The Straits Times, 7 March 1950

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    Death Of M. Albert Lebrun
    126 1 PARIS. Monday. M ALBERT Lebrun, last President, of France's Third Republic, died today of pneumonia, after having been ill for a month. He was 78. M Lebrun was elected President in 1932, in succession to M. Paul Dovmer who toas assassinated. There roere 16 Cabinet
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    LABOUR'S 'LIMITED PROGRAMME'
    711 1 Outline Of Policy In King's Speech LONDON, Monday. JHE KING, wearing the jewelled crown, today outlined only "a limited programme of legislation" for the present session, when he formally opened the new Parliament. But he told both Houses, assembled in the House of Lords, that should other
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    BUSINESS TRIP TO S.E. ASIA
    35 1 nMMKI.. Mon. SBVENTSSN South Korean businessmen are planning to charter a plane from General Claire Chen- i nault Asian Airline for a 30-day trip to South-East i Asia and India.
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    Girls For Australian Services
    116 1 Girls For Australian Services CANBERRA. Mon. !i WOMEN'S auxiliaries for j the Army. Navy and RAAF *:11 be formed as part of th* j Government'! plans for ex- r tnd'.ng Australia'! defence I I first t?AAF groups will b tor the cypher and tele- j giaphy sections of the Air
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    GOING TO AFRICA
    30 1 SUEZ. Mon.- -The Italian I A transport Urania, with 800 Italian soldiers and government officials aboard passed through the Suez Canal this morning on way to Soma-Hland.-A.P.
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    NEW AIR ROUTE
    27 1 SANTIAGO. Chile. Mon.- A giant four-motored Argonaut landed here on Sunday, ending the naugurai flight of the new British »ir route, London-Buems Aires-Santi-ago.— U.P.
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    Calcutta Strikes Plan A Failure
    62 1 Calcutta Strikes Plan A Failure CALCUTTA, Mon. THE general strike called for today in connection with Pandit Nehru's visit here is reported to have failed completely. Transport was operating normally and busines houses were open as usual. The strike waa largely the idea of refugee organisations and was designed to
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    FARES BOOSTED
    22 1 HONG KONG. Mon. -The Chinese Communist Ministry of Railroads has increased passenger fares 650 per cent, since March I.— A.P.
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    INDO-CHINA AID "IS URGENT"
    194 1 SAIGON. Monday. A IMlhl) States economic mission which arrived here from Hong: Kong today "considers it its duty to make urgent recommendations for economic aid to Indochina," its chairman. Mr. Allen Griffin, j said. The mission had full power to advise Washington by cable, he added.
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    POET DIES
    23 1 PHILADELPHIA. Mon.—Edgar Lee Masters, whose "River Anthology" and other po*mt were known the world over, died last night, aged 61.— A.P.
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    FINAL SINO-BRITISH TALKS IN PEKING
    119 1 HONG KONG Mon VJEGOTIATIONS in Peking between Chang Han-fir. Chinese Vice-Minister for Foreign. Affairs, and Mr. J. C. Hutchlnson. British Charge d'Affaires on Sino-British relations have reached their final stage, according to a usually reliable pro-Commu-nist source. This report said the Chtnese Government has proposed
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    NEW U.S.I. CLAIM TO "TURKO"
    150 1 NEW U.S.I. CLAIM TO "TURKO" JAKARTA. Mon. THE Indonesian Chief Jus- tice, Dr. Tirtawinata, told the press today that Britain must extradite "Turko" Westerling to Indonesia in accordance with the Netherlands-British extradition treaty, which the Indonesians assumed when sovereignty was transferred. Under the terms of Article 5 of the Hague
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    Greek Voters Turn To Left At Polls
    155 1 ATHENS, Monday. r^ENERAL Nicholas Plastiras, a moustachioed old republican warrior, emerged today from the Greek national elections as a powerful new left wing force. With nearly half of the votes counted. Plastiras' National Progressive Union held a slender lead over the country's two
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    MORE FOR ISRAEL
    25 1 HONO KONO. Mon.— Some 121 Jewish refugees from Harbin left Hong Kong for Israel yesterday in two planes under IRO auspices.— A.P.
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    BIG BANGKOK OPIUM HAUL
    100 1 From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Mon.— A highranking police officer and several army personnel were detained today following the seizure of four tons of Illicit opium, worth about one million ticals in Bangkok. The police seized three tons from a plane at Don Muang airfield, while
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    FIVE HURT IN RED FIGHT
    57 1 MATARA, f jylon, Mon Five people were Injured, one seriously, when Communists and non-Communists clashedat a reception here to Dr. 8. A. Wickremaslnghe, Ceylon Communist leader Dr. Wickremasinghc announced that Soviet and Chinese Communist delegates would come to Ceylon for the annual session of the
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    MANILA FIRE
    38 1 MANILA Mon.-Fire struck Manila last night destroying the Santa Cruz building in the heart of Manila's business -district. The blase, apparently accidental, caused property destruction estimated by police at $100,000 However, no casualties were reported. Reuter.
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    S.E. Asia Talks Date Deferred
    244 1 MANILA, Monday. rpHE projected conference in Baguio of Western Pacific and South-East Asian countries for the organization of a political, economic and cultural union is now tentatively scheduled for late April or early May, according to a Foreign Office spokesman. Originally the Philippines had hoped
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    Brind Talks To Quirino
    60 1 MANILA, Mon. PRESIDENT Quirino con- f erred in Baguio City yesterday with Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, Commander-in-Chief of the British Far Eastern Fleet. which is engaged in joint manoeuvres with the United States Seventh Fleet off Western Luzon. Reliable sources say they discussed the general strategy
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    Six Die InKedah Lorry Ambush
    222 1 Six Die InKedah Lorry Ambush OIK people were killed in °an ambush in Kedah yesterday afternoon when a lorry going from Sungei Dingin to the main road in the Kulim district was attacked. The killed were three special constables, an estatclerk, a driver and a labourer. Another special const ablf
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    Teachers Wanted
    23 1 NEW DELHI. Mon. Th« Afghanistan government h»s asked India to recruit tweiv» Indian teachers to Instruct Afghani students in English A.P.
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    HUNGER IS RED ALLY IN ASIA
    212 2 HUNGER IS RED ALLY IN ASIA LONDON, Monday. HUNGER and not politics is responsible for the spread of Communism in Asia, Lord Boyd Orr, former Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation and 1949 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said yesterday. Revolutionary Communism, he added, is likely to spread
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    BRIBE INQUIRY
    46 2 GENERAL MAST, former French Resident-General in Tunisia, who is alleged to have been paid 1,000,000 francs for a copy of a confidential report on IndoChina. It fell Into the hands of the rebels. The General denied the story in the French Assembly. A.P. picture.
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    THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS
    173 2 THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGULATIONS Notice of Application for Variation of a Haulage Permit. We, Sect Kirn Soh, Lim Scow Eng and Chua Khiam Teck of 21 Telulc Ayer Street, Singapore, being holders of Haulage Permit No. 1581 'C give notice of Intention to apply for a variation of
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    Widespread Unrest In Red Area
    127 2 TEHERAN, Mon. REFUGEES crossing the Russian border into Iran are reporting widespread unrest in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, which is in the extreme south of Soviet Central Asia, bordering on Iran and Afghanistan. Soviet newspapers which they carried say: Muslim workers are using slow-down
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    PLEA TO SOVIET
    69 2 LONDON, Mon.— Members of the World Congress for Peace from the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and Italy arrived in Moscow by air yesday to appeal to the Supreme Soviet to defend peace, Moscow Radio reported. Among the travellers, the broadcast said, were Johannes Steel, journalist, and Rockwell
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    ISRAEL ARMING
    61 2 CAIRO. Mon. Azzam Pasha. Secretary-General of the Arab League, said yesterday that Israel realising she must expand or collapse was preparing for "new aggression which may come at any time." He said Israel was receiving large quantities of arms from Czechoslovakia and other countries, and now had "a
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    MONTY SILENT
    40 2 LONDON, Mon. Viscount Montgomery, chairman of the Brussels Treaty Commander-ln-Chiefs' Committee, returned yesterday from a defence conference in Brussels. At Northolt Airport where his special plane landed he said: "There is nothing sDeciflc for me to say." A.P.
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      He Took Liberty, Did Not Infringe Hers
      334 2 VIENNA, Monday. rpHE Austrian Supreme Court Ruled that stealing a 1 kiss is not an infringement on the personal liberty of a girl after the defense attorney pleaded "We were all young flnce ourselves and these things will happen." A provincial court had
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      PRINCE PAYS PEASANTS A FORTUNE
      94 2 ROME. Mon. PRINCE Alle.ssandro Torlonia, Italy's biggest landlord, yesterday stopped peasant unrest on his estate, temporarily at least, by paying bis workers 14 million lira. The Prince's capitulation t» the demands of tenant? on hi s 35,000-acre Fucino Estate, north of here, came as peasants
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    BOMBERS AGAIN BLAST CHINA CITIES
    270 3 Air Attack Near Macao Border Town HONG KONG, Monday. RATIONALIST aircraft yesterday again attacked targets in Central and South China. Among the places attacked were Kinghua in Chekiang province, Chuchow along the Che-kiang-Kiangsi railway and Nanchang, provincial capital of Kiangsi, according to Chinese reports. Leaflets
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    'MONTH' WORKERS
    22 3 A DETAINEE at the Ipoh Detention Camp is shown being brought before Ipoh Anti-Bandit Month volunteers for questioning. r.R. picture.
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    'ASIA MUST LOWER BIRTH RATE'
    264 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. •THE Inited States must teach the world's backward peoples to delay marriage and reduce their birth rates if President Truman's "Point Four programme to improve under-developed areas is to succeed, the Foreign Policy Association said yester- day. The report, prepared by Mr. J.
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    Kwangsi Wages War On Reds
    94 3 HONG KONG. Mon. rt populace of the province of Kwangsi is today waging ita own war against the Communists, according to a special correspondent of the English language newspaper, Sunday Herald. They are waging the war without aid from Nationalists in Taiwan or Hainan. Leaders
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    Protest On Detention Of Hindus
    109 3 NEW DELHI. Mon. TNDIA protested to the Govj x eminent of East Bengal [(Pakistani yesterday against the "forcible restriction of thousands of homeless, penniless, terror-stricken" Hindus 'seeking to flee the country. Indian official sources said j hundreds of Hindu families were marooned and unprotected against
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    High Hopes For New Aid Bill
    138 3 High Hopes For New Aid Bill WASHINGTON. Mon. HJJST American political: "commentatora predict that' .i- U.S. Congress will ap- p ove the third year Marshall plan grant in about the form i -quested by the EC. A. Administrator. Mr Paul Hoffman. Tne Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee Is scheduled to
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    RED PLAN FOR REMITTANCES
    66 3 R ED PL AN FOR REMITTANCES UONG KONG. Mon— The P-ople's Bank of China has bvn requested by the Government to devise regulations lir Chines** overseas remittances to their families, according to the Peking Radio. The regulations will permit remittances to be sent to any part of China through the
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    INDIA PROTEST
    45 3 NEW DELHI. Mon— The Government of India has protested to the Pakistan Government against what official sources here today described as 'grossly exaggerated and fabricated reports about India" broadcast during; the last few weeks- by Pakistan radio and published In the Pakistan press.-^Reu-t^r.
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    ENOUGH SUGAR
    29 3 WASHINGTON. Mon. -The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says there should be enough sugar for everybody this year— but not any to spare —A.P.
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    Govt. Will Disregard Risk To Itself
    207 3 LONDON, Monday. THE King's speech opening Parliament today gave clear warning that the new seven -majority Labour government will pursue its Socialist programme regardless of risk to itself. The speech did not use the word "nationalisation" directly but public ownership proposals forecast in the
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    MALAYAN FISH IN NEW JERSEY
    41 3 MONTCLAIR. New Jersey. Mon —Sixteen thousand tropical fish, including 100 varieties from Malaya, have arrived at the Wilmar Aquarium here. They were flown from Calicut t a in a specially chartered and heated cargo plane. AP.
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    WORKERS BESIEGE JAP PREMIER
    53 3 TOKYO, Mon. Japanese newspapers reported today that the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, had delayed a week-end visit to his holiday villa at Oiso, 40 miles south-west of Tokyo, because 150 workers had besieged the villa waiting to petition him for basic wage revisions. Reuter
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    FUCHS "WILL BE FORGIVEN"
    59 3 LEIPZIG (Germany), Mon. —The father of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, convicted betrayer of atomic secrets to Russia, said yesterday that his son "will be forgiven and regain his freedom in a few years." Dr. Emil Fuchs, 73, a theological professor in the Soviet Zone's Leipzig University, said
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    Hyderabad Escape
    30 3 HYDERABAD, Mon. Mir Lalk AH, former Premier of Hyderabad state, who had been under house arrest since India's "police action" In September, 1948, has escaped from custody.— Reuter.
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    E. GERMAN TRADE TIE WITH REDS
    130 3 LEIPZIG, Mon. riE Communist-dominated East German Government said yesterday that a trade pact with Soviet Russia is almost" completed. Another will be negotiated with Communist China. The Foreign Trade Minister, Georg Handke, told newsmen attending the opening of the Leipzig Fair of the plans
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    Paris Walks To Work As Transport Stops
    229 3 PARIS, Monday. "TENS of thousands of Parisian workers, deprived 1 of underground and bus services by the strike of 32,000, transport employees, walked* cheerfully to work today. Tens of thousands more cycled, thumbed a lift or climbed aboard the 3,000 gov-ernment-run vehicles ranging
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    Tito Calls For Stalin Apology
    57 3 BELGRADE, Mon. PREMIER Marshal Tito said yesterday that if the Soviet Union wants to make peace with Yugoslavia, Stalin "must first apologise and then negotiate." Moreover, he said, in the toughest statement to date on the dispute with Russia, he will never "appeal" for a
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    $ Lack Hits US Farmers
    92 3 Lack Hits US Farmers WASHINGTON, Mon. |g R. Charles Brunnan, Secrem tary of Agriculture, said yesterday, in a report to President Truman, that foreign dollar shortages may rob American farmers of additional export markets and result in even larger domestic farm surpluses. He said this was because the United States
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    U.S. Miners Back To Work With Pay Rise
    152 3 WASHINGTON, Monday. FINAL agreement has been reached on the contract clearing the way for a return to work by America's 372,000 striking soft coal miners. The new contract gives the miners a 70 cents a day wage increase. The miners' contract with
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    EGYPT'S GOOD RICE HARVEST
    44 3 WASHINGTON. Mon.«-The U.S. Agriculture Department said yesterday that Egypt's 1949 rice harvest was of bumper proportions for the third straight year, amounting to 2,575.000,000 pounds, compared with 2,883,000.000 in 1948. Exportable supplies lor 1950 were estimated at 630.000,000 pounds. U.P.
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    RED KILLED
    16 3 PRAGUE, Mon —A leading Communist. Izidor Tausinger, was murdered in Bratislava on Saturday.— Reuter.
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    Check On Atom Men Begins
    123 3 Check On Atom Men Begins LONDON, Mon. OEOURITY police today began the biggest and most intensive top secret projects that screening of scientists on Britain has ever known. After a weekend talk by tha Prime Minister Mr. Clemend Attlee, and Sir Percy SUlitoe, head of the counterespionage organisation MI-5, a
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    REDS ACCUSE SIAM
    62 3 REDS ACCUSE SI AM LONDON, Mon. -The New China News Agency said in broadcast from Peking last night that Ting Pao Chin?, leader of the "overseas" Chinese in Pitsamilok. North Siam. was murdered last month "by agents of Thailand's secret police." The broadcast said Ting was hifc five times by
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    NEW PLAN FOR VOLUNTEERS
    450 4 Specialised Units To Aid Regulars From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THE Federation Volunteer land forces are to be re-con stituted, on a different basis from the pre-war forces, it was announced today. The new land forces are to be trained as specialised units for
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    CALL FOR 36½ HOUR WEEK
    206 4 CALL FOR 36½ HOUR WEEK A SINGAPORE Municipal employee on monthly pay should not work more than 36 y2y 2 hours a week, the Municipal Services Union propose in a memorandum to the Commissioners on conditions of service for month-ly-paid employees. The memorandum also lays down rules of conduct for
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    YWCAFund Donations
    308 4 THE following have subscribed to the Y.WC.A. appeal fund, besides those listed in the Straits Times two weelts ago. 4200: Buan Lee Seng. $150: The East Asiatic Co., Ltd. $100: Dr. Tan Bin Chiang, John Laycock Esq., Oei Tjonj Ie Esq., The Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd., Connel
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    New GOC Visits Ipoh District
    138 4 New GOC Visits Ipoh District From Oar Own Correspondent IPOH, Mon. THE new General Officer Commanding Malaya, MajGen. Urquhart, visited Ipoh this morning. He was received at the aerodrome by Brigadier H. A. Skone, commanding North Malaya SubDistrict. Gen. Urquhart visited the police headquarters where h? spent nearly an hour
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    GIRLS FINED
    37 4 From Our Own Correspondent RAUB, Mon.-Two yoiusc women, Lim Hey and Lee Kuan Lun, were fined $100 each, in default two months' rigorous imprisonment, at Raub, for theft of scrap rubber at Sang Lee Estate.
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    WOMAN STABBED
    38 4 From Our Own Correspondent TAP AH, Mon.— Muniamah. aged 25. was found dead in her room at Tapah and a man has been arrested. She is alleged to have had several pen-knife Injuries on her body.
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    AMERICAN JOINS OUR VARSITY
    160 4 THE University of Malaya has announced that Dr. Paul Banswell Means, Professor of Religion at the University of Oregon, north-western United States, has been admitted as a graduate student. Dr. Means Is the first American to be admitted to the University of Malaya under the so-called
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    Cyclist Fined
    33 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Mon.— A cyclist. Loi Sai Sim, who ignored a stop-look-go traffic signal was fined $5 or three days' simple imprisonment at Muar. DR. PAUL B. MEANS
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    Armlet Men Take 7 Cards & Revolver
    169 4 Armlet Men Take 7 Cards Revolver From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Monday. HIVE Chinese and a Malay wearing armlets took seven 'dentity cards, a revolver and some ammunition at gun-point after entering a Kedah miner's house at West Jelutong yesterday on the pretext of checking cards. The miner. Mr. Ung
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    Banned For 7 Years
    92 4 PENANG, Mon. A 42-year-old syce whose car killed a man in Penang was today disqualified from driving for seven years for dangerous driving and fined a total of $700. He was Muthusamy, aged 42, who was fined $400 or four months" rigorous imprisonment for dangerous driving*
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    NO VISITORS FOR WESTERLING
    82 4 CAPT.. "Turko" Westerling bad no visitors in his cell in Chanfi Prison on Sunday, because no inmate is allowed to have callers during the week-ends. Visiting hours are from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on week days. Now that Westerling Is permitted to receive friends, anybody
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    INSPECTOR CAUGHT IN BRIBE TRAP, COURT TOLD
    329 5 agent of the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Singapore Police told the First District Court yesterday how, acting on information, he set a trap which resulted in the arrest of a longservice police officer on corruption charges. In the dock was Chief Inspector Mohamed
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    SPORTS CLUB DANCE
    60 5 A HAPPY GROUP at the Girls Sports Club Ball held at the Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday night Left to right: Dr. Tessensohn. Mr. A. Distant. Dr. G de Souza Mrs. P. F. de Souza. Mr. P. Scully (standing) Mrs. G. F de Souza, Mrs. C. L.
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    Big Drop In 1949 Serious Crimes
    205 5 Big Drop In 1949 Serious Crimes From Our Staff Corrr*p..nUtnt KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. LAST year serious crime, apart from terrorism, diminished considerably, according to statistics issued by the Judicial Department In the Supreme Court the number of such cases fell from 551 to 321, the number of persons charged from
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    RURAL BOARD
    18 5 The Singapore Rural Board will meet at 10 a.m. on March 1« In the Land Office.
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    FASHION PARADE FILMED
    98 5 FASHION PARADE FILMED SHAW Brothers made a film of the fashion parade last night for those who were not able to attend the Festival of Chinese Fashion last Saturday. The film, which will be ready for screening In Singapore and in the Federation this week-end, may Include some 16 m.m.
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    TEMPTED, HE FELL
    55 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Cha/ged with riding a motor cycle without a licence Ng Nee Kow. of Masai, said In the Police Court today that when the motor cycle was left in front of his shop by his friends he could not resist the chance of having a
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    PLANES LAND AT KUANTAN AGAIN
    65 5 From Our Staff Correspondent M,. KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. ALATAN Airways reported today that, with better weather, the Kuantan aerodrome, which was flooded yesterday, was now serviceable. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow. A PWD report received this morning stated that the 68th mile Kota Tinggi-Mersing
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    Lighter Rates Deadlock
    329 5 QWNERS and operators of about 800 Singapore v lighters are concerned over the deadlock existing between them and the three Chambers of Commerce, which have refused to accept the uniform rates of lighterage and demurrage charges drafted by the Lighterage Consultative Committee. Certain quarters fear that la
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    HAD NO CARD
    53 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Urn Kirn Chwee told the Magistrate when charged today with falling to produce his identity card for Inspection that he had Just stepped out of his shop when he was asked for his card. It was in the shop. He
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    Singapore Diary
    78 5 Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, Town Wayfarers' meeting:, 3 pjn. first aid lecture, 4 p.m. TEACHERS' CHORAL SOCIETY, rehearsal, Victoria Memorial Hall, 5 pjn. open to all. CHINESE YJH.C.A., 107, Selegle Road, weight-lifting, 5.30 p.m.. chess club, 7 p.m., Chinese art of self-defence, 8 p.m. POLICE BAND. Parrer Park,
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    JOHORE CYCLISTS TWO OFFENCES
    56 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.The first case against a cyclist for not paying the new tax of $3 came before the Police Court today when Tan Peng Cheng was charged with the offence. Tan was fined $150 and another $1 for leaving hJs bicycle
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    Sarawak Moves Ahead In Local Govt.
    334 5 THD a large extent, local government is being practised in Sarawak, and the people are showing themselves quite capable of handling their own affairs. Mr. C. W. Dawson, 'retiring Chief Secretary, and until recently Officer Administering the Government of Sarawak, expressed this view to.
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    4 BIRTHS TO EVERY DEATH IN COLONY
    136 5 THERE were four births to every death in Singapore last year. According to official figures just published, 46,169 babies were registered between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. Deaths in the same period totalled 11,621. Most of the new babies were Chinese; there were
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    CAMP SHOOTING INQUEST SOON
    73 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE Johore Bahru Coronet is to hold an nquir> into the shooting of three Chinese at Majeedie ilamp, who were killed when guards opened fire on detainees who attacked Dato Wong Shee Fun in January. Guards, it was stated,
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    Peking Will Not Be A Puppet, Says Mr. Tan
    163 5 pHINA wIU not lose her Independence by becoming a satellite or Soviet Russia, declared Mr. Tan Kan Kee, Singapore businessman and Consultative Councillor of the new Chinese People's Government, in his first public address since his return from China. At the
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Mar. 7. 1950.
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      The Peril In India
      809 6 So^ccustomed has the world become to tension between Pakistan and India that there is some danger of the heightened stresses of recent weeks passing unrecognised. Massacres in Bengal and heated words in Delhi and Karachi have produced a situation scarcely distinguishable from the approach of war.
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      Off the Course
      244 6 In dismissing the Singapore Turf Chib's objection to the imposition of entertainment duty on members' subscriptions, the Film and Entertainments Duty Policy Committee drew support from the decision of an English court regarding membership of a cricket club The court decided that a proportion of the annual
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    TRANSFERRED
    30 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Mr. P. O. Hess has been appointed Assistant Controller of Supplies Kelantan, Trenganu and Pahang East. He succeeds Mr. A. R. Munro who left on transfer.
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    A FAMOUS CHIEF OF THE C.I.D.
    1720 6  - A FAMOUS CHIEF OF THE C.I.D. SIT YIN FONG Thirty Years In The Strait& Police By |JACK in 1928, kingpin Sin Ghee Hin ruled the roost of the triad secret societies in Penang. Its business was chiefly to make money by extortion and "protection" fees, and by tne promotion of
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      Why No Water Barrels In Chinatown?
      227 6 DOES your correspondent, Mr.. Song Kok Eng (in his letter of Feb. 28 headed "Standpipe As A Laundry?"), realise that for many of the cubicle dwellers of Singapore the public standpipes are the only facility available for bathing and washing In view of their
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      A FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
      221 6 SOME days ago there appeared in the Straits Times an announcement saying that the University of Malaya might have a Faculty of Engineering. Could you. or any personage of the University, please enlighten me as to when this Faculty will come into existence? Many of our
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      PARKING CARS: A WASTE.
      152 6 AS a motorist I would like to. raise my objection against senseless waste of good parking ground at Collyer Quay, Raffles Place and elsewhere in the heart of Singapore and the resultant loss of costly petrol and drivers' patience. •It is a great wonder that nobody
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    On The Margin
    419 6 On The Margin Sir Alec Newboull CIR Alec Newboult Is leaving Kuala Lumpur tomorrow on retirement, and we may be sure that one of the most nostalgic experiences of his last few days has been his visit to Kuala Selangor a,wctk ago today. That was the first time that Sir
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    MR. TAN PRAISES LABOUR CHIEF
    303 7 MR. TAN PRAISES LABOUR CHIEF SINGAPORE'S rival political parties, Progressive and Labour, joined last night to wish bon voyage to Mr. Fran- dl Thomas, president of II" Labour Party. Mr Thomas with Mrs. Thomas, is shortly going to the UK on holiday. Many speakers praised the woik Mr Thomas had
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    POLICE BAND
    15 7 Thf Singapore police band will perform at Fairer Park \lm evening at 5.45.
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    He Had A Badge— 4 Months
    176 7 He Had A Badge— 4 Months "f F the Emergency is to mean 1 anything, punishment in this case will have to be severe" said the Singapore Fourth Police magistrate, Mr. D A Fyfe, when he sentenced a pork-seller, Fong Hin, yesterday to four months' rigorous imprisonment for possession of
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    OBSTRUCTION
    27 7 TELUK ANSON. Mon.— For causing obstruction on a public road with his trishaw Hong Kirn Choo was convicted and fined $10. or 10 days rigoious imprisonment.
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    ROBBERS TOOK BIBLES
    197 7 ROBBERS TOOK BIBLES rREE robbers who entered a house in Cheng Guan Street, escaped with over $1,000 in cash and valuables and also took all the bible? they could lay their hands on. it was stated in the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. In the dock stood Ong Lay Kee, only
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    SPEED FINE
    41 7 Santok Singh was fined $75 in the Singapore First Traffic Court yesterday, when he pleaded to driving his three-ton lorry In Woodlands Road at 10 to 12 miles in excess of the speed limit of 20 miles per hour.
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    CAUSTIC SODA POISONING
    45 7 A 40-year-old Singapore Chinese was taken to the General Hospital from a house in Johore Road yesterday afternoon in a serious condition, suffering from caustic soda poisoning. Earlier, a woman was treated at hospital suffering from the effects of taking eucalyptus oil.
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    Girl (10) Accused Of Murder
    260 7 BABY FOUND DEAD IN WILL DECAI SE she was scolded by her foster mother, a 10-year-old Indian girl was alleged to have snatched her 20-day-old baby sister from her cot and thrown her into a well. The baby was found dead about two hours later.
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    POSTAL CLERK IS CLEARED
    125 7 I/T.SAR Singh, a clerk atIV tached to the Singapore Post Office Savings Bank, was acquitted in the Second Police Court, Singapore, yesterday, by the Magistrate. Mr. E. V. A. Peers, on a charge of having committed criminal breach of trust of $41.01, or alternatively of having
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    Countess Mountbatten In S'pore Today
    253 7 Countess Mountbatten In S'pore Today fOUNTESS Mountbatten of Burma, head of the y St. John Ambulance Association, Is due at Tengah today from Ceylon by special plane. She is coming to Malaya to continue her tour of Service hospitals and nursing: units. In Singapore this after- noon and tomorrow morning,
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    Two To Be Arrested
    118 7 THE Singapore Coroner. Mr. W. G. Porter, issued a warrant for the arrest of two men. Lim Bay and Ah Hock, after an inquiry yesterday into the death of 19-year-old Yap Bok Seng, a labourer who was stabbed to death near his home in Havelock Road
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    WATER COLOUR EXHIBITION
    379 7 r£ exhibition of water colours by Dr. William Clyde, of the Commissioner-General's staff, which is now open at Robinson's, Is proving one of the most successful exhibitions ever given by an amateur artist in Singapore. Sixty-six pictures more than half of those on .lew -were sold after
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    56 7 THE COMMANDANT GENERAL of the Royal Air Force, Marshal H. T. Lyford. who arrived in Singapore on Saturday, inspecting a guard of honour mounted by the R.A.F. Regiment (Malaya) at Tengah to welcome him. On the right of Air Vice Marshal Lyford Is Fl. Lt. J. E. S. Wilson, who
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    TOOK OPIUM FOR GASTRITIS
    55 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Because he had gastritis he became an opium addict last year, Sic Tal Kang said In the Sessions Court today •when charged with possession of two packets of chandu. The Court, ordered that he be examined by a doctor.
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    HMS CEYLON FOR EASTERN DUTY
    55 7 The Uganda Class cruiser Ceylon will sail from Portland at the end of March for full power trials before going to the East Indies Station. Commanded by Captain C. F. J. L. Davies, Ceylon was completed in July, 1943. In July. 1944, she took part
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  • S'PORE ACTS TO CHECK TYPHOID SALE—IN (HINESE
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      Action To Be Taken Against Ice Hawkers
      249 7 Action To Be Taken Against Ice Hawkers TO prevent a possible widespread outbreak of typhoid in Singapore, the Municipality is to take "drastic action" against unlicensedhawkers selling ice-cream, ice-cream potong and popsicles. At a press conference yesterday, the Senior Assistant Health Officer, Dr. H. R. Morrison, said that some of
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      19 Hawkers In Court
      91 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Pol lowing three cases of typhoid in Johore Bahru the Health Department is intensifying its drive on unlicensed food hawker*. Today in the Police Court nineteen men, women and children ere prosecuted for hawking food'uffs for sale without being
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    Petrol Ration: Lay cock Wants Answer Soon
    149 7 r^HE question of abolishing petrol rationing in Singapore will be revived by Mr. John Laycock (progressive Municipal North-East)', at the next meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council. Mr. Laycock told the Straits Times yesterday that he would wait for a definite reply till
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    DECISION THIS MONTH
    133 7 DECISION THIS MONTH COLLYER QUAY SOME time this month, Singapore Municipal Engineers will decide how wide is to be the traffic Island in Collyer Quay. Barrels which at present mark the island will then be removed to make way for a permanent concrete ttraeture. For experiments so far. the island
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    EGGS THEFT CHARGE
    49 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU Mon Ng Ah Kwai, 64-year-old attendant of the tuberculosis ward at the Johore Bahru Hospital, when charged with stealing 29 eggs. from the Government, replied that the eggs were given to him by the patients. Ball in $100 was allowed.
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    Cleared On Appeal
    74 7 m. Mr From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Men i LORRY driver, Poh Ah Chow who was .senif>nc«d at Segamat to live month*' imprisonment after conviction on a charge of ra'-h driving, had his sentence quashed on appeal. Mr. S. C. Macltuyre argued the appeal which wai
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    13 SINGAPORE ACCIDENTS
    56 7 A 51-ye»r-old Sing:><) c Chinese was seriously hutfc and taken to hospital unconscious yesterday aftnnoon after being knock, d down by a lorry in Canal Road. Two Malay labourers wl l c slightly injured after falling from a Municipal lorry ytsterday morning In Upper Serangoon Road. These
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    MR. EDEN WAS TOLD: DON'T BE ROUGH WITH STALIN
    1877 8  -  WINSTON S. CHURCHILL By Mr. Churchill Uxft London for his second meeting uith Mr. Roosevelt on Dec. 12. 1941. He travelled in H MS. Duke of York, together with Lord Beaverbrook, Field-Marshal Sir Jnhn Dill (the former Chief o? the Imperial
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    Quakers' advice to those in love
    195 8 Quakers advice to those in love IF you are sure you are in love, marry— even If it means living in one room or a caravan. That advice to young couples was given in London recently in a pamphlet by the Society of Friends, based on the observations of 14
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      273 8 THREE ANSWERS to a problem I^WV THE A4O' COUNTRYMAN wiU carry si« __^^^§«J^rt B^ I a^H m BS passengers in comfort or half-a-tom of «ys b^ 2?^r K<x>di with THE A4o* PICK-UP 'it a light open truck libM ■^■ffßjf with sturdy body that will easily take f -^^4 ==S?\\^g ■■■bV^^lk
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      235 8 1 ys getting somePEP 1 1 VIGOR I f Tnesqettinq cSSI/ I says ELSIE the BORDEN cow W It's not surprising how much energy yemngsters can gain from i f drinking KLIM milk even <***• Every rlms^ul brims with ■f L wholesome nourishment to necessary for growing children. You jk
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      167 8 SINGAPORE "-3 0 News and News A™ 15 1 B.V.S.B.S. lpm Light Music (R^dlo Orch.); 9.55 a.m. Music; 10 News; 10.10 monwealth; Survey; 5.30 "Twenty 1 30 News; 1.45 Dance Music; Close; 10.50-2 p.m. As Spore; years After"; 6.00 Indonesian; 2 Close; 6 Listeners' Choice; 7 6 Mall Bag; 7
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    From an estate bungalow
    379 9 fXS every estate throughout the country there are numbers of orphans, many of them left parentless fn>low ng the occupation All these children are well looked after, either adopted into good homes or cared for til! they are old enough to work, but they still look
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    43 9 JEAN SIMMONS poses In an afternoon dress, part of the wardrobe drsi*ned by Frederick Starke for her list birthday. The dress is in crepe tweed, broadly banded in tone* of grey and mustard. The whirl-pleat-ed skirt makes effective use of the two colours.
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    NUMDAS FOR THE NURSERY
    880 9  -  Derek Drabble Before World War IT millions of Numdas were ex- does the word Kashmir convey to you? Spelt cashmere, immediately it conjures up a warm, gentle, smoothly furry memory of great grandma's shawl. Or a highly priced travelling rug bought in Regent Street, \jondon, for
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    LEARN TO RELAX
    518 9  -  JOAN HERBERT By (\F recent years much v has been said and written about relaxation, but so often the term has been used in its wrong sense to cover any form of entertainment or sport. What is in fact meant in the true sense is bodily relaxation
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    BABY'S DAILY SUN BATH
    250 9 NURSE BRIDGET writes on— "SUNFLOWER" writes: "I am wondering whether it is considered advisable to give baby a sun bath and if so at what age shoud he start and how long should It take? He is breast-fed and very healthy." Yes, certainly baby may have
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      51 9 iiipPlNEli FOR THE WORLD'S BABIES Thanks to this special ly-prepared Boby Food R'»oer's waking hours are olive with fun His sleeping hours ore wrapped in sound peaceful slumber. LACTOGEN is available in Dispensaries and Provision Stores in all ports of Malaya, Price*: Mb tin $1.85 2Vi-lb tin $4.20 C L
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      149 9 The cocktail that's good for you y&fiL TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL r £y MAKE IT WITH: p MOUNTAIN MAIDTOMATO JUICE Ingredients: A tin of Mountain Maid Tomato ii u 2 teaspoons, of finely chopped onion 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. 2 tablespoons w'.ne vinegar, 2 teaspoons of finely chopped celery 2
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  • FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHELF
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      An author with a chip on his shoulder
      499 10 Reviewed by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON "SCENES FROM A BOURGEOIS LIFE:" The autobiography of Alaric Jacob. (Seeker and Warburg. 155.). WHO has been unkind to Alaric Jacob? Why does he write divertingly, vet with a chip on his shoulder? Perhaps if he had
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      Book exhibition for Singapore
      375 10 •THE British Council is organising a Books Exhibition at the British Council Hall, Singapore, Sunday. March 26 to Sunday April 2, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The books will be divided into sections: Prose Literature, Arts and Crafts, Technical Instruction (Carpentry, Engineering. etc>. Medicine. Education,
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      DOGS IN A FOG
      231 10 "DOGS OF TODAY", by Harding Cox (Adam and Charles Black,. 10s. 6d). HARDING Cox begins his introduction by saying that the "origin of the domestic dog is wrapped in mystery". He then attempts to unravel the mystery. He does not succeed -and by the time the
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      Books worth borrowing
      99 10 THHE following new books and reprints will be added to Raffles Library within the next few day^:"The Bend of the River", Godfrey Wlnn. "The Land of Italy", Jasper More. •Ocar Wilde and the Black Douglas". The Marquess ol Queen sberry. "Aahcombe: Story of a Fifteen Year Lease",
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      225 10 SHOWING FROM TODAY 11 a.m.- 1.45-4.00-6.30 930 p.m. BOOK Si COME EARLY! EARLY! THIS IS HOW .t_____ 1^ \IT 5 THE V W •Pickup fl BT" t ENTHTAINMeN! jß^ J HISTOBYI V i H_^^ Marion Marsf.ail I Randy Stuart William Neff jHhßHßfllflH|M r howarFhawrs \m Wm/Jw soiTsikei |MMRKf/fi^ _w/^^______-i___t J
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      187 10 ,1,733 FOR TWO DAYS ONLY H PH I 11 m.; 1.43; 4.15: 6.45 9.30 p.m. -i Victims of a Relentless T Manhunt, But Desperately In Love They Asked of 1 Fate ONLY ONE THING.... JUST ONE MORE CHANCE! J/\IVI* J^Bm^ '^m Ycvrt crazy to ttkfc to jT fw '":>. ftmJmuMtmm
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      118 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD MMM M. Under d.|r>dlDl injuo* CROSSWORD No. 8 I I «tood like one tioo <6J. 9. Clo«Jt child lacking mtn a trtleM war (7) >» Bis ss> ssss ia».— colour (T> s6 Government <X>j>arimeat 10. Off «iini tor money •»«> il Merit a neid-4fWU <5> m«h neu
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      Chinese Invest In Rabaul
      155 11 Chinese Invest In Rabaul From Omt Owi C*rreapoa4eat MELBOURNE, Mon. p abaul, main port of the Australian trusteeship territory of New Guinea, has become a favourite resort for refugee capital from Communist China and from Chinese investment- fields In South-East Asia that are menaced by Communism, according to the Sydney
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      Rahman Hydraulic
      15 11 DAHMAN Hydraulic Tin announces that tin-ore won In February amounted to 916 plculs.
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      BURMA-MALAY TIN OUTPUTS
      39 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. DURMA-MALAY Tin announces 0 these On-ore outputs for February: Katu Dredging— 9B,ooo cubic yards dredged, 561 piculs of ore won. Renong Consolidated Dredging 1 88,000 cubic yards. 495 plculs.
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      Batu Lintang Rubber
      13 11 BATU Llntang Rubber Estate's February crop amounted to 83.000 lbs.
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      NATURAL RUBBER: "A FAIR DEAL "AT LAST?
      189 11 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, MOD. Jtf ATURAL rubber as a genuine earner of American dollars at long last looks like getting a fair deal, according to Mr. Alan A. Conway, chairman of the Rubber Trade Association of London. A fair deal, he
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      MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
      104 11 From Our Market Correspondent \/l ALAYAN Tin shares yesterday were not very iT1 much affected by the continued improvement in the tin metal price. However, one or two popular Tin issues were fractionally steadier. Industrials were quietly firm. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday
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      TIN PRICES
      30 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Mar. 6.— 1290 JM (op $1.37 Vi). LONDON, Mon. Mar. 6. Spot- £599]— £600 Forward: £s«7f— £sBB} Settlement: £600. Turnover: Morning 65 tons, afternoon 60 tons.
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      WORLD TIN OUTPUT
      101 11 THE HAQUB, Mon. THE world tin statistical position, as published In the February bulletin of the International Tin Study Group, shows that world production of tin in concentrates in December totalled 14,500 long tons 300 tons more than In November. The advance was the result mainly of
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      London Rubber
      28 11 Mar 6: Spot, 16 5/16d. April, 16 3 16d. April -June, 16d. JulySept., 15^d Oct.-Dec., 16 3/1M. March UTid. March- April c.i.f. 15 ll/16d. Market: Steady
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      Singapore Rubber
      145 11 the Singapore rubber mar- ket opened steadier yesterday on the news that the coal strike in the United States was to be settled. Towards the dose, however, it became quiet and easier. Closlpg prices yesterday ".ere No. 1 R.S.B. spot loose buyers 53% cents, sellers 53* cents; No.
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      THE PRODUCE MARKET
      106 11 From A Market Correspondent pOFFEE In the Singapore proIs duce market yesterday was again quiet but slightly easier, with sellers for Rio 5 at $140 per plcul but no buyers. Copra was slightly steadier, buyers quoting (37% and sellers $38 per plcul. Coconut oil sellers quoted $62
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      SHIPPING AT THE SINGAPORE WHARVES
      115 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yosterday (godowns In brackets) were: Main Wharf: Ruys '42/3): Baud (40/41>: Mongolia <38/9); Medon (35/6); Fredrick Lykes »33/4): Anchises (31/2). West Wharf: Breconshlre (15/6); Maetsuycker (13/4); Rondo (11); Socotra (8/8); Benalder (6/7); Marseilleg (1/2). Empire Dock: Charon (17/8);
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      The Rubber Study Group Meets On May 2
      95 11 LONDON, Monday. TTHE International Rubber Study Group will open it* seventh meeting in Brussels on May 2. It will review the world rubber situation and will as usual examine the world statistical position of production and consumption. The Kingdom of Slam and
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    SCHOOLBOYS LEAVE ON TOUR ON THURSDAY
    424 12 SCHOOLBOYS LEAVE ON TOUR ON THURSDAY To Play Series Of Games In W. Australia FOURTEEN schoolboys, representing the Singapore Combined Schools Cricket XI, will sail to Perth on Thursday by the Charon for a series of cricket matches with Western Australian schools. The selected prayers are Ong Beng Bee, B.
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    ENGLAND XV v. SCOTLAND
    166 12 LONDON. Mon.— There may oe a new centre In the England Rugby Union team to meet Scotland m the Calcutta Cup match at Murray flelt*, Edinburgh, on Mar. 18. B. Iprlyer, the Oxford University centre, has been omitted, and th* question of who will partner J.
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    Australians 'Unbeatable'
    57 12 MELBOURNE. Mon. T^\ S. DULEEPSINHJI, newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to Australia, said 'iere it would do cricket a lot of good if Australia were defeated. Australia are so far ahead that it Is impossible to imagine them being beaten, the former Indian Test cricketer declared. "Their batting,
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    98 Horses Deleted In Past 6 Months
    494 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By PENANG, Monday. SINCE last September when the Straits Racing Association allowed owners to replace deleted horses, a total of 98 horses from all classes have been deleted for replacements. With the ever-increasing demand for fresh blood, the ranks of Class
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    GUSSIE WINS
    59 12 CAIRO. Mon— Miss Gertrud* \toren entered the semi-finals of the women's singles In the Bgyp'ian tennis championships here yesterday by defeating \l\si O. Oress of Egypt 8-0. 6-0. Mm Gem Heahing and Pat Hughes of Britain advanced to thr second round of the mixed doubles beating Egyptian pair
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    ITALY WIN 3-1
    22 12 BOLOGNA. Mon.— lialy beat Belgium by three goala to one in an Intel national soccer match here vetterday.— Re'i*-'.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    27 12 TODAY: 12.37 am ft. t in > aud 12.42 p.m. (10 ft TOMORROW: 105 a.m. ti ft. 1 la.) Mad 1.2t pm. (t ft I i
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    MALAYAN TENNIS MEET FOR K.L
    92 12 From Our SUB Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ■THIS year's Malayan Lawn Tennis championships have been tentatively fixed to be played in Kuala Lumpur from Aug. 3 to Aug. 7, it was reYealed at the annual general meeting of the Selanfor Lawn Tennis Association. Members suggested
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    S'pore Rifle Shoot At Easter
    155 12 S'pore Rifle Shoot At Easter rE Singapore Rifle Association will hqld its Easter Price Meeting at Seletar Rifle Range, starting at 7.30 a.m. on April 8, and continuing the following day. At this rifle meeting a Tyro class i only open to those who have never won a priie at
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    DAVIS CUP
    31 12 LONDON, Mon.— The United States, the champion nation, have asked the English Lawn Tennis Association as usual to manage the European Zone of the Davis Cup competition this year.
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    Inter-Club Golf Draw For Sunday
    703 12 BELOW w U»e draw 101 the golf match between Island Club and Royal Singapore Golf Club to be played at Buklt Tlmah on Sunday morning. The ties given below are respectively from first and tenth tees. The contest will be match play on handicap Island
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    Indians Score 3-1 Win Over Customs
    220 12 I'HE INDIAN Recreation Club beat the Customs Sports Club by three-one in a junior A-l league fixture played on the BODCA ground at St. Georges Road. The young Indian team, playing with only ten men for threequarters of the game after their centre-half. Murugasu.
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    F.A. CUP DRAW: SEMI-FINALS
    55 12 LONDON. Mon. THE DRAW for the semifinals of the F.A. Cup made today resulted as follows: Chelsea will meet Arsenal at Tottenham on Mar. It; Liverpool will meet Everton at Maine Road. Manchester, on Mar. 25. Replays, if necessitated, will be held on the same grounds
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    ARELLAND UNIV. WIN AGAIN
    58 12 Arellano University of Manila won their third successive victory at basketball when they beat the Chong 800 by 71-46 at Happy World stadium last night. SAO PAULO. BRAZIL. Mon.— Following their appearances here. Japans travelling swimming team will go to the United States for a meet
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    Sports Diary
    30 12 SOCCER: Sw. L«e.: Rover* InJUna. Jalan Besar stadium. Jnr. B.I: Cheerful Lad» T Social A.P at Geylang stadium; Jnr. A .2: RAF Tengah v C««iio» S.C., C.V.M.A. ground.
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    AUSTRALIA WIN BY INNS. 259 RUNS
    101 12 PORT ELIZABETH, Monday. 4 USTR ALIA* finished the fifth and final Test match A against South Africa here today in the third day of play by winning by an innings and 259 runs, thus winning four matches with one drawn In the series. Facing
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    SCOREBOARD
    161 12 AUSTRALIA lat Inn*.—s4l ror wkt. dccl. SOUTH AFRICA—Ist Inns. Rowan b Johnston 40 Nel b Miller Draper c Johnston b Miller Nourae c Met 00l b Miller 37 Begble c Saggers b Noblet Winilow Ibw Noblet Fnllerton st. Saggers b McCool Tayfleld st. Saggers b MeCool 6 Melle b
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    Katong Sajarah Beat Rocklites
    97 12 THE Katong Sajarah Sports Club beat Rocklite Sports Club by four goals to one in a Junior B. 2 Division soccer played at Oeylang Stadium yesterday. It was a one-sided game. The Sajarah was definitely the superior side and made use of all chances coming their
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    Wickets Fall Fast In Drawn Match
    259 12 Wickets Fall Fast In Drawn Match COLOMBO. Mon. THE three-day match between the Commonwealth team and a combined India, Pakistan and Ceylon eleven ended In a draw at the Ovat here today. The Commonwealth storecj 141, dismissed their opponent* for 75. and then made 45 for four in their second
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    CYCLE RACE ON MAR. 26
    99 12 Singapore cyrlists will begin current season's racing programing on Sunday, March 26 with tha staging of a 25-mile massed atarL race. Tho event will be the first of six which will make up the 1950 Singapore "Best All-R ound c r" open cycling competition. Ths
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