The Straits Times, 9 August 1947

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  • 18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED U4S. PRICE TEN CENTS TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947
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  • 1258 1 CHURCHILL ATTACKS ECONOMIC CRISIS PLANS 'Blank Cheque For Totalitarian Govt. In Britain' LONDON, FRIDAY. MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL ACCUSED THE LABOUR CABINET DURING IYI THE ECONOMIC CRISIS DEBATE TODAY OF SEEKING FROM PARLIAMENT A BLANK CHEQUE FOR A TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT AT THE ABSOLUTE DISCRETION OF THE MINISTERS. MR. CHURCHILL SAID THE
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    54 1 This Chinese ragman was killed instantly when he was knocked down br a military truck m Robinson Road, Singapore, yesterday. Note startled glances of driver and companion, who had not had time to rush to the man's aid before picture was taken. Straits Times photograph was taken within a few
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  • 310 1 BATAVIA, Friday. CULTAN Hamid, 34-year-old president of the Dutchsponsored state of West Borneo, announced today that he would leave by air for the United States on Sunday to present the case of the not -Republican Indonesian areas to the United Nations. Following yesterday's appeal
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  • 23 1 Technical Hitch LONDON, Friday. The 8.8.C.'s "bright and early programme" to rouse Sleepy beads was minus an announcer this morning. He overslept. A.P.
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  • 147 1 U.S. LUXURY GOODS BAN IN UNION From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THE Malayan Union will cut 1 imports of luxury gocda from the United States m the same way as Singapore. Officials m Kuala Lumpur said today that m both areas a parallel policy was being followed and
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  • 74 1 SHANGHAI, Friday.— Friends of two of the 26 passengers m the Lanohow-bound Dakota which has b^en missing since July 3 have charged tftie Chinese air force, accusing it of unnecessary delay m searching for the wreckage, using too few planes m the search, and delay m
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  • 161 1 RIOTING HAS BROKEN OUT IN Tel Aviv, where 200,000 Jews have been called upon to sttike m protest against the arrest of three Jewish mayors. The British Army chief has flown to Cairo to give a first hand account of conditions to Viscount Montgomery.— Page
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  • 100 1 LONDON, Friday.— Westminster Abbey is to be closed to the public soon, so that the Ministry of Works can begin alterations required for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten on November 20. Seating accommodation for 2,000 people is to b e
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  • 263 1 LONDON, Friday. THE Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, replied for the Govern1 ment m the crisis debate.. He said there were only two occasions m pritish history comparable with today. Th/ first was the economic, t~ r crisis that arose from the ecclesiastical and trade policy of the
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  • 171 1 THE TIMES: The debates m both Houses of Parliament yes. terrtay, begun on Wednesday m such great expectation ended yesterday m disappointment and doubt. THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: The country has no clear programme for the national effort that it knows to be needed. THE DAILY HERALD-
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  • 125 1 KEMAMAN, Friday. ftOLICE are searching for a I Malay who is alleged to have hacked his mother-in-law to death and cut off his wife's hand at Chukai. Police have been told that the man inflicted fatal wounds on his mother-in-law when he slashed
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  • 481 2 NEW WAVE OF VIOLENCE IN PALESTINE it Army Chief Flies To Meet "Monty" JERUSALEM, Friday. JEWISH terrorists struck again at Palestine railway yesterJ day as Lieut.-Gen. Gordon Macmillan, British Army chief m Palestine, was flying to Cairo with a first-hand account of the situation for Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of
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  • 573 2 Japs "Not Ready" To Travel In Freedom From Our Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Friday. AN Australian Embassy, spokesman said yesterday 1 that Australia, China and New Zealand considered that the time was "not yet ripe to permit the Japanese to travel freely abroad." He said, "While recognising the altruistic motive prompting
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  • 68 2 BUCHAREST, Thursday. A number of travellers, including foreign citizens, intending to cross the frontier by rail, was told today they would not be able Lo leave Rumania, although the au- j thorities gave no official indica- tioa that the frontiers had been closed Railway companies refunded i
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  • 195 2 LONDON, Friday. THE President of the Board 1 of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, will leave Britain by air about Aug. 26 on a visit to Burma, at the invitation of the Burmese Government, tc advise On the new constitution On the way to Burma, prooabiy
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  • 43 2 WASHINGTON, Friday.—President Truman is expected to make a major declaration on foreign policy when he addresses the closing session of the Pan-Amer-ican Defence Conference m Rio de Janeiro early next month, according to sources close to the White House.— Reuter.
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  • 173 2 PENANG. Friday. Mr. Cheah Cheng Poh has been chosen by the Straits Chinese' British Association to represent it at the Pan-Malayan meeting at Kuala Lumpur on August 16 to discuss income tax and the cost of the rehabilitation of Malaya. Phe S.CBA. is against the introdvetion
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  • 278 2 Australia Makes Balkans Proposal LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. WHILE prospects of finding a solution to the Bal!:ans problem are not considered bright, a proposal by Austialia has fanned embers of hope m some delegations. The seven-nation sub-commit-tee appointed to report on the Balkans question took their debate behind closed doors yesterday.
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  • 74 2 RANGOON, Friday.— The Burmese authorities arrested yesterday 127 policemen who took Dart m the recent police strike. Thakin Tun. one of the col* leagues of Aung San, the assassinated Burmese leader, m the Japanese-sponsored "Burma Defence Army" during the war, was also arrested, a Government spokesman revealed.
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    • 645 2 NOTICES ACCOMMODATION VACANT at "Napier House" 7. Napier Road Tanclln call for an interview or please phone No. *****^ THE LOAN ORDINANCE 1946. Singapore 1% Rehabilitation Loan 19*2-1971 Notice is hereby given that m accordance with the terms of the Colony of Singapore Loan Ordinance No. 14 of 1946 the
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    • 824 2 NOTICE SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY Tenders are Invited for supply of 200 tons of 80 100 Penetration Bitumen and 100 tons of Quick Breaking Emulsified Bitumen Tender forms from Municipal Engineer's Office. (Room No. 218). Closing In th. Municipal Secretariat (Room No. 235) at noon on 25th August. 1947. DRESSERS' EXAMINATION, GENERAL
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    • 91 2 SINGAPORE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE. I regret to have to inform the numerous students that I am unable to recommence the classes on the 11th instant as expected as suitable accommodation has not yet been found. However, It Is hoped to resume classes as soon as accommodation Is available.. K. a.
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  • 958 3 CONSTITUTION FOR "UNION OF BURMA" Draft Provides For A Common Citizenship From Our Special Correspondent RANGOON, Friday. A SOVEREIGN independent republic known as the f» Union of Burma," with a President and two Houses of Parliament and one common citizenship throughout the Union, is proposed m a draft constitution now
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    • 128 3 GANDER, NEWFOUNDLAND, Friday. CAPTAIN William Odom who took off from Chicago yesterday Vj m a new attempt to set up a solo round-the-world speed record reached here m five hours 18 .minutes and left foi Paris one hour later. Odom who is flying the'.
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    • 99 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. An Army Court Martial yesterday found Pte. Lemas Woods guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of another soldier m the Philippines on March 23, 1946. He was sentenced to dishonourable discharge and two years' hard labour. It was Wood's second trial. His only
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    • 56 3 SEATTLE, Friday. A Navy Catalina which has taken part m numerous Alaska sea rescues was reported missing yesterday with 15 passengers and a crew of five on a flight westward from Kodiak to Dutch harbour Alaska. The plane last reported that it was bucking heavy headwinds m the
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    • 95 3 NORTHAMPTON, Friday More than a dozen policemen cordoned off Saiiu Michael's Church, Northampton, after a fire m tht vestry had destroyed furniture, hundreds of hymn books and choir music. Firemen found vestments torn and strewn about the vestry floor. In the church, chairs had been overturned and hymn books
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    • 101 3 BUENOS AIRES, Friday.— A rebbel ultimatum to the Paraguayan Government to surrender at once or endure an attack on Asuncion, Paraguayan, capital, was broadcast yesterday by the insurgent radio, "Voice of Victory." The broadcast, heard on the Argentine frontier, told the President, Mr. Higino Moringo, to quit
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    • 129 3 BOSTON, Friday Professor Frank Liberty, proprietor °f a well-known tattoo salon, says he is making "a pile of dough" removing embarrassing tattoo marks from American ex-servicemen who had th c names and faces of foreign girl friends tattooed on I themselves during the war. Said the portly Professor
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    • 56 3 BRISBANE, Friday Three planes were swept overboard and a fourth badly damaged m two landing crashes on Wednesday on board the aircraft carrier Thesus. An aircraft mechanic working on a plane was also hurled over- board. His body has not yet been recovered Aircrews of the planes
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    • 92 3 MOSCOW, Friday.— The Indian Ambassador to Russia, Mrs. Vilaya Lakshmi Pandit, who contracted a cold and sore throat m her threeday flight to Moscow, rested m her hotel yesterday. It was hoped she would be sufficiently recovered to pay a formal visit to the Soviet Foreign Mm
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    • 58 3 LONDON, Friday— ln future one hour each week is to be set aside within the working hours o f H.M ships and establishments for education m current affairs, the Admiralty Financial Secretary Mr. John Dugdale announced yesterday m the House of Commons. "The education will take the
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    • 95 3 PARIS, Friday.— Virginia Hill, girl friend of the murdered gangster, Bugsy Siegel, threatened to jump out of the plane when she took off for New York last night. Twice, during her stay m France, Virginia attempted suicide by taking overdoses of sleeping pills. "I am an orphan now,"
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    • 73 3 EVERETT, Massachusett, Friday. Four people were killed yesterday when a small airplane crashed into the flaming gas burner of a big oil plant. The pHot apparently thought he was gliding down into the brightly lit Boston airport. The dead included Thomas Mandell. 46, treasurer of
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    • 64 3 SANTIAGO, Cuba, Friday. Earthquake shocks, which started on Wednesday, continued to rock Cuba's eastern tip, including the United States naval base at Guantanamo. The ninth quake shook Santiago yes'erday. It was estimated that 90 per cent of Santiago's 145,000 population fled from their homes and camped m
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  • 381 3 Food Rationing For 150 Million Tn India The Times Correspondent NEW DELHI, Friday. MORE than 150 million people are being rationed with food m India at present. This constitutes easily the largest rationing scheme m the world. The food position m India is causing grave concern, and a Food Department
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    • 279 3 •=NEW SHIPMENTSSTRINGS FOR CONTRADASS G or Ist $12.00 Dor 2nd $14.00 A or 3rd $17.00 E or 4th $22.00 MARIUS CANE REEDS For Clarinet $1.00 For Alto Sax $1.50 For Tenor Sax $1.75 DENJIAN TURKISH CRASH CYMDALS 11" thick or thin... $22.00 13" thick or thin... $27.00 [^iINANGMENG6QQ I ■TV*
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    • 231 3 HAL I Supplies are obtainable from m Gmmaiggfo umncncs «r SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG MALACCA IPOH tni I* mad* by NEWTON CHAMBERS CO.. LTD, THORNCLIFH. SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND H Just arrived Big shipment of Dupont Nylon Stocking (first quality) Ordinary Gauge 51 and 54 Special 66 Sizes B.V\ 9", 9jT, 10".
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  • 102 4 Offered Missing Jeep To Police TTVO British servicemen who' 1 offered to sell a jeep they had taken from the Capitol car park to a plain clothes, police officer were yesterday sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr Justice Thorogood ac the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The men were Martin
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  • 75 4 AH Singapore Chinese organisations, political or social; will b e asked to revert to a pre-war practice of registering with the Singapore Chinese Consulate, the Chinese Consul-General Dr. Wu Paak-shing said last night. Dr. Wu said the Chinese Consulate was acting on the instructions received
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  • 91 4 LIVERPOOL, Friday— On th n grounds that "morally, all Jews are as much responsible for the recent hanging of two British soldiers as were the actual murders." 85 slaugthfrmen at the city's largest abattoir refuse to handle meat intended for Jewish consumption This action will
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  • 77 4 LONDON, Friday.— The first Chinese newspaper m Britain has just gone to press. The founder is Mr. C. S. Chao 32, a recent graduate engineer of the Imperial College. He has been four years m London. Mr. Chao has put £10,000 into the venture. The biggest
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  • 123 4 RUBBER JUMPS 1¼ CENTS A BUYING order for approximately 1,500 tons of rubber, m the local market, by a leading dealer, on behalf of a purchaser rumoured to be either Russian or Chinese, sent the price of rubber up, yesterday. The purchase sent the price of No. 1 sheet f.o.b.
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  • 94 4 SHIPS alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns ,ln brackets) were: Main Wharf: City of Chester (31-32), Cape Catoche (33-34), Empire Colne (36-37), Scott E. Land (38-39), Pangkor (41), Celebes (42-43). West Wharf: Euryades (1-2), Scythia (4-5), Rosevllle (6-7), Bulan (12), Eumaeus (15-16). Empire Dock: Marudu (17), Hugo de
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  • 295 4 I TO-MORROW b services m Singapore churches are as follows:— Church of England: St. Andrews Cathedral 7 a.m., 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m.. 11.15 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.: St. Georges Garrison Church (Tanglin) 7.15 am. 9 a.m.. 9 45 a.m., «.30 p.m.; Christ Church (Dorset Road) 8 a.m.. 10.30
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  • 38 4 NEW DELHI. Friday:—Mohammed All Jinnah left by air yesterday for Karachi, the capital of Pakistan, where he will be sworn m as the first Governor-General of the new dominion on August 15. U.P.
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  • 29 4 Chee Scon Keng of 19, Tanglin Road, Singapore, was yesterday fined $2,670, or six months' rigoroi Imprisonment, for violation of the Liquors Revenue Ordinance on June 19
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  • 254 4 Disease Causes Pitiful Scenes In Trengganu From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. PEOPLE m Trengganu have lost fingers, toes and noses and others have been crippled and blinded by a bad outbreak of yaws. A graphic picture of conditions m Trengganu. where she said people were m a "wretched
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  • 529 5  -  MissH.N.Kho By AMONG the younger generation of Straits Chinese there are some who tend to belittle and even despise the nonyas and babas of the older generation. There is evidently something wrong m the mental make-up of young people who cannot tolerate the ways of
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  • 718 5 Che Salehas English Diary CHE' Saleha bintt Mohamed AH is studying social welfare in the London School of Economics. She was educated at the Methodist Girl's School and later at St. Mary's Girls' School, Kuala Lumpur. After leaving school she became a
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  • 153 5 CHILDREN'S PARTY TO AID T.B. FUND A CHILDREN'S garden party in aid of the Rotary Club's T.B. Fund will be held at 182 Leedon Road, off Holland Road, on Saturday, August 23. Local stores have contributed the contents of lucky dips, the Little Shop, Raffles Place, has made two donations
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  • 159 5 From ROLAND FLLLEN in Paris. THE Paris disciples of the French Existentia.ist philosopher, playwright, and novelist, Jean Paul Sartre, are wearing live snakes around their arms when they appear in Paris streets. Some leaders of the movement arr expressing fears that increasing exhibitionism among Existentialist followers
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  • 175 5 PARIS, (By Airmail)— The International Exhibition of Surrealism, which has just opened m Paris, will influence autumn and winter fashions for women. Several leading Paris designers of hats and materials have sent their experts to the exhibition to get ideas. The exhibition is one of the mos.
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    13 5 KKU Radio actress Myrna Dell models an attractive two-colour swimsuit of American Jersey.
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  • 1204 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Saturday, Aug. 9, 1947. PEASANTS AND PLANTERS Neither European planters nor Asiatic small-holders m Malaya are likely to read "Economica," the journal of the London School of Economics, but there is an article m the latest number which is of absorbing interest to both of those
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  • 115 6 VIENNA, Friday. Austrian government sources disclosed yesterday that the Soviet authorities had seized 28 industrial enterprises m eastern Austria, valued at more than one billion schillings, since the Secretary of State Mr. George Marshall, called upon European nations to detail their relief needs. Government officials said
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  • 2149 6 KABU KABU THE MALAYAN "P.W.D TREE" A Malayan Countryman's Diaiy I OCCASIONALLY refer to 1 our estate which is situated one and a half miles from the dusun. Whilst the principal cultivation was always the rubber tree, we planted all sorts of economic trees. One of the trees inter-planted with
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  • 621 7 OPPOSITION TO INCOME TAX REITERATED POINCIDING with the arrival m Singapore yesterday of Mr. R.B. Heasman for final discussions with the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. McKerron, on the feasibility of introducing income tax, leading Singapore citizens reiterated objections to income tax proposals. Mr. Lee Kong Chian, president of the
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  • 125 7 SCYTHIA HAS "HOT" PASSAGE OASSENGERS who disembarked in Singapore yesterday by the hired transport, Scythia, from the United Kingdom, complained that it had been the "hottest trip" they had made out East. They had run into a spell of hot weather soon after entering the Red Sea. The weather con-
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  • 61 7 Two hundred and fifty people m Singapore volunteered to give their blood for transfusion at the blood transfusion service exhibition centre at the Great World park. The response exceeded all expectations and the exhibition will be extended for another week to run m conjunction with
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  • 15 7 This year. Hari Raya Puasa will be celebrated on Monday August 18.
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    91 7 Mr. Claude Steele Kinder, Offi-cer-in-tharge. Criminal Investigation Department. Johore and Mrs. Kinder, formerly Miss Helen Latta. Matron of the General Hospital, Koala Lipis, photographed after their wedding yesterday. The bride who is a daughter of the late Mr. Frank Latta. of Glen-Innes, New South Wales, joined the Malayan Nursing Service
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  • 147 7 Indian August 15 Programme I ILL Indian homes m Singarl pore are asked by the Regional Indian Congress to hoist the new India flag j simultaneously at 9 a.m. on 1 August 15, Indian Independence Day. At the same tim*\ the representative of the Government of India, Mr. J. A.
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  • 104 7 In the dock In the First District Court, yesterday a Chinese hawker, a trishaw rider, a washerwoman and a seafaring man all told the District Judge, Mr. E. P Shanks that they needed opium as a stimulant because of the rigorous nature of their work. A
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  • 31 7 The band of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, under the direction of Mr. Evans, will play at the bandstand, Botanical Gardens (Singapore), from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday August 10.
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  • 465 7 Victim 9 s A wfu I Disfigurement From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Friday. A FTER having sulphuric acid thrown over him on 11 November 15, 1946, Leong Tong Fong told Perak Assize Court today, he had lost his right ear and the sight of
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  • 62 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Friday Pour hundred and Uxirty three labourers on Chan Wing Estate in Central Johore hare stopped work as a protest against a 20 per cent cut In their wages. This is the first strike ever reported on a Chinese-owned estate in Johore. At
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  • 82 7 Territories m the sterling aiee, m addition to the United King- dom. are officially listed m the Government Gazette issued yesterday as follows: any dominion; any other part of the British dominions; m territory m respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has
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  • Malayan Round-Up
    • 120 7 Father Son Killed By Grenade From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. 4 CHINESE, who used an anti-tank grenade as a poum.fr to rt break up alum rocks to feed his pigs, was killed by the consequent explosion, his son aged 10 was fatally wounded and his daughter was slightly
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    • 72 7 i^ANGSTERfi raiding a house VI in Geylang at 2.30 a.m. overpowered tne tenant and tied him to the bed with the blanket. After they had left, he freed himself and telephoned the police from a rubber factory. The victim said he awoke to find one of the
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    • 72 7 TWO 12-year-old boys are believed to be among a gang of four Chinese, who held up a Chinese in Outram Road Singapore, at 8 p.m. on Thursday night and took $10 and a $20 wrist watch from him. Another gang of four Chinese held up a Chinese in
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    • 50 7 Anew child feeding centre will be opened this morning by Mrs. McKerron at the Mandarin School. Ching Guan Village. Premises have been arranged for by the organisers of the school, the Singapore Women Federation, who have also arranged for a team of voluntary workers to run the centre.
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    • 32 7 I 11 FURTHER 14 trade unions have been registered m Singapore. These include the Chinese Journalists Union, Singapore Turf Club Labour Union and the Uniformed StaO Postal and Telecommunications Union.
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    • 143 7 lOHORE BAHRU, Friday— Yoong J Fong. a Chinese shop assistant of Singapore, who was found m possession of a Verey pistol at Tebrau accounted for it at the Assizes yesterday by stating that he picked it up m a rubber estate and was on his way to
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    • 54 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Friday.— The Young Men's Indian Association, Sentul, will hold a tea party in hor.our of Mr. J. A. Thivy, representative designate of the Government of India, on Sunday, at the Lee Won* Kee garden cafe, Kuala Lumpur. An address enclosed in a silver casket will be
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    • 55 7 IN Singapore, last week, out ofr 54, reported cases of tuberculosis, 31 patients died. In the previous week, there were 73 reported cases with 36 deaths., T.B. continues to be the chied cause of mortality in the. city/ with pneumonia coming next. The total number of deaths
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    • 59 7 MALACCA, Friday Malacca folk will have to do without water for two Or three hours every night until a new pumping station has been built at Ayer Keroh. Making this known today, the Municipal Engineer; Mr. D. I. Todman; said that owing to pumping difficulties Malacca's water consumption
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    • 39 7 MALACCA, Fr v. Malacca's price c ol inspectorate prosecuted 25 xiers, all except one of whom were convicte-J for selling goods above controlled prices during last month, and fines totalled $5,185 In addition 3,380 cigarette* were confiscated
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    • 52 7 PENANG, Friday.— Chinese barbers m Penang and Province Wellesley will hold a meeting on August 17 to protest against xhe proposed licensing of barbers which was favoured at a recent meeting of the Rural Board ano Municipal Commissioners. It la understood similar steps will al&c be taken
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    • 43 7 KEMAMAN. .Friday.— A tiger killed a Chinese rubber tapper two days ago while the man was at his daily task. The body was found near the spot. Near Chukai township, a tiger has taken away seven cattle within three weeks.
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    • 36 7 F. A. Guest, K. H. Mor.teiio and Lim Cheng Klat were yeste>day remanded m police custooy on charges of abetting the thefc of cloth from a Trafalgar Street godown early on the morr.ing of Aug. 3
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  • 151 7 JAP PERIOD DETECTIVE TO HANG From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. A JAPANESE occupation period detective, Yap Siong, was sentenced to death at the Selangor Assizes today for the murder of a 16-year-old boy, Wong Cheong, on Chinese New Year's eve in 1944. Yap admitted being a detective for
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  • 37 7 The controlled retail price of "Cal-Best" brand sweetened condensed milk is 55 cents a tin. "Lighthouse" brand and "Stork' brand of sweetened condensed milk are priced at 60 cents a tin, according to the Government Gasctte yesterday.
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  • 235 7 TO-DAY Bazaar and Pun Pair. Tenth -Jcwit Group, St. Andrews School. 1.30 p m Investiture of Scouts. First Chinese Troop. Chinese High School. Bukit Ttmah Road. sth Mile. 4pm A social, Chinese National Language School, friends and parents of students invited. Strait* Chinese Methodist Church, 3 Kampong Kapor
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  • 272 7 SINGAPORE, Friday. MAINLY supported by Continental demand, the market up to the dose of tost week remained very steady, states Mesas Lewis and Peat's weekly market report. Continent good. Highest and Lowest price* during the week ending Au*. 8, 1947 are:— Highest Low«rt CVMinR Buyers I On
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    • 16 7 ft MARTELL Jjk BRANDY Sole Agents for Malaya OPTORG CO., mm LTD. 124, ROBINSON ROAD SINGAPORE
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    • 96 7 •SUPERVISION- We employ none but the best materials and the most efficient labour. Nevertheless, yon will find upon comparison, that our prices are no higher than those of others, while m some cases, they are even more advantageous. Individual supervision, coupled with scrupulous care, is given to all works, whether
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    • 643 8 ANK may be quite willing to pay a dollar or more to hear Mei Lan Fang, but the musical tones from the same throat may prove to be a nerve-wracking nuisance when it is heard after 11 or 12 p.m., the time for most of
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    • 180 8 AT the beginning of the Allied re-occupation of Singapore, th e citizens were overjoyed as the authorities were doing their utmost for the cleanliness of the city. As time marched on, the public, instead of seeing progress being made by the authorities, saw. to their regret,
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    • 336 8 j^S the writer of the letter which started the argument over the lift m the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building, Singapore, I should like to reply to the corres pondent Mr. "Hung Moh Kwai." In his letter headed "Towkays ride and Tambies walk," this
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    • 147 8 A post office savings bank riddle... I WONDER if the Government considers the following to be a straight deal. "A", a depositor m the Post Office Savings Bank, had $1,000 m the bank at the outbreak of hostilities. During the early part of the Japanese occupation he had occasion to
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    • 357 8 PoW's Got News For 18 Months ORANG GAJI m the Straits Times last Thursday indirectly paid my brother and myself a great compliment, for his letter showed that our security measures m connection with the news service m P.o.W. camps m Siam had been reasonably effective. It may interest Orang
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    • 280 8 THE Malayan Government granted all its Euro- pean officers full pay during internment, as well as eight months' leave with full pay. This was not an ex-gratia payment, but was called back pay. Government thus accepted liability. The Governor of the Malayan Union, however,
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    • 157 8 Chiang Kai-shek "The Golden Mean" RECENTLY one of your correspondents gave an incorrect interpretation of the name of our President, Kai Shek. The name "Kai" m Chineso character means "m between. As the name "Shek" means stone or stones, the correct interpretation of these two chg.racters is none other than
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    • 85 8 if/ 9 V VY Extra flat, Stainless steel back ly > r yj I Anti-Magnetic, Shock Resist Ko^c s Is D 17 Jewels, high grade level MA^s^^^ai«s^> movement, centre second l jS^ luminous dial, Gold Rim. OBTAINABLE FROM ALL WATCH DEALERS John I. TtWBWObO^ sOT-'* < Inco: ix>rated m England)
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    • 136 8 MARCONI BRITAIN'S BEST RADIO NEW SHIPMENT HAS JUST ARRIVED? Call for your set at once before they are sold out again FULLY GUARANTEED BY THE Sole Agents Malaya KEE HUAT RADIO CCX, MALAYA'S FOREMOST RADIO PEOPLE 122-124, Orchard Road SINGAPORE Phone 4566 Branch^ 24, Beach Street, Batu Road, PENANG. KUALA
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 628 8 It is gratifying to report that contract i ideas of bidding, but since this was a bridge is gaining thousands of cnthu- s^ ot par contest," the West player siasts among college undergraduates. SUDDOse d to reach anrf nliv «iv 5Si g s£rsrffi£?E35: r» jLstrsj&s with the young men and
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  • 652 9 MALACCA- Oldest Town In South-East Asia MALACCA, oldest European settlement m South-East Asia and ancient Malay empire capital which fell to the Portuguese m 1511 .has, after three and a half years of Japanese occupation, lost none of its attraction for traveller, historian and archaeologist. The sleepy old town today
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    • 63 9 Just right! It m. m m P* Mji PRENTISS4.ANE INC. 1472 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, U.S.A. CABLE "PRENLANE" TEXTILE CONVERTERS AND EXPORTERS Principal fabric*: COTTON BAYONi himbray ttilrUpct Ninon Taffeta FlauHb SheeUar* Shantnn« Sharkskin r.infhaiaa Iw.IU Luana Sharkskin Mnlnn Lawn AU ak«er materials (twill weave) Percsjes A Voile*, •tart, Ratlm Printed
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    • 148 9 COILIJIfDIA The Finest Name on Record ANDRE KOSTELANETZ Conducting Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow) Liebesfreud (Love's Joy) DX 132 L Waltz from "Sleeping Beauty" Ballet None but the Weary Heart (Tchaikovsky) DX 1278. OLD TIME DANCE SERIES. HARRY DAVIDSON HIS ORCHESTRA No. 31. The Eva Three Step Intro: The Teddy Bear's Picnic
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  • 294 10 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent PIE local stocks of 'free' rice have considerably dwindled and they have not been replenished to any extent because of the adverse turn m the unofficial exchange position vis-a-vis Stem. Although there is a teady demand from consumers, stock holders prefer to wait for
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  • 613 10 SINGAPORE, Friday. rE market m all sections was quiet and steady. While industrials were mostly unchanged a few tin shares were marked up, slightly on a little more buying Inquiry. Quotations given' by the Malayan Sharebroker't Association to-day were as follows: INDUSTRIALS Buyer Seller Alex. Brick (O) 3.00
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  • 63 10 me Singapore Chamber Ot Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellen Cta. Ct». per tb. per lb. No. 1 R. 8.8. Spot loose 28% 39% Mo. 1 R.B.S. rob In bales Aug. 29% 30% No. 2 R.S.S tot) m bales Aug. 29% 39% No. 3 R.
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  • 137 10 NEW YORK, Friday.— Buying interest occasionally expanded yesterday afternoon, notably among oils, aircrafts, chemicals, rails, rail-equipments and textiles, and this attracted a little better support for earlier depressed groups. The market pendulum shifted m favour of gams which covered one point or more. Investment demand was stimulated
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  • 132 10 NEW YORK, Friday.— Crude rubber future* dosed fl»e points lower to five points higher yestesday. Sales totalled 32 contracts. September 14.90 cents (U.S.) bid: December 14.65 cents; March i 14.60 cento; Hay 14.60 cente. j Number one ribbed smoked sheets 14*7/8 nomtoai.— A.P. Kundong .95 1.06 Lunas 1-40
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 653 10 MANSFIELD CO., LTD. (Incorporated m Singapore) BLUE FUNNEL LINE SAILINGS, FROM 0.X.. AND 0.8 A. "Eumeaus" From U K. for H'Kong. S'hal A Japan.. to. 15 "Celebes" From U.S. A G. 42 "Agapenor" Due from U.K. for H'Kong A S'hal Aug. 9 •I' A T. Explorer" Due from USA Aug.
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    • 281 10 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YORK AND BOSTON Tit INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Arrives SCOTT E. LAND SINGAPORE GODOWN 3839 PORT SHAM AUG. 12 PENANG AUG. 15 MARINB SNAPPER SINGAPORE AUG. 12 PORT SHAM ADO. 19 PENANG AUG. 22 Frelrht Onh AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD. UNION BLUG rtl.S.. S22S XXI
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    • 308 10 P A O and B I SAILING TO AND FROM INDIA, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, SIAM, CHINA. ADEN. EGYPT. CONTINENT AND UNITED KINGDOM Agents Singapore ISLAI KERR A CO.. LTD. and at HA CoMyer Quay, Singapore. Penang 25 Beacb Street. Penas«. P O Agents K. Lumnur P Swettenhmsa Harrison A Crosfleld (Malaya)
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    • 583 10 ELLERMAN KLAVENESS LINE D II f 1/ ki A I I \lnconx>ravo witn oinnteo DUUIIAII uabillty m Norway) Q Q Pfl ITn LUS ANGELES. S.O. UU., LIU. SAN FRANCISCO (Incorporated m Bnarlandi VANCOUVER Due: LONDON "ROSEVILLE" AT GOD. 6/7 M.S "CITY OF CHESTER" Call* P Swettenham. Penam at nnn m
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  • 950 11 SPORTING TOPICS 1 by the Sports Editor TT will be a rough-and-ready racing rev ival for Singapore when the Turf Club holds its first post-war meeting on N ovember 8, 11 and 15. Instead of the modern barometer tote which it
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  • 474 11 LONDON. Friday. THE behavkHtr of today's markets has been a little mixed and the turnover mall and failing a»y farther lead from the overnight ministerial Parliamentary statements on the economic crisis. After a quiet start an easier tendency developed generally bat this soon disappeared on the appearance of
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    • 309 11 SKYWAYS (FAR USD LTD. (Incorporated In Hongkong.) nrRFCT LANCASTRIAN PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND HONGKONG IN 7 HOURS NEXT DEPARTURES Tuesday 12th August Friday 15th August Tuesday 19th August Biwvtrlea to THE BORNEO COMPANY LIMITED. Inrm Torateti In Rutland) General Acent* Bookings also accepted at all Travel Agencies
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    • 194 11 CAPITOL— i T Air-Conditionea Phone 51»9 I j< o LAST 5 SHOWS! j J 1 j BIG M'NtTE TO-NICHT mXAftZAN^YiATt m ONE ONLY MfcSP ORIGINAL f TARZAN! JB 9 J«hmay V/eimmaUer Maaroen O'SaMiran r^ m^^ m^ mmm^ mmmm^. AJexanderKoranT^ RfefcTnynDDnJ* THE PRIVATE LIFE JB W°l Q mf l OF DON
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 358 11 RADIO MALAYA Dictionary: 7.40 Proee Reading. C1 <»°*n- Besume 4 p.m. to 11.90 INDONESIAN MALAY 7.45 Dance P.m. SINGAPORE Music: 8 00 Pood Talk; 8.05 Dance PUnTO erin FNGLISH-i p.m. Radio Orchestra: J > *F !C *Z*i*l~J' timM: 8 MAC 1 40 Share Market Report; 1.50 Dance Music. ENGLISH— 9.30
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  • 171 12 'Take More Interest In Management Of Your Horses 9 THE Straits Racing Association is urging owners to take more interest m the management of their horses. In a circular issued to owners, the Association •tated "It has come to the notice of the committee of th
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  • 117 12 /"•ON Balasis, the Greek-born C Australian light-heavy-;weitfht wrestler, will meet Kid Callon, of the British Army, m Balasis' first bout m Singapore at the Great World Arena tonight. The bout will be the first scheduled 15-round contest promoted m the Great World Arena. Balasis, a former Changi
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  • 96 12 LONDON. Friday. PETER Smith. Essex all-rounder, established what is believed to be a record score m first class cricket for a number eleven batsman when he made 163 m the match between Essex and Derbyshire here yesterday. His last wicket stared with F.H. Vigar
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  • 42 12 LONDON, Friday.— John Raines, a London cyclist, headed the field as 58 of the original 76 starters yesterday rode into the four-ih stage of the six-day Brighton to Glasgow cycling marathon— Bradford to Newcastle. The 587-mile race ends tomorrow. A.P.
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  • 127 12 LONDON, Friday. ERNIE Roderick, Liverpool, is to defend his British welterweight championship against an Oxford former paratrooper and present Welsh champion, Gwyn Williams, over 15 rounds at the opening Harringay show of the season on September 8. Williams qualified for the Championship by outpointing Scottish champion
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  • 115 12 NEW YORK, Friday. THE Rules Committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association announced that they have reached no final conclusion m the investigation of the charges that the Davis Cup player, Gardnar Mulloy, and other stars, including Jack Kramer, Wimblelon champion, received exorbitant expenses on an
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  • 320 12 "Ashes" Also For Tomorrow's "Test" TWENTY-TWO Englishmen, Australian and New ZfedJandtrs? will meet on neutral ground the S.C.C. -padang tomorrow m Singapore's first "Test" cricket match. Before the game one of Singapore's most unusual ceremonies will take place. In front of the pavilion a ragged old batting glove will be
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  • 146 12 The 68 E.U., Singapore, scored a great victory over the Base H.Q. m a friendly soccer match played at the Seletar Mental Hospital ground on Thursday evening. The 68 EU. centre-forward. Swarm. scored two minutes after pluy began.. Within 16 minutes. 68 E.U. were four goals up, Harling,
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  • 20 12 Today: High water 3.10 p.m. (8.5 ft). Tomorrow: High water 1.35 a.m. (8.1 ft), 3.52 p.m; (8.4 ft).
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  • 242 12 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Friday. rPH a view to selecting an all-Johore State Chinese team, a soccer match was played on the Muar Club padang yesterday between the Muar Chinese (Malacca Victory Cup champions) and the Rest of Johore Chinese, comprising players from Johore Bahru,
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  • 209 12 LONDON, Friday. pLOUCESTERSHIRE'S bid U for the county cricket championship was checked when they went down to Lancashire by ten wickets at Manchester today. Scores were: Lancashire 341 and 183 for none (Washbroo* riot out 107, Place not out 73), Gloucestershire 415 and 108 (Cranston, right-arm spinner, five
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  • 87 12 MONTREAL, Friday. 1 USTRALIA wo n the opening A singles of their North American zone final with Canada m the Davis Cup com- j j petition here when Dinny j Pails, Australian singles champion, beat Henry Rochon 6—l,6 1, 6—4, 6—2. Australia increased her lead when
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  • 400 12 THE Singapore Olympic and Sports Council will appeal to 1 the public for funds to erect a central sports stadium m the city. This decision was reached of the Council held yesterday Mr. H. B. Bryson (president), Mr. E. Strickland (secretary), Mr. Evan Wong, (treasurer),
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  • 80 12 BIRMINGHAM, Friday. DACE bowlers Tuckett and I Dawson bowled devasta ingly for one hour and 55 minutes here today to give the South Africans victory over Warwickshire by an innings and 114 runs with three hours to spare. Play started half an hour earlier today to
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  • 102 12 Warwickshire 330 and 76. South Africans 520 for 7 declared iNourse not out 205, Viljoen 113). WARWICKSHIRE— 2nd Inns Sale b Dawson h HiU b Tuckett a Taylor c Fullerton b Dawson 3 Ord c Melville b Dawson C Dollory b Tuckett 0 Maudesley lbw Tuckett 3' Hossell b
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  • 343 12 Asian Rangers The following will represent the Asian Rangers, Singapore, at soccer against the R.A.F. (Paya Lebar) 2 B.R.R.D. on the Government Printing Sports Club ground tomorrow at 5.15 p.m.: Jasman, Michael Ooh, Vellu, All Mansoor, Puteh Rahman, Ibrahim Takir, Hussain, Shariff and Cadon (captain), A.
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  • 84 12 MALACCA, Friday.— The Resident Commissioners XI defeated St. Francis Institution by 70 runs here on Sunday. The R.C.s team were all out for 93 (R.C. Erhke 34, Robert Poo 18) The School side were skittled out for 16 (S. Sequerah four for one, J. Sequerah three for six,
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  • 596 12  -  Merv Williams By MELBOURNE, Friday. yoUNG Frisco, former middleweight champion of the Orient, 1/ who was recently debarred from landing m Australia on his return from a boxing tour of the Philippines, is now happily reunited with his wife and family m Meluourne. Stadiums, Ltd.,
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    • 178 12 CLASSIFIED ADS. 'Continued from page 6) VEHICLES FOR SALE FOR SALE 8 HP. Austin Saloon Car first class condition 1939 Model Imported from England 1946. Box No. A922, S.T. FORD V.B. 30 H.P. super-de-Uuce Oct: 1946. maintained by Universal Cars. Singapore throughout, condition as new, one extra tyre. Available end
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    • 107 12 Uunlop 1 TENNIS BALLS Dtta-nable from leading Snorts Deal-rs THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO. S.S. LTD. 142, Robinson Road Singapore ALL m WRESTLING HAPPY WORLD TONI6HT AUGUST 9th 1947 at 8.30 P.M. LAL DHAR JAGINDAR (Onquer or Of Pargrawau) (Conqueror Of Ban to Sing>h) BOSCA BOA t I HARMAN (Chinese Flying-Kirk
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