The Straits Times, 29 November 1948

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 FKIHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1948. if PRICE TEN CENTS
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    WIDE POWERS FOR NEW CHINESE GOVT.
    431 1 Will Make Own Moves SaysDr.Sun SHANGHAI, Sunday. DR. Sun Fo, China's new Prime Minister, said m Shanghai yesterday that his new Cabinet will include a selected group of ministers who will be able to take decisions without the prior approval of Chiang Kai-shek. It
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    Prayers For Dying Premier
    127 1 Prayers For Dying Premier ATHENS, Sun. AS crowds of Athenians today prayed for the 88-year-old Premier, Themistocles Sophoulis, last rites of the Orthodox f'hurch were administered and members of the Cabinet were called to his bedside. Yesterday his condition became worse. The sick Premier collapsed with a heart attack on
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    UK Newsman Deported
    149 1 RANGOON. Sun. MR. Alexander Campbell. Daily Mail correspondent m Rangoon left for London lane today under a d<<- ;> >rtatlon order of the BurGovernment for alleged «'>>mplicity m instigating ihe K:iren revolt In Burma. Mr. Campbell was not included m the British Overseas Airways Corporation passenger list,
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    ATLANTIC UNION PACT TALKS
    32 1 LONDON, Sun. Sevenpower talks m Washington for the preliminary study of m Atlantic Union Pact will je called m the very near future, it was learned here. -Reuter.
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    WARSHIPS MASS
    62 1 WARSHIPS MASS rival today of another United Stales cruiser brought Allied warships anchored In the muddy Whangpoo river, directly opposite the busy, noisy Shanghai waterfront, to a toj tal of about 40,000 tons. Prominent among the impressive line of fighting vessels was the British 10,000-ton cruiser Sussex, France was represented
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    37 1 MR. AND MRS. G. St. G. Farmer with their six and a half months' old son, Peter Geoffrey, who was christened yesterday at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Mr. Farmer is on the Commissioner General's staff.. Straits Times picture.
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    42 1 MW-TOl. a Chinese steamed bread, is distributed among workers at the Fushun power plant at Mukden, Manchuria. The bread was made from flour supplied under the Economic Co-operation Administration. It was flown to Mukden m the tense days before the city fell.
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    STRIKE OFF
    92 1 PARIS. Sun. Agreement i between the French Govern- ment and the Communist- led Dockers' Federation to avert a nation-wide dockers' strike was completed last night. At the same time, the Communist-led Miners' Federation called on the 100,000 miners still on strike m 'ha! 1 elght-weeks-old pits stoppage to
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    Tojo: "Stand By For The News"
    223 1 Tojo: "Stand By For The News" TOKIO, Sunday. THE Public Information Office today announced round-the-clock preparation for the purpose of speedy release of the news of the executions of Hideki To jo and the six other condemned Japanese war leaders. The stsndSj began at midnight to- night (Tokio time.) The
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    WANT S.S. RESTORED
    66 1 From Our Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sun. AT a committee meeting of the Straits Chinese British Association, held yesterday, a discussion was made on the proposal submitted by Mr. T. W. Ong of Singapore favouring restoration of the Straits Settlements. The majority of members present agreed to the
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    ASHIDA ACCUSED, RESIGNS
    136 1 ASHIDA ACCUSED, RESIGNS TOKIO, Sun HITOSHI Ashlda, Prime Minister of Japan for eight months, tonight resigned from the presidency of the Democratic Party, as a Diet committee prepared io debate a request that he be arrested as a suspected bribetaker. Ashida resigned as Prime Minister on Oct. 7 after more
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    THE KING HAS QUIET WEEK-END
    182 1 LONDON, Sun. THE King had a quiet week-end with his family m Buckingham Palace, his third consecutive week-end m London instead of going to Windsor. The King and Queen cancelled their usual country week-end two weeks ago for the birth of Princess Elizabeth's son, who
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    Murderer's "Curse" Deaths Now 6
    233 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. pHE series of sudden deaths centred around a conL demned negro grew to six yesterday. 1 Jake Bird, convicted of murdering a woman and her daughter, had put a "hex" (evil spell of death) on his prosecutors. When, just less than a
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    Attack On Tito
    34 1 MOSCOW, Bun. The official Russian newspaper Pravda yesterday printed he text of a letter— said to have been approved by an "Illegal meeting of Communists m Belgrade" attacking Marshal Tito.— A.P.
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    Fought Bandits Alone—Died
    298 1 Fought Bandits Alone Died From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MR. Lionel Edmonds, 28-year-old Eurasian A A assistant manager of Vimy Estate, near Ha wan if, who was shot dead by bandits yesterday morning, fought for nearly half an hour before he ran out of ammunition: Workers on the
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    Dock Strikes Breaking Up
    107 1 NEW YORK. Sun. AMERICA'S shipping lifeline, cut by strikes on both oceans, was restored on the Atlantic Coast last night by an overwhelming back-to-work vote by longshore- men (dockers). On the Pacific -oust Ih s strikers were voting today. A peace plan was accepted 19 -1
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    DEATH ROLL NOW 14
    53 1 ROODERPOORT Suutii Africa, Sun.— The death roll In this hurricane battered Rand mining town stood li.'c night at 14 dead and 500 njured. Total figure., were still a> known afler Saturdays storm which blasted tw> square miles of the tow ar 1 caused estimated damage of
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      Model Cottage Is Prince's First Gift
      125 2 LONDON, Sunday. IPHREE firemen who made toys for nurseries m their spare time during the war have constructed a 10-foot high Tudor cottage which has been accepted by Princess Elizabeth as a gift for the baby Prince. The cottage is being shown during the
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      Mot Playing Game
      29 2 MANILA, Sun.—There will be no "jai alai" tames m Manila until further notice, owing to the present strike for better pay of some 200 betting ushers.—Reuter.
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      Royal Film Show
      55 2 LONDON. Sun.—When the Queen with Princess Margaret and Prince Philip go to the Royal film performance of "Scott of the Antarctic", m which John Mills is the star, tomorrow night, they will meet 47 British and American stars. I Special police arrangement* have been made to keep
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      Progress In P.I.
      60 2 MANILA Sun.—A U.S State Department official said today that on the whole he was "Kreatly satisfied" with the progress of the United States Philippine Rehabilitation Programme. He was Admiral William Wright, retired, Special Assistant to the Director of the United States Foreign Service. There was surprising evidence
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      Price Support
      25 2 WASHINGTON. Sun The US. Agriculture Department says nearly 261,000,000 bushels of the current grain crops have been placed under Government price support programmes.—A.P
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      'Playboy' For Trial
      47 2 MANILA, Sun.—Known as the "playboy-general" during the occupation, Lieutenant-General Shigenori Kuroda, one-time Japanese Army Comnian-der-in-Chief m the Philippines, will be tried on two phases of war crimes charges on Dec. 6 by a military tribunal. The indictment against the Japanese general contains 22 counts.—Reuter.
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    HAND-TO-HAND BATTLE
    604 3 Bayonets Rout Chinese Reds NANKING, Sunday. TOUGH Nationalist troops under deadly artillery cover yesterday scaled and captured Samoushan mountain, 12 miles south of Hsuchow with a determination that inspired, new confidence m the Government's fighting j machine. Cables from the front said that this was only one of
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    Surrender Or Die Warning
    86 3 SHANGHAI. Sun. IN a broadcast over the Communist Radio heard here last night, Gen. Liv I'ocheng and Gen. Chen Vi appealed to the Nationalist General Huang Wei, whose j army is alleged to be surrounded west of Suhsien. to surrender immediately with his men. Warning that
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    Rights Of Minority Groups
    237 3 Rights Of Minority Groups rattis, sun. THE United Nations x Social Committee yesterday tabled Russian supported proposals to include m a draft declaration of human rights certain guarantees for minority racial groups. Such proposals were advanced by Russia, Yugoslavia and Denmark. Latin American delegations opposed them. Russia proposed a clause
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    Singapore Diary
    87 3 TO-OAI TNT Mor.day Morning Market Presbyterian Church Hall. Orchard Road, 8.30 a.m. to noon. Singapore Anti-luberculosis Association Clinic, official opening by I Lady Gimson. Tanjong Pagar Road, 5.30 p.m. Housing and Town Planning Exhibition, to be opened by Sir Patrick Abercrombie, British Council Centre, Stamford Road. 530 p.m.
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    Couple Had A Naval Guard-of-Honour
    644 3 From Our Woman Correspondent rvFFICERS of the Royal Navy formed the guard-of- honour at the wedding of Lieut. Cmdr. Jan Van Dapperen, R.N.N., Dutch Naval Liaison Officer m Singapore, to Miss Henriette Caroline Verniers der Loeff, youngest daughter of General and Mrs. H. J. W.
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    ADMINISTRATION FOR SEAMEN
    137 3 oraiuen s we- i O Kistration Bureau, which rtcruits seamen for employment on board ships m the Colony is to have an administrative board m the near future. Th:s board will consist of I an independent chairman, and three representatives each of colony ship owners ana seamen
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    The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Nov. 29, 1948. E.C.A.F.E. MEETS AGAIN
    971 4 The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Nov. 29, 1948. E.C.A.F.E. MEETS AGAIN At Lapstone, in Austialia's Blue Mountains, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East begins today a fourth conference which finds the organisation at a crossroads. Twenty months is not too short a time for any international body
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    Fifty Years Ago.
    146 4 From the Straits Times of Nov. 29. 1898: On some points, no doubt, the favoured resident of Singapore will be able to fall in with the views of Processor A. R. Wallace, who has been writing on the beneficial effects a tropical climate had for him. The
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    THE NEW READING PUBLIC IN SINGAPORE
    1329 4  - THE NEW READING PUBLIC IN SINGAPORE JOANNA MOORE Browsing In The Bookshops By COME time ago, m his weekly article m the Sunday Times, Bob Gilmore compared his impressions of Singapore today with his memories of the city m that so-called Golden Age of pre-war days. Of all the changes
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      The Silent Singapore Service?
      292 4 AS a Government ser- vant, I am interested in one of the questions which Mr. C. C. Tan proposes to ask at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council on Dec 21. I refer to the question regarding the notice put up in one of
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      THE FUND FOR CHILDREN
      123 4 MOW that the United A Nations Appeal for Children is drawing to a close m Singapore and before funds are actually despatched, may we know more about the administration of the fund? Apart from the 25 per cent, earmarked locally, Is the remainder to be left
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    COLONY LABOUR PARTY "REPLY TO REDS"
    745 5 100 Approve A Constitution THE new Labour Party of Singapore must devise a satisfying answer to the Communist creed which had m the past appeared so attractive to the labourer, said the party's president (Mr. M. A. Majid) In Singapore yesterday. This could and
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    Town Expert In Singapore
    125 5 pOR the next three days, r housing conditions and problems In Singapore will be discussed by various officials with o world's leading town planner, Sir Patrick Abercrombie. He arrived yesterday oy Qantas Constellation from Australia. Sir Patrick will hold a Press conference In Singapore this morning.
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    56 5 MOTHER MEETS SON: Mrs. Nellie Whitehouse seen at the bedside of her son, Lance Corporal Leslie Whitehouse, at a Cameron Highlands military hospital. Leslie was seriously wounded m a bandit attack and his mother flew 8,000 miles from England to see him. He is returning to England shortly to undergo
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    64 5 TWO WELL-KNOWN Chinese families m Singapore wntt united with the wedding of Miss Loh I.van Keow and Mr Seah Peng Gniap. The bride's father. Mr. Loh Son* Heng, is prominent businessman. The bridegroom's father, the late Mr. Seah Knij Tong. was a member of the Chinese Advisory Board and a
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    'PEASANTS WANT THE BROOKES'
    192 5 A PARTY of 60 Sarawak Malays expressed their anti-cession feelings to Mr. Anthony Brooke, ex-Raja Muda of Sarawak at his home "Sarawak Lodge" yesterday afternoon. Inche Sulong bin Sulaiman, leader of the group told the Straits Times afterwards: "Tr 1 peasants of Sarawak want the Brooke
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    Association Changes Name
    84 5 Singapore Malayan Asn Is to change Us name ♦<> the Kerala Samajam. This was decided by a large majority at the Association's thirty-first annual meeting on Saturday. The following officers were elected: president, Sri Muthu Krishnan, vice pnsident. Sri T. P. Paran; general secretary, Sri M K.
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    GOODWILL TEAM RETURNING
    64 5 Pakistan's Indonesian Goodwill Mission is expected to arrive m Singapore on Wednesday President of Overseas Pakis!tan League <Mr. M. A Khan) told the Straits Times yesterday that the Mission consists of three members. Mr. Hatim A. Alavi, the leader Dr. S. M. Siddlq, the s( cretary and
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    Police Capture Woman Bandit
    317 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. DOLICE in Pahang killed a terrorist on Friday night and in Johore the same night wounded and captured the woman rompanion of a bandit. The bandit killed in Pahang was one of a gang contacted by police Just outside
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    26 5 MR. JAMES, A. de Silva and his bride. Miss Vcra Elizbeth Rogers, after their wedding at the Church of the Holy Family, Katong— Straits Times picture.
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    $187,000 FOR SATA
    199 5 rHE Singapore Anti-Tuber- culosis Association has .n 12 months obtained $187,274 clear Income after deduction of expenses. This Is stated In their annual report, just issued, reviewing the year ending Oct. 31. 1948. Of this sum, $127 916 was from donations, $65,947 from organised entertainments and $1,715
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    NEW MOON DAY CELEBRATION
    46 5 The new moon day which falls today will be celebrated at the Sinhala Buddhist Temple, 263, Outram Road Singapore, by the Singapore Buddhist Association. All are invited. Six p.m. Illumination 6.15 p.m. Chanting of Suttas 7 p.m. Buddha Puja, 7.30 p.m Sermon.
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    FRIENDLY ASSN. OFFICERS
    139 5 Offletn of the Chinese Irimdly Association, Singapore, [or 1948 have been elected as follows: Patrons: Messrs. Ho? Chyc Kee, Sng Kwee Choon. Tay Ang Liang and Llm Choon Ann, president: Mr. Ong Kwee Chwee; vice-presi-dents Messrs. Choo Bob Soon, Chia Ann Lum, Choo Hoay Guan, Lira Joo
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    Scholarship Scheme Amended
    327 5 Scholarship Scheme Amended CINGAPORE Urban Co- operative Union is to amend its scholarship scheme to allow two eighth standard boys or girls to spend their last year at a secondary school and thus have a chance of passing their school certificate. There will be two scholarships of $100 each, tenaDle
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    MUNICIPAL VOTING PROVISO
    116 5 The Straits Times reported on Saturday that the special inn ting of Singapore Municipal Commissioners had decided to recommend immediately to Government amendments providing that all pf rsons who had lived In Singapore for one year might i vote or stand for election as a Commissioner. The
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    COLLIERIES' 5 FER CENT $829,000 Profit Whittled Back
    697 6 COLLIERIES' 5 FER CENT $829,000 Profit Whittled Back From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MALAYAN Collieries produced 324,962 tons of saleable coal m the year ended June 30 1948. This was an increase over the previous year's production of 130,000 tons. The profit amounted to $829,391, but the addition
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    33 6 POETRY REPRINTED: Mr. James Cairns, Financial Assistant in the Penang Municipality, whose book of poems "Sunshine and Shadows" has been reprinted. Mr. Cairns, who is an ardent nature-lover, came to Malaya in 1920.
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    Wage Unity On Estates
    119 6 THE Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association have formed a united front on the question of wages based on the recommendations of the Joint Wages Commission, says the association's annual report. It has been stipulated that no member of the Association should go beyond the limits of
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    LEISURELY PACE IN U.S. BUSINESS
    223 6 NEW YORK, Sunday. T>l si.nfss and industry adopted a more leisurely pace last week. In addition to the loss of a full day Thanksgiving Day from office and factory, strikes took a heavy toll on the east and west coasts. Caution generated by uncertainty over
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    S. Tronoh Declares 15% Div.
    100 6 COUTHERN Tronoh Tin Dredging O sale* of tin ore and stock for 1947 amount to £117,581 (£9.311 the previous year), tribute £2,839, interest etc. £9,802 (£2.812). To mining costs £68,604 (£6.883 >. London expenditure and directors' remuneration £2,793 (£2,609), leaving £54,825 (£2.531), plus surplus on
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    South Perak—2½%
    41 6 South Perak 2½% SOUTH Perak Rubber's profit for the year ended June 30. before allocation of reserves. £4.914 (£1,240 loss the previous year). A dividend of 2^ per cent, for ordinary shares Is recommended. No dividends were declared the previous year.
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    Pari Tin Will Pay 31 3/4% Total Div.
    205 6 tfOR the year ended June 30, 1948, Pari Tin made a I* profit of £4,137 (£1,421 the previous year) and declared a total dividend for the year of 31J per cent. I The final dividend, approved at the London meeting on Nov.
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    Democracy In Action—Brazier
    267 6 Democracy In Action— Brazier From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sunday. "TWERE are still too many people who think they know what is best for you and who are suspicious of a change and new ideas," the Trade Union Adviser, Federation of Malaya (Mr. John Brazier) told a meeting of
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    £26,000 PROFIT
    29 6 From A Market Correspondent THE Pahang Consolidated Com oany reporting for the year ended July 31. 1948, shows a profit of £26.313 or, after deprecla tlon, £12,299.
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    REMEMBERING MR. JINNAH
    86 6 Thirty chapters of tht Quran were read by thirty children yesterday at th« prayer meeting of the Bengal Muslims of Singapore In memory of the Mr. M. A. Jinnah. the first GovernorGeneral of Pakistan. The secretary of the Bengal Muslim Association (Mr. Manlr Uddin) the Patron (Dr.
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      132 6 Radio Programmes HAUitl MALAYA SINGAPORE t.00 Radio Orchestra; 1.30 News; 1.45 Tommy Dorsey; 2.00 Close. 8.13 News; 8.20 Interlude; 8.30 Movie Magazine; 9.00 At Your Request; 9.30 News; 9.49 World Affairs Allington Keruiard: 10.00 Music for You; 10.30 Dane* Music; 11.00 News, Summary and Close. RADIO MALAYA K.L 1.00 As
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      132 6 elne; 11.30 The News: 12 00 'Have A Go!' 12.30 Close BFEBS 6.77 Mc/s. 11.85 Mc/s, 15 30 Mc/i 9.69 Mc/s per second 6.05 Light Music; 5.30 Th« Debate Continues; 5.45 Symphony Concert; 6.30 Home News from Britain; 6.45 Indonesian; 7.15 English; 7.45 Siamese; 8.30 English; 8.45 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu;
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      Malayan Market: Depressing Week, Small Business
      631 7 Malayan Market: Depressing Week, Small Business From A Market Correspondent ALL sections of the market suffered during a depressing week and business was on a small scale. Successive deals were generally at lower prices, in some cases quite appreciably so. In Tins, Sterlings were the more disappointing because of the
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      LONDON STOCKS
      215 7 l,vim Lj\jn, Dun. SOME good buying orders lifted gilt-edged prices on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, says Reuter's financial correspondent. Nationalisation and mediumdated issues were m demand. Trinidad 3 per cent gained 5/16ths at l-7/Bths premium; others were widely l/Bth higher. In other sections there was idleness
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      ULU KLANG TIN LOSS
      120 7 ULU Klang Tin accounts for year ended March 31, 1948. show a loss of $49,122 but do not Include any revenue from mining Results of open cast operations In the newly acquired hill area, which did not begin until the current year, were at first disappointin
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      Kota Tinggi Rubber
      69 7 KOTA Tinggi (Johorej Rubbers consolidated account* to j March 31 show net loss £1,290; plus I additional tax for period prior to April 1, 1947, £217; debit balance [brought m £432, making debit £1,939, less over-estimated expenditure for 1941-42 £799; forward debit £1,140; debit balance of, £1,288
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      Bangrin Tin Dredging's £10,000 Revenue
      89 7 BANGKIN Tin Dredging s net revenue ior i»*< amounts to £6,425 (£4,819 the previous year) from investments and bank interest, plus interest on Government securities £3,978. transfer fees £41 (£46), making £10,444 (£4,865). Administration ana gen- eral expenses £1.437 (£1,782), directors' fees £925 (£825), audit
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      PATANI PARA MAKES £11,000
      51 7 PATANI Para Plantations 1 profit for the year ended March 31 amounts to £10.982 (£9.507 the previous year). To dividend of eight per c?nt (four) £4,048 net (£3,680 gross), provision for tax £2,750, cultivation reserve £2,500 (£2,000 provision for fir replacement and rehabilitation £4.500. forward £11.658
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        London Rubber
        42 7 No. 1 R.S.S. c.i.f. European >asis ports, In pence, closing: )ec. buyer 10% 10% )ec. seller 10% 1076 >ec-Jan. buyer 10% 10% )ec-Jan. seUer 10% 1074 ran- Feb. buyer 10% 10% to-Feb. seller 10% 10 13/16 Market: Quiet after steadier.
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        New York Rubber
        23 7 In U.S. cents closing, nomnal. Nov. 25 Nov. 26 1 R.S.S. (Spot) 21% 20 Market: Barely Steady. —Straits Times Service.
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      Sth. British Insurance
      110 7 From A Market Correspondent SOUTH British Insurance Company accounts for the year ended August 31, 1948, embody overseas figures taken at the revised rate of exchange of parity with sterling. Thla presumably accounts for drop m the figure for Investments to £5.850,720 from the 1947 figure if
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      IF RUBBER DROPS TO NINEPENCE....
      417 7 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. T'HE fall m the price of rubber to well under a shillx ing a pound has produced some reaction on the shares and has made many shareholders consider what their policy should be, writes Lex of the Finan- ciai
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      253 7 EAST ASIATIC LINE >AHINCS FROM SCANDINAVIA/US S LIN "aNDIN C A°VIa' NINT/ CONTINENT Lo-dme at Singapore Port Swettenham Pen ing m.s Kamoodia' due abt Dec 8 m.s Lalandia" due abt. Nov. 30 tor Colombo. Aden. Port Said, tor imwor> Banckck Alexandria, Cenoa, Marseilles! Tangier. Casablanca. Antwerp, Rotterdam. Hamburg. Oslo, m.s
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    PENG SOON BEATS LAW IN TWO SETS
    381 8  - PENG SOON BEATS LAW IN TWO SETS LEE SIEW YEE By 2,000 See Fina* Exhibition the Malayan Thomas Cup team s last exhi- I bition before sailing for the United King- I dom, Wong Peng Soon beat Law Teik Hock I 15-12, 15-1 before a crowd of more than 2,000
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    Rest Defeat Scotland At Golf
    426 8 CCOTLAND were defeated by 13 points to six by the Rest m the annual Royal Singapore Qolf Club's match played at Buklt Timah yesterday. Results were i Rest pleyers mentioned flrst>: D. McEwan iscr) and J. C. Hartopb (MT) 0. H. Cralk i.sen and H.M.
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    PTS 'B' Win Police Cup Final Replay
    215 8 PTS 'B' Win Police Cup Final Replay THE Police Training School "B" Company team beat Auxiliary Police Officers (Two) five two m the replayed Singapore Police Cup final at the Police Training School giound yesterday after- In a thrill packed first half P.T.S. built up a four-one lead and, though
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    Veterans To Play Two Matches
    130 8 Veterans To Play Two Matches IN preparation for their game against the Selangor V«terans on Dec. 11 or Dec. 18. the Singapore Malaya Cup Football Veterans will play two games this week. On Thursday, they will meet the Jollilads and on Saturday. Fraser and Neave. Both games will be played
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    West Indies Gain Lead
    256 8 LAHORE, Sun. THE West Indians gained a first innings lead of 67 ruixs over Pakistan at Lahore today. Scores were: PAKISTAN Xl—lst Inns. Nazar Mohaim-d c b H.adl.y 87 Imtiaz c Stollmeyer b Headley 76 Mohd. Saeed Ibw Trim 21 Maqsood b Trim 10 Anwar Hussein
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    Scotland v. Rest Matches
    52 8 AT Ipoh on Saturday, the Rest defeated Scotland by 13 point* i two goals and a dropped goal) to 11 points (a goal and two tries i at rugger. In a Scotland v. Rest soccer match at Penang on Saturday. Scotland went down to a 2—l2
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    Sports Diary
    29 8 TO-DAY HOCKEY: s.R.c. v M C.U. SR.C.: 8.0.D.C.A v: l| 1)r m-ts St. George's Rd. TABLE TEXNIS: Chinese V.M.C. A. v Mansfield HIT. Srlegia Rd. 7 p.m.
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    Fog Hampers UK Soccer Games
    434 8 LONDON, Sunday. WIDESPREAD fog yesterday caused the first serious hold up of this football season, 11 matches m the English League and Cup programme being either postponed or abandoned during play, while m many others the players became merely ghostly figures to the spectators. Four
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    Bowlers In Fine Form For M.C.C.
    259 8 DURBAN. Sun. STEADY and accurate bowling by Wright, Young and Bedser helped the MCC to dismiss half of a strong Natal eleven for 203 by the close of the second day's play after George Mann had declared the touring team's first innings closed at
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    UK FOOTBALL LEAGUE TABLES
    1064 8 UK FOOTB A LL LEAGUE TABLES I ATEST U.K PIM be I tagU i table^ are: DIVISION I P W D L F A pt3 Derby Co 19 11 6 2 28 18 28 Portsmouth 19 10 6 3 33 15 26 Newcastle 19 10 6 3 40 31 26
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    Autograph-Hunters
    44 8 AutographHunters GROUP photographs of the Thomas Cup team were sold for a SI each at yesterday's badminton exhibition m aid of Cup fund. In this picture, On? Poh Lim (m pullover) and Chan Kon Leong (racquet against shoulder) oblige with autographs. Straits Times picture.
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    Selangor Win 1-0
    243 8 1. iiin Our Own (>.rrc p>■ drnt SEGAMAT, Sun. SELANGOR beat Johore m an Inter-state hockey match today by one goal to nil after a keen tussle from start to j finish. Johore gave an impressive display and were unfortunato to lose. The match began In t
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