The Straits Times, 28 October 1946

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTUR\ KIC;ill P/MiKS SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 316 1 Police Open TT"! aC^ Fire Six Times CALCUTTA, Sunday. DCmONAL llritish troons were moved inio the Calcutta area and others were placed on call v ester day as continued Hindu-Muslim rioting cost the lives of Zti persons and injured 50. The Bengal Government communique said
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  • 125 1 LONDON, Sun— Quoting a Tass message from Warsaw, Moscow radio said today that the American Embassy in Warsaw liad been handed a not* of pro■alnst the rough treatment of Polish citizens returning to Polanc from Italy and Palestine by American soldiers in the American occupation zone
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  • 241 1 War Office To Decide On PoWs WAR Office guidance is being sought by military headquarters in Singapore in iormulating comment on the Washington report which stated last week that Gen. Mac Arthur was "complaining bitterly" over the British failure to set a definite time for the evacuation of Japanese prisoners
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  • 104 1 bOUTHAMPTON, Sun.— Mr. Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary. le:t here today in th? liner Aquittnia for New York to attend the United Nations meeting. Speaking of the nations task, ht said: "If there is goodwill w; ought to be able to get through; if
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  • 84 1 Batavia, Sun. -Agreement has been reached between the Chinese and the Indonesians la Bagan Si Api Api to cease hostilities, according to Antara. Bagan SI Api Api, which wa*» the scene of Chinese-Indonesian clashes recently, is reported to have become peaceful in the meantime.
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  • 79 1 WASHINGTON. Sun— A deiailed analysis ol Chinas economy is made in the report s?nt today to Dr Trygv) Lie, Secretary Oeneral of the United Nations, by Mr. Fiorello La Guardia. Direc-tor-General of UNRRA. In his report Mr. La Guardia said that unless effective inter.il i-ssistance
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  • 113 1 LITTLE BUSINESS IN RUBBER From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. (COMMENTING on the post- ponement of the statement on the free rubber uiarket by Sir Stafford Cnpps, President of the Board of Trade, the Financial Times says that meanwhile there is no disposition to make quotations in Mincing Lane undei
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  • 146 1 JOGJAKARTA. Sun—lnevitably India and Indonesia look to each other more and realise that mutual co-operation is essential for their future safety and progress, wrote Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, head of the Indian Interm Government, in a message of goodwill to the Indonesian President Soekarno. Pandit Nehru's letter
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  • 233 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. MR. James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, has placed the State Department on record as being wholeheartedly in support of President Truman's demand for an immediate and substantial immigration of European Jews into Palestine. Mr. Byrnes wrote to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American
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  • 37 1 Since th» opening of the Police Wlielcss School, attached to Hendon Police College, nearly 1,000 policemen have passed through a three-day course. Pic ture shows a class receiving instruction on a police wireless car.
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  • 291 1 More Questions On Mal a v a 0 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON Sunda, MALAYAN affairs are again taking up a noteworthy proportion, of Parliament's time. Mr Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, told Lt.-Col. Rees-Williams (Lab. Croydon S.) that a tripartite labour advisory board would shortly be formed with Malayan
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  • 69 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday.— The Maritime Commission today cited figures to show that the United States has more merchants ship tonnage than all the rest of the world c(inbir#l. The United States Govenment and private companies owned more than 55.0u0,000 tons on June 30. Of this total, about
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  • 402 1 UNO TO DEBATE QUESTION OF THE VETO NEW YORK, Sunday. IN a session marked by conciliatory gestures boil: the Russians and the United States, in the general committee of the United Nations Assembly, decided to recommend the veto question for open debate on the Assembly floor. The threatened fight between
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  • 237 1 Nations Plan World Food Board WASHINGTON. Sunday. nEPRESENTATIVEb of i(i A nations are meeting here tomorrow to work out plans for a permanent world food board, aimed at guaranteeing a fair distribution in time of security and a fair income fo; farmers in time of glut. Acting on the instructions
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  • 402 2 Ch inese Destroyers Leave Base TSINGTAO, Sunday. A BIG naval battle is looming in the narrow straits between the Liaotung and Shantung Peninsulas. Nationalist destroyers and gunboats have left Tsingtao base to intercept large fleets of Communist junks reported to be carrying Communist troope from Dairen
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  • 105 2 HONG KONG, Sun— Seven were injured and 20 arrested as Hong Kong's worst riot since 1925 subsided last night. M.P.S. police and RAF police patrolled i.lie streets armed with rifles and tommy-guns. The incideu\ was repented 10 have started when the police conducted a
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  • 95 2 LONDON. Sun.— The new United States 6.000-ton anti-air-craft cruiser Spokane steamed into the port of London and moored off Greenwich yesterday, the first American warship ever to pay a courtesy call to the British capital. The visit was arranged in conr .xrtlon with the observance
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  • 238 2 HERFORD, Sunday. THE Allied four-power comI mission which investigated the circumstances surrounding the suicide of Hermann Ooering issued in Nuremberg their report lasr night. It absolved the United States prison authorities and the G?rman prison personnel of any blame. The report rt^rribed how Goerin* concealed the cyanide
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  • 128 2 New York, Sun— United States maritime strike on the east coast of the United States and Gulf ol Mexico ended yesterday, the Federal Government announced. An agreement was reached between shipowners and the CIO Masters', Mites and Pilots Association. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
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  • 108 2 Johannesburg, Sunday Natal Indians indicated yesterday that I they might boycott, at least partially, the tour of South Africa by the British Royal family next year. A letter was sent by the Natal Indian Teachers Society to the Director of Education withdrawing the Society's representatives from the
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  • 410 2 Debate On The British Press Tomorrow LONDON, Sunday. pOWERFUL issues underlie the press debate on Tuesday, in which the Britisn House of Commons will decide whether there should be a Royal Commission of inquiry into the control, management and ownership of the newspaper press, writes Reuter's Political Correspondent. The motion
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  • 100 2 Tokio. Sat. CTRIKING revue girls at Tav karazuka, near Kobe, nationally famous as the "lakarazuka Girls," declared today that unless the managemiM agrees to ration more face powder for oporati roles the strike must <ro on. This is the first instance of a Japanese theatrical
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  • 457 2 New Hopes Of Peace In Indies BATAVIA, Sat. AFTER three weeks of negotiations, both Dutch and Republican leaders privately are convinced that political settlement in Indonesia is not lar distant. Neutral observers with access to both sides say the best prediction is a compromise by which the Dutch will recognia?
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  • 196 2 MALTA, Sunday. IDMIRAL WILLIS. Comft mander-in-Chief, Medierranean, issued an official statement last night stating that as the British destroyers Saumarcz and Volage which struck mines in the channel between Corfu and Albania on Eueeday were steaming ktarough the north Corfu channel oil Ihe Albanian shor.-> batteries "were
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    • 552 2 "Biro MORKS A TURNING POINT If) THE HISTORY OF |>ii<o ts unique: it writes wun a Ball -bearing pomt a point Uiat 1 ever goes wrong, never floods. benJf 1 lutters a point that rolls youi ritlnc on to the paper with efforUe..-* "BIRO" ink dr es as you write;
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    • 925 2 BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE. BY OBOEB OF THE OIKECTOK of- DISPOSALS. FAX EASIKRN AREA (M.0.5.) 1. The British Stores Disposal Board, is authorised to receive I'cuUpn for the following items: Lot No. I— Radio Scrap consisting of ADDrox. UN lbs a large amount of wireless receiVv-r and
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  • 147 3 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Sat. THE driver who causes an accident by an error of Judgment is a public danger. Mi Justice Spencer Wilkinson voiced this opinion in replying to a submission made by counsel. Mr. Morris Edgar, that an appellant (whom he
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  • 19 3 Today's menu at People's Restaurants in Singapore will be: rice; steamed or fried fish; onions: tomatoes, spinach.
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  • 500 3 Upcountry Dealers Stop Purchases Straits Times Reporter I ACK of interest among up-country dealers who have suddenly stopped purchasing consumer goods in Singapore in any large quantities, together with recent increased shipments from the U.K. and Australia and the announcement of a free rice
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  • 29 3 Members of the Government Pensioners Association of Singapor? may now make purchases at the Chain Utility Stores. Allsalss are by card, which can be obtained at 47, the Arcade.
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  • 114 3 THE British (Jovernment has decided that Armistice Day celebrations should now become a remembrance day for the dead of the two wars of 1914--1918 and 1939-1945. The Temembrance day in Singapore will, therefore, be celebrated on Not. 11, which the Governor has agreed should be declared a public
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  • 397 3 Straits Trading Co. Report THE Straits Trading Company has resumed smelting on a small-scale with a plant at Pulau Brani which will be lore than sufficient to deal with ore likely to be received in coming months, according to a statement made by the
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  • 38 3 Mr. A. W. D. James. MCS. has been appointed Assistant District Judge and Police Magistrate for Singapore, and Mr. T. E. Smith a police magistrate for Singapore, according to a Singapore Government no' ification.
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  • 220 3 From Our Ouu Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Sat. THREE Malay extra pcllcemen attached to the Klang Police, a Chinese railway clerk and an Indian porter were produced before the District Judge, Klang. following a darinp theft cf Naafi stores from a railway godown near Klang station.
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  • 54 3 KUALA LUMUR. Sat. APPLICATION for the transler of the case against A. Thambydorai and L.H.A. Jayasuria to the Supreme Court. Kuala Lumpur, was successfully made by defence counsel, Messrs. R. P S. Rajasooria and ETC. Thur'aisingham. before the Cnitf Justice of the Malayan Union. Mr
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  • 66 3 A variety entertainment *a.< held last Friday at the Chungking Hall, in the Great World, in aid of the China Famine Relief Fund and Silver Jubilee Fund, by the Liberty Musical and Dramatic Association, In commemoration of the. first anniversary of its founds.;: Despite the rain
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  • 371 3 A delegation comprising seven members of the Singapore CHnese Federation for Peace and Democracy in China will present the American Consul in Singapore, Mr. Paul Josselyn. with over 30.000, signed requests to President Truman for the withdrawal of American forces in China. The signatories include
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 371 3 SALE BY TENDER. The Custodian of Property. Singapore, invites tenderi for the purchase of the following, particulars o f wr'ch are as follows lx>t I— One Japanese open vessel beached. 42' 3" I x J marked No. 2 One Japanese open vessel marked No. 4 beached. 42' 3' x X
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    • 406 3 MUNICIPALITY )F SINGAPORE INFANT WIXFAR DEPARTMENT The Municipal Commissioners require the temporary services of a part-time Lady Modlcal Officer for duty with the Infant Welfare Department. The duties wli: consist of six sessions per week rom 9 am. to 12 noon. together with such other administrative and professional duties as
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    • 242 3 Purchaser c of HIS MASTER'S VOICE and MARCONIPHONfRadios are reminded that all sets ate fully guaranteed for a period ot six months from date of purchase and that the official retail price of SS73 for the six-valve A.C models and 5285 for the AC. DC. modrl includes the provHion of
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  • 984 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Monday, Oct. 28, 1946. All Chinatown's Children Entirely incredible as it seems to those who know their Singapore, behind the semes as well as on th c stage of public life, this last and most massive stronghold of colonial conservatism (for it still is [hat, 1
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  • Man in The Street
    • 1260 4 I RETURNED to Singaporrecently after an absence of some years and have been most forcibly struck by one thing a bad thing amongst, let it b? said, many good things to be seen in this city. I refer to the appalling condition of
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    • 573 4 Mosquitoes: a page of parochial history [The following is taken, by permission, from a memorandum by Dr. P. S. Hunter, who was for many years the Municipal Health Officer. Singapore.] T H E Anti Mosquito Department, now ;;n integral part of the Municipal Health Department activities, had its mv in
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 804 4 DUNLOP (nee Innes) on October 26th.. at Edinburgh to Margaret and i a daughter (stillborn). I ORBES —At Kluang on Oct. 18th, Martha, wife of J. Gordon r. a son. Both well. LIM-KHOO. The engagement Is anvmncd bi tween Mr William Lim. the lurd son of Mr. and Mrs. Lim
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    • 14 4 OYSTER "PRECISION" t' V J v^^^K* -^d STAINLESS STEEL, LUMINOUS DIAL 16 COLLYER Q"AY
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    • 118 4 STRANGE NEW WORLD (Written during a flight from Calcutta to Singapore in January, 1946.) How small, remote and far-away it seems, The teeming world to which m* pin our faith, Our fears, our lov3s, our hates are but a wraith, A shadow-substance come at in our dreams: With vaguest, fitful
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    • 30 4 R.V. MEYER OPTICIAN Kellow oi the institute Ophthalmic Opticians (England > Fellow of the Worsh ptul Company of Spectacle-Makers <Enß.> Freeman of the Cl*i London 6 RAFVLBS PLACE i> lOPP. LITTLES'
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  • 739 5 Singapore's Empty Ships The Reasons Why Adequate Number Of Cargo Vessels Available By A Special Correspondent PAST Iroopshipi formerly utilily andhixury liners on Far East runs, have lately been reaching Singapore from the U.K. either wholly without cargo or passengers or with little
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  • 55 5 THK Smnapor Police are on j the look-out for a crocodile j v hich dragged a Chinese child J from the banks of Singapore's; rjlu Pandan river, at Jurong. The child was playing near creek, a quarter of a nine (roaa the sea. last Wednesday when the
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  • Article, Illustration
    44 5 Did Beys of the Singapore Anglo-Chinese School entertained Mr. T. W. Hinch, Prinripal of the school, on Saturday. This Slraits Times picture shows Mr. T. W. On?, President of the A.C'.S Old Boys Association, speaking at the function. On extreme left is Mr. Hinch.
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  • 466 5 RYCENA, the proprietary cereal which has been the subject of recent correspondence, is unlikely to be been in Singapore while flour is strictly allocated to Malaya by the International Emergency Food Council. This is made clear in a statement to the Straits Times by Mr.
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  • 60 5 PENANG TRADERS SEEK GOVT. AID From Our Own Coivesponclc-nt PENANCi, Sat. A resolution to approach the Government uj to what steps it intended to take to assist business houses which had been bombed and which could noc i establish themselves without a d. was unanimously adopted Pt a two-hour meeting
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  • 126 5 WINDOW ua*ir.. a*. K'd Cross National Headquarters in Melbourne arc c Tim-ding to read i i-rv human dm-ument cmi.m iitr -d on ca"i<">. It is one of Ihe two quilts made by I uomen who were interned in (hangi Gaol during the Jap-:iin-sr occupation. Homesickness and
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  • 86 5 Yesterday's Meetings Inconclusive S.K.B. Strike niECUSSIONS were held thrcughout yesterday between the representatives of the Singapore Harbour Board strikers and the board Chairman, Mr. H. Bitten, who described the talks as "inconclusive" last night. Yeste-day morning, when repres:ntrtives of the strikers went to see Mr. Basten, they were told that
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  • 93 5 IT took the Singapore Harbour Board Fire Brigade exactly four hours to put out a fire on board the s.s. Toshi No. 1, a small motor vessel, anchored off Clifford Pier on Saturday night The vessel was \ery badly damaged. The fire originated in the
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  • 31 5 Subject to confirmation of their decision by a full meeting. Singapore Municipal Commissioners in committee have decided to rescind an earlier ruling for th? total abolition of rickshaws by April, 1947.
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  • 81 5 many more motor cars than intended under British world-wide distribution plans. Many, too, are diverted to the home market— a break for Britain. In any case, as far as troop transports ar? concerned they could not possibly handle much cargD mainly owin^ to structural alterations for thi-ir specific job Nevertheless.
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  • 412 5 UfHAT are ycur chances of recovering th-? car you lost la 1942? Still fairly good if it was running after the liberation *,nd was taken over by the B.M.A. Files have been madt up and it b possible today to quickly trace th.? location
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  • 233 5 Transport Supplies From Indian Arinv Java Ric*. From Our Own Corrcspo.i'Ji nt Bat a via, Oct. "-i A communique issued by the rv representative of the Government of India in Java. Mr. K. L. Punjabi, states that the expectations of his country that considerable quantities of unhu.sked rice could be
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  • 73 5 THE Singapore Island Cl'.b which announced it:; inter,--t-on of closing down owing to a strike by the Club's ground stall v/ill not be closed because a se*tlenten« has been leached with the strikers. The strike ended the day it o*>g&n alter coolies agreed to I
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    • 95 5 THIS INHUMAN ACT WAS NOT INSPIRED BY TOKIO BUT PERPETRATED BY THE COMMANDANT AND HIS HENCHMEN TO GRATIFY THEIR DEVILISH LUST "PRISON SHIP" Opens j^V^VH TO-MORROW L&S33 Associate Feature The 3 STOOGES IN THEIR FIRST EPIC OF ACTION "RQCKIN' IN THE ROCKIES' f RE-OPENING 1 TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN I
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    • 120 5 lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIHIIIIIIIHHI Hill' BE SURE YOU SAY lilllillllllllllllllllll!lllHlllllllllllllll' !||lilllHlllllllllllllllllTTM GOLD FLAKE WO I M. O. WIILS BRIS T O L 4 LONDON ANNOUNCEMENT! TO OUR SELETAR PATRONS; WE BEG TO ANNOUNCE the REOPENING of our BUSINESS BRANCH at SELETAR (14-1 miles: opposite Main gate of Naval Base) We are Proud to
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  • 213 6 Proposed Payment Of $24 "Disgraceful" From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Srn. MAINTAINING that the proposed payment of $24 for two-and-a-half years' work was disgraceful j and disgusting the Penang A.R.P. group wardens at a protest meeting held on Wednesday decided to call a mass meeting
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  • 249 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR THE story of how a 12-year-old Sikh boy saw his father vhilf> sleet-ing on bed shot to deeth by a compatriot in the early nouns of Oct at the Anak Bukit Ko« mill was told in the Alor Star
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  • 58 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sun. JIFTER having waited fo r months a happy batch of over 200 Indians left Penang yesterday by S.S. Rajula on their voyage home to India. Th e majority were shODkeepers. money changers, barbers and watchmen The reoatriatfs said they
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  • 27 6 The third and one of the best People's Restaurants in Johore was opened on Oct. 21 by Mrs. Harper Ball in Kluan?, reports a correspondent from Kluang.
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  • 114 6 From Our Own Correspondent Muar, Sunday. "lIUA HUAY" lottery has bscome rampant In Muar, and It 13 understood that at least two agents are operating secretly at present. As a result of the vigilance of the local polic-?, several per3ons were arrested and convicted in the District
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  • 118 6 From Our Ovm Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. nEPRESENTATIVES of the A three Chambers of Commerce and other trading bodio3 met delegates of the Penang Harbour Labourer and Lorry Drivers Association on Thursday. After nearly three hours' discussion it was decided that the harbour labourers should
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  • 74 6 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sat. JHE Robinhood of tha Malayan jungles, Embee bin Ibrahim, who was captured after a lon«t and painstaking comb-out by the Kftdah police, was produced in the Alor Star Magistrate's Court on a provisional charge of armed rang robbery.
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  • 358 6 The Rule of Eleven, though normally a defensive guide, also can be of great help to a declarer Note todays deal. South, dealer North-South vulnenbl? NORTH ♦K 8 1 7 ♦AQ6 3 S 2 ♦-Q 8 6 WEST EAST ♦JlOB2 9 a 4 VAB6S4S VKJIO ♦9-♦ J
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 1035 6 SINGAPORE STRAITS STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED (Registered In England under the Defence (Companies! Regulations 1940; l»lrr. tors: F S Gibson. Sir John Hobhou«e, L. D. Holt. R. S. MacTler, H. E. Somervll'e. C. E. Wurtzburg. Rcflsterr. Office: Hamdon Villa. SUiplegrove Read. Taunton. Directors' Report and Accounts for presentation to the Shareholders
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    • 157 6 SALE BY TENDER. The Custodian ol Properly. Slrcapjre. invites tenders for the purchase of the following (Diesel. Atomic Diesel, Petter Oil. Crude Oil). Centrifugal Pumps, Borsig Blower. Star'ers Electro and Induction motors, starter resistances, i tran -formers, pipe tonj?.?. dismantled winches, manhole covers with handles one steel constructed building, cupo.n
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    • 78 6 SKY (GREAT WORLD PARK) To-Nl^ht: 7 p.m. 9.13 p.m. (LAST 2 SHOWS i Entertainment Beyond Your Wildest Imagination! "SENSATIONS OF 1945" STARRING ELEANOR POWELL Dennis O'Keefe W.C. Fields Opening To -Morrow SANDY POWELL in "ALL AT SEA" ROYAL (North Bridge Read) 3 p.m. 6 p.m. 8.45 p.m. An ISnpcror'^ Sacrifice
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    • 638 6 FOR SALE FOR SALE. Large Quantity Lead. For further particulars apply Chop i Hock Hln. 293. East Coast Road. Singapore. FOR SALE 1 Morris 8 Saloon. 1941 model. Practically new. All new tyres $4,000 or nearest offer. Box 610 S.T. FOR QUICK SALE: Australian B.C.D. Cordials Orange and FlftyFlfty $7.80
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    • 330 6 fIUVITfi TRIO route *m9m»cATto* UVt*. Kt9*9f I H499§* *Ut ti T > tU, FVERYBOOY _v EVIRY NOME Sob ImporUr* _____C_____C____C_-__t_]______B iTSnTaT H. M. d« SOUZA. Sr., aad SON, Ground Contractors. Ton can not do better Tel. Nos 3M4 and 712< at 18J. Battery R*_d Residence at 97. Cavenafb Road, Stncapoit
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 281 6 CROSSWORD No. 87 ——i^-l———.--™ i^; Hsss Is^: ss^: m^ jig^s 1 v x I 12 _J_L|l 13 20 21 1 111 22 25 -trinrffl 1. Not strameci ;n Portia's opinion (7.2. 5). 9. A wa\e of deduction? (7). 10 12. No. nol orchestras capable of expansion (7. s>. 11. The
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  • Around The Markets
    • 251 7 UIR. F. G. LUNDON, chairman of (ilenealy Plant- ations, Ltd., told the annual meeting of shareholders in Singapore on Wednesday that Government had treated the rubber industry very badly at a time when it most needed assistance. "Not only has no assistance whatever been
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    • 87 7 Tlie report of directors of the Ailenby Rubber Co Ltd., presented at the annual meeting of shareholders ai Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, says tapping commenced on Feb. 24 over 400 acres, which has since been extended to 1.310 acres. Any expenditure which will be Incurred in connection with
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    • 196 7 Washington: At the beginning of the second year of reconversion of peace. United States businessmen and economic forecasters took a sober .<>>* at past achievements and mistakes, and tried to appraise reconversion's future. What they discovered was a story quite diffeient from that emlsaged a year
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    • 295 7 AUSTRALIAN TINS FAIRLY ACTIVE By A Market Correspondent AUOTATIONB were fairly well maintained and there was an improved turnover in Malayan share markets during the week. Industrials provided the bulk of the business, Australian tins were fairly a< tive but In rubbers and dollar and sterling tins business was light.
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    • 50 7 The General Accident-Fire »nd Life Assurance Coporation Ltd have declar»l interim dividends •on account of tbe year enrt-rg Dec. 31 1946) of 2V 2 pei rent on preference shax n s and 2s ier share on Ordinary Shares, both subject to income tax ar A payabie on Nov. 1. 1946.
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  • 700 7 Share quotation*, as at Oct. according to the Malayan U «rebrokers Association (Singapore) were as foi'owr: Alexandra dricJnrorfcc Ords. 11.70 11.90 Alexandra Brickworks Prefs 2.60 2.86 Brit. Malay* mute* Executor Co a 00 8.00 Consolidated Tin Smellers Ord. 22 0 25'do Prefs. 26 C J8 6 Eastern
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 619 7 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. i Incorporated In Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Sailings to and irom United Kingdom* tamiU sab for U.S. 28th Oct. riuineihrus doe for U.S. 4th Nov. SKingara due from IS. 7th Nov. Samidway due from U.K. Itth Nov. Anttlorhii* sails from U.K. 'Oth Nov. Sailings to and from
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    • 406 7 PRESIDENT LlNt Sailings NEW YORK via India and Mediterranean Port* MARINE LEOPARD* Godowiu 11 I? MOUNT MANSFIELD Loading renang MARINE FLIER* In Port MOUNT DAVIS* doe Nov. MOUNT ROGERS* *v* Nov. 2Stn •Freight Only For Freight and Passage Apply AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES. LTD. Onion Bldg. fete: Sti* ft «?S? WATERMAN
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    • 265 7 ELLERMAN BUCKNALL S. S. CO.. LTD. FORT FORK For New York la Port BENLAWERS For London Dur sit ipore btb Nov. SAMTWEED tor iMi York Due Singapore end N<iv. KLAVE N E S S LINE. FOB PACIFIC PORTS Sailings to be resumed Shortly Agents:— McALISTER CO., Spore LTD. PHONE 7257—
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 311 7 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: Hijh water: 0.33 a.m. 9 ft 1 in 0.06 p.m. 9 ft 4 in. TOMORROW: High water: 104 am. 8 ft 7 in; 0.33 p.m. 9 ft. i in. DflTMA 1Ur A T II V A .Mdody in song: 8.30 p.m. News Head- 8.35 p.m. London Calling;
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  • 693 8 CUP MATCH ENDS IN DRAW One Goal Each At Stadium HQ. ALFSEA 1 Nava Base THE most outstanding feature in yesterday's soccer match at the Jalan Bcsar Stadium between HQ. ALFSEA and H. M. Naval Base, which ended in a one all draw, was the brilliant exhibition of half line
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  • 600 8 LONDON, Oct. 26. OWANSEA suffered their first defeat of the season in their ninth game, when visiting Llanelly, they lost by a goal and two tries to a dropped goal and a penalty goal. Although doing most of the attacking in the first half, Llanelly
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  • 120 8 Long Distance Record Broken LONDON, Oct. 26 JACK Holden, 40-year-old British long distance runner, today easily broke the world record for 30 miles, running this distance in 3 hrs. 0 mins. 16.4 sees, in the White City Stadium here. The previous best M the British runner J. Squires, 3 hrs.
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  • 181 8 HURST PARK, Sat. CHAMPION jockey Gordon Richards scored his 200 th victory of the season when winning on the Aga Khan's Cadenazzo in the Leyland Handicap, over one mile and seven furlongs here this afternoon. This is the s xth time Richards has riddsn 200 winners
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  • 146 8 AT the completion of two days' play on Saturday at Adelaide against South Australia, the M.C.C. had scored 506 runs for the loss of five wickets The game will be resumed today Scores up to close of phiy on Saturday were: M.C.C— IST. INNINGS Hutton c
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  • 318 8 (By Mcrv Williams) MELBOURNE, Sat. TIGER Aman (8.8) was beaten on points over 12 rounds by Frank Flannery (S.ll Vi > at the Melbourne Siadium tonight. Flannery was too tough, strong and persistent. Flannery, who is only a* toddler as fa r as box.ng goes, surprised
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