Malaya Tribune, 23 January 1950

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    68 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE r~ i Br TUB j PFOPLE POR DIE PEOPLE Jtk Triune" S'porw Published simultaneously at 3m gaporĕ, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh a nd Penang. LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phone 38M/3 Nine Una EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY JANUARY 23, 1950 PRICE TEN CENTS THE MALAYA TRIBUNE
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    Peking Radio Attacks HK
    225 1 U.P. HONG KONG, Sundfiy The Chinese Communist radio today charged Hong Kong authorities with illegal suppression of civil liberties and said protests have been lodged with the British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones, the Hong Kong government and the Chinese Communist government in Pekine One nroaucasr.
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    HE WANTED TO WRECK EMBASSY
    52 1 Reuter. ROME. Sun. Police today arrested a 63-year-old Italian in possession of a land mine who said later that he had planned to blow up the Spanish EEmbaasy here. "I was going to blow up the Embassy to vindicate the oppressed and martyred Spanish people."
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    AFGHANS LOOK FOR RUSSIAN SUPPORT
    147 1 A.P. KABUL, AFGHANISTAN. Sun.—Afghanistan, where tension and war fever is mounting daily as her quarrel with Pakistan approaches a crisis, is beginning to look northward to Russia for support. The prospect ofwar has become very real to Afghans, so real that they appear willing to
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    SNAKES ALIVE!
    31 1 A.P. GEORGETOWN, BRITISH GUIANA. Sun.—Alligators and snakes lurking around porches and doorsteps added to the distress of thousands of persons marooned by noodwaters in British Guiana's coastal beit today.—A.P.
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    PALLOTTI BLESSED
    20 1 A.P. VATICAN CITY, Sun. Vincenc Pailotu was raised to' the blessed of the Roman Catholic Church today. A.P.
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    70,000 FORSAKE RICE FOR BREAD
    321 1  -  City Faces Wheat Flour Shortage By Lawrence G. Mani A BOUT 70,000 people in Singapore have given up eating rice, stopped drawing their rations and turned to bread as their staple food. People who depend on bread and thousands of housewives for whom l oodles,
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    JUDGES STRIKE THREAT
    83 1 Reuter. VIENNA. Sun. Judges and public prosecutors of two Austrian circuits may strike if their demand for a wage increase "commensurate with the dignity and importance of their positions" is refused, the Austrian press agency reported today. The officials, against the wishes of their union, have told
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    ESCAPES AMBUSH
    102 1 I STOP f&ESS JOHORE BAHRU, Today. —A Singapore engineer, Mr. J. S. Cooper, escaped an ambush at the 37th mile Johore Bahru—Ayer Hitam Road at 4 p.m. yesterday when his driver accelerated an drove through a trap set by 7 bandits. SEGAMAT, Today. Four armed Chinese bandits abducted
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    Yesterday's Reception
    58 1 A reception in honour of Mr. and Mrs. James Halsema was held yesterday at the home of Mr. W. Henry Lawrence Jr., No. 8, Leedon Park, when pressmen were introduced to Mr. Halsema who is attached to the U. 5.1.8. Above picture shows Mr. Halsema with Mr. Foo
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    WESTERLING SAYS, U.S.I. HAS PLANS TO INVADE NEW GUINEA
    293 1 Reuter. BANDOENG, West Java, Sunday. FORMER Dutch commapcio Captain R. P. P. r "Turco" Westeiling leader of the unofficial "army of the Heavenly Host" in West Java, today accused the Government of the United States of Indonesia of planning to invade
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    JAP POLICE HUNT FOR 'THE BOSOM
    100 1 U.P. TOKIO, Sun. Japanese police today renewed their week-long search for "The Bosom," a 22-year-old model, accused of robbing artists after posing for them in the nude. The police were informed that the model, Katsu Kawaguchi, was seen yesterday at the Ikebukuro railway station,
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    OUCH! THIS IS EMBARASSING
    74 1 A.P. LONDON, Sun.—A spokesman for Mr. Winston Churchill, said today the former Prima Minister had no recollection of being the godfather of George Lindsay Watson, who, when questioned in Prance about the Aga Khan Jewel theft, said that he was Mr. Churchill's godson. At Mr. Churchill's
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    ACHESON IGNORES V's BLAST
    113 1 U.P. WASHINGTON. Sun. Secretary of State Dean Acheson apparently decided to play cat and mouse with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky. He maintained unruffled silence over the weekend despite Vyshinsky's thunderous denial of a recent charge that Russia is in the process of annexing half of
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    RUSSIANS TOLD STOP WALKING, START TALKING
    115 1 U.P. NEW YORK, Sun. Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak who was the first President of the United Nations General Assembly today advised the Russians to "stop walking and start talking." He added that the Chinese delegation issue which has brought a crisis to
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    SIR HARTLEY CHALLENGES MR. CHURCHILL
    113 1 LONDON, Sun—Sir Hartley Shawcross challenged Mr. Winston Churchill's statement that "socialism means regimentation, and equality in misery," in a main address at Bolton. "I would have thought," he said, "that if ever men's soul's were regimented it was under the old Conservative Party regime with
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    QUIRINO SPEAKS
    31 1 U.P. BALTIMORE. Maryland, Sun. President Elipidio Quirino, in a speech made from his hospital bed here, told his Filipino countrymen today that the state of the Philippines is good.—U.P.
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    GLACIER BURIES 44 FAMILIES
    108 1 Reuter. TEHERAN. Sun. Fortyfour families disappeared when a gigantic glacier sliding down the mountains in Persian Kurdistan yesterday buried the whole village of Tangesar, it was learned here today. Fifty-five frozen bodies have so far been found. Search parties were still digging today after being at
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    Lace In Gussie's Panties Is Rather Victorian
    351 1 R euter, A .P. U.P. MR. DAVENPORT GORGEOUS GUSSIE M O KAN'» law said today that the lace on her famous tennis panties "seems rather Victorian to inc." Nicholas Davenport, playwright-economist father of «7->ear-old Anthony Davenport who became engaged to the American tennis
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    NANCY SUES DR. SUN FO
    62 1 HONGKONG. Sun.—Nancy Hi, a pretty Chinese woman In her early thirties, today filed a paternity suit against former Nationalist Premier Sun Fo charging that he was the father of her two daughters and asking for a threedollar a week maintenance. She alleged that Sun Fo
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    22 BANDITS KILLED IN LABIS BATTLE
    239 2 SEGAiVIAT, Sunday. TWENTY■ TWO bandits were killed and three seriously wounded in a flfevce lfttttle between a bandit force of about 5« and Com pany of the~ Ist 2nd Gurkha Rifles fn a'tWarnrn area north of Labis this morning. Those killed included the leader
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    HEADMEN TO SET AN EXAMPLE
    83 2 PENANG. Sun.—Headmen in the Kota Bahru area, whil" promising to give allout support to the Ant?Bandit Month campaign, said that they would enrol their wives and children so as to set an example to others. Meanwhile, the Anti-Bandit Month publicity in Kelantan is in full
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    TENTH MASS WEDDING ON SUNDAY
    88 2 Another mass wedding organised by the Mayfair Musical and Dramatic Association will be held at the Victoria Memorial Hall next Sunday. To date fifty Chinese couples have already registered with the Association. This will be the tenth mass wedding to be held since the liberation.
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    INDIANS TO CELEBRATE NETAJI'S B'DAY
    62 2 The Singapore Regional Indian Congress will celebrate the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bcse. this evening at 6-30 p.m. at N0.6, Race Course Lane. The celebration will be in the form of a public meeting at which Dr.M. Abraham (English.}, Mrs. K.H. Menon (Hindustani), Mr.
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    PROMOTION FOR PERAK OFFICERS
    73 2 IPOH. Sun.—Two Asian Labour Officers in Perak have been promoted to Assistant Commissioners for Labour from January 1, 1850. They are: Mr. S. Janarden of Ipoh and Mr. Heng Cheng Swee of Kampar. Mr. Janarden has served for many years in the Labour Department. Mr. Cheng
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    GOT A DATE
    27 2 LONDON. Sun.—Mr. V.H. W. Dcvvson. British date expert, is driving his jeep 7.000 miles from I ondon to Somaliland tfl establish d te plantations.
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    Happy To Leave....
    55 2 These Chinese squai- ters were happy to i leave their bandit in- I fested area in Jerantut. They were helped to i load their belongings onto military lorries by j soldiers of the 4th Hus- i sars, who escorted them to their resettlement area in Kuala Lipis.—
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    ...And The Terrorists Ambush A Jungle Squad; 8 Police Die
    316 2 penang Sunday, EIGHT policemen were killed and six woundec" when a Police jungle squad und. r the command of a European sergeant was ambushed by terrorists near Sungei Bakap in the Province Wellesley area. A wounded bandit, dressed in khaki
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    RAF BLAST A CAMP
    60 2 R.A.F. planes enrried out a successful air strike on a suspected bandits concentration north-cast of B&tu Aran? in the Rawang area. Following the. bombing and strafing, security forccs moved in and l"?cated a bandit camp which was guarded by five sentry posts. The camp had a
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    S'pore Used 31,300,000 Gals. Water A Day
    151 2 Tribune Stall Reporter SINGAPORE water consumption last year was the highest over recorded. Nearly 31,300.000 gailcns of water lowed through Singapore j taps every day —being I 000 gallons more than what war consumed daily last year This was rcvealled yesterday by the
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    STRIKE DECISION
    24 2 LONDON, Sun.—Because her pet mat-most*, staged a hunger strike. Miss Lucknow, of Stamford Hill, has given it 1 to the London Zoo.
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    'World Is Heading For Destruction'
    386 2 Mr Nichol Tribune Staff Reporter THE world today is ra heading toward destruction—not progr s—and mankind must prepaid for the second appearance of Jesus Chris and the era of the Kingdom of God. Thus declared Mr. Francis D. Nichol, editor, publisher and pastor of Washing
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    MATE FOR TARZAN
    15 2 LONDON. Sun —The Zoo is seeking a mate for Guv the gorilla.
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    'DON'T TEASE SNAKES'
    17 2 LONDON, Sun.—A "Don't tease the .snakes" notice has hecTi put up at the Zoo,
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    'NATIONAL LANGUAGE SHOULD BE MALAY...'
    171 2 DISAGREEING with the result reached aY the Urn. verstty oi walaya s u< —that English instead of Malay snouid be cne national language of sehgoverhing MAy%Drarman. President Ceylop Malay Asso< said' on Saturday tnat Malaya would not be in the sam* 3 stagnant stat° U
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    "PROTECTION"
    559 4 THE Chinese Communists are not letting the grass grow under their feet. They are not even bothering to sit down and digest {heir vast comquests before reaching out for the rich prizes in South East Asia. And what is more, they are quite frank about their intentions that Communism
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    ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES ARE NOT INADEQUATE
    541 4  -  by A SERVICE CORRESPONDENT rCH has appeared In the press both in Malaya and in the U.K. criticising medical facilities for the troops operating in the jungle. Some of the criticism may be fair. The Secretary of State for War, admitted that in Malaya
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    ITALIAN REDS WANT TO SOAK THE RICH
    601 4 A.P. fOMMUNISTS arfach^r\H ~t isi n g a Marxist "Marshall Plan" to "save Italy" by soaking the rich. It is the brain-child of Giuseppe di Vittorio, Communist boss of the 5,000 000-member Italian Labour Confederation (COIL). 0 Bearing a price tag of 3.000,000.000,000
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    Tax Forms Are Beyond Einstein
    541 4 A.P. NEW YORK ALBERT Einstein is a man who plumbs the secrets of the atom and :he urue**e and yet .cannot understand an income tax blanK. It is a measure ot the humility of the greatest living mathematician that he cheerfully admitted in 1944 he
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    THE NAZI SPIDER WEAVES ITS WEB
    1284 4  -  by Hubert Harrison Reuter. VIENNA AUSTRIAN police have been hunting an elusive and intangible "Spider", alleged to be a dangerous organisation which many people here including the Soviet High Commissioner in Austria, Colonel General Swiridov, belive to exist both in this country and in
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    THE ZENITH CAMERA
    175 4 THE U.S. Air Force has A developed an aerial camera that takes pictures of the sky, rather than the ground. It is called a zenith camera and It is operated as nearly vertical as is humanly possible to adjust The camera can be operated only in twilight
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    NARRIMAN HAD NO FEELING FOR HASHEM
    916 5 GIRL'S FATHER SAYS SHE IS FREE TO MARRY FAROUK U.P. NARRIMAN SADEK, 16 year old Egyptian girl, wnose engagement was alleged to have been broken by King Farouk, never was formally engaged to Egyptian economist Said Hashem, never loved him and did not even
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    TWO PRIESTS AMONG THE MISSING
    74 5 A.P. LA. Sun.—The PhiNational Red Cross two Dutch and an American, McCarty, were among 12 it nor ted missing sinking of the v T Sidrito. 234-ton former U.S. ssel was carrying Passi ngers when it sank bad weather about northeast of Suri-v-seven were pickboats which
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    MATADOR LOSES THE LADY
    83 5 MADRID, Sun.—Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Gonzales, left Madrid for Caracas, Venezuela, last week a disappointed lover. His sweetheart, An gelita Percy de Seoana, 18-year-old daughter of the Duke of Pino hermo, has been whisked off to relatives in Brussels. Three weeks ago she slid down a
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    YOUNGSTERS HAVE A 'POT' AT LAMPSHADES
    106 5 Reuter. NEWCASTLE. Sun. Youngsters here enjoyed themselves throwing bricks at lampshades and then hammering them. But they did not break. The youngsters had been invited to "pot" at the lampshades, which are of toughened glass, produced originally to protect electric lamps in coal mines.
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    SCOTS CALL IT LONDONISATION
    264 5 A.P. LONDON Sunday. JjCOTSMEN campaigning for home rule and own parliament in Edinburgh have a word for nationalisation. They call it "Londonisation." That, they contend, is what is wrong with Britain's Socialist Government. More and more, they complain, Governmental authority is being concentrated in London. The
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    Winston Opens Election Campaign
    186 5 U.P. LONDON, Sun. WINSTON CHURCHILL yesterday opened the most closely watched election campaign in British history. He predicted that Britain would continue 1 tc have to live on 'foreign charity' if the socialists were re-elected. The seventy-flve-year-old wartime premier warned the nation in the first Conservative
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    MAN-EATERS OF ORISSA
    125 5 U.P. CALCUTTA, Sat.—Maneating jungle beasts are slaughtering scores of villagers in provinces near here according to a government report. The latest outbreak is in Orissa, the maritime province south west of Calcutta, where at least fifty people have been killed by man-eaters. In the mountain provinces north
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    SIAM SEEKS A WHITE ELEPHANT
    80 5 A.P. BANGKOK. Sun.—Thailand seeks white elephants for an important role in the coronation procession of King Phumiphol. The king is expected back from Switzerland some time in March for the cremation of his brother, the late King Ananda, his coronation and marriage. The Ministry of
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    Love Letter Was Two Years Late
    112 5 MONTGOMERY. Alabama. Sun. —ICX-O i. John a i pen. of Montgomery, Alabama, has married exW.A.A.F. Jessie Benjamin, although his love letter took two years to arrive. They met seven years ago. A few months later the war parted them. In 1947 John wrote, inviting
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    BROTHER KILLS BROTHER
    76 5 A.P. MANILA. Sun.—The 19--year-old son of former provincial governor was shot to death by his elder brother. Rodolfo Pambun. 23. Rodolfo. who was placed under arrest by police, said he had been "playing" with the gun and shot his brother, Harcelo, by accident. The pair had been
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    THREE JOBS THEY WON'T DO
    71 5 A.P. BANGKOK, Sun.—Thai nationals are unwilling to take up three occupations included in a list of professions to be barred to aliens. They are fish sauce preparation, signboard writing in the Thai language and sale of priests' clothing. The Ministry of Interior said Thai citizens
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    THEY CAN DIAL FOR A JOKE
    50 5 Hamburg, Sun.—Anyone in Hamburg who wants to be cheered up will soon be able to hear the latest joke by dialling a telephone number. The joke will be told him by a telephone information service starting month. Football results will be on tap, too.
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    GUILTY CONSCIENCE
    38 5 Reuter.-AAP. SYDNEY, Sun.—A tramdriver who thought he ran down a child lay in hospital for three hours after a collapse. Actually, the tram pulled up within six inches of the child, who ran away unhurt. —Reuter.-mAP.
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    LOST CHORDS
    31 5 Guelph. Canada. Sun Radio programme at Guelph was interrupted for a listener who wanted "Aye Maria" played for his dying mother. She hoard the first few bars —then died.
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    Kramat Pulai Make £29,724
    89 6 /RAMAT PULAI LIMITED A working on tribute by lydraullc and ravel pump snowed a proIt of £29.4*4 a/»*d. per ;hare> in the year ended larch 3. 1949 and paid out <d. per s^ar?. Profits tax tock £4.430. let liquid .€140,407 ixe equivalent to 7/- per ;hare.
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    Malayan Tin Pay 50% For Year
    130 6 MALAYAN TIN DREDGING LIMITED operated nree dredges en its original -*atu Gajah property in the iinanefal year ended June, ju. 1949 to make £208.579 101' < i iro.n wnieft divlkentis to a total of SQ*A /ere paid. Profits tax absorbed v 28.000. Net liquid
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    Southern Malayan Pay 60%
    78 6 SOUTHERN MALAYAN TIN DREDGING LIMITED made £328.433 <76'<) in year ended June 30. 194y and paid out 60', in all. .£68.590 went in profits tax. Three dredges were operated throughout the year, a fourth for 9k months, and a fifth for four months. A sixth unit
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    No Marshall $ For Pork
    65 6 No Marshall For Pork A.P. WASHINGTON Sun. Britain can have no further Marshall Plan funds to buy Canadian pork products because of the American surplus, the Economic Cooperation Administration said on Thursday. A provision of the 2.R.P. prohibits ECA func*s betn? us?d to buy foreign supplies of any commodity, surplus
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    But Britain Will Find $
    89 6 But Britain Will Find U.P. OTTAWA. San.—Canadian and British officials said today that the Anglo-Cana-dian bacon* contract would not be affected by the United States declaration of a surplus, of pork. Under the ECA rules. Britain would not tee allowed to use Marshall Plan dollars to buy Canadian bacon once
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    BLUEPRINT FOR INDIES TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA
    171 6 CANBERRA. The newly accredited Charge d'Affairs for the United States of Indonesia in Australia. Dr. Usraan. has given some details of the commodities which will figure in the trade which his government plans to ctelevop with Australia. From the Australian point of view, the
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    MORE ORDERS FOR AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIALS
    712 6 Quiet conditions and small volume oi dealing characterised ail sections of the share market, but with an increasing reluctance on the part of sellers < here was a hardening of quotations among Industrials and Tins towards the end of the week. Investment enquiries for Industrials
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    FAR EAST TRADE BALANCE $1,000 M ON WRONG SIDE
    260 6 THE overall balance of payments of the ECAFE region showed an increase in deficit over the $1,000 million in 1948 Both the dollar values and the percentage share in total world trade of the trade of the region wa.s lower in
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    TIN PRICES
    20 6 SINGAPORE. Saturday Jan. 21. 5287J&5 Uccianged. London. Friday. Jan. 20. Soot £599. 19. r months buyers X 581.15.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    68 6 Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's noon prices on Saturday (Jan. 21) were in cents per ib.: Buyer Seller No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loos" nominal 49g 49* F. 0.8 in Bales Feb. No. 1 R.S.S. 49 8 48i No. 2 .R.S.S. 19 491 No. 3 R.S.S- 48 48|
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    U.K. TRADE GAP
    27 6 LONDON. Sun.—Britain s imports in 1949 totalled £2.272.500,000—9.4 per cent more than in 1948—and her exports totalled £1.784.400.--000--12.8 per cent more than last year.
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    US Sales To Russia Down
    89 6 A.P. WASHINGTON. Snn. United States shipments to Russia dropped below US$5O.OOO last November for the first time in 12 months. But a Census Bureau report showed that exports to Yugoslavia jumped to US $2.500.000—m0re than three times the previous months total. The shipments reflected a
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    MALAYAN CONTINGENT IS ON ITS WAY TO N.Z.
    496 7 fHE Malayan contingent to the Empire Games left Singapore this morning confident that they will do something to put Malaya on the -porting man of the world. The men who give this :t»uranee high jump I Valberg. sprinter Ng ig Chiang and
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    JAW FRACTURE
    28 7 A.P. CHICAGO. Sun.-An Xray examination on Saturday disclosed welterweight boxer Johnny Bratton suffered a compound fracture of the lower jaw in his bout on Friday night.—A.P.
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    Europeans beaten 2-3
    104 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Rest defeated the Europeans by three goals to two in the annual women's hockey fixture on the Padang today. The Rest opened accounts through Yew Mm in the third minute. Yew Mm scored her second goal in the 20th minute and the Rest
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    CHANGI TOPS YACHT REGATTA
    448 7 EIGHTY yacht*., .sparkling with new paint and bedecked with flags, made a grand r\ -ectaele at the Royal Air Force Ch'anui Yacht Club's Fourth annual Regetta over the week ond. Changi gained the most pou-ts out of the 12 events. The clubs taking part include the
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    Weights For 12 Ipoh Races
    615 7 Following arc the weights for all right races on the second day, on Wednesday at Ipoh: HOUSES, OLA Sts 4. UiV. 7, 6 FFBS. POWER CHIEF ».»0 FENTON Ml LOVELY BOIIE 8.11 LENA DEAR Mj GRECIAN PRINCE 8.09 LOCH CLYDE- 9M X A KAMA 8.08
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    DUTCH TABLE TENNIS TITLES
    50 7 UTRECHT. Holland. Sun. -Mai Var Chat and Tran Ouang Nhuy of Vietnam won their first round matcn in the men's doubles of the Dutch table tennis championships beating John Crossley and V. N. Brightwell, two members of the New Zealand international team, 21-19, 18-21. 22-20. 23-21.
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    JADE PRINCESS BEST WORKER AT IPOH
    207 7  -  By ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2,000 Winners IPOH, Today. JADE PRINCES'* was the fastest worker this morning when yhc ran three furlongs in 33-1 5 seconds. %hB only horsss s:t against the watch wcie thos: of trainers Yong Thau Yin and Jack Maiming:.
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    ROME WANTS GAMES
    35 7 A.P. LONDON. Sun —The ofllcial bulletin of the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday that Rome has bid for the 1960 Olympic Games. Los Angeles. Buenos Aires and Lausanne previously had bid.—A.P.
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    CHOONG BEATEN
    43 7 Reuter. HERNE, BAY, Kent, Sun.—E. S. Choong, Malayan badminton player, was beaten in the final of I lie men's singles of the Kent county open badmit. .on eha.npionthips by the ht ftcf, P. N. fite n (f onion) 11-15, 15-0, -I.s.—Reuter.
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    Dollah Don's 'Hat-trick' Gives MCFA 4-2 Win
    249 7 A.P. HONG KONG Sunday. "HAT-TRICK" by centre forward Dollah Don and the brilliant defence work by left back Haji GaWian and right back Tan Kai Sow gave tne combined Malayan team a clearcut four to twe victory over the combined Hong Kong XI»
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    ANNALORO TO BOX LLANOS
    40 7 A.P. NEW YORK. Sun.—The International Boxing Club announces a card of ten rounders for St. Nicholas Arena on Jan. 25 on which Gretano Annaloro of Italy faces Art Llanos of Puerto Rico in a featherweight bout.—AP.
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    Chinese Soviet Pact Is Signed
    160 8 Reuter. HONGKONG, Sunday. 4 CHINESE-SOVIET treaty of friendship has been concluded in Moscow by Marshal Stalin and Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung, according to a usually reliable Chinese source here today. I The treaty was under I discussion for several weeks i and Chinese Communist
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    U.S. GETS READY FOR ATOM WAR
    101 8 Reuter. WASHINGTON. SuV The United States is to start recruitin? immediately 150.000 civilian volunteers to be trained as an Aircraft Observers Corps" in 25 northwestern and Atlantic coast states. Once trained, the air warden volunteers will be placed on a "stand-in basis to be
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    Chou's Second Note
    41 8 Reuter. LONDON, Sun. The I Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou Enla!, has sent a second note to the Unlti-d Nations demanding "Immediate expulsion" of the Nationalist delegation, Tass, the official Soviet i news agency, reported to- j day.—Reuter.
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    The Roll Of Racket Busters
    227 8 THE shops listed below have put up signs pledging themselves to sell sugar and cigarettes at correct prices. Since it is not possible for the Tribune to cover all shops in Sirgapore, those wishing to Join the campaign are requested to write or telephone the
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL .
    58 8 WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL V.M.C.A.: French besinnerV class 5.30 p.m.; Malay Jawi iidvance ilas» 5.30 p.m.: French inter, class 6.30 p.m. Cricket net practice. Tennis. Badminton and Vosley ball 5 p.m. Y.W.C.A.: Sports Club Committee meeting 5.30 p.m. at Fort CanninK. INTERNATIONAL A B T I S T ASSN: Life
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    CINEMA
    207 8 CATHAY: "World and Music" with June Allyson. Perry Como. Mickey Kooney, Judy Garland. Gene Kelly. L<ena Home at 11. 1.43. 4.15. 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. KEX: "Sand" with Mark Stevens. Coleen Gray. Eory Calhoun at 11. 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9,30 p.m. CAPITOL: "Uneasy Terms" with Michael Rennie and
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    SPORT
    25 8 HOCKEY: K.O. Tourney semifinal CSC v. Police, Thomson Road: SRC v. Dutch Club. padanc B.O.D. v. YMCA. at B.«leatier Road. GOLF: R.S.G.C. women's golf.
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    CHINESE REDS ATTACK INDOCHINA
    465 8 Gen. Lin Piao Leads Assault On French Brigades In Tonhng A.P. U.P. Reuter. TAIPEH, Sunday. A,N official Nationalist news dispatch said tonight that Ittackinu Chinese Communists and Indo-Chinese French Indo-Chinese troops inside the Indo-Chinese border. Chinese Red troops and Vietminh forces unaer General Lin Piao are
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    150,000 JAPS DIE
    34 8 Reuter. MAIZURU, Japan, Sun.— Alicgations that 150,0 C Japanese so'diers and civilians died in Russian prison camps were made here vouay some cf 2,500 repatriates who reached here from Siberia.— Router.
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    LEADER MURDERED
    23 8 U.P. ASMARA, Mon. Shifta terrorists today raidod villages thirty five miles east of Asmara, and killed the independent lender Gheremrrthin. —U.P.
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    NINE HELD FOR GEM ROBBERY
    231 8 Reuter. PARIS, Sun. Police announced today two more arrests in tho roundup of the gang that robbed the Begum Aga Khan of £200,000 worth of jewels last August. This brings the total of arrests to nine. The two men were arrested when thoy stepped off
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    PARLIAMENT'S OPENING IS POSTPONED
    75 8 Reuter. SAKDRINGHAM. NORFOLK, Sun.—The King today signed a proclamation postponing the opening of Parliament originally fixed for Jan 24 to*a date after FWfc 6 when the present Parliament wi ll be dissolved. This means that In accoroancc with Government plans Parliament will not meet again before
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    HK DEFENCE FORCE TAKES ON 948 MEN
    64 8 Reuter-AAP. HON3KONO, Sun— of to'al number of Hongkong citizens who registered witn the Hongkong Defence Force 048 ot.VC now been attested, saici Ucutenant-Coioncl J. O. 9 -ner. the Senior Start Ofßerr yesteraay. •ueciuiting has been very atisfactory." he added, "and mt are getting
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    HALF MOUNTAIN CROUP OUST WU'S MEN
    107 8 A.P. TAIPEI, fcun. The Cmnese Nationalist cabinet today dismissed two commissioners for Formosa in response to growing protests from Formosans. Removed irom office were Chiang Wei-chuan, commissioner of civil affairs, and Peng Teh, commissioner ot reconstruction. They were two of five commissioners serving under
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    FINS REPLY
    19 8 U.P. HELSINKI, Sun.—Finland yesterday unconditionally rejected a Soviet charge that Finland is hiding 300 Russian wai criminals.—U.P.
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    MAO'S PLAN TO TALK BRITAIN OUT OF HK
    177 8 U.P. LONDON, Sunday. THE trend of Britain.* relations with Communist 1 China aroused speculation tonight that Communist leader Mao Tze-tung may be laying plans to "talk" Britain out of her Crown Colony of Hong Kone. Mao. it was recalled, has said repeatedly
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    10,000 HOMELESS IN FLOODS
    83 8 U.P. CHICAGO. Sun. Flood water of the Si. Francis River ninnd over houses in a seclion of A TlrilWl~l today increasing o 10,000 the number of persona homeless in the state and neighbouring Tennessee. Thr rescue oi" strandea families along the St. Francis in northeast Arkansas
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    HAUGHTY GENERAL
    47 8 Lt Gen. Kuzma Deveryanko, head of the Russian M L fanan ignores a reporter's questions as he y&SSf of the Allied Council wh-n an attempt was made to put on the agenda the question oYthe Sing 300.(100 Japanese war prisoners. -A P. Photo. 41*. Photo.
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    Gold Coast Reds Are Rounded Up
    215 8 Reuter. ACCRA, GOLD COAST. Sunday. DR Kwame Nkruma, leader of the Convention People's Party, campaigning for immediate dominion status for the Gold Coast, Several members of the local Communist Party and two leaders of the Gold Coast Trade Union Congress were also arrested. Dr.
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    LIVERPOOL BACK IN TOP PLACE
    797 8 LONDON, Sun. fIROSTBOUND pitches brought tricky playing r conditions and numerous injuries in yesterday's English League Soccer matches which saw Liverpool return to the top of the Senior Division by beating the bottom team, Birmingham. Manchester United and Derby County, two of the teams most
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    Washer To Play Deyro In Final
    177 8 Reuter. MADRAS, Sun.—R. Deyro of the Philippines and Philippe Washer of Belgium will contest the final of the men's singles in the allIndia hard court lawn tennis championships here. In the semi-finals today Deyro beat Pedro Masip of Spain 7-5, 6-0. 7-5 and Washer
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    Governor's XI 248 for 4
    114 8 Reuter. NAGPUR. Sun. The Commonwealth tour i n s cricket team were all ou for 323 in their first innings on the second day of tneir three-day match against Central Province Governor's XI here, and by tne close the Governors were 248 for 4 in
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