The Straits Times, 8 August 1948

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    20 1 FINAL EDITION THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 680. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1948 PKKI M CENTS
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    DYAKS MAY HELP FIGHT REBELS
    435 1 DYAKS MAY HELP FIGHT REBELS Boucher tells of proposal Sunday Times Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MALAYAN forces fighting the insurgents iVI may be reinforced by Dyak heatinunters from Borneo, Ma j. -Gen. C. H. Boucher, G.O.C. Malaya District, said today in a special interview with the Sunday Times. These
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    80 1 A I Bukit Serene yesterday the chief executives of British A territories in South-East Asia conferred with the Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. From left to right around the table are the acting High Commissioner of the Federation, Sir Alec Newboult; Sir Alexander GranTham, Governor of Hong Kong; Mr. MacDonald:
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    'Come and see tor yourself
    159 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. AN Australian trade unionist who has written to Malaya's Trade Union Adviser, Mr. John Brazier, calling him an "enemy of the working class" because of his attitude to the suppression of Malaya's Communist insurgents, is being invited to
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    THE SILENT RUSSIANS
    58 1 TWO Russian diplomatic couriers hav e arrived in Singapore by air from Bangkok en route to Canberra. The couriers, named D. Sorokin and V. Volodln are staying at the Adelphi Hotel, Singapore, awaiting air passage to Australia. When interviewed, both couriers pleaded little knowledge of English and
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    23 KILLED IN AFTER PRAYER STAMPEDE
    50 1 23 KILLED IN AFTER PRAYER STAMPEDE TWENTY three people were killed and' 20 Injured when thousands of Muslims made a rush to leave early after prayers in the Badshahl mosque in Lahore yesterday. Most of the victims were old men or boys who were knocked down and trampled on.— Reuter.
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    BIG JAP CLOTH DEAL
    32 1 Ninety-one million yards of cotton cloth have been contracted for export to sterling area countries, ranging frum Malaya to Africa, the Japanese Board of Trade announced yesterday. ReuterAAP.
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    H.K.WATCHING CHINA REDS
    99 1 HONG KONG. Saturday. AN official source said today that the Government would prohibit any attempt by Chinese Communists and other anti-Kuomintang groups to meet in Hong Kong for the purpose of setting up coalition Chinese Government In opposition to the existing regime. The official admitted It would
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    INDIES WARNING
    38 1 Gen. D. Vreeden. Dutch Army Chief of Staff, gave a warning in Batavia yesterday that Dutch commanders In Indonesia might have to take necessary military measures" if the truce agreement with the Republicans was violated. Reuter.
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    MAYOR TELLS ALL TROOPS: QUIT BERLIN
    110 1 'Vfyr-r- >. BBRUN, Sat. |\R. Ferdinand Ftledensburg. deputy) Mayor of Berlin, has called foe the withdrawal of all occupation troops from Germany, the British licensed Telegraf reported today. Addressing a meeting of the Christian Democratic Union in the British sector of the city, Dr.
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    PENANG RACES
    10 1 REPORT on yesterday's Penamg races in page 12.
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    COL CRAY IS NEW POLICE CHIEF
    134 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. (COLONEL W. H. Gray, former Inspector-General of in Palestine, has been appointed Commissioner of Police for the Federation of Malaya, an authoritative Government source confirmed today. Col. Gray leaves England for Malaya by flying boat on Tuesday.
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    Bullets at the ballot
    76 1 'PHE National Guard took over in Polk County (Tennessee) yesterday after bloodshed marked th e overthrow of the long-entrenched Democratic political machtae. Two were killed and five wounded in bloody election night Jitin- on Thursday, and the National Guard moved in to vert a pitched battle
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    THE RED DANUBE
    34 1 The Danube conference yesterday accepted as a basis for a new river convention a Soviet draft which deprives Britain and Franc- of their say in controlling Europe's orftataat watarwav A U
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    FAMILIES FLEE BURMA RIOTS
    43 1 EUROPEAN and Indian families arrived in Rangoon yesterday from rlotscrlcken Bassein Port, 90 miles from Rangoon. In the Indian ship Jalayamuna. The evacuees said tht situation in Bassein was "uneasy because of difficulty in keeping law and order.— Reuter.
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    Ketua fights 2 armed intruders
    147 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. UNARMED but quick-witted, the Ketua (headU man) of Kampong Jempol, near Bahau, grappled with and disarmed one of two Chinese— who tried at pistol point to persuade him to show them the way out of the village. One of
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    Pridi named on death charge
    112 1 BANGKOK, Saturday. rnHE Siamese Government toA day announced that the public prosecutor has been ordered to begin the prosecution of five persons in connection with the death of King Ananda Mahidol on June 9, 1946. The court will receive immediately the cases of three men
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    Hari Raya happiness
    40 1 Hari Ray a happiness AMONG the thousand* of Malays celebrating the Muslim festival, Harl Bar* Puasa, was this group of happy men and women "stg-ht-aeeing" la Singapore yesterday. These charminj ladles are wearing the latest Javanese kebayas and batik sarongs.
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    SIAMESE PLANES TO PATROL BORDER
    134 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. QIAMESE Air Force planes are being sent to patrol the Siam-Malay border refions to observe the movement of Chinese Communist, who threaten to infiltrate across the border into Slam to escape the British drive. Siamese authorities fear they may
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    PLANE FOR S'PORE IS SEARCHED
    58 1 CECURTTY police delayed an v air Uner leaving Sydney for Britain via Singapore Last night while they examined it for possible sabotaging. Radio Australia reported yesterday. The flying boat, second to be held up in 24 hours, was searched alter a telephone message that planes
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    Murder trail leadsto S'pore
    195 1 Murder trail leadsto S'pore Sunday Times Staff Reporter. POLICE search for the murderer of three years and eleven months old June Ann Devaney has stretched from Britain to Singapore. A few days ago, detectives of the C.1.D., Singapore, boarded a ship In Singapore harbour and took the left thumb and
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    S.E.A. DEFENCE CONFERENCE
    82 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. /GOVERNORS and Service ll chiefs of British territories in South-East Ada met at the Cathay building yesterday morning for regional defence co-ordination talk.-,. The Commissioner-Gene-ral. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. presided. The Service chiefs present were Gen. Sir Nell Ritchie. Air Marshal Sir Hugh
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    HELP FOR STORE MOTHERS
    926 2 CINGAPORE'S everdropping infant mortality rate is due in no small measure to the ante-natal help and advice given to expecant mothers by the Municipal Infant, Welfare Department sine« 1936. This aid is given at five clinics at which mothers receive free consultations and advice and, where
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    FOOD AND DRINK
    517 2 A CORRESPONDENT A who signs himself "A.M." has come up with a query which is worth answering in some detail. He says: "Last night 1 dined at the house of a friend. The occasion was practically a formal one, as the other guest was a man of
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    'Clamp Down On Trishas'
    509 2 'Clamp Down On Trishas' Sunday Times Motoring Correspondent speak- ing I suppose that trishas have no real place in a motoring column, but it is felt that on behalf of Malaya's motoring community, a plea to the powers-that-be might not come amiss. One cannot but be full of admiration for
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    CHINESE LEAGUE GOES AHEAD
    215 3 Cheng Lock is optimistic Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. "MUCH work has yet to be done before the Malayan Chinese League can become an accomplished fact," Mr. Tan Cheng Lock told the Sunday Times today when he reviewed the progress of the League. "Provisional working
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    PORT POLICE GET 'SUPER' LAUNCH
    151 3 PORT POLICE GET 'SUPER' LAUNCH Sunday Times Staff Reporter. A NOTHER phase in the unJ\ ceasing battle between the police and bandits, illegal immigrants and smugglers round the coast of Singapore was marked yesterday by the handing over a new modern police launch. Faster than any previous Singapore police patrol
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    26 HAD NARROW ESCAPE IN BUS
    65 3 Sunday Times Correspondent BUTTER WORTH, Sat. TWENTY-SIX passengers had a narrow escape yesterday when the bus in which they were travelling ran off the road and overturned in a ditch about nine miles north of Bukit Mertajam. Screaming women t d children were helped
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    VISIT TO ENGLAND
    34 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Mr. K. Utam Singh, of the staff of King Edward VII. Taiping, is leaving for England on Aug. 28 on a visit sponsored by the British Council.
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    HE WAS ROBBED OF 12 SINGLETS
    59 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO Chinese, together with two Sikhs, robbed a Chinese, Yong Heng Ong. of $5 cash and one dozen white singlets at 91 mile, Yu Chu Kang Road yesterday. Yong was on his way to Kampong Pangkalan Petal, off Yu Chu
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    POLICE RECRUITING
    38 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. Recruitment to the special police force in the Federation is now well over the 10,000 mark, and less than 5,000 recruits are now needed to achieve the target figure.
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    TWO POLIO CASES
    36 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Two cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the Federation last week, one in Perak and the other in Kedah. Three cases of scrub typhus were reported from Malaya District.
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    ENGLISH TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS
    58 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. THE annual normal class examinations for teachers in training in English schools in the Federation and Singapore will be held on Aug. 10 and 11. Candidates numbering 380 will sit for the first year, more than 280 for the second
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    C.I.D. HAS LINKS WITH THE YARD'
    127 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter -T»HE Singapore C.I.D. is in direct touch with A Scotland Yard, the Australian police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington regarding absconding criminals. This was stated by a Singapore C.I.D. spokesman yesterday when he referred to the arrest
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    COLLIDES WITH SIGNAL
    43 3 The driver of a Malaccaregistered motor-car, Eric Edward Fisher was involved in a collision with the traffic light signal stand in Collyer Quay near the General Post Office at a little past midnight on Friday. He reported to the police.
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    WEDDING OF S.S.C. CAPTAIN
    82 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MR. William Hildred Yetton, a chartered secretary with Messrs.. William Jacks Co. (Malaya) Ltd., was married to Miss Daphne E. Bond at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. The Rev. Kinross Nicholson officiated a& the ceremony. 1 The bridegroom, who Is the captain of
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    MALAYA TO HAVE NEW STAMPS
    168 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. T*HE first new issue of stamps in Malaya since the return of Civil Government may be on sale in Singapore next month. The stamps, one of 12 designs ordered for issue in Malaya to replace the overprinted B.M.A.
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    AN EX-AIRMAN COMES BACK
    86 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. AN ex-member of the R.A.A.F., Mr. Neil Buchanan of Neil Buchanan Ltd., Hong Kong, who was in Kota Bharu the day before the Japs invaded Malaya, Is now back in Singapore. He arrived from Hong Kong by air on Friday. Mr. Buchanan
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    Youngest Jazz Band
    75 3 VI ALA Y AS youngest swing -"1 band— all Filipinos— has played in Singapore at the Lido, Southern Cabaret and Shackle Club. They rehearse daily and are hoping to get an engagement shortly at the Mountbatten Club. Leader of the band is Rufino Soliano (16), Violinist: the
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    New deal for the islanders
    282 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Government is now giving active consideration to a departmental report on the condition of the group of islands lying to the south of Singapore Island, which form part of the Colony and whose state has been described as "neglected." The
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    ANTI-T.B. MEETING
    43 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Sat. The Mentri Besar of Negri Sembilan, Dato Abdul Malek bin Yusuf. will speak at a public meeting in Seremban on Aug. 26 to explain the objects of the Malayan Association for the prevention of T.B.
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    CHILD POLIO VICTIM
    19 3 An Indian child living in the Singapore rural area was yesterday notified as suffering from polio.
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    Lighter strike called off
    223 3 Sunday Times StafT Reporter ■THE strike threat by the A Singapore Lighter Workers' Union scheduled to take effect from midnight last night did not materialise because the General Lighterage and Transport Co., had agreed to postpone all changes in the agreement with their employees until the
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    2 GIRLS GET FINED $10 FOR TRESPASS
    89 3 Sunday Times Staff Corr. PENANG. Saturday. ON rounds early yesterd.iy morning an inspector of the Central Police Station found two young Chinese girls sleeping on the flve-foot-way oi the Immigration Office. When questioned, they could not give a satisfactory account of themselves Bah
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    28 3 A life size portrait of a Spanish girl by a Chinese artist, Mr. Chen Shou Soo, whose exhibition of 50 paintings opened at Robinson's in Singapore last week.
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    DR. EVATT SHEDS HIS PLUMAGE
    1098 4  -  BOB GILMORE by MELBOURNE, July 29 AUSTRALIAN car- toonists used to portray Prime Minister Chifley as a Sphinx. But Deputy Prime Minister Evatt is becoming more Sphinx-like. His actions don't add up. Dr. Evatt's unheralded flight abroad for six months' meetings of the United Nations
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    33 4 /\BVIOLSLK not giving a tinker's cuss for Dr. Evatt's puzzling actions, this full-frown koala bear Its* a ■le«p in a gum tree and lets the world get along without him for a while.
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    A PINT OF BLOOD
    656 4 IF the writer of a review feels himself impelled to quote extensively from the book that he is writing about, it is usually because the book has a certain flavour that can only be conveyed in the author's own words. The flavour, of course, may be
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    Atom Energy Kettle
    193 4 By A Science Correspondent THE new wonder metal, titanium f ourth most abundant metal in the crust of the Earth and as strong as steel but about half its weight —ls a promising material for the "kettles" of atomic energy. This has been revealed by Mr. Sumner
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    YOUTH NOW BETTER BEHAVED
    252 5 YOUTH NOW BETTER BEHAVED Says Singapore welfare chief Sunday Times Staff Reporter THERE has been a general improvement in all types of juvenile delinquency in Singapore from January to July this year, the Secretary for Social Welfare, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, told the Sunday Times yesterday. This Improvement could
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    36-hour battle with the sea
    289 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IyiTHOLT crew, and with only dry rations and eight gallons of water, two veteran Penang pilots—Capt. B. Scott and Capt. McLeod fought a 400-mile, 36-hour running battle with the sea when they made a non-stop voyage from Singapore to Penang in
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    HE WILL STUDY IN AMERICA
    153 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN, Saturday. ONE of five chosen from Malaya for a year's scholarship for further study in the United States a scholarship awarded by the Methodist Church in the U.S. through their Division of Foreign Missions— ls Mr. Gurdial Singh, well-known Malayan
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    RAJAJI GREETS N.S. INDIANS
    63 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEREMBAN Saturday. THE Governor- General of 1 India, Mr. C. Rajagopalacharl has sent a message of ereetlngs and "affectionate good wishes" to Indians In Negri Sembllan The message of good will is in reply to a congratulatory message sent to the GovernorGeneral
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    DR.WU DUE TOMORROW
    21 5 The Singapore Chinese Consul-General, Dr. Wu Paak-shlng, Is due back In Singapore tomorrow after a mission to Nanking.
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    A SHORT WEEK BUT BETTER
    260 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent IN a busines week shortened by public and bank holidays to three and a half days, the share market enjoyed only a small turnover on a considerably improved undertone and quotations where they changed were higher at the close yesterday than
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    NO RENT CUTS FOR SPORE
    99 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE Hong Kong Government's move to cut hotel charges now temporarily suspended— is not likely to be copied in Singapore. The District Judge (Civil), Mr. A. W. Bellamy, who Is president of the Rents Conciliation Board in Singapore, told the Sunday
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    BOYGAMBLERS BOUND OVER
    121 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter PENANG, Saturday. "I ITTLE boys like you should do better things with your money," the Third Magistrate, (Mr. J. P. Blackledge), today told two teenage Indian boys, Baharudin and Abubakar, who appeared before him on a charge of gaming in public. Both the
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    MALAY RED ARRESTED
    34 5 Mohammed 4ubir bin Yusuff. an active Malay member of *he Malayan Communist Party and former president of the AP.I. ;n Pasir Put eh (Kelantan) has been arrested under the Emergency Regulations.
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE AUG. 8. 1948. TIDE TURNS
    166 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE AUG. 8. 1948. TIDE TURNS Major-General Boucher has given the country more grounds for optimism in the last few days than we have had for some time. At long last a date has been set for the defeat of the terrorist campaign October. It matters little
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    Crisis
    119 6 The Berlin crisis drags on in spite of President Truman's exuberant optimism. The President's optimism is only understandable if it is agreed that it arises out of the information available to him and to him alone. Admittedly, Stalin has received representatives of the western allies. Admittedly also, 10 barges
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    Reminder
    132 6 Two generals fail to see eye-to-eye about the Japanese. They are America's Qen. Mac Arthur and the British Commonwealth Occupation Commander in Japan, Lt.Gen. H. C. Robertson. On the third anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb upon Hiroshima, Oen. Robertson read a message to 50,000 Japanese from
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    "Hamlet"
    140 6 The Press of Singapore was treated yesterday to a preview of Laurence Olivier's production of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," probably one of the greatest motion pictures ever made or screened. The magnificence of the film, of Olivier in the title role, of the bewitching Jean Simmons as Ophelia, indeed, the encire
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    Pulai Blood Flowed In The Galas River
    1929 6  -  HARRY MILLER By Last week, the battle against insurgents in South Kelantan opened. The army moved from Gua Musang to Pulai in the south, toward which the insurgents had withdrawn after thefr large-scale attack on Gua Musang. In this article, the writer tells
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      437 6 IXASS1* ILL) ADS. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mr. Ho Slew Tlan and family tender their heartfelt thanks to all friends and relatives for, their messages and telegrams of condolence, wreaths, scrolls, lent cars and lorries, paid night visit* and attended the funral of the late Mrs. Ho Siew Tlan. SITUATION VACANT VACANCY exists
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    SPITFIRES ATTACK ON SUSPECT IPOHAREA
    315 7 SPITFIRES ATTACK ON SUSPECT IPOHAREA Residents get ringside seat Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. A COMBINED army, police, and Air Force operation against an insurgent area east of Ipoh began this morning, and Ipoh residents had a ringside seat when, for more than two hours, they watched Spitfires attacking
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    54 7 THE late Mr. Lan E. Ogilvie, General Manager, Meru Tin Ltd., Jelapang, who was brutally murdered on Thursday morning by eight Insurgents using sten guns, tommy guns and .303 riffles. The incident occurred 4H miles north-east of Ipoh on the Jeiapang-Chemor road, whea Mr. Ogilvie was going to the mine
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    HAMLET IS MAGNIFICENT
    307 7 QJIR Laurence Olivier's production of "Hamlet" is a masterpiece that cannot but enhance Britain's already impressive film prestige. Hamlet, one supposes, is the most famous play in the world, and it is strangely true that the film of William Shakespeare's great drama proves that the Elizabethan playwright,
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    MESS STEWARD WAS ACQUITTED
    84 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ARTHUR Edward Mulot. a steward in the Officers' Mess at Tanglin Barracks, who was charged in a Singapore police court on .day 29 with criminal breach of trust, was subsequently acquitted The sum which he was charged with having obtained by false
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    INDIES EXPORTS SET A RECORD
    61 7 I Sunday Times Staff Reporter I rXPORTS from Indonesia, according to Dutch official statistics, continue to rise and in June they reached a post-war record. In that month rubber exports totalled 27,864 tons; crude oil products, 296,946 tons; copra, 27,042 tons; tinore, 3.754 tons; palm
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    CHINESE SHOT BY TWO BANDIT'S
    93 7 Sunday Times Staff iteporler. SEREMBAN. Saturday. A CHINESE. Pow Ten Huat. a was shot and injured by two bandits last evening as he was watching a game of mahjong in the upstairs room of a sh<>p house at Sungei Belek, in the Sepang area. The
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    TANGLIN BLACKOUT
    26 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter. There was a black-out In the Tanglin area of Singapore last night due to heavy demand on the power station.
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    Americans say beer is best
    138 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MORE than U.S. $15,000 has been spent in Singapore during the past two days by the visiting American seamen from the three United States warships, Toledo, Higbee and Chevalier. Restaurants and cafes have profltted most from the visitors, who have shown
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    DETAINEE APPEALS PROCEDURE
    50 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. RULL3 were gazetted today setting out the procedure tc be followed by State advisory committees hearing appea's against detentions by persons held under the Emergency Regulations. The rules order chat all proceedings before the advisory committees will be in camera.
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    NEW CHIEF OF INTELLIGENCE
    70 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. MR. George R. Livett, formerly Chief PoUce, Officer, Penang, has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the newly-formed intelligence branch, at Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. Mr. Livett, who was one of the Malayan ot. *rs recalled
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    JINNAH SENDS HIS 'GOODWILL'
    90 7 MR. Mohamed All Jinnah, Governor-General of Pa- kistan in a message yesterday j sent greetings to Muslims all over the world saying: "My message to our brother Muslim states is one of friendship and goodwill. "We are all passing through perilous times. The drama of power
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    12 ARRESTS MADE ON PANGKOR
    55 7 IPOH. Sat. rELVE "wanted" Chinese who escaped the first Federation-wide mass arrests of subversive elements in the early hours of June 21 were arrested yesterday on Pangkor Island, on the west coast of Perak. They were taken in a surI prise raid carried out by
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    Guard held up, 4 rifles taken
    141 7 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Saturday. "THREE unknown Chinese, dressed in white, and 1 accompanied by the Chinese proprietor of a coffee shop on See Kee estate, held up a special constable and took his rifle and ammunition on Thursday night. i See Kee
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    INTER-SCHOOL ARTS
    25 7 The seventh inter-schoo] art exhibition will be held from Sept. 13 to 18 at the British Council Hall (old St. Andrews School) Singapore.
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    POLICE CALL FOR ASIAN AUXILIARIES
    115 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. CALLING for more volunteers v for the Auxiliary Police, Negri Sembilan police communique issued today says that the 184 auxiliaries recruited so far are "mainly Europeans." The communique adds: "It is hoped that, as the movement gains impetus,
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    PARIT BUNTAR CONCERI
    23 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Pupils of the Anglo-Chinese School, Parit Buntar, staged a successful end of term concert on Friday.
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    Contractor's farewell
    170 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter CINCE April this year more than 1,400 Singapore labourers have been deprived of varying amounts of money due to them as wages, totalling, over $40,000, because contractors or sub-contrac-tors have absconded or gone insolvent, a Labour Department official told the Sunday Times yesterday. "There
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    PENANG MILLS RESUME
    61 7 Sunduy Times Staff Reporter PENANO, Fri. AN amicable settlement with their labourers has enabled two of Penang'g big four oil mills to resume operations. The mills, the Sun Wo Loong and the Ban Hln Lee, were closed about three months ago owing to a shortage of copra
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    RECRUITING DRIVE BY NEW UNION
    145 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE newly-formed Singa pore Harbour Board Workers' Union, yesterday started a week-long drive for more members. The S.H.B.W.U. was formed with 200 S.H.B. labourermembers on July 17, in place of the former S.H.B. Labour- j ers* Union, whose leaders have gone
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    Reds release miner victim
    218 7 Sunday Times StafT Correspondent IPOH, Saturday. *FTER being held captive by the insurgents for 12 days the young Chinese miner, Mr. Ong Choon Huat, who was kidnapped while coming out of his father's mine in Sungei Siput district, is back home safe. The C.I.D. Headquarters here
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    FEAST OF ST. ANNES
    44 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter BUTTERWORTH, Bat.— A record number of devotees of all races, some of whom came from French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies, attended the annual fea.sl of St. Anne here. A charity fair preceded the feast.
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    BAIL ALLOWED IN'HURT'CASE
    87 7 BAIL ALLOWED IN 'HURT' CASE Sunday Times Si aIT RctJMMf BAIL of $1,000 was allowed to Teo Chlong Hay. a 25--year-old Chinese, who was charged yesterday before the Third Police Court Mag strate, Singapore, with voluntarily causing hurt to a compatriot. It was alleged that tl accused struck Ah Bah
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      328 8 IHIi WEEK FOR YOU What the Stars Foretell LEO (July 24-Aug. 23). If your affairs, appear rather complicated, then give some serious thought to self -analysis. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22). Use this day for rest and thoughtful contemplation. Seek spiritual guidance if you think you need it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct
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      479 8 SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nor. 22).— Best to stay at home this day and rest Things never do look so complex when you are rested. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23Dec. 22).— 8e tactful and diplomatic if you have dealings with the opposite sex. Avoid them, if possible, CAPRICORN (Dec 23Jan. 20).— Definitely a "stay-at-home"
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      324 8 TAUBUS (Apr. 21- May 21).— 1 f driving your car today, tak« care, for everyone, including yourself, may be somewhat on edge. GEMINI (May Xt-Jnne 22).— Avoid making a Journey and be extra diplomatic when dealing with the opposite sex. CANCER (June 23-July 23).— Postpone any decision until later on.
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      416 8 Recently, we discusaai a new response to an opening notrump bid. which has found favor with corns of the country's leading players. This is th« artificial two-club response. Ti he responding player calls two «luba, ho requests on* of the following rtbids from the opening no-trumper: 1. A four-card major
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    FASHION PARADE
    730 9 MARY HEATHCOTT sees a LONDON, July 26. THE first half of London's much-pu-blicised fashion fortnight, sponsored by the Board of Trade, is over. Opinion as to its success and of the standard of the exhibits seems to vary among the overseas buyers in whose honour the Jamboree has
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    Something To Go With A Skirt
    180 9 Something To Go With A Skirt HOW about a blouse and skirt for informal evenings? This skirt in silvergrey jersey has a "Look" that will suit most women, it !*ts smoothly over the hips, and flares to the hem in a fanshaped plating. Sketched here are three blouses designed to
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    Here & There
    202 9 Here There Ankle straps shoes are in vogue her*. For evening, I have seen the straps replaced with I chiffon hankies, In black, and also two contrasting I colours. > The hankies are twist•ed over the Instep and round the ankle to tie at the back. Effect Is something >
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    Radio-Active Kisses Soon?
    227 9 LONDON, Sat. l/'ISSES may soon be radio-active. Lipsticks, face creams, bath salts and other preparations made radio-active for special medical and beautifying purposes will be available before long, British atomic authorities recently announced. The snag is L ,hat these preparations will be available only on a doctor's
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    Mould And Mildew
    157 9 fTHIS season seems to A bring with it a crop of mildew and mould stains. Perhaps these suggestions will help you to deal with the problems. RU B leather-covered furniture with a piece of flannel dipped in vaseline. Expose freely to sunlight. If you nnd that your
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    ANN TEMPLE
    212 9 Uuoe aLways oeen iut~ able to ride a bicycle, and I'm told this is due to lack of balance and that it is useless my going on trying to ride. Must I accept that? Or can I take it that determination and patience will finally win the day?—
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    26 9 ONE of Dorville's latest cre«tioiis is this woollen pullover with rounded cape shoulders and nipped-in -waist The pullover can be worn with or without a blouse.
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    THOMAS CUP TEAM SAILS ON DEC 2
    745 10 Selection should be made early By COURTCRAFT WITH the Malayan team for the International Thomas Cup tournament scheduled to leave for Britain on Dec. 2 by the P. and O. Carthage, the time has come when five men in the Malayan badminton world
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    25 10 J. L. Winter, winner of the Olympic Games high jump, seen in action. Winter took the event with a jump of 6 ft. 6 in.
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    NON-BENDERS TEAI
    66 10 THE following have been invited to play cricket for the NonBenders Cricket Club against the Singapore Police Cricket Club today at 11 am. on the Police Training School ground, Thomson Rd.: A. Gilmour (rapt.), T. Leijssius, Evan Wong. A. Baker, A. W. Nicholson, H. N. Balhatchet, P. Johnston,
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    TIGERS BEAT RECS 4—
    422 10 PLATING with ten men for the greater part of the game, the S.R.C. lost four-one when they met the Tiger Sports Club in a first division league soccer fixture at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. C Noronha, the Recs was injured midway through the first half and
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    CRICKET CLUB DRAW WITH SHELL S.C.
    228 10 CRICKET CLUB DRAW WITH SHELL S.C. f»HB cricket match between the) 1 Singapore Cricket Club and the Shell Sports Club on the Padang yesterday, was drawn. Scores were: S.C.C D. B. Haig lbw Pearcey 5; K. Graham b Potts-Da wson 11; A. Nicholson c Neubronner b PottsDa wson 18; K.
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    FOOTBALL OFF
    24 10 I*HE third division football match 1 to have been played yesterday at McNalr Road between Indian Association and Customs has been postponed.
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    GALLANT DISPL4Y BY SPORE PLAYERS
    435 10 GALLANT DISPL4Y BY SPORE PLAYERS Badminton Notes By FEATHER FOLLOWERS of badminton in Singapore are proud of the i.irt that practically singlebanded her players fought for the South and gave the North (Selangor, Perak and Penang) stiff opposition in the two-day badminton classic at Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 1 and
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    Surrey Move Into Third Position
    229 10 Surrey Move Into Third Position nriTH their latest victory over TV the leaders, Derbyshire, Surrey have moved into third place of the County cricket championship table. Surrey are 13 points behind Derby, but have two games in hand, while they have also got a game in hand over Glamorgan, who
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    Desmond Keyt takes 7 wkts for 5 runs
    243 10 Desmond Keyt takes 7 wkts for 5 runs DESMOND Keyt, St. Andrew^ cricketer, took seven wk*eU: lor five runs yesterday at WoodsvUle against the Indian AssoclaUon. However, time saved the Indians from certain defeat a St Andrew's batted first for 143, Ong' Beng Bee M and Barney Sulivan 44 being
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    Women's junior favourite wins
    317 10 MRS. Ong Heng Kwee of the Diehard Badminton Party, strongly fancied for this year's Singapore junior women's Championship, easily won her auarter-ftnal against Miss Eunice de Souza (Sphinx) 2? the Clerical Union hall yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Ong, the more experienced player, showed better courtcraf t. She
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    BRITAIN WINS SPRINT RELAY
    804 11 C/.aS. track stars disqualified LONDON, Saturday. THE American princes of the sprint track 1 flashed past the finishing line in the 400 metres relay today five yards ahead of Britain. But they were disqualified through bad baton changing and Britain gained her first totally unexpected track
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    18 11 fHK class one 120 yards hardies m progress at the R.I. annual athletic sports yesterday. Sunday Times picture.
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    DETAILED RESULTS
    55 11 Detailed results of yesterday's events In the Olympics are: SWIMMING Men's 200 metres breastroke (anal): I. Joe Ve-deur (U.S.)— 2 mlns. 39.3 sees, (new Olympic record). 2. Keith Carter (U.S.) —2 mins. 40.2 sees, (also broke old Olympic record). 3. Robert Sohl (U.S.)— 2 mlns. 43.9 sees. 4.
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    SAFA League positions
    299 11 LATEST positions in the Ist, 2nd and 3rd. divisions of the S.A.F.A. leaeue are: P W D L P A Pts. Rovers 19 15 1 340 18 31 Tigers 18 12 3 452 31 26 RAF (C) 19 11 2 6 59 37 24 C A 17
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    King Kong K.O.s Ali Riza Bey
    75 11 KINO KONG knocKed out Ali Riza iiey in the Lhird round at the Great World arena last night. Curly Connors beat Tony Pamano by two straight fails in three rounds. Leow Kwong Seivr retired at the end of the seventh round of his fight
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    Final Olympic week begins tomorrow
    196 11 LONDON, Saturday. n^HE Olympic Games enter their final week on Monday with a varied programme. With the athletics and swimming finished, boxing and cycling hold the stage as the sports most likely to attract the largest public interest. Eliminating rounds in all divisions of boxing
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    MANGRUM WINS
    36 11 CHICAGO, Sat. T LOYD Mangrum was $10,000 1-1 richer after winning the double prize In *'ie Tarn O'Shanter gold >j-nament, beating off a futile late rally by South Africa's Bobby Locke, at Chicago yesterday.
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    MILLS WITHDRAWS
    26 11 The world's light heavyweight champion, Freddie Mills, has withdrawn from his tentatively scheduled September title fight with Giu Lesnevlch because of 111 health.— A.P.
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    GAME CANCELLED
    28 11 The cricket match between the Singapore Recreation Club and the Catholic Young Men's Association, which was to have been played on the padang yesterday, was canceled.
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    MATCH CANCELLED
    26 11 The cricket match between the Indian Association and the Royal Engineers, FARELF, which was to have been played at Tanglin today has been cancelled.
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    China cyclist crashes
    63 11 UOWARD Wing of China crashed a/ter crossing the winning line in the second heat of the 1,000 metres scratch race, an event wh!ch opened the Olympic cycling section at Herne Hill, London, yesterday. He was carried off on a stretcher, apparently unconscious. Wing was taken to hospital
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    WET DAY AT OLDTR AFFORD
    78 11 WET DAY AT OLD TR AFFORD MANCHESTER, Sat. BAD weather delayed the start and interfered with play in the match oetween the Australians and Lancashire at Old Trafford today. At the tea integral the tourists had scored 185 for three wickets. AUSTRALIA— Ist INNS. Barnes c Ikln b Roberts «7
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    DOCKYARD CRICKET
    22 11 H. M. Dockyard. Seletar. wiU play St. Andrew's Old Boys at cricket today at 2 p.m. on the Dockyard ground.
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    KAMCHOON CHAMPION R.I. ATHLETE
    787 11 A PROGRAMME of 23 events in Raffles Institution annual athletic sports was successfully run off at the school ground yesterday afternoon before a large gathering. Another seven events had been run off during the last two weeks. They were: Throwing the Cricket Ball— Class I; Putting
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    Big Sweep Results
    97 12 THE Big Sweeps drawn on races five (third day sweep) and eight at yesterday's Penang races resulted as follows: BIG SWEEP Third Day. (Total Pool $170,460). First *****0 Second *****1 Third *****3 Starters: Nos. *****3, *****7, *****4, *****9, *****4, *****0, *****9, *****9, *****9. Consolation Prizes: Noa. *****5.
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    SOON WEE (70) FAILS TO SAVE THE CHINESE
    119 12 Smnday Tknes Ksuda Laaapsv Sports ConoapoadeM ALTHOUOH Lee Boon Wee, the skipper of the Belangor Chinese Recreation Club, played a captain's 'nnlngs scoring an unbeaten 70, his <lde was eliminated from the Stonor Shield oompetltlon when they kxt to the V.M.C.A. by
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    COLBAY FIRST HOME, BUT PLACED2nd
    2035 12  - COLBAY FIRST HOME, BUT PLACED2nd EPSOM JEEP Cup Awarded To Predominance From IN a close finish Colbay was first past the post 1 in the Penang Gold Cup race yesterday, but was relegated to second place, the race being awarded to Predominance. Making a big break, Colbay led all the
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    44 12 ttMYO VALBERG, Singapore's high Jump chamHon who wa« a finalist In the Ugh Jump event at the Olympics b seen with La jrio BMB (left) and Adrian Hotaaew. members of Use Australian Olympic boxing team at the 0 1 y m pie Cam p
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    JOCKEY MAKES HIS OWN SADDLES
    226 12 Australian trainers and apprentice school Instructors regard Darrol OraeU of South Australia as a model jockey. They cite hir> as the perfect example of seat and riding style, and caU him the "hands and heels expert." Qraeta believes that he can feel what a horse
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    LATANI SETS NEW RECORD
    84 12 OAULJTELD (Melbourne, Sat. T Atari 1, carrying topwelght and made a 8-4 favourite for the event, knocked ltt seconds off the course record when winning the Australian hurdlo raco over two mile* five furlongs here today la 4 mlns. S3 see. Latani. 13 st. 1 ft.;
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    PROFIT DOWN
    59 12 THE Queensland Turf Club made a profit of £21,343 on Its operations during 1947-48, but taxation will absorb approximately £7,034. Last year the club's profit was £35,858. Thia year, however, prize money compared with 1946 47 rose by £3,348 to £87.398, and the club had to abandon two
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    RODE 40 WINNERS IN 1925 SEASON
    245 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By OOKING at genial, rotund Milton Sullivan, of the most popular figures on Malayan racecourses, it Is difficult to believe that not so many yean ago k* was a dashing lad in the saddle. Sullivan retired from the saddle about 15 years
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