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Title Section31 1952-08-21 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES (ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY) t w Series No. 316. Thursday, August 21, 1952 Price 40 cents (S.S. Currency) Or 1 ah.31 words
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Article77 1952-08-21 2 LEX - LEX. Singapore. ADSUM” in his letter in the Straits Time of Aug. 14 has missed the point. We all agree that he is right in how Communists should be treated. "Lawyer’s” point would appear to be that one should have some check on the abuse of powers77 words
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Article43 1952-08-21 2 SCRIBE - SCRIBE Singapore. BEFORE Mr. Justice William O. Douglas, member of the U.S. Supreme Court, praises Malaya’s system of justice as "one aspect of democracy at work at its best,” I suggest he reads some cases recently reported in the Straits Times.43 words
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246 1952-08-21 2 ADSUM - ADSUM. SO A Lawyer” deprecates the wide powers given the police by the Emergency Regulations and “Anxious” <Aug. 8) is dismayed and shocked to learn from him that many persons are detained without trial. It is assumed that both correspondents hold either those responsible246 words
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Article641 1952-08-21 2 D. ROBERTS - D. ROBERTS* >' Singapore. THE vegetable “importers’* of Singapore ci t r appear to be quite clear about the definitiu ni a “middleman.” Your apparently well-info*- J reporter in your issue of Aug. 12 tells us th jt “Vegetable importers said that there was no641 words
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Article196 1952-08-21 2 CAROLUS |UNIUS - CAROLUS |UNIUS. Singapore. 1 I by a Traffic jam am locked in Between the Gasworks and the Inland Sea Sharp as tne darts of unrequited Sin The sunlight beats upon my car and me. While some few hundred yards on, leisurely, Quite undeterred by hooting horns196 words
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Article263 1952-08-21 2 CURIOUS - CURIOUS. Singapore. AS an ordinary member of I the public I was indeed i shocked to read your leader of Aug. 1, and the subsequent correspondence regarding the Emergency detainees. The first shock was. as stated in your leader, that People have been detained without triafi263 words
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Article75 1952-08-21 2 POOR SOUL - POOR SOUL. Ipoh. IAM a Government employee with a monthly income of $27 r <.so. I have five children and three are attending school. My European counterpart with a monthly income of $1,500, and the same number of children, is being paid children’s allowance, or rather dependants’75 words
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Miscellaneous19 1952-08-21 2 i c A MJ KE4T *S :v::::v::^ W E<^ “The toughest part was getting the building permit from Government**19 words
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The Straits Budget
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Article846 1952-08-21 3 Lotteries Elections —Straits Times, Aug. 14. Officials of the Malayan L u:i ,.v t Association are dis)Vt.ring that there are em-ban-a>> jne nts in the running (t lotteries. There is little j oU bt that the popular appeal t be association’s lotteries has beer even greater, desccupetition from the federation's—Straits Times, Aug. 14. - 846 words
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Article247 1952-08-21 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 14. An excellent opportunity for making the problems of Malaya and other South-east Asian countries better known in influential American circles is provided by a conference now being held in Washington. It is an international conference which has brought together 150 delegates,—Straits Times, Aug. 14. - 247 words
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Article964 1952-08-21 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 15. There is a challenge to the Independence of Malaya Party in the vigour with which the efforts to develop the PanMalayan Labour Party are being pursued. It is not at the moment a serious challenge, for the PMLP has a lot of special difficulties—Straits Times, Aug. 15. - 964 words
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Article542 1952-08-21 3 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. There will be a tendency to scepticism over the report j that heavy truck tyres have I been made in the United States from guayule rubber which are as good as those made with hevea rubber. Time may prove that scepticism—Straits Times, Aug. 16. - 542 words
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Article319 1952-08-21 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. “I go wherever my husband goes; that is the lot of a soldier’s wife”, said Lady 1 Templer in January, when she learned that General Templer had been chosen by Mr. Churchill to lead the fight against the terrorists in Malaya.—Straits Times, Aug. 16. - 319 words
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Article226 1952-08-21 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 16. A word of commendation to the Colony’s incom e-t a x department. On three counts. Not only was the collection of $59.9 million in 1951 nearly $29 million in excess of the estimate (if only that could be taken to mean a change—Straits Times, Aug. 16. - 226 words
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Article399 1952-08-21 4 Not So Good Men True —Straits Times. Aug. 18. Nothing that has been said or written on the subject of corruption in Malaya is more disquieting than the comment with which Mr. Justice Abbott acquitted a Government official at Malacca on a charge of corruption. “Whenever there is a clear—Straits Times. Aug. 18. - 399 words
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Article372 1952-08-21 4 —Straits Times. Aug. 18. The action of a member of I the Services in smuggling a dog into Singapore from the Federation justifies the warning of the extremely grave dangers attendant upon such criminally foolish behaviour. At the present time a very virulent outbreak of—Straits Times. Aug. 18. - 372 words
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Article308 1952-08-21 4 —Straits Times, Aug. 18. The Fisheries Survey Report which has just been published by the Fisheries Department of the Colony represents only one aspect of a lot of work that is being done to increase Singapore’s fish supplies. It is doubtless an essential contribution to the very—Straits Times, Aug. 18. - 308 words
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Article481 1952-08-21 4 —Straits Times, Aug. The first reaction to p, announcement of the y,, pore P.W.D.’s expanded. v gramme of works for tinof 1952 Combines relu« to disparage anything f savours of drive and i prise in a Government d ment with puzzlement what was held comp! impossible—Straits Times, Aug. - 481 words
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Article, Illustration1326 1952-08-21 5 NONI WRIGHT - by NONI WRIGHT nlMPLED, homely Mrs. Majeed of t l u > twinkling eyes is Malava’s most remarkable mother. All lu*r five grownup children are scltularship winners Mn have had, or are at present taking, inkier education abroad with distinction. One daughter Is the only1,326 words
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Article113 1952-08-21 5 AT QUEEN CHARLOTTES on 6th July, 1952, to Carol, wife of C. P. Sutton, P.W.D., Kluang a daughter. GRIFFIN: To Tcss, wife of Major J. J. Griffin, at Singapore, on 12th Aug., twin daughters. 80H-CHIA: To Mrs. Dorothy Soh, wife- of Mr. Soh Chuan Woo, at Lily Dispensary, on113 words
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Article88 1952-08-21 5 FLIGHT LIEUTENANT M. A. NOBLE-MISS J. SIMMONS: The engagement Is announced between Michael Austin, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. N Noble of Cherlton, Hampshire, and Jean, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bimmons of Ottery St. Mary Devonshire. EVANS-ROGERSON: The engagement Is announced between88 words
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Article291 1952-08-21 5 Major D. H. de T. Reade - By Major D. H. de T. Reade IN the Japanese invasion of Malaya the 2/2 Gurkha Rifles fought from the Siam Border to Singapore. To-day, at Slim River, the Battalion’s Support Company is based on security duties only a few hundred yards from Railway291 words
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Obituary117 1952-08-21 5 IN ME MORI AM IN LOVING memory of Mr. A.D. Knowles of Seremban who died on Aug. 1951. Oreatly missed. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MRS.*F. O. RITCHIE wishes to express her heartfelt thanks to all those who sent messages of sympathy and wreaths, and who attended at the funeral of her beloved husband117 words
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Article, Illustration9 1952-08-21 6 Photograph by Birte Steincke.Photograph by Birte Steincke. - 9 words
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Article668 1952-08-21 6 STOIC - STOIC. SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. SLOWLY RISING is the number of people in Singapore who are paying income tax. Assessments made up to Dec. 31, 1951, for the year 1950 —latest figures available and just issued by the Income Tax Department —show that 11,173 residents in the668 words
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Article1052 1952-08-21 6 Stanley Street - Stanley Street. Rogue Elephant-hunting has never particularly appealed to us. as a pastime, let alone a way of living, but we ran see the point of it after reading a most graphic article on rogue elephants, by “Pelandok.” in the July issue of the Malayan1,052 words
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Article575 1952-08-21 7 TUAN D#EK - TUAN D#EK. 4 FEW days ago the Tuan paid a visit to Johore Bahru to meet certain Government officials. The appointment a was for 10 o’clock, nut he was half an hour late owing to his watch l aving stopped at 9.30 -as he discovered at 10.30! Luckily575 words
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Article215 1952-08-21 7 l r °"> the Straits Times of August, 1902. DFKISHAS at Penang are n °w being fitted with seat V '.‘S of khaki instead of V. ,irK> hitherto the colour. is said to be one mtage of the innovation. i Albion motor car is on s wl' r°"> the Straits Times of August, 1902. - 215 words
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Article, Illustration31 1952-08-21 7 .—Straits Times picture..—Straits Times; picture. - 31 words
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Article654 1952-08-21 7 MARACAS, claves, queros, bongoes, cabacas— i strange fruit? Not to Latin i American music enthusiasts. They know them as instruments representing the noise of pampas grass in the breeze, crickets, woodpeckers, bullfrogs and other homely rhytnms associated with rumbas, guarachas. sambas and so on. But why look654 words
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Article49 1952-08-21 7 SINGAPORE, Auk. 17. Mr. T. Kulasekaram, Assistant Official Assignee, Singapore, has been transferred to the First Police Court as Magistrate. Mr. Kulasekaram Is succeeded at the Official Assignee’s Office by Mr. Denrus D’Cotta, who recently returned to the Colony from England after qualifying as a barrister.49 words
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Article50 1952-08-21 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Aur. 16 Mr. A O. Billing has been appointed Federation Government liaison officer in Australia for Federation students at colleges and universities there. Mr. Billing retires this year from his post of Sur-veyor-General. Malaya He. expects to take up his new duties in November50 words
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Article79 1952-08-21 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 13. Malayan Railway revenue for the first six months of this year showed an increase of 83,100,000 over the same period of last year, according to figures released today. The revenue for the first half year was 526.600,000, against 823,500,000 for same period79 words
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Article66 1952-08-21 8 SINGAPORE. Aug. 14. Security forces cu Monday located seven bandit camps in various parts of the Federation. One camp was found by a patrol of the 3rd King’s Alrican Rifles in the Mentakabdistrict of Pahang. A 20-foot-long hut and five others were being built, while a66 words
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Article15 1952-08-21 8 Terrorists burned three lorries on an estate in the Johore Bahru area15 words
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Article, Illustration352 1952-08-21 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. ]\|R. J. Hugh Ellis, acting Chief Secretary of Sarawak, told Pressmen yesterday: “In Sarawak the jungle is definitely NOT neutral.” Mosl of tin* country was controlled by Sea !Kales or Ilians, and they were undoubtedly loyal to the Government, 'flic* jungle could not352 words
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Article53 1952-08-21 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. Sir Sydney Caine, new ViceChancellor of the University of Malaya, is expected to arrive in Singapore by air on Sept. 4, Mr. W. D. Craig, the Registrar said yesterday. The University is now advertising several posts in three departments in the53 words
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Article336 1952-08-21 8 SINGAPORE, Au s 14. Ml Dennis Koinlosy, chief planning officer in Sir George Pepler’s survey team for the New Singapore, yesterday told Rotarians what the island may look like in 1972. If Sir George’s Master Plan is carried out there will be in Singapore: A limited336 words
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Article115 1952-08-21 8 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. SINGAPORE is tackling its tuberculosis problem on the right lines, said Dr. G. H Garlick, Director of SATA, on his return by Qantas-BOAC yesterday from London. Dr. Garlick, accompanied by his wife, has been away for six weeks attending two international conferences on115 words
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Article103 1952-08-21 8 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON. Aug. 13. Mr. David Phillip, a partner of Rennie Lowick. Singapore, who died in the Royal Northern Hospital in London last week, was cremated at Golder.s Given Crematorium this afternoon. Mr. Phillip, who was 67. had been ill for some time in Singapore103 words
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268 1952-08-21 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug n DLANS to turn Malaya into a fully self-eovcm 1 Socialist welfare state, working i n DartnprA*?* with Britain, will be discussed at an exec™/- 11 committee meeting of the Pan-Malavan i IVe Party in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 14. l268 words
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118 1952-08-21 8 Worker’ s law to apply to services men SINGAPORE, .\u 4 14. For the first time locally engaged civilian workers of the three Services in Singapore ‘will i>« covered by the new ('olon> Government’s Workmens Compensation Ordinance which will soon replace tin present law. The Singapore Labour Com4nissioner. Mr. G.118 words
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48 1952-08-21 8 MR. R. M. SAPTOHUDOJO, of Indonesia, and his B alinese bride, Miss Kartika Affandi, drink toasts during their wedding ceremony at the Indonesian Embassy in London. They met five years ago in Malaya but the bride’s father decided that Kartika, at 14, was too young to marry. —A.P.—A.P. - 48 words
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Article, Illustration94 1952-08-21 9 Xepti. captured by men of (he Hh Platoon in the Bahau area, has been presented to the Zoo as it was getting too big. Th«> crest ofStraits Times picture. - 94 words
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Article238 1952-08-21 9 PEN AN 0, Aug. 14. 4FTER nearly a year’s neg tiations. the Federation Government and the Malayan Technical Services Union have signed an agreement on revised salary scales. Mr. G. Leo. president of the t’nion. said todav that the agreement covered technical assistants, technicians overseers238 words
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277 1952-08-21 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. A SUGGESTION that a system of deposits should be started for plane bookings and that deposits for sea passages should be raised from 25 to 50 per cent, is made in The Planter, the journal of the Incorporated Society of277 words
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Article, Illustration55 1952-08-21 9 Miss Connery will spend six months in Malaya collecting material for radio and television programmes for the British Rubber Development Board. Straitsvelopment Board. — Straits Times picture. - 55 words
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Article576 1952-08-21 9 No skeletons’ says claims man KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 11. JHK WAR DAMAGE Commission “has no skeletons in its cupboard and has nothing of which to be ashamed,” the acting chairman, Mr. S. E. Chamier, said in Kuala Lumpur today. “We may not have been as efficient as we would have576 words
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Article284 1952-08-21 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. A TOTAL of $l6l million had been paid out in War Damage claims in the Federation and Singapore up to the end of July, the acting Chairman of the Commission. Mr. S. E. Chamier, said in Kuala Lumpur today. Of284 words
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190 1952-08-21 9 SINGAPORE. Aug. 14 SIXTY -YEAR old British artist lan r jack’ t Fairweather, who drifted from Darwin to Timor on a raft in 20 days and came to Sin- gapore by ship last week, will soon leave for England. The Singapore Controller 'of Immigration,190 words
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Article89 1952-08-21 9 IPOH, Aug. 14 Six .students from English and vernacular schools in Perak have won awards under the Taik Ho Diamond Jubilee Fund set up by Federal Councillor. Mr Toh Eng Hoe of Ttiping. The awards are for essay competition in English. Chinese and Romanised Malay The89 words
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Article41 1952-08-21 9 SINGAPORE AUK. 14. Dr C A Gtbson-Hill Curator of Raffles Museum, who represented the Colony at tlie recent ECAFE conference of the working party on cottage industries, will shortly submit a report of his observations to the Singapore Government41 words
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Article, Illustration38 1952-08-21 10 LADY TEMPLER AND MRS. D. C. MACGILLIVRAY. wife of the Deputy High Commissioner, travel down river on a bamboo raft during a 130-mile tour of the llu Selangor district. —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 38 words
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Article94 1952-08-21 10 IPOH, Aug. 14. A ‘27-YEAR-OLD European Customs officer, D. J. Mackay, was today arraigned before Mr. J. R. Whimster in the Sessions Court on a corruption charge. The charge against Mackay was that he "corruptly accepted $5OO from Teh Penp Sooi at his (Mackay’s) quarters on94 words
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Article62 1952-08-21 10 LONDON, Aug. 14. The Order of St. John is sending 25 welfare teams to resettlement areas in the Federation at the request of Sir Gerald Templer, High Commissioner, it was announced today. Two sisters. Miss Marjorie Miller and Miss Nancy Miller, of Ipswich, will be theReuter. - 62 words
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Article48 1952-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. Key-officers of the Singapore Government’s special anti-corruption unit have started work on plans and proposals on the build-up and work of the unit. The officers were also working on the expansion of the unit and on the picked personnel for it.48 words
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Article50 1952-08-21 10 A Singapore student is one of the 23 overseas students ot’enoing the summer vacation course in English organic by the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of London University at King’s Collet London. J lle urs e Is designed to students a deeper insight la J|Kuag e and contem.porary literature.50 words
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97 1952-08-21 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 14. SINGAPORE police officers are to be sent to the new* Police Training College for training when it opens at Kuala Kubu shortly. The Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Training. Singapore Police. Mr. R. W. Calderwood. visited the site of the97 words
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Article26 1952-08-21 10 Family remittances to China from Malaya last month totalled $1,923,934.49. Of this, $1,249,067.68 was sent from Singapore and from the Federation.26 words
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Article246 1952-08-21 10 $750.000 SCHEME READY KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 14. TUIE Malayan Association for the Blind plans to start building work on the Princess Elizabeth School in Johore Bahru next month and on the Gurney Training Centre and Hostel in Kuala Lumpur in October. The two projects246 words
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38 1952-08-21 10 SEVEN LOVELY Pakistani ladies at the cocktail party given by their Trade Commisioner in Malaya. Mr. M. H. E. A. Baig, at his re sidence in Coronation Road West. Singapore, in celebration of Pakistan’s fifth year of independence.38 words
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Article223 1952-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Au K 15 TWO bombs werf thrown by terrorist, m Singapore last night Two Chinese youth, have been detained S first BOMB was thrown into a Singapore TvaetioS Company bus at Collyer Quay There were three paL„ gers in the bus but tin S'223 words
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288 1952-08-21 10 Put dead bandits on show Govt told KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. T'HE Incorporated Society of Planters has made representations to the Federation Government that the bodies of terrorists hanged at Pudu Gaol. Kuala Lumpur, should be taken round the districts where they previously operated and shown to the people. The288 words
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Article50 1952-08-21 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. The new rate of postage mi a parcel weighing 22 lb. h the United States is $l2 from Sept. 1. The scale of rates for parcels to Britain is: 21b. $2. 3n $2.30; 71b. $4; 121 b. $6.40; and 221 b. $l2.50 words
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Article47 1952-08-21 10 SINGAPORE, Aug. 14. HOME Guards on Monday drove off 15 terrorists who attacked the Malay kampomt at Batu Tiga, in the Tapan area of Perak. A police jungle squad put. a bandit gang to flight in tn» Sungei Siput North district o Perak.47 words
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40 1952-08-21 11 TING PEI WAH, Singapore ’s first woman competitor to go to the Olympic Games returned on Aug. 13 from Helsinki with her arms full of souvenirs which she shows to schoolmates who met her at the airport. Straits Tinier picture.— Straits Tinier picture. - 40 words
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Article, Illustration33 1952-08-21 11 -Straits Times picture.-Straits Times; picture. - 33 words
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78 1952-08-21 11 Kt VLA Ll’MPfR. Aug. 13. OM hundred and fifty Mawho. <i\ months ago fishermen, padi plan- rubber tappers and .men in KeianLan and I ••.ganu hive become 1 and efficient soldiers. Tht- ;.ave completed comP er.'ive training as reituiN of the Malay Regiment and78 words
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Article242 1952-08-21 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 13. THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF PLANTERS A praise the manner in which Gen. Sir Gerald Templer is conducting the campaign against Communist terrorism since his appointment as High Commissioner. Ir. a recent cable to the Prime Minister. Mr. Churchill, t hi ISP. said242 words
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Article213 1952-08-21 11 S’ pore TV camera for Coronation SINGAP<3RE. Aug. 15 T'HE TELEVISION CAMERA, used at the Singapor* Radio Exhibition —the first to appear in the Far East —will be one of a battery of T.V. cameras televising the Coronation next June, one of the organisers of the exhibition said yesterdav. To213 words
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Article59 1952-08-21 11 SINGAPORE. Aug 15 Ir. Singapore .as: mcr/.h 251 people were fined S16.630 for failing :c display pne* tags; 129 were fined S12.300 for selling rettes above the displayed price and 10 were fined $695 for selling incorrect grades of nee There was cr.ly one case uf59 words
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125 1952-08-21 11 SINGAPORE. Aug. 15. MR FRITZ GMUR secretary or the Post. Telega oh lnternational, said in Singa-nore've-t' rdav that the living standard of Colony postmen, is far behind that which the P.T.T.I. resards as satisfactory. He said: I have visited a few Singapore postmen?125 words
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Article57 1952-08-21 11 KOTA BHARU A :e 14 Offers of the Kelar.'ar. S: t y~r. Ambulance Brigade en* ln< Miis I R: 'her. Brigade Orear.i'er. to dinner a: the residence A Mr. Chua Er.c Messrs S K Thury rajah Lee Kens Chuan were decorated with the Meritorious Service57 words
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Article54 1952-08-21 11 SINGAPORE Aug 15 Mr A Frughtnie; and Legislative Councillor Mr v Pak Choi both f the Federation, are now m S.r.re ex mining the former Straits Settlement accounts for final settlement between the two territories These accotin's show a crei.ii c ala nee of $33 500.000 >54 words
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Article67 1952-08-21 11 KUALA LUMPUR Aus 14 Penghulus attending an 11day refresher c urse in Kuala Li pis were v en a talk today n cnart procedure bv Mr E M Smailwo d. President of the Sessl ns Court Pahar.g Later they watched proceedings in court. They also heard67 words
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Article34 1952-08-21 11 IPOH. Au? 15 —Dr E H R:-.'S x..\ be medical Officer. I;> h Hospital a Men Dr J D OShaug is; goes n leave it t..f end o* *he month34 words
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Article, Illustration115 1952-08-21 11 MISS DING PEEK HOON of the Sultan Yus*uf School. Batu Gajah. who will fiy to Kirkbv College for a teachers* training course, at the end of this month. She is one of three selected from Batu Gajah. The others Miss Sofia binte Mat YitStraits Times picture. - 115 words
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Article, Illustration280 1952-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. MRS. HELEN TAN, president of the Chjnese Ladies Association, Singapore. said last night before presen ting “Rendezvous with Eve” to an audience that had “every Adam with an 'impatient gleam in his eye.” that the show really sprang from a chance remark280 words
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Article73 1952-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. Mrs. Elizabeth Choy. a Singapore Legislative Councilor, televised at Happy World last night, appealed to women to come forward in greater number and voCunteer to work at one of the Colony’s *l7 social centres. She said: “I need not go 'J**ry deepP.y into73 words
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Article191 1952-08-21 12 THE ‘APPLE’ TEMPTED 1,500 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16 RENDEZVOUS WITH EVE”, a charity pageant produced by the Chinese Ladies’ Association was attended by 1,500 people at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, last night. I “Eve,” like all beautiful women, was more than an hour late. But she191 words
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Article48 1952-08-21 12 IPOH. Aug. 15. The Rev. Paul Daniel, of the Tamil section of the Anglican Church. South Perak Parish, is going on long leave shortly and will be back by Christmas. During his absence, the Rev A Dumper and the Rev. Arnold Lee will deputise for him.48 words
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Article164 1952-08-21 12 KUCHING, Aug. 15. A FRESH outbreak of armed terrorism was reported late last night. A Chinese padi farmer told the police that two masked Chinese armed with shotguns entered his house while he was in the field, held up his wif* at gunpoint and stole164 words
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Article74 1952-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16.. Radio Malaya is to extend English broadcasting time by one hour from Sept. 1, it was announced last night. The English programmes will begin at 5 p.m. instead oi 6 p.m. as at present. Most of this extra hour will be devoted to74 words
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Article21 1952-08-21 12 Over 60 former officers of the Indian Army held a reunion dinner at the Singapore Club on Aug. 15.21 words
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117 1952-08-21 12 Singapore, Aug. 15. IVfOHE THAN 60 men caused a stir yesterday when they turned up at the St. John Ambulance Brigade headquarters in Stamford Road, Singapore, for a new class on home nursing, ‘‘They caught m e by surprise,” said Mrs. T. V.117 words
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96 1952-08-21 12 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. SINGAPORE residents will have to disclose all aliases by which they are known in Government records, under a Bill to be introduced in the Legislative Council in three months’ time. Under the Bill, any person who has to enter96 words
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Article135 1952-08-21 12 SINGAPORE. Aug. 16 The members of the Singapore Coronation Celebration Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, was announced yesterday. Members are> Legislative Councillors. Mr. C. C. Tan, and Mr. Llm Yew Hock; City Councillors, Mr. Yap Pen? Geek, and Mr. J. M. Jumabhoy; Rural Board,135 words
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Article29 1952-08-21 12 IPOH, Aug. 16.—M. O. F Watkins, from Kuala Lut pur, is now Comptroiie Telecomms, Perak. He succeeds Mr. E. L. Spooner-Li lingston who has gone < leave.29 words
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261 1952-08-21 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15. rpnK FEDERATION Director of Education, Mr. L. D. Whitfield, today warned teachers against hypocrisy. He said: “If you cannot acquire the qualities for teaching, for good‘ness sake find another job.” Mr. Whitfield was addressing 300 teachers at261 words
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40 1952-08-21 13 MISS SHANTI RYAN, of the Selangor Social Welfare Department, who arrived at Kallang Airport by QantasBOAC from London on Aug. 15 after studying welfare work. She is seen with her father who wept when he met her. —Straits Times picture.—Straits Times picture. - 40 words
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Article, Illustration345 1952-08-21 13 K. LUMPUR. Aug. 15. MU. 1). C. MacGillivray, Deputy High Commissioner for the Federation, told English school teachers gathered here for their vacation course this morning: “The future happiness of Malaya will depend on your finding the right answer to the fundamental question345 words
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Article44 1952-08-21 13 IPOH. £ug. 14.—Two cases of polio, one a boy aged one-vear-and-a-half and the other an eleven-mooth-oid babv girl, have been admitted to the Batu Gajah Hospital. They are children of Indian labourers on Gopeng Estate in the Kinta district.44 words
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Article45 1952-08-21 13 KUAI.A. LUMPUH. Aug. la. Lady Templer w lfe of the High Commissioner, spent an hour this afternoon looking at an exhibition °f P a J[ nt at the British Council by nu nils of the Rhm Army School in Cameron Highlands.45 words
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153 1952-08-21 13 SINGAPORE. Aim. 16. THE SINGAPORE City Council will continue with plans to develop the Esplanade as soon as the hawkers shelters are completed, Mr. W. I. Watson, the City Architect, told the Straits Times yesterday. Mr. Watson said that th* new hawkers’ shelters would be153 words
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Article, Illustration77 1952-08-21 13 Thorn are 21 stalls now nearin? completion. They will provide Indian, Chinese, European and Malay food. Each of the self-contained stalls will he shared by thiee or fourtrolled prices. — Straits Times picture. - 77 words
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Article, Illustration70 1952-08-21 13 SINGAPORE. Ati". 16. Mrs. s. s. man yam. wife of Hie Singapore City councillor, who yesterday said that she would contest the December City Council election in the West Ward as an independent. Mrs. Manyam, a Red and mother of three children, is70 words
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Article90 1952-08-21 13 KUALA, LUMPUR, Aug. 15. DEATH came to an armed bandit when he stopped and talked to a timber cutter deep in a Pahang jungle yesterday He was killed by men of a police jungle squad near Kuala Llpis They were in ambush positions round90 words
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Article190 1952-08-21 14 KUALA. LUMPUR. Aug. 15. EHGHT terrorists have been killed in the Federation in the last 24 hours. A communique tonight announced the killing of three bandits by a patrol of the 3rd King’s African Rifles in the jungle areas of south Trengganu. A terrorist was shot190 words
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Article, Illustration65 1952-08-21 14 r,,E HIGH COMMISSIONER, General Sir Gerald TemPi«r gave the bride away at the wedding of his A.D.C. Vi!* 1 Brooke Pemberton, Coldstream Guards. to Kirkland Smith, of Canada, at St. Mary’s Church, Kuala Lumpur, on Aug. 15. General Templer is n standing between the brideStraits Times picture. - 65 words
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Article288 1952-08-21 14 IPOH, Aug. 15. PATROL of the Ist Green Howards, led by Capt. N. Bagnall M.C. of Northam, Sussex, killed three terrorists in a day-long ambush yesterday, on a jungle track near Tapah, Perak. The High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer today sent a message of288 words
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Article32 1952-08-21 14 PORT DICKSON. Aug. 15— Mr. S. R. L. Buckwell, Senior Customs Officer. Port Dickson. has left on long leave. His successor is Inche Wan Hamzah bin Wan Mohd from Muar.32 words
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Article, Illustration148 1952-08-21 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. A 42-YEAR-OLD tailor, Lum Foon, fell 60ft. to his death, from the fifth floor of the new nine-storey Singapore Improvement Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street yesterday. This is th e second fatal fall from the building in three months.148 words
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Article332 1952-08-21 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 15 LEGISLATION which will give Sir Gerald Templer power to raise regular military forces was published today. Called the Milit lr 'v Forces Bill, it will go before the Federal Leri*, lative Council at its next meeting. The Attorney-General, Mr. Michael Ho« an332 words
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Article65 1952-08-21 14 PORT DICKSON, Aug. 15 Malay officers of the Malay Regiment at Port Dickson held a cocktail party this week to welcome eight Malay officers who returned to the Regiment after training at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Another cocktail party was also given is their65 words
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Article63 1952-08-21 14 PENANG, Aug. 15 ELEVEN Malay women have been elected to a literacy drive sub-committee set up by the Kampong Bahru section of the Penang Adult Education Association. Che Hilimi binte Menieem Is president and Che Mardziah binte Abidin is vice-president of the committee with Che63 words
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263 1952-08-21 14 SINGAPORE. Aug. 16 T IM GUAT TEE. a 26-year-old woman who was hit on the knees by during the Japanese bomiing of Singapore in earl? 1942, jumped into Stamford Canal ten years later because she believed that she would never recover. Lim’s263 words
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Article49 1952-08-21 14 SINGAPORE. Aui; 16. The Archdeacon of North Malaya, the Ven. D. M. Gnunasihamani, and Mrs. Onanasihamani will go on a short holiday to India nex* week This will be their visit to India after 25 yt rs of missionary work in Burma and Malaya.49 words
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Article37 1952-08-21 14 SINGAPORE, Aug. 1» The pilgrim ship Tyndur took over 5.700 pilgrims Mecca last year. The Tyndareus was spec' ly fitted out at Liverpool the pilgrim trade and > ias commodation for 1.96° grims.37 words
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88 1952-08-21 15 Mr. T. H. Allen, Superintendent of Police, is on the left with Mr. J. O. Beins, Assistant Commandant of—Straits Times picture. - 88 words
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Article, Illustration311 1952-08-21 15 ‘Clique dominates party’ —Labour man SINGAPORE, Aug. 19. \IK. E. V. DAVIES, Labour Party leader in 4 Singapore City Council, yesterday attacked his party’s general council, which, he said, was “dominated by a clique which lacked the confidence of the electorate”. In a letter to the Straits Times giving the311 words
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Article70 1952-08-21 15 IPOH, Aug 18.—Fellow exPu\\ irom the Burma-Siam Railway entertained Padre Harry Thorpe to dinner, at the I poll Club, during the week-end. The Padre, who was a Suest at St. John’s Vicarage, Pr» ached yesterday at Events at St. John’s Church, the ervice being attended by70 words
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Article39 1952-08-21 15 A soldier of the Ist Battalion. Plnlk Regiment, wp.s killrd and nother was wounded on Aug. 18 yhen a gang ambushed two miliirv vehicles on the Yong Peng to l a bis main trunk road in Johore39 words
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84 1952-08-21 15 I THE first ol a series of edu- j cational courses for Johore new villagers ended! recently. During the six-day course. trainees toured Johore Gov- i eminent projects and attend- j ed lectures by senior Government officials. Dato Syed Abdul Kadir bin Mohammed, Mentri84 words
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Article231 1952-08-21 15 PENANG, Aug. 18. RECRUITING started in Penang today for the first 150 soldiers of the Federation Regiment. The response was good—lo 6 applied, but only 11 of them were Chinese. The few Chinese to applv was a disappoint* mcnt, said Major D G. Ryan, leader of231 words
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312 1952-08-21 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 18. LADY TEMPLER, wife of the High Commissioner, gave first aid to a British soldier as he lay injured on a Selangor roadside yesterday after a collision between a military scout car and a bus. Within seconds of the accident. Lady312 words
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Article54 1952-08-21 15 KUANTAJL Aug. 18.—The British Red Cross Society, Kuantan branch, raised more than $4,000 during the week-end for the society’s funds. Members, led by Mrs. D. F. Thompson, held a fun fair at the Shang Pan School and a combined schools concert, and cinema show at54 words
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Article, Illustration61 1952-08-21 15 Mr. Briggs, brought here by Army Education, will be in Malaya for 14 days, during which he hopes to visit the61 words
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136 1952-08-21 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 18. PERAKS bandit xiliersthe Green Howardsncored another big success today when they shot dead three more bandits in the Tapah area of Perak. Six bandits were killed and one was captured during the day The Green Howards’s success was136 words
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171 1952-08-21 15 IPOH. Auk. 18 PANDITS have killed anD other European planter in Perak. With mm were five snecial constables. A sixth, who was wounded, died later bringing tho casualty list to seven The planter was Mr G. M. Burns. 39~.vear-old Scotsman, manager ol171 words
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Article320 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. rpHE political future of Singapore is at stake because of the inaccurate register of voters Mr. C. C. Tan, Progressive Party leader, said at the Legislative Council meeting yesterday. “And unless we can find ways and means of getting an accurate register and320 words
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Article138 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SECRETARY for Economic Affairs, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, yesterday opposed the derationing of sugar on the grounds that this might increase the present price. At the Singapore Legislative Council meeting, Dr. C. J. Paglar (Progressive Member tor Chungii contended that it would lower138 words
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208 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. I OIFTS to either the Singapore or Federation GovI era men ts wiM be free from j income tax as irom Jan. i 1 this year, when the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday passed certain amendments to the Colony's Income208 words
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Article86 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. HTHE Singapore Government does not intend to change the present scale of personal allowances for people liable to income tax. In the Legislative Council yesterday, the Government said that despite the increase in the cost of living, the present scale of allowances “is86 words
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Article57 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. A resolution, to confer on tlie Duchess of Kent the Honorary Freedom of the City of Singapore, will be introduced by Mr. Yap Pheng Geek (Nominated! at the monthly meeting of the City Council next week. It will be seconded by Mrs.57 words
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208 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE Government could not accept the statement that there were 80.000 opium addicts in the Colony, Mr. W. L. Blythe. Colonial Secretary, said in the Legislative Council yesterday. Mr Blythe was replying to Dr. C. J. P. Paglar (Progressive Changi)208 words
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Article56 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. Special expenditure approved by the Finance Committee of the Singapore Legislative Council includes the purchase of 400 General Service Medals, at a cost of $2,400. and $2,000 to cover the cost of temporary secretarial assistance to cope with the increasing volume of56 words
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Article164 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. landlords were using questionable methods in dealing with people they want to clear fiom their lands the member for Changi, Dato C. J. Paglar, said in the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday. J One estate has now been cut up into lots, to be sold164 words
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236 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. T»HE POLICY of the Singapore Government not to accept into its medical services any graduates of the University of Malaya who were receiving unconditional bursaries from the Federation Government was attacked by Mr. C. C. Tan, leader of the Progressive236 words
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44 1952-08-21 16 .—Photo by W. S. Boon..—Photo by W. S. Boon. - 44 words
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307 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. SINGAPORE’S import policy should provide the local market with as many consumer goods as possible, said the joint report of the Price Control Advisory Committees, laid before the Legislative Council yesterday. Singapore, however, could not avoid the effects of world shortages307 words
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Article78 1952-08-21 16 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. The Singapore Government had not made any commendations regarding increase in elected memo* of the Legislative Coun-n-Mr. W L. Blythe, the Connlal Secretary, said »n written reply to Dr PagCar yesterday. Mr. Blythe said: ‘A mittee, consisting of atl Unofficial members, urn- the78 words
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42 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE S CHINATOWN, normally a bright spot, has been made even brighter with the illumination from the new nine-storey Trust flats in Upper Pickering Street. Seventy families will move into these modern, two-bedroom flats next week, which are also served by lifts.42 words
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Article87 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. THE SINGAPORE Legislative Council yesterday approved the extension of the Emergency Regulations for a further three months •because the Emergency Is still with us.” The Colonial Secretary. Mr. W. L. Blythe, said: “There is an atmosphere of expectation in the air, and possibly87 words
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Article198 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Legislative Council yesterday voted nearly $13,500,000 for Government to spend and more than half of it will b P used to buy land. 'Hie acting Financial Secretary Mr. T. M. Hart, broke a tradition when he explained to the Council198 words
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Article420 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. INHERE should be no direct subsidy of rice prices by the Singapore Government, two of the three members of the Select Committee on Retail Price of Rationed Rice recommend in a report tabled in the Legislative Council yesterday. They are Mr. A. Gilmour (chairman)420 words
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Article32 1952-08-21 17 JOHORE BAHRU Aug. 19. Mr H. Tries de Menezes Nolasco. of the Macao Rotary flub was a guest at the p** meeting of the Rotary Club Of Johore Bahru today.32 words
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Article136 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Authorities in Kuching announced that the situation in Sarawak is now quiet and that no further incidents have been reported since last week’s armed robbery at Muara Tuang. Police have recovered gold and cash stolen by the armed gang and have arrested two136 words
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Article57 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Nine Singapore fishing boats and one fishing tender were detained by the Indonesian Government in the first seven months of this year, Mr. W. L. BJythe, Colonial Secretary, said in a written reply to Mr. H. J C. Kulasingha, in the Legislative Council yesterday.57 words
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Article351 1952-08-21 17 KIIALA LUMPUR, Aug. 19. A SHEET of flame swept across 600 acres of lallang and abandoned rubber trees last night and threatened to destroy the villages of Petaling and Puchong in Selangor. While firemen, soldiers and policemen fought the flames with flrebeaters and water, the villagers351 words
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122 1952-08-21 17 IPOH, Aug. 19. mHE Malayan Chinese Association is to launch a 1 literacy and adult education drive throughout the country with the help of Chinese Teachers Associations in the various States. Details of this scheme were discussed at a long session of the122 words
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Article43 1952-08-21 17 MALACCA, Aug. 19,Mr. Goh Bin Lay an old ooy of the Malacca. High School, has passed his law examinations at the London University He Is the eldest son of Mr Goh Tiow Chong, headmaster of the Tranquerah English School.43 words
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Article197 1952-08-21 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 19. HEAVILY armed men of a police Jungle sqvutd marched deep into the band it lnfested rubber at Petaling in Selangor today and rescued two British Army officers who had lost their way. A captain and lieutenant led a party of men of the197 words
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Article86 1952-08-21 17 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20 Singapore Arts Theatre last night put on a play by Joan Morgan, called "This Was a Woman," at the Victoria Memorial Theatre. This strong and overwritten theme of frustrated mother love started in a gloom that got deeper as the night wore on.86 words
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49 1952-08-21 18 —Reuter picture.—Reuter picture. - 49 words
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Article260 1952-08-21 18 KUALA LUMPUR, Au*. 19. FEDERAL Customs and Excise revenue began to A recover last month from the critically low collections in May and June. Last month’s total of $34,150,906 was $5 million more than in June and nearly $2 million more than in May. It was still260 words
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Article79 1952-08-21 18 Aliens going to China and who want to return to Malaya must get re-entry visas before leaving o r they will not be allowed to come back. Applications for re-entry visas must b<> made in person at the Immigration Office at Havelock Road Singapore, one month before79 words
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Article79 1952-08-21 18 POWER MEN TO STRIKE ON SEPT 3 IPOH, Tues. THE Perak Hydro Employees’ Union sent a notice to the company today stating that of the union employed by the company and the Kinta Electric Distribution Company will go on strike on Sept 3. This is an extension of the original79 words
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Article104 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. JOHN LAYCOCK (Prog. Katong), urged the Government at the meeting or the Singapore Legislative Council yesterday to put a stop to the non co-operative attitude of the Public Works Department. He was referring to the location of the lavatory of the Government En glish104 words
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129 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. Another bid by the Singapore Trade Union Congress to get the Government to allow its employee unions to affiliate with the Congress was rejected by Mr. W. L. Blythe, Colonial* Secretary, in the Legislative Council yesterday. “No amount of129 words
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Article107 1952-08-21 18 KUALA LUMPUR. Aug. 19. LEONG AH MENG and Lim Kai Seng, two convicted terrorists, were hanged in Johore Bahru prison this morning. Both had been in the terrorist armed forces from the early days of the Emergency until their capture by security forces. Leong was captured107 words
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Article299 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug 17 THE SINCAPORE GOVERNMENT is to its Public Works Department to try and «i im‘SKi ng! *"i deVelOP men P r °< ects wort $21,700,000 in the remaining four and half months of the year. The P.W.D., in the first half of the year has299 words
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143 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. MB. HAROLD BEDALE, Town Clerk ol the iT1 Borough of Hornsey, North London, arrived in Singapore yesterday to advise on local government in the Federation. Mr. Bedale, who will spend six months in Malaya, will be attached to the office of143 words
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Article62 1952-08-21 18 JOHORE BAHRU. Aug. 19. Mr. Scott Thompson, who was awarded an American Rotary Scholarship, is due in Singapore on Sept. 12. from the U.S.A. He will enter the University of Malaya to take a course in economices. Mr. Thompson will be acrompained by his /ife, who62 words
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Article59 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. A BB.C. announcer, Miss C. P. Epton, who has been invited by the Indonesian Ministry of Information to write a travel book on Indonesia, passed through Singapore yesterday in the Willem Ruys. Miss Epton, who has written two travel books on North59 words
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131 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug 20 A COMBINED police-mill. tary operations room n the Singapore police radio division at Pearl’s Hill. Wl- for the first time ve<terday during police-mifo exercises. 1 In previous exercises tht combined operations room was at Fort Canning. ’’The use of Pearl's131 words
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Article82 1952-08-21 18 Four Malayan journalist le ave for England by air on Sept. 18 for a four-week visit as guests of the British Oofernment. They are Mr. Loke Pew Lum, of the Chung Shing Jit Pau and Inche Harun bln Mohamed Amin, of Melavu Raya from Singapore,82 words
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Article67 1952-08-21 18 SINGAPORE, Aug. 30. People in a Chinese chess club in Pagoda Street. Singapore, had a scare lasi night. Their mental battles on tne chess boards ended when 30 police officers, some armed with Bren-guns, rushed into the club witn guns on -the level. The police had67 words
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Article1103 1952-08-21 19 I By EPSOM JEEP. L ua LUMPUR, Aug. 16. H* \NDILY positioned behind ‘tV.f pace, Flag Of Peace |,F1 n ry> swept past Ob-1 Lr it ion a furlong out to win j < 3. DIV. I, sprint I. t i, near record time of |l1,103 words
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Article, Illustration946 1952-08-21 19 CONRAD NG - THE WEEK IN SPORT By CONRAD NG. SINGAPORE, Aug. 20. ONG-STRIDING Kipsong’s amazing three miles, William Stuart’s magnificent effort in the pole vault, Chan Onn Leng’s record-breaking 440 yards hurdles, Soundranayagam’s surprise victory in the half mile, and the sprint doubles by O. Dawai946 words
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Miscellaneous37 1952-08-21 19 Big Sweep TOTAL POOL—$375,400 No. *****5 ($101,358); No. *****6 50,679); No. *****4 25,339). STARTERS ($4,229 each): Nos. *****0. *****0, *****3, *****7, *****3, *****4. CONSOLATION ($2,252 each): Nos. *****4, *****1, *****5, *****6, *****3, *****8 *****7, *****4, *****2, *****5.37 words
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Article465 1952-08-21 20 SHARE MARKET* From A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. UEALTHY markets 11 developed during the week and total business assumed moderate proportions. industrials provided several substantial transactions as investment portfolios were revised or increased. Tins benefltted from a firming metal market and there was a little465 words
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Article100 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. /"’OPRA was quoted at $24 per picul f.c.b. buyers in Singapore yesterday, with sellers asking a cent more. Coconut oil was steady at s3B{ buyers and $3B l» s llers. Continued inquiry irem India incr.ased the prices of sago dour. Lingga being $l7 50100 words
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Article203 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. Business done m the Malayan Share Market last week included: INDUSTRIALS. Federal Dispensary $l6O, Fraser and Neave Ord. $3.75 to $3 80. Great East rn Life $43.25, Hammer $2.20. Georgetown Disp nsary $2 30. Malayan Breweries $4.70. Malayan Collieries sl.42*i to $145. Gvirsea Chinese Bank203 words
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Article46 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE. Aug. 20. The case of Turko” Westerling cost the Singapore Government $5,834.30, ajhd his repatriation to Holland cost $1,535; Mr. W. L. Blythe, the Colonial Secretary, said in a written reply to Dr. C. J. Paglar in the Legislative Council yesterday.46 words
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Article280 1952-08-21 20 Frcm A Market Correspondent. TEKKA TAIPING LIMITED: Operated its dredge during the year ended Oct. 31 1951 to show a profit of £81.530 after profits tax. From these dividends trialling 10', hav been paid. Net liquid assets in balance sheet work out at £163,097 (8/lSjd. per share) before280 words
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Article248 1952-08-21 20 *BAP RUBBER’ CHARGE SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. JAPAN has been buying rubber at tw 0 to three cents below normal prices and this i s partly to blame for the inferior rubber sh e has been receiving, in some cases, from Malava the chairman of the Singapore248 words
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Article80 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 17. Port stocks of rubber showed a decrease of over 7,000 tons in July compared with June. There was a total of 13.341 tons of rubber in port stocks in Singapore in June compared with 5.665 tons in July. Dealer stocks in Singapore increased80 words
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Article269 1952-08-21 20 i, -sss*=-sbb!Jß Rubber MarketJ SINGAPORE, Aug. 16. THE only feature of a dull week was the continued Inquiry from overseas for lower grades. The demand although small, was fairly well distributed and rny selling pressure was well absorbed at the lower levels. Fluctuations on the269 words
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Article107 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE. Aue- 17 THE FORMER Yokohama Specie Bank, now kno*n as the Bank of Toky o ano principal bank of JaP* 1 “Big Five,” is making economic survey of 11 possibilities in Soutn-Et > As in Mr. Katsutaka Shimizu, manager of the economic <<107 words
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Article833 1952-08-21 20 SINGAPORE, Aug. 18. INDUSTRIALS (layers Sellers Alex Bricks. Pref 2.15 2 30 Ordt 3.40 3.45 Atlas Ice 12.50 13.50 B B. Petrol 32/9 33/9 B.M. Trustees 6 50 7.50 Con Tin Smejt. Pref 21/- 22/Ords. 21/- 22/- xd Eastern United 36 75 37.50 Fed. Dispensary 155 1.65833 words