The Singapore Free Press, 10 January 1958

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    15 1 The Singapore Free Press Malayan Own framily Paper J Friday. January 10. 19S«. Price 15Cts.
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    Increase in rice price expected
    246 1 y\\\ pri< of Siamese 1 rift- is expected to rise in Singapore in tin- next fortnight unless tli' 1 Government stfi>> m with some form of control on reexports, Official circles here said quotations for February shipments ttom Siam showed an increase of $17 p.:-
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    Uknown
    120 1 [L general oi i u,o r I;in t(Klav Kee to ll<w Bww K h PjjJ>Hcly the '"J'-vod the ipon City Will tlir- f ]j s closure made by Mr. Chew was mast disconcerting, and the people of the Colony would be ever grateful to him if he could throw
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    Lock icon BULGANIN PEACE TALKS CALL TO 19 COUNTRIES
    521 1 BULGANIN PEACE TALKS CALL TO 19 COUNTRIES Letters say Russia proposes to call conference of heads of government to discuss 'removal of danger of war 1 THE SOVIET PREMIER, MARSHAL NIKOLAI BULGANIN, SENT LETTERS TO 19 1 COUNTRIES YESTERDAY ANNOUNCING THAT RUSSIA PROPOSED TO CALL WITHIN THE NEXT TWO OR
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    Lock icon Benefits for UK in Ike's plans
    183 1 Benefits for UK in Ike's plans Reuter TWO in particular of E 1 President Eisen- 2 bower's eight-point programme in his E State of the Union mess- E E age to Congress yes- E E terday for meeting the E E Soviet challenge at- E tracted attention in E London
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    RUBBER PRICE
    30 1 January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 111 cents a lb., down one and one-eighth cents on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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    Smokes haul in car: Two arrested
    56 1 Smokes haul in car: Two arrested TWO men were arrested In Singapore early this morning by a combined Customs and police patrol in the Tampenis area. A spokesman of the Customs Department told the Free Press the arrests followed the discovery in a car of 314 lb of contraband cigarettes,
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    Lock icon R.I. team see Tito arms
    31 1 AN Indonesian Army mission visiting Yugoslavia to buy arms yesterday began a tour of Yugoslav arms factories to inspect equipment offered by the Yugoslav Government— Reuter
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    Racial equality bond
    50 1 Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labour Party, said in London yesterday that the principles of racial equality and of non-aggression helped to hold together the countries of the Commonwealth. "It is an essence of the Commonwealth that it is a multi-racial society." he said. Reuter.
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    Lock icon DRAMATIC JAIL REUNIONS
    295 3 r mottwrs sev i4s j. w Mm nM oEE American mothers and the sons they vI i t seen for several years were reunited iterday in Chinese prisons. Mi- Man Downey and Mrs. P. G. Fecteau mhneed their sons both former airmen— in tZ white-walled reception room
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    Lock icon 'I STILL BACK GOVT'-POWELL
    143 3 'I STILL BACK GOVT'POWELL MR. ENOCH POWELL. former Financial Secretary to the Treasury who resigned earlier this week said in Wolverhampton last night that he would continue to give the ''utmost support" to the Government. Mr Powell resigned with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft. over the budget
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    Lock icon 'SELF-RULE, THEN A PEACE PACT,' FRANCE TOLD BY TUNISIA
    176 3 'SELF-RULE, THEN A PEACE PACT,' FRANCE TOLD BY TUNISIA PRESIDENT HABIB BOUR- GUIBA of Tunisia said yesterday he was ready to negotiate a defence pact With France provided Tunisia first recovered her full independence and the French Army evacuated all bases In Tunisia except the naval base of Bizerta. In
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    Lock icon Penny an hour rise for UK builders
    118 3 UNIONS and employers agreed yesterday to a penny an hour increase for 1.000.000 building z workers and sent to comz miitee a union demand i for an extra eightpence F an hour. The penny an hour z rise will cost the industry an
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    Lock icon All Asia supports Mac plan Nehru
    192 3 All Asia supports Mac plan Nehru MR. NEHRU, the Indian Prime Minister, at a banquet in honour of the British Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan in New Delhi last night, welcomed Mr. Macmillan's proposal for a non-aggression pact between the rival powers and expressed the hope that it would be
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    Lock icon A warning on radio active materials
    58 3 A warning on radio active materials rHE use of radio active material in British factories is increasing daily and should be more strictly controlled, the Chief Inspector of Factories recommended in a report published in London yesterday. The report, on the year 1956, said there were then 362 factories receiving
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      18 3 lIAl i l i V liii%n;*j i ak( B °i Hiili attracihr Dinner j NG HOW STORE j
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      356 3 J, x^'^^-zx Ainu Bar strap rubber shoes. I /f^^^\^ \^S* J |ust right for girl at play yf W/^2> y^^y^'' DESIGN 57 or in school. yr x^^^ /V^ m^^^ m^ m^ mm Sixes 7 8 $1.70 f X'f "lumper" The most M>l>^ o i «i on 4 popular rubber shoes
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    The isle that has ehanged its mind
    422 4 By a Special Correspondent TAKE B look at the island WhOSe Premier Dom Minloil 80 recently wished At to become Integrated with Britain, then threatened a. severance of all ties with the United Kingdom and has now changed hLs mind about that. Malta
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 1958. Opinion Must these suffer?
    209 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 1958. Opinion Must these suffer? ITLU PANDANG as a nature reserve is a heritage for the Asians of Singapore, sin on-the-spot place lor Asian students of biology and nature. Yet the hitherto unavailing ftght to keep Sthis Asian heritage for Asians has, with
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    Ties with Malta even war couldn't part
    386 4 Ties with Malta even war couldn't part language is Phoenician Maltese, which is related to Syriac and Arabic Until 1934. however, Italian was regarded as an official language on the i.sland, •sharing that distinction with English. There has been wild talk lately of Malta offering herself to America as "a
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    BY THE WAY
    78 4  -  Beackcomber 9>H Uociai, 01 tracisni und v,. VJ lull rigour of the Law await the child who, having drawn i pension for two years, la di covered to be Bupplemi ntlnß in i weekly lnc< me by selling woi ma to anglers. Ana the keen eyea of
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      22 4 In st Platinum t Gold ENGAGEMUT ■EMM RINGS P. H. HENDRY MftnufttturiOf Jtwelln 78 North llritlK*- K«ad, Singapore, 6. it Kuala Lumpur.
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      54 4 T\ ■c1:llllHHci V< '^>k*lWilSs^ TK 83 E Th 5 P—^a-t niasterpiece V 1 the CRUNDIC fac- m m tor y 1S a hipc re /T-^wwwc^ i\ > i corder for the conn N seur's ear A 3 loud spe. system gives elastic tonal LH. A. O'CONNOR 6c CO., LTO. L.iidl.iw
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    COUNCIL'S EXPATS MAY QUIT SOON IF...
    99 5 COUNCIL'S EXPATS MAY QUIT SOON IF... come senior expatriate rs of Singapore Council may reler than they planned ii their terms of appointment are revised and are less generous than at presen spokesman for the senior rs told the Free Press they were awaiting nore information of the ncil's Intention
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    16 PRIZES FOR COMMERCE PUPILS
    181 5 prizes nave t>een awarded by the Singapore Chamber of Commerce from its City Commemoration Prize Fund for thk year. Ail those who have been selected for awards have shown apt nude In commercial subjects in their examinations. The prizes will be distributed at the Chamber's
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    Ships at Base
    20 5 Ships in the Singapore Naval Base today are Newfoundland. Royalist. Crane, Andrew, St. Bride's Bay and Alert.
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    Lock icon Routine eye-visit
    23 5 Sir Winston Churchill visited an eye doctor in London yesterday, but a relative said it was only a routine visit.- U.P.
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    Lock icon Airport for Egypt
    16 5 A new civilian airport is to be built at Asswan. UDDer Egypt, Reuter
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    Lock icon SOUTH AFRICA PREMIER ILL
    42 5 Mr. Johannes Strijdom, the South African Prime Minister, is ill and will not attend the opening of a new session of Parliament next week on the advice of his doctors, it was announced in Capetown last night.- Reuter
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    Last chance for 5,000 merchants
    164 5 Last chance for 5 ,000 merchants ABOIT 5,000 shopkeepers in Singapore have been given another fortnight in which to submit weekly holidays details to the Labour Department. Ministry of Labour and Welfare spokesman said those merchants have been given ample time to furnish the partitulars. If they did not avail
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    Indians want more time to make up minds on citizenship
    199 5 Indians want more time to make up minds on citizenship PHE Singapore Indian Congress intends to ask the Government to extend the period of citizenship registration by another three months The deadline set by the Singapore Government for citizenship registration is Jan 31. It had been earlier indicated that no
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    Lock icon SMALLPOX HITS NIGERIA —50 DIE
    29 5 SMALLPOX HITS NIGERIA 50 DIE A smallpox epidemic has hit Northern Nigeria, authorities reported yesterday. First reports indicated that over 50 youngsters died in the Kabba Province alone. U.P.
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    Lock icon 'U.S. peace threat'
    30 5 The Soviet Army newspaper Red Star yesterday charged "U.S. policy ol turning Turkey into a military base" created a "threat to peace in the Middle East." U.P.
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    GROWING DEMAND FOR KNOWLEDGE
    109 5 'TWERE i s an increasing A demand for non-fiction books by Singapore readers According to the annual roport of the Raffle* Library for 1950. there was an increase of nearly eight uer cent in the total number of non-ttctlon books borrowed by adults. The selection of
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      20 5 cr HERER'S ifißSSn PS» Insteid Qf 0| an Apple, Ey taki one BCHKRETB %HaSfe3" k p 11! ncalth ay ay!
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      153 5 f 4.' »/I I WCL f\ \f? Panties CaJi-Can Petticoats Boujfanl Petticoats Nylon naif Slips Babydoll vyiamas COME AWD SEE MANY MORE ON DISPLAY Don't Delay Jk g* ffjv M ?g* sPhktha:'Bet/~5 Phkth a :'Bet/~ "flffJzP co DINE AND DANCE NIGHTLY S DACCICC jo< Bh Hh <^? eg Delicious Special
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      165 6 ■I I I II Xi: h.^ SjdiM'j Jordan f— i w;< tM~y*/ captain ro $oon rwe swps approach >^r >/ tmp impepial palace QA^/TAi. Q^ KAL&AG ,:;>■-■ V TM IS WEAPON WIU. CXD 7 i /,v' ■> vr I S K^P^fi^^V AGA.MIItiIKI^ h> Lee Falk and Phil Davis JANE h?
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      444 6 BumH today, you are hi&h-spiriu,i and energetic. You have the j u al tot leattersxup Out are inclined to be a little hesitant m pusmng vourseU forward! your good fortune seems to run to cycles. Tackle a new project on Tuesday or Saturday tor the be t reS Since you
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  • Round the World Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      158 7 LONDON, Jan. 9. Previous Today IllßtfS So -Saif^ 23 buyers 23 buyers luruP'.ni fOIU J<*" 23^ seHex-s 23H sellers „^l, 23 V» buyers 23 V& buyers 23% sellers 23 V* sellers .Urn {s> <, ot 23 Vi buyers 23 V4 buyers BUBBEI n ak> 23% sellers 23^
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      New York prices
      109 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Previous Today TIN Straits Spot 9400 nom. 9375 nom. US futures Contract Deleted i t contra-, Jan 9325 buyers 93.15 buyers 94.00 sellers 93.75 sellers March 92.50 buyers 92 25 paid 92 75 sellers TONE: Steady. SALES: On e lotBIBBER: Future* lan- 27
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      34 7 NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Previous Today 3d Industrials 446-61 443.24 20 Railroads 103.21 101.87 4t> Domestic Bonds 88.09 »8 19 15 rtilities 70 23 70.16 65 Stocks Composite Averages 150.39 149.29
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      U.S. PEPPER
      54 7 24. January 23. Lam pong spot 23 awaiting release 23 l -> to 23. January n 22 Sarawak spot elease 23, afloats Above prices quoted and January shipment unquoted. Muntok white spot 33 L > awaiting release 33, a floats 32 to 31, January shipment 30 J i,
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      111 7 COPra Philippines c-i.f. r.K. North European ports d«li\ nrd LOPRA, Straits r.if. I K. North European port* delivered Weight per long ton .Jan. Fcb(fW r\vt™ F( lk March ((ll)N T OH .rude Straits rjr'.ftoropean poits bulk i;'^ to n Jan. i>b r OH. nude Oylon m
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    GOVT. REPLIES ON TAXIS: CUT CAR RENTALS AND CRUISING
    341 7 GOVT. REPLIES ON TAXIS: CUT CAR RENTALS AND CRUISING SINGAPORE taxi-owners should make less profit from rentals and tell their drivers to cut cruising instead of clamouring for a reduction in taxes. This advice was given by the Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, in answer to charges
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    Lock icon U.K. curbs import of textiles from China
    142 7 U.K. curbs import of textiles from China THE Board of Trade announced in London this morning that imports into Britain of cotton and rayon yarns and cloth from China were to be subject tc quota restrictions. It said there would be a quota to the annual value of £150.000. and
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      6 7 Urn yj HiiJ^iW±r\ I'il'bl mm mß?*3Btt£sM
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      106 7 MILKMAID HfllV ra^ I WITH ADDED VITAM.N A I M.MI/58 j 142 YEARS of experience M^^^R IN WATCHMAKING SINCE 1815 THi SW SS WATCH /^V~?^^ SfAVRE LEUBAWATCHCO., LTD. til ■ATT I V tO SING A p O 'JW&fUBHB&J t i LINIMENT 9•• 9 9 M TINEA LOTION The FEDERAL DISPENSARY
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      48 7 Today's Radio 1.15 pm. Potpourri; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.46 Potpourri (rout.)' 2.00 CIOM Down- 500 string' Serenade: 5.30 The World in Peril—Episode 7- r. no Mali Bag at the mike, Barojinl Lourdas; 6.40 Lights On; 6.03 Announcements and 81 i .share Market Report; yon Time nal
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      140 7 UtIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIiy 1 SINGAPORE I HIGH i IDES i TODAY: 1.34 Pm. TOMORROW: 2.41 a.m. and 2.24 p.m. E SUNDAY: 3.20 a.m. and E .J.il p.m. MONDAY: 4.08 a.m and 4 35 p.m. E TUESDAY: 4 50 am and 6.22 p.m. WEDNESDAY: 6.04 a.m. and 8.24 p.m. E THURSDAY! 719 am
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    When baby 'Glug,
    154 8 STATISTICS about th e Average Briti sh Baby and his habits are given in the Midi cal Press, published last week: The figures have been compiled after years of research l >y doctors and child Dr. R. S Him, worth Professor of Child Health at Sheffield University
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    He prays for his captive sister
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    Aurora, nine, is home from Red China at last
    269 8 Aurora, nine, is home from Red China at last gLEVEN-YEAR-OLD Doughs Way prays fervently E at his bedside in Boston, Massachusetts, for m the arrival of his sister from Hong Kong while his k mother studies the little girl's picture. A few days later there were smiles and tears of
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    UNKNOWN
    95 9 closing his mouth and often bobbing his head up and down." THE AVERAGE BABY can sit up firmly at eight to nine months, and walk without support at 13 months. He will play with a rattle at three months, and so for it at five months. At 10 months,
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    .Love sailed he high seas
    172 9 vi \K-oU> widow who set out to sail to Aus♦ralia in tii< ancient ketch "Agnes" has found LDce Brittany instead, with a handsome 33--.old fisherman. he is Mrs ttero Kanis. a very glamorous grander in trousers and with an urchin-cut hair style, sit in her
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      57 9 We're such good friends i Eleven-year-old Richard Williams gives an affectionate hug to massivr M. Brrnard Rudi, his co-star in the film "Heart of a Child" on location at Mosern, near Seefeld, Austria. oo» T he nlm se he Austrian Tyrol tells of a small boy *nd hb love for
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    Spotlight on Jamaica—the calypso isle of springs
    757 10  - Spotlight on Jamaica— the calypso isle of springs A CARNEY BY rrilE Isle of Springs Xaymaca, as its inhabitants of long ago called it when Christopher Columbus discovered it on May 3. 1 194 is seeking a loan of £8,000,000 and the development of new industries and commercial ventures to
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    Search begins for grave of trench air ace
    134 10 Search begins for grave of trench air ace I icnch Ainiy nas appointed a mission oi onicera lo undertake an unusual quest for the grave of the legendary French air ace oi the idJ i 1 k war, Georges Guynemer. ii is headed i»> Col. Sainte-Pereuse, chief of the historical
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    Lock icon Rumania to elect new president
    33 10 Bucharest Radio reported yesterday that the Rumanian Parliament will meet in .special session on .Saturday to elect a SUCCessor to Presldem Petyu Gmzn who died on Tueadftv Reuter
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    Lock icon 750,000 resettled
    31 10 Phe mtrr Government Committee for European Migration (ICEM) has- now "*an ported for resettle""'"t more than 750.000 omi--1 ants, Including refugees nnfi« it« foundation in H>. r )2 Reuter
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    Lock icon New Suez oil quay
    28 10 A r quay i to be con- ti M for oIJ tank* i In d( r „r<. to be In'•1'"1 l( the scheme Reuter
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    SARI GIRLS CAPTIVATE THE STARS
    241 10 SARI GIRLS CAPTIVATE THE STARS ON the day that David Lean, that lent, i liant British film director, i s the toL Broadway, he steps into the bright liglu s of 1 York with the girl who is now his closest pinion, writes William Hickeu. CQ She is a beautiful
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    FIVERS GOING CHEAP
    78 10 I Don't be alarmed-m worried— if you're little short of read) I cash at this time ol the year here's i way out of your diflL I culty. Buy a few fl* I pound notes, only sh. pence each repeat six. I pence in London's I famous
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    WORLD HONOURS
    53 11 WORLD HONOURS O FLANK PILING. *ais photograph by Singapore A.R.P.S. Mr. Tan Teng-chao has been exhibited throughout the world over the past two years. SINGAPORE BEAUTY ir» SWEET SIXTEEN An excellent portrait of young beauty by Mr. Thean Kirn Sun, who included this study among the 12 submitted to gain
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    The five secrets of isolation
    587 11  - The five secrets of isolation THE LENSMAN m 1 1 1 •ri ii 1 1 1 1 By ■■■iiiiiiii* II U M B I N <j through a phototphic magazine the ier day, 1 was nek by the sheei istic impact ol ,s( i)i the pictures Lnd I b( gan
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    The boy who had toothache...
    76 11 The boy who had toothache... It w*a sucn a bright day, sun beaming down on mingling, crowd of street urchins. But one young- ster failed to join in the laughter of his cheerful companions. Wistfully he stood on the fringe of Z happy youngsters, poking with a tentative finger at
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    Lock icon Japanese films now for Mid-East
    264 12 Japanese films now for Mid-East JAPANESE films, fol- j'A lih; .licet :..Sf, ij i Afli&i EUfOJX and BOUI h America, arc x>n to f> shown In the Middli Ever since M Ra homon" took tii*- big prize oi Hie 1051 Venice Film Festival and won International fame for Japanese Alms,
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    Lock icon Fall in US films for H'Kong
    60 12 movie films imported into Honn Kong for public .screening between 1953 and 1957 decreased almost by half— from 412 to 221 Communist China on tha other liand ha.s Increased it,s voiunio of tnovlej to Hour Kom^ from ono in 1053 to 21 last year.
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    65 12 pic line. Mr. Nobuiiiko Ushiba (right), director of the Tokyo Foreign Ofiee'i Economic AHairs Bureau, and i li.i sin, secretary i" the Burmese Ministry of Trade Deve- lopmeni, exchange tin- letten «>» agreement to extend existing trade arrange- I mints fur one year, Japanese exports to It p rma last
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    11 M. MUSLIMS UNDER SOVIET PERSECUTION
    225 12 11 M. MUSLIMS UNDER SOVIET PERSECUTION By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ]y|OST bitterly persecuted of all religions in Russia has been Islam. It has gone on relentlessly tor 40 years and is still continuing. Moscow has always regarded Islam as the most pernicious of all religions. Soviet antipathy to Islam has
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    Lock icon Beware, warns Taipeh
    75 12 against an East- West non -aggression agreef f ment, a Taipeh Government statement said. "Russia has destroyed the sanctity of many non-aggression pacts by breaking them. "Speaking from our own bitter experience, no sooner had Soviet Russia concluded a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Republic
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    Lock icon U.S. not blocking Chinese from leaving
    291 12 U.S. not blocking Chinese from leaving E3Bs£^S ttlfBosvs9 E69fl^^f9L j^^:^ff^w^^'y^vr#Gßgil A U.S. State Department official said that "so far as we know" all Chinese nationals who have expressed a desire to go to the Communist-held Chinese mainland have been permitted to leave America. At least 450 Chinese nationals who said
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    Lock icon W.German mission to Formosa
    48 12 A private West Gorman trade mission has arrived in Taipei] for a two-week visit. West Germany at present imports 12 million marks Worth Of goods, mostly pineapples, annually from Formosa and exports in return 32 million mark.s worth of sugar and oilicnnint' m:ir)iin<M-v Reuter
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    Lock icon Rectification drive over, says Peking
    221 12 Rectification drive over, says Peking pHE Chinese Communist Party has stfiuuJ end of its latest shake-up among it s J growing party membership and the tia2 masses. The announcement has just been reported to! outside world for the first time by th< J China News Agency. AT THE SAME TIME,
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      40 12 The so-called Provisional Government of the Republic of Formosa in exile has charged in Tokyo that Egypt had jailed its dele gat c to the AfroAsian conference in Cairo Irom Dec. 21 until his de- portation on Jan. 1. U.P.
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      17 12 King Mohammed ZahirShß of Afghanistan will nfl make his visit to Pakfl tan on February 1- Reuter
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      17 12 Japan's net population 'M crease in 1957 T.'l.M wa s the lowest in r M years A.P.
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      31 12 Britain and East Gcrmarß were named by the InM nesian national press $m vice in Jakarta as rr.ioiM countries willina to m cexyt Indonesian stucicnß at present studying T r>lland.- Reuter
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