Malaya Tribune, 20 July 1948

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  • 59 1 The Malaya Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOE THE PEOPLE Larger Sales than any Afternoon Taper In Malaya Printlnn Simultaneously Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh Penang. Telegrams "Tribune Spore." Telephone: 5811 (9 lines). PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1948 PRICE TEN CENTS The MALAYA TRIBUNE London Agents Messrs. Colin Turner Ltd., Talbot Bouse,
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  • 682 1 Moscow Sends Leningrad Hero To Berlin U.P. WASHINGTON, July 19.—President Truman called Army and diplo matic chiefs to the White House today for a conference believed to concern the Russian blockade of Berlin. Present were Under Secretary of the Army William M. Draper wno has
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  • 53 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Out of six Cninesc arrested under the Emergency Regulations yesterday, four were subsequently released. The total still under detention to date is 93. A comb-out in one of the rural areas of Singapore was made this morning, the result of which will be made
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  • 66 1 U.P. mrt, July 19. French authorities tcdkty traffic in Lake .ir> a of the French hat v as reported to i,, th» largest scale military res In Id lv re, n!,.-' n srs ret urn in from f», reifion said that an esttFrenck strength of 12.000 troops
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  • 165 1 STOP PRESS kl ALA LI PIS, Today Yesterday morning the O.C. of the Malay Regiment detachment based at Kuela Lipis led one platoon of his mm and a party of about ten police northward with the intoattoa of visiting Giia Musang to assess the situaaa\
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  • 126 1 Reuter. TOKIO, July 19.—A leading Japanese Communist and Din member, Kyuchi Tokuda, Ma wounded here today when an assassin threw a aaaapHaaaV hand grenade that FXpiodH at his feet, wounding his meek, left arm and leg. Mr. Tokuda, Secretary General of
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  • 153 1 Reuter. NEW YORK. July 19 Th-e market registered the .sharpest decline in 1948 reflecting a day of acute, nervousness which uro„yht Rail and Industrial averages to the lowest fetMii since early May with the turnover promising to be around the $2,506,000 mark. Renewed selling during Idte
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  • 33 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Shortly after midnight last night, three Chinese ermed with a revolver robbed two men and a woman of $500 in cash and jewellery near the eighth milestone, Bedok.
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  • 58 1 Commander Y. L. Liu, second in command of the Chinese light cruiser, Chungking, which arrived in Singapore yesterday together with the Chinese Navy destroyer, lingfu, received on board the Royal Navy representative, Lt. P. W. Spencer (left), the deputy Chinese Counsul in Singapore Mr. S.S. Liu (right) and the Chinese
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  • 89 1 U.P. PARIS, July 19. General] Charles de Gaulle, war-time resistance leader, today told the National Council of his Union of French People that the moment had come for him to as sume power. "We must take France in hand and lead her." the wartime
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  • 13 1 PARIS, July 19. Fiench Socialist Cabinet Minister resigned tonight.
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  • 177 1 (Tribune Staff Reporter) JOHORE BAHRU, To day.—A Military despatch ridJr was wounded in the leg by terrorist Jhioers about six miles south of Sungei Cha'ah yesterday. Seme dispatcher; widen he earned were removed by the bandits. A Police spokesman said the dispatches stolen were of
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  • 93 1 HAIFA. July 19. La: >cal e fighting continued tolay in nearly all Darts of north Palestine. Defying the cease-tire oroter igTced to ytstrrdaj by the .arabs. Fax:; el Kawakjl trongly attacked with SjnHar.a under his command and prised Jewish p-; sit ion i an th.'
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  • 278 1 Reuter. ROME, July 19.—Thousands of Italian paratroops and infantry with tanks, armoured cars and military spotting planes had tonight almost isolated nearly 400 ex-partisans in the lonely Tuscan hills near Abbadia—but had not yet spotted the main body. The Communist-led insurgents fled to their mountain
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  • 60 1 Reuter. LONDON, July 19.—The Na tional Coal Board announced to night it had made an estimated profit of more than £500.000 or operation of the nationalised coal industry during the first quarter of- this year. The announcement came r few days after the disclosure that the industry
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  • 42 1 Reuter.-AAP SYDNEY, July 19.—Australian Premier Joseph Chifley denied today that his Government had considered proposals for Australia to send men and arms to Malaya. The Australian Cabinet decided some time ago to ban export of arms and war equipment altogether.—Reuter.-AAP
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  • 208 1 (By A Special Correspondent) JOHORE BAHRU, Today.— The Military and the Johore Police are equipped witn the latest and most effective weapons for guerilla warfare »n the present campaign against terrorists. The weapons and arms arrived recently in secrecy The nature of such weapons has
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  • 106 1 U.P. London, July 19. The Daily Express said today that its public opinion poll showed that 52 per cent, of the people were dissatisfied with the Labour Government in the last week of June, 3 per cent, less than in the previous month. It said that
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  • 207 1 (By A Special Correspondent) JOHORE BAHRU, Today.—i Terrorists in Johore are using women as spies and part, of their warning system m their hide-outs. On several occasions the gangsters have managed to elude the Military and the Police upon warnings or shouts given by the women.
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  • 731 2 FATE OF INSPECTOR AND 14 P. C.'s UNKNOWN KELANTAN, Monday night:—Gua Musang Police Station, 50 miles north of Kuala Lipis in the Ulu Kelantan jungle area, was attacked by a force of about 300 Communist terrorists in the early hours of Saturday
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  • 153 2 JOHORE BAHRU. Monday Night.—Thousands of leaflets warning the population of the enforcement of the Emergency Regulations and of handsome rewards for useful and vital information were dropped over isolated areas in Johore yesterday b\ an R.A.F. Dakota plane. Printed in Chinese. Jawi and Indian languages,
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  • 126 2 "To celebrate my last day as U.0.C., you will have Thursday as a holiday*,, Major-Gen. L. H. Cox told cheering students of the Alexander Children's School before the prize-giving ceremony yesterday. The programme to celebrate the event consisted of nursery rhymes from the Junior section and
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  • 179 2 The Information Minister to the Government of India in Malaya, in a press release yesterday, stated that to his knowledge no Muslim women abducted in India have been brought to Singapore by members of the Sikh community. The press release was in connection with an agency
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  • 87 2 The Singapore Coroner, Mr. Choor Singh, returned a verdict of "found drowned" at the conclusion yesterday of the inquiry Into the death of Ng Kirn Keng, a 16-year-old Chinese boy. His body was found floating in the Singapore River (near St. George's Road, on the morning of July
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  • 57 2 KUALA LUMPUR, July 1». —Estate and mine managers who have the services of Special Constables are requested to contact the O.C.P.D. of their district who will suply them with payrolls and other instructions regarding payment. This Ur to- avoid delay in the payment of salaries to
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  • 143 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Should you have any information to impart to the Singapore Police, don't hold it back—give it! Mr. E. V. Fowler, C.I.D. Chief, told the Tribune yesterday that he had been informed that there were a number of people who were afraid to give information
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  • 155 2 The Bible lectures conducted by Pastor H. W. Peterson of the Seventh-day Adventist church at the V.M.C.A. auditorium in Orchard Road each Sunday and Wednesday night, are continuing to draw interested audiences. Sunday night's lecture, entitled "The Way of Christ in 1948" was well received. A large
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  • 93 2 The annual feast of St. Anne will be celebrated: by Roman Catholic pilgrims from Malaya, the N.E.I, and French Indo-China at the Church of St. Anne in Bukit Mertajam in August. Tie railway authorities have co-operated by arranging facilities for pilgrim from Siam and Penang.
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  • 59 2 (From Our Own Reporter) SEREMBAN, July 19.—The cultivators of Negri Sembilan have used "blachan" with a certain amount of success against pests that damaged the offseason crop at Batin, says the State Agriculture Officer's report for the month of June. The blachan was used as bait, and, when
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  • 41 2 Sergeant Mohamed bin Hassan (5013). of the Special Constabulary Headquarters writes to say that he is not the person said to have been referred to in a recent robbery case as reported in the Sunday Tribune of July 18.
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  • 171 2 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Javanese gunman who escaped after being wounded last Thursday night during a gun-duel at Karanji with a party of Police led by Mr. Cooper, A.S.P., was captured last Saturday afternoon. The wanted Javanese was found by the Police in a kampong
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  • 128 2 Chua See Hock, a Chinese, yesterday were committed to the next Assizes by Mr. R.J.c. Wait, Fourth Police Court Magistrate, on a charge of armed robbery. The prosecution alleged that on April 19, at 7.45 p.m. a European couple. Mr. T. G. Proctor and Miss Joyce L.
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  • 421 3 i». i .(Tribune Staff Reporter) Pulau Brani villagers are be trained an and to he formed into fire fighting units to protect their 400 houses on the island from any fire risks and damage. Mr. H. J. C. Kulasingha, Chairman of the Pasir Panjang
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  • 62 3 Applications fo r the import of self-raising flour from Australia will now be received by the Registrar of Imports and Exports, Singapore. Applications should be forwarded to the Registrar and should be accompanied by information concerning previous imports, if any, during prewar years. Should applications exceed
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  • 111 3 have murdered bosun of the s.s. ombe two days left Bangkok c, Ten Ting Kong 86 Wallich Street, appeared on a tentaof murder before Magistrate, Mr. arrived in Singaily 16. and the foi- Teo was alleged to ,t confession before I rBS£I3t r <*l» j illeged
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  • 139 3 (Tribune Stufi Reporter) BNTY-ONE CHINESE. AGAINST WHOM ORDERS OF BANISHMENT HAVE BEEN ISSUED. WERE SHIPPED THE COLONY ON JULY 18. ACCORDING TO PRESS RELEASE FROM THE SINGAPORE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT Tii«; banishces, were: Tan Han, Lio Ah Liong, Loh A.\ Watt, Chang Kirn Seng, 'hew. Lee
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  • 74 3 .Voordin bin Mohamed I braid a Malay of no fixed abode, who commenced a 8-month prison sentence on 'v.v ii W as charged yesterday rig money belonging to two warders. N Pflin who appeared beth Police Magistrate. W. P. Rule, admitted M! Wt longing to Warder
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  • 533 3 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Special shore leave was granted to a group of Chinese Navy petty officers and sailors from Malaya yesterday when the Chinese Government warships, Chungking and Lingfu, arrived in Singapore from the United Kingdom en route to Shanghai. Guns from Blakan Mati
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  • 182 3 Two Javanese. Mustangin bin Mohamed (20) of No. 317 Henderson Road and Daromi bin Atmo (20) of No. 20 Geylang Serai, were committed for trial on charges of carrying arms at the conclusion of a preliminary inquiry before the Seventh Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears,
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  • 237 3 The Singapore Court ol Criminal Appeal began a .session in thc High Court yesterday, the acting Chief Justice. Mr. Gordon-Smith, presiding. Thc court, comprising thc acting Chief Justice, Mi. Justice Jobling and Mr. Justice Thorogood. first disposed ol appeals from thc decisions of Mr. Justice
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  • 45 3 (From Our Own Reporter) KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. -It is officially annouiuel this morniny by the office of the Commissioner of Labour, Federation of Malaya, that there is no strike in the < ountry at present. This represents a record since the liberation.
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  • 452 3 (Tribune Woman Reporter) Remembering th< motto of I the Y.W.C.A. 'In Lore Serve I One Another, etc are it* ving to form a real friendship, said I Mrs. N. M. Barnwell, President of the International Fortnightly 1 Club, as she addressed those present at the
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  • 659 4 The other day "housebreakers" were again in action in Narcis Street, a short thoroughfare off T. anjong Pagar Road which for many years has been used as an open air market but never been officially approved as such, though we recollect seeing one licensed stall in that
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  • 167 4 Reuter. VIENNA The Communist Party of Austria had decided strongly to oppose the creation of an Austrian army fixed under the Peac e Treaty draft at 38,000 men—on the irounds of economy. The Austrian Assist ant-Mi-nister for interior. State-sec-retary Graf, declares tha t this
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  • 946 4  -  by Dr. George Gretton Speaking in the Commons on Vmerican aid to Europe, Bri.ain's Chancellor of the Exchejuer, Sir Stafford Cripps, dedarcd that Britain must coninue all-out efforts to produce til she can. It is almost a rulsm that the great British iroduction drive depends
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  • 208 4 Reuter. LONDON. Britain is today making more and more use of 'boy builders" to help provide much needed houses. Young apprentice builders between 16 and 17 years old have built or are building 1,900 houses at 217 sites throughout the country under a Government scheme. Over
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  • 230 4 Reuter. OSTEND. BELGIUM—This third peacetime summer is proving a disastrous season for the Belgian tourist trade. Today, this war-battered seaside resort, once a prosperous international playground for rich and not so rich alike, is threatened with financial as well as physical ruin. Belgian hoteliers and
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  • 271 4 Holidays blighted by an attack of the measles often constitute one of the bitterest memories left over from school 1 days, but it is an occurrence which was courted recently by a group of young women students of the Melbourne University. Armed with such defence against
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  • 302 4 To many people the slug ha-" no appeal at all. But there an slugs AND slugs. To the Chinese epicure the slug, or at least one kind of slug, is a de lectable delicacy. This is the beche-de-mer, a strange occupant of the warm seas,
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  • 352 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The gross revenue netted by the Singapore Harbour Board for the 15 months ended June 30, 1947, was $27,914,867. The inward and outward cargo handled during that period amounted to 2,974,216 tons, excluding coal and fuel oil, states the report
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  • 359 6 Th t following new books will be added to Raffles Library within the next few days:— Bartholomew (John >—The Survey Gazetteei of th e British Isles (Reference*. Bowen < Elizabeth >—English Novelists. Bell (J.H.B/> others—British Hills and Mountains. Bradley (Dr. Neville)—Thi' Old Burma Road. Cochran (Charles
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  • 66 6 Reuter. PRAGUE, July 19. General Udvik Svoboda. Czechoslovak Defence Minister, said by reports from Frankfurt yesterday to have "escaped from Czechoslovakia", spent the weekend quietly at Marienbad. it was stated here today. An official statement on Saturday said terrorists, "organised with the knowledge and support of the
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  • 125 6 Reuter. j ROME. July 19: -Italian troops, searching for the mur- derers of a policeman killed in j last week's Togliattl riots, to- day used tanks and guns to blast their way through roadblocks towards a partisan stronghold in the lonely Tuscan hills, near Abbadia.
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  • 91 6 Reuter. London. July 19. The 2.905--ton Indian-owned. British-regis-tered ship. Bhar.tkhand. which yesterday collided with and sank the 1.414-ton Belgian ship. Marie, ofl the coast of Uritany, j was today making for the for- I nish port of Falmouth. esejOTted j hy tug. She wail leaking In j the
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  • 213 6 Johannes Bondc (19), a Danish sailor of the m.s. Lalandia, who was alleged to have threatened a trishaw rider with a toy revolver, appeared before the Seventh Magistrate. Mr. A.G. Shears, yesterday, on a tentative charge of making use of an immitation firearm in order to commit criminal
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  • 35 6 The public is again warned that there are forged 10--cent notes bearing the date 'Ist July 1941" in circulation. These forged 10-ccnt notes portray a very crude reproduction of His Majesty's effigy.
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  • 325 6 Scwa Singh (28). a clean shaven lanky Punjabi of No. 173-H. Short Street, who appeared before the Seventh Magistrate. Mr. A. G. Shears, yesterday on a tentative charge of theft of a motorcar, through Mr. Saidee. the Court's Malay iuterpieter. admitted that he; could
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  • 342 6 The sequel to a housebreaking incident at one of the Singapore Harbour Board godowns on the night of April 28, 1947, when a number of Chinese and Indians were trapped as they broke into godown No. 17 was recalled at the Court of Criminal Appeal
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  • 209 6 (Tribune Staff Reporter) The Fund and Property of the Immigration Committee of Singapore and the Federation, worth more than $7 millions, is understood to be lying idle, since the immigration of labour from India ceased after an embargo was placed on the emigration of labour by the
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  • 77 6 ixm.lon. July 1!,. Knu not recognise the ,j.. ht Palestine Jewish eSS I British subject th, I Secretary foi Pairign v Mi. Chrtstoph. M, r> the House of <;> mmu when comnu ntin- 0 n mcnt by the Jewish «L? torce. Haganah, that tn i tons kidnapped
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  • 87 6 Tne UotattUSSioaei .(J Mr. Malcolm KacDoatld be the nrinefpa! speaha 1 1 meeting at the Vfctoria M rial Hall at "».r> p.m n at which support nil] be a ed for the People's Banal* Association The purpose of the km tion is to organise extent lectures and.
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  • 69 6 A Cantonese. Ng Siang Pang, appeared before the Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of attempted suicide by drinking a solution of poison. Th t accused i n his defence stated that the solution was handed to him by his friend as a sleeping dose. He did
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  • 425 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 19.—Jim Laker, Surrey's allrounaer celebrated his choice as one of England's i Jf° T tt v f0 rth Test a^ains t Australia by almost getting his nrst century in big cricket against Kent at the Oval. He had the misfortune
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  • 68 7 Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, July 19.—Forecasts that the Japanese Premier. Hitoshi Ashida's coalition Cabinet would be out of office within two months have been strengthened by a statement by ex-Premier Tetsu Katayama that he thought it time his Social Democrat Parry withdrew its support of the Government. The ex-Premier said
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  • 73 7 BRITISH CAR WINS CLASSIC ROAD RACE.-A 16- horse-power Healey saloon car driven by Count "Johnny" Lurani with Serafini as his co-driver, passing at Brescin the finishing line of the Mille Miglia—Italy's classic 1100mile race. The British Healey car, built in the back streets of Warwick, defeated over 50 of the
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  • 128 7 By ALL AS LEWIS) HIGHLY recently imported to aya baa been purchased i' Tong Thutt Kongsfe" fjui Golden News has been set! of by "Neil Kongand will do her further for "C.K. Stables." horses have been taken i y Major A. M. Heddle. jyj) ji \RPER,
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  • 426 7 AUSTRALIA'S fast bowlers, Ray Lindwall and Bill Johnston, played early havoc with Middlesex batsmen when the champions batted a second fime in their match against the visitors. retired hurt when struck in tinface in trying to avoid a bumper from Lindwall and while he was receiving
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  • 94 7 The Raffles Institution badminton team defeated the Singapore District Signals Regiment by 4 games to 1 in a j friendly match played on Sa- turday. Results were (Raffles players mentioned first): Singles: .am Kirn Swee beat William Yap 15-3. 9-15. 15-0; Wee SUM Ghan beat Peter
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  • 127 7 i" i rrtendfly match played Sunday.*the Merridal B.P. r r Ht tho Endeavour B.P. by 51 to 3. Results were (Mcrridale pay.! mentioned first): BthSJs: Arthur M. Jansen beat David Tan 15-10. 15-7; Lee fetl •aw beat Quek Kong Kiat i 1 15-11, 15-8; Tan Scr **S 'fat
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  • 39 7 SHELL S.C. ANNUAL S OCCER MATCH The Shell sports ciut> AnJ"* 1 Soccer Match between ■j K'iropeans and the Rest "!> Played on Wednesday, rin, Sin eapore Recreation I 0" r "un d a t 5.15 p.m. Mr. will referee.
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  • 304 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 19. India will v»nk as a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference foi 'wo years, irrespective of the change brought about by the icw status of India, it was announced today at a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference at Lords. At
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  • 116 7 Reuter. LONDON, July ID:- A Foreign Office spokesman today denied all knowledge of a reported plan for King George VI and President Harry Truman to make a jinnt approach ttt Generalissimo Joseph Stalin over the, Berlin crisis. He stated categorically that no such intention ivas
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  • 28 7 Consulate officials went on board the Chinese cruiser, Chungking, yesterday to greet the arrival of Rmaapore fciiV* trfcic* arnivrf frnw f/ic PMtad Kingdom yesterday Tribune picture shou* memhr,
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  • 173 7 Post-Mortem On Yesterday's Game ALTHOUGH they were disappointing in some of their earlier games, Chinese Athletes gave a grand display to beat the Changi Airmen yesterday. teams missed quite a number of chances, but on the run of play, C.A just deserved the points. IT WAS mm important match
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  • 624 7 C.A. I; R.A.F. (Changi) 3. The Chinese Athletes beat R.A.F. (Changi) by the odd goal ir. seven in art important Div. I League match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Second in the tables with 22 i points from 16 matches before they took the field,
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  • 182 7 Trie followig will represent I Mr.nsficld Sports Club in th< I games noted below: SOrCEIt: against S.C.C 'W on Wednesday, at S.C.C. Yeo Kin Poh (Capt), Tan Kirn Kee, Bsahati, Tan Wee Hock, j Tan Siew Eng. Khoo Ah Hin. O. Hargreaveh, Lck Gek Lee, Qhoag Liant Sit.
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  • 128 7 Reuter. 1 RANGOON, July 19.—Offices. shops, and ent< rtainments; wer t closed throughout Bur-; ma today us the country ob- served v day of national mourning on the first atinivei sary of the assassination of j Premier Aung Jb'an and six Cabinet colkagues. In Rangoon.
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  • 441 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 19.—Today was rod letter day for visiting Olympic athlete*, especially those from the Far Fast, because, for the first time since their arrival it was warm and sunny. Ask any athlete notably from India and the Wesl Indies if he has any
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  • 168 7 Alleged to have harboured a Malay who. it was said, was wounded in a gun battle between a party of police and aiTncd robbers In Kranji. Yap Mok Chong (24) of Merseilling Road appeared yesterday on a tentative charge before the Seventh Magistrate, Mr. A. G. Shears A.S.P.
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  • 122 7 IPOH. Mondaj -i'wo had iccidents were repotted during "he week-end in Ipoh. On Saturday afternoon, a area year-oM ChAiese girl, vandered on to the nil way line, ncai Gunoog Che roll; and was knocked down by tli« passm<r ip*»h-i*<-nHtig train. Thodgh rCMOVed t<» hospital umttadtatety, th«
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  • 155 7 Reuter. LONDON, July 19. Sir Arthur Elgin, Chairman and Managing Director of Wembley Stadium where the Olympic Games will be played, stated today that there seemd little possibility of the Games showing a loss. Sir Arthur explained it had been a great disappointment Jiat at the
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  • 43 7 A motor-cycle speed cop, who told the Penang District Judge (Mr. M. R. Fletcher Rogers) that he had to do 45 m.p.h. to overtake anothe: .notor-cycle. found that the latter machine could not Io moie than 30 m.p.h. when tl was tested yesterday.
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  • 599 8 PROTEST TO OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Reuter. RICHMOND PARK, Olympic Village, July 19.—Indian Olympic officials have protested stro tiglj to the Olympic Organising Committee against the plan to move the In fr- 1 am away from this camp and into an empty school In the northwest
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  • 103 8 U.P. LOS ANGELES, July Ij. Police believe tiny have broken up tin. Los Angeles terminus oi a huge International djruga smuggling ring following tiie arrest of four persons today. Officers said they weie memo* rs o] the same ring which n-cently lost $10 million worth ol
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  • 56 8 The Republican Labour strike at Delangu ended yesterday, when the various labour unions issued instructions to their members to resume work as of 7 a.m. yesterday Th< solution to the dispute was reached at Friday's meeting at between the parties cone rned Vice-President Mohd. Hutta was present
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  • 81 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. July 19. Representative Arthur Klein today asked the State Department to investigate charges tha t some cf its foreign service officers were swaytd by "racial and religious prejudices". Klein wrote to Secretary of State George C. Marshal] prototing against alleged antiSemitic and anti-Negro statements
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  • 115 8 U.P. MANILA, July 19.—Bernardo Anzures, 21-year-old movie actor, today pleaded guilty to charges of murdering beautiful screen and radio star Lilian Velez and her maid Pacita on June 27. The defence counsel tried unsuccessfully to have the arraignment postponed on grounds the government
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  • 47 8 (Indonsia News Agency). Aneta reports that Dr. van Mook has decided to extend the proclamation of a state of emergency over Dutch-oc-cupied territories from the period of 2 years to 3 years. The decision was made on July 9.—(lndonf sia News Agency).
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  • 24 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. July 19. Czechoslovakia's most senior Army general, Antonin Bohumil Hasal. has fled to the American occupation zone of Germany.—Reuter.
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  • 36 8 U.P. SHOREHAM. England July 19.—Mr W. J. Bishop said today that the chief differer.ee in his work since he started as a nurseryman just half-a-century ago. is that the ton.utoes have losi their U.P.
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  • 186 8 U.P. London, Jul i) 19. Arrivals <'t the Oigmpii camp at Richmond Park were quickhi brought face to face v ith Britain's austerity and r«l--tioning. Moat squads have little or no complaint regarding th< quantity or quality of their meals. But individual competitors are usually ir
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  • 84 8 Reuter. LONDON. July 19. The House of Commons tonight passed the British NationaliU Bill which provides for the establishmen t of a common citizenship for the people of the United Kingdom and the colonies. It will now go back to the House of Lords for reconsideration. The
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  • 82 8 U.P. NEW YORK. July 19. Rubber futures closed 39 to 57 higher on the strength of higher cables from the primary markets, with sales of 53 contracts. Spot was 24 7 s. Closing prices: July 23.00 bid, August 22.97 nominal. September 22.95 bid. October 22 7 nominal. November
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  • 451 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Recruitment of Local Enlisted Personnel commenced again this month at the recruitment centre at Fort Canning. Maj. F. M. Moore. Recruiting Officer, Singapore District, told the Tribune yesterday, "Vacancies exist in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and we are
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  • 446 8 (Tribune Staff Reporter) Nine technical assistants with the local Survey Department, who are discontented with the recommendations of the Special Committees on revised salaries, are seeking an interview with Mr. C. C. Tan, Singapore Councillor, and one of the members representing the Council on the Committee.
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  • 58 8 A group of Malayan Chinese, now members of the crew of the Chinese Navy era ser, Chungking, which arrived in Singapore yesterday, taken on hoard ship before going on special shore leave. Mr. Yeh Van Hwa, son of an Ipoh me rchant and a former student of the Singapore College
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  • 62 8 INTERNATIONAL ALTITUDE TUDE RECORD FOR BRITAIN. The international attitude record for aeroplanes was recently broken by Mr. John Cunningham, D.S.O. D.F.C., Chief Test Pilot of th. De Havilland Aircraft Co. in a Vampire Fighter. The height attained was feet (about miles) the precious record of 56.015 feet was set up
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  • 112 8 The Serangoon Lads LP. beat the Flower B.P. in a return badminton match by si>: games to one on Sunday at the latter's court. Results: (Serangoon Lads mentioned first). SINGLES: Chua Kee Meng beat D. Sullivan 15-10. 15-7; Seah Kirn Teek beat Kheng Khai Em
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  • 36 8 U.P. PRAGUE. July 19.—United States military authorities today denied Czech charges thai the American C.I C. had sent 'spies and assassins" int Czechoslovakia, and demand ed an apology and a retrar tion.— UP.
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  • 25 8 U.P. ALLAHABAD, via Bombay. July 19.—Approximately 120 persons were relieved drowned today when a boat carrying 202 capsized in mid-stream in River Ganges.—U.P.
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  • 173 8 U.P. NEW YORK, July 19.— Rear Admiral Ellis Zacharias, retired, said in a broadcast programme last nigrht that a Navy vessel carrying an atomic bomb disappeared in the Pacific during the War. He said: "ln 1945, we dropped two atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima
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  • 229 8 Reuter. The two outstanding griffins of the recent Singapore meeting. Gtand Day and Mascotte. have been put in Class Two. recording to the latest SRA .•lassihcatioi Hst. Fortune.; Favourite, Singapore Cup runner, has been relegated to Class Two. The following is the list: TRANSFERS
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  • 116 8 Y outh forum in U.K. Reuter. create Interoaun* att warn 2:> f'-om many Ay here to UkTr l: v 2 forum. a y(Hh T he visitors a 16 ctnd v.,. wil| J tomes, a iU?nd Bfl t,- 22 f British i..- possible to -ivr I ay «i their Dioe-week S
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  • 60 8 U.P. SHANGHAI. Julf I Chines, report fa t J today said a Manila Sia Lin Li. has tx en KtmU by Amoy authorities <m dan. es of attempting to mmm\ several gun, Into China the steamer Tjisadane The report said trpolice searched the daj:: almost
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  • 56 8 Reuter. FALMOUTH <Cur: July 19. The 2.905-t r.: dian-qwn<d British iq ed ship Bharatkhanc. ifcjdi yesterday collided I sank the 1,444-toe ISjJH ship Marie off the Britanny, arrived ben escorted by the Dal Zwartee Zee. a{: through thick I i forward. The Bharatkhand board the Ifai
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  • 27 8 Mr. Ma s:m«i aua\ at 1*» |«|—IL L, T. Kiiraii at If* I!» 7 IK. Tmr rorteg* the resMrnrr h* ■J*** v meterv at IJf I»
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