The Straits Times, 2 February 1953

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  • 9 1 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1953. 15 CENTS
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  • 823 1 Worst Irish Sea gale in living memory BELFAST, Sunday. JJEATH ROLL in the Princess Victoria, cross-channel ferryboat which capsized and sank last night in mountainous seas off the Irish coast, today reached 136, men, women and children. Only 41 are believed to have survived the
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    29 1 THE WRECKED cigarette kio^k in Beach Road, Singapore, where an Indian was killed and two others seriously injured when a lorry crashed Wto it. Straits Times picture.
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  • 748 1 IT WAS A NIGHT OF TERROR IN EUROPE LONDON. Sun. HUGE seas whipped on by gales brought death and terror early to-day to the cast coast of England, crashing houses like marc 1 boxes and swallowing ini-n. women and children The knoxn death roll was Kiven as 57 late tonight.
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  • 28 1 TEHERAN. Sun Persia sent a Note to the Soviet Embassy yesterday ending the Russian fisheries concession to the Caspian Sra waters off Northern Persia. U.P
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  • 25 1 GUATEMALA CITY, Sun. Guatemala has repeated her sovereign claim to British Honduras in a note to the World Meteorological Organisation In Switzerland.— Reuter
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  • 172 1 34 REDS GIVE UP IN MONTH KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. T*HIRTY-four terrorists sur■l rendered to the security forces last month— the highrst number since the December 1949 record, when 66 banciits pave up According to unconfirmed figures, 113 terrorists were eliminated in January— 7o killed, nine captured and 34 surrenders. Twenty-eight
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  • 64 1 GENEVA, Sun. Traders and merchants will be able to send samples and catalogues free of duty to other countries under an international convention which may be signed soon, it was announced in Geneva yesterday. The convention, sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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  • 55 1 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, sun. Representative James Burton introduced a Bill in, I ;he SLate legislature to make ill unmarried men over 2\ In Arkansas to pay an annual i i 750 bachelors" tax The Bill was sent to the i louse committee on conser- I
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  • 245 1 2 die after lorn' hits kiosk TWO Indian tobaoinnj.s*\ii-/fci r»ml another w«i. A seriously injured af.er a Jorry crashed mm .1 cigarette kiosk at the junction of Sultan Gate and Beach Road, Singapore, at dawn yesterday. The driver told police that he saw a ghost
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  • 35 1 MANILA Sun.— Major General Claxto Duque. Philippines Chief of Staff, today refused Hukbalahap Communist-led guerillas a two-month extension of a ceasefire as a first step towards the surrender of the rebel movement. Reuter.
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  • 142 1 TOKYO. Sun. A JAPANESE Buddhist priest, Imai is leaving I Kobe tomorrow for India to ask the Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, to recover the ashes of India's wartime revolutionary leader Subhas Chandra Bose. i said to be in a Tokyo temple. The priest
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  • 19 1 MOMBASA. Sun.— Sir Evelyn Baring. Governor of Kenya, arrived in Mombasa yesterday for a week's stay. Reuter.
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  • 84 1 Refugees eat hearty meat HONG KONG. Sunday. £IX thousand refugees from China yesterday called off their hunger strike in Rennies Mill refugee camp, Hong Kong. They were protesting against the Hong Kong Government's two-month old decision not to supply more free meals to 2,500 refugees from Feb.
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  • 297 1 Macarthur says: 'Free Formosa' TAFT BACKS SCHEME, TOO WASHINGTON. Sun SENATE Republican leader Robert Taft and Gm. Douglas MacAuthur have added their voices in support of President Eisenhower's reported plan to frea I the Chinese Nationalist troops for attack on the Red China mainland. This follows statements that the United
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  • 63 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. The price of the world's brea.i is being decided at an International Wheat Council bargaining session in Washington. Delegates from 46 countries, including India and Ceylon, which in 194P f gned the International Wtuat Agreement to stabilise prices, met in a building next to
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  • 29 1 GENEVA. Sun. Russia has agreed to attend an East-West trade conference in Geneva on Feb. 25. Other East European countries are expected to follow suit.— Reuter.
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  • 31 1 LIMA, Sun. The Peruvian Government charged yesterday that the 72-hour strike called by labour unions of Arequipa two days ago was part of an international Communist plot
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  • 215 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. FLAME-THROWERS mounted on waggons will soon be used against bandits who try to disrupt railway communications. Successful trials were held in Perak in July last year with a new waggon mounted with a "Wasp" flame-thrower. It was manned by an Army
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    • 135 1 OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTORS OF FAMOUS (p ROLEX WATCHES 5.P.H. deSiLYA 1 t "V.I.P.'s for dinner tonight, Susan. r Whafs on the bill of fare? f "I thought roast lamb would be in keeping with the occasion all dressed up the old fashioned way. "Perhaps, perhaps. Let's see. Wilkinson is quite a
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    • 389 1 BING GRONDAHL AND ROYAL COPENHAGEN ART PORCELAIN H. SENA LTD. SINGAPORE. PENANG BANGKOK. $5 000 MUST BE WON CONTEST fHE Straits Times is still 15 cents, the best newspaper value for money in Malaya. Month by month, year by year, the circulation of the Straits Times has risen to record
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    • 716 2 NOTICES THE SINGAPORE ANTITUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION NOTICE Ls hereby plven that ItM Annual General Meeting of Members of the Association will be held in thr Lecture Room of the Royal Singapore Tuberculosis Clinic. Shenton Wny, Singapore, on Tursriny. 10th February, 1953. immediately following the Extraordinary General Meeting to be held at
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    • 849 2 NOTICES THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE (Chapter 45) IN THE HIOH COURT OF THE I COLONY OF BINGAPORE ISLAND OF SINGAPORE IN BANKRUPTCY Nos. 125. 140 and 162 of 1952. Re: Llm Soo Ban, Tan Ah Choot Ban Shiew Pawnshop (Consoli- I dated under Order of Court dated 12.12.1952). The Official Assignee
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    • 618 2 NOTICES SINGAPORE TURF CLUB I FEBRUARY MEETING 1953 SATURDAY 2IST. WEDNESDAY 25T11 AND SATURDAY, 28TH IHiKI \IM 1953 ENTRIES CLOSE at 12 noon on 1 WEDNESDAY, 11th February. 1953. 1 SWEEPS— $1/- Unlimited Sweep- stakes FOR MEMBERS ONLY will be held each Race Day. Applications for tickets must be In
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    • 476 2 NOTICES P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE will be**recelved from ecistered contractors Claw Xf and ibove at the Office of the State j Snglneer, Negri Sembllan up to *OON of the 12th February. 1953. :or the Installation of Sewerage 3ystems Including Septic Tanks. [mhoff Tank. Manholes and Sewerige Lines at the
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    • 208 2 TENDER NOTICE P\PFR Tenders ire lrtvliPd for the iu:>ply of 8.000 renms of mechanical (lazed S.C. coloured printing paper In three colour* only: yellow. >range and pink. The paper ls re- 1; 1 in sheets 25" x 40". 42 lbs. »ub tance per ream of 500 sheets, parted preferably 7
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    • 197 2 LAST DAY! S, 6 9.1S 'NADAN" in Hindustani Tmnorrow: SAMIA CiAMAL In "K4DEI. GAMIL" l*t Run Kfyptlan MuMeal ROYAL 1.00, 6.15 9.15 "APXMZZAT" (Hindi) REX Johore Bahru S.ir., 6.15 and 9.15 p.m. "A AX" (A HlndnManl picture in colour with English *üb-tltlnl ATLANTIC Gre»t World Today 7.00 9.15 p.m. "ON
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  • 274 3 Secrets were 'leaked' to West's spies MOSCOW, Sunday. PI'SSIA yesterday said that state secrets had been "leaked" to British, American and French spies by careless Soviet officials. Officials in "four ministries, the economic bank and the supply system were accused of playing into the hands of
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  • 130 3 LONDON, Sun. fTHi; PRIME MINISTER, Mr. Winston Churchill, said yesterday that Westminster Abbey "is falling: into decay" and asked for 1 1,000,000 to repair and maintain the building where the Queen will be iTiiHiird on June 2. Mr. Churchill said: "Both the, monuments and stone
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  • 53 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. Tho Secretary of State. Mr. John Foster Dulles, has dismissed the special board formed by hll predecessor. Mr. Dean Acheson, to study the loyalty charges against the veteran diplomat John Carter Vircent. Mr. Dulles plans to "take' action" on the basis of recommendations already
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  • 42 3 FRANKFURT Sun.— Dr. Ludper Westrick, a senior official in the West German Economics Ministry, left Frankfurt by air yesterday for Cairo to lead a West Germrw delecation to Egypt to discuss ways of increasing trade with Arab countries. Reuter
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  • 147 3 WHEN Derek William Bentley was hanged in London for his part in the murder of a constable. 500 people demonstrated outside Wandsworth Prison. Women screamed "they've murdered the boy" and coins were thrown at police posting the execution notice, on the prison gates. Later
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  • 115 3 DURBAN, Sun SOUTH AFRICA will not send any vessels to the Queen's Coronation review at Spithead, on June 15, the Defence Minister, Mr. F. C Erasmus, said yesterday. Lieut-Gen. C. L. Wet Dv Toit, chief of the South African General Staff, said yesterday
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  • 71 3 HONG KONG. Sun.— The Japanese delegation to negotiate with the Chinese Red Cross Society on shipping arrangements and other specific problems in the return of Japanese nationals from China to their homeland arrived in Peking last night. The New China News Agency said that the delegation
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  • 48 3 NAGASAKI. Sun.— A 50-man Japanese salvage team will leave for Siam in mid-February to refloat two warships sunk in the Menam River during the June 1951 coup d'etat, the Kyodo Press reported today. The refloating operation Is expected to take four months. —UP.
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  • 197 3 NAVY SUSPECTS SABOTAGE PLYMOUTH. Sunday. 4 SENIOR British naval investigator from London yesterday joined local officers investigating- suspected sabotage in two light fleet carriers at Plymouth. An electrical cable as thick as a man's arm was found on Friday to have been severed, probably by
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  • 109 3 U.S. SEEKS RETURN OF PLANE WASHINGTON. Sun. rE United States has again asked Hungary to return a U.S. Air Force plane and its cargo, forced down by Sovietfighter planes in November 1951. Hungary and Russia have both rejected earlier demands to return the C-47 and its contents. The new demand
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  • 48 3 CANBERRA, Sun. Australians may soon get nearly all forms of medical treatment for as little as three shillings a week for a whole family. Legislation for this new health scheme is expected to bp introduced when the Australian Parliament reassembles this month. Reuter.
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  • 36 3 ATHENS, Sun.— The Greek Prime Minister, Mr Alexander Papagos. has suggested to the Nobel Prize Committee that the next peace prize be awarded to the former United States President, Mr. Harry Truman.— Reuter.
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  • 62 3 PARIS, Sun.— A new French invention to make cheaper films by shooting on 16-milli-metre instead of the usual 35--millimetre material, aroused keen interest in cinema circles in Paris yesterday. The apparatus, made by a Parisian camera technician. M. Andre Kerbie, fits a normal projector and enlarges
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  • 125 3 LONDON, Sun. MA IL3 A O robbers took £11.000 (M 593,500) from under the noses of railway guards on an 18-mile journey to London, the post office announced yesterdpy. This brings the total lost in mailbag robberies in Britain since last May to more
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  • 53 3 RANGOON. Sun— A British engineering firm has offered to help the Burma Government restore the war-damag-ed 4.000-feet long Ava Bridge across the Irrawaddy River. 12 miles south of Mandalav. The firm, Braithwaite and Company Structural Ltd.. built the bridge in 1934 at a rost of 10
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  • 29 3 BRUSSELS, Sun— The European League for Economic Co-operation today called for free currency exchange and -a common market as wide as puss Die. n v er
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    • 148 3 Which of the three is worth most to YOU? AH three are equally good as typists. And still the one in tbe middle is worth most to you. Why? Because sne ran manage more in a working day and still be less fatifiurd. You see she is using a Hald.i.
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  • 750 4 GALLANT WALTHAMSTOW ARE STILL IN CUP Only three First Division teams into fifth round LONDON, Sunday. THE "roll call" after the fourth round ties in the F.A. Cup played yesterday presented a disastrous situation for the "giants" of the First Division. Only three of them are safely through into the
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  • 292 4 liiMm >, sun. I iimpii'ir i»arunßion narurpoois esults of professional football Rochdale 1 Carlisle n Britain yesterday were: scunthorpe 1 Port Vale *r,en^ VEr!™ XD 2 S^T* 5 gSV SforH 0 4J^ KlHcUpool I■» 0 »5*S95 H LEA c?&-DIV. "A" 1 hclsea 1 \\rst Brom s 1
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  • 338 4 'THE BEST UNCAPPED GOALIE IN BRITAIN' W By BRI'CE HARRIS LONDON. Sunday. JIMMY SEED. Charlton manager, pulled open a door in his desk, took out a ledger-like tome and read this entry for my benefit: BARTRAM. Samuel: Played very well, but is inclined to
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  • 80 4 LONDON. Sun. ARSENAL, even before the F.A. Cup fifth round ■tfraw is known, were being quoted unofficially last night as 5-1 favourites to win the cup. With the north-eastern clubs, Newcastle and Sunderland, knocked out of the competition, Burnley havr become second favourites at 8-1. Other
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  • 1066 4 rinni im*i-»i'»\ P W D L F A Ps Wolves 28 13 8 7 56 46 34 W. Bromwirh 27 15 3 9 44 40 33 Sunderland 27 13 7 7 47 43 33 Burnley 26 11 10 5 39 27 32 Arsenal 24 12 7
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  • 91 4 LONDON. Sun. Yesterdays rugby league results were: Cas'lefcrd 0 St. Helens 8; Dewsbury 6 Hull 6: Doneaster 2 Workington Town 8: Featherstone Rovers 3 Halifax 5; Huddeisfield 26 B.it ley 3; Hull Kingston Rovers 17 Belle Vue Ransers 2; Koighley 11 Wakeneld Trinity 3: Leeds 3 Bradford
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  • 31 4 BRISBANE. Sun Vie Seixas cTJ.S.t defeated lan Ayre (Australia) In a tennis exhibition jrcsteT* day. 6-2. 6-2 but Straight Cbrk (US i lost to Don Candy lAustraUa>. 6-1. 12-10.
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  • 520 4 CUP FINAL TICKET RACKET From A Special Correspondent LONDON. Sunday. THE English soccer arena has been littered up with Cup Final ticket troubles for many a season and now the Football Association chiefs have grabbed a broom to sweep them away. Recently the
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  • 178 4 BRISBANE. Sun. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. who need an outright victory to make certain of winning the Sheffield Shield competition, were in a good position at the end of the second day's play of their match against, Queensland here yesterday Aficr taking thrir ox ernlght score
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  • 34 4 COPENHAGEN. Sun Kurt Nldwa and Torben Ulrlch. Denawrk'i Davis Cup pair, won the Scandinavian doubles tennis championship vpstrrdav by defeating Lennnrr Beredin iS-redem .in Art Larsen IUS.I 8-10, 6-3. 6-3 8-6— A.P.
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    • 75 4 1850 1955 Over 103 years of watchmaking experience goes into every MARVIN watch. The beautiful models illustrated above are but a few of the distinctive MARVIN range. Ask your dealer to-day to show you the full MARVIN selection. Remember, too, thatMARVIN Watches arc all moderately priced. Marvin watches are available
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  • 160 5 FEDERATION OBSERVES ANNIVERSARY KUALA LUMPUR, gmday. THERE will never be another episode in Malaya as that of 19 IS when relations between the .Malays and the Chinese reached almost breaking point, said Dnto Ilaji Yahya bin Dato Abdul Razak, Kuala Lumpur leader,
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  • 139 5 WORKB IN NEGRI COMPLAIN 'Union being hampprpd" SEriEMBAM. Pun. THE Negri Bembilan Transport Worker.' Union, formed in March have told Mr. P. P. :> Federal Legislative Co that transport eirpl the Stale are "putting obstruction in the recognition of the union." A spokesman of the told the Straits Times today
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  • 94 5 Complaints must be in by today rpODAY A Blnga] r complaints of d rent the appc: I Sir John Nicoll. The chairman of the com-' rr.ittee. Mr. S. G. Burl the Strait i T I that cc!ir far would be «orl this evu Mr. 1"... lock 4 that therejqx>i had
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  • 24 5 BATU OAJAH. B\ 2nd Battalion. ment, has left Batu Gajah.. ,The 2<ui Ourkha R come from the Slim River to replace tn
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  • 14 5 t warning on horning TAiPirro. dng i.i ti. I. are n of the horn.
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  • 112 5 3 OR PARTY TO TRY FOR UNITY 3APORE Labour Party's general counril will leet on Saturday to compla.- its "pea c efTorts" 1 on the recommendations made by Mr. Saul international secretary of the British Labour Party. Th" party chairman, Mr. S. K. Reddl. saii yesterday that I would try
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  • 17 5 KOTA BAHRU, Sun. SHORT and was held I ■I. h ofl Works Dep
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  • 187 5 "OUNTESS of Li: nan of the utive committee of the British Red Cross yesterday toH E boys and cirls v/hom she had travolioc". Bfi.in-.iilo; to see: "I am o-id of you. You are an c fine lot of porkin? ponnle." ilked down tii I lines
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  • 54 5 NAVAL FLAG BLESSED NAVAL FLAG BLESSED TFiK PRESENTATION Df the Royal Navy ||g marked 1 nil." of tin* i i ifaren 1 scuiu at st. .pwre yrstrrday. Tlse Rev. tn i*irt Cbaplata, conrluclrd the ii )u- picture thorn the U<>\.\\ Navy colours party > .'.tlipclral. T!>r lag n;is blessed before
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  • 17 5 RU, Sun. Thin I ol Oeylanß 140 tn the ielling I poods without a
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    • 92 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 6.30 a.m. Tmmll I in T.innl: 6.45 Cli New.s in Cbineae; 7.05 7.15 News in Malay 7 Star; 7.30 Hi Early; 8 Announcers' Choice: 8.30 ■n In the Sun; 1 p.m. M .nee: 1.30 News; 1 4."> Peter 1 School; chlktr a; Dance; 6 Crossblana; 8.15 UN
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  • 171 6 EXCLUSIVE Models received weekly at Madeline's, 278, Orchard Road. OLD MASONIANS. Will all Old Ifasnntaaa In Singapore or the I Federation write S.O.M.A. c/o P.O. Box 152. Singapore. ASIA Travel Service, Adelphl Hot.-]. *****. Has l.st ela.ss single and double cabins available ship «ailln« February U.K. Continent. CORONATION FILM.
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    • 1067 6 When together with the rest of the Malayan Press the Straits Times increased its price to 15 cents because of the higher price of newsprint, some of the new revenue was devoted to producing a better newspaper *.nd to increasing the commission of the news vendors. At
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    • 251 6 Everyone in America is I sounding with optimism over the outlook foi the rubber industry, remarks the IndiaRubber Journal on the strength of a series of encouraging forecasts by leading American industrialists. The consumption of new rubber is expected to reach 1,300,000 tons, a new high exceeding the
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  • 983 6 By a Special Correspondent Sometimes the trend of events in a country is best llustrated by the story of one man. This is the story of a Japanese and it may indicate how Japan's leaders are shaping their views since the end of
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    • 465 6 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CHINESE NO-ONE has defined the true purpose or function of a university more correctly than Cardinal Newman, that great British theologian and author. According to him, a university is meant to impart what he terms a "liberal education" and liberal education he further defines as that
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    • 632 6 Women teachers lose 20 per cent it is true that no A scheme for Goverr.mei employees is ever considered adequate by the people directly concerned, the Government's newly published scheme for officers in the education service is obviously unfair to a vast number of teachers, about half the total number,
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    • 482 6 On the Margin The ino\iii<j finger DR. Ho Yung Chi concludes his remarks on the comparative ease of learning to write Chinese (the bulk of which were Riven in Saturday's "Malaysian Notebook"! by suggesting why "forei-i--ers" have the impression that Chinese is a' very, very difficult language »o learn to
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  • 194 7 The volunteers stave off unrest, says hospital chief THE only inmate missing from Woodbridge Mental Hospital when the roll call was taken on Saturday night was found yesterday by policemen. Everything was peaceful there yesterday, the hospital superintendent, Dr. B. F. Home, told the
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  • 248 7 PENSIONS A MAJOR ISSUE- Union chief SINGAPORE Government s refusal to recognise the pension claims oj mental hospital attentdants is most unfair, and OM ot Ihe major issues in the present strike. Mr. Lim Chwee Seng, secretary of the Mental Hospital Unilormed Btaff Union, said yesterday. "Government should treat all
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  • 258 7 WONDERFUL-T RAFFIC CHIEF OIXGAPORE'S big east-west one-way traffic scheme operated successfully yesterday. The Colony's traffic chief, Mr. A. E. Minns, who spent 12 hours directing traffic, told the Straits Times: "It's wonderful. Motorists have responded very well." He advised motorists who hesitate at junctions: "If
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  • 301 7 KUALA LrMPI R. Sunday. A "SCURRILOUS" article by Mr. William O. Douglas, associate judge of the United States Supreme Court, caused a storm of protest at today's conference of the Malayan Chinese Association. The 120 delegates approved an angry rtsolutlon condemning the article, which
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  • 133 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. IjiRAYED tempers and ansry shouts made the annual delegates' conference of the Malayan Chinese Association the rowdiest ever. The noise of battle started soon after the conference opened in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Raised voices from four floors up could be heard
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  • 55 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Ratnasamy, arrested in an cxci c raid in Masai, was charged in the Police Court yesterday with bavin toddy without a liconce. having in his possession 13 gallons of oddy and having tapped palm trees fur toddy without a permit. He was lined
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  • 37 7 A Chinese businessman left his car unattended (or a few minutes In North Bi i R pore, on Saturday afternoon, and returned to find hi.s camera and tins of cigarettes totally valued at $175. mi.-:
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  • 170 7 39 villages will rule themselves JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. rHRTY-NiNE large Johore new villages vIU li.ive their own local councils by April this year the nr.st in Malaya to achieve this. Cha'ah new village. Segamat. will be the first to elect a council on Feb. 11. Other ?le.> t.ons will follow
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  • 76 7 The following were elected -btarers of the Singapore Union ol Journalists at the union* annual general meet.ekl iii the British DOUU-I (il Hall yesterday: President, Mr. Alex Josey; vue-ure.sident. Mr. S. L. Ru|&ratnam; secretary, Mr. Os- 1 car Fernandez: secretary, Mr. Ivor Kraal: treasurer, Mr. Hugh Sarase;
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  • 82 7 A Singapore City Councillor, Mr. Chan Kum Chee, ni among 99 persona who gave their blood to the Blood Bunk last week. Among other donors were 20 men lrom the Harbour Board police force, 17 from the Singapore police, and five lrom the R.A.F. police. Fourteen medical
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  • 46 7 A 32-year-old woman. Ong Kwan. collapsed and died in Yio Chu Kang Road. Singapore, yesterday while on her I way to see a doctor. A parsing British Scrvlcep man called an ambulance. The husband was told about "his wife's death by neighbours.
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  • 45 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Tengku Tun Aminah. wife of the Re»ent of Johore. today declared open the United Malays National Organisation fun lair on the padang opposite the railway .station. The fair Is for UMNO funds. It will be open a week.
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    26 7 MR. KOKERT \l.l\\MHl; Allan and Miss Marguerite I 11. Oehlrrs after their wedding- at St. Paul's Church, I'pper Srrangoon Road, Singapore on Saturday. Straits Times picture.
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  • 101 7 BISHOP Ivan Lee Holt, president of the Methodist World Federation and a vicepresident of the World Council of Churches, ended a one-week inspection tour of Methodist churches and schools In Malaya by preaching, three sermons Singapore yesterday. He preached during the morning worship services
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  • 63 7 The Singapore Government has approved the holding of a spefd trial by the Singapore Motor Club at Lim Chu Kan^ Road trom 7.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. on Feb. 8. Only competitors' vehicles will be allowed to use Liin Chu Kang Road from its Junction with
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  • 21 7 Cheng Hoon, 63, was found with severe throat injuries in Seng Poh Road, Singapore, yesterday. He is in hospital.
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  • 85 7 A flve-year-old girl, Lim Eng Hua, who was seriously injured in an accident opposite C.I.D. headquarters, Cecil Street, Singapore, on Saturday evening, has since died in the General Hospital. She was walking with another girl, 17-year-old Mah Seng Hua. when both were knocked
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  • 94 7 4 BRITISH-d -signed hellci pter yesterday reached Sln-i-apore in the hold of a Bristol freighter. The Bristol landed at R.A.F. Changl. The helicopter, the Bristol Sycamore, will be unloaded from its hold today. The Sycamore wai freighted from England for gruelling tropical tests to prove It
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  • 74 7 KLANO, Sun. The Klaus branch of the Selangor Indian School Teachers' Union elected these officers for 1953: President, Mr. D. J. D. Rajulu; vice president, Mr. M. Duralsamy; secretary, Mr. Paul Aseervatham; assistant secretary, Mr. S. P. Permmulu; treasurer, Mr. A. Ponnusamy; auditors, Messrs Williams Raslah
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  • 29 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Wong Kee Chow, a special constable, who was absent from duty from Jan. 4 to 13 was fined $25 in the police court yesterday.
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  • 139 7 riE Singapore Improvement Trust will not take any measures to prevent more death falls from its flats in Upper Pickering Street. »T»V,.> t.,U tklo in T on The trust told this to M". Lee Choon Eng, a City Councillor who had asked
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  • 40 7 The Broadway Musical Party of Singapore began a two-day celebration of its 22nd anniversary with a dinner at the party's premises in Saik Kuan Road. Changi on Saturday night. The celebration ended yesterday with the election" of office-bearers.
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  • 241 7 Offices run by Asians 'poor' KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. INEFFICIENCY in some Government departments had been caused by putting inexperienced Asian officers in charge, Mr. S. C. E. Sincam. Independent Kuala Lumpur Municipal Councillor, told the Straits Times j today. While controversy still la^d today over his statement in th<' Municipal
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    • 170 7 "GRAND" ACHIEVEMENTS < »SMJ^gstsy^^lW^Bm^^jMßSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssslslslsslsm THE PIANO NOW USED BY THE GREAT CONCERT ARTISTS A Dancmann Concert Grand is permanently installed at the Royal Festival Hall, London. 20 pianos supplied to the London County Council Over fifty uprights have been supplied to the Education Dept. Singapore and Malaya. The following countries
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    • 171 7 U.i ...c t.nlcu ic.i-u «[.U 1..c t-c.:u^l,--.:il o.ti^c.-j Mr c H WumoC ill vur ot CXuouiti Dtm ol UM bi.i.r:. (Jua:i>.;.. Sli uin .miiii.ji.^:. Ir*t fl i.i ii i.i. i11...- utlllt: Mobi.e :-..:u Ouii'a taam* *i «j i*Ua lull Kaui,iuii4 Km. ADI j:iO Bntul I BUleilußa BeMud Uout 6U-1. I.U
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    • 97 7 The Weather WEATHER statistics throughout Malaya yesterday were: .Minimum trmprraturr: (7.30 p.m. on Jan. 31 to 7.30 a.m. Fob. Ik Spore •76 decrees p, Penang 1 72 Kota Bahru (75 p. Kuala Lumpur (71 >, Ipoh < 69 Kuantan (70i. Maximum tempprnture: (7.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on Feb. 1):
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    • 269 8 vBWw INCORPORATING R/vu r* \K I m m iv FROM I Is <^^ -v Il> rt1 y»>- "^^^^iy^^^ML ViJm j y^ s^^U* V No x '^iM m £wHF\t A^ LARGER PAGES- MANY NEW FEATURES- STRIP CARTOONS RADIO PROGRAMMES NEW EXCITING FEATURES STRIP CARTOONS RADIO IN MALAYA AND OVERSEAS will NEW
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  • 970 9 Two Travellers Tales By ALLINGTON KENNARD NEW WORLD ARISING. By Harry Hopkins. (Hamish Hamilton, London. 18s.) HONG KONG. By Harold Ingrams. (H.M. Stationery Office, 275. 6d.i fpHE quick grand tour of South-east Asia is not without its dangers, chief among them the temptation to
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  • 473 9  - INSIDE THE MINDS OF TWO MEN DONALD SEAMAN THE FOREIGN OFFICE VANISHING ACT By THE MISSING DIPLOMATS. By Cyril Connolly. (Queen Anne Press, 55.) THE characters of the missing diplomats. Burpess and Maclean, come under the public microscope again —but with a differences. Now they are assessed by a man
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  • 294 9 rpHE English-Malay vo- lume of Sir Richard Winstedt's new practical dictionary is now ready and the Malay-English volume is in the press. The Enslish-Malay volume will be widely welcomed. It is small, compact and inexpensive Sir Richard provides a good vocabulary for those who wish to
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  • 359 9 THE BRITISH IMPACT ON INDIA. By Sir Percival Crittffhi (Macdonatd. 45*.) By PHILIP WOODRUFF gIR Percival Griffiths divides his vast subject into four parts—historical, political, economic and administrative He believes that the transfer of power in 1947 'demonstrated once and for all Britain's belief that
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  • 1283 10 Good demand for industrials By Our Financial Correspondent THE Malayan share market enjoyed a very satisfactory period last week and prices in all sections were inclined to rise where they moved at all. There was a sustained demand for most of the popular industrials and tins
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    • 1314 10 no"J.' MANSFIELD 6c CO., LTD. g£2 Possogo ether Dept BLUE FUNNEL LINB Oept* Carrier s option to proceed vio other ports t<» load and discharge cargo SAILINGS to LIVCRPOOL GLASGOW. LONDON ft CONTINENTAL PORTS Sails P Shorn Panang Prometheus for Hovre, Liverpool Glosgow G. 2S/2* Feb. 4 F.b. 1/7 Ascanius
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    • 594 10 PEN LINE STEAMERS LTD. For UK /CONTINENT Spore P Shorn Penong C.nolhonach for Avonmouth Liverpool, Glasgow, Antwerp bb In Port Benreoch to* Genoc, London. G. *77 7/ 8 Feb. 9/11 F.b. t Ceneruochan fir Liverpool. Dublin, Hamburg. Antwerp 14/22 Feb. 23/23 Feb. 24/28 Feb. Benmher for Havre London, 18/23 Feb.
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  • 455 11  - He changed two horses' names his luck EPSOM JEEP By \yHAT'S IN A NAME? One man at least, Kuala Lumpur millionaire racehorse owner Mr. Kok Hoong, believes that a change has made a world of a difference —to some of his I "ungenerous" horses. I And he seems to have
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  • 192 11  - Trainer Fox off to a good start EPSOM JEEP From IPOH. Sun. TRAINER Tom Fox looks set for a good season in 1953. He got off to a good start with four winners at the Perak Turf Club meeting which ended yesterday. Neal Hobbs. Jack Spencer and VV. Lewis each
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  • 211 11 LONDON, Sun. /CARDIFF suffered their first defeat since November when losing to the home side at Aberavon yesterday. Three weeks aeo Cardiff beat Aberavsn at home by 13 points to Ove. The results were: Blarfcneath 5 B Mary's Hospital 6: Guys HospiMi o London Irish 12: London
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  • 39 11 Tiong Bahru Rangers ftrst and second teams will play soccer against Raffles Institution next Saturday nt the school ground. The second team match will kick off at 4 p.m., and the senior match at 5 15 p.m.
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  • 30 11 Kota Raja Sports Club and Star Soccerltes drew four-all in a friendly floodlit miniature soccer match at the Oreat Eastern Trade) Pair ground. Gevlang Serai. Singapore, on Saturday.
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  • 309 11  - Charles-Ho bbs wins like old times EPSO.M JEEP From 11l KIS CHARLES, who left the Hobbs Stable last year to ride as a free lance, was happily associated with his former stable's second success of the Ipoh meeting, when he landed Meath a clever length winner on Saturday. On the
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  • 497 11 ANDREW'S School maintained their proud tradition of amateur boxing supremacy in Singapore when they won five of the eight finals and a special contest in the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's first youth championships which were concluded at the Badminton Stadium on Saturday night. The srx fighting
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  • 28 11 Kerala EC, and District Signals drew 1-1 in a friendly soccer match at Farrer Park yesterday. Salahudin .scored for Kerala, and Roberts for Signals.
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    • 304 11 Straits Times Crossword w H 2 [H 3 i^r i-;i* M 6 mi 7 in IllSpll BjMlf_^j 'jj"""n ACROSS 6. Offensive smell made mostly 8. Fastidious body? At any rate by nsh (6). 9. %zti&jsrJt& 7 JSupyy* of a tee -10. Showy flower Inside an hoUl 13. This animal has
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  • 431 12 Perak deserved bigger margin KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. A TERRIFIC drive by A. Thillainathan, Perak's centre-forward, two minutes from time shattered Selangor's hopes of winning the championship in the North Malayan hockey quadrangular on the Kuala Lumpur padang today. By this spectacular defeat of the
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  • 54 12 I> I i I N < > or teams at Ihe end i* of yesterdays tames in the North quadrangular hockey tourna- nun i »rr; Prrak Silantor lilr.nc Prnang P W D L F A Pts. 2200 6 1 4 2 10 15 2 2 2 0 1115
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  • 201 12 Penang were saved by goalkeeper KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. AFTER a very shaky start, Pahang recovered splendidly to nold Penang to a scoreless draw in the North hockey quadrangular tournament on the Kuala Lumpur padang this evening. Penang's goalkeeper, Heiden, played a sound game to save his side from defeat, especially
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  • 71 12 MANILA. Sun. yHE visiting Singapore football J team defeated the UAAP selection team tonight 2-1. Omar Awang. playine outside right for Singapore, .scored both goals for the visitors in the second half after the UAAP selection had led 1-0 in the flr.st half. In yesterday's game,
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  • 35 12 i Royal Air Force Changi yesterday retained the India Independence Cup for soccer when they trounced the Indian Youth Club by five nil at Chujei. Scorers were' Spinwick (3) and Williams (2).
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  • 128 12 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. JOHNNY ARTHUR ((225-lb.) took the South African heavyweight title from Lou Strydom (206-lb.i In a mauling fight at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night. Strydom retired with a badly cut eye at the end of the ninth round. He appeared to be getting on top of
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  • 191 12 THERE HAD been tears in their eyes but no fear in their hearts as these two Youngsters. Yap Boon Teck i Queen's Street Boys Club) and Alex Baxter 'Alexandra Secondary Modern School) hit each other with everything but the ring posts in their atomweight special contest in
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  • 399 12  -  ALAN HOBY From LONDON. Sunday. f\F the 50,000,000 citizens who crowd this tight little of Britain. I have met only one who refuses to recognise RANDOLPH TI'RPIN as the best middle- weight in the world. Name of this two-le?secl phenomenon is DUGGIE Miller, the
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  • 261 12 E'XCLLJ.ENT weather favours the exhibition tennis irranted by GHQ FARELF Tennis Club at j Tanxlin yesterday to mars the opening of their new courts. A sellout crowd saw the Olo.iv'.'. best tennis players in action from 4 p.m. The match that llUtttd most attention was that
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  • 58 12 BRIDGETOWN. Barbados. Sun ri.- rondos scored 302 for the loss o' 3 wickets jesterday. the opening da of their five-day match against O Indian touring team here r i Everton Weekes. who hit a douty century againal India in the ftnh; CM a week ago. was
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  • 1301 12  - SOCCER REFS PASS A STIFF EXAM 33 get their 'tickets JERRY R.A.F. Seletar sport...by Soccer THE third annual R.A.F. Referees' Refresher Course came to an end last Vvednesday at Seletar. where 18 qualified referees passed the advanced examination, whilst 15 potential officials qualified for their third class certificates. Only 8
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  • 240 12 Xl ALA LI MPIR, Sunday. ]tf ALAYAN Hockey Council has written ,t» the Astaft iTI Games Federation in Manila inquinnffr whether under the rules, the Federation of Malaya H eligible to compete in the Asian Games next year. This was stated
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  • 211 12 K l I I i Mil K Son. r pilf-- prrvidnit of the Malayan 1 Horkry < oiinril. Mr. H. M. de Sou7.i. today siiKKrvlrd that the world-famous hot-key wizard Dyan I (hand be invited to make a lour of Malaya early nr\t yrar.
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  • 104 12 I'.ie icam to represent Singapore unst Selangor women .i> a hockey :natch to be played In ore on Saturday will be i after today'.s trial on the B.C.C ground at 5.15 p.m.: While: Mis L. If. Pennefather rfjriiv. Mrs. E. Goldle H .'anp Reeve. Mrs. E.
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