The Straits Times, 31 October 1946

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  • 20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY TWELVE PA(iES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1946. PRICE 111 CENTS.
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  • 576 1 Governments' Approach I o Siam AS effort is bein»» made by the Malayan Union and Singapore (iovernments to induce the Siamese Government to increase the present amount of •hree per cent, of declared end-of-October stocks of i ue for free export, it is learned from
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  • 243 1 CALCUTTA, Wednesday. rE arrival of Mahatma Gandhi in the interests of a Hindu-Muslim peace failed today to curb the communal riots and hostilities, and the Calcutta Statesman said this morning that 14 more were killed and 50 injured yesterday. Mr. Gandhi tried to enter the
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  • 136 1 BELGKADE, Wed— Gen. Enver Hodja. the Albanian Prime Minister, has sent a telegram to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Dr. Tryve Lie, protesting strongly against the "unauthorised penetration of British warships into Albanian waters,' the Yugoslav News Agency reported today. Declaring that four British
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  • 235 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. THREE bombs exploded a: Jerusalem railway station this afternoon. British troops and police were rushed to emergency stations. One British police constable was killed in the explosion. A terrorist with a bullet wound was reported to have been captured. According to unconfirmed reports, four wounded
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  • 39 1 Queen Mary, an inveterate theatre -goer, is also a frequent visitor to the cinema. Sh c is seen here arriving at the Gaumont Cinema at Kilburn. London, to s«e the film. "Theirs Is The Glory."
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  • 125 1 Plan To Reorganise S.E.A. Command LONDON, Wednesday. JI DMIRAL Viscount Mount but ten today expressed ;ip- proval of a plan reported unofficially from Singapore to reorganise South-East Asia Command as a smaller and more compact administration. The Singapore report stated that the old South-East Asia Command was to be superseded
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  • 95 1 New Post For Major-Gen. Arkwright I From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. NAJOR-GEN. Arkwright, who was acting G.0.C.-in-C., Malaya Command recently, has been chosen by FieldMarshal Viscount Montgo mery as his chief adviser or tank warfare. Maior-Gen. Arkwr.gh, is to be Director of the Royal Armoured Corps. He will
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  • 87 1 PaLEMBANG, Sumatra, Wed The largest oil refinery in the Far East— the $100,000,000 Soengei Oerong installation owned by Standard Vacuum's subsidiary, NKPM— exp3cts to begin "very limited" production four months after the arrival of repair equipment, .c^ording to company officials Even alter repairs are completed,
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  • 66 1 CAIRO. Wed —The Egyptian Prime Mm ster, Ismail Sidky Pash- may resign within the next few days, according to reports in today's opposition press. The Prime Minister's health is giving rse to some anxiety. He has bee n in bed since Saturday, when he returned to
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  • 514 1 NEW YORK, Wednesday. CIELD-MARSHAL Smuts, South Africa's Prim Minister, in an examination of the "chanffiny concepts of democratic government", declared in a speech here tonight that the British move for freedom had become the spearhead of a large world movement, in which not
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  • 212 1 NEW YORK, Wed— Mr B<vnard Baruch, United States dei jgate to the United Nations Ai"mic Energy Commission, said he: tonight: 'Ther3 Will De no surrender oy the United States of the atom.", oemn until the United Stat^., Knows all other countriss are pre vented
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  • 576 1 Molotov 's Warning To UNO Assembly NEW YORK, Tuesday. THE Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Molotov, today called for world disarmament and the outlawing of atomic warfare in a major statement on Russian policy before the United Nations General Assembly. He said that all
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  • 215 1 UNESCO To Plan World Copyright PARIS, Thursday. A PLAN for world copyright agreement will be presented to the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation Assembly vhen it meets for its first plenary session in Paris on November 5. Another plan on UNESCO's agenda will be for a "literary pool."
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  • 114 1 JERUSALEM, Tues Lieut Col. Richard Webb, Officer Commanding tIM First Battalion the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, has Csen removed irom command of his unit following expression of opinions "both tinauthorised and unofficial" to press correspondent in Jerusalem on the evening of Oct. 24, it was officially announcrd
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  • 90 1 TIENTSIN, Wed- Optimism regarding the future of China was expressed by the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson, at a press conference yesterday night shortly after his arrival on his first visit to Tientsin. He said that China presents an immense potential market and Britain will be
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  • 154 1 U.S. Goods To Cost More In Britain LONDON, Tuesday. THE British Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, spoke in London this afternoon about the United States Government's announcement that Britain will have to buy goods from individuals and not from the United States Government. He said the announcement was not unexpected
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  • 65 1 PARIS, Wed. Hostilities between the Vietnam nationalist forces and the French Ind»Chinese expeditionary army are to end tomorrow, the French news agency reported from Saigon tonight, quoting an official communique issued by the French military headquarters. The armistice is the result of th e recent agreement
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  • 275 1 LONDON, Tuesday. ITRGING the fullest dis U closure at present me2tings of the United Nations and the Security Council of all military forces, Mr.' Wins ton Churchill, Britain's wartime Premier, to-day at his home in Westerham, Kent, replied to Marshal Stalin's statement that Russia had only 60
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  • 48 1 Baptism By Immersion i»-ptism by total immcrs 0.-i in the river Orwell near Ipswich recently. This ceremony was the first of its kind in Ipswich for 30 yean, and was perfoimed by a Baptist minister from Inverness, in Scotland, who travelled to Ipswich spec ally for the ceremony.
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  • 319 1 LONDON, Tuesday. THE House of Commons tonight decided by 270 votes to 157 to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the finance, control, management and ownership of the British press. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, said after listening to the
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  • 40 1 NANKING, Ti«s:— Lady Cripps and party today reached Yenan, Chinese Communist capital. They were greeted by Generil Chu Teh. Commander-in-Chief of tno Eighth Route Army, Madame Mao-Tse-tung, wife of the Communist Party chairman, and other senior officials.— Reuter.
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  • 89 1 CHIANG PLEADS FOR CONTINUED PEACE TALKS Nanking, Wed.- Oenerairamo Chiang Kai-shek yesterday < horted the thiid party deleft to Keep the informal peace talks open as the "destiny of Chir. war or peace— l-.irgfly upon your effort* In an hour-iorg meeting <u:vmonrd in the morning. *ht Oai«ralissimo rau^oned the grout)
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  • 577 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government is publishing tomorrow an official account of the way its islands in the Pacific notably the Solomons resisted the Japanese invaders. The account, which is given in a booklet entuied "Among Those Present," begins with the fall of Singapore which
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  • 402 3 Extra Revenue Needed For Special Works Straits Times Reporter p)R the first time in 20 years, water rates in Singapore will be increased next month by the Singapore Municipality to raise extra revenue to cover the abnormal expenditure on water-works urgently required over
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  • 34 3 TWO Japanese were killed and two were badly injured when a lorry carrying PoWs ran off the road and rolled down a ravine in Yio Chu Kang Road, Singapore, on Tuesday afternoon.
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  • 44 3 A meeting of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Malaya Branch) will be held at the roof garden of the Adelphl Hotel, tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. Mr CO. Flemmich, Forest Officer. Singapore, will speak on 'The Qa&sification \nd Uses Of Malayan Timbers."
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  • 41 3 At 9.45 p.m. tomorrow, a talk will be given over the Radio Malaya Blue Network on the prize-winning essays in the City Book Store competition for the best essay on "The Book which helped me most during th e Japanese occupation."
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  • 182 3 Woman Cries As Robbers Are Sentenced A SHARP piercing cry from s young Chinese woman dramatised the conclusion of the trial of a Malay, Ahmad bin Hay. Nasir. and a Chinese, Low Chec Hong, at the Singapore aVntaea yesterday. The two men had just been sentenced to seven years a:;d
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  • 68 3 THE Allied Air Commander-in-Chief. Air Marshal Sir George Pirie, returned by air to Singapore yesterday from Rangoon, where he had discussions on the rehabilitation and rebuilding of Mlngaladon airfield. The Director-General oi Works froi.i the Air Ministry, Sir Ernest Hohoway. arrived in Burma A& 8.0.A.C. to inspect
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  • 39 3 A 21 year-old Malay. Anuiirf bin Abdul was yesterday sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment by the Se-cond PoUee Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Gcrh, for stealing a lorry beloi:g:i g to thr Municinalitv. on Sent 20.
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  • 47 3 Wong Ah Kow. was sentenced to six weeks' .simple imprisonment for the theft of 12 pack r. of shampoo, and five jars of hair cream from the Naafl warehouse in Beach Road on Tuesday, by the Second Police Magistrate 4r L. C. Goh. yesterday.
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  • 647 3 repudiation of Civil Liability claims of Mala} an Voluntcrrs by the British Government is made in a letter from the fi>riiirr Secretary of State fur Urn Colonies. Mr. George Hull, to Sir Basil Nc\cn-Spf ncc. M.P il.u. el July 17, which is piililislud in
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  • 375 3 Claims Commission Special Grants THE Claims Commission which has been set up in Malaya will be asked to formulate a scheme for rehabilitation grants for purchases of furniture etc. for those who were interned in Malaya who hay? now returned to this country. A letter from the Secretary-General to the
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  • 32 3 Thr Singapore East-West Society will meet at 8 p.m. in the V.M.C.A. Pavilion, Bras Basah Road, today. Mr. Lyne will adadress the society on "The V.M.C.A —its work and progrea in Singapore.
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  • 85 3 Voluntary helpers have a buy time in the evenings at the Singapore Co-operative Stc-res Society Ltd., newly opened at 331, North Bridge Road (upstairs of Liberty Cabaret). The stores which sell an assortment of goods at prices cheaper than most storrs in Singapore, is a direct
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  • 140 3 A REVENUE officer yesterday described a i-aid on one of Singapore's opium dens and told :.ie Singf.rore District Judge, Mr. Paul Siorr ol an elaborate system oi chits and accounts kept by the man w.jo ran the den. In the dock was Lee Heng, who pleaded guilty
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  • 157 3 CONTINUING their policy of putting on plays of some cultural value, the Tudor players opened last evening at the Victoria Theatre with Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer." This period pelce which depends very much on the costumes and ploish of the 18th century, particularly difficult
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    • 708 3 SALE BY TENDER. The Custodian of Enemy Propcrt> Malayan Union, invites tenders for th' purchase of the pror<crty specified here under and located at Godown No. 1 vide. Penang: ftem I— Armature in Box. Japanese 12 It.m 2— Armature in Box. Japaneoc No. 13. Iti in 3— Armature in Box.
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    • 660 3 LEGAL NOTICt. RE: UNITED CONTRACTORS NOTICE is hereby given Uiat lan Hong Nglap has from the 14th day of Septeir.b r 1946 ceased to be me Manager of United Contractors of No. 44-B Raffles Quay Singapore Any debts, obligations vt rvc ipfi incurred, entered Into or signed by the said
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  • 1608 4 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Oct. 14. TO be happy in postwar Britain, Malayans, one must be eupeptic by nature. I venture to hope that "eupeptic'! has at least some of you guessing. If it has then I, whose trade is words,
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  • 41 4 The post-war influx of students bM presented <»\ ord 1 n versity with an acute accommodation problem. II. < 6.280, compared with 4.C00 in 1939, and the roncretc ln'you se? here in the grounds of the Hew Dl •;.-> :r--the answer.
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    • 492 4 CHAPTER 216 (Pawnbrokers) I nrrdmntd l*ledgrd Good* and lr*rilrry from the rollowlnt Pawnbroker* Shop* No 21 New Brume ftoac. Chin Choofi P»i (Chop ihye Sht-: Nrw BldKc Road Lam Clnu Chap rtiung* h. 189 SouUi Bnd«t Hoi'O Lam i-on Ch.>iiK A Chin Ah Chat (Chop Sem ■MM Bndye Itoad. Ho
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    • 378 4 SALE BY TENDER. The Cu.«todlan ot Enemy Ptoo •<•'>. Malayan Union, invitos tender; for the purchase of the Marina craft specified h°rcunder. and located In or m I t;-.' Japanese Shipyard at Lumut (1) One two-masted sa'.ing Junk approximately 1(0 tons burden, with masts, but otherwise not fitted out. in
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    • 111 4 A Modest Gentleman BUT A BURGLAR BY PROFESSION! i f HE MAY CALL and COLLECT at YOUR EXPENSE. Be wise BEFOFE the EVENT. Let us in.tal COMPLETE BURGLAR PROTECTION In your home, ol It costs nothing for cur quota SPECIAL HOLD UP ALARMS FOR SHOPKEEPERS Call for a dorm n
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  • 283 5 UNREGISTERED TRADE UNIONS ARE UNLAWFUL f Registrar Extends Time Limit In Selangor From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. ALL trade unions in existence on July 1, including general labour unions, who failed to register by Sept. 30, are unlawful associations, according to the Registrar of Trade Unions, Malayan Union.
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  • 106 5 From Our Own (.'oi respondent ALOR STAR, Wednesday. DBSPTR the strict vigilance uf th;> police smuggling of r .<• Horn K<:Jah to Penang :uid ;irca; further south is still rampant. A considerable quantity of rice Li betel r.inovi daily and the Invariably appear Us have ttee
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  • 100 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG. Wednesday. IN view /f tfie fact that the Malay community Ls at present in mourning ove* the establishment o the Malayan Union 1 the 80-year-old practice of holding Boria performances during the first month of the Mahamrdan v.M- ls not to
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  • 93 5 From Our Own Correspondent. Batu Pahat, Wed. MR. Tai Kwee Sheng. Viceminister for Overseas Chinese AH.urs in the National Government of China, reviewed more than 500 members oi the San Mm Chu Li Youth Corps at Batu Pahat on Tuesday. I nuking smart in their whit
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  • 79 5 From Our Own Correspondent. Malacca, Wc-d. CWEETENED condensed milk at w 50 cents a tin is available for sale to children in Malacca at one tin per child, states an announcement from the Food Control Department. Members of the public wish to make purchases for their
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  • 119 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. WARNING has bee n issued fl by the office of the Superintending Engineer, Central sone, to occupants of houses against thieves posing as-; water works inspectors. Unauthorised persons have been entering premises on the pretext of carrying out inspections
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  • 97 5 5 Years' Gaol For Carrying Arms From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Tues. I*HE*Perak Assizes opened yes- terday and Mr. Justice Evans will be hearing a number of criminal cases in this session. A young Chinese, Wong Chin, who pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying arms, was sentenced to five
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  • 203 5 INFORMATION CENTRES IN TAMPIN K. PILAH From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Wednesday. INFORMATION centres run by the Public Relations De--1 partment will be opened shortly in Tampin and Kuala Pilah, Inche Yaacob bin A. Latiff, the Negri Sembila n Public Relations Officer, said in an exclusive interview with the Straits
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  • 172 5 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. ALTHOUGH the latest Government Gazette announces that A textiles will now come under price control in the Malayan Union, there is no indication as to how control is to be effected and local cloth merchants express doubt as
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  • 119 5 From Our Own Con espondent PENANG, Wed. DAGH Singh, an assistant gaoler during th e Japanese occupation, was produced bef< *-c Mr. B. U. Jennings in th c District Court on two charges of causing grievous hurt to prisoners. When the cas c was mentioned Ong Huck
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  • 84 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. IT is announced oy the Offlcerin -Charge of Public Canteens that the price of a meal in; People's Restaurants throughout the Malayan Union will be reduced from 30 to 25 cents as from Oct. 31. Should tea or coffee be required, an additional
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  • 90 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. ANE of a party of five Chinese gangsters was arrested a short lime after a robbery at a goldsmith's shop in Kajang on Saturday. The gangsters stole jewellery and cash worth $20,000. Following a report, the police. with the
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  • 90 5 From Our Own Correspondent. PENANG, Wed. AN application to eject the Oversea Amusement Company from Wembley Park was granted by the Penang Rent Assessment Board on Monday The receivers of the estate of Cheang Ken^ Kwee, who made the application, had told the Board that
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  • 277 5 THE tollowing appointments are announced in the latest lasue of the Malayan Union Government Gazette: Mr. R. B. I. Pates to be an Administrative Officer, Malayan Administrative Pool, Mr. J. D. Fairhead to be a cadet, Malayan Police Service, Messrs. J. D. W. Geare and A. Loche
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  • 152 5 From Our Own Correspondent. SEREMBAN, Wed. THE following Poppy Day Committee for Negri Sembilai) has been formed to deal with Poppy Day plans: Chairman: Mr*. C. H. Williams; vice-chairman: Mrs. W. L. Braddon. M8.E..; secretary: Mrs. W. Aueutt. treasurer: Mr. M Nunis; comm ttee: Mrs. Holford.
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  • 80 5 Picture ta.un at one cl the colourful ceremonies connected with the seven-day wedding of Y.T.M. Tungku Hamidah, eldest daughter of Sultan Badlishah of Kedah, and Y.T.M. Tungku Abdul Axis, second son of Tungku Suleiman, the late Sultan of Trengganu, at the Istana
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  • 84 5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. rHE formation of an ailMalayan mining employers association, recently mooted at a meeting of leading European and Asiatic miners at Kuala Lumpur, will take shape at a meeting to be held in Ipoh :n the F.M.S. Chamber of Min>j office on
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  • 75 5 PENANG. vVed. "THREE Chinese, who boarded i flcur ship and wnr>> cau I by a police patrol launch, fined $150 or in default to i;ndfrgo two months 1 Imprlsonm each by the Third Ma^istrair, Mr. A. M. J. Austin, who r» marked in passing the
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  • 966 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs., Oct. 31, 1946. Our Japanese Labour According to an American columnist, General Mac Arthur •s "complaining bitterly on the .subject of the British failuie to set a deflnits time for the evacuation of Japan:se piisoners of war from Burma. Malaya and Siam." By and large,
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  • 103 6 JERUSALEM. Tues. DOCTOR Hussein Khalidi. Secretary of the Palestine Arab Committee, said today that President Truman's letter to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia was a "declaration of moral war against the Arab League" and that the "reply should be quick and dec sive."
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  • 504 6 Two Voices Of Domiciled 1 Malaya WE read recently that a total of 17 2 million Malavtn dollars was sent to China by way of remittance from the Chinese in Singapore and the Malayan Tnion to their families in China during the two months of August and September. Taking an
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  • 317 6 IAM an Indian born bred in this country. Aa such. I resent most vehemently the idea thut any Indian immigrant should Cliiim a say in the internal policy of this country or any country where he is only a guest who enjoys certain privili matters affecting his livelihood.
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  • Man In The Street
    • 263 6 I HAVE read with interest the interesting volume of correspondence and articles on the subject of tuberculosis in Singapore. I also feel, however, that leader-writers and others should now temper their enthusiasm with realism. It is generally agreed by all that
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    • 163 6 THE correspondence appearing in your paper on the subject of election of nonEuropeans to jerve on the committee of the Turf Club does not deserve the space allotted to it. The Turf Cub is a private institution and I do not th nk that
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    • 30 6 Singapore. Letters signed with nom-de-piumc are not published unless the write: 'i name and address, are rommunlca»«?d to the Editor as a guarantee of (pvxi faith
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    • 192 6 I UNDERSTAND that in British law, the owner of stolen or looted property is entitled to possession if he is able 'o identify his property in another's possession, and is able to prove ownership. There can be no qu stion that the rubber found by the British in
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    • 156 6 r< read i n your paper of Oct. 24 that Ceylon's rubber, tea and coconut industries are claiming war reparations from the Japanese Government for losses suffered due to undermaintenance is the most astounding thing I have 3eer in print yet! Ceylon's effort in thy war was worth
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    • 110 6 IT was with pleasure that I read your report of the award of the Order of the British Empire (Officer) to Wing Commander W. C. Pitts, R.A.F., for his outstanding work whilst a PoW in Ambon. In this connection your source of information evidently did not mention
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    • 829 6 The engagement Is an-trf-tween Mr. Ho Sim Guan. m of Mr. and Mrs. Ho Cheow I Mlm Josephine Tan Chwec Btaa, eldest daught-r of Mr. and Mr*. I in Beng Kee. on 26th October. 194 V I man -c. AY The engagement is Chan Kok Leong. n of Mr »nd
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    • 30 6 PERFECT VISION NAPPY LIVING. »*> w p«B% Guaid row only pair 01 eyes Should you experience the slightest j eye discomfort, have them examined C S CHONQ. O D. P.P On
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    • 116 6 Drisker, fresher teeth-cleaning with a Wisdom rr^HIS is the Wisdom Tooth- Y|VvJj brush. Its anchored Nylon \*^\\m tufts give your teeth a brisker Wf/i clean. Your teeth are really 1/ cleaner, your mouth feels fresher, Jl after the lively touch of livM Wisdom. No wonder Wisdoms 1/ arc in such
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  • 612 7 SINGAPORE'S T. B. WARDS NOT TO fBE CLOSED DOWN D.S.M. Explains Difficulties Straits Times Reporter A CATEGORICAL denial of suggestions that patients in the tuberculosis ward n of the Tan Tock Seng hospital in Singapore would be turned out in a month's time was made yesterday by I r. W.
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  • 392 7 Fills is a first-hand report from a patient at present in th* T. B. ward at Tan Totk Seng hospital, as told to a M raits Times Reporter: For oi<« iMB after I was admitted, was done for me. When I ap-pt-aled to the
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  • 27 7 tire which <d in a tAnftVung in the Bfnraoorc river. of! Fllrnboioueh M irket was Ttincuished on the nromnt :> nival of the Brigade. Mo one wns injured.
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  • 292 7 Straits Times Reporter ANEW science laboratory which will be housed in the building at one time used by Raffles Girls' School and more recently by the lower school is part of a plan for Raffles Institution, which will re-occupy its premises in Bras Busah
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  • 115 7 HOLDING an inquiry into the n death of a Chinese, Gui Tarn, aged 35, who was fatally shot by sentries while attempting to loot rice from a 223 BOD. store at Chua Chu Kang Road, at 3 am on Aug. 14, th c Coroner, Mr. W. G.
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  • 258 7 AS the strike of 10,000 Singapore dock workers entered Hi! sixth da), fresh demands were raised and the strikers decided to drop their demand for extra rice. Further discussions between representatives <»f the strikers and the Singapore Harbour Board are to take
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  • 90 7 E\ Ivi I KNH» members of the Malayan Volunteer Forces may now apply to the Colonial Office for a grant towards the arrears of insurance premiums which had necessarily remained unpaid as the result of their internment. In a letter to the Incorporated Society of Planters.
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  • 29 7 To day's in; mi for People's Ktst.iurants in Singapore will bt; fried rice; Vienna *ausages ivit.li onions and tctnato; suace or tXK curry; kangkong and fr«*h pineapple.
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  • 148 7 A CABLE received from the Colonial Office, London, xe veals how the British Gov eminent have succeeded in arranging shipments of flour to be diverted to Malaya at her own expense. Certain shipments of Canadian flour will be diverted to Malaya during October and November. These
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  • 131 7 POLICE SGT.'s DEFENCE UUSSAIN bin Ibrahim, Singapore police sergeant-major, yesterday made his defence at his trial before Mr. T. T. Russell the Singapore District Judge, on charges of causing hurt to a number of people during the Japanese occupation. Facing similar charges is another police sergeant-major, Mohamed Saman. Hussain, who
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  • 508 7 A British doctor who obtained I permission from an Allied PoW camp commandant to break into a Japanese medical store, told the War Crimes Court trying Lieut. Gen. Ishida an<l four other high-ranking Japanese officers, for war ©rimes in connection with the building of
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  • 32 7 liiis struts Times picture, taken yesterday, shows one of the T.B. wards at Singapore's Tan Tock Seng hospital, the subject of an article appearing in this page.
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  • 116 7 S.E, Asia Tour By British Council Man |C*»» Angus Oillun h.-ad of in. Empire division of the Brin.s!Council, i.s expected to arrive tn Singapore tomorrow He is t< survey South-But As territories with a view to draw ing up proposals for British Council worJ^Hiui neprew in the area A:tei dlscoMlotu
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    • 79 7 LOOK IN AT LITTLE'S NEW GOODS ARE CONSTANTLY ARRIVING PRINTED RAYONS 27" Wide IN A WIDE RANGE OF CHARMING DESIGNS. $3.25 WOMEN'S GIRDLES FOUNDATION GARMENTS in all sizes British mad" Lace Table Mats in sets Charming Decorated Dinner Ware JOHN LITTLE CO., LTD. RAFFLES PLACE PHONE 5167 SEROCALCIK for the
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    • 192 7 CAMBRIDGI 1 I I HOI ANO Research englnctrs of the Pye LaftoratoriM tuning, This is one of the most Important practical wlvance: in design since the introduction of the mperhet N w the short as well as the medium waveband ea-e :'"<! n selection is assured. This notable advance together
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  • 138 8 WHEN PKOFESSOR RAYMOND FIRTH came to this country we were not troubled by war, and so the author of a new book, "Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy," was able to go to the native country of the North-East Coast and make a social and economic study
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  • 1577 8  - THE MALAY FISHING ECONOMY OF THE NOR TH-EAST COAST D.W. LE MARE Reviewed By Director of Fisheries, Malaya THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS A BOOK WHICH IS i.IORE VALUABLE TO US TO-DAY BECAUSE IT RECORDS CONDITIONS AMONG THE FISHERFOLK OF THIS COUNTRY BEFORE THE MISERY OF THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION. THE BOOK ANALYSES
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 228 8 NAN CHIAU JIT PAO Thr leading Chinese Daily New.-paper for Oversea Chinese in S.E.A. will make its first bow to the public s<«rne time next month. Those who desire to be our agents, or advertise in the paper, are invited to communicate with th? NAN CHIAU PRESS, LTD. 42-44 Cross
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    • 171 8 "|V^ Excuse o&~a±J *m V fMore and more peopl; are coming to reali t'.-a Inner Cleanliness with Andrews is a first rule of health. It is only natural that the body needs cleansing inside as well as externally, and with Andrews it is easy to make sure of Inner Cleanliness.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 319 8 D nTr TUTJIT KVK Calling all hospitals; 2.00 p.m. Close 7.30 p.m. Music Hall; 8.30 p:v KAUIU VHt\LiJ\l down; 8.15 p.m. Programme summary; News; 8.35 p.m. London Calling: 8. K> 8.18 p.m. Interlude; 8.30 p.m. News p.m. Interlude; 8.45 p.m. Home sur.v. Singapore headlines- 832 pm Radio orchestra; 9.00 pjn.
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  • Thursday Morning's Film Fanfare
    • 409 9 Jl )SKPH I. BREEN, Howard Hughes, "The Outlaw be movie morals' code the headline* recently in what appwrtd to by a dcci- victory for Breen in hit (our-jremr-old buttle with Hughes over the film still Jane Rmaeii. Br en made public the con- its hi
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    • 241 9 THAT wild battle for Hollywood's party-giving championship was resumed again and at its old furious pace. This time, Elsa Maxwell, renowned as the nations No. 1 mistress of fun-and-frolic at its social best, took the helm. The scheme was the estate of Jack L Warner, head man
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    • 44 9 THE REAL JANE RUSSELL OU t; c KTCCM, and J«fl M s!a nn..Vis v :>■■< v. 1 1 •< the real Jane Russell. Now she is appearing in pictures quite diiT«rent from "The Outlaw 1 she has heon given the name role in 'The Young Widow."
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    • 251 9 Joan Crawford busy lining up her schedule for next year alter 'Portrait In Black' for Skirball-Manning, Joan reports back to Warners for "Need For Each Other," then r. turns to Universal for "The Earron Heart." Jeanne Cram, all rested up afler a long vacation, stars roy 20th Century-Fox
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    • 497 9 The Week 's Films CASABLANCA 9 A WAR EPIC NOVEMBER 7th will "be remembered for Casablanca, Algiers, Morocco. On that day the greatest armada in world history rolled up to the beftcbM of North Africa and swept inland to occupy a vast vital area against scattered resistance. But for months
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    • 118 9 HAD LUCK HALMS LAMAAR UEDY LAMAAR has m rating and everything in the world to live for. but this year 1946 has brought such a succession of tougrh breaks she would much rather have been working behind a dress count?r In rapid order, starting on Jan. 2. the year tortured
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    • 43 9 Mihn <> ton r i > t <;m ti '-I \i l.i Ii i, IK l r.i-i 01. tell fIV chc <; rl-. h- ii '\X. n "I S': 1 i i i 1 i II t dI So ni'm'i r.
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 82 9 ON AHD AFTER FRIDAY NOVEMBER Ist OUR STORE WiLL BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 4-30 p.m, THE BUSIEST SHOP IN TOWN GOODS AT REASONABLE PRICES UIHITERUinVS (WHITEAWAY. LAIDLAW V CO., LTD.) leL 6907 SINGAPORE Post Box 696 New Lines for New
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    • 53 9 -'.Cfll. Ml. aw ....noil r. tBK 1 Sy n^-' no •uKi.iui.When buying PEWTER WIiRE look for this Registered (MALAYAN TRADE I <^\M^> MARK PEWTER A wide range of useful and artistic articles, tea :snd coffee sets, cocktail sets etc. on view at MAYNARD CO., LTD. 11, BATTERY ROAD, SINGAPORE. .sv>/.-
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  • Straits Times Post-Bag
    • 588 10 WnILE transport facilities in towns are gradually improving, the lot of the inhabitants on rubber estates, especially where they are situated in the interior is less satisfactory. Most estates are given lorries and cars, but some managers, whose prid? and prejudice are even higher than of
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    • 143 10 ARE dependants of missinK volunteers not to be given their three and a half years' back pensions? As the.*e volunteers were taken away on Feb. 21 during the concentration period and did not return to their families, it is clear that they must have died
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    • 321 10 SINCE the demobilization of the Volunteers in June, the local forces records office has been, for the past three and a half months, extremely busy in attempting to solve the mysteries of back pay problems for the local forces. Up-to-date, this matter has not been
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  • 324 10 One '"constructive" response on a hand may not be nearly enough to assure partner that game Is in sight. Observe North's amateurish performance in this deal: South, dealer North-South vulnerable NORTH V KlOB2 Qi AK9B63Z WEST EAST «QIOI6S I i< > I V954S VQ? A 10 9
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 387 10 AI UAMftttA H 130-4-6.30-9.15 ALIIAIVIDIxA BOOK NOW: TEL: 6909. GRAND OPENING TO-DAY! LOOK AT THESE 3 BIG STAR VALUES And all in One Mighty Picture All the Romance, Excitement, Laughter And Heroic Sweep of American Girls in Uniform at the Fighting Front! '_> i _C, ___i <£___■ _k- 4 __E/
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    • 446 10 SINGAPORE IMPROVEMENT TRUST Addition No. 1 of 1946 to the Genera Improvement Plan under Section 52 oJ the Singapore Improvement Ordinance Plan ot proposed widening of Tangltr Road from Napier Road to Chatswcrtl Road. Notice to owners or reputed owners of property affected by the plan. Whereas the Singapore Improvement
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    • 387 10 FAMOUS A. V. M. PROUUCI EAGLE BRAJO KubDcr Coaßiiintuitf *"'rSole m_MH \frntf CHIDA FRANCIS €t COb! fI.M Arm» Contractor* <htpchandlfrs 113-A Cecil Street: Singapore. Tel 2952 We have the Goods new You navp no longer di wait out droc t and sec ror vourselt F somethtns I? nnavat'aolf tt> town
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 315 10 CROSSWORD No. 90 ss^ui|K iii' L Pa d atU?nt!o s U> <7) I 3 4 5 6 2 shau river ot sc° tian <j (4). 7 tlii lii —iH Hi 3 Just an assamed motive n > I^. 1 ,S# __5 Up 4. All that is left behind (7) 8
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  • 690 11 Malayan Share Quotations Alexandra Br'ckirarta Onto. 51.70 11.80 Or dt. Alexandra Brickworks Prefs. 2.00 3.85 Bni Malay* Trustee <5t Eneutor Co 11.00 0.00 Consolidated Tin Snieltera Ord. 32/6 25/--do. Prete. 28/6 28/6 Eastern OnlMO Assurance SB.OO 40.00 Praser A Neave Ord. 26.25 27.00 PrasT 4c Neare PiH. 9.00 11.00 Gammon
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  • 481 11 DIFFICULTIES faced by the planting industry, in the absence of Government assistance in the work of rehabilitation, were again emphasised at the annual meeting of Riverview Rubber Estates Ltd.. held at Ipoh on Friday. The chairman, Mr. J. D. Mead, during the course of his speech
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  • 112 11 SINGAPORE, Wed. Today's Slngaf>ore produce priecs were: ROCK SUGAR: $91. COFFEE: Padang Ball fit. No. i Bali *10«. No. 1 Palembang $29.54. No. 2 Palembang $28, A.P. No. 1 $4*. AP. No. 2 137. PEPPER: Mnntok (white) $1«5, Slba 91—. Lombong (white) $Jt. Lompong (black) |M. SOYA BEANS:
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  • 84 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. THE local share market showed very little activity yesterday, and though tin shares were unchanged Australian issues showed signs of firming, but with few on offer. Industrials were sleaciy o,".ci United Engineers, Ltd., were in demand in up-country at SIG.oO Raffles
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  • 199 11 LONDON Wednesday— With nothing new to influence dealings in London markets yesterday, they were generally quiet although fairly firm. GUtedged securities moved narrowly with some support for medium date stocks while banks also made further advances. Industrials were Irregular with breweries and electrical supplies and equipments all
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  • 259 11 SHIPS' positions in Singapore yesterday were MAIN WHARF Godown 31-32: Pentakota, Oodown 33-34: Fort Pitt. Gcdown 35: Rimau leaves when ready. Godown 42-43: Samlamu. WEST WHARF Godown 1-2- Denbighshire, discharging general cargo. Godown 9-10: Glenapp. Godown 11-12: Mailne Leopard. EAST WHARF Godown 44: Bruas. Godown 45:
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 553 11 PaO and BRITISH INDIA PASSENGER FREIGHT SERVICES r. a v. s. m. co.— BKNALDER **>•»» r »n SAMTRITH l>r «*r*El»l In port •m FORT PITT Ka«esU In port •sj BAMLAMI) Fr B b T lB f!? •a* SAMETTmiC» »T_H^JT n TREVAYIXML J*^ 10. •^s. GLENIFFER Voo tn D- B I
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    • 452 11 PRESIDENT LINE SaHlngs NEW YORK via IndU and Mediterranean Port. MARINE LBOPAKD* Godowns 11 A 12 MOUNT MANSFIELD Loading trnanr MARINE FLIES* MOUNT DAVIS* d«e Nov. «tii MOUNT ROGERS* -»ik N«». 25th •Freight Only For Freight and Passi** Appl» AMERICA! PRESIDENT LINES. LTD. Union B!d|. lels: «2<» «'3l For Paa«age.
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    • 310 11 ELLERMAN BUCKNALL S. S. CO.. LTD. FORT FORK For New York la PoH BENLAWERS For London Due Singapore 6(b Not. SAMTWEED Vat .New York Hue Singajiore end Nut. KLAVE N E S S LINE. FOB PACIFIC PORTS Sa ling* M be resaMed Shortly Ageau:— McALISTER «c CO., Spore LTD. Tel.:
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous

  • 382 12 Easy Win For Sembawang FIELDING a more thrustful vanguard and a sounder defence, RNAS Sembawang beat 71 ME Platoon, R.E., by seven goals to two in a flrst round Victory Cup match at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Though the standard of play waa not very
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  • Article, Illustration
    17 12 J. Pettiford, New South Wales all-rounder, who has been included in the Australian XI to play M.C.C.
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  • 500 12 MELBOURNE, Wednesday. f Hi: Australian cricket eleven against the M.C.C. here playing on Nov. 8-Nov. 12 is: Don Bradman (South Australia), J. Ellis and C. McCool (Queensland), A. Morris, J. Pettiford and K. Saggers (New South Wales), F. Freer, Harvey, A. L. Hassett and
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  • 73 12 From Our Own Correspondent Seremban. Mon. E.F. Edema, skippering his XI. was in fine form with the bat scoring 42 runs out of a score of 115 in a cricket match on the N.S. Club matting wicket yesterday against the 6th Field Ambulance, who scored 82 mns for
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  • 95 12 From Our O»i. Correspondent. MUAR. Tues. The South Johort Malays won com--I'orUbly by six goals to one In a disappointing soccer match against the North Johore Malays at the Muar Club padang yesterday. The game was dertnltely below expectations, brilliant flashes being far fewer than anticipated. South Johore
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  • 100 12 In a friendly return matcn pjayed recently, the Muh boah B.P. !c?t to the Gentle B.P. by five games U two. Results (Muhlbbah players iii\>., Adnan H. Kahar lost to Surdi H. Tahlr 3-15. 4-15; A.B. Aljaru lest to Senawi H. Salleh 12-1 ->. i-0. 3-15: Hascan Athabshi
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  • 353 12 NEWMARKET, Wednesday. MADAME Lieux's three-year-old Sayani, by Fail v^opy out of Perfume, wen the Cambridgeshire handicap, run over a mile and one furlong, here today. The Aga Khan's three-year-old colt Claro, by Colombo out o: Clovally, was second and M:\ Robert Hardy's Toronto, a three-year-old grey colt by
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  • 65 12 THE draw for the second round 1 of the S.A.F.A. Victory Cup competition which took place at Jalan Besar Stadium after the match yesterday resulted as follows: Nov. 8, Alfsca or Naval Dockyard vs. R.A.F. (Base Hq.); Nov 9, R.A F. (Seletar) or S.RC. vs. RAJ.
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  • 125 12 High School Win At Seremban From Out Own Correspondent Seremban, Tuesday. IN their first heckey clash' at 1 Seremban. the Kajans tl:;.i School was wrll defeated" by th? King George V School by 3 goals to nil at the N.S. Club padar.g this evening. Credit should go to the Kaiant;
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  • 310 12 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT. Tueo |N the first inter-district trim's rnal/Ch since the liberation Seg-amat scored a narrow «ir. over Malacca by the oad set in 21 when the two sides met at Segamat over the weekend. Marches were confined to a set each and
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  • 42 12 In a friendly game of soccer at Pulau Brani yesterday. R.A.S.C.O. (Water Transport Unit i beat Embarkation Supply Depot by four goals to one. Scorers for the winners were Isaacs (2), Finlayson and Robson Kirdly scored for the losers.
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  • 51 12 The following players will repressnt the Covenaugh Youngsters XI against the R.A.S.C. 61 Coy OT. in a soccer match to be played today on the r.A.S.C ground Kick on at 5.15 p.m Ounan. Seng Gee. Sattar. Aloyslus iCapt. Basl. Ibrahim. Berry. Bamad Balan, Krishna. Res Roland and
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  • 68 12 from Oar Own Correspondent. Ipoh. Wed. Seaforth Hi?»ilander; made a aistppointinß debuc :«t soccer yesterday when the Royal Devon Yeomanry. Malayan Regimental champions, trounced them by seven gouU> 10 one. The new arrivals extended their opponent* for only 15 minutes of the game and from then on were
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 241 12 CAPITOL MIDNIGHT PREMIERE TO-MORROW. ■HAIB.WALLIS r f JUOt RAINS CONRAD VIIOT G&mi PEIH IORRE .v---- MICHAFI CUBII7 I'rr ceded by WARNtR'S SENSATIONAL l>aiurrtt« whtch won the flrst PEACF t'RI/.t awardej by Hollywood;. I OKKIGN CORRESPONDENTSASSOCIATION HITLER LIVES?" THE PLOTTERS BISMARCK-KAISER-HITU;U and the Plot which >»Ued WORLD CONQUEST. CHUNGKING Taojotif Pafar
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    • 188 12 Cj 1 I 1 I I] I L AN AftMCHAJfI GRAND PREMIERE TO-DAY MADNESS AND INSANE LOVE FLAMING THRU A GLORIOUS SPECTACLE STUNNING IN ITS SPLENDOR! I TERRIFYING IN ITS SUSPENSE! mBM H^ S«niot*on o* RomontK Hi* ol *^Jffn v l Phanlom ot •*>• Op»fo I "Oragon S»«rT > jfll^l
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