The Straits Times, 16 June 1949

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1H45 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949. it PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    REMARKABLE' MALAYA PROGRESS
    435 1 Government Tribute To Rebuilders LONDON, Wednesday. 'pRIBUTE to the men whose ingenuity has helped since the war to rebuild the shattered economies and social services of Malaya, Hong Kong and Borneo was paid in a Colonial Office report issued today. The document, "British Dependencies In The Far
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    LING FU IS H.M.S. MEN DIP AGAIN
    197 1 A KRITISH warship, which was loaned to the Chinese Government more than a year ago, arrived at the Singapore Naval Base yesterday flying the White Ensign once again. She was tLe destroyer H.M.B. Mendip. renamed Lh g Fu by the Chinese, which was
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    Siam Has 1,090,000-Ton Target
    108 1 Siam Has 1,090,000Ton Target BANGKOK. Wtd RICE deliveries by the Siamese Government to deficit areas totalled 670.000 t :.s up to end May. the Siamese Minister of Commer«, Fhra Boriphan Yuthakrt j>aid today. Phra Boriphan slated that the Siamese Government expected to deliver 1.090 000 tons this year. The IEFC
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    48 1 HORSE GI'ARDS PARADE: Km* George, in an open landau (above), followed by Prnii •>« Elisabeth and the Duke of Gloucester, inspec■lng the Horse Guards ParaHr aft«f the trooping the Colour crrrmon> In London. Below. Prlnjess I'li/ahrih. as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, wears a specially designed uniform. Reuter pictures.
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    "ALL WELL" IN AMETHYST
    61 1 HONG KONG. Wed. A Royal Navy spokesman said that the 60 men on the Amethyst trapped in the Yangtse River were "a'l very well.' I He denied there were any serious cases of Illness He said the ship's crew have no trouble getting food as they
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    'Yes' Likely From Mr. Vishinsky
    96 1 PARIS. Wed. RUSSIA is expected to ■Anmt-T the Western proptuull for a transport- irade agreement todajr at a secret session of the Foreign Mlnisuncil. > Ii sides are reported near a: '-mem The Soviet Foreign Mlnis- Mr. Visnins!:/. 1.-. exp M-icd to announce the Kremlin's
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    ON STRIKE FOR A DAY
    62 1 PARIS, v\fM A million ii-. :l •■mployees wen. out on '.'-i-hour warning strike for hi rher wa^-s lodav. Long distance telephone calls and telegrams were limited to "matten of I r and deaih or o*: rrme urgency." > i Italy inor«» than 1.000.000 Italian furm
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    Rebel Army Melted Away
    79 1 KARACHI. Wed. AMIS JAN, brother of ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan, tried to march an army of Mahsud tribesmen from the Pakistan North-West Frontier to take over his brother's old throne. But by the timt he reached the border he had only 30 men left, and gave
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    Malays In Commerce, Urges Gurney
    123 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LIMPUR, Wednesday. TWERE is no merit or purpose in political power 1 if its possessor is economically weak, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney, told the flrst postwar dinner of the Malay Officers' Association held here tonight. The Rulers of
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    TALKS ON INDONESIA: NEW MOVE
    118 1 BATAVIA. Wed. rt UN. Commission on Indonesia today Invited Sultan Hamld. and live other m Tibert of the Federalist Leaders" Conference "to participate, without prejudice to rights, claims and positions of parties, in discussions at present being held )ri Batavia under the auspices of the
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    VITAL QUESTIONS FOR MALAYA
    197 1 LONDON. W-d rpHE Colonial Jfflce rep. rt contained a Hat of Questions, on the answers to which the future of the Far East territories depends. These were: The speed with which Malaya's bandits can c finally eliminated. The effect on Malaya s rubber and tin of
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    Milverton's Self-Govt. Warning
    284 1 Milverton's SelfGovt. Warning "BE SLOW, BUT ARRIVE SAFELY" From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. ■■'I'MK Prime Minister's assurance that there will be no premature withdrawal from Malaya or grant of self-government before the capacity to govern is there has put heart into a despondent community" said Lord Milverton speaking at
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    Evatt Denial On Asians
    49 1 CANBKRKA, Wed. THE Australian Minister 1 for External Affairs, Dt. H. V. ErixH, yesterday denied sug^esfions that be favoured the relaxing ef Australia's Immigration laws to allow some Asians to enter Australia. "I rannot understand how such a report reached Australia." he said I P
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    "CHINA CAN BE SAVED"
    64 1 NEW YORK, Wed -The Archbishop of Nanking, the Most Reverend Paul Yu Pin, warned last night that "In-do-China, Slam, Burma. Malaya and Indonesia, and even Japan and the Philippines will fall to the Communists when and if China goes Communist. He asked: Is it too late
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    RINDERPEST
    24 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK, Wed— Mr. W. R. Wallace will represent Malaya at the F.A.0.-sponsor-ed rinderpest control conference In Bangkok rext week.
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    SULTAN OF JOHORE
    21 1 LONDON, Wed -The Sultan of Johore arrives at Southampton ton '-row morning aboard the liner Wlllem Ruys.— Reuter.
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    Hainan Reds Getting Bolder
    243 1 Hainan Reds Getting Bolder HONG KONG. Wed. /CHINESE Communists equipped with Japanese and American arms are today gradually extending their influence in Hainan Island, the most southerly portion of China proper. Military operations have been stepped up recently in this 14.000 square-mile tropical territory where a civil war in miniature
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      "Black Market In Curates" Alleged
      311 2 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN has a black market in curates, the Rev. S. B. Ashley complained today. Mr. Ashley, who Is the Vicar of St. Giles, said in his parish paper: "Curates are being offered money by incumbents who are prepared to pay a little out
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      1588 And All That
      28 2 THIS TYPE of hair style was worn during the Armada war years. It was seen at a hairdres«in< exhibition In London recently. A.P. picture.
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    'Promising' Petroleum Find
    68 2 ROME. Wednesday. PE Italian Finance Minister, Signor Vanoni, tod the Italian Cabinet yesterday that recent discoveries in the P» Valley appeared **»cry prom ising for petroleun." He descrihed methane (as finds in the same area -ear Kiacensa, north Italy, as very important." His report followed a personal
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    'No War':UN Leader
    55 2 NEW TOBK, Wasl. «I Secretuy-Ooßeral of 1 the United Nations, Mr. Try«ve lie. said yesterday: "N war of importance will ever be started while the Unites! ftatsses General Assembly is BB session." Mr. Lie told the 4Mh International Rotary Convention that "an anil— si jBBt could act
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    BOMBING: AFGHAN PROTEST
    149 2 I KABUL, Wed. I THE Afghanistan Foreign I 1 Minister. All Mohammed. summoned Pakistan's Arabassauur yesterday to protest *CTin«t the bombing of Afghan levies by Pakistan planes, The b^nhtr^g took place on June 12 on the North-West Frontier. The Foreign Minister, It was reported, protested strongly against
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    LEPROSY RESEARCH URGED
    149 2 LEPROSY RESEARCH URGED ROME. Wed. rE Indian Health Minis •*r, Rajkumart Amm Kaur, proposed that leprosy should be given priority ln any world health campaign, when she addressed the second world health assembly of the United Nation*. "It la a disease from which millions suffer.*' she said "It ostracises not
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    RUHR WORKS DISMANTLED
    80 2 BERLIN. Wed. There were no further barricades or resistance by German workers when dismantling of plant condemned as of potential military value began at four Ruhr factories yesterday In accordance with Allied orders. On Monday, German workers threw up barricades and showed hostility to the squads sent
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    BRITISH DOCKERS BACK AT WORK
    52 2 LONDON, Wed. Britain's west coast ports crippled ln recent weeks by one of the most serious Industrial disputes since the war, were back to normal working today. Two thousand dockers at Bristol and Avonmouth have decided to resume wort Ten thousand Liverpool dockers went back
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    BURMA CRISIS IS OVER: PREMIER
    373 3 BURMA CRISIS IS OVER: PREMIER 'Wo Return To Bleak Days" RANGOON, Wednesday, f H K Prime Minister of Burma, Thakin Nu, told the Burmese Parliament yesterday that he thought the crisis in Burma's civil war had passed. There was no likelihood of returning to the "bleak days of February, March
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    Map Shortage No-One's Fault
    296 3 Percival LONDON, Wednesday. I lEIT -GENERAL A. E. Percival, Commander- in 1 Chief of the British Forces in Malaya when Singapore fell, said in London today that one of the army's difficulties In ihe last battle a shortage of maps was no-one's fault. He was commenting
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    Berlin Vote In Favour Of Strike
    140 3 BRIGADIER -General Frank L. Howley, VS. sector commandant, charged the Russians with having broken their word on the Berlin strike settlement yesterday after the i railway workers of Western i Berlin refused to end their 25-day strike. Drigadier Howiey said the Russians had carried
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    INDIAN WELCOME
    42 3 MOMBASA, Wed— Police ha' difficult} In controlling crowd." of Indians who flocked to the Mombasa waterfront yesterday to welcome H.M.I.S Delhi (formerly H.M.S. Achilles of River Plate fame) and the frigate H.M.IJS Tlr which are visiting East African ports.— A.P.
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    Big Ransom Demand
    48 3 Big Ransom Demand RANGOON, Wed. BURMESE gangsters tre demanding R5.200.0U0 (Malayan $120,000) for the release of a wealthy Indian rice merchant, Vrijlal, N'arayandas, whom they kldnap>ped In daylight last week. They said the kidnapped man's business associates ha < offered to pay R5.50.000 for his safe return. A P.
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    DR. MALAN FIRM ON NEW BILL
    133 3 DR. MALAN FIRM ON NEW BILL JOHANNESBURG. Wed. IN the face of nation-wide protests. Dr. Duitel Malan, South African Prime Minister, told Parliament here last night that the Government fully Intended to go through with its Citizenship Bill, which abolishes British citizenship ln the 1 Union and Imposes a fiveyear
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    "Halt Plot On Israel"
    87 3 NEW YORK, Wed. MR. Daniel Frisch, th« recently elected president of the Zionist Organisation ln America, yesterday urged President Truman to intervene to i halt what he called the "plot"' I against Israel. He told <» news conference that "pro-Arab and unfriend ly" officials in the
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    INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS CHARGE
    69 3 ST. JOHNS (Newfoundland), Wed. Magistrate Hugh O'Neill yesterday granted four summonses on Newfoundland's Premier, Mr. Joseph Smallwood, on alleged charges that he had Intimidated voters. 0 Mr. W. J. Browne, Progressive candidate, alleged that the Premier had said no public money would be spent in the
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    MILVERTON GIVES A WARNING
    486 3 Continued from page 1> berkakl ampat kadang ka.dang terdorong' (Tven the four footed elephant some'tlmesVips). After saying that the association welcomed as membe.-s all who were concerned with th« peace, welfare, prosperity and development of Malaya. Lord Mllvwton «ald ih«association also tiled to dispel some of
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    CASE WITHDRAWN
    38 3 from Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Wed. Abdul bin Yahya, of Kundang Estate, Tangkak, who was charged in the Muar Magistrate's Court with committing rape on a Malay girl, was discharged. The case against him was withdrawn.
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    HOME FOR 100 S'PORE ORPHANS Mission Has $100,000 Plan
    298 4 HOME FOR 100 S'PORE ORPHANS Mission Has $100,000 Plan A $100,000 two-storeyed building to house 100 orphans is the immediate aim of the Singapore Ramakrtehna Mission and plans are well under way, says the Mission Advisory Committee's report for 1948. A central block, a wing and an annexe are expected
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    2 CAUGHT SCALING WALL
    101 4 2 CAUGHT SCALING WALL From Our SUIT Correspondent KOALA LUMPUR, Wed. FOUND guilty of attempted house-breaking. Wong Sin and Ng Kirn Thai were each sentenced to nine months' rigorous Imprisonment to be followed by 18 months' police supervision by Mr. A. P. Jack in the Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate's Court
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    Inspection Tour
    73 4 rrom On SUIT orrespondcot PENANO, Wed. THE vice-president of the 1 Isthmian Gtsamship Co. of New Yoric, Mr. A. E. King, arrived here yesterday by air from Singapore. H? Is on an Inspection tour of his rirra'a various offices and agencies throughout the worli Ir. Kirii was received
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    CAR DEATH, CHARGE
    79 4 From uur Siao C«rresp*n4eat KUALA LUMPUR. V»d As a sequel to the death of Mr. R. 8. Secvaratnam at Kajang on March 25 a 27-year-old Punjabi. Fakii Mohamed, appeared In the First Magistrate's Court yesterday. Fakir Mohamed was charged with cpusing the death of Mr. Seevaratnam by
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    FIRST AID CLASSES
    32 4 First Aid classes will be held every Wednesday beginning next week at 5.30 p.m at St. Peter's Church In Stamford Road. The lecturer will be Dr. O. J. Paglar
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    REV. S.S. ADAMS
    36 4 The Rev. S. 8. Adams has been appointed a nerving brother of the Venerable Order of the i.lral of St. John of Jerusalem and not Canon R. K. 8. Adams as previously announced.
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    S'PORE DEATH
    49 4 Che Aminah blnte li '«un Mohamed. wife of Inche Daud bin Monamed Shah, J.P. has died at her home at Siglap, Singapore, after being ill for the last three months. She was the vice-president of the women's section of the Singapore Malay Union In the prewar days.
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    MEDICAL COLLEGE STUDENT REPORTED MISSING
    74 4 JLfR. Kuldlp Singh »ell known Singapore Medical College sportsman, iaa ktn missing since Sunday The police have "ccx) informed. College authorities have communicated with Mr. Singh's wife at raipmg. but she has not heard from him or seen him since his disappear ance. The Medical
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    S'pore College Life To Be Filmed
    357 4 DOZENS of Raffles College and Medical College students will take up film acting for the next three months to help swell the University of Malaya Appeal Fund. They will help the Malayan Film Unit to make a documentary on college life in Singapore. The
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    CONCERN OVER CAR IMPORTS
    185 4 CONCERN OVER CAR IMPORTS SINGAPORE motor traders are concerned at the pros pect of American and Canadian cars being allowed lnu> Malaya from Hong Kong, especially at the possibility of territory rights. "Agents for American ana Canadian vehicles will Ira* their commissions on any new ones sold in Singapore whether
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    STAMFORD CLUB
    122 4 From Oar On Correspondent TAIPINO. Wed. -At tne annual general meeting of the Stamford 'Hub tere sir. Lee Mun Yul, who re&idid. < uoon member to Ktve generously to the University Fund. The meeting resolved to ask the Pan-Malayan Council of Stamford Club to take up the question
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    PILGRIM AFTER RETIREMENT
    35 4 Inche Bador bin Mennang. a retired technical .sslstaiA Burvey Department. MaiHxe, has left Singapore on oilktlnrage to Mecca. He worked in the lepartment for 32 years and retired on pension last y*i
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    SIAMESE L.S.T. IN SINGAPORE
    148 4 lANDINO Ship (Tank) Ang j Tong of the Royal 81am I ese Navy Is In Singapore, ler j dock stacked with jucks Jeeps and mobile water 'ank.from Manila Her Commanding Officer Captain Sako] Changpradab describes the call as a pleasure visit" to enable his men to
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    Inspectors Dissolve Association
    137 5 Inspectors Dissolve Association From Our Staff Correspondent JCHORE BAHRU, Wed. THE Johore Health Inspectors Association, at the annual general meeting in Muar on Tuesday, was dissolved and members will l-ln the Federation of Malaya Health and Sanitary Inspectors Union. The members feel that they cannot fight alone for a revision
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    He Was Unlicensed
    17 5 MUAR, Wed.—The Muar Magistrate fined Toh Llm $20 for hawking pork without a licence.
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    JUDGMENT RESERVED IN COLONY GOLD CASE
    745 5 JUDGMENT RESERVED IN COLONY GOLD CASE JUDGMENT was reserved yesterday by the First District Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, in the case in which a Chinese bullion merchant was charged with contravention of the Finance Regulations governing dealings in gold. The defendant, Kang Woon Geok, managingpartner of Chop Tlan Poh,
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    93 5 DESCRIBED by his colleagues as "a pillar of strength in the Singapore Treasury." Mr. Low Lent Chuan. M.B.E. died at the General Hospital yesterday at the age of 59. Mr. Low. who bad 34 years' service witb Government, was at the time of his death attached to the Financial Office,
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    57 5 Ml-iS DAISY HO SIOK CHIN, a former nurse 1 1 tbe Johore Bahru General Hospital, who left Singapore yesterday for England to Join her brother who is the manager of the Freddie Mills Chinese Restaurant In London. She haa not yet decided whether to continue nursing or work vitb her
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    $50 FOR A P.W.D. BUCKET
    123 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA ru.MrUrt, Wed. A P.W.D. bucket led to a load of trouble 'or a 27-year-old Indian Muslim, Mohamed Hanif, in the First t Magistrate's Court today. A Chinese detective told the magistrate, Mr. A. P. Jack, that he arrested Hanif at
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    GAOL FOR CLERK
    70 5 IPOH, Wed.— For misapprop'latin;; .53,500 from the District Office at Parit and later repor'.lni; that the money and som-» of his own had been destroyed vhen his house was cut ted by tire, a temporary clerk, Abdul Jalil bin Johor vas today sentenced to 15 month"' rigorous
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    CONCILIATION IN PERAK
    70 5 I r mi Out Own Correspondent TAIPINO, Wed.— Mr. R. A. Abdul Karim, president of the Pan-Malayan Electricity Department Workers' Union, attended a conciliation meetine between the Ipoh workers' union and officials of the Electricity Department, Ipoh The v orkers pressed for more Class II quarters of
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    Government Profit On Rice Query
    211 5 ON what authority is the Singapore Immigration Department refusing to renew certificates of admission? Is it proper fo- the Government to make any profit on rice? These are questions which Mr. Tan Chin Tuan (Chinese Chamber of Commerce) will raise in the Legislative Council next
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    Fed. Council Delayed
    66 5 From Our Staff Cor/ 1 :»p«ndent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed rl Federal Legislative Council is unlikely to meet before August because of the mass of work to be done by select committees. Although deliberations on the moratorium were expected to be finisher] by the week-end, there Is still
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    PLAN FOR K.L. ARTS CENTRES
    56 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.— Plans to start recreational and arts and crafts centres In villages on the outskirts rf Kuala Lumpur are being considered by the Selangor Welfare Committee. Final decisions will be made after an Investigating committee which Is to interview villagers and examine possibilities
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    $80 Grant Helps Girl To College
    146 5 From Oar SUB Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. 1 MALAY girl described as a "brilliant student" needed $80 to buy clothes so that she could take a course n. the f alay Girls' College. Her father could not help very much. His monthly Income Is
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    WATER GYPSIES VISITED
    194 5 rE presence of sea gypsy groups on and around Singapore and visits paid to them by Mr. H. D. Collings are mentioned In the 1948 report of the Raffles Museum and Library, which has Just been published. The report states that JurI Ing the early part of
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    Library Will Open Soon
    172 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEEEMB4N Wed. SEREMBAN will suon have the International Public Library which was suggested about a year ago. It will have English. Malay. Chinese and Indian sections in it Books for the English section have already been bought. They are now being catalogued.
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    KEPT STOLEN FISHING NETS
    50 5 Irrom Our Own Correspondent MUAR. Wed. -Two tliiu. men, Lee Bok Seng and Ah Eng, were charged nee i with dishonestly retaining five stolen fishing nets. Lee was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour and fined $50, or a further month's gaol, while Sun was acquitted.
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    DEATH
    74 6 MR. LOW LENG CHUAN. MBE. aged 58 of the Financial Office, Singapore Police Force, Headquarters, passed away peacefully at 12 midnight on the 15th June. 1949 at the General Hospital, leaving an aged mother, wife. 4 sons, 4 daughters, 3 daußhters-ln-law. one son-in-law and 7 grand children to mourn
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    38 6 ON BEHALF of the brothers and sisters of the late Mr. William Cowan Hill, we wish to tender our sincere thanks to those who paid tribute and attended the funeml i.f the late Mr. Wilhnm Cowan Hill.
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    BAO DAI BEGINS HIS TASK
    560 6 It is not quite two years since the French High Command in Indo-China announced that major military operations had ended, and the work of political stabilisation begun. The following week anti-commu-nist elements in the Vietnam nationalist front approached Bao Dai, the former Emperor of Annam,
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    Malaya's Next Allocation
    499 6 A share of the 100,000 tons of Burmese rice not taken up by the Chinese Government is a welcome Malayan windfall, particularly in view of the disappointing local harvest. But this fortuitous replenishment of stock for the ration is no guide to the treatment Malaya may expect
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    Gandhi Followers Set India A Great Problem
    1810 6  -  Margaret Parton By Leaders of the Indian Government find themselves confronted with the same problem which once faced the British hunger strikes by old and young alike to gain immediate aims. JNDIA'S capital was the scene recently of two hunger strikes that potent
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      "Superhuman Effort Went Unrewarded"
      237 6 INHERE are in the Police Awards in the Birthday Honours List 22 awards, Including those to auxiliary police, in which the locality is named or known. Of these 10 have fallen to Singapore, a place in which the present emergency is a faint echo only. Three
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      DEBIT AND CREDIT
      125 6 h-kki. sorry ior lw 1 ASHIRE LAD who. like so many with the vote, are not instructed at school tn the mos* elementary economics. If dividends were so *oori on the railways why was It possible to buy LNER £100 shares for so little as to €8
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      691 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. MOORE: On June 6th. to Juliet, wife Of A. E.G. Moore, a daughter. WEST: At Penan* on June 15, to Mollle (nee Semple). wife of George West, a daughter. Alison Mary. ON THE 6TH JUNK, to Betty. nee Oray, wUe of M. P. L. Haymes, at Rickmansworth, a
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      12 6 I(HON(O 2! (HULIA ST. PHONE 65*5 v SINGAPORE ccm&uted with NEVER P/SAPPOm.
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      258 6 HARVEST-HOME mi w <^IhuHiS r Never before has so much depended on the harvest home. Never before has the nation so much needed the Fruits of its fields and meadows, orchards and gardens. Today British acres must produce the bulk of the food Tor man and beast. In this pressing
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    $1,000,000 ON HOMES FOR SEAFARERS
    234 7 Housing Scheme Of Straits Steamship Co, THE Straits Steamship Company has embarked ona $1,000,000 housing plan for its "floating staff" which will include four blocks of modern flats. Building plans have been submitted to the apore Municipality and work on the structure start immediately they
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    FORGED TICKETS ALLEGED
    166 7 FORGED TICKETS ALLEGED 2 Men For Trial TWO men were yesterday committed for trial in the next Singapore Assizes for alleged possession of forged Seiangor Turf Cluo sweep tickets and printing paraphernalia. Tiu-y were Chan Lai Weng and Yeow Yook Mel. who were charged with possession nt instruments for forgery
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    BODY IN POND: TWO CHARGED
    57 7 Frmn On Stall Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— The finding of the body of an Indian in a pond off Jalan Lumba Kuda )ad on Monday had a sequel in the police court today when Aziz Khan tnd K. K.nnusamy were tentatively charged with murder. D
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    HURT CHARGE
    51 7 Fra.n Our Stall 101 respondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— K Govindan, of Kelan Estate, Kulal, was produced in the poiice court today on a charge of having voluntarily caused nil vous hurt to Mathaya on thr estate on June 13. The rase was transferred to the Sessions Court for
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    Death Of Mr. T. Andrews
    124 7 THE death took place In the Singapore General Hospital yesterday of Mr. T. E. Andrews, a very old resident and well-known planter. He was general manager of Bukit Sembawang Rubber Estate. Mr. Andrews had been associated with rubber planting in the Coltmy for about 30
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    DAMAGED RICE: 'NO LOSS'
    145 7 DAMAGED RICE: 'NO LOSS' SINCE Jan. 1, approximately I^oo plculs of rice has been sold tc the Singapore public by tender, the stocks being cither damaged government rice, sweepings accumulated thorugh handling, or rice confiscated by the law. Damaged rice trailed 345 pic uls and sweepings 227 plculs. An official
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    APPOINTMENT
    16 7 Mr. H. A. Mabey has been appointed a member of the Education Finance Board, Singapore.
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    HOSPITALS BOARD
    17 7 Miss Amy Laycock has been named a member of the Singapore Hospitals Board for 1949.
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    AUTHORISED
    42 7 Five Assistant Superintendents of Police— Messrs N. V. B. Wilmshurst, D. E. Nickels. O. D. Hunter-Grey, P. J. ne B. Wilmot and A. J. E. Longden —nave been authorised to compound minor offences under the Road Traffic Ordl- 1 nance, Singapore.
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    VARSITY FUND NEARS $30,000
    47 7 The University of Malaya, I Endowment Fund totalled $29,638 on June II Latest contributions are. j Commander and Mrs. H. B. Moorhead. of Singapore. I $500; Fred Waterhous>e Co., Singapore. $50; Moheu.med Yusof bin Ahmad. Sultan Idrls Training College. TanJong Mallm. f l.OOO.
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    Horse Cargo For ßangkok
    105 7 IjUFTY Australian horses F were yesterday travelling north by train from Singapore on their way to Bangkok for delivery to the Siamese Government. Mr. T. O'Reilly, a horse trainer who accompanied the animals by sea from Australia, told the Straits Times yesterday that already 300 horses
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    S.V.C. RECRUITING TO OPEN NEXT WEEK
    181 7 /COINCIDING with the 92nd anniversary of the first meeting to raise the Singapore Volunteer Corps, arrangements are being made to open recruiting to the revived Corps on Friday, June 24. It Is hoped to enlist a total of 200 men this yea including 10
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    39 7 MR. ALFRED I>. COKNLLIUS, assistant manager of the Adelphi Hotel. Singapore, and Miss Annette Zei»herine Jesson, eldest daughter of the late Mr. anil Mr?. F. L. Jesson of Madras, who were married at St. George's Chnrcn, l'enang, last week.
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    ARMY DRIVER CHARGED
    43 7 from Our SUIT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wed Sgt. Reid, of 221 Vehicle Bn., Tebrau, was charged in the police court today with causing grievous hurt by negligent driving at the Kota Tinsfgi Road. The case was adjourned for a week.
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    LEAVE FOR U.K.
    39 7 Sq/Ldr and Mrs. O M. Leahy left Singapore yesterday on the troopship Orblta for England where Dr. Leahy will take up v practice Mrs. Leahy was formerly Miss Tessie Cornelius of the Straits Times editorial staff.
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    13 COLONY DOCTORS AID SATA
    173 7 13 COLONY DOCTORS AID SATA SEVEN doctors are doing part-time voluntary work with the Singapore AntiTuberculosis Association and another six are serving on the Association's Council and on its medical planning committee. This is stated in the annual report of the Alumni Association of the King Edward VII Coll?ge of
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    Theatre To Cut Prices
    112 7 18 an experiment, the Aln hambra Theatre is reducing the prices of seats in the stalls and the circle. Circle seats bookable In ad vi ice are now priced at $2.50 (a reduction of 80 cents) and other circle reata are also 50 cents cheaper at
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    R.C. CHURCH FEASTS
    159 7 Roman Catholic churches In Singapore are having a series of feasts, starting from today until the end of the month. Corpus Christl will be ceiebrated today at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdcs with low mass at 6.30 a.m., high nvus at 7 a.m. and vespers,
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    "Urgent Need" For Girls' Hostel
    158 7 THERE is ar urgent need for the establishment of a hostel where unaccompanied women and girls staying for one night or more in Singapore may be accommodated at a reasonable price, said Miss D. C. Greene, Secretary of the Singapore Y.WCi. yesterday. "Many girls come
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    370 For Varsity Entrance Exam.
    413 7 rpHREE hundred and seventy students have applied to be examined for admission to the University of Malaya when it opens in October. A candidate's selection will depend on an entrance examination next Monday, June 20, at which stress will be laid on his powers of
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    ON THE AIR
    58 7 TWELVE-year-old Cheung Mun Chit, a student of llaffles Girls' School, Singapore, who gave a piano recital over Radio Malaya last night. She is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Cheung of Singapore. Mun Chit learnt to play the piano at the age of five, and
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    2 Reds Fewer Every Day
    232 7 2 Reds Fewer Every Day From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed FEDERATION security forces accounted for an average of more than two bandits a day during last month, it was ofiidally stated here today. The total of security force civilian deaths since the emergency began is still higher than
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    TIN IMPORTS
    28 7 Malaya imported 815 U«M of tin ore in May. Slam .t-nt t-81 tons and Burma 125 ons The cumulative total In-ported until May was 2.811 tons
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      Gallant fishermen of Ceylon
      981 8  -  KENNETH TAN by »J»HE Fisheries Department, Ceylon, boasts of a one-trawler fleet the 'Raglan Castle." This trawler, under the control of the Ministry of Industries is stationed at ibo and goes out to sea on one-week si: etches. It is a proud possession of the country's
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      Grasshoppers For Stomachache
      494 8 T^O s c 1 f-respecting Frenchman would dare to call himself a gourmet if he had not at one time or another added his own original contribution to the many ways of preparing succulent frogs for the dinner table. While eating frogs may be the Gallic epicurean's
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      STREETS PAVED WITH GOLD
      622 8  -  K.S. Chia by IF a Mr. James Scott, a prominent resident of early Penang, had been successful in the European faction fight of that time, George Town would have remained little more than a mud flat and certainly not blossomed into the capital of the island.
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      Epic of the G.C. Island
      979 9  -  ALLINGTON KENNARD By BRIEFED TO ATTACK. Air Marshal Sir Hufh Lloyd. (Hodder and S tough ton, 18s.). ABOUT a mile outside Valetta, capital of A Malta the George Cross island, is an underground temple hewn out of the solid rock three thousand years before Christ
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      Record of heroism
      445 9 Record of heroism THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN THE WAR of 1939-45. By Captpin Nisei Nicolson and Patrick Forbes (Gale and Polden £3 35.). BEARING in mind Kipling's History of the Irish Guards, John Buchan's History of the Royal Scots Fusiliers in World War I and the many other excellent regimental
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      231 9 ENGLAND'S mS&. R \*w S? j V tSnmai.iM.- Hrn-fsi J ~**Q Made with nnnnrWe^ care from the best Virginia leaf by a arm whose skill in blfiiding tobacco has been famous for over a century, these are cigarettes of no ordinary flavour. For those who appreciate perfection in Virginia tobacco,
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      283 9 very player of experience knows that when be la playing an eight-card suit that lacks the queen, his best chance, percent- age-wise, U to finesse for that' card. If hla experience U gteat enough, however, he will alao realise that the "rule" Is not Iron-clad, and that outside consideration* may
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      237 9 thought, won with the nee. A diamond was then led from the dosed hand and the jack was finessed. Bast pounced on the trick with bit queen and sent back the spade ten. South covered with the jack. Out Uila only led to a greater defeat, beI cause after West
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    NEW VOTERS SCARCE IN SINGAPORE
    260 10 Apathy Warning By Govt. Official THK acting Public -Relations Secretary, Mr. L. C. Goh, in a lecture on civil rights at the V.M.C.A. last night, said those who had registered as voters in the Singapore Legislative Council and Municipal elections were "astonishingly few." Mr. Goh
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    POLICE KILL TWO BANDITS
    279 10 POLICE KILL TWO BANDITS From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. DOLICE killed two bandits, an Indian and a Chinese, In an ambush in the Kluang area of Johore yesterday. The police were at a point on the Yong Peng-Paloh Road when they saw two Chinese, a Malay and an
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    LIPIS PARTY
    66 10 From Our Staff Coin spomlr nt KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. People in the Llpis district of Pahang gave a lea party to a unit of the Malay Regiment which has been posted to another area. Over 400 guests, including the Mentrl Besar, Pahang, Dato Mahmud bin Mat, the British
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    NEGRI T.B. TESTS
    45 10 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN. Wed. The staff of the Negri Sembllan Medical Department are being tested for tuberculosis, the State Medical and Health Officer. Dr. A. Bearblock. U<ld the Anti-Tuberculosis Association. It is Intended to t°st all contacts of tubercular patients.
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    BAIL OFFERED
    42 10 from Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Wed— ln the Segamat Court yesterday 25--year-old Slnnathamby was alleged to have attempted to open the door of a. mandore's room on Johore Labis Estate. He denied the allegation and was offered bail in $250.
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    23 10 INCH MOiiti. >lUiK bin Taib. of the land (<•>«.. Klaiig. married Che Sitl Zaharah binte.Osman in Kuala Lumpur last Sunday.— C. F. Larm picture.
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    PEKAN TRANSFER
    37 10 rrora Our Own Correspondent RAUB. Wed.— Mr. M. T. J. MacCann. District Offlcr, Pekan. has been transferred to the Federal Secretariat, and has been replaced by Mr. D.S. Young, formerly District Offl- r Canvron Highlands.
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    CAR WAS "TAXI"
    36 10 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Wed. Sixry-one-year-old Thlow Ah Hnrk, charged before the Segamat Magistrate with using his private car as a taxi, was fined $50 with the option of a month's gaol.
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    38 MEN FORM UNION
    100 10 k NEW Singapore trade,, union—the Technical Health Staff Union -with 38 members who form 80 per cent, of technical employees in the Government Ilcalch Department, is now seeking registration under the Trade Unions Ordinance. Its first president Mr P. Chellappan, said yesterday that members were sanitary
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    Saw Husband Die On Raft In Gale
    165 10 PORTLAND, Dorset, Wednesday. I|RS. Margaret Davison described at Portland yesterday how she watched her husband die on a storm-tossed raft in the English Channel after they had burned paraffin Hares in the hope of being rescued. She was riving evidence at his Inquest.
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    MR. YACOB REPEATS WARNING
    254 10 Seamen's Dispute l/IR. Yacob bin Abdullah. ifl president of the Malay Seamen's Union of Singapore, yesterday repeated his warning that his union would not recognise "any agreement reached by Singapore shippers with any other than its bona fide representatives." He was commenting or. the move yesterday
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    TO BE MARRIED IN BENTONG
    44 10 I From Our Own Correspondent BENTONO, Wed.— Chi Jemilan blnte Dato Hussaln, fourth daughter of Dato Hussain bin Mohd. Taib, District Officer. Bontong, will be married to Inche Abdul Wahab bin Hassan, Offlcer-ln-Charge, Electrical Department. B«n--tong. on June 18.
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    PAHANG MENTRI BESAR'S VISIT
    57 10 From Our Own Correspondent RAUB, Wed.— Dato Mahmud bin Mat, Mentri Pesar of Pahang, and tht> District Officer, Ilaub, Mr. J. Love, visited Batu Malm Village, near Raub. Dato Mahmud inspect eJ a guard of honour o' kampong guards and the youth mcvement of UMNO. He
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      256 10 .iNbAfOHk Alr 6 f^ed Hartley Hu 11.30 News; 11.45 Pavilion players: Music; 10.19 Voices In Harmony: 12.00 Cloee 10.00 News from Kuala Lumimi 10.30 Dance music; 11 00 Close. unTHiiu 10.05 upprox.) Close: 10.55 For +vvMms*a** the Schools; 12.00 noon. Pro- W. E. 8 S 530 pm Forces Favourites; 8.00
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      95 10 TODAY Rural Board. monthly meeting. Council Chamber, Colonial Secretary's Office, 10 am Young People's meeting, Be(hesda. Katong; 6 p.m. Mpmts. Cheok Yew Oo and Yeo Oon 800 ill talk on "Sacrifice." Theosophickl Society. 8. Oirnhill Road. Mr. Chan Ohln I.im on "IXva- and Angels.' 6 30 p.m. Wesley Church annual
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    HANTS ALL OUT 129 v N.Z.
    33 12 SOUTHAMPTON. Wed: New Zealand meeting Hampshire here today, dismissed the County for 129 by tea. Hampshire had won the toss and batted on a good wicket. Reuter.
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    S.R.A. PLAN WILL IMPROVE RACING
    448 12 S.R.A. PLAN WILL IMPROVE RACING How To Weed Out Classes 4 5 riDAY 80 Malayan racehorse owners, out of more than 200 who have applied, will receive permits to import horses for registration in either class one or two, following a draw to be conducted by the Straits Racing Association
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    Rovers Recover From 2-0 Arrears
    524 12 R.E Z Rover S.C I IN spite of two quick goals and a noticeable superiority, the Royal Engineers failed to take full points in a match they deserved to win when they met the Rovers S.C. in a S A FA. Senior Division league fixture
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    Pulan Brani Rally Well
    284 12 C A 3: Pulau Bnni t nurd 2 DOWN threa goal* soon after half-time, eulau Bianl United XI rallied splendidly to score two quick goals 1.. the later stages of the game against the Chinese Athletes, in a SAF A. Junior A, Oroup 2. fixture af
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    JOHORE C.C. XI
    63 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Th« team to represent Johore C.C. In their return tournament cricket match against the B.C.C. on Sunday in Johore Bahru will be selected from the following: I R. Van Schoonbeck. A. BartheI lot. R. W. Moore. Nadason. A. Ohanl, Woon Chow Kat. Wheeler. Sanderson.
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    Lee Wins 4 Events At R.Mas Sports
    338 12 Lee Wins 4 Events At R.Mas Sports T EE WENO KEE had the unique distinction of winning all the four events in the "A division at the Fourle*Mh Annual Sports meet of the Radln Mas School held on the school ground at Mount Paber. Singapore, yesterday. Weng Kee Vs a
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    Ong To Serve On S.T.C. Committee
    171 12 Ong To Serve On S.T.C. Committee I*HE well-known Singapore sporta official, Mr. T. W. Ong, was co-opted to «erv» on the committee of the Singapore Turf Club «t a meeting held on Tuesriny. Ong, who Is the flrst Asian ever to secve on the Club committee, replaces Mr. A. 0.
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    Colonials C.C. XI
    104 12 A team selected from the following will represent the Colonials Cricket Club in the B.C.A. Tournament fixture against the SCRC. on the Khalsa Association Oround at St. Georges Road, at 11 a.m. on Sunday: W. Ratnayake (capt.). D. Miller. N. Woodhull. A. Thlagarajah. O. Woodford. L. Boudvllle.
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    Royal Hunt Cup Won By Sterope
    63 12 ASCOT, Wed.: Mr. J. Townley's Sterope won 'a» Royal Hunt Cup here this afternoon after a photo-finish with Mr. R McIlhagga's Impeccable. Mr H. J. Joel's Pride ot India was third. Twenty-nine ran. Betting' 100-6 igaln.st Sterope; 18-1 Impeccable; 11-2 favourite Pride of India.
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    DEATH
    25 12 ANDREWS Thomas Edward Andrews, of Buklt Sem'oawaHg CstaU, Singapore, at tb# Ueneral Hospital, flingapor*, on June 11 Funeral at Blnndarl at 6 p.m. Jm»»U
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    St. Anthony's School Sports
    138 12 THE 26th annual athletic .-ports of the St. Anthony's Boys' School will be held at 2.30 p.m. on June 25 at the St. Je-fph'» Institution grouni There will be two events lor the old boyss 220 yds. and 880 yds. rieets for the 220 yds. wIU
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    £13,127 TURNOVER FROM FIRST TEST
    36 12 LONDON. Wed Total receipts for the flrst Teet match between England and New Zealand at Leeds were announced yesterday as £13.127. Aggregate attendances for the three days were 67 000.— Reuter.
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    ISLAND CLUB BEAT RSGC
    670 12 THE Island Club beat the Royal 1 Singapore Golf Club by 15% I points to 12\ In a golf match played at the Island Club on Sunday. Scores were (Island players first 1 FROM IST TEK Perrler Mayor (1) and H. Tooke (4) 0. R. Craik
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    Schroeder Meets Mulloy On Monday
    419 12 LONDON, Wednesday. ■yKD Schroeder of the United States, Number One 1 seed for the men's singles, starts his campaign to win honours at Wimbledon on Monday with a first round match against one of the best of the unseeded players, his compatriot, Gardnar Mulloy. Another
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    Colony Without 3 Key Players
    328 12 A BDL7L Rahman, one of the best defenders Singapore has produced in the last decade, will skipper the Singapore Malaya Cup soccer team to play Negri Sembilan at Setemban on Saturday afternoon, when Singapore will be without three key players in Leembuggen, Harith and Boon
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