The Singapore Free Press, 19 December 1957

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press MalavaV Own Family Paper X |,j. i Singapore. Thursday, December 19, I«>:>7. Price 15 (ts.
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    Jumat defends Land Office
    235 1 Jumat defends Land Office IHE duties of Land Office officials were explained r the Minister for Local jvernment, Lands and msing, Inche Abdul Haid bin Haji Jumat, at the ngapore Assembly meet\o Uhkiy. He was answering quesns by Mr. Lee Choon Eng nti on the provision of 6,240 in the
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    Lock icon Berserk horse in plane
    149 1 t 6rk Italian race- c had to bp shot N«>w York-bound »J, because it was enV 'i the lives of nine i! waa disclosed al n non airport, Eire, 5 night, T f> "-s 0 wa s the £3,500 J rll "g Rook woods *'nt other
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    RUBBER PRICE
    26 1 ftrst «rade rubber J 'O.b, opened in Sintnis morning at 83 1 i lb., up five-eighths Il! on yesterday's I, "he 'one was steady,
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    200 to move to school
    61 1 VRRANGEMENTS h a v c been made to accommodate 200 Indonesians In a school in Keppel Road, the Indonesian C 0 n 8 U 1 a t cOeneral said in Singapore this morning. They are among the passengers stranded here in the KPM vessel Kalianget.
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    'Singapore rice for Jakarta' surprise
    170 1 CINGAPORE rice merchants expressed surprise this morning at reports from Jakarta that the Municipal Council there had arranged to import about 10,000 tons of rice from the Colony. They doubted if that quantity of rice was avail- j able here for export, al- 1 though
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    Lock icon Another U.S. missile flop
    154 1 THE IS. Defence Department announced last night that an Intermediate range Jupiter rocket had been "successfully" test fired from tlie launching site at (ape Canaveral, Florida but did not complete its lull flight because of technical difficulties." It said the firing was one of a series
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    Lock icon NATO ACCEPTS OFFER OF MISSILES
    451 1 NATO ACCEPTS OFFER OF MISSILES THE 15-NATION NORTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE AGREED 1 YESTERDAY TO BASE AMERICAN MADE NUCLEAR MISSILES IN EUROPE. The United States thus won its major purpose at the NATO sum- mit conference. But the price paid by America wa,s an agreement, under pressure, to sound out the
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      104 1 itaiiunit first ii to ay roe yHE Netherlands is j; only continental European nation to have accepted imme- diately and unreserv- edly the U.S. offer of missiles, it was learn- <> j" ed in Paris last night. |J Afr. Spaak's statement —Page 16. j^>^f >^f <f lI^^bSII The world's best
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    Lock icon Railway incident: The Princess 'most annyoyed'
    162 2 Prim i;ss MAEQABST yesterday expressed annoyance at the recent rlosins or a railway plat. form at Dundee, Scot- land, before the depar. ture ot a train on which she was travelling. She did so in a letter sent by her lady. in. waiting Miss
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    MAG UNDER FIRE
    31 2 Thirteen Labour Party mrmbers of parliament last night introduced a motion criticising thp Prime Minister. Mr. Harold Macmillan for accepting an American plan to establish four rocket bases.
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    Lock icon CHRISTMAS IN GAZA STRIP FOR DAG
    161 2 CHRISTMAS IN GAZA STRIP FOR DAG The United Nations Secre-tary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, left New Ytirk by plaiie for Stockholm yefiterday on his way to the Gaza .strip where he will spend Christmas with the United Nations Emergency Force. He will be the gue.st of Lt.-Gcn. E. L. M. Burns,
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    Lock icon U.N. men still refuses to hand in secret list
    147 2 4 SUSPENDED Dani.Mi aide n. mmittee. again re i used > esterday to turn over to the Secret-ary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld, a secret list of witnesses in the v. N. investigation of the Hungarian rebellion. Mr. Poul Ban^-Jensen. of Denmark, reiterated
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    Lock icon Nervous, he refused chance of $192,000
    151 2 Nervous, he refused chance of $192,000 rpHE 33-year-old son of a A Nigerian chieftain on Tuesday night gave up an opportunity to double his U5564,000 ($192,000) winnings in a New York television quiz show by answering a question because of "embarrassing" personal revelations. Theophilua Adepoj v Aderonmu. a Bible expert,
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    Lock icon Giant reservoir
    16 2 The 190 million ton capacity Oguchi Reservoir near Tokyo ha s been completed Reuter
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    Lock icon Spearmen rigid tribes
    46 2 Naked, screaming warriors armed with long spears and oxhide shields are raiding and killing neighbouring Itesot tribesmen in the northern wilds of Uganda, reports reaching Kampala said yesterday. The reports said the warriors so far had killed at least five Iff sots. U.P.
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    Lock icon REDS JAIL 'LINGERIE FISHING' STRIPPER FOR 30 MONTHS
    218 2 THE Communists have declared the strip tease unconstitutional. The first criminal court of the district of Leipzig has ruled that such a dance violates Article 6 of the East German constitution. What's more, the striptease is a crime whether performed inside East
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    Lock icon NATURAL RUBBER USE SOWN FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 1952
    410 2 \yORLI) consumption of natural rubber during 1957 it estimated at 1,910,000 long touts, a decline of about 17,000 tons from 1956, according to Mr. J. Keener, a leading U.S. rubber industry executive. In a year-end statement at Akron, Ohio yesterday, Mr,
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    Lock icon 'Halved duty' appeal fails
    221 2 'Halved duty' appeal fails THE House of Commol. yesterday rejected Is sweeping amendmeiM to a proposed bW which would have I all of Britain's imuM duties by half. 1 me amendment to the I now In the rniP^ituß stage, was moved by Liberal member Mr. A m Mr. Holt said
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    Lock icon NEW YEAR CRASH
    27 2 Moonwatch director Dr. Fred L. Whipple predicted In Cambridge Massachusetts, yesterday that Sputnik I will crash to earth shortly after New Year's Day.- U.P.
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    Lock icon 130,000 FINE FOR OBSCENITY
    138 3 M(<pnn<i<>n4i«L Whisper </,<> auiitu INONI IDKNTIAL and Whisper I magazines were both found uiltv on obscenity charges tshrday and fined $5,000 U5,000) each. The case against the two which specialised 11 printing information about gople in show business, was übmitted *>n the transcript of triil last
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    Lock icon Toy dwarfs on march
    35 3 picture. Little decorated dwarfs Une up on the pavement at I. mterbach, Germany, Prior to being exported i>r hristmas. Million s of ►he pottery dwarfs are sent abroad annually. A. P.
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    Lock icon 'Poor' trader left fortune
    60 3 A PERSIAN cotton merchant, who died in a squalid Blackpool, England, flat, had £100.000 sterling in the bank, £40.000 sterling worth of shares in a battered suitcase, and 90,000 books, it was learned yesterday. Mahmoud Haji Abdul Baki, who went to Britain in 1923, was alwayi
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    Lock icon ICEBREAKER ROCKS' HER WAY INTO ANTARCTIC
    214 3 ICEBREAKER ROCKS' HER WAY INTO ANTARCTIC JAPAN'S Antarctic expedition aboard a novel J "rock 'n roll" exploration vessel last night reported by radio that they had reached the Antarctic for the second time within a year. The expedition's vessel, the 2,400-ton Soya, said in a brief radio message broadcast over
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    Lock icon Hillary may make dash for Pole
    102 3 NEW ZEALAND'S Premier, Mr. Walter Nash, said in Auckland yesterday that if Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary wished to tackle a South Pole crossing "then I see no reason why !he shouldn't." Hillary, a New Zealander who scaled Everest in 1953, iis now within
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    Lock icon Duke to holiday in 'Courteous' Egypt
    47 3 The Duke of Sutherland, armed with an assurance from "three British politicians" that the British were being treated in Egypt "with courtesy and hospitality," last night sailed from Tilbury for an Egyptian holiday with the Duchess aboard the liner Iberia. Reuter
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    Lock icon Address stumped Charles
    180 3 PRINCE CHARLES, nine year-old heir to the Throne, went home to Buckingham Palace yesterday for the Christmas holidays after his first term at exclusive Cheam School In Berkshire. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh kept the evening clear of official engagements so they could spend the
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 1957. Opinion Foolish critics
    192 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 1957. Opinion Foolish critics REASONING, if not the motives, behind the attacks on defence spending in Singapore is difficult to follow. In a nutshell, these critics would have Singapore abandon all defence measures, rely on international goodwill and, if this unhappily is lacking,
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    Battle against the rising population
    575 4  - Battle against the rising population GUY WENT By 'THE principal fact x about the economic life of South Asia is that throughout the region the population is increasing at an unprecedented rate. To provide for the increased number of mouths, economic production must grow rapidly and without interruption. The sixth
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    BY THE WAY
    89 4  -  Beachcomber READ of a statio?i platform which is so short that passengers in the rear carriages have to jump down 071 to the line. Thi s item of news brought back vividly to my mind the occasion when a train slopped some hundreds of yards outside a
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    A GREAT MENACE—RED SUBMARINES
    312 4 A GREAT MENACE— RED SUBMARINES Perhaps the greatest menace or one of the greatest menaces V* We^ a C to L facc in »he military field is the enormous fleet of Russian submarines So warned Mr. Harold Mac-' millan, the British Prime Minister, in his opening speech to the NATO
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    Isn't she lovely?
    64 5 t This special picture of lovely, j Mi..,8-yea,-o.d fM Yong was tjken by Free Press cameraman Han I Hli Pong. She is wearing a strik- in? strapless blue gown with matchr444-» 44 4»4 ing white muslin train. And she JJ finahsts |j in tnc reCent 44C0-op. Queen"
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    W.H.0. PLAN FOR RURAL WATER CONTROL
    184 5 W.H.0. PLAN FOR RURAL WATER CONTROL jly-.iKR supplies to rural l fT areas should be, wherf "< Possible, under an Ing(; 'nt Government f < which carries r design, planning, F' 1 "Ktion, operation and l* Xi nane.e. 1I; wwas, s recommended Er Wtes attending the f Health Organisation luld
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    Lock icon Award for admiral
    27 5 The Japanese Cabinet last, night approved the award of the grand Cordor of the Rising Sun to retiree United States Admira Arthur Radford. Reuter
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    India offers new plan for training Singapore's pilots
    297 5 India offers new plan for training Singapore's pilots »TpHE Government of India is understood to have agreed to lower academic qualifications for Singapore applicants to its pilot training centre at Bangalore. As a special concession to Singapore, the aviation school is said to be willing to take in trainees from
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      210 5 I carven THE OUTSTANDING FRENCH PERFUMES > I AND EAU DE COLOGNE 1 f r^\ ma grif fe hi I chassc %N. SAUINE Wt.I.SS l|| For the lady with discriminating taste N j Sold by all leading shops I SOLE AGENTS: FAVRE LEUBA WATCH CO. LTD. I IBF, BAfTERY ROAO.
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      36 5 Today's Radio Programme •!2 SSSS. SS?' Oto* Wtogßjane 8.00 Thuraday Night 45 l^MllPs Only 2.M (1 nll OmTl l| K1) I^ O "iAScSrSS HMM ror DMOIDC; II 0* OM vi,,,wct Renort: 7 "U H'»' Big- Down.
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      224 6 JEFF IIAWKE by Sydney Jordan I From a scries o* blow holes mg»* I g&e*caai shouts a WAJ2*jt*j& VI I FT C\ >^^Bsfd BT j^wiAm^L IM/ TIME CAVEf2*J WALL, A f=OAMIM6 II TO JEf* AAJO TALA HRSMj a\ l\k YU I CATARACT THUMOeGS DOWN JW/7O THE I ■IMTIMMr' T_mßß V\
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      510 6 The Free Press Thursday, December Uj v BORN today, you have been -mho I ed with exceptional abilitvT-H much latent talent. J J!a B You will be happiest in t!v > B i and sciences and your i Mt Ml I should lead you into'an v V I centration in
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      177 7 -SB LONDON, Dei. 18 Previous Today ol l Rss c.i.f. R i m.«t, Dec. 23 *i buyers 24 buyers Wm p 23Th sellers no sellers j»n. 23 T s buyers 24 buyers 24 U sellers 24', sellers L. RSS Spot 24 'h buyers 24' buyers P** 24
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      New York prices
      83 7 I NEW YORK. Dec. 18. Previous Today jts Spot 93.00 noni. 92.75 nom. Contract Deleted ontri't Dec. 92.25 buyers Delayed 93.25 sellers Jan. 92.00 buyer* 93.00 sellers SALES: tuturea Jan. 28.50 buyers 28.90 buyers 28.60 sellers 29.10 sellers March 28.50 buyers 28.90 buyers 28 60 sellers 28.95
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      25 7 (NEW YORK. De<\ 18. Previous Today bis 425.65 Delayed Is W-05 tc Bond* 86.31 86 54 i 67.30 Delayed Composite Averages 142.84
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      U.S. PEPPER
      61 7 Hfci:.vs vkt»ie delayed ■te.v <\■.;...•-, prices were: Ws[>ot 25 j, Lampong idl iwiiiin^ release 25. ■'> to J4''... December a floats 24, December shipment unquoted. Muntok white spot j and awaiting irelease 34'_., afloats 33 4 to 32, December shipment 31. January shipment ■R 24 Sarawak spot3o!2, sellers
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      95 7 I HL. Philippines ci.f. U.K./ HturotM«an ports delivered ■per long; ton Dec./J»n. •raits ci.f. U.K./North m* ports delivered «F r lon/;; ton Dec/Jan. PWT oil, crude Straits UP r "P<Mn ports in bulk BT ton lan. Feb. PB| oil (rudde Ceylon X'"'" Ports in bulk EJB
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    Ant-eating! The doctors are baffled
    255 7 wiiNu.iniKK doctors are niy- stified by rei>orts lioin lokyo thai Americans are «j eating red ants mude into o chocolate bars and sandwich spread. The red ants are collected by Japanese farmers and shipped to <„ America. toasted, fried and salted. «j One food company
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    Romance secret of two rhinos
    110 7 THE romantic secret of two rhinos has been revealed in an official report from Britain's Whipsnade Zoo For two year s the friendship between the three ton Mohan and Mohini was entirely platonic. Mohini. the female, tried to vamp Mohan but he spurned her. Then
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    CHINA VISITORS LOSE PASSPORTS
    56 7 The United States yester- day cancelled the passports of 24 Americans who visited Communist China in defiance of a State Department ban. The 24 men, who are still abroad in Western Europe and India, were part of a group who went to China after attending the
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    Lock icon Nishi sails home
    21 7 Mr. Haruhiko NLshi, retiring Japanese Ambassador in London, .sailed for home lnst night in the liner Chusan. Reuter
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    COMMUNITY CENTRES AID DRIVE FOR CITIZENS
    262 7 COMMUNITY CENTRES AID DRIVE FOR CITIZENS pOMMUNITY centres are playing a leading part in the Singapore citizenship registration campaign. They not only provide premises for registration teams to work in but also help in filling up forms and offer clerical assistance. Registration officials have worked out a schedule for teams
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    CHRISTMAS TREAT FOR CHILDREN
    43 7 THE Singapore Lodge of the Theosophical Society win tzive a Chrlstma., treat to under-privileged children it their premises, 8 Cairnhill Road on December *t SJOpS. Cinema and magic shows will be the highlights Members' children will be the hO«t8
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    Lock icon A toast —in champagne
    64 7 The toast was in champagne at Eden Hall when the Commissioner-Gene-ral, Sir Robert Scott, pinned awards on two long -service employees of Phoenix Park. Mrs. Mary Peterson. 70, domestic supervisor at the Braddell Hill hostel, was awarded the B.E.ML medal. Mr. Koh Kirn Fatt, a clerk.
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      57 7 I SINGAPORE Ihigh tides i| E TODAY: 10.25 pm. E TOMOKKOW: 9.31 am and 11.13 p.m. E SATURDAY: 10.12 am. E E and 11 ~>l P m E SUNDAY 1O.;V! am. E MONDAY: 0.:'» l am E and 11.32 a.m. TUESDAY: IM am. E and 12.13 P»" E WEDNESDAY: 1
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    Trapped in flooded tomb
    28 8 In this dramaticpicture a member of the rescue team is I seen going down the pothole after a gelignite charge had blasted the rock.
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    UNKNOWN
    192 8 A DESPERATE SEARCH WaB for four youths and two mv by flood water somewhere j n P* caves and passages '300 ft. undei th%m England, ?noors. l M Said the rescuer's leader "Theuh I fl/ty c/iance. mej/ fcai>e cWmb 7 d ft jB a/irf huddled together there is 5
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    NOW HE HAS THE ANSWER TO THE SMOG PROBLEM
    311 8 E Experts have calculated that the two days of fog the other week cost Britain about £50,000,000 and some 150 people died, either in fog accidents or from fog-aggravated bronchial trouble. E Yet during these expensive 48 hours of chaos j|
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    UNKNOWN
    18 8 A N itali h crumbling I heavy li the 20 r.- „,sB buildingf, < I Music. The I
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    saved after three-day nightmare
    122 9 saved after three-day nightmare So the resellers decided to work from thi Providence Pot end and called for dynamite tc blast away the quarter-ton load of rock that Seven men squeezed in, one after the other. they took it in relays of seven each time. They travelled three-quarters of a
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    Lock icon AIR FORCE ON SHOW
    72 9 The dummy MXi fighter plane seen here stands in Cairo, marking the silver anniversary of Egypt's Air Force. Real MXi fighters and Illyushin jet bombers will bombard the city with 50,000 tiny green and white Egyptian flags, highlighting 8 days of celebrations beginning today. Some of
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    Lock icon SLIPS INTO ITALIAN LAKE
    58 9 >"v at the weekend. Church and .school down yesterday, ''relay the whole vil--11 sliding into the Hut all residents were uated and there were no casualties. The landslide waa one oi several set ofT in Italy by rain and snowstorms thai have taken a toll of
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    Lucys night out
    259 9 ;iiiuimimiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiu!tjt;iiniif]||| "WHAT'S right Mr. Doorman, hold ray hand and tightly, too, for I j £7iin/c I'm going to -faint with excite- ment. "You see 'I'm not really used to riding in a Rolls, let alone attending the Pre- miere of the picture in which I have a
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    Little tough boy played the piper
    1880 10 "\y HAT'S the matter with that kid?" Latift, on the balcony of Lai Peng's flat pointed to a small boy who was staggering along the path of a house on the other side of the road. 'That's, Harry Lee," said Lai Peng. "He's a
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    Another Latiff story
    287 10  -  Pelham Groom asdfasdf "What, arp the parents Ike. Rich?" M'no The father If ;omething to do with tin n the Federation and she iftl a government job Id letter phone her and tell Now if it had been Willy Chin, i might have inder.stood It." 'Is that
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    TIME FOR THE X'MAS PUDDING
    519 11 A PEEP SGT. M. Butler, A.C.C., is seen above stirring a Chrhtmas pudding at 25 Cop., RA.S.C, Gloucester Barracks, while Cook Cuine adds the traditional ingredients. Sgt R. G. Hastings (left), R.E.M.E.. receives a generous helping of pudding from Cook Sgt. J. Burgess, A.C.C., at
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    INDUSTRIAL SCHEMES MAY BE SLOWED
    283 12 INDUSTRIAL SCHEMES MAY BE SLOWED Red China's agricultural production now tagging Harvest is smaller OED CHINA'S 1957 agricultural production figures, just released, must present a gloomy picture to leaders and planners who looked to this year to furnish a firm economic base for the second five-year plan starting in January,
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    Lock icon Japan in between
    117 12 Japan in between V* r Yf^ E l«vcl of Japan's f A living standard lies 1 *1 somewhere between «>■ such highly industrial. J. 11 ised nations as the <> United States and Bri. tain and newly- developed countries like y India. 1 i> This was one of the 1
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    Lock icon Jobs for the disabled, plea to firms
    91 12 Jobs for the disabled, plea to firms A TOKYO Ministry of Welfare White Paper su'j^ested that employers show more sympathy toward the physically disabled It recognised Japan's growing unemployment situation but suggested industry should set aside a number of positions for the persons incapable of performing a regularly appointed task.
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    Lock icon Bid to up American food help
    116 12 Bid to up American food help SENATOR Milton R. young told Aineru-an reporters In Wash- ington that the making ol U s surplus food available in the Fai Ea.s' B and the Near East was the best M thing that had ever been done to B gain goodwill for the
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    Lock icon Bitterness Is now ending
    163 12 *pIME magazine said that the recent 1 Asian tour by the Japanese Prinu* Minister, Mr. Nobusuke Kishi "had yone a long way toward removing anti-Japanese bitterness in some important areas." The mass circulation, New York v.e,.;.y said, "In all his travels in the Last 11 months
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    Lock icon FISHING CO-OP OPENED
    26 12 An International training centre to fishing co-operatives has been opened In M Sydney to teach Asians methods of marketing and co-operative techniques. Reuter
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  • Glimpses
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      Lock icon Chiang's attacks draw a switt Pekina threat
      119 12 Chiang 's attacks draw a switt Pekina threat 3 ED CHINA has threatened anew that it would "without fail" take Formosa, reports United Press. rhis abandonment of Peking's overtures to President Chiang Kai-shek has followed soon after the Generalissimo's statement in the Singapore Free Press spurning the Reds and exposing
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      32 12 An Alaska Fishermen's Union (AFU) official charged in Seattle that, unless Japanese fishing in the North Pacific 1a curbed immediately, the Bristol Bay. Alaska, red salmon runs will be dcs troyed.- A.P.
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      28 12 Red China and Denmark have signed a trade and pay merits agreement in P c king, granting each other most favoured nation treatment on customs and navigation.— Reuter
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      21 12 Hie Japan Helicopter and I Aeroplane Traijs Company and W o^" Air Lines Company have merged to form the Osaka.- A.P.
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      43 12 The Japanese Prime WJnjJ I ter, Mr. Nobusukc Kistn. m had a win when he went to Warwick Farm race* at I sydnei/. //e put A£l m Karanna. nine to our winner of the or ™S I Handicap, and collected il£2 5s Reuter
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      40 12 Rare Japanese art worn due to go on exhibition in France. Britain, the Netherlands and Italy from April 1958 are now on view in Tokyo. They Include 107 paintings 28 sculptures and c 1 g n i archeological specimens Reuter
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      29 12 The Japanese Government has approved a US$25O.--000 technical services contract for Japanese en ffineers in helping to build the Marikina Dam near Manila, reports the Tokyo newsDaoer Yomiurt.- A.P.
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      44 12 rhe handover of arms by Pathet Lao forces and reintegration of the rebel troops and civilians in the two North Laotian provinces o f Phon gsaly and Saraneua has begrun under the supervision of an international commission set up by the C.eneva agreements- Reuter
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      25 12 Eight Australian importers in Sydney have combined to counter opposition to the Australian-Japanese trade agreement by form' ing an Australia Japan Trade Fnr.Ouraaemp.nt Sndety." Reuter
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      61 12 Some Continental businessmen in Peking said they thought there would be nothing much doing in trade, until February or March, and did not expect any major trading before next autumn. They also felt ttiat China will delay her foreign buying for the second plan as a whole until it is
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  • THE STARS AND GLAMOUR
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      THAT SPARKLE IN HER EYES
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      MARVEL OF PERU LOOKS GOOD
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