The Straits Times, 11 June 1948

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IS4S EKiHI PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    24 1 TUAN HAJI MOHAMMED EI'SOFF, of the M.C.S., attached to the Co-operative Department, who received the 0.8. E. (Honorary) m the King's Birthday honours list.
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    Robbers Raid Station
    149 1 Robbers Raid Station From A Staff Correspondent KLUANG, Thursday. FIGHT Chinese gunmen J-« last night raided houses, shops and the railway station booking office at Niyor, m North Johore, and left with more than j $1,000 dollars. They tied up the station master and two shopkeepers who were with him.
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    100,000 JAPS QUESTIONED
    49 1 TOKIO, Thurs:— SCAPS agents have interrogated more than 100,000 Japanese suspects and witnesses and contacted every known former American prisoner of the Japanese, Gen. Mac Arthur's legal section stated today m describing the vast job, no:/ almost completed, of investigating war crimes m the Pacific. Reuter.
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    POLICE RAID UNION H.Q. ON ESTATE
    477 1 "Signal For Return Of Labourers" From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. DOLICE stationed on Klapa Bali and Lima Bias estates raided the premises of the Labour Union on Lima Bias estate yesterday morning and detained a number of persons. After questioning, the men
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    ARAB, JEW TRUCE TODAY
    151 1 CAIRO, Thursday. pOUNT Folke Bernadotte V/ announced last night that a four-week armistice in Palestine will start at 0600 GMT (1330 Malayan time) tomorrow. The United Nations mediator said that both Jewi and Arabs had unconditionally accepted the U.N. truce proposal. Count Bernadotte said he would
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    MACDONALDCHIANG TALK
    50 1 NANKING, Thurs. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, who arrived yesterday on a brief visit, called on var<ous high Government officials today and attended a King's birthday reception given by the British Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson He will be received by President Chiang Kai-shek tomorrow afternoon at the President's residence. Reuter.
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    Close Of Play
    83 1 Close of Play: England 165 all out. After rain had delayed the start, the first Test between England and Australia opened at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, yesterday. England's recognised batsmen failed and at tea eight wickets were down for T5 runs. A stand by Alec Bedser and Laker,
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    Activity In London
    53 1 From Oar own Correspondent. LONDON, Thursday. Urgent consideration is being given by the Colonial Office to reports of lawlessness m Malaya but no statement is expected m Parliament until next Wednesday. At least six questions have been put to the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Creech Jones) for answer.
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    Situation Deteriorates
    176 1 BERLIN, Thursday. i MEW Soviet moves to! j IN make the Western i powers' position in Berlin more difficult were forecast here today after a hint in the Soviet-licensed Berliner Zeitung that the last Allied land route to Berlin might be temporarily closed. The paper reported that the
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    'THE CLOSEST FRIENDSHIP'
    87 1 LONDON. Thurs: A conviction that the future close association of Britain and India was essential was expressed by Mr. Devadas Gandhi, son of Mahmata Oandhi, when he spoke at a luncheon here today. "It may be that India will remain within the British Commonwealth or technically be
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    NO NEW CASE OF POLIO
    30 1 For the second consecutive day no fresh cases of infantile paralysis were reported m Singapore, yesterday. The numbei of cases notified at present totals 95.
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    THE SINGAPORE INVESTITURE
    71 1 Madame Leong Ah Chan, simply clad, seen above, receiving the award won by her late husband, Mr. Wong Ah Cheong. from the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin Gimson) yesterday. On the right is the man who nearly missed his medal Mr. "Tiger" Low Ah Kow. The full
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    FORMER NEGRI RESIDENT DIES
    45 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. Twenty-eight years after his retirement from the post of British Resident, Negri Sembllan, the death occurred yesterday at Crewkerne. Somerset, of Mr. John Richard Oliver Aldworth. Mr. Aldworth was 80 year* old. (Straits Times copyright.)
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    Moves In Indonesia
    159 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. TpHREE moves m the 1 Dt|tc h-Republican dispute today foreshadowed faster developments m the negotiations for a political settlement m Indonesia. The Republic today handed over its reply to last week's Dutch note, believed to include a protest against the Prague agreement (not yet ratified)
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    FLYING FASTER THAN SOUND
    43 1 WASHINGTON. Thursday. —The U.S. Air Secretary announced today that the UJS. Air Force's X-l rocket plane has flown 'much faster than the speed of sound." The speed of sound is about 760 miles per hour at sea level.— UJP.
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    Naval C-in-C Will Move To Colony
    143 1 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. AN Admiralty announcement has been made on naval changes in the Far East. i The statement is as follows "In order to facilitate interService co-operation m the Far East it has been decided that shore headquarters and headquarters
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    KING CALLS OFF LONDON CEREMONY
    271 1 KING CALLS OFF LONDON CEREMONY LONDON, Thursday. THOUSANDS of Londoners, packed tightly 1 together to see the Trooping of the Colour, gaped m astonishment today when loud speaker vans suddenly announced that because of the weather, the King had cancelled what is one of the most colourful pageants of the
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    Indians Get No Voice In S. Africa
    145 1 Indians Get No Voice In S. Africa PRETORIA, Thursday QOUTH Africa's Mins.e O of the Interior, Dr. T.E. ponges, made it clear in an interview today that the new Nationalist Governmeivt would stand by its election programme of no representation for Indians in Parii>;mervt. Neither he nor the Cabinet had
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      £5,000 Offer For Alleged Killer
      367 2 £5,000 Offer For Alleged Killer CAIRO, Thursday. THE Egyptian Government has offered a £5,000 r«1 ward for information leading to Mie arrest of Hussein Tewfik, a student standing trial for murder, who escaped yesterday while being escorted to a Cairo airport. Tewfik. who has been on trial for more than
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      317 2 FOR SALE I Two second hand 7 ton Ford Lorries, and one 3 ton Nissan Lorry. All m good running order Inspection by appointment. Apply to: Manager. Government Rice Mills, Bagan Serai, Perak. AUCTION SALE OF FREEHOLD SINGAPORE PROPERTIES including Eleven Vacant Building Lots to be held at Nos. 4
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      264 2 THE BASSETT RUBBER CONTACT, UMITED. (Incorporated m the Federation of Malaya >. NOTICE is hereby given that t4ie Twentyflfth Annual Genera! Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Registered Office of ti»e Company, No. 1 Weld Quay. Penang. on Tuesday, the 22nd June, 1948, at 2.30 p.m. AGENDA 1.
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    ANNEANDMICHAEL WED
    256 3 ANNE AND MICHAEL WED Greek King As Best Man ATHENS, Thursday. CX-KING Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma were married today m the Throne Hall of the Royal Palace of Athens by Archbishop Damaskmos, Primate of Greece. Princess Anne, wearing a rose-coloured embroidered tulle dress with a
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    SARAWAK FORCED LABOUR
    122 3 LONDON, Thursday.—Asked to make a statement on forced labour in Sarawak, the Colonial Secretary (Mr. Arthur Creech Jones) said in the House of Commons yesterday that there was at present no legislation in Sarawak dealing with the use of forced labour. 'Forced labour of the kind prohibited
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    28 3 A PUBLIC inquiry has been ordered by the Governor of Sarawak (Sir Charles Arden Clarke) Into disturbances which occurred on the Recreation Ground m Kuchlng on May 30.
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    Britain 'A Trustee For Colonies'
    195 3 AMSTERDAM, Thursday. MODERN British Colonial policy was discussed at the opening m Amsterdam today of an international study conference on Western European overseas territories. Sir Thomas Seuthern, British delegation leader, wa6 elected chairman. He Is a former Colonial Secretary for Hong Kong and Governor of
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    Battle Against Aid Cuts
    87 3 WASHINGTON, Thursday.— Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican champion of the Marshall Plan, to-day launched an all-out battle against the proposed 26 per cent, cut in aid funds, which he said would undermine confidence and morale abroad "upon which recovery, freedom and peace so heavily lean." He told
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    HUGE ONTARIO FOREST FIRE
    69 3 TORONTO. Thurs. The greatest fire In Ontario's history was feared today as two big outbreaks in the northern timber lands spread to within a few miles of each other. Fanned by a 35 miles per hour wind, the two fires were blazing over 580 square mites
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    Big Foochow Blaze
    35 3 SHANGHAI, Thursday. The Government Central News Agency said that a fire on Monday night wiped out 20 streets and alleys m Foochow's Nantai business section, making 12,000 persons homeless and destitute. A.P.
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    Indian Air Giant
    26 3 LONDON, Thursday.— The first Air-India Constellation airliner on scheduled service from Bombay to London arrived at London airport last night with 38 passengers.
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    32 3 ROC N DING THE CORNER: Led by Royal Drake, the field takes Tattenham Corner m the Derby, which was won this year by My Love, with Royal Drake second and Noor third.
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    Report On Trip To Malaya Queried
    192 3 LONDON, Thursday. A CONSERVATIVE member asked m the House of Commons yesterday what were the qualifications of a Mr. Bauer which "justified fflie report of his visit to Malaya m 1946 being printed m a form which implied Government approval of his suggestions" Mr.
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    Smuts On New War Technique
    229 3 LONDON, Thursday. GEN. Smuts at Cambridge today denounced the "dangerous new technique of conquest without war" which he said was being used by Communism. He said the most significant phenomenon of our age was that "world power and world domination can be achieved without war".
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    Asians Seek U.S. Citizenship
    175 3 WASHINGTON, Hwrsday. HAWAII'S delegate to the United States House of Representatives (Mr. J. R. Farrington) yesterday laid before Congress a request that other Asian and Pacific peoples as well as Chinese and East Indians should be allowed American naturalisation. The request came from the chairman of
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    Beetle Horde Near Britain
    92 3 LONDON, Thursday.— The threat of a crossChannel invasion by millions of Colorado beetles to-day resulted in the closing down of schools in The Hague and other Dutch seaside towns, and threw the British Ministry of Agriculture into frantic action. The beetles, which ruin potato crops, appeared
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    Soviet Colonel 'Not Beaten'
    89 3 LONDON. Thursday.— The Foreign Secretary (Mr. Bevin) told the House of Commons yesterday that the mysterious Russian Colonel. J. D. Tasoyev, who came to England voluntarily a month ago. was not beaten and was pernltted to leave voluntarily when he changed his mind about staying here.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., June 11, 1948. SIR ROLAND BRADDELL
    1115 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., June 11, 1948. SIR ROLAND BRADDELL Since the order of the British Empire was founded after the first world war the honour of knighthood has been given too frequently and too lightly in Malaya. It has been given on the strength of only a few
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    SOCIALIST GAINS IN CANADA
    39 4 OTTAWA. Thursday.— Mr. Mackenzie King's Liberal majority m ttu Canadian Parliament sunk to its lowest level since the 1945 election, and the Socialist strength reached a record level today, after two Socialist by-election victories. Reuter.
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    THE BRITISH TRADER IN SHANGHAI
    1321 4 THE BRITISH TRADER IN SHANGHAI From the Special Correspondent of The Times m Shanghai. THE situation, in China is never quite as bad as it should be, or as it would be in any other country. As one British businessman put it, "We expected Shanghai to blow up in 1946.
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      'Masterly Inaction" In The Midst Of Violence
      548 4 ryour issue of June 4, Mr. M. A. Majid asks us, "Are we going to allow ourselves to be enslaved by a small and violent minority?" Having watched previous Malayan Government reactions in times of crises (and I might add that most of
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      181 4 REVERIE Do you recaU the happy, carefree days When we were held in Camp? The bliss of Changi and the Sime Road peace? When all that broke the nightly still was tramp Of booted Japanese which used to cease Outside your door? Do you recall the Siam Rail's content Where
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      118 4 Fellow Institute Ophthalmic Opticians (Eng) Pellov Worshipful Co. of Spectacle-Makers (Eng) Freeman of the City of London Btf Appointment to H.M. Forces, South Bast Asia. 6 Raffles Place Singapore Phone ***** READY for SCHOOL!! Girl's Brown Felt Hats $7.50 U.K. Brown Flannel (expected) 56" wide $12.00 yd. White Panama Straws
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    THOUSANDS SEE BIRTHDAY PARADE
    925 5 Padang Packed With Services Spectators SINGAPORE saw a military parade which stretched the whole length of the Padang yesterday morning.i ng. Thousands of people made their way to the Padang long before 7 a.m., when the King's Birthday Parade started, and the parade ground was surrounded
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    ROBBED BY ARMED GANG
    79 5 ROBBED BY ARMED GANG From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Thursday. A RUBBER tapping labour contractor was waylaid by five Chinese and robbed of $1,225 at Bekoh Estate on the Malacca Johore border yesterday afternoon. One of the Chinese was armed with a pistol and the others carried parangs. The contractor,
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    THE SULTAN'S OWN FORCE PARADED
    401 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. THE Sultan of Johore took the salute at the King's Birthday parade here this morning. For the first time in a ceremonial of this kind Gurkha troops took part. In addition two companies of the Sultan's Own Johore
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    FUNERAL OF MR. RAMSDEN
    81 5 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO, Thursday. MR. J. St. M. Ramsden, who was shot dead on Tuesday night, at Caledonia Estate, Nlbong Tebal, was buried at the Western Road Cemetery yesterday. The Deputy Commissioner, Province Wellesley. (Mr. O. E. C. Wisdom) was among the gathering at
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    42 5 The Commissioner of Labour. Singapore (Mr. R. P. Bingham). has been invited by the Army Civil Service Union to Judge the soundness of arguments advanced by the members of the union m a debate on "That Trade Unions Should Participate m Poli-
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    To Study Economics In America
    396 5 By Our Woman Correspondent MISS Lo Kit Ling, Chinese woman artist who has held three successful ant exhibitions m Singapore and Malaya, leaves for the United States early m August to study economics. She hopes to join Michigan University m order to get her Master
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    'Pin-pricking Policy'
    163 5 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Thursday. IN Press and Parliament the wisdom of the White Australia policy is questioned In the Commonwealth. This morning, for the first time in the memory of Hansard staff or Press gallery, the Straits Times was quoted In the Commonwealth House of Representatives.
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    Fire Insurance Up
    55 5 The Fire Association of Malaya have declared with immediate effect, "a state of apprehension as far as riots are concerned." All new business undertaken will be at the rate of 22 y 2 cents per cent per annum on a monthly basis as against 15 per cent
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    Ex-Gratia Awards To Be Considered
    256 5 A JOINT tribunal of Singapore and the Federation will now consider claims from locally-enlisted personnel who were not PoWs or internees. Those who may apply for ex-gratia awards are members of the Volunteer Forces, Local Defence Corps, Johore Military Forces, Malay Regiment, Locally-Enlisted Personnel, Dalforce
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      BUS MERGER: NEW LOCK-OUT RULE
      410 5 From Out Own Correspondent BUTTERWORTH, Thursday. A NORTH Malaya Bus Service Association is to be formed shortly to provide "improved travell ng facilities for the public." About 16 bus companies are expected to be elected found-er-members at an inaugural meeting to be held on June
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    Arrested Every Suspect
    111 5 Arrested Every Suspect IPOH, Thursday.— Detective sergeant Loh Chong. who has been awarded the Colonial Police Medal is attached to the Kampar polic?. He is the ma.i responsible for the arrest of ev.ry one of the suspects in connection with tine Dabb murder at Kampar last Friday. Mr Loh Chong
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    NEGRI CO-OP
    25 5 SEREMriAN. Thurs. The Negri Sembilun Co-opera-tive Stores Society has launched a state-wide campaign to increase members!;. p and to strengthen i'^s capital subscription.
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    COLONY INVESTITURE
    1291 6 A Medal Was Missing AT Government House, Singapore, yesterday, the Governor of Singapore (Sir Franklin (Jim son) held his second presentation of medals and recommendations since the war. Three men were not there to have their medals pinned on their chests in the name of the King. One
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    23 6 Men of the Ist Battalion Seaforth Highlanders passing the saluting base at yesterday's King's Birthday Parade on the Singapore Padang. Straits Times photo.
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    Anti-Profiteering Drive Is On
    184 6 THE Singapore Food Control Department has been given the "go ahead" to launch the market pricetag system and to cut out profiteering in food-stufis. The Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron), who made a "cut the prices" warning at the last meeting of the Singapore
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    TEXTILES HOPE FOR MALAYA
    107 6 TEXTILES HOPE FOR MALAYA MALAYA is expected to bene- fit by the Increase In Hong Kong-manufactured textiles which will be made possible in the near future as a result of Hong Kong manufacturers' discussion with the Board of Trade in London. Arrangements were made with the Board of Trade for
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    POLICEMEN INJURED
    120 6 A police inspector, a constable and an Indian cyclist were victims of road accidents yesterday shortly after the King's Birthday Parade in the Padang yesterday. The inspector. Tan Teck Khim was involved in a collision with a three-ton military truck in Chulia Street at about 10 a.m. yesterday.
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    Singapore Diary
    109 6 Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship, discussion on "Community Social Service," 4. Fort Canning Road, 7.30 p.m. Paya Lebar Methodist Youth Fellowship. Dr. H. B. Amstutz on '"Basic Steps m Christian Living." Paya Lebar Methodist < Church. 8 p.m. TOMOBROW Exhibition of paintLigs. by Mr. Ananda Saanarakone. a young Ceylonese
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    WASPS FLY TO THE RESCUE
    93 6 Malayan wasps and parasites will Lave Singapore by air next week for Hawaii on a rescue mission. They will fight an oriental fly plague which is threaun- i- g to wipe out Hawaii's multi-million fruit industry. The insects are being sent In answer to an
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    FATAL INJURIES
    28 6 A Chinese who fell off a moving bus m Thomson Road on Tuesday, June 8. died In the General Hospital yesterday from Injuries he had received.
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    32 6 A Hokkien woman was robbed by three Chinese, two armed with pistols, of $291 m cash and valuable at 4 a.m. m Wareham Road, m the Joo Chiat area, yesterday.
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    Stabbed In Train
    45 6 LAHORE. Thurs.— Madame Cappa. wife of the French Consul In Kabul, Afghanistan, was stabbed by an attacker who entered her compartment while she was travelling by train from Peshawar to Karachi last Tuesday. The attacker did not harm her two children.— Reuter.
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    Malayan Wood For U.K.
    162 6 FE prospect of meie«u>ed exports to Britain of colonial hardwoods from Malaya and British North Borneo ;i; i discussed m a leading article on hardwood timber supplies in me current is&ue of the Board of Trade Journal, published In Britain. Some of the hardwoods U suggests
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      92 6 l« ffSr^t f J f^ k T" 4 j^ J k i X "^J RADIO MALAYA SPORE 1 .00 Carrol) Gibbons; 1.30 Nttra; 1.40 Military Band Music; 2 Close Down; 8.15 News; 8.30 Fiiday Prom Tsaikowsky's Concerto in G for Piano Orchestra: 9.30 News; 9.45 Talk: 10 Swing Club; 10.30
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      86 6 RADIO AUSTRALIA 10.30 a.m. Australian News; 10.40 Light Ensemble; 11.20 Tunes from the Movies: 4 p.m. Dinner Music: 4 30 Australian News; 4.50 p.m. New Zealand Sports Letter; I Victor Silvester; 6.30 Newa: 7 I Music for Millions: 9.10 Hits from the Films; 9.30 Romance in Music: 10 News; 10.25
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      85 6 <• «a It's Sweeter With Rita; 7.00 .British Band Box; 7.30 March of the Movies; 8.00 New*; 8.05 Yours for the Asking; 8.46 BBC Orchestral Concert; 9.15 BBC Talk— Mainly for Women; 9.30 'BBC Play or Feature; 10.45 Men Books: 11.00 BBC Scottish Magazine: 11.30 BBC News; 11.45 Close. SBC
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    LONDON STOCKS
    354 7 LONDON, Thursday. OPTIMISM that cuts In Marshall Aid would be restored by the United States Congress brought out buyers hi all sections of the London stock exchange yeserday, says Renter's financial correspondent. By the end of the day, however, the brightness had begun to fade and the trading
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    Malaya ToBe At Important World Tin Conference
    361 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. MALAYA is to be strongly represented again at the most important world tin meeting which begins at The Hague on June 21. Out of this meeting might arise an international Governmental tin agreement coupled with the
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    Tin Price Revision Is 'Inevitable'
    139 7 A MAJOR revision of the tin price structure, avoided m April, is now Inevitable, says The Economist. It is known that at a recent of meeting of. the International Tin Study Group In Washington, Bolivia put In a claim for a price not below $1.07
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    N.Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
    73 7 NEW YORK, Thursday.— Wall Street seems convinced that the basic long-term trend Is upward. Stocks yesterday started well, slowed then finished at a new 21month "high." Most gains were posted in the first hour when buying orders streamed In so rapidly the ticker tape dropped behind transactions.
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    AUSTRAL MALAY TIN RETURNS
    61 7 Austral Malay Tin announces the following May returns: Kampong Kamunting Tin Dredging 495 hours run, 109,000 cubic yards dug, 547 pieuls of ore recovered. Austral Amalgamated Tin Asam Kumbang Section, 649 hours, 14,000 cubic yards, 77 piculs; Ulu Yam Section, 232 noun, 50,000 cubic yards 143
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    24 7 From A Market Correspondent fHE Singapore produce markets I experienced its quietest lull yesterday, trie holiday affecting most sections. Quotations were unchanged.
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    Rubber Crops
    31 7 The following May rubber crops are announced, tn lbs.: Brunei Utd. Plant 40,000 Cnangkat Serdang Estate. 28,396 Haytor Estate 13,000 Lunas Estate 71,200 Nyalas Estate 50,000 Tapah Estate 87,668
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    SURREY PAIR SAVE ENGLAND FROM ROUT
    916 8 Whole Side Out For 165 Runs NOTTINGHAM, Thursday. A GALLANT stand by the Surrey pair, A. Bedser and J. Laker, saved England from rout in the first Test, which began at Trent Bridge here today. England's recognised batsmen failed miserably and at tea eigfot
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    Bright Batting In Padang Match
    295 8 Brigh t Ba tting In Padang Match rE Singapore Recreation Club beat Che Non-Benders C.C. by five wickets m a cricket match played on the Padang yesterday. The Noivßendersi, batiting first, scored 133 runs (P. D'Almeida 33, Evan Wong 25, A. Baker 23). The SRC. passed the NonBenders' total with
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    Scoreboard
    127 8 ENGLAND— Ist. INNS. Hwtton b Miller Washbrook c Brown b Lindwall t Fdricn b Johnston 18 Compton b Miller 19 Hardstaff c Miller b Johnston Barnett b Johnston 8 Yardley Ibw b Toshack 3 Evans Monia b Johnston IX Laker c Tallon b Miller ...63 Bedser c Brown b
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    C.S.C. DEFEAT SEMBAWANG
    61 8 rE Ceylon Sports Club defeated the RAT. Sembawang by a bit? margin at cricket yesterday. The RAF. side batted first and were dismissed for 111, their top-scorer being Robinson, with 31. Napiah took five wickets for 30. The Ceylonese compiled 204 for six wickets (C. Seneviratne 52
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    GAME DRAWN
    48 8 The Serangoon Association drew one-all with the La Salle S.C. m an S.A.F.A. League Div. 11l match played at St George's Road yesterday. Both goals were netted m the flrst half. Ale* Neubronner for La Salle and Tan Joo Hearn for Serangoon Association were the scorers.
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    Miller Struck First Blow
    350 8 From R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW by Special Arrangement NOTTINGHAM, Thursday. IT whs half an hour before the supposed start of the first Test at Nottingham. A few thousand spectators were looking very wise and rather wet. Some said it would rain all day, notably a gloomy milkman
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    Good Gallop By Dear In Penang
    541 8 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Thursday. DEAH did a splendid gallop at Penang this morning, when he ran three furlongs m 39 1/5 sees, with plenty m hand. The Rosewell gelding will be hard to beat m the Club Cup over 6fc. if he is
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    23 8 The French colt, My Love (W. R. Johnstone uo>, winning the Derby at Epsom last Saturday, with Royal Drake second and Noor third.
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    Sports Diary
    23 8 TODAY SOCCER: S-A.F.A. LttfH, Diy. II— R.A.F. Tengah V. Singapore Dtetrlrt St*n»U, Tragah, 5.15 p.m. T»:SNIS: 8JU.T.A. eoutpk>n»hip8, 8.C.C., 4.41 pan.
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    Player Sent Off Field
    134 8 pAINE, the S.H.B. Auxii liary Police right-back, 'vas ordered off the field ior rough play in the tenth minute of the second halfof their match against the Police XI yesterday. The game, a Dir. II fixture In the S.A.F.A. League, was played in Thomson Road. Benton
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    St. Joseph's Beat SCRC
    56 8 St. Joseph 's Beat SCRC ST. Josephs iustijtuftion did well to defeat the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club by four wickets in a game of cricket played at Hong Lim yesterday. Top-scorer for the match was P. Scully (48), while J. Delikan took five wickets for 23 runs. For the Chinese,
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    ROVERS WIN
    62 8 PLAYING an inspired game in the second half, the Rovers beat Kranji M/T 2—1 in a Div. II Leaerue fixture yesterday. Kranji led one-nil at halftime. Evans having scored off a pass from McKenzie. The Rovers rallied In the second half and Cheok Hal and Wah Kee took
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    S.C.C. Bowlers Are Successful
    320 8 pOOD bowling by H. V. VJ Thorne (five for 22) and W. K. Jagger (five for 29) was largely responsible for the Singapore Cricket Club's victory over the Johore Cricket Club by eight wickets in their game on the Padang yesterday. The Johore C.C. batted first
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    Changi Airmen Trounce S.C.C.
    323 8 Changi Airmen Trounce S. C. C. R.A.F. Changi 7; S.C.C 0. r THE Changi Airmen had things all their own way 1 against the Singapore Cricket Club m 4h*ir S.A.F.A. First Division match ait Jalan Besar stadium. The Club were com- pletely outclassed, and only on one occasion did they
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    Penalty Goal Decides Game
    54 8 A SOLITARY goal scored n through a penalty-kick by Hamid a few minutes b fore the end gave the Malays a one-nil victory over the Chinese Engineering Association in their S.A.F.A. League Second Division matcfh played at Geylang Stadium yesterday. The Malays wasted man> scoring chances
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