The Singapore Free Press, 6 November 1959

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    Masthead
    14 1 THE SINGAPORE FREE PRESS *_?dfasfasfasfasd No. *****. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1959. 15 CENTS.
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    Lock icon CALL for TRADE PACT
    251 1 wants Malaya-Indonesia- Philippines deal Idea by C-plan man at talks JOGJAKARTA, Fri. A commodity agreement between Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines has been suggested here by a delegate to the Colombo Plan Conference. The suggestion came In an Antara news ncy interview with Mr. Isidro Macaspac,
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    Opinion lke's tour of India
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    AUSTRALIAN TEST STARS ARRIVE IN SINGAPORE
    81 1 The Australian Test cricketers, led by Richie Benaud, arrived in Singapore last night for two matches on the Padang tomorrow and Sunday. More than 100 fans turned up at the airport to greet the Australians. Free Press picture shows, from left: Mr. K. W.
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    Government replies side's request
    244 1 Government replies side 's request THE Singapore Government has broken its long silence over the staff side unions' request for negotiations on variable allowances, which were cut in July this year. The staff side of the Whitley Council had made repeated representations to the official side for negotiations on the
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    RUBBER FALLS TWO CENTS
    31 1 November first grade rubber buyers f .o.b. opened in Singapore this morning at 124 cents per lb., down two cents on yesterday's close. The tone was uncertain.
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    Bangkok trade ratio mission coming
    117 1 Bangkok trade ratio mission coming ITUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— A five-member Siamese Government trade mission will arrive here shortly for a three-day visit to strengthen trade relations between Siam and the Federation. The leader of the mission is Mr Luang Bisuchua, Director-General of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of
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    Fall: Girl dies
    31 1 Miss Leong Yoke Wai 21, who fell from the seventh storev of a Queenstown, Sin|K block of flats two weeks ago. died m the General Hospital on Wednesday.
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    KO'd boxer: Good progress
    46 1 KO'd boxer: Good progress SAC Williams, RAF. who was knocked out by Burmese lightweignt Aung Tun on Wednesday night, is making satisfactory progress in tne Britisn Military Hospital, Singapore, ana is expected to be discharged in a day or two, a hospital spokesman said this morning.
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    Lock icon Philippines ex-president is dead
    97 1 Philippines ex-president is dead MANILA. Fri.— The former Philippine senator, Mr. Jose P. Laurel. Sr. aged 68. died in hospital today of cerebral haemorrhage. Mr. Laurel was president of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the islands In 1942. His death came almost 12 hour^ after he suffered a
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    Lottery man slain
    31 1 NEW YORK, Fri. An illegal lottery operator died in a hall of bullets when lie was ambushed bv two masked men outside a Brooklyn bar. The gunmen escaped.—Reuter.
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    Malayan students cheer Tengku
    222 1 MELBOURNE, Fr L— The Malayan Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, was cheered last night when he told about 400 students at a dinner reception that Malaya was going through a period of prosperity. The students applauded when he said "Your country is enjoying a spate of
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    The CAR CARE strip
    63 1 CAR CARE, an exclusive new feature showing in strip pictorial fashion how to deal with the day-to-day problems that every owner-driver meets, starts in The Free Press TOMOROW. Thereafter it will appear every Wednesday and Saturday, supplementing weekly road-test reports on new models and Freddie Pope's
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    6 Govt, leaders to speak at union meeting
    178 1 HUGE CANVAS SHELTER PUT UP AT NAVAL BASE gIX high-ranking members of the Singapore Government will be among the main speakers at the annual general meeting of the 8,000-strong Naval Base Labour Union tomorrow afternoon. They include a Cabinet Minister, four political
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    Mercy clash by warship
    93 1 HONG KONG, Fri.-H.M.S.I Belfast sped into Hong Kong harbour yesterday with; a sick seaman from the Blue Funnel 7.711-ton liner, Memnon. suffering from appendicitis. Able Seaman Peter Mooney was operated on aboard the 15,i00-ton Royal Navy cruiser on Tuesday night after being transferred at sea from
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    Home ransacked
    18 1 The Silat Road, Singapore, home of Mr. Wen Yan Tsung !was ransacked yesterday and jsl.olo stolen.
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    Lock icon C'wealth cable link-up
    114 2 C 'wealth cable link-up LONDON. Fri. A roundthe- v. oriel submarine cable network linking most of the Commonwealth with phone, telegraph and telex facilities should be pleted "in the next few .s." Announcing this in its ret and commercial accounts 1958-9, the British Post :e said the Bntain-Ca-i transatlantic telephone
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      AUSSIE SHOW POPULAR
      180 2 AUSSIE SHOW POPULAR JOGJAKARTA, Fri—Australian onicials said the 'Australian pavilion at the Colombo Plan exhibition was the most popular belonging to a foreign country. The Australian film, "The Buil- ders," dealing with Australia's relations with her Colombo Flan Asian neighbours, was given top billing at a conference film show. LONDON.—
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      Lock icon China trade with S-EA slumps
      62 2 TOKYO. Fri A Japanese Foreign Office survey showed that Communist China's trade with South-East Asian countries during the January-to-June period of this year totalled some U***** million or a 17 per cent, drop over the same period for last year. This was a sharp decline
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    Lock icon FLAGSHIPS RECORD
    47 2 HONG KONG. Fri.— The 8.644--ton Eastern Queen, flagship of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, made a record passage lvom Brisbane to YoKkaichi, Japan. Sailing at an average speed of about IT 1 knots, she completed the voyage in nine days, six rours. six minutes.- Reuter
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    Lock icon Rubber imports
    27 2 WASHINGTON. Fri. Natural rubber imports during September totalled 40.696 long tons while Latex imports amounted to 6.947 tons, according to U.S. Commerce Department statistics.- Reuter
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    Lock icon GATT PLEASED AT LIFTING OF CONTROLS
    323 2 GATT PLEASED AT LIFTING OF CONTROLS TOKYO, Friday, i DELEGATES attending the 15th session of parties to the General u Agreement on Tariffs and Trade yesterday welcomed the anjnouncement by the British Government that it had decided to relax controls of imports from the dollar areas and Western Lurope. A
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    Lock icon S'pore ship detained
    95 2 SAIGON, Pri.— The captain of a Singapore cargo ship, registered number S.M.S. 388, now being held by the South Vietnamese Navy, had been ordered to pay a fine of 40,000 piastres (about $34,000 > for importing hsh into Vietnamese water.s without a licence, it was learned from
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    Lock icon COLLISION SUIT IS FILED
    204 2 COLLISION SUIT IS FILED riX)KYO, Fri. Yokohama 1 District Court said yesterday, the Greek ship Captantonis, 9,459-tons, which was in collision in dense fog with a Japanese freighter on Oct. 30 about three miles off Yokosuka, had provisionally been attached. The Greek freighter was earlier reported by the Japanese Maritime
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    Lock icon FRENCH NAVY HOLD A GERMAN SHIP
    113 2 FRENCH NAVY HOLD A GERMAN SHIP CHERBOURG. Fri— Men of the French Navy worked all night in port here unloading the cargo of the 2,250-ton German freighter Bilbao, intercepted the day before by a French warship and ordered into Cherbourg. The Bilboa. registered in Hamburg, was believed to be bound
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    HONG KONG PRICES
    45 2 HONG KONG, Thursday Closing prices here today trere: Yesterday Today H S Banking Corporation $1,020 $1,020 Union Ins. Canton 584.50 $84.00 i sellers) Wheelock Marden $6.65 $6.65 H'Kong 'phone $30.25 $29.60 Dairv Farm Cold Storage $20.50 $20.00 &520.40 Taikoo Docks $35.75 $36.00
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    SHIPS IN PORT
    267 2 SHIPS IN PORT Ships lying: alongside the Singapore Harbour Board Wharves or expected today are: Oxfordshire 1/2, Neder Eems 4/5, Glenorchy 6/7. Karakorum 8/9, Surat 10/11. Atreus 13/14, Luna Maersk 15/16. Limburg 18, Ormara 19, Sedili N. Wall 4, Giang Ann N. Wall 5, Tong Ah 21/22, Nikkei Maru 23/24,
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    Round the World Market Prices
    198 2 Round the World Market Prices U.K. Closing Prices NOTE: All prices be are middle prices. LONDON. Nov 5 Yesterday Today RUBBER No. 1 RSS c.i.f. European ports No* 3'.* Ooc. I 16 H 7 RUBBER No. 1 RSS Spot II UBBER No. 1 RSS Settlement Mouse Terms Dec. .34 Jan.
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    MALAYAN SHARE MARKET
    726 2 NOTE: All prices below ere middle prico SINGAPORE, THURSDAY. INDUSTRIALS Yesterday Today Alex Br.cks Pre' 1.70 1.70 Ords. 1.99 199 Atlas Ice 11.00 6. 8.8. Petrol 50'- 5C B.M. Trustees 525 525 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 19 •19- Ords 41 6 41 6 Federal Dispensary 1.07 1.07
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    It WILL NOT NEGOTIATE IN 9-NATION TOUR
    298 3 It WILL NOT NEGOTIATE IN 9-NATION TOUR L"'" ood,viU tfin-hMMt problems will be discussed v Fri. „minjtnp to Mtintprimarily jnd purpart! i burked upon earlier year when he :ed Europe. Mr Eisenhower will rr.. by becoming the nm :ed States president ever \.4a. His trip to Pakistan and AfghanLs the
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    AUSTRALIAN BANKER IS FETED
    35 3 Iltank last i honour ot general v v South Ifates, Tree Press picture shows Mr. Marshall (centre) with rubber magnate Mr. I.ee Konj; Chian and 0.C.8. chairman Mr. Tan Chin Tuan.
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    HOW TO FOIL THESE BOGUS GAS BILL MEN
    144 3 posiNG as gas inspectors, 1 two men have robbed a number of Singapore households in the past four weeks. They do not operate in one Lfic area. Reports have been received from all over, said Police Secretary. Mr. William Cheng, yesterday. He
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    Ballot for 100 houses
    47 3 The 100 houses in St. Michael's Road which the Singapore Improvement Trust has decided to sell will be allocated by secret ballot at the Badminton Hall on Nov. 15. About 5.000 persons have so far applied. The list will close on Nov. 12.
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    NAVAL BASE MAN TO PLAY 'CHARLEY'
    59 3 The 22-year-old Don Stokes, who scored a success in the Naval Base Theatre Club's production of "The Love Match" last month, has been given a part in the Singapore Stage Club's forthcoming presentation "Charley's Aunt." T will be shown at the Victoria Theatre from
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    Lock icon MALAYA to boost ORCHID EXPORTS
    290 3 MALAYA to boost ORCHID EXPORTS MELBOURNE, Fri.— An 1 extensive orchid ex- j port industry is expect- j fd to be set up in the I Federation of Malaya soon, Mr. Ng Peng Wan, E President of the Federa- E tion of Malaya Orchid j Society, said yesterday. Mr. Ng
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    Goodwill on this fighting ship
    313 3  -  I.M.A. THE obvious incongruity of a destroyer doing a goodwill mission is perhaps difficult to dispel. Somehow American "hands across the Pacific" goodwill has been much maligned with cynicism. It was not entirely devoid of such cynicism that I went yesterday aboard the Leader Destroyer
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    People's concert
    29 3 The next Singapore Aneka Rasam Ra'ayat concert will be held in the grounds of the Chinese temple at the 5* m.s. Upper Serangoon Road, on I Sunday.
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    Goodwill tour
    29 3 BANGKOK. Fri. A Malavan goodwill mission to Thailand led by the head of the Malayan Railway Administration called on the Thai Communications Minister. Mr. Pong Punakan, yesterday.
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    UP 10 PER CEM
    35 3 NEW YORK. Fri —Ocean freight rates from U.S. North Atlantic ports to Britain will be raised 10 per cent on Feb. 1. following a similar rise for cargoes to continental Europe.
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    No-water areas
    51 3 Water is being cut oil In Singapore today in Keppel Road < between Nelson Road junction and Kampong Bahru Road junction) from 9 a.m. to midnight, and in Jalan Chengkek (between No. 31 and No. 89 > and Kampong Lima tend* from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for
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    Smuggling fine
    33 3 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. Yee Fong Hua, 21, a woman, who tried to smuggle peroxide ointment from Singapore to the value of $49 was fined $150 in the magistrate's court here yesterday.
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    He's acquitted
    37 3 Khoo Chee Kong, 27 was acquitted yesterday in Singapore of stealing $10 belonging to three men Tay Ah Soy, Chia Boon Koon and Yeo Choon Seng, on Aug. 19 in Koh Seek Lim Road. i
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    ON THE AIR
    39 3 Miss Hideko Ozawa, a member of the Japanese youth mission now in Singapore on a goodwill tour, will speak about the tour in "Visitor's book" in the English service of Radio Singapore at 7.15 p.m. tomorrow.
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    AIR CHIEF HERE
    36 3 Air Marshal H. D. Spreckley. Controller of Engineering and Equipment at the Air Ministry in Britain, arrived in Singapore by BOAC Comet IV on a short visit to the Far East Air Force.
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    SEVEN MEN ON TREK IN JUNGLE
    94 3 SEVEN MEN ON TREK IN JUNGLE I A seven-man team from the Far East Survival and Parachute School. R.A.F. Changi. were air-lifted into Fort Shean, in Pahang. yesterday on the first leg of a trek j through jungle to Kampong Kuaia Medan in West Pahang. From Fort Shean. the team,
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    Lock icon SOLDIER'S PARENTS GET AN APOLOGY
    167 3 LONDON, Fri. The British War Office yesterday apologised to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Molyneux of Newton le Willows, Lancashire, for a visit to their home last month by three military policemen who came to arrest their 21 -year-old son John as a deserter when he
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    S'pore student helps to cook for Tengku
    383 3 S'pore student helps to cook for Tengku MELBOURNE, Friday. T<ENGKU ABDUL RAHMAN wound up a four-day visit to Melbourne by giving a dinner to over 400 excited Malayan students and afterwards lighting a 40-foot string of crackers and several rockets to honour Guy Fawkes Day. All Victoria's Malayan student organisations
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    IMPATIENT? THEN TRY SHOW BUSINESS
    788 4  - IMPATIENT? THEN TRY SHOW BUSINESS JOHN ROBSON fsdfsdafasdf Actors, singers and the writers By 'THERE are perhaps few quicker ways of making a fortune j than in the world of j slum business and its j ni a n v profitable branches. One moment you may be unknown and struggling;
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    Lock icon A PUNCH GIMMICK THAT CLICKED
    87 4 A PUNCH GIMMICK THAT CLICKED PUNCH. Britain's humorous magazine, recently printed a cartoon advertising a series of "condensed culture cards" the quarter of the size of a postage stamp, summing up works of classical literature in 50 words. Such mail The aftermath was described by the magazine's assistant editor. Mr.
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      313 4 CLUES ACROSS 4. Problem; how to sieve coarse1. At masthead, this is the ly 6) -norm (8). 5. African has a sound ?ame 7. Pickle so that it might be of a er a *> und animal arden some use at the end (5). 8. She comes to a fishy
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      97 4 P.M. 1.00 Programme sum- 5^45 Conductors and composers; Malayan Chinese god. and eodmary; 1.02 North and South of £.15 Anna Keremna— Episode 8; dess- 830 These LTnn. 8 Panama; 130 The News; 1.40 S^nS^Ui^es? 1 «Ki^r" i- ieW f of -2T tatart Newstalk; 1.45 Made in Vienna; ™Kket. SmgaPOre mTgl^e^res^teo^T
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    STAGE SHOW
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    The day they buried the hatchet ...now gardeners dig it up again
    357 5 \IRMI gardening in the flight area „f K.A.K letar Singapore, prior to Ui \o s inspection unrarthed I hatchet minus .1 handle and bottle coning documents These led that the hatchet had been buried ccremoniuis|\ by members of
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    Appointment of sales engineer
    53 5 Appointment of sales engineer I Asia) Limited h iiinounced the lent of Mr. Chong r. He will spend some in their head office in before Joining I umpur Office. veiled s;ate to aonal stui nferenci N'igeeylon and Japan. In he received ar. iation srant to visit a ber ot West
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    POWER AGAIN— AFTER BREAK OF TWO YEARS
    338 5 THE CITY COUNCIL IS LOOKING FOR ENGINEERS ST. JAMES STATION OPENS NEXT MONTH r JpHE St. James Power Station in Keppel Road, Singapore, which has been out of commission for the past two years, will start generating electricity again from next month. The
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    Saturday class
    34 5 Srimat Swami Siddhatmanandaji, president of the Ramakrishna Mission, Singapore, will conduct a class on Srimat Bhagavad Gita every Saturday evening, starting tomorrow, at 6.30 p.m., in the Mission auditorium in Norris Road.
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    Song recital
    38 5 A song recital by the Combined Girls' Choir, organised and conducted by Mrs. Aisha Akbar, will be heard in the "Youth at the helm" leature of the English service of Radio Singapore at 7.45 p.m. tomorrow.
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    Water cut off
    50 5 Water supply along Keppel Road between Nelson Road and Kampong Bahru Road will be cut off today from 9 a.m. to 12 midnight. Supplies will also be cut off along Jalan Chengkekr from 9 a.m. to 3 pm. and Kampong Lima from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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    Malayan Indiar crisis settled
    197 5 Malayan Indiar crisis settled KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ~THE crisis in the Singapore branch of the Malayan Indian Congress has been settled by the intervention of a congress headquarters representative, Mr. E. J. Johnson. Mr. Johnson, who went to Singapore last week to patch up differences between top officials of the
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    'Abolish tax' call by goldsmiths
    123 5 'Abolish tax' call by goldsmiths KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Federation Government is considering an appeal from 3,000 goldsmiths in Penang who have asked for the abolition of import duty on gold and silver ornaments and jewellery entering the mainland. They claim that Penang ls part of the Federation and the
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    ROMANCE, MYSTERY AMID THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
    433 6 PAPERBACKS THAT WILL PLEASE E IyiNGEROUS EXILE, Vaughan Wilkins, E Pan Books, 51. 25. An excellent historical E novel full of romance and mystery set amidst the French Revolution. E IP PERISCOPE Robb Zi White. Fontana BookE si -V Here is a tmsc action-
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    HERE IS THE
    154 6 PROSE AND POEMS OF BORIS PASTERNAK. Edited by Stephen Schimansky. Ernest Benn, $3.00. BORIS PASTERNAK created a sensation with the publication of Dr. Zhivago. He became world famous, yet the irony of it is that he is no new writer but had already made his debut in
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    EARLY GENIUS OF BORIS PASTERNAK
    120 6 his definition of devotion: "Devotion is a heavy cross, "but you are lovely and direct; "the mystery of your attraction "is powerful as the key to life." Pasternak's poems border on the impressionistic and reflect on the early Soviet regime. He is sympathetic I to
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    Stories for boys...and dad will read 'em, too
    264 6 Stories for boys... and dad will read 'em, too asdfsdafasdfasd iDVENTI'RE STORIES. by Dc: n. Ward Lock. 6/-. ■T^HE publishers call this a child- book, but somehow it seems much better suited to •'children" of 15. 1G or even older. It is rather like a toy train something father buys
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    HORSES AND HIGHWAYS... WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
    211 6 HORSES AND HIGHWAYS... WHAT DO YOU KNOW? rr«.\Ki it tioin us. IUI 1 JUM ADVENTURE STORII S will b«> read uith as nun h enjoyment by mothers and sisters as by* the male members of the family So please don*t think that th.s u»»ks General Knowledge tji*i/ is eonfined to
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    76 9 Teams for today's annual Poppy er between Singapore Ci.d Joint Service^ at Jalan Be^ar at 5.30 p.m.: Mngapore from: W Skinner, ar, Matmoon, Lee Wah Osman Johan. Sutton. Kok Kim Beng. Samat Abdullah. Rahmat, Ibrahim Hassan. ein, Rahim Omar, L. Nonls Ali Astar, i Arilf and Foo Hee
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    278 10 Government moves lo eraek down on subversion bv Ihe Com munis Is NEW DELHI, Friday. THE Government has asked police to screen 40,000 Chinese presently residing in India as businessmen or in various professional assignments, informed sources said here yesterday. Police will check
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    61 10 "OPERATION Clean-up" took a new turn tnis morning when riot vans patrolled gang infested areas off Serangoon Road and Kallang, in Singapore. Uniformed policemen patrolled the five-foot ways in pairs, while armed constables in patrol cars stopped pedestrians and checked identity cards. They paid special attention
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    101 10 COLOMBO, Fri.— Ceylon's Minister of Posts -and Broadcasting, Mr. C. A. S. Marikkar, said yesterday that Government-controlled Radio Ceylon would probably be able to resume its relaying of 8.8.C. news broad- casts when the situation in the country returned to normal. The radio stopped relaying 8.8.C.
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