The Straits Times, 4 February 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1950 J^L PRICE TEN CENTS
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    BAO DAI SEES VIETMINH SPLIT
    361 1 Nationalists Will Not Back Soviet Move PARIS, Friday. JHEhead of the Vietnam State, Bao Dai, said today that he thought the Russian recognition of Ho Chi Minh's Communist regime in Indo-China would not strengthen the antiFrench Vietminh organisation which is demanding national autonomy. Bai Dai
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    43 1 MB. SKY>IOI R HILLS, ifl a printer who last year was President of the Oxford I'nion. has been adopted M I iliour candidate to oppose Mr. Winston Churchill, the < onservative leader, in the Woodford. fcs«»«*x, tonstitutmeg at the British gtmenl ••'pctions— A.P. picture.
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    VISHINSKY ON THE A-BOMB
    223 1 MOSCOW, Friday. ryHE Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinky, says that Russia's possession of the atom bomb nt npelled "imperialist warmongers" to moderate fh M r tone. "The Soviet Union has accomplished the most important devaluation.' .he said —"the deviation of the atomic bomb" Mr. Vishinsky
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    GRENADES THROWN IN SINGAPORE
    94 1 "TWO handgrenades were thrown last night into a car park in Al-Junied Road used by 70 vehicles of the Singapore Traction Company. One exploded and caused damage* to two buses. There were no casualties. Police conducted an immediate search of the area. Roadblocks were established. Two
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    ITALIAN TRUSTEE
    32 1 ROME. Fri Premier Alcide de Gasperi's n^w Government easily won its first test when the Chamber of Deputies voted to consider legislation approving Italy's United Nations mandate over Somaliland.— A.P.
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    SCORES FREEZE TO DEATH
    38 1 ISTANBUL. Fri.-Scores of people were today reported frozen to death in the worst recorded cold spelll in Tur-^ kish history. Temperature in the Istanbul atod Ankara areas fell today to 25 below zero centigrade.—Reuter.
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    ROLLING STRIKE
    48 1 SYDNEY. Fri. -A "rolling strike"— a series of snap stoppages at different places and times— is holding up shipping in Brisbane and three other Queensland ports. The aim of the present strike is a full day's pay for all dockers and pensions at 60.— A P
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    BUDDHIST RELICS FOR BURMA
    149 1 COLOMBO. Fri THE British cruiser Kenya set out on a unique mission today carrying sacred relics of Buddha, from Ceylon to Burma. The relics Sarvagna and Arahat- were taken to Colombo from the "Tempi of the Tooth' 1 In Kandy early today. They are to be
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    68 1 ONE OF THE FIRST PICTURES of Capt. "Turk" Westerling's "Army of the Heavenly Host" m Bandoeng This croup of tough former fighters of the Dutch Army is ■shown guarding a Bandoeng street. Below: Light automatic guns, ammuniton clips and sword-, se'zed the day after Bandoeng was taken when Indonesian military
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    British Scientist On Atom Charges
    222 1 LONDON, Friday. ITARL Fuchs, a scientific oflicer for the Ministry of i Supply, was charged with two violations of the j Official Secrets Act in Bow Street Court today. Fuchs is employed in the Ministry's atomic research plant at Harewell. At a preliminary hearing. Fuchs
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    LOAN TO U.S.I.
    29 1 WASHINGTON. Fri. The Indonesian Economic Affairs Minister, Dr. Raden Djuanda. believes that the Export-Im-port Bank is considering favourably a US$lOO,OOO,OOO loan for the new Republic A.P.
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    WONG PENG SOON FOR ENGLAND
    59 1 LONDON, fri. WOXG Peng Soon has cabled bis entry for the a 1 1-Kngland badminton championships here next month and settled any doubts about his plans. Earlier, it was stated that N. B. Radford. Britain's number one player, who will partner Wong in the doubles,
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    40,000 Will Watch The Games Begin
    252 1 AUCKLAND, Friday. THE fourth British Empire Games will be opened at Eden Park Stadium here tomorrow afternoon by the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C The ceremony, in which 600 athletes from 12 nations of the Commonwealth will take part, will be watched by a
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    "STALIN SHOULD BE TRIED"
    182 1 "STALIN SHOULD BE TRIED" NEW YORK. Fri. MR. Joseph B. Keenan, a United States war crimes prosecutor, declared today that if anyone should be put in the dock for conspiring to commit aggression, it was Generalissimo Stalin. Mr. Keenan. who was chief prosecutor at the war crimes trial of Japanese
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    65 VICTIMS OF TRAIN CRASH
    50 1 NEW YORK. Fri.— The Mil- wuakee railroads streamlined passenger train Scheppewa Hiawatha went off the tracks* here tonight. One passenger was killed and 64 were injured. Six cars were derailed when the train apparently struck a broken rail, 22 miles north of Mil-; '.vaukee.— U.P.
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    SID FIELD DEAD
    19 1 LONDON, Fri. Sid Field, 45, Britain's leading comedian, died at his home here early today. U.P.
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    JUDGE GRANTS HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
    346 1 JUDGE GRANTS HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Arrested Malacca Chinese From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN, Friday. ]y|R. Justice Pretheroe in the High Court at Seremban today made an order for the issm of a rule nisi for the case of a well-known Malacca Chinese, Tan Kee Gak, to be heard at Malacca
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    H.K. Tram Men Write To Canton
    216 1 HONG KONG. Fri. HONG KONG tramway workers at a me j last night decided to send a, letter to the "Preparatory j Committee of the Canton General Labour Union and all Canton brother workers appealing for support in the deadlock which has followed their
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      413 2 NOTICES ii ORDER OF THECHIEFI SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY tNdINLtK, UIHJ-. TAKtLr Commissioners ars proposing to consider the whoto subject of the iimiik NO DIR'ENGRS It .specifications of motor vshlclss which may be adopted for reglstral Tinders are invited for the Uon licensing as Taxis tn „r l lOT SCRAP METAL Singapore.
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      595 2 NOTICES NOTICE MALAYAN CHINESE lomdon chamber of com- MEBCE EXAMINATIONS. ASSOCIATION spring ini 91 Unlimited Sweepstake OerUllcates for the above For MEMBERS only examinations hav* been received Drawing at Kuala Lumpur on and successful Selangor candlSUNDAY. 2«tfc February, datea are requested to call at my 1950 office with their result
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      312 2 HOTICE0 j THABAWLEIK TIN DREDGING LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE OF DIVIDEND NOTICE Is hereby given thmt a 1 Dividend, the Twenty-ninth of One Shilling and Three Pence I (l/3d> per share, less Malayan d Income Tuc at 30%, ha* been g declared due and payable to
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      352 2 NtfTICES AUSTRAL MALAY TIN LIMITED (Incorporated In the Federation Of Malaya) NOTICE OF DIVIDEND NOTICE is hereby given that a Dividend, the Fifty-eighth of, Two Shillings and Six Pence (3/6 d) per share, less Malayan Income Tax at 20%, has been declared due and payable to registered shareholders at the
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      396 2 NOTICES THE KUNDONG RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED (Incorporated in the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE IS HEREBY OIVEN that the Twenty-Fourth Annual General Meeting of THE KUNDONG RUBBER ESTATE, LTD.. will be held at the Registered Office of the Company, 96, Ampang Road. Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, the 14th d*y of February.
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      249 2 NOTICES CEYLON COMMISSIONER IN SINGAPORE MALAYA The Offlce has b-rn estnbli^h-f-ti at:— Room 301. Kong Hoa Building. 2B. George Street, (Behind Central Police Station), SlnsMpore. Office Hours:— 9 a.m.— fi p.m. (Saturdays to 1 p.m.) exeunt Sunday* and Public Holiday* Saturday the 4th Febnuwv. being Ceylon Dominion Day. the Offlc*
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    U.S. TO MAKE HELL-BOMB: 'NO REASON TO NOTIFY U.N.
    375 3 WASHINGTON, Friday. PRESIDENT TRUMAN announced yesterday that it was neither necessary nor advisable for the United States to promise an end to its work on the hydrogen bomb if atomic weapons were internationally outlawed. H e saw no reason why any"
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    Parliament Dissolved For Polls
    223 3 LONDON, Fri. JHE King signed a proclamation today ending the life of a Parliament which has re-made Britain. This action clears the way for the General Election on Feb. 23. Under a large Labour Party majority, the House of I Commons has transformed an empire of
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    GERMANS URGED, DESERT TO HO'
    71 3 BERLIN. Fri.— The Ctmmunist East German Government has offered a free voyage home to all Germans fighting with the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam who deserted to the Communist rebel leader Ho Chi-Minh. 'Tens of thousand of German youths fell on the Vietnam battlefields and
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    Prasad's Message To Mao Tse-Tung
    86 3 DR. RAJENDRA PRASAD, President of the Indian Republic, seen above at the Indian Republic day, celebrations in New Delhi, replying to greetings from Mao Tsetung, head of the Chinese Communist Government, said yesterday that India looked forward "to strengthening her friendly relations that had existed
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    THEFT OF ART TREASURES
    88 3 KIEL, Fri.-A 25-year-old German student, sought by police on suspicion of stealing nearly 2,000 vorks of art by famous masters has given himself up. The missing works are said to be worth several hundred thousand pounds. Tipped off by an anonymous telephone call, police found about
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    BANKRUPTCY WARNING TO UK WORKERS
    68 3 Berriwii LONDON, Friday. RIIIMI rng.neenn* employers yesterday turned down ip to £i a a^e™J UDIOnS tOt W e risM of 10 1*"1 I 1 8 of the 3,000,090 workers affected that the waje rises— costing more than 100 000 000 a year— would wipe out
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    AIRLIFT WARNING: U.S. SAYS 'WE ARE READY'
    113 3 WASHINGTON, Friday THE United States State Department announced tonight it was "actively contemplating" countermeasures against Russia in retaliation for the i "creeping" traffic hold-up to Berlin, and was ready if necessary to re-establish the airlift. I Berlin reports today said Germans feared the
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    ANTI-T.B. SUCCESS
    120 3 ANTI-T.B. SUCCESS LONDON, Fri. THE discovery in Japan of a new anti-tuberculosis drug, which is claimed to have cured over 40 Der cent of specially treated cases, is reported in the current issue of the British Medical Journal. The Journal quotes Japa- ne se claims that the drug, I know
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    A Boy Is Born To Ingrid Bergman
    277 3 INGRID ROBERTO M ROME. Friday. ¥>OKID Bergman, Swedish-born film star who filed a suit for a Mexican divorce from her husband, Dr. Pete^Lindstrom, last week, gave birth to a baby boy ih Rome last night. The suit was filed so that she could
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    QUICK JAP PEACE TREATY URGED
    55 3 TOKYO. Fri. Canada wants a Japanese peace treaty "at the earliest moment 1 with or without all Allied countries participating, Mr. Lester Pearson, Canadian Foreign Minister, told a press conference yesterday. Mr. Pearson is on a fourday visit to get information on the occupation of
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    Back To Palestine
    26 3 GENEVA, Fri.— Repatriation of 90.000 Arab refugee women and boys to Israel is under way following an agreement between Jews and Arabs. A.P.
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      Dog Spoke In Hoarse Voice: Woman Fainted
      298 3 LONDON, Friday. JHt Fifeshire owners of a four-year-old black Pekingese show do* named Blacki c 80l claim he can talk. Mr. and Mrs. David Beattie say that three years agro when Blackie "began to find his voice" tney thought there was something wrong
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    BANDIT VICTIM
    28 4 BANDIT VICTIM m LATE MR. W. M. M. M\(IK)NAI.D. assistant ■uuwcer of Sabai Estate, Bcntim:; who was murdered 1., tundits while on rounds mi his estate last week.
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    CINEMAS WANT LICENCE FEES CUT FROM $11,250 TO $20
    249 4 CINEMAS WANT LICENCE FEES CUT FROM $11,250 TO $20 A PETITION for a reduction in the police or show licence fees imposed on cinemas has been sent to the Singapore Government by the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Singapore and the Federation of Malaya and Shaw Bros. Ltd., who together represent
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    Fewer Stowaways To S'pore In 1949
    183 4 «\I.Y 24 stowaways tried to get into Singapore last year, as compared with 123 in 1948 and 111 111 "he stowaways, most of them Chinese had been lured to the Colony by stories of wealth and etsv obs They hid themselves in the cargo
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    MINE WORKERS ILL AFTER MEAL
    88 4 from Our SUIT <"orre*pondenl IPOH, Fri. SOON alter eating a meal of rice, fish and yeRi tables this morning, 28 Chinese labourers on the 1 ong Sin Nam mine at 1 Tilok Kruin, a few miles f;<tm lpoh, became vio- i 1 ntiv sick wi
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    OLD LICENCES
    40 4 Irom 'iur M>>iident JOHORF BAHRU. Fri. lanab Aii bin A Hu.ssuin and Ang Yap Seng, two Singapore drivers, who stopped in Johore Bahru without current or Indices were fined $10 and $7. respectively, in the Pulice Court yesterday.
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    243 HAWKERS
    35 4 From Our Own Correspondent MUAR, Fri— A total of 243 hawker and 78 street stall licences were issued last year j according to the 1949 annual report of the Muar Town I Board.
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    VARSITY FUND
    23 4 The University or Malaya Endownment Fur\d cached $2,116,328 at the end of January, an increase of about $36,000" since last week.
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    NEW YEAR WILL COME IN WITH A BANG
    80 4 SINGAPORE Chinese fire- cracker dealers have .on Governmental consent to the setting off of crakers on Feb. 17— Chinese New Year. A Government Gazette announcement to this effect is expected soon. Specific apprwal for the getting off of fire*. lackers is required
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    GIFT FROM THE U.S.I.
    55 4 A FAREWELL GIFT from President Soekarno of the United States of Indonesia to Shri C. Rajagopalat hari, who retired as Governor-General of India with the inauguration of the Indian Republic. Handing it over is Dr Soedarsono, Indonesian Charge d'Affaires. Pandit Nehru and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur are
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    'SCOUTS AS CHEAP LABOUR'
    83 4 'SCOUTS AS CHEAP LABOUR' From Our G«a Correspondent SEREMBAN, Fri. CEREMBAN Boy Scouts are being used as "cheap labour", the Seremban District Scout Commissioner, Mr. Ngui Choon Jin, said at the, Seremban Scouts Association's annual meeting. He said that interests of Scouts should be s.ileg.'aroed Application for the help of
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    FOOD MISSION IN COLONY
    138 4 ANINE-man mission ol united aiaies uovernmer officials arrived in Singapore yesterday on a tou of South-East Asia to survey food problems that ar likely to occur over the next two or three years. Mr. Stanley Andrews, senior member of the mission, said yesterday that food problems
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    THEFT CHARGE
    29 4 From Our Own Correspondent SEGAMAT, Fri. —A tapper, 27-year-old Lee Mock Sang, was charged at Segamat with stealing stolen 56 katies of scrap rubber. He claimed trial
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    Where Rumours ARE Welcome
    124 4 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. AN information room foi the receipt of rumours oi reports connected with bandits in Selangor is now operating, said Mr. G. W. Somerville, the State organiser foi Anti-Bandit Month, today. The room at present operlates only during the day,
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    Soviet Charters U.S. Ship To Carry Malayan Rubber
    193 4 Soviet Charters U.S. Ship To Carry Malayan Rubber From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Friday. THE Soviet Union has chartered an American J ship, the Memphis City, to carry an estimated 10.000 tons of rubber from Malaya to Odessa. The Memphis City is due in Penang at the end of February,
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    TWO ACQUITTED
    44 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Fri Kumar an. Roscote Estate clerk, and Daniel, dispenser of the same estate, were acquitted on a charge of assaulting Ahmad Shah, a labourer of the same estate by the Magistrate in the Police Court yesterday.
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    Ceylonese To Choose Country
    123 4 Ceylonese To Choose Country From Our SUff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. 'EYLONESE living in Malaya will have an opportunity oon to decide whether they rant Ceylonese or Federal itlzenship. The new Ceylon Commisioner for the Federation wr.'.l Singapore, Mr. 11. Sarav. nuttu, said this after he had jresenied his rret'enti
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    FACE FACTS, SAYS PLANTING LEADER
    723 5 FACE FACTS, SAYS PLANTING LEADER Much False Tranquillity 9 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. ■yjR. Haddon-Caye, chairman of the Central Sefangor District Planters' Association, today hit* out at what he called the false tranquillity of thought in present-day Malaya, the reluctance to look hard facts in the face.
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    THE OLD WAY... ...AND THE NEW
    102 5 THE OLD WAY... ...AND THE NEW MR. AND MRS. CHI A KIM SOON (above) who were married according to traditional Chinese custom in Malacca on Sunday. Mr. Chua is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chua Chye Cheng and the bride is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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    'TYRANNY OF THE WIVES'
    112 5 'TYRANNY OF THE WIVES' From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Fri. PENANG'S Anti-Bandit Month organiser. Mr. R. Gibson, told a Penang press conference today that "ladies are not only keeping back —they are holding back their husbands" in the antibandit work. One man had said he was willing to Join
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    NEW SHIP DOCKS
    22 5 The Ben Lines newest freighter the Benalder, docked yesterday at Singapore on her maiden voyage frr.m the United Kingdom
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    Royal Asiatic Society To Produce 3 Journals
    252 5 THE Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Societj will produce three journals this year, said the report submitted at the annual general meeting in Singapore yesterday. Two of these will be of a miscellaneous character while the other will consist of a selection
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    Deputy C.G. Due
    37 5 Mr. J. C. Stcrndale Bennet Director of the Imperial Dpfence College, who has succeeded Mr. P. Scrivener as Deputy Comraissioner-Gener- i il (Foreign Affairs) to Mr Malcolm Mac Donald Is ex- i »Ct«d_ O'rivfhjOinojnnj^
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    'Gay Lady' Is Good Satire
    103 5 "THE Gay Lady," starring Jean Kent as Trottie True, the darling of the Edwardian music-halls, is an excellent technicolour musica 1 The film pulls the leg of the Edwardian era the bal-loon-flying craze, the stuffy young noblemen, the bumptious music-halls. If anything, it errs on
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    RED TIN BUYING: S'PORE DENIAL
    79 5 ¥}IN dpalrrs in Singioore yesterday said there was no truth in a New York report that Russia was buying Straits tin in Singapore. A New York message claimed that comparatively large sales in Singapore and Penan* on th« days following small business in the United
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    S'pore Week-End Diary
    189 5 S' pore Week-End Diary TODAY CEYLON DOMINION DAY, reception by the Ceylon Commissioner, Sea View Hotel. 11 ».m., tea party by the Sinhalese Association, Robinsons' Cafe, 5 p.m. METHODIST CHURCH, SouthEast Asia Central Conference, ievotions, 8.30 a.m., conference session, 9 a.nv, DISTRICT METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP, Cabinet neeting, Wesley Hall, 2.30
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    Guards Repel 40 Bandits
    75 5 From Our Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. BANDITS last night attacked Kampong Telekong in the Jelebu area of Negri Sembilan. Kampong guards drove off over 40 bandits, said to be Indonesians, in a dusk attack. The nandits at first asked for food and when they were
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    The Rubber Market
    161 5 rV York has shown considerably more interest this week and prices have reached the highest level since 1928, says Lewis and Peat's weekly rubber market report. It is expected that the E.C.A. may make further purchases which accounts for the renewed interest after a week or two
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    'STUPID' SAYS MR. MAJID
    266 5 'STUPID' SAYS MR. MAJID TT is stupidity to argue that one has no right to criticise the working of the Seamen's Registration Bureau simply because he does not represent the majority of the local seamen, said Mr. M.* A. Majid, president of the Indo-Malay-Pakistani Scamens' Union, yesterday. Mr. Majid was
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    100 Attack Station
    97 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. FOR an hour \iu- last right. a gang of l; 0 bandits attacked Mengkuang on the Bahau to Men'akab railway line. They fired m the police station from thr-ie directions using Bren guns ?nd rifles. Last night, while walking along
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    ARMY TRUCKS
    25 5 Seventy-one three-ton Army trucks for Malaya were yesterday brought to Singapore In the new 7.877-ton Ben Line ship Benalder, from the United Kingdom.
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  • The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Feb. 4, 1950.
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      For Mother India
      567 6 film script that there are now Municipal clinics in India which are giving this advice. The following is another extract: If abstinence is not possible, there are modern methods of birth control that nre safe and practical. And there are municipal clinics where the public are given
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      The Schools And The University
      420 6 j A leading article published in these columns on Jan. 13 under the heading The Sixth Form commented on the special classes which are being held in four Singapore boys' schools, and in a number of schools in the Federation, for boys and girls who
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      "REPERCUSSIONS"
      80 6 IN the report under the heading "Local Man's Promotion To Be Reviewed" In your Issue of Feb. 1, the following statement was made: "Fear of repercussions from the appointment of a local man to be Deputy Municipal Water Engineer was one of the factors that helped to sway the
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    COUNTRYMAN'S JOURNAL
    1073 6 SUNDAY, Jan. 29. I LAST evening two young Singaporeans arrived at the Dusun on a motor-bike. Some "months ago they paid a visit by car, a pre-war midget which they sold later on for what it would fetch, investing the proceeds in a second-hand motor-bike.-This morning one of
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    OUR PICTURE TODAY
    45 6 Tlus photograph by L. L. Bong is one of the pictures at present on show at the Singapore Art Society's first Open Photographic Exhibition at the British Council Hall. Stamford Road. The exhibition wiM remain open until 5.3* p.m. tomorrow evening <S«n4ay).
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    KING'S 0 WNA T TANGLIN
    496 6 KING 'S 0 WNA T TANGLIN From the Straits Times of Feb. 2—ll, 1860. THE departure of our friends the "Kings Own" Regiment is, no doubt, very hard to bear, since we have not even the satisfaction of telling them that they are going to Britain to chafe their hearts
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    M.C.A. TOLD: KEEP OUT OF S'PORE
    510 7 M.C. A. TOLD: KEEP OUT OF S'PORE Mr. Tan Replies To Charges By Dato Tan attempt to start a communal political party by the Chinese in Singapore will be the signal for the Muslims, Indians and others to do likewise, and thus destroy all the progress which the people of
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    RUBBER MAGNATE MAY TOUR CHINA
    127 7 RUBBER MAGNATE MAY TOUR CHINA IF conditions permit, Mr Lee Kong Chian, Singapore rubber magnay go to Shanghai )ii May to find out S crude rubber requirements r>e is responding to an km from the Overseas Affairs Commission to Singapore businessmen to long Kong group fora I China's industrial Hopeful
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    Accused Of Soliciting
    81 7 /^HARUED with persistently V soliciting tor immoral pirposei along pras Basah Koad on Feb. 1. a 30-year-<!d Malay woman. Moauah binti Musiapha. pleaded not niilty yesterday and told the Singapore Third Police Court that she had been merely walking down ihe road when she was molested by
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    MR. CHEAH NAMED A.D.C TO O.A.G.
    55 7 MR. Cheah Ten* Cheok, A.S.P.. has been appointed A.D.C. to the Officer Administering the Government, Sir Patrick McKerron. Mr. Cheah who is the first local police officer to be sent for a police course in Britain, thus also becomes the first local police officer
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    Robbed Of $1,530
    114 7 ON his way to a Singapore bank yesterday morning Mr. Ng Mong Hin, a 30-year-old bicycle shop proprietor, was beaten up and robbed of $1,530 by three Chinese in a jeep. Mr. Ng was slightly injured and received medical attention. The thieves intercepted Mr. Ng, who was
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    Creditor Is Destitute
    62 7 IT was stated in the Singapore Bankruptcy Court yesterday that a woman creditor had become destitute «5 noV Se a man who borrowed $2,091 from her was unable to repay the debt. "That money represented said the Assistant Official Assignee. The man. Ho Chwee Kirn, mnn»^°r de
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    LIVES IN HIS TRISHA
    75 7 From Our SUB C'orrc,pui.<: rn Johore Bahru, Fri.— Said bin Sivar, who was charged lln the Police Court yesterday lth il falling t0 Produce his Identity card for inspection "aid that he lived in his trisha. He was arrested at Majedie Barracks and the prosecution asked
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    DRIVERS FINED
    31 7 Two lorry drivers, Beah Seng Teck and Mohd. Noor bin Haji Wahab. were each' fined $50 in the .Singapore police courts yesterday for negligent driving on Dec. 19 1
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    ONLY SLIGHT INJURIES
    49 7 Three Singapore Chinese, including a woman, who were In this overturned car, and two Europeans In a jeep were only slightly injured after a collision between two vehicles early yesterday mo rninjr at the junction of Bras Basah Road and Victoria S treet.— Straits Times picture.
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    IDRIS WAS ABSENT 2 YEARS
    142 7 A 21 -year-old special constable, Idris bin Haji 1 Samsuddln, who has been absent from his post for the past two years, appeared in I the Singapore Second Police I Court yesterday. Idris pleaded guilty to desertion while mobilised on active service and to failure
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    Scene From MacBeth
    36 7 RADIO Malaya will broadcast a recorded interview with three members of the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre Company and a short scene from Macßeth at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow. The actors interview are: Clement McCalllm. Harold
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    PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WEDDING
    50 7 A PRETTT WEDDING was solemnised at the Singapore Presbyterian Church yesterday when Miss Annette More was married to Mr. C. O. L. Salvesen. The bride was given away by her step- father, Mr. J. N. Wainwright, and the best man was Mr. W. Richardson. Straits Times picture.
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    FOUND MISSING WIFE THEN SUICIDE BID
    127 7 AFTER successfully tracing his wife in Singapore following a two-month search for her, 45-year-old Foong Kai Ming, of Kuala Lumpur, drank a solution of caustic soda. Yesterday Foong. a carpenter, explained in the SingaKre Second Police Court that took the caustic soda because he
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    $2,100 For The Blind
    56 7 SINGAPORE will give £250 ($2,143) annually to the newly-formed British Empire Society for the Blind. Thig wax officially announced yesterday. The function of the Society is to "deal with problems of blindness in the British Co- lonial Empire and to promote the welfare, education and employment
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    $40 FOR HIS NEGLIGENCE
    35 7 Mordipi bin All was fined $40 In the Fifth Police Court, Singapore, yesterday, on a charge of negligent driving. All collided with a motor p cyoJe at the Junction of Vlctorta3tree^»ndßra»Basahi
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    $28,000 DEBT—TO PAY $5 A MONTH
    45 7 A MUSLIM bankrupt who said that he was now an employee of his 25-year-old sob on a salary of $75 a month, with debts of $28,000. was ordered to pay $5 a month yesterday in (he Singapore Supreme Court.
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    How To Conquer Voters' Apathy
    183 7 SINGAPORE voters' apathy about getting their names put on the electoral roll could be overcome by sending registration clerks to homes- to collect the names, it was pointed out in a broadcast on civic affairs over Radio Malaya yesterday. The suggestion was mad< In a
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    University Students To Give Views
    144 7 University Students To Give Views STUDENTS will be invited! to the discussions to decide on an application from the president of the University of Malaya Students Union for four of the nine seats of the Board of Student Welfare. This was stated by Dr. G. V. Allen, Vice-Chancellor of the
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    Appeal To Vegetarians
    79 7 THE Malayan Vegetarian Society will shortly make an appeal to the vegetarians of Singapore to support the Society. This was decided at the annual general meeting last week. The following are the officers of the Society for the year: President, Mr. L. Rayner; Icepresident, Mr. H. W.
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    HIS FOURTH CONVICTION
    45 7 Twenty-six-year-old Lee Kay Seng, who pleaded guilty to theft of a gold ring, was yesterday, in the Singapore Second Police Court, sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment. Lee admitted three previous convictions and was also ordered to undergo one year's police supervision.
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    Warrant For Bankrupt
    65 7 For repeated non-appear-ance at the Supreme Court in connection with his bankruptcy, a warrant was issued yesterday against Lee Toh Wan. The Assistant Official Assignee said the Assignee had gone to the trouble to try and arrange for Lee to appear In the Malacca court, where he
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    METHODISTS TOGIVE 'VOICE' TO WOMEN
    314 7 METHODISTS TOGIVE 'VOICE' TO WOMEN •JHE first South-East Asia Methodist Central Conference, now being held in Singapore, has strongly recommended that women be represented at future annual and central conferences in this region. Yesterday at Wesley Church, seat of th e con* ference, 42 delegates from Burma, Malaya, Sumatra and
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    SHOWCASE FIRE
    24 7 A car in the showcase at an Orchard Road motor car dealers caught fire last night. The Fire Brigade extinguished the fire.
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    U.S. $13,500 A Year For New Bishop
    170 7 THE first elected Metluxljsb Bishop for South Asia, Dr. Raymond L. Archer, will probably be n< ing $13,500 (U.S.) a year as salary and working expenses in the discharge of this newly-created offlrt ThLs was the decision made yesterday when the Methodist Central
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    FILM SHOW
    28 7 The Jo<> Chiat Library Committee will hold a film sho*l at 11 a.m on Feb 11 at the Rnxy Theatre in aid of th'» library fund.
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    How the Jap war lords plotted against S.-E. Asia
    2246 8  - How the Jap war lords plotted against S.-E. Asia Winston S. Churchill THE GRAND ALLIANCE-GERMANY DRIVES EAST By Tlli: New Vewr had brought disturbing news from \\w Far luist. The Japanese Susy wns increasingly active off the coasts of Southern liulo (.'hiiKi. Japanese warships reported in Saigon harbour and the
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      246 8 EVERY PERSON WHO WANTS TO REDUCE TOOTH DECAY should read these Startling Results of Tests made with listerine antiseptic! _p abb Twice-a-day brushing, and Listerine AntiP W" septic after each brushing, showed on the a Lv I average B#fW fl^^ FEWER CAVITIES by 56% Hhs2l|9b a V BPB P a
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      AMERICAN INFORM A riON IN MALAYA
      544 9 AMERICAN INFORM A riON IN MALAYA CJINCE there have been several recent references in Straits Times and the Free Press to the United States Information Service (USIS) it might be of interest to your readers to know precisely what its jtiins and functions are. USIS exists to further co-operation among
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      Is This True At Serdang?
      120 9 WHY all these strikes and walk-oats in Malayan colleges? Why set up inquiry commissions? If only members of the Advisory Boards of the respective colleges would pay periodic visits and talk to the students, there need be no reason for unpleasantness, and there will be
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      One More Letter On Martin
      234 9 One More Letter On Martin ALTHOUGH you have the correspondence on Martin Block, I hope you will make an exception for this final titbit. I enclose a picture of the much-discussed "disc jockey" in the flesh. Frankly, I am not very interested in his kind of music, but I do
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      AN AMATEUR IS PUZZLED
      120 9 IJAVING visited the 11 Singapore Art Society's first open photographic exhibition at the British Council Hall, 1 1 -vas badly disappointed j over the Judging of some of the prize-winning J photographs. Although I am a photographer myself, I completely j fail to see the beauty
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      A Malayan Patriot In South Johore
      632 9 SINCE the recognition of Mao Tse-tung's government was announced by the Federation and Singapore Governments the terrorists have started to create more havoc. Murders, robberies, ambushes of trains, lorries and private cars, and arson, a*«. becoming common again in the rural districts. Some people
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      A Camera On The Causeway
      214 9 A Camera On The Causeway f AM a commercial tra-| veller and my work in recent years has taken me through 18 different countries, a number of which I visit annually. Consequently, I am not unfamiliar with the many and varied Customs rules and regul- 1 ations. But with one
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      TIT FOR TAT
      260 9 I was enjoying a feast of durians the other day, a friend of mine complained of the rank odour of I 'this delicious fruit, and this lhas set me wondering whether it would not be a good idea to recommend this "king lof Malayan fruits' to our
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      CHURCHILL ON JAP PLANS
      343 9 Continued from page 8) Armament preparations were to be augmented. Article S of the Tripartite Pact was invoked, which stated that the instrument was valid against Russia. Germany was to be informed confidentially that Japan would fight "Bolshevism In Asia." and the Neutrality Treaty with Russia
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      THE STORY OF A LOCAL-BORN ENGINEER
      454 9 THE STORY OF A LOCAL-BORN ENGINEER RAISE my hat to the five Municipal Commission1 ers who stood firm on their stand for the recommendation of the Establishments Board to promote Mr. P. C. Lim to the post of Deputy Water Engineer, Singapore Municipality. In the past aH European civil engineers
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    S.A.F.A. PLANS FOR CUP SOCCER
    523 10 Training Starts On Monday SINGAPORE'S Malaya Cup soccer team this season 1 will be drawn from a central poo! of 18 players for every match. Players will be added to or taken out of this pool according to their form. This is one of the
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    United ramily B.P. To Start Archery
    179 10 United ramily B.P. To Start Archery rPHE United family Badminton Party are making plans to Include an archery section for members. A member of the party, Mr. Wilson Heng, is an ardent enthusiast and also an ace rifle shot and with his guidance, the party should go ofl to a
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    JAGIR SINGH JUST BEATEN
    101 10 MELBOURNE, Fri —Jagir S:r,gh (122 .i the Ipoh Sikh feather-, weight boxer now touring Australia with a Malayan and Siamese contingent, lacked the condition to pace it with Australian featherweight champion. Bernie Grant (124' i > and was outpointed over 12 rounds here tonight. It was
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    24 10 TODAY: 12.20 a.m. (Bft. Tin) I and 11.29 p.m. MO ft.). TOMORROW: 12. 41 a.m. iSft 'Uim and 12.10 pjn. (10ft. 3in\
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    VICTORIA GET 300
    50 10 BRISBANE. Fri.: Victoria scored 300 in the first innings against Queensland here and at close of play in the Sheffield Shield match. Queensland were 20 for one wicket in reply. Chief scores i'or Victoria were D. Kerr (97>, Douglas Ring (93T and H Turner. (78>.— Reuter A.A.P.
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    49 10 THE FIGHTING TURPINS, from left. Randolph. Jackie and Dick appear on the same boxing card at Davis Theatre Croydon. on March 6. Middleweight Dick signs up against Ron Pudney of Croydon. Randolph will meet Richard Armah of W. Africa and Jackie will battle Johnnie Rawlings of Billingsgate.— Reuter photo.
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    Strong Services XV From Hong Kong
    317 10 SERVICES INTER-DISTRICT RUGBY A STRONG Hong Kong Rugby contingent of 30 players, representing the Combined Services in Hong Kong, will arrive in Singapore by air on Monday to take part in a carnival arranged by the 1 Services. Their first match here will be
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    Sports Diary
    129 10 RACES: Ist Day Spore Spring Meeting. Bukit Tlroah, 2.15 p.m. RUGBY: RAF Seletar v. South Johore at Seletar; RAF Tengah v. GHQ Signals at GHQ; Police ■A" v. Spore Engineer Regt. 'A' at Thomson Road. HOCKEY: RAF Seletar Ceylonese at Seletar. GOLF: R.S.G.C. men's monthly medal. SOCCER: Tiong
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    CANADA GETS 1954 'GAMES'
    133 10 AUCKLAND. Fri: Canada was today nominated by the Board of the British Empire Games Federation as the venue for the F954 Games This decision was ratified by the General Assembly, who confirmed it unanimously. The manager of the Canadian team at the Games, Major J. W.
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      463 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD OSi 1 Mwm^ibi (n lot of CROSSWORD No 2Q7 STSSSS ft.*&S'- S:s N ,V,;o'rKSs«'f 9n9 n v) (9> J* V I' I I* I P T audacity! 19). or wHe J' 1 II In iennel emitted m —sm srss W ts^ -ros resinous iubit»nce (S). L Decider
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    TIN PRICES
    30 11 SINGAPORE, Friday, Feb. 3. $286.62! i a picul (up $0.25). LONDON. Friday. Spot: £599 i— £600. Forward: €583i— £5S3{. Settlement: £600. Turnover: morning, 80 tons; afternoon, 6# tons.
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    RUBBER TOUCHES 52 CENTS
    230 11 rpHE prices of rubber in Singa- pore, which on Tuesday reached 513 8 cents per lb—the highest since 1928—rose further yesterday when business w-w done at 52 116 cents per lb. for the first grades. With the holiday on Thursday, the New York market showed an
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    SHIPPING IN PORT
    112 11 SHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Bo;trd wharves yesterday tgodowns in bracket*) were: Main Wharf: Steel Age 33-34 1, Benalder <36>, Benvorllch 38-39. Tasman .40-41 1, Franclsville i 42-43 j. Wert Wharf: Orduna 1-2. Tjipondok (4-9), Bencleuch (6-7> Khyber (8-9), Hoegh Silverbeam (10-11). Astyanax 13-I4i Idomeneus H5-18i. Empire
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    SMALL BUSINESS IN SHARES
    892 11 From Our Market Correspondent OMALL business continued to be done on the Malayan share market yesterday, but mostly at slightly lower levels. Political events continued to affect the market, and although commodity prices were higher, buyers on the market were not much in evidence. Price* quoted
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    London Stocks
    246 11 LONDON, Pri. DESPITE lack of business there was but little gloom on the London Stock Exchange yesterday. Pric< movements were usually to higher levels and the undertone remained firm and cheerful. Fractional advances In British Government long-dated stocks followed small buying orders and there were man; improvements of
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    85 11 From A Market Correspondent £OPRA on the Singapore produce market was steady yesterday with buyers bidding $36 7 8 per picul and sellers holding off for .37 1/4. Coconut oil had buyer» at $58 per picul and sellers at 559 per picul. The coffee market was quiet. Trade
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    LONGCHAMPS II TO WIN BIG RACE TODAY
    472 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Your Highness Will Be Chief Danger By ONGCHAMPS H has regained the form which enabled him to win the Singapore Gold Cup last season and I select him to win the $3,000 mile and a furlong handicap for top class stayers
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    TODAYS GOING
    83 12 THE going at Bukit Timah today will be yielding at be.st. There was further rain yesterday for the third successive afternoon. Timah classic last September. Nine months ago Your Highnevs was good enough to outstay Longchamps II and most o' the finest stayers in training then in the
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    Flying Arrow II Best Bet
    1488 12 INLYING ARROW II has all the appearance of a first-rate middle-distant* 1 performer and stands out as thebest thing on the card at Bukit Timah today. A solidly-built four-year-old, Flying Arrow II (late The Trump) was I hardly out of a canter when he beat
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    Straits Times Selections
    152 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL BOY POINTER ace 1: RIVER MOON Mont Blot Lucky Three RIVER MOON Lucky Threa Bow Legs RIVER MOON Mont Blot Lucky Three S 15 GOLD MERIDIAN VICTORY MARCH Gold Meridian Man O'Mar GOLD MERIDIAN ace >: 2.45 Man O War Victory March Man O'War
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    Today's Race Card
    1032 12 DELOW is the full card fo r today's races at Bukit Timah. The double tote event will be on Races and 8 and the Big Sweep will be drawn on Race 7. Race 1—2.15: Class 2, Div. 3—7 F. less 17 Yds. 114 Mont Blot Flannery 9.00
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    New Rule Warns Against Tonics For Racehorses
    314 12  - New Rule Warns Against Tonics For Racehorses EPSOM JEEP By AS a safeguard against doping on the Malayan Turf, the Straits Racing Association has not only instructed the official veterinary surgeon to take Frequent swab tests, but has included a new clause In the Rules of Racing, warning against the
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    MALAYANS APPEAR IN TODAYS 'GAMES'
    80 12 TWO of Malaya's spvpuman contingent to the British Empire Games will be concerned in today* opening of the Games at Auckland, New Zeal;in<l. Ng Liang Chiang will be tested in the qualifying heats of the 440-yanl hurdles while Lloyd Vulkerg will be pitted straight away
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    All Blues Final Today
    76 12 QINOAPORE and Penang Ml O today in the final of the AilBlues Rugby competition at Kuala Lumpur. Tr.f two sides qualified foi the final once before in 193 V ttu second year of the competition, but the match was no' Penang being unable to make tba
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    TERRY BENG ARRIVES
    37 12 Terry Beng. flyweight B of Indonesia, arrived yesterrt.iv from Jarkata. Ben. stable mate of Bobby N.i.n and also trained by Joi.n B. Oei, fights Little Nene on Friday nighi at the Happy World Stadiun.
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      154 12 OTHER SPORT IN PAGE TEN TO-NIGHT at 9 p.m. f| Great WorldhP 1 proudly announces L I OF THE YEAR" HHf| PRESENTING 'THE WRESTLER SUPREME' ■PPRI EMIL KOROSCENKO THE CZECHOSLOVAKIA* STRONGMAN WHO BATTERED TV. LAYTON TO DEFEAT IN 5 IHKIIIIM. RDS. LAST WEEK. NOW FACED WITH THE SIPRKME TEST OF
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