The Straits Times, 28 December 1955

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    34 1 \vfn,\ c. K n,%, V cEb T FTrJT" fiTA L t TX I' khu» 7-g- i>-» o T^-T V W- S% M -y r-^. t Estd. 1845 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28, 1955 15 CENTS
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    THE TALKS START TODAY
    500 1 Big security clamp on the area KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE CHIEF MINISTERS of the Federation ;md Singapore, Tenijku Abdul Rahman and Mr. David Marshall, and the President of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dato Sir Chenglock Tan. will meet the Communist leader, hin Peng, at the Enftisk
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    PICKED MARKSMEN WILL GUARD THE CONFERENCE ZONE
    30 1 STRAITS TIMES sketch of the "peace" talks site in Baling. Chin Peng's billet was occupied until the week-end by a Malay school teacher.
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    I don't want to be harsh—Tengku
    156 1 I don't want to be harsh— Tengku yENGKI ABIM L RAHMAN, on the eve of the most important talks in his political career, said in Kuala Lumpur yesterday: "I am in a position to dictate but I do not want to be harsh." Tengku Abdul Rahman added: "I feel that
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    [ TREE ALL SURRENDERED REDS' REQUEST LIKELY )
    373 1 TREE ALL SURRENDERED REDS' REQUEST LIKELY Chin Peng may ask for 'new understanding* of Communists CHIN PENG is expected to ask for "a new understanding when he meets jhe Chief Ministers and Sir Cheng-lock Tan at Baling today, writes a political correspondent. He is also expected to ask the Chief
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    Chin Peng s 'home for talks
    29 1 THIS IS CHIN PENG'S BILLET for the duration of the meeting. The house has been heavily fenced with barbed wire- Straits Times picture.
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    'Keep out or we'll fire' orders
    367 1 'Keep out or we'll fire' orders ENTRANCE BY SPECIAL PASS ONLY DALING, Tues. A heavy security guard was placed round the Baling English school and the nearby Government quarters today. 1A platoon of selected marksmen from the police depot In Kuala Lumpur will surround the conference building during tomorrow's meeting.
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    Lock icon Safe crackers' testimonial
    41 1 NASHVILLE. Tennessee. Tues. --Officials at a furniture i store found thieves had un- successfully attempted to I break open the huge office safe in the night. A note on the door read: "You have a good safe."— Reuter.
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    Lock icon The sirens wail
    22 1 TAIPFH Tues Matsu Island held by Nationalist China, had an air alert vesterciav as Communist planes approached the island.—UP.
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    BUSES BACK ON ROAD TODAY
    88 1 BUSES BACK ON ROAD TODAY But fares mag have to go up •SINGAPORE'S 10 Chinese bus companies yesterday settled their 12-day-old dispute with their 1,600 locked-out workers. The owners will try to run a skeleton service today, and all buses will be back on the roads tomorrow. The dispute, between
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    STC strike: Mr. Lim has a plan
    269 1 STC strike: Mr. Lim has a plan rpUE Minister for Labour and Welfare. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, said yesterday that be would take "positive steps" today to end the Singapore Traction Company strike Mr. Lim would not M) what action he would take, but hinted he had a plan after
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    RIOT SQUADS AT STADIUM
    102 1 RIOT SQUADS were called to disperse a crowd which tried to break into Jalan Besar stadium yesterday evening after a match between the tourinc Aryan Gymkhana team and Combined R.A.P. had been abandoned with 10 minutes to go. The crowd in the $1 stands took exception
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    Lock icon Mr. NEHRU TICKS OFF REDS
    230 3 They are clinging to outmoded theories and slogans of the past muv ia- W I)ELHI Tuesday. jHh Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, yesterday made his first attack on Indian* Communists since the yisit of the Soyiet leaders calling them "reactionaries clinging to outmoded theories." He
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    Lock icon Cardinal back H TOK o Is . t
    21 3 Cardinal back H TOK o Is t TOKYO, Tue.v Cardinal in returned to Tokyo cht after a Chn rican servicemen AP
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    Lock icon A MERRY Xmas — but NO HAPPY
    106 3 A MERRY Xmas but NO HAPPY New Year LONDON. Tues. IT took three policemen and two civilians to get I'M. Michael Went. a ChrtatSßSg reveller, a quarter of mile through the itreetl of Hereford, a court was told. When they reached the police station Went, a 24-->ear-old lorry driver, "was
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    Lock icon Anti-tax riots: Five killed
    30 3 FREETOWN. Sierra Leor.c. Tuos. Five rioters were when anti-tax demonhed with police Unas, an official aid today. Twelve people have now been killed la ant;-tax disturbances.—A.P.
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    THE CATNAPPING RACKET
    57 3 TAIPEH. Tues.— Police yes- Teen-a?e thugs have .moshPrt a -rat snatched 1.000 cats in the smashed a cat pa?t mmth and eo)d thpm ..ng ring which had t0 a pet snop which resold playing havoc with the the poor cats as rat catchers population of Tai- The
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    Lock icon -| MADAM SUN MEETS PRESIDENT PRASAD i
    37 3 MADAM SUN MEETS PRESIDENT PRASAD i Madam Sun Vat Sen, who is m India on a 15-day visit as the personal guest of the Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, meets President Rajendra Prasad in New Delhi. A.P. picture.
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    Lock icon The joke's on Bob
    224 3 'ONE-POINT LANDING ON NOGGIN' AND HE IS NOT SO AMUSED NOW f ONDON, Tues.— Bob Hope examined pictures of himself yesterday and thought they were not very flattering. They were X-ray photographs of his skull after his fall on a stage last week in Iceland where
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    Lock icon Troops clash as Peron 's Xmas plot is smashed
    148 3 Troops clash as Peron 's Xmas plot is smashed BUENOS AIRES. Tuesday. yHE Government of the Argentine province of San 1 Luis announced today that a "Peronista plot aimed at creating disorder" had been foiled during 1 the Christmas holidays, i ■SjBJBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBgBSSBBBBBBBMMi According to an official rommnninilA mnra than 9fl
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    Lock icon Santa cameon a plane
    50 3 VIENNA, Tues. Children in the snow-logged mountain village of Soboth in Syria received their Christmas presents from heaven. This was the story parents made up for them as they watched a plane dropping containers of Christmas presents from Vienna by parachute over the marooned viilape. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Boom will go on —forecast
    37 3 Boom will go on forecast WASHINGTON, Tues A continuing boom for United States business during the first six months of 1956 was forecast yesterday in an end-of-the-year survey by Mr. Sinclair Weeks, the Secretary of Commerce. Reuter.
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    Lock icon JaD winner
    33 3 NEW YORK, Tues— Kohei Supiyama, of Japan, has been selected by U.S. film critics for having done the best camera work of 1955 in the Japanese film "Gate of hell "—Reuter.
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    Lock icon Trade pact
    23 3 VIENNA, Tues. An agree- rr.ent on the exchange of goods has been signed between Sweden and Hungary, Radio Budapest said yesterday.—Reuter.
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    Lock icon 500 KILLED IN U.S. ROAD CRASHES
    166 3 Death joins holiday parade NEW YORK, Tues.— The United States yesterday was in danger of winding up the Christmas holidays with an all-time, all-holiday record for traffic fatal- j ities. With nine hours to go before the holidays were officially over, a total of
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    Lock icon THE THOROUGH SUICIDE
    61 3 MEXICO CITY, Tues. i Despondent because he had spent his Christmas bonus and had no money left lor gilts, Felipe Kury drank ar- i stnic, slashed his wrists,' stabbed and set himself on jflre with petrol and jumped out of a fifth storey window. Police yesterday said
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    Lock icon I Russia trims arms
    221 3 I Russia trims arms 10 pc cut 'to ease world tension' TtfOSCOW, Tues— RusiW sia will cut defence spending by about 10 per cent in 1956, the Finance Minister, Mr. A. G. Zverev, told the opening session of the Supreme Soviet yesterday. He also announced slight reductions in the money
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    Lock icon Dulles sees Eisenhower
    70 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. President Eisenhower went to his office early yesterday to meet the Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles. Later. Mr. Dulles said he and the President had taiked over "four or five matters." and there was nothing special. Asked about the President's Christmas message that
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    Lock icon 20 die in crash
    33 3 I LISBON. Tues. An Am- erican transport plane crash- ed on Christmas Eve on Terceira Island, in the Azores. I killing 20 people, according to reports reaching here. Reuter.
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    Lock icon High spirits
    30 3 LONDON, Tues— A Christmas reveller drove off with an empty double-decker bus j in London but fled after iam- ming it under a low railway I bridge. Reuter.
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    'Merdeka' by August, 1957
    241 4 'NOT ONE COMMONWEALTH NATION AGAINST Uy SAYS TENGKU IF POSSIBLE, ADDS A CAUTIOUS ABDUL RAHMAN KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. fllE UMNO General Assembly decided last night to demand independence for the Federation within the Commonwealth if possible not later than Aug. 31, 1957. The permanent representative of
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    'Prove we can't have eigh t-dolla r day'
    213 4 'Prove we can 't have eigh t-dolla r day NARAYANAN ISSUES A CHALLENGE PENANG, Tues.—The I fhairmin nf thpi cndirman oi int i Malayan Trade Union i Council. Mr. P. P. Narayanan. today issued "an I open challenge to anyone to prove that I Malaya cannot afford to pay her
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    VOLUNTEERS TO GET $lmil. SHIP
    148 4 -THE MALAYAN R.N.V.R. fence ship soon. It w: by Lady Black, wife of the The ship is being built at the United Engineers' yard.s at Tanjong Rhu. Lt.-Cdr. J. Fleming. R.N., i staiT officer of the Malayan R.N.V.R., yesterday said that it was hoped to
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    Peace prayers
    34 4 PENANG, Tues. Malay- j an-burn Indians in the Fed- eration will offer prayers tomorrow for the success of the meeting between Chin Peng and the Chief Ministers of the Federation and Singapore.
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    CATHEDRAL HAS
    54 4 NEW ORGAN KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A Hammond organ has been installed at St. John's Roman Catholic Cathedral here. It cost $12,000. But already parishioners have collected nearly half the organ's cost. They started collecting only three weeks ago. The organ was used for the first time at midnight
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    Eurasians treat 1,200 children
    46 4 The youth movement of the Singapore Eurasian As- sociation on Monday gave a Christmas party to 1.200 I children at the Victoria Mci morial Hall. I Each child received a gift and the programme lncludcc film shows, concert, and a talentime contest.
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    Father pays vp—with an apology
    82 4 Father pays vp with an apology PENANG, Tues. A TOKEN red packet and an apology to be published in the vernacular papers settltd a claim for maintenance in the First Magistrate's Court today. Goh Kay Yeow. a shop assistant, who was sued by his wife, Lcnw Scok Chin. for maintenance
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    $500 bail in fraud case
    66 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A restaurant proprietor, K. S. i Parameswara Iyer, 42, was charged in the Sessions Court hen today with making a false declaration to the registrar of motor vehicles. It was alleged that Iyer, oi Ampang Street, obtained a duplicate vehicle registration book
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    Alert to make formal visit
    57 4 PENANG, Tues. The fri- I sate Alert, flying the flag of the commander-in-Chief, Far East Station, Vice Admiral Sir Alan Scott-Moncrieff, will I pay a formal visit to Penang early in January. Tht Alert Is expected to arrive on the morning of Jan. 10 and
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    P.C. Wahid is making good progress
    139 4 ABDUL WAHID BIN BABA. a paralysed Singapore policeman now under treatment in the Stoke Mandeville Hospital at Aylr.,bi.ry, England, is progressing very well, the Straits Times was told yesterday. Acting Superintendent of Police Mr. Song Kok Hoo, who saw Wahid at the hospital recently,
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    J THE CHRISTMAS TWINS (DOROTHY AND PATRICIA) | !, CELEBRATE SECOND BIRTHDAY PARTY
    83 4 J THE CHRISTMAS TWINS (DOROTHY AND PATRICIA) CELEBRATE SECOND BIRTHDAY PARTY DOROTHY AND PATRICIA ANG. twins who were born in Kuala Lumpur on Christmas Day 1953, celebrated their second birthday in Singapore on Sunday. Dorothy (left) and Patricia are seen at their Christ-mas-cum-birthday party, complete with TWO birthday cakes, lots
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    ROW OVER $5 LED TO WIFE'S POISON DRINK
    141 4 ROW OVER $5 LED TO WIFE'S POISON DRINK THE Penang First Magisti a woman today it was I such a husband as hors. Lim Ah Goon. 39. had j pleaded guilty to attempted I suicide by taking caustic loda at Maxwell Road on the night I of Dec. 23. She
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    Workers' rally
    20 4 IPOH. T'.es— The Malayan Trade Union Council will hold a workers' rally in Ipoh on New Year's Eve.
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    The 3 who didn't £et away
    38 4 JOHORE BAIIhT Out ol :!0 gamblers found In a shop at Plentong, ■ucceeded In arresting Today, Wong Tak. Seng and Cheong K were each ttni d 125 In Magistrate's. Court for ling.
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    Teacher weds
    29 4 PENANG. Tues v.nt t( ichi r, M Eow. fclder daughter and tin. Gunn Lay T today married to Mr I ence Yoo Kirn San the City Council.
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    Dead fish or not, Van Kleef booms
    179 5 Dead fish or not, Van Kleef booms ITS GREAT SUCCESS, SAYS CURATOR ran Kleel Aquarium has proved "a ndous success," •ins: to thi irator, Mr. J. A. .'.art. been praised by exby the people of ire and by over1, he said, mplainrd that of flsta dying beparasma of the pied
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    Xmas Day offences
    27 5 "R. Tues. Onok, 36. of Laut, pleaded today to havins .-lips at his I hrlstmas Day pleaded guilty to ttery slips. lowed bail until
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    Sentry fires at a light
    37 5 T "MPUR. Tues. —I n Serdang Estate, gel Be.si district a o ith of here, saw tour figures out- imeter fence on p .ht K opened fire. The figures Forces are follow-
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    Motor-cyclist seriously hurt
    26 5 vcli.st. Goh Ah i «as seriously in- night when he collision with a car Road, near the admitted into unconscious and tultiple injuries.
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    Both alarms were false
    21 5 alarms were te Singapore Firr .sterday, one at 4.50 a.m. and Kampong Silat described by the malicious".
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    Man falls 15 feet at work
    25 5 n Soo. 48. fell from the first hi me to Chander ijx i' while workrday. admitted to hospiteck injury
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    Hand concert
    17 5 pore Police Band Play at the Esplanade Jjwdeiu from 7 p.m. to 8 6-«n today
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    BUT AHMAD CANNOT TALK ABOUT HIS 17-DAY JAUNT
    234 5 (_ttan wha rode tiger ftr a prints' tunt iQ- CEREMBAN, Tues. After disappearing from Kelantan 17 days ago, a man said by Malay bomos to be ridine a tiger in search of a fairy princess, reappeared today in Sereraban. He is Inche
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    Malays first is their aim
    199 5 THE OFFICIAL RELIGION— ISLAM KOTA BHARU. Tuesday. r PHE Pan-Malayan Islamic Association, at its annual mooting today, urged members to win back for tho Malays the undisputed position they formerly held in the country and to make Islam the official ifligion of the Federation. Inche
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    SPENCER TO JOIN THE MERDEKA' CONFERENCE
    88 5 SPENCER TO JOIN THE MERDEKA' CONFERENCE KDA L A LIMPIR, Tues— The Minister for Ktonomic Affairs, Mr. Oscar Spencer, is to join the Federation continent lo the London constitutional talks as an adviser He is leaving here by plane for London on Jan. 7 His presence at the "Merdeu" talks
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    Clerk dies in crash
    53 5 Mr. Henc Giok Kirn. 35, x at the City Council abattoirs, was killed in an accident in Norfolk Road, Singapore, on Monday night. He was driving home after y when his car left the road and crashed into a lamp-post. He died two hours after oemg
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    Wanted: Onn as Mentri
    260 5 Wanted: Onn as Mentri 'Not for half a million dollars' THE Johore United Malay National Movement, which wants the Mentri Besar, Dato 1 Wan Idris bin Ibrahim. I to resign, wants Dato Sir Onn bin Ja'afar to I be his successor. But Dato Onn, secretary--1 general of Party Negara and
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    Lottery ticket correction
    41 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Federation Information Department today announced a correction to one of the eighth prizes in the Social and Welfare Lottery drawn on Saturday at Kuala Kanßsar. The number should have been *****38 and not *****36.
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    Union meeting
    28 5 PENANG. Tues. The Penang Municipal Services Union will hold its annual j meeting at th<> Khek Association premises in Burmah Road at 5.15 p m. tomorrow.
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    Cook fined
    28 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A 22-year-old army cook, G. Ayarnapan, was fined $25 here 1 today for having a dagger at 1 Jalan Kuantan on Christmas Day.
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    Hold-up brought reward
    38 5 PENANG. Tues. Three Malays armed with a carbim and a rifle held up an Indian at Sungei Bakap. Provino Wellesley, on Christmas night. They ransacked the house, but left without taking anything. Police are investigating.
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    Boom year for housing trust
    293 5 S.I.T. SHOPS AND FLATS GO UP FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE: NEW SATELLITE TOWN PLANNED T<HIS year has been "most satisfactory" for the Singapore Improvement Trust, which has built since January 50 per cent more houses than ever before, the S.I.T. Chief Architect, Mr. S. C.
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    100 UP—NOT OUT
    152 5 100 UP— NOT OUT Cash aid saves a school just past the century AN OBSCURE two classroom Chinese school, which has been in existence for 101 years in Singapore, was saved from extinction recently when the Hokkien Association agreed to solve [tl financial problems. i The Chooi Eng Soo Yuen
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    AUSSIES GIVE A PARTY
    88 5 AUSSIES GIVE A PARTY KI'ALA l.l'MPl'R, Tues PRTY children of the orthopaedic ward of the General Hospital here put on their big?cst smiles of the year when they were Riven a Christmas party by the Royal Australian Engineers today. Father Christmas distributed presents to the children. The party was organised
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    Jail for motor cycle thief
    57 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Tan Swee Sang, 24, of Siincei Besi Road. Kuala Lumpur, was jailed for three months and fined $250 here j today after he pleaded guilty to stealinc a motor cycle parked outside a shop. Police saw Tan pushing the machine on Pudu
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    Full moon day
    35 5 A Full Moon Day celebration, sponsored by Mrs. D. M. Witthasingha, will be held at the Buddhist Temple, Temple Road, Kuala Lumpur today. The Yen. Dharmananda Thero Will cone uct the sermon.
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    Teachers back from tour
    37 5 IPOH, Tues. Forty-four tired Perak teachers have returned from a crowded 10-day tour of Banpkok. The teachers, members of the National Union o f Teachers, were guests of the Institute of Bangkok Teachers.
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      77 5 Y.M.C'.A. (Orchard Rob ell Bodybuildine, weiKhUiltinc. Kymnutka 5 30 p.m.; Chess Club 5.30 p.m.; motorists' self-.epair class T.M p.m. CHINESE V.M.C.A.: Art Club's third annual exhibition. 107. Selegle Road. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CLOTHING SHOP at St. Andrew\s Cathedral. C W.A Room, South Side. 3 p.m. to i 30
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    Singapore, Wed. Dec. 28, 1955. UMNO Takes Decisions
    699 6 Singapore, Wed. Dec. 28, 1955. UMNO Takes Decisions The imminence of talks with the terrorists has partly distracted attention from debata and decision at UMNO's General Assembly. The coin- cidence nevertheless was for- tunate for it enabled Tengku Abdul Rahman to make still i plainer his own attitude to the
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    The Talks Begin
    459 6 At Baling, near Kedah's j frontier with Siam, the Chief Ministers of the Federation j and Singapore, and the 1 1 President of the M.C.A., begin this morning their talks witli the Communist delegation j j headed by Chin Peng. This first meeting is unlikely to be
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    FEARS OF A 'SLAGHEAP' AT JURONG
    389 6 IN your editorial entitled "The Black Belt"' you state that the Queenstown fanners have refused to move, although offered fair terms of resettlement, which included the provision of a concrete base for a hut and "enough money to build the hut itself/ This last
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    Fair treatment of ALL expatriates
    238 6 INDIAN graduates on contract in the Education Service .should certainly go because they have enjoyed to the full the benefit of the terms of their contract at an all-in salary of about $900 a month as against a local graduates $400. The Federation should learn
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    Ka th i challenged
    217 6 Ka th i cha llenged T*HE courageous manner -1 in which the secretaries of UMNO .women's section i and Young Women's Muslim Association have oxp/essod their disagreement at the Chief Kathi's opinion of women being unsuitable for the Marriage Appeal Board is very gratifying. The Chief Kathi should know that
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    SHOCK FOR KAMPAR
    283 6 MEMBERS of the Kampar community have been shocked to hear that at the last meeting of the Methodist Church officials held in X.L.. it was decided to dismiss the present headmaster of the Methodist Afternoon School, Kampar. The headmaster concerned has served the Mission for over 35
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    FURIOUS TENANTS
    146 6 I MAINTAIN that the initial fault lies mainly with the S.I.T. and City Council In not pro/iding individual water-meters In Whampoa area, when they provide them in Rayman Avenue area. In one S.I.T. estate enough water-meters could be found and yet in another, which is nearby, they ar
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    Red visitors 'got away with murder' in India
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    EXPATS IN POLICE TOLD: YOU CAN GO
    79 7 EXPATS IN POLICE TOLD: YOU CAN GO K\ LUMPUR. Tues. 1 fi British ,ra In the Federa•lioe have been in apply for other terri- 'he more senior adopt a "wait ■tiide to the Malayanisabefore they decide now. bai asked oday .said: to leave Malaya I I do not to feel
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    Party to honour philanthropist
    27 7 V Abdul Aziz, head <• immunity in honour rday at Hotel. Singafc*r. G. Saran')f the and the Mail. has given tn «>duand charitable Saltl
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    Terrorists sabotage water pump
    68 7 Terrorists sabotage water pump KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. rpERRORISTS entered the 1 pumping shed of Pamol I'state in the Kluang area I of Johore yesterday morning ar.d put the water pump out of action by removing .'ome bolts and the controlling mechanism. The pump was put right i later, and Security
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    30 7 KUALA LUMPUP. Tues.— The Suneei Jenka temporary bridpp at the 69th mile on the Temerloh to Maran Road. In Pahang, has been closed to traffic because of floodinc.
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    Talks, cut short by talks, resumed on way to the big talks
    110 7 Talks, cut short by talks, resumed on way to the big talks KUALA LUMPUR, Tuo 'Singapore's hief Minis- .md the Federation Chief Minister today discussed Marshall's recent mission to London and his conver■atinns with Asian Commonwealth leaders. also discussed the problems connected with if proposed unification of Singapore and the
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    147 7 Lee says merger good idea THE P.A.P. leader in the .nore Assembly. Kuan Yew. yeshailed orth discussion" posal of Tensku Kuhman that ure should be-membt-r state in deration of Magku had said at i general assembly Lumpur on Mon- Singapore felt achieve indeIta own,
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    Village of frightened people
    338 7 LOMBONG SAYS BANDITS WELL RETURN ON MISSION OF DEATH OR DESTRUCTION Attack— then alarm 'TERRORIST REVENGE AFTER STRICTER FOOD CONTROL 9 From FELIX ABISHEGANADEN rFAR KOTA TINGGI, Tuesday. If LAR ha* gripped the people of peaceful Lom»K)n s village, four miles from here. on rS^'iV** 10
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    People move out
    88 7 Some people are planning to leave their homes at night and sleep With friends "until the situation improves." Althouch the police are reluctant to admit that the situation is dangerous, strong counter-measures have bepn taken by the Field Force for the districts safety. I was checked several
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    MORE WAGES' DEMAND BY UNION
    86 7 MORE WAGES' DEMAND BY UNION KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The National Union of Fac- tory and General Workers has j asked for 50 per cent wage increases for male workers at the Heng Wah rubber factory at Ipoh. > They have also a.sked for a 30 per cent flat wage increase
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    Chandu, opium bring fines
    54 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The police found 18 packets of chandu at a house in Klang Road, a court here i was told today. For allowing his house to be used for the smoking of opium. Ng Kirn Loy. 74. was fined $700. He was fined $200
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    Keys found
    33 7 A pair of duplicate brass kejm bearinc the number "361" were found by a Straits Times reader, Mr. V. OnR Choon Ben«. in Lim Ah Woo Road on Saturday night. i
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    He was too quick | on the draw for Reds
    242 7 He was too quick on the draw for Reds KUALA LUMPUR Tues. T<HE Christmas holi--1 days brought another big success to Security Forces in Selangor. Five terrorists surrendered and one was killed In the Sungei Buloh area, about 10 miles north-west of here. The number of terrorist eliminations in Selangor
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    Temerloh praised, loggers punished
    171 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. t The Temerloh District War Executive Committee today received a congratulatory me-ssage from the Pahang War Executive Committee on achieving 100 terrorist elimination* so far this year It announced at the same time its decision to close down two sawmills in the j?lebu
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    Tents for the conference guards
    19 7 THE TENTS that will shelter security forces guardine the meeting place. Straits fkMI picture.
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    UMNO tightens party control
    332 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The revised constitution of the United j Malays National Organisation adopted at its general assembly here yesterday provides for j more effective and centralised control of the party. It provides wider representation in the general assembly for the UMNO youth movement. Big increase
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    I WHERE THE BIG TALKS ARE BEING HELD |iilltM ,
    39 7 I WHERE THE BIG TALKS ARE BEING HELD iilltM THE CONFERENCE HALL at Baling where the Federation and Singapore Chief Ministers will meet Chin Peng today The hall is part of the Baling English School building.— Straits Times picture
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    RENDEZVOUS ON TOP OF HILL SOON AFTER 8 a.m.
    378 7 •fa From Page One In Kroh tonight Mr. John L. H. Davis, who had very close associations witl Chin Peng in the last years of the Japanese war was preparing for his early morning meeting tomorrow with his former jungle fighting
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    RECOGNISE REDS: DEVASER
    76 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A Federal Legislative Coun- cillor and former president Of the Malayan Indian Congress, Mr. K. L Devaser. in a statement to the Press toInieht urged recognition of the Malayan Communist Party Ho said that to end the Emergency this country no alternative but to
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    Found hanging
    34 7 The dead body of Hen Fook Hin. a 35-year-old cool employed by an engineer, wa found hanging from a bear in the bathroom of a fiat a Pulau Hukom Besar yesterda morning.
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    3,000 ARE ASKED: 'WANT A UNION?'
    179 8 3,000 ARE ASKED: 'WANT A UNION?' IPOH, Tues. T^HE National Union of I Plantation Workers is waiting for 3,000 Cameron Highlands tea j estate workers to decide whether or not they want a union. This follows a meeting of representatives of the N.U.P.W. with the planters, the police, the District
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    Games and gifts for children
    38 8 Children at the New Market Road Children's Home were entertained to a Christmas party yesterday afternoon. There were games, music provided by the Merry Lads Band, cakes and drinks and gifts for all.
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    AUSTRALIA —AND THEN BACK HERE
    39 8 Australia to eive 28 recitals before retur. it here in March to play at the Victoria Memorial Hall. MISS IRENE KOHLER the famous Enclish pianist, who arrived in Singapore yesterday on her way to
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    RED BOSS MEETS PARENTS
    78 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. I Terrorist boss Abu Samah bin Mukin. who surrendered with his wife and three-month-old baby in Pahang recently, met his parents and relatives for the first time since 1948 yesterday. Abu Samah. who was bet- ter known as Zulkifli. was In charge of
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    Colony industry, trade
    278 8 MARSHALL PLAM TO MEET ECONOMIC THREAT to be expanded FVERY effort was being made to cope "economically," with Singapore's rapid population growth, the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, told the Straits Times yesterday. Greater industrial development, expanded I technical education and increased trade were en-i I visaged,
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    Out of order
    39 8 SEREMBAN: Tues A planter. D. S. Arnold, was' today found guilty in the Magistrate's Court here of behaving in a disorderly i manner outside the Negri Sembilan Dance Hall early this morning. He was fined $10.
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    XMAS RUSH IS STIFF TEST FOR AIRPORT
    130 8 XMAS RUSH IS STIFF TEST FOR AIRPORT THE Christmas air traffic rush has provided the Singapore airport with its stifTest test since it was opened in August. On one day there were 49 aircraft movements and during one half-hour period siv planes landed. This was a record for the airport
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    'Pirate'war: Money will make people talk
    154 8 'Pirate' war: Money will make people talk T»HE president of the Singapore H Owners' Mr. T. A. Sinn terday jubilant as a "grand id< City Couivil to offer 25 pi any fine tanposi "pirate taxi to the Iniormei sible for th< :oi •I am sure then good reapoc public am
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    VANISHING ROAD
    98 8 Sudden cave4n holds up traffic in Colony: Repairs today A SUDDEN cave-in held of t A ud traffic in Stam- ce ri yesterday. f the C A bi" hole appeared in th" roariwav nrar the Capitol flat.s it was about ten feet h Shr t0 a mannoic. c,
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    2,sooparents plead: Keep this office)
    132 8 2,soo parents plead: Keep this office) PENANG. Tues. —Two thou- ca M sand and five hundred "(':it: parents, headed by Mrs. Khoo he ol Choo Poon, a housewife, to- Ou day petitioned the Federation y Minister for Education, Dato Mv Abdul Razak. to retain Mr. sol O. D. Muir as
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    Defied rule —jailed
    56 8 Defied rule jailed JOHORE BAHRU. Tues Syed Ali bin Abdul Hamid. ivhose residence was restricted to Johore Bahru by order of the Mentri Besar on Mar. 13. disobeyed the order and went to Segamat. Today, in the Magistrate's Court here, he was sentenced to nine Months' jail for being absent
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    FEDERATION TRADE IS 331
    435 10 FEDERATION TRADE IS 33 1 LTD percent BETTER, PENANG29percent By Our Market Correspondent FEDERATION of Malaya trade in the first i eleven months of this year was 83 per cent higher than in the corresponding period last year, while that of Penann was 29.7!) per cent more as the result
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    Japanese plan expansion
    94 10 Japanese plan expansion JAPAN pUu mrr< hanl 000 gr-. the 196(i 1,1 cording to a nounced Japarif siMinistry. For this purpo i build lot freighters and coming flv c i The flve-ypiir vides 'or constru* tons durtn year. 20o.iion ton quent flnancia 1 tons in earh r>; 1 958, 1959
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    446 10 THE following business clone in the Singapore Share Market last week was an- 1 nounced by one firm of brokers for the period De- < cember 17 to December 23:— INDISTRIALS: British Borneo Petroleum 455. 7'_. and 475. including stamp. Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 30s. B\d. Fraser <fc
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    MALAKA PINDA
    85 10 Malaka Pinda Rubber made a net profit of $518,295 i 74 per centi for the year ending August 31 and the proposed final dividend of 12 per cent will make a total of 22 per cent for the year. Net liquid assets at balancing date were worth $351,066
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    SHIPPING
    92 10 Ship* lying alongside the Singa- pore Harbour Board wharvr* or expected today are: Alcinous 12. Tarn 45, Gaasterkerk C.P.. Ben- lawers 6 7, Trafalgar 8 9, Iteiiwyvis 10 11, Singapore 13 14. Dardanus 15 16, Wonsobo 18. Ettrickbank 19 20 Glariß Sen- N. Wai! 3. Houtman 2324, Plila 25
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      146 10 NOTICES BATA SHOE CO., LTD. SINGAPORE R C ral Announce that with effect from <n_ Ist January 1956 their Telephone Numbers lit Bata Building will be hn\e as follows: 17th *****— 5h0p (Main Shop) *****— General Offices. JH44B- -Purchasing Sales. <£ j BY ORDER OF THE < COMMISSIONER OF roI.K
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      975 10 NOTICES 1 THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD NOTICE BE CLOSING OF ROADS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that all roads, paths, and unen- closed land the property of The < Singapore Harbour Board in the Tanjong Pagar and Keppel Har- bour dt'ini is will be closed to the public on Sunday, Ist
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      564 10 TENDERS I CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE j TENDERS ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT: The closing date for the receipt of Tenders for the supply, delivery. Installation, commissioning and servicing of 500 Nos. Self-contain- i ed, Horsepower (at 50 c.p. 8.) Room Air Conditioners has been extended to NOON 25.1.58. CITY COUNCIL OF SINGAPORE
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    749 12 LAST INSTALMENT OF THE JUNGLE ADVENTURE KS A 1, 1 spoke :i coiiitnotion sounded outside ;iiul he leap! to his lVct. "What in the world is that?" trumpeted Ezani as shill screams rang through the jungle. "It sounds like Tahir Tiger," cried Rukiah. "Come on,
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    379 12 "IJAPPY New Year Incle Ollio." cried Ah Chan and Lian Soo. "Did you. have a good Christmas?" Oooooh yes thank you." hooted the Wise Owl. I had a very nice family party. My brother-in-law camf along and my three cousins. We had
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    HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM YOUR UNCLE ■ BILL
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    HER EYES WATER WHEN SHE SINGS
    132 12 ROKIAH, "When I sing loudly, tears come into my eyes. How can I stop them?" Salleh. "Put cotton wool in your ears." Siew Hoon and his brother had gone to bed when suddenly Siew Hoon struck a match. "Why did you do that 0
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      193 12 ICE CREAM I Served on f/te Ai^A Mm I ...all over Malaya and in Borneo too! o>m E llO i» m fld but surprisingly efficient antacid never ca |Hj|ggj|| an upset, but fr-es quick, fom--su^^^^ I tive relief froiw acid indigestion, iiflslii^ 'f flatulence and heartburn. HHwy||^> That's because of
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    472 13 DENNIS VIOLETT BRINGS HIS HOLIDAY TALLY TO FIVE LONDON, Tues. MANCHESTER INITED'S brilliant young side held their lead of three points at the top of the First Division table after yesterday English soccer league programme. They followed up their 4-1 thrashing of West
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    237 13 WATSON DE COURCY OUT OF RUNNING FOR ENGLAND TRIP From JACK FINGLETON SYDNEY, Tuesday. BILL WATSON, who toured the West Indies earlier this year, and Jim de Courcy, who went to England with the last Australian side, seem to have lost all chances for the English trip next year. Both
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    248 13 Boxing Day league soccer results Birmingham 6 Evrrlon Blackpool 1 Huddrrsfltld Bolton 1 M*n. City Burnlrj I Pretton Cardiff 1 Cheltea Man. I tilted 5 Charlton Shrr. I nlWMl 0 I til on Sunder and I N'rwrantlr Tottenham i Wnl Brom. WoIvm 3 Arsenal 1 l 4 I 3 tristol
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    22 13 TAIPING. Tuei—The hockey season closed here yesterday with the Rest versus Champions (Oari rlson "A") mater The Rest won 3-0.
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    75 13 MULLEYWINS CUP RACE AT SYDNEY SYDNEY, Tues. Viteren. owned by Mrs. D. Wilson-Mead, won the Summer Cup over a mil« an <i a half at Randwirk yesterday. Ridden by Athol Mulley and starting at 5-1, Viteren won br I 1 2 lengths from Andonni, a 7-2 chance, with Livorno, (9-2).
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    217 13 LONDON. Tues. RESULTS of Rugby Union and League matches In Britain 1 yesterday were: RIGBY I'MON luh malchn: Blackheath 11 Oxford and Cambridge pa.sl and present 16; Old MUlhllllans 3 London Irish 0; Abertlllery 8 Hi. .inn 0; Bath J Old Blues 0. Bedford 10
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    138 14 MR MOHAMED I. Arifln. president of the Indonesia Amateur Weightlifters' Association, left Slncapore by air for Jakarta yesterday to attend Ust nivit s Congress of the All-In-riom'Man Footbali Association at Bandoeng. The meeting concludes tomorI row. Mr Arifin. who is treasurer of the F.HJtball Association, was in
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    Lock icon ARKINSTALL OUSTS KAMO
    112 14 I CALCUTTA Tues.— Kosei Kamo, the Japanese Davis Cup player, was beaten by Australia's Jack i Arkinstall after a flve-set thirdi round match in the men's singles 1 of the A.-ian Lawn Tennis championshtps h|ae yesterday. Kamo bfwn by taking the first set to love, but the
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    j Garrison rally for 18-10 win
    93 14 TAIPING. Tues— Showing supe- rlorlty behind the scrum. Taiplng Garrison beat Taiplng Civilians In their annual rugger fixture for the Queen Elizabeth Cup here by 18 1 1 points (five tries, penalty) to ten i two goals). Civilians led iO-3 at one stage I
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    LAST MATCH FOR FUIANS
    46 14 JOHORE BAHRU. Tueg— The Fljlan R play their last rugby game in Johnr« on Saturday against South Johore RFC. on the Civil Servlre Club ground. After the match the Pljlans will be guests at a party given by the South Johore RFC.
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    ARGONAUTS LEAVING FOR FEDERATION SOCCER TOUR
    141 14 'THE Arponauts, 1955 SAFA Second Division champions and beaten Penio- Cup finalists, wjll celebrate their success with a tour of the Federation during the New i Year. They leave by train for I Seremban on Friday on the j first leg of the tour.
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    TODAY'S SPORTS DIARY
    81 14 SINGAPORE Kl (.(.IK. Naval Ra*r v R.N.A.S. Srmbawant. Srmbawani; Trngah Nnnudv v Krat Honr, KratHnnf; i R.A.A.F. v Vrr Soon, Nrr Soon; I R.A.F. (hanci v R.A.R.C. RASC; I I S.C.C. v Vnluntwrn. padant. Kl M I I MI'I I; Kl i.t.VR Krlantor Club v Selangor I'nlted,
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    RAF UP 2-0 WHEN HOSTILE ARYAN FANS STOP GAME
    465 14 OOCCER hooliganism reached Sini Bcsar stadium yesterday win tested and threw stones at the SAFA the match between the touring Ar team and Royal Air Force. Slngapoi i five minutes from full time. The incident, the first of its kind .sincr
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    MCC begin tour well with 323-5
    67 14 MCC begin tour well with 323-5 T hetoi-h,-,;; declaim the overnitli! i on the m or day mail Ajaociatloi At lunch the replied with Four of the passed the 50 Brian Close run.-, to ■eai h tnose, Pc I Maurice Tan.;..... rington i7o m Parks < ".j i d< ,spectatoi..
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    DRENNAN 1\ FINE SPELL
    57 14 ADELAIDE I v needed 22« ran wickets standing I j nlngs points .<: play in their Sheffli cket match here »1I tralia. Fine fast bowling nan wtecken Qu of overhai;i:iu E big total. Scores: Boutb 7 dec:. (C. Pinch J3l Lanpley 97 > Quern 7 iW.
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    FISKE NETS 2 FOR SCC
    49 14 SC.C. beat Khal friendly hocke] pedane yeatei j Club opencii c i 12th minute, t Fiske. who antl i Bishari Sm'." 1 Rye BllntlU i a repeat peil" Just before Singh hit a h n Van Der Mci: centre-forward s the rebound I goal.
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    POSTPONKI)
    10 14 IPOH. Tur division bockC] Chenß Wah and was postponed
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    SCHOOLBOYS BEATEN
    83 14 iron, Tue>—Perak Asians bett the Perak Conb ned SchooL« by 23 points ifour i;iais and a tryi to three < try i in the first rugby state trial on the pidtng yesterday. Asians ltd 13-nJI at half-time. They scored throuch second row forward Chenc Lim. ithree tries, centre-'hree
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