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The Straits Budget
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Title Section32 1948-03-04 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES [ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY 1 ft Series No. 83. Singapore Thursday, March 4th, 1948 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 sh.32 words
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Advertisement62 1948-03-04 1 The SINGAPORE FREE PRESS has the largest nett sale of any afternoon newspaper published in Malaya The Singapore Free Press is the oldest established newspaper in Singapore. It recommenced publication in May 1946 and its smart presentation of news has made an immediate appeal to the reading public. For advertising62 words
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Article1118 1948-03-04 2 —Straits Times Feb. 26. Contemporary and topical affairs are the proper meat for the editorial columns of a daily newspaper, but local history is one of the components of the civic spirit, and there are very few citizens of present-day Singapore who know what little is—Straits Times Feb. 26. - 1,118 words
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Article1133 1948-03-04 2 —Straits Times Feb V. The official despatches of Lieut.-General A. E. Percival, who was General Officer Commanding during the Malayan Campaign, have at last been released for publication. The despatches do not contain any of the sensational charges or bitter criticisms which it has been repeatedly—Straits Times Feb V. - 1,133 words
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Article1157 1948-03-04 2 —Straits Times F:b. 28. This week should not b< allowed to end without a m.*fl protest from Singapore, vo.c more in sorrow than in anger at some unkind remarks about this Settlement that were made by a spokesman of a siste* Settlement at the innugu meeting—Straits Times F:b. 28. - 1,157 words
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Article1029 1948-03-04 3 —Straits Times, Mar. 1. One of the points in General Percival’s report on the Malayan campaign which must have struck readers of all communities in this country is the conclusion which he reaches in his review of the civil population from the military point of view—Straits Times, Mar. 1. - 1,029 words
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Article1061 1948-03-04 3 Straits Times, Mar. 2 There is one more dispatch on the Malayan campaign yet to be published. But it is one that will never be published. We have had the dispatches of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, Lord Wavell, General Percival and Air Marshal Sir Paul Maltby, and the AdmiraltyStraits Times, Mar. 2 - 1,061 words
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Article1062 1948-03-04 4 -Straits Times, Mar 3 Before the Percival dispatch on the Malayan campaign is finally put away in the archives, and before those of us who lived through the fall of Singapore and the Japanese occupation finally say goodbye to all that, there is one footnote-Straits Times, Mar 3 - 1,062 words
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Article284 1948-03-04 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 TWO Selangor bus companies give their music wherever they go and are making if dividends. They have installed radios in their hi^ It began as an afterthought by one company Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Port Swettenham Comm which installed a set merely284 words
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Article139 1948-03-04 4 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. rE 28-years-old block of flats at Wilkie Road, Singapore, known as Sophia Flats, was yesterday sold for $122,000 at the saleroom of Nassim Co. Ltd. The property was sold subject to existing tenancies. At present prices, it would cost $300,000 to build139 words
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Article92 1948-03-04 4 A permanent branch of -.ns Hoyal Army Service Corps Association has been now formed in Singapore, with its office at the Supplies and Transport Directorate G.H.Q., Tanglin Barracks. The Association was formed in 1927 for the benefit of the past and serving members of the R.A.S.C.92 words
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Article45 1948-03-04 4 BORN 29/2 48 at Kandaa Kerbau Hospital Peter Nico son o' O. Altona and H G AltonaAlley. JOHNSON-HILL At Penan* Maternity Hospital on Feb 24th to Pamela (nee Walden* wife j! Gerald Johnson-Hill of Sabrar.; Estate, Teluk Anson. A son Michael Angrave. Both well45 words
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Article132 1948-03-04 4 JACKSON—McCormick Hi engagement is announced between Roland RofTev. younger son of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. H C Jackson of Peterborough. England anc Gloria Joan, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J McCormick at Rawang and Svdnev. EE TUNG. The engagement L c announced between Tun Lock youngest132 words
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Article59 1948-03-04 4 .T1.1IVIU.1UI..' ARTHUR TITE YVONMCHANEY. Married quietly. Singapore. 24th February. 1948 ANTHONY HENG YECK HlAllately of Borneo and Lucy Bong Neo were married m Church of St. Peter St. on 13.1.48. Reverend Father Becheras officiated. b LOVE-SHEPPARD On <tn r* ruary. 1948. at St. Peters. Street. London. John M.C.S., of59 words
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Advertisement42 1948-03-04 4 STRAITS BUDGET. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Quarterly Half-Yearly Yearly (ALL THE (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) nirf fjr. EmP ir Singapore Malaya Town Area (Including Postage 1 No Postage 5.20 5.60 10.40 11.20 20.80 22.40 ABOVE ARE IN STRAITS CURRE* porfi* n In0 ludi^ 6.00 12.0042 words
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Obituary52 1948-03-04 4 DEATHS PHARAOH. On Februan suddenly at CAYTON. BLA POOL. VIOLET i j beloved wife of MAJOR PHARAOH, late S.S.V.F. rHAKAUn. late o.o.v OBITUARY: At Batavia 6^ s Huibje—infant son of W Rd Jan R. Speyer, 99 CavrnwJ POOPALANPATHY-Thir j of Dr. K. Kiramathypath} 0 P in1 in an accident. Burial52 words
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Article1252 1948-03-04 5 “BLAMING THE BRITISH” l/OUK ivply to my letter IY nublished on Feb. 16 IJJ?“ that AMCJAf li T E R A propaganda Invctod towards the Malays is telling them that t, c British regime delibe.ltt>lv failed to associate j„. n i with the modern jcoiinmic development of1,252 words
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463 1948-03-04 5 IN your issue of Feb. 23, “A Japanese Interpreter.” under the heading. ‘‘A JAPANESE ON KOREA,” volunteers a few examples of how Korea fared better after her an nexation by Japan. I do not profess to have more than an elementary knowledge of463 words
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414 1948-03-04 5 AS a Malay and a son ofi the soil, I strongly appose Mr. Heah Joe Siang’s article which appeared in the Straits Times on Feb. 26. Mr. Heah says in the last paragraph of his article to all appearances, il seems to be that414 words
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150 1948-03-04 5 DR. Linehan’s addition to your remarks, on the photograph of the kramat on Fort Canning prompts me to add a story current among Malays since the J apanese surrender, i. e. that at first the barracks built by Malaya Command were occupied by Japanese150 words
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Article63 1948-03-04 5 IN your editorial “ON FINLAYSON GREEN’* dealing with the relationship between traffic congestion and skyscrapers in Finlayson Green, you omitted to mention one partial solution to the problem, which is, to require the ground floor 01 all new buildings in the town area above four storeys high63 words
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Article40 1948-03-04 5 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mar. 2.— The Sultan and Sultanah of Johore have accepted the Invitation of the Ceylon Independence Celebration Committee to dinner at the Royal Johore International Club on Thursday.40 words
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Article, Illustration1817 1948-03-04 6 titan djek - A Malayan Countrymans Diary titan djek. I OOKING out of the window of an ear !y morning, my eyes are gladdened by the sight 0 1 our first plantings of bananas. The banana plant, oi tree, is a beautiful sigh* for the first twelve months of its life,1,817 words
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247 1948-03-04 7 In the historical study which i s reviewed in our leading article on Feb. 26. Dr. W. Linehan says that this Malay shrine in the old European cemetery on Fort Canning Hill is “probably the memorial of the founder of ancient Singapore” whether this is so or not, it is247 words
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1113 1948-03-04 7 HE AH JOO SEANG - By HE AH JOO SEANG, A Former President of the Straits Chinese British Association, Penang. v a number of the Straits-born Chin:r.m unity I wish voice my protest at •He manner in which •y community has Oven treated in the leading up to Federation of1,113 words
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Article222 1948-03-04 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUIt, Feb. 25. THE death penalty for carrying arms was passed on a 22-year-old Chinese, Wong Hing (alias Wong Hean) in the Selangor Assize Court today. He was found guilty of carrying two handgrenades and attempting to use them at the222 words
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Article164 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A SINGAPORE detective on Tuesday night shot dead a Chinese gunman in a fight in Guillemard Road. The dead man is Wong Kooi Fon, 26. believed to be a robber He died in the General Hospital at 3 am. yesterday after being wounded in164 words
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Article99 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Two decrees nisi were Ri -nted at the Singapore High Court yesterday. The Chief Justice, Singapore (Mr. Justice MurrayAynsley) granted Mrs. Kathleen Davies a decree nisi to be made absolute in three months, when she petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Mr.99 words
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Article75 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE. Feb. 26. Sixteen employees of the Indian Bank Ltd. in Singapore held a one-hour token strike yesterday in protest against the management’s refusal to increase wages and allowances. A spokesman for the employees said they had been pressing for better conditions since 1946. All would now join75 words
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137 1948-03-04 8 OEVFNTV Tuner SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. S fr„m T HJ HRE E Chinese illegal immigrants Kuantan a "fortnight ago° have'been ‘brought* to ?he men are'beingVept vessel Re^ng. on St. John’s Island by the Immigration authorities until they can be returned to Hainan by the first137 words
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Article222 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. MK. Justice Thorogood in Singapore High Court yesterday gave Mr. cap Lian Seng and three others possession of a house and premises at Meyer Road occupied by VT- A' l Far East (Air Marshal Sir Hugh Lloyd). Tiie possession order stipulated that222 words
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Article401 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. British Commonwealth of Nations was one of the most potent factors in the world today in the maintenance of peace, the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) said at a meeting of the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. The ideals for which the Commonwealth stood, said401 words
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Article, Illustration307 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE, Feb A NATIVE left Singapore a. for 6 M^ 6lla f Melbourne, bean™ a Malayan Governnw guarantee that lie i s a fi and proper immigrant f 0 i Australia and that h e j, free of foot and mouth disease. H ls "Gapi," a307 words
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Article114 1948-03-04 8 PENANG. Thursday Minister of State lor Colons Affairs (Lord Listowel) mate* trip to Province Wellesley morning to inspect poss sites for the development the port of Penang. Accompanying hlIT1 cc ,n ne r th? Resident Commission 6 (Mi S. N. King) and chairman of the Ha Board114 words
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Article52 1948-03-04 8 SINGAPORE. E pb ssi “ner The Special Com” 1 v (Lor d in South-East Asn rI) Klllearn) and Lad.v ter returned to Singapm* day from Ceylon Lancastrian aircrai jr e b They left Singapore oi tfte 9 for Colombo to t ‘noiB* opening of Ceylon s52 words
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371 1948-03-04 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. MINING to Eurasians in Malaya to “look HLfore they leap” into the project of WJj s |,j n( an Eurasian colony in Hollandia, tAIi New Guinea, has been given by the SecU W.. 0 f (he Singapore Eurasian Association371 words
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Article413 1948-03-04 9 DNGAPORE, Feb. 26. fc Malayan Democratic Eh ion opened its camfi against the coming Bg a p o r e Legislative j Eicil elections with its i I meeting held in the Bence of over 200 office) ■cers in Empress Place today afternoon. |r Philip Hoalirr413 words
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Article38 1948-03-04 9 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 26.—More than 200 former Malayans attended the Association of British Malaya’s Winter At Home at Orosvenor House. Seventy Malayan students attended as guests of the Association.38 words
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Article202 1948-03-04 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A CANDIDATE for the Singapore Legislative Council elections has alleged that one of his helpers, a Municipal employee, had been told by an official to take no active part in the elections. He Is Mr. John Laycock, Progressive candidate for Municipal North-East, and202 words
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Article174 1948-03-04 9 SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. rVO Chinese labourers were killed when a 15-cwt truck in which they were travelling was in collision with an S.T.C. bus opposite the gates of Bidadari Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The truck was carrying four labourers and a load of pigs into Singapore174 words
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Article75 1948-03-04 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpuf, Feb. 25. A GRICULTURAL D e\partment investigators estimate that the 1947-48 season will yield Malaya the equivalent of about 325,600 tons of homegrown rice, an increase over the previous year of 68,434 tons. Government-subsidised improvements on 120.000 to 150,000 acres75 words
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Article167 1948-03-04 9 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 25. JAUBBER exports dropped but production increased in the Federation during last month The fall in exports totalled 6,240 tons, the month’s shipments being 60,017 tons, while the increase in production was 3,316 tons, December’s total being 58,673 tons. The167 words
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Article593 1948-03-04 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. [UR. S. C. GOHO, Independent candidate for m the Rural West constituency in the Singapore Legislative Council elections, has thrown down a challenge to Mr. N. A. Mallal, Progressive Party candidate for Municipal South-West. The challenge is to meet Mr. Goho before the public593 words
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Article138 1948-03-04 9 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. A25-year-old labourer, Choy Tak, was yesterday sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes, for the murder of Chong Ngit Cheong, a detective attached to the Criminal Investigation Department Choy Tak was unanimously found guilty by a common jury of shooting138 words
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Article643 1948-03-04 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. PE Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya have rejected the recommendations of the Trusted Salaries Commission oil temporary and cost of living allowances. Announcing this at the meeting of the Singapore Advisory Council yesterday, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B.643 words
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Article217 1948-03-04 10 SINGAPORE. Feb. 27. THREE Singapore trade unionists, P. Veerasenan, P. Govindasamy and Amuthalingam, were acquitted yesterday ol housebreaking to commit mischiief and committing mischief on Nov. 6 last year. The prosecution alleged that the three men were concerned in breaking into the premises of Ganapathy217 words
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Article212 1948-03-04 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. THE Malayan Teachers* Union may take legal action against the Governments of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. union will resort to this action failing a satisiactory reply in two weeks to the Union’s request for the restoration of the $5O diploma allowance212 words
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Article264 1948-03-04 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 27. T’HE Singapore Marine 1 Police will be able to exercise more effective control over the movement and berthing of vessels in Telok Ayer Basin through the passing of the Singapore Port (Amendment) Kules in the Advisory Council yesterday. nf T il e ot d264 words
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Article646 1948-03-04 10 From Our Staff Correspondent I KUALA LUMPUR, Feb ?<! EGISLATION is to be introduced into n Federation for the setting up of a triJl to consider volunteer civil liability claims j There will be power to grant ex-m J assistance to an appropriate extent in partieui cases646 words
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Article82 1948-03-04 10 From Our SU ft Correspond KUALA LUMPUR F 26.—A fire in Pulau Lm kawi, an island off Kedah I destroyed 24 houses the Government Dispense yesterday afternoon. There wa s no loss of life, but material damage si considerable. Relief supplies, organist by the State Welfare82 words
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Article125 1948-03-04 10 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. Negotiations are j» an advanced state fo premises in the centre Singapore to accoifflJJ date a branch of The Ul ed Commercial Bank one of the biggest banK B concerns in India. The head office or the bank is in Calcutta. a The proposal125 words
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Article273 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. tmvo Singapore Chines© prisoners, who have since 1 |RH»n condemned to death in the Supreme Court, dr an unsuccessful attempt to escape from Outram p o id tfaol shortly before dawn on Thursday. The prisoners were (Nov Tak, and Soh Khim, coth273 words
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Article201 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. rE majority of the Czech community in Singapore are not in sympathy with the present developments in Czechoslovakia. t This statement was made the Straits Times yesterday k, a Czec h business man who lived in Singapore for k Onie years. u comm unity201 words
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Article101 1948-03-04 11 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Feb. 27. THE fact that members are losing interest in Hinduism is deplored by the Young Men’s Hindu Association here in its annual report. “It is painful to note that less and less people are attending poojas and activities of the101 words
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Article58 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. Lau Ah Peow. a 31-year-oid Chinese who professed to tell fortunes, was yesterday charged before the Second Police Court Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Goh. and fined $25. in default two weeks’ rigorous imprisonment. Ah Peow was caught telling fortunes on the five-foot-way of58 words
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203 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. *THE Singapore public might have been saved A blackouts and the Municipality millions of dollars if the Electrical Engineer* (Mr. C. C. Payne) had been allowed to order extra plant for St. James Power Station during the B.M.A. This was stated203 words
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Article291 1948-03-04 11 “Guinea Pigs For National Home SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. rE head of a Singapore Eurasian household told the Straits Times yesterday that his and other Malayan Eurasian families .would go as colonists to Hoilandia, in Dutch New Guinea, “as guinea pigs for the formation of a national home for our people.”291 words
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Article232 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. A TOTAL of 1,688 Sin- gapore Municipal labourers, out of a total labour force of 2,500, absented themselves on Feb. 1 when a one-day strike was staged in the Colony in protest against the inauguration of the Federation of Malaya. Reporting how this232 words
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Article, Illustration246 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. A MEMBER of the Swiss community in Singapore, Mr. Albert Tanner, has been awarded the O. B. E. (Honorary), for assisting Allied prisoners of war in Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam Rail-, way during th Q war. Mr. Tanner who is246 words
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Article159 1948-03-04 11 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. ONE hundred Singapore doctors listened with concentration for two hours last night to recorded heart and breath sounds at the General Hospital. It was the first recorded clinical demonstration in Malaya. Dr. K. Balasimgham, General Hospital Pathologist, introduced the demonstration as “dance music.”159 words
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Article1477 1948-03-04 12 Reuter. “Plans Were Frustrated ByDutch C.-in-C. SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. RESPITE an order from Queen Wilhelmina of Holland three days earlier that there should be no surrender, the Dutch Commander-in-chief in Java (Lt.-Gen. Ter Poorten) ordered surrender to the Japanese in March 1942 of all forces underReuter. - 1,477 words
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Article108 1948-03-04 12 SINGAPORE. Feb 27 T ADY GIMSON. wife Lithe Governor of Si n pore, was ©resented with two India-made handbag and a jewel box inlaid with ivory at the Indian Exhibition yesterday nioni ing. On arrival at the exhibition entrance, Ladv Gimson was received by the Ren108 words
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648 1948-03-04 12 False Report Cost Britain Prince Of Wales Repulse -Reuter. A SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. FALSE report of Japanese landings at Kuantan, on the East Coast of Malaya, cost Britain her most disastrous naval defeat of World War ll—loss of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. Both ships,-Reuter. - 648 words
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1020 1948-03-04 13 From Our Staff Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 29. r\. VOLUNTEERS in Kuala Lumpur consider L Ueut.-General A. E. Percival’s recommenHutions for the future role of the Local Forces |s being “most sensible” and in accord with ■heir own conclusions. I Major A. Arbuthnott1,020 words
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Article80 1948-03-04 13 JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. riMIE body of a Hakka X woman with stab wounds on it was found half a mile away from Endau Police Station two days ago. Police, after a preliminary investigation, hold the view that the woman was murdered elsewhere and the* body dumped In80 words
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Article246 1948-03-04 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. AFTER 20 years in the Singapore Police, Mr. Hugh vGray went on leave on Friday before retirement. He had had colourful career in three different countries —in Scotland, China and Malaya. His career in the Glasgow police began in 1913, when the beginning246 words
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245 1948-03-04 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. IMR. Koh Yong Sung, the lone registered voter of the Tuas, Jurong, polling district, may not, after all, cost the Government $4OO to collect his vote. He may get $l5 on Polling Day, March 20, instead. It had been calculated that245 words
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Article61 1948-03-04 13 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. The $8,000,000 Indian Trade Exhibition in the Great World Amusement Park closed yesterday. Although exact figures are not available at present, it is estimated that over 150,000 visited the Exhibition in the course of the past week. About 4,000 order forms were filled61 words
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Article265 1948-03-04 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. MORE than 500 Singapore motorists this year have received summonses to appear in court on charges of having failed to renew registration of their vehicles. Vehicle inspectors in the past week have also daily detected an average of 20 motorists who have failed to265 words
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Article90 1948-03-04 13 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. SEVENTEEN Chinese were deported from Singapore to China last Monday, a police statement revealed yesterday. This brought the total number of persons deported from the Colony since the beginning of last year to 141. Police said that among the 17 deportees were 10 notorious90 words
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Article150 1948-03-04 13 ‘Johore Living Costs Too High JOHORE BAHRU, Feb. 28. TJECAUSE of the high cost of in Johore, all members of the Asiatic Customs Staff who have been transferred from other States in the Federation have applied to be sent back to their former stations. It was decided to bring up150 words
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370 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. MALAYAN packers and shippers of rubber were warned yesterday that it is imperative that they improved the standard of their rubber shipments to America by representatives of the Rubber .Manufacturers’ Association of America and the Rubber Traders’ Association of New York. Contained370 words
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225 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE, Fob. 27. THE Netherlands Con-sulate-General in Singapore states that an increasing number of vessels calling at Netherlands Indies checking ports en route to non-occupied ports are not in possession ul the required ships’ and crews’ papers. Tin* announcement states that the following regulations will225 words
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Article127 1948-03-04 14 MALACCA, Feb 28. THE Penang Sack Murder 1 case ended yesterday when the Federal Counsel (Mr. C. Wylie) asked for the accused to be given a discharge not amounting to acquittal. Mr. Wylie’s action followed a two-hour argument with Justice E. N. Taylor on the admissibility127 words
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Article57 1948-03-04 14 -Th?^ LIIMPUR Feb. 27. The Controller of imports and Exports states that, in accordance with the present Government regulations, he is unable to issue export permits to individuals for air parcels of foodstuffs exceeding a nett weight of seven lbs even though the air companies are prepared to57 words
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Article156 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners agreed in principle yesterday to 1 amend a section of the Municipal Ordinance which will give them powers to control buildings or structures erected during the occupation or in the period of the B.M.A. They decided that the penalty for156 words
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Article394 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 28. THE Cold Storage Company will no longer store all frozen meat imports to Singapore and free trading will be permitted in future among Singapore firms which can provide storage space at a temperature below 20 degrees fahrenheit. Revealing: this to the Straits394 words
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Article160 1948-03-04 14 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Feb. 29. FE Senior Inspector of Schools (Mr. C. A. Scott) assured Penang teachers last nipht that ine Government would stand by its promise to Rive higher posts to local, men. One day someone among I you will be sitting in160 words
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Article76 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE. Feb. 29. A Singapore Army officer, Captain A. F. Taylor, R.E., yesterday gave away his daughter. Miss Patricia Beryl Taylor, at her marriage at St. Andrew’s Cathedral to Private Ronald Alan Larking, R.A.M.C. The bride wore a white figured satin dress with a white trailing76 words
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Article313 1948-03-04 14 SINGAPORE Fob ‘>q CEVENTY-FOUR Singapore Eurasians J are planning to leave shortly for Holland' the projected Eurasian colony in Dutch Guinea, were warned yesterday by th e Consulate-General fn Singapore to carefuW consider their next move. A consular official told the Sunday Times yesterday that none313 words
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Article55 1948-03-04 14 SCHOOL MASTER’ S WEDDING From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. Feb. 29.-So'that the staff and pupils could attend a teacher's wcaainf. Saint Xavier’s Institution closed one hour earlier on rnd£Mr. Tan Teik Hock, a Raffles College graduate, was mar ed at the Penang Buddhist Association to Miss c Phaik Har, fourth55 words
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Article75 1948-03-04 14 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON Feb. 1' A NUMBER of new ments to the Colonial Service in Malaya ar< nounced by the Col< uku today. They include lowing: Mr. Administrative Oil" < r> R. N. Jackson. A Education Service: j,r. Park (European lt VlifTe Science), Mr. O V ,the(European75 words
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1545 1948-03-04 15 ABDUL RAHIM IBRAHIM - By ABDUL RAHIM IBRAHIM K{ E Malays have il reacted to the {Bgapore General Xetions with mixed ■lings. For one Kg it is someKg entirely new to Mm. which accounts M the small number a Malays who regisBed as voters. «ut there are other1,545 words
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Article182 1948-03-04 15 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. Representatives of 12 Singapore coconut oil mills at a meeting yesterday decided to advise the Government against rationing of coconut oil. They said that they would not be able to supply any oil at the controlled price. The Government proposal, announced last week, was182 words
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Article358 1948-03-04 15 MOST Tamil vegetable gardeners dislike hearing it said that this or that crop is a good one for fear that the iP chosen words may bring disaster to it. As well as acting as a talisman against such foolish words. or other strokes of bad luck, the358 words
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Article170 1948-03-04 15 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. TiHE constant endeavour A of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association was to improve packing methods of rubber, a spokesman of the Association told the Straits Times yesterday. It was also the Association’s constant endeavour, he added, to maintain a high standard170 words
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Article40 1948-03-04 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mar. 1. —Mr. P. I. Read of Dublin, and Mr. J. E. Bunyan, of London, had been appointed engineers in the Drainage and Irrigation Department, Malaya. Both men served in the R A F. during the war.40 words
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Article608 1948-03-04 16 Percival ‘Faulty On Volunteers SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. r. Yap Pheng Geek, of Singapore, one-time O.C. “E” (Chinese) Company, Second Battalion, the S.S. Volunteer Force, yesterday contradicted statements made by General Percival on Chinese sub-units in the war-time volunteer organisation. Mr. Yap taxed Gen. Percival with having made v faulty appreciation608 words
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Article203 1948-03-04 16 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. VIALAYA S war damage claims came nearer possible settlement yesterday with the return of the War Damage Commissioner (Mr. J. J. St. L. Carson) from talks with the British Government. Mr. carson would not comment on the result of his discussions with Treasury203 words
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Article83 1948-03-04 16 SINGAPORE. Mar. 2. Mr. Sng Choon Yee yesterday took over as Registrar of Trade Unions, Singapore, in place of Mr. J. J. Steel, who has left Malaya on grounds of health. Mr. Sng has a long record of Government service since he joined the Chinese Secretariat83 words
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Article127 1948-03-04 16 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Mar. 1. The 33-year-old H.M.S. Malaya is one of four more battleships to be scrapped. She probably has a greater record of sea service than any other ship in the British Navy. Serving with distinction in both world wars, she finally127 words
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Article229 1948-03-04 16 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. A CALL for a non-political council* under a Malay Director-General of Education to advance the higher education of Malays was made by Inche Abdul VVahab Ariff, president of the Muslim Students’ Union of Raffles College and the College of Medicine, at the Union’s229 words
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Article400 1948-03-04 16 Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 1. THE Minister of State A for the Colonies (the Earl of Listowel) is to carry out a personal investigation in Sarawak of Mr. Anthony Brooke’s claims. At, a press conference today Lord Listowel announced tiia’ he was going to Sarawak with an open400 words
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Article246 1948-03-04 16 SINGAPORE VIORE than 300 war crimes trials will u b held in South East Asia by the "Sj'M* War Crimes Organisation closes its work’. 141 beginning of April. An Army spokesman tnu Sunday Times yesterday: ,na told 4, '•Already, 210 Japanese and Koreans ha». k. hanged246 words
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Article237 1948-03-04 16 SINGAPORE, Mar 2. THE Director of Edna A tion, Singapore, (Mr J. B. Neilson) last night promised the AngloChinese School full sup. for its extensioc programme. Mr. Neilson was speaker at an Old Boys’ Associate Founder’s Day dinner uhic: marked the schools 6h birthday. Mr.237 words
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Article121 1948-03-04 16 KUALA LUMPUR. MR. Donald George Grjwj Dussek, of the Civil Service, died at BunHospital today from typhus and pneumonia plications. Mr. Dussek. who was «j came to Malaya on r last year, on transfer Nigeria. k An He was born a. Teio son. the son of Mr.121 words
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Article144 1948-03-04 17 I SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. |.|L' man who bought the pre-war Governor’s \a< lit Sea Belle II, yesterday signed on as 1 t-mt third engineer on board the vessel in Ke to get back to the Philippines ii,. is Mr. Bob Morrison who recently (lie Sea Belle144 words
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Article236 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. BILL to provide for the m discharge without ■dividual application to K ul -t—of persons wnc ■ere undischarged ban on Feb. 15, 1942 Hll be introduced in the ■ugapore Advisory Counci? Stiortly. T Bill aims also to sim■i:v the procedure for payKli dividends.236 words
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Article164 1948-03-04 17 oni Otir stuIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 29. k K ary s recipe for peace way of fellowffi?:, Glared Mr. L. A. G. hr e vi c p -President of Club al 3, Lumpur Rotary at h r vv,,f lnesday’s dinner mr d tern H °tel celebratory164 words
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Article102 1948-03-04 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 28. —Sentences of seven years rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rotan were imposed at Selangor Assizes today on each of two Chinese, Foong Yuen and Mooi Kam. who were found guilty of armed robbery. They were among a party of102 words
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Article111 1948-03-04 17 TAIPING. Mar. 2. —Taiping customs officers raided the decrepit wards in Taiping Hospital, yesterday, and arrested seven middle-aged Chinese for smoking opium. Two of the men were not inmates of the ward at all. All the men pleaded guilty today in the District Court. They said111 words
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Article48 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. Four masked Chinese seized $3lO in cash and jewellery from a Chinese squatter and his family in a house in Tanah Merah Kechil, Bth mile, Changi Road, at 2 a.m. yesterday. One man was armed with a pistol, and another with a knife.48 words
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Article79 1948-03-04 17 From Our Own Correspondent KEMAMAN, Mar. 2. A MALAY blacksmith was carried away by a tiger > yesterday afternoon in the village of Kertah. The man was preparing coconut leaves to make a broom about a quarter of a furlong away from his house when the79 words
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Article87 1948-03-04 17 THE Straits Times on Friday achieved new record circulation figures for an English-language newspaper in Malaya. Present indications are that net sales were well in excess of 50,000. The demand for the Straits Times Special Percival Supplement was so great that newsagents throughout the country reported “sold87 words
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Article172 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. THE celebrated concert violinist, Yehudi Menu hin, and two world-famous dancers. Alicia Markovs ana Anton Dolin, will give concert recitals in Singa pore this year, a New York cable from A.P. announc ed yesterday. The superintendent of the Victoria Memorial Hall and172 words
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Article186 1948-03-04 17 KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 28. THE beginning of a miniature zoo of Malayan fauna has been established in the Botanic Gardens here with the arrival this week of two pelandok which have been installed in a wired enclosure. These little mousedeer were the mighty animals of186 words
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Article383 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. THE Singapore Teachers’ Union sees no possi--1 bility of either improving the standard of education or expanding the educational services in the Colony “unless discrimination against locally recruited teachers is removed.” It says so in a memorandum to be sent to the United383 words
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Article163 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. SINGAPORE Police art seeking three gangsters, one of whom shot a Chinese in the thigh and left him on the pavement oi’ a house in Owen Road on Monday night. Tb wounded man is Tan Teik. Moy, a hotel employee living in Race163 words
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Article142 1948-03-04 17 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. SINGAPORE rubber manufacturers and representatives of shipping companies handling rubber shipments to the United States will appoint a special committee to study the complaints made by representatives of th/» U S. rubber industry. The U.S. representatives have warned Malaya that she must improve the grading142 words
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Article308 1948-03-04 18 ‘Use Power And Candidates Quit SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. MR. John Laycock (Progressive), one of the Municipal North-East candidates lor the Singapore elections, yesterday said that if the Governor used his over-riding powers, the Progressive Party candidates would resign in a body and stand for re-election. ‘if it308 words
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Article338 1948-03-04 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 2. MALAYA'S vital importance to Imperial defence was realised in Britain, Mr. Somerset de Chair, a former M.P.., said on Monday in Singa pore. In the event of an attack on Malaya, he said, he believed that the main defending forces would be338 words
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Article, Illustration358 1948-03-04 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. J. A STRAITS Times reporter yesterday visited No. 1 British Transit Camp, conditions in which will be the subject of a question in the House of Commons next week. The reporter, who stayed one hour in the camp was given every facility358 words
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87 1948-03-04 18 THE Penang artist, Yung Feb 26> 1 pleted three ’the h Ta" been comm ss oned to nainf fmf\k d ,Ch he has Fair to be held in lIS in May. IndUS ries Mun Sen’s pictures will depict various phases oil the major Malayan87 words
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Article191 1948-03-04 18 SINGAPORE, Mar. 3. THE Singapore Municipal 1 Commissioners have approved a $7,000,000 tenyear scheme for the liyine trunk water mains to pope with the expected increase in water consumption over the next ten to 20 years. Aligned with this scheme is the provision of additional storage by191 words
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Article190 1948-03-04 18 A S s?6ht° RE Feb a A S k IG T th «tha S ft t\ babl V never been* before in Malaya-, w between a hamadS < k "tK cobra) andapnC —is described in a reS published by the 8tS Echo, Penang, on day. The Balik Pulau190 words
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Article94 1948-03-04 18 SINGAPORE. Mar. 3 A total of 72 deaths w recorded by the Singapore Coroner for the month of February, as against 6S in January. The summary of deaths showed that nine persaos died through assaults, a compared with two in January. There were 12 traffic deaths, six94 words
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Article119 1948-03-04 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 29Mr. W. H. Baillies. Manager of Selangor Estate, Kuala Selangor, married on Saturday a Presbyterian Churchi to M Zelia Lynn Croft Groucu only daughter of Mr. an j L. C. Groucutt. formerly Cameron Highlands ana g of Sydney. The Re' Evans officiated. 0 n119 words
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Article357 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. /JiWK «n the heels of the Singapore indoor VB tennis championships which open at the jlpnv World stadium today, the Singapore jV M fennis Association will hold its first posta| championship at the S.C.C. in June. Wp is will oe followed by an357 words
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Article296 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, 28. ■hr EE associations have 1 promised to give the ■tire proceeds of their Burnaments to the SingaHre Olympic and Sports Kuncif fund which will used to help defray the ■ponses of sending the jump champion. Boyd Valberg, to the World Blympic Games. ■This was296 words
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Article133 1948-03-04 19 T SEREMBAN, Mar. 1. Il Hockey season in la ato concluded with Is,m h 1i ch b tweei1 th Negri I.-/,- an Mal ays and The l a ii T^; r^ I:ila Vs won three-nil, |bv sh iM w als bciin K scored I T k133 words
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Article279 1948-03-04 19 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26. OPEAKING at the annual general meeting of the Selangor Turf Club this evening, the president, Mr. S. B. Palmer, disclosed that there will be no increase in the Government tax on totalisator transactions. Mr. Palmer said that279 words
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Article131 1948-03-04 19 From Our Staff Correspondent Kuala Lumpur Feb. 29. CHINESE footballers travelling: by air ar e to be insured to the extent of $10,000 each. This was decided at a meeting of the Malayan Chinese Football Association held in Kuala Lumpur today. The meeting decided to select131 words
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Article89 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. A goal scored by Twist late in the second half gave the Sir gapore Cricket Club a three-two victory over the Jollilads in a football match played on the padang yesterday. The Jollilads opened accounts through Salahudin, but Hutchinson equalised soon afterwards. The score89 words
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Article188 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Feb, 27. THE Singapore Chinese Football Association hopes to have a stadium of their own some time this year. Announcing this at the S.C.F.A. council meeting yesterday, the vice-chair man, Mr*Sim Kwang Tow said that ways for raising funds would be discussed as soon188 words
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Article452 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 29. ENGLAND scored a well-earned victory over Wales in a keen, fast game of rugger played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in the Singapore international rugby series, the margin being 15 points (three goals) to 11 points (a goal and two tries). By452 words
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Article162 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Feb. 26. A- REPRESENTATIVE group of Singapore motorists met at the Adelphi Hotel last night and formed a club for sponsoring events to interest owners of all types of motor vehicles. The new club, which Is the first of its kind to be formed in Singapore162 words
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Article31 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 1. 1 fl HE Royal Air Force, Sembawang, beat the Public Works Department by 119 runs in a game of cricket played at Sembawang yesterday31 words
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Article89 1948-03-04 19 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2. THE Island Club’s February Bogey for women, played over last week-end, was won by Mrs. A. Week, with a mett score of all square. The “A” division of the man’s February Bogey was won by D. A. Ferrier-Smith with a nett score of one89 words
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Article663 1948-03-04 20 London Decline Has Its Effect From A Market Correspondent IN sympathy with the decline in London, the general tendency in prices on Malayan markets was downward last week. There was a switch of interest on the industrial section and Tins formed a smaller part of the business663 words
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Article241 1948-03-04 20 SINGAPORE, Feb. 28. THE increase of 3.316 tons shown in the Malayan rubber production figures for January started off some selling. Prices during the week fell away about two cents. The undertone nevertheless continues to be good, says Lewis Peat’s weekly market report. Each level finds port.241 words
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Article299 1948-03-04 20 SINGAPORE, £eb. 29. MALAYA'S imported bunker coal situation has greatly improved over the last twelve months and most bunker requirements can now be met, a Government coal organisation representative told the Sunday Times yesterday. lie said: “A year ago the shortage was really acute o wing299 words
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Article46 1948-03-04 20 COLOMBO. Mar. 2.—ln a memorandum to the British Fooc Ministry. Ceylon has as.u*d for higher prices for her copra. Und« a five-year contract. Ceylon is now selling copra in huik to the United Kingdom a 125 rupees per candy of boO pounds weight.46 words
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Article177 1948-03-04 20 a*ALAYA^ RE Feb '»l RiALMA began the J with a record twl 500.000 the highest monthly jl s.nce the ffif figures issued day revealed. The,;! &n increase of 000 over trade'*! December. V The January total last year’s record by&Sl although exports at 441 were177 words
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26 1948-03-04 20 Mr. Cecil Robbins Cherry of Boustead and Co., to joined the board of Charterer Bank of India. Australia, arc China.26 words
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Article893 1948-03-04 20 SINGAPORE, Mar. 2 Quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers’ Association were: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller MIR.* let 13 0(. (4 Of 4iex Brick 3rds i 80 t 90 Pre! 3.50 3.60 8.8. Petrol 43, 9 44 6 B M Trustee 8.75 9.25 'on.vonnater Tlr Smelters <Oi 22/3 23'3893 words