The Straits Times, 2 April 1951

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS
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    WAR CRIMES JAPS GOING
    202 1 Sentences To Be Completed In Own Gaols QNE hundred and forty-four Japanese war criminals in Singapore are to be sent back to Japan soon to serve the rest of their sentences. This decision has been taken at the highest level after about a year's consideration. It
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    Lake Dried To Find Girl's Ring
    160 1 Lake Dried To Find Girl's Ring CALCUTTA. Sun. ENGINEERS, draining a lake on "the rooftop- of the world" in search for a maiden's diamond ring, were said today to be "too romantic for the modern ace." For six days the engineers have h-en draining millions of gallons of water from
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    New Offer By Strikers
    62 1 PARIS. Sun. THE AU-Union Committee directing in 16-day-old transport strike in Paris today declared that they were ready to resume negotiations with thp Government "if thsre is fair play." Talks broke down last night after the Government refused to grant a 25 per cent, wage increase
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    R.N. CHIEF 'ARGUED WITH U.S. ADMIRAL'
    195 1 LONDON. Sun. VISCOUNT Cunningham. Britain's First S a Lord and Naval Chief-of-Staff in the last war, described frequent and sharp differences of opinion with Admiral King, American Naval Commander, in a book he has just published. iint Cunningham said Adnlral King objected siT.'lv to
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    Nehru Flies To Kashmir
    88 1 NEW DELHI. Sun. THE India/i Pr'.me Minister Mr Ne^ru. flew to Kashnir fay. I~> firmed observers say It Vai a move to strengthen claim to Kashmir in lace of the United Nations Security Cou'icil resolution oil rftn dem i:tarisation and I a plebiscite in th? r?«lon
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    MAN MAY FLY AT 2,500 mph
    54 1 WASHINGTON. Sun.— Am- I erica m?y fly a 2 500 miles an hour one-man rccket plane some time this year. The plane, called X-2. is exprrtrd to fly higher than any other aircraft in existence. It is too small to carry anything but a
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    BIGGER SHIP TAKES OVER
    75 1 THE Szechuen, which 1 brought 350 passengers from Swatow to Singapore yesterday, has called here for che last time. Because of heavy traffic between Swatow and Singapore, a larger ship, the Kwetyang now on the BangkokSwat o\v run, will replace the Szschuen, which can carry only
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    'Mistake' Sent Him To War
    120 1 - LONDON. Sun. A 34- YEAR OLD British regular soldier is today on his way home from Korea after serving there eight months "by mistake." The soldier Fusilier William Rich, is being recalled by the British War Minister as a result of a letter he wrote
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    -and Her To Freedom
    91 1 BERLIN Sun. A WOMAN regained freedom here yesterday because the Soviet Zone police mistakenly drove her through West Berlin. The woman, Johanna Buechner. of Dresden, said since sh; 1 had been sacked as a Saxony Government department chief for "political unreliability" she had been interrogated several
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    RICE ABSENTEES
    48 1 Burma and Laos have not accepted the invitation of the Commisioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald to attend the second meeting of the Consultative Committee on Rice. Replies are still awaited from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.
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    POLICE CHIEFS WILL HEAR MIS HEAD
    194 1 LONDON, Sunday. pREAT importance, in view of the present world situation, is attached to a conference of special colonial police commissioners which opens m Britain tomorrow. The Commissioners have come from all over the Empire for the first time, to dis cuss the role
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    STUDENTS TO WED IN LONDON
    69 1 MISS CHAN Nya Chee an d Mr. Siow Watt Soon, both of Singapore, who are to b c married in London on Friday. Miss Chan, the sec ond daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Lee Choon, has justj ust qualified as a midwife. Mr. Siow,
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    NEW DRUG KEEPS THEM SOBER
    121 1 JMTALAYAN wives need no longer fear that their husbands will come home drunk when tetraethylthiuram cisulphlde arrives. Tetraethydthluram dlsulphidc is a new drug being made in England. When given to a drinker it makes him say: The drug sensitises a patient so that alcohol in
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    Air Raid On A Swarm Of Caterpilllors
    33 1 RAF HELICOPTER flyine low over grasslands »t the Singapore Dairy Farm at Bukit Timah in a spraying; operation to kill a caterpillar swarm. Straits Times picture.
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    He Tried To Steal Rifle —Shot Dead
    145 1 He Tried To Steal Rifle —Shot Dead KUALA, LUMPUR, Mon. A MALAY soldier today shot and killed a bandit who had tried to steal his rifle while he was swimming in a pool in the MENTAKAB district of Pahang. The Malay soldier was out of the pool in an instant
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    REDS REGROUP FOR NEW ALL-OUT DRIVE
    217 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. /CHINESE armies are regrouping for a renewed all-out attempt to drive the Nations forces out of Korea, according to usually reliable sources in Washington. The Third and Fourth Field Armies are being re-equipped and reinforced for the offensive. All the indications are
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    'Confusion' by MacA
    91 1 OTTAWA, Sun. THE External Affairs Minis- ter, Mr. Lester Pearson, last night said United Nations military leaders who make controversial statements which go far beyond their military responsibility create "confusion, disquiet and discord." Such statements endangered free world unity. Mr. Pearson did not.mention him by name but
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    HIDDEN GOLD SEIZED
    87 1 HONG KONG, Sun. REVENUE officers on Saturday seized another HK$l, OOO.OOO worth of gold from a British freighter about to leav e for Singapore. The seizure brought the month's total to a record of more than HK54.500.000. The gold was packed in gunny sacks hidden in the
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    BRITAIN HAS A SURPLUS
    68 1 LONDON. Sun DRITAIN ended thr fin- ani'ial year yesterday with a surplus of £720.000.000 although she budgeted for a deficit. Treasury tax and revenue brought in £80.000.000 more than budget expectations in 1950-51 while the nation spent £197.000.000 less than estimated. With special additional capital expenditure
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    Hover Plane Sprays Farm
    134 1 Hover Plane Sprays Farm AN R.A.F. helicopter spent all Sunday spraying the Singaporw Dairy Farm at Bukit Timah in one of the most extensive spraying operations ever carripd •ut in the Colony The operations were carriad out to combat a horde of "mystery caterpillars" which have descended o.> 60 acres
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    Red Planes Sabotaged
    62 1 TAIPEH. Sun. THE China Union Pre-s r»ports that 16 out of the 28 Communist planes parked in Kiangwan airfield were destroyed by an explosion. It says the Incident wai pro-Nationalist sabotage wl U a time bemb. The commander In charge of the airfield's securi'y cad seven of
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    MINISTER QUITS
    19 1 RANGOON. Sun. -The Burmese Minister of Health. Myanaung U Tin. has resijned because of ill health. -A.P.
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    China Offers Grain
    22 1 NEW DELHI, Sun.— China has offered to sell faminethreatened India whatever food grains she needs— A.P. Famine— P. 3
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    GUERILLASARE PARACHUTED INTO ALBANIA
    142 2 GUERILLASARE PARACHUTED INTO ALBANIA LONDON, Sunday. REBEL fighters and anti-CoYnmunist leaflets have been parachuted into Albania to harry the Red government, it was reported today. The indications are that unrest is growing in Russian satellite states. Soviet jet fighters and about 5,000 military and civilian technical personnel have been sent
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    Troops Kill 20 Huks
    85 2 MANILA, Sun A PHILIPPINE army detachment killed 20 Communist Huks, including three women, on the slopes of Mount Irid and recovered loot taken by a band which executed American dairy owner, John Hardie, his wife, and an Australian near Antlpoto on March 20. The Huk band
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    New U.N. Man For Kashmir
    57 2 LAKE SUCCESS. Sun.—Britain and the United States are conferring on a short list of candidates for the post of the new United Nations representative in Kashmir, a British spokesman said here yesterday. The name of th e selected candidate is expected to be announced in
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    FOR KOREA
    14 2 ROTTERDAM, San.— A detachment of Dutch volunteers for Korea left here yesterday—A.P.
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      Nizam Puts Trust, Gems In Bank
      164 2 Nizam Puts Trust, Gems In Bank THE Niaam of Hyderabad. 1 one of the world's richest men, has finally put some of his wealth In a bank. He sent some crown jewels, emeralds, pearls and gold to a Bombay bank vault on Thursday. The Nizam was said to have been
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    ODD LINE OUT
    30 2 LONDON, Sun.— Britain ts linked by telephone to every European country except Albania, the Post Office announced yesterday— 6oth anniversary of the flrst AngloContinental phone call. Reuter.
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    69 QUIT LEGION
    24 2 BERLIN, Sun.— Sixty-nine Germans who deserted from the French Foreign Legion in Indo-China have arrived in 1 the Soviet zone.— A.P
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    RITA TO MAKE FILM
    52 2 HOLLYWOOD, Sunday. R rfA Hayworth, film star wile of Prince Alj Khan, is 11 retornrn« here this week to "make a movie," according to ber father, Eduarda Casino. He denied that Rita had separated from Aly. "There's nothing- to those stories," s»e said. "They are very
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    GRAIN FAMINE IN INDIA
    199 3 rO Million Face Starvation In Bihar State PATNA, Sunday. I THE food situation in Bihar State is "more I grave than is generally imagined", said highj officials in Patna today. As famine approaches, an estimated 30,000,090 out of the 40,000,000 population is already suffering. Some eat
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    U.N. Tribute To Gandhi
    46 3 l» J T BODET, Director-General of the I'mted Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation (left) putting a wreath on the samadhi" of Mahatma GaadU at New Delhi. Shri Ran eshwar Dayal. DP«£ V ..-unissioner of Delhi, is at the right.— G.l.l.S, picture.
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    Oil Strike: Back-To-Work Move
    141 3 Oil Strike: BackTo- Work Move TEHERAN, Sunday. AB\CK-to-work movement started yesterday in I'ersia's oilfields yesterday, and about 10,000 ir^'i are on strike comnarei with 12,000 on Friday But small group: of !a- fc tits in several small fields l» lined the slr:k<\ Ongr >up demands an 80 per cent wage
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    Ace drivers killed
    65 3 PALERMO, Bun. TWO of Italy's a?e drivers were killod tociay when their 1931 C. Alfa Romeo trashed into a house during a a cily ro?d rice today. Siefar.o le Mctia. a>;ed 31, on-* of Italy's outstanding driveii. vas at the wheel a~> t!v> civ shot eff the
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    40,000 STRIKE
    25 3 WASHINGTON. Sun N?- oiiationa have faile:l to i strike of 40.000 texti. workers in cotion and rr -in mills in six southern -UP.
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    Singapore Diary
    34 3 HINEH V.M.C.A.. Stls^ie I na no competition, 6 p.m.. basketball, 5.30 p.m., badminton, 51 1 p.ii. sin;-%por*: art society, !i cl"-s. British Council Hall, 8 m'ord Roii. 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
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    CAIRO WOMAN DEMANDS RIGHTS
    51 3 MRS. DORIS SHAFIK, leader of the Cairo Bent el Nil (Daughters of th? Nil?) addressing a meet'n; before several hundred women stormed through the policeguarded Chamber of Deputes courtyard crying: "Votes for women.'* A publisher and novelist, she is to be tried fcr fomenting revolution. A.P.
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    Jap Stowaways In Troopship
    53 3 SEATTLE, Sun.— A pair oi bewildered and disheartened Japanese stowaways arrived here yesterday as unscheduled passengers aboard a military transport that brought back more than 600 servicemen from the Orient. The two were turned over to the immigration service for a hearing and nrobable return to
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    GORGEOUS GERTRUDE IS HURT....
    150 3 VIENNA. Sun. pLAMOROUS Gertrude ll Broda. told she was too beautiful for domestic work by a London employment agency has now been refused a visa by the British authorities to take a job with a 54-year-old Scottish schoolteacher. Gertrude 21 and blonde, got the job after
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    229,000 U.N, Casualties
    45 3 LAKE SUCCESS. Sun CASUALTIES suffered by Kj United Nations forces in Korea totalled 228.941, according to an informal survey released by the United Nations Secretariat yesterday. The total number killed in action was 25.374. wounded 122.394, and missing in action 75.173.— Reuterr.
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    COURT MARTIAL
    35 3 BERLIN Sun.— Cpl John Keith Waller, the British soldier who deserted to East Germany and then returned "fed up" with the Communist system is to face a court martial as a deserter.— A.P.
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    RETURN FIGHT
    30 3 LITHGOW. Sun A 35-year-old sawmiller and farmer, Robert Cotton, will again oppose the Opposition leader, Mr. Chifley, for the MacOu.nrie seat in the Federal elections on April 28.
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    RING SMASHED
    28 3 TAIPEH Sun— The Ministry of National Defence yesterday announced the running down of a Communist armed ring with the arrest of all five of its members.—Reuter.
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    'Posing as Superman' says Aitlee
    118 3 LONDON, Sun. THE Prime Minister, 1 Air. Attlee, last night accused Mr. Church 11 of posing as "a non-politi-cal superman" who was trying to get back into power "by hook or by crook." Leaving his hospital bed wh/re he is being treated for ulcer, Mr.
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    TREE JAPAN WILL HELP IN PACIFIC
    279 3 LOS ANGELES, Sunday. IJNITED States special envoy, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said tonight that he believed Japan would eventually make an "indispensable contribu- tion" to Pacific security. Mr. Dulles said the arrangement which should emerge from his recent discussions in Australia should at the
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    MONEY FOUND, BUT BOY IS MISSING
    86 3 ADELAIDE, Sun. A KITBAG containing more than A£9,000. missing since yesterday, has been found by the polce. but the 15-year-old messenger boy who had charge of the money is still missing. The boy left his employer's grocery firm to lodge the money in a
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    Rubber Cuts May Be Postponed
    138 3 Rubber Cuts May Be Postponed WASHINGTON, Sun. OECRETARY of Commerce •J Mr. Chares Sawyer predicted yesterday that a decision will be reached tomorrow on postponing an. order to cut further into the civilian use of rubber. The National Production Authority has announced that it will cut back sharply starting tomorrow
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    3 REDS KILLED
    22 3 I M P H A L Sun.— Three Communist terrorists were killed here by Assam troops last night.— Reuter.
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    30 YEARS OLD
    15 3 MELBOURNE, Sun. The Royal Australian Air Force celebrated its 30th annlver-r-,,-v yesterday.
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    WEDDING POSTPONED-33 YEARS
    91 3 From Our Own Correspondent SYDNEY.i Sunday. A DOCK worker, Bert Walsh, has sailed for London on the Orontes to marry a Ifirl he has not seen for 33 ars. Walsh met the Rirl, Miss Elsie Bird, when he was a lonely Australian sailor in London in 1918.
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    violent fighting along the delta
    108 3 violent fighting along the delta SAIGON, Sun. NEW violent fighting has broken out alonn the edge of the Red River delta, where massed Vietminh Communist forces are trying to pierce French defenc3S. a French communique said yesterday. The Reds Increased pressure near Dongtrleu and Maokhe. some 50 miles east of
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    A Fall For Piggott
    58 3 LINCOLN, Sun. FIFTEEN-year-old Lester Piggott. widely-hailed as England's best young jockey, suffered a po^'ble broken shoulder in a fall at the Lincoln race course yesterday Piggott's mount, Pandite. fell, broke a le<? and had to be destroyed. Tbe jockey was taken to Lincoln Hospital for an
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    Dearer Bread For Britons
    42 3 LONDON Sun. Britons will have to pay another half penny for a loaf of bread starting next Sunday. The Food Ministry said las' nnht that the increase in the price was the result of rising wheat costs.— A.P.
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    RED PACT VOID
    23 3 TAIPEI Sun. -Nationalist China has declared null and void Russia's agreement with Red China on the operation of railways.— A.P.
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    HIMALAYA BID
    22 3 PORTLAND, Oregon. Sun.— Supreme Court Judse William O Douglas will make a 400mile hike in 'he Himalayas in summer.— A.P
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    SPRING FANCY
    22 3 PARIS FASHION model with a new hair-do under a bower of spring flowers and leaves of cold tulle. A.P. picture.
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    ....And They (all 4) Lived Happily Ever After
    95 3 ....And They (all 4) Lived Happily Ever After LONDON, Sunday. ZAKI Hashem, handsome young Egyptian diplomat, who lost his sweetheart to King Farouk, will marry the daughter of a wealthy banker on April 12. Hashem wiill marry Amal Fikri, daughter of Amln Fikri Bey. secretary of the National Bank of
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      393 3 28. Cats swallow it backwards Straits Times Crossword H; Goats in a south American capital <B>. "iti 1 H2H 2 H3H 3 IH*] W6W 6 11 711 1. Espy a £o,Z" river (4). i£^ S^ BSSS 2B>. (ilaMl 2. Small area besieged by Na8 $n orleon (.4). I 1,, J
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Moil, Apul 2, 1951. What Wrong With Them?
    662 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Moil, Apul 2, 1951. What Wrong With Them? have a health cdM&oicry! to themselves? How about all the other millions of people in South East Asia Dr. Sigard Wolontis, Secret-ary-General of the World Students' Service, Geneva, said in his speech at the opening of this conference
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    A New Start A Kranji
    457 4 A New Start A Kranji A re-settlement scheme which is happily unique in present-day Malaya, in that it has nothing to do with the Emergency, was inaugurater) in the rural heart of Singapore Island on Saturday afternoon, when the Secretary fo.Social Welfare, Mr. G. W. Webb, M.C.S.. laid the foundation
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    50 4 DAnAMM IN THE ANCIENT PALACE OF ill Mil The Maharajah of Bundi, m Rajputana, V.C. of the Burma war, once India's only A.D.C. to the King, sits on a silver throne at a darbar to celebrate his birthday He was 31 m March. He is seen wearing his priceless jewels.
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      Good School In Malaya"
      247 4 IN a valuable report which appeared in the Straits Times last Thursday, a European Government officer was reported as saying that a Division I Asian officer could get his children into a good school in Malaya for no more thau $40 a month. Please allow me
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      BOOMING EFFECT S.- F. OF GEMAS
      119 4 /w aarisal, in Bengal, a booming sound as of guns or distant thunder can often be heard, though in fact tn? Ser^use* slmi J ar Phenomenon is common in many other parts of the world, and I write to inquire if it has been
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      Sombong Women
      328 4 able to recruit her health and look after her children and become a useful member of the community, when her husband has divorced her for a pcettier and livelier spouse; instead of as with the communities outside the adat becoming a prostitute or a derelict drudge, and having
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      LAND FOR INDIANS?
      47 4 I HAVE seen it suggested that Indians in Malaya might be given certain parts of land for settlement, vegetable planting, etc. I am very pleased indeed that the broad idea has been mooted. I hope the Government wfll consider it. JOHN PACKIUM. Kluang, Johore.
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      MR. TAN AND MR. KIAT
      178 4 MR. G. H. Kiat, in to1TX day's Sunday Times (April 1), is reported as saying that I knew he was opposed to rent increase, and that Mr. D. S. Marshall had informed me of the position. Where Mr. Kiat is concerned I am not prepared
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      SQUALOR, VICE EAST & WEST
      228 4 SQUALOR, VICE EAST WEST HOW fortunate we are that Mr. Norman Taylor (whose comments on Singapore you published on March 27) was fortunate enough to be born in the West as. no doubt he will be returning there. He has during his week'? stay in Singapore, made the startling and
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    Music Festival And After
    643 4 THE applause has died away 1 on a little festival of music in Singapore, Lola Bobesco and Jacques Genty have gone their way to Manila and the music-lovers of the Colony have retired again to their gramophones and their radios, to await the next live concert
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    On the Margin
    480 4 The While Vaiuia rpHE white bougalnvillea shown for the first time at the Singapore Flower Show at the week-end was InterestIng as a novelty, but I must confess that it did not appeal to me as much as I had expected although no doubt when one sees
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    30,000 SAY 'NO' TO 10 PERCENT RAISE
    179 5 'Allowance Must Keep Pace With Living Costs 9 T'lK 30,000-strong Singapore Federation of 1 Services Unions will not accept the offer to boost cost of living allowance by 10 per cent. of basic wage, the Federation council decided at meeting during the week-end.
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    GIRLS SAW FATHER KILLED
    209 5 GIRLS SAW FATHER KILLED From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sun. THREE Chinese girls said in the Sungei Patani ons Court today that they saw their father hacked to death and their home set on flre by a group of Malays. They were giving evidence •gainst a 17-year-old Malay. Ehaf
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    Air Freight —Up & Up
    88 5 Air Freight —Up Up SINGAPORE'S a ir traffic O with Jakarta is busier than ever. Airlines sometimes have to tell freight consignors: "Sorry we haven't the soace to carry your parcel." Many airliners which arrive at Singapore for Jakarta have freight loads taken on board from points further west. Some
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    $100,000 Fire Damage At Seremban
    54 5 ONE SHOPUOUSi: was com pletely gutted and two others wore damaged by fire m Birch Road, Seremban, at the end of last week. The total damage is estimated at $100,000. RIGHT: The proprietor of the burnt-out shop, Mr Ong Tieng Hee, surrounded by sympathisers. F.
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    IT WAS ALL OFF THE ICE
    115 5 THE Scandinavian Ice Revue, which began its run proper at the Capitol theatre lasc night, has everything on ice except the ice in your stengah. A first-class show, it brings to Singapore a new kind of entertainment and the cast do everything on ice
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    DIAL 5411 AND YOU GET 2403
    56 5 The telephone number of the Colonial Secretariat has been changed from 5411 tc 2403. The change has been made to put the Secretariat telephone switchboard on to C? new automatic exchange, recently installed by the O.T.E.C. in Singapore. Temporarily people who dial the old
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    KIWI SOCIAL
    23 5 The Kiwi Members' League will hold a picnic and social t;n Sunday. April 8. at No 1, Tay Lian Teck Avenue.
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    The Army Came —School Went
    221 5 C*)RTY-six-year-old Chew Peng Hui, a squatter living off Buona Vista Road, is annoyed with Singapore Government for pulling- down the Sin Ah Chinese school six months ago to make way for military estblishments. For four months after the school was pulled down, Peng Hul's 12-year-old
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    U.S. LOOKS FOR LAND IN SINGAPORE
    171 5 TiHE U.S. Government is looking for land in A Singapore to build a $500,000 (Straits) office for a new Consulate and homes for principal members of the Consulate staff. Mr. Frederick Larkin, dirjctor of State Department property, said yesterday: I am here looking into
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    SPECIAL FINED
    47 5 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Samah bin Jamat, a special constable, who was absent from duty was fined $30. in default 15 days' imprisonment, at Johore Bahru today. He said he was ill and went to his kampong instead of going to 'nospital.
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    A Cactus (Very Rare) In His Cabin
    156 5 A Cactus (Very Rare) In His Cabin MX. Arthur \v. Cooksou, chief steward, of the P. O. Mbtor ship Socotra. loves window boxes. But his choice of plants is not the usual English geraniums. He prefers cactus. Boxes at both his cabin windows contain rare species. picked up in nurseries
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    TOO MANY PINES
    34 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Loh Yoon Boon, a Pontian pineapple dealer, was fined $150 in the Police Court today for permitting his lorry to carry an overload of four cwt. of pineapples.
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    Famous Gunners Fought Without Guns In Jungle
    133 5 Famous Gunners Fought Without Guns In Jungle From Our Own Correspondent. GEM AS, Sunday. T1HE 17 (Corunna) Field Battery, soon due to leave Malaya, today celebrated the anniversary of its establishment on Apr. 1, 1757. Three years in Malaya have added another chapter to nearly 2<M> years' service in is
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    LABOUR HOLD UP MEETINGS, SAYS RAJAH
    315 5 LABOUR HOLD UP MEETINGS, SAYS RAJAH LOUDSPEAKERS 50 YEARS AWAY ABOUR Party supporters, with two loudspeakers, met 50 yards away from a Progressive Party meeting called by Mr. A. P. Rajah, candidate for Keppel, at Henderson Road quarters, Singapore, yesterday. Mr Rajahs meeting was due to start at 530 n.m
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    'A VOICE IS IGNORED'
    86 5 'A VOICE IS IGNORED' MR. Lim Yew Hock, president of the Labour Party, said at a meeting in Alexandra Road that the Progressive Party was an "association of politically bankrupt, people lacking even the primary human civic sense." He charged the Progressive Party with "an an ti -working class policy
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    'Forgotten Masses'
    81 5 Tlflß. V. P. Abdullah, Labour Party candidate for Bukit Timah district, yesterday said the achievements of the village committees ana Rural Board were "very little." He said: "The living conditions of people in the rural areas are horrible." Immediate attention of the authorities should be turned to those
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    FAVOURITISM, HE SAYS
    64 5 FAVOURITISM, HE SAYS Mr.-P. M. Williams, Labour candidate for Balestier, yesterday accused Government of favouritism towards the Progressive Party. He described the Progressive Party as a .group of intellectuals, wanting to maintain the status quo and retain the present social sys"The Progressives accept what Government is willing to give, but
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    BOYS' BRIGADE CEREMONY
    82 5 Singapore Seventh Company of the Boys' Brigade attached to St. Andrews School held their annual enrolment service and dedication of colours at St. Andrew s Cathedral yesterday. In a solemn service, the Company Colours entered the Cathedral cased in black and were later uncased and laid on
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    13,000 WENT TO FLOWER SHOW
    48 5 More than 13,000 people, ten per cent more than last year, attended Singapore Flower Show at the Happy World over the week-end. An official at the Show told the Straits Times yesterday: "People seem keener and more interested in flowers and their cultivation.
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    WORLD END 'NEAR'
    55 5 Mr. N. H. Knurr, president of the Watch Tower Society the organisation which publishes the Jehovah's Witnesses' tracts— said on his arrival in Singapore at the week-end that Jehovah's Witnesses believe the end of the world as it exists today, is near and that it will be
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    NURSES PASS
    39 5 Six nurses have passed the Central Midwives Board examination (Certificate A) They are: Miss T. Danasamy, Mrs. K. Retnam. Miss Susie Su Chlng Chal, Mis* Nellie Nabl. Mrs- Tan Chin Hock and Miss Mary Hang Ing Hwa.
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    says 'no' to ILK. wedding
    156 5 says 'no' to ILK. wedding From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR. Sun. OEFORE he sailed lor England last wei'k, the Sultan of Kedah refused permission for his niece. Tungku Zabariah, to marry her London fiance. A Kedah Overnmcnt communique today stated that on March 15 the S iltun. in consultation
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    To Build 77 Schools
    88 5 From Our Own Correspondent. JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. rE demand for educatkn in Johore kampongs is so keen that people aoe builuing schools on their own. Towards the enJ of last, year 23 people's schools wero built. This year the kampong folk hope to build Tt more
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    Utd. Sua Belong
    108 6 From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Sun. DEFLECTING what has been described as a tangible expression to a cautiously hopeful view of the Malayan outlook, United Sua Bentong, has raised its dividend from 17V 2 to 50 per cent— its highest for 25 years. Profits on estate operations
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    EXPORTS TO U.S. IN JAN.
    163 6 WHILE most Far East countries continued to import from the United States larger dollar values of goods during January 1951 than a year ago. practically all of them exported substantially more to the United States, according to the jatest foreign trade statistics compiled by the
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    Ulu Benut Consol. Rubber
    141 6 From A Market Correspondent I T LU Benut, Consolidated Rubber made a net profit cf $199,572 1 33.1 per cent.) for the year to Dec 31. 1950. and a first post-war dividend of 15 per cent is recommended, together with an interim dividend of five per
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    34 6 •T«HE Mflayan Exchange Banks Assecii'ion announced at the week-end that control direct rates foe O^adian dollars were: Buying T.T 34 A'rmail (O.D.> 34 1 (90 divsi 35: Selling T.T./O.D. ready 34 5/lfi.
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    INTEREST QUICKENED OVER THE WEEK IN MALAYAN SHARES
    568 6 INTEREST QUICKENED OVER THE WEEK IN MALAYAN SHARES From A Market Correspondent is usual after a holiday, the Malayan share market last week reopened very quietly, but interest quickened as the week progressed. Tin shares, after being a little easier, showed signs of recovery at the close, Rubbers were firm
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    PAHANG CONSOL.
    38 6 From Our Own Correspondent. KUALA LIPIS. Sun. OAHANG Consolidated at Sungei Lembing. Kuantan one of the deepest lode mines in the world produced 33,708 piculs of ''n-ore of the State's 1949 total output of 41.436 piculs.
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    OVERSEAS RUBBER PRICES.
    51 6 London Rubber LONDON. Mar. 30—Spot 63d. May 62:I,d. June 61 ',d, July-Sept. 58-.d, Oct. Dec. 54-^d. Apr. c.l.f 61' id. April-May c.l.f. 61! id. MayJune c.i.f. 59>^d. Market: Steady. York Rubber I" U-S- cents per lb. closing. bld: w Ma/, *Jn?° 1 "ss- 'M*y> 630° 6(o° MarkJt:
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    Business Done
    250 6 BUSINESS done in the Malayan share market last week includedIndustrials Fraser Neave Ord. $3.37 to $3.50. Gammon $2.57' a JVm. Hammer $36.00 x.d., Malayan Breweries $3.50, Malayan Collieries $1.60 to $1.65. McAHster $31.25. Robinson Ord. $2.80 to 52.90. Robinson Ist Pref. $5. Straits Steamship $17 to $17.15, Singapore
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    TALAM MINES
    99 6 From A MarkK Correspondent. 'pALAM Mines' sale of the 4.767 piculs of ore won at an average price of $234.37. less mining contractors" share, resulted in receipts of $565,603 for the year to Dec. 31. 1950. Net profit was $393,735 (65.6 per cent, and a final dividend of
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    PRESTON MAKE SURE OF PROMOTION
    266 7 Motherwell, Celtic In Scottish Final LONDON, Sunday. DRESTON North End, though failing to set up a new record of IS consecutive League wins, drew their match at Southampton yesterday and. with their closest rivals in the Second Division both losing, Preston made certain of appearing
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    48 7 PAUL de Kretser pushes his bat forward tentatively at a ball from Chua En« Cheiic daring the SRC. v. S.C.K.C. StntmsM-e cricket tournament game at Hone Lim Green yesterday. Kretser scored 62 not out f*r SJLC Chinese won on the first innings by two wickets.— Straits Times picture.
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    LATEST POSITIONS
    772 7 LONDON, »jn. noOTBALL League standings after yesterday's matches m England are: P W D L A F pts Tottenham 37 23 9 6 7« 40 43 Manchester U 37 21 7 9 tt 37 49 Mkibiough 36 18* 9 71 55 45 Blackpool 36 18 9 9 71
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    Today's Radio
    86 7 SINGAPORE 9.SS a.m. Schools; 9.SS Interlude: 10 Nevs; 18.10 Cloae; W. 45 Schools: 12 Malay; 1 pjn. "Monday Matinee": 1.30 News: i.«S "Home on the Range 2 Schools; 2.56 Close; 5 Malay; 6.15 #^adto Dance Hall"; 6*o "Adventures tn Music": 7 News; 7.03 interUKie: 7.30 "Spot the PavourW«s
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    Fourth SRD Win Inter-Unit Shoot
    159 7 Fourth SRD Win InterUnit Shoot IfOURTH S.R.D. Unit yesterday won the Singapore InterUnit shooting championships for 1951 at N<<- Soon Rifle Range with a 652-points total. R.ASC. Training School were nmners-up with 550 paints. Magnificent marksmanship by Lt. M. Rothery Nutt of 4th S.R.D. Unit highlighted the keenly contested shoot.
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    NO TEA FOR CHESS CLUB TOURNEYS
    256 7 PTIRE Meetings «f the Singapore Chess Club at the V.M.C.A., Singapore, will be held without tea bein* served to its members. This was decided at the annual general meeting «f the dab on Saturday when members objected to an increase in subscriptions and preferred
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    S.R.A. IMPORT BAN TO STAY
    316 7 By EPSOM Jfcfcr rpHE ban on importation and registration of new horses in Malaya will continue indefinitely, the Straits Racine Association has decided at a meeting held at Ipoh. The S.R.A. has had to re-affirm its earlier decision because there had been strong agitation from
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    Heriots Win With Last Min. Rally
    295 7 Heriots Win With Last Min. Rally LONDON. Sun. f EOBGE Heriots School Forw mer Pupils Rugby Union Club gained a splendid 11—9 victory over Northampton yesterday after being six points behind until four minutes from the close. Rugby results yesterday were:Rl (.BY lAIOS Inter Sen ices: Army 14, RJLF 0
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    JOLLILADS WIN
    21 7 In a keenly contested friendly soccer on the Railway ground. Jollllads A/0. defeated Purmud* Kampong Pahang iJunlor*) fay a
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    Sports Diary
    48 7 SOCCER: niv. 1: Pola« Brani v S£.C. at stadium; Dlv. 2: Uti 1 «aja AtA t Chteear AtMrtes A at Gevlanf; Div. IB: Cvstoms v «_\.K. Barrartts at CTMA; Services hft.: tLAJV. Seletar v H.M.S. Terror; R.A.F. Tenfah v 30 Bn. m.A.O.C. TENNIS: VJTC.A. open cJbubpt»n<ihip«.
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      37 7 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: C.S6 ».m. a. 2). ».SJ pjn. (7.S); J.01 »jn. (5.4). 2.37 p.m. (1.3). TOMORROW: 8 34 am. (7.C)., 10.08 p.m. i7.«); 3.10 ajn. (4.5). 3.SS p.m. (D.B). IV A WHQR DR4WN BY PETER JACKSON
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    S.C.C. SCORE FIRST OUTRIGHT VICTORY
    540 8 Diplock Takes 11 For 37 v Seletar By Our Cricket Reporter OIRST team in the senior tournament to score an r outright win are Singapore Cricket Ciub who yesterday took ten points at the expense of R.A.F Seletar on the padang. Seletar were out for
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    SENIOR TABLE
    69 8 •pHE S.C'.A. tournament placings 1 in the senior section aftei yesterday's matches are: 5.C.C. :s.c. Chinese Indians ;hangi 5.R.C. f.M.C.A. 3cletar 2 10 0 0 17 2 0 0 2 0 0 14 2 0 0 2 0 0 14 2 0 0 1 1 0 10 2
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    SCC Pool Reopening
    45 8 The Singapore Swimming Club. Tanjong Rhu, will re-open both its swimming pools on Wednesday at 8 a.m. Mr. Johnnie Johnson, the aquatic entertainer, will give two exhibitions in the Club's pool on Thursday and Saturday at 5.45 p.m. and 5 p.m. respectively.
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    SENIOR SCORES
    1069 8 SCC v Seletar G C.C fecal K.A.F. srkur kf K.A.K.— ISi. I.W-.. W. O Ht-ywuod c Rees o D.piotlt 26 AC Mason c DiDlock b Murray 0 Sgt. Day c Sneddon b Murray 4 Co. Hcereman* lbw Gould 14 .sod Ldr. Hudson c and b Heard 21 AC
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    Robinson's Plans
    26 8 MIAMI, Sun. Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson plans to fight Jake Lamotta, Rocky Graziano and Joey Maxim before the end of the year.— A.P.
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    Francis's 100 Highlights Junior Tournament
    463 8 A CENTURY by V. Francis, who scored 100 out of Catholic Young Men Association's (St. Teresa) total of 211 was the highlight of the junior section cricket tournament yesterday. C V MA. dismissed C.R.E. (North) for 68 to add another seven points to the seven
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    Four Faint In 3m. Race
    165 8 A C. JONES of the Army, won the three-mile cross-country run organised by Singapore Chinese V.M.C.A. yesterday In 19 mins. 15 15 sees. Four runners collapsed during the race., one of them having to be sent to hospital. The team event was won by Chinese
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    S.H.B. Rees Triumph 2-1
    115 8 S.H.B. Rees Triumph 2-1 CH.B. Recreation Club beat Police two-one in a hard fought SAFA. Div. 2 game on the Police ground yesterday. There was no score In the flxs 1 half. On the change of ends S.H.B. quickly took a two-one lead- Ttr* flrst goal was scored by Abu
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    CONFUSION AT GEYLANG
    68 8 DECAUSE of confusion in the fixtures four teams turned ■up at Qeylang Stadium yesterday for SAFA soccer games. Two of the teams had their Div. 3A tie postponed agr/.. They were Aston Athletic Club and Singapore Civil Service Association. The Business Houses tie between Singapore Cold Storage
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    41 8 I/T M. ROTHKRY NUTT of 4th S.R.D. (left), who won the Singapore inter- unit individual best shot fsilVer spoon" for 1951. with Sft. Yussof bin Nayan, K.A.S.C. wh« won the individual best shot title for Malayan Other Ran^s— Straits Times picture
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    BoonLeong 's Goa Beats Services In Cup Soccer
    473 8 BoonLeong 's Goa Beats Services In Cup Soccer STRIKING top form in the second half, Singapore 1 Civilians won Chappel Memorial Challenge Cup soccer game by defeating Army/Navy, holders of the trophy, one-nil in their second annual encounter at Jalap Besar Stadium yesterday. A crowd of more than five thousand
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    Singapore Football Lge. Tables
    484 8 Singapore Football Lge. Tables T ATEST positions in the Sirya- pore Aniateur f'.A. League nompettilon (including games played on Saturday) are: Pula-i Brani Kota Raja E.O.D.C.A. R.E.M.E. IRC. C.A. S.C.C. Tiger S.A. Rovers S.C. A.A.A. Indonesian C.C. SRC. T.B.A. Goats P W D L F A yf.i 5 4 0
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