The Straits Times, 27 November 1946

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY FIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 27, 1946. PRICE in CENTS,
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  • 285 1 Police Fire On Rioting Mob: Trams Burned CAIRO, Tuesday. KlN<; Farouk 1 >day issued a decree dissolving the yptian legation which luis been negotiating for a revisi< n the IWKi Treaty with llritain. The decree states: "In ritu of the fact that the majority of the
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    54 1 I BTCC British poliirmen lost their lives in a booby trap when they visited a Jerusalem house after receiving an anonymous telephone rail telling them they would find an illegal arms dump there. As they entered I the building a bomb was detonated mechanically. Picture shows sightseers swarming over the
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  • 108 1 Jinnah Offers Riot Solution BOMBAY, Tuea. Mr Jiunah, ol the Moslem League, ii Karachi said the India And provincial governments tackle at on< the question hi .hi Interchange of Moslems I Hindus in the population to I pi.- pnl further communal butch- Viscoui!" Waveil, to adopt every means to a!i<i
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  • 44 1 a meeting of the re League in New < York on Monday night urged 1 tion" to the < I tdlan Government. Mrs. j Shah Nawai, of the Punjab c id Moslems were < united In their opposition to both Hindus mid Britten.— Renter
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  • 133 1 WOODFULL TO WRITE ON TEST or the first Test match between England and Austral:.!, which starts at Brisbane on Friday, arrangements have. been made for special coverage for the Straits Times group ol newsnap W M WoodfulL the famous Australian captain and one of Australia's greatest opening batsmen, will write
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  • 72 1 WASHINUIUW, tuesuay A p>ll of the S» nate War Investigating Commit top today roy aled that the majority were .i -.am t an Inquiry at this timo into the American military government of occuoicd Germany. The committee appears to be divided, six Democrats to four Republicans, with the
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  • 286 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. AN authoritative source indicated today that the government is feeling out the chances of promoting direct talks between Lewis and the coal industry, to speed the settlement of the 6-day old soft-coal strike- At the sainetime, however, it was emphasized that
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  • 73 1 LONDON, Tuesday.- -The Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, told the House of Commons today that there would be a world shortage, estimated at 10 million tons, of cereal grains between 1946-1947 if crops reached predicted levels. He said that the total exportable surplus of wheat,
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  • 170 1 "Interim Govt. Collapsing' Report Denied LONDON, Tuesday. REPORTS published in India that official quarters in London consider that the Indian Interim Government shows signs of collapse were emphatically denied to-day by an official British Government spokesman, writes Reuter'? political correspondent. The report stated that official quarters in London had said
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  • 278 1 THE HAGUE, Tue*. i "THE meeting between the Dutch Cabinet and the Dutch Parliamentary Commission to discuss the 17-elause draft agreement for a 'United States of Inj cionesia" has been postponed from t-cmorrow until Thursday morning, it was officially disclosed today. It is understood that
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  • 259 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mon. EMPHATIC ALLY contradictory opinions are being expressed in London about the likely outcome of th« International Rubber Study Group meeting which b?gan at Schveningen, Holland, today. Some authorities agree with the view of the Amsterdam correspondent of the Financial Times who
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  • 378 1 ARMY RELEASE I S HELD UP BY SLOW TREATY-MAKING LONDON, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement A;tlee, told tiio House of Commons today that the slower rate ;>t demobilisation of British forces in the first six Months of next year, announced on November 6, was due to the slower rate
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  • 112 1 CURFEW 18 DECLARED ONPANGKOR From Our Own •rrespond 'it Ip.'h, 1 CURFEW between the Hour il eight p m and 1 1>: a m I been declared on Pai. where there have been clashes between rival factions, as both civil the military en.Mire that no [urth shall ta'ce p Other
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  • 19 1 Clashes between the Ind Republican Army and a I i fi^h: naed oella Sampang island.- Reuter.
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  • 184 2 1,772 Awaiting Passages To Malaya LONDON, Monday. |\URING the past two year^ 4,397 people wives and families of Europeans have applied for passages to Malaya, according to the Minister of Transport, Mr. Alfred Barnes, in reply to a question in the House of Commons today. Passages had been provided for
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  • 245 2 French Say Bodies Have Been Found HANOI, Tuesday. WARFARE between French and Viet Namese con- tinued last night at two points in Northern IndoChina Haiphong and I^angson and French officials alleged that numerous Japanese were among the Viet Nam troops fighting in the Haiphong area.
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  • 177 2 LON'DON. Mon. IARGE-SCALE production of ground nuts, the main source of Britain's margarine, by fully mechanised means in certain elected territories cf Britishadministrated African territories of Tanganyika. Northern Rhodesia and Kenya is technically and economically feasible, according to recommendations made by a mission sent
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  • 149 2 STUTTGART. Tues. WliK a democratic flag Dying over Germany for the first time since the Weimar Republic. American authriiics yeste.day i-xprcs-x-d .surprise at an apparet/t 30 per cent lack of interest among the Germans of Wuert-tembcrp:-Eaden in their newly approved constitution Although they overwhelmingly adopted
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  • 51 2 London. Tues -The Prlmo Minister, Mr. Artlee, s:nd in the LVmnnns yesterday that he would be in a position to make a statement on the armed forces his week, but that he was not vet able to announce tlie target figure for the t^rr.l sire set foi June 30, 1917
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  • 97 2 SUGAR OUTPUT PROSPECTS Washington, Tues: Government officials anticipate a three-million-ton increase in the world's sugar output in 1946-47 to a total of 30 million tons. But little improvement is in sight for Asiafc areas. The Philippines is not expected to hav_> a substantial amount of sugar for export for the
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  • 42 2 SAIGON. Tues.:— A Chinese daily, the Viet Nam. was to-day ordered to be suppressed for having published articles offensive to Generalissimo Chianp Kai:;hek. The action was taken after a complaint Had been made by the Chinese Consul-General here. —A P.
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  • 263 2 TOKIO, Tuesday. PMPEROR Hirohito called hi? lawmakers together this morning and told them to write some democratic laws for Japan. These laws will carry out the terms of Japan's new constitution, which will come into effect early next year. With Japan's old constitution put aside
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  • 96 2 THE HAGUE. Tues.— The Dutch newspaper Het Parodu. reports lrom Batavia that Dr. Hubertus van Mook, LieutenentGeneral of the Dutch East Indies, has been offered a professorship at an American university. The Dutch news agency Ar.ep. commenting on the report say^: "It is learned that
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  • 91 2 SHANGHAI, Tues.- A United States trade mission will shortly make an extensive tour of China to make a thorough investigation of commercial, industrial and economic conditions in this country, according to Chinese press reports. The delegation, it is added, will be composed of 16 penoni all
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  • 220 2 NANKING, Tuesday. PHINA'S Democratic League, l» through its spokesman jWr. Lo Lung-chi, yesterday appealed to Government leaders to prevent any attack oi; Venan, the Chinese Comnunist capital, in order to leave the door open for r esumption of peace talks Jttw.rn Nationalists and Communists. Mr. Lo said
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 150 2 A SMALL SHIPMENT OF "HIS" MASTER'S VOICE" PORTABLE GRAMOPHONES IS DUE TO ARRIVE SOON AND WILL BE LO nY ACCREDITED HIS MASTKR'S VOICE" DBALfIM AT THE FOIIOWING PRICES- He 1 $70.00 No 102 $95«OO '1 1H TORS T. HEMSLEY CO. SINGAPORE /^ahlos A nd T3la<tics THERMO PLASTIC INSULATED ELECTRIC CARLES
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    • 930 2 BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS, FAR EASTERN AREA (M.0.5.) 1 The British Stores Disposal Board, Singapore, to authorised to receive Tenders for the following Items: I <.t No. I Covers Outer 600 x 16 St. Quantity: s— Repairable lAt No. 2
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    • 424 2 TENDER FOR GOVERNMLfti HOSPITAL SUPPLIES IN JOHORE Tenders, in duplicate, are invited for supplies of (a) Rations. (b) Firewood and charcoal. Burials inon-Mohamedan paupers), to the undermentioned Hospitals: 1. General Hospital. Johore Bahru including 3rd Mile Hospital. J Bahru and the Leper Camo. Johore Bahru 2. Muar Hospital. ft, Batu
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    • 413 2 NOTICE. CICKNCKI m>r tiii niroitniiov OF roOMIUIfI ivio Minn Licences will now b granted import into Malaya, Fran the sources nominated, during (In- Ist Quarter of 1947. of limited quantitlM of Urn following foodstuffs which are In short supi < ■•minxili' Sourer Chfew Australia. New, 7.1-aland I Italy, Holland United
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  • 420 3 VARIED CAREER OF SEA BELLE II CEA Belle 11., described as the too expensive yacht," specially built for the use of Singapore's pre-war Governors will be offered for sale shortly by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, the Straits Times understands. The Singapore Master Attendant, Commander
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  • 118 3 Jungle Green For Malayan A rmy —Official THE British Army in the tropics will soon have olive ("jungle") green as their uniform dress throughout the Far East Doubt among both officers and men as to whether the Army would revert to khaki as the uniform dress, or whether olive green
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  • 132 3 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Tues. \N 18-hour amphibious operation against smugglers round Penang Island has just been successfully concluded, it was oflicially announced today. Taking part, in this combined campaign were Penang's garrison troops, the West Yorks. aided 3y detachments of the Police and Customs services. While
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  • 27 3 Mr. J Laycock will speak on "New Singapore" at the next meeting of the East West Society tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the V.M.C.A., Bras Basah Road
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  • 139 3 THREE out of seven Indians on trial on a capital sharge were found guilty by a common jury of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The first accused, Perumal, was sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment,
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  • 389 3 THK existence of an Army scheme in the Far East based on Singapore, whereby all stocks in Singapore, Hontj Kong, Burma, Malaya and Ceylon are treated as a pool, and shifted from place to place as circumstances demand, was explained to the Straits Times
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  • 396 3 NURSES' DEATH: ACQUITTAL OF SOLDIER fORPORAL Ernest Hall, a British paratrooper, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Paul Storr in the Singapore First District Court yesterday when he was lound not guilty of the rharge of causing the death of a European nurse, Miss Joy Jones, by a rash and
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    • 612 3 AUCTION SALE OF VAIXABI.fr: KKKK1IOI.I) Si LEASEHOLD SINKAPORK I'KOPi RTH> To be h< Id at rii.- salProom ol MESSRS. CIIEONG KOON SKNG CO., LTD.. No. If Chulia Street. SimapoT. On Wodnrsd.iy, 27th Novomlxr. 1946, at 2.3« P.M. Lot 1 Freehold land and nouses Nos. 462 to 480 (even Nos. only
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    • 139 3 Bel —^f^^^v v j fiji *^(ig^^^ Buy one SPECIAL VALUE Dr Plumb Briars PKICE 3.95 "Baronet"' Brinrs 5.50 "Bra-way"' Briars 6.50 Harwood's "Plusman'' 51X. 50 "Olde England" $13-50 "Supreme"' 1 5*OO "Specwf 517.50 UIHITERUfnVS (WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW Cr CO., LTD.) Tel 6907 SINGAPORE Post Box 696 ENGLAND jgk%.TiH v x■ Solr
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  • 1020 4 The Straits Times Singapore Wed.. Nov 27. 1946. The Labourer And His Hire Sundry European oiembors of the Government jfrvice in Malaya, who.se anonymity mast De pr .served for obvious reasons, have commented very caustically on the cnst-of-livinß allowances which they are to receive. The announcements which have etUMd this
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  • 122 4 Wellington, Tues:— While leaders oi New Zealand's rival political parties— Mr. Peter Fraser. Prime Minister of the Labour Government, and Mr. Sydney Holland, leader of the opposition National party— are both confident of success for their respective parties at tomorrow's general elections, betting circles have
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  • 57 4 SAN FRANCISCO, Tu-es.— The 22,000-ton liner President Wilson, the largest commercial vessel ever built on the Pacific coast of America, has beei launched* at the Alameda shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Originally started as a troopship in 1944, she will enter the Pacific passmß-rr
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  • 718 4  -  Jack Percival in the Sydney Morning Herald By THE race for re-establish-ment of north and south Pacific air services to a peace-time basis hah begun. The British Commonwealth, America, and Holland are primarily interested. While America and Holland both have the equipment and trained crew-
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  • 386 4 Sex And Salary In Singapore YOUR correspondent, "A D'Shoartencd Lady Typist." has raised a qilMKon t h;»t should receive the serious r< tention of all employers, especially the Government. viz., why should women workers bo paid much J than men? While endorsing her opinion, thai equal work deseiTW equal pay,
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  • Man In The Street
    • 223 4 JINDF.R the heading "CeyU lonese In The New Malaya" a Taiping correspondent writes anxiously about the future of the Oylonese in this country. As I see it, there is nothin? J much new in the "new Malaya," j for we are being ruled and
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    • 108 4 CAN anyone tell me where I can buy red palm oil in Singapore? Having found this vegetaole oil beneficial in more ways than one while on internment dio^., 1 should like to try it again, but so far I cannot find it on sale anywhere. Before the
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    • 66 4 WHITE egrets tababtUn* the Dcni areas of th* Po'orv Pfisir district on th° Wood'ri"h FPtT Beds side onrosi'e B didarl Cemetery) are beirp shot at by some t>erson every mornine. Win thosp in authority kinrllv stop th's. p.s it is a pleasure to the eye to see the^e
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 572 4 To Dulcle and Norman Taylor a «l:.iijjhter. I'rnclope Ann at Oterley, November, 1946. CHAN. At No. 5 Karikal Road on Nov. 23rd to Katag M\ Will of Chan ng, n son Mother and son >■ PERSONAL Mr Ch.-<- Kon* please contact Hon« Tefc Tan immediately. Good news. SITUATIONS VACANT WANTEI>
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    • 29 4 DEC C A PORTARLK GRAMOPHONES \H L dH^BSabSK^^nsl Small iMpMtal i n::ved. Offic* Pricfl JTS.- EACH Oidrrs taken strictly by Rotation only. Ni Rcservatlcn. 6« vi High Street, Singapore.
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    • 140 4 Specializing ONLY in TERMITE KXIERMINAHON PROPERTY MAINTENANCE PROPERTY CONSERVATION Damage and the necessity ot constant repairs as a rf-»ul« •>• white ants are completely eliminated by our Termite Extermination. Property maintenance and Property Conservation Service. Our record and Clientele prorr our leadership in ">■• specialised field C. P. TAYLOR LIMITED
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  • 427 5 PORT SERVICES ALSO HIGHER Straits Times Reporter TERTAIN increases in the existing surcharges on Malayan Railway rates for carriage of goods will (ome into effect on Dec. 1. At the same time, the Malayan Railway will re-introduce the pre-war system of railway risk
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  • 160 5 A.r. <i ac Lancastrian carrying p:iss< ngei's and Bail i, nin England to Australia circled Chang] airfield for marly 20 minutes yesterday morning on instructions from R A V. Hying control. i! wai lxv.ui.se Air ilaishal Sir Oooige Pirie, the Al- i was carry inß
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  • 73 5 SiH Edward Gent will be installed us Acting Governor- in the Kuala Lumpui Town Hall at 11 am. on Saturday. Nov 30 The Governor of j Singapore will be present A cuard-of-honour will be d by the Malay Regiment Knd the band of the Malayan Police D*^Dot will
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  • 140 5 Underweight Broad: Baker Fined $1,000 THE manager of the Raffles Bakery. M. Arathoon, was fined $1,000 or, in default, six months' rigorous impils^nment yesterday by the Second District Judge. Mr. T. T. Russell, when he pleaded guilty to a summons charge of baklrg four loaves of bread which were under
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  • 28 5 Certificates and medallions of the Royal Life-Saving Sotuty won in 1941 by boys of Ra^rl?., Institution have now arrived and can b e claimed at the school.
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  • 73 5 CHARGES of attempted murder of a Chinese detective and an Indian were explained to Dick, a 20-year-old Tamil, when he was produced in the Second Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that on JKjv. 2i at 8.20 p.m. at North Bridge Road, Dick fired a revolver at
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  • 178 5 GOVERNOR PRESENTS MEDALS THE Governor, Sir FramcliiGimson, presented two Singapore Police officers with the > King's Police and Fire Service I Medal for gallantry at a parade held at the Police Training School in Thomson Road yesterday morning. The officers were C;.ief In- spector D. W. Dale and Inspecter F.
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  • 39 5 A certain advance against back pay has now been approved for members of the Singapore L.D.C. registered, at Volunteer H.Q. This may be obtained on; application to the Offlce-in- 1 Charge, Volunteer Forces Record Office. I
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  • 39 5 1 1»,. (.nvcrnor. Sir Franklin Gimson, at the ceremonial paraa held at the Police Training School yesterday at which he presented King's Police Medals to (hi.- f Inspector D. W. Dale and laraeetor F. c. Pestana.
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  • 75 5 In our ar". iclo on the propo* <! new cnina Bank on Nov. 22 it was sUUed that the height of the Cathay Building is 15c Mr. Prank M. Bnwer F.RI.BA. writes that the correct total he ght :>bove street irvel ;t'. Dhoby Ghaut
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  • 175 5 THE Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry, awarded to Divisional Officer Leonard Frederick jPhipps of the Singapore Fire Brigade, is to be presented bejfore a parade of the members of jthe Singapore Fire Brigade at I the Central Fire Station, Singaipore, at 7 a.m. tomorrow. The citation
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  • 425 5 LICENCE FOR MAN WITHOUT A HOTEL J^ SINGAPORE licensee vtits granted a renewal of his first class ihotel licence yesterday although he has no hotel. His premises the White House Hotel in Jalan Besar, are being occupied by the military authorities, and he has been renewing his prewar hotel licence
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  • 250 5 Straits Times Reporter P'TURE plans of (he Salvation Army in Singapore not outlined yesterday by Lieut. -Col. John Wain.vright. newly-appointed leader of the Salvation Army in Malaya. The establishment of remand work and the probation system in Singapore and the Malayan Union, are among the
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  • 358 5 Straits Times Reporter COMPLAINTS by some Singapore bakers that the recent v rise in the price of Government -imported Hour has «nt their profits on the sale of bread have been answered by an announcement which discloses the margin of profit *lill available to bakers
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 222 5 TO SYDNEY iUll TO LONDON Ml)SI in) ntnr )ou iih, >ou can ImM by 1IK on the Kangaroo route from Singapore— tnd b« in linyland or Australia within jiut few tlayt. Priority rrMrictiona at* lifted—*- J gmtroitt tm» .ilUiwancr mad». I DtiMMMil in complete freedom, enjoy ■!>« belt o» food
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    • 286 5 ROJLLN SONS ISetv Stock Announcements The shipping situation is easier, we are receiving new stocks almost every day. here are a few New. Arrivals. COSSOR RADIOS: A new shipment has ]u.*t ariiv.d limited stocks are available of Model 461. AC mam-. 5-valve, Plastic Cabinet, Price $180/-. We will send J
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  • 116 6 From Our Own Correspondent Penang, Tuesday. THE Penang Harbour dlspu'e to .r a turn for the better today when the labourers sumitted a fresh tariff of handling charges, which the Deputy Labour Commissioner, Mr. R. W. I. Band, termed as "quite near" the rates lor cased
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  • 480 6 MR. JUSTICE WILLAN'S REMARKS IN K. LUMPUR From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. DECAUSE rent had been in arrears for more than 14 days, the first plaintiff-appellant is entitled to issue a notice to quit without the permission of the Rent Assessment Board as
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  • 189 6 DEATH FOR KILLING HEADMAN From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Tuesday. THE story of how the headman of a village was butchered by robbers in front of his wife and children because he had been a police informer, was told before Mr. Justice Moor in the Kedah Assizes yesterday when
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  • 39 6 IMPERIAL reply coupons which 1 provide th e mans for the prepayment of postage on letters from any Empiro-country tc Malaya aro again on sale jpost offices. Th, selling price of the coupons is 15 cents each.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 470 6 c. "BATHING BEAUTY" Singapore's Screen Record Holder £g£*-^ and M.G.Ms Technicolor Splash Treasure OPENS ITS RETURN SEASON BY POPULAR W TO-DAY mbm <i a.m. 2 p.m. 4.15 6.30 TIIK BRILLIANT SHOW! I s nil k WII.I.IAMS leads in the magnificent Water ll:ill<t Swum (o the Strains of JOHANN STRAUSS' celebrated
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    • 257 6 Robbcn Ransack House Fruni Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Tues. 'THE lull In Penang's crime wave j was broker, yesterday afternoon when five armed Chinese hold up a woman shopkeeper at MacAlis'or lane and after locking the inmates in the bathroom ransacked the house and de- 1 ramped with cash and
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    • 479 6 MISCELLANEOUS NEW FLORAVII.I.E. 130 Uran K Road, available Mctommodati.in witli full board. B KC'i uic lamps. Bwttcbea. Lanpholders. AC. DC. Oefltaf Fans Electric Iron^. Bectrtc Irons. 1/044 V.I. It. Cables. Me Chloride Gas. i; iller Di.siiH-ru.stant. only limited stock available. Please inquire 2nd floor. 11. Malacca St. Spore. cosmos. 17
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    • 242 6 ttkf\A SOOTH! MG AY AWL \W^L ysJk wnf inilfl am mapi ev^nfr- *^5^ skci/u ntociss. \^> G%&« PACIFIC TRADERS Buyin; So|llll C We have in stock to oir.-r a good selection of well known makr pinnoa as follows: (OI.I.ARI) ft OOLLABO, >mi:i'i. BON, S MorTKll DANKMANN. Your insprction rordiuUy invifd
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 617 6 The corr-ct uso of the takeout from South. No;e the icai double is something of an art. development from that point 2ffSiffiS ll SS a SJSJ!5 l S0Uth as nOt handling by both partners. to respond with a Jump bid West, dealer. spades, and North could not atferd Both side.s
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  • Around The Markets
    • 435 7 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Tuesday. THERE was no change in the rubber commodity market and the New York price of buyers 42V2 cts. f.0.b., with small sellers asking one-eighth above that price. In the share market Raub Gold saw business done at $2.50
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    • 325 7 SINGAPORE, Tueb. •TODAY'S produce prices were: Kit X: Ist Grade $140, 2nd Grade 1120, 3rd Grade $110. ri'LOII RICE: Siamese $100. KKDAH $85. RICE NOODLES: No. 1 Siamese $90. Kedah $75. Indo-t hina $75, local $75. China $90. COPRA: Sundried No 1 11 TAPIOCA FLOLR: Malayan. No. 1
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    • 313 7 Sir John Hay Attacks Rice Rationing From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Monday. IDDRESSING the annual n. general meeting of the Kamuning Rubber and Tin Co. today Sir John Hay, the chairman, pointed out that while prevailing rates of estate labourers' wage 3. broadly speaking and so far as could be
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    • 96 7 CALCUTTA, Tuesday. More than 50 Bengali banking houses suspended business on Monday following inability to meet commitments. About 30 have been DUckoahtd on the Calcutta Exchange as dei fault ers and others are expected to follow in a day or two. Failure of one of
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    • 319 7 SHIPS positions in Slngaf>ore yesterday were: M'N WHARF Godown 31-32: Samidway discharging cargo. Godown 34 -35: B?nla\vers, loading cargo for I K Godown 36-37: Multonad (tanker) Godown 33-39: Samgara. dischargine cargo. Godown 42-43. Marella, loading cargo for Sydney. EAST U II ARK Godown 44. Gordon. dischai>;ing ?argo.
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    • 26 7 SHANGHAI, Tuesday Today's quotations on the Shanghai blackmarket exchange are: U.S. dollar C.N. $4,800 Gold C.N. $268 800 Hong Kong dollar C.N. $810— U.P.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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    • 434 7 PRESIDENT LINE Sailings NEW YORK via India and Mediterranean Ports iIOINT DAVIS* Loading Roads iIOI'NT ROGERS* In Porl I.S. MARINE FALCON due Jan. 12 for Madras and Bombay. Freight Only For Freight and Passage Apply AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES. LTD. MM Bldg. Tels. 6228 flftt. For Passage Tel. 4' WATERMAN LINE
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    • 307 7 ELLERMAN FORT FORK I New York At God H BENLAWKKs I'oi London At God ::< SAMTWtKD For Halifax and New York Hue Sinßapore Dec. J7 K L A~7TTe S S LINE. FOR PACIFIC PORTS Sailings to be resumed Shortiv McALISTER CO., Spore) LTD. PHONES 7237—5906 S'lver Line KERR STEAMSHIP CO.,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 377 7 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: High Water; n am 8 ft. 6 in.; 0.04 n m A ft 6 in TOMORROW: High Water: IXI a.m. 8 ft 3 in.; 0.3.i p.m. 9 it. 3 in. RADIO MAI AVA I" UmglM lialf-hour; 9.00 p.m.iand a song; 9.50 p.m. Interlude; 9.55 ix^ Harry Hackmeyer
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  • 405 8 WashbrookAnd Edrich In Form BRISBANE, Tuesday. A CENTURY by Washbrook, finally out for 124, and a sound 71 by Edrich featured the second innings of the M.C.C. at Brisbane today. When Tallon declared the Queensland innings closed with six wickets down for 230 runs, a quarter of
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  • 342 8 Casualties BOCKLITES MEETING IIKISBWK. Tues. TIIK M.( X rtnived a severe Mow today when with the fir^t Test match only three days away. Lea llutton f>ll ill soon after tHTflftfWfi and was ordered to hod suflcring from a chill. Thus he took no part in the fnal st:m«" of the
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  • 180 8 QIKKNSI.ANII IST INNS— IOO M.C.C. IST INNS— 3IO QIEENSLAND 2ND INNINGS Koii rs b Smith 29 Cook b Smith 11 Morris b Wright 30 Tallon Ibw b Smith H McCool b Wright 0 M.ii k.i\ not out Johnston r Compton b Wright "5 Archrr not out Extras 1« Total
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  • 225 8 THERE was a good attendance of members at the S.R A. Shoot at I th* Beletar Ranee on Sunday. The practices were one sighter and seven rc;mds to count at 200 x '00 x an' 600 x. The annual comp?tition for ttu» N.R.A. Donegal Bronz? Badge:
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  • 57 8 S.C.C. Rugby team to play H M 5. Terror en the Pddan? tnda*will br: P. Firkins: J. Aboott. S. Johnsen. V. R. Burton. T. A. Roper: C. Milton. H. B. Wilson; D C ton. D. M. ci irtns, b t. North. F. W. Stephens. H. N. Forster. R.
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  • 27 8 London. Mon. Football Association cup, final quail- I fring round leplay: North Shields 3! A.^hington 1 Nonh Shields oualify to I ■eel HartlepooLs United at Hartlepool. Reuter.
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  • 580 8 MEMORABLE chiefly for a last-minute rally by Raffles, I yesterday's "Galloway" cup Ruj?by match between Singapore's two colleges ended in a well-earned victory for the Medical College by six points (two penalties) to three (penalty). Play was of the robust and not of the
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  • 106 8 Rom Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Tues. I SPECIAL New Year's Cup race is provided for in the Penar.g i Turt Clubs New Year race meet- ing. The event will be for.cia^ j one horses, over seven furionas for a stake of $1,500 The programme provldea tor
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  • Up-Country Sport
    • 199 8 From Our Own Correspondent Malacca, Mon. THE Segamat Snorts Club, playing hockey on Saturday evening on the Malacca Club padan^. against the Malacca Chinese R.C., were Deaten by five goal-' to two after enjoying just as much of the exchanges as their opponents. Their
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    • 34 8 Malacca. Mon. The Oversea Chinese Banking Corporation Badminton Party loft to Hock Seng's B.P. in a friendly matcn played yesterday at the formers court; at Gajah Berang Road by three matches to two.
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    • 83 8 In a friendly match between Sentosa Badminton Party and Hose Pute'i Brtdminton Party played yesterday on iihe latter's court the Sentosa B.P. I won by four eam?s to three. Atfer Che I Abdullah bin M. Kassim. secretary of Rose Piiteh 8.P.. had made a short speech in the
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    • 59 8 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon. Thr Srlant-or T.P.C.A. XI. consisting of six reserves were beaten by the N.S C.R.C. by 2-0 at a soccer mati-h played here on Sunday in a charity match in aid of the Chinese Club Funds. Thoußh played at an interesting
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    • 39 8 In a friendly match of two singles and three doubles played at the King George V School Hall on Sunday, the Yeoh's Badminton Party from Selangor defeated the Cameron B.P. of Seremban, by three pames to two.
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    • 65 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Mon. The follow inp have oeen electee] office-bearers of the Muar Hockey Association for the year: Chairman, Syed Sulaiman bin Syccl Kadir, Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. S. Gaudart. Committee, Syed Hassan bin Sycd Kadir, Che Harris bin Adam. Che Amin bin Ali. Che
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    • 37 8 Thr C.T.A. Hockey XI defeated the Selangor T.P.C.A. team by a solitary goal scored in the serond minute of the i:amp by Alonendra in a friendly match played here at the N.S. Club padang on Sunday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    38 8 Auslra.'ian Davis Cup player, Dinny Pails, gtetin* fit for the challenge round against U.S.A. in Melbourne next month. I'ails is one o* the Davis Cup squad who arc Riven a strenuous R.vm- nasium work-out daily.— Sun— Herald picture.
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