The Straits Times, 3 January 1948

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 I'Ufcl.Vt P\<iKS SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 317 1 Highest Rate Ever Offered In Malaya CINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners decided J yesterday to raise a $25,000,000 loan at 3*4 per cent, interest the highest rate ever offered for a public loan m Malaya. This loan will be applied to a $40,500,000
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    48 1 Mrs. Edwin F. Lee Uefi) i wife of Bishop Lee. of Singapore, who Is retiring from the presidency of the Commission of the Women's Section of the Methodist Conference, and Mrs. H. B. Amstutz. her successor. Mrs. Lee is leaving Singapore shortly for America. Story on Page 7.
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  • 169 1 SHOTGUNS are one of Sarawak's greatest needs for post-w r development. The Governor of Sarawak, Sir Charles Arden Clarke, told the Straits Times yesterday that the development of land In the colony was being held up by lack of guns for Dyaks tr kill wild animals.
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  • 93 1 I n- n Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Friday. The Colonial Office announces that advantage has b^en taken of the recent discussions between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands Government to discuss the trade and financial relations between Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies. A provisional agreement was
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  • 97 1 Mr. Rayman said that the $21,000,000 loan of 1928 had approximately $11,000,000 investments available m its sinking fund. If all the 1928 stockholders convivpd, the Municipality would have available for spending on approved loan works during this and succeeding years the sum of SI 1.000.000, plus $4,000,000 new
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  • 143 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. MR. W. D. Godsall, Financial Secretary to the Malayan Union, has begun discussions with the Colonial Office, where he has established headquarters. The talks are m the earliest stages, the Treasury not paving yet been brought m, and the Financial
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  • 77 1 LONDON. Friday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, warned the people of Britain yesterday that rising prices and rising wages were threatening the country's whole economy. "Already many of our exports are m jeopardy because of their high prices he said m a New Year's
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  • 64 1 RANGOON, Friday— Burma Government officials said yesterday that unless the former Premier, U Saw, appealed within the next 24 hours he would be hanged without further legalities for abetting the slaying on July 19 of U Aung San, head of the Burmese Government, i
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  • 152 1 Earlier End To Mandate? LONDON, Friday. 'THE Colonial Office an1 nounced today that the British Government would consult the United Nations next week on the possibility of surrendering the Palestine mandate before the announced date of May 15. The British position m the Holy Land, the announcement said, would be
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  • 54 1 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, he added, had told the Commons that Britain would like to lay down the mandate as quickly as possible. "But there are many difficulties, mainly of a military character," he declared. "In abandoning that control you will abandon communications, and military withdrawal would
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  • 65 1 ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Friday. Arctic temperatures lowered the hope of survival of any of the nine men aboard an American Army B-29 which crashed somewhere m Matanuska Valley on Wednesday only a few minutes after taking oft on a routine weather flight. The crash was the second B-29 mishap m Alaska
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  • 248 1 Tax Assessment On 1 947 Incomes rvFIiCIAL announcements m tiie Malayan Union and Singapore yesterday said that tiie '"basis period** for assessment of income tax d l>e 1948. The announcements added that, "except under certain prescribed circumstances," the income tax for 1948 would be assessed on the profits and incomes
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  • 105 1 KARACHI. Friday. The Pakistan Foreign Minister, Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, announced today that Pakistan had rejected India's proposal to submit the Kashmir issue to the United Nations. He told a press conference that Pakistan would welcome United Nations mediation on all outstanding issues between the two
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  • 38 1 BATAVIA, Friday. The United Nations' "Good Offices" Committee was reported today to be preparing another proposal for effecting a ceasefire order m Indonesia. The proposal is expected to be handed to the Dutch and Indonesian Governments tomorrow. A.P.
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  • 103 1 NEW DELHI, Friday. A SAPLING of the holy Bo Tree at Buddha Gaya under which Lord Buddha attained Enlightenment is being flown to Rangoon for the celebration of Burma's independence. As a mark of goodwill m view of the ancient cultural ties beween the two
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  • 187 1 MANILA, Friday. MANILA'S passenger, transport will be ai a standstill m a few days if striking oil workers do not return to work. Employees of all major oil companies today presented joint demands for two and a half years' wartime backpay and a 50 per
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  • 98 1 RUBBER rose by over ar cent on the local market yesterday. No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers closed last night at 44J cents per lb. This price is only of a cent below the level reached m mid -November last year, when the 6econd highest price
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  • 42 1 OTTERVILLE, Missouri. Friday. A former United States Ambassador to Spain, Mr. Alexander W. Weddell, ms wife and at least 12 other holiday travellers were killed yesterday m the collision of two Missouri Pacific passenger trains m a heavy snowstorm. A.P.
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  • 272 1 TOKiO, Friday. THE former Japanese Premier, Hldeki Tojo, told the chief prosecutor, Mr. Joseph B. Keenan. here today that he did not think war was v crime. Mr. Keenan was resuming his questioning; of Tojo before the International Mill ary Tribunal after the New Year
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    • 126 2 BUDAPEST, Friday. KING Michael of Rumania, who abdicated on Tuesday, will arrive m Budapest at 2 p.m. GMT tomorrow aboard a special train, on his way to Switzerland, an authoritative informant disclosed today. Princess Anne x of Bour-bon-Parma told a reporter m Copenhagen yesterday that
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    • 48 2 OSLO. Friday. An extreme cold wave settled on northern Norway on New Year's Eve and continued throughout Thursday. The temperature m Oslo was four degrees below zero Fahrenheit, with down to 38 and 92 degrees below zero registered m different parts of the country. A. P.
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    • 38 2 HASTINGS. Thursday Six hundred children were given a New Year party here tonight by tftie Hastings Winkle Club. Winkle Club members Include the Duke of Windsor. Fied-Marshal Montgomery and other distinguished visitors to the town Reuter.
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    • 55 2 SOUTHAMPTON. Friday.— Twenty seven year old Mickey Rooroey arrived here yesterday m the Queen Mary to appear for one month m the London Palladium variety siiow. He said he had finished playing boy roles and would m future play a grown man. He said that there would be
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    • 54 2 NANKING, Thursday. A 26-year-old Chinese woman was shot to death by a Chinese man m the U.S. Army barracks here this mar nine. The couple illegally entered the barracks by forcing a boy to unlock the door of a room. There was an argument later and the shooting
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    • 34 2 HONG KONG. Friday. Increases m salaries of Government servants from 20 to 200 per cent, have been authorised by the Salaries Commission The increases will be retrospective from Jan. 1, 1947.— Reuter.
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    • 54 2 PEGUC IGALPA, Honduras, Friday. -Antonio Caste jon Trudillo was held on a charge of attempting to assassinate President Tiburugio Carias Andino. Trujillo was seized after he had stabbed a man to death across tine street from the Presidential P?Jace ar.d had attempted to force his way iroto the
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    • 36 2 ANKARA. Friday. The Turkish National Assembly yesterday approved a budget of £111,500,000 for 1948. A third of the budget, which is the highest of the republican regime, is devoted to national defence.— A. P.
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1343 2 NOTICES TENDERS Tenders are invited for purchase trf 463 drums of cocoanut oil now stored at Keppel Road Customs House. Inspection by arrangement with H.M. Customs. Sealed tenders will be received Bt the C.S.O. not later than noon on the 7th January. 1948. P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders will be received
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    • 405 2 notices" notice of removal The headquarters of the War Damage claims Commission at Kuala Lumpur has been removed from Maxwell Road, to No. 2 Bluff Road. Kuala Lumpur, with effect from 30th December, 1947. Inclusive. Post Box No. 1034 Sz Telephone Nos. 4423 Si 4424 remain the same. CHANGE OF
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    • 303 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY. 12 Old Vehicles are for sale by tender. Tender forms and particulars from Municipal Engineer's Office (Room No. 218 V Deposit $100/- (refundable). Closing m the Municipal Secretariat (Room No. 235) at noon on Thursday. 15th. January. 1948. SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY i Assessment List 1948 It Is notified
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    • 223 2 NOTICES NOTICE The owner proposes to carry out the reconstruction of Nos. 33C and 35 A Beach Street. Penang. convering a ground floor of about 10.800 sauare feet if there is sufficient inducement. Firms who are planning for future office accommodation are Invited to call at 292 Brick Kiln Road.
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    • 238 2 Grand Annual Stock Talcing SALE of a range of the latest type and design o f HOUSEHOLD FFICE FURNITURE. DRASTIC REDUCTIONS SIN CHONG 110/112, Orchard Road, Singapore BRITISH SOCIETY OF COMMERCE LIMITED. Designation of Fellows: F.B.S.C. Executives and others holding responsible position m Commerce invited to apply for details of
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    • 180 2 jsa\ "TEMCO" K:q "\^t 3-11 Synchronous Vrs^r ELE CTRIC N^^T CLOCKS nave long Deen accepted by CHZ&GKtmr l the trade as a fine achievement -i In reliability and trouble-free I j f^Tf"*"? service. That is the direct H Lr 11 z outcome of a high standard of I1 I 1
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  • 794 3 Sir G. Clauson's Explanation LONDON, Friday. A DENIAL that the Colonial Office had misre- presented the views of the Malayan Chamber of Mines in its cable to the F.MJ3. Chamber of Mines dealing with the rise in the price of tin was made yesterday by Sir
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    72 3 "Heroes" is the title of this ink painting by Miss Yu Yoonshan, a Chinese artist who opened an exhibition of 120 works at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore, yesterday. Miss Yu said of this modernistic work: M 'Heroes' are trees which traditionally tower over others m the South China
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  • 262 3 r-MORROWSr -MORROWS services m Singapore churches are as follows: Church of England: St. Andrew's Cathedral 7 a.m.. 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 11.15 a.m. aid 5.30! p m St George's Garrison Church (Tanglin) 7.15 a.m.. 9 a.m.. 9.45 a.m.. 6.30 p.tn Christ Church < Dorset Road; 7 a.m.: 8
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  • 294 3 NANKING, Friday. (GENERAL Chiang Kai-shek m a New Year cere- mony here yesterday predicted the wiping out of the Communist army before the end of the year. The past year, he said, had been China's most critical year since 1926 but the crisis was now
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  • 68 3 NEW YORK. r. 'day.— The magazine World 'etroleum ha. rid-wide prod.. dse mounting i n'nt p r cer ./er last year. It esti. ed that ihe Netherlands Etui indies production m 1948 will be 100.000 barrels daily, compared vrith 14.000 m the p:ist year. The United States has
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  • 36 3 The French Consul-General ir. Singapore, M. Andre Guibaut, will represent France at the festivities ;n celebration of Burmese indeuendance ir. Rangoon. starting on Jar.. 4. M. Guibaut will leave Singapore on Jan. 3by flyir.gboat
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  • 37 3 LONDON, Friday.— An official announcement is expected to be made tomorrow about the political future of the Earl of Listowel. last Secretary of State for Burma. He relinquishes office on when power is transired to Burma. Reuter.
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  • 114 3 LONDON. Friday THE United States Secre- tary of State, Mr. George C. Marshall, was named as the man of the year m a Daily Express poll of public opinion. The poll, which claims to represent a cross section of British opinion, placed Mr. Winston Churchill
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  • 47 3 WASHINGTON. Friday. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. Republican, of Michigan, has removed his name as a candidate for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Friends have predicted however. that he will remadn available as compromise candidate if a deadlock develops at the nominating convention m June.— UP.
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  • 31 3 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Friday. The death occurred on Christmas ye at Chester of Mrs. Mabel ach. wife of Mr. G. B. Leach, amerly of the Public Works department, F.MJS.
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  • 292 3 From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON. Friday. "jl/|Y opinion, which is ITI shared by many others, Is that income tax m Malaya would not have been necessary if the price of tin had b n en allowed to keep pace with the prices of other primary
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 219 3 Make eiw4^sy#% Quaker Day FOR ALL VI s~j LJ THE FAMILY! 1 1 f W hen your fjmil\ m(>> down fo a crcamv, dcliCHKU hri.akt.ist of Quaker Oats, they're sure' to ni|uv it because Quaker Oats is |ust about the lasm-st breakfast you fan serve. And Quaker Oats is whole-grain
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    • 195 3 ZsT^— (I FRSSP QUALITY MARGARINE OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE IN TINS Of s lbs. 2165. i »fll TODAYS SPECIAL Fresh Australian Lettuce and Celery Salad CHICKEN CURRY TIFFIN and SPECIAL DINNER Phone W^^^^^jfk 21 25 UJOLSELEY NOW AVAILABLE FOR HOME DELIVERY ENGLAND OR AUSTRALIA MALAYAN MOTORS LTD. 14/20 Orchard Road. Singapore. Represented
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  • 1388 4 Graduates Object To Teachers 9 Salary Scales THE Pan-Malayan Council of the Stamford 1 Club (Raffles College graduates* association) has submitted to the Governor-General and the two Governors a memorandum strongly protesting against the Salaries Commission's proposals for locally-recruited teachers. The Commission's recommendation of one salary scale for
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  • 327 4 Kelantan Royalty From Abdul Axis Bin Ishak TUNOKU YAHYA, second son of the Sultan of Kelantan was installed Tungku Mahkota at a ceremony held at the Istana Besar. Kota Bnaru on Dec. 30. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the members of the Royal family, territorial
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  • 94 4 AS soon as the world situation improves the Singapore Government will allow the importation of coal irough the normal ommercial channels. An announcement will be made when the change-over is due to take place, the Straits Times is officially informed. An international body call- 1 ed
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    • 300 4 fcUiS TOO THIN. 1 $C£k\ FEELING NERVOUS] k[v^U RUNDOWN J IkWORN OUT, IRRITABLE^ warningorworse may come. These are signs of what doctors call W ••Mineral-Vitamin deficiency" warning* that you are not getting enough minerals and vitamins which Nature demand* you to have. The cooked-out foods that you eat aren't supplying
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    • 395 4 Whit I.C.S. meais tf YOU The I.C.S. occupies a supreme, position among all Schools, Colleges and Institutes giving commercial and technical instruction through the post. This supremacy which is world wide, Is not approached by any contemporary. Before the introduction of 1.C.5., many men and women had no where to
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    • 465 4 3 SHOWS DAILY: 3, 6.15 9.15 p.m. The Miracle Picture Wonder! "TnE THIFF OF BAGDAD" —In Gorgeous Technicolor To-nit*. at Mid-nite "TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL H\" —In Technicolor QUEENS THEATRE Daily: 3.00. 6.30. 9.15 p.m. Gary Cooper Jean Arthur In Cecil B. De Mille's "THE PLAINSMAN" Next Chance "THE PERFECT
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  • 829 5 Jairmry Ist TRYING to recover from 1 usual spate of Christmas and New Year part'es. Said parties were, also as usual, composed of large number of people all trying hard to be very bright and hearty and to conceal the fact that by 12.30 a.m.
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  • 114 5 One ripe pineapple, 2 cups sugar water. 1/3 rd cup glucose. Wash and peel fruit, removing all eyes. Cut into slices, cover with water, simmer until tender. Drain, reserving 1 cup of the juice. Place sugar, pineapple Juice, and glucose into a saucepan. Bring slowly to the boil,
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  • 91 5 PLENTY of milk on the skin helps to build skin beauty and mi'k applied externally helps to keep the skin lovely too. Milk supplies are not so lavish, but it is surprising to learn the number of beauty aids m which milk is used and the
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  • 87 5 IT'OR skin that is dry and F wrinkled from overexposure to sun the honey-and-milk pack is advised. Mix together equal parts of honey and milk, and after thoroughly cleansing the skin smooth the paste over the face, being careful to include the skin under the eyes, the
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  • 294 5 Milk is even good for a once-weekly eye pack. First cleanse the skin with cream. Then apply a couple of hot towels to open the pores. Now, with a piece of cotton-wool, dab milk on the skin with an up-and-out motion. Use plenty of milk. allow it
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  • 263 5 MISS Jean Simmons, the young and loyely film actress who recently visited Singapore on her way to Fiji Islands where she is to star m the film to be made there. "The Blue Lagoon," is likely to be considered as a teenage fashion criterion wherever she goes. Her
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  • 583 5  -  K.S. Chia By A SINGAPORE Chinese girl who visited Penang for her Christmas holidays was surprised to see the majority fof the Penang girls wearing the Shanghai jacket and trousers. Chic and slim m her three-quarter length chongsum or "Shanghai" gown she claims Singapore will
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 62 5 "QUALCAST PANTHER" Ball Bearing Roller Mower The Blades are self sharpening m m and of best Sheffield Stee!. \~-^^mm—M <* Adjustment is particularly simple A and done by one hand. r^^^^«__i 12" Size $69.50 i I Complete with grass box. gM* r7 fr 7!tm iii Who'esa'e prices /^^SSpJgSSS^/ Sole Agents
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    • 280 5 /now?\ i yhere's a I nice CLEAN J Mother knows instinctively the im- i THEN Andrews tones up th«T portance of keeping him outwardly I liver and checks biliousness.' clean. Alsd, like many wise, FINALLY To complet* modern mother.s, she your Inner Cleanliness. 1 realises the necessity 'of _^tf9fVJP9^^. Andrews
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    • 13 5 •MAPRO'S" CHICKEN C OBTAINABLE: SINYAR COMPANY 196, LAVENOEB s:.. sin;. RUFHONE No. 33»7.
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  • 59 6 Cable news has been received by Mr. A. B Corray; Prang Besar Estate, Kafang of the death of his beloved father Anthony Corray at his residence. Thumbay. Kazhakutam on 29th Doc. 1947. A Requiem Hi'.'h Mass will be sung at St. Anthony's Church K.L. on 15th January 1948 at
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  • 821 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Jan. 3, 1948. THE REPUBLIC OF BURMA The flag of a new state m the new Asia will- be hoisted at daylight tomorrow, and the British Empire will say goodbye to one of its members. Thus will commence the ceremonies m Rangoon at which the
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  • 600 6 A BOOK on Malayan birds written during the internment in Changi Gaol has just been published. The author is Mr. G.L. Madoc, and the Malayan Nature Society has published his book in the form of a double number of its Journal, the price of which is
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  • 1757 6 ?r* p r A Malayan Countryman's Diary TT is rumoured that the big Singapore Chinese firms who were growing pineapples along a frontage of several miles of the road between Johore Bahru and Kota Tinggi before the war are contemplating planting up this land, *now m
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 780 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. JAN. 2ND.— To Kathleen (nee Harvey) wife of Major I. A. Nelson. R.A.S.C. at Buncsar Hospital a son. NOAKES-HUGHES. The engagement was announced on the 31st. December. 1947. or Mary Shicla. only daughter of Mr. Mrs. G. P. Noakes, of London. England, and Reginald, son of the laU
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    • 73 6 STEP LIVELY WITH PANOPTIK BIFOCALS ON! Objects seen through ordinary bifocal lenses are distorted, with unusual colours, etc. That is why many people complain of "can't get used to bifocals." PANOPTIK Bifocal Lenses are made of the latest discovered materials by Bausch Lflmb Opt. Co. of U.S.A. with unique segment
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    • 27 6 I |«j- IS AN Fwyl MEMy^ /At M. FLINTER S GRINBERG WHOLESALE RETAIL DEALERS m DIAMONDS and JEWELLERY 67, Stamford Rd. Eu Court Building Telephone 7923 Singapore
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  • 486 7 "Brain, Eyes And Hands Of Services" THE Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gfmson, yesterday called for the added recruitment of women to the nursing service. He was supported by the Colony^ Director of Medical Services, Dr. W. J. Vickers. Dr. Vickers called nurses and hospital assistants "the
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  • 48 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday.— The Malayan Union Government has decided to allow the export- of locally-manu-factured mining machinery to Siam and Burma. The supply position will be constantly reviewed however, to ensure that this decision dives not create a shortage m the Malayan Unioi.
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  • 300 7 Methodist Congress Opens THE Malaya Annual Con1 ference of the Methodist Church opened yesterday with a service at the Wesley Methodist Church at Fort Canning. Missionaries, superintendents of the various districts, American, and Asian pastors, associate pastors and lay del- i egates of the various English- speaking Methodist churches m
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  • 54 7 All premises belonging to the Singapore Improvement Trust are exempted from the provisions of the Control of ilent Ordinance. 1947, said a notification m the Government Gazette yesterday. The exemption provides that no action should be taken to evict any occupant from SIT. premises without the prior written
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  • 52 7 The Secretary of State for I Air. Mr. Arthur Henderson, will arrive at Changl by air from Burma next Tuesday on a visit to Air Command, Far East. He was formerly Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Burma and India, and was one of those Invited to attend the Burma
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  • 293 7 r*NE of the only two models m the world of the famous British war invention known as "Mulberry Harbour" will be on display m Singapore and Kuala Lumpur this month. Mulberry Harbour was the portable harbour which made possible the Allied landing m Normandy. Singapore Army
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  • 236 7 GIFT food parcels can now he sent to Britain jby Qantas or 8.0.A.C. 'air services at reduced freight rates as "fill-up load." The rebate for these parcels is 33 1/3 per cent oil normal freight rate or $4.86 per 2.2 lbs. Food Control Regulations m Singapore
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  • 40 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday^ A bill consolidating local i ailway laws is to be introduced at the meeting of the Advisory Council here next week. Special provisions relating to railway reserves will oe introduced
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    • 36 7 MEW fees for cremations at the Bidadari Htadu Cemetery are announced by the Singapore Municipal Health Department. They are $40 per cremation, and $20 for the cremation of infants under one year of age.
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    • 52 7 THE Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, will broadcast to the people from Radio Malaya tomorrow night at 9.45. This will be Mr. MscDonald's last public statement m Malaya before leaving for the United Kingdom on leave. Subject of his broadcast will be: "Malayan prospects
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    • 31 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A week's training course for guides from all parts of Malaya will be held at the Tea Gardens, Maxwell Hill, Taiping, beginning on Saturday, Jan. 3.
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    • 47 7 A PUBLIC meeting will be held at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 3 p.m. on Jan. 4, to celebrate vie birthday of Qald-e-Azam Mohamed Ali Jinnah. It will be held under the ausplce3 of the Indian Mus- Urn League. Singapore, and the Overseas Pakistan League. Singapore.
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    • 69 7 AT the opening of the first Singapore Assizes for 1948 there will be a short service at St. Andrew's Cathedral at 10 a.m. Judges of the High Court, Law Officers of the Crown and members of the Singapore Bar will attend. Members of the public are invited. The
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    • 37 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. Mr. Saw Ganesan, leader, and members of the Indian Goodwill Mission to Malaya, now m Kuala Lumpur, met Sir Ediward Gent, Governor of the Malayan Union, at King's Houae, tfhis morning.
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    • 53 7 I 17IMBARKATION Headquar!\U ters, Singapore, yesterday announced that the troopship Georgic would arrive m Singapore tomorrow with 2.000 reinforcements from the United Kingdom. The Georgic will leave Singapore next week with 1.500 troops bound for the United Kingdom and 1,300 Muslims for India—the last Indian troops to be
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    • 86 7 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. 1 W. G. Porter, yesterday told a Chinese that his 13-year-old son died of tetanus poisoning and not from the "effects of cvi' spirits" as the father believrd. The Chinese, Heng Keng Jin, told the Coroner that his son, Heng Joo Heng, had
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  • 120 7 'The Herd' ln 'Magic Town' MAGIC TOWN", at the Pavilion, is a good film satire on human "herd" psychology and local government. It concerns a public opinion poll expert who finds a town whose citizens mathematically register the opinions of the entire nation. i Jimmy ("Dr. Gallup") Stewart and offsiders
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  • 15 7 SEREMBAN, Friday.—The Indian goodwill mission now visiting Malaya were welcomed by Negri Indians at Seremban.
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  • 116 7 The teaching of Public Health m Singapore might be revolutionised with the propopsed establishment of a Chair m Social Medicine In the King Edward VII College of Medicine, said Dr. J. K. M. Tan. at, a public meeeling m the MDU Hall yes erday. Dr. Tan is
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  • 63 7 Bail of $100 was allowed to Sumadhi bin Ali, a 25-year-old Javanese, who was produced before the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. E. S. de Banzie, yesterday on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt to Subarjo bin Sukarto. Sumadhi said he stabbed Subarjo with
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  • 228 7 From Our Muslim Corresp. A CENTRAL Muslim Council is to be formed m Singapore. A meeting for this purpose has been called for Jan. 25. at 121, Serangoon Road. The sponsors of the meeting are the MusLm Association of Singapore. Although there are a
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  • 170 7 AN official announcement from GHQ FARELP answers "recent references to the alleged reluctance of the War Office" m settling Singapore c'vil an cor ractors' claims fof work carried out immediately before the war. "It will be appreciated by the public." it says, "that settlement cannot be easily madp
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  • 429 8 COLONY MUNICIPAL STAFF SCHEME Free Hospital For T.B.Cases CINGAPORE Municipal employees suffering from tuberculosis are to receive free medical treatment and leave and pay benefits. These benefits apply to senior officers, permanent staff, and open vote employees who have done not less than ten years' continuous service. The new staff
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  • 150 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Friday A MOTOR van driver described m the Magistrate's Court yesterday how he had been held up m his van and robbed on the road to Pontian m broad daylight on October 7 by three -armed and masked men. The driver,
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    67 8 The vte^-president of the Union LarDiae ana taruon Corporation and chairman of the board of the National Carbon Company, Inc.. Mr. Paul P. Huffard, was entertained by the L. E. Tels and Co.'s Trading Society m the Win? Choon Yuen Restaurant. Chinese merchants were invited to the dinner to meet
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  • 15 8 ALL vacancies as teachers m Singapore Government Afternoon Schools have been filled Applicants are thanked.
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  • 77 8 Waking up at dawn ou Dec. 20 to see if there was daylight, a cook employed at the Goodwood Park Hotel saw his room mate, Yew Kee Fong, hanging. Revealing this at a Singapore inquest yesterday, the cook, Tan Seng Suang. said he saw "a dark figure" hanging
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  • 114 8 TODAY Exhibition of modern Chinese art. by Miss Yau Tan Shan, a lady artist from South China, sp'.as^red by Society of Chinese Artists. Chi.iesc Chamber of Commerc?. Hil] Street, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Methodist Mission annual "onferenc?, MaUya Conference, Wes'ey Church, 4, Port Canning Road. 8.30 a.m
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  • 338 8 JT is feared that the number of lepers has increased since before the war, say medical authorities nsrapore. A large number of cases were spread throughout the country during the Japanese occupation. Six new nurses and seven dressers, themselves I lepers, have been trained as
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  • 71 8 BATU PAHAT, Friday.— Mr. Lim Seng Suan, eldest son oi Mr. and Mrs. Lim Chin Khian. of Batu Pahat. and Miss Chan Sco Gho, dar <rV > er of Mr. and Mrs. Chan m Siah, of Singapore, v -.c married at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce
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  • 144 8 Sayiing that it was never the intention of the Court to deprive an innocent owner of his property, Mr. E. P. Shanks, the Criminal District Judge, yesterday rejected the application of the Customs authorities to have the boat S.F. 1463 forfeited. The boat, which belonged to Queck
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  • 124 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOIIORE BAHRU, Tuesday. The following will constitute the first Executive Council of the State of Johore since the liberation: lI. H. the Sultan of Johore, H.H. the Tungku Mahkota, the Mentri Besar, the British Adviser, the State Secretaiy, the Legal Officer, the Finance
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  • 192 8 New State Hailed By UMNO From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. TO celebrate the birth of the Federation of Malaya, Penang Malays last night revived their traditional boria performance. It lasted until 4 a.m. and attracted a record crowd. It was the first boria performance since the war. Fourteen mukims
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  • 238 8 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday MAJOR Kokokoji Kyomi, formerly of the Japanese Army m Malaya, was charged before a War Crimes Court here today with the massacre of 990 civilians. The civilians were from Joo Loong Loong, a village m Negri Sembilan. The massacre was
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  • 52 8 The first Christmas party held at the Catholic Church Compound, Butterwort^ was a big success. Mr Von Beck, m his rev. robe and flowing beard was a grand Santa Claus, and Mrs. Catto was a popular Fairy God Mother. A magic performance was given by an
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  • 245 8 THE Food Adviser to the i Soecial Commissioner m I South-East Asia, Dr. W. Clyde. has been made a C.^.G. m l the Now Year's Hono s I ist. He has been dea'i'v. 1 wl'h food problems since 1939. Dr. Clyde was head of the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 54 8 AND 8.0.A.C. New Main Booking Office is now situated m RAFFLES HOTEL I bfi AS BASAH ROAD All Enquiries Day or Mght TELEPHONE 54 5 1 OSUN R I P E V v Cigarettes pV\ AIR MAIL j j Cigarettes U ARCHER'S GOLD FLAKE Curettes MOOUCIS O» R t I
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    • 264 8 is made this shape (and only this shape) iggK^HLIISCH which might cause decay. TMf CORRECT WAV TO CLEAN inside upper rack teeth features include its widely spaced For upper teeth place the brush Just above the tooth line as shown. Them tapered tufts, straight line with a twin of tin
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  • Straits Times SATURDAY FORUM
    • 278 9 'I Gave Him Opium ToSaveHim The Son Of A Smoker Writes nURING the last few days there has been much argument for and against opium smoking appearing m the Straits Times. It is true that opium smoking is bad and everyone knows it. But to those people who have smoked
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    • 232 9 LIVING conditions m I Singapore are just asj oad as they were a couple Df years ago. Especially is this so with regard to rice. I had thought previously that the position with regard to rice would naturally improve when the Civil Government took
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    • 183 9 HAVE read with much interest an account of the memorandum recently submitted to Government by the Pan-Malayan Council of Stamford Club, which represents Raffles College graduates. I cannot say that I am fully satisfied with the suggestions put forward. It is surprising that the Trusted
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    • 152 9 PR every profession or j vocation there is 'a definite minimum period of trair- I Ing or apprenticeship general school education takes 10 years, medicine takes six years, dentistry takes five years, general nursing three years' and midwifery training I for a qualified nurse
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    • 297 9 I READ with interest the report, m a recent issue of the Straits Times, of the speech made by the Director of Education, Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, at the dinner of the Technical College Alumni Association. Mr. Cheeseman said that it had been his
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    • 139 9 The Highly Selective Service MORE than 20 years ago I Joined the F.M.S. General Clerical Service. At the time of my appointment it was a "highly selective" service. Whereas other clerical posts In the Government demanded a Standard VI or VII English education, the G.C.S.'s minimum educational qualification was the
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    • 95 9 /\N Christmas eve British \J soldiers threw fire-crac-kers into doorways and verandahs of flats and shops along Stamford Road. So the police arrested four small boys for selling the crackers and the magistrate of the Juvenile Court fined them $2 each. Does the law operate only
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    • 68 9 THE Straits Times re1 cently published the announcement by the Postmaster General, m the United Kingdom, that there would be a new issue of U.K. stamps m April 1948, to commemorate the silver wedding of the King and Queen. I would like to know whether we
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    • 27 9 UNDERGRADUATE. Singapore. Letters signed with a non-dc-Dlume axe not published unless the writer's name and address are communicated to the Editor a* a guarantee of irood faith.
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    • 168 9 IT is good that people like "Anti-Waste" are becoming concerned about certain parts of the welfare work being carried out m the Malayan Union. Why cannot artificial legs, etc be administered by the Medical Department? As income tax confronts us all m the New
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    • 64 9 /X)ULD you or any of your \j readers advise why, m the budgets recently passed, Singapore should provide $478,049 for the GovernorGeneral, while the Malayan Union provides only $349,000. Perhaps this has something to do with the fact that the estimate of Income tax to be collected m
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    • 208 9 NOT every traveller knows of the excellent accommodation afforded by the Station Hotel at Singapore, and it is as well to mention this for Singapore is as overcrowded as ever and it is good to know of a place where you can comfortably sleep and feed.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 100 9 Announcement! ft THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED (INCO»O*ATtO IN CN6IANO) {,->■ hi* tc«x mppebdtd F- I SvU ditlr.liMtoT, for Sin 'jnporr mil tlolajan.Omtm t NICHOLAS <I> ETHICALS j VITAMINS <* p 81 LPHO* AMIDES AVI 111 i( lIKIALS t f ARSEMC4LS < Vc-r.r,c tenwc iwpto MtAfnxfnSMt \-ffl-J THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED
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    • 288 9 Soft drinks s|^ WITH A KICK' IN THEM Sofi drinks arc vasih improved '"i^ by ihc addition ol a few dashes "^jU; jjTV«£!«sa^ 4, of'Anisostura' Orange, Lemon fc s^'^«jy^ly>3v •'H CJrapelruii Sc|iia.h, lor l fiarm/M example, or even Gmgei Beer, /f 4/yCi have new excitin.; "bile" f if^Vß*i \9^je\ anc)
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 679 9 /*PlEAS£, YOU* HONOUR, I AM INNOC€NT. J—^ /v(^)lf K T/46 KtAL CUtFI?ri:> /Tjh^ Christmas Crackers: A letter on the subject d this cartoon appears m the Forum today. According to Culbertson A large proportion or throw-in I from that point on the bidding plays owe their success to the was
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  • 368 10 LONDON. Friday. THE London Stock Exchange was quiet yesterday with l dealers awaiting the an- nouncement tonight of the terms of the new British transport stocks, says Reuter's financial correspondent. After initial firmness, the markets developed irregularity. Rubbers and Tins were higher. This initial firmness was the result
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  • 842 10  -  Oar Marfcei Correspondent. By THE local share market opened the New Year with Individuals and Tin firm. A fata volumes of business w»« transacted. Rubber shares came In for I same support with the rise m the price of the commodity. Quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers'
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  • 298 10 Produce Market MARKETS reopened quiet yesterday. While some s«cti<H»» were very steady after the past fortnight's activity, others were uncertain because of the complete absence of interest for the same period. The holiday slackness of the copra market did not seem to disappear. Yesterday's prices
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  • 62 10 The di&Ka^ re Cnaa.Dei of Cor.raerce Rubt, A&Kxiailon's pn\j> at noon yesterday were: Bi.~ers Sellers cv. jet i r>er Ib No. 1 X.3 S lo m ".i 4M 43% No 1 R.S.I m bait* 437* 44% No 2 R.S.^ tt to bales Jan. 43-4 43 No 3 R. 5.6
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 696 10 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. <lncorr>oraieo is Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS FROM O.K. AND U.S.A. •"tf-i-i!-:" From U.K O. 15 ••Mcdo 1 Due From U.K. Continent Jan. 9, •••'■•nviis" Due from IV X Jan. "M n-l v." Dne from U.K > 'an. 10 "Agapi-nor" Dne from U.K Jan. 17 «Af1.l1«Ofl FOR
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    • 226 10 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Freight Only LOUIS McH. IOWE Singapore Gd. 33/34 P. Sham Arr. Jan. 4 SCOTT E. LAND Sinmpore Jan. 3 P. Sham Jan. 8 Penang Jan 10 PRES. MONROE Singapore Ait. Jan. 13 Penanc J» n 19 LYKES
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    • 164 10 Shippers and other interested id Sbrot> \r intelligence arc -e<er<-e« to advertisements In Cols. 1 and 2 opposite page and to Shipping Notice* on face P&0 and BRITISH INDIA p&o U.K. LINK SOCOTRA In Port GENOA-MARSEILLES. TANGIER, HAVRE, LONDON, ANTWERP A ROTTERDAM TREVUSE In Port LONDON TREVETHOE MM-F«b. GENOA. M'SEILLES
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    • 569 10 ELLERMAN KLAVEM'iSG BUCKNALL pAC|RS HAVRK LONDON IT -i B XNTWERP an of lucknow a.t Gdn. 4/5 j n Jan. Sails Singapore It Jan. Pnrf c nham '0 n P. Sham 11-1? Jan. Prnano !1 i»n Penanc 13-14 l*u. Arvnta: McALISTER CO. LTD (Incxin)orat4»c >r Sineaoore' PHONP S9O» BOUSTEAD CO., LTD.
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  • 1035 11 TODAY'S ACCEPTANCES Penang Race Programme ACCEPTANCES and order of running for today, fourth and last day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting, are published below. The racing begins at 2.30 p.m. The Big Sweep will be drawn on the eighth race. Race One 2.30 Horses Cl. 4, Div.
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  • 274 11 READY TO MEET KING KONG THK Malayan Indian heavy1 weight wrestler, Dara Singh, has accepted the open challenge of the Hungarian. King Kong, to wrestle "any man, of any weight, over any distance, for any purse'" King Konjj said "I hope that Dara's connections make the bout possible— every young
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  • 199 11 ASiate badminton knock-out lntTT-team tournament was successfully run during the Christmas holidays under the auroices of the Kelantan Customs. Each team comprised five doubles pairs. Results were as follows: First round: Customs beat Suara Muda 3—2.3 2. Detailed scores (Customs mentioned first): Teneku Mahmood and Mahmood beat
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  • 75 11 NEW YORK Friday.-John B Kelly, Jr., of Philadelphia, who won the Diamond Sculls at Henley last summer, has been adjudged America's outstanding amateur athlete for 1948. He was named today by the United States Amateur Athletic Union as winner of the James E. Sullivan Memorial trophy awarded
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  • 93 11 MELBOURNE, Friday The Australian Board of Cricket Control has announced that the 17 players to make the trip to England next year will be chosen after the fifth Test against India beginning on Feb. 6. Each player will receive £800, as compared with
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  • 149 11 Irish XV Win Well In Paris PARIS, Friday. TRELAND beat France m 1 the first match of the Rugby Union international championship at Colombes Stadium, Paris, yesterday by two goals and one try (13 points) to two tries (6 points). P. Reid scored a try for Ireland after 19 minutes,
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  • 128 11 LONDON, Friday. YESTERDAY'S' U.K. Rugby I Union and Rugby League results were: RUGBY UNION Birkenhead Park 18, Waterloo 3; English Public Schools 11, Scottish Public Schools 3; Sale IS, Manchester 5; Edinburgh A. D. Stev/arts former Pupils 0; Gala 11. Royal High School Former iTjpils 3; Hawick
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  • 73 11 MELBOURNE, Friday. Mr. H. A. Pitt, senior vicepresident of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, announcing the formal Australian challenge for the 1948 Davis Cup competition, said that this would not commit the Association to competing. Sir Norman Brookes President of the Lawn Tennis Association of
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  • 40 11 SHIELD WIN FOR N.S.W. MELBOURNE. Friday. New South Wales beat Victoria by six wickets m their Sheffield Shield match which ended m Melbourne on Wednesday. Enterprising batting by the tail-enders allowed Victoria to make a good fight after being outplayed.
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  • 123 11 In a friendly badminton match, the Rex B. P. Reserves beat the Swing B. P. by four games to three. DWD Results (Rex B. P. players mentioned first) Singles: Khoo Soo Seng beat Pang Leong Kirn 15-4. 15-5; Tan Hock Kirn beat Chan Tian Chwee: 15-11, 12-15, 14-14
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  • 115 11 At the general meeting of the Oeylang Straits Chinese Methodist Youth Fellowship, Singapore, the following were elected officebearers for 1948: Hon advisers Messrs. Choo Beng Lim, Chan Wan Teck and Koh Tiong Tai; President, Mr. William Lim, vice-president, Mr. j Lucky Low; hon. secretary, Mr. Koh Cheng Bee;
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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    • 263 11 i i I /V\ Rex Children's Matinee A^TvSl To- Day at 11 a.m. £f? V "WHITE EAGLE" Chaps. Ito 7 firil Final Chaps. To-morrow at 11 a.m. LAST 4 SHOWS I [A p.m.: 4U5 p.m.; 6.30 p.m. 9.15 p.m. V j!Z TV V«O*2/ J&. MAUREEN DICK HARRY T*?jf Sfrr> DO
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 220 11 Today's Radio Programmes Market Report; 1.45 Raymond > ghX^i 2 00 h2 ftS?"™'™ by Chopin 1130 Cta» |5S?" S^PI^;^- 1^ RADIO MALAYA to 'one™.^ 1^ K? 5 er Gies 1 p.m. See S'pore; 6.00 Sound- Ut»« Oo; 7.30 Personal Dia- 5 Ri^»rH T P J C Sa track; 5.15 Listeners'
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  • 606 12 Lackey, Donalla Golden Grove From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Friday. I ACKEY, Golden Grove and Donalla are three safe each-way wagers at Penan? tomorrow, the final day of the Penang Turf Club Xmas-New Year Meeting. Tomorrow may provide the chance for punters to recover their losses over
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  • 37 12 Latest course tips and information on the state of the going will be contained m a special telegram from "Epsom Jeep" this morning. This telegram will be published m today's Singapore Free Press.
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  • 293 12 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Friday. DROBABLE jockeys for the races at Penang tomorrow are given below: RACE ONE Jinx (Wahab), Oowley (Gentles), Foundation Stone (J. Donnelly), Adorable (Morsillo), Chunderloo (Flannery), Lady of Kent (E. Donnelly), Ling Soo (not fixed), Tangro (Woods), Donalla (Bagby), Cardigan (Harper), Skipper (Ellery), Peter
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  • 46 12 NEW YORK, Friday.— The American football season ended on New Year's Day with its annual climax the Bowl games. In the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, California, the most importamt of the Bowl Ram:s. the University of Michigan defeated Southern California. 49 to 0.
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  • 98 12 Chinese Athletic Juniors will meet the Kar,danullar Muslim bputs Club at soccer today at Jalan Besar Stadium, kick-off at j. 0 J p.m. Thf team to represent Chinese Athletic Juniors will be selected .r-m: Sew Wing, Kirn Eng, Ah Bah. Bee Cheow, Cheng Hellg; Tiioiig Chiat, Kang Hoe,
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  • 40 12 WIVES ALLOWED The Australian Cricket Board of Control have decided to permit Australian Test players' wives being In Britain next summer when the AustraUans will be touring. The wives, however, will not be allowed to travel wHh the t'rm Rp'itrr.
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  • 19 12 Tile hockey fixture between the S.C.C. and the Singapore Clarke Rangers yesterday was rancelled because of rain.
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  • 180 12 "Epsom Jeep" "Trespasser" "Pointer" 1. DONALLA Race 1 2. Skipper DONALLA Foundation Stone Skipper SKIPPER Lady of Kent Adorable 3. Adorable 1. GRACIOUS LADY Race 2 2. First In 3. Grand Spear GRACIOUS GRAND LADY SPEAR Fair Week Gracious Lady Grand Spear First In 1. EASTERN GIRL
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  • 406 12 LONDON, Friday. IT will be the same old London, with most of the same sports, but this year's Olympic games will dwarf the games staged here 40 years a^o. There will be 136 events on the programme from July 29 to Aug. 14 compared with
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  • 85 12 EDINBURGH. Friday. THE famous Powderhall 130 yards sprint handicap of long history, held here yesterday, was won by J. S. Wilson, of Musselburgh. a 26-year-old runner recently demobilised from the Army On* at the nine and a half yards mark, he won by inches m 13-6/16 seconds
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  • 89 12 LONDON, Friday. THE Ryder Cup golf 1 match played between Britain and America every two years since 1927 may become an annual contest after the Americans' visit to Britain next year. This was stated by Henry Cotton, captain of the British team, on his arrival m London
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    30 12 J. Haydoek, the Wimbledon goalkeeper, makes a Hying save from Banks. Mansfield Town centre-forward. An incident m the Wimbledon vs. Mansfield Match m the first round of the F.A. Cup.
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  • 278 12 THE North Malayan table tennis team proved too strong for the Tigers' (Champions of Singapore) at the Great World last night. Dropping only one match, the North ran out victors by Five games to one. Loke Bun Chtew (North) sprang a surprise by defeating Loh
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  • 664 12 From ARTHUR MAILEY Exclusive to the Straits Times MELBOURNE, Friday. rOO Mankad scored a brilliant century on the second day of the Third Test after the remaining Australian batsmen had added 39 runs to bring the Australian first innings total to 394. At stumps, the Indians
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  • 71 12 The following will represent the Singapore Cricket Club m a rugby match against R.A.F. (Changi) on the Padang today at 5.15 p.m.: J. A. O'Brien; T. A. Roper, R. F. Drooglever, C. E. Saunder, J. Oates; J. Frame, G. S. Taylor; R. J. Masey, J.
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  • 98 12 TODAY RUGBY: SCC vs. RAF Chanfi, Padang, 5.15 p.m. H O C KEY: SHA League, SCRC vs. Army at SBC 5 p.m. and CSC vs. Police at Thomson Road 5 p.m. SOCCER: Seafortbs Ist XI vs. JoUilads at Oilman Barracks 5.15 p.m.; C. A. Juniors vs. Kandanullar Muslim
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  • 221 12 AUSTRALIA— Ist Inn Barnes b Mankad 12 Morris b Amarnath IS Bradman Ibw b Phadkar I I Hassett Ibw b Mankad I Miller Ibw b Mankad 29 Hammence st. Sen b Amarnath 2.> Lindwall b Amarnath... tit Tallon c Mankad b Amarnath 2 Dooland not out 21
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  • 43 12 The Chintse Swimming Club will play draughts with the V.M.C.A. at Amber Rood tomorrow at 11 a.m. The final of the C.S.C. draughts tournament between Lim Cheng Bak and Tan Thean Teck will be played on the following Sunday, Jan. 11.
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    • 729 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from Dane 6) LOST I,OST— Strayed or stolen from Ta irlin Area Wire-haired fox terrier. White, with black and t<m t arKin^. Answers to the name of "Bobbie." Reward offered for return tc Mai. K. O. V4ILLANT 15 Annulua P«* Police Informed. WANTED TO PURCHASE. LADY eoinsr
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