The Straits Times, 4 February 1954

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    13 1 The Straits Times Established 1845 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1954 PRICE 15 CENTS
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    NO, NO, SAYS WEST
    408 1 Russian plan for Germany rejected BKRLIN. Wednesday UN, Prance and the I nited States today completely rejected a Russian proposal for the ir powers to sijm i peace treaty with Germany October 1954. The Western Foreign ministers each told Mr. the Soviet Foreign Minister, thai the
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    Gets death
    27 1 NAIROBI. Wed. Waruhiu Itote. 30-year-old Kikuyu known as "General China." today was sentenced to death for being a Mau Mau leader. Reuter. See Page 2.
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    Briton called to see ailing Pope
    95 1 Briton called to see ailing Pope VATICAN CITY. Wed. CASINO concern was today for the weaken'■ipe. British specialist who at- King Georg? reported unofficially la en called in to help him. slowly as -v'p-di.sturbin^ Ins from a nervous •h disorder. :'s that the specialist led the King had inder.scorcd wholrifirmed
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    Details secret
    24 1 •INGTON. Wed The of Defence. Mr. Wilson, yesterday derive details of United liv U) vstablush stor>ta for atomic weapoas s U P.
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    French blast Vietminh supply lines
    112 1 French blast Vietminh supply lines SAIGON. Wed. FRENCH fighters from the mountain fortress of Dien Bien Phu today struck with bombs and napalm at vUal supply lines of the Vietminh 308 "Iron" Division marching through jungles towards Luang Prabang. the Royal capital of Laos. Supplies have become the key problem
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    Siege on Dick lifted
    85 1 NEW YORK, Wed. The siege that isolated Dick Hay- mes and Rita Hayworth lifted last night. Debt enforcing sheriffs and deputies left the corridor outj side their 12th floor hotel suite door after besieging them since i Monday. Haymes locked the door and stayed inside rather
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    Child thought little bomb' was peanut
    80 1 A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl. Kho Sui Peng, burned her mouth yesterday when she bit a "little bomb" (sand cracker) at her home in Waterloo Street. Singapore. Kho mistook the "bomb" for a coloured peanut a tit-bit served at Chinese New Year. This was the first
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    Russian spy now helps Americans
    118 1 TOKYO. Wed 4 RELIABLE United' States A military source that the Russian diplomat. Yuri Rastovorov. is at the Dig U S base of Okinawa operating with American intelligence agents Breaking a ring The source said Rastovorov a missing member of the former Soviet mission in
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    AN ANG POW FROM AH GEH, 75 A day of visits to friends
    128 1 HO AH <il 11. 75. head of a Chinatown family, smiles as he gives an ang pow to a great-grand-daughter Yesterday was a day of courtesy calls on relatives and friends. Many were content to fire crackers
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    ROYAL WELCOME FOR THE QUEEN
    236 1 Sydney's most joyous greeting SYDNEY. Wednesday. AUSTRALIANS today welcomed the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in a mass demonstration of loyalty and affection. They packed Sydney In their thousands to give the most joyous welcome the citv has ever known. And the Queen, "looking
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    COLONEL KILLED BY REDS
    572 1 SEREMBAN, Wed. \MAN the Communists feared, Lieut. Col. Alan Forestier-Walker. M.8.E.. Commanding Officer of the 1/7 Gurkha Rifles, was killed in a terrorist ambush in Nefcri Sembilan yesterday. Col. Walker. 40. had been visiting company positions at Klawang and was returninn to Seremban when his jeep
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    Bombed rail line is repaired
    73 1 Bombed rail line is repaired KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. OAILWAY repair cre.vs have restored the 50-yard stretch of line near Kluane. Johore. which was damaced by a terrorist land mine. The mine exploded beneath the pilot engine travelling in front of the night mail to Kuala Lumpur on Morriav r.icht. Work
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    64 want to go to U.S.
    64 1 PANMUNJOM, Wed. —At least 64 of the Chinese and North Korean war prisoners who spurned Communism want to go to the United States, the Indian command said yesterday The prisoners face formidable obstacles, but the Indians have asked the UN. Command if it would
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    Confident
    26 1 NEW YORK. Wed —Israeli sources said they are confident of majority support for their complaint against Egypt, which comes before the Security Council tomorrow. UP.
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    Jet crashes
    24 1 GRAND PRAIRIE. Texas. Wed.— An F-80 Shoe ing Star jet fighter crashed into a boat factory yesterday and killed two people. UP.
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    BUFFALO GOES BERSERK, KILLS TWO
    108 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. i BUFFALO went berserk V on Sunday, killed two and seriously injured two people near Kodiang on the Kedah-Perlis border. One of the injured was its owner.. It was later shot by vil- lagers. The animal suddenly attacked its master and threw
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    Slush for big game tickets
    192 1 Slush for big game tickets I; XV'TH only two days jl to go, interest in Saturday's rugby match between a Singapore •I Cricket Club Invitation >: XV and the Ist. Fiji In- fantry Regiment is mounting rapidly. ■J This match and a I* game of Australian ;I Rules Football will
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    Yogi may be 'snowman'
    75 1 CALCUTTA. Wed— An inthropology professor sairi yesterday the British Himalayan expedition looking for the "abominable snowman"' may find only a naked practitioner of yogi wandering Uv.^ icy peaks in search of a gui t place to meditate. Mr Sasanka Sekhar. profes- i 'sor of authropology at
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    No room for two Chinas
    244 1 SIR GLADWYN TELLS UN: NEW YORK. Wed. CIR Gladwyn Jebb. of Britain, said yesterday that "it would be inconceivable" to have two China's represented at thp United Nations." Sir Gladu-yn. who next month leaves his past as Brita n's permanent delegate to thi! United Natoins
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    The C-G on tour
    34 1 The Commissioner-General Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. left SllUraDOre by air yesterday tc visit Inclo-China and Hon.? Rons. Away on offcial tours anci local leave, he vill return er.rlv next month.
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    100 PILGRIMS DIE IN RUSH FOR SACRED RIVER
    114 1 NEW DELHI. Wed One hundred pilgrims were crushed to death today in a stampede at the Kumbha Mela bathin?, festival in Allahabad. More than 2.000.000 of 3.000.--000 pilgrims now in Allahabad had been waiting all night beside the confluence of Dandee and
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    MAU GENERAL—'I SAW: DON'T KILL
    322 2 MAU GENERAL— 'I SAW: DON'T KILL WOMEN OR CHILDREN' NAIROBI. Wednesday. ITARI lIM ITOTE. XI, called "General China" of the Mau Mau. claimed at his trial in Nyeri yesterday thai he was in command of more than 4,000 fighting troops in the Kenya forests. Ho said his troops wore engaged
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    ACTRESS TRIES 'EVE' COSTUME
    36 2 ACTKSSB l.i/ii.th w.-hh who plajn mission eirl in "(iuvs and Polls" at the London Coliseum, tries on thr "Eve" rostumc which shr wore at thr Vfc.WHIl hall ;>t the Lyceum. Renter picturr.
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    PERSIAN ELECTIONS UNFAIR, SAYS MULLAH
    237 2 PERSIAN ELECTIONS UNFAIR, SAYS MULLAH TEHERAN. Wed. THE RELIGIOUS leader. Mullah Ayatollah Kashani, broke with the Zahedi regime yesterday, denouncing the Majlis and Senate elections as improper and illegal. In a statement to the-for-eign press, the bearded Mullah said: "Thieves, dirty elements have been imposed on the Persian nation as
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    Nehru goes to bathe in Ganges
    105 2 NEW DELHI. Wed.— The Indian Premier. Mr. Nehru, left for Allahabad yesterday to bathe at the confluence of the sacicd Ganges and Jumna Rivers today— bathing day of the Hindus' Kumbha Mel:festival. After bathine during the new moon eclipse, which Hindus believes auspicious. Mr
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    Red bid to cause trouble
    163 2 LONDON. Wee. DIPLOMATIC observers ysAJ terriav aid that R invitation to Yugoslavia to reto thr Soviet sphere wa-> nn attempt to stir internal trouble for Marshal Tito. They discounted the posslbilitj o! a chance ;:i Moscow? attitude toward the P Government Thr nb-ervors sain that
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    Swans on icebound pond COLD MAKES THEM ANGRY
    42 2 Swans on icebound pond COLD MAKES THEM ANGRY ANGRY S\VA N S skim over the icebound pond at Wimbledon Common on the outer edge of London. The swans are angry be-<.)u-r of the rold spell, most unusual, in the area. Reuter picture.
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    BRITAIN MAY JOIN STANDING U.N. ARMY
    158 2 LONDON. Wednesday. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, told the House of Commons today that, if a standing United Nations defence force was proposed, the British Government would carefully consider suggesting the inclusion of a Commonwealth division. He was replying to a Labour I member who had
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    Russian cars for show
    68 2 AMSTERDAM. Wed.— Russia will exhibit at the annual motor show here this year for the first time, the organisers announced. Nine other foreign countries will be represented at the i 10 day show, which opens on; February 26. Russia will exhibit two j makes, compared with
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    Ape boy found
    70 2 TAIPEI, Wed. A Formosan newspaper today reported the discovery of a 13-year-old boy who looks like a hairless ape. climbs trees with agility and lives on snakes and bueeta The paper said that the boy is the son of an aboriginal family. It described him as 3ft
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    The wolf boy still snarls
    45 2 NEW DELHI. Wed Doctors treating Ramu. the wolf boy in a Lucknow hospital say that after a fortnight he still lie? snarling, in a pathetic huddlr in bed and looks happy on!v when he is given raw meat. A P.
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    Strike of 5,000 is extended
    80 2 JAKARTA. Wed. PHE nationwide sitdown 1 strike of s.oon union motnmn of the Royal Dutch N ivijation Company was today "xtenriert to Sunday The strike was to end today. )ut the Indonesian central iovernment labour arbitration loard had not given a decision >o the union
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    New Minister
    22 2 VIENNA. Wed Janoa Szaho. ormer Hungarian ncpurstrr of Light Industry, has iron appointed Minister of town and Country AfT teuter.
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    Now it's out! U.S. DID make the first H-bomh
    114 2 WASHINGTON Wednesday ORESIDENT Eisenhower told Congress yesterday that, the United States mad- -the first full-scale thermo-nurlear (Hydrogen) explosion in history 1 at Eniwetok in the Paciflr in 1952. I This is the first official con flrmation that thp Eniwrm.explosion reported tn
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    Moroccan makes pen-guns
    40 2 CASABLANCA. Wed A pen- gun touched off a police in- vestigation here following the i arrest of armaments workers Lelephore Nocchi. The pen-Run is designed to hold a mechanism whic'i could fire one .22 calibre bullet U.P.
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    Elections plan a 'landmark', says Raja Sir Uda
    206 2 Elections plan a 'landmark', says Raja Sir Uda LONDON. Wedm OAJA Sir I da bin Raja Mohamed. t'ommissin, Malaya in London, said yesterday that if nosals to hold elections in Malaya were appro' would be "a landmark in the country's !iist ()n Emphasising that hp was speaking personal capacity, and
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    A MASCOT GIVES 38 RABIES
    89 2 A MASCOT GIVES 38 RABIES SEOUL. Wed. THIRTY-EIGHT U.S. SOldieri today were receiving antirabies treatment ater then rr ascot do-; went berserk anc attacked them. The dog was killed after the attacks. A spokesman said the m°n al! of the 10th Engineer Battalion, were given treatment on the day of
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    TARZAN SWING BY MINISTER
    30 2 MAJ. SALMI SALEM. Egypt's Minister of National QaMame. makes a Tarzan-likr swine aiross a creek during a visit to Equatoria the Sudan's southernmost province. A.P picture
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    TO LEARN RED WAR METHODS
    78 2 TAIP' •"THE CHINESE C( ■I plan to i military mission soon for advanced Soviet military Nationalist new^ Dorted toriav. Tatao News As official voice of of ihe Interior ing mission would by French-tra: Chen Yi. or Koi General Lin P of Generah shek'g Whar rieniv
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    The winners
    28 2 C. S(HKIBMMli; Zambelli. of Italj r in(l Belvedere curvf nn to victory in thf I"" two-ma bobsled world champion^'' f 1> Nil rl Anip'-- picl urr.
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    Her first voyage
    41 2 LONDON snn.non iinei cost more f b thr One 1 E Qurrn Ma:v yesterday her trials o from thr Clvd lauri'-hrd lasi Tho Arcad to thr P BI) Australia fi' Tilbury unl maiden vn' rebruarv 22 Cevlor. I
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    Blast kills 4
    8 2 TOKYO mine lear rukuok Tokyo.
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    Britain will profit by the pact with Japs—Butler
    348 3 Britain will profit by the pact with Japs— Butler LONDON, Wednesday. pHE CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer, Mr. R. A. Butler, said today that, while there were obvious anxieties in the rest of the world about the Anglo-Japanese trade pact, British trade and exports will profit greatly from it particularly oil
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    U.S. AIR FORCE TOO WEAK, HE SAYS
    110 3 U.S. AIR FORCE TOO WEAK, HE SAYS WASHINGTON. MAJOR Alexander P. De rsky. pioneer airmilder, said today .tec States has a itrateglc air force would be "ovrrd and destroyed" rat battle. :i-born World War 'old a Senate subhat the United itranin case of war because lals it needs for all-
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    Big arms haul
    59 3 ONG KONG. Wed. The Ine p rd ly bi>a:dpan iii Hong Kong x>ur and seized tht colony's bau] ."-ince the two Chinese were rged in a Kowloon court i possessing without ice 10 one heavy "hinegun. four subhineguns. one automatic two carbines, six pistols. .nd 10.070 rounds
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    New speaker
    19 3 SALISBURY. Wed Ml Tom lan WU r Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Parliament Speattie Central A»cmb]y yesterday.
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    Talks wanted
    17 3 VELLINGTON. Wed. -New iland has told the Japanese vernment that she is willing discuss trade
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    Churchill has job for Canal troops
    133 3 LONDON. Wed. SIR WINSTON Churchill said today that, if proper and decent arrangements could be made. British troops in the Suez Canal zone could help to form a mobile strategic reserve In Britain. He told the House of Commons: "We have frequently spoken about
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    Joins new committee
    61 3 LONDON. Wed.-Mr R R. Burnett. British High Commissioner in Pakistan from 1947 to 1952. has been appointed to the committee which will steer the Sudan civil service into local hands, the Foreign Office announced last night. Under tht last year's AngloEgyptian agreement. the British— run civil service
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    Russian ships visit China
    36 3 TAIPEH. Wed.— A Nationalist news agency yesterday reported the arrival of a 10.000--ton Russian cruiser and two Soviet destroyers in the China Sea recently. The warships would visit Chinese Communist ports. UP.
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    Red spies moving
    71 3 CIUDAD TGUJILLO. Domi- 1 nican Republic. Wed Tht official Dominican military intelligence service last nieht said that a Caribbean Communist oreanisation was moving part of its centre of odp- rations from Mexico and Guatemaia to Costa Rica. A communique said that during the past six weeks 3f
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    Air orders cancelled
    60 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. The U.S. Air Force yesterday said that it had cancelled orders for 33 Martin B-57 twin-jet bombers U.S. versions of the British Canberra. The Glenn L. Martin Co.. Baltimore, has been buildine the light bomber under licence from the English Electric Co.. Ltd. It delivered
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    Men at work -reason
    68 3 Men at work -reason DM BIGHT ..f men at work d i k v i ii i; a hole In the iisii.illy attract-* .1 I \\li<> u.int to know isoti wny But this tn doesn't have tn a*k i' n digging ln Marlu Place, Brighton, isc he ran read it
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    The eruption fizzles out
    37 3 MESSINA. Sicily. Wed.— The i new eruption of Stromboll fizzled out last night. Seven hundred fishine folk in the island shrußeed and went tc bC^lt has often been worse." they said.— A. P.
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    Bombers may take part in A-tests
    112 3 HONOLULU. Wed. INDICATIONS were this week that some of the Air Force's mightiest planes will take part in this Spring's secrecy-shroad-ed atomic tests in the central Pacific Two giant, 10-engined B--36s landed unannounced at Hickant on Sunday and left last night. Last week a
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    10,000 Americans are behind Iron Curtain
    122 3 10, 000 Americans are behind Iron Curtain FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, Wednesday. AMERICAN businessman Robert Voegler, who spent A 17 months in a Communist prison in Hungary, said last night that 10.000 Americans, including 3.00 C soldiers, are being held against their will behind the I Iron Curtain. I Voegler said
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    41 injured
    22 3 BUENOS AIRES, Wed. Forty-one people were injured yesterday when two trains col- iided in a suburban station j here.— A.P.
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    Wife told: Go with men
    66 3 LOS ANGELES, Wed.— Victoria Van Zandt. a dancer, was given a divorce in Los An.gele* after testifying that her husband told her he would think more of her if she went out with other men instead of attending Jane Russell's Bible 1 classes. She also
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    Bomb kills one
    24 3 TAIPEH. Wed— A bomb explosion in Kaohsiung. Southern Formosa, is reported to j have killed one person and •injured five.- Reuter.
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    Reds lend a film
    45 3 BERLIN, Wed.— Mr. Molotov has lent the British delegation a full length documentary film I on Russian ballet. The film was sent to British I headquarters after Mr. Eden had told Mr. Molotov that he would like to see it.— Reuter.
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    Newsman is expelled
    51 3 GUATEMALA. Wed.— The I Guatemalan Foreign Ministry yesterday expelled Sydney Gruson, New York Times corl respondent in Mexico and I Central America, from Guatemala as an undesirable. It claimed that Gruson "has systematically defamed and i injured this republic and its t government through the Press. —A
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    Many want to learn Judo
    56 3 LONDON. Wed.— So many London girls want to learn Judo because they fear night thug attacks that there is a shortage of women teachers. London County Council will Ibe asked today to relax the ban on men teaching women the Japanese style art of selfdefence
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    THIS IS GREAT — NARRIMAN
    106 3 THIS IS GREAT NARRIMAN CAIRO. Wed. "TTS great to be Miss Narri--1 man again." said the 20 year-old Kgyptlan beauty in suburban iieliopolis when inforn *ed of her divorce from i ex-King Farouk. And added her mother, Assila i Ilanem, "Narriman isn't thinking of marrying again, anyway not :o an
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    Lights far Day
    26 3 THE SECRETARIAT BUILDING, one of the many important buildings in New Delhi illuminated for Republic Day, is reflected in a pond.— A.P. picture.
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    EUROPE'S BIG FREEZE TIGHTENS ITS GRIP FROM NORWAY TO ITALY
    277 3 EUROPE'S BIG FREEZE TIGHTENS ITS GRIP FROM NORWAY TO ITALY LONDON, Wednesday. EUROPE'S bitter winter weather tightened its grip last night from Norway to Italy after causing an estimated 100 deaths in a week's freeze. Forecasters saw no sign of a let-up. Country after country experienced its most severe cold
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    DIAMOND HEART FOR CUPID
    41 3 FROM PARIS comes this gold Cupid motif mounted on a diamond heart. Designed by Mellwio. it decorates a dinner toque in black picot straw. Paris Danism milliner Svend showed it in his spring collection. A. P. picture.
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    They may get jobs to be good
    122 3 They may get jobs to be good BEIRUT. Wea AN informed source at Beirut yesterday saia that Syria's President. Adib Shishek!y. olaKued by an uDrisinc of restless Druse tribesmen may offer arrested Oorjosition leaders a share in the eovernment in hODes of settine a neaceful settlement. He proclaimed martial law
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    Liner crashes
    35 3 VANCOUVER. British Columbia. Wed. The passenger liner Prtß George, on her way from Vancouver to Alaska struck a rock In heavy fog 140 miles north of here yesterday and was slightly damaged.— U.P.
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    Welcoming the Horse
    270 4 vniro iiiiruvtio-' I HIS L i T E RL h I d ublc nCW year ltc Her "»o'Kcr IM I her to Raffles Museum, Singapore, and bcrorc they w the exhibits she enjoyed .1 bowl of mcc gorcng with mo i£ helping. Hundreds of visitors had meals
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    Tax collections drop $46 m. —drive on dodgers stepped up
    141 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. JNCOME tax collection for last year in the Federation is expected to be about $174 million. This was disclosed to the Straits Times today to Mr A. W. Hedges. Controller of Inland Revenue Mr. Hodges added that
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    STENOS PROTEST ON PAY
    80 5 protested at the Singapore dinrrnmrnt's action in drtheni the benefits of Vons pay award, i spokesman of the i i rial Staff Association rdajr; "F.vrn temporary l.rks are eligible for this ,rd. I M though (ioverndi>i Timinates auain.st vtrnographers. uhcnnri I- like it. i "iMiis,. the
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    Fed. sugar control
    44 5 A LUMPUR. Wrd.— The .on Government will le to handle sugar im W Gullick, controllei division. told tho Times today there c no change in the C3ont's policy of su^ar ;tion. r will be off the ration lii Singapore from February
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    NEW GERMAN SHIP ARRIVES
    32 5 A German carco liner. 5,. c>47--i Bierbcrstoin. belonging tn < Hamburp-Arrerika Line rived in Singapore yesterday Launched In January last fcr, the Bierberstein has been the Europe-South America n.
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    Instead of 2 years' gaol, he goes free
    164 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed THE Court of Criminal Ap- peal today revoked the sentence against Koh Theam Song, who had been convicted on three charges of falsifyinu bank accounts. Koh. sentenced to two years, walked out of court a free man He was
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    OBJECTION TO MALE DOCTORS
    89 5 PENANG. Wed.— Complaints that Malay pirls applying to be teachers have to undergo a medical test by men doctors. are being investigated by the Kedah Malay Teachers Association. Inche Abdul Rahman Othaman. secretary of the association, said he was surprised that medical exmination of girl teachers
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    New CID chief
    39 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.- I DSP Tung Kwan Pun. of the anti-corruption branch ;n Johore, has succeeded Mr. J R. Cole as officer in charge of the CID. Penane. Mr Cole has left Ma'.aya on i retirement
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    MOTOR-CYCLE IN CRASH
    74 5 PENANG. Wed— A Chines motor-cyclist escaped unhurt today when ne was thrown off his machine in a collision with a car at the junction of Panskor Road and Burmah Road. The motor-cycle was pinned under the car. The cyclist was going towards town and the car wa-s
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    BIRTHDAY OF NEW DOMINION
    95 5 BIRTHDAY OF NEW DOMINION THE Ceylon community in Malaya will observe th<soventh anniversary of the Ceylon Independence today. The Ceylon National Flag is permitted to be hoisted in honour of the occasion throughout Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. In Singapore, there will be a religious service at the Sr.
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    FORTY YEARS OF GIVING
    68 5 TAPAH. Wed —Yesterday, for the fortieth year in succession. Mr. Lim Seok Tan an 87-year-old merchant distributed $500 to 200 patients and attendants at the Government Hospital here. This yearly distribution of iiifts was started 40 years ago by Mr Lim's mother. Before she died in
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    Scouts' party
    28 5 MUAR. Wed.— Mr. G. GelHard. Field Commissioner for Scouts. Ffdoration of Malaya, and his assistant. Mr. Au Loon were given a tea-party by the Muar Scouts.
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    State convention
    27 5 PENANG. Wed— The Province Wellesley State Convention of Women's Institutes wilJ be held at 11.15 a.m. on Monday in St. Teresas Convent School Hall, Butterwortb
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    $2,500 fine
    36 5 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed.— Tan Seng Huat. 35, a shopkeeper of Permatang Kplm;-\ Simpang Anrpat. was fined $2,500 or six months' gaol for j assisting in 100. 1.000 and 10,- I 000 numbers public lottery.
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    Teachers forgo holiday
    51 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed n Indian tchoolteacbeft from Kuala Lumpur eave WO their Federation Day "holiday to provide entertainment for 700 workers at the Rubber Research Institute :n Sunzei Buloh on Monday. They presented two plays. teachers save an Incla&sical dance. Talks »i>re given on education and Federal
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    K.L. wedding
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— Mr. Stephen Danker and Miss Oliv e Danker, who were married at I St. John's Church here on i Monday, are not first cousins I
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    KELANTAN PARENTS ORGANISE
    125 5 KOTA BAHRU, Wed \BOUT 500 parents of all races in Kelantan met at Majlis Ugama Islam, j BEhru. muter the i anship of Nik Hassan v Yahaya State Councillor j decided to form a at B* association for I Kelantan. The following were chosen as an interim
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    FLYING BISHOP ON 11-NATION TOUR Six week stay to study Methodist methods
    122 5 FLYING BISHOP ON 11 -NATION TOUR Six week stay to study Methodist methods AN AMERICAN bishop and his wife arrived in Singapore by Pan American Airways Skymaster on Tuesday to study the work of Methodist churches and schools in South-east Asia. The couple, Bishop and Mrs. Lloyd Wicke, of Pittsburgh,
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    Air cadets may take up gliding
    131 5 IT DEPENDS ON THE GOVT. SINGAPORE Air Training Corps cadets may soon take up gliding if the Government sanctions a loan recommended by a special committee.' The Committee was set up to investigate the possibilities of glider training in the Colony. British air cacrets
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    ....BUT IT'S JUST TO GIVE HIM BACK HIS PEN
    74 5 ....BUT IT'S JUST TO GIVE HIM BACK HIS PEN Xl At..\ LUMPUR, Wed. WANTED: Mr. A. Arunasalam. If he will phone, call or write to the Kuala Lusipur Police he will get his fountain pen from them. A pen with Mr. Arunasalam's name inscribed on it was found on a
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    RICE RATION ISSUES IN PERAK
    115 5 RICE RATION ISSUES IN PERAK KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The followine dualities of rice will be issued in Perak from Feb. 8 to 15: Taipine. Kuala Kanesar and Uooer Perak: Burma neatsein rice. Siamese 10 Der cent rice Burma milchar rice. Siamese broken 'suix>r'. Krian and Sehama: Siamese; 10 per cent
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    Farmers' club to be formed
    50 5 KUALA KANGSAR. Wed.— A Malayan Farmers' Club is to be formed here. This was decided at a meeting of 300 people. Members of all communities can join the club. It was decided to build an $8,000 club premises. Aid from R I.D.A. will be sought.
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    NEW UNION FOR DOCK WORKERS
    244 5 and it now makes five VfOST af Singapore Harbour Board's stevedores and wharf workers are to break away from the Board's Labour Union and form a separate organisation. While the Labour Union I members were meeting in the Victoria Memorial Hall on Tuesday evening, the
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    $105,000 went up in smoke
    168 5 $105,000 went up in smoke SINGAPORE Chinese, celebrating New Year yesterday, used up about $105,000 worth of fire-crackers Indiscriminate throwing of crackers caused several accidents, none of which was serious Man Ah Chan a 45-year-old balloon-vendor was selling his wares in Neil Road when a cracker landed among a bundle
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    S'PORE DIARY
    145 5 TELOK AYEK M.Y.F.: Ret -eat for cabinet officers at Singapore Youth Council holiday resort. Tanah Merah Besar. Transport leaves church. 235 Telok Ayer Street. 7.30 a.m. Chinese New Year social in church hall 7.30 p.m. SINGAPORE STAMP CLIB: Social meeting at the Imperia' Clubhousr, is Grange Road 8
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    FREE RICE—SILENT GOVT. TOLD
    116 5 FREE RICE— SILENT GOVT. TOLD LICENSED dealers in Singapore have again asked Government to de-control rice. A spokesman of the Singapore Government Licensed Rice Dealers' Association told the Straits Times yesterday: "Nothing has happened since we last wrote Government on the matter" But said a Government spokesman "The question of
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 4. 1954 Depression In Berlin
    691 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Feb. 4. 1954 Depression In Berlin The atmosphere in Berlin is now less congenial. The pleasantries which accompanied the drafting of the agenda are over buried under the hard words which followed the submission of the British and the Russian plans for the unification of
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    Japan's Sterling Trade
    376 6 Japan's Sterling Trade Sir Winston Churchill is likely to find himself in hotter water over Japanese textiles for British Colonies than ovei Belgian rifles for British regiments. And it is not only in Lancashire that trouble brews. There is anger in the Midlands, whose manufactures are equally threatened by the
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    Thanks, Australia
    179 6 Australian aid for Malaya through the Colombo Plan's technical co-operation scheme has been most generous. Almost two hundred Malayans, including students from Borneo and Sarawak, have gone to Australia on various courses at the entire expense of the Australian Government. In addition, Australia has sent some of her
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    I TACKLE NEGUIB ON THE JEWS
    1234 6  -  Aneurin Bevan By \FTER the Canal Zone the next most sensitive issue in the Middle East is the status of Israel and the plight of the Arab refugees from Israel. During my talk with General Neguib I put a number of blunt questions to
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      148 6 I READ with keen interest the letter "Sack call sensible." It has set me wondering how i the honourable nominated i member arrived at the calcul- i ation "that no country can j afford to spend more than onethird of its revenue on salaries etc."
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      56 6 WHILE shopping in town, I lost my Identity card. The next day. as I was about to make a report, I received it through the post. Although the sender did not give his or her name, I wish now to j thank this civic-minded per- i son through your
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    On the Margin
    319 6 On the Margin The barrel kin^ SINGAFORE.S flc rhici M Haxworih will colony without himself a moniu visitor :<> Si In London of its (I Christopher ing buc a tabl< I in Latin. monument look In 81ngapon a line of wl I reLs without tl Haxworth Th< i rival schools
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    New Year was without crime, fires or accident
    641 7 New Year was without crime, fires or accident FACE EAST FOR GOOD FORTUNE r v KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. i HL *ear of the Horse" arrived in Kuala Lumpur with customary feasting and joy and with no traffic accidents or fires reported during the night. Many temples especially the Goddess of
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    'I DID NOT WANT THIS MARRIAGE'
    159 7 Woman tells magistrate KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. "yor arranged the marriage. I didn't want it,' Sarhiammal, a woman rubber tapper, told hei k.jnganv. Singaram Chettiar. in the Kuala L impul First Magistrate's Court yesterday. Snc was rcfrrrins to .1 mar- I riage ceremony between hei
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    A $40 m. THANK YOU'
    134 7 A $40 m. THANK YOU' K. LUMPUR. Wed Tttratitutc of the Ol the Federa--1 fhe Sultan of for his $40 >n loan was cond in two messages nally delivered at ing today by three ans. ten in Malay h. were from the Malaya and the mmlssioner. Gen Sir Ti mpier.
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    YOUR HOLIDAY SWIMMING
    64 7 HIGH TIDES: Today Slncapore' Port Dirk*on ifl ft. 3 Ins. i 726 p.m PmanK 1 144 pm c 7 ft. 3 b romorro*: Singapore 12 15 a.m.! ft 9 ln< i ll 40 am UO ft Die kxin 7.47 am bM .8 04 pm. 10 ft. one
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    Federation Day
    34 7 ME.VTAKAB. Wed— Children if English. Malay. Chinese rd Tamil schools her< rated Federation Day many. At the :.c o! the ceremony the staff ft of the Abu Bakar tjred a cricket match.
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    NEW YEAR COST SHB $60,000
    122 7 CHINESE New Year cost the Singapore Harbour Board about SliO.OOtt. That wa s the amount of revenue lost in wharf fees because Chinese labourers were on holiday. The Board also (rave the rest of their labour force —Indians and Malays the day off. Nine ships
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    Govt. ruling on penghulus
    94 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— Naib penghult:s can act as a^ent.-; of political parties at poling stations, the Johore Government said yesterday in answer to a question by Inche A. Jabbar bin A. Majid, at the Council of State Only Government officers are appointed as returning .ind presiding
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    He asked for a boy—the gods agreed
    119 7 He asked for a boy the gods agreed IJJVHILE father was praying in a temple, to his ancestors for a son and heir. Sincaoore's first "Horse" baby was born at 12.15 a.m. 15 minutes after the Chinese New Ye.ir way ushered in. Mr. Scow Kai Hot had iust entered his
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    Permi branch officials
    84 7 BATU OAJAH. Wed.— The I officials of the Permi. Batui Gaiah branch for the vearj n re President. Inche Ahmed Ariffln bin flaidt: vice-presidents. Inche Nasaruddin Kahar and Che Wok Kamalhh blnti Bahauddln: secretary Inche Zalnuddin bin K. Mnroddta: assistant secretary. Inche Zan'iri bin Khalld; treasurer. inche
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    Crackers in the 'white area'
    110 7 Malacca town, the Federation's first "white area," wejcomed the New Year with crackers. Many children enjoyed crackers for the first time in their lives, although firing them is still banned. Mr. A.A.N. Rodney, OCPD Central, said crackers could only be fired after a permit had
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    TOWN AREA SPLIT UP
    158 7 Divided into three districts for Town Council elections IPOH, Wed. rE Kinta Town Board ares has been divided into three separate areas because of the Town Council elections to be held here soon. Ipoh and Menglembu com- 1 i prise one town board area. i which
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    Kedah plans $5m. water expansion
    303 7 'WORST STATE' LOOKS AHEAD ALOR STAR, Wednesday. I^EDAH will need at least SlO million properly to improve her water supply system and cope with anticipated increases in population. Proposals for improvements and new supplies have been worked out. the State Engineer. Mr. R. Waddell. told
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    'Threat by doctor' alleged: Inquiry
    124 7 'Threat by doctor alleged: Inquiry THE JOHORE Government is inquiring into allegations that a medical officer threatened legal action against a patient, who complained of bad treatment, in the outpatients' department of the General Hospital. One complaint was of congestion caused by herding together waiting men, women and children. Haji
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    73 7 CHL'A Lee Koon. aged 2, was the youngest person to go for a joy ride in a Malayan Airways Dakota yesterday. She was accompanied by her p arents. Mr. and Mrs. Chua Ah Bah. Only a few people turned up at Kaliatiff Airport to take advantage of the Singa pore
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    Malays got most aid
    85 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Wed.— At the end of 1953. 4.304 acres of rubber belonging to smallholders had been replanted and 10.579 acres had been approved for replanting in Johore More Malays got Govern ment aid in replanting than other communities— it went to 643 Malays owning 1.444
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    Detective fights five thugs alone
    99 7 Detective fights five thugs alone A SINGAPORE detective, yesterday chareed sinele- J handed into a mob of five j gangsters, who were beating up two brothers with bottles i I at Lorong 27, Geylang. Although the detective Tec I Teck Guan. was bleeding from I a head wound, hf chased
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    NO FUNDS, SO HOSTEL MUST WAIT
    141 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rE Selangor Muslim Welfare Committee's yearold plan to build a $50,000 hostel for Muslim schoolboys in Kuala Lumpur is held up because of lack of funds. There is no special fund set aside for this scheme and all the money at
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    500 can now go back to school
    171 7 PENANG, Wod. ASA RESULT of representations by parents, about 500 "under-sixes" are to be re-admitted to Malay schools in Penang and Province Wellrslcv. Another 500 children brlovr the age of five years and ei^ht I months— will have to remain at home until
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    No nurses, so wards stay shut
    143 7 fFHE Johore Government is finding it difficult to recruit nursine staff for the I General Hospital at Johore Bahru. Because of this. It was not possible to consider reopenlns the closed wards, Mr. S. Thavarajah. a State Councillor, has been told. All district hospitals,
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    WE'RE NOT TOLD ABOUT ELECTIONS—PENGHULU
    119 7 WE'RE NOT TOLD ABOUT ELECTIONS— PENGHULU Pt,k,£9x H t ORE BAHRU- Wttl- I ENGHULU Abdullah bin Abubakar told the State' Council of Johore yesterday that no oro'jaeanda had been eiven out in the kamDonss to keeD the Deoole informed of the coming State elections. He niso asked for more in-,
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    Married in Kuala Lumpur
    36 8 MR. PAIL BOUDEVILLE of the Postal Department, Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Rita Sta M aria who were married at St. John's Church, Kuala Lumpu r. at the weekend.— Eng Tong Studio picture.
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    Privy Council endorses a Malayan court ruling
    451 8 Privy Council endorses a Malayan court ruling LONDON. Wednesday. 'PHE JUDICIAL committee of the Privy Council todaj 1 dismissed an appeal against the findings of court! in Malaya setting aside a transfer of land during th( Japanese occupation as under duress Two Kuala Lumpur mer-i chants. Kesarmal son of Letchman
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    Python's last meal —a goat
    79 8 Python' s last meal a goat KUALA KANGSAR, Tues. WHEN the stomach of a 20--foot python was slit open yesterday, it was found to contain a full grown goat. The python, weighing 260 lbs has been terrorising Kastan Mariam Estate for the past 18 months during which period it dined
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    Had excess rice: $500
    68 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Wor.j: Fook Chee. 29. was fined $500 for having 34 katis of rice in excess of the week's ration on January 29. Wonsr pleadine cuiltv. said the rice beloneed to workers who had failed to return tc th( kGncsi. The prosecution said when
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    Indonesians arrive
    68 8 Dr. D. Sumitro of Indonesia I •hairman desienate of the 1954 ECAFE conference, flew ;nto Singapore vesterdiv on nis wav to Colombo for the tenth session which will atari m Monday. Four Indonesian delegates to the conference also arrived in Sincaoore on an earlier Ucht They were Mr.
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    General returns
    27 8 General Lauzin. Commander-in-Chief of the French Air Force in Indo-China. and Madam Lauzin. who were in ?ineaDore on a two-day visit :cturned to Saisron vestcrdav.
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    Tengku's silver wedding
    28 8 TENGK.U NASIR. brother of the Ruler of Negri Sembilan. and his wife at a cocktail party to- celebrate their silver wedding. Lee Chee Ying picture.
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    VILLAGEMUST GO, COUNCIL TOLD
    166 8 VILLAGE MUST GO, COUNCIL TOLD Sewerage plan referred back KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. KUALA LUMPUR'S $15 million sewerage scheme was referred to a committee by the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council yesterd°" The consulting engineers for the scheme recommended the site at Kampong Pantai as the only one suitable for a purification
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    Recruiting drive in four towns
    221 8 Recruiting drive in four towns fTiHE A&sistant Recruiting -I Officer. Capt. H. Brummell, will visit Bukit Mertajam, Alor Star. Ipoh and Telok Anson to interview potential British Army recruits on the following dates and times: March 11 and 12 from 9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. daily at the police station.
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    Youth Week CONTEST RESULTS
    153 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed RESULTS of the essay and speaking contests held in Johore Bahru in Youth Week Wire Essay (English) Che Fadz.l- lah binte Mohd Am'.n, ot the EnglLsh College. Essay < Malay >: Abdul Snakor bin Harun. of the Malay School, Serkat. Pontian. Speaking Malay):
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    Park re-opens
    18 8 i MENTAKAB. Wed The Mentakab amusement park, which closed down last year was reopened on Monday
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    Going home
    23 8 Two French troopships, the Vercors and the Boulogne, arrived in Singapore yesterday from Indo-Chinese ports with 1,178 troops bound for France.
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    Had goods for bandits: Four years' gaol
    108 8 Had goods for bandits: Four years gaol L™S? i „H HR, U Wed- I EONG LUN SAN was gaoled tor four years he^e today for having; a shirt, a mosquito net and a piece of cloth in ciicumstances which raised a reasonable presumption that the V were intended for terrorists.
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    Sir Thomas keeps busy
    77 8 Sir Thomas Lloyd, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, yesterday inspected social welfare, City Council and Improvement Trust establishments in Singapore. The City President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, accompanied >ir Thomas on his visit to th-> 3 IT. low-cost housing estates it Upper
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    NEW BUS SERVICE
    111 8 Vampany gets $6,000 RIDA loai JOIIORE BAHRU, Wed. BUKIT Kepong Co., a joint Malay and Chinese con- I cern has received a $6 000 loan from RIDA to Provide a bus service between Bukit ncpong and Lengga. j The company is also engaged in the timber and
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    1971 9 The blonde typist who loved Hitler was faithful unto death F E A T U R E 1 HE crump of a Russian shell caused the lights to sway gently in a concrete bunker deep beneath the garden of war-battered Berlin Chancellery on April 30, 1945. An S.S. bodyguard stood
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    World awaits U.S. decision on trade tariffs RANDALL REPORT
    426 10 World awaits U.S. decision on trade tariffs RANDALL REPORT i NEW YORK. Wednesday. INURING the first half of 1954 one of the great United States policy issues affecting the world overseas due for decision is that of tariffs and their relation to world trade. It is one of the tangles
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    RED TRADE WILL AID THE WEST
    179 10 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. VIR. A. B. Speekenbrink, l Minister in charge of the Netherlands em- bassy's economic division, reviewed the problems facing Europe today and I said some trade with Communist countries j would aid the West. Mr Speekenbrink. at a press conference here,
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    Singapore shipping
    73 10 Ships lyinc aloncside the Sinpapore H.»rbo';r Board wtWITM n expected today are: Chusan 12. Anshun 4 5. Pentakota C P.. Glenroy t>7. RentieuchB 9. Awobasan Mar 11. Benreoch 13 14. Peleas 15 16. Manchuria 18. Palikonda 19 20. BIrUH N Wall ti. Lasem N Wall 8 Leoville 23
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    BIGGEST P&O LINER
    73 10 yyORK on fitting out the P and O's newest liner the Arcadia— is well up to schedule According to present arrangements the ship will have her sea trials du:*ng next month and if these are successful she will start her maiden voyage on the U.K. -Australia service
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    K. PILAH OFFER
    77 10 SHAREHOLDERS of Kuala Pilah Rubber Estates are informed that an oMer recelv- j ed for the company's estates is below the figure which the Board is prepared to recommend the shareholders to accept. The directors have Informed I the company's agents in Ma- i laya that they
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    DROP IN ASIAN EXPORTS
    155 10 DROP IN ASIAN EXPORTS KANDY, Wed. Dr. p. s. Lokanathan, Executive Secretary for the Economic Commi.ssion for Asia and the Far C.i t (ECAFEi said today that the rapid decline of Asian exports was the most disquieting fact disclosed in recent studies. He was speaking at a meetins of the
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    BRITONS FIND RUSSIANS WANT TRADE PACTS
    155 10 BRITONS FIND RUSSIANS WANT TRADE PACTS O TT MOSCOW. Wednesday. 4 OROUP of 33 British businessmen here to seek trade said today their trip had proved -more than profitable" though they might not bring home many I contracts. They are understood to have cained a definite Impression that the Russians
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    N.YORK EXCHANGE
    136 10 NEW YORK. V Ijiollowing the line of least A resistance in most ciiwsions the New York stock market backed further away from Its recovery bigha under -ontnnied corrective piofittaking. The volume however again tended to contract and the damage was not .smnilii-. Initial indecision was succeeded by prevalence
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    No smuggling by Yugoslavs
    137 10 No smuggling by Yugoslav s BELGRADE, Wed YUGOSLAV government has denied that any Yugoslav ship had been engaged in smuggling trade with Communist China. A Hong Kon^ dispatch last week quoting an Irish seemar. said the IO.OOC-ton Yugoslav Ship Bimini flying the British flas; had spent three month.s shuttling between
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    U.S. leaves more abroad
    191 10 WASHINGTON. Wed. IJ.S. investors left more of their capital overseas in 1952 than in any year since the second world war. according to the U.S. Commerce Department. Instead of leaving a post-war yearly average of 50 per cent of their earnings in foreiuM countries. U.S. private
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    Australian stocks
    143 10 MELBOURNE Wed Prices •vere firm on the Melbourne Stork Exchange today with Industrials finding good support. Mining shares re quiet. Closing quotations of selected stocks today compared with yesterday were bMB*;H9 1P56-59 £94 17/6 d Loan 3V: 1956-58 £96 10 Australian Paper 19 7 Amt Consol. Ind. 45/6
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    Shipbuilding has risen by 5 per cent
    320 10 VyORLD shipbuilding inert cent during the last Register of Shipping report Altogether, 1,136 merchant ships of 6,294,876 tons were 1 under construction on Decem!ber 31. 1953. of which 2.173.709 jtons were building in British yards. Britain's .share of world conistruction dropped during the
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    JAPAN IS SEEKING A BIG LOAN
    251 10 JAPAN is seekin J o* U.S. *25n World Bank a bution to a pr P'-nditure ol Sson». in South-Eaai A resources, says rial Times. The olan aim the product! bauxite, iron on and conner orr to Janan. with I savin of current these i-aw
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    Free sterling is nearer
    55 10 OTTAWA pected a yea: Minister. Mi the House ol porting on the Finance Mlnlsu Australia. "The mee:l; one of the mosi of the pot) Commonweal!: "Todrr. r li.is lift:; end of the war and Is made be determined manly i> ■;> But in much ni'. i
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    U.K. DOLLAR RESERVE UP
    31 10 BRITAINS reserves ro ooc during Fan at U552.543.<X 31. it was ann day. St:itcs dUI amour:" and B; 11 000 in Provls ary shew clearing hou ixaii
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    The AFFAIRS of ANN
    290 12 I HAD .irr.mgrd to go to the cinrm.i with Ann. It was dctinifelv i womm turn .md o v r husbinds were relieved when we sug Rested going alone. We left them comfort.iblv at home to spend a piSMM evening discussing whatever it is that men
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    TEASY WEASY comes to town
    184 12 TEASY WEASY comes to town rriffi wispy, spiky, teasyA weasy look Is hair nous for l!>f>4. Heads are more tailored and curia and waves have that oldfashioned stai Tn America Jean Simmons Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn have the ne ;v eul In Paris many model girls who will b^
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    TEENAGERS—Iook after your skin
    635 12 TEENAGERS— Iook after your skin BEAUTY IX THE TROPICS Says Joy Menzies IF you were asked which group of women would be the least likely to suffer from skin troubles you would probably say teenagers. Accord. ng to all the rules the skin of young girls should be free from
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    Now they're putting stripes in bed linen
    237 12 Now they're putting stripes in bed linen DED linen is moving "away from the plain and classic. Candystriped sheets and pil-l low euro or sheets printed with coloured posies are coming down into the realm of possible price. Some brides longing for beautiful linen but unable lo afford it. are
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    Should you ever hit a child?
    556 12 Listen to me' by ELIZABETH PAKENHAM the mother with something to^ay SOME of the "good things" of life are rather odd. There's that old favourite, "a good cry." Odder still is the •good smack!ns" Who i> it good for? Child or r^^rn? Those in
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    Women are getting OLDER and OLDER!
    250 12 Women are getting OLDER and OLDER! ANE woman in every "ten is now destined to reach an age of Stf ;/cor.s or mare. One man in every ten will live beyond 85. These official forecasts, which show vividly how the average human life-span is extending, are made in a Health
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    The Poodle tells the Peke: STEP DOWN
    228 12 The Poodle tells the Peke: STEP DOWN r-IE pop-eyed Pekingese, top dog with British women for 20 years. has been pushed far out of favour by an equally absurd animal, the miniature poodle. In a non-stop rise to fame which started live years ago. the frisky poodle no w 1"
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      312 12 Straits Times Crossword ill Ma I 1 8 -^g i 9 '"I II Hrll 11 I I i 1 I ACROSS It portends the curt ot an 1. Though on pleasure she was icicle i4i bent. She had a 7. Mr. Yeo's Christian name? (Cowperi (6. 4 1. 8. Flowers
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    PICTURE TIP Weights favour Salvador
    49 13  - PICTURE TIP Weights favour Salvador Epsom Jeep r.v th with 8.9 s Madellm was not bad form for a 24--should I ill Madeline Mulley. firm <\s he has nth. he I unvpur and a 1' 2 >n a is now look* a Rippling Kiver M ■ack to t on
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    Rising Glory to improve on first run
    44 13 Rare Rising Gtoi 1 c i;nne very ctoM i: r im.l Q rnw fir a 2' veg j-lb of his best I m R 11 and looked a pn Id not .n has >h» u'.ll lik rtiffiri''t
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    GRECIAN KNIGHT'S SECOND IS GOOD FORM FOR TODAY
    333 13  -  EPSOM JEEP By QRECIAN KNIGHT showed a return to his best form when he ran the brilliant (iolden Dolphin to half a length over fif. on Saturday. With only "»-lb. penalty for that effort. (Jre, ian Knight looks h biijrht prospect in
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    143 13 RACE 1 3.00 EPSOM JEEP PASSING FAIR Silverfort .lacoMn CALL BOY PASSING FAIR Lucky Tom II Sllverfort PASSING FAIR Sllverfort Golden Sandx IRISH PAT Mala Hari II Man O'War RACE 2 3.30 IRISH TAT Balmoral Bridge Hvarinthine BM HRIIM.I Irish Pat Man OTVar RIP. RIVER Salvador Fair
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    Little Andy taken in tough race
    460 13 I> F SIX today, for ClaH 4. Div. 1. over V.f. should provide a jrreat tussle. Little Andy. Ever (-lory. Orissa. Ore. Banker Roy. Distributor. Half Moon and Summer Corn all have good recent race form and it is rliilicult to separate them. TODAY'S
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    Best bet is Three Dimension
    378 13 •THREE DIMENSION fin-' A jshed right on top of tho placed horses over 7f. on Saturday and over a longer distance in Race Five today this stayer by tho 2.000 Guineas winner Ri» Game stands out as Ihe best bet of the afternoon. Three Dimension
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    Today's race card
    995 13 The double tote will be on Races 5 and 7; treble tote on Races 4, 6 and 7. The Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 7. Race 1—3.00: Class 4, Div. 3— s£ Furs. 1 ROR I.a Naturlsle Manning 9.00 Mr.s. R. Yeap Manmnc 2 422
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    INDIANS HAD TO FIGHT TO FINAL
    307 13 IPOH, Wednesday. THOrGH Kinta Indians maintained their unbeaten hockey record yesterday they had to concede two KOa l s _the first that have been scored against them this season. Tho match was a srmi-flnal tie of tho Ipoh knock-out hockey competition in which they
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    ARSENAL FACE BIG TEST ON SATURDAY
    247 13 LONDON. Wed. A RSE N A L manager Tom •A Whittaker sets his team against Manchester City on Saturday in a match that may go a long way toward angering English soccer's current big question: Are Arsenal slipping? Arsenal— "the greatest name In football."
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    Preston, WBA are now Cup favourites
    183 13 Preston, WBA are now Cup favourites LONDON. Wed WEST Bromwich Albion and Preston North End were made joint favourites at s—l5 1 at the third call-over on the Cup at the Victoria Club here last night. The fifth round will be play- ed on Feb. 20. The best backed team
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    Saturday's fixtures
    266 13 THE U.K. soccer fixtures for Saturday are: FIRST DIVISION Aston Villa v. Chelsea; Bolton v Cardiff: Burnley v. Liverpool; Charlu>r. West Brom Huddersfleld v Sheffield Utd Manchester Ci-y Arsenal: Preston v. Manchester Utd; Sheffield Wed v Middlesbro Sunderland v Portsmouth: Tottenham Newcastle; Wolves v. Black- 1 pool. SECOND
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    FIJIANS WERE HELD TO 6-6 FOR 40 MINUTES
    436 14 REME lose 25-6 but take honours Fijians 25; R.E.M.E 6. EXPECTED the Fijians won the Malayan final of the FARELF Rugby Cup competition when they beat R.E.M.E. Workshops at G.H.Q. Tanjflin yesterday and so qualified for a trip to Hong Kong for
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    29 14 ARCHIE MOORE, world lish t heavyweight champion, forces Joey Maxim to (he ropes during their 15-round title fight at Miami (Florida) on Jan 27. Moore won on point—A.P. picture.
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    Ray Harvey's 106 beats the leaders
    278 14 Ray Harvey's 106 beats the leaders SHEFFIELD SHIELD SYDNEY. Wed. ACHANCELESS second innincs of 106 not out in 165 minutes by a rißht-hander Ray Harvey v.is I feature of Victoria s outright defeat ol tne Sheffield Shield leader*. New Boitt Wales, at Sydney cricket ground yesterday. Victoria won by five
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    MMI Harriers win again
    104 14 KOTA BAHRU. Wed. For trie second successive year Moharr.ec; i Islah Harriers won thr inter-teaif championship at the second annual cross-country championship of the Keiantan Amateur Athletic Association held at K.im- Chang ye.sleru..y c crowd including the Brittat) Ad'.iser. Mr D Hearily, the Mentn Besar Tenpku
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    Eurasian hockey tournament
    87 14 Eurasian hockey tournament KIALA LUMPUR. Wed. The triangular hockey tournanent between Selangor. Negri Se.n--uil.l n and Malacca will be played at Malacca on Satii day and Sunday. ir, la.st jrear'i champions, rill travel on Saturday with the Following players: Stephen Lesslar. Cuthbert Fernindez. Loenard Klassen, Clifford Sequerah, Vivian Sequerah. Mike
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    Wahab's hat-trick earns soccer cup
    51 14 PARIT BUNTAR. Wed.— Bagan lend M.i! iy School beat Anglo■hinrsr Scnool 3-1 in the final of iie Federation Day knockout soeer competition for the Hajt ■naofl hallenge cup. Abdul Wahab scored all three cals for the champions for a ■rand hat-trick and Zaini replied ir
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    MCC NEED 124-7 TO BEAT BARBADOS
    262 14 Lock takes 5-57, Laker 4-47 BRIDGETOWN. Wednesday. T ITH THREE of their best batsmen out. the MCC may have to struggle hard to get the 124 runs they need to heat Barbados today, the final day of their match here. They were resuming their
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    W.I. TOUR HIT BY FLOODS «
    84 14 W.I. TOUR HIT BY FLOODS BRIDGETOWN 'Barbados' Wed. The president and Se(Totarv of the British Guiana Cricket Association arrive bore today to discuss the dossibilitv of chaneine nart of the M.C.C. team's itinerary in the West Inriies. Recent heavy rains in British Guiana have left vast :irr;is flooded. The M.C.C.
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    J.B. DISTRICT CUP TOURNEY
    37 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Tne Johore Bahru District Football Association's cup competition will make a start tomorrow. Tlie first tie. between the Rancor^ and Police Volunteers, will be played on the Enelish College ground.
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    68 14 LONDON. Wed TAKE Tuli. Zulu holder of I J thr Rhitish Empire title. is rated No.l contender for the world flyweight title hold by Yoshio Shirai. of j Japan, in the current issue if the The Ring". Tuli heads the list of 10 contenders
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    Death of English international
    54 14 LONDON. Wed -Vivian J Woodward, probably the bes' crr.'re:d ever to play for England, died on Sur.dav after an lUm several years. He was 74 He played 66 times for England j in full or ama'eur interiwuonals .v.d represented Britain in two Olympic* He nlayeci for
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    B. CHANDAN WIN
    42 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Bukit Chandan Mate* School beat Centra. M lay Bchool .i-0 in a soccer mac!'. to celebrate Federation Day. In another game. Educations beat IdriMab Arabic School 3-0 A school s meet was held ie the morning
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    Hat-trick by Harun
    67 14 TELUK ANSON. Wed. The' Teluk Anson Police beat Sabak Bernam by 6-1 at Teluk Anson on Saturday. The game was a farewell match for Mr. E. H. Harries. DSP 0.C.P.D.. Teluk An-son who is leaving the district shortly. Harun scored a hat-trick, in the first half. Manap,
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    TILAKA SCORES 6
    36 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed— Gunonp Pulai beat Kanckar Pulai Police by 6-2 in a soccer match at Gunong Pulai. W. Tilaka scored all the goals for the winners. Hussein and Ar-had scored for Police.
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    Rush for I.H.F. game tickets
    81 14 KUALA I.UNfPUR. Wed. The Selangor Hockey Association announced today that $1 tickets for the India v All Malaya match at ICuala Lumpur on Feb 20 have been sold out. A limited number of tickets at the higher prtoai of $5. $3 and $2 are still
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    16 14 Singapore Gun Club will not hold its shoot today because of Chinese New Year.
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    455 14  - AUSSIE RULES HAS GREAT SPECTATOR APPEAL W. E. Trevor By VV'HAT exactly is Australian Rules Football 0 I have been been asked this question by ni.ir... people since it was announced j that two teams from the R.iy.ii Australian Air Force at Tengah will piay this type of game in'
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    Schoolboy upsets at Malays meet
    277 14 PENANG. Wed. "MALAYAN Thomas Cup player 1 aM I -iv.. ill Marjan, who was to have defended his three titles In the third All Malaya Malays badminton championships, was scratched from all events at the last minute because he could not get leave to make
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    India get 416 in final 'test'
    209 14 India get 416 in final 'test' LUCKNOW. Wed. P. PUNJABI, the young Guj<rati opening batsman scored 107 for India against the Commonwealth team f*»ttrday the second day of the fifth and final "Test" matcn here. India were all out fcr 416 at tea. \t close ol play Comrjonwealh were d
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    South Africa win again, clinch series
    381 14 JOHAXNESBI'RG. Wednesday. OOUTB AFRICA won a Test series at home for the first time in 23 years when they beat New Zealand by nine wickets in the fourth Test here yesterday. Their victory gave them a lead of three wins to nU, with one
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    S'POREBOYS WIND UP TOUR WITH 6 TO 1 VICTORY
    122 14 From Our Own Correspondent PERTH, Wednesdaj WHEN Royston Lazaroo defeated Hutchins on points over three rounds last night he became the third member Singapore youth boxing team to end the West Australia unbeaten. The others were Poli.-e cadet Abu H and
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    35 14 MADRAS. Wed.— Jack Arkinstall, of Australia, won th< men's singles title in the AllIndia hard court tennis cha-.v.--pionships yesterday, beating India's 16-year-old' oh. Ramanathan Krishnan 8-4 6-2 in the final— Reuter.
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    28 14 The Singapore Crlcke: A are calling for entrie> for their senior and Junior tournaments. Envies should reach Khoo One I er> Police Headquart»*rs. by Feb 19.
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    23 14 MELBOURNE I I >ver lo win Whetl r.ire from I m I The tirr.f one of the I I nn tl
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