The Singapore Free Press, 7 August 1958

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press Malaya's Own Family Paper t > i Miinapore. Thursday. August 7, 1958. Prioe 15Cts.
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    Lock icon U.S. on alert for sneak Red move in Far East
    318 1 U.S. on alert for sneak Red move in Far East AMERICAN oilicials in Washington are keeping ft a close watch on Communist movements in the Fur East to guard against a possible surprise move by the Reds there while world attention is focussed on the Middle East. So far, they
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    Lock icon AIRLIFT TO UK FORCES IN JORDAN RESUMES AS ISRAEL LIFTS BAN
    150 1 THHE airlift to British forces in Jordan was re- sumed last night after a four-day interruption with the arrival of United States Globemaster aircraft. It was expected that the first move would be for Britain to fly in reinforcements
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    Lock icon Husseins call to forces
    36 1 King Hussein of Jordan inspected troops .stationed in Jerusalem and Nablus yesterday. "Your battle is the battle of all Jordanian*," he told the men who face Israeli guns only yards away. U.P.I.
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    Lock icon More tankers in canal
    56 1 An increase in the number of tankers passing through the Suez Canal in the last few days was reported in Cairo last night by the Middle EftSt News Agency. It quoted "observers" as saying that this indicated that European countries were storing large Quantities of oil
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    Lock icon 10-HOUR SNUB FOR IKE'S MAN
    33 1 i bowp?'2^SS and Mr Rob<rt Murphy. President after b l in SP €clal tMivuy. met in Cairo last berate sniSS? dday that was inter P retcd as U.P.I.
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    Lock icon 14,000 marooned by floods
    37 1 About 14,000 people in 25 villages around Delhi were marooned yesterday by floods from the River Jumna, swollen above danger point by heavy rain. About 20 square miles near Delhi are submersed. Reuter
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    Lock icon CYPRUS: MAC OFF TODAY FOR ATHEHS TALK
    230 1 CYPRUS: MAC OFF TODAY FOR ATHEHS TALK New hope held out for a compromise ]IIR. Harold Macmillan, the Bri--IT± tish Prime Minister, will fly to Athens today in a Royal Air Force Comet for talks with Mr. Constantine Karamanlis, the Greek Prime Minister on the Cyprus situation. An official spokesman
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    Chuang in jovial mood
    141 1 DR. CHUANG CHU LIN, former principal of the Chung Cheng High School who was released yesterday after 314 days' detention, returned to his house in Geylang this morning. He stayed overnight at a relative's house in East Coast Road to avoid publicity. But several Chinese educationists
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    'Thugs kidnap Colony youth'
    82 1 POLICE are investigating a report that a 15-year-old youth. Tan Eng Soon, was kidnapped by secret society gangsters on Tuesday. The report was made by Tan's mother, Low Ah Lui. 54, a Harbour Board labourer, yesterday. She said that when she returned to her home at
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    Lock icon 90 TERRORISTS ARRESTED
    39 1 Police and troops have arrested 90 members of an Algiers terrorist organisation set up by the Algerian Nationalist Movement fM.N.A.). rival of the insurgent national liberation front F.L.N.) it was announced in Algiers last night. Reuter
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    RUBBER PRICE
    30 1 August first grade rubber buyers fob. opened in Singapore this morning at 81 cents n lb.. up one-eighth of a rent on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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    Lock icon CHAMOUN TELLS PREMIER: STAY
    335 2 Lebanese Cabinet shake-up rumours are scotched PRESIDENT CHAMOUN of the Lebanon yes- terday formally asked the Cabinet to stay on as lonjj as he remains in oilice. He thus i scotched rumours that there would be a Government shake-lip before his term ends on Sept. 23.
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    Lock icon A RUSSIAN-U.S CREW FOR WORLD'S FIRST SPACE SHIP?
    134 2 A RUSSIAN-U.S CREW FOR WORLD'S FIRST SPACE SHIP? E AN AMEKK AN pro- 5 posal that could E put Russian and E American crews side by I side in the world's E first space ship is being i E discussed by delegates E Eto the International Geophysical Assembly jj in
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    Jamaican wins police baton of honour
    103 2 SERGEANT D.O. Campbell of Jamaica yesterday won the baton of honour at a passing-out parade for Colonial police at the Metropolitan Police Training School in London. The baton, awarded to the best all-round member of the course, was presented by Mr. 1.11. E.J. Stourton,
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    Lock icon NKRUMAH AND QUEEN HAVE 30 MM. CHAT
    86 2 DR. Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of Ghana, yesterday had a private audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. A crowd of cheering holiday-makers. Ghananians in national dress among them, waved to him as his car sped through the palace gates. He was also
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    Lock icon COMPOSER DIES
    27 2 Joseph Holdbrooke, once hailed as one of the most promising British composers, died at his home in Hampstead. London last niuht. He was 80.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Look-see Russians
    25 2 The first group of private Soviet tourists to vi.sit the United States will leave lor New York by the end ot August. U.P.I.
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    51 2 Princess Alexandra of Kent recently paid a visit to the "Third Regional Agoon" a camp for European handicapped Boy Scouts at Cilwell Park, Chingford, Essex. The title is especially appropriate as "agoon" is Greek for a struggle. Here, the Princess chats to a group of the handicapped Scouts.- pit* lure.
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    Lock icon A FAIRY TALE COMES TRUE
    153 2 a crowd ol 25,000 cheering, flag-waving children greeted Princess Margaret In a fairyland setting at Montreal's La Fontaine Park yesterday. The Prinre.s.s was then led acrou a concrete bridge over a moat and escorted to a "marguerite throne." The throne was the colour and shape
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    Lock icon Freedom? Give it to Hungary, urges Dulles
    283 2 Freedom? Give it to Hungary, urges Dulles REFERRING to the Khrushchev -Mao communique supporting national independence movements in Latin America, U.S. State Secretary. Mr. Dulles, speaking In Rio de Janeiro yesterday asked: "Who gave Russia and China a mandate to interfere in Latin American affairs?' 1 the Red leaders icanted
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    Misrepresented'—the new medical body
    273 3 Misrepresented'— the new medical body T<HE Dean Of the Faculty ci Medicine at the University or Malaya, Professor E 6 Momriro, said yesterday that many Singapore doctors were misrepresenting the activities of the newly-formed Academy of Physicians and Surgeons. Prof. Monteiro, who is Assistant Master of the Academy, said that
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    Lock icon Premiere' plait for Helen
    45 3 j New Fork model Helen Hobbins wore her blonde E tresses in this attractive plait when she attended the recent premiere of the new Danny Kay e film S Merrj Andrew* 1 at the Enmire Theatre iw#.«w Square. London. Popper picture.
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    Lock icon PURDOM: 'SECRET MARRIAGE' CLAIM
    184 3 THE former wife of Eng--1 ish actor Edmund f ur dom a led an affidavit m tne Hollywood Superior lour yesterday in which •"lie claimed that he had secretly married and divorced actress Linda cnnstian In Mexico. Actress-ballerina Ti t a Purdom. 31, filed the affidavit
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    Lock icon NON-COMS. TOLD 'SHUT UP'
    40 3 The U.S. Strategic Air Command yesterday ordered an end to a marathon talking contest among a group of sergeants stationed al Pittsburgh air force base in New York State. The marathon began last Friday nlnhl. Reuter
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    Lock icon Long fight against drink was 'too much'
    182 3 Long fight against drink was 'too much' A VERDICT of suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed was returned yesterday at an inquest at St. Helier Jersey on George Johnston Ellis, former husband of London model Ruth Ellis, who was hanged in 1955 for the murder of her
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    Lock icon Authoress dies
    29 3 British authoress Miss Friniwyd Tennyson Jesse, a great-niece of Lord Tennyson, died in London early yesterday of a heart attack She was in her early .sixties.- Reuter
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    Lock icon FIRST STAGHUNT-SO MANY FALSE SCENTS
    100 3 pOES of stag-hunting were jubilant at Exford, Somerset when horsemen and hounds trotted wearily back to that west of England town, with not one "kill" to their credit. Early-rising volunteers of the League Against Cruel Sports laid false chemical trails soon after dawn over 100
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    Lock icon Leading lady knocks down 6-foot actor
    113 3 Leading lady knocks down 6-foot actor ACTOR Earl Wngntson was having his jaw X-rayed yesterday for a passible fracture after being punched on Tuesday night by his leading lady during a performance in New York of "Kiss Me Kate," the musical version of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew." Actress Jane
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    26 4 I W n," I -Splendid turnout, Mr. Sandys! Aid you think sheiks and kings will Invite tfcem as quickly as tfctse old-fashioned chaps with rifles?" I
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  • The Singapore Free Press Thursday, Aug. 7. 1958.
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      Opinion Laudable work
      201 4 Opinion Laudable work rpHIS year the Chinese, V.M.C.A. expect that no lower than 1 0,000 1 .students from English and Chinese secondary schools will take part in their Students Week. This plan, which is aimed at keeping students out of mischief and away from bad company, is laudable ha every
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    BY THE WAY
    290 4  -  Beachcomber by rpiiE news thai President 1- Elsenhower is to receive "the 15.000,000 th kipper exported lo America •since the war" is a triumph for .statistics rather than for the export trade, In such cases as this. I often wonder what would happen if, at the last
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    12 months of Royal change
    801 4  -  DONALD EDGAR by IT was a moment to remember when the voice of the Queen came from a taperecorder to tell the great crowd at Cardiff Arms Park that she was creating her son t Prince of Wales. i It was a moment to remember,
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    COMMON COLD CAN'T BE BEATENDOCTORS
    124 5 COMMON COLD CAN'T BE BEATENDOCTORS fEDICAL Research Council doctors in Britain who have 'pent 12 years trying track down the cause ot tiie common c pw are now convinced that their Quesi is hopeless, 'believe that the comP* m t can be caused by 5 a y parent eerm.-* a
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    Suppressor 'war' on
    217 5 SJPOTTEM TEAMS It lIHOS WELL HE oix the WATtn at BUSY CENTRES jOEGINM\(; on Monday teams from the Tele- communications Department, equipped with radio sets, will be stationed at busy spots in Singapore to detect all vehicles not yet fitted with suppressors. The new law— which aims
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    BIG RUSH TO BOOK SPACE AT EXPOSITION
    168 5 BIG RUSH TO BOOK SPACE AT EXPOSITION MALAYAN as well a; foreign manufacturers, traders and commercial firms havi shown great interest in the Singapore Constitu tlon Exposition to be held next year at the former Kallang airport. Mr. Lim Kee Ming, secretary of the organising committee, told the Free Press
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    I can't cook— bride of 16
    179 5 I can't cook— bride of 16 I CANT cook" said Caroline Jayne Beuttler. seen above with 30 -year -old Alan Clark, son of Bri- I I tish Arts council chairman Sir Alan Clark, after their I I wedding in London. But that's not surprising, for Caroline is only Id At
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    Lock icon Hiroshima protest by W. Germans
    47 5 The West German "fight atom death" movement. supported by social democrats and most trade unionists, yesterday held demons- I trations in a number of West Gorman cities to mark the 13th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima in Japan. Reuter
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    Lock icon DAG ACCEPTS IRAQ ENVOY
    31 5 The U.N. SecretaryGeneral, Da« Hammarskjoeld, yesterday accepted the credentials of the ambassador representing the new Iraqi regime which overthrew the Government of the late King Faisal.- U.P.I.
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    Lock icon Atomic detection talks continue
    36 5 Popper Nuclear experts from East and West exchanged ideas for three hours yesterday on how to detect a sneak nuclear explosion. But they remained silent about how much orouress they made.— U.P.I.
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    10,000 LEAFLETS WILL TELL CHINATOWN OF MASS X-RAY DRIVE
    128 5 10,000 LEAFLETS WILL TELL CHINATOWN OF MASS X-RAY DRIVE A BOUT 10,000 leaflets will be dtStributed in Chinatown next Monday informing them about the mass x-ray campaign to start there on August 19. Dr. C.E. Smith, who is in charge of (he campaign said posters and cartoons had already been
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      55 5 Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii--1 SINGAPORE I HIGH TIDES TODAY: 3.02 a.ni, and E 3.20 p.m. E TOMORROW: 3.52 a.m. E E and 4.03 p.m. E SATURDAY: 5.04 a.m. and 4.58 p.m. SUNDAY: 6.55 a.m. and 6.09 p.m. E E MONDAY: 8.44 a.m. and E E 7.27 p.m. E E TUESDAY: 9.37 a.m. E
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      442 6 m BORN today, you have a vivM I warm-hearted personality v draws people to you wherever v are. Your intuitions are keen and in I meeting people you know at first sight whether or not you are to like them a little or a lot. I Your talents are such
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  • Round the world Market Prices
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      U.K. closing prices
      173 7 LONDON, Aug. 6. Previous Today 11 „,.,n ports Au B 23;, buyers 23', buyers r 23., sellers 23% sellers Sept 23', buyers 23', buyers 23 4 sellers 23 sellers ni b J KSS Spot 23 s buyers 23', buyers 33 H sellers 23% sellers BUBBEB N* 1
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      New York prices
      99 7 NEW YORK, Ail*. 6. Previous Today TIN Straits Spot 95.75 nom. unchanged tin futures Straits Contract Sept. 95.00 buyers 94.87 buyers 95.87 sellers 95.87 sellers Oct 94.75 buyers unchanged 95.75 sellers unchanged TONE: Quiet. SALES: Nil RUBBER: Futures Sept. 28.47 paid 25.20 buyers 28.40 sellers Nov 28.25
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      DOW JONES AVERAGES
      31 7 NEW YORK, Aug. 6. •mi.. Previous Today I! lld r tr i als 506.95 503.H -i) Railroads 132 98 132 11 jM^ucßond, 63 Stocks Composite Averages 175.00 173.79
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      U.S. PEPPER
      69 7 falabar spot and awaiting reease un hanged, 28. afloats 27 I.1 hall August shipment <\ri c and f. Lampong- spot and awaiting release 28, afloats 27 2 t0 27. first half August .4oore? prices quoted shipment 27. 26 elf. SarawaJ unquoted. Muntok white spot and awaiting release 43,
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      Copra, coconut oil prices
      81 7 LONDON, Aug. 6. COPRA Philippines c.i.f. U.K./ PreYi US Today North I uropean ports delivered SB! st;;,!^.ft n^^!; $I sellers $198 sellpr6 fni "!><■■"• ports delivered »''>!u pn- long ton Aug./ Sept. £72 nominal unchanged ><<> M I OIL crude Straits European ports in bulk (.w'nv,
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    A record number of queries to Ministers
    332 7 A RECORD number of 27 questions have so far been submitted by Assemblymen for Ministers' answers at the Legislative meeting on Wednesday next week. Included among the questions is one on a divorce case. It is from Mr. Lee Choon Eng, who has
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    Lock icon NUCLEAR WAR STRATEGY
    28 7 British, Commonwealth and Allied military leaders are meeting at the Staff College, Camberly, today to study changes in land battle necessitated hv ruclaav weapons. Reuter
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    Lock icon BANK RATE CUT HOPES HIGH
    193 7 pHE recent firm conditions were maintained London stock maryesterday in spite of gf overnight setback on v^ii street and the latest inuait developments. There was some uncergJHJg at the opening but, y thr. dose, most sections estabibta further jGHt-edgedl were quieter of a further W
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    Lock icon S'PORE FRIENDS LEAVE FOR STUDY IN U.S.
    96 7 rjVVE Malayan students left the Colony last night in the President Madison for further studies in the United States. They include two fast friends (above) who will study at the same institution Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. They are Mr. Wu Sens; Un,
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    ABSENTEE STUDENTS HAD 'GOOD REASONS'
    194 7 NO action is likely to be taken against students who absented themselves from schools on Kallang by-election day July 26 and presumably assisted political parties in polling activities. The acting Director of Education, Mr. G. P. Darke, said he had received a full list of
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      97 7 Today's radio programme 1.15 p.m. Lunchtime Concert; 1.30 Time Signal and News; 1.45 Men Only; 2.00 Close Down; 3.57 Schools Broadcast; 5.00 Calling All Hospitals, presented by Maisie Conceicao; 6.00 Toy Town- 6.30 On the Beat; 6.45 Lights On; 6.53 Announcements and Singapore Share Market Report; 7.00 Time Signal and
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    PAINT SET FIREEARN
    103 8 PAINT SET FIREEARN IV/IR. WILLIAM GR| IT latest work in i m of tarry bitunuMi n r p to £100. Twenty four year.d Mr. Green was putting Ji his first show sinee 1 hi graduated from the Royi College of Ait Last year this re 0e I finished off his
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    French jet liner on show
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    First to be built with engines aft
    89 8 First to be built with engines aft The new French Caravelle airliner arrives at London Airport on a recent visit to Britain for demonstraiion flights. 1 The 500 m p.h. jet is the first airliner to be built with the engine? in the tail. The Caravelle is the forerunner of
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    Lock icon PIGEONS RAISE A'SHOP EGG' FAMILY
    168 8 PIGEONS RAISE A' SHOP EGG' FAMILY I ILL- HEALTH forced 3 Mr. Cibbs of RuisE lip Raod, Creenford, Middlesex to sell a\ his piegons all but 1 two that is, which E were his wife's pets. He gave these to a 3 friend up the road. Two days later they
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    A PICTURE ON AND £100
    234 9 A PICTURE ON AND £100 tist. presemea i»s cently: H splotches pd, priced from £50 X'R. Set a light. c results surrounded on the w llls of the Centre Gallery Mart Arch grim, j. of scorched with names like "El do," 'Belie Grove." .wood." 1, names signify Mr. t pathy
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    Lock icon STILL TASTY AFTER 50 YRS.
    65 9 STILL TASTY AFTER 50 YRS. Mr W. Selby Oj le Food Research delation, losel% mines a 50-year-tln of kipperec ritll( J s during testi **MV 0/ juud tak--1 from me Antarc* !&a *ea <>] Shacklon awl Scott, The test* arc being (ieii! the Leatherm Surrey, labora]lL; V the imtish w
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    She paints with plasticine
    77 9 She paints with plasticine No palette, no brush, no water-colours. Yet Bette Williams produces an exquisite landscape. Her medium coloured plasticine. Bette, 21, and now a secretary working in London, brought this art form E with her when she came to England from Trinij dad two years ago. I She
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    The man who wore his sleeve
    2776 10  - The man who wore his sleeve PELHAM GROOM trurythtrh YOU find me involved blem," said Latin ht the door. "A man has a boat." "In a boat?" "In a boat! If he had been found anywhere else it might not have been quite so baffling. Here is a man, Tin
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    Royal praise for Borderers' jungle feats
    278 11 Royal praise for Borderers' jungle feats 1^ ij KM( 1 in the jungles of Malaya was mentioned "> )v the Queen in a message read by the Duke ,i Edinburgh when he presented new Colours 1,, the Ist Lsattalion South Wales Borderers uul tin 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regimen t, li
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    P.T. on the move
    89 11 Exercises on stationary parallel bars weren't exciting enough for Staff Sergeant I Gerald Moon of the Army Physical Training Corps. So he'll thrill the crowds with the bars tra?isported between two motor-cyclists at the Searchlight Tatto opening at the White City Stadium, London, next week. Motor
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    New guided anti-tank weapon is a winner
    398 11 New guided anti-tank weapon is a winner HETAILS just released by VickersArmstrong Limited reveal that the company has evolved a complete anti-tank guided weapon system which is believed to be the first "I its kind that can be carried easily by one man, The Vickers Type 891 I s Simple
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    Uniforms riddle solved
    100 11 Uniforms riddle solved SMART detective work by naval historians at the National Maritime Museum. Greenwich, has solved tho case of the Admiral's Uniform. The museum was presented with a full dress uniform bearing the insignia for an admiral which had been found by a person searching through an old Chest.
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    THESE COINS ARE AN INVESTMENT
    118 11  -  Nicholas St. Clair By "Americans prefer gold coins with a decorative design," .says Mr. B. L. Carter a numismatist attached to a London firm. Prices vary from around C 10,000 for most valuable coin in the world to £4 ss. for a 1957 gold sovereign;
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    Lock icon KARACHI NOW WANTS TO BARTER WITH RED BLOC
    196 12 KARACHI NOW WANTS TO BARTER WITH RED BLOC i PAKISTAN is negotiating with v number <>t communist countries including Russia, Ked China and Polind to barter her surplus raw cotton in exchange for machinery, coal, cement and rice, it was officially learned in Karachi. Pakistan hopes to import from Russia
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    Lock icon Fall-out: No harm done, says U.S.
    173 12 Fall-out No harm done, says U.S. A MEDICAL report find- 1 ing that the crew of i two Japane.se coastguard ships suffered no harmful radiation effects a§ a result ol United Slates nU- clear tests Is being sent to the Japanese Government.! Washington officials said. The Japanese vessels, the survey
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    Lock icon Two ships escape
    28 12 Two Japanese fishing vessels seized oif Shantung by Communist Chinese pa trol bouts managed to e.scajx under cover of darkness, a Shimonoseki report said. U.P.I.
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  • Glimpses
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      Lock icon South Korea to join in A-age race
      152 12 South Korea to join in A-age race PRESIDENT Syngman Rhee's South Korean Government h:is put into force an eightyear plan to provide the Republic with atomic energy. According to the plan. South Korea will have her first atomic research reactor In operation in 1959, and an atomic power plant in
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      37 12 Admiral Austin k. Doyle, retiring commander of tin United States Formosa Defence Command, was decorated by President Chiang Kai-shek in Taipeh with the Order of the Precious Tripod, Nationalist China's highest honour for a foreign officer. Reuter
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      33 12 Communist Chinese VicePremier Nieh Jung Chen has called for stepped up research to enable China to master the newest techniques in thermonuclear reaction and rockets, said the Pekfng New China News Akimicv. Reuter
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      38 12 Mr. Lorenzo Sumulony chairman of the Philippine Senate foreign rela tions committee, said in Manila that he hoped the United States would support members of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation the way it helped Bagdart Pact nartners. U.P.I.
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