The Straits Times, 14 June 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED JS4S. TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY. JUNE 14, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 154 1 Bevin In Favour Of A World Parliament LONDON, Friday. TTHE British Foreign Secre1 tary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told a luncheon of the Foreign Press Association today that he favoured the eventual establishment of a directly elected world parliament. "It wiH not come in my time, but I shall continually advocate
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  • 123 1 JERUSALEM, Friday— Bomb explosions yesterday wrecked two stores in Haifa and terrorists attacked the Tel Aviv office of Reuter's. The first bomb blasted a dairy products store on the ground floor of a Haifa apartment house causin? extensive damage. An hour later, another bomb wrecked a wine
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  • 207 1 2 DIE, 31 HURT IN ARMY TRUCK CRASH Bukit TWO British soldiers were killed and 31 British and one Indian were injured when a military truck filled with troops crashed into a milestone and a truck and overturned on the Bukit Timah Road, at the 11th milestone, at 8 a.m.
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 1 Mohd. bin Haji Hassan, a Malay recruit to the Ist Malaya Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery, regards the old and the new with some amusement m the "O" store at Blakan Mati yesterday when 89 Malay recruits were issued with equipment. Straits Times picture. Story Page 7.
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  • 95 1 From Our Own Correspondent TOKIO, Friday— Dr. H. V. Evatt, Australian External Affairs Minister, is to fly to Japan in the next fortnight for a Peace Treaty discussion with Gen. MacArthur. His visit is still an official secret here, in view of the postponement of
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  • 74 1 Fvi.m Our Own Ccrresp ndent LONDON. Friday.— The North Borneo Government is advert sing for a tcwn-planner to "prepare plans for the reconstruction and development of the Colony's ma'n centres, which were mostly complo'pjy devastated in the War The advert sement states that juon i& the scaie
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  • 73 1 THE Straits Times today introduces a new regular feature —the Saturday Forum a full page devoted to letters from its readers. See Page 8. Because of the enormous number of letters sent m for inclus 1 m m our Man-in-the-Stre3t column, it has been found necessary
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  • 228 1 Mongolian Invasion For U.N.0.? NANKING, Friday. THE Chinese Government would consider appealing to the United Nations about the Outer Mongolian forces' invasion of Sinkiang Province if ordinary diplomatic protests to Moscow did not produce results the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Wang Shih-chieh said yesterday. Speaking at a secret meeting of
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  • 162 1 LONDON, Friday. T"HE Secretary of the Poli- tical Honours Scrutiny Commission, Sir Robert Knox, has described the conferring of a knighthood on the oncedivorced actor, Laurence Olivier, as "an example of an increasing tendency towards a more liberal outlook" m the allocation of honours. Previously a person
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  • 440 1 IMMEDIATE prospects m the rice situation m SouthEast Asia appear generally better than was anticipated last month, according to a statement issued yesterday by the Office of the Special Commissioner, Lord Killearn. The Economic Minister to; the Special Commissioner, Mr. Charles Empson, said yesterday "The question of
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  • 47 1 PLANTERS' STORES I-'roni Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday.— At the anunual general meeting of the Planters' Stores and Agency, the chairman, Mr. James Warrsn, said the directors' policy of opening a branch m Singapore appeared likely, frc.m early indications, to be fully justifled.Straits Times Copyright
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  • 110 1 CONISTON, Friday— Sir Malcolm Campbell today decided to postpone for about a month the attempt to beat his own world speed record on water of 111.74 miles per hour. Renter. (See Col. 7) LONDON, Friday.— Cricket results: At Liverpool, Lancashire drew with Glamorgan. Glamorgan 232 and 381 for
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  • 306 1 Massacre Trial Sentences To Stand; 2 To Die THE Commander-in-Chief, G.H.Q., South-East Asia Land Forces, Lieutenanl-General Sir Neil M. Ritchie, yesterday confirmed the sentences on seven Japanese officers convicted by a Singapore War Crimes Court of complicity in the massacre of mor* than 5,000 Chinese after the capture of Singapore
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  • 178 1 Coniston, Lancashire, Friday QIR Malcolm Campbell's »J jet-engined speedboat Blue, bird II was launched here to< day, and Sir Malcolm piloted her in a three-minute test run at about 70 miles #n hour. This Is the first time that jet populsior. has ever been
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    • 133 1 wk 'Mm 23-5 COLtMAH jr. IN OTHER PAGES Late t Red Moves m E. Europe 2 Indii Bill may be Ready this Month 3 Problem of Burma Arir y's Future 4 Income Tax Needs One Scheme 5 Editorial 6 H-Year-Old Girls as Dance Hostesses 7 SaturJay Forum 8 King's Birthday
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  • 1172 2 Reign Of Terror In Hungary, Rumania Putsch Reported LONDON, Friday. I ATEST reports front Europe's political storm points Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria are: HUNGARY: The expression of surprise and regret by the British Minister of State, Mr. McNeil, in London yesterday at the Soviet
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    • 103 2 Attempt On Bevin's Life Foiled BRUSSELS, Friday. THE Stern Gang: of Jewish terrorists had planned to assassinate the British Foreign Minister, Mr. Bevin, on the train oh which he left Moscow after the Foreign Ministers' Conference in April, the Brussels newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws revealed yesterday. The paper reported that
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    • 52 2 NEW YORK, Friday. Clare Boothe Luce, former Republican Congress-woman from Connecticut, underwent an operation yesterday and her condition today was reported "good." The hospital gave no details as to nature of the operation. Mrs. Luce is the wife of Henry Luce, publisher oi Time, Life, and Fortune.
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    • 52 2 WASHINGTON, Friday. The Navy yesterday asked Congressional authorization to build a new high-power radio station near Seattle to serve the fleet m the North Pacific when the fleet must observe radio silence. The $7,000,000 station was described as "one of most vital projects" m the radio ileld.
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    • 103 2 EDINBURGH, Friday. The North Scotland Hydio-Electnc Board yesterday revealed details of the Storr Loch's constructional scheme in the Island of Skye— the first hydro-electric scheme in the Western Isles. The project, costing about £247,000 will ultimately have an output of 5,500,000 units of electricity to serve 10,500 people
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    • 99 2 MADRID, Friday. Tiie public prosecutor yesterday asked for death, sentences to be passed on two alleged members of a Communist guerrilla band, Luis Rodriguez Madrinez and Francisco Noeda Abad. on trial here on charges of placing bombs in a Madrid foodihop and being implicated in the murder of
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    • 55 2 EAGHDAD, Friday. The Iraqi Senate yesterday ratified the Turco-Iraqi treaty of friendship signed m Angara m Marcn 19-Nj. It aims at establishing friendly relations between the two countries. It provides for economic and cultural co-operation, building oi dams, distribution of waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and
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    • 94 2 LONDON, Friday. DectiveSergeants Albert Eawin Compton, of Surrey, ami Harry Gordon Cooper, Middlesex, were sent for trial at Bow Street Court yesterday, accused of having conspired together with others to steal from persons whom they purported to interview in the course of tlieir official duties. The accused
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    • 96 2 JOHANNESBURG. Friday. Shortage of coal may force Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company to close down today un- less supplies are received immediately, the Company said yestorday. The coal position is not much better in Pretoria and Port Elizabeth, in Pretoria the power station has only three
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    • 111 2 BERLIN, Friday. Americar-a cr e more willing ti help their former enemies thsn their allies, figures released by Paul C. French, executive director of Co-operative American Remittances m Europe showed today French said that m on c year of operation m Germany his organisation has distributed 1,200,000
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    • 100 2 CAMBRIDGE, Friday.— Tho British Foreigu Secretary, Mr. Bevin, who went to work slivering milk at th e ag e when ne war. ted to go to college, was inaa e an honorary Doctor of Laws by Cambridge University yesterday 1 h e Public Oraujr, Mr W K
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    • 143 2 NUREMBERG, Friday. Dr A v. ud f? w C Iv vice-president of the University of Illinios College of Medicine a..d consultant to the Secretary of War, testified yesterday that the medical experiments conducted at Dachau by Nazi doctors were a farce scientifically. He said they were of no
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    • 117 2 LONDON, Friday.— A Foreign Onice spokesman said yesterday that a considerable programme was being arranged for the actress wife of die Argentine President, Sc.ora Eva de Peron, but that linal details could not be planned, until the exact time of her arrival was known definitely. It was understood
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    • 78 2 LONDON, Friday —A terrific explosion shattered windows and cracked walls m central London before dawn yesterday the third anniversary of the first ftyiryr bomb attack on England. Early morning workers, acting ac war-born reflex, flattened themselves on the pavement then grinned sheepishly a t each other. Later policy
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    • 760 2 NOTICES FETTESIAN DINNER A Psttesian dinner will be held on rounder's Day. Saturday. 21th. June, at Government Tlhum. Singapore. on. wiablnc to attend are asked to communicate before 23rd. June, with Private Secretary. Government House. SINGAPORE tMNKIPALITY A vacancy exists on dse Temporary Staff for a Typist m the Municipal
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    • 705 2 NOTICES GAMMON (MALAYA) LIMITED. DIRECTORS' ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS for tbe year tndtd Slst January. 1947 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ttm* the Twentieth Annual General MeetIng of the shareholders of Gammon (Malaya) Limited will be held at the Registered Office of the Company. 63 Geylang Road, Singapore, on Saturday, the
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    • 717 2 TENDERS SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenderers for tbe supply of Road Rollers to the Municipal Transport Centre ace notified that the closing 1 date for submission, of tenders baa been extended to noon on Monday. 14. July-. 194 T. TENDER Tenders are invited far the supply of labour for removal «f dead
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    • 17 2 SITUATION VACANT REP: Old Established European Merchant firm requires a qualified Civil Enßineer. Position filled. Applicants thanked.
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  • 474 3 INDIA BILL MAY BE READY THIS MONTH Good Progress On Rush Legislation LONDON, Friday. IEGISLATION that will transform India into the dominions of Hindustan and Pakistan may be introduced before the end of this month. Good progress is being made in preparing the legislation, and on present arrangements the bill
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  • 1319 3 AMONG those invited to the garden party at Government House on Thursday, given by the Officer Administering the King's birthday, were the following members of the public: members of the public: Dr. and Mrs. Hu, Dr. and Mrs. Teo Koh Toh, Mr and Mrs. Tan
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  • 303 3 Atom Bomb Eclipsed LONDON, Thursday. BRITAIN and America have developed a secret which is confidently regarded as an effective alternative to the atom bomb, says an Evening News dispatch from Auckland. New Zealand. The dispatch quoted Professor T. D. J. Leech, described as the No. 1 scientist on the new
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  • 89 3 FRIDAY. The Secretary of State, Gen. George C. Marshall, on Thursday, expressed the hope that a Korean provisional government would be formed shortly as provided for in the Moscow Agreement of December, 1945. At his press conference Gen. Marshall said he based his hopes on
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  • 126 3 "The qir> sapor <> Co-ODera^'e Stores Society, Ltd., shows every sign of belying the predictions of the pessimists and will surely survive this period of black market activity in Singapore." says the annual report, for 1946, of the society issued yesterday. The society will hold its second general
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  • Article, Illustration
    46 3 War-wrecked Hohenzoliern Bridge at Cologne, Germany's most heavily bombed city. It is estimated that its reconstruction, which is proceeding slowly, will take two years to complete. I In the foreground a small ferry is about to tak* a load of Germans across the Rhine. A.P. Photo.
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  • 186 3 Shahrir Fears He May Be Cut Off In Batavia BATAVIA, Friday. AN Indonesian spokesman said today that the Republican Prime Minister, Sutan Shahrir, fears he may be cut off from the Java interior if he should return to Eatavi*: for new talks with the Dutch on the political crisis. The
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  • 83 3 3ATAVIA, Friday. The 4,000ton Dutch tin dredge, Stuyvesant, has been delivered to the Billiton Company at Bank a Island after a 15,000-mile tow from Tampa. Florida, through the Panama Cinal and across the Pacific Ocean Captain W. H. Smith of JaoKconville Florida, claimed a world long-distance
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  • 86 3 Two Chinese. Chua Theng Kwang, alias Ah Bah, and Ng Ah Kong, altps Hnn<? Thai, w^re brought before the Second Police Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Goh. yesterday, on a charge of attempted murder of a compatriot. Goh Ah Tal at the junction of Kallang Road and
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  • 133 3 The Times Correspondent BATAVIA. Friday. Certain circles in Batavia hold the view that the Dutch, tired of th» seemingly endless delay and discussion with the Indonesians, may attempt to break the pres3nt deadlock by force. Such action might be tafo.n regardless of the Commission General's counsel.
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  • 245 3 Share Market Report By Our Market Correspondent THE share market opened quietly yesterday after the holiday and with the week-end immediately ahead ;here was a general lack of interest. Industxial prices tended to ease and m some c?s*»s sel'es predomir.a'ed. Gammons chafed ha ds at ~nd
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  • 175 3 Princess Talks On Empire LONDON, Friday. PEOPLE in England did not fully realise the respect, admiration and goodwill in which they were held by people of the Commonwealth, said Princess Eli ateth in a speech at the Guidhall on Wednesday. The Princess, taking part in her first major ceremony at
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  • 310 4 PROBLEM OF BURMA ARMY'S FUTURE Defence Pact With Britain Possible The Times Correspondent RANGOON, Friday. ANE of the main issues to be settled during coming weeks is the future of the Burma army. If Burma choosts complete independence (a resolution to this effect is expected to be passed in the
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  • 379 4 LONDON, Friday. T THE Under-Secretary for 1 Burma, Mr. Arthur Henderson, told the House of Commons yesterday that documents founds m the possession of U Sein Da reputed leader of the movement m Arakan for separation of Arakan from Burma after his arrest revealed connection
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  • 53 4 A dinner is being given tonight n' the Catholic Club, Bras Basah Road, by tlu» members of the Consecration Celebration Committee in honour of Monsignor Okomendy, the ncwly-ccnsecrated Bishop of Malacca. The function is intended to give members of the Committee an oj portunity ot closer acquaintance
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  • 219 4 LONDON, Thursday.— A Government spokesman said yesterday there was "a very good chance" that Burma would re- 1 main in the British Empire as a j Domir.ion. H e added that, if Burma chose to remain a Dominion, some form of regional link between that country,
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  • 67 4 Members of the Katoncr Boys' Club m Haiff Road. Singapore, held their first social oarty on Wednesday evenine. Master Edmumd Joseph with his /ruitar, leads community singins *t_ the eun* lire. About 100 dots and *irls ef all n ationaliUes attended the party. The Secretary of the
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  • 248 4 HIGHLANDS VEGETABLE PROBLEM A WARNING of "complete encroachment" on the Malayan Union health resort Cameron Highlands by the military was made by Mr. D. Robertson at the_ meeting of the Singapore Association yesterday. Mr. Robertson said n expressed this concern, bscaufe Singapore residents were still using the highland as a
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  • 267 4 ITNIONISTS have begun a strike in Singapore which they U say is no concern of their union. They are among 140 workers who walked out of the Hoe Hong Oil Mills yesterday on the first noteworthy strike for seven weeks a record period this year for
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  • 275 4 PIGHTY NINE Malay recruits reported to Blakan Mati Li yesterday morning, where they have now become part of the Ist Malay Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery. Another ninety will report today. The men come under the new army scheme for enrolment of local people. In case
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  • 90 4 FS Singapore Commissioner for Labour, Mr. R. P. Bingham, will suggest to seamen's unions a scheme to replace the ghaut sarang (crew contractor) employment system. A committee of registered seamen's unions wants to abolish the ghaut sarang and substitute an employment agency conducted by the committee
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  • 163 4 In this case the offence was In the nature of a youthful escapade prompted by childish bravado." declared Mr. Justice Brown at the Assize Court yesterday when he bound over 18-year old Reni Pohen In the sum of $1,000 for 12 months. Pohen pleaded guilty to two
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  • 110 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. The Chief Inspector of Mines, Malayan Union, m his report on the production of tin-ore concentrates from the Malayan Union, for the month of April, reveal that the highest production was registered In Perak of 26.221 pikuls. the equivalent
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  • 147 4 "THE setting up of an inquiry 1 committee, or commission, to go into the whole question of taxation m the Colony of Singapore was urged by Mr. A. F. Thome at the general meeting of the Singapore Association yesterday. Another speaker, Mr. D. Marshall said the Government
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  • 196 4 Two Bottles of Kruschen Put Her Right Three years of suffering and the# at last glorious relief! This woman is so pleased with Kmschen that she wants to tell others haw she got back her health:— "I feet ft my duty to tell you
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  • 1080 5 INCOME TAX NEEDS ONE SCHEME BRADDELL New Councils Must Decide THE whole matter of income tax must be left tfi the new councils and it cannot be imposed save throughout the whole of Malaya." This opinion was expressed by Dato Roland Braddell, the president, at the annual meeting of the
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    26 5 Carl Krauch (standing:) and Herman Schmitz, former beads of the great German I. G. Farben industries, on trial at Nuremberg on charges of planning the war.
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  • 324 5 Produce Market From A Market Correspondent IN the local produce market yesterday, Bali coffee dropped from $110 to $100 and later to $96. Transactions for other grades were halted for a time, pending developments in Bali No. 1. The selling pressure was extremely strong, as
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  • 310 5 CREATION of a Progressive Liberal Party for those imbued with liberal democratic thought in Malaya was advocated by the president of the Singapore Association, Dato Roland BraddeH. at the annual meeting of the Association yesterday. Dato Braddell said: "Before he went on leave Mr. E.
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  • 76 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. THE cruiser Belfast left on shore her football team when she dashed to sea from Penang on Wednesday night to join in the search for a raft containing two people, reported 140 miles from Penang. The team was at Glugor
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  • 133 5 EDINBURGH. Sir Walter Scott lO6t a legal bout with William Shakespeare in the Sheriff's Court yesterday and as a result a coal merchant, George Morrison found himself still bound to appear for trial on June 24 in four charges of selling "sea coal" illegally. Sea coal is
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  • 133 5 The late Captain C. E. Cleaver, M. B. E. Master of the Straits Steamship Com pany vessel, Perak, was buried on June 6 at Bidadari Cemetery. Captain Cleaver, who was 44, died on June 5 after a 30-foot fall Into thl hold of his slip from which
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  • 233 5 "THE better prices seen to1 wards the end of last week have not been maintained and with fairly wide fluctuations values have sagged, states Messrs. Lewis and Peat's market report, issued yesterday. Orders here and acceptances In the terminal markets have been rather disappointing, tut iji spite
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  • 698 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Saturday, June 14, 1947. The Tamil And His Toddy It looks as if toddy may go the way of opium in this country. Kuala Lumpur decided to ban toddy shops some weeks ago, by a vote of its Town Board the first town in Malaya to
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  • 485 6 THE DIPLOMATIC MR. MENON At the May meeting of the Malayan Union Advisory Council the Chief Secretary introduced a Bill providing for a central provident fund for Asiatic estate staffs in Malaya, similar to that which has long existed for the European planting community. This was not a Government Bill:
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    13 6 An awkward place for a wash on the waterfront near the Singapore Cenotaph.
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  • 1266 6 A Malayan Countryman 's Diary BUSY at my desk one afternoon lately, my ears wen? greeted by a series of peculiar animal-like cries which were unlike anything I had heard in the dusun before. They ceased after a while, and I forgot about them until
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  • Man In The Street
    • 249 6 YjOUR much-publicised first: Damon Runyon story has confirmed our worst fears. If you want your readers to adopt an anti-American attitude, you have succeeded ex-| tremely well with the first: dose of "Igiiaz the Wolf." j John Galsworthy In his essay "On Expression" (an essay
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    • 136 6 One Man's Music Id Another's Poison THE letter from a resident of Still Road on music frcm Radio Malaya shows a singular lack of appreciation of the desires of others than himself and his kind. Let him be told that there are a very large number of listeners who dislike
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    • 64 6 I HAVE sent different articles to the editors of Ma ay newspapers requesting them to publish mv opinions in their papsrs. But none has come out. Yet when I ask my girl friend to send the said articles under her name, readers are able to read them
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    • 155 6 CAN you, or any of your Chinese readers elucidate the reason for the foolish and lavish display of our Chinese national flag on the King's Birthday and on other various i public holidays. These indiscriminate and stupid displays of our Chiness national flag on all occasions only serve
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    • 99 6 MANY school children would have liked to see the Birthday Parade in Singapore, but what chance had th y? Even if they fcund a place on the Esplanade, all they could see was the bscks of the paradine; regiments? The Education Department had made no arrangements for
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    • 240 6 iv.OUR leader headed "The 1 Sage Of Malacca" was illuminating! Ona can now umderstand Mr. Tan Ch r,g Leek's anti-5riti?Ji fe^ 1 It must be his harro^ins experiences in Bangalore that r.re responsible for his hate. Like the majority in Malaya. I was under the impression '.hat he
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  • Malayan Round-up
    • 116 7 •THREE Chinese were yesterday at the Second Police Court 1 charged with robbing the same man twice m one week. The victim was stated to have I been relit ved of $9 and a gold ring the first time, m Queen Street on June
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    • 75 7 From Our Own Correspondent Friday— At the Dunlop Rubber Co. meeting on Wedn c s d a y, the chairman, S i r George Beharrell, DjS.O., gave an encouraging report on the plantations. He said the crop now being harvested exceeded the 1941 output rate and the
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    • 125 7 A total of 52.547 tons of rubber was imported into Singapore and the Malayan Union during May. 1947. It represents an increase of 15 823 tons over April imports. S.n score's share of the imports was' 23.«35 tons of which 16.627 ton» came from Sumatra: 2.199 tons from
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      80 7 From Our Own Correspondent KLANG, Friday.— Dato Hamzah bin Abdullah. Datoh Mentri of Sclangor, secretary to the Sultan of Se&ngor, is now on leave prior to retirement. Raja Nong, private secretary to the Sultan of Selangor, is acting as Dato Mentri in addition to his own duties.
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    • 91 7 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Friday.—Fires broke out m rapid iuccession m thr*e Malay houses m Hale Lane early yesterday morning. The fire brigade was summoned and, with the help of people m the vicinity, the fires were checked before serious damage could be done. In
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    • 67 7 The Regimental Band of the West Yorkshire Regiment will take part m the Royal Army Medical C6rps Memorial Service at the 47 British Military Hospital. Alexandra Road, tomorrow. The band will play at the Union Jack Club on June 17 and 20. On Sunday, June 22, the
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  • 148 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday.— Kuala Lumpur Police emergency telephone number is 2662. Dial this number if your house has been broken into or if you hear anyone trying to break in. if you see any suspicious character larking around your house, if anyone
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  • 379 7 Welfare Workers Behind New Bill From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ITNDESIRABLE conditions in cabarets reported by social welfare investigators led to the inclusion of the rule in the new Children's Charter which bans work in public dance halls to girls under the age
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  • 180 7 "A refreshingly provocative viewpoint was expressed by Mr. A. Piol in his lecture at Wednesday's meeting of the Y.M.C.A. Art Club," writes "L.A.D." in a letter to the Straits Times. "He advanced the theory that, while Western art. in its more advanced forms, has broken radically away
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  • 296 7 THE Royal Air Force yesterday afternoon demonstrated the 1 performance of a Gloster Meteor jet-propelled fighter aircraft to a gathering of Press representatives at Tengah Station, Singapore Island. Wing Commander H. A C. Bird-Wilson, D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar, A.F.C., "stunted" in the Meteor over Tengah for
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  • 196 7 SERVICE LEAGUE'S APPEAL From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TTHE Selangor Women's Ser1 vice League, which has 3 membership of 150, comprising women of all races, is appealing for more workers to help in its ever-expanding activities. Various old girls' Association of English, Malay and Chinese schools in Kuala
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  • 361 7 Looters Win Race With Police A PARTY of rice looters in a fast motor sampan evaded arrest on Singapore Harbour on Tuesday night because a Marine Police launch was too slow to catch it. The sampan beat the police launch to a wharf In Telok Ayer Basin where the looters
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  • 64 7 TELUK ANSON, Friday.—Repair work was recently started at the Changkat Jong Water Works. Spare parts having arrived from E:rope, the P.W D. is now putting the reservoir pumps into shape. Water in the taps is not avail, able these days after 10 every night. But with
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  • 162 7 From Our t)wn Correspondent SEREMBAN, Friday. FIVE cards of commendation were presented by the Resident Commissioner, Mr. W. A. Gordon-Hall, at the Residency last night where the King's birthday was celebrated with a garden par y. The usual parade of troops trtol; place at the
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  • 359 7 wrom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Friday. THE registry of businesses has now been operating for two months, and, with the training of the staff and the experience gained, it is now possible to extend its scope, says an official communique. In the Initial stages, only
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
    • 445 8 Chinese in Politics WITH reference to the letter under the caption "UNOFFICIAL MAJORITY IN COUNCIL", here is a bit of local history, taken from "One Hundred Years of History" by the late Sir Ong Siang Song, which may suggest to Mr. J. A. M. Ede and
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    • 79 8 Why Not The Shopkeepers? IT was very interesting to read the item CHILD SOBS AS FATHER FACES GAOL, in the Straits Times. He (the father) was selling cigarettes above control price in the flve-foot-way, near Changi village. But what are Mie Control inspectors doing to those shopkeepers who are selling
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    • 323 8 Chopstick Reform THD raise the status of the A Chinese, the following reforms are suggested. The Chinese should do their business on a co-operative basis, and apply scientific methods. Most Chinese businesses are family concerns and individualistic in character. Though the Chinese were pioneers in trade in Malaya, there is
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    • 169 8 BEING a regular listener to Radio Malaya programmes, I was surprised to read the letter by 'Fed-Up" asking for more dance and Hawaiian music, instead of classical music. "Ped-Up" and his friends tn Still Road most be really fed-up with life, and I can confidently
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    • 120 8 T AM writing on behalf of all civilian clerks m the employ of G.H.Q., S.E.A.L.F., on our shocking transport conditions We are not ungrateful for the facilities provided, but I am sure no-one would tolerate the sight of a few hundred clerks cramped like herds of
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    • 127 8 THE trishaw men's recent direct challenge to the authorities is typical of their threats to civilians, except that in the latter case they are more specific regarding the type of punishment to be expected. Many of the trishaw fraternity axe members of secret societies. That is
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    • 119 8 I SHALL endeavour to enlighten Mata Sakit on a few facts, which I happen to know through experience, regarding his complaints on "socialism." Most girls are attracted to the Serviceman for the entertainment he can offer. He could take them to his unit dances with very little cost
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    • 315 8 and are determined to be alive and to progress with the world, It Is time that music and songs, expressing misery and melancholy, be discarded forthwith and consigned to the museum. It would be more in accord with the spliit of the times and the
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    • 155 8 •"THE letter headed THE 1 SALES GIRL SPOKE MALAY" cannot be allowed to pass without c mment. I heartily endorse the writer' 3 view that the Asiatic girl, out of her express de.sire to please the European, often shamefully treats the men of her own race. The ugly
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    • 61 8 Distracted Radio Romantics IT seems to me that the Malay musical programmes of Radio Malaya are out-of-date. Rather old songs, composed j presumably by distracted roman- tics, appear to hold the field; and it is a matter of surprise that there have been no protests so far from Malay listeners.
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    • 700 8 The declarer's plan of play in to- into a long huddle over whether to day's deal was not quite the ta*L j^,^ he chose to lay down North, dealer. the club king To hjg disappoint. Both sides vulnerable. ment thg queen dl{ not drop and when the three rounds of
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  • 386 9 A Royal Navy detachment (above) passes the salutinc base. The Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. K. McKerron, (extreme leit of tke picture) is taking tfee samte. Naval detachments on the parade included R.N. and KM. detachments from shiD and shore based units, Malayan
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    • 569 10 MANSFIELD CO., UD. (Incorporates) m Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE from U.K. for Hongkong G. 4 ••Mvrmidonj" from U.S. A G. 15 •"Lyraon" sails for L'pool via Jeddah June 16 "Sommelsdijk" due from U.S. A June 17 •Mfdoii" sails for Liverpool via P. Sudan June 20 "Agamemnon" Due from U.K June
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    • 218 10 P&O S.S. SAMSOARING FOB londo* WILL LOAD AT PENANG ABOUT JUNE 81 S.S TREVELYAN FOB genoa a london WILL LOAD AT SINGAPORE ABOUT JUNE 81 PORT SWETTENHAM ABOUT JUNE 89 PENANO ABOUT JULY S FOR FREIGHT PLEASE apply ISLAT KERR CO.. LTD. TELEPHONE 5459—1456 BEN LINE HOMEWARDS BENCRUACHAN j une
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  • 679 10 SINGAPORE, June 13. SINGAPORE shar e quotations to3 day, as given by the Malayan Shareholders' Association, were as follows: Alex. Brick (O) 3.30 2.40 Alex. Brick (P) 3.50 3.65 B M. Trustee 8 25 0.00 Consolidated Tin Smelters (O) 21/6 22/6 do (P) 26/6 38/Bastera United Assurance 43
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  • 429 10 LONDON STOCKS LONDON, Thurslay. ON the London Stock Exchange today. Idle conditions prevalled m most sections throughout the day. Even so, the undertcne remained steady, writes Revter's financial correspondent, nr^M^w^^o^ Vi ""ZL were M. BrlU^ SrT^lSioiS'^'Sifilffi ther shipping issues were Uttk ■"SS Trinidad were unaffected by alO per cent, tax
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  • 147 10 AUTPUTS of tin concentrates for the limited companies T the management of AngloO"«|t»l (Malaya). Ltd.. for last month show large increases on the **xue* *or AP'U m som< cases outputs have been nearly O^of the most spectacular inP^creased from J4l picul. m mocreased from 499 piculs to
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  • 63 10 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association s prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts per lb. per lb. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose 30% 31 H No. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales June 31% 32% No. 2 R.S.S. fob In bales June 30% 31% No. 3
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  • 392 11 OVERSEAS SPORT TEAMS ARRIVE IN SINGAPORE FOR LOCAL MATCHES EIRST two overseas sporting teams to visit Singapore since the war the Sing Tao football team and the Manila Chinese basketball side arrived at Kallang Airport yesterday afternoon. Players of both sides travelled from Manila to gether m a Philippines Airlines
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    • 403 11 SKYWAYS LIMITED (Incorporated In England) DIRECT tAHCABTRIAN PASSENOER AND FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS NEXT DEPARTURES —Monday 16th Jane Friday 20th Jane Tuesday 24th June to THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. (Incorporated In England) Genml ArenU B<H)kings also accepted at all Travel Agencies NACIONAL de NAVEGACAO, LISBON
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    • 226 11 Columbia Pidfahu uall 4oon jtoinf tki town m Tech/iticolo\ unfit with LARRY PARKS EVELYN KEYES RAFFLES HOTEL TODAY ORCHESTRAL CONCERT 12.45 to 2 p.m. and B. IS to 9 p.m. CABARET ATTRACTION OSMAN DAHNIA Balinese Dancers and Joe Speelman's Raffles Orchestra with Joan Fraser Tibor Kunstler Vocalists Admission to non-iesidents
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    • 956 11 RADIO MALAYA RADIO AUSTRALIA a.m. *.u*ic en m. Air: *> SineaDOre il BBC. News and Home News: 8.45 (NMn ™J_4«L H inm Melbourne Morning Star; 9.00 BBC. I.T.M.A.: (Noon to 2 p.m— 485m. in medium 9 30 Announcements; 9.35 Pot Luck; wave band and 7.20mc. s in 41m. (9.30 to
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  • 1174 12 WIN THE PEACE TO MAKE RACE HISTORY Safe Bets For K.L. Today From Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WIN The Peace will face a formidable task tomorrow, 11 final day of the Selangor Turf Club June Meeting, but on his present form I give him a confident vote to
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  • 970 12 FIELDS for today's K.L. races are set out below. The double totes are on Races Four and Five. and Races Seven and Eight. The big sweep is on Race Nine. Rt\e One 2.15 Horses —Class 2 —Div. s—s'5 —5'/ 2 Furs. FOREVER AMBER 8.11 U. Col. 8.
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  • 244 12 By Our Soccer Writer TT is many years since Singapore soccer enthusiasts had the opportunity of witnessing inter-port matches. The visits to this country of the South China, Eastern Athletic and Sing Tao teams and the enormous crowds that saw them m action against
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  • 71 12 Programme of matches for the Manila basketball team which arrived m Singanore yesterday, was announced last night. It is: Sunday: vs. Rest. Tuesday: vs. Selangor Chinese Combined. Thursday: vs. Kong Siong (Singapore champions). Saturday: vs. Perak Chinese Combined. Monday 23rd: vs. Penang Chinese Combined. Wednesday 25th:
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  • 241 12 LONDON, Friday. DOUGLAS Wright, the Kent bowler who toured Australia with the M.C.C. team last winter, made a welcome return yesterday when he took seven Northamptonshire wickets for 55 runs. On a batsman's cricket, Wright bowled excellently and made the ball turr. appreciably. Close of play scores
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  • 41 12 RACE I:—Norton,1 :—Norton, Forever Amber. RACE 2:—Gold Chain, Heroden. RACE 3:—Rosewel! Boy. Trousers. RACE 4:—Donnell Abu, Belita. RACE s:—Mont Blot, Unicorn. RACE 6:—Eulogism, Graceful Spear. RACE 7:—Win The Peace, Princess Guinevere. RACE 8:—Ooncella, Cactus. RACE 9:—Spear Mirth, Northwell.
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  • 193 12 From Our Own Correspondent »k IPOH Friday. TN the second round of the Sul1 tan's Cup Tennis Tournament, the Perak Chinese Recreation Club eliminated the Ipoh Club by four matches to nil yesterday. Tan Cheng Phor and khong Kit Thong beat S. C. Beaty and R a
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  • 96 12 SPOKANE (U.S.A.), F iday.— Joe Lous, world heavyweigat champion, plara to make an exhibition tcur of E rope ard Australia next year before h reUrea from the ring. This was announced by F.^d Sommcrs, the champion's reo esentative on Us current exhibition tour of the
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  • 82 12 LONDON, Friday.— A surprise was caused in Middlesborough football circles when it became known that Wilfred Mar.nion, desired to leave his Club. Manr.ion has not yet asked the Club to put ihim on the transfer list, but he said he was not happy at Middlesborough and desired
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  • 55 12 F^v y^Prdd' nnrt iwir, y "T yT dd and Henry Ransom of Texas, :-nd cnuck Harberf.. p-ofessinnal fr< ca Michigan, with 67 strokes— four UJider par— were leaders today at the ?nd of the first day's play m tl}^^6^t 1 6^" 1 J °P en golf charn
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  • 237 12 Crowd And Referee In Scene From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. BY a solitary goal scored fivf minutes before the end of the first half, the Eurasians beat the Indians m a First Division League soccer match on the Padang today. The standard of the play was scrappy throughout,
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  • 113 12 The Singapore Amateur Swimmlng Association yesterda- decided to hold swimming championships m Singapore during October this year. It was proposed that individuals and teams from the Malayan Union should be invited to the swimming championships. This suggestion will be considered at a committee meeting on July
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  • 55 12 LONDO.v. Kriday-.U Lord's Middlesex beat Nottinghamshire by 7 wickets. Middlesex 458 for eight declared and 48 for three (Butler, right arm fast, three for 15). and Nottinghamshire 317 and 188. At Gravesend. Kent beat Northamptonshire by nine wickets Kent 400 for 9 declared, 65 for 1 and
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  • 74 12 PARIS. Friday Count de Chambure's filly Montenica by Djebel out of Nica, who finished second to Imprudence in the French 1,000 guineas won the Prix de Diana the French Oaks at Longcharjp this afternoon after a thrilling finish in which the judges required a photograph to decide
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    • 94 12 T»^ T 'Ag> Ivan Ho J. Corbett \^l %jKfif io *h* h Crniur y Presents The "Big Four"! I Bosca Boa 10x5 Flash Hammond Singapore CruUer-Wt Belt Jim Corbett 10x5 Banta Singh (Champion) i challenger) fir \A, Ivan Ho 10x5 Chunky Hi rman N4 Silver Trophy Contest Ui V* Jack
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