The Straits Budget, 22 July 1948
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512 1948-07-22 1 IN the correspondence in your columns on the subject of Asian guests at the Singapore Swimming Club there is a mos»t important and dangerous error of fact: an erna which has clearly misled your correspondents and may well have been deliberately spread about by512 words
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345 1948-07-22 1 I READ “Captain’s’.’ let--1 ter under the heading “A CLUB VOTE” in Monday’s issue of your paper with complete approval and sympathy, and 1 think your leader ‘‘FORTY-FOUR EURO- PEANS” the following day was an apt and enlightened commentary thereon. The Straits Times345 words
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Article391 1948-07-22 1 Iwas profoundly disturbed by the leader headed “Forty-Four-Euro peans” in Tuesday’s issue of your newspaper. It does not do you credit. No method could be better calculated to stimulate racial animosity In this country than the one vqu have chosen In fact, unless there has been a391 words
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357 1948-07-22 1 •THE action of a European club—by a majority of four in a vote of eighty-four members, out of a total of four thousand —in excluding non-Euro. peans even as guests wili create bitter feeling among the Asian communities. The isolationists' argument that the club may357 words
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284 1948-07-22 1 MAY I add my words to those of Mr. Graham Hough in comment on your recent leader, The Malayan Fabians.” I would like to draw attention to an excellent book which conveys clearly the attitude of individual Fabians to political and other development in284 words
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Article235 1948-07-22 1 A Plant, r 7 he Malayan H High ConnnanMm A high auth"iity i n H country has leceB paid tribute to the H that planterto their increased >.Ǥ sibilities m thtimes. He stated, inter H that they weiv in H front line. B I venture to disagree onB235 words
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Article126 1948-07-22 1 YOU have found it H copy to public »ssB arrival in Singapoi’tB that great war h»- H Kohlhaas, woui:d B times in that B fight against th fl human French. B American, and b and decorated w Iron Cross for in those great tit' To those126 words
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Article1034 1948-07-22 2 —Straits Times. July 15. I.„' «f housing in 1 or** s probably the in and in fin- implicitlions that any u rv, r h ad to ,a r startling words Singapore AnJ Report for 1047. present7bv t u Colonial Secretary, p u. McKtrron. In the s'-.Ii.tivt*—Straits Times. July 15. - 1,034 words
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Article976 1948-07-22 2 —Straits Times, July 16. This day relenting God Hath “placed icithin my hand j A ivondrous thing; and God Be praised. At his command, Seeking his secret deeds j With tears and toiling breath, find thy cunning seeds, 1 O million-murdering death. Those lines were written by—Straits Times, July 16. - 976 words
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Article622 1948-07-22 2 —Straits Times, July 17. The word towkay, as used in the Straits Settlements for more than a century, conjures up a picture of a Chinese merchant with a portly corporation comfortably encased in wide pyjama trousers, a cheerful expression, a highly developed commercial instinct, characterised by the happy—Straits Times, July 17. - 622 words
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Article151 1948-07-22 3 -Straits Times. July 17. Comment by Mr. R. P. S. Rajasooria at the meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Commissioners last Wednesday: Because of the wide divergence of opinion on the desirability ot holding lotteries (for slum clearance) and even though I feel that sectarian principles should be-Straits Times. July 17. - 151 words
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Article285 1948-07-22 3 -Straits Times, July 17. News was received this week that the Soviet equivalent of the ATS girl has been given a serious warning in Berlin. The girls of the Red Army stationed in that crisis-ridden city have been told to stop letting down their skirts to “capitalistic-Straits Times, July 17. - 285 words
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Article116 1948-07-22 3 Straits Times. July 17. Observation in Grange Road on Thursday: A massive Municipal steam-roller phlegmatically performing its duties with a toy rabbit dangling from the front of it. We have been pondering on the precise significance of this ever since. Was it a Municipal mascot Or was it– Straits Times. July 17. - 116 words
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Article758 1948-07-22 3 —Straits Times. July 19. Rather more than a month has passed since it became clear that the Federation was I faced with a full-scale revolt by Chinese terrorists under Communist leadership. Since then a great deal has been done to meet this challenge. The action taken—Straits Times. July 19. - 758 words
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Article392 1948-07-22 3 —Straits Times July 19. The Malay newspapers on Saturday gave prominence to the news that the president of the Malay Nationalist Party, Inche Ishak bin Haji Mohamed, had been detained under the Emergency Regulations by the Federation police. This is a serious matter, for more—Straits Times July 19. - 392 words
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Article1068 1948-07-22 3 —Straits Times. July 20. It was remarked in these columns yesterday that a marked trend of public opinion in Malaya during the last few days has been a critical and resentful reaction to statements by the Army command that it had enough troops to deal with the—Straits Times. July 20. - 1,068 words
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Article1092 1948-07-22 4 —Straits Times July 21. m its issue ai u that “neither m fi|,. f or Berlin.” \,B"" ne vs Papers, of the ■Jl* *<•! t.s of the Left, n emphatically a::> opinh,n Ncver"i on the cards will have to §f|BL; 5 tr n Ihitain and—Straits Times July 21. - 1,092 words
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Article105 1948-07-22 4 The Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation’s Local Staff Benevolent Sociey has elected the following officers: Patron. Mr. C. L. Edwards; patron, Mr. Lim Bock Kee; president. Mr. H. E. Cordeiro: vice-president, Mr. Yeo Cheng Guan; hon. secretary, Mr* Cilia Pota Thik; hon. asst, secretary. Mr. S. Oliveiro;105 words
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Article288 1948-07-22 4 A SINGAPORE, July 21. 61-YEAR-OLD European woman has returned to Malaya to decide the future of a young Kuala Lumpur Chinese schoolgirl whom she adopted before the war and was her ward throughout internment in Singapore. She is g r e y-h aired, sprightly,288 words
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Article110 1948-07-22 4 SINGAPORE. July 21. THE U.S. Naval Liaison officer in Singapore (Lt./ Com. S. L Smith) left by R.A.F. plane on Monday for Labuan Lt./Com. Smith will go to Brunei and then across the border to Sarawak to present rewards to 71 residents of the Limbang area110 words
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Article67 1948-07-22 4 SINGAPORE. July 21 Less than a month after Mr. W. J. Wallace—high up on the terrorist “death list”—left Johore for retirement, his younger brother. Mr. A. M. Wallace, arrived back in Singapore yesterday after five months’ leave in South Africa. Mr. A. M. Wallace, also67 words
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Article56 1948-07-22 4 orders in Malaya.”—Reuter, A.P. LONDON, July 16.—The British torpedo recovery vessel Simbang has been transferred to the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a replacement for a Malayan ship lost during the war, the Admiralty announced last night. The transfer, the Admiralty added, is “not connectedorders in Malaya.”—Reuter, A.P. - 56 words
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Article192 1948-07-22 4 WILSON.—To Kathleen, wife of Gordon Wilson, on 13th July. 1948, at Kuala Lumpur, a boy, both well. GREIG.—On July 13th. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, to Nona, wife of A. L. M. Orcig, a son. Both well. TYSON.—To Peggy, wif? of Or. W. J. Tyson, at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, on192 words
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Article80 1948-07-22 4 The engagement Is announced between Alexander Hebenton Mon cur Panchor. Muar. to Zona Sharp. Malayan Nursing Service. The engagement Is announced between Mr. Chua Tal Cheng, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chua Chwee Oh. and Miss Peggy Teo. youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (Tan) Teo Kim Guan.80 words
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Article32 1948-07-22 4 ROBINSON-D’ARCY. On loth July, at the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore. H. G. Robinson of Tenang. Johore. to Madeline daughter of the late Mr Mrs. D’Arcy of Olenageary, Co. Dublin.32 words
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Advertisement40 1948-07-22 4 STRAITS BUDGET. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) Br. Empire Quarterly Half-Yearly Yearly (ALl THE ABOVE Singapore Town Area No Postage 5.20 10.40 20.80 Malaya (Including Postage) 5.60 11.20 22.40 Foreign (Including postage) 6.00 12 00 24.00 ARE IN STRAITS CURRENCY.)40 words
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Obituary16 1948-07-22 4 DEATH TANG.—On Thursday. July 15th. 8 p.m. Mrs. Tan* Hon of 26 Jalan Jati. Kuala Lumpur.16 words
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Article, Illustration1837 1948-07-22 5 TUAN I*" 1 - A Malayan Countryman’s Diary TUAN I*" 1 THEY are making such a job of clearing the Little Dusun that they have managed to cut down what is a rare tree in these parts, and that is the pale apricot coloured Chempaka. This differs from the very widely1,837 words
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Article134 1948-07-22 5 BIG JUMP IN OIL PALM OUTPU T From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 18. MORE oil and kernels were produced in the Federation of Malaya for the first six months of 1948 than for the whole of 1947. Figures released today show that about 20,140 tons of palm oil134 words
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Article866 1948-07-22 6 WHIT E RAJAH SUED IN BRUNEI SINGAPORE, July 15. IrilK heir presumptive to the Raj of Sarawak, r Captain Bertram Brooke and his son AnL nv Brooke, took dramatic legal action in Runei yesterday challenging the legality of Bl annexation of Sarawak by Britain. W solicitor for the plaintiffs (Mr.866 words
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Article45 1948-07-22 6 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR; July 15.—There is now only one strike in the Federation involving only 27 workers, it was officially stated today. This is the lowest figure since the liberation. The strike is on an estate in Johore.45 words
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Article94 1948-07-22 6 PENANG, July 15. RICE shipments amounting to over $10,000,000 helped to raise Penang’s imports last month to a record total of $30,789,474. This passed, by over $2,000,000 the peak figure of $28,290,378 reached in March this year. Exports, however, showed a 1 drop of over $9,000,00094 words
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Article430 1948-07-22 6 SINGAPORE, July 16. A BRITISH Colonial Office adviser is now in Singapore to help set up in the Colony a probation system for delinquent juveniles and adults. Ho is Mr. W. H. Chinn, first advisor on Social Welfare to she Colonial Office, who arrived in Singapore430 words
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Article354 1948-07-22 6 SINGAPORE, July 1C. None of the 250,000 square feet of Crown land in the Telok Ayer: reclamation area put up Tor auction by the Singapore Governmenit yesterday was sold. t The land had been divided for the auction into 23 lots, the largest lot comprising354 words
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Article252 1948-07-22 6 SINGAPORE, July 17. THE salaries recommendations of the Joint Committee have caused “shock and dismay” among all technical officers, states the Technical Association of Malaya, in petitions to the Singapore Colonial Secretary and the Deputy Chief Secretary of the Federation. The T.A.M. charges the committee with "complete252 words
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Article107 1948-07-22 6 SINGAPORE. July 17. Tlie Marine Police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old Chinese boatswain. Sin Kuan, who was found in his bunk on board the Shell Company oil tanker Empire Tescombe on Thursday, with his throat cutThe Empire Tescombe arrived in Singapore yesterday morning from107 words
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Article129 1948-07-22 6 From Our Staff Correspondent SUNGEI PATANI, July 16. THE 56th birthday of the Sultan of Kedah today will not be officially celebrated until August 19. because of the fasting month. Last year, Sultan Badlishah spent his birthday quietly at the Istana. He received community representatives129 words
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879 1948-07-22 7 Let Local Man Fill Post Board Urged SINGAPORE, July 17. A PLEA for the appointment of asuitably-qualified local candidate to fill the post of Assistant Executive Engineer (Rural) in preference to recruiting a man from abroad who would draw expatriation allowance made by a Chinese member of the Singapore Rural879 words
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Article52 1948-07-22 7 From Our Ow n Corr spondent BENTONG. July 6.—Police and Malay Regiment soldiers operating in an area south of Bentong, to-day found a bandit hideout and shot and killed two* terrorists lurking insid.'. Important documents and firearms—a rifle, an automatic and a carbine —were seized from52 words
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Article110 1948-07-22 7 SINGAPORE. July 16. At 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday a lorry knocked down a 5-vear-old Chinese girl at New Market Road. The girl was injured on the left knee and left foot and w’as admitted to the General Hospital. At 7.30 am. yesterday, a motor-cyclist carrying110 words
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77 1948-07-22 7 From Our Own Correspondent BUTTERYVORTH, July l.‘>. T'llK military authorities have offered the Malay Mosque at Ragan Lebai Tahir $600 damages lor an ammunition explosion two years ago. The offer, which follows one of $100. is subject to approval by the War Office, London.77 words
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Article232 1948-07-22 7 KUALA LUMPUR, J U V p 1 A GURKHA lance corporal was shot dead an* I Gurkha soldier was wounded when their DahJ was ambushed in the jungle around Kajane dl afternoon. V The ambush occurred in the same area in J Lau Yew, the232 words
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Article112 1948-07-22 7 SINGAPORE. July 16. Over a SI.OOO worth of miscellaneous articles were sold at the auction sale at the saleroom of Messrs. Cheong Koon Seng and Co.. Ltd., at 10. Chulia Street, yesterday. The articles put up for auction were military supplies bought by private importers who112 words
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Article53 1948-07-22 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Juiy 17. I EE AH FOO. who drew rations under fictitious names was today convicted by the District Judge and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. The names on the ration card were those of persons who. according to the accused. were killed during53 words
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Article214 1948-07-22 7 SINGAPORE. July 17. PROVIDED the present rice ration size can be maintained in Singapore future rice rations will be entirely of whole grain rice. Toe stocks of broken rice which were last delivered o.v Siam will shortly be exhausted. Malaya’s allocations for the remaining half214 words
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Article57 1948-07-22 7 P.C. talk ed too much SEGAMAT, July 17. 1 A MALAY special nuist.it,I attached to the ante force on Youles KstatJ at Tenang was detained bl the Segamat Police vcsteil day under the KmergenJ Regulations. Another person, a Pathal was also taken into lustodl on Labis Bahru Kstate. A police57 words
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Article280 1948-07-22 7 From Our .stall Correspond.®! IPOH July ltill MR. Justice Paul Storr at Assizes here today gratuiated two Malay p men on the “fine imtiai:B| and very apt manner" fl| which they captured a ese charged with armed roS] bery and extortion. I “Such initiative and quiflfl280 words
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Article40 1948-07-22 7 SINGAPORE I l TOTAL of 583 bir recorded in Siiii-Oij' V the week ending Jul> There were 174 cl < same as last week Chief causes ol clea tuberculosis. The infantile death ported this *t compared with ,l week40 words
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815 1948-07-22 8 ,ir£ [< little changed l i„ ‘the village at [he foot "i the hill. I thl estate work m as usual. that is only ;t appeal's to the User- We who live U work here know that while t he815 words
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Article679 1948-07-22 8 M. C. ff. Sheppard i - Echo Of Feb 13, 1942 By M. C. ff. Sheppard i THE official announ- cement of the award of the King’s Medal for’Courage in the cause of freedom to Amir Silalahi recalls the disastrous events which followed the departure of the Kuala and the Tien Kwang from Singapore on Feb.679 words
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Article267 1948-07-22 8 From Our Stall Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, July iri. I'HE proposed sewerage scheme for Kuala Lumpur, estimated cost of which will be nearly $16,000,000 will be carried out oyer a five-year period, if it is approved by the Municipal Commissioners. The scheme has been approved by the267 words
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Article89 1948-07-22 8 SINGAPORE July 14. Two young Chinese who robbed a Chinese household in Paya Lebar Road, on Nov 31, last year, were sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imI prisonment and twelve strokes of the rotan each yesterday in the Singapore Assize Court I The men were Soh89 words
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138 1948-07-22 8 From Our Staff Correspondent PliNANCi. July OnOKKSEI.I.KR Ang Ah Kong will care for the laimly I „f (he butcher he killed when lie comes out of gaol. He told tne Assize Court this today when Mr. Justice Bostock-Hill gave him four vears’ hard labour for138 words
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1174 1948-07-22 9 From Our Stall' Correspondent KUALA LUIWPLIL July 14. COM BIN FI) police and military patrols made successful attacks on terrorists today. Ihreo bandits were killed in a jungle hut near Siputeh, Perak, and a half-built insurgents* camp was captured and burned down near1,174 words
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Article166 1948-07-22 9 ATTEMPT TO COLLECT TAX’ SINGAPORE. July 15. Two men who tried to collect "tax” from Bugis praus lying at anchor off the Esplanade. were sent to prison yesterday by the District Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks). Ahamad bin Din (23) and Noordin bin Mohd. Ibrahim (20). the two involved pleaded166 words
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Article151 1948-07-22 9 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, July 14. SO limit “rural children will not be shut out from English education,” the Government should open a regional English school in Balik Pulau. This was urged in a memorandum submitted to the Balik Pulau District Council by a member.151 words
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Article346 1948-07-22 9 SINGAPORE, July 15. I I “TEA money” of 81,000 paid by a woman fori a Singapore Improvement Trust Hat atl Tiong Bahru was handed back to her in tfcfl First District Court yesterday by order ol tkoa Judge (Mr. E. P. Shanks). I The conviction346 words
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Article79 1948-07-22 9 SINGAPORE a A suicide note special constable. (j&y San. was discoven as the inqu stable was proc e A Inspector D. that the clothes K stable, who was 1 *u a t a police hut at A a%. 5.20 a.in. on July T# od in blood an79 words
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Article397 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE, July 1(5. iltalion The Inniskilling; Fusiliers 1 are imi !er orders to move from Hong Kong iimfinore, and will be arriving in <lue course, fjjollicially stated last night. 1 jleamvhile, it was reported from Kuala i ma* yt-tmlay that the cam]) seized and hy a police397 words
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Article124 1948-07-22 10 from Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July 14. THE Penang and Province Wellesley Anti-TB Committee has offered the Municipal Commissioners $lO 000 on trust tor the furtherance of the municipal housing scheme. The municipal president Mr. w. c. Taylor) announced this at yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the124 words
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Article48 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July 15. A military lorry was involved in a collision with a trishaw at the 41 mile Upper Serangoon Road at 7.15 a.m. yesterday. The trishaw rider, who was standing beside his vehicle, was knocked down and admitted to hospital with a broken arm48 words
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Article187 1948-07-22 10 From Our Special Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, .July 15. SIX hundred pounds of explosives from ten rockets hurtled down and blew out of existence a suspected insurgents’ hideout in the jungle-clad hills 35 miles north-east of Kuala Lumpur this morning. It was the second antiinsurgent strike by the187 words
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Article34 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July 16. A Chinese Koh Ah K who fell off a lorry in the S.H B. area oi Singapore yesterday morning, was admitted to the General Hospital with multiple injuries.34 words
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Article167 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July H> THE Alumni Association of the King Edward MI 1 College of Medicine and the southern branch of the Kritish Medical Association have protested to the Government against the proposed introduction of parallel seniority lists in Maiajas new health service. Both bodies have objected167 words
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Article199 1948-07-22 10 n i V SINGAPORE, July lb. JUNK children and their mothers—the second batc h of European women and c hildren to he evacuated from Sungei Combing, Pahang arrived at knllang yesterday. I lie live mothers are Hie wives of engineers employed on the Pahang Consolidated Mine.199 words
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Article51 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July 16. Mr. Athi Nahappan, editor of the Tamil Nesan of Kuala < Lumpur, who was one of the members of the Malayan press delegation to Great Britain, arrived in Singapore from Calcutta by flying boat yesterday. Mr. Nahappan spent two months in India after his tour51 words
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Article212 1948-07-22 10 From Our Staff Correspondent MUAR, July 15. A SEQUEL to a clash between police and Indian labourers at the Bukit Serampang division of Sagil Estate, Tangkak, was heard here yesterday when tour Indians were gaoled by the District Judge. The men were charged with being212 words
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Article94 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July 16. Homing pigeons win soon be used in the Federation as a standby in case telephones on estates at cut oy bandits. f Some pigeons are due from Australia today. They were ordered lor trial work by the Security and Investigation Bureau. The head94 words
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Article160 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE, July 15. IN a statement on the proposed revival of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, Mr. Yap Phong Geek, former Officer Commanding, Chinese Company, and now a member of the committee advising the Government on the reconstitution of the Volunteers, said that the Government160 words
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Article153 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. July 16. membership of the Joint Tribunal to consider claims by volunteers. Local Defence Corps members. Johore Military Forces. Malay Regiment. Locally-Enlisted Personnel and Dalforce who were prevented from gainful employment during the Japanese occupation has been announced. The Tribunal consists of Mr. F. A.153 words
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Article29 1948-07-22 10 SINGAPORE. Jlllv 1 Taking a bend at the mile on the Banting-Rtko road, Sriangor, a lorry <1 riv r «> was shot and seriously wound rd by bandits.29 words
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Article1332 1948-07-22 11 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, .July I<>. I AU YEW, 30-year-old leader of the MPAJA in Malaya, was shot dead by police this morning in one of the grimmest, short-range battles of the present campaign against terrorists. Outnumbered, 14 men of a special1,332 words
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Article74 1948-07-22 11 From Our Stall Correspondent. Kt’ALA LUMPl T R. July lb. —The following communique w;u issimd in lpoh today*. Professional pig hunters and small holders using guns to protect their crops against pests are strongly advised in the present emergency to raise their hands and weapons above74 words
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Article247 1948-07-22 11 SINGAPORE, July 17. MAJOR-Gencicd D. Dunlop, C.B.E., who will take over tho command of Singapore District from Maj.-Gon. L. H. Cox, arrived in Singapore yesterday afternoon, aboard the Dunera. “I am a ‘new boy’ and have nothing to say yet.” he told the Straits247 words
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Article86 1948-07-22 11 Kuala Lumpur, July 15. ATRIAL shipment of 1,000 hardwood railway sleepers from Malaya's forests is on its w ay to Britain. “Sleeper production in Malaya now well exceeds local demand.” a Government officer told the Straits Times yesterday. He said an increasing volume of timber for86 words
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Article145 1948-07-22 11 SINGAPORE. July 17. A MEETING of the Executive Council of the Automobile Association of Malaya was held at the Selangor Club. Kuala Lumpur. Delegates from all the branches ot the Association were there. The total membership of the Association at Ju..e :i0 was reported to be145 words
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Article125 1948-07-22 11 From Our Staff Correspondent I SEREMBAX, July i u I N(i Soy Mok, awarded th e British Empire \h l it 1 his anti-Japanese activities during the i was shot dead yesterday afternoon bv an i Chinese on the outskirts of Broga ni;, Mantin district of Xegri125 words
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Article134 1948-07-22 11 pHIXESE banished from S n pore lo China receive treatment which .lieu -II cord justifies tSH Chinese laws, the Times is informed. I Current rumours that C munists banished tr- :r. s l| pore and handed to till Chinese authorities are >11 because they are eiieir.ie>134 words
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Article138 1948-07-22 11 SINGAPORE. July IT I \IALAYA will get £5 million under the B lT1 Government’s plan to spend £120 million W the social and economic development c. Colon; J Mr. K. H. Tan, a social welfare scholar who has 1 returned from Britain, told the Straits138 words
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Article334 1948-07-22 12 SINGAPORE, July 18. W)1 ICK and troops in the Federation yesterday W 0 dead two Communist bandits and deI jned scores of people for interrogation in Spread operations. B p 0 ii ct casualties since I riday have been one B. in ta ble334 words
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Article67 1948-07-22 12 SINGAPORE. July 16. 1 1 MALAY gunman was 1.1 >hot dead and another irrMed in a running gunbetween gangsters Bud police at Krunjji late Bast night. I The police recovered Bio automat cs and other ■eapotis. that the H;r .1:11 bushed the Hr:..'.-;.' were on their H;g.67 words
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Article79 1948-07-22 12 SINGAPOKK. July IT. KX Barnett, a former Australian Test criI who arrived in By-'-P 'ti-rday, said I '••'i-.i play cricket m *iu* Colony if u, n a i lor ”i:s year bill I; v any cricket si n had just H.a cricket well as79 words
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Article33 1948-07-22 12 I sun. -Tan >ld the MagisStewart) yesuld not dei mned houae as :,ls c her lodger '•‘freted that a rved on the I lrt ice-seller was lined ng an unon Crown33 words
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Article43 1948-07-22 12 KAJANG. July 17. A MALAY village headman and his son were seriously wounded when they were shot last night by three armed Malays who attacked their house at the 10th mile. Ulu Langat village. The raiders took away clothing and jewellery.43 words
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Article, Illustration37 1948-07-22 12 Mr. M. Y. Zyllwyn-Stewart, renamed Mohamed Yunus bin Abdullah when he mhraced the Muslim faith in -1139. who has been appointed Singapc.l; Coroner in place of Mr. W. (J. Porter who has gone on leave.37 words
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151 1948-07-22 12 RACING will be revived in Kuching next year when the first post-war meeting of the Sarawak Turf Club will be held on a new’ track. The racecourse is now being re-made and only small stretches of the old track are being incorporated with the151 words
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Article128 1948-07-22 12 SINGAPORE, July 19 The Malay Nationalist Union of Sarawak and the Sarawak Dyuk Association have sent a telegram to Mr. Anthony Brooke and his father to thank them for bringing a suit challenging the legality of the cession of Sarawak to Britain. Mr. Anthony Brooke128 words
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Article42 1948-07-22 12 PENANG. Sunday.—Because he suffered from insomnia a prosperous stall keeper hanged himself from a window. A suicide note explaining this was produced yesterday at the inquest on Tan Cheow Mah. The Coroner (Mr. Austin) j returneef a verdict of suicide.42 words
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Article123 1948-07-22 12 SINGAPORE, July IS. NEARLY 100.000.0U0 one-cent coins are available for circulation in Malaya but lack of public interest has kept them out of circulation- and possibly the cost of living higher than it need be. No one-cent notes have been issued for more than123 words
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Article295 1948-07-22 12 From Our Malay Correspondent MALAY public opinion is critical of both the British administration in Malaya and the Government in the United Kingdom for causing, they say. difficulties and profit losses for Malay copra smallholders in the Federation. According to a statement by the Malay Nationalist295 words
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Article356 1948-07-22 12 KUALA LUMPUR, July 17. CWELPINL increases in the numbers of officers and men of the Federation Police were disclosed to the Sunday Times today by the Acting Commissioner of Police, Mr. C. W. I). Hall The gazetted officers’ ranks are to be increased by approximately356 words
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Article165 1948-07-22 12 Mr. Roy Cornell, manager <>t ilu* Pavilion Restaurant, was married at. the Registry on Saturday to Mrs. Kathleen Stacy of the W.V.S. Tne oride. who was given away by Mr. “Haji” Woodl'all. wore a turquoise blue erep** model gown of the “new look." length. Tiie pleated drapery165 words
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Article537 1948-07-22 13 SINGAPORE, July 19. ALL Police Stations in Singapore are to have a barbed wire “apron” built around them as a defensive measure in view of the present emergency. “You have heard of police stations upcountry being attacked,” the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. C. Barry)537 words
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Article14 1948-07-22 13 KUALA LUMPUR Fri—The Federal Legislative Counell will meet on Tuesday, July 27.14 words
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Article67 1948-07-22 13 KUCHING, July 17. MR. J. B. Archer. Chief Secretary, Sarawak, at the time of the cession, died this morning from wounds received in a gun accident. He was found at noon yesterday seriously injured at his home, and an operation was performed in hospital. The funeral67 words
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Article96 1948-07-22 13 From Our Staff Corn spondent IPOH. July 18. Malays top the list of Perak’s 3.000 special constables and auxiliary police constables enrolled since the state of emergency was declared last month. “The response to Government’s call has been very encouraging.” said Inche Mustapha Albakri, Stalf Officer,96 words
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617 1948-07-22 13 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR j„|. 1K A BRITISH officer of a Gurkha regiment and a Chinese' in n were shot dead during a military operation around Bidor <f* Uerak this morning. A rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition were recovered. The officer’s617 words
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Article275 1948-07-22 13 A SINGAPORE, July 18. 80l T .*{oo Singapore Harbour Board labourers at a mass meeting held in the Tanjong Pa ear labourers’ quarters yesterday decided to break awav from the former Singapore Harbour Labourers Union and to form a new union to lie known as the275 words
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Article289 1948-07-22 13 SINGAPORE, July 18. THE amount of the contract for the construction of the new Changi Airport represents more than 25 times the authorised and issued capital of Gammons according to the statement of the chairman. In his statement the chairman said that a dividend of289 words
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Article257 1948-07-22 14 Sth-Kast Asia. 'S’ is the opinion 01 Jr indus’rinlist*. some Rwn are already ur* 1 "he authorities to buy where-; “j thi-y meet require"f'nuab. r taetorl-s and eturuv; .one. ms in at'tilt 1 f*nd of .ast V*isnearl> 160. not innon* than 300 [K—* m-tri'S Electric257 words
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Article123 1948-07-22 14 SINGAPORE. July 20. ■P heaviest fine for an "Hence in the State of $40,000 -was im■ifj a young Chinese, K; m lu-ong. in the S; D:st riot Court last ■H "•f- Vl ,'r.arurd with hav■iSslt'd into the counjf,rj bow-s of matches. ■•b; rn -"O'i\v- (l that123 words
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Article48 1948-07-22 14 t aipinc lT ?W‘m C rt July 19- A ENa? d 'i a bi 8 haul here Si a taking jewellery C the hn,? r than $3,000 i* liiss? the iate v °f thf- hr*; 7110 occu- bur o US Were out Si climbed48 words
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Article300 1948-07-22 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. MEANS of combatting Malaya’s terrorists would be quickly supplied if Lord Listowel had to live on an out-of-the-way estate in Malaya, declared the Vicar of Selangor (the Rev. Canon R. C. Moore) yesterday. He was giving a sermon at St. Mary's Church. Kuala300 words
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Article26 1948-07-22 14 SINGAPORE. July 20. Twenty-one convicted criminals were banished trom Singapore yesterday. This brings the total of banishments since the liberation to 192.26 words
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Article, Illustration545 1948-07-22 14 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 19. ANE policeman was killed and a probationary Malay inspector and 14 constables were believed to have been captured by about 300 insurgents who attacked Gua Musang, South Kelantan, one of the loneliest and most isolated villages in,—Straits Times picture. - 545 words
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Article221 1948-07-22 14 SINGAPORE. July 20. THE “hard currency” rule for payments of all imported goods brought into this country from Japan, which was introduced some time ago by the Singapore Government, has not had any adverse effect on trade generally. Merchants are still anxious to obtain textiles, foodstuffs221 words
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Article170 1948-07-22 14 SINGAPORE, July 20. LOCAL shareorokers characterised as “irresponsible” a suggestion made yesterday that share prices should be pegged in Malaya. Singapore brokers called a meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss the suggestion. A sharebroker after the meeting told the Straits Times that the brokers car ried on170 words
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Article87 1948-07-22 14 KUALA LUMPUR. July l‘J A police communique Iron) I poll states that so lar 222 persons have been arrested in Perak. All hese cases are being Investigated The ilfteen Chinese round ,>d up by the military In th-> Senggang area on July have now been release87 words
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Article656 1948-07-22 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. AT least four uniformed insurgents were killed by rocket-firing and machine-gunning Spitfires near Gua Musang to-day. The air attacks were very extensive. They were carried out widely over the area and concentrated on numerous positions known to656 words
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Article59 1948-07-22 15 KUCHING. July 20. THE Sultan of Brunei with his wife and two daughters arrived here this morning by air from Brunei. They were received by a Government representative, after which the Sultan inspected a guard of honour mounted by the Sarawak Constabulary. He is expected to59 words
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Article146 1948-07-22 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. July 20. TWO young Chinese walked into a Kuomintang--1 supported school at Ninth Mile village, five miles north of Kajang this morning, ordered the headmaster, Mr. Chee Kong, out of the school and then shot him dead a few146 words
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Article93 1948-07-22 15 SINGAPORE. July 18. AN Ipoh European firm importing fire arms from Britain has been informed by its London agents that the Ministry of Supply has stopped export licences for Malaya for all revolvers, pistols, rifles and cartridges for these weapons. The manager of the firm told the93 words
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Article453 1948-07-22 15 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. \IR. W. M. Warren, who presided at the* general meeting of four tin companies of Anglo-Orien-tal (Malaya) in Kuala Lumpur today, called for a speedy stamping out of the present trouble on tin mines and estates. He453 words
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Article63 1948-07-22 15 SEREMBAN. July 19.—The removal of refuse from dustbins at business premises i:i Seremban is now chargeable by Government. Fees payable will be two dollars and 25 cents per moffih for ;arge business one dollar and 50 cents for medium businesses and 75 cents for small premises63 words
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Article66 1948-07-22 15 SINGAPORE. July 20. The telephone of Fraser Estate, near Kulai. Johore. was found to be out of order on Sunday evening. A party of police escorted members of the telecommunication department to attend to the fault. While passing along the Estate Road on Kelan Estate, the station66 words
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Article164 1948-07-22 15 From Our StatT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. DATROLS and certain other precautions to protect night trains have been instituted by the Malayan Railway. The general manager of Malayan Railway (Mr. J. O. Saunders) said tonight "Some of these precautions have been in operation for some164 words
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Article427 1948-07-22 15 SINGAPORE t-.i 19 Cingapork r'M u men; is In .B t, K P«*P»si.l i„ d Sf »»W- ll»u :^apou. c Su-;.;;; I Th' 11 A mv;;t The Association c ten to Uovcrnm 'Hi i»s? Mr. c. e. w Pasal that the n:\ S HoUio br dLspo.nd new427 words
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Article90 1948-07-22 15 JOHORE BAHRU. J«lV Wong Seng, a labourer tn m ployed by a contract ui W Kulai Yang Estate, vvas stnm tenced to five months with hard labour after b mj convicted on a cnaru V criminally intimidating 1 Macdonald, the man a*' the estate, on Jan.90 words
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Article268 1948-07-22 16 L- rom Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, July 20. I p l j t n too of the Federation’s 301 trades 111 i nions in effect ceased to function when L U hid officials vanished almost overnight announcement of the Emergency Regula,.niltr to reform some268 words
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Article160 1948-07-22 16 Luiwpur. July 20. *OONG Kwong. a memV h,- of the Anti-Japa-1. Lu,guo in Malaya th» occupation, has ftnariv'ted by the C.I.D. iepe. r t> was made at the t£: Eiira.m Amusement jjiVfL> among 27 persons r ;,d in Selangor yester- Baiu Ar.ing. 20 Chinese, them a160 words
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Article91 1948-07-22 16 POK July 20 -Mr. J. S. estod in the HfeikStat Council today n. ral Sir Milos or General Dobbie be appointed as High H'--.". r r the FederaMalaya. H "'t must, if this country is from Commu,i ll.uh CoinmisMy r r w.i! .M e to it91 words
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Article54 1948-07-22 16 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, July 20TWO BORs armed with a sten gun each and four loaded magazines have deserted from the Royal Artillery at Tampin. Negri Sembilan. Their unit, which informed the police, reports that they left shortly after midnight on July 18-If). They54 words
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Article161 1948-07-22 16 SINGAPORE, July 21. BETWEEN April 1946 and D June 1947 Singapoie Harbour Board handled 2,974,216 tons of imports and exports excluding coal and fuel In the 12 months ended June 30. 1947, imports and exports amounted to 2,317.505 tons excluding coal and fuel, which is the161 words
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Article511 1948-07-22 16 IUE do not get a great m a n y outings these days on the estates. The order of the day is that most oi us try to get home before night-fall and that, if we do go out after dusk, it is as seldom as511 words
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Article839 1948-07-22 16 XT SINGAPORE, July 21. A IS important legal battle was begun yesterday n before the full Bench of the Singapore Supreme Court in connection with the recent constitutional changes in the Colony of Singapore. Mi. I). K. Wallers asked Ihe court, consist’ ing: of the acting839 words
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Article63 1948-07-22 16 SINGAPORE, July 21 One hundred and eighty two people were ‘screened’ and seditious documents seized during a police raid on Tuas village, at the end of Jurong Road. Singapore, yesterday morning. Search was made for stran gers, arms and seditious literature. Of the 182 people. U wert*63 words
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Advertisement39 1948-07-22 16 JUDGES CC.rtc 0F LAW ARE KNOWN FOR WlSE JUDGMENT V AND MEN OF WISE JUDGMENT ALWAYS PREFER BtACKi WHITE' mu ■Vii A. 'I fly \V_ LidlMU aSt, black&white scotch whisky p nts: Thr Borneo Co., Ltd., Malaya. Sarawak. Siam39 words
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859 1948-07-22 17 From A Market Correspondent DEEPENING of the Berlin crisis, Italian and French disturbances and Communist attacks in Malaya, notably at the country’s only coal mine, made further deterioration inevitable in Malayan markets. It is a wonder local markets were not more affected last week.859 words
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Article76 1948-07-22 17 ANGLO ORIENTAL TIN OUTPUTS A NGLO-ORIENTAI, (Malav ya> announce the following June outputs of tin concentrates, in piculs: Ampat Dredging 777 Batu Selangor Dredging 345 Berjuntai Dredging 790 Jdapang Dredging 261 Kamunting Dredging 3.182 Klang River Dredging 50d Kramat Dredging 589 Kuala Kampar Tin Fields 1.491 Kucha i 290 Larut76 words
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Article45 1948-07-22 17 SINGAPORE. July 21. RUBBER in Singapore yesterday reached its latest record price since the market became free. F.o.b. in bales August rose seven eighths of a cent per lb., to close buyers 4?) cents, sellers 49 1 1 cents per lb.-45 words
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Article35 1948-07-22 17 SUNGEI Besi Mines announce the following output figures, in piculs, for the quarter to June 30 1948: Sungel Besi Section 1 838 Pelepah Section 1.701 Pelepah Sec. iTributors* 18d Total 3 52435 words
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Article66 1948-07-22 17 'J'AKUAPA Valley Tin Dredging announce* that in the first half of July the No. 1 dredge worked 122 hours, covered 20,003 cubic yards and won 81 piculs of ore. The No. 2 dredge worked 312 hours, covered 85.00 t) cuoic yards and won 252 picuLs of66 words
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Article41 1948-07-22 17 CHANGKAT Salak Rubber and Tin paid a dividend of 10 per cent less tax. on Preferred Ordinary shires for 1947. Payment absorbed £2.338. No dividend on Deferred Ordm ary shares was recommended. To replanting reserve £7.000 taxation reserve £3,000.41 words
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Article16 1948-07-22 17 ]yjALAKA Pinda Rubber Estates harvested 97.030 lbs. in June. New Sendai 49 000 lbs.16 words
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Article226 1948-07-22 17 singapohi:. 1v T" 1 r,,hh f mark,, j ,‘B mained at n,,.,., same level tlmm-h,!. fl «?ek, says l.nws'/v ivlfl weekly market „„„r, lh J -B has keen mod rat, r ,?B or both near ,1,: |lm n r f a 'B the more dist “B The226 words
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Article49 1948-07-22 17 KONG LEE < Perak) Plantatk revenue during 1947 was (£260 in 1946). Deduct general >xp. nses i rent .€76 €OB the previous ye and tax £64 t£s2»; th*> pr was €2O (£140). French* €339 i 199). forward 359 The estate remains unde: le to Chersonese iF.M.S.) E>*a:49 words
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Article870 1948-07-22 17 SINGAPORE. July 2C. Prices quoted by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were INDUSTRIALS Buver Seller Atlas Lee 13.00 14 00 Alex Brirt Ora i 60 i. ID Prof 3 00 3.15 8.8. Petrol 40/- 41/B M Trustee 9.40 9.80 Consolidated Tin (O) 2D6 22 6 cd Cor. Tin870 words
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Advertisement266 1948-07-22 17 NOTICE TO PRE-WAR SHAREHOLDERS OF Date of Last Annual Return T1IE JKRAM KUANTAN RUBBER ESTATE, LTD. 12.4.41 THE MENTAKAB RUBBER COMPANY. LTD. 20 5 41 SUNGEI BAGAN RUBBER COMPANY. LTD. 11.10 11 Reconstruction of Share Registers We have not been able to contact a large number of preoccupation holders, on266 words
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Article565 1948-07-22 18 I SEGAMAT, July 17. I iniOl’ (i}! rain made the conditions far from ■I 1 «iin»lM. the lOih annual athletic mee t of the KLaDort* Athletic Association held on the padang BJfdav ,ls a decided success. No reC“i i." were broken, the sloppy ground being565 words
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Article104 1948-07-22 18 SINGAPORE. July 18. A/fR. J. S. de Souza. Secre--ITI tary of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, will leave by air for London on July 22 as the Colony’s representative to the World Olympics. Mr. de Souza, who founded the Singapore A.A.A. in 1935, will104 words
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264 1948-07-22 18 SINGAPORE. July 18. FLT/LT. E. V. HEMSLEY, who turned out the first time for the R.A.F. Sembawang at cricket yesterday, scored 106 not out against the Royal Army Pay Corps, at Sembawang. Both he and Thompson, who scored 35 not out, were largely264 words
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Article457 1948-07-22 18 Johore beat ArmyNavy 2-1 SINGAPORE, July 18. Johore 2; Army-Navy 1. JN a keenly-contested game played under adverse ground conditions, Johore defeated the Army-Navy two-one in the last game in the southern section of the Malaya Cup football competition. Johore fully deserved their win after leading twonil at half time,457 words
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Article49 1948-07-22 18 SINGAPORE, July 19RJ. Isherwood and A. W. Scott entered the finals of the Royal Singapore Golf Club championship yesterday. Isherwood beat C. Watson and Scott beat S. Beavis in the semi-finals. The final will be played over 36 holes at Bukit Timah next week-end.49 words
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Article353 1948-07-22 18 Captain ’s XI Win Centenary’ Game cricket SINGAPORE, July 19. A fc ET n tWCen the Ca Pta«n’s team IT dnd the team to commemorate Man C nf t Iar r u G- Grace the “Grand Old Man of English cricket, was played on the Singapore Cricket Club padang yesterday.353 words
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Article93 1948-07-22 18 KUALA LUMPUR. July 21. —Members of the Selangor Golf Club are to be asked at an extraordinary general meeting on July 22 to agree to a temporary surcharge not exceeding 20 per cent, being imposed on all subscriptions and fees except entrance fees ai the discretion of93 words
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Article250 1948-07-22 18 Non-Benders S.C.R.C. Draw SINGAPORE, July 19THE cricket match between the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club and the NonBenders ended in a draw on Hong Lim Green, yesterday. Leijssius for the Non-Bend-ers bowled well to capture eight wickets for 68 runs, while Westerhout top-scored in the match with 71. S.C.R.C.: Ong Lee250 words
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Article85 1948-07-22 18 Straits Times copyright. From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, July 19. MALAYA were .second to the Sudan in the Junior Kolhapur competition at the Bislcy meeting. Individual scores at 300, 500 and 600 yards were: Major R. S. Hawkins (Royal Engineers) 45, 48, 45 —138. Lt.-Col. G.Straits Times copyright. - 85 words
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Article132 1948-07-22 18 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG. July 19. r secure more members, the Automobile Association of Malaya will hold motor gymkhanas and other sporting events. These contests will be res- tricted to events involving the minimum use of petrol. Other membership measures decided upon at a meeting132 words