The Straits Times, 15 August 1948

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  • 20 1 FI3AL EPITIM THE SUNDAY TIMES LARGEST NETT SALE IN MALAYA No. 681. SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 390 1 They bore arms 5 HANGED IN PUDU PRISON Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. FOUR Chinese and an Indonesian, condemned to death for illegal possession of arms, were hangea In Pudu Gaol this morning. Their trials, their appeals against sentence and their execution were all carried out within a
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  • 18 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. Two Indians have been arrested at Rengam under the Emergency Regulations.
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  • 241 1 TROOPS AND POLICE HOLD SIXTEEN Three forces converge Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. CO far 16 arrests have been made by the large force of troops of the 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artiller>, and the Selangor Police Flying Squad, who began an extensive operation in the Puchong area
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    32 1 MALAY girls and boys waiting in the queue at the Sultan Mosque yesterday for food. Hundreds of poor people were fed at the Mosque hi connection with the celebration of Pakistan Day.
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  • 261 1 POLICE KEEP UP HUNT Sunday Times Staff Reporter I KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. i>OLICE were active against I bandit gangs all over 1 Malaya during the past 24 hours. These are the police reports: Johore: Kulal area at 8 p.m. on Friday lights and moving figures were observed oy special constables
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  • 46 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Sr 'day. YUGOSLAVIA requester the X Security Council yesterday to find the United States and Britain guilty of violating the Italian peace treaty in the administration of Trieste. Dr. Jcsea Vllfan. the Yugoslav representative, submitted a resolution condemning the American-British policy. A.P.
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  • 43 1 NEW DELHI. SaturdayThe United Kingdom Hltjh Commissioner's Office said yesterday that British officers in the Hyderabad State forces had been advised o resign their commissions Id the event of military operations breaking out over the future of the State.— A.P
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  • 216 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter IPOH, Saturday. I EE YONG, aged 32, who was one of the three lj Chinese who made a sensational gaol break at Batu Gajah on June 12 was arrested at Ipoh at four o'cloc' this morning. He was one among
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  • 26 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday.—Mr. K. W. Blackburne. Director of Information Services. Colonial Office, arrived In Ipoh this morning. He leaves for Penang on Monday.
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  • 85 1 RANGOON, Saturday. According to latest reports insurgent forces were moving on the Burmese Capital, Rangoon, from the northwest, while communications between the capital and the provinces had largely broken down. The position of the Government is therefore considered extremely dangerous, although it may be possible for
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  • 92 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter TWO Dutch sea-going brothers, one travelling East an th« other West, met in Singapore yesterday. Both ar chief officers of ships now in Singapore. The elder brother. Mr. G. Ruyg is on the 16,900-ton rreighfr Annenkerk. bound for Holland and the younger
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  • 19 1 SHANGHAI, Saturday Commodity prices today shot up to new peaks. Rice sold for CN565,000,000 per 1751b.--bag.—A.P.
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  • 175 1 LONDON, Saturday. m/ESTERn diplomats, watching the mounting tide of invective pouring from Moscow, fear the case of the two Soviet teachers in New York may wreck the chances of success of the current four-power talks at the Kremlin. London papers today, however, hinted that there might
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  • 96 1 Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday. THE opening of the King Ananda Mahldol assassination trial been fixed for Sept. 28 by the Siamese criminal court, where the trial will be held. The three suspects facing trial are Challeo Pathumrot, former secretary to King Ananda,
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  • 24 1 SHANGHAI, Saturday. Shanghai Municipal Police rounded up more than 100 persona on charges of being Communists and Communist agents —A. P.
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  • 198 1 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent IFOH. Saturday. 'THREE insurgents were wounded in a battle between bandits and a police patrol on a bridge yesterday morning in the Kuala Kangsar district. The patrol, which comprised six Malays, were ambushed by more than 20 insurgents. 1 The
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  • 65 1 Sunday Times Staff Reporter AT about 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon a Chinese was found trying to climb the fence into the 223 BOD Depot, Alexander Road, when a sentry spotted him and fired a shot in the air. The would -be robber, frightened by the shot,
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  • 70 1 PARIS, Sat. rANCE Minister Paul Reynaud today came a big step nearer getting his special powers over French economy when the Council of the Republic, Upper House, approved the necessary bill by 173 votes to 90. Seventy-seven Communist amendmetits were thrown out. The bill now returns for
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  • 140 1 Police chief didn't arrive Sunday Times Staff Reporter AT Tengah airport last night, two police officers waited In vain for the arrival of tno new Police Commissioner for the Federation, Col. W. N. Gray. The Constellation on whu-h he was supposed to be travelling from England touched down and another
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  • 127 1 Sunday Times Correspondent BANGKOK, Saturday A SIAMESE naval patrolling the southern Siamese coast n 3s successfully Intercepted a large fleet ut fishing Junks carrying Communist terrorists who had planned a secret meeting it sea Approximately 100 fishing junks, each containing about 15 people, were
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  • 1145 2  - BURMA LAND OF PAGODAS N. K. Halder by DURMA is aptly called the Land of Pagodas, for every road is lined with them, every grove has one at its heart, and every hill is crowned with one. Of all ages and sizos, they range from the tiny wayside pagodas to
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  • 397 2 Sunday Times Motoring Correspondent THE new Standard Vanguard is motor car which is going to make the rest 01 the world sit up and take notice. The Standard Company has taken a bold step In concentrating all Its resources on the production of ont model, and
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  • 544 2 MOST striking news of the past six months to beer jirinkers is the invention, vceo?cling to my tentacles in Australia, ol a Super Beer Mug by an Australian sewerage coi tractor. (What is a sewerage contractor, by the way). The Super Beer Mug possesses the following attributes: a
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  • 83 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE thira anniversary of the Indonesian Republic, which will be celebrated en Tuesday will be boycotted by the Indonesian Association of Singapore, according to a letter received by the Sunday Times from the secretary of the Association. The Republican Government representative in Singapore. Dr.
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  • 301 3 Salary scales being revised Sunday Times Staff Reporter AN advance of one month's gross basic salary to all permanent and temporary Singapore Municipal employees appointed before the beginning of this year has been approved by the Municipal Commissioners with the sanction of the Government, Mr. W.
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    78 3 MR. Chang Hsiao Liang of the Nanyang Slang; Pau. the first Chinese staff correspondent appointed to London by a Singapore newspaper. Mr. Chanc Hsiao Liang, a 29-year-old Shangliainese Journalist who has only been with the Nanyang Siang Pan for only a few months, sailed on the Canton today. A great
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  • 96 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A well-known Singapore allround athlete, Mr. Rajaratnam Murugason, is leaving today on the Canton to read; law at the Middle Temple in London for three years. Mr. Murugason, who was educated at Raffles Instttu- tlon, has been in business for two years,
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  • 113 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. TWO shooting Incidents occurred in the Batu Arang coal mine area yesterday. A European engineer cycling to work in the morning was fired at as he was passing an open cast mine. His attackers were three Chinese who had
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  • 186 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MARCHING with a Pakistan Flag and led by a sergeant-major, 40 Ceylonese of the Royal Pioneer Corps attended a mass meeting, held yesterday, at the Alsagoff Arab School, Singapore, to celebrate Pakistan Day. From 3.30 p.m. Pakistanis began to arrive to attend
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  • 115 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR Saturday, Tj^ULL confidence in the fur ture of cocoa as a new planting Industry for Malaya Is behind an all-out programme of experiments which the Federation of Malaya Agricultural Department has just begun. The experiments are an Implementation of the "cautious"
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  • 76 3 ELEVEN HURT IN ACCIDENT Sunday Times Staff Reporter ELEVEN people, including a woman were Injured following a collision between an RAF. truck and a civilian lorry near the junction of St. George's Road and Serangoon Road at 4.48 p.m. yesterday. The RAJ 1 truck was carrying workers back to town.
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  • 253 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter T»HE restoration of private trade with Japan last 1 April has not increased shipments of Japanese manufactures to Singapore, as Japan has been classed as a hard-currency source and only bare essentials are permitted. Meanwhile, no Japanese textiles for which
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  • 28 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Seventeen Chinese were fined by the Second Singapore Police Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh, yesterday for gambling in public last Friday.
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  • 218 3 Sunday Times Staff Reporter FRYING fish don't mean the road to Mandalay to Californian ex-naval pilot Al Onstott, who at 26 is probably the youngest air line owner in the world it's the way he makes his living. Al has three Catalina amphibian flying boats
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  • 456 3 Sunday Times Staff Correspondent PENANG, Saturday. Penan? and Sedan doctors, x after a two-hour debate, agreed by a majority vote last night that "all the resources of modern medicine should be made available for family planning." The debate was held under the auspices of the North
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  • 57 3 Sunday Times Staff Rr porter Sir Laurence Olivier, pi.ducer and star of "Hamlet, Soon to be seen in Malaya, n: s sent the following telegram to Mr. Loke Wan Tho at »he Cathay Cinema, Singapore: "I do hope that Hamlet will be enjoyed In Singapore and that you
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  • 32 3 Fire burnt out fiv neies of lallang and blukir n 'he vicinity of R.A.F. Tengah at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. One fireengine was engager, on hour to deal with the flr^.
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  • 21 3 A taxi caught flrr afte< it overturned at 8" 2 milestone Bukit Timah Road, at, 430 p.m. yesterday.
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  • 1043 4 808 GILMORE, in Singapore, finds TWO and a half days from a Melbourne fireside, Singapoie seems little changed in externals since 1939 except that even in the first few minutes in Kallang one hears more terima kassis than in all 1939. Not until you step inside Raflles's
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  • 563 4 /OCCASIONALLY, but "only very occasionally, a book is printed that is so cheap and yet contains so much really worth reading that it is merely necessary to give the contents and the price, and then to sit back and murmur "What wonderful value for money." Such a
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  • 618 4 PHOTO NOTES MfHEN it comes to flnd- ing subject matter, most picture takers are perennial "I wish I wasers." They wish they we:e in Bali "Think of the pictures I could get there." Or. "I wish I was in Hong Kong; think of lu o ms
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  • 62 5 T n Singapore Chamber of Oommerc*. Rubber Association'! noon prices yesterday (Aug. 13) were, in cents per lb: Buyers Seller* No. 1 RS.S Spot Imm nominal U* 4Sft Mo. 1 RJBJS. t.o.b. In bate. Anf. 4SM 4S* Mo. 3 R.S.S. f.O.b. In bales Aug. 4194 Mo S R.S.B 7.0.D.
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  • 648 5 'To be used for ever 9 WHAT IT MEANS Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE WARRANT for Singapore's new coat of arms "to be borne and used for ever hereafter by the City"— has arrived— in a long red box, with G. R. VI embossed on
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  • 85 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. A SPECIAL meeting of the Malacca Local Indian Congress last night accepted the resignations of the president and committee members who disagreed with the Malayan Indian Congress on the Federation constitution issue recently. The Rev. V. A. Subramaniam will now head
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  • 133 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter NO applications have yet been received by the department of dental surgery for appointments to lectureships in the King Edward VII College of < i Medicine, Singapc; ft. An official of the L.-part-ment told the Sunday Times that applications are still open
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  • 33 5 Sunday Times Correspondent KUALA KANGSAR, Sat Mr. V. C. SeedweU, Offlcer-in-Charge of Police District, Kuala Kangsar, has been promoted to be an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Federation of Malaya.
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  • 27 5 Sunday Times Staff Reporter MALACCA, Saturday. A Fisherman found a Chinese infant left abandoned in a fishing boat at the 6th milestone, Klebang, this morning.
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  • 442 5 Sunday Times Financial Correspondent a week in which happenings might have been interpreted as heralding another war, the Malayan share market has remained remarkably steady but very quiet, and the volume of business which has passed was very small in all sections. Moscow talks, Communist terrorism
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  • 30 5 KUALA KANQSAR, Sat.— Dr. (Mrs.) J. A. Robertson. Lady Medical Officer, Kuala Kangsar, has been transferred to Taiping. Dr. (Miss) I. M. Almond from Taiping has succeeded her.
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  • 80 5 A VERDICT of misadventure was recorded yesterday by the Singapore Coroner. Mr. Choor Singh, in the inquest on Chirm Yee She, aged 38. who died on July 28 in the General Hospital. Ching was taken to the hospital following injuries received when a tug knocked
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
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  • 622 6 THE SUNDAY TIMES SINGAPORE, AUG. 15, 1948. THE SECOND SHADOW LOOMING over Singapore even more ominously than the shadow of Communism, for that danger will pass with time thanks to the stern methods now being adopted, is the shadow of» mass unemployment. Elsewhere in today's Sunday Times Mr. R. P.
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  • 1373 6 Shell seekers of the Barrier Reef find TREEN ISLAND, is a pockethandkerchief island on the inner fringe of the Great Barrier Reef that stretches along the north-east coastline of Australia. Though the island is a mere 33 acres 'n extent, it has the glamour expected
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  • 664 6  -  C.S. WONG by QNCE again all Chinese households of a more conservative turn of thought have stored away their sealed bottles and jars of "Seven Sisters' Water," ready for general and emergency use This water Is believed to possess curative powers ovei sores and abscesses and to
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  • 452 6 SCIENTISTS in the •3 United States are working on a new kind of "watch" a tube of colourless gas through which passes a continuous radio Impulse. The great advantage is that it will never run down. It will be keeping the same time 1,000,000 years hence as today,
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    • 11 6 for better tea-tlmea! Finest Broken Orange Pekoe Price $2.00 P.r Ib
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    • 64 6 History of Singapore No. 6 On May 24th, 1854, the foundation ♦ton* of Raffles Lighthouse was laid. In FBB3. Fraser Neave Ltd.. was founded by two pioneer fanrvilies. For 65 years QuaHty has been'our, watchword. Beet .fort your, parents 'and grandparents. F^& N Aerated .Waters" are still the best for
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  • 503 7 SPORE FACES UNEMPLOYMENT THREAT Youths chief ly affected Sunday Times Staff Reporter GINGAPORE will, a generation from now, face one of the gravest problems of its historv mass unemployment. The reason, a rapidly expanding population and restricted avenues of employment. Mr. R. P. Bingham, Commissioner for Labour, Singapore, said this
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  • Article, Illustration
    54 7 MRS. K. Nixon, an English artist, arranging her painting* for the exhibition which opened at Robinsons yesterday. The oil painting above is of two leopards and and that below of a black panther under a hibiscus bush. All the paintings are of birds, animals and flowers. The exhibition will be
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  • 245 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Roman Catholics may found an educational memorial in memory of Sister St. Columban (Kathleen OTarrell), the nun "with the heart of fold" who taught pupils in Malaya for fifty years, up to her death a fortnight ago. Many of
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  • 127 7 SOLDIERS FACE ROBBERY ALLEGATIONS Sunday Times Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Saturday. TWO British soldiers, Pte Mackenzie Gallon and Pte. Walker, appeared in court yesterday on charges of committing robbery at Pulo Babi. Mersing, and using two rifles. After the charge had been explained to them, they were I remanded in custody.
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  • 194 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter ONLY ten street lamps were working in Singapore when the liberation troops arrived. Today there are 566 and more are brought into operatioa every day— with others still to come. The Electricity Department of Singapore Is working to a five-year
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  • 56 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter SEGAMAT, Saturday.— Th»; last relic o. toddy-drinking days In Segamat will dis- appear soon, whsn the uld toddy shop along Jalan Ab- i dullah Is converted into bar- racks for men of the Seitamat Fire Brigade. Segamat abolished the sale of toddy
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  • 134 7 ARMY DOGS TO HELP WAR ON TERRORISTS Sunday Times Staff Reporter ARMY authorities in Malaya will collect 30 Alsatian dogs, specially trained for guard duties, from the S.S. Benalbanach, when it arrives in Singapore tomorrow. The dogs, sent out from England by the War Office will take part in the
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  • 32 7 NG Ah Seng (39), who pleaded guilty In the Second Police Court, Singapore, yesterday to a charge of fraudulent possession of property, was sentenced to three weeks' rigorous imprisonment.
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  • 124 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter A CHINESE. See Thiam Yeow, appeared before the Singapore Ninth Police Court Magistrate. Mr. E. V. A. Peers, yesterday on a tentative charge of attempted robbery and voluntarily causing hurt to Chan Koy Moy, a woman. Thiam Yeow, it was alleged,
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  • 237 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter RUBBER dropped by about l /a cents a pound tn Singapore yesterday, a fall of 4V 8 cents a pound since Wednesday. Buyers quoted 43% cents fob. in hales, and sellers 44% cents. The London Correspondent of the Sunday Times cabled yesterday
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  • 172 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter THE celebration in Singapore of Indian independence will officially start this morning when Mr. John A. Thivy, Representative of the Government of India in Malaya, hoists the Indian National flag at 31, Grange Road, the new offices of the Representative. Mr. Thivy
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  • 41 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter The Ooverment of the Colony of Slneapore will Invite tenders for an issue of $8-mlllion by Treasury Bills on Auk. 25, subject to the general conditions uoverninst the issue and repayment of such Bills.
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  • 78 7 THE Dravidian League of Singapore has asked the South Indians living in Malaya to co-operate with the Government in the malnten- ance of law and order in the country. The League condemned, at their second annual general meeting held last week, the violence and lawlessness resorted f
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  • 74 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter rE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, has sent a message to Pandit Nehru felicitating India on the occasion of Independence Day. The message refers to India's "great national achievements in the past year." A similar message has been sent to Mr. M. A.
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  • 176 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter /CHILDREN in Singapore's Leper Settlement in Yeo Chu Kang Road are eagerly looking forward to next Saturday when they are to be visited by Sir Franklin Gimson, the Governor of Singapore, and Lady Gimson, and have a party and concert. Sir
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  • 40 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.-Twenty-one-year-old Lee Ah Kwang. condemned to death once for unlaw'Ml possession of arms and whose ease was ordered by the Court of Appeal last week to be retried, died In prison three days ago.
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  • 264 7 Sunday Times Stall' Reporter THE Building Society of Malaya, which closed down A in 1942, has now been re-organised and is ready for business. During the Japanese occupation all the records of the Society, formed in 1938 by Mr. S. 11. Peck, were lost, but they
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  • 66 7 Sunday Times Staff Reporter Owing to the extremely heavy demands from the public, the Singapore Public Relations Film Unit will be giving seven shows this week at the following places: Tomorrow: Boustead Seamen's Institute; Tuesday: Padang Terbakar; Wednesday: Pasir Panjang Village 7 milestone; Thursday:
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  • 358 8 fHiS WEEK FOR YOU LEO (July 24- Aug. 23).— Begin the new week by taking full advantage of any new opportunity for advancement offered to you. You can make up now for any time lost in the past. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22). An unexpected windfall may
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  • 424 8  - WINNING CONTRACT BRIDGE The Joker v ra artlncin two-dub bid (In raapooM to partner's openIng bid of on* no-trump) may at first appear difficult to master. But whan properly understood and used. It la practically foolproof. Not only do numerous occasions aria* whert rta us* is Indicated, but It also
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 503 8 1. These four film or book 9- Who was the first titles are all quotations from woman to swim the Engusn one common source: can you Channel? name It? The Voice of the 10. If you were offered Turtle; The Little Foxes; *ome edelweiss you mltfit Our Vines Have Tender
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    • 122 8 Sunday Times Crossword aaaaaaaaaaaH aaaaaal^ I 1^ I aaaaaaT"^ I ACROSS DOWN 1. Criagt (4) 4 Sootl (61 l 3av& 9» 3- Daciart (4). 10. Day befor, (I). 12. T,n»« >• <«■ (5). 14. JUjrnislus T7). \i. Ba- <*>• (S) i cord (5). 17. Command (t>. 18. <•> *1** I
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  • 268 9 PLANNING a a^no home" wardrobe is a job that should be tackled several months tefore that long-awaited leave. Gradually eliminate those little cotton dres-es and substitute silk and jersey gowvs, which, though not exactly warming for the usual British summer, look well under a fur coat.
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  • 332 9 /^OCONUT lends a distinctive flavour to anything into which it is introduced. These ideas for cake, tarts and macaroons will serve to help you give that delicious "moist" taste to yo'ir teatime sweets. Coconut Tarts YOU need: Two ounces of crated coconut, 'hree o'jrr-^ of sugar,
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  • 90 9 BLACK lace "spats" worn with high heeled black shoes, to accompany a black cocktail frock in black moire taffeta. A charm bracelet a gold chain hung only with hearts. The owner searches second-hand jewellery shops to add to her collection. Tray of Victorian gewgaws are her greatest mines. Included
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  • 530 9 hut*: never had any training in etiquette, but isn't it possible to avoid all breaches by using one's common sense? For that is what etiquette really is. isn't it?— 88. ZiOMMOh sense touched \j off with graciou-^ness and thoughtfulness for others. There's a certain amount of technique to
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  • 875 9 Mary Heathcott sums up LONDON, July 10. TO sum up Lon- don's fashions, as seen at the Board of Trade's Fashion Fortnight, it seems that the new silhoutte has definitely been established and the general line of contemporary clothes fixed. It is goodbye for a long time to
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  • 241 10 Kedah beaten by odd goal Sunday Times Alor Star Correspondent CELANGOR qualified for the final of the Malaya Cup soccer competition yesterday when they beat Kedah two-one in the northern section replay at Alor Star. Selangor now meet Negri Sembilan in the final on Aug.
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    30 10 THE Com- anding Officer of the No. 3 Group Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylon), Lt.-Col. R. H. S. Popham, admiring the caps and shields at yesterday's Group sporfs held at Woodlands.
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  • 274 10 Sunday Times Joh ore Bahru Sports Reporter PROPOSALS are now being i considered for the coming season's State hockey fixtures. Johore enjoys the Thursday afternoon Friday week-end and It Is therefore not easy to arrange fixtures with other States which observe the other weekend Johore must
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  • 239 10 Y.M.C.A. R.I. DRAW THE cricket match between the V.M.C.A. add the Raffles Institution played at the school ground yesterday ended In a draw. The V.M.C.A. batted first afid were dismissed for 108 runs. In reply to which the school scored 94 for eight wickets when stumps were drawn. Scores were:
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  • 27 10 THE S.A.P.A. third division league match between Salle Sports Club and the Mental Hospital played at Ylu Chu Kang yesterday ended m a one-all draw.
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  • 589 10 OALASUBRAMANIAM of Cheong Koon Seng House D was champion athlete at the annual athletic sports meeting of Anglo-Chirese School held at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Tan Kah Kee House won the house championship with 67 points while Cheong Koon Seng House was runners-up. The Junior House Champions
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  • 93 10 jvuai-a j-LMrun, Dai.. rE bowling by Carl Schubert for the Singapore Combined Colleges placed his side in a strong position In their cricket match against Sathlvelu's XI played here today. The Combined Colleger scored 111 runs in their fW. innings, Rodney Lam top set with 31.
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  • 58 10 I*HE following have been selected 1 to represent the Singapore Cricket Club Ist XI vs Malay Football Association In a first division league soccer Jalan Bear Stadium tomorrow: V. Margrave; D. Hamilton, G. Verral; W. Balnbridge, O. McCulloch, A. Mitchell; E. Ten DuU, B cnifton, P. B.
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  • 434 10 Badminton Notes By FEATHER THE junior ties of the Singapore Badminton Association's tournament are reaching the final stages. The men's singles have reached the fourth round, the men's doubles the quarter final, the women's singles the semi-final and the women's doubles the quarter finals. In
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  • 337 10 Sanderson Milne Hit OutForS.RC AF IF T H wicket partnership between R. Milne and J. Sandersgn which yielded 78 runs helped the Singapore Recreation Club to beat the R.A.F. Sembawang in a game of cricket playi ed at the padang, yester- day. R. Milne and J. Sanderson top scored with
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  • 378 10 BRIGHT batting by H. B. Noon (58) ana b. J. Masters (36) enabled the Singapore Cricket Club to beat the Singapore Chinese Recreation Club by 99 runs in a cricket match played on the Fadang vps^prdnv Khoo Ong Lee, opening batsman for the Chinese, had
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  • 120 11 ENGLAND— Ist Inningi Hutton c Tallon b Lindwall. SO J. Dewes b Miller 1 Edrich c Hassett b Johnston t Compton c Morris b I indwal' 4 J. Crapp c TaUon b Miller 0 Yardloy b Lindwall 7 Watklns Ibw b Johnston 0 Evan* b Lin d wall 1
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  • 612 11 From R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW By Special Arrangement LONDON, Saturday. Fm.iv be some satisfaction to set the fact that Hollies bowled Bradman for a duck against the sorry display of England's batsmen in amassing only 52 and taking nearly three hours over it, but it is thin
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    29 11 DRAGON Class yachts round the buoy to begin their event in the Olympic yachting at Torbay on Aug. 3. In foreground is the Swedish "Slaghoken" (S. 183), finishing second.
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  • 367 11 THE following have been selected to represent the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association at the Singapore tr*m championship athletic meeting to be held at RAF. Seletar on Saturday, Aug. 21 at 3 pm. Three miles team (to be run on 18-8-48): Ang Klan Guan (S.C.A. A.F) and
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  • 553 11 LONDON, Saturday. nnHE symbolic Olympic flame was snuffed out in Wembley Stadium today and, with proper pomp, the 14th Olympiad of the modern era was brought ceremoniously to a close. But over the green sward of the giant arena, on the clear waters of the Empire
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  • 209 11 I.A.IN GOOD POSITION v SELETAR TTHE Indian Association were in a 1 good position at the end of the first day's play In their match against the R.A.F. (Seletar) at Seletar yesterday. The Indians batted first and scored 95 and then dismissed three Airmen for 15 runs. Sithaxam (28) and
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  • 76 11 WRESTLERS in three contests in the Happy World's promotion last night were disqualified for foul tactics. In the main event, both Bosca Boa and Jaginder Singh were disqualified In the fourth round for fighting outside the ring. Mukle was disqualified in the fourth round in his fight
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  • 50 11 LONDON, Saturday.—Eliska Misakova, one of the topranking members of Czechoslovakia Women's Gymnastic team, died at Uxbridge Hospital last night, while her team-mates were winning the Olympic title. She had contacted infantile paralysis three days after she arrived In England with the Czech Olympic squad.— U.P.
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  • 225 11 THE following are the final ties in the Tanglln Club's tennis championships TOMORROW Court 1. final of the mixed Handicap Doubles: J. W. Brand and Mrs. J. F Pearcey v. B. C. Fay and Miss L. Walker -Taylor. Court 2. final of the Men's GoDown Doable*:
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  • 244 11 SPLENDID bowling by Delikan, three for seven; D' Almeida, three for 15 and Scully three for 15, enabled St. Joseph's Institution to beat St. Andrew's School by eight wickets, in a cricket match played at Woodsvllle yesterday. St. Andrew's batted first and were dismissed
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  • 96 11 LONDON, Saturday. Today's Scottish League football results are: "A" DIVISION Celtic 0 Morton 0 Dundee 2 Hearts 1 Falkirk 3 Queen of S. 2 Hibernian 5 East Fife '2 Mortherwell 1 Rangers 1 Particle Thistle 3 Albion R. 0 St. Mirren 2 Clyde 1 Third Lanark
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  • 68 11 KINO Kong technically knocked out Lambong in the third round of the main event wrestling match at the Great World last night. In the semi-final. All Riza Bey technically knocked out Tony Romano in the third round. Other results were: Curly Connors beat Tiger Amat
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  • 2324 12 Waveations269, Pam Green $1 78 From EPSOM JEEP VUAVEATION sprang a big surprise to pay the sensational dividend of $269 for a win, highest since the war, at Ipoh yesterday, the first day of the Perak Turf Club's August Meeting. Pam Green, an ex-Singapore griffin,
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    36 12 fin T. J. M. G. Lumsden L (Great Britain) pilots bis mount over the open ditch aa ne competes in the riding contest of the Olympic Games Modern Pentathlon. He was placed third in the riding.
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  • 495 12 LI M KIM SWEE of A. A. A fought a great battle with Choo Piang Lira of Marigold in the only men's singles tie in the Singapore Junior badminton cham- 1 pionships held at the Clerical Union Hal yesterday. Choo showed good stamina but was unable
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  • 111 12 A CROWD of almost 2,000— mostlr soldiers cheered and waved their individual company's competitors In the finals of the No. 3. Group Royal Pioneer Corps (Ceylon) sports at Woodlands yesterday. It was the first time that No. 3 Group held their own sport* In the
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  • 47 12 DISPLAYINO better team work In the second half the Royal Air Force. Onangt defleated the O.H.Q. Signals by 2—o In an S.A.F.A. First Division league match played at Changl yesterday. There was no score at Interval. Thompson and James scored a goal each.
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  • 31 12 A meeting of all B.C.C. players interested in rugger will be held In the club Thursday at 5.30 p.m. The meeting will elect office-bearers and discuss any other business.
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