The Straits Times, 11 March 1949

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  • 21 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1 845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949 if PKK fc TEN KNTS
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    37 1 MISS WINTSOR. Assistant Radiologist of tht Singapore Aiiti-TulitTi-ulosl* Association Clinic adjusts the photo Koentgrn X-Kay Chest Survey against a 10-year-old boy when 20 children of the Havelock Road Welfare Centre ui-rf X -rated yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 229 1 MOSCOW, Thursday. r yill. Russian Inner Defence Cabinet has been 1 remodelled under the direct control of Mr. Yvacheslav Molotov who was released from his duties as Foreign Minister last week, authoritative sources said here today. Mr. Molotov wag stated to 1.1 >p been made responsible
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  • 341 1 'We Do Not Want A New Burma LAKE SUCCESS, Thursday. THE Dutch delegate to the United Nations, Mr. J. H. van Royen. said today that his country found It "impossible to comply with Security Council orders to restore the leaders of the Indonesian Republic to power.
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  • 139 1 "POSITION WORSE IN EAST" LONDON. Thurs. BRITISH Government officials say that "rapid deterioration in the Far Eastern situation calls for urgent and effective co-operation among South East Asia and the Commonwealth. They say all official reports show that there has been "no improvement" In Malaya and that the tin and
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  • 91 1 SYDNEY. Thurs.— A large crowd broke up a Communist parliamentary by-election meeting at Bourke, Western New South Wales, last night and demanded that the police "hand over" the Communist candidate and a companion who took refuge In the local police station. The police ignored the demands. A Communist
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  • 42 1 VERSAILLES. Thurn The Assembly of the French Union, in which all French overseas territories are represented, approved by 89 votes to nil today a bill to set ud an elected territorial assembly In Cochin-China. Communists walked out before the voting.— Reuter.
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  • 61 1 SYDNEY, Thurs. rENTY-ONE people were killed when a Lockheed Lodestar crashed and burned out while taking off 49 miles from Brisbane today. There were no survivors. The aircraft crashed into a swamp and burst into flames and firemen had to wade through
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  • 54 1 JOHANNESBURG. Thurs —Gen. Smuts' United Party had a substantial lead in three out of four province* at noon (local time; today in South Africa's Provincial Council elections. The United Party has won 62 out of a total of 171 seats. The Nationalists led oy Premier Daniel Malan
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  • 120 1 From Our Ofrn Correspondent MELBOURNE, Thursday. THE Royal Melbourne Hospital today announced that a rare operation was performed yesterday to save the sight of a four-year-old Malayan Chinese girl, Tze-lian Fan Leon?, who arrived by air from Singapore five weeks ago. Immediate results of the
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  • 49 1 LONDON Thursday— The British Foreign Minister, Mr. Bevin held a long conference with the Australian External Affairs Minister. Dr. Evatt. today. Dr. Evatt met Mr. Attlee yesterday afternoon and is believed to have given him Australia's views on the next meeting of Commoav.'ealth statesmen. U.P.
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  • 141 1 A FTER 10 days of heavy marking down by London a number of tin shares on the Singapore market yesterday appreciated by five per cent. London was trying to buy back tin shares at the prices at which it had sold them the day before. The
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    45 1 I-ATK BUT BEAUTIFUL: A late winter snowfall turns New York's central park into a black and white fairyland in the evening. Here the snow-covered trees are seen against the buildings of Central Park South between the Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. A.P. pic-
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  • 181 1 SHANGHAI, Thursday. rpHE mystery of China's sky piracy, the first of its A kind on record in the civil war, was solved today, when the three fliers, who were kidnapped with their plan* by Communists in mid-air, arrived in Shanghai safely after 38 days of
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  • 48 1 AN EARTH tremor, which •^lasted for a few seconds, was felt In parts of Singapore just after noon yesterday. The tremor, which was not severe, was experienced In the Straits Times office. Nearby offices were quickly on the telephone to ascertain the nature of the shake.
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  • 200 1 Build Forts In Malaya LONDON, Thurs. SUGGESTIONS for effectively policing Malaya on a regional basis by the use of forts are made in a letter to the Times today from Mr. G. F. Hawkins, a former Frontier Corps officer in the NorthWest Frontier Province. Mr. Hawkins said that, on the
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  • 17 1 NEW DELHI, Thurs. More than 400,000 extra bales of Jute were produced during IMB- I.P.
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  • 561 1 jUR. Tan Kah Kee, who recently congratulated m General Mao Tse-tung on the wkccjm of the Communist drive in China and who, fa turn, has been invited to visit Red-held areas, denies that there is any connection between Communists in China and Communists
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  • 109 1 MR. Tan Kah Kee. Singapore Chinese Hokklen Community Guild chairman, has told the committee that he is relinquishing the chair in preparation for his return to China as soon as conditions improve. The new chairman will- be Mr. Tan Lark Sye, a rubber merchant. Mr.
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  • 48 1 KARENS SEIZE MAYMYO: BIG BATTLE RANGOON. Thurs.— Karen insurgents have recaptured the Central Burma town of Maymyo after heavy street fighting with Government forces. Many dead were left on the streets of Maymyo after the battle. Arrangements are beinjj made to evacuate about 200 British passport, holders. U.P.
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  • 251 2 "Reds Smuggle For Party Funds" LONDON, Thurs. I ORD Vanslttart, former diplomatic adviser to the British Cabinet alleged last night that artificial Jewellery had been smuggled from Prague to London in Czech^storak diplomatic bags to finance Communist Dropaganda in Britain He told the Boon of Lords that recently a n-tmbei
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  • 84 2 Will You Spy For Us? VIENNA. Thurs. ITUNGARLAJ! soldiers are il asking Austrian Customs and border officials to engage in espionage in the British zone of Austria, the Austrian Minister of the Interior, Mr Oskar Helmer. alleged yesterday. In London yesterday, it was reported that Big Pour negotiations for an
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  • 43 2 TENTH PROVINCE LONDON, Thttrs. The House of Commons last night passed the British North American Bill which confirms and gives effect to the terms of onion agreed between Canada and Newfoundland. Under the agreement Newfoundland will become th* tenth province of Canada.— Reuter.
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  • 51 2 G.B.S. ON REDS LONDON. Thurs. Mr. George Bernard Shaw said he was a Communist, but he could not support a Communist candidate in the British election because of the party's "political Ineptitude." He said the British Communist Party "knows no more about electioneering than a pig knows of a' holiday.
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  • 41 2 PERTH, Thurs. Australian a.<r»np« and pasturalists win co-operate tn th« no^tb of Western Aastralla In the estobllahment of abattoir* far from roads and railways. Beef will be flown dally to cool stores at harbours and railheads for export Eeuter.
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  • 43 2 BUENOS ADOS Wad. ¥>IV AL party oDooaents of President Jmb ftom walked out of the Constituent Assembly, raffing it a fan*, wad Peron's followers then approved umnii— imly a new Argentine constitution which pernrtt th« President to succeed himself. A.P.
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    22 2 AFTER PRINCESS ELIZABETH had received an honorary degree from Edinburgh University she toured the University's Colonial student's hostel. A.P. picture.
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  • 121 2 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rpHE United States intends to place Japan under civilian instead of military control within six to nine months, it was learned authoritatively here yesterday. Army forces would be reduced from administrative to garrison status* and General MacArthur might retire. The sources emphasised
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  • 157 2 NEW YORK Thurs. |\RUO Injections, blinding \j lights, and constant Jumbled questioning on subjects ranKir* from geography md history to treason were used to wring "confessions" from Cardinal Mindszsnty. according to a former Hungarian diplomat. Mr. Ivan Najry. who resigned last, summer when Hungary
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  • 45 2 MANILA. Thurs.— lf nominated-, Dr. Jose P. Laurel. Presiden* of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, will run as the opposition Presidential candidate In the November election. Leaders of the coalesce! minority parties have reached an agreement to this effect.—Rsuter.
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  • 137 2 THE MOUNTB ATTENS LONDON, Thurs. TAXATION has hit the Mountbatten family so hard that a bill to free Lady Mountbatten from inheritance restrictions is to be introduced In the House of Lords. Its object Is to give the wife of India's last Viceroy "greater
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  • 294 2 LONDON, Thursday. TTHE Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones told Parlament yesterday that Earl Baldwin would soon resume his v Leeward Islands. Earl Baldwin was recalles by an order that instructe< him to return to Londoi "within a fortnight" for "con sultations on
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  • 172 2 INDIAN 'SUPER COMMITTEE AGAINST REDS WASHINGTON. Thursday. QFF1C1AL and diplomatic quarters received with considerable interest reliable private reports from New Delhi that India had set up a "super secret" Central Consultative Committee on Communism to eradicate Red influence in India. These reports said that Mi V. P. Menon Adviser to
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  • 60 2 LAKE SUCCESS. Tliurs. The British representative to the United Nations Children's Fund today made a strong plea yesterday for increased aid for children in Asia, particularly in India, Pakistan and, Ceylon. The executive board approved a general U555,000,000 programme for China, to be worked out by
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  • 52 2 PARIS. Thurs.— The French Finance Minister. M. Maurice Petsche. said yesterday Britain would get more Dork, dairy products "and a little wine" as a result of his talks with Sir Stafford Crtpns "It would not be DatrioMc for a French Minister to hold trade conversations without pushing wines." he
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  • 52 2 LONDON. Thurs. Werner Vetter, former German prisoner of war whose romance with an English girl caused the lifting of the ban on POW marriages, has been deoorted to Germany. At the Sssex quarter sessions Vetter vas due to be sentenced for housebreaklng. but the Horn» Office decided to deport-
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  • 50 2 LONDON. Thurs. -A London householder summoned for debt, told the Judge that he had given up his lob so that, oenslon money would be refunded and he would be able to Day his rent. Then his wife failed to uav the landlord. The Judge commented: "You are very conscientious".—Reuter.
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  • 236 3 Gen. Ho May Be Next Premier NANKING, Thursday. rrllK roujjh draft of a Nationalist peace formula for negotiations with the Communists was handed to acting President Li Tsung-jen today, it was reliably learned. The draft, prepared by a ton-man committee appointed last week by
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  • 139 3 London. Than. TRANSJORDAN claimed yesterday that new fighting had broken out in Southern Palestine, menacing the biltish force at Akaba Ifl Transjordan. but an ••Isrr.eli spokesman discounted this report. Transjordans report to the British Foreign Office said that Israeli troops in some strength were
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  • 83 3 THYE Ann investment Company Plans to build a biork of n-w self-contained flats at the Junction of New Bridge Road and Sago Street, Singapore. Tne flats, each with six room!, a hall, a kitchen and modern conveniences, are' designed to occupy four storeys of a flve-storeyed
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  • 107 3 SHANGHAI, Thurs. A pretty 28-year-old widow and authoress, Mrs. Fan Hsiang Mei-lin, was the central figure in a ceremony at the British Consulate-Gener-al here today when the BrlUsti Consul-General. Mr. W. Urquhart, presented certificates awarded by the King to three Chinese in recognition of their services to
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  • 90 3 •'The price cutting campaign initiated by the Food Control Office has been notably successful and ?ood prices, particularly canned product*, have dropped 15 per cent" said a spokesman of the Singapore Food Control Department. According to the cost of living Index compiled by the Food Conu ol
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    43 3 IHI.OWA nil l KIITI the only "living Buddha outside Asia," talks with Mr. Owen Lattimore (left), director of the Page School of John Hopkins I'niversity, Baltimore, America, after the former's arrival from Nanking. Dilowa Hutukhtu is in America to teach Mongolian. A.P. picture.
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  • 74 3 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Thurs. The Java Chess Champion, van Hout, will be coming to Penang at Easter to compete in the Malayan chess Tourna- 1 ment. Another champion, Dr. Lim Kok Ann. of Singapore, will also take part. The tournament is being sponsored by th«
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  • 85 3 AFPEALS FAIL SIX TO HANG I i ..m Our Starr Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Six appeals against sentence' of death were today dls- 1 missed by the Federation Court of Appeal. Four were by' Chinese convicted of unlawful possession of firearms under the Emergency Regulations. They were Pooh Heong, Ma
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  • 29 3 NEW- DELHI. Thurs. A multl purpose meteorological research station will soon be set up on the 16.000- foot high Baralacha Pass in the Western Himalayas. A.P.
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  • 98 3 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. TWO reports of vital interest to thousands of 1 Government workers in the Federation will be tabled at the next meeting of the Federal Legislative Council. They will be the report of the Public Services Salaries Commission
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  • 173 3 FOUR MEN WITH A GRIEVANCE From Our Staff Correspondent PENANO. Thurs. PBNANO'S secessionists have appointed four delegates to lay their case before Mr. Anthony Eden. They will meet the Deputy Leader of the British Opposition at the office of the Resident Commissioner at 10.5 a.m. on Monday. The delegates are
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  • 36 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. -The Indian Government ls examining a proposal to .send a small deputation of educationists to the United Kingdom. China, Mexico, and Russia to study their methods of social education. -A.P.
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  • 150 3 DE-FITTED surplus army weapon carriers in the Federation and Singapore have found a good market in Kench Indo-China. Slam, iidonesla and Borneo, ac- < dinrc to a representative »>f a syndicate engaged' in buyin? these vehicles from the V't Disposals Board. The syndicate recently sold 250
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    31 3 First Year ARMED WORKERS' militia march past the reviewing stand in Brno, capital of Moravia, Czechoslovakia, to celebrate the first year of Communist rule in the country •(February 26).— A.P. picture.
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  • 142 3 LONDON, Thursday. (CONTINUATION *of the disturbance in Burma during the next few months might cause anxiety for Malaya's rice ration, but there was no threat at present, the British Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, told the House of Commons. Mr. Walter Fletcher (Cons.i had asked
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  • 88 3 HITLER BY THE GERMANS FRANKFURT. Thurs.—Germans believe that Hitler was a greater politician than Roosevelt. Stalin. Gandhi, Caesar and Napoleon, according to a poll conducted by the British-licensed German veekly news magazine Der Spiegel, published in Hanover. The poll, to name "the greatest politician of all time." placed Prince Bismarck.
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  • 41 3 N£W DELHI, Thurs— Thej Government of India has as- sumed control of production and marketing of rubber. An Indian Rubber Board has been constituted which wouMJ take suitable steps to make India self-sufficient in rubber 0.1.1.5.
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  • 186 3 "Let Vote Decide" Says Brooke •THE ex-Rajah Muda of Sara1 wak. Mr. Anthony Brooke said in Singapore yesterday that he would be prepared to renounce all active interest in Sarawak politics if a plebiscite showed that the people as a whole did not want the Brooke family back In a
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  • 89 3 LONDON. Thurs. The British Cabinet was today considering the draft of the Atlantic Union Pact, received yesterday from Washington. Diplomatic quarters In London expect the present text, on which British representatives have given advice at every stage of Its drafting, will be accepted by the Cabinet
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  • 71 3 MANILA, Thurs.— Mr. William Lacy, assistant chief of the South-East Asian Affairs Division of the U.S. State Department, is in Manila on a tour of inspection of various American diplomatic missions In South-East Asia. He arrived by air on Tuesday morning and will remain until, Friday,
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  • 98 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Thursday. MISS Van Gent, 24-year-old Dutch artist, has offered her left ear for sale at U5524,000. In America on a visitor's permit, Miss Van Gent is determined to stay and pursue her art, but she is handicapped by lack of cash. So she
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  • 386 3 $900,000 Power Scheme For SHB AS THE final item in the rehabilitation and reconstruction programme for the Singapore Harbour Board, work on a $900,000 power supply scheme for the port will begin this year. The chairman of the Harbour Board, Mr. Henry Basten. told the Straits Times that the work
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  • 743 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Fri., Mar. 11, 1949. THE POLITICAL FUTURE that, to name a date in the circumstances in which MWaya is placed would be to pat a premium on obduracy, and to open the door to community blackmail. Dates could mean political disaster. What is wanted is an
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  • 19 4 DEATH ROBE^TSOV: At Edinburgh on 27th February 1949 Helen Mnry. widow of Dr. T. Murray Robor:«*>n late of Singapore.
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  • 58 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MRS X C WTCKREMANAYAKE and family desire to thank all wiio attended her husband's funeral on Srnday. rendered assls'nnce In »very way and sent Wi**ttsl and messages of condo'onre MR AND MRS. M. C. Panickt>pi. of Broadcasting, Juron?:. thnnk all who attended their wpciding on 5.3.49. fz or srnt
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  • 344 4 The Country's Rice Malaya's rice ration is in no danger in the immediate future. In Parliament yesterday, Mr. John Strachey told a questioner that exports from Burma in the first two months of the year were maintained at a satisfactory level. The prospects for March are uncertain, but shipments from
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  • 62 4 Fifty Years Ago Fro:n the Straits Times of Mar. 11, 1899: Trade unions axe by no means a new invention. They have been in force in India for nearly 3,000 years. In the laws of Manu, according to Professor Hopkins writing in the Yale Review, the rules of <ese labour
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  • 2254 4 LONDON CAN TAKE IT I WAS glad that if any of our cities were to be attacked, the brunt should fall on London. London was like some huge prehistoric animal, capable of enduring terrible injuries, mangled and ble"ding from many wounds, and yet preserving its life and movement. The Anderson
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  • 563 4 MAN-IN-THE-STREET Britain And Malaya: Where Ignorance Is Bliss YOUR London Letter this week contains an item which ought to be read and pondered over by the CommissionerGeneral, the Governor of Singapore, the High Commissioner of the Federation and by the Malayan Agent in London. Your correspondent, dealing with the recent
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    79 5 FOl X CHILDREN of the Haretock Road Welfare Centre, Sam Yeow Hen*. Wong Ngan Hoc, Mak Lvi Heng and Mak Tan Tim, being registered at the Singapore Anti-Taber-t'ulosis Association clinic at Taajong Pagar Road yesterday Just before, their chests, were X-rayed. With the children are Mr. Wee So© Hay, Supervisor
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  • 233 5 BARTER TRADE CREDITS THE method to be followed for the settlement of outstanding barter trade credit and debit balances which have accrued through the stoppage of this system of trade on March 1 with certain areab in Indonesia, was discussed' at the third meeting yesterday of the Singapore Liaison Committee
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  • 99 5 DESPITE Government assurances that a reasonable price is being charged for rationed rice, complaints that the present 30 cents charged for a kati of rice is high continue in Singapore and the Frderaton. Singapore sundry goods retailers, most ol them handling government- rice rations, have requested
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  • 321 5 "GIVE IN" LEAFLETS DROPPED ON BANDITS Air Strike— Then Troops Move In From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. I EAFLETS calling on terrorists to surrender L were dropped yesterday in the North Ked.ih bandit area, which is being swept by Gerkhas, Police and Hussars. "You are surrounded" said the
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  • 63 5 From Oar Stall Correspondent KUALA LCMPUR, Thurs. DANDITS in the Batu v Gajah area have released a syce and a mine clerk whom they aMacted from a car on Monday near Tanjon* Tnallanr/. Bat a mining towkay, who was also abducted, has been kept prisoner. The
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  • 225 5 ASKED: 'IS MY LIFE IN DANGER?' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. AN astrologer gave evidence in the police court today when the preliminary inquiry into allegations of criminal breach of trust of $55,130 against Capt. R. V. Karlakandan, officer-in-charge of the Selangor branch of the Volunteer Records Office,
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  • 122 5 THREE men who had plead1 ed "guilty" in the Second Police Court to a charge relating to the management of a common betting house, were yesterday allowed to retract their plea. They were Ong Kwee Chwee, Lee Keng Chye and Yeo Meng Song. They were alleged
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  • 67 5 Lady Sea ton. Inspector of the Women "s Royal Air Force, who i s visiting Singapore to inspect the living conditions of airwomen in Far East Command, will arrive this afternoon in the HMT Empire HaJladale. Lady Seaton expects to stay here until March 23. On
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  • 24 5 The Singapore Family Beneiit Society will hold lt s annuai general meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Tufsday at 5.15 p.m.
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  • 72 5 Singapore Diary "Britain in Pictures." an exhibition, British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 9. 50 a.m. to 0.30 p.m. V.M.C.A., Orchard Road, film •how, 8 pm. Y.W.C.A., Town Wayfarers' and Town Pioneer's meeting, 8. Fort f!aw«tn e Road, 4 p.m. Paya Letwr Methodist Youth Fellowship, world friendship meeting, 7. Boundary Road,
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  • 163 5 An application for the winding up of Chop Kwong, On Co., Ltd., importers and exporters, of South Bridge Road, Singapore, was made before the-£hief Justice (Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley) in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mr. R. H. Green made the application on behalf of eight shareholders on
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  • 150 5 MB. Raman Covindan, a Singapore P.W.D. clerk, |"M" M need not walk all the way to Bukit Serene "just to see Anthony Eden and shake hands with him." A car irom Bukit Serene will call at Mr. Govindan's quarters at 12, Sturrock Road
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  • 77 5 Woman Accused AN alleged acid attack on a woman teacher in her classroom in the Rangoon Road English School on Wednesday had a sequel in the Third Police Court yesterday. The leacher was Tan Slang Guan, who is now In hospital. Charged with having thrown the
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  • 81 5 A YOUNG Chinese, Chye Soon Hal. when asked in the Singapore Assizes yesterday whether be wished to challenge any of the jurors who were to try him, told Mr. Justice Cox Evans, •I challenge all jurors other than of Chinese nationality." Chye picked out the only
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  • 63 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Army officer killed on Tuesday morning in an ambush on the main trunk road one mile south of Kajang Selangor. was Captain J. A. L. Smith. Captain Smith, who was a popular Seremban sportsmtn, was attached to 52 Company. R.A.S.C..
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  • 65 5 THE Singapore Acting De- puty Commissioner for Labour, Mr. C. W. Lyle, will today visit strike-bound rubber packing plants In the Colony, with a view to bringing about a settlement. Nine hundred women packers employed by five plants are still on strike. Most of the firms have
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  • 76 5 After a week or negotiation more than 200 rubber millers of the Joo Seng Rubber Works factory in Bukit Timah Road have accepted a wage reduction from double '.o single Sunday pay. All are now working, except three millers, who preferred to resign and have <>a*:h been paid
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  • 74 5 For robbing Llm Chye Neo,' a pretty young Straits Chinese married woman In Goodman Road. Tan Boon Hee was sentenced to five years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Jusice Gordon-Smith in the Singapore Assizes yes-tt-rday. Llm Chye Neo said Tan hr.i her up with a knife and
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  • 183 5 A RICE retailer who appeared In the Second rt District Court yesterday was alleged to have short-weighted 12 katis 13 tahils in a customer's rice ration of 22 katis 12 tahils. He was Ng Poh, 59 of Jalan Kembangan. Ng and his shop assistant, Ng Van
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  • 33 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The posthumous award of the Colonial Police Medal for Gallantry has been made to Special Constable Mohamed Zair, bin Salleh for bravery.
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  • 41 5 Penang Police have offered a reward of $2,000 each for the arrest of two men who are alleged to have signed themselves as the "commander" and "deputy commander" of the Fourth Regiment of the Penang-Kedah Malayan People's Anti-Bri-tish Army.
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  • 134 5 pARRYINQ an official letter from the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A B. McKerron, for every possible aid "which will be appreciated by the Singapore Government," Mrs. Lim Chnan Oeok, wife of the Malayan Thomas Cop captain and manager, lying sick In a London Hospital, left
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  • 256 5 rrHE Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association clinic x at Tanjong Pagar Road, which at present only diagnoses cases, is to have a treatment centre soon. Dr. G. H. Garlick, tne administrator and radiologist of the clinic, told the Straits limes yesterday that the treatment
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  • 58 5 The Lauro Shipping Line has promised to turn the Sj-rlento into a pilgrim ship for Malayans who wish to make the 1950 Holy Tear pilgrimage to Rome, the Comlulttej of the Holy Year reported. Those wishing to go on the pilgrimage should write to the secretary of
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  • 102 5 II FORMER teacher in a n charitable institution was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to five years' rigorous Imprisonment in the Singapore Assize Court ves'terday. He was a young Hainanese. Tee Chong Quee, who, wiln three others, held up and robbed a laundry in Midaie Road
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  • 64 5 Goh Ong Lye, who stole a puppy outside a house n Tlong Bahru on March 2, was yesterday sentenced by the Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. R. J. C. Wait, to two months' rigorous imprisonment. Goh was seen by the owner, Detective Ngo Keng Wah, of
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  • 23 5 About 1,800 families were assisted by the Singapore Social Welfare Department last month, involving an expenditure of over $16,000.
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  • 226 6 "Stepping Stone" Classes After School Certificate SINGAPORE'S Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, said yesterday that plans were being drawn up for opening classes which would act as a stepping-stone for School Certificate students wishing to .go on to a university. Methods by which these classes would be formed
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    25 6 STRATOJi'HERK BOUND: A U.S. Army rocket soars skyward, fired from the New Mexico rocket experimental station recently. It rose a record 250 miles. A.P. picture.
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  • 317 6 ELECTED and nominated unofficial members of the Singapore Legislative Council have submitted to Government 37 questions to be answered at Tuesday's meeting of the Council. Mr. A. McLellan (Nominated Unofficial) ask* two questions about expatriation pay for British police inspectors and their rent allowances. Mr. R.
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  • 27 6 Eight applications for the issue of Dresumptlon of death certificates w«r« received by the Social Welfare Department in February, It was officially announced yesterday.
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  • 65 6 THE Malayan ileteoralogtMJ Service is advertising for a man to fill the post 01 Assistant Meteorological Officer. The appointment carries a •alary of $350, rising by annual increments of $25 to a maximum of $700 with current local allowance*. Anyone in Singapore or th« Federation of
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  • 215 6 "GOSSIP" CRITICISM REFUTED REFUTING criticism that the Malayan Womens Society of Christian Service was "a gossip centre" and "an excuse for tea-parties" the secretary Mrs. Goh Kok Kee. said yesterday that last year the members raised on an average $100 each to assist the work of the Methodist Mission in
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  • 116 6 From Our Staff Correspondent BEREMBAN, Thurs. UOW a 14-year-old Chinese n girl with a locked chain round her left ankle complained to the Seremban police of ill treatment was described yesterday by Inspector Krishnan. In the dock stood Ng Poon Nal, 31-year-old male, and Yap
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    • 86 6 Lighter Side: 9.40 News 9 43 Evening Star; 10.00 Cabaret Cosmopolitan: 10.30 Tunps from th» Shows: 11.00 Clos» B.B.C 8. SO Pleasure from Boolcv: 6.00 Mu*lc While You Work; 7.00 From the Third Programme; 7.45 Mr'ctant Navy Programme: 8. 15 Work and Worship; 8.45 'The Music Box'; 9. 45 Unto
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    • 100 6 4« i ir. Asian; "i-15 £»si> sn i.-.j a.iiese; 8.30 English; 8.48 Dutch; 9.00 Kuoyu- ».3O Burmese; 9.45 New Rubber prloMS 10.00 'A Dangerous Gift'; 10.11 Music; 10. tO R*dlo News Reel. 10.45 "The Reader Takes Over". 11.15 World Affairs; 11.30 News; 11.45 Music rom the Ballet; 12.00 Close. AUSTRALIA
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    • 152 7 SHARE MARKET: BETTER PRICES FOR TINS From Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Thursday. ANNOUNCEMENT of dividends by six sterling Tin companies put London selling prices higher and also eacawated a small Bwyis« from that.end at slightly better prices. Price change* announced today by the Malayan Shanbrokers' Association were: UWDCSTRIALS Barer Seller
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    • 70 7 OAHMAN Hydraulic Tin an- nounces the following tin-ore outputs. In picuU: July Dec. '48 4J215.36 Jan. 841.11 Feb. "49 6G4.23 pAHANQ Consolidated la Fe- bruary treated 8,300 tons and produced ltt ton of tin concentrates, says the Borneo Company. TPOH Tin Dregingi Mo. S dredge 1 (Pochons secttoo
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    • 43 7 r TURQUAND, Youngs, McAulifle announce the fallowing Febnvy rubber narvesU, In lbs.: Mat Oajah Estate 18.900 Ayer Panas Estate W,WC Glenealy PHiCUtlon« 47 460 Kluang 61.0C0 Pajam 151 JOC Tunbatek Ktateg 23 no Tehik Anm Estate 82.753 Uhi Daaji Cons«S 84*00
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    • 128 7 Mercantile Bank FEARS FOR MALAYA LONDON, Thurs. CIR Charles A. Innes, chair man of the Mercantile Bank of India, told the annual meeting <tf the bank In London yesterday that the strain on Malaya's finances was likely to become Intolerable if operations against the Communists were prolonged. There were tears,
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    • 70 7 THE directors of the Chartered Bank of India Australia and China recommend final dividend at six per cent., subject to tax. u> make a total 11 per oetxt far 10*8. A sum of 1M.060 wffl be added to the pcnslorr Itmd and £1W>00 to the widows' and
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    • 181 7 AFTER dosing easier on Wednesday the Singapore rubber market showed an improvement at the opening yesterday. It fluctuated narrowly thereafter, with moderate trading Interest shown. Ctoflhv prices juatudaj »*e: K>. 1 •beet toM. kqas XI eofc sellers XVi. nati: apat looae taoya* 37Vi eeote, aeOexs »7% cent* per
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    • 38 7 From A Market Correspondent T ONDON inqfuirie* tor pepper received this week bolstered farther speculation In that aectten of the Singapore produce markets yesterday Prices advanced to: Mttntolt white $245: Sarawak white $244; Lamport black tt»*-
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    • 14 7 KUALA Rem«jj Rn»er Estates In February produced 130,700 lbs. of rubber.
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    • 273 7 LONDON, Thura. A HEARTENING rtoe hi Tin* was the feature of most Malayan Interest hi the London Stock a*»i iiai|ay yesterday. In general, the approach of Budget day has cast a shadow over the market*. Sellers were stffl to evidence. Biovesaeats. WUh galas and losses smaJL the trend
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    • 148 7 CINGAPOBfi Chinese merchants consider that the wide 0 disparity between official and -free- rates of betweenthe Dutch NICA guilder and the Straits dollar to the main reason for increasing difficulty in trade with Indonesia. Barter with Indonesian ports wffl end soon. The ruling official exchange Is—
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    • 214 7 Benta 's Cocoa Hopes "DENTA Rubber Estates, In conJunction with certain other rubber companies, has Joined a Cocoa scheme to explore the possibilities of growing cocoa in Malaya. The chairman told the annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur that on Benta they had an experimental plot of five acres and although
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    • 121 7 UHIPS In port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board rharves yesterday (godowns In tamckets) were: Main Wharf: Tung Song (35W). Maetsuycter (40-41). West Wharf: Menestheua (1-2). Angtoy (3), Bandra (4-5), Carrie* Bend (6). LJmburg (in Glenrrle (12-13- Beaaire Deck: Soestdi* (17-18), Bamhili 19-20 1. Kutsang (2324),
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    • 136 7 rpHE sago milling industry In Siiagapore fmee« two criae»— lack of demand and shortage 01 raw material. The four mills now operating part-time may soon cltxe. Seven sago mills stopped eartJ fai January for lack of demand for pearl sago. The lack o' buying Interest In
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    • 415 7 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS EAST ASIATIC LINE to N£w row M «Jjmw A vu ceylon ,noia. term a«o k*,^^,., n aMTmsm/ Smg«po,e P. Stum fw»n, CONTINWT BCANWPiAVU Meant MaasfieM Mar. 19/23 Mar. 24/25 Mar. K/28 Loading at Smaapofa Port Swatterrham President Monroe Mar. SO/Apr. 4 Ape* 5/B "M.onia" aae afct. Apr.
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  • 560 8 BUSY PROGRAMME FOR CUP PLAYERS Tours In U.K. Continent HPHE Malayan Thomas Cup champions begin a busy round of tours and international events next week. The team's itinerary has been riven in a letter written by the manager, Mr. Lim Chuan Oeok, to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B.
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  • 506 8 From EPSOM JEEP PENANG, Thursday. ENTHUSIASTIC "rail-birds" who were up and 1 J about early this morning on the Penang track went away none th e wiser. There were very few outstanding 'gallops in spite of ideal galloping conditions brought about by a welcome shower
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  • 77 8 The Social Athletic Party team to meet C.V.M.A. In a SAP. A. Junior B, Group 1, league maU-h at Oeylang stadium tomorrow will be chosen from the following. Anthony Yong. Seah Teo Kirn, Kway Yew Quee, Koh Beng Hoo. Chee Kirn Cheng. Tan Eng Chla. Tan Eng Kiat,
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  • 60 8 C W BADMINTON THE following will represent the. Cable and Wireless badminton team against the Friendly Youth Club at Monk's Hill School hall at 3 p.tn. tomorrow: Ong Kek Bee, Kerry Urn. A. L. Devenpor, Urn Yew Cheng. Jacob Llm. Slin Swee Hock. T. de Cruz, T. Yueir Beng, V.
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  • 278 8 Spotting The Winners From EPSOM JEEP PENANO. Thurs. HPEN house* stand out m good A bete for the Penang Turf Club's meeting which starts on Saturday. I list them below with notes on their form. LONGCHAMPS II: A well bread five-year-old by the Two Thousand Guinea* winner Pay Up: showed
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  • 233 8 EOUR goals by Yew Seng helped Shell Sports Club to" get off to a flying start in I their S.A.F.A. league engagements this year when they beat the Airport XI by five goals to nil in a Junior 8. Crroup I, fixture at Oeylang
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  • 55 8 •"PHS. following will represent the X S.C.C. In an S.A.F.A. Senior league game against the Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besar Stadium today: J. Bell: C- MrCulloch, V. Bur- ton: E. Ten Dui*. A. Mitchell. T. Mathot; R. Fletcher. B. Hagon. F. B. McCulloch. B. Murphy,
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  • 48 8 Sports Diary SOCCEB: S.F.A. Snr. Div S.CC. v. C.A.— J. Besar; Jnr. A. Grp. 1. Navy B. v. T. T. Centre (Nee Soon) -"-Naval Base: Jnr. A. Grp. 2. C A. v. Police S-A. Thomson Rd; Jnr. B. Orp 1, JoUUads v. T. Mong O B A Geylangy
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  • 99 8 LONDON, Thursday. DANNY O'Sulllvan. the London bantamweight, may be jiven a chance of fighting Manuel Ortii in America for the world title, reports Renter. His manager said today that the Madison Square Garden authorities had asked him if he is prepared to take O'Sullivan over
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  • 270 8 R.A.F. Tengah 4; C.S.A 0. pLAYING superior soccer with a team that was 1 well balanced in every department, the R.A.F. Tengah gained their second League victory when they beat the C.S.A. four-nil in a S.A.F.A. Junior A, Group I, fixture at St. George's Road
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  • 25 8 IN a S.A.F.A. Junior B, Group I. fixture at St. George's Road yesterday. Aston A.C. beat B.H.A.U. by three goals to two.
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  • Article, Illustration
    9 8 THE PL'LAU BRANI United soccer team .—Straits Times picture.
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  • 310 8 T\ESPITE a few good games and some individual performances of merit, the Singapore league soccer season has started under a cloud of bad sportsmanship and ungentlemanly behaviour on the field. In Just t«n day s of the season, we have had rough play, warnings to players,
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  • 518 8 Pulau Brani 1; Tiger S.C 1. IF POINTS were awarded for neat combination and better understanding in attack, Pulau Brani United would hav e beaten Tiger Sports Club by a clear-cut margin at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. As it was, Pulau Brani failed to drive home
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    • 106 8 \is«St|g| OAR Y COOPER tfgst II THE PRIDE OF f> r\r tomorrow f\CA AT MNITE IFS~O'?'WI MIDNIGHT l^yjJffrlfe\Sq TOMORROW BRAND NEW \vg& PRINT! mjjf- A TRADER Uj^^Ffckl JIiNCLE WAR HW% Tk« b.nJ. of I.—' M«-lvl«rtro-00/rftcy«->layer l>— i«d witb pouiu4 nick mat MIRACLE PICTURE u<k starring HARRY CAREY* EDWINA BOOTH CEC
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 24 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today: High Water. 6.44 a.m. i7ft. Jin), 10.06 p.m. (7ft 0in». Tomorrow: High Water. 8.20 a.m. (7ft. 71n>, 10.38 p.m (7ft. 61n>.
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