Malaya Tribune, 5 April 1950

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    Masthead
    64 1 MALAYA Tribune BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE Tti Tribune" Spore LARGER SALES THAN ANY AFTERNOON PAPER IN MALAYA Phorw 5811/3 Nine Lines ruolished simultaneously at Singapore, Kuaua Lumpur, Ipoh an i Penang. MGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1950 TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE LONDON REPRESENTATIVE E. Maurice Glover,
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    Plot To Murder Nehru Smashed
    178 1 A.P. BOMBAY, Tues. Government officials indicated today the\ had smashed a plot to assassinate Prim*- Mirister Jawahar'al Nehiu with the arrest of M leaders of Hindu extremist organizations. Some of those arrested had been held in the in /es- Ugation oi the slaying of Mahatrrvi
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    War Damage Probe Body Set Up
    207 1 Tribune Staff Reporter f HE War Damage Commission has -et up the necessary organisation to carry out investigation, assessment, approval and payment of claims, it was announced in a Government press release Yesterday. The Commission, which has met twice this year has passed the
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    SMALLPOX AND CHOLERA SWEEP CALCUTTA
    88 1 Reuter. CALCUTTA. Tues. Calcutta has beeH tripped by two serious epidemics smallpox and cholera in ♦he pas' three months, with a death toll of 2.385 lives, according to rfticia! reports. Smallpox, which became epidemic early in January, has claimed 1.700 uV*\s to' lar. while cholera
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    21ST WALKOUT?
    20 1 A.P. ROME, Tues-.—The'Soviet ''nion and her supporters walked out of the Intetnational Telecommunications Conference in Florence today. A.P.
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    Danger In Giving Aid
    86 1 Reuter. MELBOURNE. Tues. —The influential Melbourne Age in a leading article said that Australian participation in the campaign against Malayan terrorists would surely be turning what the British Government regards as a purely police operation to suppress banditry into nothing short of "a state of war."
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    LORDS ASKED HOW MUCH LONGER WILL 'TERROR' LASTP
    593 1 Reuter. ■jucifu-m LONDON, Tuesday. yISCOUNT Bndgemaii, (Cons.) said today it was "wishful thinking to suppose we are over the worst in Malaya or anything near it." He was opening a two-day debate in the House of Lords on defence, in winch several
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    Storm Is Brewing On Malaya
    311 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues.—The -tying cost of the Malayan campaign and th* number of bandits engaged in it are points on which the Government wi'l be challengeo in Parliament on Thursday by Mr. Leonard Gammans. His challenge will be bacuco by the whole of the opposition
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    PILOT TRAIN DERAILED
    50 1 IPOH, Today.—The pilot train of the K.L.-Ipoh night mail was derailed between 2 and 3 o'clock this monies between Kampar and rimoh, about 30 miles from Ipoh. The train is now being held up near Kampar and passengers and luggage are being transferred by bus to Ipoh
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    NO ARMS AID
    19 1 U.P. LONDON, Tues.—The British government has rejected an Israeli request for Uie supply of arms.— U.f.
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    Politics Hampers Rubber Output
    235 1 U.P. A.P. NEW YORK. Tues.- Political conditions' in Malaya. Sumatra and Java are not favourable to the pioduction of ful' natural rubber crops and the gap between natural and synthetic is being met by American factories. Harvey S. Firestone; Jr., said here I just before stepping
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    LOKES ARRIVE IN LONDON
    76 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues. Malayan fina'jcifr Loke Wun-tho arrived with his wife by air Irom Singapore today. Lok»; Is staying at the Dorchester Hotel and will be m I/ondrii lor a tew uays DefOif making a f.uropean toui. He said it had been a peiiectly comfortable trip
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    BITTEN ONCE
    31 1 U.P. LONDON. Tues. Prime Minister Clement Attlee assured Parliament today that the government would "resolutely" apply the policy of keeping Communists and their fellow-travellers from jobs affecting national security.—U.P.
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    AIR SECRETARY
    26 1 U.P. Keywest. Florida, Tues. President Truman today seleced Thomas Finletter of New York City to succeed Stuart Symington as the Secretary of Air Force.—U.P.
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    BRIDGES GUILTY OF PERJURY
    81 1 A.P. SAN FRANCISCO. Tues.— Harry Bridges. Australianborn U.S. dockers leader, was convicted of perjury today. Bridges and two co-defend-ants were convicted on all three counts !n a federal grand jury Indictment. He was indicted for swearing falsely in his citizenship hearing in 1945 that he was
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    SOMALI STOWAWAYS TAKEN TO SAIGON
    171 1 Tribune Staff Reporter Though Singapore Government officials looked into the cas* of four African stowaways, who claimed to be British-protected Somaiilanders. on board the French cargo ship, Auray, no official request was made to get them ashore. 1 The men had been locked in I
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    Sultan Held
    29 1 -'Ah ART.' Today: Sultan Alkadri 11, bead of the West Borneo State, has been arrested <n <9*katta and charged with complicity in the escape of "Turko" Westerllng.
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    ARMS, ARMS, ARMS.
    24 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. The State Department said today that it 'will soon ask Congress for additional funds for the rearmament of Europe.
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    Clashes Of Temperament Between Gray And His Men Admitted By Mission
    1340 1 Tribune Staff Reporter PLASHES of temp?rament and misunderstandings between Colonel W. NT. Gray, Federation Police Comrnb>sioher, aid his officers are admitted by the report of the Police Mission to Malaya published to-day. The 38-page report, fruit of seventy-seven days'
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    787 LBS 'BLACK' GOLD SEIZED
    73 1 Reuter. BOMBAY, It':.!,; customs officials going eve: a 100-ton craft inch Ly inch j today have so far j-eiz d 3.000.000 rupees worth of smuggled gold but think they may have to br a.: the boat up completely b fore giving up the s j
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    POLIO CAUSED
    21 1 Reuter. GENEVA. Tues. Mom: than 20 per cent of India's crippled children are maimed I by infantile paralysis. Reuter.
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    STRACHEY TO DECIDE ON ACSU
    78 1 Late News Reuter. LONDON. Tues—Further claims, by the Army Civil Service Union of Singapore, for salary increases are being considered in Singapore, said War Minister Mr. John Strachey in Parliament today. He said that certain increases in pay were authorised last year with retrospective effect
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    A. H. Girdler. S. C. Killed
    139 1 KLUANG, Today. The Administrative v tti c c r Kluang. Mr. <V H. Girdler, 0.8. E., died in hospital last night after being seriously wounded by bandits who ambushed his car while he was travelling along I tie Yong Peng RaJob iJoad yesterday morning.
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    MOVE AGAINST TIN CONTROL TURNED DOWN
    96 2 LONDON, Tuesday. A SUGGESTION that he take steps to see that no restriction was placed on tin production was rejected by the British Minister of Supply in Parliament yesterday. The questioner asserted: "Such restriction would artificially maintain the price and thus reduce United States
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    World Tin Output Down In January
    141 2 A.P. THE HAGUE, Tuesday. production of tin in concentrate decreased sharply from 11.600 tons in December to ***** In January, the International Tin Study Group announced. This decliu? was entirely \"*uyed by o drop of Bolivian exports from 4,210 in December I to only
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    The Produce Market
    144 2 The coffee market in P;.'enibang gxadoa was stendv and quiet in Singapore wterday. with no Rio coffee sh. wing up. Palembanff was offered at 5133 per picul ready. Copra was bid for at Xf7 3 4 with set lers asking ?38 i e.r picul f.o.b. Apr. May-June
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    Along The Godowns
    55 2 Siliniboeng (44,; FoKtularra Meerkerk fa-S) j Ketoe <4«-l>; >>arnn Bu!oh (38-9); Kambodia (37); Chicaca ($3-1): Bonxville (32.3); Antolycus (31Z)l Pre» Johnson (17-8); Tjinanas (13-20); Polyth.nuis <2'l-4>-lionia (25-«); Benvenue < »T-8) Musiila (29-30); Hoegh Kilter-moon .10-16>; Relau <14): Auirnnfdon 4 .fchHons .11); Benveg <8>; Landeris (9); Benavon (.5-7);
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    Tin Prices
    67 2 SINGAPORE. April 4: Tin price was $287 per picul exsmelter. Up $1-50. LONDON. April 3: Spot £578*. Down Three months £580. Down 1. Settlement price £5784. Down £1. Turnover: 140 tons. Second session: Spot £579*. Down £2. Three months £581. Down £2f Settlement price £580. Down £2. Turnover:
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    AIR MAIL
    150 2 Mails are expected from Aden, j Afghanistan. Alaska. Et.iop» south America, Azores. West In- I dies British Guiana. British 1 Honduras. Canada. Cantry Is ands Cyprus. Egypt. EJr«, Falkland Islands. Gibraltar. United Jvingdom. Honduras. Iceland India Iran. Iraq. Leward 1.-ir.rds Malta, Newfoundland. Pnkifctan Palestine Syria. Tlaet Tuikt/' U.S.A..
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    SEA MAIL
    36 2 Mails are expected from Federation, today. Mai s for North Borneo, Labuan. Brunei and Miri will rlose at 10 ajn. today, and for Federa'on,- Thailand. Philippine Islands, Hongkong. China and Japan at 5.45 p.m.
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    Rubber Last Year
    184 2 Reuter. LONDON. Tues. A 1 the ordinary general meeting of the Rubber Grc7/ers Association held here last weekend. The Cnairman. Charles Mann said that production or natural rubber last year amounted to 1.483,000 tons and consumption 1.876.000 of which 1.427 000 were natural and 440.000 synthetic, compared
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    Very Quiet
    35 2 Singapore, April 4. The market for tins and industrials was very quiet today and tentative buyprs were waiting to sea if prices would ease any further. A few iaitfroi rubber sharvs eha.ige.l hands.
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    RUBBER MARKET
    103 2 The rubber commodity market Opened steady at first yesterday but dropped during the session by half cent. At the close the market was a quarter cent lower than Monday. Closing paces in cents per pound were: Buyers Sellers No. 1 RSS i.o.b. Apr. 58 7 8 No. 2
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    Share Quotations
    821 2 Singapore, Api. 4. INDUSTRIALS Buyer* R*U#rs Atlas lee 11.90 12.25 Alex. Brick* Pref. 2.40 2.60 Ord. 2.20 2.27% 8.8. Petrol 34/- 35/B.M. Trustees 7.50 8.00 Con. Tin Bm*!t Pref 21/3 22/3 cd Ord. 3.25 3.32 1 E. Utd. Assur. 38.75 39.75 Fed Dispensary 6.25 C.75 Fraser Neave Pref.
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    $16,500,000 IRRIGATION SCHEME FOR PERAK
    226 3 fe IPOH, Tuesday, f HE Perak State Government has in hand a giant $16,500,000 irrigation scheme covering an area of approximately 237,500 acres for the cultivation of rice and subsidiary food crops. This scheme, which consists of several major projects, is being financed by loans
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    SAMBASIVAM'S ARREST
    67 3 A police statement issued yesterday states thru Sambasivam has been arrested under the Emergency Regulations and that a warrant of detention Emergency Regulation 17 has been applied for. Sambasivam. whose appeal against a sentence of death passed on him alter a second trial in the Supreme Court. Johore
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    TAX REVIEW BOARD MEET
    82 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tue..Thf Board c' Review of Income Tax «rltl hold its firsJ meeting tomorrow The Beard will hear i.ppec.a against inecme tax assessments. Such appeals, which shouid quote the section 01 the Income Tax Ordinance under whic > they are made, should be addressed to
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    30 AIR STRIKES
    57 3 During the month of March the Royal Air Force based in Malaya and Singapore carried out 30 air strikes involving 133 sorties against the bandits, it was officially announced last night. The amount of supplies dropped to security forces engaged jungle operations exceeded a quarter million pounds,
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    CHILDREN'S DAY
    31 3 Thlrty-nir.» thousand chiloren from Chinese schools yes terday celebrated Children Day attending cinema shows at various theatres in the Colony. During the night some ct them visited amusement Dams.
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    EXTRA 30 MINS
    30 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The curfews enforced in Kajang, Semenylh, Broga, Oongkil. Cheras, Ulu Langat, Bangi and Beranang have been extended from 7.00 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. daily.
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    TAPIOCA CLEARED
    37 3 Anti-Bandit Month volunteers in the Kluang District of Johore deprived the bandits of one of their sources of r'ocd when they cleared large areas of tapioca, growing on abandoned squatter tand and in the jungle
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    FLYING CLUB PLAN JOY RIDES FOR EASTER
    84 3 SINGAPORE may be airminded this Easter. The Royal Singapore Flying Club is organising joy-rides for the public at $5 per large circuit and $10 per two large circuits plus. Rides start from 10 in the mcrning and continue till dusk on both Easter
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    BY THE CARTHAGE
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    BUTAI BOYS PLAN RE-UNION
    44 3 The "ex-Kendo 9 4 2 0 (Burma) Butai boys" will be holding a re-union dinner soon. Those interested are asked to wiit' to Mr. N.W Farmer, 142, Lorong J., relok Kurau or Mr. Hassan hin Adam, 35-E Henderson Road. Singapore
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    'Pay' Rise For U.K. Agents
    98 3 MUNICIPAL Commissioners have agreed to pay their London Agents, Messrs. Pierce Wiliiams, a retainer fee of £5,000 a year. Previously, Commissioners had been p« ying a fee of £4,000 a year The new rales will be effective from January 1, 1948. The old rate of
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    TWO HURT IN ROAD MISHAPS
    68 3 An Indian girl was knocked down by a ca- along r-anjang Ht*m yesterday. A Malay lov was* knocked dewn by a Military truck on Tang-in Roau. The boy suffered head i:iivries. Both were admitted to hospital. MOTOR CYCLE PARK An experimental moior cyclr park for
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    B O A C STARTS NEW AMERICAN SERVICE
    85 3 The British Overseas An- i ways Corporation added another route to their round the worid service by linking the U.K. with North, South and Central Amenta. Both Constellations and Argonauts are used. Constellation service links London with Havana, Kingston, and Nassau. service
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    $31,195 GOES IN SCHOOL AID
    70 3 The Singapore Crovernment is paying out 53f.195 per month in subsidies t.-> poor schoolchildren. At the moment. 2 526 pupils in 213 registered public schools are drawing a subsidy of $2.50 each per month. In addition, pupils in the free primary education scheme aged 6—9
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    U.S. LIBRARY EXPERT HERE
    80 3 USIS. Mr. Leonard J. Sherwin who heads the United states Information Service libraries in Indonesia, arrived m Singapore today to assist in the opening of the new USIS library here During his two week stay he also will visit the USIS library which recently opened in
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      515 3 NOTICES "notice Please take notice that I, N. A. Khambaty of No. 2, Jalan Trus, Johore Bahru, have hereby :is from Ist, April, 1950 have purchased the goodwill, stock m trade, furniture, of Toko Timor No. 3, Jalnn Trus, Johore Bahru. Any person or persons having any claim on the
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    THE STRACHEY AFFAIR
    500 4 THE fuss over Mr. John Strachey, Britain's War Minister, which started off as a purely domestic political squabble, has now Income an Anglo-American issue of first-rate importance. The Beaverbrook papers started it, right after the Fuchs treason trial, by recalling Strachey's past dabblings in Communism and demanding
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    GERMANS WANT TO END THE 'WAR'
    1016 4  -  -by JACK HENRY Reuter. FRANKFURT. THE West German Government is looking to the "Big Three" Western Allies to take firm steps in the coming months to end the 11-year-old state of war with Germany. It is also hoping for discussions with the Allied High
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    HOW LIFE BEGAN
    553 4 U.P. LONDON. A THEORY that life originated on the shores of the ancient seas under conditions which can never again be duplicated is engaging the attention of British scientists today. It is regarded as one of the most interesting contribution, to science's greatest mystery in this country.
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    THERE'S A FREE MARKET IN RICE
    305 4 U.P. COLOMBO. BURMA has entered into an agreement with Cey'on to supply 90,000 tons of rice. This agreement is the result of months of negotiations between the two Governments. Mr. A. Ratnayake, Minister of Food, states that this amount of rice contracted for is
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    CHILL ON EVERY PAGE
    256 4 "4 CHILL on Every Page" <t»might be a reasonable slogan for many books, according to the Medical Press, which recently commented that now so many more books are being read in hospitals they may act as infective agents. Books, it added, might be more effective than
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    WHEN A DILLY MET A DILLY
    468 4 A.P. THE Mirror Los Angles 16-montn-oid "tabloid," newspaper, has found a way to attack those lonesome big city blues. For as little as US$2.O4. the paper will introduce you to a thousand friends and enough sweether rand prospective spouses to fa. a dozen datebooks.
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    TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST STRACHEY
    976 4  -  By JOSEPH BYNAN A.P THE HAGUE. THE current controversy over the position of the British War Minister. Mr. John Strachey. in BritishAmerican intelligence arose over the week-end while Atlantic Pact Defence Ministers were meeting here. On Friday morning a group of American correspondents
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    Cowherds Chased Three Thiefs, Caught One, Court Told
    133 5 NUMBER of Indian cowherds at the 6th milestone Yeo Chu Kang Road, were said in the Assize Court yesterday to have chased three robbers, pelted them with stones and caught one of them who was armed with a hammer. Another robber who
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    MCA OFFICIALS LEND A HAND
    54 5 IPOH. Tues. Officials of the Kinta Branch bl the M.C.A. have helped the local authorities register about 320 people in the Tambun area, who have been robbed off their identity <*ards by bandits. The new cards are to be issued at the Tambun Police Station
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    TURKO' ANSWERS ASSAULT CHARGE TO-MORROW
    210 5 "JURKO" Westerling, ex-Commando lender of the Indonesian rebel force, tho "Army of the Heavenly Host" will appear in curt tomorrow morning when Mr. H. E. Kingdon, the District Judge will resume hearing of a charge that he assaulted an Indonesian in the Central Police Station
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    GEM THIEVES GET 5 YEARS
    92 5 Two Chinese labourers. Tan Chin Hock, 20, and Tan Ah Poh. 20. found guilty of robbing a Chinese jeweiler's shop in Kampong Bahru Road on the night of Dec. 18 last, were each sentenced to five years imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thorogood in the Assize
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    OFF TO INDIA
    22 5 Mr. K.M. Oli Mohammed, a •eading Singapore jeweller and a Municipal Commissioner. left for India by Air Ceylon yesterday.
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    HINDU NEW YEAR
    24 5 It was officially announced yesterday that Hindu New Year, April 13 will be observed as a Public Holiday in Selangor State.
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    2% DIVIDEND BY TEACHERS'CO-OP
    144 5 THE Singapore English School Teachers' Coooeratlve Thrift and Loan Society Is now able to declare a two per cent, dividend on balances standing to the credit of members as at June 30, is*4y. During 1949 a total of 127.710.15 was collected Helundh amounted to $15.773.89. Balance
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    SIR FRANKLIN BACK IN HARNESS
    165 5 ROOKING very much thinner but very well. Singapore's Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, stepped off the Carthage yesterday, and \ve r .t back into harness after shaking hands with 43 V.l.P's. and inspecting a guard of honour mounted by the Malayan Naval Force. He was then
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    SARA WAK GOVERNOR TAKES OATH
    107 5 KUCHING. Tues MR. Anthony Foster Aholl was this morning installed in office as Governor of Sarawak in the Main Court loom. The oath of office was administered by the Chief Justice, Mr. R.Y. Hedges. Present at the ceremony were representatives of various communities and members
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    MUSICAL NIGHT POSTPONED
    54 5 The Musical Night yrranK"d by th" Su ro and •t*»*fast Club for tomorrow night has been postponed to next Thursday. April 13. at 8.00 p.m. at 77, Prinsep Street. Tne programme includes items by Larrv Fenton and his Tin-Can Tpledoes md Martinus and his Hwaiian Band. Admission
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    S'pore Municipality May Have Own Press
    173 5 JHE Singapore Municipality may have its own printing press if a suggestion made by Mr. G. H. Kiat (Ind. East) is approved. Mr. Kiat, in making his recommendation to a Municipal Committee, felt that although the initial cost would be high, the Municipality would,
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    They Pray To The Sea For Fish .
    111 5 They Pray To The Sea For Fish KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. KELANTAN fishermen yesterdiy prayed to the sea to return them good harvests of fish every season. And among those who saw them praying were the Tengku Makhota of Kelantan. the State Secretary, and Malay Council members. The fishermen b'ew the
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    SMC MINUTES FOR BRITAIN?
    45 5 Minutes of Municipal Commissioners' meetings may he sent to Malaya House. It was frit that since it wa« the duty of Malaya House to ■upply information to the British public on Malay m affairs, the minutes would rxuseful to answer queries'.
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    HE DID NOT RETURN HIRED BICYCLE
    98 5 Found gui.ty of breach or trust in respect of a bicycie. which he hired but lailed to return to the owner. Ng Cnee Beng. 20. WSB gaoled for «ix months m the fturd Police (Jouft yesterday. Ng's prison term Is to be supervision. He
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    3 SHOOTING OUTRAGES IN PENANG
    103 6 PENANG, Tuesday. Al> though the Anti-Bandit Month in Malaya has just ended, terrorist activities in Penahg are still ill lull swing. Three shooting outrages have occurred in Penang within a weeK, coinciding closely with the end of the Anti-Bandit Month. The latest outrage occurred last
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    RAIL DEATH
    36 6 Reuter KOBE, Tues. A Japanese railway worker when informed that be had become a father, was so overcome with happiness that 20 seconds later he stumbled under a speedy train and was killed. -Reuter.
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    WITH ONE VOICE THEY VOTE: WE DON'T WANT RED CONSUL
    378 6 PeraK And Communist China IPOH, Tuesday. WITH three abstentions, the Perak State Council this morning unanimously passed a resolution asking His Majesty's Government to "oppose the appointment of any representative of Communist China for Perak. The resolution, moved by Mr.
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    Squatters: Perak Is Spending $312,000
    167 6 IPOH, Tues. A total of $312,000 is being spent by the Perak State Government in implementing the recommendations of, the Perak State Squatter Committee. Reply ing to a question put by Mr. J. S. Ferguson, in the Perak State Council today, the Government stated there
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    EXPER T REFUTES •KILLED IN SLEEP WALK' PLEA
    360 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. THE plea that he murdered his wife in her seep by a young Chinese contractor. Chin Yong, was refuted by Dr. Manuel Cocheme. before Mr. Justice Taylor In the Selangor Assizes today. Dr. Manuel Cocheme is Medical Superintendent of
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    'Hotel' Committee: Your Views Asked
    226 6 JHE Lodging House Corrimittee set up by the Singapore Government, to enquire into the springing up of hotels in residential areas in undesirable numbers, met yesterday and decided to seek information from the public on the matter. Such information should be sent in the form
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    ONLY FORTUNE'S FAVOURITE MAKES TIME
    250 7  -  by ALBERT SPENCER The Man with 2.000 Winners IPOH, Today. NOTHING was woiked fast this morning here, most of the horses being confined to slow work. Fortune's Favourite (Wahab) was Uie oniv c.ie to make time. He ran the last three furlongs at pace work
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    Drobny. Cernik Egyptians
    58 7 A.P. NICF Tues. Jaroslav Di jbny today confirmed that he and Vladimir Cernik, former Czech tennis players, who went into selfexile, have accented Egyptian citizenship. Drobny said that henceforth he *nd Cernik would play for Egypt. However, officials of the Monte Carlo international tournament, where they are
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    S.A.'s CHAMPION JOCKEY DIES SUDDENLY
    123 7 Reuter. JOHANNESBURG. Tues.— South Africa's champion jockey, Harry "Cocky" Feldman, collapsed and died here today, after a training gallop. He went to work today on the horse he was to have ridden in the Autumn Handicap next Thursday. Returning to his home, which was near
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    DANNY O'SULLIVAN WINS FEATHER BOUT
    162 7 A.P. LONDON, Tues. Danny O'Sullivan, the British bantamweight champion, scored a narrow points decision over Bonnardel, the French featherweight champion, in a noti-title fight before 5,000 peoole at the Albert Hall tonight. O'Sullivan, at 121 %L pounds, could never make his punches count against the
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    R. VILLEMAIN OUTPOINTS OTIS GRAHAM
    45 7 U.P. PHILADELPHIA. Tues. Robert Villemain, who hopes to win the middleweight title in memory of the late Marcel Cerdan won a unanimous ten-rcund decision over Otis Graham, erstwhile Philadelphia spoiler, before an estimated 5,000 fans at the arena MondaT night.—U.P.
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    BROWN IMPRESSES K.L. TENNIS FANS
    200 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Geoff Brown, the Australian Wimbledon finalist in 1946, defeated ong Chew Bee, of Singapore, in Twa-straight sets in an exhibition tennis match on the Selangor Club Courts this evening. Partnering Goon Kok Ying I in the doubles. Brown beat Ong Chew Bee
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    MONTE CARLO LAWN TENNIS
    74 7 A.P. MONTE CARLO, lues The Americans. Budge Patty and Irwin Dorfman. lost to Mario Bellardinelli and Rolando de Bello of Italy today in the doubles tournament of the Monte Carlo tennis tournament Thf Italians won 6—l, 6 -3. 3— 6, B—6. In the singles Bellardinelli defeated
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    SANDS AND NJOO RETURN
    34 7 Alfie Sands and Bobby Njoo. ariived at the Kallang Air- port this morning. Alfie, looks extreme'y fit. It is likely that his next fight will be a return with Sompong.
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    HK BOYS WIN
    34 7 Reuter. MANILA. Tues. The visiting Hong Kong coiUgians this evening won their third straight victory since their arrival here last week, by beating Ateneo College by three goals to nil. Reuter.
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    BUSINESS HOUSES LEAGUE
    75 7 In the draw for the second round of the Busines.s Houses League the following teams wi'l play Standard Vacuum Oil or Shell S.C. vs. Hongkong Shanghai Bank S.C. or Fraser Neave (A); Chartered Bank S.C. or Malayan Airways S.C. vs. Guthrie S.C. or Borneo Motors S.C; Tiger
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    DOLLAH AND HAMID ROUT F & N 8-1
    238 7 DOLLAH AND HAMID ROUT F N 8-1 Without much exertion Uie Malaya Publishing S.C. easily trounced the Fraser Neave S.C by eight goals to two, in a Business House League match at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Dollah, the inside-left, scored four goals, and Hamid the insideright, performed the nat trick.
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    T.B.A. ATHLETIC HEATS
    138 7 The Tamil Brotherhood Ai,s«. elation will hod 1 tor the following events at Kl. Joseph s institution grounds on Saturday A>).*il 8. at ~o" a.iii. 1J« Yards: Patrick I>:.\;d; S. ti. Ka-oo; L,.onel K. K. Muthiali; S. Chandra T .Miranda. I. Falli; John James, V. Knshnamoorthy ,«fc
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    CEYLONESE RECOVER AFTER BAD START
    168 7 Reuter. MONTGOMERY. Punjab. Tues. Ceylon won the toss and decided to bat first on a matting wicket when their two-day match against the District Sports Association began here today. Scoring at the rate of a run a minute the Ceylon team hit up 236 and
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    Recs' Defence Cracks Up In Second Half
    597 7 Taking advantage of their tiring opponents in the second half, the Royal Air Foce, Seletar, went on to secure a comfortable 3 1 win over the Singapore Recreation Club in yesterday's' Singapore Amateur F. A. Senior League fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium. The
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    Dai Roes Here Tomorrow
    85 7 A.P. SYDNEY Tues.—British match play champion Dai Rees was beaten two And one here today by Australian professional golf champion Kelvin Nagle. Poor putting caused by waterlogged greens cost Rees the match. Rees, whose last match in Australia this was, leaves for home by air tomorrow.
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    S'pore Cricket XI Chosen
    140 7 rHREE century makers are included in the Singapore ciicket team to meet Selangot in the annual Easter holiday match to be played this year in Kuala Lumpur. While the side is strong in batting, judged by thos< w.io have done well in th« past few weeks,
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    D. SUPPIAH WIN T.B.A. TABLE TENNIS TITLE
    67 7 The Tamil Brotherhood Association table tennis championships were successfully concluded when D. Suppiah won the men's singles with S.K. Thomas, runner-up. S.R.S. Naidu and Joseph David won the doubles when they beat N.G. Samy and S. Chandra, and S. Krishnan won the boys'
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    MANCHESTER U TO TOUR
    67 7 A.P. MANCHESTER, Tues.— Manchester United, currently the No. 1 team in the English scccer league announced r eleven (jam: schedule for their tour ol the U.S. and Canada. The team will leave on ihe Queen Mary on May 2 and soccer league, announced an May 7.
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    FORMOSA MAY GET A TASTE OF RED BOMBS
    78 8 AIR UMBRELLAS FOR INVADERS? TAIPEH, Tuesday. THE shooting down of two Nationalist fighters over Jlangehow Bay on 1 Sunday was the first opposition Generalis imo Chiang Kai-shek's pilots have encounted in their four-year war against the Reds. Observers view this as a
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    FIFTH COLUMN SMASHED
    63 8 TAIPEI, Tues-—The Chinese Communists have a political fifth column of 20.000 men in Formosa, but this has been more or less smashed. Premier Chen Cheng on Monday told a meeting of the Kuomintang. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist party. The Communists, he said, had hoped to utilize this fifth
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    PARALYSING
    19 8 Reuter. Buenos Aires, Tues. A 48-hour seamen's strike today paralysed 98 per cent of this seaport's activities. —Reuter.
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    MENTAKAB RED DENS BLITZED
    271 8 Tribune Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. DRIGANDS, Tempests and Spitfires today launched a series of attacks on bandit hide-outs in the Mentakab area. While Spitfires and Tempests blitzed the valley and the surrounding hi !?ide with rockets and machine-gun fire, the Brigands carried out low level
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    ANOTHER LABOUR CASUALTY
    62 8 Reuter. LONDON, Tues.—The Bri. malcrity in the House of Commons diepped temporarily to two lonlght w?ien Labour Member of Parliament. Mr. James Glanville, was tf'ten to hospital witn a fractured skull. He was injured during a fall from a tramcar last nl-'V There are now three Socia
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    SECOND MEET WITHIN WEEK
    60 8 Reute. WASHINGTON, Tues Secretary tf State Dear. Achcson, and his chief aa"***rn «n the Far E*st rpet today for the second time (cam a week with Congressional Fore. e n Policy leaders to review t ie American oui- »0. i' East Asia Last week they reviewed
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    BLAST KILLS 4
    19 8 Reuter. Stevenson, Ayr, Scotland, Tues.«—Four women workers died tonight following an explosion at a chemical ractor\.—Reuter.
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    'Pilots Were Russians'
    51 8 AN air headquarters spokesman said today that A the Russian built planes which shot down the two Chinese Nationalist fighters were undoubtedly operated by Russians. The spokesman said the planes "were definitely of Russian manufacture," and added: "Judging from their technique, they most certainly were manned by
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    HAINAN EXPECTS A RED ASSAULT SOON
    284 8 U.P.. A.P.. UAINAN reports said today that the Chinese Nationalists began battening down their defences in anticipation of an all-out Communist assa ilt which some observers believed, might be made this month. Authorities ordered all lights out after 8 p.m. and theatres ant* other
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    'Kremlin Using Nazi Tactics'
    90 8 Reuter. LONDON Tues. UNITED States m b n i dittmer lor Germany toon J. ftccCloy, uuiig.. actus'd th.' Kremlin seeking to widen the EastWest ;_a> in Germany Nazi tac ics But he gave this pledge: The Communis s will no succud in tasin, r over the
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    GLASGOW DOCTOR DIES OF SMALLPOX
    94 8 U.P. GLASGOW, Ties. Roya. An Force plane i flew rnorv man 300.000 jnits A small p<-x vaccine to txihy to help build jp stocks fcr possible mass immunization in Western Scotland. An 11-month-old girl died of smallpox on Monday night onnging to two the death
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    Political Feelings Run High In Indonesia
    179 8 Reuter. MACASSAR, Tues. THE East Indonesian authorities will take strong measures to prevent disturbances here tomorrow when an 'uninvited" battalion of Indonesian Federal troops land here from the Federal capital. Djakarta. Political feeling here was running high today, with the East Indonesians continuing to
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    Move To Protect Bengal Minorities
    262 8 Reuter. NEW DELHI, Tuesday. Discussions between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan which continued here today are understood to have covered the question of instituting machinery in East and West Bengal and Assam for implementation of the general understanding reached between the two Governments
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    TRUMAN IS IN THE DARK
    55 8 KEYWEST, Florida. Tues. —President Truman has no knowledge whatever of the existence of any type of "flying saucers." Defence Secretary Louis Johnson said that he would like to have a few squadrons of "flying saucers" to strengthen the Air Force. He said he is satisfied
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    FOREIGN FIRMS EASED OVER BONDS ISSUE
    115 8 Reuter. HONGKONG. Tues.—The J Foreign Affairs section of the Canton Municipal Government has told the Canton Victory Bond Sales i Commission and the Tax Bureau that they should not approach foreign firms directly, according to reports reaching Hongkong. This has eased the pressure on
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    FROM MINISTERS TO AMBASSADORS
    54 8 A.P. LONDON. Tues.- The Soviet Union and the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia) have raised their diplomatic representatives frenv ministers to ambassadors, a Tass dispatch from Moscow said today. Tass said the ministers promoted to ambassadors are Yuri Prikhodov. representing Russia at Ulan Batoi. and Idamzhabo,
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    MOVE VOTING
    29 8 A.P. LONDON. Tues. An election to AT the first vacancy in Britain's now evenly balanced Parliament will be held in the Neepsend division ot Sheffield tomorrow. A.P.
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    REVOLUTION IN RED ALBANIA
    156 8 A.P. ROiMK Tuesday. A REVOLT against Russian domination has broken out in the ranks of Albania's Communists, informed Albanian exiles said today. They said Albania's Mop-cow-trained strong man, Interior Ministei Mehmet Shehu is waging a ruthless purge of "TrotskyiUs and nationalists" in an efTort to crush
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    HO CHI MINH HAS A 'WHITE ARMY'
    213 8 A.P. I ANGSON, NORTH INDO-CHINA, 'lues were reported today to be with th? Com iiunist-led Vietminh army sains' French forces in Indo-China Vi-tminh sources said they have been formed into a "white commando battalion" and Frencn troops were being asked to join by
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    $ RESERVES UP 296 MILLIONS
    139 8 RESERVES UP 296 MILLIONS Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—Britain's gold and dollar reseive rose by $296 million dollars in the first three months of this year. Parliament was told today. Sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of the Exchequer, giving a statement on the nation's gold and dollar position, told a cheering House that'
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    SIR GERARD TO LEAD COLONIAL RUBBER GROUP
    97 8 A.P. LONDON. Tues.—The British Colonial Office named permanent Under-Secreta-ry of State Sir Gerard Clausen today to lead the colonial delegation to the meeting of the Rubber Study Group which opens in Brussels on May 2. Others will be J. A. E Morley. delegate;
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    WANTS U.K. TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
    87 8 Reuter. WHITLEY BAY. NORTHUMBERLAND. Tues. The Britain's "splinter Independent labour party, from which the main labour movement sprang, mdl call on the Government declare now mat Britain will be neutral in any resolutioi. ai us annual conference her». this week-end in future wo W conflict,"
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    HO'S SAIGON STRIKE CALL IGNORED
    71 8 U.P. SAIGON. Tues. Stores weie opening normally and taxis running aj usual today despite a rcbel-oidered general strike. Only a few shops were closed in response to the strike ordered by the Vietminh rebel radio. The Central Market was normally active. Some obseivers said the
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    NEW A-PLANT
    36 8 Reuter. LONDON. Tues.—Britain is to build a new atomic energy establishment, it was officially announced here today. The Ministry of Supply said that it would be con structed at Aldermaston. near Reading. Berkshire.— Reuter.
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    LONDON SHARES
    156 8 Reuter. L0N1X3N. Tue-=. handful ot priee recorded by domes" ir I 'on Stock da v. The«»e p-rp.ri'lv minor character mrl o i%'e the markets a ,j,,, n)f> tre~d. Oversee* issues provided (i interest nnd M*Ment, slo-"5:s responded ith to Kmc *nd n hi' I iiie overni"h» s<i?>irt|i Street
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL.
    158 8 MLR RI LADS MlsK .\sv 0 CIATION: Annual Gensral Meeting at 25. Sea Avenue at H Y.M.C.A.: Combined Y staff meeting 9 a.m. up» n t?nn tournament, cri< k*t r.et prac;,., volley ball badminton I ;.n French. Malay Classes 5.3<» p.m. Y.M.C.A. ar club general meetimr
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    CINEMA
    121 8 CATHAY: "The Great I,u at 11. 1.43. 4.15. 6.45 an J 5» 3" p.m. CAPITOL: "Bagdad" at 11. 1.45. 4. B.30. and 9 30 p.i.-i. ALHAMKRA: "I w as r-t inal" and "God's Country" a' 1.1 ,4.15. S.$. antL 9.30 p.m REX: "Bakti" 'Malay) a> 11 1.45. 4. 6.30
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    40 8 NOICLK: Snr. Ige: K<-ia Ku.a v. Indian R.C. at Jf.la.n B<-ar Jnr. A1: Customs v KAI'C N*« Soon at Gey lan g: jnr. L'l Spore Dift. Sis. Resi. v. 61 C'ov. RA. <GT> at CYJ4A. TENNIS: Y MCA championships.
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