Malaya Tribune, 2 November 1949

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  • 57 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tafc Tribune" S'pom LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER /A/ Phone 3811/3 hune Ikm Fab tutted tnnmltQiicvM*iy <*( <S» nyapore, Kxuxia Lumpur, Ipoh a nd Penang. 1 TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER f, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE Malaya Tribune
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  • 96 1 ihe first Pan-American 1 Airways Clipper aircraft !to laud in Singapore on regu-'ar weekly schedule between Manila and the Colony since, the end of Ime war, arrived at Kalians: at 7.15 a.m. today. She was the Clipper I Sleepperefte Skymaster, i Ocean Rover. Inspection by the pubUc will
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  • 210 1 Tribune Staff Reporter ANEW high in the production of tin and gold in Malaya was recorded during the third quarter of the year July to September according to the Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics issued by the Mines ripnartjnent. The total production of tinore for
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  • 126 1 Reuter and A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues. Fifty-five people were killed today when a Skymaster airliner coming in to land from New York came into co'lision with a Bolivian P3B fighter plane in midair near the national airport here. Twenty-five bodies were removed from the airliner by
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  • 69 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—The White Hou3;? announced today that President Truman is appointing Vice Admiral Sherman as the Chief of US Naval Operations. Sherman will succeed Admiral Denfield who was removed ftom the post by the President last week as an aftermath of the dispute
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  • 86 1 Tribune Staff Reporter A classical concert of piano and vocal items, mostly from Handel and Schubert, was given at the British Council hall last night in aid of the St. Andrew's Cathedral Fund. Thirteen year-old Miss Cheung Mun Chit was perhaps the most promising
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  • 90 1 A.P. HONG KONG, Tues. The British HMS Belfast reported today she was taking aboard 450 of the 710 Chinese Nationalist soldiers shipwrecked on Prata island. 200 miles southeast of Hong Kong. The cruiser was removing starving soldiers still on the wreckage of Cheung Hsin,
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  • 28 1 Reuter. TOKYO, Tues. —Eleven ships of a Japanese whaling fleet left Tokyo Bay this morning to a warm send-off by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. —Reuter.
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  • 446 1 Red Tape May Make Housewife Bitter Tribune Staff Reporter JHE price of sugar in Singapore will be cut by four cents a karti on Thursday next week. This was announced by the Government this morning, but before this cut can
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  • 96 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons today that Health Minister Anuerln Bevan's bitterly criticised speech predicting "further redistribution of wealth" was not the official government policy. Bevan. whose speech was openly attacked by Conservative leader Winston Churchill, reportedly
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  • 207 1 A.P. and U.P. CAPETOWN, Tuesday.—Police in battle formation armed with revolvers, riflec; and a stengun moved into the Munseiville native location two miles norch of Krugersdorp tonight, firing .oiiey after volley when striking mncano Kep w up riotf which broke out this morning. The
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  • 26 1 A.P. ROME, Tues.—A stubborn seven hour fire wrecked one of Rome's main electric power stations today threatening new problems for current fatigued citizens. A.P.
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  • 18 1 A.P. BELGRADE, Tues—Kamal Kepaili, the new Turkish ambassador to Belgrade, arrived here by train today. A.P.
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  • 37 1 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues. An explosion damaged the eighthfloor of the main Post Office building in Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, today. Three firemen were overcome by smoke and three civilians suffered minor injuries. —A.P.
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  • 226 1 Reuter. Serowe, Bechuanaland, Tues. —Police armed with tear gas patrolled Serowe, capital of the Bamangwato tribe today, when a British commission opened an enquiry into whether Seretse Khama, chief designate, should rule the tribe after his marriage to Ruth Williams, a London typist. The commission heard
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  • 641 1 By LAWRENCE G. MANI MALAYA will soon have to pay more for her wheat flour more for her 'ma-mee,' bread, biscuits and cakes, because the flour import trade will be returned to private firms in about three months and shipments through the British Ministry
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  • 108 1 Reuter. SYDNEY, Tues. —Fi'ipinos demonstrated against Australians who visited Manila during a cruise to the Far East, the Sydney morning newspaper Daily Telegraph reported today. Australian passengers who returned to Sydney yesterday on the liner Taiping from their 42-day cruise, said Filipinos on Manila wharf
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  • 85 1 l ive special constables, and three Chinese were killed off the. main Menchis Road (Fahang) yesterday, when bandlta ambushed a three-ton lorry they were travelling in. The party were returning from Menchis to the Chong Heng Mine with a party of Chinese
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  • 103 1 Reuter. HONGKONG, Tuea. Nationalist bombers today raidel Shanghai, destroying river, harbour and airport installations and badly damaging several ships, the official Central News Agency claimed. Three days ago Nationalist planes attacked shipping, ware houses and wharves in the Communist-occupied port of Foochow in Fukien province, the
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  • 160 2 MALAYAN students in England especially 1W scholarship holders—are finding it difficult/ to finish their studies because they lack the funds. So some have taken to working on farms and in offices during the summer holidays. This is disclosed by the London correspondent
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  • 70 2 ABOVE: M J. P. Jequeier, Swiss diplomat, chats with M. G. A. Falquier, the Swiss ViceConsul in Singapore. The pretty girl with them is Mile. Brungger who said. "We're just passing through." BELOW: Sir Musulman Farrokh, the Iran Ambassador to China, who will continue on his
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  • 62 2 Tee Branch of UMNO, at its recent meeting in Ipoh, approved the establishment of an "Onn Fund," created for President Dato Onn's personal use. The Fund, will be raised on a voluntary basis. The meeting plclged iU ful! support and complete confidence in Dftio Onn to
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  • 30 2 MALACCA. Tues. —A sum of $4,718.57 was collected in Alor Gajah district during University Week made up as follows: penghulus' collections and donations from individuals, $4,235.57: estates $483.
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  • 119 2 f HAIRMAN of George Wimpey and Company, Sir Godfrey Mitchell and Mr. F. G. Hudson, senior director, arrived in Singapore from London by Constellation yesterday on a 25-day inspection tour of the Company's contract work in the Far East. This morning they will fly
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  • 101 2 Leo Shin Fatt, a member of St. John's Ambulance Brigade, pleaded guilty in the First District Court, yesterday, to failing to obtain an identity card. Leo Went to the Central Police Station on Oct. 31, and reported that he had never got an
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  • 53 2 The Singapore Muslim Education Board, a subsidiary body of the All-Malaya Muslim Missionary Society, Singapore, will meet on Nov. 4 at the Society's clubhouse in Geylang Road, to discuss plans for the spread of Islamic education in the Colony. Religious-school teachers have been invited to
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  • 29 2 Mr. Gordon van Hien will speak at the East-West meeting British Council Hall, on Thursday at 8.30 p.m. on Music and Singing. The public are welcome.
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  • 152 2 MOHAMMED BIN SIDIN, Chief Inspector of the Singapore Police Force, appeared before the First District Judge yesterday on a charge of corruptly accepting a total of $262 on four occasions as an inducement not to take appropriate action against unlicensed hawkers. C. I. Sidin pleaded not
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  • 29 2 The Governor has appointor] Mr. Wee Chong Hin as a temporary member of the Emergency Advisory Committee during the absence on leave of Mr. T. W. Ong.
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  • 32 2 A special general meeting ♦f the Gout Yew Sia wtk be held at the Club House on Monday. Nov. 7. 1949 to discuss the date of the 17th anniversary celebrations.
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  • 98 2 A charge of misappropriating $5,000 was preferred against Qua Keng Lian 23. a bill collector, when he was produced in the Second Police Magistrate's court, yesterday. On the morning of Oct. 27, the cashier of Chop Teck Guan, North Bridge Road, handed Qua $6,000 to
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  • 37 2 The Governor has approved the promotion of Surgeon Lieut. (D) Joseph Shearman, of the Malayan R. N. V. R. to the rank of Surg. Lieut. Commander. Lieut. Peter Howard Burgess has been promoted Lieut. Commander.
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  • 144 2 Pretty Ponnamah, 17, orphan in the State Welfare Home at the 3rd. mile Scudai Road, Johore Bharn. always wished for a grand wedding. And last week heT dream came true when she was married to Suppiah, 32. an attendant in the Civil Hospital at Scudai Road.
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  • 85 2 ABOVE: Mr. David Rees-Williams, Under Secretaryj 'of State for the Colonies, who arrived in Singapore on J Monday night by an R. A. F. Dakota from Hongkong He was met by representatives of the CommissionerGeneral and the Governor of Singapore. BELOW: Sir Ralph and Lady Stevenson
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  • 365 2 ELIZABETH Hong told the Second Police Magistrate yesterday how her husband, Ho Loo Thiam, a China Olympic swimmer, beat her for two and a half hours in their flat. She said that on July 7 at 7.30 p.m. her husband came
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  • 139 2 THE Singapore Teachers' Union are planning a Singapore Drama Festival in February or March next year. The festival might be held in the Victoria Memorial Hall, if it is available. Schools and youth organisations are being invited to send in teams. Teams will be
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  • 39 2 On thf eve of his departure to dance in Europe, Raden Mas Oetomo will broadcast from Radio Malaya, tonight at 10 o'clock on Indonesian Dancing. His description of the various dances will be accompanied by Gamelan music.
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  • 85 2 Lt. General John Harding, C-in-C, Far East, yesterday opened the newly-built Sands Soldiers' Home in Poilsdown Road. Several Service officers and members of Christian groups were present. The C-in-C praised the efforts of the workers and said that he has seen several Sands' Home in India. Miss
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  • 18 2 i Governor has appointed Che Abdul Rahman bin Haron to be a Kathi for Christmas Island.
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  • 56 2 Malaya contribute 253.48 to the Poppy Pay F*na in 1948. the Ex-Seivice As sociation of Singapore vea'ed to the Tribune The Association is a PP," d ing to all ex-service men an women in Singapoie to t> the association MPfUJsy With the annual subscript** reduced from $12
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  • 597 3 THE claim by the Sultan of Johore of immunity from the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Colony of Singapore was not accepted by the Full Court of Appeal, yesterday, when their lordships the Chief Justice (Mr. 'MurrayAynsley), Sir Harold Whan, Chief'
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  • 312 3 fHE Kuala Lumpur, Malay daily. Majlis, yester- day hailed Dato Tan Cheng Lock's statement on the Malayan Chinese Association's plan to'teach the Chinese romanised Malay as a move to strengthen the bonds of Sino-Malay comradeship. Truj ctop. the paper said, was
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  • 127 3 A Singapore man busy compiling a RUU* m; •-•ating to the United Natw ns Tonferene uwit'y held here. He is Mr. S. d AlfnM who has >3eefl rc-\oon ii:>!e for similar ms b-th m Malaya md ir. Ceyl > I hi ins the war yeai 3.
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  • 124 3 THE odd two cents in the price of petrol caused the garage-men a headache this morning -and a rush on the banks for popper cons. Some pump attendants thought that they might benefit by impatient motorists refusing the odd cents change caused by the
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  • 15 3 Three Vehicles a untitled lorry, a Morris and a small van were untitled in an
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  • 49 3 9EGAMAT, Tues. A Police Jungle squad recovered one Mark 111 Vlckers machine-gun and one Mark I anti-tank ride with nine magazines from a river in the Paya Lebar area yesteraay. A Special Constable was killed in a'bandit attack on Wellesley Estate in the Province Wellesley area
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  • 183 3 D.A.F. squadrons based at Kualf Lumpur have set up record figures in operations carried out in support of the security forces during October—a month of "all-out effort." Hero ard some figures released in an R.A.F. communique last night: Number 48 Squadron has fiown 196
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  • 235 3 THE Belaga was a Noahs Ark yesterday when she docked in at Singapore. 1 On board were the menagerie and artistes of the Kamala Circus back from But Chief Officer, Mr. C. Sheppard had this to say: 'This is the first time we
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  • 26 3 The district of Port Dickson co'lecUd ~'1,764/ the largest amount eoliected in one district during the re cent University Week held in Negii Sembilan.
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  • 96 3 MR. Duncan Robertson stated in the Municipal Commissioners* meeting on Monday that the average business man wasted 15 to 45 minutes in getting a telephone call through. He told the Tribune yesterday that the Municipality had no jurisdiction over tne Oriental Telephone and
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  • 34 3 Kuaia Lumpur, Tues. The Postmaster General's Department night announced that many people are posting greeting cards for overseas countries with L 4-cent stamps. The" correct I postage is 6 cents.
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  • 205 3 THE Federation of Malaya Police Force- to meet 1 the urgent need for transport in the continuous fight against terrorism, has started its own driving school at the Police Depot, Kuala Lumpur Sixty three constables are at present attending the course which lasts approximately
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  • 342 3 SEGAMAT, Tuesday. OPERATION .Leo—the biggest combined land and 11 air offensive since the Emergency—which took place in the triangular stretch of jungle between Jementah, Batu Annam and Gemas in North Johore ended today. Ten bandits including a gang leader surrendered. Their arms and ammunition
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  • 95 3 A further scholnrshio of the annual value of $02.50 has been made available to a poor boy or girl of any nationality Under 11 years of age. who has been a resident for three years prior to the award, in the Pasir Panjang Pu-al District.
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 429 4 THEY HAVE A GREAT TRADITION TO FOLLOW THE new 11. M. A. S. Sydney, 19,000-ton aircraft carrier and flagship of the Royal Australian Navy went t» Sea off the New South Wales coast recently for decklanding exercises. The pictures on this page show you phases of'the
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  • 320 5 DUTCH SOVEREIGNTY TO CONTINUE FOR ONE YR. A.P. THE HAGUE, Tuesday. INDONESIAN sources said last night that their representatives at the Dutch-Indonesian round table conference on a future United States of Indonesia had decided to relinquish their demand for immediate sovereignty over Dutch
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  • 109 5 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. More than 1.000 administrative staff of British Overseas Airways Corporation face dismissal under the nationalised airlines' post devaluation economy plan which comes into force today. "Fourteen genior executivej with salaries ramsins: from £800 sterling to £3,500 sterling a year arc leaving and
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  • 278 5 A.P. BELGRADE, Tuesday.—Premier Marshal Tito reinforced his armed forces as a defensive measure against a background of a heightening war of Words with Russia and the Cominform. Tito has bolstered his army with a regular autumn callup of recruits. He also has returned
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  • 82 5 LONDON, Tues —A Gillingham man got a letter demanding £25. He was told to put the money 5 n an envelope on some steps near Great Lines, Chatham. When this was done a police inspector and a woman sergeant in plain clothes sal in the
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  • 130 5 A.P. WASHINGTON. Tues. India and the United States were reported yesterday to be nearing completion of negotiations for a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation. Officials said it may he followed by a reciprocal trade agreement conforming with U.S. efforts to stiffen India's
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  • 133 5 LONDON, Tues.—To three boys, one 13 and two 12. charged at East London Juvenile Court with steaiing two cadet battle blouses, Mr. Basil Henriques, the chairman, said: "We arc disgusted that you three boys who have taken the oath should have lied as hard a*
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  • 134 5 LONDON, Tues. Ewel Samstegman, born in Russia 53 years ago. was a prodigy of the 'cello when he was a child. Once, in Vilna. the great violinist Jascha Heifetz was proud to play in his company, and so was the great theorist Einstein, whose hobby was the
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  • 60 5 Seen on the steps of Parliament Building, Ottawa, Canada, on October 24, are (left to right In doorway): Loais St. Laarent, Prime \nnftfer of Canada, Mr*. Vijayalakshml Pandit, Indiaa Amuaaaador to the V. S. A., Hon. S. K. IWrpalani (wearing «pectarle»), Pandit Nehru, Prime minister of India,
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  • 82 5 Reuter. KABUL. Tues.—Thc Afghanistan official news agency, Bakhter, said yesterda/ that a "National Assembly of Pushtunistan"—disputed froutier area between Pakistan and Afghanistan —held its first session on Oct. 20. A special committee was st f up "to constitute tne provisional government of Pushtunistan," the report
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  • 113 5 Reuter. WASHINGTON, Tues. Milk production last year in the major producing areas of the World was about 90 per cent. of pre-war. the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation reported today. It said that every European country except Czechoslovakia, Denmark and Sweden showed
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  • 56 5 WORPLEBDON, Tues.—A §olf ball played by John leek in the mixed foursomes at Worpiesdon recently land ed in a woman's blouse. He asked her to shake the ball free. She did. Beck's wife, partnering her hus band, laughed so much she fluffed her next shot.
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  • 148 5 A.P. NEW DELHI. Tiles.—Nignt air passenger traffic ha's made a good start in Ind'a, Judging from the results of the first fortnight. Passengers were accommodated in the night air mail service resumed in midOctober after a three-mont'i break during the Monsoon.
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  • 193 5 Reuter. LUCKNOW. UNITED PROVINCES, Tuesday. —The plenary session of the Food and Agricultural Organisation Technical Conference on Co-operatives in Asia and the Far East, which adjourned last Tuesday, was resumed yesterday. It recommended that the promotion of cooperative societies in countries where the movement is
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  • 38 5 Reuter. HONGKONG, Tues. A Nationalist plane Was shot down by the Communists at Changcliow, near Shanghai, last Saturday, according to a pro-Communist press report from Shanghai. The aiicraft was on its way to Nanking. Reuter.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 595 6 rONTRAST ECAFE with the Bukit Serene conL ference of Britain's representatives m South East Asia. Only one cocktail party this tune, and that when the real work is done. This is serious business. Although the men concerned have no executive authority, what they have tTsay is going to
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  • 910 6 Reuter. HONGKONG. CONFIDENCE among foreigners in the future of Shanghai has been somewhat revived lately by a general improvement in local conditions. Private reports reaching Hongkong state that this confidence is in sharp contrast to the pessimism of a few weeks ago when
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  • 465 6 Reuter. FIGHTING now raging on the Shan plateau of northeastern Burma has engulfed in the Burmese insurrection two major tribes that had so far remained largely loyal to the Burma Government —the Kachins and the Shans. Sections of both these tribes are now fighting
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  • 390 6 A.P. SOUTH Koreans are becoming better fed. betterclothed, and a little tough. Ask one of them if he thinks his young republican can hod back Communism and he is I'kelv to reply: "Hold it back? We'll push it back!" Most Koreans have long expected
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  • 669 6 A.P. TO train personnel for its foieign service, Indonesia will soon have a school for diplomats. In fact. the embryo nation may end with two competing schools. At a round-table conference in The Hague, top Dutch and Indonesian leaders have worked for two months
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  • 783 6  -  BY HUGH LAMING Reuter. WITCHES chant occuit incantations to weaken women's education and emancipation movements in Indonesia. Leaders cf the Indonesian feminist organisations and Indonesian women doctors told me recently that one of the most powerful ioiccs opposing Uicir efforts to raise the status of
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 23 7 Mytef The-in, Burmese Ambassador to Nationalist China disembarks from the British evacuation ship Shengking at Hongkong.—A.P. Photo. A.P. Photo.
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  • 170 7 Reuter. HEIDELBERG, Tuesday. Duelling societies, a spectre from the heyday of student nationalism in German universities, have been revived at Heidelberg University in spite of an American Military Government law which forbids duelling. It has not been established, however, whether the "corporations" have resumed the famous
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  • 132 7 'BELIEVE IT OR NOT' SAYS BATHING BEAUTY A.P. HOLLYWOOD. Tues.—Actress Esther Williams admits this may not be believed, but her two-month-old son is .-wimming already. "It sounds fantastic, I know, says the swim star, "But Benjie actually swims in his bath. All I do is keep has chin above water
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  • 74 7 Reuter. POONA, Tues.—Six gliders have been imported into India, for the Indian Gliding Association s programme of training 80 glider pilots every year. The Association, which recently resumed its activities, will scart a course for glider pilots in December. The scheme is now held up
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  • 50 7 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Tuesday. g Crosby often poses with po in publicity pictures. But the singer choked ani I whoa ho had to light i briar for a "Top Of Morning" scene, it wai the first time he had smoked a pipe in three years. A.P.
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  • 127 7 LONDON Tues. For the second time in a week a glass container has mysteriously shattered into fragments in a Dagenham house. Mrs. Grace Lynch, of Stonard Road, was in bed last night when she heard a loud crash down-stairs. In the living room she found
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  • 131 7 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Tues. A 76-year-old man who died in hospital here recently after he was found living in squalor and filth was reported to have left an estate of $A 70.000. The man, Edward Bury, was a descendant of Baron Bury, of Oxfordshire,
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  • 27 7 Reuter. IAL, fues. *'io.d Marshal Carl Wavell. former Viceroy of India, arrived here today by air for a four-week visit to C3n ida. —Reuter.
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  • 343 7 A.P. LONDON, Tuesday. TWO nlm producers stated yesterday that British fox hunters would not let them complete a fox hunting picture because they think it is anti-fox hunting. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, leading British film producers, said they were unable to rent, borrow
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  • 189 7 A.P. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The Da'ai Lama of Tibet —just about the remotest 16-year-o!d boy in the world—has write n i note to an American lady author. If you can call it a note —<t is the size of a small tablec'oth. When Mrs. Antoniette Gordon finished
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  • 96 7 A.P. PRAGUE. Tues.—Polly, the fortune-telling parrot the kind that pulls out your horoscope- from a 4 deek of card has been placed on the taboo list here. It is a'l a matter of economics, said a writer in Mlada Fionta, organ
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  • 70 7 A.P. CAIRO. Tues.—Reeds which grow by the river Nile gave mankind its first writing material: Papyrus. Now experts believe they may provide cellulose for the nation's young plastics, explosive and artificial sUk Indus- tries. The Ministry of Com- j merce said the Sine Fes- cosa Co. of
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  • 157 7 LONDON Tues. The last tragic chapter in the life of Mr. L.B.Z. Davies. ex-rector of C'.axby, Lines, was written at his inquest yesterday. He had died, it was recorded, of chronic alcoholism. He was forty-seven. Mr. Davies was in the news last February when he was
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  • 259 7 A.P. LONDON, Tues.—The dLstinguished visitor to the United States winds up feeling "rather like a squeezed orange" the Bishop of London confided yesterday. "He who travels officially in the United States finds himself in a continual whirl of excitement" the Rt. Rev.
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  • 75 7 LONDON Tues. The Rev. E. G. Semple, vicar of All Saints, St. John's Wood, and nis congregation are without a clue to Ihe identity of a "phantom sniper" with an air gun, who has done much damage to the fine stained glass windows of the cnurch since June.
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  • 81 7 A.P. PORTSMOUTH. Tuesday. The Duke of Edinburgh nov/ on duty as a lieutenant with the British Mediterranean Fleet, is going to have n's yacht with him. The Aircraft carrier Glory en route to join the Fleet, loaded Philip's little sailing yacht, the Cowlip, i aboard yesterday. He will have
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  • 245 8 A.P. LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. DRITAIN turned down yesterday any trade with D Russia on the admission of new members to the 11 sited Nntit > n s. Sir Alexander Cadogan restated the British position favouring the admission of Italy, Ireland and seven others
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  • 75 8 England's south coast shivered in a 60-miles-per-hour gale while high seas crashed about the quays of small fishing villages and swamped the promenades of several resorts on October 26. Heavy rain, intermittent over the past four days, flooded houses in seaside areas and caused railroad lines
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  • 118 8 Reuter. KARACHI. Tues. Mr. Haflx Mohamed Syed Isha'v. Joint Secretary of the Pakistan Food and Agriculture Ministry, said tonight that Pakistan would have an exportable surplus of food by 1053. Mr. Ishaw. who recently returned from a rice buying mission to Rangoon, told reporters he
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  • 260 8 Reds A dmil Americans Held A.P. mut wra WASHINGTON, Tuesday. U.S. State Department voiced skepticism yesterday about the charges that Chinese Communists have placed against Consul General Angus Ward and four members of his staff at Mukden Manchuria. They are being held for trial by
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  • 65 8 A.P. HOLLYWOOD, Toes. John Garfield swears this is true: Riding in the hills, he saw a girl struggling desperately to control her galloping mount. Garfield pursued and ia.lf a mile later, halted the anima! by seizing its bridle. "I wasn't really in any danger," the girl
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  • 44 8 A.P. WASHINGTON, Tues.—Five countries and Western Germany yesterday were granted TJ*****,000 of new Marshall Plan funds to buy various recovery commodities. The grants included U554,600,000 for BelgiumLuxembourg, of which US $2,600 is for industrial fibres from the Philippines and Latin America.—A.P.
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  • 81 8 U.P. ST. LOUIS, Turi. View President Alben W. Barkiey and his bride-to-be went shopping today for a wedding ring but did not buy one. The Vice President and Mrs. Carteton S. Hadley, 38--year-old attractive widow, said they couldn't find a ring they liked. The nation's
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  • 108 8 U.P. FRANKFURT, Tues.—The American taxpayer will she.! out U*****,000,000 to support Germany this year, High Commissioner John McCloy said in a statement released today. The statement was a transcript of an interview McCloy gave to Robert Kleiman of the United States News and World Report
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  • 375 8 U.P. SAYS GEN CHENNAULT HONGKONG. Tuesday. THE American, who helped to save Nationalist China from the Japanese, thinks it still can be saved from the Communists—but only with quick American help. "This is the last few minutes of the eleventh hour- Major General
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  • 87 8 U.P. MANILA. Tues.—United States ambassador Myron Cowen, who returned to Manila last night from Singapore, where he headed the American delegation to ECAFE confeience. will leave by plane for the United States tomorrow. Cowen is conferring today with President Quirino on undisclosed subjects'. The
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  • 91 8 Middlesex. Tues. A large grey monkey, which stole apples and lrttuces from a gardens, perched on the roof of a house in Albury Drive, Pinner, Middlesex. It sat shivering against the warm chimney stack. It was first seen at mid-day yesterday by Mrs. C. Somerfield. of Aubury
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  • 63 8 Reuter-AAP. MELBOURNE. Tues. Twenty year old blonde Gwenda MacCallum, missing since Sunday from the 28.000-ton liner Orcades threw herself overboard after a heavy drinking bout, the police said today. She told the ship's officers she went aboard for a party and got drunk. Passengers paid her
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  • 153 8 A.P. CLEVELAND. Tues.—ClO President Philip Murray last night announced settlement of the steelworkers' strike against Bethlehem Steel Corporation on the basis of a US$lOO monthly pension agreement for 80.000 ersMurray said an agreement had been reached but delayed an explanation of the details of the terms. He
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  • 405 9 A.P. NEW YORK, Tuesday. DROFITS of American industry turned upwards in the third quarter of this year for the first time in 12 months. They stand only slightly below the all-time high mark of a year ago, when third quarter earnings were the peak in
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  • 100 9 Reuter-AAP. WASHINGTON. Tues. British, Canadian and United States officials and /trade experts today began a customs conference here to remove baniers on the sale of British and Canadian goods in the United States. The conference is the result of the dollar talks between the three
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  • 69 9 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues.--India and Ceylon have concluded a one-year trade agreement operative from Jan. 1. The pact related to: 1. Exchange of essential goods like coal, steel, cotton, jute, copra, rubber, hides, skins, graphite; 2. Close co-operation for international marketing of Indian and Ceylon tea;
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  • 109 9 Synthetic rubber roller coverings ate now being used for spindles in the Australian textile industry in increasing numbers. Attempts of the industry in all countries to utilise natural rubber have not been successful because of its antipathy to oil. The syntactic coverings are replacing leather' and
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  • 73 9 I t>rnmoor (44); Maul in (E. S. A. D. IC); Sumpitan (W. S. V D. E.); President Polk (4248); Heelo (41); Bosuik (40); Sirdhana (88 89); TegelOerg (86/87); An til-><iius 183/84); Ka naming (31 3'J); Benavon (17/18); Kennevis (19/20); C. McLeod (21/22); Wairata (23/24); Castleville (25/26); Hopeviile
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  • 201 9 THE Republican Minister of Finance, Dr. Lukman Hakim, who recenUy arrived in Djakarta from a visit to Atjeh, disclosed that the Republican Government have a new currency in Atjeh as from November. The new Republican currency will help bring hard currency into circulation, stabilizing its valut;
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  • 158 9 Sharp expansion of the Queensland pineapple Industry has followed a postwar decline In world production of pineapples. This decline, coupled with the fact that almost all the American controlled production is reserved for domestic consumption, has given Queensland the opportunity to earn dollars for Australia. For
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  • 59 9 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—The United Kingdom Colonial Primary Fro,|.icis Committee reports there «ro few aieas in th* «~»lnntex ■unable for cultivation of HnMed. There will be a jrood market for all ljrouied produced iv the sterling area for a gt>ou many years to cOme. rh* m»i« sources of
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  • 91 9 NEW DELHI. Tues.—lndia's adverse balance of trade in May this year. From September last was less than one-tenth of what it was in R5.338.800,000 in last May, the adverse balance came down to Rs. 32,700,000 in September. Official sources in New Delhi ascribe this favourable trend in
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  • 140 9 A.P. MANILA. Tues. Government import controls, begun on Jan. 1, 1949. are exercising a sober effect on Filipino put chases abroad, an independent tally of monthly figures from the b ginning ot the year showed. According to ship's manifests Philippines now stress imports of consumption goods
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  • 130 9 A.P. LONDON, Tues. -The British Government will disclose its reaction to the removal of floor prices on Japanese exports before the House of Commons, probably next week A spokesman said either the Board of Trade president, Mr. Harold Wilson, of the Secretary for Overseas
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  • 35 9 A.P. NEW YORK. Tues. The stock market closed fractions to US$l lower on Monday alhtbugh some steels ended slightly higher following rumours that a settlement of the steel strike might come soon.—A.P!
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  • 27 9 Reuter. TEHERAN. Tues- The Shah of Persia. Mohammad Reza Pahlevi. has accepted an invitation from the Pakistan Government to visit Pakistan in the near future.—Reuter.
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  • 103 9 Reuter. RANGOON. Tuesday. gAZAARS and shops throughtout Rangoon suspended business today following the introduction by the Burmese Government of a ntW official sales and luxury tax. The Indian Chamber of Commerce has called an emergency meeting for Thursday to debate the measures, The public
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  • 104 9 Mails are expected from Aden. Afghanistan, NSA Europe. Africa. South America. Azores West Indies, Canada, Great Britain, Eire. Iceland, India, Pakistan, Tibet, Turkey, Australia, Pacincl slands. Hongkong. Korea Thailand, Batavia, Soarabaya, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Penang Taipeng and USSR. Mails for Aden, Afghanistan. U.S.A.. Europe, Africa, South America, Azores,
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  • 35 9 Mails for North Borneo, Labuan, Brunei, Miii, will today close at noon those Ireland, Eire, Europe, Egypt, North and West Africa, West Indies, Cey]on, Northern India and Pakistan will close at 6 p.m.
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  • 31 9 Singapore, Tues. The tin sharp market 1 was very dull and prices were again marked lower. London also shows extreme lack of interest. Industrials were also (fractionally lower. 1
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  • 111 9 THE rubber commodity market opened quiet yesterday. But with rumours of the impending settlement of the American steel strike the market steadied up and prices improved a quarter cent from Monday. Closing prices in cents per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 Nov. RSS 44 1/2 44 3/4
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  • 123 9 Reuter. rKYO, Tues. -Japan and Western Germany have concluded a trade pact expected to cover about $20,--000.000 worth of goods. it was announced here today by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's headquarters. The agreement, covering Aug. 1 this year to July 31 next year,
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  • 801 9 INDUSTRIALS Buyers Stllers Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Bricka Pref. 2AO 2.50 Ord. 2.15 2.22% 8.8. Petrol 34. 0 35/6 B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.50 Con. Tin Smelt Pref. 21/3 22/3 Ord. 15 6 16/6 E. Utd. Assur. 40.75 41.75 Est. St Trust Ag. 7.00 8.00 Fed. Dispensary
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    • 36 9 Holland Shipping Agency announce that as from the Ist NOVEMBER 1949 their name has been changed to Holland-Indonesia Shipping Agency International Freight Forwarders Travel Registered Office: 78 Robinson Road SINGAPORE Ch. KRYOSMAN MAN: PROPRIETOR. yhum 1
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    • 534 9 THE HO HONG S.S. CO. (1932) LTD. f— 1 66, CHULIA STREET, PHONE 394« (Incorporated in Singapore) ri m PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES *Jsffc PALEMBANG, DJAMBI, PAKAN BAROK RENGAT and BAGAN SI API API. KATONG Sails for Rangoon Nov. 15 "HONG ANN" Sails for Palembang Nov. 4 "HONG SOON" Sails for
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  • 258 10 Table-Tennis Reuter. MADRAS, Tuesday. TABLE-TENNIS in India has reached new stand--1 ards in the past decade, according to Victor T&le Tennis Champion now touring India; «It has vastly improved since my previous visit in 1936," he told Reuter Barna arrived in Madras iroiu
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  • 50 10 Following will represent Pearls Badminton Party of Outram Rd. Prison against Johore Prison Badminton Party at Pearls Court. Man Kuud. on Nov. 3 ai 5.00 p.m.: YunOs Amran, Abdul Malik, Syed Hassan. Hassan Mohd.. Sved Omar, Baba Abdullah. Sarpon Muradi. Bhafle Fake h, Abu Samah. Ahmad Daud.
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  • 76 10 A.P. PHILADELPHIA. Tues. —Lightweight champion Ike Williams of Trenton, j New Jersey, has signed to defend bis crown in a I 15-round bout against Freddy Dawson of Chicago here on Nov. 28. I Williams is to receive 45 per cent and Dawson ten per
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  • 127 10 U.P. DETROIT, 1 e-es. Middleweight champion Jake La Motta was given permission today to collect the June 16 title purse of US.U4.OV2 held up pending a ieU:n Rfc™ with Marcel Cerd*n. Cerdan was killed in an airplane crash last wee*. The Michigan Boxing Commissioner Floyd
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  • 35 10 HARRY MITCHELL, (left) Individual champion at the Raffles institution swimming championships recent !> with his brother E. K. Mitchell, runner-up after they had received the I prizes from Mrs. A. W. Frisby.
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  • 77 10 U.P. MANILA. Tues —A Hong Kong swimming team of sixteen members including five mermaids are scheduled to anive by plane here tomorrow for the annual Hong Kong Manila inter poit swimming meet, which will be held at the Rizal Sanatorium on November 4 to 6. The
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  • 298 10  -  From VERNON MORGAN Reuter. LONDON. Tuesday. THE English Football Association are leaving no ess? a>.™ down to the last football stud. The grounds are likely to be iron hard and for that reason the ordinary English football boot and studs are unsuitable.
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  • 560 10 Review of K.L. Rates.... By ALLAN LEWIS SEVERAL new horses made their debut on the 13 Malayan turf at the Selangor Turf Club's October Meeting. I thought the most promising of them were Radar, and Robin Hood. Radar lan a very
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  • 158 10 RACE FAN was the horse of the Selanjor Turf Club's (October M rting. This bay English un: by Montrose froni Field Glass won a double The first day }f the meeting she was the winner of the main race over seven furlongs. She fook
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  • 42 10 Following were elected officers of Maytiine 8.P.: President: John Taye. Vice-President: Lim Kwang Ser: Secretary: Goh Gek Khoon, Treasurer: Tay Chin Liang, Auditor: John Chan, Sports Capt.: Lim Kirn Lee. Committee: Er Yong Chye. Tan Mong Seng, Fung Fook Fong
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  • 158 10 Latest S.R.A. Amendments are: Transfers: From Class 2to Class 3 -Goafs Skin; Kashmiri Song: Eureka; Streatfield; Skyscraper (late Choke Jadet; Totland; Class 4 to Class 3.— Golden Slipper; Slickness. NEW CLASSIFICATIONS Class 1- BIG SURPRISE, dk. b.c.g. by Boro Boudour Penelope Ann; PARK (late Harrison),
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  • 509 10 Robin Hood, a browri English gelding by Port Law from Spring Robin, is a lightly framed four-year-old. His looks belie his quality. I thought his two showings were full of jjromise. Well out of his ground in both races he finished well in each
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  • 54 11 TOP: With Sanjiva out of position the Indian captain, Ratnam runs back to guard the empty goal as Todd makes an attempt to push the ball in. RIGHT The ball slipped out of >anji\a's hands but Todd missed that opening as h»» rushes through under tbe
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  • 402 11  -  By ALLAN LEWIS The Melbourne Cup of two Miles worth £A 12,500 ana a gold trophy £A3OO was run at Flemington yesterday. Result: FOX AMI 8.08 (W. Fellows) 16 to L HOYLF 7.09 (A. Ward) 20 to 1. BEX YOLO 7.09 (F. Williams) 12 to
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  • 43 11 BUENOS AIRES, Tues. Police supervision at all foothall matches will in future be strengthened as the result of an incident last Sunday when a British referee, R. H» Maddison, stopped the First division match between Born Juniors aad the Racing Club,
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  • 97 11 Other results at Fletnington yesterday were:— CIP HIKDLE Sion Bay (Gardiner) 25 to 1. Hiatus (Godfrey) 4 to 1. El mmm >9to 4. RAILWAY HIGHWEIGHT HANDICAP True Law (A. Ward 12 to 1. Chai (S. Ralph) 9 to L aldasair CS. Sellwood i 13 to 2. MIMOSA STAKES
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  • 330 11 CS C. 4 S.C.C. 1 |N a dull arid scrappy game of hockey played on the padang yesterday the Ceylon Sports Club beat the Singapore Cricket Club, by four goals to one. Very little constructive hockey was seen and the Ccylonese owed
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  • 51 11 The following will represent Singapore against Malacca on Saturday, at Hockey on the padang: Brown, R. H. Barth, Coulter, P. Pennefatber, E. Duraisamy, Veluppillai, Swee Una Swang, Chee Hong Yam, A. Clarke, B. Coutts and E. Ebert,. Reserves: Proctor, Vijaratnaro, and V. Vanderput; Umpire: W/O I
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  • 62 11 NORTH ZONE EMPIRE XI DRAW PATIAL'A. Tues. The match between the Commonwealth cricket team and North Zone ended here toda/ in a draw. North Zone, after following on, were 155 for four when stumps were drawn on the fourth and last day. They had made 168 in their first innings
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  • 669 11 WI'IH a dazzling display of speed, footwork and almost faultless combination, the Indian toy ring soccer team were unlucky to draw 3—3 with rhe Singapore Combined Services at Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. This was their best game so far in thoir tour
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  • 44 11 Reuter. BIRMINGHAM, Tues. Dick Turpin, British middleweight champion, beat Georgĕ Ross, champion of Canada, here tonight, the referee stopping the bout during the seventh round of a 10 rounds non-title contest. The referee intervened due to Ross having a damaged left eye.—Reuter.
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  • 59 11 Reuter. BRUSSELS. Tues. A London Football Association team played a goalless draw with the Belgian Diables Rouges here today but it was a dull match which drew very Mttle enthusiasm among 10.000 spectators. The result was a pleasant surprise to the home side which had been chosen from
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  • 225 11 Reuter-AAP. BRISBANE, Tuesday. South Wales beat Queensland by 15 runs in the first Sheffield Shield cricket match of the season here today. Final scores: New South Wales 248 (Keith Miller 80. N. V. Raymer 4 for 341 ani 137 (Len Johnson 7
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  • 223 11 A.P. MALACCA. Tues.—Three new records were set up at the Malacca Chinese Sports which ended on Sunday. Miss Chun Sook Ying (Pay Girls' Schooi) improved by 1 ft. 31 ins. the previous record of 24 ft. in the putting the shot event. In the Boys' Division, Huang
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  • 154 11 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. Peter Mans. South African snooker champion, receiving 16 points in each frame, led former world champion Walter Donaldson by 10 frames to eight at the end of tho early aession today m their 37 frames "News of the World" tournament match at
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  • 215 11 MARKSMEN GATHER AT BUENOS AIRES Reuter. BUENOS AIRES. Tues. The rattle of rifle and pistol tire echoes over the pleasant parklike suburbs of northern Buenc* Aires daily as marksmen from all over the world bring themselves to the peak for the world shooting championships, opening here on Friday. About 400
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  • 103 11 Reuter. PARIS. Tues. Engli.-:'a First Division football cluj, Arsenal, gained their ftr.it postwar victory over the Racing Club of Paris by two goals to one today in their annual match. Arsenal's fine approach work in the first half was marred by missed chances in front of
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  • 77 11 The hockey match between Saisu and H.M.S. Unicorn which was to have been played at Naval Base yesterday has been cancelled. Following have been select"d to play for the Salsu vs. H.M.S. Loch Quioch at Naval Base on Friday at 5 p.m. Bakar Hassan. Mehar Singh
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  • 63 11 Following is the Combined Team (Europeans, Indians and Eurasians) selected by representatives of sponsored bodies (S.C.C. S.R.C. and 1.A.) to meet the Indian touring soccer team tomorrow at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. Gammel; Le'mbruggcn, Lav\ ther; Morton. Vas.s (Capt.) Balan; S, Datta, Peters, S.
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  • 61 11 Mehar Singh. Following have been seleitrd to play hockey for the R.N.M T vs. Kranji at Kranji lodciy at 5 p.m. Bakar Hassan: X G. Pearn and Bakar Sidek; Balwam Singh, Darehan Sin«h and J. G. Murray; S. ML Khalaff, Mhod. Jamat. R. H&yward, P. Millar and A.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
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  • 102 12 "iwi\ i U, Tues. fcimperor Hirohito in a speech before the Japanese Diet today thanked the Allied powers for their "aid and kindness" as a result of which Japan was "continuously bearing fruit in democratic construction". Hirohito urged the Japanese people to exert greater
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  • 123 12 U.P. LONDON. Tues. Katberine Parr, 75, said today that she had sent to the Home Office a charge supported by "all the facts" that many British mothers are prostituting their daughters of 10 and 12 years. Miss Parr's report to the government followed an announcement that she
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  • 38 12 A.P. NEW DELHI, Tues. A petition to the Governor General to hang him earlier than Nov. 15. the date he is due to die, has been sent by Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Vinayak Godse. —A.P.
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  • 247 12 U.P. NEW YORK. Tuesday. BRIGADIER General Carlos P. Romulo, President of the United Nations General Assembly, said today that there can be no stable peace in Asia until freedom had been attained for all Asiatic peoples. In addition, he told the Far East session
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  • 176 12 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. Japanese boadi were a firm feature of the London Stock Exchange today. Gains of two to three points followed a report from New York that the question of a treaty with Japan is 10 be re-oiK-ned as quickly as possiOther foreign bonds were quiet but
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  • 220 12 Nationalist Officials Cable Chiang– U.P. HONGKONG, Tuesday. AVER 200 provincial and national government officials in Chug** *6J U Chiang Kai-shek to resume the reins of the office *£££Er? Tm lead Nationalist Chma against the Reds as reported French Indo-China posed a new threat lo
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  • 74 12 U.P. BOGOTA. Colombia. Tues. Scores of new deaths were reported today in scattered localities of Colombia in continuing bloody political battles. The newspaper el Liberal reported that three entire families were wiped out in Laguna's department of Boyaca but did not specify the number. It
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  • 104 12 Reuter. ROME, Tues. —Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi is to return to Rome tomorrow fiom Assisi to face a Government crisis caused by the resignation of the minist -s who belong to the Socii.list Unity Party of Signor Guiseppe Saragat. i ne three ministers
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  • 30 12 U.P. PARIS. Tues —France has sufficient quantities of plutonium—a key component of the atomic bomb—to start experimental studies of the element, the French Atomic Energy Commission announced today.—U.P.
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  • 224 12 U.P. HONGKONG. Tuesday. VIETNAM guerillas from Indo-China invaded Nationalist China and seized two towns in co-operation with Chinese Communist forces, a Nationalist report from Kweilin said today. Ihe report indicated that the Indo-Chinese invaders penetrated some 60 miles inside China at points north
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  • 56 12 U.P. NEW ORLEANS. Tues. Police said four bandits with shotguns last night invaded the home of Ralph Gawl, wealthy real estate operator, and robbed him of in cash and jewels. Charles Dusson, a visitor who walked up the front steps while the bandits were at work,
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  • 145 12 HONGKONG, Tues. Nationa'Lst guards along Macao-? border have discarded the r uniforms and are carrying on their duties in civilian clothes, according to arriva ul from the Portuguese colony last night. More Communist regulars were reported to have entered Shekki. the main town >f Chungshan County,
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  • 104 12 Reuter. THE HAGUE, Tues, The draft constitution of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia was published here today. It was drawn up by a joint committee of the Republican and Federalist delegations to the round-table conference on Indonesia, accepted and initialled by the leaders
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  • 26 12 ATHENS. Tues. The police announced tonight that that the Argentine Charge D'Affaires in Athens Ernest Dieh', 32, died from an overdose of sleeping tablets.—
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  • 49 12 Mr. Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister, leaves his house, No. 10 Downing St., with a rush. He was on his way to the House of Commons to announce to Parliament and a waiting nation the series of cuts the Government will make in expenditure.
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  • 192 12 BALTIMORE. Tuesdiv. THREE Greek seamen who do not want to leave 1 the United States os ordered by the Immigration Servie a scrambled un the masts of the cargo ship Aristokratis early today—and were still there huddled m blankets several
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  • 78 12 U.P. HOLLYWOOD, Tues. Blonde film actress Judy Garland, 27," can stay in the cast of a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie if she loses six or eight pounds, the Studio announced today. Miss Garland, recently suspended and removed from the cast of another picture, re_ portedly refused to
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  • 143 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. The United States bought 164,908 tons of rubber from British territories in South-East Asia j between January 1 and Aug- i ust 31 this year, Mr. Douglas Jay, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, told Parliament today. Mr. Leonard Gammans,
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  • 29 12 Reu- CANBERRA, Tues.—More than 7,000 British emierants wiU sail for Australia an nine ships in the first, uireeweeks ot this month, it was disclosed here today. —Rev-
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  • 330 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tuesday. MR. Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Minister, has received a confidential memorandum on the situation in Indo-China from the Indian Government, compiled by the Indian Consular in Saigon, it was confirmed at the Foreign Office this morning. The Foreign Office spokesman would make
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  • 132 12 A.P. RERUN, Tues.—A rare east-west agreement promised today to rut the huge prison costs of SS Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess for Berlin taxpayers. Under an interim programme, drafted by the Soviet, American British and French Wardens, the German servants at Hess prison will be reduced
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  • 69 12 OKINAWA, Tues. The United States may have to spend U*****,000,000 more to put this battle-scarred rock into operating shape as an advanced air base. This estimate was given today to a group of visiting correspondents by Major Gen eral Sneetz. commander and military governor of the Ryuku Islands. The
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  • 363 12 A.P. PLYMOUTH, Tuesday. THE 72 officers and men of the British frigato Amethyst were tonight enjoying the welcome that the home folk give to returning heroes. The Amethyst's still showed marks of the damage inflicted by Communist artillery which trapped her up the Yangtse river
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  • 285 12 Reuter. LONDON, Tues. Thirt.one Individual awards to Royal Navy and Royal An Force officers and men fjr their part in the now historic Yangtse incident were announced tonight. The awards ranged from an appointment to the Distinguished Service Order to mentions and posthumous mentions in
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  • 51 12 T.W.C.A.: Katong group at Bt. Hilda's School 4 p.m. SINGAPORE CHESS CLUB: Meeting at YMCA at 5 p.m. YMCA: Malay and Commercial Classes at 530 p.m. Ar Club 6 p.m. Educational Film Show at 7.45 njn. CHINESE YMCA: Communal English flrtant S p.m. Evangelist meeting 7.30
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  • 188 12 CATHAY: "Heavenly Souls (Mandarin) in te h i.iolour staring Butterfly Vv a, Hwang T Fung, Pai Yuen at 11 a.m., J.*J4.15. 6.45 and 9.»» p.m. ALHAMBKA: "Ridin:; wl,h Wind" with Tim Holt supported bv Walt Disney cartoon? at 1.45. 4.15. 6.45 and 9.30 P.m. PAVILION: "Once Lpo«' Dream" with
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  • 52 12 err «ncr*"»- Rrtvets v. Besar Stadium. rhs^r's. Ul GH\ 8CC "A v. cinmei Padan*; R AnJ »t Pe'e^r: Poli.-e a rew's School, SchooJ £ro i v A HOCKKY: SCC AF. at Seletar: SRC v l0 rs v. Padang; Univemt> R0> »1 Seizors, Bukit lmii Krai» Naval M-T v. Kranj.
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