The Singapore Free Press, 21 December 1954

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Lartrest Afternoon Sale in Malaya v i|i:; ...ir. lues.. !>•( 1 l'» ,1. I'm. t s
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  • 94 1 rpHE IS. State Department sjid yesterday that the ti Chinese wht crossed the Hong Kong border into China after repatriation were "just one of many such groups." spokesman declined to •.vhether their return had iiv special meaning comin? on the eve of Inited Nations
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  • 65 1 4 FIFTH li rift in us Supplement will come wit li tomorrow's Free P ess rhere will be iO fulll>a^e s with a bumper ction of seasonal stories ;ind articles for everj member of the family, innumerable suklestiens for last-minute < hrislmas shopping. Mike Mire of getting
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  • 96 1 The second white > area in I Perak and the twenty-second I in the Federation was declared this morning In the Bagan Datoh Peninsula and a large part of the Dindin^.s The combined population of the two areas la 99,000 34.- 500 of them in the
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  • 122 1 It may help relax world tension rpHE trip by the U.N. Secretary-General, Mr. Dim Hammarskjold. to Communist China may help relax international conditions and this would naturalbe a sood thing, Peking Radio said yesterday. When Mr. Hammarskjold d in Red China after tmas,
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  • 19 1 The police have detain* <\ 29 Malayan Servicemen following a brawl in Woodlands Road, Singapore, last night.
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  • 54 1 RNM] N .survey teams out In Singapore the damage Ibv last floods, ni spokesman would bo >n findings >f und not on sur- I out I r i he jpoke man "Win member f -»i each famlh ed b^ the fi at h irv
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  • 75 1 FLOOD FIGHTERS' NEW OPPONENT- DISEASE SINGAPORE'S battle floods is over. Now thi fi»ht is against a possible break of disease. Anti-malaria] work h a suffered. Rotting carca e I animals drowned in flood v it, ,\e been reported from several pi ice Health author!! ar« u sing every avail >■'•
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  • 102 1 PHERE are still some teats available for '-Hii;. 1 ride,*' the mammoth variety show being d bj Radio Malaya at the Badminton Hall )i:|r tonight, in aid <>f l li Flood Reliel i und Straits Times trill deliret s ti( 101 block bookfaifs of
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  • 631 1 Last-ball shock STKALI A had much the better of matters in the prelunch spell when the second Tesl was resumed at S\dne> this morning. Hoth the overnight batsmen were dismissed <wd at the interval England were 232 for six wicket-. Once again it was fast bowler
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  • 48 1 Members <>!' the littii company id the Boya Brigade and St. John Ambulance (P byterlan school branch) have siai ted a hou -e to house collection in Katong district for the Singapore Mood Relief Fund. They have so far collected 100 bundles of clothing and $601 cash.
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  • 180 1 Rubber tops 90 mark K\ Ol It \l \icki I < OEEI SPONDI v I RUBBER brake <»"• M«• ••>• ih baffler just after the opening "i tt i<i tut: Singapore irkel Ihii morning, for the first lime mi i Jannarj last vrar. i iiis u.is 7 i icnis higher
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  • 32 1 Th<> Colonial Office yesterday confirmed that Colonel Arthur Young, former City of London Police chid, and Federation of Malaya Commissioner or Police has resigned as Kenya's Police Commissioner. Reuter
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  • 30 1 A thief broke into a house in Wee Nam Road Singapore, yesterday afternoon and stole imera worth $350, a wrist h and $«o in Hong Kong curi i
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 102 1 i ANXIETY GRIEF I OVERWORK I EXCITEMENT I SLEEPLESSNESS call for RELAXA-TABS I They Relax Your Nerves I You'll find a source of absolute relaxation and soothing calm by taking RELAXA-TABS— they bring restfulness *ni\ tranquility to sufferers from nerves calming during the day and promoting peaceful natural slumber at
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  • 289 2 Under 'no obligation to defend island THE Churchill Government said yesterday that Britain is under "no obligation" to defend Formosa other than that arising out of its United Nations membership. Lord Reading Minister of State lor Foreign Affairs, told the House of Lords
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  • 150 2 CYPRUS RIOTS DUE TO REDS MR. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Secretary of Btate for the Colonies, said in London y terday. referring to the week- ml riots in Cypru.s that Britain would not alltAv "an orderly government to be replaced by "a government of hooli;s or demonstrations by stud< nts The
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    77 2 TUIE directors of Fraser and Neave and Malayan Breweries gave a farewell dinner to Mr. T. Aiken, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Straits Times Press Limited, at the Riffles Hotel, Singapore last night. Mr. Aiken will soon be leaving for the United Kingdom on retirement. Picture shows Mr. Chung
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  • 63 2 Sold 2 more U.S. rubber plants r rili: Rubber Producing A Faellitlei Disposing Com mission yesterday announced the sale of two more government -owned rubber producing plants. They are a synthetic rubber plant and a petroleum butadiene plant, both at Border, Te\;iv Both were sold to (h*» Philips hemieal Company,
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  • 100 2 /IHINA yesterday accused the French Premier, M. ndes-Franc«. of giving the I .s. complete control ov< r .'v>uth Vietnam, ivking Radio, quoting from Official People's Daily. said the French Premier transferred control during his recent visit to America. Th«» broadcast said the United States wa& planning
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  • 22 2 Jacobo Arbenz. deposed President of Guatemala, passed through Montreal on Saturday on his way to Amsterdam by air. U.P.
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  • 31 2 A foreign envoy, the new Libyan Ambassador, presented his credentials to the Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser yesterday for the first time since President Mohammed Naguib was dismissed.
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  • 27 2 The Shah of Iran interrupted his San Francisco holiday yesterday to see a dentist. His aides said the Shah was suffering from dull toothache. A.P.
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  • 204 2 A SINGAPORE court martial yesterday acquitted Staff Sergeant James J. Holmes, of 41 Base Workshops. REME. on a charge of intent to defraud the army by forging an entry in his paybook. The prosecution alleged that Holmes received $501 on January 7, 1954 as
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  • 36 2 Mother Luigina Michelini. 78, for many years Assistant Mother General of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died at the Order's St Simone Convent in Vacalio, Switzerland, on Sunday. A.P.
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  • 110 2 MR. FRANCE GETS BIG MAJORITY 'PHE .six-month-old French Government oi m p Mendcs France vr, survived a vol dence on Indo-China it now faces an immerihtn and crucial debate on^n to rearm West German? Popular republican p ierr Henri Teitgen. said that S abstaining he intended S show his lack
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 33 2 Look at your oyvs in the mirror!! You will see that your outmoded glasses are not flattering. BAUSCH A LOMB 9 S 'BALRiM 9 qiames add to your o I m lII' jflWjHyx,'-'-
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  • 394 3 Malaya 's rubber, tin worth more than China trade if \|.\v 1 rubber and tin jl in w ,,rth far more to lhe i rec U«»rld than any- |he htoeac Commu"sts will to tne Ut Nl Mr Henry Carter irho rars opcrah-d the 3 shanghai waterworks for the 'Is. S
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  • 91 3 a SHABBY old woman tried A i snatch a baby from a shrieking mother'* arms yesln Christmas crowds .r.i.is a gaily-decoratcci et where a nine-•h-old boy was kidnapped i1 irday, police said. It was the third time a kid- has .struck in Dublin shopping crowds in
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  • 15 3 President Eisenhower will on Thursday for a Christholiday in Augusta, Geor- U P.
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  • 17 3 A Japanese atomic delegai| 15 experts is scheduled In Stockholm on Fanuarv 25.- A. P.
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  • 178 3 Murder trial in 10th week THE indue in Dr. Samuel Sheppard's murder trial said 1 in Cleveland. Ohio, yesterday he was ready to con- I iwyers for both sides about the deadlocked jury. State aunarentlv was agreeable. Judge Edward Blythin .said he had
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  • 57 3 WHIP FOR CALL GIRL BOSSES VBII.L to suppress immoral traffic in girls uas Introduced in the Indian Parliament yesterd i.v l>> Home Minister Kailas Nath Katju. Penalties extend to five years' imprisonment and Rue of Ks. 2.000 (MH3M), "and a male person (for detaining a woman or «irl for prostitution*,
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  • 44 3 V OHTER planei .shot down 1 RAF. balloon trailing oi cable ai it drift- from England Tdav beading for Europe. The balloon had broker away from the baae at aixt porth. North Wales, and hud travelled rapidly across country. Reuter
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  • 139 3 INDIA is aiming at full employment In about 10 veins. 1 Mr. Chintaman Deshmukh, the Indian Finance Minister told the House of the People (lower house of parliament) in New Delhi yesterday. It would mean creating 24 million jobs in
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  • 51 3 Elephant herd was drunk A GAME Deportnenfl oiii rial h:is Mil I herd o! drunken elenh.mls BOtttll «»1 Lake Albert in Western Uganda, They had studed themselves with over-ripe nuts from llorassiis palm trer>, Which ue highly alcoholic The elephantts were seen lurching into trees and colliding: with each other.
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  • 16 3 The first Israel-Bulgarian trade and payment agreement was signed In Jerusalem yesterday.- A. P.
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  • 31 3 LONDON road accidents in November killed 75 people and injured 4.482, making it the worst month Of thr year so far, police said yeiterday.- Reuter
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  • 214 3 THE COST OF ROYAL TRIP TO W. INDIES rill. Hi at lea irds Marg irei I for her British We I In tour n ir y unu to bring h»-r b i Hie chai 'ho plane i. over half tl I d1 the M ir. The thfl Mr »n LennoxI
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 51 3 Still Supreme! sUM ESI ABLISHIiD 1760 *""t^V£? j Extra Dry Vintage 1947. Qts $19-00 f^r Mfrmums $35.00 Jft////J Black Lable *l .^u x i/ \/v. S( ll J 1 1 a/^Stt I U CnkJC SINGAPORE i PENANG KVf D! Im3\#l^l KUALA LUMPUH OUR SINGAPORE PREMISES WILL REMAIN OPEN TILL 6PM
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  • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Dec. 21. 1954. Opinion
    • 279 4 YOU can drive safely— if you put your mind to it. This has been proved in the United States, the nation which runs the most cars in the world. One day last week was designated by President Eisenhower as Safe Driving Day. On that day, the peopletook
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  • 513 4 The Wisdom of Father Dominic lAN MERCER receives some surprising replies when he interviews a village priest in Majorca FEATHER Dominic is very old, very kind, and very wise. He is also the village priest where I live and for these reasons combined I visited him the other day to
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  • 226 4 Letters from Free Press readers THERE is a saying that rings true every time. If you want to know how to pronounce a name, listen to the announcers in the 8.8.C. Radio Ceylon docs that. hence names and places are mentioned by news readers just as
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  • 255 4 taduak- WHJLE the TT trying to a car may be pa, backward.; in a on< where unilateral lowed within an Intersection V aside to examine M V head's self-stari laundry, which Topltas has well cal feet vade mecum. come added vadies so mecumlv laundry of the future
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 35 4 A^t»X< if > V« »>^<»XJ »/«V Gifts... c that will Thrill her. I Gold Vanity Cases E Cultured Pearl Necklaces Silver Brush Sets I U.S. de SILVA, I t Jewellers 106, Orchard Rd., S'pore-9 Phone. *****
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    • 44 4 CHRISTMAS WHITE WAYS PCMCNA" CHAMPAGNE CYDER it's just the drink for the Festive Season. (Only 4 more shopping days to Christmas) 9 Help the Little Sisters of rhe Poo* by going to the Grand Ball at me Memorial Hall to-nig4it. j SINGAPORE COLD STORAGECO_J____
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  • 77 5 Singapore union gets new premises ft hundred guests and r numbers of the Singa- Services Union it when the union the "Vickers Paviaa opened at the GeneHospital compound In B ihm Road. c. Tan, Legislative ..,,r, who performed the ing ceremony, said that new building was named Dr. W. J.
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  • 72 5 Pact to fight plant pests is made A 'national conference on plant diseases held in re ended at the week-Twenty-one delegates renting 10 governments at- the conference, which i un December 13. After five days' deliberathe conference drew up a draft inter-governmental men! to prevent the inuction into, and spread
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  • 40 5 A recrutlnf team will visit i I umpur in January to Malay recruits for the Singapore Regiment or Artillery. team will interview between 18 and 25 at the Kuala Lumpur Central station on Jan 12 and 1
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  • 73 5 The North Kedah Public fcs Department will spend M on improving roads in Alor Star Town Counril 1 xt year, Mr. R. s. Ken- nior executlre engineer, 1 council yesterday picture. 11 v Ux Norrry, und Miss Margaret AffMl Milne, Ml X-ray 1 <'OKrauh»;r at the Singapore
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  • 145 5 OVERAGE YOUTHS CAN STILL GO TO 1955 SCHOOLS A LTHOKiII the Education Department has decided to enforce the age limit of 17 for students for secondary schools next year, a six-month relaxation will be allowed, Mr. T. P. M. Lewis, Senior Inspector of Schools, told the Free Press yesterday. Those
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  • 78 5 FILIPINO NIGIHT TONIGHT Tonight Singapore*! Victoria Memorial Hall will be tr.informed into a Fiesta Pavilion for a grand charity ball in aid Of the Little Sisters of the Pool and the Fili\n<> Association';; Ruildinu and Rehabilitation Fund. There will be Philippine folk dances and singing. Dance music will consist mainly
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  • 22 5 IPOH. Tiles.— The Christmas^ vacation of the Federation of Malaya high courts began yesterday and will extend to Jan. I
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  • 65 5 Mr. Justice Hill yesterday gave judgment against a sundry goods shop, ivlossrs. Bean Ann and Co., for a sum of $10,806 in a civi suit. The suit was filed by Messrs. Guthrie and Co. Ltd., who sued tho defendant company for money due to them for goods
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  • 18 5 A newly-born infant was tound in a itream nt Pdandok Jatoh in Bukit Mertajam yesterday.
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  • 97 5 FAREWELL AFTER 28 YEARS DIRECTORS and mana?ers o f VV I ;inif Brothers Limited and Mi subsidiary companies ami branches gave a fare* HI party to tYlr. J. Sampson, chairman of the board of directors, at the Primes Restaurant Blue Room. Mr. Sampson will he leaving for Western Australia in
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 57 5 A Inr^e assortment of attractive designs A I H E-l y FHi Inexpensive prices ranging from $30/* p 3l i h UJM for 7|ft x 9rt. y* rtf 1 i ih iM We shcvld be happ/ to show you our run tango ui these excellent carpets. CALL AND INSPECT THEM
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 170 6 MANDRAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis B^-c-s^, !^fc Sjfc^ASPArE -SHIP? IT MUST BE, 1 I SOME SORT [UIMIMG ATUS.'WeVeI I TOO LATE f A PHOJfCTIU f^J K. MANDRAKE/ BUT WHERE FROMfI OF CANNON I GOT TO RELEASE OUR ATTACHED TO A CABLE [4 7 TH£ oCf4^ BOTTOM U*£ "slf
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    • 588 6 YOUR I LUCKY I STAR [>'»H\ t, >( |,v. v lavl h expansi ahtv. u I l'"' -^nd mann< E aluays thinking up and different method* i,, the status quo. llthfl«gh ti tit your methods i,i irorkl >oui lieu, »nce \mu 0 li.is I, .in i.-.tclud. MI j i« \ti
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 188 7 LONDON tier. in. I'rrvious Ioda> Rg| cJ.f. European 25 buyers 26 tn; !>-•' MH sellers sei i I i; So. 1 KM cJ.f. European 24 7 buyers '.n 2."» sellers no. 1 RSS Spot 25', buvers to% sellers wl RlBBEH N" 1 RSS Settlement 25<< buyers
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    • 106 7 YORK, Dee. 20 PreviousToday 1 1\ straits spot and nearby 88.37 nom. 87.50 nom. JIN futures Dec. 87.75 bid 87.25 bid 88.25 asked 87.75 asked Jan. 87.75 bid 87.25 bid 88.25 a.sked 87.75 asked Feb. 87.75 bid 87.25 bid 88.25 asked 87.75 asked TONE: Quiet. SALES: Nil
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    • 43 7 Spot Malabar was quoted at 42. at 41. December shipment 5m 1 January, February and March' (in equal monthly proportion?) 40. Sarawak spot 41. Lampong spot 42 cents per pound sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted in U.S ceiits per 1b
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    • 40 7 i^M NEW YORK. Dee. 20 Previous i Todav SO Industrials 394 94 397.32 SI Kailroads ***** ra<*& 144.06 10 Domestic Bonds 101.09 i m 101.10 IS Itilities 61.62 M 61.61 1 I Stacks Composite Averages 146.96 *****
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    • 125 7 COPBA, Philippines c.i.f. UK/North. 1 mopean delivered weight per loot; ton Dec. /Jan. COPEA, Philippines, f.o.b. Manila. delivered weight, per Ion; ion COPRA, Straits, c.i.f. IK North. f uiopoan delivered weight per Ion;; (on Dec./ Jan. Jan./Feb OCONUT OIL, crude, Straits, c.i.f. I iirnpr.ui Continental ports
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  • 61 7 A MALAYAN student returned to Singapore yesterday in a Qantas-BOAC airliner after graduating in medicine at the University of Adelaide. Dr. Jackie Yin Chu Kee is an old boy of St. Andrew's School. Dr. Yin, the son of Dr. S. C. Yin, of Norfolk Road, Singapore, a
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  • 34 7 Ji Rfl BNG, »nc of tea Malayans bUdYlng Ul \u>lr.ii:an univfisilii's, rti! t j in t'.ic lln«r S! li iresterdsy. He i- third \t i hltectarc ut M€ b i Unitenity.
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  • 20 7 AC Dumper. oi South Pwnk, Ch >t England h-. b■ appoint <-i\ Archdeacon ol NorLli Min Jan. l.
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  • 134 7 LM-KVEN cadets of the Ftdeition Air Training Corps »vo Kuala Lumpur next sday for Singapore, from e they will fly to Austra- the end of the month. t of the Malatingent of 20 to tour 1 for four weefcs undei inge visit
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  • 157 7 PECHNICAL" tralnal inn in education should be recognised as me form of academic tuition, said Mr. R. M. Young, Singapore Dir< ctor of Education, rday. our pre enl difficulties to make people understand that." he said. Mr. Young was speaking to re than 200 .students
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  • 35 7 ran hundred children i i Christ 1 held k\ the church if 1 ipon end. Ti i watched r perfoi m ince given by Mr K %p amateur ma j.i n
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
    • 149 7 Quicn Cic fiave many years' oxp^rirnce in shipp.ng quality wmes to the East, and we are pleased to be able to offer the following selection of Quien and Chateau bottled Wine, /«i#W v fsVfl Miurffumiff St Emillon ChmwMul du Pape St l ulien ,rcy C furnbertm Chateau Pontet Canet I
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  • 86 8 HORRORS Send them to M.P., says head M children -■I Am- ricaa mat least d- I r But l' w buy them i ilarly. i! Pumphn I i t, q uol t of a qu ir n.' ,i. h' d I i Counci laire went to nd 717 to the
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  • 58 8 Jene meets a seahorse on skates ALADDIN ON ICE," which cost £165,tM, is mm playing at the Empire Pool, at Wembley. London. Stars arc Jacqueline Du Kief. as Aladdin, and Peggy Wallace, as the princess. Jene Brown, 4, ii all admiration as she gates up at Osa Zonfrille, irho takes
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  • 179 8 DOCTOR 'PRESCRIBED' CURTAINS —FROM SERVICE LINT WOMAN doctor who supplied almost 300 yards of lint to a patient who sold it to her neighbours as material for curtains, cushion covers, and baby clothes war "lined" £300 and severely censured. The doctor referred to a.s "Dr. Z" in a 6.000-word report
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  • 38 8 So many people have refused council houses for "trivial reasons" in Rowley Regis. Stalls., that the council has ordered an extra six month.s wait for anyone who won't take the first house offered to them.
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  • 286 8 ACTION must be taken in, England soon to stop| coloured people buying houses and turning out the white Judge Wilfrid Clothier, Q C ring ludgment at I ami* Mi London County Court in a cast ol a 62-year-plnster who lived alone In a hi use full
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  • 521 8 Elizabeth Arden's face fell ...over a filly ill the [xnuler and I foundation < re. tin in h« r world- wide Chain "t beauty |i i r I o ii r s i tiiihi inasH the flln poolnf sac in the faCC oi Anier U.l n (i^iiut ii millionaires! .Mrs.
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  • 104 8 Blame f or t i scape of six prisoners from Strang< Goal. Manchester, a month ago has been placed on a 53-year-old prison officer. He has been found guilty of a breach of security aftei inquiry by the Prison C missioners. The
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  • 39 8 The research ship Discovery 11. has returned to Plyn after three weeks' scientific investigation off Portugal and In the western Mediterrai Scientist* aboard brought home sufficient information to them busy for nearly a year.
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  • 38 8 A woman motorist braked and jumped from her car as a 2-seatf-r plane made an emergency landing on a bypass near Foxton. Lelca pilot. Mr. F. A. Dism f he was forctd down by visibilitv.
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  • 203 8 A FAIR-HAIRED farm-girl tiptoed from the farmhouse where her daughter and family lay sleeping and burned herself to death in a bath of petrol, a coroner was :old in Carmarthen, Wales. To do it 27-year-old Gwynneth Jones carried a zinc tub and
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  • 47 9 THE DUKE indsor ■tiles at tilt* Duchess as i;ood-naturedly answers a question in the liner United States at tuthatnpton before sailing for America where the\ are' spendins "a wry quiet Christmas" with friends. They boarded the liner at Lc Havre. —Topper picture.
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  • 122 9 Fair share of a bed began row \E .said that her husband :hed her during a quarted when he comIshe '\as taking up more r fair share of the bed. That was one of the reasons n by Mrs. Rente Lipman ked for a divorce of cruelty, Mr. Com- Flowers
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  • 38 9 Britaln'i bester, win not indoor ■•> his i *ner and Olone] Harry "He does not like th€ 13-year-old ,JjJtoing will be in the 4l r, concentrated on another gold medal at Games of 1956.
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  • 338 9 Her home never was a home SIR GERALD DODSON, Recorder of London, tried to find out what makes a modern girl 'spiv*. Is it home life and environment or her own choice? The problem girl was June Dlxey, 20-year-old waitress and night club
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  • 34 9 Four youths reached a of 104 m.p.h. on the Great W I Road, m a car thev Vv>k without the owner's consent, it wa« said in a Middlesex T onnrn rourt
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  • 43 9 BABIES born in the front room of data now going up at Billesdon will be born in the County of Leicesti r. Babies born in the back loom will be in the City, Billetdon councillors have .1 told.
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  • Article, Illustration
    30 9 I" Reuter HEARING th»» time when ihrv will &i\ Britain another lead »<» world «.iti*»ii arc these eight Bristol Brittania tin»«. Jrllners in vartoui lUfea of linul assembly at liiton, i.
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  • 351 9 He made bombs, played radio JL «fic/ 11/ tires DODNEY SMITH, II yean old, matt leave hi^ ham in Regent's Park-road, Flnchtey the home vrhen he was s.iid to have made ooibs, hammered on tin floor, turned tin* radio <m load, and lit recurring bonfires
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  • 147 9 11EN-Y1 U W Jack lowed him to he. t. Alan's fath< Harold Qeorg< Blyth, ry. He v. > nt to the Aiid In court lif w.i.s fined £10 for b auli Ing headmaster Mr. I i wiiiiman. Mr. WlUiman magistrates at Hi,. n. Norfolk,
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  • 47 9 9 ASIKH'KH I'KK nas finrd I 1 for (hr.it ing himself. H< was found guilty at Torpolnt, ['ornwall of BStllf in iccnratc wales. They Kavr < iistnim rs BOM than u.in indirahd uid charged r<»r n« was ilso fined for BSIBI a iL'ht stair
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  • 149 9 SO FATHER WINS THE SCHOLARSHIP AFIVK YEAR scholar hip to :i school offered si first priz< in u Blrmlnghara Chriii maa competition hai been won by a faiher who does not know whether to accepi it. 'Die scholarship, uorfh £250. 'M $2 2(»d» was liven by Mr. Barnett Mori.s. head
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  • 24 9 Cinemas in Suncv b< i rn uiven permission to open 1 n Christmas Day providing they keep to Sunday performance till!*
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  • 715 10 There are NO dancing girls on this barge today VR OY A L pleasure barge that would bring a blush to the chock of Cleopatra wallows today along the east bank of the Nile, moored in front of the plushiest hotel In Cairo. The bai or river yacht was once
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  • 252 10 There'll be lots to talk about when the Wolf meets that Bulldog again /\-\PTAIN Donald Macintyre. Britain's ace U-boat sinker who was known as the ••Bulldog Drummond of the Atlantic" during the war, has invited his old enemy Otto Kretschmer, Germany's ace U-boat commander, to stay at his Pluckley home
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  • 67 10 BECAUSE stray dogs are causing a nuisance by "howling through the night? in Nicosta. the Deputy Mayor is to introduce legislation in the city which ivill provide municipal docj-catchcrs with the power to grab any howling dog and cart it off to a dog gaol. All dogs committing
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  • 179 10 SIRWINSTON TRIES OUT HIS FRENCH lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHMIIIIIIIIi HUM I 111 I HUM lIM Accent, forceful: bit grammatically "Ooff" SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, presented at the French Embassy in London with another birthday picture, began to thank his diplomat hosts in their own language. But after two sentences he stopped, smiled, and finished
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  • 119 10 ISTANBUL newspapers are giving a W 3£l nS^wai 1 thousands ol Turkish lira in circulation wai reader has to d> is din """n^tff l^ 18 papers daily. He sends them J"- 1 ires.. This i ntitlei him to take pan lotteri •Wriw. I)-
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  • 530 11 It takes six hours to get a two-minute love scene /FIANCES arc that the two-minute love scene you saw flash across the today along een of your cinema night took a good or six hours to Him. One-t;ikr" movie seines :.vwood are Just about rare as a blue serge suit
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  • 91 11 God" Incident rown a major film i] taitepin. "ks nn a raffWon site, <ir«MT Garl on painful Attacks •mndicitii, knowing that suwftry would tie up shoo tu© long. But, upon arriving I home hei idition l>< ntc Uial pliysu ians ered in immediate
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  • 199 11  - Bogey's back totting a gun BOB THOMAS 11UMPHREY BOG ART is back at his old stand with a gun in his hand. Back in 1936. he made his debut as a tou^h guy in "Petrified Forest." <he had appeared in films earlier, but as a juvenile 1 1. He played
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  • 362 11  -  Michael Ruddy SHOW TALK by AT one o! the .studio I talked with J«hn Wayne and learned that he married Pilar Palette In Hawaii In order to avoid publicity. It .< ms Wayne coni ld< i d hia lour children carefully, decided it
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  • 613 12  - There are few gadgets in this modern. fascinating kitchen EVE PERRICK reports IMI) lIIIIMII IN the most fascinating kitchen I've ever seen, Which U in the most fascinating house I visited in New York, where lives the most fascinating woman I met in A. rica, a Victorian sampler on the
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  • 39 12 Cocktails for Christmas Christmas parties will be all the brighter tor this new cocktail dress in sapphire blue pure silk satin, caught at the hip with a jewel. The neck, hi|?h at the front, has a deep scooped back.
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  • 186 12 A nurse on a plane may save your life By a Correspondent SHOULD airliners carry fully equipped medical staff? Some airlines think so; others don't. The question arises because a baby was born to a woman passenger aboard an American charter airliner over the Atlantic A doctor in Ireland gave
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    • 227 12 dh| §»31 BhS Hio SffSl H^Si CLUES ACROSS: 5. Giddy disease that ends by the 1 r> Vaf IRR order to proceed (7). I Pukc in the fall? (6,6). fi attra( t i ve s in e o f 8. I tell Gay of validity In law ttoZto™ to 2iii
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  • 557 13  - The white shirt snobbery HAL BOYLE A crusade has been started to out an end to reports Till-, biggest mistake 1 ihe white collar c!;iss llia kes today is to Ihe white shirt. The white shirt for a ip le of generations h^ been a sentee! badse or riority A
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  • 57 13 >"t fc» In for skiinn In Malaya hut we CM still admire it u""." 1 hla(k ski outfit seen in a recent fashion display i'Usor. The j<rsey, with lined hood and matching mitts. (lll "nah|p in other colours boside Mick. Whatever the r n makes a
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    184 13 IF E*st think* he hai 'he oppO* nenis In PaTiom tfOUbk hi greatly mistaken He hM them in Itie best ipot, h. lai a: bt 1 COO" cerned; it Booth ha.s a beaii the lUi ipi hid will be defeated n hould !>•• enough I him Bui omeiriaytnan
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  • 80 13 W< >MEN have n tin- m on mai rts b Hew v m irk< I h i.nn. v.i ,i 1 200 men and w< m n 1 t''* 1 word which ctnn mind ai th< m< ntion ol age The r< arch< Indicating a i ipi
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    • 42 13 I He 4w p«* 1 E Mod«l Mrtliwry Hats made H B. Winter, j Hats remodelled 18 Battery Rd "iii:;ii!iiMiiiiiHMiiiii!!MiiiimMiiiiiimimiiiMiniiiim:niinmiimMHmiir w afcWU 4 I STORAGE j J\_ 'iV— H L I MI T E 0 'fj pi U|Jl 17^ CECIL STREET SINGAPORE
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  • 239 14  -  FERENC PUSKAS Kv (Captain of Hungary, who beat Scotland at HampcU n) rpHERE an* two things We Hungarians, and maybe England as well, can learn from these ama/inu fighting Scots. .1. Tin- close tackling that did not allow US to settle as well
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  • 217 14 Russian and U.S. boxers visit U.K. By GEORGE WIIITINC; B>Xl I om the U.S.A. and ri; to meet British amateurs in London next year. The American ill box at tnbley on May 11. The Rustfter than two trs oi negotiations, have at' 1 1 t agreed "in principle" to visit
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  • 93 14 (1> Whore and when will the Fourth Asian Table Tennis Championships be held? (2) Whit is the world record break in snooker? (3) The secretary of the M.C.C. recently passed through Singapore on his way to Australia. Who is he? (4) Who won the annual Oxford v. Cambridge
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  • 28 14 Yvonne sugden. 1 5-year-old RetMlnctofi |lrl, who. ;i fortnlghi ai^o, ibtful competitor •>«'- cuts** ot bftck Injury, retained her British Women 'j Ice-skating champtombip %i BtrrattaaiD, London.
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  • 14 14 aais-pnii'H JaJiou <S) *0-E "da .i/*.puquiT*3 'PHV pfTOOU 'JW <Z) <m <?.)
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  • 89 14 ••/'OLOURFUL Wimbledon" U latest of a series of documentary films of the world's lawn tennis champions': Produced in colour, the film alms principally to show the organisation, atmosphere, and elegance of Wimbledon. Yi t i' has caught .>ome of real moments, including some Di those fantastic
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  • 16 14 England beat Wales by eight matches to one in table tennis match at Newport.
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  • 456 14  -  DESMOND HACKETT Says r FIIE Scots have become Insufferable because they merely lost to Hungary instead of beino sunk .vithout trace. When they have stopped singing their tribal music about belonging to Glasgow they throw out their porridge-fed chests and boast about what they will
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  • 46 14 At India's invitation a 30-man .ui football team will visit imiia for six weeks beginning on January 15, the Madias Football Associat ion s.tid Yesterday. Five ma' (lies are to be played— at Bonib.iv, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Bangalore.- A. P.
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    47 14 Hoinrri's inside ritjht Kotsi s iang trrusly near to g«*l, is i,.ii.<i i, T Wolverhampton'i left bMk Sherthome and gtalkeeper Williams in th« tiuotlii^ht match at Hsflyneax grtwnd, Wolverhampton. Wolvn loui;lit back lium a two s«»'i' dr liiit to b«\U the Ilun^.i iaiw :;..>. picture. Reuter
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  • 236 14 NEW RUGBY CAPTAIN PICKED SCOTLAND'S Rugby Union team to meet France in Paris on January 8 contains live new "Yaps." Ttie choice of a new captai.i J. Greenwood was a surprise as he has played in only one international. This waa against France two years ago. Greenwood was preferred as
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    • 45 14 t M||s Odor-Go i REFRIGERATOR ICE BOX f pSJSiivs:'^!. 1 ooours I 1 Less food spoilage SarjUjp^ j less de/ros/ing J VV^ •Wo eos# fo opero'e Sole Agents:--&L KIAN GWAN (MALAYA) LTD SINGAPORE PENANG K. LUMPUR r#«* STHAiTS TIMES ANNVAtj should be in your home.
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  • 536 15 Si tarn pore behind at halt-time By FIRST-TIMER SINGAPORE 5; INDONESIA 3. r pHE Indonesian hockey tourists put up an improved display, but went down fighting to the Singapore Selection in the third game of their series yesterday at Jalan Besar Stadium. Singapore owed victory
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  • 285 15 JAPS WILL LOSE TABLE TENNIS LEAD NEXT YEAR Says their world champ Ogi<!tura [SHIRO OGIMURA, the world table tennis champion, returned to Tokyo from his European tour sterdav and said: "Japan's chances of retaining world titles at Holland next year appear to be slim." mura played with choice European players
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  • 106 15 Change of name is explained HERMAN D<' Souza, President of the Malayan Hockey ration, explained yesterwhy its name had been r<l from "Federation of Malaya Hockey Union." aid in letters to the the International Federation and nay bodies had reerred to the union as Malayan Union. A custom waa popular
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    46 15 ipore*i non-playing captain. Let>w Kim Fatt. receive! jon| Scong (up from Mrs Tjt Kim Yurn. wife of tho fresldenl of the Pcnang Badm't-.ton AssociatJon. at elusion of this year's final in Frnang on Sunday. ipore won l»v "> matches to 4 picture Free Press
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  • 115 15 Cricket writers divided on Test AUSTRALIAN cricket writers last night thought that the second Test between England and Australia was "still an open tfame" but that England had more than a fighting chance. Horn Goodman (the Sydney Morning Hera'd) (aid: "The match is .still open with the Odds slightly favouring
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  • 5 15 BADMINTON BOSS IS RETIRES rhomas
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  • 104 15 KN<,I,AM)- IST inns I '.l ArSTKAMA- IST INNS 'I* KN(il-ANF)- !M> DTNSi II id, n r It- ii.uul h .lolirisiun Ikuli v r l..uiKlt'v b \r 1., i May not nut '»h (iravenry r UMfltJ b Joluislon u owdrry I Arrh«-i h Hituud Kdric h not out Kxtra\
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  • 36 15 In Mm; la tid's first innings Australian left hand howler Rill Johnston gestures triumphantly as English onrtirr Lm lluf'on is caught in sjM'ct. irular fashion by Alan Davidson at short fin«> h'K.
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    • 11 15 /roi^/d someone be kind as to shut the window > ;p'css Scrvu-e
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    • 44 15 MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW X'MAS EVE Celebration THE OCEAN PARK HOTEI Splendid Enf < rt.nnm n Programme i .it i r nn First Personal Appearance of MISS DELLA LING j#i #>'«i '73s The most .ippl.iudi-d S^n^ini jt.ir in Hongkong Novcltin .»nd Souvenir* tot E> rv( n.
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  • 277 16 picture. Free Press Boxing Reporter IJ AY RICO turned camera shy yesterday evening at his training camp in East Coast Road. "No pictures," he ruled. "Take them after I beat Somdez," he said. Rico will fight Orient welterweight champion Somdez Yormtrakit in a 10 round
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  • 18 16 A hoekev -friendly' will be played between S.C.C. and the Indian Association on the padans today.
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  • 39 16 Aston Martin > ports cars will enter four bis? races during 1955. Races will be the Sebring, Florida. 12-hours race: Le Mans classic race in France; Rheims, France. 12--hours race, and the 1.000 kilometres race at Neurburgring, Germany.
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  • 36 16 The Singapore Cycle Racing As«Ociation's annual gratf track meet scheduled to be held in conjunction with the New Ye.tr Sea 8p Jan 1 1955. has been p until after the Chinese Net S
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  • 202 16 COHEN STOPS ANKARAH IN FOUR ROBERT COHEN. French holder of 'lie world bantamweight championship, beat Roy Ankarah the Gold Ooasfa former British Empi i weight champion In and of their nor title boul In Paris last nl Ankarah failed to an wer th< for the Btan ol the fourth round.
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  • 523 16 Should win the Christmas Cup Free Tress Course Correspondent P OLDEN LOTUS, with Davy Jones astride, did a smart gallop on the training track at I'enang this morning when he finished a two-round workout with a It. sprint in 38 sec. He is engaged in
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  • 177 16 Jockey Athol Mulley. who broke his toe in an accident at Kuala Lumpur last month. will ride at the Penang Christurns and New Year meetings Mulley has fulfilled his contract with the spencer stable and will now ride as a freelance. He leads the jockeys list
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    • 345 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. DEATHS 20 Wind?. |i i nnninuim RICHARDS FREDA Age 9 at Kuala Lumpur on 19th December, beloved daughter of Margaret and Freddie MYLES DAVID AND MARY at Kuala Lumpur on 19ili December, I beloved parents ol Margaret Richards. Cable new* vas received from Ceylon yesterday (Monday) of the
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