The Straits Times, 10 May 1946

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    SENATE ATTACK ON U.S. LOAN DEFEATED
    458 1 Favourable Vote Expected By The End Of The Week WASHINGTON, Thursday. The United States Senate will vote t oday on a "constitutional point of order," which claims that the Senate should have vaitcd to act on the proposed loan to Britain until the House
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    Egypt to Give 'Right Of Way"
    56 1 CAIRO, Tkur.;— The Egyptian Prim? Minister. Ismail iilcy Pasha, announced in the I :;vp:ian I'ailiament last nuht that h's Government had dec: led to conclude a special agreement with the Security Comr.-il petting Egyptian arms aril ricM of panafC throHuh EfTCt at the disposal
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    Bevin And Molotov Going Home
    231 1 Bevin And Molotov Going Home Paris, Thursday. MR. Eevln and Mr. Molotov, Foreign Ministers of Br tain and Russia, are leaving Paris en Saturday, it is learned authoritatively. The deadlock on all major questions has not yet been solved, and there appears to be no hope of solution. The Ministers
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    Empire Did Not "Agree" On Egypt
    451 1 LONDON, Tliurs.— Mr. Attlec. the Prime Minister, told the House of Ccir.nions yesterday that the Dominions Governments had not specifically "agreed" to the withdrawal of all British for- I cci frum E^ypt. as he had stated on Tuesday. Declaring that he was anxious there
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    Azerbaijan-Iran Negotiations Break
    57 1 TEHERAN, Thurs.— lran announces that the negotiations with the delegation representing Azerbaijan aye broken down because of exaggerated demands of the Azerbaijan leaders. The announcement of the breakdown coincided with a broadcast, from Tabriz, the Azerbaijan capital, that^— "we have our freedom by spillinc: our blood and
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    PERSIA TO STAY ON AGENDA
    241 1 PERSIA TO STAY ON AGENDA NEW YORK, Thurs— The United Nations Security Council yesterday decided to keep the Persian ouestion on its agenda m view of the fact that no report had been received from Russia on the evacuation of Soviet troops. The Council decided to defer consideration of the
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    Doenitz Defends German Sea Tactics
    318 1 Doenitz Defends German Sea Tactics NUREMBERG, Thurs. -Admiral Doenitz, who developed the Üboat tactics and succeeded Hitlei as German Chancellor, answering charges of murder on the high i s~as, sought to prove through his defence counsel fiat the German methods of s^a warfare were as l??al as the British. Submitting
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    Hirohito May Abdicate
    190 1 TOKIO. Thurs.— A source close to the Japanese Foreign Offlco today said that there is a possibility cf Emperor Hirohito abdicating in the near future in connection with the coming war crime trials. This source said that the Government considers ic inevitable that Hirohito will be called
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    MORRISON TO FLY AND SEE TRUMAN ABOUT FOOD
    396 1 MORRISON TO FLY AND SEE TRUMAN ABOUT FOOD WASHINGTON, Wednesday. MR. HERBERT MORRISON, British Cabinet Minister, is tj fly to Washington to discuss the food crises which faces India. UNRRA countries, parts of South East Aaia, ana the British zone of Germany. Direct contact to Mr. Attlee and the United
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    GERMAN DUMPS EXPLODE
    220 1 IONDON, Thurs—An a munition dvtnt fxpludrd 'a:,i ni ht at Hor-siJorf, near Berlin, kilihi:,' an umlctrrrrincj number of prrsons and l>lanketin; the tov.n r.ith fiyin? missiles, according to th, I!r:iis!i Hswt p in r.ermany. Jater, it wai s'atd thai srv-n i rso~s hai been killed in another
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    STOP PRESS
    51 1 L ONDON, Thursday I.at-st scores m the cricket iratch between Oxford University and the Indians at Oxford are: Oxford: 136 tor thrc-t wickrts (Cairns c Hazare b ShinJe M: Sale b Hazare NewtonThompson c Nimhalkar h Hazare 31; Donnelly not out 11; Mau.'sley not out 2; Extras 6).—
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    Nazis Hold Out In The Alps
    593 2 BA VARI AN PREMIER EXPRESSES FEARS The Nazi resistance movement m Southern (lCrmany, acting on the model of the French Maquis, has assumed serious dimensions; and a military mopping-up operation will be needed this summer to quell it, according to Dr. Wilhelm Tlocffper, Prime
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    Sunshine .
    99 2 Sunshine m a tuition tj the many I imlon KMpiteli w.ili tbcir (UNI medical schools attached there is a networ.i of small voluntary hospitals throughout Britain, where the life of the hospital is very much bound up vi.h the life of the district which it sarves. The small, Petters Bar.
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    ROCKETS 65 MILES IS THE AIR
    267 2 ROCKETS 65 MILES IS THE AIR The U.S. Navy is making plans to explore with a new type of rocket and specially devised instruments the unknown region of the atmosphere about 65 miles above the earth's surface. Knowledge of this region now has become important because of the ballistics of
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    Swedes Make Progress In Atom Research
    163 2 Swedes Make Progress In Atom Research Sweden has completed two new eiant cyclotrons for research into atomic energy as well as a betatron, a specialized atomsplitting machine yielding energy equivalent to the splitting of the uranium atom— 200.000,000 elec-tron-volts—and producing artificially a new element particle, the mason. The two cyclotrons
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    Britain's Effort To Restore Shipping
    359 2 Britain' s Effort To Restore Shipping rE struggle to restore British shipping following the second world war is outlined m the report to be presented at the annual general meeting of the Liverpool Steam Ship Owners' Association. "Now, once again, the industry is faced with a vast problem of replacement,"
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    New C-in-C. For Pacific Fleet
    211 2 New C-in-C. For Pacific Fleet The Admiralty has announced the appointment of Vice-Ac*ml. Sir Denis Boyd to relieve Adml. Lord Fraser as C.-in-C. of the British Pacific Fxet. Sir D:n:s ii 55. The announcement followed closely on a statement by Sir Lord Fras?r m Sharghai, to the effect that he
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    Bulldozing Mines In Britain Today
    457 2 TUE stood on the beach near Southwick (Sussc.) and watched a bulldozer slowly push along the edge of a great cliff of shingle that the sea has piled up during the war years. The bulldozer and it* methods, with \ho driver ***** Id >d by
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    Contract Bridge
    300 2 Contract Bridge Neithor suit- vulrrt-rahl.-South doaler NORTH A X Q 10 9 6 V X J ID 1 I W KST I \ST *74 AJB32 V 432 Q 5 X Q 5 f f l'> 8 6 J "J 4 SOUTH A f, 7 6 0 J 10 4 J
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    University To Teach Public Affairs
    98 2 Birmingham. m the near future, hopes to become the home of a school of Government and public administration The University of Birmi: has approved a scheme for the award of a diploma m public administration. The course will be controlled by the Faculty of Commerce
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      398 2 RADIO PROGRAMMES SINGAPORE RED NETWORK from noon <• 1 pjn and C 30 to II pm on £T> tnetrr* from noon to I pro on i.ns met /we bi Si metre band and fiam 7.45 to 9.30 p.m on 4 "M nur'vre tr 61 metre band CHINESE noon to 1.15
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      347 2 MAY 11 7.20 a.m. Radio newsreel. J3 a.m Muiic, C.20 a.m. News, 8.35 am The Robinson Family. 620 p.m. News. 7.35 pm County Cricket announcement of tean:-., and commentary on Gloucester vs. Lancashire match, 7.50 p.m. Forces' favourite?, 8.20 p.m. News, 8 3j p.m. Radio newsrcel. 8.&0 p.m. Dance music,
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      254 2 am. Brit'sh Band of the A.E F. 11 •am Guest Star. 11.30 am. News; 11.40 a.m. Programme Announcements. 11.05 nm. Round The Bend, 12 noon Bright and Shining. 1230 p.m Music. 1 p.m. News Headlines, 1.01 p.m. Salute To Rhy.hm. 1.30 p m. Now— Ana Tr.en, 2 p.m. Nev.s Headline*.
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    65 3 Tong r.ueu s of hungry Germans line un every day outside the sout kitchens m Germany. All must Iring som thing m which *o carry the potato soup away, many brin» buckets. Her?, Hausfratis In th? tail end of a queue watch emlously while an ea;iier customer covers his jut.
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    News Of Malayns In London
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    DEATHS
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    King's Police Medallist On Hurt charge
    508 3 Eight Chinese detectives, one a lormer King's Police Medallist, who appeared before Mr. H. A. Forrer in the Seventh Police Court yesterday on one or sevetal tentative charges of vol.mtarily causing grievous hurt to four Chinese women and one Chinese had their casis postponed
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    Penang Nursing Staff Strengthened
    122 3 (From Our Own Correspondent) PENANG, Thurs.— The Penanf; nursing service, which has been carrying on valiantly throughout the war years and since the reoccupation, has been strengthened by the arrival of eight members of tht European nursing staff irom the United Kingdom. Another five are expected
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    Y.W.C.A. REOPENS: BIG RUSH TO ENROL
    227 3 Singapore's Y.W.C.A., after a four-year break, officially opened up its registers yesterday for r3enrolment of members, and clerks were nearly swamped by the scores of eager women and girls who turned up. One of the first hundred to sign up was Lady Kill?a;n who
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    Gaol For Chinese Who Led Febo 15 Meeting
    499 3 FIFTEEN KILLED BY From Our Own Correspondent) SEGAiVIAT, inursday. CENTENCE of six months' simple imprisonment and fine of $200 each, or- in default, a further two months' imprisonment and six months' imprisonment on the second charge was passed on two members of
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    Fined $350 For
    182 3 V* X I w I PENANO, Th,urs.— A case, described as "one of the first of it? kind" came up in the Relief Court today. A sundry shopkeeper. Ooi Choo Lye, was charged with hoarding more than oisht ba<»s of rice. The Secretnrv of the Commercial Uni<-n
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    Objection To Customs
    114 3 From Our Own Correspondent FENANG. Thurs— Objection to the establishment of a customs station at Butterworth on the ground that it would put up the crice of daily necessities and cause hardship to Province Wellesley residents was ra'sed at a meeUn<r of the Province Wellesley Advisory Council,
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    S.S.C.S. And M.CS. Appointments
    237 3 II First local appointments since the re-occupation to the Straits Settlements Civil Service and the Malayan Civil Service hav; Just been made. Mr. E. Ebert has been given an SS.C.S. appointment in the Land Office, Singapore, for a probationary period of six months, while Mr. George
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    Vellu Pillai Committed To Assizes
    170 3 aii ex-inspector oi me me lan Section of the Special Eranch, K. Vollu Pillai. was committed to stand his trial at the next Assizes on three counts of abetment m voluntarily causing grievous hurt, causing pflevous Hurt and causing hurt by Mr. H. Forrer, District
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    Landlord Fails In Rent Claim
    261 3 In the first case of Its kind to come before the Singapore Rent Assessment Board, the Board, which included L*ady Song Ons Slang, fixed the rent of the mises of 27, Eng Hoon Street at $150 against the $550 demanded by the landlord. No 27
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    Suggestion To Bar Collaborators From Citizenship
    133 3 Suggestion To Bar Collaborators From Citizenship (From Our Own Correspondent) PENANG. Thurs:— The question of Malayan Union citizenship was discussed at the Province Wellesley Advisory Council Was it essential, asked Mr. M. P Mathews. fnr the p"o~l? who w?re already British subj? is to be Union citizens and was it
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    Stole Cheque And Cash: Gaoled
    96 3 Cenvirtcd on a char-r of (heft of seven £1 notes, $100 and a bank cheque belonging to E F. Ferris at a bungalow m St. John' 3 Road m the Naval Bas° v.hilo being employed by Fcrri; betw:e"i May 4 ani 6. 22-year-old Wan; Ah
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      632 3 At Mucn Wenlock, on Apr. 25, n son to Mrs. Genevieve Bigley, wife of Mr. Derek Bigley, Malayan Customs Service; and A son to Mrs. Phyllis Todd (nee Howell), wife of Col. C. D. Todd, British Military Administration and Colonial Administrative Service, Malava. Mr. W. St. P. M. Hancock. younger
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      158 3 THE NOUVEAUX COMPANY have pleasure In advising trielr former clients that they have business at their old premises In LAIDLAW BUILDING— Top Pa>ji Room 20 under the style of: THE CLIPPER TRADING COMPANY Mr Paul Robitschek. proprietor of the Company nas recently n-Urned from Australia and extends his to aU
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Friday, May 10, 1946. "The Pop Shop"
    904 4 Tenders have been invited for "the sole risht to open pawnshops m various specified areas m Singapore for a period up to and including 21st D?cembe\ 1946 The notice, which is In the form that was usual before the
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    Other Opinions
    500 4 The Privy Tne Privy coun- cil is by origin a C UUncil monarchical institution and tor!ay the sole constitutional link between the sovereign states is their 'common fiance to the Crown.' Suroly therefore His Britannic Majesty ought to have Privy Councillors ,of equal Right Honourable rank In each
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    THE COCOS ISLANDS IN WAR AND PEACE
    1924 4  - THE COCOS ISLANDS IN WAR AND PEACE A Special Correspondent By FROM an insignificant copraproducing group of islands which only launched into the news whenever its owner, Tohn Sydney Clunies-Ross, left his estate and protested against the world's press describing him as "King" of his realm; the Cocos-Keeling Islands, midway
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  • Man-in-the -street
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      This Freedom
      145 4 The months slip by but like the poor, the military are still with us. They have our houses, furniture, frlgidaires, cars jobs and even our clubs. We are given a list of "Food Control Prices" m, the papers, but I have been unable to buy any of the
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      E.N.S.A, Shows
      192 4 On May 5, the ENS.A. Drama Festival Company gave a charity performance of The Barretts of Wimpoie Street m aid of the RAF. drive for St. Dunstan's Home for the Blino?. It was with greaf surprise, however, that many people remarked on the few number of seats that
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      Honourable Men
      69 4 The gentlemen who .signed the letter to The Times protesting against the annexation of Malaya are all honourable men. They have acquired their kaowledge oi" Malaya through years of service m this country. These men, of whom Sir Edward Gent speaks so contemptuously, are still trying to serve
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      Barbers
      35 4 Costs are returning to pie-war level but what about the barbers? They are demanding $1.50 and $2 for hair cut. Will the authorities take some steps to lower these unreasonable rates ?—Louis, Kanagasabal, Singapore.
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      878 4 Yap Chee The engagement is announced between Mr. Yap Tan C.we? Tc- Eldest son of the late Mr. Tan lat and madam Lim Chye Nco Chen Gin No eldest daunh<er of the late Mr. Chee Peck Leong and i Tan Bee Nco SITUATIONS VACANT WANTED Typist for European Impor House.
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    Australian Isoiationism 'Dead,' Says Press Chief
    431 5 AUSTRALIA'S old idea of i\ "isolationism"' is dead, Bays Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, Australia's leading newspaper owner and Direc-tor-Gem ral of Information for Australia during the war. S.r »Ie tli was m Singapore yesterday on his way to LonoDn w.ure he will head the
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    Four Stolen Cars Found
    94 5 Seven British soldiers are reported to have stolen a motorcar on Connaught Drive on Wednesday night. The car was recovered yesterday morning, I v damaged. The ladio patrol servi of the Singapore police on Wednesday traced four cars which had been stolen from Singapore streets. There
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    SURVIVORS OF BELSEN
    56 5 Si::vi\ors of the Helsin horror concentration camp recently i at the old camp site to c lolirate the anniversary of ilu ir liberation. Hundreds of men. women and children m:ir chid across the camp to ihe umeiiing of the llelsen nemoMi The picture shows part of the
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    SECRET SALVATIONIST MEETING
    116 5 1 .Mrmb«TS of th« Salvation Army High Council have come to tn-land from every continent to select a new General, ouin* to the forthcoming retirement of General George Carpenter at the age limit of 71. Left to rUht Commissioner P. Taylor (one of the two women attending)
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    "Too Many Children Prosecuted'
    515 5 Padre: Police Tine Beins Waited WRITING Jr. Cathedral Courier, the Rev. David ttosenthall, Chaplain of St. Andrew's Cathedral says "it is infuriating to find the time cf our depleted Police force being wasted on paltry prosecutions." He was referring to juvenile del nquency in Singapore. "I
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    Small War* In Tversall Area
    79 5 Shots fired In rapid succession m thr Tyer-all area m Singapore early on Sunday morning awoke the entire neighbourhood, m which lives also ihe Commander-in-Chief, ALFSEA. Lieut -Gen. Sir Montagu Stopford. "It sounded like a small war," said a resident Military sentries were shooting at
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    Plan To Improve Rural Health Services
    358 5 Plan To Improve Rural Health Services WELFARE CENTRE IN SERANGOON TO improve health conditions and heaiih services m Singapore rural areas- Dr. W. H. Jeffrey, Chief Health Officer, has asked the Rural Board to provide £15.000 m addition to the $56,000 voted for conservancy and scavenging work mainly to pay
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    A Lancastrian This Was
    108 5 Its breathtaking merely to listen to this: When Sir Keith Murdoch, Australia's premier newspaper owne*. said goodbye to his wife in Sydney at 11 pm. on Tuesday, he boarded a Lancastrian bound for Singapore. Lady Keith was due to return to her borne in Melbourne by
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    Girl Allegedly Threatened With Toy Pistol
    297 5 Girl Allegedly Threatened With Toy Pistol A young seaman, Trevor Sidney Mulholland. who allegedly pointed a toy pistol at a cabaret girl. Julia Taya, to induce her to follow him into the Fleet Canteen in Anson Road in the early hours of April 24. listened intently to allegations levelled against
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    60,000 Tons Of Flour For Malaya
    190 5 60,000 Tons Of Flour For Malaya Australia is sending to Malaya many vital commodities in addition to 60,000 tons of flour which Is expected to be on its way here by May 15. Imports now coming into Sineapore include large quantities of jams, tinned fruit, tinned and bottled fruit juUres.
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    Mr. Chettur To Confer With Gent
    144 5 Mr. S K. Chettur, representative of the Government of India in Malaya, leaves for Kuala Lumpur by air this morning for his first meeting with the Governor of the Malayar. Union, Sir Edward Gent Among other matters, various important points which are outI standing
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    LIFE TERM FOR JAP CIVILIAN
    294 5 Counsel defending four Japanese civilians charged m the Singapore War Crimes Court with ill-treatment of civilians f Andaman Islands won his point m arguing that thesp Japanese civilians should be tried as ordinary criminals, but earned from the court the rejoinder: "While quite agreeing, the
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    Rural Board To Step up Fond Growing
    179 5 Rural Board To Step up Fond Growing The Singapore Rural Beard, implementing ita grcrv more food policy, has called on the licensees of Crown land In the Lirn Chu Kan? area to fell rubber trees within one month a-nd cultivate the land with food. An area of 139 acres hM
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    Mandarin School For Straits-Born Chinese
    275 5 In order to promote further the cordial relationships between Straits-born and China-born Chinese in Singapore, and to provide opportunity for the study of Mandarin by those who cannot read and write their mother language, a Cultural Association is to be opened here shortly. Being organized
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  • All The Latest Sports News
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      Champions Meeting At Harringay
      220 6 Champions Meeting At Harringay Bcxlng Round-Up LONDON. Wed.— The 12round non-title light between British heavy-weight champion Bruce Woodcock and British crulscrwelgbt champion Freddie Mills on June 4 will take place at Harringay ar na, rrnorts Reut.r. This was pnnounced today by promoter Jar': Solomons, who decided that to hold tha
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      French Horses May Not Run In Derby
      113 6 PARIS, Thurs.— There is much speculation m French racing circles as to whether Marcel Boussac's cracks, three-year-old Nirgal and four-year-old Carcalla. which are entered for the Derby and Ascot Gold Cup respectively, will be fit enough owing to a slight epidemic of skin
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      INDIAN ASSN.
      81 6 It is propj-'-e-j to revive sports activities oi the Indian Association and a'ii Indians who are Interested m sports aacr c r:qu~s'?d to communicate cilhpr with Mr Wazlr Ehvzh c 0 Balbir and Co., ■Phone 2038 or with Mr. D. Dharmaraj of 2- A, Ka?T>.i Quay, 'Phone (.on.
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      R. L. Results
      26 6 LONDON. Tues.— Fesults of Pu"by League matches played tor'nv arc: oidh-ni ir>. Wldnes o Krij^ly 13. Swlnton Wakefleld Trinity 12. v/arrin:/ton 7.— Reuter.
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      SEGAMAT
      80 6 SOCCER Straits Times, Corr: SEGAMAT, Wed.—Before n lar<?e crowd the Malays "A" w?nt a step further m their fight ror the cnampionshin of the Segamat and District Soccer League when they beat R.1.E., their closest rivals, by two clear goals yesterday. The losers were without two or thrir best
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      Malacca Soccer
      123 6 From Ovr Own Correspondent) MALACCA. Wed.— T n the replay in the Malava Wel r are Fund football comoetitlon thfl Malavs dr w one-all with the Chinrse, after extra time had ben pla v ed Neither side scored In the first half, but after the Interval the Malays
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      Sailing Date For Boxers Postponed
      239 6 Sailing date for the five Singapore boxers chosen lo lour Australia has been postponed again. Instead of early next week, it is now thought that they will not be able to leave before May 25. This has resulted m H change m the "'farewell programme"
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      BARNETT WINS
      578 6 LONDON, Wed.— Charles Barnett, the Gloucester and England player, has earned the distinction cf seeing the first century of the 1946 scascn. He was in sparkling from at Oxford last Saturday whrn he sccred 110 runs. Close on his heels came Walt:r tan to caotain England in the
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      Test Player Dies
      69 6 CHESTERFIELD. Wed. Joe Humphries, former England and Derbyshire wicket-keeper who nlayed m three tests m Australia m 1907, died here today a?ed 69. He assisted Derbyshire for a quarter of a century.—Reuter. Water Polo Regular -water polo yraeticttJ will be held at the Chinese Swimming club, the
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      Chinese Soccer XI For Australia
      54 6 SYDNEY, Thurs.— The Australian Soccer Association is likely to accept the offer of a Chinese team for a tour of the Commonwealth this year. I he team will be chosen from the best si.les f.o.n Hans Kon; and Shanghai areas and will probably arive m
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      Chester Cup To Retsel
      162 6 Chester Cup To Retsel CHESTER, May Wed— A record crowd of more than 100,000 saw lightweight Retsrl win the Chester Cup. run over two-and-a-quarter miles here this afternoon. More people than had bean seen there In living memory watched Ml victory and the course looked like a miniature Epsom. Retsel,
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      400 M.P.H. On Land Expected Next Year
      292 6 BOSTON (By Air)— Ab. Jenkins, veteran auto speed King, who has established more world and American records than any man m the history of the sport, is building a car m Los Angeles m whifh he expects to do better than 400 m
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      LATE JACK IDDON'S CAREER
      229 6 LATE JACK IDDON'S CAREER The sad end last month of Jack Iddon. Lancashire and AllEr.gland cricketer, as the result of an accident, has robbed the game of one of its mos'. genial personalities. Iddon was kilbd almost instantaneously, when a notor car m which he was a passenger, collided with
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      Rugby Teams For Saturday
      252 6 Army and RAP. have chosen strong sides for Saturday's Rugby football match at Jalan Eesar stadium m aid of St. Dunston's Fund for the BMnd. Kick-off will b»- at 5.15 p.m. The team j arc: Army: Griffiths (Cardiff): Gillard (Cardiff). Cater (Watsonians). Saunders (Newport). Bailey (Wigan):
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      ATHLETICS
      40 6 SANTIAGO. CHILE. Tucs The South American track and field title was won on May 5 by Chile, which swept both the men's and woman's divisions during a six-day meet. All South American countries, except Bolivia. Para^uav and Vcnezcula, participated.—UP.
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      113 6 NOTICE. The Citi-ens' Advice Bureau Singapore has taken over the Work of the Indian repatriation Committee under the Chairman Mr. John Laymck. In future all communications and enquiries regarding the above should be made to the Citizens" Advice Burrau, Old Supreme Ccr:rt Singapore. BRITS.'! MEDICAL ASSOCIATION MALAYA BRANCH. An Ex*-»3rdinarv
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