The Singapore Free Press, 31 January 1951

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1951 PKK 1 UN CENTS,
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    U.N. DELAYS VOTE ON RED CHINA
    415 1 U.N. DELAYS VOTE ON RED CHINA Long debates hold up decision LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. r plK I S. delegate, Mr. Warren R. Austin, last night angrily tailed on the wrangling I .N. Political Committee to stay m session until midnight it necessary ami vote on the American resolution branding Communist
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    'Norubber export control'
    7 1 'Norubber export control' 1 Brinnr»»lv stratPcic Reuter
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    UK forces ask extra grant
    21 1 UK forces ask extra grant the a led and I 00T until N md^et for the rot this ooo.ooo— A. P.
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    Allied advance slowed down
    122 1 TOKYO, Wednesday. VOKTH KOREAN and Chinese Communist forces yesterday struck back hard at advancing United Nations troops, battering them with the heaviest Communist artillery barrage heard m Koiea m three months ied limited wed I by R X of :;re on It was the aid rci
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    STOP PRESS
    71 1 The United Nations Political Committee last night voted 36 to 11 to stop talkins on the China question. It then recessed until .i m today with a final vote expected at the hite night session. A. P. The U.S. battleship Missouri, backed by a powerful ta>k force, began
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    Silent watcher of the night foils burglars
    144 1 LONDON. Wed. A BRITISH inventor, Mi Lee Campbell, has placed a. new obstacle m the path of Britain's hard working burglars. Hp has invented a detector unit so sensitive that it can pick up the sound of a pin dropping 20 yards away.
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    KEVIN IMPROVES
    25 1 The British Foreign SecMr Ernest Bevin. ill patch of pneumonia on cue lung, continues to make good progress, it was announced last night
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    TALK WITH P.M.
    39 1 Mr. V. X Krishna Menon. Indian High Commissioner m London yesterday called on the Prime Minister, Mr. Attiee. It is understood that they had a long talk m the light of the latest Chinese communication. Reuter
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    PM 'aware of Kashmir risk'
    58 1 TH E British government would continue its efforts to bring about a settlement of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, said Mr. Attiee. Prime Minister, yesterday m London. He said: "I have always been conscious of the danger that might arise out of this
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    Roof of world' is Red
    104 1 HONG KONG, Wednesday. THF Chinese Communists who are already claiming 62 000 square miles of Indian and Burmese territory also claimed ownership of Mount Everest the world s highest peak which lies along the Nepal-Tibet border. The Communist newspaper Ta Rung Pao has been running
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    Attlee to ask U.S. about atom bomb
    102 1 THE United Slates wilt be asked to take the wartime British -U.S. -Canadian pact on atomic weapons on* the secret list, said Mr. Attiee Prime Minister, yesterday m London. Mr. Attiee made his statement m response to question* from several members m the
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    DISASTER 'CAUSED BY SHORT PANTS'
    135 1 PORT MORESBY. Wednesday. > NATIVES who survived the Mount Lamington volcano eruption say that missionaries who told them to wear shorts when going to church were to blame for the disaster. The volcano erupted earlier this month and 4,000 natives lost their lives. One who
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    H.K. AIR CHIEF
    24 1 Air Commodore David William Frederick BonhamCarter. former experimental test pilot, has been appointed Air Officer Commanding Hong Kong, from next AprU.
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    Fogarty off to Ceylon
    161 1 Ijie three i« 01 16* police rtcruits p ctured after a passing out parade at the police depot, Kuala Lumpur yesterday. They are left to right: Recruit Abu Bakar (best rifle shot). Recruit Mohamed Salleh (best bren gunner), and Recruit Abdul Rahman (best m school). iiR
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    HUKBALAHAPS AMBUSH CAR
    47 1 HUKBALAHAPS AMBUSH CAR Communist Hukbalahap guerillas killed three Americans m an ambush near Macalelon on the south coast of Luzon yesterday. Two escaped. The five men— a topograohical survey team of the United States 29th Engineers —were travelling m a light car In an isolated area Reuter
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    U.K. 'back to Dunkirk' for huge arms drive
    319 1 LONDON, Wed. BRITAIN' will have to bring back many wartime controls to carry out her new V: 4,700.000.000 arms programme, Prime Minister Mr. C. R. Attiee told the House of Commons yesterday. Among the controls likely are: 1. Compulsory direction of labour
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    'U.S.-China talks could stop war'
    213 1 'U.S. -China talks could stop war' 4 HOUND tabic conference between the I nil- I States and (hina mifcht stop the Korean hi,. said Mr. Kenneth Yountjer, the British Minister 01 State, last night m London. Mr Younger, who is now the senioi the Foreign Office In the absence o\
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    Siam stricter with S'pore smugglers
    17 1 Siam stricter with S'pore smugglers BANGKOK I I pose a st; which have to be b il
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    ARMS TALK
    20 1 Horthern the Bri gramme vas disc v London yesterday bel her Premier. Sir Basil Brook.. Mr AtUee Reuter.
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    STEAMER HOLED
    34 1 The 3.504-tons Kedmah. or.' 1 of Israel's fastest pa ,:ners. was badly h low water level when she hit the wreck oBritish vessel Patiia. lying near a breakwater at Haifa port Reuter
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    a 'brainy' robot
    439 2 The Chapman Pincher Column mar. build a robot mail) with I mine) of lv own nine thai will weigh uo a .situation, reason v mar. -l.sion. act on It :»r i 1 -machine ex;, .t rid b the I l b< I am but t unci robots
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    184 2 BORN toda>. >ou have tremendous personal magnetism. Through *»heer force of energy and ph>sical \igour. you are able to push through a great deal of work m a very short time. You have high ambition^, but a well-de-veloped sense of justice. You expect to be fully rewarded
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    Dr. Charles Hill says Tin goes for the chest
    504 2 Dr. Charles Hill says Tin goes for the chest rpHE word "influenza A can cover a multitude of sins. Some people's colds are always *"flu." or so they say. I suppose it is that, while the ordinary cold Is considered commonplace, 'flu has a dignity all its own. But real
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    A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE SIGNS
    1100 2 A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE SIGNS I AM 27 and want to further my studies. I fi7id it hard to concentrate as I get a headache usually on the right side of the temple, with a nerve pulling from the right forehead to the back of the head. My general health
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      49 2 Solution To Crossword No. 265 SOLUTION— Across: 1, Spar. 4 King. 7, Mecca. 8, Nurse. 9. Good bargain. 11, Cooking pot* 12 Aping. 14,, Rayon. 15. Per; i. led! Down: 2, Piccplo. 3, Road B: 4. Kln4 regaids. S, Nor. 6, Tenny i«on. 7, Magkian. 10. Acolyte. 13 Ire.
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      132 2 New Crossword No. 266 *~i fi pn fi f~i F~ rJktal.-milllz *>* ES A< BOSS I. Parochla] oCSee of Sir P cha^r tm .v a riai la the world ,3. 2" a wfSi a lover' i>" S ne P* <ieer (fit m no nJtV 1 wuis a ;o\er «>.. y
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  • SAFARIS ARE CHEAPER NOW
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      BUCKLEY
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      FAMILY SUICIDE
      8 3 nine m Jaide cyanide j •23-
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      A PRINCES DIES
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      Fear overcomes hunger in rats
      46 3 Los ANGELES, Wednesday. is beta found to be a more compelling: than hung r by psychologists at the rsitj i»t alitornia its conducted at the University show mc >mf citable positions and >d m order to get iuto a more A.P.
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      Pigs lose heifer's milk
      32 3 I Warwick, Queensland, are i oi Iheit milk supply a ni ill was due the ;>u;> the hrifer fretted until they V ben her calf arrived she uave
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      E. Africa's bid for dollars
      388 3 now *iw, LONDON, Wednesday. JJUW about a nice stuffed baboon for that empty lf f orne L. 0 f t the liv »n* room? According to East inni C ti°^, Cial 1 iT London the big game safariion* priced out of range of any but
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      Russia writes Horld history
      40 3 Russia writes Horld history •I A seven -volume "World ory" will be published in--1951-1955 by the USSR Academy of Sciences. Tass agency reported The work will be written by a team of scientists under the direction of academician Boris Grekov.
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      Visitors to be paired-off
      53 3 LONDON WVd. THE British Travel and H A to pair-off visitors to tbfs s Festival of Britain wiih hosts of similar interests. index of likes and dislike* is now being made. M We have had many re- for this sort of pairJflclal a London find account.;
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    GUN LOOSENS SNOW
    30 3 An avalanche which killed people, including three boys. at Berne recently started by mortar fire intended bring down threatening snow on another .slope, it was disclosed. A.P.
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    Girl alleges dream theft
    229 3 Girl alleges dream theft PARIS, Wednesday. PAN dreams be stolen? This question will be decided L soon by a Paris court m what promises to be one >f the strangest trials m the world. Proving that almost anything can happen m Paris a pretty woman artist has sued a beautician
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    COMMUNISTS USING BURMA ROAD
    117 3 COMMUNISTS USING BURMA ROAD HONG KONG. Wed THE Burma Road, China's lifeline to the outside world during World War 11. has been put back into use by the Chinese Communists, it was reported m Hong Kong. The Reds-have cleared away the jungle which crept over the road after it fell
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    Bridge Hand
    356 3 By lain Macleod. MP. JT isn"t easy to give a pottec answer to the correspondent who asks me to explain the (inference between Americas and British expert bidding method. There is m this country a small school of high-ranking experts who play scientific bridge closely related to the
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    ART LOVER SAVES A CAREER
    189 3 ART LOVER SAVES A CAREER photo FLORENCE. Wed. ITALY nearly lost its leading ceramic artist, Guido Gambone. a year ago. Gambone, a poor, one-leg-ged ceramist who never had a spare penny, was struggling along m a cramped, earthfloored shed near Naples. He was convinced Italy held no future for him.
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      113 3 T2kB Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malavn -guess not --"cause us is on try BlOwl Ithe fuse --it's us stand here-- are you crazy? Exclusive to the Singapore Fret Press m Malavn I V»-l OOnTA /--SHE ACCEPTED ME OnW IP SHE WERE i&t j iOOG E B c
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      213 3 RAHIO SINGAPORE (81.l i Nl TWOKK) 10 a.m. News from Sil 10.45 For the Schools; 12 Programmes m Malay; 1 Dance music played by Buzz Adlam Orches 1.30 Time Sighal Mews 1 15 Concert In Miniature; 2 For Schools; 6 Programme Summary; 6.02 Young People's Programme: 6.20 The Radio Orchestra;
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  • The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, Jan. 31. 1951.
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      Unofficials in Council
      255 4 "tin John Laycock is J J always i -h listening to. I yen his !iti«-al opoonents will Unit In SMI, when first flection ie the lative c mini, he effectively iptured the interest! all Singapore for his programme of legislative reforms with the thunderous slogan: •Cimnson M
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      United Nations and Peking
      127 4 Tie world awaits be deepest anxiety Urn >* Lake SueAc United Nadiscussing Communist Chinas actions m s now a foregone conclu- the American reling on the IN to denounce Peking as accepted What fol--01 with 10 Tse-tung appear to be d of the question now. m
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    Lived just like any other British girls
    1196 4 "Lilibet" and Margaret... says Leslie Haynes, reviewing 'The Utile Princesses' by Miss Marion Crawford, Governess to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. OTORIES of the pri- vate lives of the kings and queens of the past have always been regarded Willi a considerable amount
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    Marines Swing it
    242 4  -  FELIX By rHEY lr:cd to make me play only classical, music but I just couldn't. trumpeter Roy Slater of the Band of the R o v a 1 Marines, now m Singapore, will tell you. He Is one of the seven member* of a nine-piece orchestra of
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    It's not so Funny Really
    528 4  - It's not so Funny Really PRESTO Local music topics by >JO one feels the i slightest, bit selfconscious about being seen at a concert. We don't even mind our friends knowing about it. But going 1 0 a gramophone recital is a different matter. Sitting m prim little rows m
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    New Records
    353 4 Tschaikowsky— Capriccio Italien played by the Philharmonia Orchestra (Kletzki). Col. LX 8736-7. This product of Tschaikowsky 's visit to Italy is neither Italian m feeling nor capricious m mood it is pure Tschaikowsky. The tunes are pleasant and the orchestiation is attractive. Much of it, however, seems, m
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    325 4 GOODWILL tour to encourage trade between Indonesia and Singapore is being organised by Mr. Robert Lynn of the Chinese Y.M.CA. Mr Lvnn says this is perhaps the first planned tour of its kind since the liberation. His plan is to guide a party of about 12-men m
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    London a Blackout
    40 4 [ONDON a blackout age Land biting shop vertisemer more devasti m the < the city Piccadilly Circuses Square are less than and cinema! locate, some L< not even find I and the Innoc* pastime of i is denied
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    BLACKOUTS, FLOODS AND BUILDING COSTS
    497 5 BLACKOUTS, FLOODS AND BUILDING COSTS MC 's queries for today's meeting Fret- Press Staff Reporter QUESTIONS regarding the number of c blackouts m Singapore and the cost of building certain staff quarters for Municipal employees will be tabled by Mr. f). Kobertson Progressive— South Ward) at this afternoon's meeting of
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    A Mayor 'in due course'
    15 5 A Mayor 'in due course' I tei H, pone I tie intro--1 toi dd bI
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    FPA ADVICE FOR INDIAN LABOURERS
    182 5 FPA ADVICE FOR INDIAN LABOURERS Free Pros staff Reporter JN order to give birth con~ol advice to Singapore, Idian labourers' families! the Lorong Lalat district, the Family Planning A Delation has asked the Municipal Commissioners permission to use the Municipal dispensary In I are^. once a week from 4.30 p.m.
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    ASST. GAS ENGINEER QUITS SMC SERVICE
    145 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE resignation of another European officer from the Singapore Municipal service has been recommended for acceptance by the Municipal Commissioners. He is Mr. K. Sarvent. Assistant, Gas Engineer. The Public Utilises Committee, which considered the resignation, has proposed that the
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    Skipper of the Fragrant River'
    14 5 |v.\ uteny, rjiwanjl whieai Is u.i> la Den rieaa
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    FIGHTER EXPERTS DUE TODAY
    98 5 A TEAM of experts from the R.A.F/s Central fighter Establishment is due at Changi today for a week's programme of lectures and discussions at Far East Air Force Headquarters and units. Led by the Commandant of the C. F. E.. Air Commodore W. J. Crisham, C.
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    A DREAM THAT CAME TRUE
    115 5 NO ONE perhaps believes that dreams may sometimes come true, but Ng has actually realised his dream. Shortly before the first world w r he dreamt that he would own i run an up-to-date hotel. v, at the age of 54, he has an up-to-date
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    AIR CHIEF FOR CEYLON 'AIR DAY'
    120 5 AIR Marshal Sir Francis Fogarty. Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Air For^e, left Chang] today to fly to Ceylon for the Isla/.d's celebrations of the third anniversary of attaining Dominion status. The celebrations i: elude an "A r Day" programme at Negom'DO R.A.F. Airfield
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    PHANTOM FRUIT' & FLOATING RINGS
    278 5 PHANTOM FRUIT' FLOATING RINGS \7ISITORS to the University of Malaya Science Society's Exhibition this year will see fruit that they will not be able to hold or eat, and magic rings 'floating' m suspension. "Phantom Fruit" are among the displays at the Society's Fourth Annual Exhibition, which will be formally
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    Convocation
    44 5 picture. Si.i FRANKLIN GIMoON, Governor of Singapore and Pro-Chancellor of the University, conferred degrees on five graduates at a special convocation ceremony at the University of Malaya, yesterday. Sir Franklin deputised for the Chancellor, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, who is indisposed. Free Press
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    U.S. VICE-CONSUL
    20 5 The Governor has recognised Mr. Stanley R. Kidder as Vice-Consul of the United States of America m Singapore.
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    COMMISSIONERS CAN BE COUNCILLORS Chisty
    340 5 'With public interests at heart— Free Press Staff Reporter 4 S LONG as he has the interest of the public at heart and is willing to give a portion of his time which he normally devotes to his business or profession, there is no reason
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    NO LICENCE FOR BAYONET
    36 5 Charged with possession of an unlicensed bayonet and a scabbard, Osman bin Bakri, aged 30, pleaded guilty m Singapore yesterday. The case was postponed until Feb. 5. Bail of $500 was fixed.
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    NEW NAME FOR MNF HQRS.
    34 5 From Jan. 1. the name of the shore base of the Malayan Naval Force has been changed from its original ame of m.s. "PELANDOK." to that of m.s. •MALAYA".
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    KEPALA KILLED BY BANDITS
    137 5 JOHORE BAHRU, T: MURDER against per unknown was record ed by the Johore Bahru Coroner after an inquiry regarding the death of a 41-year-old Hylam named Chin Sow, a kepala on Chek Sing Estate. Kulai. Chin Sow lived with his wife and three labourers m a
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    Power house generator to be sent to UK
    148 5 Free Press Staff Reporter T^HE repair m the United Kingdom of one of the turbo-generators at St. James Power Station has been recommended to the Singapore Municipal Electricity Department by the manulacturers of the machine. The Municipal Commissioners will be asked their
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    Education for adults spreads
    204 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE People's Education As- sociation is to set up two new education classes for adults at Pulau Tekong next Monday, Mr. J. Paul secretary of the Association, told the Free Press yesterday. About fifty students have already enrolled for the classes, which
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    Airmen flying to sick relatives
    63 5 DDCAU3E the United Kingdom seriously ill. six airmen fi the Far East Air Force fly to Britain tod The Royal Air Force thonlies have arranged ing periods ol passionate grounds to B| the patients' recov* rv All the airmen v ill be I m England
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    MAIL
    17 5 Surface Brr;'in, N. I Nori b i and the maJ su thr QP.O i for G
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    savitt beats McGregor
    72 6 DICK SAVITT of the United States won the men's singles title m the Australian lawn tennLs championships Sydney yesterday, beating Australian. Ken McGregor. 6-3. 2-6, 6-3. 6—l. Savitt is the third American to win the Australian t.il^. The others were F. B. Alexander m 1908 and Donald
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    Razor killer was trailed across the sea
    1426 6  -  Ex-Superintendent by ROBERT FABIAN MARY CI-ARKE was afraid of the new lodger's raaor long before she could have known he vas J4'»ing to cut her throat with it When he began fo shave she IkIT! to htin horn his room and wait IremMinfl
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    ONLY MALAY IN WORLD CLASS
    243 6  - ONLY MALAY IN WORLD CLASS ROGER YUE Asian Games contenders ..13 By r ON bin Mohd. Noor, one of the five weightlifters chosen to represent Singapore at the Asian Games, has been described by Chia Tian Teck, their official trainer, as "the one and only Malay who has come anywhere
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    Boxer Shing, but scrum half Leong
    150 6 Boxer Shi ng, but scrum half Leong T IGHTWEIGHT Jerry Ibbotson, Cambridge University boxing captain from Clare, may be calling on a Chinese for the annual match against Oxford University at Cambridge on March 8. He is K. Shirg Leong— known as Shing when he boxes, as Leong when he
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    LOSS TO UK RUGGER
    123 6 LOSS TO UK RUGGER ARTHUR Trollops whose death took oiace last week at the age of 75 after a long illness, put into Rugby more than he had ever taken out. His record is one of unremitting service to the game. He was helped m all his activities by his
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    Choongs' badminton challenge
    352 6 F. P. London Correspondent ONE OF THE interesting questions to be answered during the English badminton season is whether E. L. Choong one of three Malayan Chinese brothers now m England, will keep the county titles he won last year. The task has been made more difficult
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    AUSTRALIAN RUGBY TEAM FOR U.S.
    76 6 AUSTRALIAN RUGBY TEAM FOR U.S. An Australian Rugby Union team will tour America at the end of the next football season, unless war breaks out, according to the president of the Australian Rugby Union, Mr. Justice Herron. Mr. Justice Herron. who just visited America, said a group of Rugby Union
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    'Gland Road' for Leeds
    145 6 TM.LAND Road, famous Xj locality of I^eeds United football Club, could well be renamed Gland Road following the successes which have attended recent matches played by the club. It has become known that the players have been having: regular glandular tonic treatment, which is not surprising
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    SINGAPORE XI ONE GOAL BETTER
    550 7  - SINGAPORE XI ONE GOAL BETTER CRUSADER By picture. Result of games m Manila yyiir__N the Singapore Amateur Football Association touring team returns to the Colony early next month "they will be at least one goal better than last year." This opinion is expressed by Mr. R. R. I. Pates, honorary
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    Dogs cause mishap in KL track work
    164 7 Dogs cause mishap in KL track work well dur'nn his m*ron Highlands. H»- w.ts •dow work Breton appeal! to have trained «m nicely since Penan* Ridden by B c trotted and tried. Mlwmtti. s, ridden by Bagby, >n trie number four track. He h.is made good progress <:m> hi Penang
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    Hockey final tomorrow
    103 7 Hockey final tomorrow r pHE rinal of the Singapore X Hockey Association's knockout competition will be ed tomorrow on the Padang at 515 pm. Between SRC Reds and C. G E N. Oehlers. wife of the president of the S.H.A., will give away the Oehlers Cup to the winners and
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    HOTSPURS v. VICTORIANS
    83 7 gINGAPORE Hotspurs, the soccer team made up entirely of teen -aged players. today play their first game of the season when they meet Victoria School at Victoria School ground. Hotspurs are preparing for their debut this season m the S.A.F.A. League, Third Division. Players include: W. Skinner.
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    BANK CLEARK'S BID TO LIFT 400 Lb.
    79 7 OYDNEY bank clerk Ken McDonald. 22. hopes to be the first, man m the world weighing 2001 b. to lift twice his weight abo\e his head. H> holds the Australian lightbeavyweight record of 3621 b. and also set the previous record of 3501
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    'Saints' beat Signalmen
    151 7 THE rive teams which sur- vived yesterday's seven-a-side rugby games m the Singapore Cricket Club's tournament were R.N.A.S. Sembawang "A". St Andrew's "A" Green Howards. Johore *A and G.H.Q "B\ St. Andrews' ran rings round their burly opponents and proved themselves unequalled Sot stamina. They were playing
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    SPORTS
    86 7 PROMOTER Wally Oakes has decided to postpone Friday's boxing programme to Feb. 18. The reason is that Mating Thaung, the "Burme>e Flash." has caught a chill and is not expected to be at his best until he has fully recovered. He is to fight Bobby Njoo m the main
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    FLASHES
    73 7 Sheikh Mustapha. of Negri Semhilan. who was chosen as vice-captain, becomes captain automatically. Chcong For U.K. CtHEONG HOCK LENG, the > 1950 Singapore badminton singles champion, will b^ competing at the allEngland championships at London m March. His own party. Eclipse, will be financing the trip. His entry is
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    INDIAN R.C. OFFICIALS
    96 7 THE annual general meeting of the Indian Recreation Club was held on Sunday. Following were elected office-bearers for 1P51: Patrons. Mr. Mohamed All Allapitchay. Mr. S. X Jagathesan. Mr. Oli Mohamed; president. MrA. P. Rajah: vice-presidents. Messrs. D. K. Samy and M. Ramasamy; hon. secretary. Mr. P.
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    Award to Hogan
    48 7 Bon Ho^an. who surprised the sports world by surviving a serious car smash, stunned them by walking again, and then amazed all by recapturing the national open golf championship, has been n. uned "the most courageous athlete" of 1950 by the Philadelphia Sports Writers' Association.
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    SWIMMERS' DANCE
    24 7 The Chinese Swimming Club will be holding a Dance on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 9 00 P m. to 1 30 am.
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    UNKNOWN
    34 7 picture. A 'v fmM> ('.";*<s Ger* b as he daO.es down the left wing for the Singapore Engineer Regiment m yesterday's Fraser and Neave Cup Rugby final 'Singapore District) at Tanelin. Free Press
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    CHINESE WASTE CHANCES
    190 7 CHINESE WASTE CHANCES SINGAPORE Cricket Club succeeded m qualifying for the final of the Singapore Hockey Association's knockout competition when they beat the Chinese on the Padang yesterday. It was the third replay and, as m the previous three games, S.C.C. gained a onegoal lead through Mclnroy m an exciting
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    REME CIVILIANS
    43 7 tpOLLOWING will represent R E M E Civilian Sports Association at soccer against 8.0.D.CA. at St. George's Road ground today: Jaffa, Mohammed, Dias, Lee Chong Meng H. Chamarette, Yew Chien, Boon Fook. Quintas, Kang Chang Seng\ Fattah, A. Fattah, Saleh, Ism\.
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    M.C.C. READY TO BLUNDER AGAIN
    160 7 J^ATEST suggestion regarding the M.C.C. "Blunderland" tour Is perhaps the most fantastic so far, writes Harold Mayes. After having made the mistake of virtually wasting a couple of thousand pounds by sending out Roy Tattersal] and Brian Statham with the rubber already lost, some bright
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    Today's Sport
    36 7 RICiBV: To-.ce v Nee Soon Harrison at Nee Soon; G.H.Q Farelf v H.M.S. Terror at Tallin; R.A.F. Chanfi r R.A.F. Seletar at Seletar; R.A.F < h»nj;i 2nd XV v R.A.F. Seletar 2nd XV at Chanfi.
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    WRIGHT TAKES 4 MORE FOR 47
    294 7 TiHREE days before the fourth Test Douglas Wright showed improved form to take all four secondinnings wickets of South Australia which fell before the close of play yesterday. South Australia, with six wickets remaining, require 187 runs for victory over the M.C.C on the
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    F&N CUP WIN FOR RASC 'A'
    335 7 F&N CUP WIN FOR RASC 'A picture. Free Press Rugby Reporter 2EVEN MEN had a hand m the winning tr y for R.A.S.C. "A" in the Singapore District I rascr and Neave final against Singapore Engineer Kegiment at Tanglin Barracks yesterday. The R.A.S.C. will now represent the district against Malaya
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    CHAMPIONS TO CLASH
    197 7 Boxing news DROMOTER Reg Km- yesterday he would oft< r 1 over C.3.000 to winner of the Feb. 23 v femthet welfrht title botr New York between chanv Sandy Saddl-r i r,d 1 c Pep. King war. ;s to match ci Pep or Saddler at'; insl winner
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    Try out for Games weightlifters
    61 7 Try out for Games weigh tlifters THE five Colony weightlif! contestant for I Games at Delhi m March prove their mettle at a I on Saturday at 4 pm. at Happy World. Mr. B. L. Dunst- rri pi ent of the Singapore Anu. Weightliftlng Federatl the Free Presi tl the
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      58 7 A_*^k^A Jl£^ 4_f€r3 y<§^ 3sHM^ vg&» _Ar*_,6*_wi- loaJL^c^. m*o—u a«* NEAGLE _w, HOWARD T tT'l-Il? v^ S-aa fe_k' I MI- ___PPi^^k ■H*^__. <4___^ y» _^___M_t. Diatributed by Shaw Broo., Ltd. ™E TRUE. TH RILLING SAGA OF A VERY BRAVE MAN WOMAN PARACHUTED BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES IN WORLD WAR II
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    French Reels aid rebels in Saigon
    88 8 HANOI. W"d FRENCH Communists have taken over at least partial direction of rebel V vitios In Cochin China, pro-French Vie They said -he Communist I >n m being dire h Commui nenl was ble big i;! 1 m Cochin Ch invnt difficult m Tonkin
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    WITH US.
    389 8 Pleven: 'Oppose Communism WASHINGTON, Wednesday. FRENCH Prime Minister M. Rene Pleven said 1 yesterday that France will stand by the side of the United States against Communism as your ally, and not just a fair weather friend M. Pleven told the National Press Club m Washington last night.
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    U.N. ERITREA TALKS OPEN
    33 8 Senor Eduardo Matierzo. United Nations Commissioner for Eritrea, yesterday began talks with the Foreign Office on carrying out the General Assembly's decision to transfer British-Adminis-tered Eritrea to Ethiopia.— A.P.
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    Rubber for Europe's Reds
    105 8 LONDON. Wed WESTERN Germany ha* entered the rubber trade picture as a transit point for rubber to countries behind the Iron Curtain, the Financial Times reports. Statistics show that during 1949 and m the first nine months of 1950 about 1.000 tons of Malayan rubber and
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    SPAAK SEES NO WAR
    58 8 Mr. Paul Henri Spaak. former Belgian Prime Minister, does not foresee any war between the East and the West. Russia, he says, knows it cannot beat the United States. "The only reason for war." h<* told a press conference at San Francisco, "is Russia's desire to
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    18 8 Australian miners' leaders failed to decide yesterday whether to defy a Government ban on their threatened strike- Reuter
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      TEXTILES REACH DULL SEASON
      187 8 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Stock Exchange was quietly irregular, digesting the Government statement on Britain s rearmament programme, states Keuter's financial correspondent. British Funds encountered a steady stream of small sales and declined by a quarter Industrials wore maintain- __J ed apart from textiles which were dull.
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      COLD WAVE GRIPS U.S.
      59 8 More than 20 people have died m America's worst cold wave of the winter. The deaths were due to accidents on icy roads, exposure to cold, falls of ice and ileighing accidents. Hundreds suffered injuries. Schools were closed m many areas m the East by ice
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    HE SAID 'YES' ONLY ONCE
    219 8  -  SWANSEA, Wednesday. FROM the time 11 years ago when he said "Yes to Authority, Diaper Lloyd has said "No." Drapei Lloyd 63-year-old David Mathias Lloyd was In court about it all m Swansea, Wales. stipendiary magistrate heard that. HE SAID NO to paying Mies: the
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    PRASAD PAYS RESPECTS
    57 8 President Rajendra Prasad of India plied a spinning wheel yesterday with crowds of his fellow citizens commemorating the third anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. He and thousands of Delhi citizens made a pilgrimage to Raj ghat, the spot on the banks, of the sacred river
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    26 8 H.K. MONEY Yesterday's closing prices on the Hong Kong Money Exchange were HK$5.9O/5.90'4 per U.S. dollar. HK115.30 per pound sterling. HK5323.5 per tael of gold. U.P.
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    31 8 YUGOSLAV SHOT The "little hot war" on Yugoslavia's borders with its Cominform neighbours flared up again yesterday when a Yugoslav guard was shot and seriously wounded by two Albanian soldiers.— A.P.
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    Home Guard for Siam
    46 8 SIAM has decided to or* an ise a Home Guard Units of the Guard, which will be trained m air raid precautions. guarding, supplying the military, antiespionage and police work w ill be set ud initial. v m eight strategic provinces. A.P.
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    Musso 's cook wouldn't write
    275 8 ROME, Wednesday. PORTY-SEYEN-YKAR-OLD Mario Ercoli, who Benito Mussolini's cook for 18 years recently had his picture m the newspapers. He refused to write his memoirs He turned down a pit r's offer v. Ah a shrug and the remark that he could cook the best
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    13 Nazis may not die
    81 8 FRANKFURT, Wtd. 'pHE U.S. High Commissioner, Mr. John McCloy, has decided to commute the death sentences of most of the Nazi war criminals under his jurisdiction at Landsberg prison, reliable sources said yesterday. They said he had decided at the same time to order the
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    M.C's queries
    145 8 Continued from page 5 erection of buildings abutting on a street. He requests a list of locations subject to flooding within the Municipal area, and wishes to know what steps have been taken from year to year since the war to improve the actuation. When waa the laat
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    British coa stocks at dangerleve
    6 8 British coa stocks at dangerleve A.P.
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    NAVIES KILL 24,500 REDS
    4 8 NAVIES KILL 24,500 REDS
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    NO DECISION YET
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      4 1 CHINESE NEW YEAR Supplement
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      Going, Going GONE!
      528 1 Going, Going GONE! ..i- lilt) i >ne, r tv fifty ihree, fifty ng, going, »wn went h.-nn-I ihe anxious i !::.'si;m WO- smile <>t doted der iiidich m hoes. I bei i ipered nge d round to and ared from igh wiped Eae h her Liau Nyuk Oi finds a
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      ARTIST IS BUSY PAINTING FOR A BRIGHT NEW YEAR
      518 1  -  C.S. CHEN by I f» i I* 1 1 public will see realistic In a (_ieylang studio he makes names inside the figure. dragons, sods and fairies. P^ fJOLOURFUL models of dragons, phoenixs, wispy fairies and a huge Philistine god are
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      THE KITCHEN COD
      524 1  -  M. T. LEONG By j\ OD A V Chinese A families all over Singapore are putting m their last minute effort m sending off their kitchen gods. Strictly speaking the kitchen god left yesterday afternoon That was the time when mosjt Chinese had their worship to mark
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      'Green grass doctor' of Chinatown
      329 1  - 'Green grass doctor of Chinatown A. S. JEE By ON one side of a shop m China Street, there are eolieeted and arranged m a wooden rack almost cv imaginable species of green leaf, lallang. wood sorrel, reed, creeper and plain grass. Sitting beside this sea of green is an
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        20 1 TOLLEYS ___4 Ij BRANDY t/te perfect toast for the (New Year! McALISTER CO., LTD. Kuala U»pur M" P« MB 9
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      'PRESENTING THE YEAR' GIFTS
      414 2  -  A. S. Lee No personal touch m By IN the Western world people buy suitable gifts for ore another once a yeai at Christmas. Chinese do the same a week before their New Year calling the occasion "presenting the Year" The sending of these gifts. however,
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      Also on London stage...
      89 2 is Diana Wong, Chiese princess who was born m Ipoh. Diana, daughter of Mr. Siong Yew Wong, member of an old Chinese family |r Foochow. is a well known actress and singer. She is currently appearing at the Finsbury Park Empire as the Principal Girl m
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        MENTAL OBSTACLE
        1387 3  -  ROBERT WAUGH She thought insanity was hereditary. Jack's father was In an asylum. What about Jack? A short story by jyjKl Ying watched breathlessly as he poised on the high board, his perfect physique silhouetted against the blue of the tropic sky, before he leaped into the air.
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        Happy children
        421 3  -  Stephen Sim MOUNT ERSKINE SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE TEACHES says TN the heart of Singapore's crowded Chinatown, situated on a pleasant hill, is the Mount Erskine Social Welfare Centre, one of the largest of its kind. The Centre boasts of a membership of over 200. All are Chinese children
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      Chinese are the world's best cooks
      491 4 Chinese are the world's best cooks Bill Webb Jones has eaten m Europe, and the Middle East but he thinks, I HAVE eaten the food of London, Paris, Havre, Lille, Hamburg, Berlin, Berne, Milan and other European cities. I have eaten the food of the Middle East. But to find
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      They Cobble all day
      282 4 SINGAPORE'S shoe shine 003 s are any thing but a rtsemblano of their Cnattanoogit counterparts. They don' sing and they don' "pop their rags m thi air". They aren't bovi at all but are dull, uninteresting cobbler who combine shoemending with shoeshining. These cobblers are founc
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      Cosmetics, but no Perfume
      318 4 Cosmetics, but no Perfume I ILY Tan is one of the smartest Chinese women about town. Her dress sense is keen and dramatic, her grooming impeccable AH the latest aids to beauty have been sampled b y her with admirable results. But there is an extraordinary, almost unbelievable, omission m
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      Chinese women in a 'Gold Rush'
      539 5 Cragsmen toil for into the night making jewellery for... r IERE'S a glitter n :lu eyes <>t si women shopparing for Vw War and .1 and ;myhal looks lite th< shape of i i eaget bunshuffle ampacked ps. bar- n shop choosing w-gaws and
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      WHEN A NAME IS MORE THAN A NAME
      408 5  -  STEPHEN SIM By The gods have to be consulted and their advice sought 4 IE 15 more than me to a ronserYou will what I )U know md th accomnt's deoihild. is a •ften com- some cirKWt tO id their *o whether
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      Diana is Principal Girl
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      They eat dog flesh
      203 5 They eat dog flesh I HAVE known Chinese *to eat birds' nests, dog-flesh, cat -soup, turtle, snakes, eels, tigers and rats. But when I was told that they also eat cockroaches, I found it hard to oeiieve. > Yet it is true. The Chinese believe that cockroaches have medicinal value
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      WHY IT HAS RAINED SO MUCH?
      410 5  -  A. S. LEE DO YOU KNOW By JJO you know why it has rallied almost daily lately, days? You may think that it is the monsoon, but no, to a Chinese mind it is spring and spring-cleaning time for the God of Thunder. He
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      New Look at temples
      116 5 "T)ESPITE many of the < present-day Chinese j going modern, they have not changed their devotional I habits very much. It is not unusual to see g soignee women m '"New Look" dresses, alighting j from streamlined limousines J during the festival season and going to
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      QUIZ
      117 6 1. Why are the trade winds so called? 2. When you look out to sea, how far away is the horizon? 3. What are spring and neap tides? 4. At what spot In the world can a man look only south? Answers are below. ANSWERS:— 1. Because they blow
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      The Mad One Did Not Lie
      1544 6  - The Mad One Did Not Lie John K. Jones By When Sen, the watchmaker, died all the evidence implicated Lim, his brother. They had quarrelled. And the Mad One said Lim was with Sen when he died. "I saw him" she said, and she believed it. [IM sat m his
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      GOOD SAMARITAN OF CHINATOWN
      373 6  -  A. S. Lee By AN old bedraggled woman enters a shop m ("ceil Street known as Chop Bian Teck. She speaks to a stumpy, old man of about 50, who listens to her attentively, and is then asked to give her name and address to the
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      The girl barber is in demand
      323 7 £RYING children; an 82 yea r-o 1 d grandfather; a Police inspector and a shop assistant are some of the people who have been given the traditional new hair cuts for the coming Chinese #ew Year by attractive 18 year young Singapore girl barber
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      IN DEMAND
      22 7 v meUU candlesticks and tin containers lor joss-sticks. They are anion? the most wanted commodities for the Chinese Nen ar.
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      CANDY MAKERS
      55 7 Beaming :><>-> ear-old Aug Koh Lay and two assistants cut up 150 melons a day m a sundry shop m Chinatown t<> make "tang kua" candy for Chinese New Year. The fruit is first cut up into small pieces; cooked m water and then sprinkled with sugar. Chinese
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      He Paints New Year Greetings
      299 7 AS the Chinese New Year Festival approaches, the dingy walls of Singapore's Chinatown are splashed with a g^ay red. Slips of paper bearing messages of prosperity and Rood luck are hung up by pavement artists to be sold to the thousands of celebrants. These slips
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      The BBC Chinese Section
      246 8 The BBC Chinese Section THE British Broadcasr- ing Company has been broadcasting daily programmes m Cantonese and Kuoyu for nearly 10 years. Letters from Chinese correspondents, not only from China and South-East Asia, but from all parts of the world testify to the value of these programmes. They are listened
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