The Straits Times, 6 January 1947
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Title Section20 1947-01-06 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER A CENTURY EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS20 words
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Article145 1947-01-06 1 Pan-Malayan Body Rejects Plea From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUK, Sunday. THE Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action, meeting in Kuala Lumpur today, rejected a plea by the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, that they should reconsider their intention to boycott the Constitutional Consultative145 words
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Article82 1947-01-06 1 RENNES, Sunday. Brittany's terror gang of killers and robbers struck again last night and today the police and angry farmers are combing the countryside for them. The gang is already credited with killing two farmers and stealing hundreds of thousands of francs. They held up aUP - 82 words
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Article106 1947-01-06 1 CUSTOMS search party seized 156 pounds of' opium, valued at $120,000 on the Singapore blackmarket, aboard the motor vessel Loksang when the ship arrived from Calcutta yesterday morning. It was the biggest haul since the seizure of 600 pounds from a ship that arrived from106 words
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Article126 1947-01-06 1 ROME. Sun —Two thousand I women staged an orderly protest! demonstration in Rome today! against the high cost of living, as'! the Ministry of the Interior announced it would finish off the fight agaJnst the country's black! market. The women, led by Mrs. Nadia Spano, the126 words
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Article72 1947-01-06 1 i_.wii i_/\_M\ ouii. ituiiia is lv resume construction on the Palace of Soviets, listed as the world's tallest building with a height or 1,365 feet, which was interrupted during the war, Mosi cow Radio announced today. The Ps; lace, whioh is to be 120 I feet htghei72 words
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Article184 1947-01-06 1 A GUEST in the Adelphi Hotel, Singapo^, wa.s held up by an armed man early yesterday morning and several rooms in the hotel were °ntered by a burglar. The man, who entered the main door of a room while the guest was awake in bed. ran off184 words
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Article, Illustration93 1947-01-06 1 Mr. William Josepn Mayson, Secretary of the Singapore Clu'o since 1911 and a director of Raffles Hotel, diod at the General Hospital yesterday afternoon. Mi liayson, wno was 73.« had been ill lor a week. Interned during the occupation, Mr. Mayson was taicen to India93 words
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Article36 1947-01-06 1 COPENHAGEN. Sun. The Great Northern Telegraph Company's cable ship, Kurla. was mined shortly before New Year in t.h Finnish gulf, it was learned here today. Sixteen p.ople including the captain are missing. —RouterReuter - 36 words
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Article235 1947-01-06 1 PARIS, Sunday. A FULL-SCALE war in Indo-China was forecast I today from Hanoi, where the French Colonial Minister, M. Moutet, said he had given up hope of peace until French troops smashed the Vietnam Nationalist armies. "It is necessacv to have a military decision." the MinisterAP - 235 words
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Article94 1947-01-06 1 Thi? Times Correspondent. PARIS, Sun. Behind the notle sentiments of the various French and Vietnam declarations there is evidently a deadlock. Without saying it in so many words, the French are clearly determined to postpone any possible negotiations with President Ho Chih Minn and Vietnam untilThe Times - 94 words
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Article, Illustration48 1947-01-06 1 The first block of flats to be completed under the Stepney (London) Council's post-war ho using scheme was opened last week by Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Prime Minister. The five-storey block contains 31 flats fifteen of them with three bedrooms and sixteen with two.48 words
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Article214 1947-01-06 1 THE Air Commander-ir-l Chief, Far E. Air Mar- j shal Sir George Pi c, accompanied by Mr. Robert 3cott Political Councillor to the Special Commissioner ii South-East Asia, left by Yorkplane this morning for Tokio on a liaison visit to R.A.F.! units of the British214 words
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Article182 1947-01-06 1 From Our Own Correspondent OTTAWA, Saturday, j COUNCIL election- in the^ Federation of Malaya 'lathe not-too-distant future" were predicted at a F:oss conference toduy by Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, the Governor General, wh haves for Lon don en rotKe i"or Malay:; :bi v, c'.r-ond. He estimated that182 words
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242 1947-01-06 1 US PLEDGES ALL OUT EFFORT TO EXPORT GRAIN WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE United States was pledged to make an 1 all-out effort to move 550,000,000 bushels of grain overseas during the 1946-47 harvest year by Mr. Clinton Anderson, Secretary for Agriculture, in a broadcast to-night. He said: "Unless some way canReuter - 242 words
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Article80 1947-01-06 1 JKRHbALEM, San. Strong I detachments of British troops loarly te/aay cordoned oil the townshlr>-^j>f Hadera mieway between flSffa and Tel Aviv— and imposed a complete curfew on the town, where terrorist outrages were committed last Thursday night. All outside and inter-urban telephone communications were cut offReuter - 80 words
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Article154 1947-01-06 1 NUREMBERG, Sunday. KARL Westphal, a former Nazi Ministry of Justice Official, who was indicted yesterday with fifteen others for war crimes and crimes against Humanity, hanged himself in the same Nuremberg cell in which Hermann Goering and Robert Ley committed suicide. Westphal's body wasUP - 154 words
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Article30 1947-01-06 1 SHANGHAI. Sun. -Ali 3" passengers were killed when a Chinese National Airways plane crashed today near Tsingtao. The plane was flying from Shanghai to Tsingtr»o— Reuter.Reuter - 30 words
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Advertisement60 1947-01-06 1 "en Beautiful Sh^esl S^sf J ***** A 4i 4 5-H'« Stm-hJ Jr*"' yy __^-r ~^~~tr i <>■ The Beer Bottle Cycle From Brewery to retailer Keep it moving fast please. from retailer to Consumer Malt, hops and yeast back to the retailer need Bottles if Tiger Cub and so back60 words
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Article233 1947-01-06 2 The Times Correspondent WASHINGTON, Saturday. IF the Republicans at the coming opening of Congress have a programme worthy of their opponents' cooperation, it is yet to appear, although that fact is no reflection on them. They wiU await three messages from President Truman; the first onThe Times - 233 words
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Article342 1947-01-06 2 New Members For Dutch NEI Party THE HAGUE, Sunday. OFFICIAL sources here have made a "serious protest" against the broadcast by ex-Premier Prof. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, Holland's war-time leader in Britain, in which he attacked the conduct of affairs in Indonesia by Dr. Hubertus van Mook,Reuter - 342 words
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Article95 1947-01-06 2 NEW DELHI, Sun:— Pandit I Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-president of India's Interim Government, said yesterday India might "have to follow other countries in establishing a great atomic laboratory.'' India has larje deposits of thorium, important to atomic research "I do not see how we can lagAP - 95 words
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Article95 1947-01-06 2 UK SENDS NOTE ON ALBANIA LONDON, Sun.— Britain nas j sent to the United States, Russia and France copies of the notes exchanged with 'Albania I on the Corfu channel mining as the basis of a possible British appeal to the United Nations Security Council against the Albanian attitude. AtUP - 95 words
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Article47 1947-01-06 2 'WALK -OFF' CHARGES LONDON. Sun.— Nine Army corpora's will face a court martial on charges of mutiny on Jan. 8 following incidents aboard the troopship Empress of Scotland last month when a number oi men left the ship just before she sailed lor the Far East.— Reuter.Reuter - 47 words
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Article189 1947-01-06 2 From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Saturday. •THE eager discussion on the 1 probable level of the new tin price continues and the Daily Telegraph joins in today with the suggestion that the Government will probably agree to increase to the equivalent of approximately £400189 words
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Article121 1947-01-06 2 WASHINGTON, Sun.—Australia and New Zealand have invited America, Britain, and France, and the Netherlands to a conference in Canberra on January 28 to discuss joint action for aiding the 2,000,000 inhabitants of th.:dependent territories of the south Pacific. The conference will seek tne establishment of aUP - 121 words
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Article111 1947-01-06 2 RANGOON. Sun —Ex-Premier U Saws Myochit Party yesterday announced its decision to accept the British Governments invitation to go to London. U Saw whom the Myochit Executive has elected to represent the Party at the London conference is leaving Rangoon on Monday together witnReuter - 111 words
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Article53 1947-01-06 2 NEW DELHI, Sun:— Mr Artnur Henderson, Under Secretary or State for India, arrived here by air yesterday for a fortnight's visit. Ho will discuss with the Government of India the financial aspects of the premature retirement of officials of Indian public services in view of theReuter - 53 words
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Article35 1947-01-06 2 MOaCOW, San— The Soviet Union opened 73 new theatres I during 1947 as part of the fivet year plan to bring the total num- ber t :oughout the Union to 898 —Router.Reuter - 35 words
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Article147 1947-01-06 2 BIRKENHEAD, Sat. Aftei thousands of gallons of water had been poured into one of her I holds which was blazing fiercely the 15,000-ton crack cargo liner, Corinthic, developed a list to starboard while she was being refitted in Carmell Liards yard here tod^v 1 AfterReuter - 147 words
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Article56 1947-01-06 2 1 TAMPA, Florida, Sun —The •'orld'i largest tin dredge will be attached here tomorrow. The super- d: edge is destined for work en Bai.Ku Island. Six others are being built in Holland. They are part of a major constructing programme to increase tin production in56 words
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Article18 1947-01-06 2 All messages from the Times, London, appearing in the Straits Times are copyright by both newspapers in MalayaThe Times - 18 words
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Article223 1947-01-06 2 I The Times City Editor LONDON, Saturday. I'HE Ceylon Government is implementing its expresised intention of protecting the rubber industry's interests. I When private trading resumed in Colombo yesterday the price fell to 60 cents per pound, and the Government promptly nxed a ."floor'* price of 65The Times - 223 words
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Advertisement1210 1947-01-06 2 (TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ORDINANCE NO. 22-1939)' CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY PROCLAMATION NO. 14 OF 1945. NOTICE is nereby given tint auj person or persons having a claim to the property described in the Sclu-dule hereto are requested to forward such claims U> the Assistant Custodinn of Enemy Property, Johore. Johore1,210 words
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Advertisement815 1947-01-06 2 NOTICES BRITISH STORES DISPOSAL BOARD (SINGAPORE) TENDER NOTICE. BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTOR OF DISPOSALS. FAB EASTERN AREA (M.O.S.) I. The British Stores Disposal Board, Singapore, Is authorised to receive Tenders for the following items Located at No. 4 Sab Depot Produce Group Bales tirr Road, Singapore. Lot. No 1—815 words
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Advertisement829 1947-01-06 2 NOTICES. THE SINGAPORE HARBOUR BOARD TENDER. ASSEMBLY OF UNICRAFT TUGS Tenders will oe received up till noon of 20th January 1947: at the office of the Dockyard Manager. Singapore Harbour Board, for the assembling, riveting, completion and launching of hull, also installation and testing of machinery, o f five in829 words
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Article834 1947-01-06 3 OFFICIAL INACTION IS BLAMED Straits Times Reporter 1 ALTOGETHER 58 locally-appointed medical officers rt and eight dental surgeons have refused to rejoin or have resigned from the Malayan Union and Singapore Government Medical Services since the reoccupation in September, 1945. The officers are named in834 words
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Article, Illustration248 1947-01-06 3 Straits Times Reporter A MAN who was sent by the British Government and Far Eastern banks to Malaya in a fast cruiser immediately after the Japanese capitulation to open government and bank vaults is back here after a trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai. He248 words
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Article131 1947-01-06 3 taNE of the least publicised ctoaxitable institutions in Singapore is the orphanage In Upper Wilkte Road, wihere more than 100 Chinese orphans, whose parents were etiher killed or missing as a result of the Japanese occupation, are being looted after. Tihis orphanage which costs about131 words
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Article95 1947-01-06 3 DENNIS WILSON, a driver attached to R.A.S.C., was committed to the n:xt Assizes by Mr. A. P. Jack in the Singapore! Seventh Court on Saturday on a charge of wrong iul possession of I a revolver. Wilson was arrested as a result of a trap set95 words
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Article66 1947-01-06 3 NEW P. O. 'SUPER' LONDON, Sunday. TAPTAIN E. M. Coates has been appointed P& O MarineSupenntendent succ&:ding Captain H. P. Lyndon, who has now retirea after 43 years' service. Captain Coates joined the P O in 1912 as a fourth officer. His first temporary command v/as the Corfu and heReuter - 66 words
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Article53 1947-01-06 3 THE strike is a legitimate weapon of the workman, said Sir Franklin Gimson, Singapore's Governor, to the Press on Saturday. "Our policy," he said, "is to make the Trade Unions real!y responsible organisations, so that they can negotiate with employers for any demands they might like53 words
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Article317 1947-01-06 3 PARS exprsi»ed by readers of the Straits Times based on Press advertisements of cars for sale "since the owner is buying a nsw car" and to the effect that some car owners may be in a position to buy a °ew car "on priority"317 words
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Advertisement463 1947-01-06 3 McALISTER CO., LTD. Incorporated in Singapore On the 30th December 1946 the name of the Company was changed from McALISTER COMPANY (SINGAPORE) LIMITED back to the old style McALISTER COMPANY, LIMITED. The Transfer Books of the Company are now open. Registered Office: Gresham House, Battery Road, Singapore. Malayan Branches:— Penang-:463 words
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Advertisement688 1947-01-06 3 MUNICIPALITY OF SINGAPORE Appointment of Shift Engineer in the Boiler House at St. James Power Station. Applications are invited irom duly qualified Engineers between the ages of 30 and 40 years for the position oi Shift Engineer in the Boiler House at St. James Power Station. Commencing salary between $250688 words
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Advertisement197 1947-01-06 3 The Most Attractive— Natural Colours in Cultured Pear Necklaces At Different Prices To Suit Every Pocket K. M. OLI MOHAMED 38 4» HIGH ST., SINGAPORE N.B. PEIRL IS A GEM WHICH CAN BE ADORNED BY EVERYBODY FROM ROYAL FAMILY TO THE TOOR FOR WEARING THEM FOR LUCK BEGINNERS* CLASS SINGAPORE197 words
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Advertisement245 1947-01-06 3 PILES Obtain from your dispensary a tube of ManZan. That's all yon need to obtain relief from your pain and distress. ManZan brings relief quickly, because it ts made solely to help pile sufferers. It soothes irritation, eases the pain and tones up tho swollen congested area. ManZan is easy245 words
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1093 1947-01-06 4 This question is being asked more and more frequently as the public of Malaya becomes conscious of strange new activities on which public money is being spent. The pictorial display at a remote cross-roads in Pahang which was1,093 words
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Article45 1947-01-06 4 WITH subscriptions o! U.S. $18C,000,000 each to the Bretton Woods Monetary Fund and to th? International Bank, Italy expects formally to assume a place in the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank daring tin first half of 1947, nyi a. p.45 words
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356 1947-01-06 4 IN a recent report from Ipoh a! "leading miner" is stated to have said: "It would be rather silly, don't you think, for us min-rs to wciry our heads over a raUier complicated piece of machinery, when w? are at our w ts end as356 words
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268 1947-01-06 4 YOUR Flight Lientenant, R.A.F., is not the only one entitled to sign himself "A Worried Man". Like many other Service folk who raise their voices in complaint, he does not seem to realise that, apart from the war itself, the biggest factor268 words
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Letter133 1947-01-06 4 WE fully realize that the majority of Service-men in Singapore have (and always iwill«be) judged by the minority, but the view taken by "Mitch" in last Saturday's Strats Times is one that must be deeply resented by all Service|men. Even though many of us ex- aircrew, Group133 words
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230 1947-01-06 4 THE gentleman in Pahang who wrote to you recently about the activities of the Public Relations Department of the Malayan Union would find the parallel institution in Singapore an equally rewarding study. Similar notice-boards to the one at Kampong Benta are to t>e found in Singapore230 words
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Letter24 1947-01-06 4 Letters signed with a nom-rli'-piuaic are not publish*^ unless th- writer's name and &.Mr:..? &'fC7*unteat6d to the Editor as a guarantee of good faith.24 words
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Article, Illustration720 1947-01-06 4 Reviewed by Captain P.J. Searles U.S. Navy, Retired (In tie New York Herald-Tribune) RAFFLES OF SINGAPORE. By Emily Hahn. Doubleday and Company. New York IT is pleasant to record that, at least temporarily, Emily Hahn has forsaken personal revelations and China Coast chit-chat720 words
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Advertisement947 1947-01-06 4 CLASSIFIED ADS. PECK At Pcnang Maternity Hosp. on December 25th 1946 to Joyce wife of D. G. Peck (Telecommunications Dept a son TO ANNlE— wife or Charlie T. F. Lee. a son on 4.1.47 at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital. Mother and child doing well. HITCH To Mr. and Mrs. J.947 words
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Advertisement28 1947-01-06 4 We undertake servicing and repairs of ROL E X E TE RN A GAMMETER and OR I S Watches only, uv regret \ve cannot accept other makesGammeter l6CoiiyerQuay28 words
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Advertisement122 1947-01-06 4 Specializing O/\L V in TERMITE EXTEKMIiV-VPON PROP ERT V M aTiSTE i\ ANC E PROPERTY COMSLIIVATiON Damage and tbc necessity of con- tarn repairs as a result white ants are completely eliminated by our Termite Extermination Property maintenance and Property Conservation Service. Onr record and Clientele prove our leadership n122 words
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441 1947-01-06 5 Textiles And Plastics To Be Produced Here Straits Times Reporter DLASTICS, insulated cables and textiles, three in- dustries new to Singapore, have come to take their place in the rehabilitation and progress of the Colony. Their institution marks another step in Singapore's ability to supply441 words
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Article181 1947-01-06 5 Straits Times Reporter ST. Andrew's Cathedral and the Cavanagh Read residence of the Archdeacon of Singapore have been lately the scenes of a large number of burglaries. The Yen. H. D. Rosenthall's house has beei. visited not less than 13 Umts during «Mch he has !ost181 words
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Article108 1947-01-06 5 Kr..ni Our Own Correspondent pen'a.w; But. FOLLOWING the.r air:sl at thej Penar.p; races on New Years Day five Chines?— Cheah Tuan Eng Lim Hong Chun. Tan Kirn Lian. Ooi Yew Ten* and He chool Soon— were produced in court charged wi.n acting as bo ikma.:ers108 words
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Article122 1947-01-06 5 APPLICATION for the recognition of Singapore's Licentiate -in Dental Surgery by the General Medical Council has been deferred in view of the staffing difficulties in training Licentiates, it is stated in the annual report of the Alumni Association, College of Medicine, Singapore. "The standard of general122 words
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Article155 1947-01-06 5 THE AJumni Association of the College of Medicine. Singapore, have decided that Singapore :s the best place in Malaya for a University. They feel that the t:me is now ripe for the establishm nt ot a University. Refeiring to the project, the annual report of155 words
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Article115 1947-01-06 5 From Our Own Correspondent i inn* X "ALA LUMPUR, Sun. NEW educational development n in the Malayan Union is the cpenir.g of classes fur adults in as many centres as possible Courses have been planned in shorthand. typewriting, bookkeeping and in technical subjects and subjects of general115 words
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Article193 1947-01-06 5 THE North Borneo Chamber of Commerce is asking the Government to make representations for a regular mail and passenger air service between Singapore and North Borneo extending to Sandakan. Airmail between Singapore and North Borneo is almost as irregular as sea mail although the difference193 words
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Article141 1947-01-06 5 From Our Staff Correspondent. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. TIGARETTE prices in the Mala- yan Union are '.>p this week because tabaccj distributors have for some time tenr^d that theie will be a world s^uruise of tobacco leaf, owing to pc-or crops in the most important x> rr141 words
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Article85 1947-01-06 5 OVER 100 former mermbers of A.R.P., "D" Division, Tanjong Pagar were entertained at a reunion tea party given by officers of the Division at Mount Echo yesterday evening. Mr. C.E. Hudson, Divisional Warden, in a speech, paid tribute to the services rendered by the members of85 words
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Article198 1947-01-06 5 THREE eminent London speeia- lists, one a surpeon. the other two doc'ors on a world tour conducting the examination for Fellowship of the Royal QAlez? of Surgeons passed through Singapore last ni?ht on their way to the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne. They are Sir Wiiliam Heneag,198 words
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Article268 1947-01-06 5 THE Alumni Association oi .h> College of Medicine. Singapore, have demanded, on behalf of all doctors and dental surgeons :n the public services of Malaya, arrears of their pay in full for the period of the Japanese occupation. The demand is made under the contracts268 words
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Article, Illustration79 1947-01-06 5 The Asiatic staff of the Straits Times group of nevvsnajnvs !>'d farewell to the retiring editor, Mr. G.W. Seabrid?e, at«~ function held in Cecil Street last week. Mr. Seabridge is seen speaking to the staff at the function. O n his right is Mrs. Seabridue and79 words
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295 1947-01-06 5 Straits Times Reporter IN an effort to provide over 700 employees with a self sufficiency in food, in case of shortage, a Singapore firm has started its own "grow-more-food" campaign, and within two months over 12 acres of land have been cultivated. Early in295 words
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Article48 1947-01-06 5 Thrt-e Javanese youths. Kassim bin Mat, Salleh bin Sudin and Yahaya bin Ka^sim. were sentenced to two months' rigorous imprisonment each by the Second District Judge, Mr. T T. Russell on Saturday. ;en ifc were convicted of having entpr?d th Singapore Harbour Board withoui a permit.48 words
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Article234 1947-01-06 5 From Our stail ''orrrspoiuimt. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. PR the first time since the liberation, regulations to; Queen's Scholarships and Fellowships were published in the Malayan Union yesterday. The regulations specify that one of the three scholarship? shall be reserved annually for candidates of Raffles College and234 words
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Article64 1947-01-06 5 EMBERS of the Army i^r* Service were called out for the first time yesterday since the firemen of the SinSaf* re ?ade went on stride last Tuesday. to attend to a small gra.'S fire which ocurred at Mor"* B< •<- sant Road One engine of64 words
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Advertisement59 1947-01-06 5 V- .^C og|p^ DDI FORHOME KELVINATOR and ICE MASTERS ONLY 'Xs :rom the Ni-w Year we regret" we are unable to acW .pt repairs to domestic refrigerators other than the above makes, v.ith the exception of those of our prewar customers. 1..r (OMMHUIAI. RKKRK'.KR ATOR REPAIRS telephone «92 IMIN K.MANN59 words
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Advertisement246 1947-01-06 5 9&sZs?^Zs* -x 7 l/ Jm Sole Distributors: j^^oAr quay, e*Na+J>Oße t>ho#^zsw MALAYAN UNION I RICE CONTROL NOTICE. Cigarettes and manufactured tobacco have been gazetted as price controlled goods and It will, after a date to be prescribed by the Chief Secretary, be an offence to deal in surh articles without246 words
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Advertisement103 1947-01-06 5 IMPORTERS MERCHANTS ARE YOU STUCK WITH STOCKS? Why delay and siifler lurther losses. Present rapid falling prices I demand Immediate disposal of your unsold stocks. Our wide contacts enable us to offer you our services to clear your goods on a commission bast";. Write In confidence to: P.O. BOX 810103 words
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Article138 1947-01-06 6 Step To Enforce Price Control From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Sunday. SWOOP on street hawkers mainly dealing in textiles and cosmetics was conducted today by the Alor Star police under Inspector Cheng Ah Rahman when a total of 19 hawkers and their goods were hauled138 words
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Article94 1947-01-06 6 HONG KONG, Sun.— Regular garrison troops of the British army returned to Hong Kong for the first time since the war today. The 27th Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery, and the 2nd Battalion of the Royal West Kent, or "Buffs," disembarked from the transportUP - 94 words
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Article89 1947-01-06 6 WASHINGTON, Sun:— A high official said today that the World Bank will make its first loan within a month at the most and possibly within two weeks. He added th?.t the new president is expected to be named early next week and the machinery ready89 words
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Article96 1947-01-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sun— Th P danger of smallpox epidemic in Penang is pract.cally over. According to the latest health figures there hav^ been very few cases lately and the incidence can be said to b P under control. But the health authorities are96 words
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Article94 1947-01-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Sun. On the pretext of looking for some one in the house three armed robbers carrying revolvers and knives held up a Chinese family in Merican liane and after ransacking the house decamped with nearly $900 in cash The robbery, committed94 words
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Article73 1947-01-06 6 SOUTHAMPTON, Sun. The 25,000-ton Royal Mail flagship, Andes, which arrived at Southampton last night from Singapore, is to make only one more voyage as a troopship. She sails again 'or Singapore on Jan. 20 and on returning to Southampton early in March she will go toReuter - 73 words
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Article35 1947-01-06 6 From Oar Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday.— The Lon- j don Institute of Under- i writersw announces that the new War Risk Insuran-v rite is one- tenth per cent for Borneo coastal voyages.35 words
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Article89 1947-01-06 6 COLOMBO, (By Air Mail) Asked in the State Council whether the Ceylon Government contemplated devaluation of the rupee, the Financial Secretary, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, said no such plan was intended. He said that anybody who started that rumour had been thinking of their own interests ThereReuter - 89 words
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Article43 1947-01-06 6 NANKING, Sun.— The resident committee of the People's Popular Council decided today to appoint a special sub-committee to investigate the three air crashes in Shanghai on Christmas evening. The sub-committee will proceed to Shanghai to make an on-the-spot inspection.— U.P.UP - 43 words
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Article133 1947-01-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sunday. •THE Indian view on the proI posed new constitution lor Malaya was stated by Mr. S. O. K. Übaidulla, prominent Indian businessman and secretary of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Negri Sembilan. He said Indians were greatly concerned over the133 words
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Article65 1947-01-06 6 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun— Owing to a mistake in the official statement the words "the late" were ins-rted before the name of Mr. Liew Weng ,Chee, whose son presented eight scholarships to Victoria Institution to perpetuate the name of his father. Mr. Liew Weng65 words
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Miscellaneous657 1947-01-06 6 Successful play in today's deal i South ruffed dummy's last spade depended on precise card-placins j to return to his own hand. from the- opponents' bidding. Obviously, it was vital to run South, dealer the diamond suit without loss. Both sides vu>er?ble and equally obviously. South could not afford to657 words
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Article716 1947-01-06 7 Share quotations as at Jan. S according to (be Malayan Ecaieoroken Association (Singapore) were aa Mm: Bayer Seller Uexandra Brickworks Ords. 1.80 $3.00 Uexandra Brickwork* Prefs. 2.90 1.10 3rlt. Malaya Trustee Executor Oo. 00 9.00 Consolidated Tin Smelters Ord. 20/- 22/6 do. Prefs. 26/- 28/Sastern United Assurance716 words
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Article889 1947-01-06 7 Weekly Market Report By A Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Sun. THE last days of 1946 and the first of 1947 have been marked by an encouraging amount of activity on Malayan markets with prices firm throughout the list. Business in the industrial quarter outweighed the889 words
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Article188 1947-01-06 7 The directors of Rer.ong Tin Dredgiing Co, Ltd., in their rooort and statement of accounts for the year ended June 30. 1946, say the damage to the company's p^nt and equipment was more extensive than preliminary reports suggested. The workshops at Rasa and Oombak were practically den-ided of188 words
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Article126 1947-01-06 7 "The company may perhaps consider j itself fortunate in that only 49 acres of j the planted are*a were destroyed during the period of enemy occupation." said Mr. E.N.T. Cummins, chairman of Connemara Ltd., at the 26th annual general meeting of shareholders of the company held in Kuala Lumpur126 words
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Miscellaneous103 1947-01-06 7 RADIO MALAYA Singapore ftfcD NfcTWOKK (Chines* InaUui 225 metres; tlM 12 pm to 2 p.m. 1.325 megacycles per second (61 metre band) and 7.45 p.m to 9.30 p.m. 4.78 met?cvcles pet second (61 metre band) BI.UK NETWORK: <Mala> Emt 7.32 mef»c;cles pet second (41 metre nindi and 9.30 9.m to103 words
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Miscellaneous97 1947-01-06 7 News; 9.45 p.m. Talk; 10.00 Test match relay; 10.10 p.m. In a musical mood; 10.30 p.m. Dance music. 11.00 p.m. News headlines and close down. BBC 130 pan 10 10.43 p.m GSV 16.SI and 13.93 metres; 10.45 p.m. to 11 04 p.m GSV 16.84 metres; 11.00 p.m 10 It.ii i.m97 words
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Miscellaneous115 1947-01-06 7 the Gregory Affair; 10.00 p.m. I BBC. Welsh orchestra; 10.30 p.m. Radio newsreel; 10.45 p.m. Interlude: 10 50 p.m. Australia vs. England; 11 05 p.m. Melody fair; 11.30 p.m. News; 11.40 p.m. Prom todays papers JAN. 1 7 30 am. Radio newsreel; 7.45 a.m. Talk; 8.15 a.m. Orchestral music; 8115 words
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Article129 1947-01-06 8 The draw for the J.C.S.A. table tennis singles handicap tournament resulted Wednesday. Bye vt Scan Vong Qtiee (sk Wan Kanmk <-2> vs Sect Tiong Geok i+3): S.Q. Quek -6) vs George I Chen i-IO); J. Ne.lpon (-10) vs S. Suppiah r-8): Kirn Svvee (-2) vs Tan] Chuan129 words
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525 1947-01-06 8 LONDON, Saturday. MIGHTY Arsenal are the talk of English soccer cir- cles. After floundering at the foot of the premier division table throughout the first half of the season they are now staging a magnificent revival. Their fine away win at Sunderland525 words
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Article, Illustration24 1947-01-06 8 Bradman falls as he stops the ba 11 which Compton has snicked hard through slips during play in the second Test match at Sydney.24 words
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Article549 1947-01-06 8 LONDON, Sat. LONG periods of desultory play interspersed by occasional flashes of brilliance marked the final England Rugby Union international trial today at Twickenham where England beat The Rest, 18 (three goals, one penalty goal) to 15 (one goal, one dropped goal, one penalty goal,Reuter - 549 words
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Article1075 1947-01-06 8 RESULTS AND TABLES Chelsea Everton Huddersfleld Manchester U. Portsmouth Preston N.E. Sheffield Utd. Stoke City Sunderland Wolverhampton Wolves Preston Middlesbro' Liverpool Blackpool Sheffield Un. Stoke C. Manchester U. Villa Grimsby Derby Co. Chelsea Sunderland Arsenal Everton Blackburn Bolton Brentford Charlton Portsmouth HuddersAeld Leeds U. 3 Liverpool 1 1 Blackburn R.1,075 words
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Article225 1947-01-06 8 LONDON. Sunday. NEWS oi The World, Bri tains Sunday newspaper with a 7.000,000 circulation, has a leading article in today's issue on the Anglo-Australian Test match umpriririK headed "Let The Umpire Decide." The newspaper say..: "Let us hope criticism of the umpiring in the Test matchReuter - 225 words
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Article238 1947-01-06 8 From Norman Preston, Router's Correspondent Melbourne, Sunday. ONLY a miracle, it seems, can give England victory in the i remaining two days of the Third Test but there is still a chance of forcing a draw. Having held the Ashes since 1934, Australia, withReuter - 238 words
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Article147 1947-01-06 8 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Sun. /CONSPICUOUS for their lack of sound defence and good team work, the 555 Sub Area went down to the Muar Malays by four clear goals in the aemifinai of the Malacca Victory Cup competition, at Muar Club padang yesterday. Starting147 words
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Article70 1947-01-06 8 ARCADIA. California. Sunday. Hubble Bubble, owned by R.C. Ellsworth, burst forth in the stretch to win i I fhe $50,000 seven-furlong Santa SuIsana stakes by four lengths over C. [8. Howards' Maharetta, before 47,000 j race fans at Santa Anita Park yesterday. Judy-Ray, owned by movie magnate LouisAP - 70 words
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Article31 1947-01-06 8 The organising committee of the 1 Muslim New Year Sports has presented the surplus receipts, amounting to I U2B 98 to the building fund of the i Young Men's Muslim Association.31 words
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Article52 1947-01-06 8 From Our Own Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Sat. Tiger Aman outpointed Mick McKay in the main event at the Lucky World stadium tonight. The fight was slow and disappointing. Aman won most of the rounds, using his left cleverly and scoring many points with constant jabs to the face52 words
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