Malaya Tribune, 8 November 1949

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    63 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE BY PEOPLE fOk TUB PEOPLE T« Tribung» LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 3SII/3 Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh and Penang. TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1949 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE i ONDON REPRESENTATIVE B. Maurice Glover, .utuyu i rxbunv
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    COLONY SEEKS MORE MEAT FROM AUSTRALIA
    274 1  -  This Year's Quota Was Not Enough By LAWRENCE G. MANI SINGAPORE Government will seek more meat for the Colony from Australia, next year. About 500 tons of Australian meat were allocated to Singapore this year, following negotiations through the British Ministry of Food, but
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    NEHRU AND ATTLEE TO HAVE TALKS
    107 1 Reuter and A.P. NEW YORK, Mon. Tne Indian Premier, Pandit Nehru, •left New York for London tonight at the end of his tour of the United States. In London Prime Minister Clement Attlee is arranging to receive Pandit Nehru privately at No. 10 Downing
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    MOSCOW VISIT OFF
    27 1 U.P. KARACHI. Mon. Prune Minister Liaquat AH Khan of Pakistan has called off his visit to Moscow this year, reliable sources said today. —U.P.
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    MR. STUART LEAVES FOR CANBERRA
    107 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Mr. Francis Stuart, political secretary to Mr. Claude Massey, the Australian Commissioner for Malaya, left this morning for Australia with Mr. Keith Officer. the Australian Ambassador to China, who is returning to Canberra for consultations. Mr. Officer has been recalled by Dr.
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    GUNPLAY COSTS THREE LIVES
    77 1 A.P. FRANKFURT. Mon. Gunplay cost the lives of three American soldiers and a German gir 1 yesterday, the U.S. Army disclosed today. A soldier shot and killed his German sweetheart and then committed suicide after both had attended a we/ldlng party, the army announced. In another
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    INVITED TO U.K.
    32 1 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. The Bil--tish Government has invf>eo seven members of the Indonesian Republican delegation to The Hague round-table conference to spend six days in B1 itain.—Reu te r.
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    It's All Over Now
    39 1 Dr WiUetn Drees (right) Dutch Prime Minister and Dr. Mohammed Hatta (wearing spectacles) Indonesian Republican Prime Minister, ar4 seen during a Press Conference held at the Hague following the conclusion of the Roundtable Corvfe rence.
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    Attlee Promises More Awards To Bandit Fighters
    160 1 A.P. and Reuter. LONDON, Monday. DRIME Minister Clement Attlee said today that r "further awards are contemplated" for gallantry and good service of the police and armed forces fighting the Malayan bandits. He was replying in writing to a question from Mr. Walter
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    HATTA LEAVES FOR INDONESIA
    94 1 Reuter. AMSTERDAM. Mon. Dr. Mohammed Hatta. Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic and leader of the Republican delegation to the round-tab'e conference at The Hague, left here today by air for Indonesia. He said he was generally satisfied with the results of the conference. 'Dr.' Hatta
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    RIOT IN BEIRUT
    36 1 A.P. BEIRUT. Mon. persons were reported injured and 14 were arrested on Sunday night when police broke up a demonstration in the business area of the city. The injured Included six police. —A.P.
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    Red Fleet Sinks Freighter: 13 Die
    191 1 U.P. BERLIN. Mon. Soviet fleet units on manoeuvres torpedoed and sank a German freighter in the Balti,* Sea. according to the Ameri-can-l'censed newspaper, Der Abend, today. Eleven of the freighter's 15-man crew and two Russian officers perished. th£ newspaper said. Der Abend said the
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    BUKIT SERENE MEET AGREED WITH U.K. TO RECOGNISE MAO
    207 1 A.P. LONDON, Monday. HIPLOMATIC officials reported tonight Britain is U planning to give full recognition tx> the Chinese Communist regime "within a matter of weeks." They said Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is expected to tell Dean Acheson, U S. Secretary of
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    DUAL JOB
    64 1 LONDON. Mon. The JMOC ton British cruiser, H.M.3. Birmingham, will keep '.he peace in Italian Somali!JinJ until the United Nations decides the future of Italy's former colony. Official quarters in London said today that the visit of the Birmingham to Mogadlschu, in Somallland, on a "show the flag"
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    MAN-EATING HYENAS PREY ON BABIES
    260 1 U.P. NEW DELHI, Mon.—Special watchmen, armed with rifles and spears, are maintaining a nightly vigil around the town of Barabanki where packs of killer hyenas have terrorized'the area and eaten nearly 100 human babies in the last five months. The animals, which in the past
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    Payment On War Damage Claims Is A Step Nearer
    299 1 Tribune Staff Reporter. THE legal set-up for War Damage payments has now been drafted after months of negotiations, still undecided, on the Malayan War Damage Compensation Scheme. In a draft bill which goes before the Federal and Colony Legislative Councils this
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    THANKS
    38 1 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Monday.--Japanese Prime Minister Shigcru Yoshida has sent a letter of thank.? to Indian Prime Minister Pandit Nehru for Indira, a female elephant, which Mr. Nenru sent as a present to the children of Japan.—Reuter.
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    75 TANKS LOADED FOR CHINA
    73 1 A.P. PHILADELPHIA. Mon. Seventv-flve used American Army tanks were loaded in the Honduran cargo ship, Aristocratic, today for shipment to the Chinese Nationalist government in Formosa. The transaction was handled by the Nationalist purchasing aeency. In Washington Chinese officials said the Nationalist government had also
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    More Pay For Better Work
    106 1 STOP PRESS A.P. PRESTON, Mon.—Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Herbert Morrison urged today that the man h<» does a better day's work should get belter pay. "Our principles of life must be that those who want more than a standard of lite, must contribute more than
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    ELECTION LINE-UP
    512 2 PROGRESSIVES We Stand For: 1. The raising of Municipal revenues without recourse to Government approval. 2. Provision of more children's playgrounds. 3. Loans to Municipal Staff for housing. 4. Loans for improving private roads and drains. 5. Proper medical attention for all municipal officers, senior or otherwise. 6.
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    UNIFIED HEALTH PLAN FOR FEDERATION AND SINGAPORE
    414 3 **paraie ana parallel seniority lists, one for locally armnintnH 7« 1 th. other for expatriate officers is the main Service scheme which the Legislate, Councils uid the Federation will be asked to approve. of Singapore The scheme if approved will be made retrospec
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    THROAT CUT IN HIS SLEEP
    300 3 Monday. Tse Ah Lim, a Chinese living at the 17th. mile Johore Bharu Ayer Hitam Road, had his throat cut in his sleep last night. He heard movements in his room but could not see anyone. j He has been sent to hospital where his
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    RE-FITTING AND RE-TRAINING FOR JUNGLE UNITS
    101 3 Two battalions have been withdrawn from jungle fighting for six weeks for reorganisation, re-fitting and •.-training. They are the Scots Guard, who have gone to Sclerang Barracks, Singapore, and the 22 Gurkha Rifles to Ipoh. These two units will be back in operations by
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    Sir Henry 'civilianise'
    86 3 Judge Advocate Jen eral for the Army and R. A. F., Sir Henry D.F. MacGeagh arrived in Singapore by air last night from London. His aim: to "civilianise" Mis department in the Far East. He will discuss this problem In Singapore and in Hongkong. With him was
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    Buoy Turned Out To Be Wreck-Captain
    139 3 Buoy Turned Out To Be Wreck Captain STEAMING into the setting sun, Captain Eric Hepplewhite, master of the 244-ton Taype, saw a red buoy which he took to be a channel buoy. Ten minutes later, the Taype struck a submerged wreck. This explanation of how the Taype was damaged half
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    MORATORIUM LAW
    33 3 An amendment to the Moratorium Proclamation (Repeal) Ordinance 1949 providing for the termination of the restriction imposed on creditors will be introduced at the meeting of the Legislative Council this month.
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    C.S.O. POST
    33 3 Mr. H. M. Danker has been appointed to perform the duties of an Assistant Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office, in addition to his duties, with effect from the November 2, 1949. inclusive.
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    Three Generations—
    114 3 —Seek A New Life Above: Loke Ming Fong of Sikamat, 67, signs the j bail bond before Senior Inspector Longchik bin Nay en of the C.r.D. Headquarters, Negri Sembilan. Behind are her daughter-in-law, Tan Sin (49) and her grandson, Chan \V?ng Chew (15). Ming Fong's was one of
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    FOUR STOLE TIN INGOTS
    159 3 TOUR Chinese, Lim Guan Cheok, Ng Ek Choon, Ng Teng Van and Png Tian Kaf, were found guilty at the Assize Court yesterday of stealing 58 iin ingots belonging t othe Straits Trading Co. The four men were caught by the Police whije ihey were in
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    BE A BRICK— BUY ONE
    225 3 THE University cf Malaya Endowment Fund is expected to benefit by $200,000 from the sale of 2.000 "Inauguration Bricks" costing $100 each to be offered to as many* leading citizens of Malaya as possible. Thi se bricks have now been disti.buted to various centres in
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    NEW SCHOOL
    53 3 Johore. Bharu, Mon. A new English Schoolfor boys and girls will be opened at Mersing in January 1950. Application forms for admission to the Primary I Class (for which the age limits are over 6 and under 8 years on January 1, 1950) may be obtained from the
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    NEW BILL
    22 3 A bill to replace the Finance Regulations Proclamation will be introduced at the meeting of the Legislative Council this month.
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    NINE REFUSE HELP-ONE SAYS: DEPT. IS KIND
    364 3 KALLANG WRECKED HOUSES ANLY one family -of the ten living in the two shop houses, whose front portion was v knocked down by a taxi on Saturday, have accepted the Social Welfare Department's offer of alternative accommodation at Bushey Park. Cheej Sai Keen,
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    K.L. COOP TO BUILD 80 HOMES
    187 3 LUMPUR, Monday. The Kuala Lumpur Co-operative Housing Society, Ltd. is to build at least 80 houses for its members on a site at Rifle Range Road as its first step to combat the present housing shortage. The Society has 200 members. The houses will
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    REES WILLIAMS VISITS FED. POLICE HQRS.
    83 3 Col. D. R. Rccs Williams. TD„ MP.. Parliamentary Un-der-Secretary of State, accompanied by his private secretary Mr. J. T. A. Ho-ward-Drake, and Mr. J. D. Higham, Head of the Eastern Department of the Colonial Office, arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. They will fly to
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    You Are Guilty Of Deliberate Trickery
    621 3 KUHN SEn:OR WAS A MERE AGENT Judge Tells Kuhn— THE Third District Judge, Mr. E. V. A. Peers, yesterday told Swedish businessman, Edouard Kuhn, that he found him guilty of "flagrantly dishonest financial trickery, carefully and deliberately planned by him and specifically designed and
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      367 3 ON YOUR RADIO TODAY 10.00 a.m. Kjw. from Knala hour tht> Bfrw Arrived ,_J n £T J"K °P en 7 an 12 M.nd*rtS SeleJti,?* Lumpur; 10.0, lose Dawn; 10.50 dirs jfl Singapore shops: ,B JL n< *L. Pror ««mJnary lit Ne«(i in Mandarin «1* Far the Schools:—Literature 2. Tsl k
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    Tour, By River-Boat
    223 4 gOME of the loveliest stretches of Australia's greatest river, the 1,400-mile Murray, have been opened up to the tourist by a paddle-steamer excursion service—the Murray Valley Coaches Ltd. The pictures on this page show you the Murrumbidgee, a converted 20--berth, 76-ton passenger boat, part of her crew
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    BRITAIN IS NOT 'OUT' YET —VISITOR
    130 5 A.P. CARDIFF, WALES, Mon. Some Austrian journalists visited Cardiff on Monday and one of them said he had not got the idea that Britain Is bankrupt. Dr. Arthur Zidek of the Wiener Zeitung said "We errtainly have not received the impression that Britain a
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    £ A 74,000 FOR MINERS BATHROOM
    119 5 A 74,000 FOR MINERS BATHROOM ReuterAAP. CANBERRA, Mon. The Australian Joint Co- I al Board had directed a colliery to spend £A74> 000, on a bathroom for it* 250 miners, it was stated tn the Australian Parliament recently. j The member who men- tioned the, matter said the Board was
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    Nationalists Detain British Vessel—For 5 Day;
    194 5 Reuter —AAP. HONGKONG. Monday. The British vessel, Wing Hing, (254 tons) was detained by the Nationalists in Kwongchowwan for five days before she was released. The vessel, which arrived here over the weekend, sailed for Kwongchowwan on Oct. 28, and immediately the ship anchored
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    TOUR OF INDIA
    62 5 Reuter. BOMBAY. Mon. Dame Katherine Watt, Chief Nursing Adviser to the British frcvernment. will arrive here -hortly on a tour ot India. Dame Watt will address 6 conference of nurses in the ty on Nov. 10. Later she wtl] \isit hospitals and nurses tiaining centres all over
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    ....BUT ANOTHER (A Norwegian Vessel) DEFIES THEM
    76 5 Reuter. HONGKONG, Mon. Despite the Nationalist Government s threat to bomb foreign vessels within China's territorial waters if they attempt to break the blockade of Communist-held ports, the Norwegian vessel "Pronto" left Hongkong for Shanghai yesterday. Pronto carried a lull cargo of general
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    WHERE THE MONEY GOES
    60 5 U.P. PRESTON, England, Mon. Britain is spending almost one-quarter of its £8.000,000,--000 national income on liquor, tobacco, movies, racing and tun and games', Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison said today. He said tne figure did not include a "very large stake" in gambling. Morrison said just
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    BRITAIN NEEDS MORE DOCTORS
    405 5 But There's No Room In Her Medical Schools Reuter. LONDON, Monday. Thousands of young men and women who wish to become doctors are being told that there is no room for them in the Medical Schools of the British Universities although the country is in urgent
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    Girls Taught: How To Deal With A Difficult Customer
    203 5 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. —A group of girls stand eveiyday at a window in Old Bond Street, London's l.icst fashionable thoroughfare, studying the .vcmcn passing below. The gills are students of the London School of Department and Staff Training. They ate learning
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    BLIND MAN MAKES TOYS
    95 5 Reuter-AAP. PERTH, Mon. Although he has been blind for 22 years, Aleck Cable, of Osborne Park, a Perth suburb, turns out nine different lines Of toys in his backyard factory. Mr. Cable said that when toys were ih short supply during the war he decided to
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    FLIES TO FIANCEE
    77 5 U.P. ST. LOUIS, Missouri, Mon. Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley is making a last recovery from an influenza attack today under the worried attention of her husband-to-be Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Officials at St. Lukes hospital say the attractive 38-year-old widow will probably be able to leave
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    NEW CONSULATE
    46 5 U.P. MANILA, Mon. The Foreign Office said today a Philippine Consulate will bo .formally opened in Batavia about the middle of this month. Consul to Batavia Vicente Pastrana left for Batavia by plane yesterday and is expect to reach there on Tuesday or Wednesday.—
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    ITALIAN CABINET DISPUTE ENDS
    91 5 U.P. ROME. Mon. Italy's sixday old cabinet dispute \\v. virtually settled last night, when all parties agreed to plan that would fill provisionally thiee Ê ministena' posts. A "little crisis" developed when three lightwing Socialist ministers tesigned on October 31 because of the internal dispute in
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    TO BE SUNK
    58 5 Th. oldest British warship afloat, che H.MS Implacable, in Portsmouth, England, is faced with destruction. Although she survived the Battle of Tralalgar, there are now no funds to keep her in condition. Here workmen remove the old bowsprit of the \essel preparatory to stripping her and taking
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    NEW YORK ELECTS A NEW MAYOR TODAY
    1136 6 By A Spectal Correspondent WORLD'S second largest city, New York, has more Irish than Dublin, more Jews than Palestine, almost <*s many Italians as Rome, and half a million Negroes. It ha 3 the world's tallest building, perhaps the world's worst climate, freak
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    THE GENERAL SAID 'NO'
    619 6  -  'Pardon Mon General... But You're Dead, Sir' By David S. Boyer WrrTLICH, French Zone. Germany—''Pardon mon General but you're dead, sir!" With a snappy salute, a French "sous-lieutenant* beamed cut these words near the Moselle river in Germany, flashed his identification card to provo he was
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    PAPER PLAGUE
    645 6 CTOP work a iriiriute. Take a look at your desk and all the pieces of paper on it. Ask yourself where they came from and where they are going to after you have dealt with them. And then ask yourself another question: "How many of them really matter?"
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    Famine Threat In China Receding
    497 6 Reuter. THE threat of a winter famine over wide areas of North and Central China is fast receding, according to reports reaching Hongkong. Ealier it was feared that thousands might perish through the effects of devastating summer floods in the Yangtse River Valley and of
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    'Dud' Racket Spoiled The Fireworks
    331 6  -  By Julius Humi •l ONDON- Post-war racketL eering, and devaluation of the pound sterling, have hit one of England s most innocent and most profitable industries. The victims were mainly boys stocking away firecrackers and toy rockets for ti c Guy Fawkes night, a celeration
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    WOMAN'S PAGE
    136 7 C\OPPER-II AIRED Helen < Cherry, who appears in the new Two Cities film, 'Adam ntxl Evelyn', co-starring St'etcarf Granger and Je~in Simmons,,models th s attractive strapless evening dress. It is in royal blue inarocaine, with a gold and while striped latin band across the top of ike bodice.
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    ROUGE CAN AGE YOU
    244 7 THE old-fashioned but still-clung-to idea that the more rouge a woman uses the younger she will look, needs to be soundly debunked. The heavy handed use of rouge is apt to have just the opposite effect. Rouge serves its function best when it enlivens skin colour
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    Through The Key Hole
    53 7 THE short exening dress has undoubtedly come to stay for au but the moat formal functions. Many df us have experienced sinking into soggy lawns at cocktail parties, and feeling slightly depressed at the thought ol dancing afterward* with a muddy hemline. The short evening dress
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    AROUND THE TOWN
    1437 7  -  By VERA ARDMORE TWO very hardworking men last week were Monsieur F. Crosnler and Mr 8. A. Da wood. They both gave parties on the same night, and out-vied any hostess I have ever met in 'dashing abovit to make sure that their guests nau all the
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    FILIPINOS GO TO THE POLLS TODAY...
    284 8 Stormy Outlook U.P. MANILA, Monday. FILIPINO voters will go to the P^ 11 tomorrow in a r presidential ©lection that threatens to be stormy, both in weathe* and political temperament. First bloodshed of the campaign that immediately preceded the electiorl was reported from Bucal
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    U.S. PUBLIC RE-ACTION MAY HALT ACHESON
    129 8 U.P. WASHINGTON*, Mon. Informed sources here believed that fears of public reaction will prevent Secretary of State Dean Acheson from agreeing to simultaneous United States and United Kingdom recognition of Communist China in the foithcoming Paris meeting of the Big Three Foreign Mir*stcrs. American
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    JANE POWELL WEDS
    33 8 U.P. HOLLYWOOD, Mon. Screen singer Jane Powell, 20 and former professional ice skating star Gerry Steffen. Jr., 26, were married today in the Beverley Hills Church of the Good Shepherd.—U.P.
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    SHIP HELD
    30 8 Reuter. HONGKONG, Mon.—A Chinese Nationalist warship intercepted the British ship "Tsinan" at the mouth of the Yangtse today. The Tsinan was carrying a cargo for Communist-held Shanghai. Reuter.
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    WELFARE CONFAB.
    34 8 Reuter. NEW DELHI. Mon.—Observers from 22 nations and six international social welfare organisations will atterfd the third annual session of the Indian conference of social work, scheduled to begin here in December.—Reuter.
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    Experts To Probe Air Crash
    121 8 U.P. WASHINGTON. Mon. A panel of top government. aviHtion experts wll! open public hearings here on Wednesday in an effort to nai! down the cause of history's worst airplane disaster. The hearings conducted by the Civil Aeronautic* Board will seek to determine why a P
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    APPEAL FOR POSSESSION OF HOUSE
    182 8 Judgment was reserved in the High Court by Mr. Justice Gordon-Smith in the appeal by Dr. Chen Su Lan against the decision of the Civil District Judge who refused Dr. Chen's application for possession of house No. 23. Duxton Road. Mr. Kenneth A. Seth. for
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    SIAMESE MEAT FOR HONGKONG, BUT NO BEEF
    74 8 HONGKONG. Mon. A Siam trade delegation, hesded 'by Chulind Lamsam, "chairman of the Bangkok Chamber of Commerce. arrived in Hongkcng on Saturday. Lamsam toid newspapermen Siam wHI be able to provide Hongkong with meat if supplies fiom China arc cut off by tne
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    HOME FOR 700
    25 8 A.P. LIVERPOOL, Mon. The troopship Crrite docked at Liverpool from Singapore. She brought home 700 men, mostly scheduled for demobilisation or leave.--A.P.
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    Flowers Of Japan
    70 8 With her heavy industries ruined by the war, Japan is now trying to recapture some of its world markets again this time by less aggressive methods, however. Photo shows an attractive Japanese model, dressed in traditional kimono, posing nerore some dowers that are part of a large
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    Threw Her Baby In to Creek After Fall
    289 8 Mother Cooks Up 'Kidnap' Story U.P. KIRTLAND, Clavville, Monday. IfRS. Stella Komorek admitted tonight that her sixiTl month-old baby Stephen was killed when she accidentally dropped him on the kitchen floor. She said she made up a story that the baby had
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    ....with A Red Lining
    107 8 U.P. PRAGUE, Mon. The golden era of Rome has I It-en reborn in Russia and this "new communist empire will last for thousands of years", the nation's principal labour newspaper Prace said to-day A front page editorial signed by editor Jiri Sila saluted the thirty-second anniversary
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    Blind Boy Fulfils Teacher's Pledge
    188 8 USIS PHILADELPHIA, Monday. JjEBASTIAN Demarioh, 21-year-old Thai, is a student at Overbrook School for the Blind here in fulfilment of a pledge made 39 years ago by his American teacher in Bangkok. Upon her graduation from Overbrook in 1910, Miss Genevieve Caulfield promised to spend
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    NO JAMS HERE
    29 8 A.P. CAIRO, Mon. If you think traffic in your town 'S bad. take a look at Cairo. This city had 81,271 traffic accidents last year. A.P.
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    The Yangko Is The Craze In China
    253 8 SAN FRANCISCO, Mon. r' is no ballroom feature, but the hottest dancĕ in the world rigHt now probably in the Yangko. Literally, it is the dance of the Chinese revolution. Where ever the Communists go in China, the Yangko lines appear Millions of
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    ARAB STATES WANT ARMS FROM AMERICA
    213 8 U.P. WASHINGTON, Monday MIDDLE Eastern countries have approached thr United States for military aid, diplomatic sources disclosed today. The said that Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states have inquired about buying American* arms early next year and possibly getting arms gifts later. The
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    FRANCE'S TOP ATOM MAN IN MOSCOW
    99 8 A.P. LONDON, Mon.- France's leading atom scientist Professor Joliot Curie arrived in Moscow yesterday, Tass re ported Sunday. President of the France U.S.S.R. Society and President of the Bureau of the Permanent Committee of th Wot id Congress for peace, Joiiot Curie was met
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    Wine-But At A Price For Britons
    188 8 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Largo quantities of wine will be available in Britain Christmas but at a price So much wine is available that wine merchants are worried. They cannot get rid of their stocks to make way for new consignments. ManxLondon stores are now
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    EGYPTIAN ENVOY IN MANILA
    77 8 Reuter. MANILA, Mon. Tho Egyptian Ambassador an) the Belgian Minister to Chin > are due in Manila tomorrow abroad the Fren h liner Champollion en route to their respective posts. The former is accompanied by the first secretary of th Egyptian Embassy. The visiting diploma: expected
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    CEYLON RUBBER TAKES UP THE SYNTHETIC CHALLENGE
    864 9 U.P. fOLOMBO, Monday. Ceylon welcomes sugges t ns u r tne establishment of central factories oy all rubber producing countries as a partial answer to the challenge of synthetic. This suggestion has as its basis the fact that synthetic, being a direct tactory
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    PRICES FALL
    40 9 NEW DELHI. Mon. Wholesale prices in India, as measured by the official index, registered a fall of 0.3 per cent during the week ended October 22. During the week, prices of foodstuffs declined further by M per cent.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    69 9 THE rubber commodity market rued firm yesterday on govt continental orders and specula buying. Sellers were reerved and prices gained half a cent from Saturday's closing. Yesterday's closing prices 'n per pound were Buyers Sellers No. 1 Dec. RSS 45% 45*, No. 2 Dec. RSS 44% 44% No.
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    RINDERPEST BREAKS CUT IN TAIWAN
    95 9 Rinderpest has broken out in raiwan, the FAO Far Eastern Regional Ortice has an. nounced. Word cf the out break came to FAO headquarters in the form of an ippeal for help from the Taiwan I*rovlncial authorities With the assistance of theThai Veterinary Service, arrangements
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    Along The Godowns
    34 9 Stanvac Ogan (Sheers Wharf); Sentani (40/41); Peleus (38 39); Steel Seafarer (33/34); Benavon (17/18)Sitsen (21/22); Kustbri* (28/24)Kutsang (25 28); HopeviUe (*7/28); Bennevis (2J/S0)Rajula (15 16); Rimau (18 14); IdotneneuH (8/9)--(6/7); Ozarda
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    86 9 The produce markets haa a very quiet day yesterday. Copra continued firm with sellers indicated at $36»*. and buyers at $35 per picul "f.o.b Nov.-Dec. No export business was recorded. Coconut oil wa s indicated at $57buyers and $55 to $55 L 2 buyers per picul f.o.b. Nov.-Dec.
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    WORLD RUBBER USE INCREASES
    279 9 MANILA, Monday. WASHINGTON, Monday. The United States Commerce Department reported on Friday the world consumed 1,450,000 long tons of new rubber in the first nine months of 1949. In the same I>€riod of 1948, the consumption was 1,392,500 tons. World consumption of natural rubber in September
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    SEA MAIL
    26 9 Wails for Burma, Thailand the Federation will close 8 p.m. tonight at the F.O. Malls are expected from Federation, and Sibu to- the G.P.O.
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    Pakistan Still Firm On Jute
    107 9 A.P. KARACHI. Mon.—lt was officially announced on Saturday the State Bank of Pakistan will provide credit facilities to purchasers of raw I jute from Pakistan with im- mediate effect. Thiis step has been taaken as an interim measure pending the formal establishment and actual functioning
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    AIR MAIL TO OCCUPIED CHINA IS RESUMED
    72 9 Unregistered letters and postcards for the Provinces of Kwangsi. Kweichow, .Sikang, Szechuan and Yunnan will be accepted for transmission by air mail. Similar postal articles will also be accepted for the lest of China, including Manchuria, for despatch either by surface route or
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    CURRENCY RATES
    180 9 Existing currcncv rates are as follows:— 1 XXX MARKET I Rltl-NOKs B T V I N C. T.T./O B T To.v. :io X ».<> d/s. 90 d/f. ndeti 2-j 7 S 2 4 2/4 1/32 2/4 3/32 2 4 1 I 1 stralia 2 10 :j i 2
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    NO MERCERS CEYLON GOVT. SAYS
    124 9 Reuter. COLOMBO. Mon. Ac- cording to usually reliable u r**«. UM> Cabinet hu decided against the in- f t reduction of the Merger Flan for Kubbor, under i which it was proposed to amalgamate rubber estate* t °I ,nt un»«» of .'.two to 4,0*0 acres.
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    AIR MAIL
    43 9 Marls are expected from Aden. Afghanistan NSA Europe Africa. South America Azores West Indies. Canada, Great Britain. Eire, Iceland. India, Pakistan, Tibet Turkey Australia. Pacific Islands, Burma. Ceylon, Batavia, Palembang, Sourabaya. Ipoh. Kota Bahru. Kuala Lumpur. Kuantan. Penang Taipeng. and USSR.
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    PEPPER TRADE WELCOMES INDONESIAN PEACE
    180 9 U.P. YEW YORK. Mon—The *i black pepper market was sensitive to rumours last week. Indian offerings are still scant and traders have continued to guess about the possible export taxes. The arrival of a small lot of white pepper dropped the white nomial prices somewhat.
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    Hongkong Has Boom Trade With China
    252 9 U.P. JJONGKONG, Monday. Hongkong chalked up a banner trade month in September and gave ample indication that it intends aggressively to trade with the Chinese Communists despite such inconveniences as the lack of diplomatic recognition and the Nationalist blockade of Communist-held ports. In fact,
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    WHEAT SPURNED
    41 9 A.P. KARACHI. Mon. India has declined to purchase from Pakistan 175.000 tons of wheat under InterDominion Commodities Exchanges Agreement signed in June last, it was learned on Friday. Pakistan this year has a surpius of 500.000 tons wheat. A.P.
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    Prices Steady
    20 9 Singapore, Mon. The share market opened quietly yesterday and tin share prices remained steady. Industrials showed little change.
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    Malayan Share Quotations
    802 9 Singapore, Mon. INDUS! RIALS Buyers Sellers Atlas Ice 15.50 16.50 Alex. Bricks Pref. 2.i0 2.50 Ord. 2.15 2.2214 8.8. Petrol 35/ 36/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. A Trust Ag. 7.00 8.00 Fed. Dispensary
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    CAN INDIANS KEEP THE SHEET CLEAN?
    513 10 v. ALL S'PORfc IN LAST COLONY MATCH TODAY By Tribune Soccer Reporter TOOI SANDS of football ffns in the Colony and the federation arc watching the adverifAires of the Indian football tourists, wifo have been unbeaten in ai tfjeir five garnet here—Winning friree and
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    ENGLISH FOOTBALL FIXTURES
    242 10 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. Following are football fixtures for Saturday ENGLISH LEAGUE FIHST DIVISION Aston Villa v. Sunderland. Blackpool v. Derby. Charlton v. Liverpool. Evert on v. Manchester Utd. Fulham v Bolton. Huddersfleld v. Chelsea. Manchester City v. Arsenal. Middlesbrough v. W. Brom. A. Newcastle v. Birmingham. Portsmouth
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    LOUIS TO BOX IN NON-TITLE CONTEST
    97 10 Reuter. SALT LAKE CITY. ;.lon. Retired world heavyweight champion Joe Louis will fight a 10 rounds no decision bout here on Dec. 21, according to promotor Jim Down ing. Downing said he was guaranteeing Louis $15,000 < about £5.357) for the fight but his
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    POPPY FUND BADMINTON AT MALACCA
    87 10 MALACCA. Mon. An inter siate badminton match between Malacca and Muar will be played off at the Stellar Hall. City Park. Malacca. on Saturday in aid ot Poppy DayFund. Play will commence at B'p.m. Seats are priced at S2 and $1. A boxing programme. with
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    POPPY DAY TENNIS FINAL
    105 10 MALACCA. Mon. Diminutive. H-yoar-okr Chan Ylbg Fatt. partnered by ail Sports Ma-ter. T. C Lock, were beaiep by F.ri. Lewis and Chua Yam Chuan on Saturday in the final of the Poppy Day American tennis tournament. Twenty one pairs entered fur the tourney, eleven competitor beins
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    Manila's Men, H.K. Women Triumph
    216 10 U.P. MANILA, Monday. MANILA'S men swimmers scored a sweeping victory over their Hong Kong rivals while mermaids from the crown colony outclassed local girls in the three-day Manila-Hong Kong interport meet that ended here yesterday. Final standings showed Manila men with 46 point l against
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    FOXAMI (16-1) wins the £12,600 Melbourne Cup Race, and Tropnv values at £300, at Felmington Racecourse on Nov. I. \ length and a half away was Hoyle (20-1) for the second stake Tnonev £2,500, followed a leng neck away was Benvoio (12-1) — £1,250.
    42 10 FOXAMI (16-1) wins the £12,600 Melbourne Cup Race, and Tropnv values at £300, at Felmington Racecourse on Nov. I. length and a half away was Hoyle (20-1) for the second stake Tnonev £2,500, followed a leng neck away was Benvoio (12-1) £1,250.
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    WHO SAYS THERE IS NO MONEY IN SOCCER?
    387 10  -  (From VERNON MORGAN Reuter. LONDON, Monday. MANCHESTER Lnited, the Cup winners of two w years ago, do not perhaps have quite the glamour overseas of the London club, Arsenal, but none the less they have set up a new record by making
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    WALES' ONLY ONE
    40 10 Reuter. LONDON. Mon. Tom Richards, the welt known marathon runner who finished second in the Olympic Games marathon last year, will be the only athletic representative of Wales jn the Empire Games in New Zealand next February.—Renter.
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    AUSSIE SOCCER TEAM WILL BE WELCOMED
    98 10 Reuter. SYDNEY, Mon.—The An stralian Soccer Association will open negotiations for an Australian team to visit Great Britain after ne>.'year's tour of South Africa. This, was announced toda by S.A. Storey, the Association's president, who said that the managers of Ai senal, Glasgow Rangers
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    VON NIDA FOR MANILA GOLF
    66 10 Reuter. MELBOURNE, Mon.- New man yon Nida, the wellknown Australian golfer, said tonight that he would play in the Philippines oper goh" championship at Manila later- this month provide arrangements were llll*Used soon with a sporting goodfirm. Earlier in the rlay yon Nida had been
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    Difference between British and American iron play
    357 10 Golf......by BEN HOGAN Xo. I» LONDON Although our type iron play is better in my opinion, when it come* to the woods the British ar< beautiful to watch. They fail to obtain the over-all distance of our power hitters, but their direction off
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    LATEST ENGLISH LEAGUE TABLES
    1049 10 Reuter. LONDON, Mon. Football league standings after Satnrdav's matches were: r. w. d. l. r. a p FIBST DIVISION: Liverpool 13 8 6 35 ji 93 Wolverhampton 15 9 4 > ;i >o >■• Manchester tnitfd 15 8 5 2 39 IS i Arsenal 16 9
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    GOOD TRACK, FAST TIMES AT BUKIT TIMAH
    938 11  -  RA-LI, YOUR HIGHNESS, NATURAL, ECLIPTIC, CAME LAW ALL IMPRESS By ALLAN LEWIS SHOWING a return to the form that took him to the top of class 1 some time ago, RA-IJ (Healey) was the best worker at Bukit Timah this morning; when he
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    Western Australia Need 139 runs
    88 11 Reuter-AAP. SYDNEY, Mon.—Western Australia required 139 runs, with four second innings wickets in hand to win their Sheffield Shield match against New South Walewhen play closed here on the third day. New South Wales, who scored 213 in their fiist innings, added 154 runs to
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    MID-WEEK FOOTBALL RESULTS
    44 11 A.P. LONDON, Mon.—Today's football results are London Challenge Cup. mlfinal round Brentford 1 Westham 0: Chelsea 1 Furham 1. Rugby Union United Hospitals 19 Edinburgh University 10; Wasp--13 Edinburgh Academicals 0; Birmingham University 0 Pontvpool 50; Newbridge 8 Plymouth Albion O.—A.P.
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    HORSE OWNER DIES
    18 11 PARIS. Mon. —M. Pierre Chastcnet. well known Ftench racehorse owner, died at Bordeaux on Sunday.
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    YMCA FORCE BOD TO DRAW IN SECOND HALF
    221 11 TWO goals by Harry Fang enabled the V.M.C.A. 1 to hold the 8.0.D.C.A. to a two-all draw in a fast hockey game at Balestier Road, yesterday. The exchanges were fairly even with the 8.0.D.C.A. doing more of the attacking in the first
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    Aussies Beat Transvaal With A Day To Spare
    339 11 Reuter. BENONI, SOUTH AFRICA, Monday. THE Australian touring team beat North Eastern 1 Transvaal by 10 wickets with a day to spare. The Australians batted on for an hour this morning adding 97 for the loss of two more wickets before declaring
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    RUGBY UNION RESULTS
    31 11 Reuter. LONDON. Mon—Today's Rugby Union results are: United Hospitals 19 Edinbuigh University 10 Wasps 13 Edinburgh Academicals 0 Birmingham University 0 Pontypool 50 Newbridge 6 Plymouth Albion o.—Reuter.
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    ONE DEAD, FOUR INJURED IN SOCCER RIOT
    79 11 A.P. BUENOS, AIRES, Mon One spectator dropped dead from excitement and four police were Injured today when a crowd of irate soccer enthusiasts invaded a playing field at Santa Fe. beat up the referee, Maximo Aguirre, and threw stones at the visiting team.
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    Sompong-Brooks Orient Title Fight Approved
    253 11 Friday Night's Boxing Tribune Boxivg Reporter. THE Singapore Boxing Board of Control has 1 approved Friday night's battle between Singapore's weltenvelght king, Nai Sorapong and Boy Brooks, triple title holder of the Orient. The bout will be over 15-threes and Brooks middleweight title will be
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    ACT MOTORIST KILLED IN RACE
    59 11 DEL MAR, California, Mon. —Rex Mays, who spent half of his 36 years as a race driver to become one Of the most popular on the American tracks was killed today when his big racing car hit a chuck hoJe and he was thrown into
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    Changes In England And Ireland Team
    246 11 SHEFFIELD, Monday. SIX changes, one of them positional, have been 0 made in England's team to play world cup soccer international on Manchester City s ground on Nov. 16. A Watson, Sunderland wing half and Yorkshire cricketer, comes in at righthalf for Wright who
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    SERVICES TEAM BEATEN BY TEN WICKETS
    98 11 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Mon. The Commonwealth ciicket tourists beat a Services XI here today by ten wickets. The totuists declared their first innings closed at 322 for five wickets yesterday, and today dismissd their opponents, who scored 115 in their first innings, for 209
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    MALACCA HOCKEY
    31 11 MALACCA. Mon. ColoiVs beat Whites 4—l in a State hocktv trial on Saturday to sekvt the team for Malacca is two inter-state matches "against Selangor and Perak this weekend.
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    WEEK-END SHUTTLE FIXTURES
    189 11 The following tics of the Singapore Badminton Championships shall be played at the Clerical Union Hall this weekend: SATURDAY 2.15 pm. Commercial Houses: Fraser A Neave S.C. v Imperial Chemical Industries Recreation Club. Umpire/Tournament Committee Michael Tan; Official Referee Lee Thian Swee. 7.80 p.m. Men's Doubles (Semi-finaK):
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    Brooks To Fight Sands here in Feb.
    89 11 NEWCASTLE, AustraC lia. Monday. -4) DAVE SANDS, Empire r middleweight cham- i pion, will tight American S Negro Bey Brooks in Shi- i 1 gapore In February, I Saod'a manager, Tom Maguire, announced to- i 1 day. I Maguire said ziiat I Sands
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    REME BEAT SCC 'A' 6-3 at RUGGER
    195 11 THE R.E.M.E. XV defeated the Singapore Cricket Club "A" XV by six points (two tries) to three (one try) at rugger on the Padang, yesterday. The game was scrappy ana neither side displayed any combination. However, both teams worked hard but to no
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    ST. ANDREW'S WIN AGAIN
    36 11 In their ieturn mgger encounter with Raffles Institution yesterday, St. Andrew's School won again—by the only try scored midway in the second halt. The second team match resulted in a scoreless draw.
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    RANK MAY QUIT FILM BUSINESS
    506 12 Unless Govt, Lowers Entertainment Tax A.P. LONDON, Monday. J. ARTHUR RANK, biggest operator in Britain's d ailing film industry, reported heavy financial losses today and threatened to stop making films entirely. The Yorkshire multi-millionaire said his group will make only six to ten films in
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    CHIANG ASKED TO EXPLAIN RETREATS
    56 12 CHUNGKING, Mon. The National Congress of People s Representatives today cabled Generalissimo Chian? Kaishek and Acting President Li Tsung-jen denouncing their incessant military retreats and asking the government for an explanation. The cable also urged Chiang and U to co-operate more fully at this critical
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    AID TO INDONESIA
    23 12 WASHINGTON. Monday. Marshall Plan aid will be resumed Immediately to the Netherlands East Indies, the Economic Cooperation Administration announced today
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    ATOM CONTROL
    26 12 LAKE SUCCESS. Monday.— France and Canada are asking all nations to renounce enough of their sovereignty to ensure effective international control of otomic energy.—
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    Workmen Threaten Strike
    160 12 Reuter. HONGKONG, Mon —Chinese work.nen of the Hongkong Telephone Company are threatening to strike unless a European engineer .wh > *lle«rediy slapped a Chinese workman is dismissed. More than 100 workers were reported to have attended a meeting yesterday and unanimously passed a resolution to walk out
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    CALLING FEDERATION RECRUITS
    104 12 The Chief Recruiting Officer for Malaya and Singapore. Major J. Frost. R. A. will leave Singapore for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow to cany out recruiting for the Ist Singapore Regiment Royal Artillery, the Royal Army Service Corps, and the General Service Corps. He will be at Kuala Lumpur
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    AIR TRANSPORT CHIEF HERE
    76 12 The Air Officer C-in-C Chief Ti ansport Command Air Marshall Sir Brian Baker er Commanding accompanied by Air Officer Commanding No. 38 Group Air Vice Marshall A.C. Sharpe arrived by air from Negombo yesterday at Tengah. The Air Marshall is making a two days stay in
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    There Were Troops, Jets And Guns —But No Stalin
    239 12 Reuter, U.P. MOSCOW, Monday. JET planes with swept-b-\ck wings roared overhead J nnd Kremlin guns thundered a 24-salvo sp.lute as contingents of Russian troops today paraded past Lenin's tomb honouring the 32nd annivorsary of the October revolution. Uproars of a million
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    Call For Axe To Fall On Military
    181 12 U.P. LONDON, Monday. THE left wing of the British Labour Party, still worried about the possibility of more budget cuts in the "welfare state" programme, today cautiously advanced a suggestion for the redistribution of defence costs in the western world on the "fair
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    REPORTS DENIED
    24 12 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—Official quarters today denied speculative reports suggesting that Patidit Nehru during his short stay might address the British Parliament. Reuter,
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    619 12 LABOUR HOLD MASS RALLY Tribune Staff Reporter. LABOUR'S candidate for North ward told a mass rally of 500 city residents at Farrer Park last night that the way is paved for If-government in Singapore. Labour's top leaders—Mr. Francis Thorns s (President), Mr. V. J.
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    SECOND NIGHT A SUCCESS
    66 12 The Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Batavia conducted by Mr. Yvon Baarspul played to a crowded Victoria Memorial Hall last night in the second cencert of the Singapore Festival of Music. The pieces included: Andriessen's Capriccio, Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Barber's Adagio for
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    Shot Journalist 'Much Better'
    148 12 A.P. DAMASCUS, Mon.--Colo-nel Michael Stirling. 62, London Times correspondent who was shot at about ten o'clock last night by threo armed men while at dinner, is said, to be "much better." H s condition ia still serious, however. Several Communists were reported to have been arrested
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    Cinema
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    Sports
    22 12 SOCCER: Indian Tourists All-Singapore. J. Besar HOCKEY: S.C.C. v. R.A.r. Seletar, padanu. Kl'GUKK: Varsity matcn. North v. South. Bukit Tinian Road.
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    135 12 Reuter. LONDON. Hon A fn in British Goven.me.iJ' checked aethritv in «>*: estie issues In the London exchange today. Losst* lon-er dated nta ku ranged vi to threoa.iarter* per cen* ana followed the fall in national sa» injra Industrials '*-ere to oeeafionnllv eliehlb The hitrhlitrht va.- provided Odean
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