The Singapore Free Press, 10 January 1952

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 18,285. SINGAPORE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS.
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  • 181 1 WE SHALL FIGHT MAO ATTACK JUIN NEH YORK, Thurs. r ;!V(H General Alphonse .luin told the press here? crelav that the aim of the forthcoming Southeast 1 conference in WashMi was to "establish i| strategic bases in .iiv. eastern Asia* with l United States. r.i! Juin. who is heading country's
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  • 67 1 M GEORGES BIDAULT IW the Catholic Republi- last night accept- Q1 Auriol's invita- M form a new I i::d end the M crisis I was offered the S cialist Henri Pineau. Gaullist .-calie and Inde- Revnauld said •-> to Mr. Auriol's Ima a new sov- -month-old
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  • 13 1 CR UISE R FO R MALTA K British cruiser, LiverMalta for Port Reuter
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  • 721 1 Churchill, Truman agree joint steps needed WASHINGTON, Thursday. jy|R. CHURCHILL and President Truman have recognized that "the over-riding need to counter the Communist threat in the Far East and South-East Asia transcends such divergencies as there are in our policies toward China." They
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  • 282 1 SAIGON, Thursday. pOLICE here last night detained the Vietnamese A owner of a car containing: one of the time bouUis that rocked Central Saigon killing: three people and injuring 35 earlier yesterday. They said he was being held with a number of other
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  • 83 1 Premier meets old friend in New York MR CHURCHILL arrived in New York by train yesterday to spend two days with his old friend, the American elder statesman Bernard Baruch. Churchill, 77, and Baruch, 81 friends through 35 years of international crises, shook hands warmly on the Pennsylvania station platform
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  • 178 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. T*HE United States formally demanded last night that Russia account for the hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese prisoners of war captured in World War 11. The State Department said a formal note has been submitted to the Russian Foreign Office in
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  • 76 1 Free Press Staff Reporter EIGHT women, all Chinese/ were injured and admitted to hospital yesterday. Four were hrurt when a hut collapsed at the junction of Pasir Panjang Road and Alexandra Road. Three were involved in an assault case, and two fights, and one was a
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  • 43 1 picture. AN AIR PHOTOGRAPH showing Malacca beneath the flood waters. In the centre of picture are two Malays fishing in the hope of catching fish which have swum inland. Ricefields (upper left) are totally submerged by water. Free Press
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  • 182 1 ISMAILIA, Thursday. ORITISH troops yesterday crossed a canal in assault boats to raid an Egyptian village after three convoys had been ambushed. The village, El Mahsama, on the important road link from Ismailia to Tel El Kebir, was then the t scene of a pitched
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  • 226 1 50 INCHES AT KOTA TINGGI Free Press Staff Reporter KOTA TINGGI, on JohoreMersing Road, is under 4ft 2 inches of water and the road beyond is impassable for any kind of vehicular traffic. The road to Kota Tinggi is also flooded at the sixth mile, near Tebrau. Only heavy lorries
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  • 37 1 The Commissioner-GeneraJ for South-East Asia, Mr. MacDonald, spent the weekend in Medan for an informal visit. Mr. MacDonald met high authorities and leaders from trade and industry circles during his 48 hours' stay.—
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  • 73 1 LONDON, Thurs. J*HE expanding- Malay regiment urgently needs officers, the War Office said here last night. It invited former officers of the late Indian Arjny to apply for re-employ-ment in the Malay Regiment. A big increase in special pay for service with this regiment was introduced
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  • 73 1 WHEN a wooden case, containing watches and foiled gold wrist straps, which had been stored at Kalian? Airport, was taken out from the store yesterday, the case was founi to hjive The ca.se had been stored at the Airport since its arrival in the Colony from
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  • 26 1 A medium sized sunspot detected yesterday is expected to cause some deterioration in radio conditions and in particular on Janus rv 13 and Reuter
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  • 118 1 BSRKEO WANTS 10,000 INDIAN SETTLERS NEW DELHI. Thurs. THE Government of British North Borneo has asked tine Indian Government to permit the emigration of 10.000 Indians with their famillPS for permanent settlement in iu territory, it was learned here last night. Thf> Borneo Government, which has stated its preference for
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  • 45 1 The New Yo|± Herald- Tribune said editorially yesterday that the latest drop In Britain's gold and dollar reserves should not be mis~ read because "British economy is infinitely more shipshape than it W2us in 1947, and far more even than in 1949." A.P.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 102 1 Wfmkb PHONE ***** 6IN(.APOKI BLOOD IS STILL URGENTLY HEEDED Ifl n 11 I DONORS REQUIRED Every month hundreds of accidents are admitted to hospital. Nearly all those injured require a blood transfusion to set then on the road to health. Before and after operations patients are given a blood transfusion
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  • 1184 2  - The Thrill Of The Circus Ring GEORGE MALACOLM THOMSON m\ A Seat at the Circt? by Hippesley Coxe. Evans. SOON after visiting this country, youn^ Richard Risley, dashing American acrobat, staged an act in which for the first time in the recorded history of the circus, human beings were tossed
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  • Article, Illustration
    45 2 Miss Flora Robson who was awarded the C.B.E. in the New Year Honours seen in her dressing room at a London theatre where she is appearing in Shakespeare s "A Winter's Tale." The cast some of whom are exNaval officers, promptly clubbed her "Commander Robson.
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  • 282 2 PHANTOM WAS THERE, R.J.T. HILLS, ARNOLD. |T has been said that a good regiment is apt to go into literature when the wars are over. This is an account of a semi-official mission to the French and Belgian armies in France in 1939; a small "regiment",
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  • 127 2 Six books— and she's only 24 npHERE is a young writer X in Enzland whose output shows every sign of rivalling that of th e formidable triumvirate Denise Robins, Ruby M. Ayres, and Maysie Grieg. Her name is Roberta Leigh. At 24 she has already sold half a dozen romantic
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  • 341 2 I The price Revolution i by D W. Brogan. (Ha- I mish Hamilton). Professor Brogan s "Development of Modern i France" is not only one of the most informative s out the, most readable i and entertainina books i of its kind. Here he i examines the history
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  • 128 2 THE SMALL MIRACLE. By Paul Gallico Michael Jeseph. Pleasantly sentimental trifle concerning: an Italian boy whose donkey, condemned to die, will recover only if he can take it to the tomb of St. Francis at Assisi THE SPENDTHRIFTS. By Perez Galdos, Weldenield and Nicolson. Classical Spanish novel.
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  • 170 2 rpHE U.S. prohibitionist J. party have nominated a Presidential candidate. He is Stuart Hamblen, a cowboy evangelist who believes the worfd's troubles will disappear if the demon drink is avoided. Hamblen, who proclaims that he wa s an alcoholic until he saw the light wants
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 207 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have a Consequently, no one knows rather complex nature what you are going to do ahead —one quite difficult to define. of time. This gives you a cerYou are sympathetic to the tain unpredictables You needs of others and are de- have a good
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    • 170 2 ARTIE'S HEADLINE (Us*- Solution To Crossword No. 555 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.— Across: 1, Petal. 4, Scot. 8, Ocean. 9, Loire. 10, Feet Of clay. 11, Light music. 14, Cheap. 15, Green. 16. Note. 17, Cases. Down: 1, Proof. 2, The Regiment. 3, Land of Hope. 3, Cuirassiers. 6, Troe 7, Black
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  • 311 3 Wild scramble for 'boffins THE Cabinet has ordered such a speed-up of re--1 armament for 1952 that it has touched off the wildest scramble to find "boffins" for defence work since 1940. Hundreds of new defence jobs are offered today in the technical Press. Engineers
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  • 214 3 Girl artist lived on two meals a week I LONDON, Thurs. mm j L. PRATT, West \l -rider, stipendiary maite was confronted with 4 Bohemian Hfe from fIU^II the London n him stood 18- yearMiss Phyllis Mary Hanl struggling artist. Her ryer H. A. Oliver, t id sfe was living
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  • 64 3 U.N. 'MU ST MEET IN NEW YORK' I American spokesman in I said that his governoold strongly oppose ig 'he next session of Suited Nations General A *c ;:v outside New York. Hw holding of Presidential elfcti m should have no he Assembly, but, X :ajority of members P i
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  • 26 3 :.e Dionne. 18-year-old 9i the Dionne quinhaa applied for ad- :o become a clolsteriat the Trapplstine nastery at St. Quebec.
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  • 18 3 Allen, United idor at Bel- an agi e- unic co-opera-tHe Yugoslav f r, Mr. Kdward Reuter
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  • 111 3 LONDON, Thius ]V|ORE than 1.000 ships are I*l being built in British yards, and 1951 is expected to set up a record for orders. Some yards will take four years to complete orders already on the books. Mr. J. Ramsay Gebbie, president of the Shipbuilding Conference,
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  • 21 3 A number of people have been arrested a:*, or discovi i I a plot against Portugal's present regime-- Reuter
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  • 172 3 He urns given blood of wrong group LONDON, Thurs. A 68-year-old man died soon after a blood transfusion. He was given blood of the wrong group, it was said at the inquest. Miss Margaret Hawkins told the Portsmouth coroner that on the day before the patient Herbert Christopher Staples, was
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  • 48 3 Mr. William Henry Dean, 41, chief of the African unit of the United Nations division of Economic Disability and Development, was found dead in the gas-filled apartment of his father-in-law, Dr. Channing H. Tobias, in New York. Police said it was apparently suicide.- A.P.
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  • 269 3 LONDON, Thursday. A FORTNIGHT after joining up two Regular Army recruits maimed themselves by each shooting a finger off their own right hands. They did it, courts-martial decided at Shrewsbury, to render themselves unfit for Army service. One of them. Private Stanley James Eaton, 17 of
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  • 158 3 ATHENS, Thvrs. fRETE'S modern Romeo v shed no salty tears over the loss of his lovely Juliet. Instead, says he, it was a great relief "for me and my family. 91 "I only feel very sorry for having loved so much a woman without heart, without feelings
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  • 32 3 French High Commissioner and C-in-C in Indo-China. 'General de Lattre de TasI signy. has received a message from Emperor Bao Dai wishing him prompt recovery from his recent operation.— A.F.P.
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  • 281 3 An American eats enough for two soldiers LONDON, Thursday. HPHE average American eats more than 61b. of food A a day twice the full British Army ration. This was the discovery of 16 men who went to the U.S to study dried-food production. Says the team: "We were struck by
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  • 237 3 SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, Thurs: CIOUTHEND -ON SEA Cor>3 poration, who in 1940 banned the employment of conscientious objectors, and reaffirmed the decision in August 1951, have now end d the ban. Their decision came after discussions with the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and
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  • 26 3 The Chinese authorities have disbanded the 9,000 strong, old fashioned Tibetan Army and raised a small armed force of speciallytrained young Tibetans. Reuter
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  • 33 3 The number of jobs in Australia is declining, according to figures released by Acting Commonwealth. Statistician S. R. Carver. They showed a drop of 5.800 in employment in one month. Reuter-AAP.
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  • 26 3 The Philippines Central Post Office at Manila *-?.td that it gtill has on hand undistributed 1.000 bags of mail received during the Christmas holidays.- A.P.
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  • 24 3 Five Poles one a former Royal Air Force N.C.O.— were ntpncpd to death in Warsaw r spying for America, .varsaw Radio reported
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 178 3 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Maiava I Tl \MA»O*AKE6EMKS~m rA I Ygft HOIgjMEi gagjg^ I |KSS| 1■ fREEIES'-UNABLEJOMOVE- JfKU U^ONSCipU5 fe TH Y_ WR.^ jVQ J^ WHAT 15 L-TWCKE LIP, Mah l SOW gw PLAs l!L^.!g£;^-J THEY TURN ME f-^i^~ IMS? AM PftUVICSAVSIGOTTA --8&T THE VOICE INTO
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    • 266 3 BUCKLEY fh gfgf gf 'YIPES WON A TURKEY AT THE CHURCH BAZAAR BACK IN THE STATES'" Radio SINGAPORE 1.00 p.m. Lteht Music Medley Carl Chandler Orchestra; 133 Time Signal News; 1.45 Dance Music played by Leighton Nebie Orchestra: Close; 5.00 Pr>praminc Summary: 6.17 Calling All Hospitals with requests for patients;
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  • 575 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Jan. 10, 1952. Malaya's dollars IT is unlikely that Malaya will escape the dollar cuts which are bound to follow the Commonwealth Finance Ministers conference on the sterling area crisis which will open in London next week. The area as a whole has been spending
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  • 1078 4  - Mr Truman's Troubles Are Many O. H. BRANDON By Disclosures of corruption and graft in Government departs ments loom large in the public eye, but the President may recall the Tea-Pot Dome scandal of Republician days and take comfort thereby fTHE intricacy of modern Government lends itself to corruption. The
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  • 771 4  -  POLITICO jßy "fOMICS", u funnies'» or "strips'' which are now the most-read features in American newspapers were started originally for the entertainment of children. But if they were to cease tomorrow the yelps of dismay would come not from the children but the grownups. It is
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  • 758 4  - The Astonishing Story of Laszlo Sarvary PETER KIRK From the City of Zithers, Richard McEwen tells... By During Hie past three year* in the ravaged city of Vienna, where four Creat Powers keep suspicious vigil, 91 people are "officially" known to nave been kidnapped by secret agents working for Russia
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  • 660 4 NEW FIRST SEA LORD WAS BLOWN INTO THE SEA Being in the thick of things during the Sicily landings nearly cost Sir Roderick McGrigot his lite bat it won him a D.5.0., says Gerald Pawle mand at the Admiralty, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser hands over to Admiral Sir
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  • 186 5 Houses go up for squatters from Paya Lebar Free Press Staff Reporter has started at the Bedok resettlement area on the first batch of prefabricated houses for farmer-squatters who have to quit Paya Lebar airport site. Singapore Government is providing 20 houses in this area. Farmers
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  • 56 5 SINGAPORE Chinese barbers will increase their charges for hair-cuts by 50 cents from Jan. 16. The increases will apply .to all three grades of hair-dressers who now charge $2, $1.50 and $1. The increase was announced yesterday by the Chinese Barbers' Association. It gave the higher
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  • 74 5 DR. S. C. HWA photographed at a tea party at Capitol Restaurant yesterday speaking about the organisation of a creche at Balmoral Road for Singapore Chinese children. The building chosen is being reconstructed. The creche which will accommodate 50 children, will be opened in May, if
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  • 76 5 Singapore Police/ will hold a variety concert at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow, to foster better relations between the police and the public A novel item on the programme will be the rendering of Chinese orchestral music by the Chenh Hua Amateur Musical Association. Mr.
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  • 95 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thur. UMNO's Youth Section will hold their half-yearly conference this year at Batu Pahat on Feb. 2. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Johore Bahru branch of the Youth Section held on Monday, with Inche Yusoff Basha presiding,
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  • 175 5 hy»> Prt3 S Staff Reporter rl j SI J arms' Power Stad in Keppel Road, SinD re which has supplied citf with electricity for pa^t 25 years, will close in about four years, if i councillors follow the oJ the Electrical En- c
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  • 123 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MR Justice Knight, newlyappointed judge of the Singapore Supreme Court, told a reporter yesterday: •This is the first time I have been in the East. I find Singapore a lovely place." Mr Justice Knight, who was born in Africa, was educated in
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  • 123 5 How they fell ill is still a mystery THE source of a recent typhoid outbreak which sent 30 guests at a Singapore dinner to hospital is still to be traced by the City'i Health Department, despite detailed investigations. A spokesman of the Middleton Hospital said yesterday: M We have not
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  • 45 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. The Johore Bahru District Asociation for the Prevention of Tuberculosis wants a T.B. specialist for the State. The association has asked the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis to take the matter up with the Federal Government
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  • 208 5 Free Press Staff Repoj-ter THE Singapore Labour Party's parliamentary committee decided, at a meeting on Tuesday, to oppose any move to close the wells in the Rochore and Geylang areas used for growing towgay, Mr. Lim Yew Hock, the Party's president, told the
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  • 167 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. MUAR has the largest Local Hospital Board in Johore with 29 members. Sixteen women have been appointed to serve on the Board this year. Six of them are Europeans. The Board members for this year are: Dato Othman bin Buang, Mr. S. Ponnampalam,
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  • Article, Illustration
    59 5 MR. J D JOSEPH, f ounde r and principal of the Singa pore Teachers' Training College, thanks the T.T.C. Association at the "welcome home" party given by the Association in his honour y esterday. Mr. Joseph has Ju st returned after six months .--j ni.4... m u««,c i A #f
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  • 131 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union, in the latest issue of its publication, the Forum, has criticised the Admiralty as being "shrewd" in presenting its revised policy for fixing the remuneration of locally-engaged civilian staff in Singapore. The Forum refers
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  • 82 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TLfR. Chiew Oh Mee, a junk owner who was deceived by two men on Jan. 4 into handing over 80 bags of rice at Telok Ayer Basin, yesterday offered a reward of $2,000 for their capture within a week. The men
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  • 143 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A FORMER medical officer to the British Amateur Boxing Association and the British Olympic boxing team has arrived here to take up appointment as the University of Malaya's new senior lecturer in bacteriology. He is Dr. J. H. Hale who, until recently,
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  • 72 5 Chinese nuns for Ceylon Free Press Staff Reporter The French liner Andre Lebon sailed at dawn today for France after an overnight's stay in Singapore. Among the passengers who embarked In Singapore were three Chinese nuns from the Home of the Little sisters of the Poor. They are sister Marie
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  • 227 5 TWENTY S 'PORE FAMILIES FACEEVICTION Free Press Staff Reporter TI/lORE than 20 Singapore families face eviction i?1 at the end of this month. The City Council wants to demolish their shops in Eu Tong Sen Street, as the place is needed for development. The shopkeepers have asked the City Council
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  • 104 5 CAMBRIDGE EXAMS TO STAY Free Press Staff Reporter rE Cambridge School Certificate examination held yearly in Singapore will not be abolished, despite a London report that the School Certificate has been replaced by the General Certificate of Education Mr. Halliday. Examinations Secretary of the Education Department, said yesterday: "There is
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  • 94 5 TTHE Malayan Students' Union in Britain, at their annual meeting, elected Mr. Cecil Wong, former Singapore cricketer and hockey player, as their president. Mr. Wong is now In London studying accountancy. He takes over the presidency from Mr. Maurice Baker. The following were also elected Mr.
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  • 136 5 jyjRS. Agnes Newton Keith, American authoress from North Borneo, left Singapore for Britain by BOAC Argonaut yesterday with tex husband, on retirement. But she may return, she said. Mrs Keith's best known book, "Three Came Back"— the story oi her internment in North Borneo by
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  • 678 6 Thrills galore in F&N Cup rugby Free Press Rugby Reporter S.E.R 6; R.A.S.C. "A" 3. WHAT a pity one team had to lose! From the kick-off to a culminating penalty conyersion which decided this Fraser Neave inter-unit semi-final, both sides put all they had
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  • 87 6 THE other semi-final in the Singapore section of the Fraser Neave rugby competition will be played off at 5.15 p.m. this evening at Nee Soon between Nee Soon Garrison and 19 Air Formation Signals. The winners meet Singapore Engineer Regiment in the District final. Winners of
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  • 152 6 AUSTRALIA'S record-break-ing Melbourne Cup winner Comic Court and his rival Chicquita, could have won good races in Britain, said jockey "Scobie" Breasley in Melbourne on his return after two years abroad. Breasley added he thought the best English stayers might prove too good for our
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  • 104 6 T'HE January Medal (Bogey) Competition of the Royal 'Singapore Golf Club resulted in a Win for F. E. Tabor (all square) in "A" Division and for R.H. Danes-Hopkins (all squanej in "B" Division. "A" Division ball sweep on 'he first nine was won by F. E. Tabor
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  • 21 6 Bad ground conditions caused the postponement of these rugby fixtures yesterday: R.A.F. Tengah v. R.E.M.E. Royal Signals v. R.N.A.S.
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  • 52 6 Following are U.K. soccer results of matches played yesterday: Scottish League Division 'A' Par tick Thistle 1, »*ith Rovers 1; Queen of the Souti. Motherwell 1. The Morton Airdrieonians ami Stirling Albion— St. Mirreh L matches rearranged for yesterday were again postponed owing to spowbouoA grounds. ScottistT'l>agtie
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  • 30 6 SINGAPORE Swimming Club officials report that entries for Saturday's No 1 Junior Gala number 206. This is the highest ever recorded for any pre-war gala at the s.c.c.
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  • Article, Illustration
    377 6 JT is easy to remember the difference between tactics and strategy, if you will associate the former with the game of tic-tac-toe, the proper play of which is governed by hard-and-fast rules. Tactics are the correct manoeuvres under the given circumstances: strategy is the application of a strategem
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  • 346 6 Free Press Boxing Reporter A LTHOUGH science was thrown to the winds some A lively boxing was seen at the Police Training School last night where eliminating bouts in the Civilians-Police section of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Novices Championships were held. A large crowd turned
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  • 109 6 The Singapore Archery Club held its second annual general meeting at Raffles Hotel last night. In his address the vice-presi-dent, Mr. H. H. Beamish, said <t was hoped that a clubhouse would shortly be erected on the club ground at Clunny Road. Officials for 195? are:— W.
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  • 129 6 SIAMESE XV LOSE U.K. GAME THE first Siamese rugby x team to visit Britain opened a short tour yesterday afternoon with a match against the Imperial College in London and were beaten by 24 points to zero. At halftime the score was 16-0. With an average weight of less than
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  • 36 6 Singapore Cricket Club forwards take tbe ball on at their feet in yesterday's rugby match on the Pa- dang against Singapore Harbour Board. S.C.C. won by eight ipoints to six. Free Press picture.
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  • 306 6 TURPIN VOTED AS BRITAIN'S BEST BOXER RANDOLPH Turpin, the logical contei r f ip Sugar Kay Robinson's world middleweight tftu in all world boxing rankings, has been selected I> tain's No. 1 boxer in 1951 by the British K^, Writers' Club. Turpin was chosen as the club issued i list
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  • 158 6 SEDGMAN GIFT GOES UP AND UP rpHE wedding \y. i s f v A Miss Jean Sir lennis star Prank reached £4.460 yt The total is LOct a £100 to £200 a daj E Miss Spence pb Melbourne on Ja:. One of the eai. to the tund was L* <
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  • 42 6 JIMMY WALKER of New Jersey successfully defended his New Jersey State heavyweight championship on Tuesday night at Newark by winning a close 12-round decision over Archie Mcßride of Trenton, New Jersey, before a crowd of 1,500 at Laurel Gardens. U.P.
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  • 45 6 HOCKEY TEAM FOR 'QUAD' TOURNEY SEREMBAN, W< "old stagers" who scnted South a-d played State for a number of among the 16 will leave Scremb. for Singapore to take p quadrangular hockfy I Lrnunenl on Jan. 11, 12 and Singapore. Malacca, N Sercollan and PeraS.
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  • 719 7  - RISING GLORY WILL BE HARD TO BEAT ALLAN LEWIS Trackwork at Bukit Timah By RISING Glory (Perdval), working on the number two track' which °'-V wrv he* vy, revelled in the conditions to go better than Baj Street (Mawi) and Bodybelt (E. Donnelly) to run three furlongs from the six
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    21 7 picture. Ray Barkwav demonstrating the start in a sprint race to a croup of trainees at Ipoh. Free Press
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  • 19 7 Taffy Hancock, flyweight champion of Australia, who ■wets Sonny Chia tomorrow might at the Happy World Stadium.
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  • 378 7 rMiRCEFI'L and aggressive hitting by tail-enders, Wilfred Ferguson and Prior Jones following Rae's stfii century, gave the West Indies a first innings lead of 102 runs over Tasmania at Launceston yesterday. They were all out for 327. Rae. who was out shortly after tea for 106, became
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  • 82 7 SOUTH Australia beat Queensland by 205 runs in the Sheffield Shield match which ended at Adelaide yesterday. South Australia declared at their overnight second innings score of 293 for 4, setting Queensland to j^t 357 runs in 330 minutes to win. After losing their opening batsmen
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  • 207 7 'Hall is in for trouble' Golden Boy promises: Free Press Boxing Reporter p OLDEN BOY, 24-year-old welterweight champ*on of the Federation, who meets Bernie Hall at the Happy World Stadium tomorrow night, promised last night to give the Australian a hot time. The "golden one," who is serving with the
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  • 113 7 J^S attempt may be made to start boxing at the University of Malaya by Dr. J. H. Hale newly appointed senior bacteriologist at the University. Dr. Hale was formerly medical officer to the British Amateur Boxing Association and the British Olympic boxing team. He was a
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  • 145 7 ELIMINATING bouts for the Army section of the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association's Novices Championships will be held this afternoon at Tanglin Barracks gymnasium. Boxing will commence at 3 p.m. Entries, which total 19. Bantam: Pte. Pinch (30 Bn. RA.O.C), Pte. Churton <Bn. RAO.C.)
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  • 60 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Selangor United easily beat Selangor Club at rugger on the Kuala Lumpur padang this evening by 18 points three goals and one penalty) to five (one goal) Selangor Club played with 14 men and found it difficult' to hold back their speedy opponents who
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  • 38 7 THE imported stallion Near Blue will be sold at a dispersal sale of The Pines stud at Dandenong, Victoria. Near Blue, 'who is by Nearco, was purchased in Sydney for 7.500 Australian guineas. Reuter
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  • 177 7 OGT. Cecil Albert Clay of R.A.F. Seletar, the 33- Singapore and Malayan one mile and half-time champion, boarded the Empress of Australia for the United Kingdom yesterday after two and a half years service in Singapore. "I have thoroughly enjoyed my stay here arid
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  • 141 7 THE CHIEF GETS HIS WISH gING KONG and Chief Little Wolf are fighting a return at the Happy World stadium this Saturday- -and the referee will be burly Jim Anderson, former Scottish Highland Games wrestling champion. The change in referee follows the Redskin's objection last week to Wong Buck Lee
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  • 97 7 COLLECTION of funds for v Helsinki is well in hand and there will be no lack of money to send a Singapore contingent to the Olympic Games in July. This was reported to a meeting of the Singapore Olympic Sports Council in the Y.M.G.A. yesterday
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  • 80 7 BOBBY DYKES, of Miami, scored a third-round technical knockout over Joe Lassiter. of Charlotte, on Tuesday night before 2,000 fans at Tampa, Florida. The 149-lb. Miamian, completely in command all the way, dropped Lassiter in the second round for a nine count with a right cross
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  • 12 7 Rugby Union result: Headjngley 15. London United Hospitals 3. Reuter
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  • 88 7 HARD work by the Singapore Cricket Club forwards resulted in an eight-six victory over Singapore Harbour Board in a watery rugby battle yesterday on the Pa- Board onslaught in the eariy stages and again it was the S.C.C. forwards who forced the p*ce late in
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  • 347 7 THERE is talent in Malaya, which if given the proper technique and coaching, will compare favourably in some athletic events, with the top performances of' England and the Tnited States. This is what Ray Barkway, senior honor. ry coach of the British Amateur Athletic Association,
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  • 92 7 U/ESBURY BASCOM, a former mailman with special delivery speed in each hand, faced the stiffest challenge of his young boxing career in last night's ten round bout with Cesar Brion of Argentina at St. Louis Montana. The result of the fight has not yet been received.
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 98 7 "I'LL ONLY FIGHT KONG 1 Says Chief Little Wolf AND 1 WANT A DIFFERENT REFEREE. NOT ONE WHO STOPS A FIGHT WHEN HE SEES A DROP OF BLOOD so SATURDAY 12th JANUARY At 9p. SHARP HAPPY WORLD STADIUM /fk Krturn Match Their Fight Wa s The Most Gruelling, J |jli
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 112 7 SCOREBOARD TASMANIA—I ST. INNS.: ttft WEST INDIES— IST. INNS stoilmever t> Cowlev 23 Rae lbw Laver 106 Marshall, c Goodwin b Diprose SO Weekes st Alexander b Laver 29 Atkinson C and b Laver 19 Guillen e and b Newman 0 Gomes b Laver 9 Ferguson st Alexander b Cowlev
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    • 23 7 Today's sport ATHLETICS: Barkway course, Victoria School from 3.30 p.m. BOXING: Police v Civilians at Police Depot (cont.) BADMINTON: Colony championships, 7.15 p.m.
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  • 720 8 AMERICANS APPEAL TO TRUMAN TO STEP UP ARMS DRIVE World under 'shadow of war 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. PRESIDENT Truman said yesterday in his annual r "State of the Union" message to Congress that the world still walked in the shadow of another world war. Appealing to the American people to
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  • 59 8 Turkey, Greece to be asked to join NATO WASHINGTON, Thur. •TURKEY and* Greece will eventually receive an unqualified invitation to join the North Atlantic Treaty Or -;anisat:cn. the State Department said last night. Turkey will be associated Witfe th'e European command and will also be a key country in the
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  • 31 8 The Lisbon police arrested last night nine men, including five retired army officers and cne retired naval officer, en charges cf plotting against the "saietv of the State." U.P.
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  • 22 8 WORT: On Jamiarv 4th, 1952. In Honsion-T, to Helen (nee Arnould). Wife of Major George Wir', ;r.e Wiltshire Regiment. a Ma
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  • 109 8 Mr. Yap Pheng Geek:, Singapore City Councillor, was the guest of honour at a dinner last night given by the Blue Cross Charitable Institution and six associated bodies to mark the conferment of the M.B.E. on Mr. Yap. The dinner, which was held at the
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    28 8 picture. SOMIA AROVA, 20-year-olt! ballerina of the Original Ballet Russe, relaxes between performances at the Royal Festival Hall; South Bank, London. The dancer is Britten by naturalisation. Reuter
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  • 86 8 WASHINGTON. Thurs. MR. CHURCHILL received a standing ovation from the U.S. Congress when he entered the gallery about 15 minutes before President Truman began speaking yesterday. Mr. Churchill bowed in recognition, then shook hands with Mrs. Truman who was sitting i n the same row. The Foreign
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  • 101 8 H.K. LAW TO SHIELD TENANTS HONGKONG, Thur. THE Hongkong Government will soon introduce a bill to protect lawful tenants of new buildings who nave paid premiums for their tenancy, from eviction by landlords. This measure will protect tenants of new buildings who have paid premiums for tenancy on the understanding
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  • 19 8 Announced TXS. battle casualties in Korea reached L04.084 yesterday, an increase of 345 since last week. A.P.
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  • 30 8 The Dutch linec Straate Makassar, 8,950' tons arrived in Buenos Aire* yesterday, inaugurating a direct service from Yokohama via Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang. Mauritius and Capetown.- A.P.
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  • 41 8 piniuc FOUR OF BRITAIN'S lc\cliest mannequins left to light, Jean Dawnay, Delhi Oake, Laura Pamell ami Viscountess Boyle— who are flying to Australia for a two-month fashion tour on behalf of the London Model House Group. Reuter
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  • 276 8 UN rejects Soviet demand on Korea PiIRIS, Thursday. THE I nited Nations Political Committee turned down a Knssian demand yesterday for a highlevel Security Conncil meeting to take up immediately Korean truce negotiations. But it agreed to such a meeting "when useful.'' The Committee's vote on refusing to bring Korean
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  • 76 8 Sterling talks LONDON, Thurs. rRTY-FIVE senior Commonwealth government officiate and experts yester- day completed a general sur- vey of the payments balance and allied problems of the sterling area. Mr. G. A. Kamat and Mr. Mumtaz Hussain, from India and Pakistan, respectively, and an official of the South African Finance
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  • 70 8 U.S TO CUT PRODUCTION American production of mast household goods is due to be cut to 40 per cent of pre -Korean war levels and construction of new homes is to be reduced about 23 per cent beginning next ApriL Automobile production is to be cut by at least seven
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  • 218 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. EpUYPTiAft cUmuer Samia Gamal said yesterday she wouid give her socialite mother-in-law a chance to snub her and wanted to- "bet the best ftve years of my life it doesn't happen/' Samia and her husband, jTexas playboy Sheppard 'Sing, are- scheduled
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  • 208 8 TEHERAN, Th pERSIA yesterday made 'the strongest Britain about alleged interference by Officials in Persia. The Minister of Fonm Bagher Kazemi, making the protest to th Bi Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, said ti a interference of British officials in Persia I lately intensified/' The note said
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  • 62 8 Poll banned in oil fields TEHERAN THE Persian Supv i f mittee u fcr elections has decidei elections will not be Khuzistan pr O vin i the oilfields are sit lated. m lowing polif e nep plot to blow up Aba( refinery^ The decision i mended by the Ar Staff
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  • 27 8 More leave that arrive South African the Union foster immigrants are arri In 1951. 10.35.1 arrived up to tin August, but 11 187 South Africans emigrat -Ai>
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    • 170 8 STOP THAT o^. r CpUGHIn MrfttSH* Stan takin VHWS COl GH V^ "N TOBffWH B TCS£at °nce,andseehow rtfWPi Q uickl y y our coug^ win stop i \tn ii if r*' rfflli^jy remedy soothes away hoarse- \^tH^ W iDS^HbI ness an d soreness; rases P*ips^^^ hreaihing, and protects the V^,^
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 73 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Cbarteris 1 n 1 in^L /yOU'Rc RiGHT^ I F'OH^.LUKEi.r WAS AFRAID VOU'G^ U^lßf" BiLL WHEN SHt "1 IF THIS GIRL /5 TOO INQUISITIVE, SON, yOuN I /WO/VI-AS 7 I HUNG UP- W£ MUST HAVfi BEEN MEETS THIS GLiy I CANT AFFORD TO HANG UP ON HER/
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