The Straits Times, 28 March 1949

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    18 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949. PRICE TEN CENTS.
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    CHINA PEACE TALKS BEGIN FRIDAY
    422 1 Reds Adhere To Mao's Eight 'Harsh !> Points NANKING, Sunday. THE Communist New China news agency announced on Saturday that the Communists would begin peace talks with the Nationalists at Peking next Friday. Members of the Government peace delegation have completed the ground work for
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    JOGJA FIT FOR CAPITAL, SAYS UN
    173 1 JOGJA FIT FOR CAPITAL, SA YS UN BATAVIA, Sunday. THE United Nations Commission for Indonesia has reported to the Security Council that there is no serious damage to Jogjakarta, Dutch-occupied Republican capital, which would interfere with the Republican Government's return. However, the Dutch hafe refused to restore Indonesian leaders 1
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    Soviet War Council Revived
    142 1 BERLIN, Sun. RUSSIA has revived her wartime State Defence Council and is rer.-ganizing the Army High Command, according to reports reaching Berlin. American official quarters said the reports indicated Soviet anxiety over the unity of the West under the Atlantic Pact. Tne Defence Council which pi
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    80 Die In Red Zone
    43 1 BERLIN, Sun.— The Ameri-can-controlled radio station Rias said last night that 80 persons had died in Soviet zone concentration camps since 1945. There were 91 existing concentration camps in Eastern Germany to house political prisoners, said Rias.— U.P.
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    Ship Runs Aground
    135 1 SHANGHAI, Sun A COAST radio station announced the receipt of a distress call from the Kwokpeng in the Hainan Straits in which It said It had run aground and required Immediate assistnce "as conditions are dangerous." Meanwhile, in Canton, survivors of the Miss Orient disaster, in which
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    "He Yelled At Us"
    106 1 NANKING, Stan. rE Control Yuan has asked the Chinese Cabinet to censure Mayor K. C. Wn of Shanghai. It complains that the Mayor waj two hours late for a heir- ing to which it had nun-, monrd him, and that when he did arrive he came
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    BAN ON 3 BRITISH FILMS
    146 1 BAN ON 3 BRITISH FILMS SHANGHAI, Sun. < rpHREE British films have X been banned from exhibition by the Communist authorities in Peking. These are Burma Victory. Theirs Is the Glory, (the story of the Arrrhem battle) and the newsreel of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. News of the ban
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    NEW RECORD
    49 1 BERLIN, Sun.— A new iccord for transport of suppii-'s to blockaded Western Berlin was set this week by th*> Allied airlift. Fifty one thousand and forty nine tons were flown In the week ended at noon on Saturday, compared with the old record of 25,683 tons.— AP.
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    MacA's REQUEST TURNED DOWN
    148 1 TOKYO, Sun. ■THE Australian Government has rejected a request by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan, that Sergeant Lorendo Gamboa, an American soldier of Filipino parentage, should be allowed to visit his wife and children. The Australian mission here today received the Commonwealth
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    25 Killed In U.S. Tornadoes
    167 1 NEW YORK, Sunday. rIK death roll of the tornadoes which have swept through several south and south western American states rose early today to at least 25. Sixteen people were killed in Arkansas, six irt Mississippi, two In Oklahoma and one in Texas. Two more
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    47 1 NOT FASHIONS but funds were the concern of these London students who presented a tableaux before Princess Elisabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in mid of inter national students. TheM girls dressed up in the style of the days when croquet was fashionable at schools. Reuter picture.
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    CLAIMED HIM
    46 1 NEW ,YORK, Sun— Henry Noble Hall, aged 76. inter-nationally-known journalist and lecturer, who wrote a book called My Fight Against Cancer, has died in New York from cancer. Mr. Hall became a "human guinea pig" in tht study of atomic treatment of cancer. U.P.
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    PROTESTED AGAINST PROCESSION
    39 1 A MAN AND A GIRL are led away by police after being arrested during the disturbances in Hackney on March 29 when Communists demonstrated against a street procession by Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union. A.P. picture.
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    'Eisenhower As Peace Emissary'
    100 1 NEW YORK, Sun. PROFESSOR Harold Laskl. former British Labour Party chairman proposed last night that General Eisonhower and other Western leaders be sent to Moscow to pave the way for an East-West peace meeting in Stockholm. Mr. Laski. said that with Gen. Elsenhower he would send
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    HIROSHIMA FIRE
    37 1 TOKYO, Sun.— Fire destroyed some 700 structures In the centre of atom- bombed Hiroshima today, it is reported. Most of the structures wore stores, rebuilt since the bomb exploded over the city in 1945— A.P.
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    Three Siam Finance Men Dismissed
    135 1 Three Siam Finance Men Dismissed From Our Own Correspondent BANGKOK. Sun. rREE officials of the Siamese Finance Ministry, who disappeared after the recent disturbance* here, have been dismissed. They all served as officers during- the war in the Free Thai Movement in India. The Siamese Police Chief, Luang Charttrakan Koson,
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    Iran & Soviet Troops Clash
    253 1 Iran Soviet Troops Clash TEHERAN, Sun. PIFTY boviet troops r took part in a frontier incident in which they killed one Iranian soldier and wounded and captured two others. The clash took place in an area claimed by Iran, in the Ourgan district south of Atrek River. The Soviet commander
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    GERMANS REPROACH THE WEST
    137 2 FRANKFURT. Sun. /GERMANS reacted Utterly VI to the news that they mubt give up 52 square miles of territory to France, Belfium, Holland and Luxemurg. *The State Cabinet of North Rhine-Westphalia said the Western Allies' decision violated the Atlantic Charter and international law. Meanwhile, it Is
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    CZECH THREAT TO WIFE
    113 2 LONDON, Sun. Britain stated in a note to the Czechoslovak Government published yesterday that Captain Philip Wildash, expelled British military permit officer, was told by Czech police that his wife would be arrested If ne refused to answer questions. The note affirmed that close interrogation of
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    Italy And France In Customs Union
    50 2 PARIS, Sunday. FRANCE and Italy yesterday signed a treaty designed to tear down the tariff wall between them and eventually unify all their trade. The pact calls for a French and Italian Customs Union in 1950 and a complete economic merger by 1955. AJ.
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      Princess Praises Women In Army
      502 2 LONDON, Sun. "HpHE modern army would be no use at all without 1 the women behind it," Princess Elizabeth told the annual reunion of the Auxiliary Territorial Services (ATS) and Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps yesterday. A subaltern in the ATS herself near the end
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    BURMA MAY RETURN TO THE FOLD
    136 2 LONDON. Sun. rt British are watching for signs that Burma wants to rejoin the Commonwealth. There have been several hard hints that the Government Is thinking .f dO!tit 80. A responsible official told a reporter that the Republic wants to come back into the
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    Denies. Plan To Flee Law
    93 2 KARACHI, Sun. ADAM SMITH, former Dlrec. tor of Operations in the Pakistan Civil Aviation De* partment, yesterday challenged police allegations that he had tried "to run away" from Pakistan. A Briton, he was taken into custody on a charge of forging a permit to fly
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    MURDER ADVICE
    62 2 ROME, Sun. Rome police have arrested a man said to have written to a Communist Deputy asking advice about an attempt to assassinate the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Alcide de Gasperi. The suspect, aged 21 years, held both Communist Party membership card and a card saying he belonged
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    $1,800 MILLION ARMS PLAN
    219 3 U. S. Insurance Against Red Aggression WASHINGTON, Sunday. JHE U.S. State and Defence Departments have prepared a $1,800,000,000 arms programme for Western Europe and other fme nations as down payment on the long-range programme to resist Communist aggression. Administration officials revealed that the programme, drafted for
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    4 3 MR. A. M. HANDY
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    "CEYLON WILL NOT QUIT"
    187 3 "CEYLON WILL NOT QUIT" fEYLON will not follow In- dia if the latter decides to quit the British Commonwealth, said Mr. A. M. Handy, a partner in a leading Ceylonese firm of De Souza and Company who arrived here this week from Colombo on a short business visit. He returns
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    K.L. FAREWELL
    41 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun The old boys of the Victoria Institution entertained Mr. L Shaw, headmaster of the school from 1925 to 1936 to a farewell dinner last night. Mr. Shaw is leaving Mulaya next month.
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    SUDDEN DEATH
    48 3 The death occurred suddenly yesterday of Mr. Thomas Francis Xavier of tlie United Engineers Mechanical Department, Mr. Xavier came '.o Singapore in 1920 and joined the United Engineers as a draftsman. He was at work as usual on Saturday. He leaves a widow and six children.
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    Singapore Diary
    94 3 TODAY I NT Monday Morning Market, Presbyterian Church, Orchard Road, 8.30 a.m. to noon. International Artists 1 Association, life class, British Council Centre, Stamford Road, 6 p m to 8.30 p m. V W.C.A.. International fortnightly Club. Dr H. B. Amstutz on •Borneo," 5. Raffles Quay, 8 p.m.
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    "Not Been Consulted"
    131 3 From Ou 1 Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sun. THE chairman of the Penang i Chamber of Commerce, i Mr. D. A. MacKay, said today I that to the best of his knowledge the Malayan Govern- ment had not been consulted I about the proposed American I restitution for
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    72 3 SINGAPORE MOTOR CLUB beld a private gymkhana at Bukit Batok yesterday for its members. Six events testing driving skill were organised. A competitor, F. M. Jones, swerving round a pylon in the "Chicane" competition. In this event drivers had to drive between pylons placed on the centre of the road.
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    Devaluation Of £ Inevitable. Good'
    309 3 Devaluation Of Inevitable. Good' From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. [REVALUATION of sterling is regarded as inevitable sooner or later by the Mincing Lane rubber brokers George White and Yuille. They think it would benefit world trade generally and rubber particularly. With a probable new rate oi US$3 or $3.25
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    NEW MOVE AGAINST SYNTHETIC
    305 3 NEW MOVE AGAINST SYNTHETIC From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun. HOLLANDS delegation to 11 the Rubber Study Group conference in London tomorrow will press for abolition of the obligatory use of synthetic in the United States, according to Dr. J. de Jonge, a member of the delegation. Dr. de Jonge,
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    IPOHS NEW HANGAR
    55 3 IPOH, Sun.— Work on the new hangar for the Perak Flying Club's two primaries, two gliders and a soarer Is expected to start early next month and completed before the arrival of the gliders about six weeks hence, announced Mr. J. D. Mead, vice-President of the club
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    NEW MOON DAY
    38 3 New Moon Day which falls today will be celebrated at the Sinhala Buddhist Temple 263, Outram Road, Singapore, by the Singapore Buddhist Association. All are invited. 6.00 p.m. Illumination 7.00 p.m. Service 7.30 p.m. Sermon.
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    THE COMMONWEALTH GOES ON
    185 3 THL British Commonwealth tat Rockefeller Foundation is far from breaklng-up. and the Institute of Pacific sa'.d an American University 1 Relations, t r- lessor, Miss Gwendolen M.I In Australia, where Miss Carter, who is studying the l atter is travelling this week, Dost- war position of
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    BRITISH ATTITUDE TO SIAM
    140 3 BRITISH ATTITUDE TO SIAM From Our own Correspondent BANGKOK. Sun. OfiNl Pramot. former Pre13 mier and at one time Siamese Ambassador to Washington, who has just returned from a visit to London at the request of the British Council, said In an Interview that Britain felt that the disorders In
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    Trade Hopes In Indonesia
    83 3 Trade Hopes In Indonesia BATAVIA, Sun. DR. Paul Rijkens. chairman of the board of Unilever and Lever Brothers, who visited Singapore and Kuala Lumpur recently, stated in Batavia yesterday that the economic possibilities of Indonesia were more favourable than those of Malaya, according to Aneta, the Dutch news agency. He
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    MEN FOR THE TOP JOBS
    76 3 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun The important part the j Malayan Technical Association could play in the Government's policy of filling higher posts with juniors now being trained was stressed by the Chief Secretary, Sir Alec Newboult. last night, at the annual dinner
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    PORK FROM MALACCA
    79 3 From Oar Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Sun. Pig breeding was stimulated by the demand from Singapore for pork although the high price of feeding stuffs and the fluctuating price of pigs tended to discourage breeding, states the Malacca Settlement annual report for ii»48. Restriction was placed on slaughter
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    German G.S. Revived'
    71 3 LONDON LONDON, Sun THE Soviet Army newspaper Red Star alleges that America has revived the German General Staff "under the guise of a Military Historians Committee The paper said the German staff was directed by a war criminal (Gen. rriti von Haider), former chief of Hitler's General
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 28, 1949 RECORD YEAR OF TRADE
    1162 4 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Mar. 28, 1949 RECORD YEAR OF TRADE It is paradoxical that in re- viewing the trade of a year that was replete with records, i the chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce should i find himself becoming the prophet of woe, but the merest
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    THEIR FINEST HOUR
    2367 4  -  WINSTON S. CHURCHILL BATTLE OF THE OCEANS By The RL Hon. 'J'HE destruction of the Graf Spec in the action off the Plate in December, 1939, had brought to an abrupt end the first German campaign against our shipping in the wide oceans. The fighting in Norway
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      593 4 A RECENT United Nations; economic survey covering nearly all countries except Russia, showed that Asia's production of rice is a'most at pre-war levei, yet, according to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, world production is still three million tons short of
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      LOCAL-BORN INDIANS
      144 4 A CCOHDING to Mr. S. O. Mohamed Ishak, a Singapore shop proprietor, Indian shopkeepers prefer to bring assistants from India rather than engage Malayan-born Indians because the men from India can be trusted to a greater extent. These men, he said, looked after the business as if it
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      BEACHES, POOLS AND PARKS
      108 4 MR. Thio Chan Bee raised the matter of the development of beach facilities for Dublic use. at the last meeting of the Legislative Council. He received the answer that Changi would be the only suitable place. This Is evasion of the whole question on the part
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    GUN BATTLE FOR BANDIT CAMP
    396 5 Seaforths At Segamat In Jungle Action From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. CEAFORTH Highlanders and Police on Saturday afternoon dislodged a big bandit gang from its camp on a jungle-covered hill near Segamat in Johore, after a gun battle of over an hour. Two
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    MUNICIPALITY WILL MAKE HISTORY
    240 5 SINGAPORE Municipality will make history next month when it sends Mr. Tan Beng Lay, a local born senior official in the Municipal Treasurer's Department to Nottingham, England, for a year's training in the City Treasurer's Department there. Mr. Tan, a technical assist- r am who has
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    U.S. Typhus Team Back
    133 5 r S. Army medical research workers have returned to Malaya to conduct new tetas of the drug chloromycetin which has already proved strikingly effective in thp treatment of scrub typhus, typhoid and other fevers, says a U.P. message from Washington. A team of doctors \nd tcjtntists
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    Services For Nurses
    148 5 rE first Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps' Day celebrated in Singapore and Johore Bahru yesterday at special church services From 1902, until this year the present Corps was known as Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. By Royal warrant, its title has now been changed. Yesterday
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    CHILD VICTIM
    36 5 A six-year-old Chinese boy, Ho Ah Kow. dded on his wav to hospital at about 1 p.m. yes<erday, after being knocked down by a lorry at the (unction of Albert Street and Queen Street,
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    Two Events Fixed
    162 5 i TWO events have now been A finalised for the Hospital Week which is being held from May 2 to May 9 to raise $60,000 for the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. The ball at Flagstaff House, which is being thrown open for the occasion by the C-in-C
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    OLD BOYS' ASSN OFFICERS ELECTED
    76 5 St. Andrew's Old Boys' Association" officers elected annual meeting yesterday are: President, Mr. Robert Eu, vice-Presidents, Messrs. C. S. Dong and Francis Thomas and Dr. Y. Cohen, Secretary, Mr. S. T. Goh, assistant Secretary, Mr. Tan Eng Chiang, treasurer, Mr. Jacob Ballan, Association representative on
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    SIR FRANKLIN ENJOYED IT
    126 5 The Governor of Singapore, The Sultan of Pahang and present yesterday, children Sir Franklin Gimson was in were otner nter from toddlers to 14-year olds ested visitors. presented a short variety happy mood yesterday when The exhibition has been concert consfsting of Malay with hundreds of
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    42 5 SINGAPORE DOG SHOW: Above: Mr. George Candilotis with three Cocker spaniels which he exhibited. Below: Mrs. H. van Cuylenberg with her Cocker spaniel, Prince of Harbourne. The show, organised by the Malayan Kennel Association, raised funds for the S.A.T.A. Straits Times picture.
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    $1,000,000 Fire Station Plans
    131 5 DLANS for the $1,000,000 fire station at Alexandra Roaa arc Delng prepared by the Municipal Architect's Department. The new fire station when complete will compare with some of the most up-to-date stations in Europe and America, a Municipal official told the Straits Times. Assembly of fire
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    DIED AFTER ATTACK
    81 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.--Mr. Justice Laville at the Assizes today sentenced a 58-year-old labourer Kaliappan, to three and a naif years imprisonment for grievously hurting his stapson, Pachiamuttu, with a tapping knire. Pachiamuttu, aged 18, died later. The charge was reduced from one of murder. Pachiamuttu intervened when
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    ROYAL VISITORS
    25 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The Sultan of Pahang accompanied by his consort attended the monthly dance at the Royal Johore International Club last night:
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    TEXTILE IMPORTS ANXIETY
    248 5 CEARS that the Colony's re-export trade in textiles would be lost should Government continue to delay the announcement of the Japanese textiles import quota were expressed by a leading American textiles import firm in Singapore yesterday. The continued ban on American textile imports makes it vital for
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    Public Interest Growing In Municipal Poll
    184 5 Public Interest Growing In Municipal Poll "INTEREST in the elections seems to be growing in Singapore" said the Supervisor of Municipal Elections, Mrs. A. S. M. Hawkins yesterday. "Many people have been asking me where their particular polling station is, how to vote, and other election questions." Mrs. Hawkins will
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    10,000 WANT TO JOIN
    61 5 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Sun. The rapid growth of the Perak branch of the Malayan Chinese Association was referred to at today's meeting of the assocition when Mr. Leong Yew Joh announced that since the branch had been formed only a month ago more than
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    RURAI RATES
    62 5 Rates and taxes for 1949 for Singapore's rural areas, resolved at a meeting of the Rural Board in December last have now been approved by Government. There is no change on 1948. An education rate of one per cent, is fixed in 27 districts on the annual value
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    Doctor Has A Chinese Bride
    197 5 Doctor Has A Chinese Bride By Our Woman Correspondent MISS Chua Swee Llew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chua Cheng Liat of Singapore was married to Dr. George Reginald Wadsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Wadsworth of Liverpool at St. Andrew's Cathedral on Saturday. The bridegroom is a« Singapore
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      RUSSIANS MAY BE DENIED OUR RUBBER AND TIN
      487 6 RUSSIANS MAY BE DENIED OUR RUBBER AND TIN From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sun. A POSSIBLE ban on Malayan exports of tin and rubber to Russia is indicated by reports in London that much greater care is to be taken to ensure that Russia and her satellites are not enabled
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      Singapore Produce
      131 6 From A Market Correspondent LITTLE activity wm seen in the Singarjora product markets at the week-end although the outlook In main sections had improved during the week. With the possibility of a better deal given by Britain for Malayan sago flour and pearl, trading improved and the market
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      BOLIVIAN TIN
      45 6 DURING January, Bolivia exported the equivalent of 2,500 metric tons of tin, compared with 4.480 tons in December and 2,507 tons In January a year ago. The decline In shipments was the result of a temporary curtailment In operations by the Patino group.
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      Dow Jones Averages
      23 6 Mar. 25 Mar. 26 Industrials 175.83 175.82 Rails 47.78 47.88 Domestic Bonds .98.52 98.52 Utilities 3530 35.30 —Straits Times Service
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      LONG-DATED LOAN—BUT NO GIFT—FORESEEN
      82 6 LONG-DATED LOAN— BUT NO GIFT— FORESEEN From Our Own Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. HOPES expressed in Malaya that a, British Government gift towards emergency costs might amount to between £7.000.800 and £B»M,W6 are .nUkely to be realised, says the Dally Tele-'^He'-ysM^^bout £8.000,00. of a proposed £12.000,000 loan will be raised In
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      Malayan Shares Had A Dull Week
      458 6 From A Market Correspondent. MALAYAN markets had a dull week last week, with little fluctuation and only a small turn-over. In Dollar Tins, Petaling changed locally at $8.80 and $8 75, and only towards the end did London supply a few by meeting this
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      LONDON STOCKS
      346 6 DOTH Rubbers and Tins were firm on the London Stock Exchange at the close of the week. There were several price Improvements. Firmness in Tobaccos was one of the few bright features in Industrials, says Reutw's financial correspondent. Support In the Ollt-edged market was small. Closing middle prices
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      Week-End Rubber
      152 6 "no. oiuyapw c vhmuuw vi 1 Commerce Rubber Association"* noon prices on Saturday i Mar. 28) were, in cents per lb.: Bayer Seller No. 1 R.S.B. Spot loos* nominal 36 36^ F. 0.8. in bales Apr. No. 1 R.S.S. 36. 36 'i No. a R.S.S. 34 34 H
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    LOWLY LEICESTER If CUP FINAL
    607 7 First Time In Club 's History I EICESTEB City, a Second Di£^lub^faced it i? a th^ of rele sat«on f have reached the football Association Cup Bn^i for the first time in their history. They will, however, have to wait until the result of the
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    French Take First Three Places
    120 7 French Take First Three Places DUBLIN, Sun. F&ENCH runners filled the first three places in the seven nations' International cross-country championship at Beldoylc race here yesterday. The winner was A. Mimoun, with a time of 47 min. 50 sec. for the nine miles course. He was followed home by R.
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    Wales End Up At The Bottom
    177 7 Wales End Up At The Bottom W PARIS, Sun. ALES, beaten by Prance by five points to three yesterday in the last International Rugby Union match of the season, finished at the bottom of the championshio table A faster and better-heeling pack gave France their win. The backs of both
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    Cardiff Maintain Record
    358 7 Cardiff Maintain Record .LONDON. Sun rS healthy state of Rugby football In Cardiff was emphasised by the way the team preserved their unbeaten away record agalnfc Wasps at Sudbury yesterday. The Welsh club Included nine reserves and they won more convincingly than the margin of three points would suggest. Wasps'
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    WOODCOCK K.O.s RALPH IN 3 ROUNDS
    416 8 WOODCOCK K.O.s RALPH IN 3 ROUNDS "Killing Right" Decides Bout JOHANNESBURG, Sunday. BRUCE Woodcock, Empire, European and British heavyweight champion, knocked out Johnny j Ralph the South African heavyweight champion, in the third round of their ten-round fight here lasti night. After starting off in whirlwind fashion, and chasing Woodcock
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    Civilians Beat Army In Trial
    514 8 Singapore 5; S'pore District (Xrmy) 3. SINGAPORE'S chances of regaining the Malaya Cup from Negri Sembilan are very bright if one vere to judge by "the two trial games. In the first rame against Royal Navy a week ago, a Singapore trial team won by
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    152 8 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Sun.—Rain soon after play was resumed following the lunch interval caused the cricket match between Jotaore C.C. and the Indian Association to be abandooned today. Johore. getting first lease of the wicket, had lost eight wickets for 138 when play was
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    KHALSA CRICKET ABANDONED
    50 8 THE cricket match between the Khalsa Assn. and the P.W.D. at St. George's Road yesterday, was abandoned owing to rain. The Khalsa Assi,. had scored 99 run» for the loss of one wicket S Nair 57 not out, M. S. Gill 36 not out) when rain intervened.
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    UK Plans For Games
    198 8 LONDON, Sunday. ALTHOUGH the Empire Games are not due to be staged until February 1950 in New Zealand, several English athletes have been asked whether tintvan make the trip, if selected. The response has been officially described as "encouraging." Plans are being made to send representative
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    U.K. FOOTBALL LEAGUE TABLES
    771 8 nivisiov ON*. p W D L F Apt. Porthii'ou b 32 19 8 5 60 28 4U Newcastle 33 17 8 7 58 42 43 Derby C. 32 16 8 9 51 43 40 Charlton 34 14 10 10 54 61 36 Manch. U. 30 14
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    58 8 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Jnr. A. Grp. 2, Post Tele. Union w. Hong Kong S'hai Bank S.C.— Cieylang; Jnr. B. Grp. 2. S.H. A.U. t. Cosmos St. GeorgV* Road. FRIENDLY SOCCER: French Air Fore* v. S.A.F.A— Jalan Besar; St. Andrew's School St. Patrick's School—Woodsville; Victoria Institution T. St. Anthony's School
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    Malay Wins 25-Mile Cycle Race
    302 8 Malay Wins 25-Mile Cycle Race rE 25-miles massed-start road race, the first event in the Singapore Best All-Rounder Open Cycling Competition, was won by Suktm bin Hajl Naib of the Malay Cycling Union yesterday. Sukim heat the Malayan champion. Awthar Singh and Huynh Van Thuong of the Chong Hwa Cycling
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    French A.F. Meet SAFA Today
    101 8 French A.F. Meet SAFA Today THE French Air Force soccer team from Saigon meet the S.A.F.A. at Jalan Besar Stadium today. A good game is assured for, despite being beaten by the combined R.A.F. on Saturday, the Saigon airmen gave a praiseworthy display. Their goalkeeper was outstanding. The S.A.F.A. side
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    KLEINMAN AND HOPE BAT WELL
    147 8 BENNY KLEINMAN and Sandy Hooe, scoring 73 not out and 51 respectively, enabled the Recs to score 182 for six declared in their game against the Customs S.C. on the padang yesterday. Customs had scored 23 for one when rain stopped play. The scores were:
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    2 U.S. BOXERS FOR AUSTRALIA
    80 8 MELBOURNE. Sun. rO American boxers are due to reach Australia early in April. They are Cecil Schoonmaker (bantam) and Rudy Cruz (lightweight) Schoonmaker. a negro, is rated a.s world's No. 2 bantam In the latest issue of the American boxing Journal "The Ring." Cruz, of
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    "Dark Tips" Did Not Come Off
    336 8 By EPSOM JEEP KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. A SMALL fortune was lost on "dark" stable tips which eventually turned out to be well-backed avourites at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. A lot of noney unaccountably went on horses like June Veil, Polish Bride and Liberty. June
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    Recs Scores 160 At Tanglin
    90 8 BOWLING for G.H.Q. FARELr j against the Singapore Recreation Club In a game of cricket played at Tanglin yesterday, Captain Cumarasamy took seven wickets for 51 runs. The Recreation Club batted first and scored 160 run- (E. Ebert 45. V. C. Westerhout 32, E. Le
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    TWO MILLION WATCHED U.K. SPORTS FEAST
    402 8 From VERNON MORGAN LONDON, Sunday. SATURDAY, March 26, turned out to be the memorable British sporting day that had been expected, even if the results did not turn out as generally forecast. More than 2,000,000 sports tans of both sexes watched yesterday's feast of
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    JOLLILADS WIN
    103 8 rE Jollllads beat a Pakistan Navy team two-nil in a friendly match at Geylang Stadium yesterday. Both goals came in the second half. Krishnasamy from a penalty, and Sarahudln were the scorers The Jollilads meet the S.C.C. first XI In a friendly match on tba padang this afternoon.
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