The Straits Times, 29 June 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times i MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    EARTHQUAKE WIPES OUT A JAP TOWN Cities Blaze
    516 1 As Tidal Waves Sweep Inland TOKIO, MONDAY. EARTHQUAKES FOLLOWED BY FIRES AND HUGE TIDAL C WAVES WRECKED THOUSANDS OF HOMES IN CITIES OF JAPAN THIS AFTERNOON. First reports estimated the number of people killed as 1,000 with 100,000 homeless. Several towns were
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    56 1 MR P. A. B. MCKEBRON, the Colonial Secretary, seen second from left at Schipol Airport, Holland, on his way home to England. Mr. McKerron is flying back to see his wife who has just had an operation. Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman. who is Consul-General for the Netherlands m Singapore,
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    "Vanished In Smoke"
    65 1 I\i>. Reuter reports from j Fukui say fires will probably destroy 90 per cent of the flimsy wooden houses erected after Allied bombs win?d out the town. Eye-witness reports say the town "just collapsed and then burst into flames. It seemed to spin around and disappear into
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    U.S. AID BILL IS NOW LAW
    106 1 U.S. AID BILL IS NOW LAW WASHINGTON, Monday. 1 r THE U.S. $6,000^)00.000' 1 U.S. Foreign Aid programme became law today. President Truman signed the Congressional appropriation bill pulling America into the most ambitious world economic programme m history. It pledges to Western Europe and Far Eastern countries to spend
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    U.S. Navy Visit
    29 1 HONOLULU, Mon The heavy U.S. cruiser Toledo will call at Singapore on August 6-7. as part of a goodwill tour of the Far East.— A. P
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    2nd Test: 'R.G.' Cable
    61 1 SET to make 59% to win, England had scored 106 runs for three wickets when stamps were drawn yesterday, the fourth day of the second Test. A running commentary on the Play by R. C. Robertson Glasgow, the well-known cricket writer, appears in page 12. "R.G."
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    SIAM-MALAYA FRONTIER VIGIL
    52 1 BANGKOK, Monday.— The Siam-Malaya frontier is not closed, it was officially learned here today. Road and railway traffic between the two countries is going on as usual but armed patrol parties maintain strict vigil against a possible influx of Communist bands trying to escape from Malaya to
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    BURMA REDS ARRESTED
    24 1 RANGOON, Mon: Burmese police arrested today 57 members of the People's Volunteer Organisation for demonstrations m favour of Communist insurrection. Reuter.
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    BERNADOTTE'S PEACE PLAN
    75 1 RHODES, Monday. Jews and Arabs received from Count Bernadotte today his proposals for peace m Palestine. The suggestions which the United Nations mediator called a "basis for further discussion" were not published. The British Commander m Palestine, (Lieut.-Gen. G. H. A. Macmillan) said m Haifa last night
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    Indonesian Honoured
    81 1 AMIR Martin Silalakl, an Indonesian chief m the Rhio Islands has been awarded the King's Medal "for ■ourage m the cause of freedom." Amir Silalahi risked his life m saving scores of Briish men, women and children who had been shipwrecked when their ships were sunk by Japanese
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    SFTU STRIKE MAY BE OFF
    109 1 •PHE one-day general) strike planned by thej Singapore Federation of Trade Unions may not materialise. The S.F.T.U. went "nderground a few days ago. Early this month the S.F.T.U. wrote to the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) demanding the release of two officials arrested on banishment warrants,
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    Police Rout Bandits In Village Gun Battle
    655 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. £'p WILY- ARMED police reinforcements today trekked into the jungle near the iL village of Kuala Kurau, Pahang, searching for about 40 armed Chinese raiders who yesterday attacked the vill age police station. Three Malay constables
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    Mac Donald Sees Gent
    98 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. Til E Commissioner General (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald) flew to Kuala Lumpur today to have farther discussions on th« emergency with the High Commissioner (Sir Edward Gent). la the same plane were the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces (General Sir Neil Ritchie), the Flag
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    POLICE GUARD RED HQ AFTER LOOTING
    201 1 ARMED police are now guarding the Singapore headquarters of the Malayan Communist Party m Queen Street against looters who are running away wi4h property belonging to the Party. This was stated to the* Straits Times by Singapore's! C.I.D. chief (Mr. E V. Fowler) yesterday.
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    20 1 TSINOTAO, Mon. Shantung University students besan a three- day strike m protest against the U.S. policy of aiding Japan. AP.
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    ATTLEE SAYS "STRIKE IS EMERGENCY"
    548 1 ATTLEE SAYS "STRIKE IS EMERGENCY" LONDON, Monday. THE Prine Minister, (Mr. Clement AUIee,) announc1 ed in the House of Commons tonight that "a state of emergency" was to be declared to deal with the dock strike crisis. The King, he said, had been advised "to make a proclamation under the
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    NOT RED ENOUGH
    66 1 PRAGUE, Monday. rFHE Communist Party news- paper Rude Pravo reported today that the Cominform had Issued a communique saying that the Yugoslav Communists have been read out of the party. The party was read out of the Cominform at a meeting in Rumania in the middle of
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    English Place- Names Give Way To Indian In Madras Again
    109 2 MADRAS, Monday. *THE Government of Madras has changed the names 1 of certain districts and towns to bring them into line with the regional language. The names had been anglicised during British rule. Tricfrinopoly has thus been changed to tbe
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    Rice Riots
    52 2 CHANGHAI, Mon— Rice V riots broke out m towns near Shanghai at the week-end, as the price of rice climbed to CNC524,000,000 per picuL Looters at Wusih. on the Shanghai-Nanking railway, carried away more than 500 piculs. Changchow, 5% miles west of Wusih, saw the same sort of
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    WARNING ON WEST AFRICA
    96 2 WARNING ON WEST AFRICA WASHINGTON, Monday. DRITISH West Africans are likely to show interest m Soviet development methods unless the United Kingdom speeds preparations for their eventual self-government. This warning was given yesterday m a report by the Foreign Policy Association, an influential American private research organisation The Association said
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    U.K. Coal Record
    70 2 GENEVA. Monday.^ DRITAIN'S coal exports dur- u ing May reached over 1,000,000 tons for the first time since the war, according to figures issued yesterday by the Economic Commission for Europe. Of the 1,115,546 tons exported. 841.000 tons went to Europe, mostly to Denmark, Eire. Finland. Prance.
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    EDITORS APPEAL
    32 2 RANGOON, Mon. An appeal to the Burmese Government to grant amnesty to insurgents, similar to that given recently m the Philippines, was 'made yesterday by editors of 29 newspapers.— AJ>
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    CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY REVISE DOCTRINE
    121 2 LONDON, Monday. ANGLICAN Bishops from five continents will meet t\ here m July to decide whether Church of England doctrine needs changing "m the light of new world conditions and social thought." It will be the first such j meeting for 18 years. The
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    COLONIAL DEMAND
    30 2 ROME, Monday. The return of Italy's former African colonies was demanded yesterday by a newly-formed "Association of Italians of Africa." the news agency, Ansa, reported from Milan. A.P.
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    33 2 MOSCOW, Mon.— The first editorial comment m the Soviet press of the U.S. Republican Presidential candidate, Mr. Thomas Dewey, referred to him as a "representative of the aggressive plans of Wall Street."— A.P.
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    Blind Girl Gets LL.B.
    63 2 LONDON, Mon.-An attractive, 28-year-old Birmingham' girl, who has been blind for 11 years, learned yesterday that she had passed her Bachelor of Laws examination with honours. The girl, Miss Eve Hardiman who did all her studying from special papers prepared in Braille, has not yet decided
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    54 2 CHILD MAESTRO: 10-year-old Pierino (Jamba, boy conductor from Rome, pictured as he put the 80-strone Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra through a three-hour rehearsal at Harrineay Stadium, London. Pierino is due to conduct two concerts m the London Music Festival at Harrineay. He likes to conduct such works as Schubert's "Unfinished" without
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      Filipino Actor Arrested After Murder Of Actress And Maid
      90 2 LILIAN VELEZ, beautiful stabbed to death early Quezon police later arrested a popular actor, Bernando Anzures with whom the actress had made several films. Another maid and the actress's four-year-old daughter escaped by locking themselves m another room. They said Anzures
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      'Shocking Practices'
      50 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Monday A United Nations visiting mission to the British Cameroons next year is to Investigate complaints by a London church group about the "shocking family practices" of the Fon, chief of the Bikom tribe there. The Fon of Bikom is reputed to have 110 wives. A.P.
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      Jewish Congress
      45 2 SWITZERLAND, Mon.—Dr. Stephen Wise, opening the second Jewish Congress here yesterday, said that "Britain, which through Mr. Balfour won for itself one of the foremost places m our roll of honour, is rapidly losing that position as a result of Its pro-Arab policy."—Reuter.
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      P.M's Warning
      35 2 ATHENS. Monday. The Greek Prime Minister (M. Sophoulis) warned the Greek people yesterday against "too early rejoicings" over the campaign against the guerrillas. He said the Army present operation would take considerable time.—Reuter.
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      Reassurance
      94 2 LONDON. Monday. Tue British Minister of War. (Mr. Shinwell) said here yesterday: "If unhappily we should bei again mobilised m a major! war. I can assure all who are interested that the British Army, m spite of great difficulty, is rapidly developing into first class condition."— A.P A RED
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      341 2 NOTICES NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LUBA RUPERTI (Widow) of No. 87 Cavenagh Road. Singapore, applying to the Governor for naturalization, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalization should not oe granted should send a written and signed statement of the facts to the Colonial Secretary.
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      419 2 NOTICES NOTICE volunteers for part— time duties as special police should now offer their services to headquarters, special police. Central Police Station. High Street, Kuala Lumpur. Telephone No. 2690. CHIEF POLICE OFFICER, SELANGOR. t Kuala Lumpur, 28th June. 1948. THE TANGLIN CLUB. Members of The Tanglin Club are notified that
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    AIR FLEET FOR BERLIN
    350 3 Bid To Overcome Soviet Blockade BERLIN, Monday. UNITED States transport planes are arriving ait the Templelhof Airport here at eight-minute intervals with food and other supplies for this Soviet -blockaded city. About 120 planes were expected to fly the corridor over the Russian zone during the
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    DROWNED
    22 3 HONG KONG. Mon.— Mr. Victor Mac Donald, 41-year-old assistant United Kingdom Trade Commissioner. was drowned m a yachting accident hereyesterday.— Reuter
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    Singapore Shipping
    203 3 SHIPS in port and ships alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: steel Admiral (31-32), discharging; Silver Oak (33-34), discharging; Sirdhana (38-39), loading; Atreus (42-43); loading. West Wharf: Serempang (3), loading; Charon (4-5), discharging; Asphalion (6-7), loading City of Lucknow (8-8), discharging;
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    PREMIER ON RED ORIGINS
    156 3 LONDON, Monday. MR. Clement Attlee, (the Prime Minister) told a meeting of 25,000 agricultural workers today that the Communist doctrine "springs in the East." "Oriental in its conception it does not belong to the main stream of democratic thought," the Prime Minister said. "We (in Britain)
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    WOMAN IS ACQUITTED
    105 3 Two days after an elderly Chinese woman Tan Ah Lek, had moved into a house it was raided by the police who found a basket in her living room containing six rounds of ammunition. In the Singapore Assize Court yesteday she said that she knew nothing of
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    ON MURDER CHARGE
    113 3 AN Indian Muslim, Mirza Asar All, aged 27, appeared m the Singapore Seventh Police Court yesterday charged with the murder of Mohamed Sekandar Chaudhari, the proprietor of a bakery. A.S.P. L. R. Prynn, prosecuting, said that All was a distant relative of Chaudhari. who had been m
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    Pope To Workers: Be Christian Soldiers
    151 3 VATICAN CITY, Monday. rE PIUS XII yesterday appealed to 500 workmen of the Communist stronghold of Sesto San Giovanni Italy's "little Stalingrad" to be "front line soldiers of Christ." I He received the men from the industrial suburb of Milan m a special audience
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    37 3 GERMAN VISIT: Mr. Devadas Gandhi, on the right with his wife on arrival at Gatow Airfield. Berlin. Mr. Gandhi, who is editor of the Hindustan Times, is making a study of post-war conditions m Europe. Planet picture.
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    200,000 LOSE THEIR HOMES
    43 3 HONG KONO. Mon—Arrivals here from Swatow say the recent flood there was the worst m the last 50 years, with more than 1,500 acres of farmland inundated m 10 days. Homeless are estimated at between 200.000 and 300.000. AP.
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    Democrats May Choose Truman
    137 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. RATIONAL political attention, following the 11 exciting fortnight of Republican events, turned to the outlook for the Democratic Party Convention meeting m Philadelphia on July 12. Mr. Dewey'g strength m the largely-populated eastern states such as New York and Pennsylvania, and Mr. Warren's popularity
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    VICTORY AGAINST CHINA REDS
    112 3 PEKING. Mon.— A Nationalist triumph in a counteroffensive against Ccmmuni3 s along the PekingMukden railway was claimed by G?n Fu Tso-yi's headquarters today. The Na; ioralists recaptured Peitaiho and all other lost rail-towns between Tangshan, 60 miles northeast of Tientsin, and the Great Wall. The Commnunisr.s
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    ASSASSINATION ACCUSATION
    166 4 BANGKOK, Monday. THE Siamese police today issued a warrant for the 1 arrest of ex-Premier Pridl Panomyong, who is listed as number one accused m King: Ananda's assassination trial opening Jiere shortly. A warrant was also issued againsit Panomyong's secretary, Naval Lieut. Watcharachai. The cot-Premier and his secretary
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    23 4 WILLIAM FITZER of Los Angreles, Deputy MfUtary Government officer of Heidelberg, tries to paeffy 4.000 University students demonstrating against low rations. —Planet picture.
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    COLOURED TROOPS BAN
    68 4 PRETORIA, Mon: South African Defence Minister, (Mr. F. C. Erasmus) declared here that no Africans or other coloured people m South Arica would m future receive military training. The union's defence forces would have to be modernised, and strengthened to help South Africa to be strong internally.
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    S.M.C. INSURES OFFICERS
    82 4 rrtflS Singapore Municipal X Commissioners have decided to insure Municipal officers, who carry cash in the course of their duty, against the risk ol death or of permanent inlury. The Commission has also signed an agremeent with the Police Force for the supply of police guards at
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    24 4 UONKYMOONERS: Ex-Kins Michael of Rumania and his bride. Princess Anne, read the press cuttings of their wedding. They are honeymooning m Lausanne, Switzerland.—A^p. picture.
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    Dutch Told "Withdraw Troops"
    166 4 Dutch Told "Withdraw Troops" MT COLOMBO, Monday. r T f HE South-East Asia 1 Conference for world peace and international fellowship which ended a three-day session here last night called on the Netherlands and French Governments to withdraw their armed forces from Indonesia and Indo-China. Sir Sri Nissanka who presided,
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    Jap Labour "Offensive"
    136 4 TOKIO. Mon. f ABOUR leaders today anLj nounced that they were preparing a combination economic and political "offensive" against their Government, beginning in August. Officials of the Government Workers' Union. totalling about one-sixth of organized Japanese labour, promised coordinated pressure for wage Increase. They are demanding a
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    TOO SHARP
    60 4 TOKIO, Monday.— A Tokin theatre sent without explanation razor blades to 1,000 outstanding citizens to entice customers to the American film, "The Rasor's Edge", but succeeded chiefly In frightening many of them. The business and civic leaders were frightened that the blades suggested hara kiri and kept the
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    "TOTAL WAR" SAYS CHIANG
    116 4 "TOTAL WAR" SAYS CHIANG NANKING, Monday. /*\NLY total war can de\J feat the Communists in China, President Chiang Kai-shek told a group of Sian educational and social leaders today. The official Central News said the Generalissimo told the educators that it had now become apparent that military power alone can
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    Adm. Boyd For Colony
    87 4 THE Commander-in-Chief of I the British Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sir Denis Boyd accompanied by Lady Boyd and Miss Elizabeth Boyd, will arrive m Singapore on the destroyer Alert on Thursday morning. This Is the first visit to be 6 aid to Singapore by Sir •enls since
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    100 TO 3 — BUT THEY GOT AWAY
    41 4 100 TO 3 BUT THEY GOT AWAY CHICAGO Mon. Three bandits armed with submachine- guns yesterday eluded an army of 100 police thrown around a stone quarry. It is believed that the men escaped at dawn on a freight train.— TJ.P.
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    Six Storeys Up — Lifeline Snapped
    29 5 Six Storeys Up Lifeline Snapped CHICAGO firemen haul a dangling window cleaner to safety after his belt broke while working on the sixth floor of a building. A.P. picture.
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    Convicts See Films In Education Drive
    104 5 f ONVICTS m Changi Prison, Singapore, were given a film show by the Public Relations Film Unit yesterday. This formed part of the prison reform scheme which aims at reforming the character of the prisoners through education rather than punishment. The films to be
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    Months Of Work In Parade Of Fashion
    939 5 By Our Woman Correspondent FVERY fashion and whim of fashion is being repreL»- sented m the Pageant of Fashion and Beauty to open at the Raffles Hotel ballroom on Thursday night. Gifts of material from the local silk emporiums, cash donations from Singapore
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    Singapore Water Plan
    113 5 WORK is expected to begin soon on a $3,000,000 temporary water scheme which, when completed, will give Singapore an additional 10,000,000 gallons of water a day. Situated on the banks of the Tebrau River, about six miles from Johore Bahru, the new works are an alternative to
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    ARMY CHAPEL CONSECRATED
    48 5 A Roman Catholic Chapel, built by soldiers of the Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylon) was consecrated at Colombo Camp, Singapore, on Saturday by the R. C. Chaplain (Father J. O'Callaghan). Choristers, acolytes and wardens from the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd took part m the service.
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    ASSESSMENT ON ADVERTISING
    117 5 DLILDINGS and property m Siagapore which exD hibit advertisements or hoardings win, from January next year, have their assessment increased by the annual value of such advertisements. This, is the first time that advertisements and hoardings on buihilnjrs and property have come tii for assessment. Owners of
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  • Obituary
    DEATH
    49 6 THE RELATIVES and friends ol Mr. Ong Kok Hoon (alias Oag Thiam T?nR) are informed that hr MMd away peacefully at his ■ice on June 27 at 10.20 p.m. lrr-rnmrnt will take plac? today and the corteee will leave No. 431 GuHlemard Rd.. Geylang, SingaEftpore at 2 p.m.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., June 29,1948. PLANTERS AND THE ARMY
    1086 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., June 29, 1948. PLANTERS AND THE ARMY Whether Whitehall yet realises it or not, the protection of the plantation rubber industry of Malaya, with its hundreds of lonely and scattered estates, with its investments of hundreds of millions sterling, and with its enormous value to
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    Taiping Morals
    102 6 The Town Board in Taiping has imposed a ban on the employment of girls as waitresses in coffee-shops, presumably because the Board thinks this may lead to immorality, and a few days ago it turned down a petition from these waitresses to change its mind. If these girls
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    Singapore Studies—13
    10 6 Singapore Studies— 13 —Photograph by C. A. Gibson-Hill. THE WATERFRONT
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    WHEN LOKE YEW RAN MAIL CARS
    960 6 WHEN LOKE YEW RAN MAIL CARS The article we reproduce today £s from the Edinburgh Evening Dispatch of Nov. 15, 1902. It gives an interesting picture of early motoring days m Malaya and recalls that even m those days the competition between British and American car manufacturers for the Malayan
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      WIVES WITHOUT VOTES
      376 6 I HOPE that you will give this letter the wide! publicity that it deserves! for it is an appeal to the! elected Legislative Councillors of this Colony to study some of the existing! laws of this island concerning the eligibility to. vote of those who were born
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      WE KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS!
      40 6 I SHALL be very thankful if you can let me know m what year the first "pennyfarthing" bicycle appeared on Singapore streets. A READER. Knala I umpar. [Time foe a Ticer I— Ed. S.i J
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    VISHNU, AND NOT BUDDHA
    220 6 VISHNU, AND NOT BUDDHA IN your last Thursday Magazine thrre is mi article by Dr. E. H. G. Dobby about some y< 'd images which were found in West Borneo.* Dr. Dobby is of the opini n that these images are of Buddha. With all due rcspi ct to Dr.
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    CULTURE FOR TIONG BAHRU
    149 6 rIS is an appeal to the authorities concerned to provide some form <>f healthy recreation and entertainment to about 20,000 people living in the Tiong Bahru area. Most of the residents here, and particularly in the S.I.T. flats, are respectable middleclass citizens who work in j
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    CONTRACT SYSTEM CONDEMNED
    643 7 Report On Port Labour Dispute From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. CUGGESTING that the Malayan Railway administration should employ labour direct, the final report of the court of inqyiry appointed to investigate the recent trade disputes at Port Swettenham criticises the existing contract system. "It appears
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    Illegal Entry Gaoled
    100 7 TWENTY Chinese illegal immigrants were sent to gaol yesterday by the Singapore District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks). They arrived in Singapore last week, 19 by the ship An Hui and one by Henrick Jcssen from Swatow. All had forged certificates obtained by paying millions of Chinese
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    C.I.D. ARRESTS IN COLONY
    52 7 A member of the Singapore Workers Protection Corps was arrested by the C.I.D. on Sunday on a banishment warrant. Police believe he is connected with recent troubles in the local rubber industry. Another Chinese arrested by the C.I.D. is believed to have beep connected with unlawful
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    TINNED BUTTER RATION PLAN
    137 7 A tinned-butter rationing scheme came Into force in Singapore yesterday. The ration scale is 4 ozs. per person per week with a maximum of 8 ozs. to the holder of any one rice card. Only holders of rice cards who are not at present in receipt
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    TREASURY BILLS
    51 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. —Tenders for Federation of Malaya Government Treasury bills of three months' tenor were accepted by the Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya, to the extent of $5,500,000 at a rate of discount equivalent to per cent per annum. The bills will be Issued on July 1,
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    Mystery Of Singapore's Fish Prices
    187 7 Mystery Of Singapore 's Fish Prices QINGAPORE fish prices O are the dearest in South-East Asia, although more fish is landed in Singapore per head of the population than in any other country m the region. This statement was made in Singapore yesterday by Dr. G. L. Kesteven, representative of
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    $1,400 TAKEN IN DAYLIGHT
    61 7 Cash and jewellery valued at $1,415 was stolen by three Chinese from the occupants of a house m Hill Street m daylight yesterday. The robbers, two armed with automatic pistols and one with a knife, walked into the premises held up the occupants and got away
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    C.I.D. ANSWERED THE TELEPHONE
    48 7 A detective "took" several bets by telephone on Saturday when Mr. Eu Chew Eang, A.S.P., and detectives of the Gajnbling Suppression Branch of the CJX>., raided a house In Kelantan Lane, Singapore. Letters and slips relating to horse racing were seized during the raid.
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    RUNAWAY LORRY
    65 7 A motor-cycle and a bicycle were badly damaged yesterday bv a runaway lorry belonging to the Rural Board, at the Singapore Granite Quarry near the ninth mile. BuUt Timah Road. The driver had braked the vehicle on an incline while It was being loaded with granite. The lorry
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    43 7 MALAY WEDDING: Tengkn Ahmad ibni Omar (grandson of the late Terujku Pctri Besar, sister of the Sultan of Johore) and Tengku Zoboniah (niece of Tengku Ampuan Kualoh. of the Royal house of Deli) after their wedding on Friday m Johore.— Straits Times picture.
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    SHIP BACK FROM DJAMBI
    128 7 /~VNE of five foreign ships al- lowed to leave Djambi (the Republican port in Sumatra) during the two-week Dutch closure of the port, has arrived in Singapore It is the Hong Tat. a Singapore registered ship which left for Djambi on June 4 and cleared the
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    Dying Man Told Of Gang Gunman
    146 7 rS Singapore Coroner (Mr. Choor Singh) was told yesterday of a shot man's dying deposition. The Inquest was on a seaman, Ng Eng Keng of Ball Lane who died In hospital after being shot m Blanco Court on June 16. Two and a half
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    Medical College Pass List
    222 7 Medical College Pass List The King Edward VH College of Medicine, Singapore announce the following examination results: DENTAL Second Trotfrnismul Examinations Pass List: The under listed have passed the Kxamina liwis m Anatomy, Physiology, and Special Dentai Anatomy; thereby passing the Dental Second Professional Examinations: Chia Sal Seng, Ho LAan
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    Singapore Ex-Police Make Jagas
    127 7 Singapore Ex-Police Make Jagas SINGAPORE firms in need of jagas can employ police pensioners or other reliable men to guard their premises. The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. C. Barry) says the Special Constabulary Commandant keeps the names and addresses of police pensioners. "All these men are known to
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    'Cowardly Ruffian'
    51 7 PENANG, Monday. "You are a cowardly ruffian totally unsuited to have the care of any small children." The District Judge (Mr. Fletcher Rogers) said this today to 40-year-old Oon Min Teik, whom he sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment for" ill-treating his adopted sister, 12 -year-old Tan Siew
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    Singapore Appeal For Children
    152 7 Singapore Appeal For Children OINGAPORE is to make O a voluntary contribution to the International Children's Emergency Fund. A six-months appeal 1b to be launched and will Include a flag day and various moneyraistag efforts. A committee, representing certain religious and voluntary organisations, will be responsible for the appeal. This
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    Unarmed Villagers Seize Gunman
    108 7 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Monday. TAIPING police today commended two unarmed Malay villagers who arrested a Chinese armed with a fully-loaded pistol on Saturday. The arrested man was* believed to be a member of a killer gang. He admitted to the police that he was
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    KIDNAP CHARGE
    37 7 Packirisamy, Moideen, Abdul Jafaar and Sinniah, four young Indians, were charged m the Second District Court, Singapore, yesterday with kidnapping Govlndammal, an Indian girl under 14 years of age. The case will be continued today.
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    Chinese Found Dead
    35 7 A police radio patrol car yesterday morning removed the dead body of a Chinese man who had apparently been killed m a road accident m Orchard Road, near the Cathay building, Singapore.
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    Student Selectors' Tour Of Malaya
    160 7 A JOINT Committee has been formed to interview applicants for October admission to Raffles College and the Medical College. The Senates of the two' colleges have set up the Committee so that they can determine which of the 400 applicants will most benefit from the
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      Commission Sells Four New Houses
      113 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. rE Municipal Commissioners are offering four new houses for sale to the public at cost price. The houses may also be rented. The completion of these houses marks the first phase m the Municipal plan to relieve the housing
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      Two Fires
      44 7 OUNGEI PATANI, Mon.— The w Sungei Patani fire brigade was called out twice within 24 hours over the week-end. One call was to a lallang fire and the other to a copradrying shed which was razed to the ground at Tanjong Dewal.
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      YMCA Lecture
      45 7 THE first or a series of lec1 tures on Democracy by Mr. Q. G. Thomson was delivered at the Y.M.C.A. headquarters in Stamford Road last night. The lectures, Mr. Thomson said, "aimed to meet the urgent need for orientation in Malayan political life."
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      New Voters
      58 7 THE number of new register1 ed voters for the next election to the Singapore Legislative Council up to last Saturday, June 26, was 1,211. Registered voters from the four divisions are now as follows: Municipality SouthWest, 222; Municipality North East, 330; Rural West, 165; Rural East, 127. Last
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      Control Relaxed
      69 7 EXPORTERS of any control- led articles under the Food Control Prohibition of Ex- port Order (1946) may now apply direct to the Registrar of Imports and Exports for licence to export. The Food Control Prohibition of Export Order has been cancelled and it will no longer be necessary
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    New Anti-TB Body Meets
    257 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE council of ;he Malayan Associa'.jon for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which lie id its first meeting yesterday decided to affiliate with the National Associai.un for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, London. The council decided to publicise the association at the Malayan Agri-Horticul-tural Exhibition.
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    JAP SHIP FOR M.R.N.V.R.
    402 8 GrandNews,Says Commander r[E reorganisation of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve is going ahead rapidly and training is being carried on temporarily at the Headquarters of the SJ3.V.F. In an interview with the Straits Timea, Commander F. E. W. Lammert, D.S.C., R.N.V.R., the Commanding Officer of
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    Planter Hits At Govt.
    254 8 Planter Hits At Govt. •pHE new special emer1 gency powers taken by tiie Federation Government do not go for enough, says Mr. G. W. Husband of Rengam Estate, a; Johore planter of many years standing^ Mr. Husband, who Is plantIng representative on the Johore State Council, said this before he
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    45 8 *i Jhinese who was aL^ed to have held up a Chinese woman m Dorset Road with a pistol and stolen $4 was arrested shortly after. Yesterday morning a Chinese walking along Rochore Road was robbed of $30 by two Chinese and an Indian.
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    Singapore Dairy
    88 8 TODAX V.M.C.A. Vocational guidance talks, Dr. O. V. Allen on "Med'.cine," V.M.C.A., Orchard Roaa, 7.30 p.m. Violin and Piano Recital bj Dutch musicians Arnold and Jo Juda, Victoria Memorial Hall, 8.45 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, commercial class. 5.30 p.m., chctr practice, 8.30 p.m. TOMORROW Poppy Day Committee meeting.
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    Cremation, Lotteries And Women
    166 8 Cremation, Lotteries And Women MUSLIM NOTES From Our Muslim Correspondent i /CREMATION, State lotteries, Vj blood transfusion and Muslim women in beauty competitions were discussed by the i All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society of Singapore last Friday. The president (Mr. S. I. O. Ataagoff) was in the chair, at the Al-Junied
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    24 8 OFF THE SET: Judy Clarke, young film actress, and Philip Reed, Hollywood actor share a *>ke at the Tallyho Restaurant m Hollywood.— AJP. picture.
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    Rubber Output Normal
    108 8 Rubber Output Normal From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Mon. RESPITE the terror campaign, rubber production in Perak is normal. The manager of one of the biggest European firms of exporters told the Straits Times: "There has been no falling off whatever in rubber deliveries either from large estates or small
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    CUT IN GOVT. EXPENDITURE
    57 8 A STEP to cut unnecessary expenditure on the publication of the Municipal budget ha« been approved by the Municipal Commissioners. Now. it will be necessary to publish only a summary of the draft and final budgets. Anyone interested in studying the budget in full may make
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    Johore Weekly Letter
    263 8 Johore Weekly Letter JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. •TK) Dr. Mohamed Salleh has -I- fallen the distinction of being appointed the first Asian Medical Superintendent of the General Hospital, Johore Bahru. He has succeeded Dr. E. C. Vardy who has become Deputy Principal Medical Officer, Johore. Dr. Mohamed Salleh was born in
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      660 8 South salvaged his hopleless contract In today's deal by "selling a gold brick" to a gullibla opponent. South, dealer. Nortii-South vulnerable. Menu k q t r 6 4 Q 5 3 J J 9 8 4 V 10 5 j A 8 7 5 3 2 10 9 1 «J
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    From an estate bungalow
    293 9 WE were seated in the garden of a Chinese restaurant. We always like to sit outside for our meal. Inside are the typical private dining cubicles, which, although secluded, have t o my mind a certain dullness compared with the pleasant gardens. It is pleasant to
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    13 9 Haiel Court, a J. Arthur Rank star, stroke* a black eat for luck.
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    Geese in the garden
    655 9 "DOY" and "Girl" came to us from the old country-woman who used to pass our house every morning on her way to market with her home-grown vegetables and fruits. We paid five dollars for them then just two balls of light yellow fluff. The names were
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    Our London Letter
    1586 10 Our London Letter tells of the difficulties of taking a summer holiday m comfort owing, to crowded transport and record accommodation prices.... reports that the miners are producing less and less coal and are getting disgruntled with the administration of the nationalised mines.... relates that modern Miss 1948 doesn't like
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      43 10 RADIO MALAYA POKE 10.55 English Schools Broadcast; 1.00 Radio Orchestra; 1.30 News: 1.40 Rhythm Parade; 5.00 'ntvrlude: 8.15 News; 8.30 Tuesday Magazine; 9.00 "Paul Temple Steve": 9.30 News: 1.45 Joan Hammond: 10.00 r'i Post; 11.00 News. RADIO AUSTRALIA 4.00 p.m. Dinner Music; 4-40
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      54 10 Services Concert HrUl; 5.36 Orchestral; 6.30 World News; 7.00 •!•;>; Orchestral Half -Hour; 7.30 Hit Parade; 8.20 Famous Choral Groups; 8.45 Recorded Music; 9.10 World's Great Music; 9.30 Dance Band: 10.10 Ballad Singer; 10.25 Pianist. HAOIC SSAC 12 Noon In Lighter Vein; 12. 3C Eand ef the Week; 1.00 Nsws;
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      55 10 Melodies are Sweet; 2.00 Close. 6.00 Thirty to One; 6.30 BBC News; 6.45 Accent on Rhythm, 7 00 Critique; 7.30 Film Theatre Music; 8.00 News; 8.05 Yours for the Asking; 8.45 The Masqueraders- 9.00 London Dances To; 9.30 BBC Radio Newsreel; 9.45 Show Lowdown; 11. 00 Chamber Music Concert; 11
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    SINGAPORE RUBBER
    136 11 rpHE Singapore rubber J. market was again very steady yesterday. Sellers held off and there was little anxious buying for covering purposes. Little business was done. P.o.b. closed three-quarters of a cent above Fridays closing price. Closing prices yesterday were: No. l sheet f.o.b. buyers 46% cents, sellers
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    Sungei Purun Profit £2,175
    85 11 SUNOEI Purun (PJWtB.) Rubber made a profit of £3,178 m 1947 compared witto a loss of £2,666 m 1946. The profit was achieved after deducting estate expenditure of £16,005 (£5,316 m 1946.) As already announced a dividend of five per cent, was declared, absorbing £1,787. NO
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    Rubber Outputs
    22 11 May rubber crop of the United Malacca Rubber Estates was 98.941 lbs. Rlvervtew Rubber Estates produced *****3 lbs. m May.
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    Malayan Shares
    180 11 Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were: INDUSTRIALS From Oar Market Correspondent SINGAPORE. Monday. MALAYAN snares opened the week quietly. There was a small volume of business at lower prices. T>rlf**» phnnirM annnriinr.pd bV Bayer B.B. Petrol 42/6 Praser ft Nmvc (0) Stfc. 3.55 O&mman 6.10
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    PILMOOR RUBBER DIVIDEND
    47 11 11/ITH a 1947 profit Of £2,553 ff compared with a 1946 loss of £3,113, POmoor Rubber declared a dWdend of 2.0$ per cent absorbing No dividends were paid m 1946. Subject to estate staff bonus, a sum of £1,578 was to be carried forward.
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    Commodities Active
    233 11 From A Market Correspondent rSTERDAY saw the quiet spell broken on the Singapore produce markets. Sago flour had quite a spate of activity. Quotations adTaneed m sympathy. While black pepper also rose, both the coconut oil and copra market were easier. Yesterday's quotations were: Rice Unclassified: No. 1
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    4/7 OF THE PROFIT TO RESERVE
    271 11 4/7 OF THE PROFIT TO RESERVE Pataling Rubber A DIVIDEND of 10 per cm** making 29 per cent in all (or 1947, was recommended for shareholders of Pataling Rubber Estates. In bis circulated statement the chairmen (M. H. Eric Miller) comment* that about four-sevenths of the profits are being added
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    Late Mr. A. V. Ritchie
    29 11 MR. Alfred Julian Ritchie, a director of Cairo (Malay) Rubber Company, has died at his home at West Burton, North Yorksh're. He was 72.
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    AUSTRALIA DECLARE AT 460 FOR SEVEN
    1037 12 AUSTRALIA DECLARE AT 460 FOR SEVEN England's Only Hope A Draw From R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW By Special Arrangement LORD'S, Monday. AUSTRALIA declared their second innings at 460 for seven wickets m the second Test against England today, the fourth day of the match. This left England the task of making
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    32 12 MRS. J. F. PBABCY (left) and Mrs. G. T. Edwards, who contested th« women's singles final of th« Singapore lawn tennis championships at the S.C.C. yesterday. Mrs. Edwards won m straight sets.
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    Scoreboard
    181 12 AUSTRALIA— Iat Inn* AM ENGLAND— Ist Inns.— 4l S AUSTRALIA— 2nd Ijruis. Barnea c Waahbroek k YanUey 141 Mortis k Wright tt HraAman c Edrtch k Blisir 89 HawM-U b Yardley Miller c Bedser k Laker 71 Brown c Kvana k Coxon XS Undwall si. Krans k LakOT »5
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    China Team Not Playing Upcountry
    209 12 China Team Not Playing Upcountry rE China Olympic soccer team will not play in the Federation of Malaya but will remain in Singapore until July 9, when they will leave for Calcutta. This was announced yesterday by the chairman of the executive committee of the Malayan Chinese Football Association (Mr.
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    N.E.I. Players May Join MLTA Tourney
    290 12 nLAYKRS from the Netherlands East Indies are expected to take part m this year's Malayan lawn tennis championships. Sixteen entries will be allowed for the men's singles and 12 for the women's events. The honorary secretary of the Malayan Lawn Tennis Association (Mr. C.
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    Sports Dairy
    77 12 TODAY SOCCER: Chinese Veterans v. Services Veterans (charity match). Jalan Baaar dadlwnu S.A.F.A. League. Dlv. ll— Police v. Katong Eurasians, Geylang; Dlv.. Ill Social A.P. v P. Tv MrNair Road; SUB B*ya' Club v. Ist Malay Coast Battery. C.V.M.A. ground. All games will start at 5. 15 p.m.
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    Game Drawn
    63 12 The Chines* Athletic at-cond eleven held R.A.F. Svmbawang to a goalless draw In an 8.A..F.A. second division league pme played on the padang yesterday. Several good scoring chances «<r<> missed by the Athletes owing to inaccurate shooting. The Airmsn were awarded a pi-nnlty n the cloning stages. Wilkinson
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    Tengah Trounced
    31 12 The Singapore Harbour Board Auxiliary Police trounced the R.A.F. Tengah B—o8 0 m an S.A.F.A. second division league game played at Tengah ysterday. Scorers were Bird (4). and Scaif
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    Kota Raja Too Good
    105 12 KOTA Raja proved too good for Pulau Bukom Sport* Club when they met fen an S.A.F.A. second division game at Oeylang Stadium yeaterday. Speedy m attack and sound In defence, the Malays won six-nil, three goals beltig scored In each half. Malays opened accounts In the
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    ISLAND CLUB RESULTS
    172 12 THE Island Club's June Medal (St*b»eford) competition, played over the week-end; resulted as follows: -A' DiTlaton: Llm Bo Yam M 104- 33H (winner); W. V. Smith U4) 20 12«4=t WV;: C. T. Koh (15) 1» 13% *a3?%* W. O. A. AUdnson (14) 19 4- »*=Sl%; J W.
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    R.S.G.C. MIXED FOURSOMES
    93 12 THE Royal Singapore Oolf Club's June mixed foursomes competition was played at Bukit Tlmah on Sunday afternoon and resulted to a win for Mrs. E. A. Elder and J. H. Purrter with a net score of 31 H The following were the best returns: Mrs. E. A.
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    DOCKYARD WIN
    53 12 The Dockyard XI defeated 323 BOD. by 2-0 in an B.A.F.A. second division league game played at the Naval Base ywteiday. Scorers wero Nicl and Johan. WIMBLEDON, Monday.— In the fifth round of the Wimbledon men's singles tennis championships, R. Falkenburg (United States) beat L. Bergelln (Sweden). 6—8.
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    Easy Win In SLTA Final
    199 12 EXCELLING in evtry department, Mrs. O. T. Edwards, former Argentine champion, easily took the women's singles lawn tennis championship of Singapore yesterday. Mrs. Edwards beat Mrs. J. F Pearcy 6-2, 0-1. Mrs. Pearcy, who had fought Tery hard to enter the final, wu off form
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    Cycle Races In Colony
    191 12 CINGAPORE wUl hold lta v first 160-mile cycle race this week-end. Twenty-five competitors, from Singapore and the Federation, have to date entered for the event. The course will be along the 8'/ 2 -mlle stretch of Ylo Chu Kang Road, off the 10th mile, Bukit Timah
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    VETERANS' SOCCER TODAY
    355 12 THE football giants of more than a decade ago representing the Chinese Veterans' XI will put on their toss once again this evening when they meed the Services Veterans at Jalan Besar Stadium. The game Is being played In aid of the Singapore AntlTuberculosls Association fund. Captaining
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    Full Handicaps For Tomorrow
    361 12 Full Handicaps For Tomorrow BELOW are the weights for all cixht races to b« run iomorrow, the second day of the SelatiKor Turf Club's June-July meeting. Class 4, DIt. S— 51 Fan. Lady Ruth 0.00 Mr. Chips 8.06 Victory 813 Chastity 8.06 Young Paramount 804 Clam 8.11 Dancing Tuoonee 809
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    THIRD DAY
    148 12 Following are th« wrightx for three of the nme racos on tho last day July S. t'lM* I, Dlv. 1— SI Furs. Air Port 9.00 Purpl* Our mi oe 812 KnlKht 7 13 Hnmbnon 80S Smllm;Show Oirl 805 ThroiiKh 7 13 LlttU Beau 8.03 (Bulging Victory Bird II
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    C.A. Snatch 2-1 Victory
    158 12 C.A 2; I.A. 1. A LTHOUGH the CfoiMM i\ Athletic beat thi Indian Association by odd goal in three in an S.A.F.A. first divis,.n league game at Jali.n Besar stadium yesterday, a draw would have been a more fitting result. The Indians were taken off their
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