The Straits Times, 15 July 1950

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  • 18 1 The straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1950. PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 547 1 South Korean Govt. Moves From Taejon TOKYO, Friday. gTRONG forces of Communist troops disguised in American uniforms have crossed the Kum River near Taejon and cracked the line of United States defences along the south bank, United States field headquarters in Korea said today. Violent fighting
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  • 41 1 OSLO, Frl. The British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Vengeance dragged Its moorings today at Stavanger, southwest Norway, hitting the wall and roof of a warehouse on the quay. Slight damage was caused to the bows of the 13,190-ton warship.— Reuter.
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  • 38 1 LATE NEWS Trygve Lie's Appeal IN Lake Success today Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary of the United Nations told the Press that he had appealed to D.N. members to aid the Korean republic "In particular with ground forces." Reuter.
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  • 152 1 'DUNKIRK' IS NOT IN SIGHT WASHINGTON, Frl. A HIGH United States Army officer told a Press conference here today "there is no Dunkirk In sight in Korea." While he said, he wa s not under-estimating the seriousness of the situation, he insisted that there was nothing like a catastrophe in
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    27 1 TWO SISTERS from Trengganu— Mak Toh, aged 70, on the left and Mak Yah aged 65. who are making their first trip to Mecca. Straits Times picture.
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  • 194 1 CANBERRA, Friday. rrHE Australian Cabinet has decided to prosecute any person actively preventing the export of arms and equipment to Servicemen abroad. The Attorney General Mr. John Splcer, announcing this today added that inquiries were being made Into the decision of the Communistdominated Federal Seamen's
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  • 107 1 'Disregard Of Common Humanity' LONDON, Frl. BRITAIN today accused Russia of "contradicting the facts" regarding the number of German prisoners still held in Russia A note to the Soviet Union accused the Russian Government of "complete disregard for the principles of common humanity." The note drew the Soviet Government's attention
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  • 169 1 ABOUT 2,000 Muslim men, women and children from the Federation. Singapore. Slam, Borneo, and Sarawak making the pilgrimage to Mecca will celebrate Harl Raya Puasa on Sunday or Monday at Penang. Six hundred of them left Singapore yesterday on the Tyndareus and the
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  • 241 1 From A Market Correspondent THE Singapore tin price jumped by $20 to $365 a A picul yesterday, recording the highest rise in a day for 30 years. In London yesterday the Spot price rose by £28 to £720-£721 a ton. The London tin price
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  • 52 1 PREMIER KIM'S VOCABULARY HONG KONG, Frl. PREMIER Kim Ir Sen of North Korea told his forces today that they must drive the Americans from all Korea. He referred to the Americans in a broadcast over Radio Pyongyang as "robbers. butchers vampires with bloodstained hooves plunderers. bullies colonial looters and armed
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  • 17 1 PRAGUE, Frl. Security police have ordered the closing of the American Institute in Czechoslovakia.— Reuter.
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  • 138 1 PARALLEL bills tightening the control of immigration into the Federation and Singapore are now being drafted by the two Governments. In the Federation, it is understood that the essential features of the proposed bill have been considered by the Conference of Rulers— a requirement laid down
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  • 278 1 INDIA OFFER TO MEDIATE DENIED NEW DELHI, Friday. JNDIA has made no offer to mediate in the Korean dispute, according to authoritative quarters here. These sources were commenting on the Prime Minister Pandit Nehru's personal messages to Marshal Stalin and Mr. Dean Acheson, the American Secretary of State. The Indian
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  • 208 1 MenziesAttlee Talk On Korea LONDON, Frl. NEWEST Korea developments were discussed to- day In top level consultations between Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee, Commonwealth High Commissioners and leading British Cabinet Ministers. The meeting was followed j immediately by a private discussion between Mr. Attlee and other Cabinet leaders with Mr. Menzles,
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  • 35 1 ISTANBUL, Fri.— The American Consulate-General in Istanbul today issued instructions to its staf? and to members of the American colony here for their evacuation from the city in case of emergency. Reuter.
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  • 184 2 Yugoslavs Can Beat Off Red Border Threat BERLIN, Fri. TT S. military experts have completed a study of the Balkans situation and have concluded that Marshal Tito's Yugoslavs are able and willing to stave off any threat of force by the surrounding Cominform nations. This was disclosed yesterday by a
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  • 54 2 PRAGUE, Fri. A new discipline order for the Czechoslovak Army, based on the experience of the Soviet Union, was issued yesterday. The Ministry of National Defence said that the order "has jnade use of Invaluable political and fighting experiences from the Invincible armed forces of the
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  • 85 2 GHENT (Belgium), Fri. THE state yesterday demanded a prison sentence of one year for Walter Baels, brother-in-law of King Leopold, for failure to Join the Belgian free armed forces during the world war. Baels, arrested last week when he returned to Belgium for the funeral
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  • 29 2 CROWN PRINCE Akihito and Mrs. Douglas Mac Arthur at. fair held by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Tokyo. A. P. picture.
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  • 191 2 LONDON, Friday. HIDE that big toe, a clergyman admonished women yesterday. The Rev. F. F. Baker criticised, In a sermon, the way some women "allow their naked, ugly toe to protrude from a hole in their shoe". He added: "No woman of any
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  • 152 2 THE HAGUE, Fri. A plan to raise the social and economic level of Dutch New Guinea with particular attention to education and health, was announced yesterday in a Dutch Government note to Parliament. It envisages the gradual extension of administration over the entire territory and
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    • 685 2 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, PENANG POSITION VACANT Applications are Invited and will be received In the Office of the Settlement Engineer, Penang, up to the 25th of July, 1950, from Federal Citizens or persons eligible for Federal Citizenship for the temporary post of Supervisor. Waterworks, Province Wellesley, at a
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    • 545 2 NOTICES MALAYAN CHINESE ASSOCIATION 4th Unlimited $1/- Sweep For MEMBERS only. Drawing at the Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, the 16th July, at 2 P.M. NATURALISATION NOTICE is hereby given that MICHAEL JOHN REDHILL, Of 4, Amber Mansions, Singapore, Is applying to the Governor for naturalisation and that
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    • 732 2 NOTICES ~THE~KuiIDONG RUBBER ESTATE, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation Of Malaya) NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVSN that an Interim Dividend ot B% less 30% Income Tax has been declared, In respect of the Financial year ending 30th September 1950, payable on the 15th August ink), to shareholders on the Register at
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    • 704 2 NOTICES I P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE Tenders from Class A As B Contractors will be received at the Office of the State Engineer, Perak, Ipoh up to S p.m. on Monday 7th August for the Construction of a Reinforced concrete Elevated Storage Tank of 100.000 gallon capacity at Parlt Buntar. Krlan.
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    • 174 2 NASSIM CO., LIMITED will sell by Public Auction At the NETHERLANDS ARMY PURCHASING DEPARTMENT 320. Serangoon Road, (near New World Amusement Park), on, WEDNESDAY, 19th JULY, 1950. commencing at 10.30 a.m. A large quantity of miscellaneous Roods comprising: Iron Safes, Fireproof Steel Filing Cabinets it Cupboards, "Marsh" Stencil Machine, Fairbanks
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    • 98 2 &;ii»iiiiiiiMiiiC3iiiii!iiiiiic]iiiiiiiiiii;c3iiiiiitiiiiit]iiimiiiiiic]!iiiiiiiiiiic:'-"" J THE TAVERN (European Residential Hotel) (Open to Non Residents) ALL ROOMS ARE CONNECTED WITH TEL. EXCHANCE g 5 _j Our Coiffeur de Dames is operated by American trained Miss Mm, Meals A La Cart* served up to Midnight Special Dinner Every Wednesday and Saturday 9 3 7/17, Tanglin
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  • 277 3 War In Korea Delays Pact LONDON. Fri. PIIE KOREAN WAR has ii^ld up conclusion of Japans biggest post-war trade pact with the Brit ish Commonwealth, official sources reported yesterday. Commonwealth negotiators In Tokyo for some weeks have l?een trying to hammer out a one year deal involving a total volume
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  • 96 3 LONDON, Friday. J^N almost complete portrait of the Indian Premier Pandit Nehru commissioned by the Indian Government tons among the art works ruined by rain after thieves stripped the roof of a studio, it was revealed today. Two labourers were sentenced to seven months each
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  • 336 3 TOKYO, Friday. GUN. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR accepted a United Nations flag this morning, which was brought to Tokyo by Army Chief-of -Staff, Gen. L. Lawton, Collins, and pledged that his Far East Command "will do its best" to uphold the noble
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  • 132 3 WASHINGTON, Frl. THE State Department yester- day announced that the United States Government has created a special committee to screen and evaluate offers of assistance from members of the United Nations anxious to assist in repelling the Red invaders of South Korea. The committee has not
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  • 39 3 MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN KOREA. Fri.— Twelve hundred Communist "security risks" have been executed by South Korean police since the outbreak of the Korean war. Kirn Tao Soo, chief of South Korean police, confirmed today. Reuter.
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    47 3 THE COMMUNIST Government of East Berlin early this month cut off water supplies to the West after an argument on payments. Here a group of householders waits with buckets to draw water from a fire-hose connected with a nearby brewery water tank. A.P. picture.
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  • 329 3 'U.S. WILL WIN IN KOREA' TRUMAN Reds 'Will Be Driven Back 9 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN told a news conference yesterday that he is sure the United States forces will reverse the trend in Korea and drive the Communists back to the 38th Parallel. Asked if the American troops would
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  • 28 3 BRUSSELS, Fri.— The Belgian Airlines (Sabena) have bought two Bell helicopters which are to be used on the first helicopter postal service in Continental Europe. AP.
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  • 84 3 LONDON. Fri.— British wartime airmen have offered to form a fighter squadron with the United States Air Force in Korea, on the lines of the American Eagle Squadron, which flew with the RAF in the last war. The offer comes from members of the
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  • 99 3 TOKYO, Pri. CCAP announced today that nearly five tons of copper and nickel coins looted by the Japanese from North Borneo and Sarawak during the war has been ordered to be restored to the U.K.The coins are now stored in the Kuzugawa looted property warehouse
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  • 65 3 TUCSON, Arizona, Frl.— An Air Force B-50 superfortress crashed In the rugged Crook National forest early yesterday. Six of its 10 crew members parachuted to safety. The body of one airman was found In the scattered wreckage and three others were reported missing. Rescue
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  • 157 3 JAKARTA, Friday. JT was reported in Jogjakarta yesterday that the x Indonesian Republican Cabinet has rejected a proposal for creating the office of vice-president in i the new unitary State. The Republic's move, reported by the Indonesian news agency, Antara, Is regarded by some observers
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  • 118 3 'Man 's First Alphabet DAMASCUS, FRI. A FRENCH archaeological mission believes it has discovered man's first alphabet. The 3,300-year-old alphabet was unearthed recently at Ras Shamra, Northern Syria, announced Dr. Claude F. A. Schaeffer, mission chief. It was carved neatly In cuneiform signs on a small clay tablet found in
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  • 30 3 ARTHUR MACARTHUR, 12-year-old son of General Mac Arthur looks over Tokyo Bay from the bridge of U.S.S. Stickell while enjoying his first trip in a destroyer. AP. picture.
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  • 122 3 ATTLEE'S 'NO' TO U.S. VISIT LONDON, Frl. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Cieraent Attlee, yesterday rejected a suggestion that he visit the United States "to consider common plans for the defence of the Far Eajt." He said: "The existing arrangements for communications" between the British Government and the United States "enable
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  • 45 3 MR. WILLIAM DOWDELL, former New York newspaperman, after his marriage to Miss Augusta Chang, an attache of the Chinese Nationalist Embassy at Rome. The bridesmaid was Mrs. Maria Romana de Gasperl Catti, daughter of the Italian Premier. A. P. picture.
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  • 101 3 JAKARTA, Prl. MORE than 100 troops of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army were sentenced to from 10 months to one year's Imprisonment today for taking part In Captain Turko Westerling's attack on Bandoeng last January. They were sentenced by a Dutch court martial on On- rust
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    • 239 3 2,500 Purchases to go in here If you put in this shopping basket only one sample of every item we sell in our Grocery, Wines and Spirits Departments alone, you would have to find room for 2.500 things. With such a wide range to choose from, no wonder Cold Storage
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  • 232 4 Planter Dies Of Wounds From Our itntl C nespondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. MR. R. L. Inder, European manager of Jalong Division oi Dovenby Estate, in Perak, died last night of wounds received when, he was attacked by terrorists a week ago. "Mr Inder went to investigate a »eport that terrorists
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  • 45 4 Teo S°ah Sooi, 46, of Nqg;h Boat Quay, was fined $25, or two weeks' imprisonment, in (he Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for entering the harbour board without a Qermit. Three Indians were fined $5 each for the same offence.
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  • 1450 4 'Full Regard To Needs Of Emergency And Development Griffiths From Our Own Correspondent r EONDON, Friday. THE Secretary of*SU*e for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, told the House of V.Qmmons that he was discussing with the Malayan authorities how the British Government could give effect
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  • 125 4 XUIE House of Commons 1 would like to thank the Sultans of Johore, Perak and Pahang now in Britain and their peoples and all the people of Malaya for all they are doing, said Mr. Lennox-Boyd (Conservative), speaking In the Colonial Debate. They would like to thank
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  • 134 4 AUSTERS UP FOR SALE piVE Auster Mark V a'rcraft used in anti-bandit operations in the Federation are up for sale at two R.A.F. stations in Singapore. A sixth aircraft for sale is described as damaged and partially stripped. A R.A.F. spokesman said yesterday the reason for the sale was that
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  • 120 4 Workers Get $81,518 TOURING the first six months of the year, the Singapore Labour Department helped to pay out a total of $81,518 to claimants who had either been fatally injured or disabled. Claimants in 12 fatal cases got $30,094; $29,303 were paid to disabled cases while the beneficiaries of
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  • 39 4 i Wong Hong Fong, an overseer of the Naval Base, was acquitted in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of robbing a pea-nut-hawker of $2.50 at the m.s., Sembawang Road, on TMayh 10.
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  • 30 4 m. seven-year old boy, Chan Teck Kow, was taken to the hospital suffering from burns caused by tar at French Road yesterday morning. His condition was not serious.
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  • 57 4 ON {he second Thursday of every month a Stamp Club corner will be featuredMn Radio Malaya's Children's Programme. The Club will arrange for* the exchange of stamps. Children should. write in stating five stomps which they have and would like to exchange and five which they
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  • 50 4 MR. JOHN LAYCOCK of the Singapore Progressive Party handing over bulk completed registration forms to the Assistant Superviser of Elections. Mr. M. Ponnudurai, at the registration centre in Fullerton Building. The Partyhanded over a total of 3,90 0 forms yesterday. Straits Times picture Story in Page 7
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  • 355 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ]l|R. KHOO TEIK EE accused employers of "behind- the-scenes exploitation of workers" in a speech this evening to the annual meeting of the Selangor Clerical and Administrative Union, of which he is president. "It is not unknown for many firms,
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  • 55 4 Kwan Chin Yew, 23, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to theft of an alarm clock, a pen-knife, a shaving set, a cigarette lighter and 50 cents, from Capt. Keith Cameron Buchanan, in Ohn Avenue. Sentence was postponed to July 21. Bail of $300
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  • 123 4 Y.W.C.A., 5, Raffles Quay, Mandarin classes, lo a.m. and 11 a.m. CHINESE Y.M.C.A.. Selegie Road, music class 2.30 p.m., basketball 5.30 p.m., badminton 5.30 p.m., film show 7.30 p.m. Y.M.C.A., Orchard Road, chfss club, 3 p.m., movie circle show, 8 p.m. STRAITS CHINESE x M.Y.F. Social, 3, Kampong
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  • 129 5 22 BOOKS BANNED IN COLONY T.»i£NTY-TWO Communist und political publications have been banned in Singapore under the Emergency Regulations, it was announced last night. One of the banned books "The New Cyclevoice of Indians outside Malaya" is published in Los Angeies, California. The banned list includes the fo: owing: -On
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  • 143 5 THE following passengers were among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are "not included in the list. K.L.M. From Jakarta: Messrs. Aw Nsow Tjien. Chan Sin Men. Tan Tjok Sin. P. H. Hopkins. P.
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  • 35 5 A 26-year-old hawker, Koh Leong Hock, was bitten by a pig which he tried to pot In a cage at French Road yesterday. He was taken to hospital with an injured finger.
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  • 416 5 CHECKS ON RUBBER WELCOMED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WHILE welcoming the steps taken by Government to control more effectively the movement of rubber to prevent it, or the proceeds of the sale of it, from falling
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  • 34 5 PRESENT FOR THIVY MR. JOHN A. THIVY receiving the farewell address presented by the Indian Community of Singapore in a silver casket from Mr. A. N. Mitra at yesterday's tea party. Straits Times picture.
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  • 78 5 Prom Out SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. A FORTUNE (ellcr told Chong Yin?, a Chinese tailor, that he would be unable to live through the sixth moon of the Chinese calendar and that, if he did, he would hare to be very careful about the ninth.
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  • 22 5 Applications for recvuitment in the Singapore Legal Service should be sent in before Aug. 30, it was announced last night.
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  • 413 5 S 'pore Tributes To Mr. Thivy A FAREWELL address, a silver casket, a silver salver and floral and verbal bouquets were yesterday presented to Mr. John A. Thivy, Representative of the Government of India, at a tea party held in his honour in the Victoria Memorial Hall by the Indian
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  • 91 5 TWENTY-FIVE senior mem1 bers of the Malayan Air Training Corps have been interviewed and accepted for enrolment in the first Singapore Fighter Squadron of the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force. During the next few weeks, 154 more acplicants in the Colony will be 'ntervlewed. Selected men will start
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  • 28 5 Mr. W. D. Godsall, Financial Secretary of the Federation of Malaya, who left for home leave in the United Kingdom this week. Straits Times picture.
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  • 56 5 AYOUNQ Tamil who appeared In the dock of the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday claimed he was a Hokkien and asked for a Chinese interpreter. He gave his name as Seah T'k Poh. Seah was charged with criminal breach of trust in respect to a wristwatch. He
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  • 49 5 A FINDING of "death, cause unknown" was returned by Mr. W. Q. Porter. Singapore Coroner, after an inquest on a 29-year-old hawker. Nah Chai Kiang, who was found dead two feet from the sea wall, on the beach behind the Beach Road police station on July 8.
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  • 39 5 Llm Chean Moh. 47. of Bukit Ho Swee, was sentenced to one month's rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday far stealing pall. trowel and a roll of wire belonging to Hme Darby and Co.
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  • 153 5 SINGAPORE police have recovered what they be- lieve to be the 18 400-lb bales of cotton yarn worth about $9,000, stolen fiom a store at Cecil Street on Tuesday. Announcing: this yesterday, the Deputy Commissioner of the C.I.D., Mr. R. C B. Wiltshire, said that the
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  • 41 5 A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, to John Wee Tien Lye, who sought a divorce from his wife, Lucy Tan Gek Sim,' on grounds of adultery.
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  • 168 5 THE first Portuguese freighter fare Department, who administer the Silver Jubilee Relief Fund, have had to reduce the fund's allowances to heads of households in need of assistance, from $20 a month to $10. The rates of allowances for an applicant's wife and every
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  • 285 5 RELIGION ON AIR IN 5 CHINA TONGUES \yiTHIN the next three weeks, Radio Malaya will broadcast Church services in five Chinese dialects Hokkien, Cantonese, Teochew, Foochow and Henghua in rotation. The Director of Broadcasting, Mr. J. S. Dumeresque, told the Straits Times yesterday that the extension of religious broadcasts in
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  • 50 5 Two members of the Naval Base Police, *AJ».O. Keiss and detective, Ah Koon, claimed trial before Mr. P. Ciague, Singapore Fourth PoJce magistrate, yesterday, to entering the house of Musa bin Hajl Arifl on June 12 to cause ■hurt. The case comes up for hearing on Sept. 14.
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  • 128 5 lifR. B. L. Dunsford. of the Singapore Social Welfare Department, has withdrawn Ills application for the post of Assistant Municipal Secretary (Welfare). In competition with two other candidates, Mr. Dunsford was recommended by the Establishments Board of the Municipal Commissioners for appointment. But the full body of
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  • 79 5 THE first Portugese freighter to call at Singapore since the war, the San Rafael, arrived in the inner roads yesterday from Timor. Captain J. A. Place, of Macao, told the Straits Times that it was an experiment to try and develop trade for the Sota Company in
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  • 358 6 The new visiting hours at the General Hospital in Johore Bahru one to two p.m. on Fridays and Sundays and 4.30 to six p.m. on Wednesdays, with no visiting hours on other days have caused surprise, and there must have been many people in other towns
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  • 249 6 Three English. Schools In The F.M.S. From The Straits Times of July 12. 1900. MR. Driver, the Inspector of Schools in the Federated Malay States, considers that, in 1899, the most gratifying signs of educational advance were in the English schools. The three principal schools for boys
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  • 1310 6  -  Cynicus by 1 IN case the capture of a 15-foot king cobra by greenkeepers of Singapore's Island Club is procucing a spate of better stories, this department would like to weigh in at once on behalf of truth m ophiology. Not more than ten per cent,
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  • 785 6 gINCE last Saturday's Convocation was the first of Its kind in this country, those of the spectators who came from outside the academic world may be pardoned II they failed to recognise the various robes of the University of Malaya. I for ohe having since been enlightened by a
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  • 225 7 A house burgled every 8 hours MORE than three 1 n o u s e s were broken into every 24 hours during the past month, said the chief of the C.I.D.. Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, at a Press conference yesterday. He said that In spite of the fact
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  • 81 7 A 13-YEAR-OLD girl, who looked doped," was found In the cabin of a member of the crew of a ship which arrived in Singapore recently from Hong Kong. The girl had no travel papers or entry permits. She said she was on her way to meet
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  • 74 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— Mr. K. Ramanathan. president of the Malayan Indian Congress, who is touring branches in Johore, will arrive here tomorrow. He will give a public address at 6.30 p.m. at the premises of the local Congrra. THE REV KONG Yap, a Singapore Buddhist priest, being
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  • 21 7 The Radio Malaya observer will give a report of the Singapore Legislative Council meeting at 9.45 p.m. on Tuesday.
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  • 62 7 rTHE chimney-sitter of Singapore (right) came into the Straits Times office yesterday after seeing his picture, and identified himself' He is Tong Yew Seng, a 21-year-old Singapore-born Chinese, it was his first trip to the rooftops of Singapore, he said, and he had
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  • 73 7 First, schoolgirls playing basketball in the Chong Hock school (see foreground of view picture), engaged his attention, then his eyes drifted over ihe panorama before him, and his thoughts finally turned to a job. He is now assisting his brother-in-law in a Chinese importing firm,
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  • 535 7 Colony Needs 3,000 Teachers In Next Five Years It* OKE facts and figures about Singapore's 10 year education programme were ITI released yesterday when the Government announced that starting from this year, 600 teachers would have to be recruited annually for the next five years. These 600 were to meet
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  • 15 7 Singapore had 598 births and 206 deaths in the week ending July 8.
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  • 119 7 DAY LATE (IT WAS A SUNDAY) gECAUSE they were one day late and that day was a Sunday In applying for their Identity cards, two European women yesterday appeared before Mr. H. E. Kingdon in the Singapore First District Court. Cautioning and discharging them, Mr. Kingdon said, "These cases seem
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  • 83 7 POPLE who v/ant to help p o i i c e investigations through P.O. Box 5000 should address their envelopes to "P.O. Box 5000, Singapore," to ensure that their letters go direct to the Special Branch. A police spokesman said several letters were incorrectly addressed to "Police"
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  • 78 7 FIFTEEN is the most dangerous age for young people in Singapore, judging from an analysis of the ages of the young offenders produced in the Juvenile Court last month. Of the 33 children brought before the court, nine were 15-year olds, six were 16-year olds, five 11-year
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  • 50 7 A talk on the "Scheme for Providing Approved Planting Material to Rubber Smallholders," will be read over Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. on Monday. The talk was prepared by Mr. R. G. Heath, Chief Field Officer of the Federation Agricultural Department, before he went on leave.
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  • 56 7 Yap Chee Shlew. aged 00, living in Albert Street, pleaded not guilty In the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to usifl e criminal force on Ooh Poh Tin. a woman, of Tiong Poh Road, with intent to outrage her modesty. The case was postponed to July
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  • 22 7 Ang Teck Hua, 24, was fined $15 In the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday for being cruel to 10 ducks.
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  • 25 7 Practice firing seawards will take place from Pasir Panjang battery, Singapore, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Aug. 1. 3 and 5.
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  • 28 7 A report by Mr. Charles Gardner, an air correspondent, on deck landings by jet aircraft, will be read over Radio Malaya at 7.12 p.m. on Tuesday.
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  • 54 7 DR. G. L. Kesteven, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's Regional Fisheries Representative, is to come to Singapore to discuss with fisheries officials the plans under th« United Nations technical assistance programme. He will also discuss the long range research and statistical programme of the Colony Government
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  • 179 7 QNLY eight out of an expected 30 Municipal clerks v attended the first of two special English refresher classes arranged for them at St. Joseph's Institution yesterday to prepare them for their bar examinations on July 24 and 25. Mr. P. Gallstan, secretary V" c
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  • 165 7 '"'TRYING to keep baby A elephants happy at sea is no easy job," was the verdict of the officers and men of the Chong Tong after delivering four ashore in Singapore yesterday. One four-year-old, coming to Mr. Herbert de Souia. en route to
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  • 79 7 rpHEATRE and concertX enthusiasts who attend music recitals or plays at the "Victoria Memorial Hall and theatre will shortly by provided with more comfortable seats. At a cost of $21,500. the Singapore Municipality is providing 616 "tub" club-type chairs for the hall and installing foam latex cushions
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  • 202 7 r! expected reply from the Farof Shipping Co., In London, owners of the Greek freighter, Persephone, now In the Singapore outer roads, regarding the "walk-out" ol 14 Indian seamen and one Indian radio officer, was received late yesterday by the Representative of the Government
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  • 313 7 BIG JUMP IN REGISTRATION OF VOTERS 15,000 New Names On List "pHE Singapore Progressive Party yesterday handed in a total of 3,900 completed forms at the registration centre in Fullerton Building, 24 hours before the deadline for registration of new voters for the Legislative Council and Municipal elections. The party
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  • 41 7 The Singapore Second District Judge, Mr. Tan Ah Tah, yesterday acquitted and discharged Ragava Krishnasamy Naidu, aged 32, on a charge of committing criminal breach of trust of $220 belonging to his employer, Mr. Sandy G. Pillay, a local barrister.
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  • 47 7 MR. M. Ponnuduray, Assistant Supervisor of Elections, appealed oves Ra(Mo Malaya last night to qualified persons in Singapore to register for Legislative Council and Municipal Commission elections without delay. Today is the last day of the current revision of the registers.
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  • 106 7 Jewel Case: Woman Is Acquitted rE Singapore First District Court judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday acquitted a 27-year-okl woman, Lim Gek Lang of Thomson Road without calling on her defence on a charge of criminal breach of trust of jewellery valued at $4,600. It was alleged that Lim borrowed
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  • 23 7 Fines totalling $757 were imposed on 84 people in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday for offences against sanitary regulations.
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  • 219 8 3-DAY HEARING FOR 'TURKO' ,-nRE application by 1 Raymond Paul Pierre 1C lurko") Westerling lor a Writ of Prohibition to stop the continuation of |the extradition proceedings against him will be argued before the Chief Justice. Sir Charles Mur-ray-Aynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court on Auk. 2, 3 and 4.
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  • 123 8 A PETROL tank, which the prosecution alleged was vs 'i to smuggle out blankets from an army store, was pres 'n*Td as evidence against H»ng Peng Yong. a 39-year-old Chinese, when he was rged brforr in the Singap -r P Fourth Court yesterday with stealing 13 army
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  • 631 8 DOCTOR FACES CORRUPTION CHARGES Alleged To Have Accepted Money Front Chinese From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. THE Ipoh Sessions Court was crowded to capacity this morning when 53-year-old Dr. C Murugiah, of the District Hospital, was charged before Mr. M. Garton, on three counts of having accepted illegal gratification
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  • 11 8 SEVEN GIB.. GUIDES left £^'%£s^%£&JU«& l^TeSTs^
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  • 313 8 RASMA BOOTY, Singapore's popular, beautiful Malay film star, has unwittingly become i a messenger of parental love and goodwill for JhousamU of Muslims in the Federation, S ngapore, Borneo Sarawak and Indonesia, who are cgetawinff Hari Rava Puasa due either tomorrow or Monday. Muslims
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  • 75 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. POR PURPOSES of assessment of export duty for July 13 to July 19 inclusive, the price of rubber has been fixed at 90 cents a pound. For the same purpose and period, the price of copra is
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  • 37 8 Chan Lye Seng. 26. of Wallich Street, pleaded guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to possessing 3. 160 dutiable clgaret'js. Bali of $200 was allowed and sentence was postponed to July *2l
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  • 46 8 Chiu Moh Peng, keeper of the Tien Seng Hotel, Qeyiang, was fined $150 in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday, for failing to register the particulars of a Chinese man and woman found occupying a room in his hotel by a police raiding squad.
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  • 149 8 For Talks With C-G mHE Executive Secretary of ECAFE, Dr. P. S. 1 Lokanathan, arrived in Singapore yesterday by KLM from Jakarta for talks with the CommissionerGeneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald on technical assistance, training of government officers and rice. Dr. Lokanathan told the Straits
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  • 44 8 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri.— A charge against Tay Cheong Teck. of having a defaced identity card, was withdrawn in the Johore Bahru Police yesterday when the Magistrate wa« informed by the prosecution that Tay had been certified as Insane.
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  • 203 8 POLITICAL influence has r caused the rubber market to fluctuate violently this week, but there has been good manufacturing demand lor all grades, says Lewis Peat's weekly report. The effect of the stepping up of synthetic production by the U.S.A. for security reasons cannot have
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  • 135 8 'THE Singapore Royal Artillery (Volunteer) has begun training with a 3.7 mobile anti-aircraft gun lent by Singapore District. The Commandant of the Singapore Volunteer Corps Lt Col. R. W. WatsonHyatt told the Straits Times that orders will be placed for two of these guns,
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  • 62 8 AS from yesterday the Nederlansch Indische Handelsbank has been renamed the Nationale Handelsbank N.V. The change of name will not affect the business of the D&nK in any way. The bank, which has its head office in Amsterdam, has done business in Singapore since 1901. It has
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  • 49 8 Lim Cheng Keng, 43, of Tione Poh Road, pleaded not guilty in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to threatening to kill Yap Chee Slew with a knife and inducing him to deliver an 1.0. U. for $5,000. Ban of $1,000 was allowed until July 21.
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  • 43 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Owing to the accused, Abdullah bin Hussain, being in hospital, the charge against him of having driven a lorry In a negligent manner and colliding with a motor bus, was adjourned in the Johore Bahru Police Court yesterday.
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  • 27 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— The Rev. George Stevens will preach in Tamil at the service to be held at the Methodist Church, Johore Bahru. on Sunday.
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    • 122 8 balanced food made by the famous Glaxo Laboratories. Vitamin D is added to help limbs to grow strong, and iron is added to make healthy blood. Glaxo is especially suitable for tropical climates and its goodness is sealed in airtight tins. Z O*m J SOLB AGENTS, THE ANGLO-THAI CORPORATION LTD.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 75 8 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD mmm is. iv swift. (u*mr mm CROSSWORD No. 109 •ts?.' 1 wp-ii nu) "SS'SBrii MM 1 1 N 13ll 3 l hi Ml*l li 17. Seen in recurrent «rror» imaginative comp»rt§oo» "*~|Jf-" BmBBBCHbB* Mil *IHB «BT|c|tnitKE|A 7. H«co««iie» <i«- I IULI WWIHB m 8 "H BBa~iM aa
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  • 361 9 CENSORSHIP AND THOUGHT CONTROL MAY I be allowed a few paragraphs to refer to four-column thesis on thought control by film censorship written in a letter by "R. Dal" published on Thursday? "R. Dal" seems to possess s colossal knowledge of the film business for, sitting In Singapore, he pretends
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  • 110 9 I HASTEN to say how much one appreciates the letter which appeared in Monday Tt Straits Times under tiie heading "An American Looks Bt Mr. Evans." When I read the story re- ferred to In the Sunday Times, I headed "Broadside at Fiim Censer,'" I
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  • 203 9 PERMIT me to refer briefly to a letter headed "Forty Years A Planter" which you published on July 11. I am an estate Asian staff employee and a member of my staff union. It is apparent that the veteran planter who wrote the letter in question is
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  • 175 9 THIS is an appeal to the English-e d v c a t c d, culture-conscious public of Kuala Lumpur. Since the reoccupation. the British Council Centre at Young Road, though situated in an inconspicuous corner of the town, has been open to the public. In this
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    • 186 9 1 STRONGLY support M.B.T.'s letter which appeared in the Straits Times on July 7 under the heading "One-Day (Holiday In Negri." It seems that not only i Negri Sembilan but Perak i is observing only a oneday holiday. This is most i amazing indeed, as Hari
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    • 55 9 MUCH hw been said in the Press lately about the ugliness of Malayan stamps. Could any of your readers let me know who the organisers of the so-called "Stamp Committee" are, and whether any pictorial designs have been finalised and submitted to the authorities concerned
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    • 386 9 The Ramadan Fast And Those Who Are Exempt TN your leader of July 1 headed "Bulan Puasa" you 1 quote an "informant learned in Islamic doctrine" as stating that Muslims, whether Malays, Pakistanis, Indians, Europeans or Americans, if engaged in "essential" work, need not fast in the month of j
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    • 267 9 TN your footnote to a letter from "Sufferer," published on July 8 under the heading "The Stu- j dent Abroad," you quoted the Singapore Department of Education as stating that the regula- j tion requiring a student to apply through his own I Director of Education for
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    • 159 9 The Malay Drums Are Absent KG., in a letter pub- lished on July 10 under the heading "Malaya's Own Band," refers to the visit to Singapore, from July 12 to 31, of the band of the Malay Regiment. He expresses the hope that, while there, it will beat Retreat. While
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    • 187 9 "YES MAN," who wrote the letter published on Fri- 1 day under the heading "S.I.T. i Sub-Tenants," perhaps uses his nom-de-plume with more truth than he intended. If he knows of cases where "poor" tenants have been hounded by Singapore Improvement Trust inspectors because they may
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    • 253 9 JT was heartening to read "Colonial's" letter and your comments on "Aggression in Ambon" in the Straits Times of July 12. We, Ambonese, have played a leading role in overseas Dutch colonisation. According to the Japanese themselves, we gave the toughest resistance offered in any part
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  • 153 9 TODDY SHOPS AND DRESS SUITS WAS surprised to read in the Straits Times of July 12 a statement made by Mr. J. A. Thivy, outgoing Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, that he was strongly opposed to Government toddy shops, but believed that if drinking places were reopened
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  • 110 9 TF the Federal Govern- A ment acts on the plea of Mr. G. Sarangapany (a Tamil leader in the Colony) and Mr. M. P. D. Nair (ACSU vice-presi-dent) to keep toddy shops closed on estates in the Federation, then all I samsu shops in the vici-
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  • 111 9 RECENTLY letters have accused the Europeans and other nationalities of using the word "Kiing" to address or describe South Indians, What about our own peopie j from Northern India? The j North Indians also use this meaningless word. Before taking further ac- tion with the
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  • 93 9 rnHE word "Bengali" is in- A correctly used not only by the illiterate but also by the educated people of this cos- mopolitan country, to imply anyone who hails from North India irrespective of the Province he comes from, be it Orissa, Punjab, Bihar or any other.
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  • 302 9 TWO HOURS IN A POLICE STATION IN the Straits Times of x July 1 Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, Singapore Pol'.ce Deputy Commissioner, C.1.D., was reported as appealing to receivers of Communist documents to hand them "to any police officer oi police station". Recently a friend of mine received by
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  • 102 9 jpiVE Progressive Party candidates for the Slng2pcre Municipal elections were announced in the Straits Times recently. I congratulate the Progressive Party on its courage and honesty in making the nominations public before its rival partiss. But it is an established ousiom in certain democratic countries for
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  • 335 10 LONDON, Pri. QUIET conditions prevailed in most sections of the Stock Exchange today. Operators 1 welcomed the steadier tone of Wall Street and Mr. Truman's guarded optimism regarding the outcome of the war in Korea. Trading was mainly for the purpose of levelling positions ahead of the weekend
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  • 748 10 From Our Market Correspondent rjESPITE the startling rise In the price of the v metal. Tin shares were bought cautiously in the Malayan share market yesterday. Industrials remained steady. Rubbers still lacked interest. The share market will be officially closed on Monday for Hari Raya Puasa. Quotations announced
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  • 363 10 r! Singapore rubber market yesterday fluctuated mildly at slightly above Thursday's closing levels. There was fair trade demand and the market closed steady. Closing prices yesterday were per Ib.: No 1 RSS spot loose buyers «1H cents, sellers 92 cents No. 1 R.S.S. f.o.b. In bales buyers 90%
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  • 171 10 SHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godown* yesterday weie: Outer Road*: Hal Hsuan, Soestdyk, Dartmouth Victory, Annlsta, Chong Tong. Almerla Lykea TJlpondok. Persephone. Kwel Yang, Yoroshilov, Baud, Steel Executive, Ulysses, Incharran Patroclus, Shoho Maru. Inner Roada: Rsngam, Leong Bee. Batavla, Senggarang,
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  • 544 11 R.U. REFEREES BODY FORMED Sir F. Fogarty First President AFTER A QUIET, informal discussion between 30 A of Singapore's leading Rugby players and administrators, a long-felt need in Colony rugby was fulfilled. Yesterday evening at the Singapore Cricket Cldb, the Singapore Society of Rugby Union Referees was born. Perhaps the
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  • 121 11 R.U. REFEREES DODY FORMED Sports Diary TODAY RACES: S.T.C. July Meeting, Ist Day, BnkJt TfanaJt. CRICKET: SJt.C. v SeUngor Eurasian Assn., IJB.C. 2 p.m.; Army v Indians at Nee Soon. ATHLETICS: Raffles Insi. sports S p.m.; Boys' Brigade Sports at St. Andrew's school ground 2.30 p.m. SOCCER: Snr. Ige: Chinese
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  • 212 11 Crack Archers ShootForCup Tomorrow MALAYA will be represented for the first time in the International Seefab Cup competition this year. Tomorrow, the country's crack archers will meet at Naval Base, Seletar, and the four highest scores registered wi:i add up Malaya's entry. The competition, in which more than ten countries
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  • 58 11 An Indian Table Tennis Team will arrive in Singapore in the first week of September to play a series of exhibition matches. The Secretary of the Table Tennis Federation of India is making arrangement for the visit. The team is expected to tour the
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  • 56 11 SANDOWN PARK. Surrey. Fri —Baron O. De Waldner's Plocon won the £10.000 Eclipse Stake* run over 10 furlongs here this afternoon. The A(?a Khan's Eclat was second and Lord Rosebery's Peter Flower third. Six ran. The Aga Khan's Palestine was 6-4 favourite. Won by a head with one
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  • 164 11 NEW YORK. Fri. JOE LOUIS is coming back to fight Ezzard Charles in September if he can settle his income tax problems. Jim Norris, President of the International Boxing Club, gave out the news today in revealing plans for a Louis-Charles bout at the Yankee Stadium In
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  • 277 11 A GOLF match will be played at the Royal Johore International Club on Monday between the Island Club and the Royal Johore International Club. The draw and starting times are: 8.30 a.m. C. A. R. Bateman (3) Poh Kim Tow (7) v J.
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  • 74 11 HE 1, R.E.M.E 1. DOYAL Engineers were held to a AV one-all draw by the R.E.M.E, In the safa senior league match played at Gillman Barracks yesterday. R.E.MJE. started unsteadily and the Sappers took the opportunity to lead one-nil before half-time. L/C Eddie scored. The Sappers
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  • 389 11 Krishnamurthy, Neubronner Share Honours pOOR ground conditions prevented competitors from breaking any records at the 34th annual athletic sports of the St. Andrew's School held on the School ground last evening. In spite of this then were many very keenly contested events and several exciting finishes. A point for point
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  • 99 11 RIO DE JANEIRO, Fri: T ATEST available figure* show Xj that 151,678 people paid for admission at the World Cap match hore yesterday In which Brazil boat Spain 6-1, beating the world record in the Scotland v. England match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, In
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  • 203 11 Indian R. C 2 Tamil B. A 1 a SPIRITED rally in the second half enabled Indian R.C. to defeat the Tamil Brotherhood Association by two goals to one in a S.A.F.A. Senior League game at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Indians had th« major share
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  • 161 11 HONG KONQ, Fri.—Thirtyfive Malayan University students will arrive at Hong Kong tomorrow for a series of sporting events with the Hong Kong University. They will arrive In the Sirdhana one day later than scheduled. The late arrival of the visitors has caused a
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  • 204 11 IN a low scoring match played at the Victoria School Rround yesterday Victoria School teat Johore English College by 21 runs Victoria School: H. Singh lbw Ponniah 9; P. Fernandez c Rahman b Ponniah 9; Harold Tan c Brewer b Ponniafc 0; Ton Kwang
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  • 41 11 AFTER taking a trouncing on Thursday night, Medan's women champions Bladk and Whites returned the compliment to Singapore Combined Girls with a rousing 26-12 victory at the Happy World last night, in a game played under men's rules.
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    • 22 11 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 12 Noon (8ft. 2in) and 10.4S p.m. (9ft. tin.). TOMORROW: 13.30 a.m. (8ft. 41n.) and 11.25 p.m. Oft. 71n.).
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    • 132 11 TODAY'S RADIO SPORE 10 a.m. Qnergeney News from K.L.; 10.08 Close; 12 Malay; 1 pjn. Dance Music; 1.30 News, Weekly Share Market; 1.50 Light Music; 2.10 S'pore Racing; 6.30 Children; 6.45 Light Music; 7 News- 7.20 Listeners' Choice; 8 Jay Wilbur Strings; 9.30 "Blue Danube"; 9 "Worldwide Variety"- 9.30 News;
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  • 529 12 Uninsured And Perostan To Provide Opposition By EPSOM JEEP REMARKABLY- IMPROVED Persian Lord, who topped a series of spectacular sprinting feats with a brilliant length victory in the valuable Summer Cup (6 f.) at Bukit Timah in May, is my selection in
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  • 169 12 HPHERE was no rain yesterday and the going at Bukit Timah has improved considerably. The racecourse area recorded 2.32 inches of rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday. Barring any further rain the going today will be yielding. If there is strong sunshine tomorrow, the going will be easy. Timah
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  • 1579 12 BS? f X °/o c o ard at Bukit Timah today is Ambassador in Class 2, iKy 6f. (Race Seven). It generally pays to follow an English three-year-old in form, and Ambassador was in brilliant form at Ipoh earlier in the montn, completely routing a fairly
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  • 139 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER RACE 1 2.15 RELEASE II Nero CaracaUa NERO Release Glencoe NERO Releue U Glencoe RACE X 2.45 HARD CASH Beanman Constance PENSO Hard Cash Constance PENSO Envoy Hard Cash RACE S 3.15 BEAUCHAMPS Kind Regards Flyllte HALBEAU Jaffa Reanchamps BEAUCHAMPS
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  • 1124 12 Double Totes— Races 5 and 8. Big Sweep Race 7. Race 1—2.15: Class 2, Div. 5— 6F and 5 Yds. 100 Smiling Through Charles 9.00 "Quartette Kongsl" Hobba 041 Caracalla Little 8.12 •'Belmont Stable" Spencer -00 Jo-Jo Bagby 8.10 Mr. Kok Hoong H. Sleigh -03 Nero Lansdown
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  • 291 12 LEU LSTER, Friday. TMIE West Indies beat Leicester by an innings and 1 249 runs, here today. Following on after beingdismissed for 352 this morning. Leicester were all out for 81 in their second innings. In this innings Ramadhin took six for 27. After the
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  • 315 12 By Neal Hobbs Jnr. rjOLIN TULLOH has not yet fully rscovered from a Jpot Injury— the result ol a fall from Banquet Hall on Wednesday morning—and will not ba taking part in today's races. In fact, it is hardly likely that
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  • 130 12 LONDON. Pri. WARWICKSHIRE strengthened v their position In the County championship at end of the present series today by beating: Somerset by an innings. The results were: At Taunton, Warwickshire bent Somerset by an innings and 12R runs. Warwick. 466 for 5 dec; Somerset 216 and 124. At
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    • 765 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (Continued from page 6) SITUATIONS WANTED EUROPEAN, Electric Welder. Desires position Singapore. At present employed. Free August. Reply Box No. A1429. S.T. 13 TEARS experienced factorystores clerk/or conductor. South Indian, married, capable of taking charge of large rubber factory or in charge of a divlslonstrongly recommended by well
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    • 122 12 OTHER SPORT IN PAGE ELEVEN WRESTLING tonight at 9 p.m. HAPPY WORLD K.O. DECISION ONLY!! PIN FALLS SUBMISSIONS DISQUALIFICATIONS WILL NOT END THIS FIGHT BIG FIGHT SPECIAL RULES I. King Kong has Deposited $500 Cash as Guarantee Against Disqualifications Money Goes to Charity if Kong Gets Disqualified for Rough Tactics
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