The Straits Times, 2 April 1956

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  • 274 1 Emergency Operation* Committee m—U today Their reply to broadcast? I KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. f\\\ Federation Emergency Operations Com- mittee will meet here tomorrow to discuss thP latent pc;t« c bid by the Malayan Communist Parti The committee is headed by the Chief Mini-tor. Tensku Abdul Rahman.
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  • 28 1 TAIPEH, Sun. Nationalist Chinese naval vessels sank one Communist ship and damaged another near the mouth of the Mm River, today, a communique said. U.P.
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  • 198 1 APPEAL TO RAF MEN LONDON, Sunday. TWO British airmen who saved a baby from the L arms of his dead mother during the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma are being sought to provide the key to the boy's past and future. They fed the
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  • 31 1 BUGS THE EASTER BUNNY SHOWS AGNES THE WAY A 20-POUND New Zealand white rabbit arrives at Taipeh airport m time for Easter. In charge is air stewardess Agnes Wong. A.P. picture.
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  • 196 1 'No true merdeka without it 9 BENTONG, Sunday. THE Chief Minister. Tengfcn Abdul Rahman, warn- ed here last night that merdeka for Malaya would be useless unless there was racial harmony. "There should be no jealousy among the different races in this country/
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  • 131 1 AND HAS ADVICE for STORE PE 63 Singapore UMNO branches and various sections of the Malay community want Singapore's constitution to Include a provision that will "protect and promote the economic, social and religious interests not only of the Malays but also of other mlniority races." Representations to this effect
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  • 86 1 ITS a wonderful wedding: present," said Mr Chew Kam lid, this week's bole winner of the Straits Times 55.000 word puzzle. Hr. f hew. an interpreter at the Federal Police Depot in Kuala Lumpur is to be married in June. I^st niiiht hr was told the
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  • 61 1 JERUSALEM. Sun —Israeli reports ol two border incidents shattered the Easter peace of the Holy Land today. An official Israeli spokesman alleged that Jordanians i opened fire yesterday on an Israeli military Investigation team which went to the Jordan border with a U.N. observer after a reported
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  • 29 1 REYKJAVIK. Sun Two members of Iceland's Parliament have proposed a Sbill outlawing boxing as a disgrace to sport and a danger to life and health Reuter.
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  • 56 1 SEOUL. Sun. The 48th Field Regiment. Royal Artill fry, left for Singapore ml tertay after aye^wmi'S Commonwealth Division to Korea. _Th, departure was the last move in the reduction of thp Division's strength in Korea to about 2,500 men. The remaining troops win be known as
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  • 120 1 Probe into Aussie shootings i SYDNEY, Sun. lif R. O. H. N. CRAMER, the -"I Army Minister, said today he was "most concerned" about accidental shootings of Australian troops in Malaya and had called for an investigation. Referring to the death of three Australian soldiers and one wounded hi accidental
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  • 70 1 Thieves overlooked a box containing several thousand dollars worth of jewellery and took $819 in cash when they ransacked a Singapore schoolteacher's home last night. Mr A. C. James of St. Joseph's -Institution, told the police that all the doors of his fiat in River Valley
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  • 40 1 CAIRO, Sun. The Yemen ambassador to Cairo. Mr. Abdul Rahman Abu Taleb, flew to Jeddah today for negotiations with King Baud of Saudi Arabia on the conclusion of a military and economic treaty between the two countries.— Reuter.
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  • 36 1 SOUTHAMPTON. Sun. Miss Josephine Charrett was married here not knowing that her 63-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Nellie Craddock, collapsed and died in the church while waiting for the bride to arrive for the ceremony. Reuter.
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  • 33 1 LONDON. Sun. In spite of grey skies and low temperatures thousands of holiday makers left cities for tne seaside and country. Temperatures in the capital rarely rose above 45 degrees. —Reuter.
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  • 415 1 86 cross line in economy ran JAfiMIFHSTWME-lIT INO'S THE WIMER? TOIGHTY-SIX m v d E* spattered cars rollover the finishing line In Orchard Road. Singapore, yesterday at the end of the $10,000 1956 Stanvac economy run. Ten were disqualified in Singapore. Another had been disqualified hi Kuala Lumpur. Seven of
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  • 78 1 Man dies at joget coitiDetition j^ The efforts of 42-year-old Abdul Rahman bin Idris. to get into the finals of a joget modern competition came to a tragic end at the Happy World Cabaret, Singapore, yesterday evening. While dancing a rhumba with his partner In the semi-finals, Abdul Rahman collapsed.
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  • 30 1 RANGOON, Sun. Russi has offered to build an equip a cultural and sport centre, a hospital and" theatre in Burma, it was an nounced here today. Rev ter.
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  • 20 1 RANGOON, Sun. Russia md Burma today agreed to attend to five years their rurrent three-year trade igreement Reuter.
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  • 44 1 JERUSALEM (Israel). Sun. —About 4.000 Christian Pllgrims thronged to Easter services today in the Old City of Jerusalem, bathed by warm sunshine and under deep blue skies. There hav e been as many as 20,000 pilgrims in previous years.— Reuter.
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  • 132 1 BRISBANE, Sun. A group of Australian frogmen planning to salvage Mt tons of Scotch whisky from the wreck of a ISth century saUng ship near here, are hoping the whisky was shipped in casks. Divers have located the wreck of the l^M-ton sailing
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  • 24 1 PARIS. Sun. Hundreds of police and riot troops prevented an attempted protest march through Paris by thousands of Algerian workers yesterday. U-P-
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  • 30 1 TAIPEH: Sun. The Nationalist Government studying plans to build a highway over 1 ,*2™ M mountain range, linking the east and west coasts of the island.— UP-
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  • 23 1 LIVERPOOL, Sun. Two young explorers sail from here on Thursday in search of the lost Peruvian treasure city of Pattltl. Reuter.
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  • 113 1 BANGKOK. Sun. A Sia- i mese Air Force Dakota crashed soon after taking i off from Nakorn Rajslma airfield. 260 miles north-east of Bangkok, yesterday kill- UiK 18 people. I It was announced that Air i Force investigators were ex- amlnlnjt the wreckage in
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  • 197 1 Atomic suicide warning t^ Halt arms race, says Pope VATICAN CITY, Sun. —The Pope appealed to mankind today to stop its "race toward the abyss" before nuclear weapons bring destruction and death. The pontiff warned against the nuclear armaments race In an Easter speech bfoad- cast to both sides of
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  • 39 1 POH MM. TEIK HOCK IN U.S. FINAL NIAGARA FALLS. Sun. One Poll Lim and Oni Teik Hock (Malaya) today qualified to meet Finn Kobbero and J. H. Hansen (Denmark) in final ot international badminton tournament here. Reuter.
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  • 280 2 There'll be fewer and fewer expatriates to lean on, so— Technical Association president says KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE president of the Technical Association of Malaya, Mr. J. Sharpies, laid last night that he hoped the leadership of the association would soon be taken over
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  • 84 2 LECTURES for students in nine departments at Nanyang Untventey in Singapore begin today. During the we* 'tend students met at the university for addtsam by their professors. Prof. lacen T. HaJeh, registrar of the university, said yesterday that 4SO of the 57S registered students will be
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  • 93 2 Teachers' spelling was perfek WASHINGTON, Sun. rstaow the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee how low teachers' standards had fallen, a woman member of the Washington ParentTeachers Association produced a few first-grade exercise papers. On one, all the sevens were written backwards. On another, three plus six made eight and two
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  • 44 2 MOSCOW, Sun. Russia yesterday signed an agreement allowing Scandinavian Airlines System to begin regular passengei flights from Stockholm to Moscow. It will be the first time that a major Western airline has been allowed to make regular flights over Russia.— AJ>.
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  • 175 2 'Let neutral party decide 9 HPHE Prime Minister, M 1 yesterday for arbltn year-old dispute with Ind KARACHI, Sunday. It. Mohammed All, called ation of Pakistan's eightlla over Kashmir. "Continuation of direct negotiations with India holds out no prospect for settlement of this dispute." All told
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  • 91 2 A FLAG DAY will be held on Saturday for the Singapore Youth Sports centre and the Singapore Youth Council. In a broadcast over Radio Malaya last night, Mr. A. M. Cherian, a youth leader, urged the public to support this fund-raising campaign. The
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  • 23 2 SYDNEY. Sun. Chrysler motor company hope to make 20,000 cars a year in Australia by 1950, a spokesman said today. Reuter.
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  • 30 2 Traffic in Dalvey and Nassim Roads, Singapore, will be partly restricted for about two months from tomorrow by sewer laying operations. EASTER IBFFfTS FROM •FILM ITU 1 CMWIS
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  • 186 2 A peck- and a boo for Uncle Georgi LONDON. Sun. |X)RMER Soviet prer mier Oeorgl Malenkov was given a film star's reception when he arrived at the South Coast resort of Brighton yesterday. Gay holiday-makers mobbed him as he walked along the promenade. At every step his hair was ruffled
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  • 70 2 Singapore's air nr.maed youths and adults yesterday gathered at the former Kalians airport to take part to stunt, combat and genera flying organised by the Singapore Aeromodellers Society. Coloured models of their "planes" and mechanical kit were kept in readiness to tune the tiny motors attached to
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  • 43 2 SEOAMAT, Son. A lorry attendant, Gurdiai Singh, 23, wa« fined a total of $140 hi the Sessions Court here for falling to produce his identity I card and for offering $10 as a I bribe to police officers. I
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  • 236 2 FISHING AID BY JAPS: CITIZENS BACK PROPOSAL Lets be hospitable, says clerk OINGAPOREANS yesterday backed the Govern- merit's plan to permit local fishing interests to co-operate with Japanese companies. Most of them interviewed by the Straits Times considered it "advantageous and beneficial" for local fishermen to get in close contact
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  • 159 2 How to get in the swim- by Mr. Heah PENANG, Sun. \fR HEAH JOO A"l SEANG, the Penan c rubber .magnate, today suggested a "simole rubber profits contribution formula to raise funds for a modern pool at Tan long Bungah for the Chinese Swimming Cluh. Mr. Heah, president of the
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  • 170 2 110— and he owes it all to the vice of life NEW YORK, Sun. —Former slave John Shaffer, 110 today, was asked at his Kansas home how he had lived so long. "Hard living," he said. "IVe been smoking and drinking since I was nine. And I'm still doing it"
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    • 454 2 RADIO MALAYA Yean; •.00 'Dead Circuit 9.30 1 s^^?«^i«£^MtaL 10M a* 1 11 aub iojo-n.OO sn#n wife mt v«bb. mevißva rw*««*i*«a> wit. 478 m.. S4S. MSB*. ttta. MuBte I****A.M. 9.00 In Tour Batter Ben- Wt<»«t«— raf 1 net; 840 TtM Dance Band of the HwfjatJOeM Ist. Batt. Mnoolinhtre Regiment; 10.00
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  • 157 3 ANOTHER BRITON SHOT IN THE BACK VTICO3A Sun.—Ter- >" rordts shot dead a Briton i a main street of LimfSiol today. The vl't^i was a civilian. Mleved «be employed at militar ™te nearby. 1^ ,»s walking in r adston Avenue, Limassol's am strt, Mils afternonn ?nen h? was a tta
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  • 34 3 LONDON. Sun— The Wedding March was played at yesterday's funeral of the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, who died within three days of each other. They Wrrp married 68 years aeo
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  • 75 3 Sai'ing for home POR- SAID, Sun.— The last ef the British combat troops jn the Suez Canal zone sailed for hone early today aboard the trjop carrier Devonshire. The 2nd Bn. of the Grenadier Giards and Squadron D of the Life Guards embarked last night. I
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  • 99 3 VIENNA Sun. Russian Muslims will fight for the Araw if they go to war with Israel, it was learned here la* night. lussia fooned a "volunteer" Muslim brigade in January to prepare for a Middle-last conflict, it was leaned. I include World
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  • 205 3 HEjL.iuuFTracs rutt SPEED 130 rebels killed in one day— many captured ALGIERS, Sunday. FRENCH TROOPS, many carried by helicopters, killed an estimated 130 rebels yesterday, French military authorities reported. The soldiers and rebels blasted each'other with increasing fury. French officers commanding trooos in the key
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  • 162 3 India— On to second five years NEW DELHI, Sun. INDIA last night completed her first fiveyear plan one of the biggest schemes for social and economic- develop* ment undertaken by any country in the world. With the beginning or the new financial year today the country launches its second five-year
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  • 48 3 WASHINGTON, Sun. The U.S. Commerce Department said new rubber consumption in the United States amounted to 126,164 tons in February, compared with 131,--812 tons in January and 118,--706 tons in February, 1955. It said February consumption was a new high for that month. A.P.
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  • 26 3 BONN, Sun. American military police in Germany are being equipped with radar units to make traffic density surveys, speed surveys and speed checks.— Reuter.
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  • 36 3 AUCKLAND, Sun.— Countess Mountbatten yesterday landed a 236-lb. striped marlio in the Bay Of "fandj fluhlny grounds after a 35-minute fight. Yesterday her husband caught a marlin of the same weight.— Reuter.
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  • 32 3 LONDON, Sun. Mdla is trying to obtain the help of a British legal expert in preparing its defence against a Portuguese complaint over Goa before the International Court. UJP.
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    50 3 ajt jl W* mm^i m I, M il—^. 1«>- s^^&L xaAm^A 1 SERVICE WOMEN In track suits stride smartly throagh the stneto ef Tub hi a parade te wrtcemn tew Prime Minister, Mr. Tmhar ben Ammar, when he returned from Paris after signing the agreement for Tunisian mdeprne'ente.— A-P. picture.
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  • 209 3 'Genuine 9 but there are snags LONDON, Sunday. RUSSIA'S NEW disarmament plan will be a main topic for next month's London meeting between lir Anthony Eden and Marshal Bulganin and Mr. K>iriish#»hev XVI II UOHL. II<~ V The Plan U believed to have been
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  • 89 3 MOBCOW, Sun. Russia's big new Jet airliner soon will be put in service from Moscow to Paris, New Delhi and Peking, Informed Soviet sources said. The swept wing TTJ--104, was first shown to the West when it took Soviet security chief Ivan Serov to London.
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  • 41 3 DACCA, Sun.— Six ships carrying 60,000 tons of rice as a gift from the United States are expected in East Pakistan next month. It will help tide over a rice shortage caused by insects and hooligans.— A P.
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  • 147 3 LONDON, Sunday. DKLTAIN'S competitors in commercial aviation are engaging "glamorous British girls as stewardessess to rival our efforts in this direction" Sir Miles Thomas, retiring chairman of British Airways Corporation, said today. Sir Miles, who leaves BOAC at the end of June, was giving an
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  • 56 3 KATHMANDU, Sun.—Superstitious villagers of Sama nave halted a Japanese expedition to 26,858 ft. Mount Manaslu, according to a mes»ge received here last night. The villagers who live at the foot of the unconquered mountain stopped another Japanese expedition two years ago, blaming it for famines and epidemics
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  • 31 3 LONDON, Son. Marshal Bulganin and Mr. Khrushchev will travel to Britain by cruiser with a two-des-troyer escort. They will arrive it Portsmouth on April 18.— CJJ.
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  • 33 3 HOLLYWOOD, Sun. The wife of actor John Wayne jave birth to a daughter yesterday. It was their first jhild. Wayne has four children by a previous marriage.— &p. jT[ jv
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  • 33 3 THE HAGUE, Sun. Four German war criminals were yesterday released from prison and handed over to German authorities at the frontier. The Dutch still hold 36 German war criminals. Reuter.
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  • 113 3 ALEC GUINNESS, British actor who hms played a Roman Catholic priest and a cardinal la films, has been received Into th« Catholic Church. At 42 he has fallowed the footsteps of hip 15-year-old son, Matthew, who became a Catholic sis months ag». Guinness went deeply hit* research
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  • 30 3 HONG KONG, Sun. Six people were killed and four wounded in a Nationalist Chinese artillery bombardment on Amoy and nearby Com-munist-held islands on Friday, Peking Radio reported. Reuter.
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  • 64 3 LONDON. Sun. Radio Moscow yesterday reported a new gold strike In north-east Siberia. The broadcast, beamed to North America, said: "More gold has been discovered in Aldan, Yakutiya, in north- east Siberia. "Yakutiya is very rick generally la natural resource! and it was here that big
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  • 273 4 'Queen's Chinese' mission to London Mr. ***** 18 THERE ALREADY MOW Dr. WU WILL PLY VISITING MPs ARE TOLD OF THE PROBLEM PENANG, Sunday. TWO delegates from the Straits Chinese British Associations of Singapore and Penang are to seek expert constitutional advice in London on the statin of the "Queen's
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  • 81 4 A GROUP of Federation schoolteachers left Sinr*pore In the Santhia at the weekend for an educational tour of Hong Kons and Japan. Front row (from left): tit Swee Tin (Seremban), Agnes de Bilva (Seremban), Loke Sau Sun (Ipoh). Middle row: Chang 800 Han (Kuala Lumpur)
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  • 72 4 PENANG, San. Noordkt bin Shariff, one of the two men detained by police in connection with the UHtng of On* Ewe San, cashier of United Traders Ltd., on Feb. 3, alleged In court yesterday that a police inspector had assaulted him. Noordin was in
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  • 32 4 SEGAMAT, Sun.— The annual meeting of the Segamat Public Library will be held on April 8 at 5 p.m. The library ha s 232 members and nearly 5,000 books.
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  • 32 4 MUAR, Sun. The Muar Civil Service Club has been renamed the Tanjong Club. SEGAMAT, sun.— The Town Council has decided to close the padang from April 8 for repairs.
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  • 82 4 The University of Malaya is planning a considerable expansion of its Chinese studies section. It Is hoped that a professor and three lee- hirers win be added to the staff shortly. The Chinese section will be expanded to provide for an increased number of students
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  • 194 4 I|/|R. WA ,TER GORDON, I*l who has been appointed surgeon at the Lady Tempier Tuberculosis Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, plans to take a quick course in Malay, if he can find time, before leaving Britain for Malaya at the beginning of June. Mr. Gordon
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  • 31 4 SBGAMAT, Sun.— Omar bin Mohamed Amin, 38-year-old postmaster at Labis, was charged before the Circuit Magistrate here with criminal breach of trust of $1,725. Bail was allowed.
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  • 137 4 POLY BUILDING TO START SOON BUILDING operations on the 18,000,000 Singapore Polytechnic at Shenton Way will begin in August. The chairman of the Board of Governors, Mr. L. Cresson. 4old the Straits Times that the planning O f the various buildings was on paper at the moment." He said that
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  • 64 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The Malay Students' union will hold a students' week lasting till next Saturday to raise funds. The programme Includes football and netball matches, oratorical competitions, and an exhibition of handicrafts and Malay literature. A four-act historical play and a parade of Malay national
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  • 25 4 Mr R. Jumabhoy, LiberalSocialist member of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, was admitted to the General Hospital on Saturday night with eye trouble.
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  • 41 4 MALACCA, Sun. Moses Tay, 18, has been awarded a Federal surveying scholarship for a four-year course at Brisbane. He is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Tay Seng Hoon. He leaves Malacca for Australia this week.
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  • 29 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A patrol of the Ist Bn., Queens Regiment, wounded one of two terrorists they spotted in the Rengam area of Johore yesterday. Both escaped.
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  • 53 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Son. At annual meeting of the Technical College Alumni Association held her' yesterday the following pfflHain were elected: President, Mr. Chan Sal 800; vice-presidents, Che Yusof bin Lamin and Mr. C. T. Nathan; bon. secretary. 1 Mr. Ung Cheng Pee; hon. 1 treasurer. Mr. a
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  • 82 4 Francisca n mission to build a hospital A 9tf«MM HOSPITAL Is A to be built in Singapore •atly next yew by the »J»n«lseaii Missionaries ofthe Divine Motherhood. which win be built on a ■even-acre site in Thompson Road, will accommodate MO patlentsT^^ Both general aid mafcrnitv eases will bTjUended by
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  • 127 4 I'll be back: Brother Honourius MALACCA, Sunday BROTHER HONOURIUS of St. Francis Institution who Is believed to be Malaya's oldest teacher leaves for Paris this month on sick leave. Brother Honourius, who is 71, began teaching in Malacca >0 years ago. Today he said: "If
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  • 70 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The president of 'ie Federation's Adult Education Asociatlon, Mr. f*ah joo Beang, will lay th> foundstkm stone of the MO.OOO extension to the Puie Life Society's English sclwol at the 6th mile, Puchoof Road. ci. Tuesday. The enrolment, which is now 250, will
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  • 18 4 ALOR STAR, i Sun. ffovtv Chinese schoolboys attended a demonstration given here yiterday by tha>lrp brifad^
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  • 804 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon. Apr. 2, 1956. Some Facts On Opium The proposal to restore licensed opium smoking perhaps has aroused sufficient public opposition for Tengku Abdul Rahman to have abandoned the idea. There has been no further statement, at any rate, since the Federation Chief Minister's explanation that
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  • 358 6 The big rubber estate* are finding it increasingly difficult to tempt young men in Britain to come out as planters to Malaya. This reluctance is not due to the Emergency. According to a spokesman for the industry, there was far less difficulty about recruiting from Britain when the
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    1010 6 n/B stood in a room in tbe Kremlin crowded with ttoe red damask upholstered furnitme ya» find In royal palates. Approaching us down a kmg corridor gUded a small man dressed in a plain beige uniform without decorations or badges of rank— S. V. Stalin. Behind him,
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  • 215 6 YOUTH ESSAY CONTEST STUDENTS In English, Chinese, Indian and Malay schools, It Is said, knew little about one another mainly because of language difficulties. Tet It to essential that as Malayans there should be greatei understanding and co-operation among them. There must be many ways, apart from occasional
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  • 1102 6  -  Lieut-Gen Sir Brian Horrocks The difficult they did at once; the impossible took a little longer; but they insisted 0n... by rpHE only really great book 1 about the last war which has appeared sp far is "The Straggle for Europe," written by
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    • 654 6 CLASSIFIED ADS.! SITUATIONS VACANT M Wori, ti (Mim.)— Box it tU. txtn. BOX A2I3S S.T. Situation filled. Applicants thanked. BOX A 2038 S.T. Position filled. Applicants thanked. SYCE REQUIRED. Must Speak tome English. Apply Box A 2340, B.T. CLERK/BOOK-KEEPER wanted. Must have senior L.C.C. or equivalent. Apply statins age A
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    • 56 6 ffl*^ DPTianNS will visit KUALA LUMPUR on Saturday, 7th April and Monday, 9th April 1956. Appointments for eye examinations STORCH BROS. LTD., 37, MOUIITBATTEI ROAP. CHESTERFIELD I AbehMtlDßi with an extraordinarily good taste! Imlisli s»: IONG AH COLD STORAGE 14, |slan Ibrahim. ioV>. Bahru. (j For the GiHs Youll 4K>\J!
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  • 91 7 MUAR, Sun. Ml \r UMNO has p.issed a "no eonidesce" vot* against threo elected Town •■•m< 'Hors. Mr ban Si, Dr. Urn \h -.it and Mr. Wong 1.,, i^i in, did not vote when mother councillor put funvard a proposal to build a shop
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  • 36 7 Six children and two adults were taken to the Singapore General Hospital yesterday when the car in which they were travelling tree and overturned at Mcrah Besar, Changi. They were treated as outpatients.
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  • 61 7 BENT^N'G. Si;n. More 300 guests, including Abdul Rahman and .ance Ministers, at- tended the wedding here yesI Che Zalnon binte D;.to Hussain and Inche msah bin Dato Abu Samah, Kin of a former State Secretary of Pahan;. The bride is the 18-year-tld sister of the Minister for Education.
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  • 30 7 The art museum and exhibition gallery of the University of Malaya will be rprnoci at 5.30 p.m. on April 7 by the Pro-Chancellor, Dato B .'j named Eusoff.
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  • 42 7 A Royal Air Force corporal, Malaya. m Davis, yesterday won The runners-up were 15--f Malayan chess cham- year-old A. Subramanian. of j p held at the Faculty Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. Low ip University of Scow Meng of Singapore.
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  • 286 7 SELAHCUK UMHO ASKS GOVKRHMPfT TO WTEODUCE HEW OfDUSTMAL RULE <HALF OF WORKERS. IN SEW INDUSTRIES SHOULD BE MALAYS 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. MALAYS should get half of the jobs in any new iU industry in the Federation, says Selangor UMNO. eUng here yesterday unanimously passed
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  • 42 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Seven Malay literary and cultural bodies In Kuala Lumpur will send a delegation to Malacca on April 17 to discuss with delegates from Singapore the venue for a Malay Literary Congress later this year.
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  • 274 7 PALM AMD PICTURE- SCRIBBLE AHD SQUICCLE \f R: David Marshall is going to marry in three years time. Who? Nobody knows. But, says Indian astrologer Shastri Baradwala: "It's in the stars. It must be true." Bhastn made the prediction after studying a recent photograph of Mr.
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  • 77 7 PENANG, Sun. PCHE N. A. WAHAB, secretary of the National Union of Transport Workers, today pledged the support of his union in the country's fight to achieve merdeka. Inche Wahab told members of the union's Penang branch that there was still a section of employers
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  • 242 7 SELANGOR LABOUR MEETS KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. TOE rebel Selangor division of the Labour Party of I x Malaya wants a fully-elected Federal Legislative Council. A resolution calling on the Alliance Government to hold a fresh election was approved at the division's annual delegates conference here
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  • 31 7 INCHE MANSOR BIN OTHMAN, 32, an executive assistant of the Shell Company In the Federation, has left for Britain to attend a twoaaenth executive couoc. I
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  • 148 7 LABOUR MINISTER TOWED Tengku lets out secret KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE Federation's 35A year-old Minister for Labour, Mr. V. T. Sambanthan. is going to be married. The Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, let out the secret when he spoke to members of the Malayan Indian Congress at Bentong in Pahang
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  • 58 7 A radiogram was raffled yesterday in aid of the Singapore Canine Welfare Association. Given by Mrs. June Dale, president of the association, it was won by ticket number 1495. Mr. B. Brunner, Mr. Leong Mun Sal, Mr. J. Bphraim. Flt.-Sgt. Frank Foster and Bgt. M. Ryan were
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  • 56 7 The Commissioner of Labour in Singapore yesterday reminded employers that they must submit a return giving the numbers of manual workers they employ. Manual workers Include those engaged in trades, whether skilled or unskilled, but not domestic servants or shop assistants. The returns must be made to
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  • 33 7 IT was an Easter wedding— la a Singapore hotel— for this couple yesterday. They are Mr. We* Soon Yli> and Miw Chan Slew Chlng. both ef Singapore. Straits Times picture.
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  • 158 7 29 firms accused of 'grossly underpaying' the staff [THE 600-strong Singapore Insurance Companies' Employees' Union plans to submit wage demands to 29 insurance companies in the Colony, the union president. Mr. A. P. Louis, said yesterday. He told the Straits Times that this decision was
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  • 151 7 Mr. Tan appeals for tolerance KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. AN appeal for more tolerance and co-operation xm among labour unions so that they could work together for the welfare of workers throughout tht country was made today by Mr. Tan Tuan Boon, secretary of the Pan-Malayan Rubber Workers
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  • 33 7 Boys of Army families stationed In Singapore begir their holiday camp tomorrow at Blakmng Mati. Touthi aged 13 and 14 win attend and the camp will remair open till April 0.
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  • 55 7 Talks on careers, arranged by the Singapore Rotary Club, will be given on the following days at the British Council Hall: April 4 "Accountancy" by Mr. W. O. C. Goss; April 11 "Journalism" by Mr. Vernon Bartlett: April 18— "Medicine" by Prof. A. Sandosham; April 25—"Dentistry
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  • 103 7 MUSLIM COLLEGE CLASSES START IN OCTOBER IT. \LA LUMPUR, Sun. The Muslim College of Malaya at Klang will start preparatory and intermediate i classes in October, the beginning of Its academic year. Tnese classes will prepare students for admission into the college. The secretary of the col--1 lege, Inche ZulkifU
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  • 62 7 Reds flee after ambush KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A POLICE truck was ambushed by terrorists on the Kuala Nerang-Pokok Sena road In Kedah this morning. Bullets ripped open the front tyre of the vehicle causing It to skid off the road. The police party jumped out and fired back at the
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  • 40 7 The Singapore Malayanlsation Commission will hold its next session at 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Public Relations Office conference room. Oral evidence will be recorded on the Malayanisation of the City Council and Singapore Polytechnic staff.
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    • 153 7 The weather MtabMß T— ■ftmi; (7JO pjn. on Mar. SI to 7.30 ajn. on Apr. 1): Singapore 75 degrees, Penang If, KoU Bahru 70. Kuala Lumpur 73, Ipoh 71, Kuantan 68. Madam Tempest-re: (7.30 ajn. to 7.30 pjn. on Apr. 1) Singapore 85. Penang M. KoU B&hru 89, Kuala Lumpur
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  • 625 8 MALAYAN SMAME MAMKET MEVMEW By Our Market Correspondent THE Singapore Share Market slowed down considerably doe to the approach of the Easter holidays last week and prices, with the exception of a few cases, drifted to lower levels. The two main factors for this were the
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  • 117 8 pOMFANIES operating \J In Malaya announced the following dividenOs last week: BEDFORD PLANTATIONS LTD.: a second Interim dividend of lf%, teas Income tax at 38%, it year ended Match 11, 19K payable on April 7, to shareholders on register April 2. Books close from April t to 7,
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  • 543 8 rE following complete revised list of local share motations was issued by the Malayan Share Brokers Association after their but meetnc on Thursday:— WDI6TKIALB Bmjm til— *Im. Brietworu Pr»f- I.M I.M .fiSfw-v./.v-u-l.* B. B. Petrol 42/ f 44/ i B'H TniMCM •>• U» Con Tin flOMlf Pref.
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  • 493 8 I CO3MMODMTY HOI XiP-lM* APRIL first grade rubber buyer s t.o.b. closed the week on Thursday at its lowest trading standing at 10% cents or H cents below the highest price on Wednesday. With a short trading week there was not a great deal to report in
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  • 86 8 Small rise in U.S. car output DETROIT, Sat. The automnbile industry U planning to increase second quarter production only 2.1 per cent above the January/March total it was reported bare. Tentative lndustr. schedules for toe April/June period call for 1.792.500 cars im< Is 15.6 per cent below the 'record level
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  • 41 8 Nationalist China and Japan have provisionally extended a one-year t ran agreement signed by the two countries on April 1, last ireaT. The agreement which expired on Saturday, called for two-way trade valued at (367.000,000 (U.S.).— Reuter.
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  • 128 8 TNDIA will receive 119,400,000 -1 rupees (about £8,920,000 sterling) In aid from Canada Australia and Nev Zealand during INS-66, Mr. Ghlntaman Deshmukh, India's Finance Minister, said in New Delhi. He told a questioner In the Reuse of the People that the total amount of foreign
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  • 55 8 New fares for domestic Bights by Lufthansa, the West German airline, undercutting those of foreign airlines operating; in Germany went Into effect on Saturday. The new cuts slice 25 per cent off the present fares and will make air travel inside West Germany almost as cheap v
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 1608 8 PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS APPLICATIONS are Invited from Federal Cltlaen*. age below 23 on Ist January 1956 lor appointment to temporary posts as Technicians (Quantity Surveying) in the Quantity surveying Brancn of the Public Works Department. Salary scale: 1137.50 x 7.50 152.50/209 x 14 321,338 x 14 450 p.m. plus current COLA.
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    • 808 8 NOTICES TALAM MINES, UMITED (Incorporated In the Federation ol 5 Malaya). 11 NOTICE IB BaVOBY OTVaW s thai a Pint Intarim Dividend ol 28% less 30% Income Tax 111 r respect of the year ending Hat December ISM has been declared and will be paid on 16th April IM6 to
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    • 708 8 TENDERS P.W.D. TENDER NOTICE TBNDBR from registered contractors (Clim C and above) Will ec received by the Stats Engineer. ■elsngor. up to 3 pjii. on 20 4 M tor the construction of foundation and drainage work of the proposed New Market, Klang. Full partlculara*are obtainable from the office of the
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    • 407 8 KNUTSEM LINE muKMT nancs ftOM CAMAOrVU^. >ACOTC fOtTS—aM) DATS a»-a— spBMBBVB£ mWTwVWmfI SaaPraadsoa Swat. Paaaws Fremanu. QartrW Ukkm SsaM 9/11 Apt 1 2 Apr If Apt 21 Ap> Kristin tsfcko 28 Apr 2S/29 May 30 May II May 9 tun Aam Bafcfco 12 May 11/19 |m 14 |h 15 |m
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  • 139 10 S'gor Chinwoo bid to keep audit orium KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. |N idamliied bid to 1 avoid baring to sell their auditorium to the Federation Government the Council of the Selang or Chinese Athletic Association (Chinwoo), at their annual general meetIng today, announced plans for a "survival Facing a bank overdraft
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  • 172 10 ami count* iniuwu nr nui n nauwi EASY VICTORIES FOR RECS. RAF T<HE Singapore senior 1 cricket tournament, without several star men. had a quiet day yesterday as far as Individual performances were concerned. The day's best feat was performed by veteran Charlie Colling who took seven
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  • 848 10 SCC v Amy SINGAPORE Crleket Ctab and Army 4nm oa the paiang. SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB Hobos c Daunoey b Waon 13 Hardy c Warren b Whitman 10 Partmgton run out SI Alton c Whitman b Waon 13 Cobley c Carmichael b Waon 7 Wooohouaa Ibw WhitmeU 20 Plowrlght not
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  • 194 10 United go further ahead in League LONDON, Sun. MANCHESTER Unlt--ITI ed are almost certain of becoming English League Division One champions, for the second time since the war, after their brilliant display at Huddersfldd yesterday. Two goals by International centre-for-ward Tommy Taylor gave them victory, and Huddersfield more, worries of
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  • 117 10 GLABGOW, Sun. 1 A SOUTH African, who plays for an English Club, Is Included In Scotland's soccer team to meet England at Hampden Park here on Apr. 14. He is John Hewie, of Charlton Athletic, who though brought up In South Africa, has a Scottish father,
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  • 83 10 1 I 7 as Positions Item n n DIVISION OIE i d er p. ■IV. THREE (StlU) BI 4 IS 39 an i i oto. SCOTTISH 'A' 1 i F. 6 8 i 5 > 6 im In i 1 lesbro. DIVISION TWO I 1 i 8 9
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  • 253 10 LOHDOH, son. JJESDLTs of rugby matcbw x played y—tidaj are: BOOST UNION BawMxath 33 TJMMt BarrloM (Portsmouth) 6: Roeriyn Park 0 Metropolitan PoUoe 11; Absravon 17 London Welsh 6; AberUllery S Croat Keyg 3; Bath IS Brtdgend S: BTMoI 14 LsSßSStsr 0; Bridgwatar and ft^rr
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  • 216 10 Mr. Heah calls for a Pan-Malayan body for swimming PENANG, Sunday. j fTHE president of the Penang Chinese Swimming Club, Mr. Heah Joo Seang, today suggested the j formation of a Pan-Malayan Swimming Federation i to prepare Malaya for future participation in Olym- pic Games and other international competitions, j
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  • 428 10 KLANG, Sun. MALAYAN champion ITA Ong Chew Bee, of Singapore, qualified for the semi finals of the Klang Club Open Invitation Tennis Championships today when he beat Ling Liong Ching, of Perak, 6-3 6-3. Wong Ching did extremely well to extend Chew
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    • 228 10 wK *^^^—^^^Bt.^^^ V <i bQrJL bT^ Calobar sun glass ienses are the mull of yean of intensive research in the abtorbtive glass field by scientists working continuously in the interests of eye comfort and health. American Optical Co. mm AfaUabk Iron, .ill reputable optician*. Ask your optician to show yon
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 46 10 BOCCEB SJLFJL. Lmiw, Mr. 1: AJLA. v nstoa mn, Jatoa BMaar, US; My. IA: PnHtoaiiaMi tato v p-j-~ EsaaMstoa, Gk^MUMj; >nf~ Mm v liUHIi. lairar raik; raßMtsn t Jaator AJU ILTJL; VDMtNtB Elatallia v ttMk C.TJLA. FSIENDLT: ÜBiapare "A* t Jantor BslneH— Jalan Basar, 7 pjm.
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  • 1032 11 NAGAIAH, BARRON ROUT NORTH, CAUSE 52-FOH-S COLLAPSE Ross, Ratnam put on 87 runs in vital stand PENANG, Sunday. TUE second day's pfcty in the North-South cricket x match on the Peasant Sports Club ground took a dramatic tarn after the tea Interval today when North, batting
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  • 245 11 S-E Asian nations will be asked here for talks on first badminton tourney PENANG, Son. THE BADMINTON Aho1 elation of MaJ^y» will invite ten countries to a meeting in Malaya next month to draw up plans for South-east Asia's first badminton tournament. At 2W-hoor meeting here today, the BJLM. SUndln*
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  • 113 11 MCA invite HK for May 1957 visit PENANG, Son. THE. Malayan Cricket AfoeJation .today decided lo send an official invitation to Hong Kong to TisU Malaya in May next year. At a special general meeting, presided em by Mr. Lim Kbye Seng, it was announced that a Hong Kong University
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  • 206 11 PKNANO. Sun. SINGAPORE Chinese Swimming Club swept tbe board to win both the swimming and waterpolo titles at the Easter triangular aquatic meet at Tanjong Bungah today. Singapore scored a total of 67 point* at swimming, Penang 34 and Selangor Chlnwoo only two points.
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  • 522 11 AN invitation by the Nationalist China Olympic Preparatory Committee to the Malayan Chinese Football association for three Malayan Chinese players, to take part in training and trials for (election to China's team for ihe Olympic Oames hi Meljourne, was turned down rerterday. The three Malayan players
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  • 543 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. [N ONE of the best matches of the present meeting, L Bob Lauriston, the 1948 and 1953 winner, en«red the Malayan golf championship final when he >eat Harry Matheson one up over 18 holes In the semi-final today. Lauriston will meet
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  • 243 11 PENANG. Sun. nBRAK re -asserted their K hockey superiority when they beat Penang, last season's North hockey champions. 5-1 in the key match of the Inter-state quadran-. gular meet which concluded on Dato Kramat ground here today. Perak who had lost twice
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  • 126 11 PENANO, Sun. T«HE 15/19U1 Kings Royal Hus- sars "B" put up a surprisingly good performance to beat, the favourites, Selangor "A," In tyie Penang Polo Club Easter tournament final for the Burma-Malaya Cup on the Polo ground here today. The Hussars, who were handicapped by 1,4
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    • 573 11 OF INTEREST TO ADVERTISERS 1 in KUALA LUMPUR, IPOH PEMII i Tht Utttt rimes for handing i n Classified Advartiltmtnti te o ut branch officers at Kwala Lumpyr. Ipoh sad feMiig for publit»'i» n I" rhe reHewlag jjv'i issue of the Straits Tmms j arc *s follows: Penang 3 p.si.,
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    • 474 11 PUZZLE Cat stoat ••ttii Un.i see I MONDAY j Straits Times I WORD PUZZLE 'XX' j Cat our ami pin wirh ether coupon!. Pesting mstractiom appear below. a Nasae "j AsMress I o J L_" hMBI |t|h]T|| nil j ■a 2 I i r i/ ~P~^M HISSING sIE I D|
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  • 430 12 EPSOM JEEP'S EACH-WAY DOUBLE FOR THE SOFT GOING BOTH SHOW PROMISE ON THEIR WEDNESDAY RUN WELL BEING (Race One), a splendid third to Prince David over a mile on Wednesday, and Snow Blaze (Race Six), a capable sprinter on a soft surface, should make a
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  • 223 12 MONEYSMATE (late Thames Fair) gave an impressive display in his initial race last week when he went down by a neck with 7.11 (Baxter claiming 3-lb) to Spider King over a mile. This four-year-old has only to reproduce that running to beat a moderate Class 2
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  • 520 12 riTHERE was a lot of confidence X behind Alikiti last week and he ran far from a bad race to finish a close-up fourth with 8.12 Matrix over 6f. This three-year-old looks a sUying type as a two year-old in England last year he ran
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  • 291 12 MHF team to be picked in August PENANG, Sun. rpHE FEDERATIONS contingent to the Olympic Games In Melbourne In November will consist of 18 hockey players, three weightHfters, two swimmers and tw o competitor* for the shooting events. The Executive Committee of the Malayan Hockey Federation was told this at
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  • 53 12 IPOH, Bun. The 12th Infantry Workshop, RSME, scored their first league soccer win when they beat 3rd fln. The Malay Regiment 6-2 in a Div. 1 match on the ipoh pedant. REME scored through Day (3), Walsh (2), and Cfle«on and Zulklat tot both
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  • 179 12 rpRIWALLA is accepting x and I cannot find anything in the race to oppose him in Race Two. This four year old showed promise in his Initial race, at Buklt Tlmah in February, when he finished a close-up third with 84 to Crawthorne Wood over
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  • 20 12 Baee 1 k Chanticleer Paißriiti Sibber Packer Uoe E. I I 7 D-OE O GBE¥ Or Grey
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  • 1249 12 'THE probable starters and jockeys for today, last day of the Singapore Turf C*ub March/April Meeting, are given below, the Doable Tote will be on Races 3 and 6, Big Sweep on Race 7. Race 1—2.30: Class 4, Div. 3—7 Furs. 1 OSS Jackpot n 6y Donnelly
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  • 679 12 By The Sports Editor FEDERATION had the dice loaded against them at the start of their annual Sportsmen's Trophy soccer match against Singapore at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. They were without their crack centre-forward Abdul Ohani and dangerous left winger Govindarajoo, both
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  • 64 12 JAKARTA, Sun. SINGAPORE'S hockey team O were far too superior for an Indonesian Combined Services side at Bandung today, winning by six goals to nil. Singapore played fast, constructive hockey, and the local players were unable to find an answer to thei: clever moves. The score
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 42 12 At Bukit Timah today THE foinr up to last I Blaie in Race Six. Best eveniiit was still on the I S" I 0 1 Cwwlew In Baee Seven, soft side. The races will not be TODAY'S Best Bet: Snow broadcast today.
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