The Straits Times, 14 January 1947

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED OVER CENTURY TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1947. PRICE TEN CENTS
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    HANOI NOW IN STATE OF SIEGE
    268 1 Shops Looted And Streets In Ruins The Times Special Correspondent HANOI, Sunday. UANOI is in a state of ciege and Northern Indo- China is in a state of armed revolution. Bitter lighting, following the Vietnam Government's unsuccessful attempt to massacre all the French in
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    Municipal Men Set Time Limit
    151 1 Straits Times Reporter 'nE Singapore Municipal j. Labour Unions vtrote to Pr.s dent of the Municipa' Commissioners. Mr. L. Rayr.ian, yesterday asking fcr de luiled replies within 48 hours Id seven composite resolutions s-übiTiitted to him a fortnight feJU. Tne resolutions set out a list
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    TRIED SUICIDE BUT BROKE LEG
    65 1 SHANGHAI. Mon.— A refugee German jumped from the sixth floor of a build ng in Shanghai today with the intention of committing suicide, but escaped with a broken left leg. after landing on some timber in the courtyard. The man Herber: Altschuelier. did not lose
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    MOMBASA STRIKE
    27 1 MOMBASA. Mor. —A general rtrike of all African labour start- d m this seaporc today, bringing j I ractically all work to a standcttll. Reuter.
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    BROOKE REPLIES TO GOVT.
    197 1 Mti. Anthony Brooke has replied to the official communique issued in Singapore en Sunday, which stated that many Sarawak Malays who iesigned from the Sarawak Civil Service did so because of pressure brought to bear on ihem or on their families, or because they feared social
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    'ENERGY AND TIME WASTED'
    105 1 ONLY the fooliiaiay w;u.d contend that the Ma 1 ay National Union represents the Ma'ays and cuiy the ignorant can believe that the Dyak Association represents the Dyaks," states the writer of an editorial appearing in the lat~st i-?=ue of the Sarawak Gazette After ref.rring to
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    GEYLON RESUMES TEA AUCTIONS
    69 1 COLOMBO, Mon.— The quantity of 201,657 pounds of tea in 129 lots has been offered through brokers for sale next Monday at the first public auction here for five years. Forthcoming resumption ol free auctions of t:a was indicated when the Ceylon Government announced on Nov.
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    Mines Are The Nation's
    60 1 At a conference to celebrate the taking over of the British coal mining industry by the nation. Laci Hyndley, chairman of the newly farm d National Coal Board which will run the mines, shows the silver-plated miners' lamp to (left to right) Sir Charles Reid, Sir
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    London Talks On Burma Open
    197 1 LONDON, Monday. THE Burmese political leaders, who are m London for self-government conversations with the British Government, held their first meeting at noon today with the Prime Minister Mr. Clement Attlee, members of the Cabinet and ministers at No. 10 Downing Street the Prime Minister's
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    ASSEMBLY OF UMNO CONCLUDES
    150 1 From Our Own Correspondent ALOR STAR, Monday. EXCEPTING for "a very few amendments in the Federation Agreement," the meeting of the United Malay National Organisation's General Assembly was concluded with the acceptance of the entire federation and model state scheme. These amendments to the proposals will
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    NO DANGER OF S.A. WINES STRIKE
    103 1 JOHANNESBURG. Mon.— Thire is no danger of another general strike of mineworkers as a result of differences within the Soutn Airlcan Mir.eworkers' Union, Mr. J. L. P. Botha, the Union's General Secretary, said in an interview here today. This was in reply to the
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    JAMES WINS
    54 1 SYDNEY, Mon. Tommy Burns, Australian welterweight, was disqualified m his fight heje tenant with Ronnie James. British lightweight champion. A crowd of 30,000 yelled their displeasure ai the decision, which gave the fight to the Welshman after Burns early m the fourth round hit him while he was
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    BEN GURION CALLED TO GOVT. HOUSE
    70 1 JERUSALEM, M&n.— S r Henry Gurney, offlo3r administering the Palestine Government. today summoned Mr. David Ben-Gu-rion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, to Government House. It ?s rep:rted that he was seeing Mr. Ben-Gurion over last night's explosion at Haifa police station. The curfew
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    INDIAN ARMY CHANGES SOON
    192 1 CALCUTTA, Monday. ALL British regular officers of the Indi.n /raiy of less than 20 years' service have teen asked to sta'o if they wish to CoatiotM in t: e Indian Army or be transferred to the Biilish Army. AH commanders have be?n :s\zfd to dispatch the
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    GURKHAS AID POLICE IN BANDIT WAR
    202 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUIViPUr, Mondt>. DANDITRY along the Siam-Malayan t rentier r.a< become so bad that Gurkha troops were recently moved to the area around Kali Katil an:! Padan;: Besar to aid the Malayan police, if necessary. Both the police and the
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    S'PORE TRADER ABDUCTED
    131 1 F' IVE masked Chinese yesterday I ro'obed the shop of Mr. Tan i Tiong Beng, ship-chandler, of 375 I Beach Road, and later took him i away by taxi at the point cf a j gun. He was released some dis- I tance along Bukit Timah Road,
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    ARMY TAKES ON DELIVERIES
    102 1 LONDON. Mon.— The Government has made good its threat, to replace more than 15.000 idle London truck drivers with army j personnel. As a result more than i 2,300 protesting employees of the big Smithfield meat market j walked out within half an hour, j and
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    Red Banas Raid China Villages
    121 1 NANKING, Monday. A BAND of mora than 203 Chinese Communist Widen to-day infiltrated acr sa ihe Yangize Eiv:r at a po^nt, 90 miles west of Nanking and are busy harassing th"> countryside." the Hsin Mm Pao rep> rts. The paper says that the bard, equipped
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    CRETE GENERAL FOR TRIAL
    93 1 ATHENS. Men.— Geneiuj An drew Andre German commander m Crete m 1941, has b:en handed over to the Greek security po! c° by United States authorities for Lri' 1 as i mil rmi nai. it was announced here today. He will oe tried or. charge of
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    PLANE SWEPT OUT TO OPEN SEA
    51 1 LONDON. Mon.— A chartered plane carrying ten passengers from Britain to the Channel island of Guernsey, was swept out to sea, by a rising tide after an emergency landing on the French beach at Fermandville 11 miles from Cherbourg, but all aboard were saved.
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    'CAR BOMB' KILLS 4 IN PALESTINE
    342 2 Terrorists 'Lever Police Station JERUSALEM, Monday. HOUR policemen were killed and 142 policemen and civilians were injured in an explosion which "virtually levelled" the Haifa police station last night, a government communique announced to-day. The blast was caused by detonation of a car load
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    US RICE EXPORTS DOWN
    147 2 WASHINGTON, Monday. THE U.S. Agricultural Department announced yesterday that the United States rice exports from August to November of the current marketing year were twenty million pounds les3 than the same period a year earlier. The announcement said that the decline was traceable to the early
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    TRIBESMEN ARE PUNISHED
    141 2 NEW DELHI. Mon.— Nandihar tribesmen who raided Hazara district of the Northwest Frontier Province last December aie to hand over 75 rifles as well as p%y 75.000 rupees £5,625) and give up 40 hostages temporarily as earnest of good behaviour, it was announced i» iay. Details of
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    S'pore Bound Plane Down
    96 2 SHANGHAI, Monday. CHANGHAI acents of the Far East Air Transport Inc. of Manila, disclosed today that a F.E.A.T.I. airliner was forced to land at Hoihow on Hainan Island off Kwangtung yesterday morning:, while en route from Manila to Singapore and Calcutta by Hongkong. F.E.A.T.I. acnts said
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    MOUTET RETURNS FROM FIC
    155 2 PARIS, Monday. MARIUS Moutet, French Minister for the Colonies, arrived yesterday at Orly airport near Paris from JndoChina. M. Moutet has been studying the position m IndoChina where Vietnam (Indo Chinese nationalist) forces have been fighting the French for more than three weeks. Broadcasting from Orly
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    SIAM PROTESTS TO CHINA
    109 2 Bangkok, firm mum na.-> I complained to China about the continuance of incidents between Chinese residents m Bangkok j and Siamese, Direk Chainam, Siamese Foreign Minister, uisi closed yesterday. He said he sent a detailed report to the Siamese Amoassa- j dor m Nanking, Sanguan lula-
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    DEMPSEY, BARKER MEET IN CAIRO
    62 2 CAIRO, Mon.— Li.°a:.-Ue!i Sir Miles Dempsey, Coiirwander-in-Chief, Middle who wer.t on an unofficial visit v> Pretoria Just before Christmas returned tonight to Cairo b, way of Nairobi and Khartoum. Lieut.-Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, G.O.C. Palestine, has also ojrived in Cairo for ,ali\s with Sir Miles
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    US Facing Foreign Policy Fight
    234 2 WASHINGTON, Monday. TENERAL George C. Marshal] U when he takes office will face a major dispute with top ranking Republicans unless he is willing to change United States' policy towards China and Argentina. Senator Vandenberg sent up that signal when he revealed that he wanted
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    INDIA TO BUILD
    61 2 MERCHANT FLEhT CALCUTTA, l»n-. s aa IS planning to bui: u 20,GGC-ion ihip wrich wi'.l prr/.ij her Witn j new passen^r aiad mercluuit lleet operating be'v/cc:i ma .'or ports of the w wid Indian shipb il-dtce Aims r.ave started negooa'ion.s with B'.ujsn concerns and ca;y deUU)l nave
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    CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE UP
    342 2 SHANGHAI (By Air Mail) pHINA'S foreign trade posiw tion showed a considerable I improvement m November compared with previous i months, with the adverse trade balance declining by I come 34 billion Chinese dollars (nearly £2,600,000) But what was more encouraging to the Chinese authorities was
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    FRANCE FEARS RUHR REVIVAL
    340 2 The Times Correspondent PARIS, Sunday. THE failure of the French Minister of Trade, M. Moch, to bring back from his visit to London more than a shipping agreement when his real object was to obtain an increase in coal deliveries from the British zone or elsewhere,
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    CHINA AIRLINES FLY AGAIN
    94 2 SHANGHAI, Mon.- China's two airlines tha China National Aviation C:>rp. and the Central Air Transport Corp. resumed passenger service today following the seven day grounding ordered by the Ministry of Communications as a result of four crashes causing 113 deaths. Civil Aeronautics Admin stration director, Lietuenant
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    NO RED REPLY YET TO SUN FO
    108 2 NANKING, Mj::.- Hiiuijai ob sfrvers are close'y watching the Chinese Red reaction to Dr. Sun Fo's proposal calling a round table all party conference to break the current KuorrintangCommunist deadlock. Most minority party leaders have signified their willingness to attend the conference as
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    TROOPS FOR FIC
    31 2 Paris .s i c former luxury liner lie de France left the Mediterranean port of Toulon today for Indo-China at 11.30 ri.m with an estimated 3,000 troops— UP
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      728 2 NOTICES. EX-SPECIAL TECHNICAL CORPS ASSCN.. MALAYA A general meeting of all former members of the Special Technical Corps will be held at Queen's Theatre, Geylang Road. Singapore, on Sunday. Jan. 17. 1947. 10 a.m.: AGENDA (1) To read and approve the Rules of the Association, and (2) to elect officers
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    STORE PROTEST AT KILLING IN PALEMBANG
    266 3 RELIEF FOR CHINESE BEING ARRANGED Straits Times Reporter THE Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been asked by the Chinese community of Palembang, Batavia, to organize a protest against the alleged killing of a large number of Chinese during a clash between Dutch and
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    Proposed Municipal Council
    244 3 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A GREAT deal of interest is being taken by the public generally on the question of Kuala Lumpur being raised to the status of a Municipality from next year. Observers point out it is gratifying that this course has been
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    CHINA TOUR OF CEYLON BUDDHISTS
    199 3 1-HREE members of the Ceylon Buddhist Mission who have been preaching about Thervada Buddhism in Shanghai and Hong Kong since last July arrived in Singapore on their way back to Colombo yesterday. They are Rev Thera Pannasiha. Rev. Thera Scma and Rey. Tbera Khemir.da and
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    NEW MOVE IN TRADE TALKS
    110 3 THE Singapore Government may. 1 ba' asked by local Chinese; merchants to appoint a repre- sentative to attend the talks' which will be resumed shortly j between the merchant* a»id the Dutch Consul General on the re-' cent interception by Dutch pat- i co'ia of
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    BROADCASTING TALK
    49 3 Mi. C. Law.son-Recce, Controller British Far Eastern Broad- idling Service, will address the Bast-West Society en Thursday Jan. 16, at 8 p.m. at the V.M.C.A., Stamford Road. The -.nb.'cc-i of his talk will be "The Next Ten years m Broadcasting." Members of the public are cordially invited.
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    BURMARICEARRIVES
    41 3 A cargo of 2,300 tons of Burma rice has arr.ved by the Empire j Farrar from Rangoon A further I shipment of 1,600 tons of rice is I expected by the 81. ship Kola 1 from Rangoon on Jan. 14.
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    SECOND TIME UNLUCKY
    184 3 A 16-year-old Javanese boy, Sukiram bin Aksan, who pleaded guilty to two charges of house-breaking and theft, was sentenced to six months' rigorous Imprisonment with six strokes of the rotan by Mr. Paul Storr at the Singapore First District Court yesterday. It was stated in evidence thar
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    Planters Want Decision On Constitution
    65 3 AT a meeting of the Lnited Planting Association of Malaya held in Kuala Lumpur recently the follow in; resolution was passed: '■This Association feels strongly that the continued delay in the provision of a stable system of Government is proving detrimental to the plant in
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    'MISSIONARY SHIP HERE TODAY
    121 3 THE American President Lines rris^ionary ship" Marine Adder with more than 350 Christian missionaries on board from the United States to various Orient stations, is expected to berth alongside the Tanjong Pagar wharves this morning. Twenty missionaries, including 13 for the Methodist Mission, will disembark at
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    APPEAL TO LEADERS
    162 3 UR. Tan Kah Kee, Chairman of the China Relief Fund Committee m South East Asia, yesterday sent the following telegram to leaders of the Indonesian Republic "Overseas Chinese sympathise with the Indonesian independence movement. It is most unfortunate that during the recent conflict m Palembang the Dutcn
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    UNION TALKS ON FEDERAL PLAN
    99 3 THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions will hold a discussion on the constitutional proposals for Malaya at the Union's premises in Short Street today at 6 p.m. "This meeting is summoned by because the constitution of Maiaya is inseparable from the interests and fate of
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    SEA ROUTE TO AFRICA RE-OPENED
    144 3 ANOTHER former sea trade route between Malaya and the 1 African continent was revived yesterday with the sailing of the 7 000-ton X.P.M. motor vessel Straat Soenda for African and South American ports via Batavia. Although the re-assumption of the service is being made from
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    ROUND-THE-WORLD US LINER ARRIVES
    343 3 DRIGHTLY painteu m grey, blue and white colours, the house j colours of American President Lines, the 16,715- ton President j Monroe arrived I'-i Singapore yes- i tcrday m the course of her j rouri' T -the-world cruise with 29 J passengers for this port the
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    STC OFFICIAL ON BEHAVIOUR OF SOME EMPLOYEES
    590 3 COMPLAINTS about the unruly behaviour and subversivev ness of some of the employees of the Singapore Traction Co. were made at a Singapore Police Court yesterday, in evidence given by the Company's Chief Traffic Inspector, Mr. John McNeish, in a case in which
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    45 3 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Adloff «ho have arrived m Singapore horn the United States m the course of a tour of South last Asia during which they will study the effects of the Japanese occupation m Malaya, the Nederlands East Indies,- Burma, Siam mid Indo-China.
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    US Survey On SE Asia Education
    215 3 Straits Times Reporter A COMPREHENSIVE survey of the higher institutions of education and learning and of the status of individual scholars throughout South East Asia, are being undertaken by an American couple who arrived in Singapore yesterday by the President Monroe from Manila. They
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    GAOL FOR MEN WITH CLOTH
    230 3 TWO British servicemtn, Dennis Arthur Branton and L/Cpl. William Dickinson of 1049 Port Maintenance Coy., R.E., were sentenced to three months' rigorous imprisonment each by Mr. K. M. Byrne in the Third Singapore Police Court yesterday. They had appeared in Court last week charged with
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    Guard Charged With Woman's Death
    278 3 Guard Charged With Woman 's Death A YOUNG Malay guard, Mohame.i Zia bin Abdul attached to the Jap war internees' camp at Juror. was charged before Mr. Justice Brown and a common jur. it the Singapore Assizes yesterday with causing the deat i of a Chiresc woman, Oon Kim Hoi,
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    DEATH FOR MALAY CAMP MURDERER
    169 3 A YOUNG Javanese, Syed jin Abdullah, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore Assizes yesterday, on a charge of murdering a compatriot, Ahmad bir Ampat. A unanimous verdict was roturned by the special jury empanelled for the case. It was stated
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    UNO GIFT MEANS PROFITS FOR NEW YORK
    583 4 America Expects Big Trade Boost NEW YORK, (Air Mail.) IN the face of a virulent Press campaign condemning the gift of 8,500,000 dollars (£2,125,000) site in the heart of New York City for UNO's new skyscraper headquarters, the citizens of this racially-jumbled city
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    CEYLON CAN'T USE US CLOTH
    174 4 COLOMBO, (Air Mail) XHE first consignment of American textiles under the new scheme of procurement by the trade and not by government, has arrived m Colombo and consists of 8,000 yards for a Colombo firm. Although the shipment has arrived it has by no means
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    MACHINE TYPES WITHOUT ERROR
    128 4 NEW YORK, i Air Mail)- Invention of a typewriter which permits 'errorless" typing has been claimed by the Associated Development and Research Cortioraticn here. The machine, which has a standard keyboard, prints an entire line simultaneously, lather then letter-by-Jettei The typewriter is electrically actuated It does
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    FINED £63 FOR KILLING NEGRO
    72 4 NEW YORK, (Air Mail:.— A Federal Judge fined nine Illinois farmers 200 dollars (£63» each, with costs, on charges based on the shooting of a Negro four years ago. The prosecution stated that a posse of farmers shot to death a Negro, James Person, whom
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    FIGHTING WIFE SENT TO GAOL
    84 4 NEW YORK, (Air Mail).— Mrs. Grace Long was sent to the city gaol at Twin Falls, Idaho, for a 30 day sentence for beating her husband. Police were called to the Long home, where, they were told, a man was beaming his wife. When they
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    DRUGS RESEARCH IN CEYLON
    76 4 COLOMBO, 'Air Mail). Research m indigenous drugs is to be undertaken by the Medical Research Institute of Ceylon. It has been decided to send a Medical Officer and a chemist for a course of training m Calcutta and also to establish a laboratory. The Medical Research
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    ROCKETMISSION ON ITS WAY
    80 4 LONDON. (Air Mail)— The first element of the British Rocket Research Mission to Australia left England recently under the command of Lieutenant-General J. F Evetts. He is head of the British Ministry ot Supply Lor.g-range Weapons Organisation in Australia. Equipment ar.d staff will Major Henry Steel
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    "CLOSE-UP" OF UNIVERSE
    256 4 California (By air mail;. THE world's most powerful I telescope, designed to give man his farthest and most comprehensive look into the univer.-e, should be ready for its first test sometime next summer according to Dr. John Anderson, of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Anderson and
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    Collection Plate For Bread
    230 4 BERLIN, (Air Mail).— When j worshippers come to St. Anne's Evangelical Church in subur-: ban Dahlem, the former pan?h of the famed pastor, Martin, Niemoeller, they bring slices of bread to place on a collection j piate. This sharing of their daily bread trom a ration
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    Cereals Demand Not So Pressing
    262 4 OTTAWA, Air Mail.) MEAT and other livestock products are taking the place of wheat and cereals m food demands made by Britain and other European countries, according to the Agricultural Supplies Board here. A report by the Board to the Dominion-Provincial Agricultural conference stated that
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    CEYLON MAKES SHARK OIL
    85 4 COLOMBO. 'Air Mail" -Ceylon had produced shark liver oil which contains ten times more vitamins than imported cod liver oil. Locally manufactured sharK liver oil contains four times the vitamin A and D potency of ccd liver oil. states Mr ECS. Paul. Deputy Director of Commerce
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    U.S. BABY BOOM
    45 4 PITTSBURGH, (Air Mail) This great producing district set a new production record last month. Babies arrived at the city hospitals at the greatest rate m history The bumper crop, v»hich jammed hospital facilities, saw 2,642 births recorded an alltime monthly high U.P.
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    INERNEES FREED
    35 4 DJAKARTA (By Air Mail).— Four hundred and fifty-three more Dutch internees have arrived here from the Java hinterland, according to an Antara report. The croup was escorted from Poerworedjo, m Central Java.— Reuter.
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    Majority Had No Vaccination Certificates
    354 5 DOCTOR GIVES CAUSE OF JALA GOPAL INCIDENT From Our Own Correspondent PENANG, Mon. THE stringent quarantine precautions against which the Jalagopal passengers had protested and which formed the subject of subsequent representations made by the Government of India Agent to the Chief Secretary, Mr. A.
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    64 5 m- first Welsfa, Industries Fair to be held m London was opened at the Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster. The above shows a "Nontax" inflatable chair on view at the Fair. Weighing only five pounds, it is inflated m less than a minute by means of an incorporated concertina bellows. When
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    MNP OPPOSES FEDERATION
    135 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING Mon.— Under 'he chairmanship of Inche Osman bin Daim. members of the Malay Nationalist Party and the Malay Youth Corps, Taiping met recently and discussed the new Constitutional proposals for Maiaya. The chairman stressed that the proposals did not prepare Ma hay
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    PICKPOCKET KING GETS 5 MONTHS
    80 5 From Our Own Correspondent Taipi-^. Mon.- Described oy the police as the king of pickpockets m Taiping, a young Cliine.e V« Say Lin, was sentenced by the Taiping Magistrate to five months' rigorous imprisonment when he pleaded gu lty to "lifting" a $5 currency note
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    TEACHER RETURNS
    25 5 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Mon.— Mrs. C. E. Milne, Head Mistress of the Government English Preparatory School, Muar, has returned from leave.
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    Extortion Gangs Biggest Bugbear
    246 5 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH. Monday. EXTORTION gangs continue to constitute the greatest bugbear of Chinese miners in Perak in their efforts towards the rehabilitation of their mines. While the industry has beer.able to surmount such difficulties as are presented by labour and shortage of equipment
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    GAOL FOR FORGERY
    41 5 MUAR, Mon.—On pleading guilty to forging a cheque for $84.95, on July 16, 1946, at Jalan Genuang, Segamat, a Chinese Lai Fong, was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Laville at the Muar Assizes today.
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    FINED $5 FOR ASSAULTING WOMAN
    149 5 From Our Own Corrcspondem PENANG, Mon. A story m which a Malay woman had her sarong pulled down by a debtor from whom she had asked for payment of $3 was told m the Butterwortn court before Mr. C. W. Shorland on Saturday when a
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    VICTORY SAVINGS
    24 5 Issues of Victory Savings certificates up to Jan. 10 m the Malayan Union totalled $330,178.50 while m Singapore the total was $253,395.00.
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    Taiping Abduction Enquiry
    324 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Monday. A PRELIMINARY enquiry was held here today m when tv.o young Chinese, Lim Ah Chee and Lim Kiat Seng, were charged with abduction of a 60 -year-old pensioner, Lim Tee Hoi, before the Taiping Magistrate, Tuan Sheik Abdulla. Urn Tee Hoi
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    FIRE GUTS ARMY CANTEEN
    83 5 From Our Own Correspondent TAIPING, Mon:--In an cany morning fire today the Indian soldiers' canteeen, the former Perak Club building, was razed to the ground. Fire was noticed at about 3.15 am. and within five minutes it had spread over the whole building. The fire brigade,
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    KLANG TRANSFERS
    45 5 From Our Own Correspondent. KLANG. Mon.— Mr. V. Nagendram. Indian interpreter. Kuala Selangor. Is transferred to Klang, lr. place of Mr. V. Muthucumara-samy. on transtfc- to District Court, Sereir.ban. Mr. A. G. Moorthy. from Magistrate's Court. Kuala Lumpur, has gone to Kuala Selangor.
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    COLONY FOR EX-SERVICEMEN
    192 5 COLOMBO (By Air Mail) HOMES, food, clothing and jobs for 2.5'J0 ex-Service-m^n will ,-oon be provided m Ceylon by the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. The Ministry has allocated 25,000 acres of beautiful forest and park land near Polannanruwa m central Ceylon, out of which each colonist
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    CLERK GETS 18 MONTHS FOR BREACH
    200 5 From Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. A SENTENCE of 18 months' rigorous imprisonment was passed on a Chinese. Chan Hock Seng, who was convicted by the District Judge, Mr. M. iseal, in the Kuala Lumpur pistrict Court today on a charge of criminal
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    ANTI-MOSQUITO DRIVE IN MUAR
    58 5 MUAR, Mon. Anti- mosquito drive on a wide scale is being carried out by the Muar Health Department and the department is soliciting the cooperation of the public in an effort to eliminate all mosquitobreeding places. The department in a notice warns the public that action
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      624 5 The declarer in today's deal adopted a bold and shrewd plan to unblock the key suit. North, dealer. East- West vulnerable. NORTH A85 AQ1082 ***** A WEST EAST KQ109 6 2 +J 99 VKJ765S J7S 10 95 *K764 3? SOUTH 743 V4 AKQ5U QJ8 The bidding. North Ij-: South West
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    60 6 Mrs Goh Ho ;k Huat. Mr. Mr&. ",oh Tang Chin. Mr. Mrs. Goh Tiang l.hve Mr. Mrs. Goh Tiang Eng ;*milv thank nil thoee who attended i h«? funeral of Ihe late Mr. Goh Hock Huat JP. Both at Klang Penang ihose who pent Motor Cars. Wrealht. fc<Tolls. Telegrams,
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1947. The New Public In Malaya
    1101 6 We ask our readers' indulgence today, when we propose to ignore many more important topics m th: iews and narrow our fccus m tois column to our own newspaper world of Cecil Street. The occasion for doing
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    FUTURE REICH
    74 6 MUNICH, Mon. Dr. Kurt Schumacher, Chairman of the German Social Democratic Party, said m an interview m Munich yesterday that he thought of a future German parliament "m the form of a Reich Assembly." says Reuter. He said Germany should free herself from the idea that she has
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    A chapter of our history in Cecil Street
    1147 6 riGHIELN years alter he C took over the editorship oi the Straits Times, Mr. G. W. Seabridge left Singapore on retirement yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Seabridge sailed by the Dutch steamer Straat Socnda for Cape Town, where they expect to settle down.
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    S.T.C. And S.A.F.A.
    186 6 MR. Seabridge took a prominent part m the sporting and so.-al life of Singapore. He was closely associated with the Singapore Turf Club, as a committee noemoer, and took a keen Interest m the Malayan Turf m general. He served regularly on th? committee of the Singapore
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    A TRIBUTE FROM IPOH
    84 6 WHENEVER I ta^e up trie Straits Times I feel that; I am reading a newspaper m th? truest sense. Nol only art th 1 contributed articles and photographs in.teres'ing, but your news, including j that from up-country, seems to be ahead of others, although prints m
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      892 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. On January, din In Dublin, to Bitty, vife of J G. Hume Brett, Malayan I'olicr a sen. MR. Mrs. G. W. SEABRIDGE o Sundard Bank of South Africa. Adderley Street. Cane Toxn. P PC. t s. Straat Soenda PERSONAL Mr Mr.v P. F. Pereira of 18 1 ,i
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    1947 A BETTER YEAR FOR S'PORE ENGLISH SCHOOLS
    313 7 "MORE SPACE AND MORE BOOKS" Straits Times Reporter TWENTY-FIVE thousand students from Singapore's English schools went back to school yesterday where they will face a brighter prospect in 1947 than they have done since the liberation. In the words of Mr. J.
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    Jap Col: 'I Punished Officers
    259 7 /*OL. Suwabe, one of U'e six a reused m the case m which t. ey t\re being tried by tne Singapore War Crimes Court, tor illtreatment of Indian POW3 at Rabuul, New Britain, told the Court yesterday that he bad pun shed his officers by
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    HAWKERS AsK FOR SYMPATHY
    137 7 A.\ >< aJ io the puoiic oi Singapore tor a sympathetic and mderstanding attitude towards hawkers was mad? by the pore Peoples Hawkers' Union at z riir.ncr parry given m Singapore or Saturriw ni','ht. Union has asked tho Mithoritics net to restrict unduly the grar.ting ot
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    SUITING STOLEN
    46 7 Entering a shop m North Bridge Road shortly after 11 a.m.. yesterday, two Malays and a Chinese armed with pistols held up the proprietor and his assistants and got away with a large quantity of tweed suiting valued at $4,800 and $280 m caih.
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    KL Teacher Will Hear S'pore Girls
    143 7 IpUPILS ol the Raffles GirLs i School will give a demonstra- tion of feheir elocutionary and musical ability today for Mrs. Mervyn Cox. Music Supervisor m Selangor of the Malayan Union Education Department. Mrs. Mervyn Cox who is' on vacation m Singapore wito her
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    DOCTOR ROBBED
    45 7 A gang of six Chinese entered the residence of Dr. William Oh! m Newt en Road shortly before 11 p.m. on Saturday and got away with about $2,000 m cash. The men were aimed with pistois and one man carried a nand grenade.
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    Crackers For New Year
    89 7 A Singapore Ga/ettc notification authorises, the letting off of fireworks during th< following hours during the Chinese New Year period. 11.30 p m. on Jan. 21 to 1.39 a.m. on Jan. 22. 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Jan. 22. 11.30 p.m. on Jan. 29 to
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    OPIUM VIGIL PRODUCED MEDICINES
    251 7 "rVERY night for one month and seven days our party drove up to 7th. milestone, Pasir Panjang. to wait for a quantity of opium to be handed to us by some Indian soldiers witfi whom we had made arrangements," said Ong Kirn Swee giving evidence before
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    CANADIAN WAS NOT VAGRANT
    79 7 A CHARGE oi ce.ng a vagrant en Jan 14 at the Marine Hostel was withdrawn against Joseph Davies, a Canadian seaman m the Third Singapore Police Court yesterday. Mr. K. M. Byrne, the magistrate, m acquitting Davies pointed out that Davies could not be charged with
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    SGT. ON PISTOL CHARGE
    79 7 nRODUCEL* m be Second Police Court on a or. irje <! beir.g m possession Df a piscol and 38 rounds of pistol ammunition at 235, Selegie Ron:!, Singapore, on Jan. 12, Sergeant. K. i.isles. r>: the r.a.o.c. told the Magistrate Mr. L. C. Goh, yesterday that
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      Singapore And Penang Sweep: Ten Days Delay
      224 7 POR the information ol many. of our Singapore members j who were disappointed thati their applications for tickets m the Unlimited Sweep on New j Year's Day did not reach this office m time for allotment, I would advise that I have received
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      Malayan Bookies
      169 7 1 READ a report m your paper that several bookmakers at jpenang were arrested recently m connection with the Penang Turf Club race meeting. It is really gratifying to note that at last the police are taking action against this evil of the Malayan Turf, and I hope
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      Shakespeare At Our Old Vie.
      293 7 Shakesp eare At Our Old Vie. yOUR dramatic critic, m his; I report on the Stage Club's! production of "Twelfth Night," j opens by expressing his plea- j sure at "a company which not j only knows its lines thorough-j ly, but also knows how to de- j iiver them."
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      Malay On The Air
      99 7 YOUR correspondent C.J.K. I should realise that programmes put on the air m Malay are meant chiefly for I the entertainment of Malays,; as are the Chinese programmes for Chinese listeners. It would be an insult or. the i part of the announcer to speak m
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      Crystal Palace
      70 7 OENEATH a photograph ofi the Crystal Palace printed; m your paper, you say: "The; above picture was taken before i the high glass roof fell m t 1.1 j ing fires caused by German j raiders." Might I say that the Crystal I Palace (with the exception of
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    FRENCH LAWYERS DEFENDED JAPS
    32 7 Mai re Jacnue Mard and Maitre Kiamhy, two Trench (tcfcnaiitg counsel who represented the Japanese accused m the Nha Trang KempeHai Case which was concluded m Saigon recently.
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    VISIT OF DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
    319 7 'THE Duke of Gloucester, who is re.v ning t > England lrom 1 Australia, is expected to arrive at Changi airfield at 4.25 p.m. on Jan. 16, where hs will be met by the Go erno--General, Mr. Malcolm MacDcnald, the Gover.or of Singapore, Sir Franklin
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    SIAM RAILWAY WAGONS
    70 7 CIXTY-ONE gccQi wagons for the Siamese Railways which arrived m Singapore by th? 8.1 ship Empire Viceroy from Calcutta yesterday, are com being unloaded on to a specially con■tmeted track at the Singapore Harbour Board wharves. Tills is th: second shipment of American-made wagons to arrive m
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    Crash Enas Sailor's Wild Drive
    316 7 SAILOR'S wild tinve through the Singapore 1 itreets which ended m a coiliUion with a taxi and crash into 1 a wall was described m the I Singapore Fifth Police Court jyestcvlay when Kenneth E. i>avis, an R. N. sailor pleaded guilty to two charges
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    $1,619 RAISED BY VOLUNTEERS
    63 7 A sum ol .5:,619 was rai.- d ■>• ths New Year's Eve Dance, sponsored by "D"' 'Eurasian" Company, I S.S.V F The object of the dance waa raise lunds tor the widows ard oiphans of. Eurasian Volunteers who were killed m action during the Malayan campaign,
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      105 7 Ihe Art of Bein& Lovely Fi c X CYCLAX Beauty Preparations CYCLAX i-^ce Poutki t2 25 >4.00 CYCLAX Lipsticks 53. 50 CYCLAX Powder Rouge $2.25 CYCLAX Cream Rouge $3 0J CYCLAX Cleansing Lotion $2.50 $4.50 CYCLAX Blended Lotion 53. 00 55.50 CYCLAX Day Lotion $3 00 ?5 50 CYCLAX Skin
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    Painting Imaginary 3's May Send You To Sleep
    782 8 HOW necessary is sleep? Everyone knows, or says e.e does, that insomnia is dangerous. But modern science has other ideas. It is true that neither man nor animal can do without sleep entirely, and scientists say it is possible that even plants
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    KIMONO LOSES POPULARITY
    504 8 THE picturesque and colourtu; kimono, national costume of Japan, is fast disappearing and its place is being taKen by European-style costumes which neither fit nor are adapted to the bodies of Japanese women, says Graham Barrow, Reuter's Tokio correspondent Tens ot thousands of women and girls, especially
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    SHOES AND SLACKS
    127 8 ANKLE straps have come to stay, and these gold evening shoes are fastened round the ankle with a jewelled buckle. They are made by Raynes, one of Bond Street's most exclusive shoemakers and they would cost about £6.6.0 m London the equivalent of $54 here. Gold evening
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    Big Season For Flowers
    141 8 AMERICAN designers are expecting a big demand for flower-trimmed styles. Leading Parisian houses are showing small clusters of flowers across one shoulder on dresses, and flat appliqued crushed velvet poppies sewn together m graduating sizes from one shoulder to the hem on long dinner dresses. Current
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      436 8 HAKE-DP DRVNKST 1 KSTS PROVE MOST WOMEN VSINQ MAKE-UP HAVE DRY SKIN NOW! DRY SKIN CAN BE MADE SILKY-SMOOTH 9 Gently and soothingly Damaskin sinks into the tiniest pores, making your skin exquisitely sr-.ooth and lovely. Soon your complexion t»ke« on a new freshness enchanting, flawless, a p rture of
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      144 8 N^C^> *^fOR WHITE TEETH EUCRYL TOOTH PASTS y^^/w^^&V At the top. Specially prep..cd \\seX***'yJj EUCRYL TOOTH POWDER V^£^ Sf A winner "ffterever it goes. EUCRYI OEMTU«E POWDER j^JittjS^^ Sl\ Cleans and disinfects artificial /r^^jgsSS \V\ EUCRYI DENTAL PUT! FIXATIVI iSjSWPsPf/SI \A <eeps artificial teeth m olac« BRITISH OWNED j^T BRmSH
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    HR RUBS OUT MOUSTACHES THEY PUT ON THE POSTER GIRL
    1245 9 (By Capt. C. W. Smith) VOU know how it is when people start telling you stones. One part of you is listening to what is being said and another part is pounding the old brain-box trying to think out a
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    36 9 Ava Gardner and a new star, Burt Lancaster, former circus acrobat, indulge m beach acrobatics at Santa Monica beach. They both appear m the Mark HeUinfer film "The Killers", which was at the Capitol last week.
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    Steak By Radar
    300 9 piPiNG ho;: gi; ger bread m i twenty -nine seconds flat, a chopped steak with onions ready to cat m thirty five second.- that's cooking. Cook'ng with radar, to be prcci.se. Gone are the days of "let simmer for hall an hour" and "bake m a greased
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    It's Peaceful In Lincolnshire
    1004 9 Tf/E had driven out U>| the lonely Wash, )n Lincolnshire. England. to a 1 part called Gibraltar Point. Here an old man slowly approached us and because we < showed interest in the flowering plants that were flourishing in the short summer that is Eng- land's,
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      89 9 PENING TO-DAY at th j5/g\^fl_ fljQ (For 2 Days Oily) *=-np h SRI^ b o 3~-*-«* 4 Shows 1.30 4 tt.3o 9.30 p. m. ANOTHER WINNER FROM BRITAIN! RADIOS FOR THE UN WIRED HOMES Works on any 6-Volt car battery I Marconi Model on mm Eight Valves With connections for
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      196 9 External cleanliness is so natural, ngm ana proper that its importance needs no <tresMng. It is, however, even more essential to keep the body clean inside free from all those clogging i impurities that cause constipation and o lici everyday ailments. A glass oi sparkling Andrews, y^^ l/jp(t* as tne
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    CAMERONS AS LEAVE HOME
    1186 10 Services Relax In The Hills FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TWICE a week there pours from the tiny railroad station of Tapah Road, a swarm of servicemen and women, who climb into waiting trucks to begin a long, winding climb along a Malayan hili road, bordered on
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    DON'T BE SKINNED
    382 10 By Fit. Lt. Creswitk JJN Camden Town down London way Edward and Charlies Gerard carry on their j business as taxidermists. They jare very skilled m the art of preserving animals, birds, fish and almost any sort of creaiture. Their two largest jobs have been a whale
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    PACIFIC RESEARCH PLAN
    271 10 TOKIO (Air Mail). TME United States authorities have nearly completed their arrangements to set up a string of scientific field stations throughout the Pacific area during the coming year. A programme has been viap ped out designed to fulfil the long-range needs o: Amor > a science,
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      330 10 TO SEE LAST NIGHT'S BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT HIT! TO-DAY f f?S P BB <s ?fli' 11 a.m. 2 p.m. 4.15 p in. f I g\ LI g Loaded with Gun-Blazing THRILLS, K%B. m lWi:*!i ADVENTURE. Preceded by "ATOMIC POWER 1 ---NEXT CHANGE—■I I BINGS BEST! Hes alone a womans world. *V
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    NEW HIGH LEVEL IN FRASERANDNEAVES
    319 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Mon. MARKET as usual was quiet today but there were one or two good features. Fraser and Neaves and Breweries reached a new high level. Fraser and Neaves improved to $2.95 buyers, with sellers asking $3. Breweries had business done
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    LOCAL RUBBER PRICES
    43 11 Chamber of Commerce Rubber prices yesterday were: Buyers Sellers No 1 R S S. Spot F.OB, m Bales loose 41», 42 No IRS.S. F,0,8, m bales Feb. tt*4 43 No. 2 42' t 42' i No. 3 413 4 4,
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    RUBBER CROPS
    79 11 Rubber crop figures for the month of December are: Alor Gajah Rubber Estate Ltd., 23.000 lbs; Ayer Panas Rubber Estate Ltd. 85.000 lbs; Olenealy Plantations Ltd. 64,600 lbs: Kluang Rubber Company Ltd.. 50.000 lbs: Pajam Ltd 196,000 lbs; Tambalak Rubber Estates Ltd. 29,380 lbs; Teluk Anson Rubber Estate
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    Yesterday's Produce Prices
    360 11 SINGAPORE, Monday. TODAY'S produce price* were: RICE: Siamese No. 1 $104, No. 2 $102, Rangoon $75, Indo-China No. 1 $30, No. 2 $27. Broken $30.50. PULOH RICE? Siamese $80. Kedah $<H>. RICE NOOULfcS: No. I Siaoww $92, Kedah $62, Indo-China $82. China $92, Local No. 1 $68,
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    SHANGHAI MONEY
    25 11 SHANGHAI. Monday Today's quotations on the Shanghai blackmaket exchange are: U.S. dollar CN $6,500; Gold CN $365,850; Hongkong dollar CN $1,280.— U.P.. P.
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    TOBACCO POSITION IN JAVA
    461 11 iF'.om Our Own Correspondent BATAVIA (By Air Mail) I A CCORDING to reports m the I A republican press, all tobacco plantations m Java and Sumatra have been under republican control since June 6, 1946. About 60 per cent, of th< tobacco areas m Deli, east
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    Along The Singapore Waterfront
    400 11 MAIN WHARF Godov n 33-34: Samshee. Godown 35-36: Eemdijk. Godown 41: Glenstrae. Godown 42-43: President Monroe. WEST WHARF Godown 1-2: Priam. Godown 6-7: Fort Kilmar. Godown 8-9: Glenogic. Godown 10-11: Overijsel. Godown 13-14: Azalea City. Godown 15-16: Stentor. EMPIRE DOCK Godown 17-18: Samtweed Godown 23-24: Acadia.
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      747 11 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. dncorporatea to Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE Sailings to and (rom United Kingdom "Priam" from U.K. for Hongkong Shanghai.. In Port "Samavon" due from U.K. for Hongkong A Shang hal In Port •Tarakan" due from U.S. A J»~- •Rondo" «2ue from U.S. A Jan. 17 -Rhesus" due from
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      639 11 PRESIDENT LINE ELLER m««»llm ««»ll s_ M S. S. CO., LTD. NEW YORK A HAVANA (Incorporated m England) vto India and Mediterranean Port. FOR NEW YORK IRAQ VICTORY In P«rt HALIFAX s.s. willis vicker. Due F*b c Samtweed Godown 171 3 FOR LONDON MARINE ADDER City of Yokoharaa ear| y
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      115 11 SINGAPORE TIDES Tide times today are: high 4.5 a.m. and 4.4 p.m.. low it C am. and 11.18 p.m. RADIO MALAYA Singapore hkl> MIUOUK (Cblneoe matin I Zt$ metre*; also 12 p.m 10 I p.m. t.'iit mf«ac-yrl«i per second '61 metre lund; and 7 45 p.m to 9.30 p.m 4.78
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      124 11 headlines; 8.18 p.m. Listener's post: j 9.00 p.m. Symphony of strings; 9.15 j p.m. Tunes across the table; 9.30 p.m. News; 9.40 p.m. Musical memories; I 1 10.00 p.m. Fred Hartley; 10.30 p.m. 1 1 I Isn't it peculiar; 11.00 p.m. News! 'headlines and close down. B.B.C 130 t>.m lo
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      103 11 p m. Stand easy; 9.30 p.m. Squad ronnaires dance orchestra; 10.00 p.m. Michael Spivakowsky; 10.30 p.m. Radio newsreel; 10.45 p.m. London calling; 10.50 p.m. Forces favourites; 11.30 p.m. News; 11.40 p.m. From today's papers. Jan. 15. 7.30 a.m. Radio newsreel; 7.45 a.m. Short story; 8.00 a.m. The brains trust; 8.30
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    BOXERS PRICES HIGH
    229 12 LONDON, Monday. rABLE to persuade British boxers to fight in South Africa, promoter Joe Bloom is making contact with boxers in Sweden, France, Holland, Belgium, E re and elsewhere in Europe. Representative in Eurone of the Transvaal Spoitirg Club of Johannesburg, South Africa, Bloom says "British boxers
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    15 NAMED FOR HOCKEY TEAM
    110 12 Singapore's Hockey XI to play &i»flnst Selansor and Perak on Tan 18 and 19 respectively will be selected from the following lh placers, all of whom are required to make the trip up-country:— N Pillai. R H. Barth. E. Barker. B.D WilUams. D. Penr.efather. Condr.
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    FAST SCORING IN DRAWNGAME
    560 12 Compton's 1000 For Tour From Norman Preston, neuter's Correspondent HOBART (Tasmania), Monday THE M.C.C. v. Combined Australian XI match ended here 1 today in a draw, after England in their second innings had declared at 353 for 9 and the Australians in their second innings had
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    Sportlight On Nee Soon Camp
    589 12  -  Linesman By NO survey of sporting activity in Sngapore would b3 complete that failed to take note of No. 1 British Transit Camp at Nee Soon main topic of this week's Cervices Sportlight. On the basis ot a relatively small permanent establishment, Nes Soon have
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    No Change In Aust. XI
    67 12 SYDNEY, Monday. It was announced m Sydney today that the Australian team for the fourth Test match, beginning m Adelaide •m January 31, will be the same as that which played m Melbourne: I). G. Bradman (captain); S. Barnes, B. Dooland, L. Hassett, I. Johnson,
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    SCOREBOARD
    195 12 MCC—IST INNS 278 COMBINED XI—IST INNS. 374 MCC—2ND INNS. Gibb c Gardiner b Murfctt 11 Fishlock c b Johnson 46 Hardstaff c Max Thomas b Johnsoa 60 I Compton c Barnes b Layer 124 Ikin c Clark b Miller 50 Edrich st. Gardiner b Layer 22 j Bedser c
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    SHAMROCK B.P. 8-1 WIN
    279 12 MALACCA, Mon Meeting the Sentosa B.p. in! four sets of singles and five sets j of doubles the Shamrock B.P. defeated them bv eight sets I to one. Results, 'Shamrock players mentioned first': Singles: D. Emmanuel beat Yahaya (14—14; Cl— 3). 15— 10, 15—3); Kim; Sun
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