Malaya Tribune, 16 January 1951

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    53 1 MALAYA TRIBUNE l>L0?I.x' k07x 7ll« z f- THAN ANY M i AFTERNOON 3 I PAPER IN j j| t«ls "Tribune' S pore. Published simultaneously at Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh aid Penang. Phone: 5811 W nine lines. Six Pages SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1951 PRICE TEN CENTS. THE MALAYA TRIBUNE THURSDAY,
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    REDS WITHIN 50 MILES OF TAEGU
    516 1 Threat To Wonju Supply Reuter-AAP. TOKIO, Monday. POMMUNISTS driving down from the snowcovered hills of central Korea reached within 50 miles of Taegu, United Nations Headquarters in the southeast today. They attacked or threatened at least three points on the main supply road to
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    West Drop Far East From Big 4 Agenda
    208 1 U.P. LONDON. Mon. roRMED sources said today three Western Irs have dropped plans to Far East in the <: proposed Four wz with Russia, ley said however, that the > Britain and £c will insist that the Foreign Minis- talks should not
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    SOEKARNO OFFERS TO QUIT
    171 1 U.P. JAKARTA, Monday. INDONESIAN Preside nt Achmed Soekarno said today that he is prepared to retire from office if the people had decided that he had not acted properly in the New Guinea dispute with Holland. In an extemporaneous speech at a press dinner tonight, the
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    Mr. Nehru In Mud With Town Shoes
    162 1 Reuter. LONDON, Monday. MR Jawaharlal Nehru. Prime Minister of India, and Mr Sidney Holland, New Zealand Prime Minister, ploughed through mud inches deep here today when they visited the 1951 festival of Britain site on the Thames south bank. Mr. Holland borrowed a
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    War Can Be Avoided —Lie
    104 1 A.P. GENEVA. Mon.-Mr. Trygve Lie Secretary-General of the United Nations, said today he was "convinced that a general war will be avoided and that the good sense of the leaders of the world will prevail. Mr Lie, who has been visiting Geneva for three days
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    U.S. SENDS TANKS INTO BERLIN
    140 1 U.P. BERLIN, Mon. rpHE United States army threw 1 tank reinforcements into Berlin today in answer to Bus sian traffic restrictions viewed aa a threat of a new MM bl big tanks rolled into West Berlin;, t SSSewald station as allied offl- cials met to
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    HIT BY RUSSIAN MINE
    20 1 hlows un in a Korean harbour. The USA Navy, in releasfnftC frttES* contact mtW-mi Photo. pb..i<».
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    More Gurkha Police For The Colony
    136 1 STOP PRESS (Tribune Staff Reporter) ARRANGEMENTS are being made to 'increase considerably the st renpnoi A contingent of the Singapore Police-force This was disclosed in a Government reply to Mr. A McLeimn at tne merwn X of the Legislative Council this morning. The Government
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    DRINKING DEBT
    81 1 VIENNA. Monday Tne coffee houses of old Vienna have a drinking debt to the United States. For years since the war, thc.r waiters often have been able to offer only a tasteless ersatz coffee. This replaced the thou- sand brands and flavours which I made the Vinnese coffee
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    TURKEY ROUNDS UP REDS
    45 1 Istanbul, Turkey, Mon. Police announced today that a round-up of Communists began over the weekend here with the arrest of 35 civilians, two army officers and the search of a number of houses. More arrests are expected to follow further searches.
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    COL MAY BE REVIEWED
    50 1 The Government is considering the appointment of a committee to review the cost of living allowances in conjuction with the Government of the Federation of Malaya. This was revealed in a reply to Mr. Thio Chan Bee at the meeting of the Legislative Council this morning.
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    SAFETY RECORD
    39 1 AP. PITTSBURGH. Mon. The United States Steel Corporation claims that an all-time safety record for the entire American steel industry has been set by one of its subsidiaries, the National Tube Co.. at Ellwood City. Pennsylvania. -AP.
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    JUDICIAL OFFICER TO HEAD INQUIRY
    204 1 Tribune Staff Reporter f OVERNOR Sir Franklin Gimson announced at the meeting of the Legislative Council this morning that the terms of reference of the Commission of Enquiry into the recent riots will be as follows: "To enquire into and report on the recent disorders
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    Exercises
    42 1 HONGKONG, Monday. Police and Military forces in Hongkong will begin large scale exercises here tomorrow, to test co-operation in case of an emergency, it was officially announced here today. The exercises will be carried on throughout tomorrow night, ending on Wednesday.
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    French Blunt Big Vietminh Offensive
    303 1 U.P. SAIGON, Monday. POMMUNIST-led Vietminh forces hurled at least L five battalions at one tiny French outpost today in a mounting offensive aimed at the strategic northern capital of Hanoi. The French High Command said that wnn "massive" air support, the defenders blunted the attack.
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    BRIGAND CREW DEAD
    58 1 TROOPS who at first light to day were at the scene of last Thursday's R.A.F. Brigand crash in Pahang, reported by radio that all three of the plane's crew are dead. Two lost their lives in the aircraft when it crashed during an air-strike, and the third
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    Reds 'Haven't Padlocked Churches'
    87 1 THE Chinese Communist government has not padlocked the doors of Christian Churches, an Episcopalian bishop said yesterday although it has imposed many hampering restrictions. The Right Reverend Tsu Yu. former Bishop of Yun Kwei. Yunan Province, said that Churches in his homeland were allowed to continue
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    Mysterious Blaze
    65 1 AP. BUENOS AIRES, Monday.— A mysterious Are destroyed part of the big. Americanowned Swift and Company meat-packing plant at Perisso. 20 miles south of Buenos Aires. The police arrested an undisclosed number of persons for questioning as a rumour of sabotage spread. Swift's is the largest of the
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    CHINESE HELP
    622 2 fHINESE leaders in the Federation are reported to be forwarding certain proposals to the Government which will not only identify the community more closely with the anti-bandit campaign but also assist in bringing about a speedier conclusion of the crisis. Among the proposals which are reported to be
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    PUSH BUTTON WAR IS ONLY ANSWER TO ANY RED INVASION
    1025 2 AP. FRANKFURT. A push button mechanical war may be the only an- swer the West can make against an attack of eastern t hordes led by Russia. j Some military men—both German and Allied—studying the Korean campaign are j beginning
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    MAKING MAPS FOR THE WORLD
    267 2 SCIENTIFIC, political and 1 physical information about j I every place in the world flow* into the British map-making institutes. Swiftly changing world conditions keep the modern cartographers busy; but it is just these changes that help to make this business a flourishing one. Faster
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    The Week At Westminster
    1054 2  -  By ERNEST ATKINSON LONDON, Monday. PARLIAMENT Is to meet again on January 23. It will be a gathering anxious to hear what guidance the Government may be able to give lo the nation on international affairs as well as on the important matters of domestic policy
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    THE OTHER DALAI LAMA WHO FLED LHASA
    779 2 A.P. NEW DELHI. SHOULD the Dalai Lama have to escape from Lhasa he j would follow an example of his j immediate predecessor who twice fled from Tibet's holy city to avoid invading armies —once from the British and once from the Chinese.
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    Through Chinese Eyes
    187 2 I What the tmwm\ Pre* THE Nanyang Siang P 4U supports the effort* 0 Z Chung Cheng High S£ in establishing US learning' classes for m duates. m The paper says that it i. encouraging proof that the Chinese in Malaya are con clous of the need
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    U.S. May Cut Copper Tax
    89 2 A.P. WASHINGTON. M^n A RENEWED drive is under way in the US. Congre* to suspend the two mm copper tariff. There are indications, a. some of those who opposed the suspension at tne lasi session may change their position because of the nr i emergency.
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    ACE REPORTER SLATES MacARTHUR'S BLUNDERS
    223 3 NEW YORK, Monday. A PULITZER prize winning war correspondent Homer Bigart of the New Y&gt;frk Herald Tribune said today that General Douglas MacArthur made a "momentous blunder" in Korea and that the nation can no longer afford to "string along" with him. "Mac Arthur grossly
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    Governor Was At Cathedral
    175 3 THE Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, attended the special service, at the Cathedral yesterday to mark the opening of the first session of the Criminal Assizes. Among the others present were the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley, Mr. Justice Brown, the AttorneyGeneral, Mr. E. J. Davies, the
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    SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG ARE FREE
    299 3 lUST retired after twenty-eight years in the J Education Department, Mr. T. ft. Rowell, Director of Education, Hongkong, arrived in Singapore yesterday on board the Perseus, on his way home to England. Mr. Rowell, who is accompanied by his wife, said that schools and
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    RAMAKRISHNA NIGHT SCHOOLS
    34 3 The English Night School for adults was reopened on January 8 at the Ramakrishna Mission. 9 Norris Road. Students seeking admission should Immediately join, as accommodation in classes is very lim'tec-
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    COURTS MUST BE RESPECTED SAYS CHIEF JUSTICE
    487 3 A CALL to respect the authority of the law was A made by the Chief justice, Sir Charley MurrayAynsley, opening the first session of the Criminal I Assizes for the current year* yesterday. "The liberty Of the public which we so much prize
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    COLD AT CHANGI
    66 3 DURING Sunday* torrential rain, the R.A.F Weather Station at Changi recorded the unuiually low afternoon temperature Of 70.3 deg. F. Maximum day temperature was only 73 deg.—ten degrees below average. The cooling effect of the continual downpour of rain plus thii:ened screening the sun Is the weather
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    PURSUED STONED PURSUERS-Court Told
    147 3 PURSUED STONED PURSUERS- Court Told A CHINESE lorry driver, Tan See Chong, told the A Singapore Relief Court magistrate yesterday th.t in r»r 11— Singapore's night of riots—3o Malays armed with staves and bottles took his lorry J I away from him. Then Inspector A. oopaian. for the prosecution said
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    Along The Godowns
    60 3 Wosang (44) Landbrii (ESADE). Lipis (Sheers), City of Liverpool (42/3), Kepong ?40). BVuas (41). Pjrseus (38/9), Benattow (36), Madorea (33/4). Japan (31/2). Benvenue (17/18), 8 H.JB. Craft (19/30). Charles McLeod (21/2). Merkur (23/4), Muswell Hill r/iV; Katong (29/30). Tantalus (15/ Ti) Querimba (13/14). Korea Si) Charon (8/9).
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    BUBLA BALLET COMING HERE
    174 3 r)ER the Management of Frantisek Bubla the Ballet headed by the Btar of th; Ihow Dagmar Beranckova. wij arrive in Singapore tomorrow. The other members of the Ballet are Alena Vltasckova. Yarmila Havelova anfl Renata Fldrova. Their nationality li Csechoslovaiilan but they lea the!" corntry before
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    Man Freed In Car Fire Case
    297 3 A YOUNG Hainanse, Niam Chong Ngak, who was accused of setting fire to a yellowtop taxi on Sept. 29 last, was discharged in the Assise Court yesterday. The jury returned an unanimous verdict of not guilty against Niam. The taxi was valued at $2,700.
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    SCHOOL INSPECTOR FACES CBT CHARGE
    236 3 MALACCA, Monday. C D Augustine, Assistant inspsctor of Indian Schools was tried today in the Malacca H.gn Court before Mr. Justice Abbott and a common jury on two charges of criminal breach of trust of two sums of money, $47.52 and $31.68. Mr Hugh Shepherd,
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    BUSINESSMAN FINED
    32 3 HWANG Mm Hai was fined $50 for exporting two dozen phials of Streptomycin last March. He was fined another $50 for having no licence in the Third Police Court yesterday.
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    Back From 1 Hunt For Talent
    117 3 MR B S. Rajhans Film Director of Shaw Brothers I Malay Film Productions ComI pany has just returned from a talent and location search in the Federation of Malaya and Sumatra. The main object of the trip was to find actors and actresses for
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    FIRST WOMAN JUROR
    56 3 FOR the first time in the annals of Singapore High Court a woman served as a juror in the Criminal Assize Court yesterday. She is Mias P. H. V:e, clerk typist at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Miss Lee told the Tribune that she found the
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    RHEUMATICS EXPERT HERE
    64 3 DR. Karl Gusyaf Ailing, Chairman of the Federation of Swedish Employers and an expert in occupational disease arrived here yesterday on his way to Japan. Dr. Ailing came to last in 1949. to study and report on rheumatic diseases in the East, and the only country he
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    THREE JAPS FOR BELGIUM
    49 3 Bound for Brussels on the East Asiatic ship, the Ceylon, which is in Singapore now are Mr. S. Yaßono and his staff of three other Japanese, who are going to Belgium, to take up their new posts as Representatives of the Japanese Government's Overseas Agency.
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    London Stocks Firmer
    147 4 Reuter. LONDON, Mon.—An undercurrent of firmness persisted on the London stock market today but early promise of fair activity was not fulfilled. Tnis resulted in some interim advances being pared before tne close. 1 Oil shares were very firm before they met some profittaking that left most
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    HONGKONG EXCHAINGE
    31 4 U.P. HONGKONG. Mon. THE following were today s closing prices on the Hongkong Money Exchange: HK55.92/5.91 per U.S. dollar. HK515.40 per pound streling. HKJ333.5 per tael of gold.— U.P.
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    New York Stocks Spurt
    88 4 A.P. NEW YORK. Mon. STOCK prices closed at or near the peak of an mP*~noon rally on Monday after a spell of m»n uj i forenoon. Principal factor in the advance was Truman's budget message to Congress which blueprint a U5571,594 000,000 spending programme for the
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    He Takes Pictures Wherever He Goes
    205 4 A PASSENGER on the maiden voyage of me A Swedish East Asiatic cargo/passenger imer, Japan, Nils Nilsson, a 21-year-old e la^ r e iv p a^ ot -eraoker from Stockholm, said on arrival in Spore yesterday ™%jM^«»^ m business with pleasure. He is on
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    LIGHTERAGE RATES
    30 4 PENANG. Mon. THE Penang and Province Weilesley Employers* AsI sociation has urged all its members not to accept the proI posed 25 per cent increase in lighterage rates.
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    Rubber Firm
    117 4 The rubber commodity market was very firm yesterday rising from 211 cents for January at the close of last week to 219 cents buyers at the close of market yesterday. Hongkong was buying in the market and hopes were generally raised by the vast budget Truman was expected
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    London Tin, And Rubber
    49 4 A.P. LONDON. Mon.—The London Tin Market was steady. Spot: £1,200—£1.195. Three months £1.190— £1.195. Total sales 240 tons. The Rubber Market was quiet. No. 1 RSS. Settlements: Spot: 61 62 Feb. 60» 4 d.—60*d Mar. 59U&lt;i»—593*u. Apr./ June: 57' 4 d.—57«*d. July Sept.: 53d.—53»4d. AP
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    RUBBER GODOWN FIRED
    35 4 PENANG. Mon. THE Tai Hock rubber factory and godown at the junction of Sungei Pinang Road and Jelutong Road was burnt by arsonists during the weekend Damage is estimated at over $2.000.000\
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    POLICE ALL THE SAME
    51 4 Reuter. ADELAIDE. AN Adelaide motorist attracted by the cries of an elderly man in the grip of three burly young men, threatened to I call police. He wm ignored. Hoßtf'e. he watched the old mail haultd to a waiting car—property of the South Australian police department
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    Shares Firm
    256 4 SINGAPORE, Monday. THE share market opened the week on an optimistic note and snares improved in most cSfes throughout the list especially in tin and rubber Sh The S following were the day's price changes: e preT'* igf 2 1 i|° Henry Waugh 2.07* 2.15 H kone S
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    1,000 Homeless
    46 4 UP. MANILA, Monday.—A woman was burned to death. 1.000 persons were left homeless with the destruction of 250 houses and heavy property damage was caused by a fire which swept through the town of Lupao in Nueva Ecija province. 75 miles north of Manila.—UP-
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    TRUMAN TABLES PAY-AS-YOU-GO DEFENCE BUDGET
    456 6 UP. WASHINGTON, Monday. PRESIDENT Truman sent Congress today a "payr as-you-go" crisis budget calling for 000,000 expenditure, mostly tor combating Russian aggression and a record-breaking $16,500,000,000 increase in taxes. cnpndini? He told a press conference that the spending go even higher and require a tax
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    ATTLEE MEETS NEHRU, LIAQUAT
    178 6 U.P. LONDON. Monday. PRIME Minister Clement Attlee called India's Pandit Nehru and Pakistan s Liaquat Ali Khan to a special meeting at his country residence. Chequers, on Sunday in a lastminute effort to settle the two nations' dispute over Kashmir. Reliable sources said the dispute between
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    Another Call For Break With Russia
    144 6 A.P. WASHINGTON, Monday. OPENING another round in the great debate over U.S. foreign policy, Senator Styles Bridges (Republican, New Hampshire), urged the United States to break diplomatic relations with Russia. In a speech, prepared for delivery from the Senate floor, he said the nation
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    KOH MIN UNIT SOCIETY OFFICIALS
    87 6 MR. Yeo Sieow Fan was appointed president of the Koh Mm Unit Progressive So- I ciety recently. Others included: Lai Mun Fong, vice-president; Yee Peng Hong, honorary treasurer; Chun Gong Yew. honorary secretary; j Chan Cheong Yew, vice secretary; Leong Pang Lin. vice sec- I
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    NO ATOM BOMB, SAY AUSSIES
    44 6 Reuter— AAP. MELBOURNE, Mon. Two out of three Australians think their soldiers and airmen should continue to fight in Korea, according to a straw poll. They are also against bombing Manchuria and use of atom bomb on China.—Reuter —AAP.
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    Britain Will Double Defence Spending
    198 6 U.P. LONDON. Monday. THE fcritish have told Atlantic Pact commander 1 Gen Eisenhower that they are ready to return to semi-wartime economy and about double their defence spending on the armed services and arms mised four divisions for his international army. It was the first
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    ATTEMPTED ROBBERY-CHARGE
    47 6 MALACCA. Mun. THREE young Chinese. Wong Ah Choy. Chin Kwle Pow and Soo Ah Teng. were charged In the Sessions Court with attempted robbery at the Kubu Stadium by threatening Tan Keng Poh with a 1 dummy pistol. The case was postponed to Jan. 20.
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    BCG EXPERTS IN MALACCA
    48 6 MALACCA. Mon. DR. Bos Hansen and two sisters, who are now in Malaya to instruct local teams i 4 i B.C.G. vaccination, will arrive in Malacca on Jan. 21. They are expected to s*art training local doctors ln the first week of next month.
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    BORDER SKIRMISH
    33 6 Reuter. GOETTINGEN. Mon THE west German customs authorities reported that they fought a gun battle near the Anglo-Soviet zonal fron tier at Reifenhausen, late last night with East German border police.—Reuter.
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    DAKOTA STILL MISSING $25,000 REWARDS For INFORMATION
    399 6 THE names of the seven passengers of the Sin* pore Standard Dakota, which has been missb!" in the Kota Bahru area since last Saturday we announced last night. Among them is: Mr. Aw Hoe. mana-'n* director of the Singapore Standard and the s
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    RAU FOR LONDON
    31 6 Reuter. NEW iORK. Mon. SIR BENEGAL RAU left for London today for talks with Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru. It would be just a .general consultation, he said.— Reuter.
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    YOUNGEST BRIDE WAS ONLY 13
    84 6 1» 1 Statistician said the ,J '«ge age at which Aunrrt marry becoming lower SSI year. In 1938 the averag, tralian bachelor gav e ud t right at 28 and took a bride an average age of 24 In ten years hi? }mm became weaker
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    WHAT'S ON TODAY GENERAL
    65 6 LEGISLATIVE COPBTflL- i&gt; tona Memorial Hall. 10 ».m. Y.W.C.A.: Mandarin advanrM class. 10.30 a.m.. Town Pion~ri annual meeting. 3 p.m.. Ch !n e* literature. 3 p.m. Y.M.C.A.: Malay rlaw 5.10 p.m frst-a;d class. 5.45 p.m.. Kymnarni and keep-fit class. 6 n.m CHINESE Y.M.C.A.: bodv Im.-ld-injr. 5.30
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    CINEMA
    93 6 f ATM AT: "Terang Fulan" (Malay) at 11, 1.45, 4.15. «.15 and 9.30 j. m ALHAMBBA: "Sierra Sue' and "Last Front er Uprising" 1.45 4.15 6.45 and 9.30. PAVILION: "Oolden Salamander'* at 2. 4.15. 6.30 and 9 30 p.m. CAPITOL: "The Biak Rose" at 11. 1.45, 4 0(1. 6.30
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