The Singapore Free Press, 23 May 1957

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper No. *****. Singapore, Thursday. May 23. 1957. Price 15C(s
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    Injured fireman rescued
    62 1 Fireman Abdul Rahman bin Mohamad (centre) one of the 50 firemen who fought the flames was injured when a beam crashed near him. He was also temporarily blinded by falling embers. Two of his comrades, a fireman and Miss H.lda Hogan, both of the Civil Defence forces,
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    Lock icon UK may ease China trade bars
    241 1 UK may ease China trade bars BRITAIN may decide to •go it alone" in relaxing: the embargo on trade with Red China if the United States refuses to follow suit, official sources in London said yesterday. Well informed sources said pressure from British businessmen eager to break into the profitable
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    Rubber price
    29 1 June first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 90i cents a lb. down half a cent on yesterday's close. The tone was quiet.
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    CAUSE OF THE BIG FIRE IS STILL A MYSTERY
    475 1 CAUSE OF THE BIG FIRE IS STILL A MYSTERY Worst blaze in years leaves 500 homeless Baby is missing THE cause of last night's disastrous fire, said to be the biggest in two years in Singapore, is still a mjstery. It gutted a twoKtorey building in Cecil Street, made about
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    WHY S.I.T. CAN'T SHOW TENANTS' LIST
    388 2 This would require extra staff Register is confidential THE housing register of the Singapore Improvement Trust is confidential and will not under any circumstances be opened to the public. The acting manager of the 5.1.T., Mr. A. B. Sewell said this yesterday in answer
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    46 2 picture. Mr. and Mrs. Bay Khim Yong seen after their wedding in Singapore. Mr. Baj is the third ton of Mr and Mrs. Bay Ah Hian. The bride is the former Miss Sect Siang Eng, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Seet Jiak Peng.- Free Press
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    HOBBYMINDED
    89 2 SINGAPORE schools will form the largest single group of exhibitors at the hobbies exhibition organised by the Rotary Club at the Victoria Memorial Hall next week. In addition to the 600 entries already received from individual contributors, thousands of exhibits will come from both English and vernacular schoolsgovernment, aided
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    Lock icon Eiffel Tower a money-spinner
    27 2 The Eiffel Tower U one of the biggest money spinners in Paris. Last year's total earnings were 325,000,--000 francs (£325.000 st< rling). Reuter
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    Courage by training
    302 2 SINGAPORE Government officials who go to England for specialised training in future will have a chance to attend the Outward Bound Trust Sea School at Aberdovy South Wales. The Staff Officer of the Government Training School, Mr. Tan Kah Jin told the Free Press that the officers
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      120 2 m All the Pomp Pageantry of Her Majesty's Visit to France "FRANCE WELCOMES j HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN 3690 N 3 E A SPECIAL FEATURETTE in CINEMASCOPE EASTMANCOLOUR 340 42 ((Distributed by Shaw Bros.) jni «*9g SintuUanrausly at 2 llu-atns J^* BH von s##on#vr; starts today H HERE'S A FRENCH
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    Lock icon THE SINS OF NEW YORK...
    140 3 J^IES in business dealings double-sex lives. obsession with money making these, Billy Graham says, are some of New York's moral ills. "You're too busy," he told 17,500 people last night, and his arm swept the vast Madison Square Garden. "That's what's wrong with New York.
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    Lock icon President sworn in
    15 3 Dr. Adolf Schaerf was sworn in yesterday as President of Austria. Reuter
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    Lock icon 11 DIE IN HONG KONG'S DOWNPOUR
    209 3 11 DIE IN HONG KONG'S DOWNPOUR A trial of havoc as 15 inches of rain falls in three days TORRENTIAL rain which has poured 15 inches of nater on Honq: Kong in the last three days is believed to have caused the death of at least 11 people, with 2*5
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    60 3 Several thousand university students demon- 5 strated recently in the Latin quarter of Paris to show their sympathy with the claims of the staff of the university restaurant who have been on E strike over a pay dispute. This Popper picture shows a violent scene be- tween many police and
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    Lock icon TORNADOES KILL 53 IN U.S.
    50 3 A new series of tornadoes Which swept from the Kansas border across Missouri into Illinois yesterday brought the death roll in 24 hours to an estimated 53. Mr. James Blair, Missouri Governor, has asked President Eisenhower to declare the stricken sections a disaster area.- Reuter
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    Harry had a ride
    32 3 So drunk was Harry Ballenger that a policeman had to take him to the sta- j tion in a wheelbarrow. He was fined 15s. at Haltwhistlt Northumberland. i
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    Lock icon SANTA GETS THE SACK
    104 3 rpHE Transvaal synod of 1 the Dutch Reformed Churi'h in South Africa has decided to ban Santa C and all his trappings from future festivitiThcse include lighted Christmas trees in church and the* holding ol "carols by candlelight" services before Christina Clowns and cracker^ during the
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    A special brew for the Queen
    260 3 THE biggest crowd Queen Elizabeth has so far met in her state visit to Denmark roared their affection in Copenhagen last night when she appeared with Prince Philip and the Danish Royal couple on the balcony of the Royal Danish Theatre. In a magnificent
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      76 3 SPORTSHIRTS 1 Small Medium Large Wsj\jr From $9.50 to $15.00 Here's one of a group of sportshirts that will make every man happy handsome, well-tailored sportshirts by Coopers. All of tissue weight cotton gingham for the ultimate in coolness. A wide choice of regular or continental styling in any c010r
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 23, 1957. Opinion Problem for America
    305 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, May 23, 1957. Opinion Problem for America COUTH VIETNAM, in a bid to solve the problem of a large local-born but alien Chinese minority, has decreed that they should take up Vietnamese nationality. And, to make sure that this order was obeyed, the government simultaneously
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    BY THE WAY
    152 4  -  Beachcomber asdf AN anonymous postcard asks why I never give tips for races. Long ago. knowing no more about racing than about coi.chology, in my column I gave a tip The horse won. I gave another. Another win. By this time the sporting journalists were roused. One
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    A-T-I-S-H-O-O-O!
    1005 4  -  P.M. RAMAN Reporter's Notebook dfgh THE influenza epidemic whieli sueeeeded in knoeking out a large percentage of our population for varying period* during the past three weeks has ilemonslraled iwo thing*: inadequaey of medieal faeililies in the rural areas and I li«» Va I loirs* outlook of many Singaporeans.
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      55 4 'v^A-mT Here's instant, '/yw pleasant relief from colds, sore throats and hacking coughs. A.I Lung Syrup is especially good for treating colds and common chest A Ilirifif ailments in children —they like it too SVrUP because its taste is so good. Available from:The FEDERAL DISPENSARY Ltd. 33, Raffles Place, Singapore
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    63 5 picture. A cobbler-artist opened a one-man exhibition in London recently and one of his paintings was of Sabrina in the nude. Few people recognised her because it was painted from a back view and showed little of the anatomy which has made Sabrina famous. The artist, 40-year-old Lawrence Isherwood, F.R.S.A.,
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    LIM CABLES LONDON WAR OFFICE
    321 5 LIM CABLES LONDON WAR OFFICE Hope grows among the Services'' unions THE Singapore Chief Minister. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, has cabled the War Oilice jn London for authentic information on the exact number of redundant local staff in Services establishments in the Colony and also to expedite the setting up
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    EXAMS MAY BE HELD IN S'PORE
    105 5 EXAMS MAY BE HELD IN S'PORE THE Australian Society of Accountants Is to investigate the possibility of forming a local organisation In Singapore to help increasing numbers of overseas students to take accountancy examinations. This was decided at a recent meeting held in Australia, because out of the 800 overseas
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    PLEDGE BY LIM TO 2,000
    125 5 ABOUT 2,000 harbour craft workers in Singapore may soon enjoy the benefits of the Labour Ordinance. Government sources disclosed that the workers' plea for such benefits was being sympathetically considered. The interim secretary of the Singapore Union of Seafarer*. Captain Mohd. Said bin Alias, told
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      20 5 i I^V^^M(f\ATi I IN DIAMONDS 0R I^^^^U vOvW^ x LATEST DESIGNS I Y/7^^^l^*^*/ RHINESTOMiS. 20 BATTERY ROAD gSPORE-1. TEL: *****
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      169 5 EJ CATHAY J -fflMtt TODAY! I Jtfk M From A. J Cronm's hdllunt no^cl V j^^j comes a him j^ -4P^JS^f .>) rcmnrkdble po^er— )^> IL a^HLi lth >' nccrc portrayah. J^" A pcnctr.itmo direciior* Vif 1 •l»d O'listandmg jtJ''^r JtteSS f TMI HANK ORGANISATION J Bogarde j The Jon
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      89 6 >lA.\IHfcAKi; by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I I AWeeKA6O, THESTRANSEBGAMeA I THEftE, IM TM6 V/P MEVER VEAXP I I O0« KlNfi'. !™Wf H Z'TIMHi t 1 MOVWTAtWS i OF EJ7HER PLACE ACMESS FAf4, \OMLY A REQUEST YOU TW.WK VOU«? FROMTUE I FROM MV SOVEREI&N. /^T^ PHILAPOrV >*7A«AaW. TO NASIT
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      457 6 IIIIIIIIIMIII I Illlllllll linn........... BORN today you have a tremendous store of 'nervous energy and always like to be on the go. Sometimes the direction seems unimportant, just so long as there is activity! Rather easily influenced by those around you. you might do well to direct your activities toward
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  • Hound the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      189 7 LONDON. May 22Previous Today RUBBER N«. 1 RSS c.if- 26 buyers 26% buyers European port* May 2 t! seners 26* MDI Jun« 26 4 buyers 36 Vi buyers vr »o« sellers 26 sellers RUBBER No- 1 RSS Spot 25% buyers MS buyers 26 7 sellers 26 7
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      New York prices
      112 7 NEW YORK. May 22. Previous Today TIN Straits spot 98.00 nom. 98.00 nom. TIN futures Standard Contract May 96 50 buyers 96 50 buyers 97.75 sellers 97 75 sellers June unquoted unquoted TONE: Steady. SALES: Nil. Straits Contract May 97 50 buyers 97 50 buyers 98.00 sellers
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      46 7 NEW YORK. May 22. Previous Today 30 Industrials 506.04 504.43 20 Railroads 147 42 146 <>'J 40 Domestic Bond s 89.52 89 33 15 utilities 74 61 74.60 65 Stocks Composite Averages 176.62 176 06 Above prices quoted in U.S. cents per Ib.
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      U.S. PEPPER
      52 7 Malabar /Lampong spot 29'i. afloats 29 to 28 V*. Malabar May shipment 28, Larapong M.iy shipment 27 '4, Sarawak spot 28 V attoats 274, May shipment 26 1 June stiipment 25 2l Muntok white spot 33^. afloats 32'i to 32, sellers exdock- Aoove prices quoted m u;>. cents
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      112 7 LONDON, May ZtPrevious Today COPRA Philippines c4 f. U.K7 North European delivered welfht per loaf ton May/ June $1704 sellers $170 sellers COPRA. Strait* c If UK/North European drlivrrrd welfht per fear ton May /Jane £63 4 nom. £624 buyers £63 sellers Jane July *W«4 buyers
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    Outdoor girl 'down under'
    86 7 The sirl looking so at home in the wide open spues mi the picture on tile l«'ft is actress K<»n<'- miry Harris who went to Australia re< e»itly to shoot location scenes for her role as the daughter of a E sheep farmer in the Michael
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    THIS WASN'T CRICKET -OR WAS IT?
    214 7 THIS WASN'T CRICKET -OR WAS IT? THEY ran from the pavilion at Hove cricket ground in Sussex. England, last week. It was too dangerous. For Don Smith, 33-year-old Sussex opening bat from Worthing, smashed nine sixes among the members sitting there. They dodged and ducked for cover. But one elderly
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    Lock icon 49 ships for sale
    38 7 A bill authorising the sale or loan of 49 United States naval vessels tc friendly foreign nations has been passed by the House of Representatives and now goes to the senate for action.- Reuter
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      110 7 Todays Radio Programme for Singapore 115 p.m. Lunch Time Concert' 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Ladles Only; 3.57 For Schools; 5.00 Calling All Hospitals, presented by Maisie Conceicao; 6.00 Time Announcement and Programme Summary; 602 Children's Programme; 630 Radio Dance Club; 6.55 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00
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      55 7 liiimiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimii 1 SINGAPORE 1 I HIGH TIDES 1 TODAY: 6.25 p.m. TOMORROW: 6.25 a.m. and 7 23 p.m. SATURDAY: 7.51 a.m. and 8.09 p.m. 5 SUNDAY: «52 am. E and 8. 45 p.m. MONDAY: 941 a.m. and 9.20 p.m. S TUESDAY: 10.27 a.m. E and 9.54 p.m. E WEDNESDAY: 11.11
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    The specialist
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    He removed the princes tonsils...
    122 8 He removed the princes tonsils PRINCE CIIARLKS recently had an operation for the removal of his tonsils and adenoids at Buckingham Palac A bulletin issued later said: "The Duke of Cornwall underwent an operation for removal of his tonsils and adenoids this morning "His Royal EUfhnett's immediate post-operative condition is
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    UP AND COMING JOCKEY
    53 8 Here is an unusual combination, and one that both participants •een to be enjoying (the scowl is for the cameraman!) It happened at Whiponade Zoo in Buckinghamshire, England recently when Christopher the rhesus monkey decided to go for an early morning ride on the back of
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    STORMY MEETING LOST GIRL REAPPEARS WHEN
    327 8 STORMY MEETING LOST GIRL REAPPEARS WHEN THERE was an uproar of screams, shouts, and crashing furniture on the first floor of Belfast police headquarters, Northern Ireland, one night last week. In one of the rooms were 40-year-old Mrs. Mary Lyons and her 16-year-old daughter Maura, who had just reappeared after
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    'THE PHANTOM' EATS AGAIN
    105 9 'T HE PHANTOM' EATS AGAIN THE Phantom" sits back after a meal that made up for five day starvation. "The Phantom" is the frightening: ghostlike shape that worried train-drivers and passengers for nearly a week on London's inner circle underground after days of "hide and seek." "The Phantom" turned out
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    COOKING -ARMY STYLE
    120 9 COOKING -ARMY STYLE Eastern Command of the British Army recently held a cookery competition at Woolwich Ground Depot.. Barracks, near London. The competition included team and individual tontests and both men and women and VVRAC personnel took part. They came from various units In Eastern Command. In the picture on
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      43 9 CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME ORIENT. MEYER CHAMBERS TEL: *****-9. 1 BUILDING LOTS FRANKEL ESTATE from 4,500 to 15,000 sq. ft. $1.00 to $1.25 per sq. ft BINJAI PARK rNEAR SWISS CLUB ROAD. from 12,000 to 28,000 sq. ft. $0.70 to $1.20 per sq. ft.
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    THE BIG DOG BARKED AT MIDNIGHT
    1536 10 THE BIG DOG BARKED AT MIDNIGHT WHEN YOU ARRIVED JUST NOW H ANT U NEITHER BARKED NOR GROWLED. HE JUST WAGGED HIS TAIL HE ONLY BARKED ONCE LAST NIGHT -AND THAT WAS AFTER MIDNIGHT WHEN D ALB AN RETURNED' "r<OME in, Inspector. What's the trouble?" "It's this murder out at
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    Another Latiff story
    447 10  -  Pelham Groom TTWW "I can guess, but it's no use asking me whei> 1 was last night, because I don't know. I was syncopating earlier in the evening/' "Syncopating?*' "Yes, you know an Irregular progress from bar to bar. I fell in with a planter I used
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    SPOTLIGHT ON THE SERVICES
    419 11 Army operates own railway NO. 10 Transportation Squadron Railway Troop became operational in Singapore on Jan. 1 of this year. Almost at once a minor burden was lifted from the shoulders of Malayan Railways as a regular job they had done up to that date was
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    Lock icon Japanese atone for the last war
    230 12 Japanese atone for the last war JAPAN has sent her Prime Minister on an unprecedented mission of goodwill to countries of South and South-East Asia which she once hoped to dominate. Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's departure for Burma, India. Pakistan. Ceylon Siam and Formosa marked the first time a Japanese
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    22 12 South Korean Defence M'«'^« Kim Yon E W^ (ccnUe) v^^he^^med 1 Wu Y SSSUr. and Captain g Ca.vin Kim. U.S. escort officer
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    Lock icon Dykes are collapsing
    51 12 DYKES have begun collapsing in Red China and authorities are trying to prevent a possible repetition of the floods of last year. Peking Radio reported that units of the Chinese "Liberation Army" have been called out for flood prevention work in the South China Province of Kwangtung.
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    Lock icon CHINA CAN BE KNOCKED OUT IN ONE RAID
    392 12 CHINA CAN BE KNOCKED OUT IN ONE RAID 1 1 1 AP ...featuring news Dill VI" and views I V k V k about Asia today TF total war ever tomes to Asia, the United States will throw its nu--1 cLZ knockout punch from the island bastion of Guam, wh.ch
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    Lock icon Peking bid to halt unrest
    50 12 President Chiang Kaishek, rejecting as impos slble any idea of a compromise between the Chinese Nationalists and Chinese Communists, said in Taipeh that recurrent peace rumours had been spread by the Chinese Communist to "appease the people on the mainland and prevent an uprising." A.P.
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    Lock icon U.S. steel mills to train 200 Indians
    87 12 mwO hundred Indian engineers *M receive trainl ing in the United States this year before undertaking responsible positions in India's three government controlled steel plants now be ng built by the Russians. West Germans and British under the second flve-year plan. Thp first
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  • Glimpses
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      Lock icon India's 'no' to 'ban A-tests' conference
      179 12 India' s no' to 'ban A-tests' conference INDIA'S Home Minister. Mr. Pandit G. B Pant I told the New Delhi I'pper House that he die. call such a meeting. j Mr. Pant said. "Since the last Bandung conference. certain forces have been at work and all these states are not
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      31 12 Aboard the Japanese ship Koan Maru. repatriating war criminals and Japanese residents in China, are 553 Japanese women married to Chinese, and their children, who will visit relatives In Japan Reuter
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      28 12 On his departure from Tokyo for a tour of SoutnEast Asia, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi sa:d "Japan's relations witn Burma, Siam, Ceylon, Pakistan and Formosa are Inseparable." A.P.
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      46 12 "The Soviet Union supports the claim of the government and people of Indonesia concerning the reuniting of West Irian with the Republic of Indonesia' said a Foreign Office communique issued in Jakarta at the end of the visit of Russian Pre sident Marshal K. Voroshilov- Reuter
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      20 12 Indian Defence Minister V. K. Krishna Menon had a four-hour talk with Kashmiri Premier Baksni Ghulam Mohammed at Srinagar.- Reuter
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      27 12 panied by Bishop Paul Ro of Seoul. A.P. Before leaving Seoul after a three-day tour of South Korea German Cardinal Josef Frings called on President Rhee accom-
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      44 12 "Yomiuri Hall," a spectacularly modern building housing a department store, concert hall, television studios and roof garden has been opened In the heart of Tokyo by Yomiurl. one of Japans three major newspapers. It Is a nine-storey tile and glass brick wedgeshaped structure. A.P.
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      35 12 Mr. Sunao Sonoda, Ambassador Extraordinary of Japan, saia in Warsaw, "I see possibilities of co operation between Poland and Japan in almost all international problems, for there are no contradictory interests between our countries. Reuter
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      19 12 A FLOTILLA OF 16 JAPANESE FISHING BOATS IS ON ITS WAY FOR FISHING OPERATIONS IN WATERS OFF SIAM. REUTER
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      20 12 Hie twelfth world Congress of the Junior Chamber of commercial International is to be held in Tokyo in October.- U.P.
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      37 12 The Freedom of Information Committee of the Foreign Correspondents Clue of Japan has been instructed to maintain a close watch on the situation in Indonesia, where a number of newspaper have been closed by the army. U.P.
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      15 12 AU TURERS A WILL SELL 200 WINDMILLS TO INDIA THIS YEAR FOR PUMPING WATER.- REUTER
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      18 12 South Korea has donated 22,080 yards of cotton sheeting to victims of a typhoon in South Vietnam.- A.P.
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      30 12 The Korean Central Education Society of Japan, which admits to Communist Korean sympathies, has received US$34O.--924 from the North Korean Red Cross to aid Korean school children in Japan.- U.P.
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      10 12 India's ambassador to Japan is Mr. Chandra Snekar Jha. Reuter
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      18 12 Former Indonesian Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo may become Indonesia's chief delegate to the United Nations. Jakarta sources said- Reuter
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    Toot the Tug
    254 13 I (Chapter 9<**Smudge Appears) CMUDCE heard the bump and poked his head out of the hatch-way, staring in surprise. "Who are you, boy? he asked. And where are Timothy and the Captain?" AS APPMBNTHX PMHATK Tin the Apprentice Pirate, said the Apprentice, rubbing the big bump on
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    Day in the life of a woman
    359 13 Day in the life of a woman f POCKET V SIZED Armando Marshall reports from London WHEN your daughter starts standing, quite literally, on her own feet, and not a moment later, you realise that you have on your hands not a baby but a small woman. For this is
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    MADE FOR A BLONDE
    53 13 IJYACINTH blue and pale jade lovely colours for a|J 11 blonde. So thinks film star JUNE LAVERICK, who J was one of Britain's representatives at the Cannes Film -j Festival. The *ay little beach jacket, of the same deli- cate jade as her. swim-suit, is lined
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    MAKE THE MOST OF BEING YOUNG
    224 13 (^HANGING the hairstyle is the biggest step E from schoolroom to working life. In tivo hours the right haircut transforms a girl into E a young lady. It is also the first step to take E before buying clothes, particularly hats, as a E
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      211 13 CLUES ACRO^ 6 A ca*k worker perhaps takes 1 Mother finishes this game a P lunge (6> I > 7 A part introduces political 8 Beaten half an ambassador 11 Dan upset in a steamer Inside (9). 13 Dropped all editions insido 9 it's all around <3). 110 Entertainers ir.
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    Lock icon WARDLE UPSETS TOURISTS WITH HIS 'CHINAMEN'
    417 14 Ramadhin also a menace A FTER being dismissed for a modest 190 on a good pitch, the West Indies cricketers struck back before the close to capture four wickets for 59 runs on the first day of their three-day match against Yorkshire at Sheffield
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    396 14 PETER MAY STRIKES HIS BEST FORM WITH A 117 OFF SUSSEX Ted Dexter (185) best in a day of centuries BATSMEN resumed the Initiative in County cricket yesterday following the series of remarkable bowling feats of recent days. Fine weather and fast pitches brought five individual centuries, and four sides
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    236 14 SCOTLAND were good value for their 3-1 win at Stuttgart yesterday against West Germany, holders of the world soccer championship after leading by 2-0 at the interval. Scotland have already won their first two group games and seem assured of going to Stockholm for
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    146 14 CLOSE of play scores in yesterday's County cricket matches were: At Gravesend: Kent 392 for six declared (Wilson 157, Pretlove 101. Cowdrey 86); Leicestershire 16 for two. At The Oval: Surrey 320 for seven declared (May 117, Clark 95, Stewart 51); Sussex 24 for no wicket.
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    160 14 SUNDERLAND MANAGER FINED £200 THE Joint Commission of the Football Association and Football League, which inquired into alleged illegal payments to players by Sunderland, the First Division Club, yesterday announced penalties imposed on th* Sunderland manager and some of the players. Mr. Bill Murray, manager of the club, has been
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    116 15 Keenan retains title PETER KEENAN. of Glasgow, retained his British and Empire bantamweight championship when the referee stopped his fight against John Smillie. another Scot, in the sixth of the scheduled 15 rounds at Glasgow last night. One punch, a tremendous straight right cross, brought Keenan victory. Keenan, bleeding from
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    28 15 THE QUEEN and the Duke of Edinburgh attended the recent Royal Windsor Horse Show. Here she is seen presenting the Challenge (up and Rosette to Miss Susan Whitbread.
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    84 15 ceremony at Accra, Ghana, yesterday. Wearing a native woven cloth and sandals, he was lifted on to a chief's throne, which was carved into the shape of an elephant from a solid block of mahogany. Matthews was presented with an Ivory sword of office, and in front of
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    247 15 DEFEATS for two seeded players— one of them Jaroslav Drobny highlighted the play in Paris yesterday in the French Lawn Tennis Championships when most of the men's singles second round and a couple of men's doubles made up the programme. Drobny went down to Kurt Nielsen,
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    20 16 This picture of the burnt-out buildi.i£ in Cecil Street, Singapore, taken this morning, shows water being played on the embers.
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    206 16 NOW U.S. SCIENTISTS ISOLATE VIRUS WALTER REED army scientists reported in Washington last night that the epidemic of influenza plaguing: the Far East is caused by a strain of a flu virus "quite different from any known influenza virus." They issued a report after an
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    198 16 DISMISS LLOYD BID SQUASHED BY MAC Foreign Secretary backed P.M.'s final word' yHK Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan delivered an unusual defence of Rritain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, yesterday in the face of rumours that Mr. Lloyd was about to be eased out of office. Mr. Macmillan termed him
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    35 16 k a This is all this family of six could save from their home after the big fire last night. They are seen this morning squatting on the five-foot way in I Cecil Street. j
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    67 16 A HOMEMADE bomb apparently planted by a 2:J-year-old jtlU-d lover, lgrd a house in StOOl nijjht. Police said they were searching for Kim To Sun who la-st week wrote a letter to the 21-year-old girl who had jilted him saying he would "blow up your entiro
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    20 16 TO Wordi $S (minimum). SHAND: To'Anvara and Matt, j at Penang MLsion Hospital, a aon, on Saturday 18th May.
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    124 16 24 Word* U (minimum). MR CLEMENT B. OOONETILLAKE, Aged 64. passed away peacefully on 22-5-57. at 9. Burmah Road. Cremation at Buddhist Cemetery at 5.30 pm J today. ANDREW EE passed away peacefully 22.5 57. Funeral 23.5 57 j from 45 Marshall Road 4.45 p.m to Queen Of Peace
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      9 17 FREE PRESS Special Race Form Thursday, May 23, 1957
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