The Straits Times, 22 January 1948

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    20 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED I #45 I WKI.Vfc PAGES SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1948 PRICE TEN CEN'IS
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    BRILLIANT TREATY-SIGNING CEREMONY
    728 1 Only Privileged Few Witness Historic Event From Our Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday T^E State and Federation treaties were signed here today by eight Malay Rulers and the Malayan Union Governor, Sir Edward Gent, as the representative of King George VL More than five hours later, at
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    Indians Quit Congress For Polls
    157 1 HTWO executives of the 1 Singapore Regional Indian Congress yesterday resigned from their Congress posts to contest the Singapore Legislative Council elections. They are the secretary of the women's section of the Congress. Mrs. Malathi Pillai, and Mr. V. P Abdulla, executive committee member. The
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    Big Strike Cripples Cologne
    67 1 FRANKFURT, Wednesday OPREADING "hunger" »J strikes all but paralysed the great German i industrial city of Cologne today. Between 90.000 and 120.000 workers walked off their Jobs this morning in a general strike of all but essential services. Steel, metal, chemical and building trade works were
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    K.L. Race Results
    120 1 YESTERDAY'S Kuala X Lumpur race results are as follows: Kacel: EXETER $10 and $7; Happy Lass $12; Atom Boy $8. Race 2: KAN DA $25 and $8; United Sagittarius $7: Fine Lady $9. Race 3: MOUNTAIN QUEEN $17 and $5; Lord Ivan $6; Vanguard $5. Race 4:
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    Late Plane Delays Johore Signing
    430 1 From Our Staff Correspondent JOHORE, BAHRU. T*HE late arrival of the plane from Kuala Lumpur 1 tonight with 32 copies of the Federation Agreement and the Johore State Agreement delayed the signing by the Sultan of Johore, (His Highness MajorGeneral Sir Ibrahim). It was not
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    ALLIED COUNCIL FOR JAPAN
    55 1 TOKJO. Wednesday The Four-Power Allied Council for Japan met for a short while In its 15th session today. It adopted the minutes of the previous session. At the last meeting the American chairman and acting Russian member clashed over the former's refusal of a Russian request
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    Famous Warships To Go
    275 1 LONDON, Wednesday. rE Admiralty have decided to scrap four; battleships— Queen Eli-! zabeth Valiant, Nelson, and Rodney and one battle cruiser, the Renown, it was announced today, j The Admiralty are also disposing of an unspecified num- ber of Royal Navy cruisers and I smaller ships.
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    Malaya Problems 'Not Appreciated In Britain
    249 1 Malaya Problems 'Not Appreciated In Britain From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. AN adviser to the Colonial Office said yesterday that there was little doubt that the work which had been going on m Malaya and the difficulties experienced had not been properly appreciated m Britain. The speaker was Sir
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    Rubber Price Unchanged
    58 1 fTVHE price of rubber closed x last night on the local market unchanged on Tuesday's closing price of 40J cents per lb. for No. 1 sheet f.o.b. buyers. Sellers f.o.b. were 40 J cents a lb. and spot loos? buyers 401 cents with sellers 40| cents. The
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    "ATTACK BY 500 ARABS"
    62 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday.— Arab fighters struck again today at the Jewish settlement of Yehiam, northeast of Acre, m a renewal of yesterday's machine-gun and mortar attack which cost 16 lives. A Jewish report said, "some 500 Aribs under the command of Iraqui. German-trained officers, began firing at
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    Assurance To Rubber Industry
    287 1 Assurance To Rubber Industry From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. WHILE there is a good deal of speculation regarding the price at which the deal will be completed, a Board of Trade announcement confirms negotiations with America Tor making part of the United Kingdom stock of natural rubber available to
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      160 Feared Drowned In River Boat Tragedy
      99 2 SANTIAGO, Wednesday. OIXTY bodies have been recovered and 100 more •3 missing people are believed to have been drowned following the capsize of a steamer early yesterday m the Biver Imperial, Southern Chile. The steamer was carrying 500 religious pilgrims, mostly women and
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      Kidnapped
      66 2 LONDON. Wednesday. While walking alone a street at lunchtime Mrs. Eyelyn Calton, cashier at a Chlswlck chemists shop, was "kidnapped" by two men and woman m a car and robbed of £40 m cash. She was bundled Into the car, blindfolded and robbed The car was driven round the
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      Bottle Bet
      67 2 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. The U.S. Command hi the Philippines recently discovered, buried m a bottle, the record of a $I,<KK) bet made by three American prisoners during the war. The bet was taken on when they would be released. Army records here show, however, that only one of Army
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      Plane Crash
      62 2 NANKING, Wednesday. Thirteen persons were Injured when a Peiping-bound CNAC transport plane crash-landed hi a village south of Mukden airport yesterday. The crash occurred In a snowstorm, presumably owing to engine trouble, shortly after the plane had taken to the air. The pilot of the plane was an
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      Poseur For Trial
      76 2 MUNICH, Wednesday. A self-styled Russian Archlbishop is In a Munich jail awaiting trial on charges of falsely representing himself to be an official of the Roman Catholic Church and collectIng funds for non-existent charity organisations. The "Archibishop" denied the charges before a lower court on Monday. A
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      Burma Plan
      47 2 RANGOON. Wednesday.— The Burmese Government is plannlms to nationalise the rlvti transport system, at pre- -it operated by the Bri-tish-owned Irrawaddy Fk>ttiila Company. Tjhe Company was established m 1875, amd resumed aperaticeis after the war on a three-year contract expiring m Januay next year. —Reuter.
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      Debtor's Luck
      56 2 PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday.—When police broke into the ancient home here of a man reported to be a penniless recluse they found all the old-fashioned ?asjets turned on and the man dead on the floor. The last entry m the man's ledger book recorded that he had loaned $(U.S.)243.000 to
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      War Hero Wed
      54 2 LONDON, Wednesday. Major-General Eric Louis BoLs, C.8.. Double D.S.O. ard American Silver Star. was married at Caxton Hall yesterday to Mrs. Marten Doreen Spiers Graham. Tfce. bnde is the daughter a Judge M.C. Da Pleasia of Capetown. Major-Gem. Bate, juat ret from Palestine, has been placed on
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      Deportation
      65 2 NEW YORK, Wednesday. —The arrest on a deportation warrant of Claudia Jones, Negro woman writer and secretary to the National Women's Commission of the U.B. Communist Party, was announced here yesterday. She is charred with being an alien and riolatinr the law by "adrocatlnjr. the overthrow of the Government
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      Radio Decision
      52 2 LONDON, Wednesday.— The Postmaster-General announced yesterday that the 8.8.C. had asked for permission to resume broadcasting between 11 p.m. and midnight. "The request has been viewed with sympathy but the Government feels bound, because of the general fuel situation to turn down the proposal for the present," he
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      Riviera Meeting
      59 2 I -RIS, Wednesday The Ex-Emperor of Anmam, Bao Dai, arrived yesterday at Cannes where he met ti»e exEmpress, Nuam-Phong. and their children who have been staying m the Riviera region sir last autumn. Bao Dal came from Geneva where he recently con-fen-od with the French Hisrh Commissioner m
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      Attlee Anxious
      77 2 LONDON, Wednesday.— The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) toid the Houte o. Commons yesterday tfcat he did not think conference between himself and other Allied leaders would be Bfcely to improve tbe frvternatioD&l satuaiion at present. He added that he was anxious, however, to take any &terjs that mJch-t
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      Oil Concession
      37 2 SOFIA. Wednesday. The Bulgarian Government has decided to exempt the American petrol company. Installations Rousse. from Its oil nationalisation act. The staff of the company which had been dismissed Is now to be reinstated. A.A.P.
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      Coal Output
      50 2 LONDON, Weanesdaj.— The estimated output of coal last week totalled 4.116,000 compared wii/h 4.C32.200 tons I the r>reviou6 week. Last week's production brought the total for two weeiks of the present coal year to 8.198.200 tans compared with 7,783,600 tons m the corresponding figures m 1947.— P ater.
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      Ransacked Red
      55 2 LONDON, Wednesday An intruder broke into the home of Colonel Gorshkov, Russian military attache m London, on Monday night, ransacked the library and left without taking anything. Scotland Yard declined to comment on the incident, the third at the home of a Soviet official m London m less
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    Drunk Pilot Wrecks Plane
    81 2 This light i»^i»e crasned into the roof of a cottage at Antioch, Illinois, on January 11 but no one was seriously hurt. The pilot, Kenneth C. Thomas, of Elgin. Illinois is being held on charges of reckless flying while intoxi- tted and with carrying pass'cnßer without
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      718 2 NOTICES TENDER Tenders are invited for a quandtv of NAAFI stores etc.. (duty free retail value approximately $45,155/- (dollars forty five thousand one hundred and fifty five) hrld at NAAFI warehouse. Pudu Road. Kuala Lumpur. Pull details obtainable from NAAFI HQ P.O. Box 1040. Kuala Lumpur. Closing date and time
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      698 2 NOTICES P.W.D. ROAD HOTICE Kota Tingßi bridge over Sunßei Johore will be closed to traffic from 1.00 a.m. to 6 00 a.m. on 25th and 26th January while under repair. P. W. D. TENDER NOTICE TENDERS are invited for the PURCHASE OP TEN OLD ROAD ROLLERS located m various parts
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      128 2 TENDER Tenders are Invitee for the nurchase of land and buildlnes known as: 1. 50 P. Pudu Road. Kuala Lumour. 2. 15 Panelima Street and 5 Hale Lane. looh. For particulars please aoplv to Miss Mary Tuen. 1028 Irabi Road. Kuala Lumour. Mary Tuen is not bound to accept any
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      437 2 ARE YOUR KIDNEYS DOING THEIR WORK PROPERLY? If you are httlthv the answer m "yet." Mi* if you fet an occasional Half m ih* back, or »n aehuiß Mint, iw answer definitely "no" and yout bfsi rtmedv lie* m Dc Witts Kidney Bladder Pills This KientlflcaU; preoared mrticmr teta to
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    'UNO IS RESPONSIBLE'
    418 3 Palestine Strife Debate In Lords LONDON, Wednesday. I ORD ALTRINCHAM m the House of Lords yesterday placed the responsibility for strife m the Holy Land on the United Nations. Conditions have been enormously aggravated by the decision taken at Lake Success," he said. It is evident the
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    Sardar Patel Escapes In Explosion
    232 3 Sardar Patel Escapes In Explosion BOMBAY, Wednesday. j AN explosive burst close to the Indian Deputy Prime Minister (Sardar Patel) last night as he was addressing a huge gathering on the Kamgar maidan (padang). No one was injured in the explosion which occurred during a noisy demonstration by 300 striking
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    RUSSIA'S BIG GOLD STOCK
    104 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. President Truman 6ent Congress a report yesterday showing the Soviet Union's gold holdings to be larger than any nation except the United States. The U.S. gold pile was $22,789,000,000 (U.S.) last June 30. The rest of the world had $14,000,000,000 In gold, i Russia
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    W. GERMANY BREAK-UP?
    66 3 BERLIN. Wednesday.—Russia formally demanded the dissolution of the Joint Bri-tish-American economic administration of Western Germany yesterday. The Soviet Military Governor (Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky) declared at yesterday's meetdng of the Allied Control Council that the arrangement violated the Potsdam agreements. The Russian denunciation meant that Eastern and Western
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    80 BODIES IN CHILE RIVER
    80 3 SANTIAGO, Chile, Wednesday.—Workmen searched the hull of the steamer Cautin in the Imperial River today and found the bodies of 80 people. These were some of the missing from Monday night's disaster in which the flatbottomed paddle steamer capsized with an estimated loss of 150
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    "NONSENSE"
    35 3 BRUSSELS, Wednesday.— The Secretary-General of the United Nations (M. Trygve dismissed as nonsense reports that Paris had been chosen as the 1948 seat of the UN. General Assembly. Lie Is inspecting Belgium's facilities.— AP.
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    British Demand For Canton Compensation
    236 3 CANTON, Wednesday. THE Bitish Ambassador to China (Sir Ralph 1 Stevenson) has made fresh representations to the Chinese Government m connection with last Friday's anti-British rioting m Canton. H e has claimed full compensation for British property destroyed, it was authoritatively learned here today. At
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    48 3 Frenchmen were pleased to see the first consignment of 2300 tons of British coal arrive m France. Photo shows M. Mairey, Prefect of the De part men t of Seine Prefecture digging a symbolic shovelful as unloading operations continued Aboard the sjs. Dash-wood on Jan. 12. A.P. Photo.
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    SHIPBUILDING RECORD
    72 3 LONDON. Wednesday. More than 2.000.000 tons of shipping Is under construction in British shipbuilding yards, stated Lloyd's Register. This is a record figure for the last 25 years, and comprises 54 per cent of world output. Capacity production, however, is deterred by shortage of materials, although shipbuilders will
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    "SEAMEN ON BREADLINE"
    61 3 SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday.—The U.S. Sailors' Union of the Pacific will picket any and all ships transferred to foreign governments under the Marshall plan, it was announced today. A shipowners' spokesman supported this stand. The proposed transfer of 500 American ships to European nations would "place 25,000 American
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    TOO MANY SERVANTS
    97 3 LONDON, Wednesday. THE view that the num1 ber of retainers in the British Royal Household should be reduced, was expressed by a Labour M.P. yesterday. He was Mr. Ronald Chamberlain, who was speaking during the second reading of a bill to increase Princess Elizabeth's allowance following her
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    BIG TRADE DEFICIT
    172 3 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN'S trade deficit last year was two thirds greater than m the previous year. The Board of Trade disclosed yesterday that Britain imported £591,200,000 worth of goods more than her oxDorts. Tha big adverse balance was piled up despite the fb^* that the value of
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    COLONIES TO DEVELOP
    318 4 Resources Bill In Commons LONDON, Wednesday. THE Overseas Resources Bill, setting up development corporations to increase British Colonial production, was yesterday read a third time and passed without a division m the House of Commons. "This bill," said the .Secretary of State for the Colonies, "will give
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    22 4 Admiral Sir John H. it. Cunningham, First Sea Lord, who was promoted on Tuesday to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet.
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    GIRLS COMING HOME
    109 4 MANILA. Wednesday. A Radio Australia broadcast heard here by the Associated Press said the return to their homeland of about 50 Australian girls working for the United States army in Japan, the Philippines and Guam was in accordance with an agreement originally made between the Army and
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    91 4 Left to right the Sultan of Selangor, the Raja of Perlis and the Governor of the Malayan Union (Sir Edward Gent). Straits Times pictures. xa c Sultans *i*n. Picture on the left shows the Sultan ol Perak. Picture on the right: Sultan of Pahang. the Tanf Di-Pertuan Besar of Negri
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    Bahrein Asks For Return To Persia
    171 4 TEHERAN, Wednesday. BDULLAH ZIREH, of the National Party of Bahrein, has made contact with Persian Government to express the Islanders' "desire for the earliest possible return of Bahrein to Persia." Teheran newspapers quoted Abdullah Zireh as saying that the Bahreinis asked for a seat
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    'Civil Strife' In Baghdad
    138 4 BAGHDAD, Wednesday. A CONDITION amounting to "civil strife" is reported from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Unrest and demonstrations have followed the new AngloIraqi treaty. Two police ir-spectors, two constables and four civilians were reported killed and 4C police and 100 civilians injured m demonstrations. Clashes lasted
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    MACKENZIE KING TO RETIRE
    41 4 OTTAWA. Wednesday. The Prime Minister. Mr. Mackenzie King, announced last night that he would retire as Prime Minister and as leader of Canada's Liberal Party as soon as the Liberals choose his successor probably next August. A-P.
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    INFLATION FILM
    35 4 iANGHAI, Wednesday.— Vernacular papers reported today that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer would begin a film m Shanghai based on financial activities, m the middle of February, to give a picture of China's battle against inflation.—U. P.
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      223 4 LONDON an** BIRMINGHAM BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR vJn May 3rd 1948, when sole selling agems and you «h> British Industries Fair will find exhibits carefully opens, buyers from all over grouped by trades so that the world will have an oppor- comparisons may be made tunity «of inspecting the quickly Above
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    Gunman Dies In Ambush
    203 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. THE Kuala Lumpur police ambushed four Chinese extortioners near Puchong yesterday and killed one man as the men tried to shoot their way out of the trap. The shooting occurred at wnat a police officer described as an "extremely
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    IRON BAR WAS "FOR EXERCISE"
    84 5 Loo Meng Cheng, a 42-year-oJd Hylam, was charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with behaving in a disorderly manner in a dispensary at Stamford Road. A police constable who was in the dispensary at the time of the incident said that Cheng tried to
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    21 5 The Rev. R. McLead, P.A.F.. Seletar, and Miss G. P. Hughes, R.A.F. Hospital, Changi, are to be married m Singapore soon.
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    $4,000,000 TELEPHONE PLAN Will Embrace Whole Colony
    256 5 $4,000,000 TELEPHONE PLAN Will Embrace Whole Colony THE Oriental Telephone and Electric Company has completed plans for a $4,000,000 development scheme over the next two years. The plans embrace all Singapore. They will, when carried out, enable the company to double the present number of subscribers. Three existing satellite exchanges
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    Union Move Threatens Association
    292 5 T"HE alleged dismissal of 1 21 Cantonese restaurant and cafe workers is threatening to split the Singapore Cantonese Restaurant Association, Ku So Shan Keng Thong. The association, which has been m existence for 72 years, has never had any labour trouble before, said the President, (Mr.
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    "The Beginning Of A New Era In Malay History"
    494 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. TODAY, for i!«e first time m Malaya's history with Great Britain, eight rulers were present together to sign a new treaty with the King. In a fevv strokes of the pen th c unpopular
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    Singapore Diary
    165 5 TO-DAY Display of Princess Elizabeth's original letter of thanks addressed to Singapore Governor for the wedding present from the people of Singapore, Raffles Museum. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. TjW.C.A., dressmaking class, 8. Port Canning Road, 10 a.m. and 5.5 p.m., Wayfarers meeting, 11, Leonle Hill Road, 4
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    Signing Over, Gent Asks For Co-Operation
    435 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. SIR Edward Gent, speaking today in Kuala Lumpur after the signing of the Federation agreement, pleaded for tolerance, understanding and co-operation in Ihe Malayan future. "Malaya and its institutions will not stand still," he said. "Today sees
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Jan. 22, 1948 THE SULTANS SIGN
    1035 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thurs. Jan. 22, 1948 THE SULTANS SIGN From the political point of view the ceremony which is to take place m Kuala Lumpur on February 1, when the Federation of Malaya will be inaugurated, will be more important than the signing of the Federation Agreement and
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    AUCHINLECK TO TAKE NEW POST
    58 6 LONDON, Wednesday F: Id-Marshal Sir Claud* Auchinleck was rciported today to be plamnLns: to return '.rom Italy to Britain, at the on of th* month to take ura a official a-ppoiTi'tmeeit. Spokesmen of fflie British War Office and the Comraouw 1V Rela'.k»ri6 OfDce, however, said
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    PERTH MALAYANS
    43 6 The Malayan Asrociatlon m Perth. Western Australia, has a reading and n\st room at lit Howard Street, at Trhich any visitors from Ms'.aya will be welcome. This association has a membership of a v ou< ex-Mn!.iy»ns who have settled m Perth.
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    THE JAVA PEACE PACT
    1505 6 "From bullet to ballot" —Soekarno ALL communities in Malaya, and particularly the Malays, have been following closely the conflict between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic during the last two years, and will wish to have a fuller account of the agreement signed at the week-end
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      Trisecting An Angle :Raffles College Is Amused
      363 6 MR. Charles Johnston's construction with which he claims to be able to trisect any angle, as published m the Straits Times of Jan. 19, has amused students of mathematics at Raffles College. Th c construction appears unduly laborious when a far more simple
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      PROVED 100 YEARS AGO
      137 6 THE trisection of an angle is one of the three classical geometrical problems which attracted the attention of early mathematicians. The problem is to be solved by Euclidean geometry, that is by using straight lines and circles only. In other words the only instruments to be
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    NEW YOUTH PARTY FORMED
    408 7 Will Tight 9 For New Constitution THE announcement of a new Malay political party "ready to fight for a new constitution m Malaya" coincided with the signing of the Federation agreement yesterday. The new party, PERAM, the first Malay youth political organisation to be formed since
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    Three Lakhs Damage In K.L. Fire
    173 7 Three Lakhs Damage In K.L. Fire From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday.— Approximately $300,000 worth of chemicals, refrigerator equipment and other engineering stores were destroyed in a fire which broke out at ar. army supply depot, four and a half miles outside Kuala Lumpur, this morning. Explosions from oxygen
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    Volunteers' Efficiency Decorations
    164 7 Volunteers' Efficiency Decorations From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. rE efficiency decoration has been awarded to the following officers of the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force: Major John Edward Alan Clark, and Lieutenant (a/Captain) Sydney Noel King. The efficiency medal has been awarded to the following members of the Malayan
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    43 7 The pre-war Governor's yacht. Sea Belle 11, recently purchased by Mr. Robert Morrison of Cebu, is now being cleaned of her battle-dress of grey paint m the Keppel Harbour docks. Picture shows a Chinese workman repairing the bow steel planes of the vessel.
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    S.T.C. Carries 100,000 Passengers Daily
    290 7 Now, they had 50 trolley buses and 184 omnibuses. They had jumped from 20 vehicles to 324 in two years, despite all the difficulties end trials connected with deliveries iromEngland. THE Singapore Traction Company carries about 100,000 passengers per day— equivalent to carrying t he
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    SUICIDE BY HANGING
    74 7 A finding of suicide was returned yesterday an a Singapore woman. Ang Kirn Sui. whoso husband was stated to have refused to take her to China. The husband, Mok Ah Twee, said m the Coroner's Court that he found his wife hanging m the bathroom. Inspector Ali
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    53 7 Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Holme, after their wedding m Koala Lumpur on Saturday. Mrs. Holme was formerly Miss Lesley Miller, confidential secretary to the Chief Secretary of the Malayan Union, Mr. A. T. Newboult, who gave her away. She comes from Suva, m Fiji, and is a champion swimmer.—
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    CHILDREN LEAVE FOR AUSTRALIA
    83 7 Forty-five schoolchildren and 10 university students will leave for Australia by the Blue Funnel ship Charon this afternoon, after spending their Christmas vacation with their parents in Singapore and the Malayan Union. Most of the children arrived in Singapore by the same vessel in the middle
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    3 GUNMEN ROB BOAT
    117 7 TTHREE Chinese gunmen 1 boarded a boat moored in Rochore Canal yesterday morning and seized $11 and 25 katties of rice. Six Chinese, all armed with pistols, held up the Chinese proprietor of a shop in Potong Paslr, off Braddell Road, yesterday, and made off with
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    Singapore Shipping
    109 7 (CHIPS alongside the Singa- pore wharves yesterday (godowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Anchises (31-32), Menelaus (33-34), Taksang (35-36), Silveroak (36-37), Tantalus (38-39), Charon (40-41), Glenapp (4243). West Wharf: Empire Niger (1-2), Hong Ann (3), Steel Recorder (4-5), Asphalion (6-7), Lidvard (8-9), Rhexenor (10-11), Myrmidon (1314), Marine Flier
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    MEDALS FOR POLICEMEN
    52 7 A presentation to 12 members of the Singapore Police Force will be made by the Governor (Sir Franklin Gimson) at a parade to be held at the Police Training School, Thomson Road, at 5.40 pm on Jan. 30. They will receive Colonial Police Medals for gallantry and
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    CONFIDENCE IN FORMER RAJAH
    57 7 Fifteen Sarawak associations, have sent a joint telegram to Mr. Anthony Brooke, former Rajah Muda of Sarawak, expressing their complete confidence in him. They express surprise at Mr Mohamed Kipli's recent statement, and say they have roceived no intimation of the conference alluded to. The associations
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    HOUSEBREAKING ALLEGED
    103 7 •FHREE cases of alleged hoysebreaking were mentioned m the Third Police Court yesterday. In the first, three Javanese charged with breaking into a S.R.D. store at Pasir Panjang, were remanded m custody for 48 hours. A Chinese youth, who claimed trial on a charge Of housebreaking at the
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    Chinese Helped Man Escape, Say Police
    267 7 rE trial of seven Chinese on a charge of resisting the arrest of Tan Scow Tim, who was detained on a charge of murder on June 18, last year, opened at the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The accused were, Loh Jit Meng, Tan Kiat Keng,
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      Two Officers Back From Sandhurst
      81 7 TWO Malay Regiment officers who distinguished themselves m the Malayan campaign have now returned to Malaya from the United Kingdom where they took a course of military training at Sandhurst. The two officers are Lieut. Ibrahim bin Alladitta M.C., and Lieut. Ismail bin Babu M.B.E.
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      Cloth Charge
      100 7 TOHORE BAHRU, WednesJ day. Ng Ah Koo. who was on her way to Taiping after visiting relatives in Singapore, was detained by the Customs and charged in the police court today with knowingly being concerned in conveying uncustomed goods. Pleading guilty to the charge, she said that before
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      Fatal Accident
      75 7 PENANG, Wednesday.— The daughter of a former Legislative Councillor, aged 25. has died of injuries received in a street accident. She was Miss Quah Gim Hirck. Yesterday, while riding In a trishaw, it was In collision with a Kedah car and Miss Quah was taken to hospital in
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      To Taiping
      107 7 IPOH, Tuesday.— Mr. Fletcher Rogers, who has been officiating as District Judge he: i since last week, will go to Taipimg in a similar capacity. Mr. C. P. Newton, District Judge, Tajping, is gone to tiie U.K. on leave. Dravidian Leader THE President of the Dravidian Federation of
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    Mass Raid On Shop Alleged
    166 7 Mass Raid On Shop Alleged T"HE Second Diftr'ct 1 Judge, (Mr. A. M. Webb) sentenced Phuu Wong Yang, a young Ch.nese, to four montns rigorous imprisonment and six strokes of tho rot tan yesterday for attempted extortion and assault. The complainant. Nedakandan, said that the accused came to him and
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    THE SOLDIER NO ONE KNEW
    117 7 A finding of suicide was recorded yesterday at the inquest on Craftsman Francis Harvey, a British soldier, who was found shot in a latrine at R.E.M.E. Base Workshop on Jan. 12. The Singapore Coroner (Mr. W. G. Porter) said t'hat the curious thing was that
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    FINE NOT PAID
    60 7 Reginald Du Toit, a South African seaman, who on Jan. 6 was fined $10 for riotous and disorderly conduct, appearpd in the Second Police Court again yesterday. He was charged with not paying the balance of his fine. Du Toit said he did not turn up because
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  • Straits Times Thursday Magazine
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      The Pepper Planters Of The Rejang River
      1235 8  - The Pepper Planters Of The Re jang River HEDDA MORRISON By DEFORE the war pepper was produced abundantly m Sarawak, particularly m the neighbourhood of the little river port of Sarikei on the lower Rejang. The pepper producers were mostly Cantonese gardeners who were very skilful m the culture of
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      A CROP WHICH WILL FETCH $110 A PICUL IN 1951
      143 8 Wood ashes are the only fertilisers used m the plantation m the lower Rejang, Sarawak, which forms the subject of this article. Here the hired man brings wood ashes for the vines. Grandfather Ngu, who helps m the plantation, takes
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      FOOD FOR THOUGHT
      470 8 FOOD FOR THO UGHT T\O thp Pponlp's U x. v reopie s> Restaurants, run hv th«» <\nriol Wplf'irp Dy tne social wen are Department, serve any useful DUrDOSe now? useiui pui pusciiuyv j In Singapore they provide 5,000 meals a day. £L« OnS£ n .th^ ou *h?JJ* 1947. Even during
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  • FROM A SINGAPORE BOOKSHALF
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      Vienna Under The Occupation
      555 9 Vienna Under The Occupation THE RED DANUBE toy Bruce Marshall (Constable, 9s 6d) MR. Bruce Marshall's peculiar blend of reii pious fervour and racy conversation sometimes hits and sometimes misses. In pome of his earlier novels, notably tirr a t h e r Malachy'* Miracle," his writing achieved a charm
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      SCRAPBOOK
      93 9 •A platitude is a platitude j precisely because many p.oples, during the ages, j have discovered it to be tru:; and writers like these, who draw attention to thi truth m such commonplaces, are by no means to be despised. E. E. Kellett. "Time has no divisions to mark
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      Three Points Of View
      94 9 "Happiness is impossible: calm is the supreme object of man, and it is unattainable to him who has not acquired immutable convictions." H. A. TAINE. "At a distance the world looks pretty enough. From near it's brainless, banal, and indecent beyond words." GERHARDT HAUFTMANN. "I am
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      Trouble Spots In The New India
      381 9 FRONTIER SPEAKS by Mohammad Yunus (Hind Kitabs, Rs. 4.8) THE DEPRESSED CLASSES by Mohinder Singh (Hind Kitabs, Rs. 7.8) AT a time when the North-West Frontier of India is becoming one of the trouble-spots of Asia, it is interesting to have a book about
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      TWO MEN IN THE INDIES
      381 9 JAVA REVISITED by Johan Fabricius (Heinemann, $5.00) THE GULF OF TIME by Robert Standish (Davies, $5.70) THESE two books are both about the East Indies but on quite different levels. Johan Fabricius has written a number of novels about the Indies. Here he gives us
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      61 9 HAGEMEYER TRADING CO. (Malaya; LTD. EXCLUSIVE SOLE AGENTS OR SOCIETE DES CIMENTS PORTLAND ARTIFIOELS DE L' INDO-CHINE, HAIPHONG Have pleasure m announcing that regular shipments of the well-known RED DRAGON HAIPHONG CEMENT will be made to Malaya during 1948. The first post-war shipment will arrive m Singapore very shortly. FOR
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      573 9 Careful use of the sult-prei- some reason why his partner n.id erence signal worked out very discouraged a heart eeattaustkn well In today's freakish deal. so emphatically, rind n 1 North, dealer. East might have had ir Both aides vulnerable nothing but a diamond shift. West saw tMt th"» nn>\
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  • THE STRAITS TIMES THURSDAY MAGAZINE- SECTION III
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      British Studios Will Switch To Comedy
      305 10 British Studios Will Switch To Comedy Since the post-war public prefers lighter films— IONDON, Wed.— The studios are switching from crime and period drama to comedy. First off the mark is Ealing Studios' chief, Sir Michael Balcon. incidentally, no one in the film Industry deservei knight-hood more than Balcon whose
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      STUDIO NOTES
      578 10 Edict: DANKS new instruction to producers: "Make your pictures for £200,000— or make them for someone else" Protests: METRO'S announcement that Oene Kelly will probably star in a sequel to "The Jolson Story" has irked fans. Letters, wires, and telephone calls of protest are pouring into the studio.
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      MAYBE RED'S JUST FOOLIN'
      115 10 NEW YORK, Wednesday. Comedian Red Skelton can't make ends meet on his 5.55.0«0 weekly studio salary. He is asking MGM to release him from his fiveyear contract. Laments Skelton: "Taxes take 40 per cent, of my annual income: fan mail costs me 5.554.000; and every year
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      Goddard, Meredith Find A Cause
      132 10 T ONDON.— Paulette Goddard and husband Burgess Meredith will make a film about the Jewish exodus from Europe to Palestine called "Night Watch." The couple will donate their services free. All profits will go to Palestine relief. The Merediths, who have already sent food parcels
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      361 10 for 2 enchanting hours you'll thrill to these IMMORTA L MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS "Poet and Peasant' By Von Suppe "Habanera" From Bizet's Opera ♦"Violin Concertos" By Tschaikowsky "Violin Concerto m D Minor"... By Wieniawski •"Piano and Violin Sonata" By Cesar Franck "Zigeunerweisen" By Sarasato "Symphonic Espagnol" By Lalo •"Polka" ...By Shostakovich
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      360 10 RADIO MALAYA ,-'POR« Jg^"*? by Stf "A™ AUSTRAL 1 p.m. Radio Orch.: 1.40 rison. M.P.: 1100 Music of the Stepihan Grapptelly Orch.; 8. 15 People; 11 30 News. Analysis: 11.45 Tyt0 Stations— 10.30 ajn. AustSummary News. Talk; 8 25 University Programme: "Law" ;ralian News; 10.40 Requests; 11.00 Calling AU Hospitals;
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    LONDON STOCKS
    157 11 LONDON, Wednesday. /OPERATORS on London's stock markets were inclined to await the outcome of yesterday's reopening- of Parliament and consequently prices were dull through neglect, says Renter's financial correspondent. I LOANS Consols 2%% 81 Fund 4% 1960-9* I13V4 War 3%% 113 11/16 INSURANCE Com. Un. (uts.) 11% Prudential
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    Sugar Shipments Force Prices Down
    244 11 Produce Market By A Market Correspondent. rpHE sugar market saw an active day bat heavy arrivals A caused further recession m prices. Quotations for black pepper eased for the first time after a week's rising tendency. There were no changes In other sections. Yesterdays prices
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    RUBBER
    60 11 The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers CU. Cta. per lb. per Ib. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 40% 40% No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales Feb. 40% 40% No. 2 R.S.S. fob hi bales Feb. 39% 40% No. 3 R.S.S.
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    Dow Jones Averages
    23 11 Stocks Industrial* Rails Utilities Jan. 20 63.08 ***** 50.08 32 89 Jan. 31 62 97 175.27 50 22 32.89 AP.
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    STORE SHARES
    181 11 By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, Wednesday. INDUSTRIALS were Arm on the local share market yesterday. A feature was British Borneo Petroleums which were firmer with fair business passing; at 46/-. Tins continued to advance but Rubbers were still quiet Changes In quotations given by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association
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      356 11 PRESIDENT LINE SAILINGS TO NEW YOKK AND BOSTON via INDIA EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS Fretrht Onto MARINE FLIER Singapore Gd. 15/16 Penang Arr. Jan. 27 PRES. POLK Singapore Feb. S Penang Feb. 9 MOUNT MANSFIELD Singapore Arr. Feb. 6 Pi. Swttt Feb. 11 Penang Feb. 14 LYKES ORIENT LINE dirt*, to
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      369 11 B. I. S. N. Coy M.S. SANGOLA FOR MADRAS CALCUTTA Sails about JAN. 24th ISLAY KERR Co., Ltd SINGAPORE 8c PENANG SILVER JAVA PACIFIC L^IS SILVER LINE LTD. I.AVA PACIFIC UN* Nederiand Line Royal Rotterdam Lloyd LONDON Amsterdam Rotterdam TO LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND, SEATTLE AND VANCOUVER HOEGH SILVERCREST
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      543 11 fJCKNALL LINE PACIFIC VRE, LONDON ft PORTS ANTWERP r OF KHARTOUM" "BOUGAINVILLE" Dm Singapore 12 Mar. n Singapore 1 Mar. McALISTER CO., LTD. tlnfrnDoratT. in Sin^aDore) PHONE 5906 BOUSTEAD*CO.,Lnx S LLOYDS AGENTS Agents for Malaya Railway* GLEN LINF SALEN-SKAIORN I.IVK laWnra to and from Cnlaa. For Los Aneele* San Francisco.
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    FAVOURITES OBLIGE AT K.L. RACES
    2545 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Christmas Pays Best Dividend By KUALA LUMFUK, Wednesday MINSTREL BOY (Flannery) spreadeagled the A A field to win his third race off the reel m the splendid time of 1 nun. 13 sc<\ at Kuala Lumpur today, the second day of the Selangor
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    S.T. Tipsters Successful
    105 12 THE Straits Times tipsters were again successful at yesterday's Kuala Lumpur races. Both "Epsom Jeep" and "Trespasser" scored hattricks. "Trespasser" had three straight winners Gold Medallist, Minstrel Boy and Christmas (who paid the best win dividend of the day). Three horses which he gave for places also
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    Army Tennis In Closing Stages
    190 12 •THE preliminary rounds of the Army tennis cham1 pionships were concluded at the Happy World Stadium yesterday, reducing the men's singles competitors to four, who compete tonight m the semifinals. Lt. Whitmore disposed of Maj. Anantanarayan after a grim struggle, the scores being 3—6,3 6,
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    TWO PADANG MATCHES
    98 12 r T«HE Ceylon Sports Club defeated the Singapore Cricket Club four-nil at hockey yesterday on the padang The Ceyionese led three-nil at half-time the scorers being Yogorajah, Sundram and Navaretnam. Soon after the resumption, they obtained their fourth goal through Kulasingam In another match played yesterday, at
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    R.A.F. CHANGI BEAT POLICE
    79 12 A late lally failed to save the Police from defeat when they met the R.A.F. Changi at rugger at Thomson Road yesterday, the Airmen Winning by nine points (three tries) to nil. After a scoreless first half, the Airmen improved to score thrice through Morris, Skuse
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    GOLF TOURNEYS
    74 12 The men's January medal competition of the Island Club, Singapore, will be held on Saturday and Sunday The following players are e'.Uible for the gold medal coin I Litton, which will be held m conjunction with the monthly medal contest: W. L. Rolleston, Yong Loon Chong, D. Neill.
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    Horse Third: Dividend $3
    63 12 Horse Third: Dividend $3 TWO horses, Hunter's Call and Windsor Laddie, dead -heated for third place in the fourth race at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Hunter's Call, who was a hot favourite, paid only $3 on a S5 place ticket, while Windsor Laddie returned $7. White Socks, who came in second
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    INDIANS WIN BY INNINGS
    76 12 MT. OAMBIER, Wed. THE Indian tourists defeated 1 the South Australian Country XI by an innings and 106 runs. The tourists declared at their overnight score of 421 for seven and managed to dismiss their opponents twice today. The home team compiled 184 (Promnitz 47, Herriot
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    Sports Diary
    76 12 TO-DAY TENNIS: Army championships. Happy World, 6 p.m. BOXING: RAF. championships (finals). SeleUr. 8.30 p.m. SOCCER: S.CJ.A. Inter-dis-trict League. "B" Pasir Panjan* v. Bt Timah, Geylang Stadium, 5 p.m. HOCKEY: Army v. S.C.R.C. (League). 5 p.m. S.C.R.C. cricket section meeting, S.C.R.C. 5 p.m. TO-MORROW SOCCER: Singapore Cold Storage
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    175 ENTRIES FOR IPOH MEETING
    945 12 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. A TOTAL of 175 entries have been received for the Perak Turf Club's three-day meeting on Jan. 31, Feb. 4 and 7. They comprise 105 class 3 and 70 class 4 horses. Official training starts next Saturday. The races
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    S.O.S.C. To Raise Funds For Valberg
    197 12 AT a meeting of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council (Committee of Management) yesterday, it was decided to ask for monetary contributions from clubs and associations affiliated to the Council, so that Singapore might be represented at the World Olympics to be held in
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    S.R.C. SPORTS OFFICIALS
    82 12 THE meeting of the Singapore Recreation Club sports section held yesterday to elect officebearers for the various games for 1948 resulted as follows: Cricket: captain, V. C. Wcsterhout; vice-captain. Ft. H. Bains; secretary convenor, P. A. Milne. Football: captain, J. Law her; vice-captain, A. G. Valben?; secretary
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