The Straits Times, 14 February 1951

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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  • 252 1 BthArmyDoing As Well As Anticipated' TOKYO, Tuesday. THE big new Communist counter-offensive in Korea today threatened to crush the whole of the central front. Despite a hammering from the air and artillery, the Reds pushed hack Allied forces for more than 15 miles. Americans and South
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    53 1 I ARMY OFMCERS did not lionisf Private Humes!"'i when he re' »rted in I California for <\Ms with his I p The v ordered him to Rc-t rid of his wt'Ntlme lion, but he foun^ it a home near the camp with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty t<>
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  • 138 1 PERTH. Tues. •THE Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Robert Menzies, ived in Fremantle toer attending the London Commonwealth Confersald the United Nai\ist maintain a military fcrce in Korea and guard against attempts at appeasement." But, he added, "they must also keep an open door for
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  • 23 1 RANGOON. Tues. The mlc Cooperation Administration has allocated $1,000,000 for the rebuilding ;uid modernisation of the Dort cf Rangoon.— Reuter.
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  • 279 1 MR. Mamoru Shinozaki, former Municipal Welfare chief of occupied Singapore, said yesterday, on the eve of his departure from Singapore, that he has arranged for his 13-year-old daughter. Teiko, to be adopted by a Chinese family in Singapore and later to marry into an overseas
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  • 61 1 TAIPEH. Tues. /CHINESE Communist auV, thorities in Kwangsi Province have collected 6.580 rifles and 37,000 rounds of ammunition from civilians in the city of Wuchow on the Kwangtung border to curb guerilla activity. A Nationalist news agency publishes the names, ages and place of five
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  • 79 1 HONG KONG, Tues. CHINESE batteries on Lingting Island, 15 miles southwest of Hongkong, shelled the Caltex Oil Company's tanker No. 2 as she was approaching Hong Kong today. The British first officer, Mr. E. U. Anderson, was wounded in the leg by shrapnel and later admitted
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  • 56 1 SAIGON. Tues. French Union troops supported by gunboats killed at least 80, captured another 100 and sank 200 sampans in raids on Vietminh strongholds about 55 miles south of Hanoi. Wounded French soldiers, captured when Vietminh forces tried to take Hanoi last January, have been returned
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  • 25 1 SYDNEY, Tues.— One of the six largest paper machines in the world has begun operation in Tasmania, making high-grade newsprint from eucalyptus timber.—U.P.
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  • 15 1 The entire Telok Ayer area of Singapore-was blacked-out last night for nearly three hours.
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  • 115 1 DARWIN, Tues. pRED Nadpur, grey-haired aborigine who took over his people's fight less than a month ago for higher wages and equ;il rights with whites, was to lay banished 1,200 miles to a settlement heart of Australia's most desolate back country. Banishment was ordered by
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  • 34 1 TOKYO, Tues. Japan is planning to send a trade mission to South-East Asia to boost Japanese machinery exports. The mission, according to plan, will vi/it Pakistan. Burma. Indonesia and Thailand.—U.P.
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    40 1 MR JOHN MORRIS, head of the 8.8.C.'s Far Eastern Service, who is making a tour of the Far East is now in Singapore. He will assess the amount of listening and see if any improvements can be made.
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  • 162 1 REARMING GERMANY IS THE ONLY WAY Attlee Replies LONDON. Tues. |y|R. Attlee, the Prime iT Minister, defended, in the House ot Commons last night the proposal to rearm Germany If a real and genuine settlement could be secured with Russia, the question of German rearmament would fall into Its proper
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  • 54 1 LONDON. Tues. Recruitment into the Royal Air Force ha* risen rapidly since the Government introduced higher pay md better service conditions last autumn. More than 10,000 joined the R.A.F. on regular engagements <n the last quarter of 1950— five times as many as in the same
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  • 35 1 COLOMBO, Tues. United States diplomats stationed in South and South-east Asia are expected to meet at Nuwara Eliya, in Ceylon, at the end of this month, usually reliable sources said here today.—Reuter.
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  • 28 1 NEW DELHI, Tues.—Officials of the World Health Organization are to discuss with the Government of India plans for starting a penicillin production plant in India.— A.P.
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  • 132 1 COLOMBO, Tuesday. r\BSERVER delegates from the United States and the International Bank were expected to play an important part in discussions at the third Commonwealth conference on aid to South and SouthEast Asia whirh nnenpri here today. The Bank and the United States are regarded
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  • 61 1 PERTH, Tues— The Royal tour In Australia and New Zealand in the autumn of 1952 will run to schedule unless the international situation deteriorates, the Australian Prime Minister Mr. Robert Menzies, said today. Mr. Menzies said the King and Queen and Princess Margaret were delighted
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  • 29 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. Th,e crooner Bing Crosby was operated on yesterday for a kidney ailment. He will be in hospital a week or 10 days.— U.P.
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  • 51 1 FIVK HUNDRED passengers were injured and at least 81 killed when a New York rush-hour train plunged over the side of a temporary bridge. Priests administered last rites to the trapped and dying as rescuers cut their way through the tangled wreckage with acetyline torches. A.P.
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  • 350 1 JUDGE, JURY RECOMMEND MERCY From Our Special Correspondent MALACCA, Tuesday.. DOMBARDIER John Stewart, 26-year-ohl artillery- man, from Motherwell, Lanarkshire. Scotland, was found guilty at Malacca Assizes today of the murder of Eunice Tan, aged 19, and was sentenced to death. i The Jury made a
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  • 57 1 LONDON, Tues.— London's dock strikers returned to work today and for the first time In four days there was full working on ships. They will strike again next Tuesday when seMten of their colleagues appear in court charged with conspiring to incite illegal strikes. At Liverpool 9,060
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  • 188 1 British At Seoul Kill 30 Reds TOKYO, Tues. UNITS of the British 29th Brigade clearing hills surrounding besieged Seoul, met their first serious opposition whei the Gloucestei c mauled and killed 30 (Chinese out of an estimated company. Gloucester casualties were light. British tanks also went into action in earnest
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  • 14 1 HOME AGAIN TOKYO. Tues. Seven former Japanese war criminals returned from Burma yesterday. U.P.
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  • 60 1 MANILA, Tues. nnHE Siamese Legation anA nounced today that it had "nothing to do" with an apparent attempt by a 22-year-old Legation officer to smuggle an estimated 50,000 pesos worth of synthetic jewels into the country The Counsellor arrived in Manila before noon yesterday aboard a Cathay
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  • 352 2 As announced in Government Gazette Extraordinary of 9th February 1951 His Excellency tlip Governor, in consultation with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has appointed a Commission of Inquiry, under the Singapore Innuiry Commissions Ordinance. 1941. with the
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  • 41 2 SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY TENDERS GAS DEPARTMENT: Purchase as one lot of 33 random lengths New, externally protected. Stewarts Lloyds Mild Steel Seamless Spigot Socket Tubes. 41//'4 1 Outside Diameter. Forms and particulars from Municipal Gas Works, Kallang Road. Close 4 p.m.— 19.2.51.
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  • 54 2 Tenders are invited for the purchase and removal ex Central Electricity Board, Johore Bahru for items of Surplus electrical stores and scrap materials. Tenders will be received at the office of the Electrical Engineer, Johore Bahru not later than 12 noon 23rd February 1951. Further details may
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  • 313 2 Britain Favours Plan To Let Japs Rearm AJBTRAUAN VIWS KAUKO LONDON, Tues. OFFICIAL sources said today that Britain agreed with American policy of pressing ahead with a Japanese peace settlement anri of rearming Japan as soon as possible once treaty is signed. They also said the British Government is not
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  • 53 2 LONDON, T-.es— The Cocsevative Daily Telegraph yesterday urged creation cf a Pacific pact to ease any fears resulting from possible Japanese rearmament. Without such a pact, "the projected restoration of full sovereignty to Japan would awaken fresh anxieties in a region already under tension," the
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  • 40 2 ARAB LEAGUE PAH ARAB LEAGUE leaders meeting at Cairo joined in a security pact. Iraq joined Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria, but has not yet signed. Premier Nuri Pasha el Sayed is seen signing for Iraq. A.P. picture.
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  • 231 2 JAPS 'SEEKING MUTUAL AID NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE New York Times said yesterday that "it is apparent that the Japanese, along with the United States, are thinking in terms of collective security in the Pacific." I In an editorial, the Times said, "The Pacific nations, especially the Philippines, Australia and
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  • 40 2 BANGKOK, Tues— Captain S. B. Eliassen, who has served with China coast ships for 35 years has died aboard the Hermelin in Bangkok harbour. He held the Norwegian Shipowners' Association gold medal for long service— A.P.
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  • 118 2 »o* MICHIGAN. Tues THL Buick Division of General Motors Corporation announced yesterday that it will build Britishdesigned J-65 Sapphire Jet engines for the Air Force under the largest single defence contract the company has ever received. The contract, covering the manufacture and acquisition of
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    • 202 2 DRITONS spent less on gambling last year, says a report by the British Churches Committee on Gambling. The amount was £650.000,000, as against £725,000,000 in 1949. The number taking part In football pools dropped from 11,250,000 to 9,850,000, and the average stake from 3.2
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    • 30 2 CALIFORNIA, Tuesday. RADIOACTIVE mosquitoes are being used in America for health research purposes. By tagging mosquito larvae with radioactive phosphorous, the Putflic Health Department of California
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  • 239 2 Improve Your Speech and Writing in A Few Hours Are you content with the way you speak and write? Are you sure that you are not making mistakes that cause people to underrate you? Thousands ot men and women are handicapped because they make embarrassing
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    • 312 2 NOTICES LOST DRAFT A DRAFT No SE 1»— S for *****-Dated 3rd Feb. 1951 of Oversea Chinese Banking Corpora■<l Seremban. drawn on Chinese Banking CorporaHbb I td Johore Bahru. In favour •nnickiun Is lo»t. Public Hrr warned against the negotiation riocurm-nt. A.R.M.M. MUTHIAH Tender for Tapping of Rubber in H.M.
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    • 661 2 NOTICES BATU LINTANG RUBBER COMPANY, IIMITED (Incorporated in the Fede ration of Malaya) An Interim Dividend of 15% less Income fax 30% on account of the year ending 30th June, 1951, has been declared payable to all Shareholders whose names appear on the Register on the 20th February, 1951. This
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  • 282 3 U.S. AGREES— TALKS FIRST Crossing Of 3Bth Denied: UN Still South Of Border WASHINGTON, Tuesday. THK Initid States agrees with Mr. Attlee's statement in the House of Commons that b?f»ie thp Allies cross the 38th Parallel there should H»' consultations by the United Nations. IHtish and American officials are already
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  • 63 3 HONG KONG, Tues. DELEGATES from at least five Asian countries will meet In Hong Kong on Feb. 15-17 in a regional conference of the J.C.I. (Junior Charr.ber International'. They are the Philippines. Singapore, Macao, Taipei and I! Kong The conference la a preliminary to
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  • 95 3 LONDON. Tues.— Mr. S. S. A o ry asked Mr. James Griffiths, the Colonial secretary. In the House of Commons 1 -arance that the p trar of Trade Unions in Federation did not exar minutes of unions' business, nor lists of membership With British trade union
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  • 56 3 SIX l».»i .m.k LEADERS from London and Liverpool, who were arrested by Scotland Yard detectives while they were holding a meeting at the White Hart, public house in Stepney, were charged with conspiring to incite dock workers to an illegal strike. They were remanded on bail and were
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  • 162 3 JAKARTA, Tuesday. INDONESIA must fight inflation by stepping up production and keeping Government expenditure as low as possible, Sjafruddin Prawiranegira, Finance Minister, said today. He told a press conference the main factors behind Indonesian inflation were a sharp increase in the money in circulation and industrial turbulence,
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  • 152 3 DELAYS IN TELECOMS QUERIED LONDON, Tues. SECTIONS of the Commonwealth press are "getting a worse service than they have got since the war' a Conservative member told Parliament here yesterday. Raising the question of delays in Commonwealth telecommunications Mr. William Deedes. member for Ashford, said London's future as a communications
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  • 28 3 BUENOS AIRES, Tues. President Juan Peron declared yesterday that the Argentine scientific expeditions "will step by step take possession" of the disputed Antarctic territory.— Reuter.
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  • 46 3 COLONEL Ben C. Limb (left), Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Korea, sh akes hamir. with the United States delegate, Mr. Warren R. Airs',:.;, following the Political Committee vote at Lake Sue sto brand Communist China an aggressor in Korea. A.P. picture.
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  • 164 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE U.S. State 'Department yesterday said that Charles Davis, 23-year-old California Negro, was arrested by the Swiss police on Nov 19 and was still held without formal charges. American authorities in Geneva had been told that under Swiss law "a person charged with
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  • 100 3 GERMAN REDS IN SPLIT FRANKFURT, Tues. DISSATISFIED West German Communists are to form a new independent workers' party. This was announced after a meeting of 100 dissident Communists in the British zone The party leader will be Josef Schappe. former assistant editor of a British 7 jne Communist newspaper. The
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  • 16 3 NEW DELHI, Tues. The Government of Portuguese India has banned 50 Indian newspapers. A.P.
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  • 226 3 NEW YORK, Tuesday. U.S. Navy scientist revealed today that "flying saucers" actually exist and are the bases of huge balloons used for cosmic research. Writing in Look magazine, 1 Dr. Urner Liddel, of the Office of Naval Research, said the saucers are "part of
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  • 26 3 DAMASCUS. Tues. The Syrian Premier, Nazim El Husein. yesterday pledged his country's support in any step Transjordan might take "to stop Israel's aggression." Reuter.
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  • 265 3 Truman Asks For Aid To India WASHINGTON, Tues. DRESIDENT Truman asked Congress yesterday to take immediate steps to appropriate funds for 1,000,000 tons of grain for Indian famine relief. In a message to the House and Senate, the President recommended that Congress authorise the full amount enough money to buy
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  • 34 3 LONDON. Tues. THE tenth Duke of Devonshire left £796,473 (£731,658 net) when he died in November, but death duty of £1,020,322 has been paid, it was revealed yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 172 3 The little touches count Every woman who knows about clothes realises the importance of the little touches to her dress the right kind of jewellery; beautiful gloves; a flower worn cleverly. Some women are clever about their catering too they know how to flatter their guests with good food. They
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  • 276 4 Rubber Industry Wants Voice In London Rubber Talks 'MALAYA TAKEN FOR RIDE TOO OFTEN' From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tue>day. ANY international rubber conference held by Whitehall cannot be fully representative without the direct participation of Malayan producers and traders, leading Pen ing rubber dealers toid the Straits Times today.
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  • 168 4 HAWKERS: BOARD TO DEBATE pHE Singapore Rural Board 1 will debate the Hawkers Inquiry Commission Report at its next monthly meeting. The Board cnairman, Mr. J. A. Harvey said at the monthly meeting yesterday that the hawker problem in rural areas was different from that in the Municipality The Commission
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  • 42 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Leng Kah Cher, who failed to comply with a court order to pay maintenance to his wife, was produced fci the Kluang Magistrate's Court yesterday. An order was made for the case to be transferred to Sitiawan.
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  • 49 4 From Otii Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Tuesday. —Ho Keng Yun, manager of a local pawnshop, was fined $30 in the Police Court lor not recording the identity card number of a person who had pledged an article. He had been told about this.
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  • 52 4 CURIOUS CROWD waiting at night to hear and see stones falling on a Malay house at Kampong Ujong Pasir, Malacca, occupied by an Indian family. Ten years ago similar events, attributed to a poltergeist, occurred at a Eurasian's house in the kampong. Yong
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  • 201 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. THE Conference of Malay Rulers, *hich meets in 1 Kuala Lumpur tomorrow and on Thursday, will discuss the "Ministerial" plan for the Federation which is to be introduced in April. It is understood that theRulers will be asked
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  • 83 4 When Lim Laan Chua. 38, appeared before the Singaport Fourth Police Magistrate. Mr. P. Claque. last week on a charge of stealing a wallet from Law Tai Nyuan, he was sent to the General Hospital for observation. Yesterday, Lim appeared before Mr. Claque again on a
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  • 116 4 MALAY SOCIETY OF ART, annual exhibition, British Council Hall. Stamford Road, 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. RIOT INQUIRY COMMISSION, Victoria Memorial Hall, 10.30 a.m. ENGLISH SCHOOL TEACHERS CO-OPERATIVE THRIFT AND LOAN SOCIETY, annual general meeting, St. Joseph's Institution, 3 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Katong Groups' meeting, St. Hilda's School, Ceylon
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  • 85 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Comptroller of Manpower, Mr. S. W. P. Poster Sutton, today reiterated to all Chinese schools in Selangor that students below or above 18 years of age hi their final year, would not be called the manpower
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  • 212 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. npHE second battalion, Scots Guards, operating in North Selangor, killed another two bandits today, bringing their total to nine in the last four days. One of the nine was the chairman of the Rasa district committee
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  • 85 4 From Our Staff Correcpondcnt PENANG, Tues. mHE British Council has X invited the Malayan Youth Council to nominate three delegates to the international youth camp to be held at Chigwell. Essex, during the Festival of Britain in July. At a committee meeting of the Settlement
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  • 246 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. TWO Special Constables A and a civilian conductor were *i'led today in the Tanjong Malim area of 'SFLANGOR when the car In which they were travelling was attacked. An assistant manager of the estate on which the
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  • 110 4 SEGAMAT. Tues. POLICE constable described In the Segamat Sessions Court today how a suspicious looking Chinese with a sack, was chased through the town, at the trial of the Chinese, 57-year-old Lee Aik, who was charged with possession of chandu. Because of discrepancies in the
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  • 56 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— Harold de Silva was knocked down and fatally Injured by a military vehicle on the Rengam-Simpang Rengam road The driver, J. T. Brown, was injured and is now in the BMH. Kluang. Brown will be charged in the Police Court. Kluang. with
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  • 20 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAiIRU. Tues Tan Teck Plan, of Singapore, was fined $50 at Kluang tor
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  • 231 5 A MALAY constable who was said to have acted "like a beast" in the Singapore riots is to be given 2C strokes with a heavy rotan. This was ordered by Mr. H. E. Kingdcn, Singapore First District Court Judge, yesterday. In addition he sentenced the constable,
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  • 59 5 MX N P. Balaknshnan. a i"ii ms Indian musician iw sfvcral performances in Singapore and the I deration recently, will |.'i\- ."or Australia on Fob. U on a cultural tour. Mr. Pilakrishiiaa his visited i South Fast Asian 4 'luntries inclndinit lndoSiam. Ceylon and Burma. H«*
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  • 97 5 TWO Malay youths, alleged to have been members of j which attacked a police van during the riots, robbing d'';cctives of their guns be- I l<nv setting fire to the van, yesterday committed in the Singapore Relief Court to s.ind trial at the next as- ■lzes.
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  • 95 5 Members of the Singapore Engineer Regiment Branch of the Army Civil Service Union have received their housing allowance "entirely through the efforts of ACSU." Mr. G. Singam, chairman of the branch, said yesterday. The Branch, at its recent annual general meeting, reelected Mr. Singam as chairman. Other
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  • 81 5 A PUBLIC inquiry into the loss of two police vans during the riots will be demanded at the Singapore Legislative Council on Friday by Mr. John Laycock. Mr. Laycock will ask who were the officers in charge of the vans when they were fired by the rioters,
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  • 154 5 Unlawful Assembly Charge KASMI bin Othman, 23. was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Singapore Assizes on charges of being a member of an unlawful assembly during the December riots and gang robbery of a van and lorry belonging to the Singapore Cold Storage and the Singapore Municipality.
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  • 191 5 £TAFF shortage in the Singapore General Clerical Service is so acute that the upper age limit for new recruits has been raised from 21 to 26. There are about 200 vacancies, or a quarter of the total required strength Government clerks feel that they
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  • 99 5 AIR-MINDED young men of the Malayan A.T.C. are 7 beginning to pass on to the R.A.F. < Malaya >. Two Singapore friends, who June been A.T.C. Cadets for the past two-and-a-hulf years, have just been accepted by the R.A.F. They are: Derek Newman fleft), aged
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    60 5 MR. R K. PftHl-QVB. Singapore's former commissioner of Police (second from left) talks with the present Commissioner. Mr. Pennefather Evans, while the ADC to the Governor. Capt. R. J. Bingham Newland. and the Deputy Commissioner of Polite. Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire. Jook on. Mr. Fou'eer will giw
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  • 154 5 AN immediate survey will be made in the most thickly populated areas of Singapore to set aside from 50 to 300 acres for recreation fields, parks and children's playgrounds, Mr. P. F. de Sou/a said over Radio Malaya last night. Mr. de Souza, a member of
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  • 56 5 TWO police constables, Mo1 named Isa bin Ja'amat and Mohamed Isa bin Said, of the Seletar Police Station, were yesterday sentenced to one month's imprisonment each for sleepin; while on armed dut y on Jan. 26. They were caught sleepin; at the station by a
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  • 37 5 Pang Peng Kee, who failed to produce his identity card when ordered to do so by a police officer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment In Singapore yestprday when he pleaded guilty
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  • 88 5 PHAN Chow Cho, the proprietor of a second hand dealers' shop, was yesterday fined $1,000, or a month's imprisonment, in Singapore for being in possession of two pieces of scrap rubber without a licence. Inspector Abdul Rahman bin Dulbasah said that, on Dec. 30 last, he went
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  • 74 5 From Our Own Carrespondenl JOHORE BAHRU, Tues.— Koh Boon Yee, a boatman of Kuala Selangor. was fined $1,500 in the Police Court when he pleaded guilty to evasion of duty on 22 wrist watches. The watches were found by Customs officers under the driver's seat
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  • 59 5 A FORMATION of Meteor ttvin jet fighters toill leave Britain in the next few days to fly to Singapore, Far East Air Force Headquarters said last night. They will be used for flying tests tinder tropical conditions. The Vampires which have already arrived will reequip
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  • 175 5 Urgent Interim Measure T"HE 2,000-strong Singapore Government and Municipal Labour Union supports in principle the proposal by Mr. John Laycock urging an interim minimum rise of $10 in the cost-of-luing: allowances of all Government servants who se basic monthly salary is $100 or less.
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  • 79 5 When the S.S. Glaucus berthed alongside the docks at Singapore on Jan. 26, he suddenly gave a lurch. One of the cargo of cars being lowered swung against the ship's side and crushed a labourer who had been standing between the ship and the car. The
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  • 128 5 ROAD-name boards in rural Singapore will soon carry metal discs bearing the resve postal district numbers. This was decided yesti I at the meeting of the R Board The chairman was authorised to ca!l tenders two types ol metal discs Other matters decided
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  • 84 5 To prevent flooding of tha Telok Ayer-Circular Road arr-i during high tides. Mr. J M. Jumabhoy i Independent— City Ward) has asked the SingaDore Municipal Engineer to build sluice gates at two drains which tenpty at Telnlc Ayer Basin Mr Jumabhoy says that the cause of the
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  • 1014 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Feb. 14, 1951. The Higher Services A letter was published in this page last week which it was impossible to read without sympathy. The writer has spent about a dozen years in Government service in the Colony, having joined that service straight from school. Now
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  • 133 6 QN Chinese New Years Eve there came into existence the Mci Hwa Music Hall at the old Cathay premises in the peaceful town of Batu Pahat The local Town Board, which has always been very particular with regard tn plans for the slightest renovation or alteration of premises, has
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  • 1190 6 "This is what happens in Eftgtahd.; Do tfie want to inimducv it here?" asks a Special Correspondent DECENT changes in layv affecting build ing in the Federation raise the question whether Malaya, including Singapore, will follow in this the British wav of life One can appreciate the
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    • 306 6 I CAN fully endorse all that "A. Nanas" wrote in th e Straits Times of Feb. 7 about the unsuitability of peat lands for pineapple cultivation. In 1936 I visited the Pon- 1 tian district and was itruek by the large size of the thr?e varieties of pine
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    • 132 6 IS Malayai. broadcasting marching backward? One is. prompted to ask this question by the curtailment of the racing commentaries from Kuala Lumpur last Saturday, th^ flay of the Selangor Gold Cup meeting, to only five races I know that Chinese pro- grammes are due to start at i
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    • 167 6 THE EGG THAT TAKES LONG TO HATCH £T an election meeting last Thursday Mr. Lim Yew Hock referred to his success on the Legislative Council. He has been talking a great deal about social security but what are his actual accomplishments in this field? On March 15, 1949, he obtained,
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  • 422 6 "Mohamodans" HAVE always Dft-n in doubt, tn niv Journalistic life in Malaya, whether to write "Mohamedan" or "Muslim." Both words nave oeen used in the Straits Times, as elsewhere, and we have never received any protest from Muslim readers Now. howi ever. I have at last read
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    • 811 6 CLASSIFIED AD& BIRTHS LI.EWEM YN THOMAS: On February 10, to Ellen and Edward wellyn Thomas. In Charlottesville, Virginia, a son Roland. Both well HASTIE: At Penang. on Pebnmrv 11th. 1951. to Moira. wife of T E Hastie. Malakoff Estate. IVW n daughter. (Ollvray Allan) Both well RA.TAH At Kuala Lumpur
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    • 139 6 'cha*rUe Ikunz Again! 9467 CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEY NO. D.98 Intro: My foolish heart; Me and my shadow: C'est si bon; Dearie: Bewitched. Lett do it again. 9427 (HARME KITNZ PIANO MEDLEY No. D.97 Intro: My thanks to you; Marta; Out of a clear blue sky: The old Piano Roll
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    • 86 6 I MtiRTjON t LONDON /L $h e rrings /I/is i •^^'/jih /v L FRESH or in if p—V :i_ TOMATO SAUCE AGENTS C E MORTON (Malaya) LTD. Singapore Kuala Lumpur Penang ATTENTION TRAVELLERS!! FOR YOUR ENTIRE COMFORT STAY AT THE TAVE RN Europe.™ Residential Hotel) (Open to Non Residents) Clot*
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  • 433 7 Commission To Sit Today In Victoria Hall THE first witness to give evidence before the Riot Inquiry Commission will be Mr. G. R. Livett who until recently was Deputy Commissioner of the Singapore Police. An official announcement last night said that Mr. Livett
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  • 125 7 'jfHi: 1, "it)!)- ton Islander, which left Singapore with 1 a c«r;o of building materials for Christmas more than two we?ks ago, put back into S't*anore resterday with her cargo. intact. H avy seas proven! ed the [the cargo at < maa Island, and alI
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  • 27 7 following have beer ited members of the tlon Fin.ince Board Singapore. Messrs. C. L. Edwaids, K. T. Ooi. Lim Yew Hock, and Teh Say Kuo.
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  • 93 7 FOUR Ch'nese, two of them brothers, were yesterday acquitted by Mr. R. B. I. Pates in the Singapore Second Police Court on a charge of attempted extortion of S2OO from Ec Teh Choon. described as a money lender. The accused. Goh Hock Seng, Goh Poh Aun.
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  • 179 7 Women Kissed His Feet HIS Holiness Baba Partap Singh Ji. 61, one of the eminent spiritual leaders of the Sikhs for the past 44 years, brought a message of goodwill for the peoples of Singapore and the Federation when he arrived with a party of 20 disciples from Bangkok last
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  • 181 7 OECAUSE of present difficulties in Singapore in the purchase of wnned milk, leading importers have decided to sell supplies direct to commercial firms which are willing to undertake their own distribution to staffs. i A Government statement last night said: "It is not
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  • 31 7 The Bach music festival held in Singapore recently realised $10,597. This has been paid into the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association. The S-A.T.A. thanks all advertisers, .donors and vol-
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  • 67 7 MALAYS PLAN LIBRARY Malays of Geylang will hold a meeting on March 1 to consider the formation of a library in the area. Inche Mohammad Said bin Mohammad, one of the enthusiasts, said that the ibrary would attract Malays to spend their time reading, thereby gaining knowledge and improving their
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  • 161 7 TUfE second Japanese ship to x enter Singapore with a cargo of cement in three u...ir. 4w weens, the new 3,698-ton freighter Kansai Maru, carrying 4,000 tons consigned A i j: a, to two leading Singapore importers, arrived yesterday from Osaka, but paid no attention t«
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  • 188 7 She's Mascot Of Ship— -And Champ THE Coventry, which 1 berthed here yesterday, has been enlivened by the presence of 11-year-old Kathie Ayers, belle and mascot of the ship, as well as champion Canasta player. Kathie, with the bluegrey eyes and dark brown hair, is official Canasta champion of the
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  • 103 7 A FULL investigation is now being carried out into the shooting last Saturd ay night at Tarn pen is Road when two members of different branches of the Singapore Police mistook each ot her for. armed terrorists. A senior Police spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday
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  • 112 7 WHEN the St. Andrews School Civics Club held a debate yesterday on whetner or not Malaya should have self-government now, the opposition won the day. Speakers for the opposition said that the time was not yet ripe for self-government. They pointed out that there were no qualified
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  • 25 7 Dr. (Miss) E. V. Crowe. Lady Medical Officer, has been appointed to act as Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, Maternity Hospital, Kandang Kerbau, Singapore.
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  • 75 7 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. r VHREE masked gunmen, two Chinese and an Indian, are reported to have robbed a Penang Municipal labourer of $400, a pair of gold earrings and his identity card. The hold up was in the labourer's home in Mount Erskine
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  • 89 7 THE Singapore Dairy Farm Labour Union has asked the employers for a Provident Fund and an increase in the cost-of-llving allowance. .In a note the Union told the Cold Storage Company that the c.0.1. allowance should be increased to 80 cents daily, effective from July 1.
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  • 23 7 Mr. Tan Ah Tah has been appointed president of the Rent Conciliation Board in place of Mr. A. W. Bellamy.
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  • 192 7 Wreaths For 11 Medical Men A WREATH laying ceremony in memory of the eleven medical students killed as a result of Japanese s-hellins on Feb. 14. 1942, will be held for the first time at Harrower Hall, Faculty of Medicine, University A Malaya, at one 0'c1.;./k today. Dr. D. W.
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  • 64 7 Tang Teng Kirn. aged 42, and a woman, Tay Siew V aged 26, appeared before Mr. H. E. Kingdon in the Sinp- Ipore First District Court y terday charged with bein? in possession of 30 tahils of chandu. Tang, and Tay claimed tr 1 to the
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  • 45 7 With reference to a report that the Police recovered $20,000 worth of stolen rubber at the Bin Seng Rubber Factory, Bukit Timah Road, the management of the Bin Seng Co. Ltd. stated yesterday that they had no knowledge that the rubber was stolen.
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  • 187 8 Kiat Challenged -'Show What You Did' A CHALLENGE to Mr G. H. Kiar to come forward and show what lip had done a MuniriDal Commiss'«»ner, was issued yesterd:t\ by Mr John Laycock who held his first election meeting at the re'ok Kurau Mi lav School Mr Laycock is standing as
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  • 95 8 From Our Own iorrespondenl JOHORE BAHRU. Tu es Kui Tui of Singapore, was charged in the Police Court with dishonestly rp'ainlng ■to'.eo orooerty namely, some brass and wire belonging U BBC Satinn at Plentong On the case beins postponed Kal asked for the members nt his "jano
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  • 48 8 MR JOHN Laycock (Progressive Party) has started his election campaign for the Legislative Council. He is here pictured addressing a gathering at Telok Kurau Malay School yesterday. Mr. Tan Soon Kirn is seated in the centre and Dr. H. S. Aljuneid on the right
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  • 128 8 From Our Stan Correspondent IPOH, Tuesday. THK Pcrak Council of Religion and Malay Custom agreed yesterday that although the Nadra (Maria Hertogh) case was subjudice and should not be discussed, there was no indication of it causing an outbreak of violence. i It decided that
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  • 15 8 Piofessor N. S. Alexander has resigned from the Municipal Commission as from 2. 1950.
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  • 92 8 ALTERED I- CARD TO GET JOB From Our Own t'orresiwulent AI.OR STAR. Tues. WANTHIK bin Mat took another man's card because he had lost his own. He then erased the other man's name and substituted his own and replaced the original photograph with his own. Wanchik then applied lor a
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  • 93 8 MEMORIAL services will be held jointly in Singapore and Hong Kong on Saturday for the late Mr. Aw Hoe, son of Mr. Aw Boon Haw, who was killed last month in an air crash in southern Siam. In Singapore, the memorial service will be at 3 p.m.
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  • 31 8 A young Chinese. Yeo Xi Lin. who failed to register for an Identity card, was yestercay sentenced by Mr. H. E. Kingdon in Singapore to threr months' Imprisonment.
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  • 298 8 Govt Loans For Scheme From Our Staff CorrespondrMii KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE Central Electricity Board is iicgotiating for substantial loans from either the Federation Government or the British dovernment for the big expansion programme and to buy generating machinery. In the next few years, $125 million wii:
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  • 212 8 engineering workshops in the Lavender Street area are hard hit by the Singapore Municipality's decision to ration electricity for industries Many of the workshops are without any auxiliary power supply and rationing means rush' Jobs cannot be undei taken Said Ah Soh, owner of
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  • 153 8 Text-Books In 'Simple English' TEXT- BOOKS in simplified English are now being unloaded in Singapore for the use of locally enlisted personnel and Gurkhas in the Army. This was stated by Brigadier W. G. Pidsley, Director of Army Education, who is touring Army schools in the Far East. Brig. Pidsley
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  • 31 8 From Our Staff Correspondent MUAR. Tues. Charged at Muar with unlawfully carrying two katies of scrap rubber at Lanadro- Estate. Lian Chew was sentenced to on* 1 year's Imorisonment
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  • 32 8 MVIOR FrJc Ffint. a trrat--rrpat-nephew of Siiißapore's loundrr. Sir Stamford U»ffles. who is coming t« Singapore to inspect some family property. He arrived at Penang in the Chusan.-
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    • 113 8 C&r- ■v Jjf yocwtff Hilt ll^^^^^^^ r lnu-rt'stinji figures of cai ownersnip in the medical profession were cont;nu'd in the "Manchester (iuardian" (tI.K.) survey recently undertaken. A questionnaire was addres>ed to 1,1 'o medical professors and lecturers, one of the questions in which was "Do you own a car?" total
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    • 245 8 Mb I Here are three of the new features on Pan American's new Double-decked /z; -V Clipper* Service to the U.S.A. \f'/_ (VIA MANILA) v SIMP Kit I I FES Pan American'* famed foam-cushion chair lounges stretch way out to full lied length give you real sleeping comfort at no
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  • 1925 9 THIS WEEK 's LETTER COMES FROM PARIS From Our London Correspondent PARIS, I AST night, I hurried through tlie dark :m<l gloomy streets of Londion to a modes! litll restaurant off Piccadilly (.'ircis For dinner, they gave me watery potato soup, i thinly cut slice of boiled bed" of :!><>iit
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  • 143 9 mfR. CHURCHILL < ITI House of Commons veteran though he is was lost in the new House's maze of seven lifts the other flight. Bound for a committee meeting, be marched into the first. "To the top.' he said and was instantly whisked up four storeys. Mr.
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 320 9 Straivs Times Crossword ?.91 vaL^f £V°2) the ad 1 26. Better' to look them than 12 3 4 |§l|l 5 6 l» 8 thro*- them (7). SSSSfl I 27. e.g. One, two, or three (7). I 9 ACEOSS Hl_ HI H H M— 2. A drain, contrivance (3. 4) 10
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  • 295 10 LONDON, Tues. FRESH institutional selling of British Government funds for reinvestment in steel shares ahead of nationalisation depressed prices in the giltedged section of 'the London Stock Exchange today. Losses of one-eighth to a quarter were widespread. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, as supplied to the Straits
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  • 105 10 From A Market Correspondent ON reports that 20 tons of Lampong black pepper had changed hands at $657 a picul in the Singapore produce market yesterday, the three varieties of pepper rose in price by $10 a picul. Another reason for the increase In prices of the
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  • 486 10 Frorv A Market Correspondent THE Malayan share market continued firm in all 1 sections yesterday. A little profit-taking in Tin shares was well absorbed. Business in Industrials and Rubbers was hampered by shortage of scrip. Quotations announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers Association were Bayers >«Mer» vex Bricks Pref
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  • 482 10 SINGAPORE, Tues., Feb. 13-4759 (up $14 to new alltime record). £1,555 a ton in London LONDON, Tues., Feb. 13.Spot Buyers. £1.555; Forward £1,515; Settlement £1.520 (up £45). Turnovers: a.m. 75, p.m. 40 tons. s ironun «/o «/o Sungei Best 16/3 16/9 Sungel Bidor 43/- 45/Suniie) Kinta
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  • 200 10 CMALL Continental orders lor lower grades and some buying for short covering improved the Singapore rubber market yesterday. It closed firm at $2.20 alb.. one cent above Monday's close, for March first-grade. Turn-over in the market was moderate- There was further selling from the Federation. Closing prices
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  • 59 10 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Taksang 44; Glenroy 43. Charon 41; Pr. Jefferson 39; City of' Coventry 37; Somali 34; Pyrrhus 32; Tantalus 30: Nordstjernan 36; Beluru 24: Rajah Brooke 22; St. Mere Eglise 20; Benlomond 18; Sangola 16; Indian Bear 14; Radnorshire 12;
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  • 31 10 HONGKONG, Tues. ■pREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong, dollars was quoted today at, follows: US$1 HKS5.88 icash). HK$6.03'L- IT.): £1 HKS15 30: opp tae: of gold HK323.— U.P.
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  • 34 10 fPHE Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Buying T.T. 34 V Airmail (O.D.) 34 7 (90 dayst 35S; Selling TT. O.D. ready 34 V
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  • 33 10 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Tues. /"<OPENG Consolidated directors have declared an interim dividend of 15 per cent for the year to Sept. 30, 1951, payable on Mar. 7 1951.
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    • 1170 10 MANSFIELD 6* CO., LLD. -Otooia\ea in singaporei BLUE rVNMfL UNI Carnei option to proceed Hi ethei trarti to load and dttcharge cargo IA?IINCS »o LIVERPOOL CLASCOW LONDON CONTINENTAl PORT* Due Sam r» Sham Henang Tantaiut tor Cenoa. Mars*i:lei. Havr. Liverpool C.25/26 Feb. IS Feb.16/17 Feb 21/22 V DO C. 11/J2
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    • 352 10 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS To New York and Boston via Ceylon. India, Egypt and Mediterranean Ports Smgapoie O Swettennam t> l i* n r B PRES lEFFERSON Cdns. 38/39 17/18 Feb. 19/20 Feb Sails 16 Feb. PRES POLK 23/28 Feb Omit WJ Ma PRES CRANT 5/11 Mar 12/13 Mar IJ/JoUt, PRES
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    • 904 10 McALISTER <ScCO., LVD. r»(ephon. Ne. 5904 ELLERMAN BUCKNALL KLAVEMItSS LIME LONDON, HAVRE. ANTWERP, LOS ANCELES. SAN FRANCISCO. ROTTEROAM HAMBURC PORTLAND SEATTLE b VANCOUVER fc^SllW tBX& POMV C^,,., I South s.s CITY OF COVENIRY ms CASTLEVILLE Cdn. 36/18 Feb 19/20 F.b, 2 8 F.b./4 Ma. 5 Mar 6 Me*. Ms CITY
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  • 617 11 Stf&ytfY OF RUGBY SEASON--2* BIG EFFORT BY S.A.R.U. URGED By A Special Correspondent ANE thing seems te be lacking in Singapore Rugby and that is real support from the Singapore Asiatic Rugby Union. By this it is not meant that their officials are not keen
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  • 106 11 The Ma'ay Badminton Association, Singapore, who have already donated $100 to the Ismail Marjan and Ong Poh Lim fund, are seeking more donations for the fund from its affiliates. At their third annual meeting held recently the following were elected officials for 1951: President: A. Rahman
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  • 330 11 IKIN TOPS BATTING AVERAGES KANPUR. Tues. JOHN IKIN of Lancashire headed the Commonwealth batting averages for the Test series against India which ended with the fifth Test match here yesterday. Ikins average was 8929. He scored three centuries In the seriex and once failed with only three runs to reach
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  • 490 11 TSLAND Club will meet American X Association on Sunday in a Four-ball foursomes, on handicap. Island Club players will be hosts at tiffin to the American Association players and their wives in the Clubhouse after the match. The flxtuies, with Island Club names mentioned
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    31 11 REG. SIMPSON cracks Bill Johnston to mid-on on the last day of the England vs. Australia fourth Test match. Simpson hit up 61. Th* Australians won the Test by 274 runs.
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  • 424 11  -  EDIN PETERS By ALL THE THRILLS and spills of motor racing will return to the Colony on Sunday wheu the Singapore Motor Club start the 1951 season with halfmile standing-start and quarter-mile ftying-start I events. So far more than 90 entries have been received and
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  • 174 11 MELBOURNE. Tues. ENGLAND again face injury problems for the fifth and final Test against Australia starting here on Feb. 23. Freddie Brown, the captain who was injured in a car accident last week, may not be fit and it was discovered today that Alec Bedser
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    • 439 11 11 a.m., 1.45, 4.15. 6.45 and 9 3* p.m. LAST 2 DAYS! I J The pieosure's oil yours in M-G-M'* singing, dancing in funin-Son Volley >HI$ICAl .^VO^^ M DICHESS ofiDMo Technicolor tsg^ ESTHER WILLIAMS VAN tOHNSON I0HH LUNO Important Announcement In most parts of the world, the film SAMSON AND
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 87 11 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. Mews; 10.10 Close; 10.45 Schools: 12 Malay; 1 p.m. Dance Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 "Lunch-Time Prom"; 2 Schools: 2 50 Close: 5 Malay; 6 Cowboy Songs; 6 15 Children; 6.40 "Moonlight Over The Islands"; 7 News: 7.12 "Thi* Is Communism": 7.22 Interlude; 7 30 "Rhythm
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  • 338 12 SAFA Approves On Appeal VllE Combined Kota Raja/Chinese Athletes soccer team, who were refused permission by Singapore Amateur F.A. on Monday to go on tour, were successful in an appeal made yesterday. The combined side will be 16 strong comprising 11 Kota Raja
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  • 279 12 Newcomer Assize Is Ready C)NE of the best workers on the training track at Bukit Timah yesterday morning was Assize, a nicely-bred five-year-old who has come on a great deal since his first appearance at Ipoh last month. Breaking from the sixth. Assize blazed down the back stretch, streaked past
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  • 28 12 LONDON, Tues.— Albert Finch (173'j1b.), former British middleweight champion, outpointed Jackie (Kid) Harris (173 s ,lb.) of Albany, New York, over eight ounds here last night.
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  • 273 12 T OOKING fit and fresh after a J lengthy let-up, Byron was associated in a rousing trial witli two Class 2 horses, Pam Green and Full Stop, at Bukit Timah yesterday. The workout was done In semidarkness and it was not possible to time the
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  • 163 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. AN unbroken sixth wicket stand of 140 by Len Hutton and Trevor Bailey enabled the MCC to avoid the follow-on against Victoria here today. Replying to Victorias 441 the M.C.C. had made 291 for five by the tea interval today. Hutton wa s
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  • 372 12 fAMBKIDGE, winner of the valuable Three- Year-Old Free Handicap at Bukit Timah in November, looks a stone-improved horse and he will certainly make Ondine, Bright Eyes, Persian Lord and Co. go a bit in the 6-f. sprint for Class 1, Div. 1 horses next Wednesday,
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    46 12 WOMEN'S SEVtN-A SIDE HOCKEY: An S.C.C. first team forward in full control of the ball as a R.A.F. Changi second team defender makes a tackle an incident in yesterday's seven -a side hockey played on the S.R.C. padang. S.C.C. proved too good, winning by s—o.5 0.
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  • 57 12 HONGKONG, Tues. rpHE Singapore Combined Ser- vices Rugby team scored a narrow five-three victory over a Hong Kong side yesterday. Hong Kong scored first in a hard fast game but the srperlative play of the Singapore forwatds brought the tourists victory. Other inter-colony matches
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  • 38 12 LONDON. Tues. Against opposition including some of the leading English players L. T. Lee. of Malaya, won the Leicestershire badminton singles title beating N. B. Radford. English International 15-10, 15-9 in the final.
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  • 38 12 RUGBY: R.A.S.C. v Royal Engineers at R.E. ground; R.A.F. Changi v. Nee Soon at Nee Soon; RAF Tengah v. 221 Veh. Bn. at Battalion ground. HOCKEY: Women's seven-a-side hockey final on padang today from 4.30 pjn.
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  • 304 12 MAJESTIC Scholar stepped up his preparation for his first stamina test when he had a solid tworound workout at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. Roy Percival, who gave Gordon Lansdnwn a helping hand in exercising Yong's string, sprinted Majestic Scholar up the straight, sent him round
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  • 134 12 MELBOURNE, Tues. pRAEME Hole, young South Australian all-rounder, is included in Australia's .team to play England in the fifth and last Test which begins here on Feb. 23. Australia's side is: L. Hassett, N. Harvey. I. Johnson, W. Johnston, J. iverson (all Victoria), A. Morris
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  • 243 12 EiIFTEEN teams will compete this year in the United Services (Singapore) Football Association's inaugural Football League, which starts on Mar. 1. The teams are R.A.F. Changi, R.A.F Lodger Units. R.A.F Seletar, R.A.F. Maintenance Unit Seletar. R.A.F. Tengah. Royal Navy Air Command, H.M.S. Terror, G.H.Q.
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  • 244 12 DOVERS SPORTS CLUB, Singapore Amaieur Foot- ball Association 1949 Senior League champions and finalists last year in the S.A.F. Cup competition, may not enter a team for this year s competitions if they do not find sufficient replacements. Mr. Ang Soon Hoc president
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  • 103 12 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. Fighting on brilliantly despite a nasty cut over the right eye sustained in the seventh round, Nai Som Pong, welterweight champion of Singapore, beat Golden Boy, welterweight champion of Selangor on a narrow points decision over 10 rounds
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  • 69 12 /COMBINED Services (Singapore) have selected the following for Sunday's game against S.A.F.A. at Jalan Besar Stadium. Proceeds will go to the Asian Games Fund. LAC Grant (RAF); LAC Robinson (RAF). CPO Jark (Navy). SQMS Bitler (Army), FAC Dover, SMPO White (Navy); L'Cpl. M;.«son (Army). SQSIS
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  • 28 12 TODAY: 3.25 a.m. (8.5), 4.31 p.m. (6.9.): 10.06 a.m. <2.9>, 9.38 p.m. (4.7). TOMORROW: 4.04 a.m. (8.3), 6.04 p.m. (6.3); 11.13 a.m (3.1). 10.18 p.m. (5.4).
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  • 83 12 me om'P v. •>. >f;nejr seven-a-side i^ .man on Monday and will te I :ie semi-finals and final or. i laof today. The results so lai :i Monday: Girls Sports CiuJS Ist beat S.C.C. 3rd by one short-cor-ner; Changi Ist beat S.C.C. 2nd by 3-0
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    • 837 12 Continued from pagt 6) SITl ATIONS VACANT APPI ICATIONS are Invited tor of a Malayan Pilgrim- i The successful candidate will be required to I n period of probation. The appointment is on the pens I'l>i>lishment 2. The f 0* the post U $540 x A20 n p.m. The allowances
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    • 818 12 (Continued from prev. column) ACCOMMODATION VACANT AVAILABLE March 1st. Furn. d'ble bedroom use of Lg. 6c D. room, kitch. M.S. In prv home S20D, East Coast Rd., Bedok. ACCOMMODATION WANTED YOUNG RAP couple No children husb'd fre'tly absent from Colony due to flying duties rpq. sm. furn'd flat. Local area.
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