The Straits Times, 13 February 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 IUJHT PAfiKS SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1950 if PRICE TEN CENTS
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    63 1 THF COMMISSIONER- < KAL, Mr. Malcolm M .v ;idii:iltl. spiking at a tea i>arty given by the <ryk>n Federation of Malaya to Dato B. E. Thur-ai<-in<;h:im (left) at Kuala Lumpur in honour of the C.B.F. conferred on him. In front of the Dato is a silver casket, the gift of
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  • 475 1 BANGKOK TALKS 'M A Y NOT BE EASY' Jessup Sounds Cautious Note On Asia Pact BANGKOK, Sunday. NOTE of caution and reserve marked the eve of conference statement yesterday by Dr. Philip Jessup, United States Ambassador-at-large, who is to meet tomorrow with 17 top U.S. Asian and Pacific envoys for
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  • 102 1 HONG KONG. Sun. V|R. Tan Kan Kee. a Singai»l pore Chinese leader, arrived in Hong Kong today alter a 10-month tour of Red China with words of praise for the new regime. Mr. Tan said he would tell Malayan Chinese all about his trip He said
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  • 18 1 AHENS, Sun.— Greece has recognised the three new Imlo-Chinese states of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.— Ruter.
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  • 200 1 I SIAMESE Police and Army sources yesterday denied Bangkok press reports that Malayan terrorists were co-operating with South Siam Muslims in revolt plans, They also denied widely publicised reports that large forces of Malayan terrorists had entered South Siam. While stating that South Siam security
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  • 77 1 MALAYA'S contingent to the Briiish Empire Games were described as "a team of he-men" by Mr. Rex Moore, chairman of the organising committee of the Games, at Saturday night's closing cc- remony at Auckland. Congratulating the Malayans on their success, he said it was everyone's hope
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  • 108 1 Reds Caused Indian Gaol Massacre MADRAIS. Sun. THE riot at Salem Gaol In south India, in which 19 people were killed yesterday when prison police opened flre. started when Communist prisoners refused to obey orders and attacked officials with sticks and broken glass. The Salem District Magistrate has visited the
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  • 19 1 TAIPEH, Sun.— Air raid precautions were practised here today for the first time since V-J day.— UP.
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  • 42 1 ROME. Sun.— The baby of Italian film director Roberto Rossellini and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman was registered at the Rome City Hall today, just one minute before the deadline for entering the name on the offlcia books.— U.P.
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  • 42 1 BERLIN, Sun.— East Germany's Communist-led government announced today that Its police are investigating the political history of every German In the Soviet zone, and a new questionnaire Is being issued to the 20,000,000 Germans in the area.— Af I
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  • 26 1 HONO KONG, Sun.— Envoy extraordinary and minister plenlpoteniary of the Hungarian Republic to the Peoples Republic of China, Em- anuel Safranko, arrived in Pekinßves^erdis^^^^^^^^^^^X
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  • 116 1 3 HURT IN GRENADE THROWING SAIGON, Sun. i 'f«REE persons were injur- ed, one of them, seriously. I when terrorists exploded three grenades outside Saii gon's largest cinema late on Friday night. It was another in a series lof recent anti-French atI tacks. The authorities pre- diet more trouble from
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  • 79 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. A DISTRESS signal has been i\ received from the small British freighter Wing Hing, aground near Chelang Point, 90 miles east of Hong Kong. The 254-ton Wing Hing was damaged on Jan. 14 in a Chinese Nationalist air raid on. Swatow. A later report
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  • 153 1 T»HE leader of the Police Mission which has been inquiring into conditions in the Federation Police Force. Sir Alexander May-'l, said yesterday that in no quarter was there any reluctance to give evidence before the mission I The mission arrived in Singapore yesterday by
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    66 1 THE FIRST Salvation Army wedding in Singapore after the liberation took place yesterday at the Trinity College, when Mr. Tan Khia Fatt was married to Miss Mak Soo~ Lan. Picture shows, from left: Mr. Chia Cheong Fook (best man) Mr. Tan Khia Fatt. Brigadier F. W. Harvey (who officiated), Miss
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  • 24 1 TOKYO, Sun.— The newlyelected Social Democrat Mayor of Kyoto, Yoshlzu Takayama, has "been charged by the police with illegal electioneering practices.— Reuter.
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  • 95 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. pLIFTON Daniel, New York Times correspondent, in LonVj don, today portrayed the difference between British and American elections. Daniel said: "Although political feeling is probably as tense in this country as it ever has been in this century, the British elections still are conducted
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  • 168 1 From Our Own Correspondent KAJANG, Sunday. TWO were killed and 18 others injured when a bus and a lorry collided head-on, eight miles south of Kajang in Selangor yesterday afternoon. All the injured were travelling in the bus which belong to the Foh
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  • 56 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. DRESIDENT Truman yes- terday signed a bill giving Sister Elizabeth Kenny of Australia ihe unrestricted right to enter and leave the linked States without the usual passport papers. Sister Kenny, who is active in treating infantile first person every to be paralysis victims,
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  • 30 1 TOKYO, Sun.— A 900-ton Japanese freighter, carrying 1,200 tons of pig-iron, struck a submerged rock and sank off the Japanese south coast yesterday. There were no casualties. Reuter.
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  • 95 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Sun. THE British Ambassador, Sir Geoffrey Thompson, said today he was "extremely pleased' with the progress oi the negotiations for the purchase of rice now going on in Bangkok between British representatives from Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong and the Siamese
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  • 45 1 TOKYO, Sun.— Twenty-two people were killed and 26 seriously injured when a heavily laden passenger bus plunged 100 feet into a fish pond in Kyushu, Japan's southernmost island, yesterday. The bus was carrying more than double Its 35-passenger capacity. Reuter.
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  • 30 1 PRAGUE, Sun.— A Moravian state court at Jlhlava sentenced three men to death yesterday on charges of plotting to assassinate prominent leaders and overthrow the government.— AP.
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  • 238 1 Jakarta Fears "Turk" Swoop JAKARTA, Monday. numo v r s swept Jakarta today that Captain "Turk' Westerling was planning to strike at the capital In support of his ultimatum, expiring at midnight, demanding recognition as suDreme commander in West Java Under the threat "f repetition of Westerlinii'.s raid "ii Bandoeng
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  • 39 1 TAIPEH. Sun. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, heading a party of women representatives of the Philippine Overseas Chinese Mission, and a group of newsmen boarded a train for Taichung today toC a tour-day trip of inspection around Formosa. -U.P
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      37 2 SENATOR BRIEN MCMAHON, chairman of the I'nited States Congressional Atomic Committee, who announced that the 18-mem-ber committee had unanimously agreed that the utmost speed was necessary in the production of the hydrogen bomb. A.P. picture.
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  • 350 3 Churchill Rages At Socialism LONDON, Sunday. "BRITAIN'S election campaigning reached a new intensity yesterday, 12 days from polling day, with Mr. Winston Churchill charging that Britain's Socialists had been carried away by a "foreign-bred theme of thought.** The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps,
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  • 72 3 LONDON. Sun. L" it Party campaigners in the Strratham t are drummine up a it- radio audience for Mr. Winston Churchill. My mistake they sent out ."0 000 leaflets urging people to listen to the Prime Minisl t. Mr. Clement AHler. at 9 o'clock next
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  • 110 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. AMERICAN oil companies have rejected Britain's latest proposals to solve the Anglo-American oil dispute, hue they have agreed to continue negotiations with British officials here next week on the reduction of "dollar" j oil imports. The American companies I described as unsatisfactory the British
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  • 80 3 WASHINGTON. Sun. Mr. Jo in L Lewis, the U.S. miners' leader has directed 400.000 ■oft coal miners to return to vork tomorrow. Mr. Lewis thus complied •lth the Taft-Hartley Law order issued by the Federal Court on Saturday, under a petition presented by the Justice Department
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  • 46 3 SPRINGFIELD. Sun.-A Japanese student. Jinji Kasal lore will take part in the observance today of the 141 st birthday anniversary of Abrahan Lincoln. Kasai had one nf the biggest Lincoln libraries in Japan, but his collection was destroyed in a bombIns raid in 1945—UP
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  • 75 3 HONG KONG. Sun— As the striking Hong Kong trammen j resumed work a Peking report said that the All-China Federation of Labour In Peking had voted to send the Hon e Kong workers 5.*****0 jen mm piao <H.K.512,500) The federation's standing committee also decided
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  • 55 3 CAIRO, Sun. The new Wafdist Government of i Egypt has ordered the release of members of the Moslem Brotherhood, but kept the Communists in gaol. Members of the Brotherhood have been held since the movement was outlawed in 1948. About 30 Communists are still held, charged with
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  • 170 3 RANGOON Sun. npHE International Rice OomJ. mission's conference ended yesterday at Rangoon with the warning that South-East Asia, with its rapidly expanding population, must produce more food mainly rice Delegates from 19 nations agreed that increased production would be possible only if greater acreage were
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  • 85 3 TAIPEH, eun.— Most navigation lights along the China coast have been blacked out either by the Communists or Nationalists to enforce the blockade. According to the master of a foreign ship, the immobilisation of these lights is hampering shipping between Hong Kong and Formosa. In
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  • 278 3 BERLIN, Sunday. yHE Western Commandants in Berlin today charged the Soviet authorities had banned the export of all metal scrap to West Germany "in defiance of the Paris agreement for lifting the blockade, in an exchange of accusations that roused new Berlin blockade fears throughout
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  • 81 3 PARIS, Sun. rpWENTY people were kill1 ed and 38 injured many badly when two local trains met in a 40-mile-an-hour head-on crash near Toulouse. Sonth-Western France before dawn yesterday. Passengers sitting in the front of the trains which were diesel-driven with the drivers' cabs in
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  • 102 3 TOKYO. Sun. Hundreds of Japanese in Soviet detenI tion have been forced to take i Soviet citizenship to make a living, five Japanese Diet members stated after interrogating recent repatriates on Feb. 10. They said the Russians had in the last nine months speeded up war crimes' investigations
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  • 54 3 FOI'JITA, the Japanese paiuter of cats and birds who enjoyed considerable fame in Paris bcfoie the war, seen With his wife as they alighted from the boat train which took then back to Paris fmm the United Slates. FouJita, who Is CA jean old, \vs a
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  • 145 3 TAIPEH, Sunday. T*HE Chinese Nationalist Defence Ministry said yesterday that at a secret conference in Crjiton, the Chinese Communists agreed to send troop support to Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh rebels in IndoChina. The Ministry declared that Communist troops are taking part in the current
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  • 94 3 Frem Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri When he pleaded guilty in the Sessions Court to a charge of having been found in possession of chandu dross and two smoking pipes. Lim Sen Kuang was told by the President of the Court that the Medical report
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  • 70 3 SAIGON, Sun.— The Rt. Rev. Le Huu Tu. Catholic Bishop of Phat Diem a district of 500.000 people about 90 miles south-east of Hanoi has sent a letter of loyalty to Bao Dal, head of the Vietnam state. The Bishop, who has great prestige among the
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    56 3 A NEW SUBMARINE ESCAPE SUIT being demonstrated at Portsmouth, England. The suit is inflated with air and will keep the wearer above water. Gloves and a hood are worn as a protection from cold and exposure. A small globe fitted to the left side of suit lights when
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  • 63 3 PHILADELPHIA. Sun. Captain Alexander Hager, naster of the Isbrandtsen Line vessel Flying Trader, ;aid yesterday that he will :ake his ship back to Communist China no matter ;vhat the United States Gov?rnment says. Captain Hager, whose ship vas loading cargo for China, :old a reporter: "I am still
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  • 54 3 PRAGUE, Sun.—Three peo>le were sentenced to death md two others received hard abour for life in a conspiricy trial in the Moravian own of Jihlava today. Altogether 23 people were >eing tried on charges of slotting against the Republic, banning political assassina.ions, espionage, treason and iabotage.
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  • 185 3 MUNICH. Sun EIGHT Germans accused of operating the Nazis" notorious "baby farms" will go on trial on denazification charges this week They are alleged" members of the "Lebensborn" organisation, which was dedicated not only to increasing the German "Aryan" birthrate, but also to Germanise racially
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  • 173 3 America Lends USISIOO Million NEW YORK, Sun. INDONESIA has secured 1 US$lOO million loan from the Export-Import Bank to buy rolling stock, road-building equipment, bridges and communications equipment. Dr. Raden Djwanda, Indonesian Minister for Economic Affairs, left New York by air today for London after negotiating the loan. In Britain
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  • 80 3 Israel To Get Balances LONDON Sun.-The British Treasury announced today the conclusion of an agreement on the release of Israel's blocked sterling balances. The amount of sterling to be released until the end of the current year will be £3.000,000. In addition £4,000,000 will be made available as a "working
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  • 25 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun.— A U.S. transport has arrived with 800 marines from Guam. Only a handful of marines remain in the Western Pacific—A.P.
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  • 40 3 INSURANCE INSTITUTE OF MALAYA, council meeting, office of the Royal Insurance Co. Ltd., 2.30 p.m. INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION, life class, British Council Centre, Stamford Road, 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. PUBLIC RELATIONS FILM SHOW, Kampong Kembangan, 7.15 p.m.
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  • 739 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Feb. 13, 1950. In Bangkok Today One of the greatest difficulties under which American policy in Asia labours is the suspicion that is attached to positive action. The point was well put in the State Department's explanation of its refusal to consider an active American
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  • 126 4 WHILST supporting your leading article, "For I Every Worker." in todays issue of the Straits Times i (Feb 11>. I wish to congratu- late Mr. M. P. Rajagopal on the success he has achieved with his motion in the Federal Legislative Council for a provident fund
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  • 135 4 VTOW that the Dutch have x handed over sovereignty to the United States of Indonesia i s it not time that steps were taken to break the Dutch monopoly of sea travel to Java? To travel to Jakarta by' a Dutch ship. <and generally there is no
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  • 67 4 ANYONE travelling along the main road from Johoro Bahru to Gemas sees thick undergrowth again creeping up to the roadsides. This is a real danger for civilians military or police using the roads, as cover for ambushes. The authorities should take measures immediately to cut away these bushy
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  • 2035 4  - Crete- another bitter, dismal evacuation WINSTON S. CHURCHILL THE GRAND ALLIANCE-GERMANY DRIVES EAST By Mr. Churchill here resumes the story of the defence of Crete under Gen. Freyoerg against the overwhelming air and paratroop attacks which started on May 20, 1941. I ATE on May 26 grave news reached Wavell
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  • 414 5 Board Of Studies To Be Set Up THE Senate of the University of Malaya is to appoint a Board of Studies to work out the details for setting up a department of engineering at the University. Already donations for the engineering faculty, totalling $479,107, have
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  • 40 5 The Hon. Frederick HermesV. a director of the brandy lrm. passed through Singa>ore yesterday on his way to \ustralia and New Zealand on 1 business trip. He will tour Malaya on his return in about hrep weeks
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  • 27 5 nii-uiltcr of the Malayan Tivil Service, who is Superintendent of the Taiping Rehabilitation Tamp. The (amp is re-edurating 57 former detainees Straits Times picture.
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  • 127 5 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sunday. A 29-YEAR-OLD British planter, D. W. A. Robert, was fined $250 or two months' rigorous imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to being drunk while carrying firearms, an offence unde«- the 1 Emergency Regulations. Assistant Superintendent Lee Hock
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  • 41 5 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Sun—The mariage took place at Segamat >t Mr. A. S. Retnam, second ;on of Mr. T. Ayadurai and tfiss Kandiah Rukumam Dcvi, daueh er of Mr. Kanliah, retired station master if the Burma Rallwav.
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  • 46 5 MAKING CITIZENS WHEN SIR HENRY GURNEY. the High Commissioner, visited the Taiping rehabilitation ramp on Saturday, he said that the object of the camp was "to teach people to become good citizens of Malaya." Sir Henry was greatly impressed by what he saw. Straits Times picture.
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  • 78 5 More USI Rubber For Penang rrom Our Mali Corrr>ponden( PENANG. Sun. the inauguration of B the United States of Indonesia more rubber from Sumatra has been coming into Penang. In recent weeks, according U< a leading rubber dealer, about 1.000 tons have been landed from Langsa and At.ieh. Small lots
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  • 122 5 K.L. LAKE HOUSING SCHEME From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. CLEARING work has started on a big housing scheme near KuaJa Lumpur's Lake Gardens. A private development company has bought 200 acres of land to the west of the gardens. A road trace has already been made and sites
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  • 110 5 A MILLION -dollar shipment of Chinese New Year goods and foodstuffs which arrived in Singapore on Friday in the steamer Aik Moh has steadied prices of New Year luxuries in Singapore. Swatow oranges, fresh Chinese vegetables, sausages preserved duck and nearly every kind of Chinese
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  • 60 5 Mr. William N. Modglin, President of the Modglin Company of Los Angeles, which manufactures plastics, is due to arrive in Singapore on March 15 for business talks. Mr. Modglin is interested in discovering new trends in ciesign, pattern and art among articles produced by Malayan craftsmen with
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  • 60 5 A Malay motor cyclist was yesterday taken to the Singapore General Hospital with leg injuries when he was involved in a collision with a car driven by a European in Telok Blanga Road. A ten year-old Malay boy was knocked down by an Indian motorist in Meyer
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  • 178 5 COME Buddhist temples and monasteries run by'< inexperienced and unscrupulous people were bringing the name of Buddhism into disrepute in Singapore, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Mr. E. C. S. Adkins, said yesterday. Mr. Adkins. speaking' at the inaugural meeting of the Singapore
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  • 62 5 A corner's inquiry is to be uld into the death of M. Roger de Fontaine. 38-year-old French civil servant, who was found hanging in his cabin in the 10.000 ton Jamalque on Saturday while the vessel was at Singapore. M. de Fontaine boarded the Jamaique at
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  • 197 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. OANDITS tampered with a valve on the pipeline i leading to Kota Tinggi from the reservoir yesterday and cut down the flow of water. Police jungle squads found the damaged pipe last night and had it repaired. In the
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  • 179 5 Opium Worth $3,000 In Coat Pocket rrom Our Own correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. rpHE finding of a coat with $3,000 worth of opium in the pockets after a man got off the night mail train was described in the Johore Bahru Sessions Court when Ng Yee Lim of Kampar, Perak,
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  • 95 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. SINCE the outbreak of rabies in Perak in July 1946. 18.884 dogs have been destroyed, "including some very fine speciments and probably valued pets," Mr. E. L. Spykerman. acting Stale Veterinary Officer, tokl the Straits Timer. The situation was
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  • 157 5 AWARDS to members of the I Singapore Volunteer Corps made by the Officer Administering the Government of Singapore are Efficiency Decoration: Mjr. L. D, Walford. Efficiency Medal and two clasp.--Sgt. E.J.C. Gardner, Sgt. W.R King, Sgt. R.A. Scruton. Efficiency Medal and one clu.sp: B.Q.M.S. J. K. Gale.
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  • 16 5 Mr. W. Gordon h been apminted an Assistant Controler of Foreign Exchange, n Singapore.
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  • 124 5 from our staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Sun nH[, m THE Malayan Traffic Opex rating Union plans to spnd a renrp^pntntivp tn th«» send a representative to tne United Kingdom to study trade unionism, railway work, He will devote special at-1 tention to safety
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  • 275 5 GURNEY GIVES COLOUR TO MALAY REGT. From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Sunday. Henry Gurney, the Federation High Commis- sioner, today presented a Regimental Colour to the 1st Battalion, the Malay Regiment, at a oeremony in which he urged them to use the colour "as an inspiration from day to day.''
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  • 53 5 More than 250 people attended a dinner given by the General Electric Company. Singapore, to Malayan electrical contractors and G.E.C staff member at the Tal Thong Restaurant, Happy i World, on Saturday. Among those present was the manager of ihe G.E.C. London Export Department, Mr. D.
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  • 146 5 DR. Raymond Gautier, As* sistant Director-General of the World Health Organition and a former Director f the Eastern Office of the League of Nations Healili Organisation in Singapore is leaving his present post next month to become Research Director for the International Children's Centre
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  • 53 5 MUAK. Sun. Lee Tiak employed by Bee Seng sawmill of Yong Peng, Batu Pahat. injured his right arm ivhile sharpening a saw. As i result he lost about 25 to JO per cent of his earning :apacity and has been awarded $1,440 compensation by the North Johore Commissioner
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  • Commercial And Shipping News
    • 166 6 WEEKLY Singapore Rubber rEX-end rubber prices include the following: Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Assoclataon'i noon prices on Saturday (Feb. 11) were cents per lb.: Bayer Seller No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal b2?i 5$ F. 03. in bales Mar. No. 1 R.S.S. 92 Vi 52% No. 2 R.S.S. 01%
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    • 40 6 1 "LJARRISONS <Ss Crosfle.d (Malaya) announce the following January rubber crops, in lbs.: Allenby 48,0<M) Benta Est. 33,000 Jeram Kuantan Est. 63.000 Kundong Est. 43.000 M?ntakab 95.600 Sungel Bagan 116.000 Sandycroft 17 000 Tanjong Pau Est. 65,000
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    • 156 6 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Suo. CIR Lionel Smith Oordon. chalr- man of Broome Rubber Plantations Ltd., tells shareholders, in his circulated annual statement, that the cost of production during the year ended June 30, 1949, was 6.85 d. per pound against 8.55 d the previous
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    • 751 6 From A Market Correspondent DESPITE the satisfactory markets ruling for both Malaya's staples, interest was lacking for shares and with the advent of Chinese New Year and the British Elections little business was written during the week In Industrials a sagging market attracted more investment buying,
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    • 191 6 LONDON^ Sun. WITH the approach of the elections and the possibility of more active markets, many companies are preparing lists of firms with dividends covered several times by earnings in the belief that such concerns would be attractive investment propositions if the Tories return. Idle conditions in all
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    • 142 6 From A Market Correspondent COFFEE was very steady on the Singapore produce market on Saturday. Business was done at $136 per picul for Rio 5 with further buyers but no sellers. Rio 7 was quoted at $133U and Rio 3 $138 12.1 2. Palembang 15<T« was done
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    • 13 6 KAMRA Tin Dredging m January produced 244 plculs of tin-ore.
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    • 1040 6 McALISTER CO.. LTD. (Incorporated in Singapore) Telephone No. 5906 KLAVENESS LINE KLLERMAN BUCKMAIX LOS ANCELES. S/M FRANCISCO, LONDON, MAVU, ROTTEROAM PORTLAND SEATTLE VANCOUVER. HAMBURG. Accepting cargo for Central b South American PorU. CITY O» KIMBERLIT IJ/iP»!h SA/&^t, M/!s*f2fc SDOr p Sh m Her.ang 17/21 F*b M/M Ftb 26/28 F«* 28
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  • 675 7 Penalty Gives Everton Victory 'TOTTENHAM Hotspur, the runaway leaders ol league Division Two, lost their chance of a promotion and Cup double yesterday when they were beaten by a solitary fourth-minute goal away a1 tverton in a fifth round, F.A. Cup* fixture r™Jf he
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  • 45 7 DICK MEANS, a Minneso ta forward, bounces like a rubber ball to stop a shot aimed at the basket by Illinois forward Bill Erickson in the basketball match at Minneapolis on Feb. 4 which Illinois, defending champions, won 67-57.— A. P. picture.
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  • 317 7 LONDON. Sun. YESTERDAY'S U.K. soccer X results in full were:— IRISH LEA*. I t. BaMymcna I nitrrtd Clifiontlllc 0 -Eeuler. I holrrlirl,! I Derby County j Everton I Leeds lid. j Manchester I. Stockport Co I tVolrerhampton ■I Burnle.T 1 Cheiwa I I Northampton > 1 Tottenham
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  • 21 7 I BRUSSELS, Sun.— Belgium and England each won four bouts in an amateur boxing International here last nieht. Rentpr.
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  • 308 7 JOHANNESBURG, Sunday. PACING a total of 465, South Africa began a slow fight back with an unbroken opening stand of 77 against Australia yesterday, the second day of the fourth Test here. Australia declared their first innings at 465 for eight wickets at
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  • 39 7 LONDON Sun.— All three F.A. Cup fifth round matches which were drawn yesterday will be replayed next Wednesday, Feb. 15. The revised venues areBlackpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers Chelsea v Chesterfield and Portsmouth v Manchester United.— Reuter
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  • 91 7 LOS ANGELES. Sun.— The Calumet Farm racehorse Ponder won the US$50,000 San Antonio handicap at Santa Anita yesterday and his stablemate Citation, was sp. cond. The Irish horse Noor was third Bolero, which led most of the way finished fourth Tht> I Argentine horse Mlche which
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  • 43 7 H.K. SERVICES' XV 'THE following will represent the Land Forces, Hong Kong XV when they meet Malaya District in a rugger match at Tanglln today for the Fraser and Ntave Inter-Dlstrlct trophy: Smyth?; Brown, McNabb. Spiller, Gower; Ives, Qoodscr-imdi-Falrrte. Robbins. Jennings, Rvp't^y^McAdjm^OrrBson^ Bradte^J
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  • 148 7 South Zone In Losing Position HYDERABAD, Sun. £»OUTH Zone, with five second innings wickets still standing, were only li runs ahead at close of play on the second day of their match against the Commonwealth here. South Zone made 182 In thoir first innings. The Commonwalih team, overnight 31 for
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  • 223 7 A TEN-ROLND bout between Indonesia's light and welterweight champion, Bobby Njoo, and Johnny Cinto, of Manila, head Singapore promoter Razak's Chinese New Year card at the Happy World arena on Feb. 17. In the semi-final, the featherweight from Guam, Littie Nene, who made short work
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    • 405 7 SINCAPORE Phadwrll and Orchestra: 7.30 French: 7.30 Enplish; 8 Records Swing Session; 8 World Affairs at Random; 8.15 Thai; 8.45 9.35 am. For the Schools (Allington Kennard); 8.15 Julai Dutch: 9 Kuoyu; 9.30 Burmese; Music Movement. 9.55 inter- Tan and Kenneth Lovatt; 8.30 9.45 Interlude 10 Radia News ■ml, in
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  • 384 8  - S.T.C. SET FOR RECORD MAKING SEASON EPSOM JEEP Bv Big Turnover At Bukit Timah CTAKES and added money for the Spring Meeting at Bukit Timah amount to about $200,000 very good sum for a three-day meeting and with five more meetings on the racing calendar the Singapore Turf Club looks
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  • 349 8 Cold Weather Worries Jagir Singh From MKkv t V>i.S MELBOURNE, Sun. INDIAN boxer Jagir Stagh 1 blames the coin weather uf Melbourne most for his points defeat by Beniie Grunt. He said he couldn't raise a sweat and he never does box freeiy until he raises a good sweat. Ht
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  • 38 8 SAINT LOUIS, S-.in.- Welter weight boxing chainpioi., i<;.i Kobmson of the United States ai.c j.:in Walczrik of F*rance havi signed for a ten round non-iitli bout here on Feb. 27. Walczak won the French welt«
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  • 360 8 By EPSOM JEEP NO fewer than seven jockeys have ridden Golden Grove to victory and all are of the opinion that she is "a wonderful mare." Said champion jockey Frank Flannery after one of her early successes: "She has a beautiful temperament. You can place her anywhere
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  • 424 8 AUCKLAND, Sunday. THE fourth Empire (James were closed last night I by the Chairman of the Empire Games Federa- I j tion, Arthur Porritt, a London doctor and former Olympic sprinter. It was a brief, simple ceremony under the floodlights of the Western Springs cycling
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  • 65 8 i\FFICE-BEARER5 ©I Mascctte ,vT B.P. lor this year are. President: Mr. Choo Yeok Koon: lion, secretary; Mr. Wee Thiani iJock; asst. hon. secretary. Mr. Kwah Kheng Siong; hon. treasurer, Mr. arah Lee Thuan: hon. sports captain, Mr. Ismail bin Said; vicesports captain, Mr. Lionel Stewart; hon. auditor, Mr.
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  • 138 8 AUCKLAND. Sun. \1 T ITH the concision yesterday of the fourth British Empire Games, Australia headed the unofficial table of honours winning a total of 80 medals which included 34 premier awards, 27 silver and 19 bronze ire<l::ls. I There is no official winner of Uhe Games
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  • 500 8 LONDON, Sunday. WHILE England were defeating Ireland in the Rugby International yesterday, Tom Gray, who played in five wartime internationals for Scotland, helped Northampton gain a splendid victory over Sale by 14 points to eight in the club programme. interval but afterward Gray landed two
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  • 23 8 TODAY: 6.39 am. (Bft.) and 10.00 p m. (7ft. 71n.). TOMORROW: 8.15 a.m. (Bft. Sin.) and 10 52 p.m. (Bft. 21n.).
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  • 137 8 AUCKLAND, Sun. pEYLONS athletics relay team failed to gain a bronze medal In the men's 4 x 440 yarda lelay on the final day of the Empire Games at Eden Park yesterday. In the men's 4 x 110 yards, Ceylon were fourth and last. In both
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  • 57 8 THE Union of Canton Sports !vb elected the following officebearers at its inaugural mecM.ip; recently: President, Mr. Khoo Eng Watt: hon. secretary, Mr. Kan* Sio-v Khim; hon. treasurer, Mr. Wee Cheng Kim; hon. auditor. Mr. Tan Ken* Leong: hon. sports captain, Mr. Chua Guan Seng;
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  • 634 8 UK Soccer League Placings LONDON, Sun.— Football League J standings after yesterday's matches were The English First Division and Scottish A and B Divsions remain the same as sent last week as the majority of the clubs were engaged In Cup matches yesterday. P W D L P A pts
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  • 88 8 HURST PARK, London, Sun. rpHE Queen saw the Royal Steep- lechaaer. Monaveen, owned Jointly by herself and Princess Elizabeth, win the George Williamson Handicap steeplechase run over three miles here yesterday. It was the first time that the Queen had seen her Grand National hope run.
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  • 68 8 RUGBY: Hor.j Kong Services v Malaya Dist. at Tanglin. GOLF: Women** golf, Island Club v. R S G.C. at Island Club from 2.30 p.m. DWD SOCCER: Gulhrie B.C. (Local staff v. European staff) Fairer Park. Fathul Karib Club t. Indonesian XI, Farrer Park. HOCKEY: S.R.C. t. Khalsa, S.R.C.
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  • 412 8 Perostan Crowns Great Meeting For Martin By EPSOM JEEP r> trainer' Jimmy Martin, Perostan's splendid victory in the Spring Cup at Bukit Timah on Saturday was more than just a Cup triumph, for the five year-old bay by Mr. Standfast has justified Martin's faith in Australian horses. Firm in his
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  • 90 8 From Our SUIT Correspondent BANGKOK, Sun. Sino-Malay footballers making their appearance in Bangkok defeated the Phra Nakhong XI by two clear goals in a tame game at the National Stadium yesterday. Malayans scored ten minutes after the start when center-forward l)ollah Don broke through to
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