The Singapore Free Press, 22 July 1953

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    16 1 The Singapore Free Press _,ftem«Min sal, m Mahu a Singapore Wed.. July St Price II Cta.
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    STILL HOPE FOR BIG-FOUR
    1066 1 STILL HOPE FOR BIG- FOUR f r# Hatlev tells fommons there is Non-military trade with China welcome MR R BUTLER, Acting Prime .Minister, said yesterday thai the United States, France and Britain still hoped for high lever 1 talks with Russia as proposed by Sir Winston Churchill. This, he said,
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    Germans build bigger rebel Force
    148 1 Germans build bigger rebel Force GERMANS, outlawed for log the June 17 uprising, Berlin yesterday they iiilding a movement to or the downfall ot the jrman regime, said workers throughout it zone would not give up ight against the present and that sabotage was down the Industries of ermany. view
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    She had the Navy Blues
    115 1 IN tears that are unbecom- I ing to an 'old ia.lt," 18--year-old Joan (iarrison tells officials that she was smuggled aboard the Battle Cruiser, Los Angeles, on a bet with two sailor friends, now m the brig. They got her a uniform and a liberty
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    Stop food demand
    45 1 Stop food demand 0 V I E T occupation authorities demanded terday that American to hungry East GerWfs Berlin be n«.'/ t mediately. "fte Sonet 1 demand came a sharp note from the iet High Commissioner, Vladimir Semyonov to Vmted Statet High •commissioner, Mr. Con-
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    Seven held for 'spying' in Germany
    52 1 Seven held for 'spying' in Germany ARRESTS of seven all Communist spies were announced m Bonn yesterday. The British High Commission said British authorities nad arrested six Germans, deluding two women on July n charges of spying n One of the women ujui recently a telephone opera m a British
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    Rubber price
    19 1 Sinainore Rubber MaiKei LSSSffi morning ;o«. certain tone with Auuust shipment, at 65Y2 „d. cent be ►se.
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    CHRISTIE'S CAT EXECUTED
    80 1 CAT belon»ii -ktsUe, string JJ h o wai lasl Dp -*sday. vu s "erday. 1 the R ■ueiu _i r h Pre ventlon of li Animals was that Chrlsti live wi'ii any i After the l i htl who said women, and his convic on lhe murder
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    NEW MOVE IN LABOUR CRISIS
    176 1 Invo groups ol memberi of the Sing ipore Labour Party will meet In the neat two d m to consider the crista arising out ot the resignation oi Ur. B. K. Rcddi. its acting chairman. The new Labour Group, which broke away from the parent
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    FLOOD CASUALTIES
    26 1 Casualties from Central Honshu's flood soared to 9.177 as more reports filtered m from isolated areas to National Police Headquarters Ln Tokyo early today.
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    'GEM MAKER' ON FRAUD CHARGE
    205 2 30 industrialists fell for his ruse' "IJIAMOND MAKER' Hermann Meincki lured German industriallata into financing hi.< scheme to mass produce synthetic diamonds with promises of $445,500,000 B year m profits, a German court was told m Bonn yesterday. Meincke, on trial for alleged fraud and
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    Soviet session put off
    79 2 THE Soviet news agency, Tass. said last night that thp Presidium of Uie Supreme Soviet of the USSR had been postponed unt 1 Aug. 5. The Supreme Soviet session was originally fixed for July .28. No reason was given. 3 It will be the second meeting
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    Poll on Princess Margaret a Hacked
    262 2 Poll on Princess Margaret a Hacked BRITAIN'S Voluntary Press Council, meeting for the first time m London yesterday, criticised the Daily Mirror, picture-paper with a circulation of more than 4.000,000, for conducting a readers' poll on whether Princess Margaret should be allowed to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend. The Council—
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    Queens of Beauty
    45 2 picture. •MISS I >1\ EKv; vl'instim sfartel of France) with the other finalists m the world contest held m California. Left to right: Miss Australia (Maxine .Morgan), Miss Mexico (Ana .limine/*. Miss United States (Myrna Hansen) and Miss Japan (Kinuko Ito). AP
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    For three days he hung close to death
    160 2 For three days he hung close to death A FRENCH mountain c y_. was hauled to 2_7_ terday after Jj^j three days at fi*_f rope over an Alp cc n hl l Oeorges Barbachi, student at Paris rjshS had met with disaster T_ FOOTS Needle," a m the alps, on
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    VOLCANO ACTIVE
    25 2 Mt. Aso on Central Kyushu one of the world's largest actrrt volcanos, erupted today, but do injuries or damage was ie. I ported.
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      116 2 Are your h.mds .is fast as their feet? Viv your finger* will nw\c p» swiftly as the winged ffft of deer when you write on Hakla, the Swedish portable. Thanks ro the famous Hilda feaiher-touch you v\riie easily ami rapidly ithout getting tired The 1 l.dda Portable has Swedish steel
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    S'PORE AND STRIP TEASE SHOWS
    245 3  - S'PORE AND STRIP TEASE SHOWS ROGER YUE I miring Camera on B, .fon-in-the-stm l SfSffrS di**™ A _ood human something to be SSreS. they said. the ten people 1 criticised the \m banning semi-nude thf Smusement parks P no m L and order, they menace to law anu aid A*
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    THEY ARE AGAINST THE BAN
    190 3 TVfR. Lim Tee Eng, a Singa--I*l pore accounts clerk, 'said yesterday that he couldn't understand a police who ban semi-nude shows when sunbathing magazines are on sale at bookshops and news stands. He said there was nothing improper about the shows. MR. H. F. B.
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    TOO POOR TO BUY MEAT, SUGAR
    64 3 One of every nine Italian families lives In extreme poverty In one of every 13 homes, meat, wine and sugar never appear on the table These statistics were disclosed yesterday by a parlia- mentary committee investiga- ting poverty among a population 37 per cent,
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    THE U.S. CANBERRA
    30 3 The U.S. Air Force announced yesterday an Anrjerlcan-buill version of the British Can berra Jet light bomber ha_ made a .succe.s.>tul test Bight ol 1 45 minutes
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    Justice Douglas divorce
    51 3 dilorp^ 1 I)0l(iI^ yesterday won an uncontests itiee Wiiiia r ßaker ()r «?on. from the Supreme Court She sai„ n Dou &'as on a charge of desertion. n HinlKl ,?,as Xrti heP "abandoned and alone" wlillr *w Ujj llnWn S »o the Middle and Far East. They
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    Citu will study new measures to prevent fires
    222 3 Citu will study new measures to prevent fires THE Colonial Secretary, Mr. W. L Blythe, 1 asked the President of the Singapore <ity Council to look into the question of lire prevention m the city. And two City Council committees the Estates aid Fire Brigade Committee and the Building Committee—
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    SINGAPORE URGED: RELAX CURRENCY CONTROLS
    194 3 SINGAPORE URGED: RELAX CURRENCY CONTROLS THE secretary of the feinga- pore Chinese Chamber ol Commerce. *Dr. S. Y. Wang, yesterday said that the Singapore Government should assist trade by relaxing Its currency control between the Colony and neighbouring countries Commenting on Singapore's economic situation. Dr. Wong said: "Singapore cannot hope
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    SALES TO CHINA
    25 3 Ceylon exported to China 65.601,400 lbs. of sheet rubber m the first half of this year. It was valued at Rs. 114,000,000.
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    MBE award for Kenya heroines
    146 3 MBE award for Kenya heroines TWO European women who took the offensive against a raiding gang of Mau Mau terrorists m an isolated part of Kenya were yesterday appointed i members of the Order of the British Empire. One of them, Mrs. Rhoda Raynes-Simson, well-known South African tennis player, shot
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    The Singapore Free Press OPinion RENT CONTROL
    448 4 The Singapore Free Press OPinion RENT CONTROL a WEDNESDAY, July 22, 1953 BY 16 votes to six the Legislative Council yesterday defeated an atI tempt by Mr. Dasaratha Raj to secure the extension of rent control to cover housing built m Singapore after 1947. This js a wide margin. But
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    Even Germans Won't put Fight into E_gypt
    924 4  - Even Germans Won't put Fight into E_gypt CHARLES FOLEY Otto IScariace Skorzeny; the man who rescued Mussolini, says i sgsghs LISBON. HAVE just caught up with Colonel Otto Skorzeny, the airborne privateer (remember he rescued Mussolini), who has been adding to his legend with a visit to Cairo, where, it
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      15 4 LONGINES The World Most Honoured Watch Sold by AU HIGH CLASS WATCH j DEALERS j
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    Warning to parents about bicycle horns
    162 5 Warning to parents about bicycle horns f _,rf city e«»" ,e I^* 'the Colony not ■S* v children have 5 fec.es ntted *.«h £-v hornS rtU x-Colebourn fM. 5^2 an offence tblt horn fitted »r used that many of Listed to the ?2TE -fa** [ND P pal Bicycle Bye Laws
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    PUPPET SHOWS ARE DYING It's the influence of the West
    290 5  - PUPPET SHOWS ARE DYING It's the influence of the West P. L. KOH By MNGAPORE'S puppet shows are dying oui. Before the war. there were 20 troupes giving shows it Chinese marriases. festivals and other functions. Today only seven are m, nstence and their number, ■cording to the proprietors, till
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    $10,000 GIFT FOR MUSLIM COLLEGE
    60 5 $10,000 GIFT FOR MUSLIM COLLEGE The Singapore Muslim Advisory Board will donate $10,000 to the Islamic College Fund which is expected to be opened early next year at the Istana Klang. Tuan Haji Mohd Amin, the secretary of the College Organising committee, the money would be handed over soon. Penang,
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    AIRING IT AT KALLANG
    287 5 Motorists get a promise Free Press Staff Reporter A25-MINUTE delay at the runway crossing: at Mountbatten Road. Singapore, caused by aircraft landing and tak-ing-off, was described by an official of Kallang Airport as "a bit unusual." He was commenting on a letter by a "Motorist" In
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    BAN ON DRUGS MAY HIT THEM
    161 5 BAN ON DRUGS MAY HIT THEM MANY Chinese registered de tists practising m Singapore fear they will havt- to clo.se down if they are tarred from using sulphonamides ana penicillin. They were commenting on a report that unqualified re tered dentists should not allowed to administer tl two drugs because
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      418 6 MANDRAKE, THE MACICIAN by Lee Falk and Phil Davis L q C 4 ""Ti J .^-^v^-^ 1 r m m m mr^r OJ A DflJ Smm*^ o^'^^'^ m&\ tij HE WILL NOT STOP. KING LOTHAP, 1 l--i^A^Tl B°^ -TOM* J} 1 VUWDAAKI-^TOP- KMP ,nru_L J_L/lA COLDUKEtCt- >>< UNTIL YOU KILL
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    Do you envy him?
    51 7 picture. Ho. would you feel if a hew of beau lie* uro„ m your ollue lo MC >„v and ADMIKK you? Tkfttb wWaA taLdto M«rd G Robinson, th. film actor, when participants m |h* Mis. I niver*e contest visited him m Hollywood. But Robinson was undisturbed.
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    GOES BACK TO WIFE HE TRIED TO KILL
    382 7 STANLEY JOHN CAIN 0 aged 22, found guilty at Glamorgan Assizes of attempting to murder his wife, stepped from the dock a free man. "Your wife has saved you Nd no one else," Mr. Jusl SUble told him. Outside the court the
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    THEY CALL IT ORIENTATION WHEN GI SEES THIS FILM
    119 7 THEY CALL IT ORIENTATION WHEN GI SEES THIS FILM ■j i n i .i m ocn ice m« n arrivii n fr m Is tn be am. i 8. officer: "The Un purely for oiientati i guide to man's oft-duty time "It will explain some Bri customs and traditions which
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    1000 REDS KILLED
    33 7 Nationalist China's Defence Ministry reported yesterday that more than 1,000 Communists Were killed and "several bundred" captured m the Nationalist commando raid on Red-held Tungshan Island or! the China coast.
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    For a bad temper take beer, says vicar
    127 7 For a bad temper take beer, says vicar V, ..I ale i^ tne the t nedies f»»r had temp „i 13 .■-old riscar, the Key. Edward PnwelL He doesn't v.n to his villite local at Belcbamp S4. Paul, Essex 'but only beeatsse it might make some Of the customers feel
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    TENSING'S HOLIDAY
    34 7 •*Tiger M Tensing famed Hima-% ayan Bherpa arrived In Zurich •rday with his lamiiy by uir rrom London for a 10-day holiday m Switzerland as RUest ol 'the Swi.s.s Alpine Foundation. f
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    FRENCH WEEK IN SINGAPORE
    249 8  -  ROGER YUE Story by Presenting a picture of charm m a simple shittmakcr m blue gauze |udy McCulloch m top picture turns smartly for the guests to admhc Iter «'ress. Lady with the flashing smile, immediately above is Barbara Rev, •noddling a smar! American paper- si
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    Good food was not left
    140 9 to chance and the lloriouc past was recalled r': Monsieur Uyard. FrcncS chef of Saigon s bigg'cs.* restaurant, the Bodega, was specially flown m to prepare food "a la delicasse." He is seen here demonseating his artistry m the Adelphi Hotel kitchen. I France remembered
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    A GIRL TALKS OVER HER OWN SENTENCE WITH JUDGE
    354 10 A GIRL TALKS OVER HER OWN SENTENCE WITH JUDGE C*OME out of lhe dock, the jud^e said gently to the girl who had been accused of murder. So seventeen-year-old kitchen maid Sylvia Jean Longman walked from the dock to the witness box. And then. In that assize court at Swansea,
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    88 10 msm mm Awmmw w <mm**mmmwmm A UNITED ARIIST» bulletin says: "If you ever get the urge to stand on the stomach of an actress. Coleen Gray is the girl for you." Coleen she is beautiful, too developed her "toughness" through gymnastics. She started exercising almost as soon as she could
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    THE MODEL WHO WENT TO PARIS
    480 10 THE MODEL WHO WENT TO PARIS AN 18-year-old model wanted a passport for a trip to Paris. To get it she required her father's permission as he would refuse, so she wrote a letter to the Passport Office purporting to be signed by him and giving his consent At Bow
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    Should doctors sign bulletin?
    133 10 Should doctors sign bulletin? ARE doctors "unethical when their names appear M bulletins concerning prominent patients? The question was posed t« the British Medical Association at its Cardiff conference. Mr. J. R. Blackiiurne (Hull) moved a resolution statins;: "This meeting: views with graft disquiet the tendency anions certain members of
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    Beauties in bikinis
    94 10 Till/: TIIKKI Bikini fl.nl *F<M_ng beauties. centre ef the pic'ure, are the Rnalisti of the latest French I "pin up" con- test. They are shown m thc '*Misa Mannequin of tll Azure coast 1953 h e v t v contest, at thc •.Maxim's" nifht (Iv Ii m
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    Bridge Hand
    596 11 ONE of the hands from the World's Championship match against 'he Swedish team which won the cham- pionship of Europe illustrated the use I of the so-called 'weak two-bid. which I the American team employs with 1 considerable effect The opponents' t hands are unimportant, but these were
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    35 11 CAPTAIS Tcwnsend, whose name has been linked romantically with Princess Margaret, hurries into the Bri- tish Embassy m Brussels after stepping out of his car. He has been posted to the Embassy as Air Attache.
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    SO YOU WOULDN'T COMMIT MURDER?
    528 11  -  James White By WAITING trial m Den- mark for bank robbery and murder is a man who claims that he committed the crimes m a hypnotic trance. Giving evidence will be Dr. Paul Keiter, formerly head of Denmark's "Broadmoor,* 1 who hdieves that a ma
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      123 11 Today's Crossword 9 __^__^_B I I I ___^_i i i __i til Mw m W^^ m mU m W m BM^i M Tfl__-_^_-H_ I B B *»^^B»| IB"— p^_ l— K BHb_______p^p^^t^^^ **E _d2^B*»' _M^_i ni ear (4). 12, A l. Tool tl ,li Pell «n j i 4, _iir
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    SHALLOW WORK FOR THE DEEP SEA SHIP
    199 12 SHALLOW WORK FOR THE DEEP SEA SHIP Sh<> hoin-s fo sail further <ifi<-ld wmmm Free Press StaiT Reporter THOUGH specially built for deep sea cable repairing, the Cable and Wireless ship, Stanley Angwin, has never operated m water deeper than 40 fathoms. Since the 2.500-ton vessel came to her bxse
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    Based at S'pore
    11 12 Based at S 'pore The cable snip. Stanley Angwln _r_ l
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    LOW BLOW
    130 12 RECENTLY I came across an article m a contemporary of yours that "ICee Chan Deserves a Break". I do not understand what the writer really means. Was he trying to lower Kee Chan, or to put him to shame, or just to fill space. Being a friend of
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  • The Pressman's Postbag
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      BUMPED
      55 12 I WOULD like to ask the Ci'.y Council" to see that something is done to the bus terminus at Collyer Quay. The ground is not level and passengers sitting m the buses' are jolted up and down their seats. Passengers would very much appreciate a little more comfort. S.C.E.T.
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      SHELTER
      124 12 I BEG to concur with the request of "Gary Tok" In your popular column for a couple of bus shelters to be erected at the 6th milestone Changi Road. One would, however, be preferable at the junction of Frankel Avenue and Changi Road, which is about the 5 3
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      LIGHT SIDE
      44 12 I DISAGREE with "Patient Suffer that the Pressman's comments under readers' letters should be dropped. The letters themselves seldom contain even a wee bit of humour. But the Pressman renders readers' complaints m a lighter vein. N. CRITIC. Singapore. A drop^o, consolation-
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      DEAD HORSE?
      151 12 YOUR footnote to my letter on Mr. John Laycock and the Legco's flagrant Ignoring j of public rights over the Rent I Control Bill might be read to mean: 1. The private right of citizens are the "dead horse* which no amount of flogging can revive; 2. It
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    SIAMESE DANCE AT S'PORE CAMP FIRE
    352 12 SIAMESE DANCE AT S'PORE CAMP FIRE mmmmmmmmm wwmwwmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Weekly SCOUT corner I By P. L KOH IVfORE than 400 Singapore Boy Scouts and Girl Guides and made merry at a campfire held last Friday to commemorate the first anniversary of the 3rd Guides' Company of the Convent of the Holy
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    SELF-CENTRED
    51 12 FROM my observation, aftei spending a few months outside the Colony, if seems that an ordinance must have been enacted compelling Lririvers to keep to the middk of the road. Can you tell me if this is go' HAPPY FOX. 'Singapore. The law is the same, bu\ there's more
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    Cheeky story of the long arm
    145 12 Cheeky story of the long arm YESTERDAY I saw a police- man (not a traffic COD> parade his private pleasure at ;he worst traffic bottleneck Z Singapore— Caw ford Street But I should not rush to pen aad paper lf Singapore wasn't 7 place vhere policemen behave least like th»
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    A PRIORITY
    73 12 WE have noted letter by "A Resident" regarding the condition of Lorong 6. Lorong 6 is one of the private roads which is on the priority t list to be made up and taken over as a public street. We shall try our best to see that it
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    SCRAP THIS GRAND TOUR!
    698 13 SCRAP THIS GRAND TOUR! JAMES DOW SAYS MANY Australians are hoping that something will happen to the plans for the Royal tour of their country. They don't like the present arrangements at all. They think the tour may be "disastrous". What they are praying for now is some incident or
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    THEY DON'T WANT POMP AND CEREMONY 'DOWN UNDER'
    379 13 THEY DON'T WANT POMP AND CEREMONY 'DOWN UNDER' i Wnliam Slim could */a< Governor nt Mouse for two or three months.) Then a more limited programme of ceremonial occasions could be undertaken with visits to Melbourne, Perth. Sydney and .so on. Between sorties she would have a happy, carefree time
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    NO SINECURE
    323 13  -  SAM WHITE Group Captain Tmonsetids new jot? -.BUT LOTS OF PARTIES socially speaking, Group Captain Towtisend's Impending arrival is the biggest thing that I has happened m Brussel I since the Liberation. A bachelor's life In an Emb; is peculiarly difficult. He i> the odd man out, alway.s
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    TEST TABLES DO NOT TELL THE TRUE TALE
    449 14  - TEST TABLES DO NOT TELL THE TRUE TALE GEORGE WHITING r.v THi; failure of Messrs. Hassett. Hutton and Pluvius to arrive at any definite cricket conclusion about Ashes and suchlike after their excursions to Nottingham, Lord's and Manchester makes one wonder, whether we are likely to achieve any kind of
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    RECORDS SHOULD TUMBLE
    84 14 RECORDS SHOULD TUMBLE Services sports THE Singapore Inter-Ser-vices Athletic Championships between teams from the Royal Navy, Army Singapore Base District and the Royal Air Force will take place at Changi on Saturday, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The sports will be opened by a march past of athletes when the salute
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    262 14 G. I.'s ARE KEEN ON SOCCER By CONNIE RYAN Matt busby, manager of Manchester United, and l. M. Barriskill, head of the U.S. Bqpcer Football Association (USSFAi, have agreed m the prediction that within lour or live year. America may be a world leader m soccer. Busby is now on
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    English FA backs Selangor in Cup dispute
    579 16 English FA backs Selangor in Cup dispute DACKED by a letter from Sir Stanley Rous, the secretary of the English Football Association, I Selangor is making a final appeal regarding the walkover awarded to Penang m their .lune Malaya Cup fixture. I According; to Sir Stanley, Penang could not claim
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    Kassett's men are cleared
    132 16 Australia's Test cricketers made a clean slate uith the top Australian cricket authorities. The secretary of the Australian Control Board. Mr. W. H. jeanes, yesterday issued thh statement: The chairman of the Australian Cricket Control Board has received a report from Mr. G. A Davies, manager
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    29 16 Treasurers Dept. beat Health Dept. by three goals to one m a Chy Council inter-departmental soccer tourney tie for the Farrer Cup played at Farrer Park yesterday.
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    85 16 "pHE New South Wales Swimming Association executive last night unanimously opposed proposal to being Japanese .swimmers to Sydney text season. Hie executive v. as discussing I letter from the Australian Swimming Union seeking its view on v|glts by international swimmers nexl <p;'son and naming
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    214 16 m a rousing finish on the Padang yesterday Mansfield Sports Club beat Shell H" four-two m a Busine House fa League and Cup fixture. Shell were unlucky. A draw would i>een fairer. Durii Shell were .ia irded foui but brlllianl go ilouiv two ot them being converted
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    37 16 /'HINESE Athletic "A" trounced 1 Kota Raja "A" by nine goals to nil m their Singapore A.F.A. Div. 2 league fixture at BODCA ground yesterday. 1( Kota Raja were playing with only nine men.
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