The Straits Times, 17 August 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED IX4S SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1950 Jf PRICE TEN CENTS rWELVE PAGES
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    REDS 'DAZED' BY RECORD AIR RAID
    293 1 REDS 'DAZED' BY RECORD AIR RAID 1,000 Tons On 40,000 Troops TOKYO, Wednesday. TEN townships were burning and "not a thing was moving for miles" on the west bank of the Naktong River after a 1,000-ton saturation bombing raid by American Superfortresses today, an Air Force observer pilot reported tonight.
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    IN AMBUSH
    19 1 MRS. NORAH STUTCHBI'RY. wife of a Pahang District Officer. missing .since an amhush in Pahang on Tuesday.
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    BIG SEARCH FOR MISSING WOMAN
    174 1 STKONti security forces were yesterday searching for Mrs. Nora Evelyn Stutchbury, wife of a District Officer, who has been missing following a bandit ambush in Pahang on Tuesday. Patrols were following trails in the jungle. The search for Mrs. Stutchbury and a Chinese translator, who
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    'TURKO' MAY GO SOON
    100 1 'TURKO' MAY GO SOON THE Singapore Government announced last night that it is now considering the position of "Turko" West Tling following; the High Court's rejection yesterday of the application by the United States of Indonesia mr a suspension of an order of prohibition which stopped further extradition proceedings Trie
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    SHIPS WARNED
    32 1 TAIPEI, Wed.— Reports cir-:-t> at ing here said all foreign ships coming to Formosa moJsi .signal their position on re 'ching any point within 50 miles of the coast.— AP.
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    Police Seize Singapore Gunman In Ambush
    74 1 KHINESE gunman was arrested in Upper Cross treet, Singapore, last night in a police ambush. Mr. Ec Sim Mong, A.S.P., officer-in-charge of the Cantonese sub-branch of the C.1.D., and six of his detectives, surprised the gunman as he was walking along the road. He
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    SOVIET AGAIN ABSENT
    38 1 TOKYO. Wed.— For the eighth straight time the Soviet delegate on the Allied Council for Japan boycotted the regular fortnightly session today. As on previous occasions the Soviets gave no reason for their absence. Reuter,
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    ROYAL SALUTE
    33 1 GUNNERS of the First Singapore Regiment, Royal Artillery, firing: a royal salute at Blakang Mati yesterday in honour of Princess Elizabeth's baby daughter. Straits Times picture. See pages 3 and 7.
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    Tibet May Be Quake Centre
    394 1 ASIA SHAKEN BY VAST TREMOR WASHINGTON, Wednesday. T*HE earth shook yesterday to one of the most violent quakes ever recorded by man. The U.S. coast and geological service in Washington termed it one of the five greatest ever to show up on the world's seismographs.
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    I Ten Million Victims In China Flood
    174 1 I Ten Million Victims In China Flood HONG KONG. Wed. A NATURAL river and a man-made canal in AnhI wei province have combined this summer to bring down lon the Chinese Communists the country's worst flood in ***** 100 years. Here Is what the Communi ists themselves have anI nounced:
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    Mary At The Yard
    23 1 LONDON. Wed.— Mary Woon, 21-year-old Singapore police inspector here to study British police methods, today visited Scotland Yard.— U.P.
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    BOMBS FLUNG AT DEPUTY
    96 1 BOMBS FLUNG AT DEPUTY PONDICHERRY, Wed. I TNIDENTIFIED men shoutU ing "down with India" threw home made bombs at Professor Lambert Seravane, Overseas Deputy of the French National Assembly, here last night. Professor and Madame Seravane, who were returning from the Indian ConsulateGeneral after attending an Independence Day dinner, were
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    Seretse May Remain Chief
    131 1 LOBATSI. (Bechuanaland > Wed. SERETSE Khama. exiled chief-designate of the Banmangwato tribe, was reported today to have reached a reconciliation with his uncle, Regent Tshekedi, and may be back with the tribe in a few months as chief. A plan for Seretse and Tfchekedi to rule
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    WARSHIPS AT H.K.
    18 1 HONG KONG, Wed.— The British aircraft-carrier Unicorn and destroyer Cossack arrived in Hong Kong today.
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    Burma Police Will Train In Singapore
    104 1 THE first officers from a South-East Asian police A force to come to Singapre for training, five members of the Burmese police, arrived in Singapore yesterday in the Sangola from Rangoon. They are Inspector U. Mating Maung, Sub-Inspector U. Mya Than and constables Maung
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    RUBBER UP
    26 1 On the Singapore market yesterday first grade rubber lor September shipment rose by H^4 cents to close at $1,22.:, per pound. Prices p»je 11
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    25 1 POLICE VISITORS: Inspector D Maun* Mating, Sub-lnsprctor My a Than and constables Mating 0a Ajrc, Mating Myunt Shwe and Maung Hla Ang.— Straits Times picture.
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    BLACK-LISTED BOYS DISRUPT SCHOOL WORK
    464 1 BIG group of black-listed students broke into every class of the Singapore Chinese High School yesterday and disrupted work for over an hour. Posters demanding the unconditional releas of students still detained by the police and con demning the school management committee toer pasted on
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    Attlee And Churchill In Conference
    129 1 LONDON. Wed. iTPHE Prime Minister, Mr. CleX ment Attlee. today received the heads of Britain's two opposing parties to hear arguments that the nation is not moving to rearm Itself with anything like the speed the present world crisis requires. After meeting with his own
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    FATAL MALAYA SHOOTING
    65 1 From Our Own Correspond* n« LONDON. Wed.— The inquest on 20-year-old Pte. Arthur Stainer of the Devonshire Regiment, who died in a military hospital in London after receiving a gunshot, wound In back In Malaya. was adjourned to Sept 9. It was stated that the Record Office
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    Memorial Service
    37 1 A memorial service to Mr. Lan Morrison, representative in South-East Asia of The Times, who was killed in Korea last Saturday, will be held at St Andrews Cathedral, Singapore, at 4.30 p.m. tori a v
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    Bill Allows Gls To Marry Orientals
    297 2 "llßMi' Wilt Hj" WASHINGTON, Wednesday. A SPECIAL legislation to permit United States soldiers to marry and bring Korean, Japanese and other Oriental brides into the U.S. is ready for the President's signature. The Senate agreed to go along with the House amendment, which will
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    PRESIDENT'S WIFE
    25 2 EVA PERON, wife of the Argentine President, presides at the opening of the international congress of surgery at Buenos Aires, Argentina. A.P. picture.
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    $50 MIL U.S. LOAN FOR AUSTRALIA
    52 2 WASHINGTON. Wed. A United States official said that the International Bank is expected to announce a loan of $50,000,000 for Australia next week. The first of six Instalments for the next five years, the money will be spent on agriculture, transportation and open-cast mining
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    RED PLANE KILLED-A PIG
    46 2 RED PLANE KILLED -A PIG TOKYO, Wednesday. A RUSSIAN-MADE North Korean Yak plane strafed and dropped two 500-pound bombs at the communications centre of Masan near the southern battlefront yesterday. It was the first Communist air activity reported in some days. Total casualties: One pig. A.P.
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    'GUESS THE BABY'S NAME' IS BRITAIN'S NEW GAME
    333 3 LONDON, Wednesday. lIAPPY IJritons had a favourite new guessing name today the name of their new Princess. The tiny, six-pound girl born yesterc! •!> to Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne, is third in line to the succession. Many Londoners were
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    DUKE PROMOTED
    67 3 LONDON, Wed. |>K<»IOTION of the Duke of Edinburgh from 1 it-utenant to Lieutenant Commander in the British Navy was published in the I nmlon Gazette last night, .1 few hours after the birth of his daughter. The Duke, a regular Naval otfirer, is 29. His promotion, which dates
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    New Belgian Cabinet Approved
    83 3 New Belgian Cabinet Approved K2U3SELS. Wed. Prince Batidouin yesterday iroved a new all-Catholic 1 s icin! Christian! Cabinet I by Senator Joseph Pholien to eftd Belgium's lourri v-n]<j Dolitical crisis. Ihe Cabinet was formed by M Paul van Zetland, who had b "ti designated Premier but si 'pped down because
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    PAA OPERATIONS IN EUROPE
    37 3 NEW YORK. Wed— PanAmerican Airways said yesterday that it intends to fly its newly authorised expanded 1 European routes within six v ecu. They include lines into Scandinavia, Frankfurt, Paris and Rome. A.P.
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    PILOT KILLED
    49 3 KARACHI. Wed— A Pakistani Air Force plane crashed and exploded here yesterday, watched by 300,000 tpectatcrs, including the Governor General and foreign dignitaries. The pilot made a pass awt a target in a display but failed to pull out of a dive and j va< killed.— UP.
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    38 3 THE SALVATION ARMY'S first international youth congress now being held in London has attracted 1,205 delegates from 40 countries. From left: Joseph Rungka, Celebes, Indonesia; Laura Rajammasanjivi, Ceylon; Eva Burrows, Queensland; and W Iliam Massey. Punjab. A.P. picture.
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    FORMCCA: US WANTS TO KNOW
    108 3 LONDON, Wed. THE British Government has been urgently asked by the United States to ma,ke clear just what stand Britain will take if Communist China sends an invasion flotilla against Formosa. It was considered almost certain that the United States Ambassador, Mr. Lewis Doulas' call
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    British Pilot Shot Down By Bomber
    235 3 By ROY MACARTNEY KURE, Wednesday. A BRITISH Seafire pMot, D. R. White of Leicester- shire, who was shot down by an American Superfortress off the Western Korean coast was visited today by the Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Robert Menzies, in the Australian military hospital
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    U.S.I. CABINET RESIGNS
    97 3 JAKARTA, Wed. THE Indonesian Prime^ Mm*- ister, Dr. Mohammed Hatta, last night tendered the resignation of his Cabinet to President Soekarno after the proclamation of the new Unitarian state of Republican Indonesia. Accepting the resignation the President asked Dr. Hatta's Cabinet to stay in office as a
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    TRADE TALKS
    18 3 TOKYO, Wed.— Trade conI ferencea between Spain and 1 Japan are scheduled to begin tomorrow.— Reuter-AAP.
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    Soviet Deserters' Families Exiled
    191 3 GENEVA, Wednesday. DELATIVES of deserters from the Soviet armed forces are liable to exile "to the remote areas of Siberia" for five years, Mr. G. T. Corley-Smith, British delegate, told the United Nations Economic and Social Council yesterday. Mr. Corley-Smith read to the council a section
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    MARSHALL PLAN FOR ASIA PLEA
    205 3 MARSHALL PLAN FOR ASIA PLEA WASHINGTON, Wed. THE former Minnesota Governor and Republican presidential candidate, Mr. Harold Stassen. who is at present president of the University of Pennsylvania, urged the establishment of a Marshall Plan for Asia in a speech over the Columbia Broadcasting System. He urged the United States
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    Better Rubber Roads
    56 3 AKRON (OHIO, Wed. -The next 50 years will bring rubber roads that will be made durable and less expensive to maintain than present highways, Mr. Harvey S. Firestone, a leading American rubber manufacturer, says. Mr. Firestone also said that, eventually, foamed rubber may replace coil springs in
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    RUSSIA RETURNS FOUR SOLDIERS
    56 3 TEHERAN. Wed. Russia, bowing in part to Iranian demands, returned an Iranian officer and three enlisted men yesterday after holding them for seven months. The four soldiers were turned over to the Iranians at the border town of Charchahe. where they had been captured in a
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    New Indian Peace Plan May Get Support
    168 3 New Indian Peace Plan May Get Support LAKE SUCCESS. Wed. INDIA'S plan for a "Little Six" Committee to plan a Korean peace settlement will probably be presented in a formal resolution to the Security Council tomorrow. The first reaction has been good. The Indian formula might well get the necessary
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    TARIFF TALKS IN BRITAIN
    70 3 MELBOURNE, Wed. The Acting Prime 'Minister, Mr. Arthur W. Fadden, said today that Australia would go to next month's 'nternational tariff talks at Torquay, England, but would "negotiate only with countries which could exchange concessions with her." He said that at present his Government planned to
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    JUNE RUBBER HIGHEST
    58 3 WASHINGTON. Wed.— The Secretariat of the Rubber Study Group, an international organisation, estimated me world production of natural rubber last June at .37,oiK> long tons. This is the highest monthly figure ever recorded. The figure exceeded consumption by 20,000 tons, according to the estimate. Synthetic rubber production
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    MOLOTOV SIGNS PACT WITH REDS REPORT
    196 3 HONG KONG. Wednesday. A REPORT probably pro-Nationalist, from Taipeh appearing today in the independent Wan Kiu Vat Po, claimed that Mr. Molotov left Peking for Moscow on Aug. 10 after having concluded a twopoint agreement with the Chinese Communists. The reported agreement provided that:
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    3 MISSING AFTER SHIP FIRE
    39 3 TaDOUSSAC, QUEBEC, Wed.— Three people were unnfoounted for yesterday after a flro aboard Ihe St. Lawrnn-e River cruise ship. Quebec which r3ced to Tadou£s'\c on Monday night to (ii-"mbark her 400 pusettocrs. A. P.
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    JUTE DOWN
    39 3 KARACHI. Wed.— T><e ;trca und?r Jate V\ Pakl£'3n ihia year is down 1.1 v#: ccub from a year f.50. T»ie area r.ov h^lr.z cultivated tuials 1 :"»ViBs bcto*. compart with 1.883 0000 acres last year.- A P.
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    India Plans State Trade
    83 3 NEW DELHI, Wed. AN Indian government com- mittee has recommended the establishment of a state trading corporation to deal with all import and export operations of a commercial nature handled by the government. The government would hold 51 per cent, of the shares and state governments
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    QUADS BORN
    35 3 HELSINKI, Wed. Mrs. Olivia Ritola gave birth to quadruplets in the Municipal Hospital here today. The quads weigh 3 lbs. 15 ozs. each and they and their mother were reported doing well. Reuter.
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    RUSSIA HAS DOUBLED IMPORTS OF RUBBER
    105 3 From Omr Own Correspondent LONDON, Wed. ANALYSING conditions In the rubber and tin markets, the Financial Times comments on the fact that Russian imports of rubber in May and June averaged twice the level of the previous four months. Malayan exports of rubber to
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    71 bandits bagged' last] MONTH
    465 4 71 bandits bagged' last] MONTH From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR Wed. t^IGURES issued by the Government today show that 71 terrorists were accounted for by the security forces in July. This brings the total killed, wounded and captured since the start of the Emergency in June, 1948, to 2,539,
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    43 4 MISS itiKKV JACOBSZOON. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Jacobszoon, of Amsterdam, Holland, and Mr. Harold Arthur Helps, a branch manager at Fraser and Neav> Ltd.. Singapore, after their wedding at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday. The Rev. Kinross Nicholson officiated. Straits Times picture.
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    62 4 TWO-YEAR-OLD Jonathan seems to be enjoying a big .loke with daddy, Mr. V. M. Goatly. Director of the British Council in Kuching. at the Singapore docks yesterday, soon after his arrival with Mrs. Goatly in the Orange from U.K. This is Mrs. Goatly's first trip out east. She will be
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    'Shoot Me' Says Woman In Court
    179 4 From Our Staff Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. PRESCRIBED by the prosecution as "too shy to face the public", an attractive 26-year-old woman, Loh Poh Khum. bent down her head in the Sessions Court today and asked to be shot to "settle all charges against me."
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    MUST STOP SALE
    35 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Wong Moh Jong who was fined $40 here today for having an unlicensed eating stall at Kulai, was ordered by the court to cease his business within two weeks.
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    Did Not Pay Duty: $1,000
    51 4 rVDR possessing 277J lbs of F dutiable cigarettes. Tan Ah Huat was fined $1,000, in default three months' imprisonment in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday. The charges against Lim Kirn Thiam and Sim Sai, a woman, who were both arresttd with the accused, were
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    BROKE CURFEW
    43 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. Simm bin Haji Razak and Chai Kal Chang, who were found out of doors between Ayer Hitam and Parit Raja Road without a permit during curfew hours, were each fined $15 in Kluang today.
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    KALLANG AIRPORT ARRIVALS
    259 4 'THE following passenger* were among those who arrived at Kallang airport yesterday from points outside Malaya on the various air services. Passengers in transit are not included in the list Q.E.A.— 8.0.A.C. From London: Messrs. T. C. O'Donnell. C. Shuttleworth. P. W. J. Harrex. O. C. Gonton,
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    TESTS ON FOR NEW FLATS
    40 4 TESTS ON FOR NEW FLATS News In Brief— GROUND TEST are now being carried out by the Singapore Improvement Trust on land between Upper Pickering and Upper Hokkien Streets where it is planned to biuld three blockes of ninestorey flats.
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    THE MALAYAN NAVAL
    76 4 FORCE plans to Increase its strength to nearly 3,000 officers and men over a period of six years. At the end of last year the Force had a strength of 10 officers. 15 instructors and 119 ratings. Midwives of the Singapore Rural Board attended 7,849 cases last
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    1,155 BLACKLISTED
    101 4 ELEVEN HUNDRED Chinese and 55 Malay and Indian secret society suspects were interrogated and put on record by the Singapore Police last year. THE SINGAPORE Criminal District and Police Courts dealt with 58,858 cases in 1949, Revenue from fines and forfeitures totalled $761,889 THE REPRESENTATIVE of the Government
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    NEW PLANTS
    63 4 TWO FERNS new to Malaya have been found on Maxicell's Hill, says the annual report of the Botanic Gardens. Singapore. THE GOVERNOR will open the new Girls' Home of the Good Shepherd Convent at Thomson Road on Aug. 29. THREE PRIVATE ROADS in Singapore are being rebuilt at
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    GOVT. SURVEY
    33 4 JT is understood that the Singapore Government has engaged a London firm of consultants to make a preliminary surrey and report on problems of organisation and method in the Government services.
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    BANDITS KILL 1, WOUND THREE
    210 4 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. OANDITS who ambushed an estate lorry in "JOHORE yesterday killed the Malay driver and wounded a European assistant estate manager, a special constable and an Indian labourer Thg vehicle was set on fire and destroyed. Early today bandits
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    STATE WELCOME FOR SULTAN
    81 4 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. \yHEN the Sultan of Pcrak returns from his holiday in the U.K. next month, he will be welcomed at the border town of Parit Buntar. Arrangements for the reception are being made b.v a committee headed by the District Officer,
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    Five Appeal, One Cleared
    118 4 FIVE Sikhs who were' involved In a brawl on Apr. 2 last and who were sentenced to terms of Imprisonment, ranging from one month to a day, for causing hurt to two other Sikhs yesterday appealed against the decision before the Chief Justice. Sir Charles MurrayAynsley.
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    ADULT CLASS
    45 5 EDUCATION FOR WORKERS MR. LEONARD BARNES, Director of Social Welfare Traininr at Oxford University, at the adult English class at the house of Che Fatimah bint* Haji Haroun. 167 Arab Street, which he visited yesterday. Another picture m Pate 8. Straits Times picture.
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    University urged to give help
    180 5 •pHE University of Malaya ought to have an extra1 mural department which would help in the education of the adult in the Colony, said Mr. Leonard Barnes, Director of Social Welfare Trainins: at Oxford University, in Singapore last night. Mr. Barnes was giving a public
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    5 GAMBLERS FINED
    53 5 Six Chinese were charged in the Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday with gambling at pai kow and fan tan in a house in MSlabar Street. Singapore, on Aug. 15. Five pleadPd guilty and wore fined $25 each. Lav Kong Fatt. aged 19, claimed trial, and bail of
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    Exhibition Of British Handwriting
    260 5 Exhibition Of British Handwriting T»HE British Council Is to A present something unique in the nature of art exhibitions that the Colony has so far seen, when on Friday examples of British handwriting will be displayed at the Counil's Hall in Stamford Road. The exhibition will be opened at 5.30
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    JUDGMENT IS RESERVED
    49 5 Convicted by the lower court on a charge of knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution, a Chinese woman, Chang Ah Loke. appealed against a sentence of six months before the Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAynsley, in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. HU Lordship reserved Judgment.
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    U.S.L LOSES ANOTHER 'TURKO' CASE, TO PAY COSTS
    334 5 U.S.L LOSES ANOTHER 'TURKO' CASE, TO PAY COSTS move by the Indonesian Government to continue its legal fight to secure custody of Rupert Paul Pierre (Turko') Westerling was lost in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. Justice Evans refused to suspend an order of prohibition by which extradition proceedings against
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    49 5 A STUDENT who does not speak any English at all but who is very keen in learning the language, is Nai Anahipraja Isrankura (above) who arrived in Singapore yesterday by Siamese Airways Dakota from Bangkok. He is on his way to Australia to join a school. Straits Times picture.
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    Prison Head In London For Talks
    171 5 fJOMMANDER G. K. W. W. Bayly, Commissioner of Prisons, Singapore, has been called to London for discussions with the Colonial Office on matters connected with the Prison Enquiry Commission Report of 1948. Mr. A. W. Clow. Superintendent, Changi Prison, is acting for Commander Bayly,
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    FIFTH YEAR
    14 5 The Indonesian community celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Republic's independence today.
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    RURAL BOARD
    15 5 The Singapore Rural Board will hold its monthly meeting 'at 10 a.m. today.
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    STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING
    75 5 Krom Our Own Correspondent BUKIT MERTAJAM, Wed. "piIE Province Coroner, Inche Abdul Rahman, yesterday recorded a verdict of death by misadventure on a 42-year-old woman, Som binte Mat, who was struck dead by lightning on Aug. 13. Evidence showed that Son;,, a padi planter, bad rone
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    TODAY'S SINGAPORE DIARY
    126 5 RURAL BOARD, monthly meeting. Land Office, 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A. Business and Professional Women's Club, plate lunch. 5, Raffles Quay, 1.10 p.m. RED CROSS OLD PEOPLE'S CLUB, Wesley Hall. Fort Canning, 4.30 pin. to 0 p.m. CHINESE YJK.C.A.. Seletfle Road, badminton. 5 p.m. basketball, 5.30 p.m.. body-building class.
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    "Little Malaria In Rural Areas"
    178 5 ALTHOUGH investigations in 1949 showed that dangerous mosquitoes were breeding in large numbers, there was very little malaria in the rural areas of Singapore last year one rase in 3.000 of the population. "This peculiar phenomenon," says the Chief Health Officer (Rural) in his report
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    9 MONTHS FOR $1
    37 5 KOTA BAHRU, Wed.— Wan Yusoff bin Omar, Religious Court clerk, Bachok, was yesterday sentenced by Mr. J. O. Adams, President of the Sessions Court, to nine months' Imprisonment for misappropriation of one dollar.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    33 6 MRS INDER wishes to express hrr riaeare thanks to all friends who so kindly sent letters, mess- «vn.patrty and flowers following the death, as a result of action, of her husband Ralnh
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    IN MEMORIAM
    47 6 MARTIN— In e< cr-a fleet ionate ■mnory, of our dear MoUior, Mrs. Wary Anna Martin, of 100, Tanglin Rood, who departed this life on the 17th August 194... m Pime Road Internment Camp. Ever Mneabered, but aadly misled by *H her taring (ii.lciim their familiaa.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Aug. 17, 1950. The Middle Classes
    673 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Thur. Aug. 17, 1950. The Middle Classes In the annual report of the Director of Co-operation in the Federation, Mr. T. F. Carey,' M.C.S.. there are some observations on middle-class life in Malaya that are worth thinking over. Signs are not wanting," says Mr. Carey, that
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    One Singaporean
    374 6 It was revealed in the Singapore Legislative Council on Tuesday that precisely one person has been prosecuted for spitting in a public place since the beginning of this year, and he was fined ten dollars. Considering the countless thousands of times that this offence has been committed in
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    OUR FOUNDATION
    92 6 ]yi AY I ask In what precise year the Straits Times was born? My curiosity has been aroused by the date in a sentence from the novel 'Anna and the King of Siam," which runs: "Not surprisingly, the French took violent exception to it when it was published
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    MUSICAL PILGRIMAGE
    1017 6 A special correspondent reviews recent developments in the musical life of the Colony, and adds some comments on the works to be played by the Singapore Musical Society in the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow and Sunday. THE Colony is progressing rapidjy on its musical pilgrimage. Singapore now has
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      General Briggs's Bulletins
      236 6 A LTHOUGH 1 realise that the military authorities probably have very adequate reasons, and in any case an explanation is not required, I am rather curious to know the real reason behind the order that an official communique regarding the Malayan campaign must mention only the State
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      What Isn't Freedom?
      43 6 IT may help the correspondent who wrote the letter headed "What Is Freedom?" In the Straits Times on Aug. 15 to remember the meaning of the term "tyrannical oppression" which we learned so thoroughly during the occupation period. T.G.C. Singapore.
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      THE FOSTERMOTHER
      187 6 TT is surprising that some very responsible people should have thought fit to make the case of Maria Hertogh a religious one. I is not. While appreciating the good care taken of Maria Hertogh by her foster-mother, Che Aminah. I regret to find that the latter did not
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      TWO CHINESE SCHOOLS
      243 6 T*HE manner in which the Government has recently tackled the problems of two big Chinese schools In Singapore leaves serious doubts in one's mind about the wisdom of our rulers. These two schools have been allowed to reopen after a drastic curtailment of their liberties of organisation,
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    On the Margin
    466 6 Conrad's Ship MALAYA is one country where Joseph Conrad's novels will always be read by the lew, if not by the many, for something of the soul of Malaysia is In them, especially In the earlier stories, written before Conrad became consciously literary. Such readers must have
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    MERCHANT DESCRIBES SHOOTING
    688 7 Inquiry Into Death Of S'pore Contractor A CROWDED Singapore Relief Court yesterday heard a Borneo merchant give a detailed and graphic description of the shooting of 53-year-old Yong Yit Lin, a Singapore contractor and community leader, in the Tong Lam Club, Bukit Pasoh Road, on May 25.
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    OBSCENE LETTER ALLEGED
    128 7 OBSCENE LETTER ALLEGED A EUROPEAN, Leonard Fred Phipps, claimed trial in the Singapore First District Court yesterday to three charges of "intending to insult the modesty" of a European woman in SingaPhipps was' charged with Intention to Insult the of a woman by exhibiting in) obscene letter mi three rates
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    Prison For Theft Bid
    124 7 f r\VO rv.cn. Tan Chwee Kirn and Yun^ W.ih Sens, vho offered a bribe to a ri iTitv constable and then attempted theft when it. was refused, were sentenced to i"o p-»onths' imprisonment in ibe Singapore Fourth Police Court yesterday. They had pleaded guilty to Mealing
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    THEOSOPHISTS
    19 7 The Theosophical Society v. ill hold a discussion meeting at 8. Cairhill Road, at 6.30 v m. today.
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    Ipoh Child 'Swallowed' By Earth
    133 7 Ipoh Child 'Swallowed' By Earth j From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wed. ATWO-AND-HALF-year-old Indian girl sleeping in tier cot in a kongsi house near the Hindu cemetery in Ipoh was swallowed by the earth, cot and all. this afternoon. Shortly after midday the mother, hearing cries from her child, rushed
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    $30,000 SUIT EVIDENCE
    68 7 FURTHER evidence was recorded yesterday by Mr. Justice Thorogood in the Singapore Supreme Court in the claim for $30,000 brought by Lim Eng Siang against W. F. Fitzpatrick for alleged breach of agreement. Sir Roland Braddell with Mr. J. L. P. Harris, appeared for the plaintiff and
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    And Happiest Of All Were The Women
    256 7 Everybody's happy about it... SINGAPORE buzzed yesterday after thousands read in the morning newspapers that a daughter had been born to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh Women particularly were pleased over the fact that the baby was a girl. Four Singapore
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    STRIKE BY 100 AVERTED
    171 7 STRIKE BY 100 AVERTED A STRIKE by about 100 employees in the shoe-fac-tory of Industrial Trading Ltd. in Kampong Soopoo, which was to have taken place yesterday afternoon. was averted by a last-minute arrangement between labour and management. The strike threat stemmed from a dispute over wages, working hours and
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    MUST SERVE SENTENCE
    55 7 MUST SERVE SENTENCE An appeal by Pathmanadhan against a sentence of three months 1 Imprisonment on a charge of cheating was dismissed in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday. The appellant had been convicted for issuing a cheque for $160 on a bank In which he had no account. Mr. T.
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    Scolded, Took Poison
    45 7 Because her mother-in-law scolded her, a 19-year-old housewife, Leo Hong Choo, tried to end her life by taking caustic soda, it was stated in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday. Loe, who pleaded guilty to attempting suicide, was bound over for $25.
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    BROKE DOWN WALL TO ESCAPE FIRE, LEFT $500 IN PILLOW
    172 7 SAVINGS totalling $500. which were hidden in a pillow on which he slept, were lost by a Change Alley trader. Mohamed Ismail, when his three-room attap house In Lorong Enku Aman, Singapore, was razed by fire at about 2 a.m.
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    U.N. PROGRAMME
    38 7 Radio Malaya will present another special United Nations programme at 9.45 p.m. on Sunday. The programme will Include the voices of Mr. Jacob Malik. Dr. T. F. Tsiang. Mr. W;nwi Austin and Sir Glad win Jebb.
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    BETHESDA TALK
    27 7 Mr. Wee Teov Poh will be the speaker at the Young People's meeting at the Bethesda. Bras Basah Road, at 6 p.m. today. MOHD. ISMAIL
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    RUSSIANS WORSE OFF'NOW
    131 7 RUSSIANS WORSE OFF' NOW FE Russian people are worse off today than they could have been "under the crudest and sloppiest government the human mind can devise," said Mr. Paul M. A. Linebarger, Professor of Asiatic Politics of the School of Advanced International Studies, Washington. Professor Linebarger was addressing Singapore
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    $50 AWARD TO TEACHER
    47 7 A teacher, Florence Wong was awarded $50 compensation yesterday in the Singapore Fourth Police Court from a man and a woman who assaulted her in her house in Aljunied Road. The defendants, Slew Yong and Yap Poon, were bound over for six months.
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    Woman Sent To Mental Home
    62 7 A 31-year-oid woman. Tan Lav Sim. was sent to the Mental Hospital yesterday after she appeared in the Singapore Second Police Court on a charge of causing hurt with a knife to Tay Yeo Kwee, at Lor. 1. Geylang, on Aug. 8. Inspector Lai Behari
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    RAZIF HERE
    24 7 Dr. Mohammed Razif, formerly head of the Economic Department in the Indonesian High Commissioner's Office at The Hague, has arrived in Singapore.
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    OLD FOLKS CLUB
    17 7 The Red Cross Old People's Club will meet today at Wesley Hall, Fort Canning.
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    S'pore Gambling Raid
    54 7 27 women, 4 men held 1 WENTY-SEVEN women and four men were arrested n a gambling raid on a hou se in McPherson Road, Singapore, yesterday evening. rhe raid was carried out by Mr J. K. X.err, A.S.P. ot me Gambling Suppression Branch of th« OLD, and
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    RAF FLYPAST, GUN SALUTES GREET BABY
    214 7 RAF FLYPAST, GUN SALUTES GREET BABY MALAYA CELEBRATES ROYAL BIRTH ALL Malaya yesterday celebrated the birth of Princess Elizabeth's daughter and many official messages of congratulation were sent to Clarence House, the Princess' London home. The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Gimson, climbed to the roof of Government House yesterday
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    CAPT. DENIES REPORT
    77 7 WITH reference to the article headed "Ship With the Jolliest Crew Sails for Russia," published in Page Five yesterday, Capt. Prisco of the s.s. Etrusco writes iv deny that he discussed Russia or Russian politics. Capt. Prisco states that he did not say that he had been
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    Other Babies
    89 7 IN Singapore, two babied were born within a few minutes oi the Royal: Princess. Kuay Thye Kiang. 36-year-old wife of a Teochew seaman, gave birth to a 6 Ib. 10 oz. girl 20 minutes before Princess Elizabeth did. In the bed next to Kuay wits Yeo Sia Hong
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    Boy Weeps In Court
    70 7 A Chinese boy. stripped tn the vaist, tearfully told the Singapore First District Judge, Mr. H. E. Kingdon, yesterday. "I am too pr>or to pay for the expenses in grtting an identity card." He was Yap Chai Lian, assistant to a hiwker in Sigl;:p Road, who
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    STOLE WHISKY
    37 7 For stealing a bottle of whisky from the m.v. Antilochus. Chan Leng. 44. a dock labourer, was fined $50 and bound over in $50 for six months, in the Singapore I Third Police Court yesterday.
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    'HELP MALAYA' CABLE FOR U.S.
    187 8 Fact-Finding Mission Back In Singapore THE American fact finding mission on military aid is to cable Washington on Malaya's urgent material needs for the fight against the bandits. The Straits Times learned yesterday that the mission, which returned from the Federation by special aircraft on
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    CIVIL APPEALS
    38 8 The Court of Appeal (Civil) dealt with 28 appeals in 1949. Of these, one was allowed, two were struck out. eight withdrawn, ten dismissed and seven were pending, says the annual report of the Supreme Court.
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    TRESPASS CHARGE
    39 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed.— Mohamed bin Mohidln who was charged here today with committing lurking house trespass by entering the house of a Chinese in Jalan Meldrum, pleaded not guilty and was allowed bail in $500 pending trial.
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    'FRAMED' SAYS ACCUSED
    238 8 'FRAMED' SAYS ACCUSED From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. ALLEGATIONS that he had been 'framed" by n-rtain prosecution witnesses because he refused t,, join a society of which they were members was made by Loh Ah Poh. at the continuation of his trial on a charge of abduction, in
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    NOT LICENSED
    27 8 V-.im din Our. Correspondent lOHORE BAHRU. Wed. For selling pork without a licence, Chiew Sik Kong was fined $50 in the Kluang police ***** today.
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    QUEEN'S SCHOLAR
    32 8 MR. THONG Saw Pak. a Queen's Scholar now on his way to Belfast to study engineering. He will represent Singapore in the world weight-lifting championships in September. Straits Times picture.
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    18 NO LONGER BANKRUPT
    49 8 A total of 82 bankruptcy notices and 39 petitions were issued during 1949, says the annual report of the Supreme Court. Thirty -two receiving orders and 40 adjudication orders were made. Eighteen discharges in bankruptcy and 93 discharges of wage earners administration orders were obtained.
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    WOMEN'S CLASS
    56 8 MR. LEONARD BARNES. Director of Social Welfare Training at Oxford University (standing back on right), with Mr. J. Paul, secretary of the People's Education Association, watching: the adult English class at the house »f Che Fatimah binte Haji Ilaroun, president of the Singapore Malaya Union's women section, in
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    Too Afraid To Get Legal Advice
    149 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. INSTANCES during the occupation of sons betray1 in; their fathers and then being too frightened to seek legal advice for fear that news of it might reach the Kempeitai were referred to by Dr. A. H. Ponnampalam,
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    To Study Procedure In Parliament
    76 8 THE Singapore Government proposes to send Mr. L. W. Donough, at present Clerk of Councils, to the U.K. shortly on a course of study in Parliamentary procedure. The course Is expected to last three or four months. Mr. K. M. Byrne, who has returned from
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    FACTORIES IN U.K. VERY BUSY
    168 8 THE factories of Britain are so busy they are importing labour from Europe to meet the demand for British products, Sir John Storey, one of Australia's leading industrialists said on his arrival in Singapore yesterday afternoon. Sir John and Lady Storey are on the way
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    Move To Detect "Infiltration" Of Strangers
    236 8 Move To Detect "Infiltra tion" Of Strangers THE Changi District Rural Committee keeps the names, addresses and identity card numbers of all residents in the district to facilitate the issue of new cards and to help local authorities in their inquiries concerning people living in that part of Singapore. Inche
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    RED LIE STREAM DAMMED
    153 8 RED LIE STREAM DAMMED THE Singapore Government is taking measures to check, if not completely seal off. the flow of propaganda coming from China and Horn; Kong considered prejudicial 10 steps being taken to md the Emergency The Singapore Chinese Secretariat is now employing a team of three readers and
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    SCRAP CHARGE
    28 8 SEGAMAT. Wed. Bail of $200 was offered 51-year-old Woo Lam. a woman, charged at Serramat with unlawful possession of 10 katis of strap rubber at Bekok.
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    STORY BEHIND 'FORGET NOT YET' School won't part with its painting
    613 9  - STORY BEHIND 'FORGET NOT YET' School won't part with its painting LIAU NYUK OI By IT was February, x 1942. Singapore was in her death throes. The city was shattered by bombs and the roads were cluttered up with ruins. The dead could not be buried, and the dying were
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    Chased by pirates
    847 9 The final article on the adventures in Malaysian waters of a European woman and her two children. VjONDAY, 10—Pleas- ant breeze during the day: steering N.W. for Sambas, a Dutch settlement on the S.W. coast of Borneo. Mrs. Dare fretting very much for her babe, being unable
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      263 9 SPORE As Spore; f "Mail Bag": 7 As 10.30 Dance Music (Lake Club in m n T *11 a v. 6'pore; 7.35 Hawaiian Interlude; Band of K. L.): 11 Close. 10 a.m. News, followed by 730 M .B.C. Concert Or Sn.; 8 Forum »»«n« Emergency News from K. L.; 10.10
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    35 10 CARPENTiER— "His desk is absolutely clear, which means that either he deals promptly with business as it arrives or else (as I suspect) as promptly throws most of the mass of paper where it belongs
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    Meet the general
    718 10  -  FRANK OWEN By SAIGON: RESIDES Korea and Malaya, there is a third real, big battle going on in the Far Eastern war. It is the one in IndoChina. This battle is nearly as large in numbers as that in Korea, larger in area, and senior in age.
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    VILLAGERS WORRIED ABOUT URANIUM 235
    383 10 CAPENHURST. Cheshire. England. OROM his rambling, red brick farmhouse, young Mr. Edmund Cookson can see over much of the 65 acres of land he once owned. He can see the green fields now empty of cattle and corn, the neglected barns and the untrimmed hedges.
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    In The Garden
    482 10  -  neiun I have a small collection V: •of cactus and other similar dry region plants, but they are not doing as well as I would like. 1 have them in almost pure sand so the drainage should be all right. What can Ido to get some better
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      187 10 STRAITS TIMES CROSSWORD Mmt, v That U fcrUßy soundlnf CROSSWORD No. 142 I Th» price oj a i^nur (10). »w.^~ t Hit ARce II ha coniei guir.ea'» stamp (Burnt) around <8» 74) wsss —MM SSJB §§s SSS §S5 3?55 10. I clear crop (aDaj.) .110). v, summing up .<£)• JO
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    London Stocks
    303 11 LONDON, Wed. RENEWED strength of British Government funds provided a feature of the London Stock Exchange today Business broadened to include most Issues and gains up to half per cent were recorded. Closing middle prices or selected rtocks as supplied to tb* Btralts Times by special arrangement with
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    LONDON BIDS FOR TIN SHARES
    146 11 From A Market f ONDON continued to bi share market yesterda hopeful that they might metal continued to advanc Rubbers showed no chani Price changes announced yesterday by the Malayan Sharebrokers* Association were: INDUSTRIALS Barer* Sailer* Con. Tin Smelt Pref JO/S Jl/S Ort 16/9 n/»
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    RUBBER CROPS
    43 11 yURQUAND, Youngs, McAuliffe 1 Company announce the following July crop figures, in lbs.: Alor Oajah Est. 18.000 Ayer Panas Est. 86,500 Olenealy plantations 80.4j0 Kluang 65.500 Pajam 161,000 Tambalak Est. 24.120 Talisman 41,900 Teluk Anson Est. 68,721 Ulu Benut Consol. 49,000
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    Lahat Mines Dividend
    63 11 From Our Staff Correspondent IPOH. Wed. LAHAT Mines' directors recommend payment of a final dividend of 25 per cent, less tax at 95., payable in London on Sept. 27. The- annual meeting will be Vld on Sept. 26. Correspondent d for Tins in the Malayan ly and
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    TIN: $421 7/8 A PICUL
    36 11 SINGAPORE, Wed., Au*. IG-$«1.87«4 (up 17.87 W.) £832J a tan ia London LONDON, Wed.. Aue. 16. Spot: £830— 835- Forward. 83* 835 Settlement, £835. Turnorer: a.m. 40 tons, p.m. 30 tons.
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    The Produce Market
    154 11 From a Market Correspondent £»OPRA in Singapore yesterday opened higher than Tuesday's closing price with buyers at $43% per picul, and sellers at 544. Business was reported in the morning at $43%. Sellers maintained this level throughout the day and the market closed slightly weaker, with buyers
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    RUBBER 18½ ct.Rise To $1.22½
    218 11 RUBBER 18½ ct.Rise To $1.22½ RUBBER rose sharply In price in Singapore yesterday. A gain of 18J cents a lb. over Tuesday's close was registered. The market steadied up with some short-covering and further moderate buying orders from Japan. Sellers were reserved after Tuesday's liquidation. The market closed very steady
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    Hong Kong Exchange
    29 11 HONO KONG, Wed FREE market currency exchange for Hong Kong dollars wr.< quoted today as follows: US$l, HK56.32; £1. HK515.50; one Ue. of gold HKS3OB.— UP.
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    Shinning In The Roads And Alongside
    226 11 r SHIPS in the Singapore Outer and Inner Roads and alongside Harbour Board godowns yesterday were: Outer Roads: Hai Hsuan, Bintang, Modjokerto, E. Jamaica, Ophir, M. Brander, Aimee Lykes, Chit Seln, St. DJirak, Vedby Toboali, Benveg, Admiral Hardy, Benalbannach. Hwanghai Ulysses. Inner Roads: Halvdan,
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    80 ELIGIBLE FOR FREE HANDICAP
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    2nd DRAW IN JUNIOR CUP
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