Malaya Tribune, 19 July 1948

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  • 65 1 The Malaya Tribune BY TVS P&JPjJG FO h TUB PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon l\i|>er in Malaya Phuttnn Shnulfanrnusly Kiuthi L,n„ Jt ,n. Ij„,h Penan q. Telegrams "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 ft rntes). eight PAGES SINGAPORE. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1948 PRICK TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs.
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  • 99 1 U.P. July 18. The U.S. 11 lanes supplying new record today 1 506 tons of coal to the former i! In the 24 hours II'K» hours GMT. ceilings prevailil half of the 24--thc I' S Air Force made 283 flights baden and Ehein Mam air base. VI
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  • 125 1 U.P. SAINT LO. via Paris. July 18 Foui years ago today, this <s a hell hole of flash- 11-flre, crashing bombs imbling buildings as the States 29th Infantry n blasted its way into cntre of the Channel town almost overwhelming ash v high French and in officials
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  • 41 1 U.P. ROME, July 18.—A parliigroup headed by Be- ident Ivanoc Bononu i i i nor President Giovan "> Groachl left today by trau hi tajdand, where for a wcel Ikej aril] be the guests of th» British Parliament.—U.P.
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  • 93 1 (Trtfemw Ni„fr Reporter) Mtagapore experienced the yfctrsl uirk-end for many '"""His as far as serious Wh»p is concerned. N,r V. Fowler, C.1.0. 1 "eti t«<l»l the Press this that he had received n reports of robberies or ,h, r strious crime since "arereaj nfti that no further """'"•'.k
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  • 628 1 SECRET AGENDA FOR TODAY'S MEETING "WESTERN UNION" POWERS FACE GRAVE CRISIS U.P. Reuter. THE HAGUE, July 18.—Five Foreign Ministers of the "western Union" meet here tomorrow in the midst of the grave crisis to decide whether to force a showdown, even if
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  • 65 1 Reuter. Moscow, July 18.—Moscow's mammon th Aviation Day ai) display, cancelled today because of rain and low clouds will now take place next Sunda v. The demonstration led by Maj. Gen. Vassili Stalin, son of Marshal Stalin, will include jet lane displays on aerial "battle"
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  • 119 1 U.P. HOWDEN (England). Jul18.—Secretary of State for War Emanuel Shin well told a Labour Party meeting here today: "Although there Is much that is explosive in the Berlin situation, nobody wants to lire the first shot, and I don't believe anybody will." He said that talk about
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  • 140 1 Reuter. Berlin. July 18. Mr. John fftmefl Sims. British occuna tion officer, arrested by the Russians as a "spy" last Wed lesday. today described how h. was kept in solitary confine ment for three days in <•• "filthy, stinking cell." Hc'charged the Soviet authorities with "showing their
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  • 56 1 U.P. Cairo. July 18. The latest recruit for the Egyptian Ail Force, is tall anil debonaii Prince Ismail Assan, cousin ol King Farouk. who has been given the rank of captain. The young Prince, who already has a pilot's licence. <aid yesterday "Maybe I'll be .ible to
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  • 21 1 LONDON, July 18.—Mr. S. Sadanand. editor "of the Bombay Free Press journal, arrived in London today by air from New York.
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  • 15 1 (News from the mews, by Allan Lewis, appears in page 7).
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  • 177 1 Reuter. Florence, July 18. One-hundred-and-fifty armed police and five armoured cars rushed 50 miles to Sienna today following reports of disturbances when a grenade was thrown during the funeral of avictim of last week's general strike. Communications with Siena were cut by order of the Ministry
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  • 142 1 Reuter. Windsor. (England). July IS The King and Queen, with Princess Elizabeth and he; husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and others KnightCompanions of the Garter, the ancient British Order of Knighthood, attended the 600 th. anniversary of the foundation Of the Order at St. George's
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  • 204 1 Reuter. SYDNEY, July 18.—Mr. J. 11. Chifley's unhappinesa about the situation in Malaya nill be shared by most Australians who rightly see In the events there a developing menace to their own security, said the Morning Herald today. If the request for arms had
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  • 107 1 Reuter. MOSCOW, 'uly 18.— Russian people were keeping a "vigilant eye on the intrigue* of the instigators of a new war" and were consolidating their armed forces. declared the Soviet Communist I'arh paper l'ravda in an Aviation Day editorial today. Saying that they were proud that the Soviet
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  • 124 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) JOHORE BAHRU. Today. A Police escort party and Po.-: and Telegraph men who were travelling in a station waggon on their way to repair telephone lines at Fraser Estate yesterd:revening had a narrow escape when they were attacked by terrorists as they were passing
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  • 205 1 U.P. < PARIS, July JUL— Premier Schuman s Government will stand or fall Monday on its refusal to slash funds for the French Army final line of defence between Germany and the English Channel. Political observers said today that the outcome of the
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  • 155 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Two Chinese warships, the Chungking and the Lingtu recently handed over to China by the British Navy, arrivec in Singapore en route to, Shanghai. On board the Chungking are two Ipoh youths. Messr> Tay Teck Fong and Yap Van Hwa. Their
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  • 54 1 Reuter. PARIS, July 18.—The National Council of the non-Commun-ist Finance Workers' Trade Union tonight unanimously decided to continue the 10-day old strike of 60,000 Treasury employees including Customs officer*: and income tax collectors. The announcement was made after a daylong consideration 01 the situation as affected
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  • 312 1 Reuter. ir i UI 8 Ar ab Legion headquarters •violent n ttiP?! Clally ann uncp tonight that illh at Ucs were ™B m B in Jerusalem after Jewish violations of the cease-fire early this morn. The Arab announcement said: "The Jews in n c rr
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  • 70 1 Reuter. CAPETOWN. July 18.—Th« Executive of the South Africa;. Indian Congress has decide' Metre "in view of the urgent problems facing the coranvi nity" to hold a conference of th. Congress in Durban on Sept. 18 This action was a sequel to the Indian
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  • 183 1 Reuter. Falmouth, July 18. The 1.444-ton Belgian cargo ship viatic in the English "Channel today after a collision vith the 2.«K)5-ton Indian-own-•d. British registered Bharatdiand. The collision which took dace off Ushant. west of the of Brittany, was believed o have been in fog. There have been
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 111 2 Reuter. LONDON. July 18.—The London Observer urged today a man with an intimate knowledge and experience of Malaya should be appointed to succeed the late Sir Edward Gent as High Commissioner in Malaya. It published a despatch mentioning the names of three possible
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  • 36 2 BIDOR, Sunday night. —A British Officer teas killed and a bandit reported to hare been wiped off in an action at Bidor Perak, states an official communique. No further details are availalde.
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  • 62 2 KUAAL LUMPUR, July 18. Rice ration for the public will be in the proportion of 80 pei cent, whole and 20 per cent, broken and the rations Issued to labourers doing heavy work will be in the ratio 50 50, says a Pi ess release issued by
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  • 233 2 Reuter. Ixmdon. July 18.—Britain. now building air liners that will be the best and fastest in the world, may be forced to buy planes abroad to maintain the passenger market. She has started to produce 10-engined turbine powered 80-seater Saun-ders-Roe flying boats. De Havillands are developing an
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  • 221 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A nineteen-year-old Malay youth sustained injuries to the head when he was knocked down by a hit-and-run motorist at Bukit Timah Road yesterday afternoon. The mishap occurred while the boy was riding his bicycle lat the 5i milestone Bukit Timah Road at about 1.30
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  • 65 2 U.P. SYDNEY, July 18.—Prime Minister Chifley Said today that 1 am not at all happy about the terrorist situation in Malaya, but Maltalm Mac Donald believes the position will eventually be controlled." He made the statement here upon his arrival from the United Kingdom via Malaya. At
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  • 94 2 PERAK. KAMPAR AREA: It now officially known that in the Police attack on a Communist cjm-> 3,2 Kampoag Sahum -n -he nion in* of .'uly 17. in which two of the enemy were killed, the following amis weie captured' two ~;i bine.?. three revolvers, five
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  • 281 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) THE CONTROL ON THE EXPORT OF LOCALLY MADE WASHING SOAP WILL BE RELAXED AS FROM NEXT MONTH WHEN THE COMMODITY MAY BE EXPORTED ON A QUOTA SYSTEM TO ANY DESTINATION. The Registrar of Imports and Exports, Mi. A. D. Btutohbury
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  • 104 2 U.P. BLOOMSBURG. Pcnn.. July 18 —A man being htld DV the police here cha with offering $5,000 (U.S.) to have his widowed moihe. strangled in a reported plot to collect her insurance. The accused. Jack Young. 31. former Army Lieutenant of nearby Stillwater, was arrested
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  • 67 2 U.P. WASHINGTON. July 18. The government tried to make it rain last winter and failed The report spread the official wet blanket on farmer's hopes that aviators can produce rain for throughout the whole year bye "soaking", clouds with dry ice. The government said it I
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  • 165 2 Reuter. NEW YORK, July 18. —The New York Times correspondent in New Delhi reported today that Asian Communists were lielleved to have met secretly in Calcutta before unrest grew in Malaya. Burma and Slam. The meeting, said tc have been held five months and behind
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  • 138 2 Reuter. NEW YORK. July 17.—Dr. V. R. Thayumanaswami of Madras Medical College, told the first International Polio- i melltls Conference which closed today that public awareness In India of the problems of infantile paralysis had not been fully de- veloped because the Incidence of the disease
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  • 60 2 U.P. MADRID, July 17.—Miguel Primode Rivera, former Minister of Agriculture and now Mayor of his home town o: Jerez de la Frontera, famed cherry producing centre, left today by plane for London. It has been rumoured here since his recent return from Buenos Aires that he might be
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  • 220 2 New York, July 18.- -A new sulfa drug is being used against infantile paralysis I poliomyelitis) in the Texas epidemic. Medical sources here said a com- j plete evaluation of the drug is impossible at this time but. they disclosed that in at least two
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  • 77 2 U.P. MADRID. July 17. The official Gazette today published (official Franco decrees bestow- ing titles of nobility on at {least tour Spaei families. including the laL Generals Emilo Mola and Prime de Rivera, the late Jose Calvo Sotelo and living Ger.cial Jose Moscardo. The decrees create the Duchy
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  • 45 2 Reuter-AAP. Tokio. July 18. —The Japanese Gover ument may soon completely revise its foreign exchange control law in order to boost private foreign trade transactions, said the Japanese press. Plans arc now being studied by the Finance Ministry and the Economic Stabilisation Board.-Reuter-AAP.
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  • 147 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) A booklet styled M Guide to Japanese Stamps of Malaya, Borneo, and Sarawak," is among the latest achievements of the post-war Singapore Stamp Club. The booklet compiled by interested members ot the Stamp Club gives a detailed account of the large variety
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  • 115 2 London, July 18. Fourteen "trawler-men" have put to .sea to fodk for fish—but they won't bring home a catch. They are research workers from the Marine Biological laboratory. Lowestoft. who have turned fishermen for i fortnight to find out why fish don't live so long now. Fish often
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  • 65 2 Reuter. Shanghai. July 18. The China National Aviation Corporation and the Central Air Transport Corporation today announced the suspension of the Shanghai-Nanking shuttle service due to "tremendous losses" in operation cost which China's two main airlines have been sustaining owing to the high cost ot gasoline. At the
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  • 37 2 (THbsHwi stuff i, An tUux^^Sju j was out riding J*** 4th milestone yeaterdt» off her mount In. r I *i to hospital by motorist ),efore W She received m Ito her race nor
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  • 42 2 U.P. L.VNDOS, j ull Philip Pirntia J thm BriUm «7 <V p M f i<ocfa A t J*J tfoa mi V) Pirstfai hiJ //f ceatpisisee' ffcr Gorermiieiif'i .<,„.,, rerwiow biO wo</?, toonU rep* eace, Nil fern tfc (fee boofca. cp
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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  • 180 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) r A T" E NF W LOOK" HAS COME TO STAY FOR AT YRA RS WAS THE OPINION GIVEN BY MELBOURNE'S LEADING FASHION DRESS DESIGNERS TO THE TRIBUNE YESTERDAY She was Miss M. Findlay, a Company director of "George's", one of Melbourne's
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  • 77 3 U.P. BELGRADE. July 17.—Renter's Co-respondent Pete. Furst has been ordered to leave Yugoslavia by July 20 the Ministry oi interior said today. Hi, Ministry said it had refused to extend Furst's visa which expires on July 20 bftcauses "his reporting in the la.st fe.v months has
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  • 174 3 Reuter. ROME, July 17.--Premier D c Gas peri has announced that anti-strike legislation to strip Communism of its strongest weapon against the Italian government would be introduced in Parliament soon. Meanwhile the general strike in Italy, staged as the result of I the attempting killing
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  • 44 3 TOKfO. July 18. The monthly budget for an average Japanese family of five persons was 7.635 yen in May, according to the latest survey by the Finance Ministry's Wage Bureau. This represents an increase of 711 yen over the previous month.
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  • 55 3 U.P. NANKING. July 18.— The Control Yuan -the nation's highest supervisory agency is scheduled to discuss the polie» regarding the resolution, urg" ing the government to taksteps bringing about an caily convocation of the preliminary Japanese peace conference The resolution signed by over 90 members
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  • 42 3 KUALA KANGSAR. July 18. -Two Chinese were sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment by the District Judge of Kuala Kangsar, Mr. A. M. Webb, for collecting money from houses in an area at Sauk, near Kuala Kangsar.
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  • 91 3 THE WORLD'S FASTEST FIGHTER GROUP. Pilots of the Royal Air Force Fighter Group at Horsham St. Faith Airfield, near Norwich, the fastest fighter group in the worlu, gave a display recently in their new Meteor Mark IV jet planes. These aircraft, which are fitted with the improved jet engines giving
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  • 199 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The heat of Cairo, the lo ig wait at the Customs Station, and the "excitement" of going to Australia, were some reasons given as to how Mrs. C. A Shearer, an immigrant to vustrella arrived in Singapore in a "crippled" condition.
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  • 211 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Protest by local merchant against the 14 to 15 days' delays in examination at Tahdjong Pinang of cargoes ol ship plying between Singapore and Indonesian ports has resulted in the Singapore Overseas Chinese Importers' and Exporters' Association sending petitions to th? Netherlands Consul-General
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  • 104 3 U.P. STORNOWAY (Scotland) July 18. The 47-foot motorboat Astrid, with 29 Estonians j aboard, was scheduled to sail ejrly today for Canada. Captain Herman Vilu. r.iasj cer of the vessel, said that he Arould attempt to cross the At'antic by a northerly route and ATould put
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  • 39 3 Reuter. Paris, July 18. Only 29 deputies attended the French National Assembly's Sunday session today, called to speed up parliamentary business to secure the passage of all outstanding legislation by the summer recess on August B.— Reuter.
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  • 61 3 U.P. WASHINGTON. July 18. The Par feaatern Commission issued a strongly worded denial that It has decided to require Japan to restore fully time by time an equivalent substitution of cultural goods taken from other countries or destroyed by "aggression." The statement by Major General Frahk R. Mccoy,
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  • 799 4 Malaya is not alone in experiencing troubled days. Indeed, Malaya's ordeal, comparatively speaking, has been mild hitherto compared with those experienced by China, Indonesia, Indochina, Burma, India, Central America and the greater part of Europe. What is wrong here? Is it poor wages in the rubber industry, or
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  • 70 4 U.P. BERLIN, July 18.—The three Military Governors of Germany will hold a special meeting here early Monday morning in the offices of the American Governor (General Lucius D. Clay) to discuss the tense Berlin situation. The French Military Governoi (Lieut.-General Pierre Koenig), will arrive in Berlin from the
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  • 1128 4 "WiM. you come home to the farm with me?" "Yes. I'd like to very much." "But arc you sure you can stand it? The villagers have never seen a foreigner before and they speak a dialect you won't understand and they won't understand your Chinese.
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  • 364 4 Snobbery in clubs is a common trait among frequenters of local clubdom. While Asians feel the cold blast of snobbery in European clubs, they cannot get rid of snobbery in their own clubs. In large Chinese clubs there are cliques who keep exclusively to themselves and ignore
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  • 202 4 Reuter. HONG KONG A roof top colony of about 100, dirty wooden "penthouses." h.as sprung up in Wanchai district as a result of Hong- kongs housing shortage, tht China Mail reports. It its recent survey, tht newspaper states that the roofs of three large blocks
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  • 214 4 Clothing the Brigade ol Guards was an expensive >usiness before the War. Tolay it is" infinitely more costly. military tailor recently esimated that tunics for the 80 officers and 1,722 Guardsmen vho would have been on paade cancelled because of the veathcr recently would cost Ktween
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  • 160 4 If Dewey Wins Reuter. WASHINGTON. A favourite pastime of Republicans, anticipating the end of what Governor Thomas Dewey, newly chosen Republican candidate for the Presidential election, has termed the 16 years of famine" Is speculating on the na turc of the administration if the party returns to power in tho
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  • 128 4 Leilas To Tk Uto Sir. Some time to i member remdin. m Z» Singapore Poli,, F toned to use the □n offenders of traffic s who do not observe tv of giving right of waytorol users already in the r l or round-about.s Evidently, this hi ij lax as
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  • 221 4 Sir,—With the letter ft* 'Captain' in my mind may: point out my own expert on applying for of this club. Having only arr;vea b I the UK last September (rtfc out wittingly treading on ar corns to my knowledgt imi months ago ray applicant was sent in, proposed
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  • 370 6 London, July IS. -A wet afternoon in most parts o-En-land caused reduced rations in severul of the county cricke championship games yesterday but there was a good deal o: Interest vi earlier play. The match In which moot progress was made took plucc at Colchester
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  • 72 6 Reuter. MANCHESTER, July 18.— Reg Harris, world amateur sprint cycling champion and British hope for Olympic honours, yesterday broke the 1,000 metres track record at Fallowfield, Manchester, with a time of 76.4 seconds. Harris rode with his left arm bandaged from wrist to elbow following a recent
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  • 83 6 The following will represent the Hospital Youngsters at aoocec against the Singapoie District Signal:: Ist. \'l. on Uieii ground at Fort Canning od Thursday and also against the Gov* rnment Printing Ortict Soccer XI. on Tuesday. July 27. at their ground: K. Jeevarajalfci Mnhmder Singh. Karrown. k. Arumugam,
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  • 37 6 Reuter. OSTAAD. (Switzerland), July j 17.— Narendra Nath of India won his third round match in I the men's singles of the Swiss i lawn tennis championships j today, beating- Christian Boussus (France), 6-3, 6-3.—Reuter.
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  • 408 6 Reuter. LONDON. July 18.— Gus Lesnevich is faced with two stiff battles in defence of his world light-heavyweight championship. In addition to the actual scrap with Freddie Mills, the hard-hitting, barrel-chested British champion, at the White City, London, on July 26. he is grappling with that
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  • 387 6 Reuter. Manchester, July 18—Olympic Games athletes of Great Britain and Eire were in action on the Fallowfield track here yesterday when the joint team from England and Wales won the triangular match against Scotland and Ireland, scoring 101 points to Scotland's 61J and Ireland's 535. As
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  • 95 6 NEW YORK. July 18.—United States Olympic swimming coach Bob Kiphuth has lel't by plane for London with a 33-man water team, confident that the United States would sweep the diving and show great sirongth in the four swimming events. Wally Ris. Keith Carter. Alan Ford and
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  • 614 6 LONDON. July 18. Th? Australians in their last mater, before the fourth Test met a strong Middlesex side <>n Saturday which included P. A. Whitcombe. the six-foot five Oxford Univorsity fast bowler schoolboy lan Bedford, who bowls googlies and Icgbieaks. Teams playing are:
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  • 57 6 LONDON, JIU land s team to nJf ,n fourth Sr W^««4 «ay next July 22 w.ii h ed from jjjj Norman S shire capuin w (Mkldlea*x>. Kenneul Sj? ton (Lancashire! 1,/«^. (v^ksh,,,, (Lancashire), n h„, caaaire) Denis <■ 'f'" Alec Bedaei (Sre Knil Laker (Burrey)
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  • 87 6 The foUowins _m. l been selected to" re*£» Useful bp. i„ a jg"** minton match bird BP at the rif Union hail on rammencing ai 7 pm 2 toglea: K!i ,>,,. Teo Bonn Eng, Rob Md Quei Khai Tons v Doubles: On, Kin Sent m tibdoi Malik, chin
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  • 1022 7 HARNETT HITS 32 FOR CAPTAINS Xf if, i, Barnett, the former A.UScricketer, was seen in ain In Singapore when jresterday for the XI in a mutch ceieDr. W. O. D race's cenilnst the President's match played on the pa won by the Captain's; I i
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  • 239 7 IB** ALLEN LEWIS) THE "HILL" TRACK at Bukit I inah lias been restored to ita prewar shape and will be available tor morning work in the near future. The rails *rt linishied and the grass ha* £io\vn nicely. Work is now being <tone in erecting tabling
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  • 48 7 U.P. «MjUE j u iy 19._ A to p. Czech delegation left u Wt fo r Bucharest to 3 A military alliance with I: ti( m uliiance will ntarthe tight need of kl* eral mutual aid treaties »he Eastern Btoc oer. tj p ifliP
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  • 400 7 (By CELLULOID' Six Clubs are at present tieing for first place in the Singapore table tennis junior interclub championships. The points are inclusive of matches played up to and including Friday night. The Ai Tong Alumni Association A team, in the running for League
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  • 97 7 Reuter. MANCHESTER, July 18.At lln conclusion of the triangular international athletics nW<-fi here on Saturday when Dricr'i Olympic athletes were engi- <i 'Mr. Jack Crump, team nianAgwr of the .British Olympic atheletics team, collapsed and was rushed to hospital. Later it was stated that his condition
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  • 98 7 The following have been selected to represent the Useful B.P. in a friendly badminton match against the Bluebird B.P at tiie Clerical Union hall on Wednesday, starting at 7 p.m. Men's Singles; Khoo Koun, Teo Boon Eng. Robert Yap and Quek Khai Tong. Men's
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  • 59 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 18:—The loading six places in County Cricket Championships tabic up to and including matches vd-ch ended on Fiiaday are: PW L D Glamorgan 16 9 2 ii Derbyshire 16 8 Ii 4 Middlesex 16 8 1 J Yorkshire 14 7 2 B Lancashire 17
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  • 94 7 Reuter. The leading six in English Aral class batting averages ire: Ins. N.O. R Ay. Washbrook 25 4 1.410 67.12 Pearce 23 5 1.151 03.94 lutton 25 3 1.388 63.40 Compton 31 5 1.628 62.61 Crapp 29 6 1.277 55.52 Pawson 16 3 653 50.23 LEADING ROWLERS The
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  • 502 7 Following arc the positions of teams in the S.A.F.A. League up to July 16, 1948. FIRST DIVISION P W D L F A Pts. Rovers 15 12 1 2 36 16 25 R.A.F. (Changi) 16 10 2 4 53 28 22 1 S C F.A.
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  • 81 7 Reuter. Ostaad, (Switzerland), July 18. The Swiss- lawn tennis .th.uupk.ri hips windi J»egan lost Monday weje abandoned today .owing to contiguous ruin WtiaUw-r has interfered with the meeting .since ti>e .start and some events did not reach the stage. iHemklo Weiss (Argentine! referenda Nafh (India* and
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  • 53 7 Victoria School defeated the Merry Youngsters in a- return cricket match yesterday by the narrow margin of 5 runs. Bating first, Victoria School scored 60 (Amin 17, Boon Soon 7 for 21), to which the Merry Youngsters replied with 60 <H. Cardoza 16, Boon Soon 19, Parama
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  • 56 7 The consolation race for Griffins who did not secure a place on the board in their first outing, was won on Saturday Paver Chief ,on left, Mr.*. Manasseh, is seen leading in the winner. Right Unicorn, who scored a double for the meeting by winninft again on Saturday, is seen
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  • 358 7 Singapore's Junior badmin- ton stars yesterday treated spectators to some sparkling badminton when they battled for honours in the Junior Badminton Championships at the Clerical Union hall. Twelve matches were keenly contested. Highlight of yesterday's ties was a gruelling duel in one of the men's
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  • 126 7 Reuter. THE CURRAGH. (Eire). July 18.-The Aga Khan's fitly Mhsaka, winner of the Epsom Oaks this year, completed a double when she won the Irish Oaks, valued at i.2.000 and run over l'j miles here yesterday afternoon. With thij victory by Masaka. the Aga Khan thus
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  • 173 7 Reuter. NEW YORK, Juiy 18. Tho 20th. Century Sportimj Club has diacloscd that it is making every effort to persuade Joe Louts to forgot about K-tiring as heavyweight Champion and to fight Gus Lesnevich for tht tith at the Yankee Stadium <>n Bent. 22. tee
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  • 96 7 In the wres'.ling bouts stagid at the Happy World Stadium on Saturday night, Joginder Singh, the Punjab Tiger, in his first appearance in Singapore, won by a t.k.o. in the fourth round agalnat Leon Lahriola who retired with a big injury. Jagindar Singh won by a k.o. in
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  • 111 7 Reuter. PARIS, July 18. Marcel Boussac's Arbar who.se Ascot: Gold Cup win this year enhanc- j ed an already brilliant reputation is adjudged the best horse in France in the Prix De Lt. Pelouse free handicap, the j weights for which were published yesterday. lie is given
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  • 55 7 The Jollilads'bedt the C.M.P. by two goals to one in a friendly soccer match yesterday at Gilmour Barracks. The C.M.P. scoring through Prouse in the first session, led by one goal at the interval. The resumption saw fast exchanges, two of the Jollilads's raids being fruitful through welldirected
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  • 142 7 NEW YORK, July 18:—Mel Ott has resigned as the manager of the New Yorlt Giants in Ufa National baseball league Uld ha?;'hern succeeded by hlrochcr w>io-e job aa the .answer of tic BVootfyU l>od'jra has been turn, j ov»r to B'wttnr wa; nulled oaf <>f semi-re tire r.i
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  • 72 7 U.P. Inglewood, (California), July 18. A horse that came half way around tho world to race on American turf, the Austra-lian-bred Shannon II seared a surprise length and a-quart< r victory in tho $100,000 Hollywood Gobi Cup yesterday Shannon II raced head-and-haad down thi? stretch
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  • 194 7 Reuter. London. July 18. -Many tenni.; euties bore have complainon since the war ended that one ot the main reasons Britain has dropped behind in international competition is that youth is not given the chance to oevelop which it receives, for instance, in the
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  • 67 7 Reuter. London; July 18. Sidncv Baraev the Australian batsman, who was injured when .leading in the third Test match at Manchester, had some batUog practice in the net's at Loidp yesterday. Wnile his colleagues were bovrthig to Middle v>:. Barnes, in the nursery, practised against icvetal IfOC
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  • 176 8 U.P. KERKYRA. Corfu (Greece), July 13. Alter being carried su'io.-.: the. Ist.'iQd IM (>».fn by relays of runners, the Olympic c' j>i.',- wa n cU *«JOS>u tiM British Naval frigate for transport to Ttaiy. In the final ceremony on Creek territory, the flame
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  • 119 8 Reuter-AAP. BATAVIA. July IS. A plan drawn up by eon-Republican leaflets at Bandoeng to settle the Indonesian dispute will be handed to the Indonesian Republican Government tomorrow and to Hr. Hubertus Van Ifook, the Dutch Lieutenant Governor, The plan, in the form of a resolution passed at a
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  • 97 8 U.P. MOSCOW. July 18. Tnv Stat* Manning Commi.sior in a statenien. icpcting ;n the Soviet Uai ?n*s .conoml z situation in the second quarter of 1943. claimed excellent harvest in prospect, Induscn booming and sales ciimbm Th<_ statement said that while some bianchcs ot industry fell
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  • 280 8 U.P. PARIS. July 18. Michaii Ivanoif. 49-year-old seh?-atyled high priest of "Fraternity of Purity" la under a four year jail sentence today because the Paris court ruled his nude rites were not oui c in the eyes of the law. According to the
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  • 121 8 Reuter. BUCHAREST, July 18. 'Catholic schools in Rumania j will shortly bo taken over by j the state, following the denunciation yesterday by the Rumanian Government of the Concordat with the Vatican, concluded in 1920. The decision to dtnounc the Concordat —an agreemen t between
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  • 178 8 Reuter. PARIS. July 18. Jean Pierre, Wimtlle (France) won a closely; contested race for the Grant! Prix of the Automobile Club De France at Rheims today when he covered the 500 kilometres in three hours one minute seven and a half seconds, an average speed
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  • 234 8 (Tribune Staff Itcporter) The Singapore Malay daily "Utusan Mclayu" in today editorial on the sensational arrest of Inche Ishak bin Haji Muhammad, President of the Malay Nationalist Party. Maiays, urged the Federation Government to consider the "immediate release" of the MNP chief because the
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  • 63 8 In a clean and fast game ot soccer at Gilman Barracks" ground yesterday, the Bounavista XI defeated the Commandanr Royal Engineers by live goals to four. The CRE led by 3-1 in the lirst half. In tiie <-ccond half, the Bounavista played a much improved same
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  • 55 8 U.P. Parit, July 18.—The France .Soir. Paris evening newspaper reported in a copyright article on Satuiday night that the Soviet Government had planned to arrest Marshal Tito end ship him to Russia before tho Com- j imform denunciation was made public, but. Tito had been
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  • 53 8 Reuter. Shanghai. July 18. Mr. C. L. Stillman. head of tho United States aid survey mission here, will personally Yequcst the United States Government to make no reduction in the grants earmarked for reconstruction projects in this country when he visits Wash- ington shortly, according to Chinese semi-officials
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  • 453 8 (By AUjEN LEWIS) The dance, sponsored by the Malayan Jockey's Association in aid of St. Nicholas' Home for Blind Children, Penang, was a success socially and monetarily., A subscription list which was opened stands as follows: Mr. A. C. Smith $60, Tavern Hotc/
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  • 175 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 18 While today has been remembered as the centenary of the birlh of Dr. W. G. Grace, the "Father" of cricket, his grave beneath the white marble memorial cross in Crystal Palace and ctmetary had been almost ignored. But there was one
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  • 82 8 The Social A.P. team to lIH ct Haikowyu S.C. in the third division soccer match tomorrow at McNah Road ground at 5.15 p.m. will be chosen from the following: Anthony Yong. Sim Im Peng Throng Joeng Bong. Phua Boon Leng. Tan Cheng Kiat. Koh Beng Hoo. Scah
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  • 137 8 KUALA LUMPUR. July PJ. Under the caption "Candid talk to members," a circular issued by the GCSA. says "Do not let the appellation clerk applied to you induce in you a sense of inferiority complex. That is the Brat step to defeat. The mere word clerk means
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  • 135 8 U.P. ROME. July 18. Pietro Secchia. acting head of the! Italian Communist Party, today made the first formal implication tha t America is behind the shooting of Togliatti (Palmiro Togliatti. Italy's Communis t leader). In a two-column front page article in the Party newspaper Unita. Secchia
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  • 264 8 i j Kuala Lumpur. July 19. The following tribute Ifl paid to the late Sir Edward Gent in I the latest circular of the GCBA: j "An intellectual of a very I high order during his term of Office first as Governoi Malayan Union and
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  • 358 8 KUALA LUMPUR, July 19. The Malaria Advisory Board held a meeting in the Institute for Medical Research, when I >r J. W. Field of that Institute spoke of his visit to the 4th International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria hci I
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  • 90 8 Reuter. VATICAN CITY. July 18.— No official communication had been received at the Vatican today from the Rumanian Government, but the reported Rumanian denunciation of the Concordat caused no surprise, it was stated in Vatican quarters. It was assumed here that the recent brief visit to
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  • 107 8 Reuter. PRETORIA. July 18. No Government statement ha? yet been made in reply to the Indian Government statement on the dispute with South Africa. I t is understood, however, that the Cabinet will discuss the Indian question generally when it meets next week According to
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  • 55 8 Reuter. LONDON. Jul;. W: V. Radio alleged tod t cd States police in Ir was "one of the bum W responsible for the fW .uation in that ha country". it also aecased "Date* r oerialisni" of "trying vincc world puh ic Of* they may be conipclh
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