The Straits Times, 2 October 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950. it PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 488 1 MacA. Urges: 'End. Useless Bloodshed 9 TOKYO, Sunday. 20UTH Korean troops today crossed the 38th Parallel, dividing line between North and South Korea, while General Mac Arthur was calling on the North Koreans to lay down their arms in surrender. The South Koreans struck across
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  • 146 1 TOKYO, Sunday. fOMMUNIST China's Premier. Chou En-l.ai said today the Chinese Reds will not "supinely tolerate seeing their neighbours being savagely invaded Iperialists i En-lai said in a Radio broadcast red in Tokyo that the s people were d«*plv ted in the progress of in
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  • 88 1 WINSTON Churchill tells the story of the Anal sUgrs of the Malayan 1941- 1: Campaign in thr fourth volume of his War .Memoirs —to be published by The Straits Times from Oct. 10. Britain's great war leaser reveals hitherto unpublished details of messages which
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  • 33 1 HONG KONG. Sun— Latest foreign establishment In Shanghai to liquidate is the Shanghai branch of Thomas Cook and Son, which closed down on Sept. 22. according to latest arrivals. ReuterAAP
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  • 22 1 LONDON, Sun— Stalin has sent a congratulatory telegram to Mao Tse-tung on the flrst anniversary of the Chinese People's Republic,
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  • 18 1 TOKYO, Sun. Japanese labour leaders will shortly visit Britain, according to JIJI news agency.— Reuter.
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  • 193 1 MacArthur's Surrender Demand GENERAL Mat-Arthurs j surrender demand to the North Koreans said: Early and total defeat and complete destruction of your armed forces and warmaking potential is now inevitable In order that decisions of j the United Nations may be carried out with the minimum of further loss of
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  • 32 1 HONG KONG Sun.— The British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Triumph has returned to Hong Kong from Korean waters. Its planes were the first British aircraft to strike the Korean Communists.— A.P
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  • 21 1 HONG KONO, Sun— A 34--year-old woman, wife of a cobler. yesterday gave birth to triplets at a public dispensary—Reuter.
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  • 28 1 AMMAN (Jordan). Sun.— The Jordan Cabinet yesterday approved drafts of friendship treaties with Afghanistan and Spain. The treaties will be formally slgnea here next week.— Reuter.
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  • 103 1 TAIPEH, Sunday. PIIK Chinese Nationalist capital of Taipeh had its 1 first free election today. An estimated 280.000 men and women chose 50 city councillors. Results were expected to be released at midnight. After weekg of lukewarm electioneering IJO candidates. Including nine women, today put
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  • 415 1 From A Special Correspondent rllS morning in Singapore will see the end of a mission for an Australian Army officer and the temporary loss of a very rood friend for a hero of the underground war a/ainst the Japanese in Borneo, Johnny Funk Maj. Harry
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  • 43 1 LONDON. Sun. EIGHT hundred crack British troops sailed for Korea from Liverpool today in the Empress Pride. The troops comprise the First Battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles and are scheduled to land in Japan in five weeks.— U.P.
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  • 30 1 TAIPEH, Sun— Chiang Kaishek today sent a message to General Mac Arthur conveying the heartfelt congratulations of the Chinese Nationalist government and people on the liberation of Seoul.— AJ».
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  • 40 1 LONDON, Sun. Delegates of the three associate states of Indo-China Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia arrived here by air yesterday for next week's conference of the British Commonwealth Consultative Council on aid to SouthEast Asia.— Reuter.
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  • 153 1 NEAR TAEGU. Sun. j»HE United States Fifth Air Foree 1 first ceremonious tost of the effect of napalm (petrol Jelly) bombs on a Russian -made T-34 tank ended in blushes all round yesterday when owing to a faulty release mechanism the bomb* missed the target
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  • 185 1 AIRCREW, AS YOU WERE! ADJUTANTS of flying units throughout the Far East Air Force this yeek will restore titles and badges of rank to non-commissioned fliers in the Command. N.C.O. aircrew lost their war-rant-officer or chevron badges and their titles of warrant officer flight sergeant or sergeant pilot, navigator, etc.
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  • 199 1 Taxi Burning Work of Gangsters SINGAPORE police do not believe that the Malayan Communist Party has been directly responsible for the recent destruction of 10 10 "Yellow Top" taxis in Singapore. The Deputy Commissioner, C.1.D.. Mr. R. C B. Wiltshire, told the Straits Times yesterday that this wanton destruction was
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  • 34 1 TAIPEH. Sun. Chines* newspapers yesterday bbM three Communist underground ringleaders were executed before a firing squa:i on Friday. Thirty three others received gaol sentences ranging from one year to life imprisonment. Reuter.
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  • 21 1 HONG KONG. Sun Kong shippers are workin overtime today preparing fur the expected lesumption oi trade with Korea. -A.P.
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    • 161 2 TAIPEH, Sunday. npHE'tlny aborigine villafe of Cho Chi in the rugged mountains of Formosa, long known for its alcoholic intemperance, has turned over a new leaf, according to its village chief. The chief, echoing Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's wartime austerity programme, has ordered his subjects to
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      26 2 ROYAL .VANNZQI'IN: l*i nress Anna, of Burma, wearing a novel head-dress a halo of black trellis velvet "stole the show" at a recent London fashion show.
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    • 53 2 COLOMBO Sun. fIEYLON still welcomes \j nationals of other countries despite the Goternment policy of giving employment preference toCeylonese citizens, the Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayakr. has stated. He was replying to a request from the Indian Government for clarification of the policy of "Ceylonisation"
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    • 31 2 STOCKPORT (Cheshire), Sun.— The British Government yesterday stopped the export to Russia and Poland) of 27 vertical boring machines which could be used in the •ranufacture of amis Reuter
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    • 677 2 NOTICES BOUSTEAD CO., LID. announce that they are opening a Branch ot their business at KHANTAN. rAHANu. on Ist )< tooei 1950 SOUTHERN MALAYAN TIN DREDGING LIMITED 'Incorriorited in England) rhe Board ot Directors has -i.it ii an Interim Dividend, for the year ending 30th June 1950. of 1/- oei
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  • 373 3 Delegates Bang And Shout In Assembly RUSSIAN BLOC BEATEN 'Won't Hit YoiT-Red Early Talks On Korea LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday. T)ELEGATES banged wooden name plates and the chairman pounded his gavel when uproar reigned at a meeting yesterday of the General Assembly's Political Committee after Russia and its supporters had tried
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    32 3 THE HOME fleet sailed from Portland recently on the autumn cruise to Gibraltar. Here the destroyer. Crossbow, 4s seen from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier during the cruise. AP. picture.
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  • 125 3 HONG KONG, Sunday. rj"HE French authorities yesterday barred all foreign 1 shipping from territorial waters off Indo-China's east roast except for specifically recognised trade purposes. The French Consul in Hong Kong. M. R. E. Jobez. lssupd an official notification yesterday. Although not noted In the
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  • 172 3 TOKYO. Sun. A SENIOR United States s.ulf officer today paid tribute to the unsp ctacular but i.iportant role of the Brlti h brigade in Korea as a lerfo] job." h~\ American coljnel, I in at a Tokyo brief- laid British positions a oand the Songju area
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  • 74 3 JAKARTA. Sun. -The Mus)jlat:on of the Philippinea isiand of Mindanao has demanded Mindanao's incorporation Into the Indonesian Btate p.rcordin? to Aneta lew* agency. An Indonesian Parliament I r. Mr. Sarino Mangunpranoto, who returned here re n;ly from the Philippines, said M was against an exp insion
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  • 34 3 SCARBOROUGH. Sun— The annual conference of tin- British Liberal Party has passed a resolution condemning racial and political discrim'nation, referring particularly to the policy of the Malan Govern-.nent In South Africa. —Reuter
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  • 62 3 THE HAGUE. Sun. A round-table conference to determine the future status of the Netherlands West Indies will be held here next spring or summer, official sources said. The conference will be attended by representatives from Surinam (Dutch Guiana > and the Netherlands Antilles, comprising the six West
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  • 39 3 WASHINGTON. Sun.—Surgeons here have removed a jagged shell fragment from the heart of a 33-year-old serseant wounded in Korea six weeks ago. During the three-hour operation doctors kept the heart functioning by hand pressure. —Reuter.
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  • 46 3 HONG KONG. Sun.— Four of Hong Kong's oldest English language newspapers at^ to merge. The papers are the China Mail, which was established In 1845; the Hong Kong Telegraph, which first appeared In 1881; the South China Morning Post and the Sunday Herald.— Reuter.
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  • 44 3 DARWIN. Sun.— Col. W. R. Hodgson, British Commonwealth representative on the Allied Control Council for Japan, said here that the date for the signing of a peace treaty with Japan was unpredictable but would not be too lone now.— Reuter.
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  • 160 3 HIGHEST AWARD FOR DEAN WASHINGTON. Sun. PRESIDENT Truman today awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour to Major General William F. Dean, the Commander of the 24th Infantry Division in Korea. It Is the first award of the medal —the United States' most coveted military decoration— for action in the Korean
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  • 30 3 PARIS. Sun— The central committee of the French Communist Party has ordered Its members to do everything possible to prevent formation of the proposed French "home guard ".—Reuter.
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  • 209 3 HIS WIFE, BABY YORK, (Pennsylvania), Sunday. VI RS. Kay Gilbert was told yesterday that her husband. Leon, a young Negro army lieutenant, was sentenced to death by a court martial in Korea last week for refusing to carry out field orders because "military authorities wanted to
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  • 40 3 RANGOON. Sun— Burmese terrorists near Tavoy yesterday shot and killed Pathay Khan, an Indian mining official. Khan is the latest victim of a murder campaign against the higher employees of tin mines along the south 3urma coast.— A.P
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  • 39 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. The Indian President. Dr. Raj ondra Prasad. has sent "cordial felicitations" to Mao TseTung. Chairman of the People i Republic of China, on the occasion of the Republic's flrst national day today.— Reuter.
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  • 227 3 Seoul— City Of Famine And Disease SEOUL. Sun. FAMINE and disease tonight faced Seoul's 1.000,000 inhabitants Food stocks in the stricken war-battered South Korean capital are exhausted. The new crop of rice will not be harvested for several weeks yet. One hundred and fifty tons of rice are toeing rushed
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  • 36 3 HONO KONG, Sun— A call for the return of overseas Chinese assets to the home country to participate In development and reconstruction has been made by the semi-official Economic Weekly published In Shanghai.
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  • 26 3 SAIGON. Sun.— The United States survey mission to South-East Asia has arrived here by plane for a two-day return visit to Indo-Chlna.— Reuter.
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  • 125 3 DURBAN, Sunday. DR. E H. Brookes, who represented Africans in the South African Senate, today warded the Indians in the Union against overseas appeals and contacts, if they wanted "to win the friendship and support of white South Africa." Dr Brookes, who was opening a conference
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  • 262 3 CANADA FREES HER DOLLAR OTTAWA. Sun. r<ANADA has announced the freeing of its dollar on world exchange markets. The dollar is now at 9.1 per cent discount in relation to the American dollar. A statement said: "It has been decided not to establish any new fixed parity for the Canadian
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  • 28 3 KARACHI Sun.— The Prime Minister. Liaquat All Khan, yesterday introduced into the Pakistan Legislative Assembly two Bills to establish a national guard and territorial force. Reuter.
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  • 193 3 NEW DELHI, Sunday. Tin: Kingdom of Nepal, the tiny buffer state be- tween India and Russia, announced yesterday that a plot to overthrow its Government had been smashed. The Nepalese Embassy here said that the plot had come to light after the arrest
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  • 252 4 A PLEA for the Straits-born Chhfese in Singapore to be given a chance to show their worth and take a maximum share in the defence of the Colony was made yesterday by the President of the Straits Chinese British Association, Mr. T. W.
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  • 215 4 Straits-Born Marriage Age Is Higher iU the past few decades the marriage age for Straitsborn Chinese in Singapore has steadily increased, the president of the Straits Chinese British Association, Mr. T. W. Ong. told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. Ong said that the average age of marriage for a Straits-born
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  • 60 4 Among the hundreds of Malayans who disembarked from the 21.000-ton liner Willem Ruys at Singapore yesterday, was the University of Malaya's Professor of English Language. Mr. R C. R. Morrell. Professor Morrell. who was i lecturer at the University before he went to Britain on six months" leave,
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  • 95 4 From Oar Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sun. INDIANS in Malaya should 1 associate themselves entirely with the rest of the people of Malaya, call themselves Malayans and enjoy the full privileges of this country, Kaka Bhagwant Roy, Indian member of Parliament, said in Seremban last night. Kaka
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  • 575 4 rll T houses are already being: built 'or sale on 1 the hire-purchase plan at prices around $10,000 (including land) in the Serangoon, Geylang and Katong suburbs is stated by Mr. V. W. Frampton, managing director of Seacon Ltd. in a letter to the Straits
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  • 86 4 rE following passengers were among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from Jakarta by X.L.M. Constellation. Passengers in transit are not included in the list. Messrs. R. R. Atumal. A. Razak. B. B. Bhojwani. Chia Ban Hock. K. P. Chuganl. Kheng Ooen Chay, Lie Oie
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  • 31 4 Cheng Yong Khoon. of Chop Lee Heng, Pasir Panjang Road, was fined $15 ln the Singapore Third Police Court on Saturday for failing to close on his closing day.
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  • 54 4 An attractive example of the type of small bungalow in the $10,000 $13,000 range (depending on the price of the land) which is now being bought on the hire-pur-chase plan in the suburbs of Singapore, in some cases. with the aid of the Federal and Colonial Building
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  • 266 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANQ, Sun. LORD Llstowel, leader of the British Parliamentary delegation visiting Malaya, last night told members of the Penang Municipal Services Union at the annual meeting: "You are pioneers. You elect your own officers and what you are doing on a
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  • 76 4 More than 100 Singapore businessmen and community leaders heaid a pledge of "better trade relations between India and Malaya", by the Indian Trade Delegation before- It left for Kuala Lumpur yesteiday. The Indian delegates yesterday re-afflrmed to Singapore textile dealers that Indian mills were able to meet
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  • 465 4 The University of Malaya has -ed the following results: Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery. FINAL EXAMINATION PAET I K Bhupalan. Chen Chi Nan. Ciieong San Thau, Chong Yew Chong, Gan Kok Liang, Hacharan Singh, Edward Ho Ouan I.lm. K. Kt<nagaratnam. Leong Kwok Wah.
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  • 993 5  -  PETER DUFFIELD By BRITAIN is now confronted by the question: What are we to do about the Communists who are plotting to disrupt our key industries bv strikes? It is a question that has already confronted Britain's overseas dominions and they have answered it
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  • 557 5 English Public School fees continue to go up. Several schools have just announced further increases among them St. Paul's and Ha i ley bury: And there are more to come g By HUGH LYON, former headmaster of Rugby ILIOST of the larger English public schools have
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  • 466 5 U.S. PLANS TO SCALE IRON CURTAIN WITH THE United States is planning a vast balloon barrage at Eastern Europe and Russian-oc-cupied satellite countries In the next three months. Thousand of toy Walloons will be sent aloft by the Economic Co-operation Administration from nearly a dozen Marshall Plan
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  • 312 5 No peace for the dead SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH KOREA. VOL) get the feeling A that there is something Just a little bit wrong with this cemetery overlooking a bay In the Sea of Japan. Every time an American soldier is lowered Into his grave the blue and white United Nations
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    • 227 5 «l" 111* I Here is THE FIRST TjjP XMAS BLAST I W We will be blasting quite a lot in Hie next few weeks I TO ANNOUNCE a special flu pre-XM AS Pottery Display V\ on the Cafe Floor ot our Singapore premises. i c \mi\ POOLE POTTERY FAENZA WARE
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    • 425 5 i«SHHi^s^Bmsffll!BoPtfl E*AST was so shocked at what happened to him at the nrst happened to him at the first trick in today's deal, that he slipped badly in the following defence. East, dealer North-South vu'nerable a 10 s s 1 T >TjT I 4 S WO. c rj ■>»♦« S
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  • 993 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Oct. 2, 1950. The Peasant's Rubber It is nearly two years since a motion was passed in the Federal Legislative Council to appoint a committee to inquire into the need for replanting of smallholding rubber and to recommend ways and means of doing this. The
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  • 153 6 A Government officer In the Federation writes I should like to point out that your editorial headed M.C.S And Others "in Friday's issue contained a very considerable error. You quoted the case of a married engineer with one child on a basic salary of $500, and stated that
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    • 946 6 REFLECTIONS FOR THE VISITING M.P.s I SUPPOSE that, among 1 the causes that contribute to Communist ideas, nobody has ever heard of taxation imposed under political theory rather than administrative knowledge. The Secretary of State's brilliant contribution to problems of finding
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    • 308 6 Sing a. song of bandits, "We've got 'em on the run," Nothing more to fuss about," Everything's been done." (The V.I.P.s are off again, flying back to Blighty To have a chat on this and that with others High and Mighty.) 1 Bandits? Well
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    • 759 6 A reply from Mr. J A. Harvey,M.CS., Commissioner of Lands, Singapore. WITH reference to your leading article of Sept. 8 on the evictions from Havelock Road, and the reply which I gave in the Legislative Council to the representations made by Mr. Thio
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    • 204 6 I HAVE followed with 1 interest the recent statements in the Press regarding Co-operative Societies. It seems to me that the Singapore Association Is cot concerned with whether Cooperative Societies are beneficial to the Colony or not, but whether Government Is Justified In running a Department for
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  • 485 6 On the Margin Fourth Generation DECENTLY I have been writIng about Towkay Tan Heok Nee. who startpd life as a poor hawker In Singapore during »he first half-century of this city's history and built up a large fortune, mostly based on Rambler and pepper grown in the pioneering kanakas' of
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  • 226 7 Vigorous Action Pledge Against Benham Report From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A PLEDGE to take vigorous action against adoption of the Benham Report was given today by the Executive Council of the Federation of Government Administrative and Clerical Unions the most powerful
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  • 157 7 BFEBS Men Join Radio Malaya FIVE members of the engiii.■cring section of the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Station were entertained to a luncheon at the Cathay yesterday to mark their transfer to Radio Malaya. The men were Messrs. Scan Kirn Hock. M. Siforamaniam. C. Mannen. Kum Siew Peng and M.
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  • 48 7 A Chinese bandit was killed by security forces in Johore on baturaay. but two others escaped. A pistol and papers were recovered from the dead terrorist. In the same State yesterday, bandits killed a Chinese kepala. He was tied to a tree an<l slabbed to death.
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  • 164 7 Red China National Day Concert QVER 3.000 Singapore Chinese raised clenched fists and shouted Chinese Communist slogans and pledges of loyalty to the Mao Tsetung regime last night at the open-air variety concert at the Singapore Teachers' Rest House. The concert climaxed a round of celebrations ir arking Red China's
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  • 207 7 fJOPES were high In the hearts of <1 years old J.A. Mindjoodt, 20 year a old Chan Kwee Sung, and other volunteers in the Malayan Auxiliary Air Force, when they travelled to Tengah aerodrome yesterday for their first flight. But the god of the weather was
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  • 164 7 THERE were more than ten spills off the coast of Bedok, Singapore, yesterday when Malay boatmen and fishermen held their Hari Raya Haji sea sports an annual affair. Boatmen from both the east and west coasts of Singapore brought their sailing kolehs for three events, each
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  • 58 7 Singapore Indians will toiW.y celebrate "Gandhi Jayantl." birthday of Mihatnia Gandhi. The Singapore Regional Indian Congress will hold a mass meeting this evening at No. 6. Race Course Road, to pay resp.?cts to the "father of the Indian Nation." Religious organisations in the Colony will hold special prayers,
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  • 42 7 HOYS OF THE MALAYAN Auxiliary Air Force being briefed by Sgt. John Kennedy at Tengah aerodrome, Singapore, yesterday. Bad weather interfered with their flying but they still had the time of their lives, although grounded.— Straits Times picture.
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  • 85 7 From Oar Own Corrnspondeni JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. /COFFEE shops here today \j began charging; 20 cents for a cup of coffee or tea. Without milk a cud costs IS eenta. The Immediate reaction to the lncreMed price* was a noticeable decrease In the number
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  • 168 7 THE progress of the work carried out by the Municipal Engineer's Department last year had hardly been equal to the needs of the town, states the Singapore Municipal Engineer, Mr. G. Edmond, In his annual report for 1949. It would have been more
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    29 7 SEA SPORTS A FINE ACTION picture of three-man sailing Jj°Jf hs taking off for the 7J mile racing event for Malay fisherman off Bedok, Singapore yesterday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 332 7 ARRANGEMENTS are being completed for the A Poppy Day children's party to be held at St. Joseph's institution playing field at Bras Basah Road on Oct. 7, starting at 3 p.m. There will be sideshows, films, lucky dips, ponies, merry-go-rounds, sweets stands and many other
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  • 166 7 Central Union 'Not Possible A SINGLE trade union organisatlon for clerks and industrial and manual workers would be Impossible, the president of the Singapore Traction Company Workers Union, Mr. R. K. Samy, said yesterday. Mr. Samy told the Straits Times that many manual and Industrial workers favoured a central trade
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  • 44 7 Mr. G. O. Thomson. Singapore's Public Relations Secretary, will give a talk on "Russian ambitions In Asia," the last of his series of three lectures entitled "Voyage Round the Iron Curtain,"— at 7.30 p.m. tonight at the V.M.C.A Stamford Road.
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  • 135 7 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. \N Indian estate worker climbed a tree and threatened to hang himself if his parents-in-law would not take his bride of six months away, an estate conductor has complained to the Johore Deputy Commissioner of The man married
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  • 224 7 Cost Of Steel Soars $130 In Three Weeks From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A SURVEY of the local market indicates thai the prices of almost all commodities are still rising. Steel is one item which has shown a hig increase. In the middle of last month mild steel
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  • 201 7 ANIMAL WEEK IN SPORE WORLD Week lor Animals" began yesterday and Singapore's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hopes during this period to double its membership and to raise funds lor a second ambulance for the collect inn f stray dogs and cats. Mrs. R.S. demons, a committee
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  • 85 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A GURKHA Lieutenant. Dhan Bahadur Gurunx. who escaped from the Germans at Tobruk and walked several hundred miles to rejoin the British lines, led No 1 platoon of "A" Coy of the i 7 Gurkha Rifles which killed two
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    • 133 7 (V~ NV\ JOSEPH TRAVERS I SONS LTD -nllGH |NG Jfe C™ AGAIN? ,§MM IT S TIME YOU TOOK SOME JPwSS WM VENO'S/ IMziiiW/ Stop that coughing QUICKLY by taking s«m< VENO'S I Lightnmg COUCH MIXTURE the World- Famou* /fy*>Of HZSm//// FAMILY uugli mi ilu'iiip wiu> h has been re!icd upon
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  • 1067 8  -  FRANK MORAES SECOND THOUGHTS AT NASIk By BOMBAY: rpHE storm which threatened a major crisis in the Indian National Congress has blown over temporarily. At the recent annual session at Nasik, Pandit Nehru's policy In the international and domestic fields, more particularly on the issue of a
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  • 714 8  -  DIANA STRODE IN BRITAIN TODAY By LONDON: PJTERIOR decoration inßritain shows interesting developments. There is now a feeling for mixing colours. Often a fireplace wall will be highlighted by distempering it a different colour from the rest, ox putting an attractive wallpaper on In a
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  • 111 8 Goodbye to the icebox? CHICAGO: CVX>D can be kept fresh without refrigeration for as long as four years. wieat. fish, vegetable, milk and butler are bombarded with streams of electrons, fired in bursts lasting a millionth of a second and moving at approximately the speed of light. This results in
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 111 8 Everyone kiwics the In-st Virginia cigarettes mre made in V«Wf Lomlon; but, fortunately, they do not all stay there The famous flT^|| Benson ie Hedges red tin is m fmmilimr sight in mimost every JF^M country of the trorld. You will find these cigarettes in the hands (Smt of particular
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    • 351 8 Rupert and the Dragon Pills— lo JSTfinT 1 Far a, naancnt ftuaen dacaa't docaa't move, and he aata very fraap wk»t it happening. Then ha angry, prancing round and breafhrcatitei tha causa at Pong-Pmg'» 'ing fir* a( Tha tuje caaekca (udden fright. Tto pec ckagon haa light, bvt he «km'i
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  • 231 9 Breweries Fortunate Holders COMPANY REPORTS From A Market Correspondent MALAYAN Breweries' report for the year to June 30. 1950. made splendid reading for the fortunate shareholders of this enterprising and flourishing concern. Record sales enabled the company, with the help of just over $1,000,000 from the Archipelago subsidiary, to show
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  • 129 9 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun. CUNGEI Bahru Rubber Is resum- ing dividends with 4 1/6 per cent., the previous payment being 6'< In 1941 Segari announces 2'^ per cent. Lumut an interim of five per cent. The Anglo-Thai Corporation board recommends an Ordinary dividend of 17
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  • 815 9 From A Market Correspondent 11 1 AL AY AN markets last week had a burst of great activity. More business was written in it than in any other week this year. Led by London Sterling counters, local Rubbers and Tins rose
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  • 401 9 nUSINESS done last week In the Malayan share market included: Industrials:— Federal Dispensary $5, Fraser ft Neave Ord. $.3.22',i cd. cb., Gammon $2.12>i, Hongkong Bank (London) £85 to £M'j. (Colonial) $750, Malayan Breweries $S.I7H >nd $5.20 cd. cb., Malayan Collieries $1.55, McAllster $37. Robinson Ord. $2.10 to $2,171*
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  • 51 9 London Rubber LONDON. Sept. 29— Spot 43C. Nov. 42', d Dec. 41d.. Jan-Mar 37'vd Apr-June 34H0-. Oct-Nov ci.f. 4O'*d.. Nov.-Dec. C.i f 39' id Market: Steadier. New York Rubber In DB. cents per lb. closing nominal Sept. 28. Bept. It 1 R.S.S. Oct. 48.75 50 75 Market:
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    • 1335 9 MANC7IBLO 6c CO., LTD incorporated in Singapore) ttLUE FUNNEL IMB Carrier's option to proceed via ether ports te load and discharge cargo. SAILINCS fo LIVERPOOL. CLASCOW LONDON CONTINENTAL PORTS Due Sails P Sham Penang 'W.S* 11 •JUm Oct. Oct. 4/6 0... 7/9 Caucus for Havre 6 L pool In Pert
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    • 396 9 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON Vl* CEYLON. INDIA. ECYPT and MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Spore P Sham Kenang Pres. V*n Buren In Pert Sa Is I Oct. Oct 6/7 Oct Pre*. leHerseti 5/10 Oct 11/12 Oct 13/1$ Oct Pres. Polk 25/29 Oct. JO/I1 Oct. T« LOS ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO
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    • 472 9 EAST ASIATIC LINE SAILINCS FROM SCANOINAVI A U K CONTINENT Laljndu for Saigon Bangkok 6-7 Oct. 4- 5 Ocl. I- 3 Oct. -Nord«cst" tor Saigon Bangkok 13 14 Oct. 11-12 Oct. 9-lOOct. "Korea" for Bangkok. Manila HKon« Kobe 6 Yokohama 29-iO Oct ■Oanholni" for Bangkok 8-10 Nev. "Nerdhval" for Saigon
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    • 994 9 McALISTER 6c CO., LTD. (Incorooratec in Singapore) Itlcpbonc Mo 59CX> CLUBMAN UUtRNALL KLAVENEft* cJWE LONDON HAVtt. ANTWERP ROTTERDAM HAMBURG LOJ ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO. Aliq accepting catgo foi ot he. Uk PORTLAND SEATTLI b VANCOUVER zsj^r2ir£*»sx: A Acc#cfin< ssa &r South M '""ccoESo V 'RANC.SV.LLI CITY OF CHICAGO ypor. sham 'eneng
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  • 2463 10  -  Geoff Dyson, a .a^^^mS I^-wm h^^ Wl^l. BB^^^^^L^^.^l S^^^lS^3^^^s .^bR! I By Chief Coach To British A.A.A. CLOSER FIGHT FOR U.S. I AM never happy when It comes to forecasting the results of an athletic contest, especially when that contest like the Olympic Games in Helsinki
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    • 273 10 Last Show* 3 5.15 9.15 pjn R-K-O'b •CINDERELLA" by Walt Disney —In Technkol^— Uprnin; T»-morrow Wa'nrr Bros. t "Illlir LASH" REX J° HORt MNRU Today 3 Shows:— 3.l5 6 43 9 15 •S\ND" (Technlralor) ATLANTIC Great World Today t Shows:— 7. tt 9. 15 "MASSACRE RIVER" g|:\ New World l.art
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    • 318 10 BOXING frimy ct sth 9 pm f AT I§k HAPPY WORLD STADIUM WALLY OAKES PRESENTS HJII l LITTLE PARAS (Conqueror of Bobby Mi*»i ITHjIMMY WELCH IS? ,< (tattfiag in hi* new ttyle) ■if ikAjj SUPPORTED BY KLONG vs LITTLE NENE (Siamese Iliiai I (Waited 2 year, fer \Wn *i«fc*) BASIL
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  • 161 11 Indonesians Arrive, Play Tomorrow "IffE ARE here not to win »f our games only but to make new friendships as well," said Mr. Yeo Kian Djit, secretary of the Combined Indonesian soccer team which arrived in Singapore yesterday by a Garuda Indonesian Airways aircraft. The tourist team, sponsored by the
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  • 47 11 pLAYING with only nine men, Shell Sports Club lost Uielr last Singapore Business Houses "A" fixture by seven goals to nil, when they met Hong Kong end Shanghai Bank SporU Club at Geylang yesterday. Scorers for Bank were Peters* (4), Ismin <2) and Beins.
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  • 557 11 Div. 1&2 Leaders Keep Positions LONDON, Sunday. NEWCASTLE United and Manchester City yesterday maintained their unbeaten records this season and retained their respective positions at the top of the First and Second Divisions of the English League. Newcastle were held to a scoreless draw
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    59 11 All is not lost yet. Snnderland goalkeeper Mapson had a busy time keeping off the Tottenham Hotspur attack in their First Division match at White Hart Lane last week. Down a roal at the interval. Sunderiand fought back to equalise in the second half for a one-all draw. Above, Mapson
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  • 408 11 LONDON, Sunday. rIREE England Rugby Union selectors saw Harlequins defeat the hitherto unbeaten Rossi yn Park here yesterday. The score of one i oal and a try to nothing did not amply reflect the superiority of the Quins, especially in the line-outs and loose. Seven
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  • 131 11 From Oar Own Correspondent JOHORK BAHRO. Sun. rjVF English College, who were undefeated in Rugby last year, began the new season with two successes against Raffles Institution yesterday, the matches being played on the College ground. The College beat Raffles Ist XV by 12 points
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 272 11 LAST DAY of CINE-VARIETY OH SCREEN at: 11 -L4i-4-t.30-9.30 •sr "Young Man Of Music" ST ON STAGI at 6.30 C 9.30 Shows only JUNE HAMILTON and Danny Danford and his band PHONE 2H•II1 I 5159 I~^ From TOMORROW/ •sf^H THRILLS IN A NEW XVi LANGUAGE has f thrills, suspense an
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    • 253 11 HURRY! =m LAST 3 DAYS'! Starring JOHN WAYNE A Republic Picture GmMIFM AY $EE IT TODAY! MALAYA'S OWN SCREEN MAGAZINE FILMALAYA OCT. Issue on Sale TO-DAY at the CATHAY ALHAMBRA. PRICE 30 cts. OPENS TODAY frT.^i I DAY ONLY f|J;|rl^B (NOTE TIMES) M. 30-3. 30-6. 30-0.15 p.m. A Republic Serial
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  • 430 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Finished Best In 6-f. Trial By IPOH, Sunday. UERAK Turf Club's Gold Vase trial at Ipoh yester--1 day was not only a thrilling race. It brought to lifrht a very likely prospect in Snow Owl 11, who had dropped right out
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    48 12 COMBINED SERVICES eoalkreper Mutton (Navy) leaps for the ball during a Civilian attack in Saturday's Tay Lian Trek Shield match at Jalan Besar. Civilians won by two goals to one. Proceeds from the match, in aid of the Poppy Day Fund, were nearly S'> 000- Straits Times picture.
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  • 122 12 By EPSOM JEEP IPOH, Sun. CIXTKEN top class horses have been handicapped for the $20,000 Perak Gold Vase race to be run over the new 7 furlong course on the last day of the Perak Turf Club Autumn Meeting, Saturday Oct. 7.. Pride of
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  • 757 12 LONDON. Sun. Football League standings allei •e.£terday\ matches were: MRST DIVISION P W D L F A pis Newcastle 11 5 6 0 18 "Hi Midbrough 11 7 1 ***** 15 Arsenal 11 6 3 2 21 10 15 Manchester U ll 6 2 3 12 6
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  • 347 12 DELOW are weights for all rignt races for Wednesday, second cay v ol the Peralc Turf Club's Autumn cOold Vase) Meeting:- CI. 1. Div.4 6¥ Kopewalk 9.00 Havdrr 8.12 Brownsbay 8.10 Gold Medallist B.l* Friar's Last 8.09 (.oIA-n Grore xoh Cambridge BJ7 Mascot te 8.«7 New.
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  • 472 12 /\NG POH LIM and Ismail bin Marjan (Fraser v Neave— Bournemouth 8.P.), holders of the Malayan doubles title, gave an impressive display in beating Loong Pan Yap and K. Alimat (Lucky Strike 8.P.) in the quarter- finals of the men's open doubles in the
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  • 70 12 I/I- M. PATERSON beat D. A. O Davits by four and three in the final > the Royal Singapore Golf Club championship completed yesterday morning. This is the sixth time that Paterson. Malayan champion in 1932. 33 and 37. has won the Club title, the first
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  • 56 12 Rain interrupted play during the second Innings of the Singapore District cricket final between G.H.Q. FARELF and R.A.0.C.. played at Tangltn yesterday. First Innings scores were: GH.Q. 82. R.AO.C. 83. In the second innings. G.H.Q. were all out for 73. R.AO.C. had scored 12 for no wickets. The
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  • 290 12 |Morrisson Wins 100-m. Race In New Time WITH a magnificent sprint TT which he started 300 yards from home, 19-year-old Alec Morrisson of R.A.F. Changi won the Singapore Open 100-mlles Bicycle Road race with a length to spare from Hassan bin Sawl (Malay Union) at Lim Chu Kaiiß Road yesterday.
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  • 305 12 A SCRATCH Chinese eleven caused an upset by beating strong R.A.F., the only side to hold the Malays to a draw, by two goals to nothing in a S.A.F.A. Community League came played at Jalaa Besar stadium yesterday, f Chinese were without Boon
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  • 326 12 COLOMBO, Sun. THE M.C.C. cricket team 1 played a me-day game here today, ami at close the scores were M.C.C. 279 for 6 deal and Ceylon 99 for Hve. There were neary 10.000 poopie present when play began. Early play was marred by tha fact
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  • 73 12 BOMBAY Oct. I— The Conimcnwealth Touring Team were dismissed for 214 by the Cricket Club of India when they opened their five-month tour of India and Ceylon here today. At the close of the first days play in this three-day match, the Cricket Club of India
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  • 42 12 PENANG, Sun. CM A.NGOR Indians qualified fied to meet Singapore Indians in this year's B ird han Cup final when they beat Penang Indians by two goals to one in a replay on Westlands School ground yesterday.
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    • 843 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. (ConUnued from page 6) SITUATIONS VACANT ASSISTANT ENGINEER tor Coal Mine. Workshops experience essential. Diesel an advantage State whether married or sin,:le Applications to Malayan Colllcrir* Ltd.. Batu Arang. Selangor. SHORTHAND rYPIST wanted. Mile or female. Must be comp t«at and Intelligent worker. Position provlies annual leave, fi
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    • 772 12 ACCOMMODATION VACANT FURNISHED Single Room, tor gentleman with full board, 18 3cotts Road Telephone *****. COSMOS. 17, ScotU Rd. Avail, i one single room tt on Ist October. one large double room. Pull board. •LLOYD HOUSE" 2, Lloyd Rd. Single d'bler'ms. bathr'm (M.S.) att'd. v'dah, Sep. ent'ee. Garage. Best food.
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    • 5 12 DYSON FEATUREP.IO, U.K. FOOTBALL P.ll
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    • 16 12 Anijelo Thomson: To Rosemary, «ife of Tony, a dauuhi.-r. Oct. I. 1960. **i fl l I
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    • 65 12 SOCCER Community League Malays v Europeans ai Jalan Besar. SWIMMING: Anglo-Chlnea* School Swim Gala at Cklnese S.C. S p m. RUGGER: 9.C.C. *B* f R.E.M.E. nn patang; St. Andrew's v Raffles Inst. at R.I. (Ist and 2nd XV's). HOCKEY: SJI.C. f A.C.B. on padang: Chinese Ceylon S.C. at Balestler Road;
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    • 22 12 SINGAPORE TIDFS TODAY: 2.09 a.m. (Bft.) and 1..J7 p.m. 1 8ft Mb.). TOMORROW: 2.50 am (7ft. 4in.i and 2.08 p.m. (Bft. stn.).
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