* twice and robbed of mart than $7OO in daylight on Saturday when four armed Chinese held him up a? New Bridge Road. Singajxr about 500 yards from the Central police station. Mr Yeoh had just collected
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    MEDICINE MAN FINED
    60 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan 2b Wong Yu Hua. a Chinest physician, of Malacca, was fined $5O in Johore Bahru police court for moving medicine from the Kulai resettlement area without a permit. He told the court that he went to the area to see his patients and the
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    TRIED SUICIDE
    39 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan 20 Chia Yong, who was charged in the Kota Tinggi Police Court with attempting to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Johor* 1 River, w*as bound over to bof good behaviour for sixmonths.
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    17 14 JOHORE BAHRU, Jan. 20 Ng Chak Chong was fined $180 for seirlng beer wholesale without a licence
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    SGT. P. Kuba—known as Snow White to his men—performed a spirited Fijian dance on deck, while the others crowded round to sing, clap and stamp, just after the troopship Asturias arrived in Singapore yesterday: 831 Fijians arrived to help in the fight against the bandits.
    50 15 SGT. P. Kuba—known as Snow White to hi s men— performed a spirited Fijian dance on deck, while the others crowded round to sing, clap and stamp, just after the troopship Asturias arrived in Singapore yesterday: 831 Fijians arrived to help in the fight against the bandits. Sunday Times picture.
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    Seaman’s ‘jolly time’ cost $110
    93 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 21. W -Til a biuL-fd face and a b o.•ti-sta’ned -‘•ye r-old .seaman, *r lav Smgauore Second i’v.icc Court Magistrate. Mr R. I. B Pates, that last night ne wa* "out 101 a iollv good time which unfortuna’elv ended badly." Donald who pleaded
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    15 days’ grace for parcels
    132 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. ine Postmaster-General. annou nces that with ll e c J f ;°m Feb. 1. parcels 0. a c.o not bear a request abandonment or for cte,JtlV;;;.y at an alternative address will be retained at Office for 15 days *n the date of
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    Woman knocked down a woman
    52 15 REMBAN. Sun.—Lai See a woman motorist, was i 1 rda y fined $lOO and had 1 driving licence f 1( rsed for driving negli- 1 !V on April 28 last year. \vn>n! had Shocked down a nv r ,n Palaiamah, near the k'/;^ ead bridge
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    HOUSING EXPERT IN SINGAPORE
    111 15 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. IfR. G. A. Atkinson, Colonial Liaison Officer for Housing and Planning, arrived in Singapore yesterday to study the housing and building situation. He is on a tour of British colonial territories in the Far East He said at the airport that he was
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    Taxi knocks down boy
    63 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. THE Singapore Traffic Police are looking for a hit-and-run taxi which knocked down a boy-cyclist, Tan Siak Hoe. in Upper Serangoon Road near its junction with Sommerviile Road yesterday morning. The boy is in a serious condition in hospital. Anybody, who saw’ the
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    ‘TUBE’ MEN IN SINGAPORE
    223 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 21. TWO men have arrived in Singapore to tackle the problem of the foundations of the Colony’s biggest skyscraper—the Asia Insurance Building, Finlayson Green. Jack Elderton, aged 46, and Percy Meyers, aged 43, have spent most of their lives working underground in compression chambers,
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    50 urge ban on ‘David’
    97 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Jan. 21. piFTY Kuala Lumpur Muslims. headed bv an Imam, yesterday signed a petition to the State Secretary. Inche Othman bin Mohamed. protesting against the decision of the Federation Cinematographic Appeal Committee to approve the screening of “David and Bathsheba”. The film, which
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    Sea hunt for 3 boys
    52 15 MALACCA. Jan. 21. (CUSTOMS launches sped out to sea yesterday to search for three Eurasian boys, missing since Sunday afternoon in a small rowing boat. The boys left Malacca at 3 p.m and when they did not return theLr parents told the Customs and thp
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    Minister goes on airstrike
    157 15 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. jyiß. HAROLD Holt, Austrax lia’s Minister for Labour and National Service and Immigration made a lightning tour of the R.A.A.F. in Malava yesterday, and topped it off with a four-hour operational flight to hit bandit targets in Northern Perak. Mr. Holt fiew from
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    THE TRAGIC STORY OF 2 GAMBLERS
    187 15 —T/ie woman SINGAPORE. Jan. 21. \yiiEN a police inspector had the body of a youns woman removed from a 21foot deep well on Dec. 12, he identified her as one of those whom he had arrested a week before for gambling and who had
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    To court in ambulance
    94 15 SEREMBAN, Jan. 20. ARRIVING at Seremban Police Court in an ambulance with his left arm in a sling, Yap Foh, aged 42, was charged yesterday before the Magistrate. Inche Abu Johan, on two charges under the Emergency Regulations On the first charge. Yap Foh was alleged
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    S.C. ABSENT FROM DUTY
    41 15 PENANG. Mon.—Special Constable Abdul Ghani pleaded guilty today to being absent himself from duties between Dec. 16 and Jan. 6 The First Magistrate, Mr. C. I. Wernham, deferred sentence till Jan. 31 and granted bail of $3OO.
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    The Korea VC wants to forget
    309 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. 1AI i., tiled-looking soldier iti laded green ,rt “> stepped out ol a Hastings aircraft at Changi ye-deiday and blinked in hcwildei cd nnlin rraxsmcnt as quo-lions anti flashImiIIin were popped. H< w as Private William Si:« akman, of the Rlark
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    Worker murdered
    16 16 Kf AI A I.HMRUR, Jan. 22. lurdorr-cs an r*»tatf* Pali area of I'tMk ycfiiwday.
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    Boys saved after 2 nights adrift in rowing boat
    369 16 MALACCA, Jan. 22. r r IKM ruru'iun hoys, mi,sing since Sunday in a small rowing boat off the M;i |ti < a coast, were bro iglit in today by a Customs launch which hid s;mtt th n drilling help *vslv in
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    BISHOP SEES JESUIT FILM
    109 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23. The Bishop oi Malacca. Ivl. Olcomi-ndy brother.*? from th C.ir;s;ian Brothers’ schools anu nuns attended a private blowing of Tho Firs. Legion it Shaw Bros., preview theatre jp Singapore yesterday. The film, which tells the ■tor v of a young doctor's at-r.-mpts to
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    MILLION DOLLAR ARTSHOW PLANNED
    250 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23 4 MILLION-dollar exhlbit ion of Chinese por. .•('lain, paintings, jade tnd bronzes, reoresentitive of all periods of Chinese history no m he present d tv. is to b*> in Singapore it*. M tv It will be tho first of if* kind in South-East
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    ROBBERY AT INNER ROADS
    54 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. Chinese roooera iuuk ..ve bales of rubber worth Sl.OOO horn a lighter, at anchor in the Singapore inner roan, yesterday. The lighterman to'd the Marine Police that the robbers came *o the lieh'er about 3 a m held h'm uo and transferred the
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    2,693 BANDITS KILLED SINCE EMERGENCY
    290 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 22 4 TOTAL of 2,693 bandits had been k Ued up to the end of last year, the Federation Government said today. The.# included 2.517 Chinese, 100 Malays. 34 Indians. 20 S.ikais. five Siamese, three Indonesians mi 14 others. Surrendered terrorists r
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    B.O.D. WORKER ACCUSED
    36 16 B.O.D WORKER ACCUSED JOHOR*: BAHRU. Jan. 22. S Shsnmugam. employee of ‘.lie British Ordnance D> Marimem. Krrnli. wa.? chirked at Jchpre Bahru today vith aivin'* a police insoeccr fai'e information. and was illcwed bail of $lOO.
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    32 16 JOHORE BAHRU Jan. 22. Lep N', r ee Choon of Cantona was bound over in $l5O for on? year in the Sessions Court for p \ssession of ehandu and ♦wo sT.ck’ng pipes
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    Malaya may have longlife recipe
    154 16 SINGAPORE. Jan. 23. may have the elixir of life—that elusive recipe for longevity which philosophers have sought since time began. Certain Malay villagers in Kedah are convinced of it. The only necessary ingredient. they say, Is the stem of a common local climber called the
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    SUICIDE BID IS ALLEGED
    40 16 JOHORE BAhRU, Jan. 22. Sudin bin Baba, A railway pointsman of Sedenak, was brought to the Police Court this morning from the General Hospital and charged with attempted suicide by stabbing. He was allowed $53 ball.
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    YOUTH CAME AND SAT ON MY BED
    808 16 SINGAPORE, Jan. 23. WONG Jj Kin. used 19. a 1 student, was said in Singapore Relief Court yesterday to have broken into the Grange Road flar. )t‘ a married woman, "one into her bedroom and told her: “You are beautiful, I want to
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    ONE-WAY EXPERIMENT MAY BE LAUNCHED IN CITY CENTRE
    168 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. a ONE-WAY traffic experiment in the centre of the A rl t y is contemplated by the Public Transport nrnmittee of the Singapore City Council. I lie chairman of the committee, Mr. Duncan n i t son. who represents
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    Templer’s cousin is modest
    176 17 :>;GAl'< HE. Jan. 22. |i h.iMu.i had not flown .r vmbawang airfield terdav sv ith a load of 13 itP»oper-\ the where>uu i»i Major Fred l i>lrr usin of Malaya’s Huh Commissioner, (ierald Templer, ild probably have rei i.uiied a mystery to local reporters. 'I t
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    HE WANTED MONEY
    52 17 WORE BAHRU. Jan. 21. r’ n ln Kim. a squatter. :i m Johore Bahru n J 1 that he hawked v an ducks for sale a licence and said v,.. nlea money for the i ear. toV' f; s lin ed $5 and four d two ducks
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    DIES IN CRASH
    22 17 PENANG. Mon—A 19-year-old labourer, Marimsingam, was knocked down and killed by a lorry while cycling in Sungei Pinang Road.
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    Gaol for the secretary
    90 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. DALAKRISHAN Govinda- samy. Honorary secretary of the Malayan Airways* Sports Club, was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment in Singapore yesterday on a charge of criminal breach of trust of $595 last November. The money was collected by Balakrishan at the Singapore Business Houses
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    BROKE CURFEW
    20 17 MUAR, Mon. Tan Tow Lok, a coffee-shop assistant, was fined $25 for breaking the curfew at Sagil, Tangkak.
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    MALAY SHOULD BE TEMPLER DEPUTY, SAY UMNO YOUTHS
    115 17 IPOH, Jan. 21. A MALAY should be appointed Deputy High Commissioner for the Federation, said a resolution passed at the annual meeting yesterday of the Ipoh Youth Section of Perak UMNO. The resolution is to be forwarded for discussion at the UMNO
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    NOT GUILTY OF OUTRAGE
    58 17 SINGAPORE. Jan. 22. An Indian labourer. Raman Chinniah. who was alleged to have used criminal force on his neighbour’s 8-year-old daughter with intent to outrage her modesty, was acquitted yesterday in the Singapore Third District Court The girl alleged she was cooking when Chinniah rushed into
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    MCA MAY APPOINT SUPERMAN
    175 17 v IPOH.Jan. 21. E. KANG, chartered pr. may be ap8u Superman” to 'He re-organisation M; iia 'jamlining of the ninese Association, •'.yident of the Perak K ;C A. Mr. Lau Pak K ai d today that Mr. 1 K oo leaving shortly Lumpur to take up
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    Editor weds Ipoh girl
    129 17 IPOH.Jan. 21 rpHE wedding took place in Ipoh yesterday of Mr. Lee Siew Yee, editor of the Singapore Free Press second son of Mr. and Mrs Lee Phang Leng ot Penang and Miss Tan Eng Lim eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Tan Cheng Phor of
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    Perak Customs Dept. changes
    68 17 IPOH, Mon.—Mr. D. W. G. Montgomery, former “Malaya Cup” rugby star, has arrived from Kuala Lumpur as Assistant Comptroller, Customs Department, Perak. Mr. C. O. Williams is now Senior Customs Officer in charge of revenue (East Perak). Mr. A. G. Robertson, Senior Customs Officer, has been
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    Army to send more to ‘the line’
    128 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. T'HE War Office Manpower Committee began work at Tanglin Barracks yesterday to get every available soldier into the front line against the bandits. Headed by LieutenantGeneral C. B. Callander, the committee is investigating how few military personnel are needed in
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    Detectives saw him
    78 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. SOO Kow, a labourer, was gaoled for six months by the Singapore Relief District Judge. Mr. Eu Cheow Chye, yesterday for breaking into a store used by the Malayan Construction Company. Inspector A. D. Jacob, prosecuting, said that Soo was arrested by two detectives
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    72, HE FACES DEATH CHARGE
    77 17 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. Bail of $250 was offered to Lee How. aged 72. in the Singapore Relief District Court yesterday when he claimed trial on a charge of causing the death of Foo Ah Fu. 25. through a negligent act not amounting to homicide. Leo
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    NO LIGHTS—$15
    35 17 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. Chew Moi Lam, a Singapore contractor, and Gaw Saw Kian, a Singapore insurance agent, were each fined $l5 at Johore Bahru today for parking their cars at night without lights.
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    Philanthropist gets a fine double
    1146 18 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. CLEVERLY ridden by Abdul Mawi, Philanthropist staged a fine finish at Bukit Timah yesterday to beat a useful field of Class 3 sprinters to complete a double at the Singapore Turf Club’s Spring meeting. Mawi, now riding at the top of his
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    1,400 STRAYS DESTROYED
    54 18 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Schoolchildren, who are members of the Animal Lovers League, Johore Bahru branch, assisted the Veterinary Department last year in trapping stray and uniicenced dogs. A total of 1.400 stray dogs were destroyed in the State. Most of the dogs were caught from Johore Bahru.
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    Table tennis team off on Sunday ‘CRITICS TOO HARSH’-PLAYERS
    739 18 Table tennis team off on Sunday ‘CRITICS TOO HARSH’-PLAYER S By Our Table Tennis Reporter SUNDAY, six young men will set out for Indi, with a mission: to put Singapore on the world table tennis map. The world championships are d to begin on Feb. 1 at Bombay’s Brabourne Stadium
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    Varsity get quick goals, win 2-1
    187 18 being riown at the 20th minute by one goal. University of Malaya second XI scored two goals in three minutes to beat I,at if! Wanderers in a Singapore Hockey Association junior knoek-out tie at Sepoy Lines yesterday. LatifT Wanderers started off in tine style.
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    Buckley best in R.A. win over S.C.C.
    219 18 ¥>OYAL Artillery, Blakan M. can consider theme:..* lucky to beat the Sinr.r re Cricket Club “A” XY on the Padang yesterday when thev by five points (a goal) to' tl e la penalty goal). It was a real “Monday aT’'':noon” game with little
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    Three trophy races at Penang meet
    214 18 PENANG. Tu(" THREE tropny races will run at the Penang T Clubs three-day sprint: n. ing on Mar 1. 5 and 8. Cla.".' 3. 4 and 5 will be catered Entries close on Wed Feb at 12 noon The trophy races are:Ker: Cup for
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    21 18 IPOH, Tues.—A flshermar Tan Tang Hua. of Pant < Remis. Sitiawan. was toci.< sentenced to death in Ip° for having three revolvers
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      54 18 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $484,320 Ist No. *****5 $217,944 2nd No. *****0 $108,972 3rd No *****1 $60,540 Starters ($5,503 each): Nos. *****4, *****5, *****1, *****1. *****8, *****3, *****1. *****1, *****1, *****5, *****2. Consolation ($3,632 each): Nos. *****0, *****8. *****2, *****7, *****3, *****8, *****6, *****7, *****0, *****8. DOUBLE TOTE $249 on
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    CHANTILLY IN FINE FINISH
    1009 19 SINGAPORE, Jan, 20. j \NTILLY, splendidly handled by Porky Donnelly, won in the style if a champion when he carried 9.5 to a fluent length and a quarter tory in the Class 2, Div. 1 9f. trophy race on a heavy track at Bukit oah yesterday,
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    Mr. A. H. Stork for Jakarta
    81 19 The manager of the Netherlands Trading Society, in Singapore. Mr. A. H. Stork, who joined the Society in Holland 22 years ago has been promoted a director in Jakarta. Mr. G. de Nie. who recently arrived here, will take over as manager when Mr.
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    ENGINEERS WIN AREA FINAL
    446 19 SINGAPORE, Jan. 17. S’pore Engineer Regt. 17; Nee Soon Nil. rrHE Singapore Engineer Regiment yesterday won 1 the Singapore District final of the Fraser and Neave Cup when they beat Nee Soon Garrison by 17 points (a goal, three tries and a penalty goal) to nil.
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    ENGINEERS XI WELL BEATEN
    94 19 (SINGAPORE Recreation Club “A” ran out easy winners over the Singapore Engineer Regiment by four goals to nil in a friendly hockey match played on the S.R.C. padang yesterday. This was largely due to a fine game played by R. Mosbergen, who scored two goals. Other
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    FOUR KNOCKOUTS IN NOVICES BOUTS
    189 19 rpHERE were four knockouts in 1 the preliminary round, before the semi-finals, of the Singapore Novices Amateur Boxing Championships held at the Police Training School boxing stadium last night. The best fight was between Cpl. Steadman (Army) and T. Mercer (Navy). Both fought toe to
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    Face cut, he rallied to win
    295 19 ALTHOUGH four fights tailed to go the full distance, excellent boxing was seen at the annual Royal Army Ordnance Corps championships' held at the Tanglin Gymnasium last night before a packed house. A bout which won much applause was the bantamweight fight featuring two
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    S. Perak beat North 22-3
    161 19 TAIPING, 8un. gUPERIOR behind the scrum, South Perak overwhelmed North Perak in a rugger ma*ch here yesterday by 22 points to three, (two goals two tries, two penalties, to one penalty). Once again Meikle gave a sparkling display and was the brains in the attack.
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      54 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL—$536,760 1st No. *****7.$241,542 2nd No. *****8 $126,771 3rd No. *****0 $67,095 M STARTERS ($6,709 each): Nos. *****4, *****2. *****0, *****2, *****9. *****2. *****8. *****6. CONSOLATION each): Nos. *****2, *****8. *****7, *****4, *****4. *****7. *****9. *****1, *****3. ($4,025 *****5, *****8, *****3. DOUBLE TOTE DOUBLE TOTE $109 on
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    BUSY WEEK IN SHARES: TINS AND INDUSTRIALS TO THE FORE
    501 20 From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN markets had another extremely busy A" week last week. Large business was written in Tins and Industrials, though only small business in Rubbers; local Loans had several sizeable transactions. Continuing to provide the main market
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    Agreed exchange rates
    86 20 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association at the week-end announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants as follows: Buying Air Mall O I). Mi d »i Credit Itill* New Yor« 32 13/16 32 15/16 33 1/16 Caiman 33* 33 5/16 Trade Mill* New Yorn 331 Ccvlon 156* 156
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    TIN OUTPUTS
    62 20 MALAYAN Tin Dredging in the last quarter of 1951 produced 3,282 piculs of tin-ore; four dredges were working. SOUTHERN Malayan Tin Dredging in the same period produced 13.G40 piculs. Five dredges were working. The No. 2 dredge 1 Tanjong Tuallang Section! was. benched on Nov. 29, 1951. for
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    Kesang Tin flooding
    27 20 Tin announced late last Friday that abnormal rains had raised the Kesane: River to a record high level, and the mine was completely flooded.
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    Business done
    344 20 BUSINESS done In the Malayan share market last week included Industrials.—F r a s e r and Neave $4.20 to $4.25, Malayan Breweries $5.20, Malayan Cement $1.07y 2 to $1.17y 2 Malayan Collieries $2.02 y 2 to $2.05. McAlister $42.50. Robinson Ord. $3.95 and $4. Singapore Traction Pref.
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    TRAWLERS BRING IN TEN TONS OF FISH
    159 20 T*EN tons of fish were brought into flsh-hun Singapore at dawn yesterday by two form Hong Kong trawlers. The fish, Ikan Merah and other types, was caught off the east coast of Malaya. The trawlers set out from Singapore on Jan. 13. This
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    159 20 Singapore produce market continued very quiet yesterday. Some business was reported in copra at $36*4 a picul for Jan.Feb. shipment, with further buyers at $36 and sellers 50 cents higher. Loose grade copra buyers also bid less—s3s a picul for sun-dried and $34 4 for mixed quality.
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    KIMANIS INTERIM
    34 20 Rubber directors have declared an interim dividend of Id. per unit (share), free of tax. payable on Feb. 28 to stockholders or. the register at the close of business on Jan. 30.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    884 20 SINGAPORE, Jan. 22. INDUSTRIALS Buyers Sellers Alex Bride* r 2 25 .,Q rd 2 95 3 05 Mias Ice 12 50 13 50 ill* F' tro1 46/ 4 HM i rusteex 0 50 1.50 Con. Tin Smelt P rp f 21 /(l *2/« rd 23/- 24/- Utd
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    Output of tin-ore
    208 20 Osborne Chappei, ipoh, nounce the following tin outputs for the quarter to n 31. 1951, in piculs: Chenderiang Dredging 67: Oopeng Consolidated 4 out Hongkong Tin goi Kent (F.M.S.) Dredging 2 52. Kinta Mines I'cgi l Kiliinghall Tin 2400 Malaysiam Tin 210 Pengkalen 2.200 Petaling Pustng Rubber
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR EXCHANGE
    40 20 TTHE Malayan Exchange Bar Association announced yesterday that agreed rates of pvrhangp to merchants for tiv Canadian dollar were: B’ T.T. 32 15T6, Air Mail »C> D 33 1/16. (90 days) 33 5/16; Selin T.T./O.D.. ready. 33>4.
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    WASHING SOAP PRICES DOWN
    48 20 The prices of two brands < washing soap have been tv duced. according to a Fni Price list issued yesterday b. the Deputy Controller r Supplies. Singapore. Tli* are: Palm Tree (bars) duced to 80 cents, and Doub 1 Arrow (cubes) reduced to 1 cents
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    10% INTERIM FOR KOMBOK
    35 20 ITOMBOK (F.M.S.) Rubt Company, directors have de dared an interim dividend of 1 per cent., less tax. payable <>. Feb. 8 to stockholders register! at the close of business 0 Jan. 16.
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    41 20 r PHE Malayan Exchange Bank Association announced yesterday that agreed rates of excharg to merchants for the Canadia dollar were: Buying T.T. 32 13 10 Air Mail (0.D.) 32 15/16. <9 days) 33 3/16; Selling. T.T./O.D ready 33 1/4
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    LINE OPEN
    31 20 After working continuously for more than 10 day in notoriously bad bandi areas, traerc engineers and labour gangs yesterday restored through train service 1 between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
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