The Straits Times, 11 October 1950

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS
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    REDS FLEE FROM WONSAN SPECIAL SHOW ' FOR M.A.P.T.B.
    427 1 REDS FLEE FROM WONSAN SPECIAL SHOW FOR M.A.P.T.B. City Falls To Triple Attack By S. Koreans TOKYO, Tuesday. £OMMUNIST resistance in Wonsan crumbled today in the face of a three-pronged South Korean infantry assault, supported by artillery and warplanes. The defenders withdrew to hills northwest and west of the city.
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    M.P.s GO HOME TO WRITE REPORT
    287 1 M.P.s GO HOME TO WRITE REPORT MEMBERS of the British Parliamentary deleRation leave Singapore for London this morning. They will write a confidential report on their three-weeks' tour of Malaya for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Britain. T'nelr views -and possibly ■orne recommendations on the Malayan emergency, politics finance and
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    GOVERNOR TO FLY TO BRITAIN
    64 1 The Governor of Singapore. Bir Franklin Gimson, leaves the Colony on Sunday to fly to Britain to attend the formal opening of the new House of Commons on Oct 26. Mr. E. M F. Fergusson. chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerre. will be on
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    RoyalVisitTo Spore May Be Suggested
    120 1 A SUGGESTION to the "proiV. per quarters" that the King. If he grants a royal charter raising Singapore to cfty status, might also be able to confer it in person may be made by one of the visiting Members of Parliament on his return to
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    FREE STUDY FOR JAPS IN U.K.
    63 1 TOKYO, Tues. The British Council is offering for the academic year 1951-52 a limited number of scholarships to Japanese students. A British Council scholarship is intended to cover all expenses of maintenance and study and includes return fares, tuition fees, personal maintenance, a grant
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    PRESIDENT TO MEET MacA.
    26 1 WASHINGTON. Tuet— President Truman is r to meet (.en^ Mac Arthur "Momrwhrr^K the Pacific" this week,4r was officially announced* in Washington. —VJP.
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    CHURCHILL AWARD
    30 1 COPENHAGEN. Tues— Mr. Winston Churchill, who with Mrs. Churchill is visiting Denmark, was this afternoon given the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Copenhagen University. Reuter.
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    LOAN TO PERSIA
    27 1 TEHERAN. Tues. The American Import-E x p o r t Bank has granted Persia a $25,000,000 loan to improve road communications and agriculture. Reuter.
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    COLONY STRIKE CALLED OFF
    319 1 THE Singapore RedifTusion Employees Union has decided to call off its 67-day-old strike and shut down the union. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting at the residence of the Union's President. Mr. D. N. Booth. In Katong yesterday morning. The strike involved a loss
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    JAKARTA REJECTS CEASE-FIRE PLEA
    119 1 JAKARTA, Tues. THE United Nations Commission for Indonesia officially announced today that the Indonesian government "Is unable to comply with the Commission's appeal" to cease hostilities on Ambon. The Indonesian refusal was handed to the Commission this afternoon by the Foreign Minister, Mohammed Roem. The statement
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    TinßeachesA 11-time High: $432 A Picul
    140 1 From Our Market Correspondent 'PHE price of tin in Singapore yesterday spurted 1 to thp all-time record of $432 a picul, a rise of $11.62£ on Monday's price. The rise Is attributable to the greater demand for the metal, which has been caused by
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    JETS FOR MALAYA
    22 1 VAMPIRE JET fighters of this type will be flown from England for service in Malaya.— R.A.F. T. R. picture.
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    Vampires Here By End Of Year
    334 1 Straits Times Staff Reporter rIE jet fighter aircraft with which certain units of the Far East Air Force are shortly to be reequipped will be Vampires and Meteors. Announcement of the imminent re-equipment was made by Mr. Aidan Crawley, British Under-Secretary of State for
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    £94,335 For One Shilling
    62 1 CARLISLE. Teus. rpHOMAS Wood. 42. a oneX legged clerk in an office here learned today that be had won £94,335 for a shilling in a football pool tl.e highest pool dividend ever paid in Britain Mr. Wood, a married man with two sons, lost his leg
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    Double 10th Meeting OfMalayans
    92 1 Double 10th Meeting OfMalayans from O«r Own I orre*pond<- «i LONDON. Tues. LORD Milverton opened the annual general meeting or the Association of British Malaya today by suggesting that the Double Tenth, with its memories for those interned in Singapore, should be the date of annual meetings in future He
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    NFW PHONE LINK
    18 1 NEW DELHI, Tues.—President Rajendra Prasad will inaugurate a direct India-Indo-nesia radio telephone service tomorrow. Reuter.
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    BRITISH NEWSMEN PRAISED IN U.S.
    80 1 Two correspondents formely stationed at Singapore, Lachie Mac Donald. of the London Daily Mail, and Denis Warner of the London Dally Telegraph and the Melbourne Herald, gained high praise for their gallantry In action and accurate news stories, according to an article appearing in the
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    KING SETS DAY OF MEMORY
    37 1 LONDON. Tues.— The King today designated Nov. 12 as Remembrance Day for those who died in the wars of 1914--18 and 1939-4 S. He directed that there be two-minute period of silence
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    BIG FRENCH DEFEAT IN 5 DAY BATTLE
    218 1 BIG FRENCH DEFEAT IN 5 DAY BATTLE SAIGON, Tuesday. *pWO French columns have been smashed in a five-day battle with Communist-led Vietminh troops. Remnants of the two shattered columns were* last night staggering back to- the fortress of Thatkhe after the most destructive battle of the Indo-China war "A hard
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    HE GOT THE PRIZE BUT NO MONEY
    94 1 RANGOON, Tues A MIDDLE-AGED Burman has been walking around for the past five years trying to cash a bond representing R5.100.000 But nobody HI give him even one rupee. He got the bond in 194 b as the first prize in a lottery
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    Strength Of Vietminh A Surprise
    141 1 Strength Of Vietminh A Surprise WASHINGTON. Tues {AMERICAN officials took rf serious view yesterday ofl the French defeat in IndoChina. Diplomatic reports receivedl by the State Department bora out news dispatches from Saigon that heavy losses have been suffered. The Vietminh forces showtxl unexpected strength Official* ascribed this largely to
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    NEW T.B. CUR ¥ CLAIMED
    61 1 NEW T.B. CUR CLAIMED HONU KONG Tues new drug said to ue inore t effective against tuberculos .s than streptomycin has beett discovered by Dr. Wu Tu-mingf cf Shanghai, according to» Chinese Press reports today. The reports al'eee that a month's experiment at th© Shanghai People's Hospital showed that the
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      Gaolers, Convicts |ln Drinking Spree
      228 2 Gaolers, Convicts |ln Drinking Spree MANILA. Tuesday. A PIVARENTLY too many nights at borne are just as monotonous for foolers as the gaoled. The Quezon City Mayor suspended and arrested the City Gaol Deputy Warden and two gaolers for going out on a Sunday night drinking spree with four inmates,
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      SOEKARNO'S MOTHER
      28 2 INDONESIAN President. Dr. Soekarno, visits his r' .y mother in his hor n. She is a Balinese. 1 President's father, a Javanese, is dead. A.P. picture.
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      CHRISTENING OF PRINCESS ANNE
      53 2 LONDON, Tues— Princess Anne, daughter of Princess Elizabeth, will be christened at Buckingham Palace on Oct. 21. The Archbishop of York will officiate and the Duke of Edinburgh will fly home to attend the ceremony. The Duke Is commander of the frigate Magpie. i n the
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      MINT SELLS COIN AT A PROFIT
      48 2 LONDON, Tues— Britain's collector* of coins are already ordering; from the Royal Mint sets of the current coinage now being specially struck for this purpose. Total value of these coins is 7s 4d but the set will cost the collector 12s M
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      ALARM RAW, BUT NEHRU SPOKE ON
      79 2 w LUCKNOW. Tuesday. J^ TIM bell sonnded as the Indian Prime Minister. v-# P *"i U Nehru, completed 30 minutes of an address before the Institute of Pacific Relations here. The Prime Minister, with an embarrassed smile, shut •ft* the alarm bell on his
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      687 2 NOTICES NOTICE K.LUa.-ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES wish to announce that with effect from October 15th 1050 their FREIGHT DEPARTMENT will be transferred from the Town Office on the 4th floor KPM Building. 1 Plnlayson Green, to KALLANG AIRPORT. AS from that date ALL Freight will be handled at KALLANG AIRPORT. Telephone
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      514 2 NQI3CE3 ■i NATURALISATION NOTICE Is hereby given that Mr. Au Yee Pun ol 18-B Seng Poh Rd.. Singapore, to applying to the Governor for naturalisation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be granted should send a wrlten signed statement of the facts to the
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      360 2 THE STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL again is the first 'tim« since 132 Pages the Liberation that we have been able to produce a nLuriom o*™0 STRAITS TIMES ANNUAL on eluding 3 Full > the lines of the successful pre- fei war publication. The STRAITS Si> month, to TIMES ANNUAL for 1951
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    SOVIET 'SEES GOOD'IN U.S PROPOSAL
    266 3 But Cannot Accept It Alt LAKE SUCCESS, Tuesday. THE United States put a proposal before the United Nations yesterday to give the General Assembly power to send international armed forces into action against aggressors. Russia immediately announced in a surprise move that it found some
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    SHY SHAW RETURNS
    43 3 SCREENS hid the doors of the ambulance and of the house when George Bernard Shaw returned from hospital where he has been with a broken leg. When the screens fell, it was too late for the photographer^ P pict ure.
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    TRUMAN TO MAKE MAJOR SPEECH
    39 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. pBESDBNT Truman will make a major foreign policy speech at the I.N. General Assembly on Oct. 21. He will speak at Flushing Meadows on the fifth anniversary of the United Nitions. A.P.
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    Dancer Sues Sabu For Baby's Keep
    173 3 Dancer Sues Sabu For Baby's Keep LOS ANGELES. Tut-s. rr\BE long-di-laved paternity A suit of a pretty London dancer against actor Sabu (Elephant Boyt Dastagir began here yesterday with Sabu rep irted to be "out of town Here from England to testif.\ tnat the former screen "Elephant Boy" fathered her
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    RED ARMY BUILDS ROAD TO TIBET
    64 3 LONDON, lues— The Chinese Communis' army is building a highway to Tibet from T.singhai province In northwest China, Moscow Rad.o announced yesterday. Quoting official Chinese Communist reports on the achievements of the Peking regime during the past year, Moscow Radio said that the army
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    KAREN MOVE TO END WAR
    28 3 RANGOON. Tues. Five Ministers will sit on a sixmember advisory committee to consider suggestions by Karen loaders to end the Karen-B«lrmese war.— A.P.
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    CATHOLIC PRIEST HAD WIFE
    144 3 CATHOLIC PRIEST HAD WIFE MANILA. Tues. A PHILIPPINES judge today ordered a Catholic priest to support his wife and child and rebuked an auxiliary bishop who. the court held, had attempted to interfere with the civil law. Judge Gatmaitan held that Father Hermogenes Coronel. j 36-year-old Director of the i
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    ISLAND THEFTALLEGED
    51 3 ATHENS. Tues. GREECE has accused Bulgaria of stealing an island. The island, tiny Alpha, lies in the middle of the river Evros, forming the boundary of the two countries. Bulgaria. the Greeks charge, is trying to divert the river so that the island becomes part of Bulgarian territory.
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    STATE TAKES OVER STEEL FEB. 15
    124 3 LONDON. Tuesday. DRITAINS steel industry will be taken over by the State on Feb. 15. 1951. announced the Government today. (that day, the 92 com- in all branches of the industry will transfer securities to the Gov■nt's Iron and Steel ration. malisation of steel,
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    YOUTH HELD AS SUSPECT
    67 3 HONG KONG, Tues. A 20-year-old unemployed youth from Shanghai was remanded here unirr suspicion of being one of two men who tried to kill Wang Hsln-heng, member of the Chinese Nationalist Legislative Yuan and former Shanghai Director of the Nationalist Bureau of Investigation and Statistics. Wang
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    China: 'Base For Red Aggression'
    428 3 DOUBLE TENTH CELEBRATIONS TAIPEH, Tuesday. PRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek today claimed that the Chinese Communists have an army of 5,000,000 men, and plan to conscript at least 60,000,000 of the nations 300,000,000 farmers. The Chinese Nationalist President made his statement in a message commemorating October 10,
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    FIRE IN DELHI BAZAAR
    164 3 FIRE IN DELHI BAZAAR NEW DELHI. Tues. ;UEARLY 500 shops, a bank and a post office were destroyed in an all-night fire I which raged until early today through Old Delhi's down- town Bazaar district. Police had no reports of deaths today, but thought it 1 possible that some women
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    DRUG RECORD
    16 3 ALEXANDRIA, Tues.— Syria and the Lebanon are producing record amounts of narcotic drugs. A.P.
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    Reds Still Hold 4 U.S. Fliers
    143 3 FRANKFURT, Tues. FUR United States Air Force officers, who made a forced landing in Russia in 1945 after an air raid on Japan, were still being held in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp near Kiev as late as 1947, a refugee Hungarian army lieutenant said
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    Soviet Accuses U.S. Airmen
    217 3 Soviet Accuses U.S. Airmen MOSCOW. Tues. RUSSIA has accused two United States aircraft of strafing the Soviet airport of Sukhaya Rechka. 60 miles within the narrow strip of Soviet territory between Manchuria and the Japan Sea not far from the Soviet base port of Vladivostok. The American Minister Counsellor in
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    LOCUST 'WAR' TO BEGIN
    50 3 LONDON Tues. Britain has declared war on the locust swarms now threatening the food crops of a dozen countries In the Middle East, Africa and India. A totaj of £3,750.000 will be spent and special American equipment used in a threeyear "battle" with the invaders—A. P.
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    GIFTS FOR FIRE VICTIMS
    112 4 GIFTS FOR FIRE VICTIMS /^IFTS of clothes, milk, soap and towels, were distributed by the Singapore branch of the British Red Cross Society yesterday afternoon to victims of the fire in the squatter area off Oeylang on Monday. About 17 families who had become homeless and lost their all in
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    PIPED WATER FOR MERSING KAN AN
    66 4 From Onr Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Mersing Kanan. Mersing, Is to get piped water as part of the water supplies development programme for Johore. Money for the work was voted in the 1950 Estimates but was withdrawn to meet the costs of the
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    SECURITY' " CHECK SYSTEM FOR STORE NIGHT BUSES
    252 4 SECURITY CHECK SYSTEM FOR STORE NIGHT BUSES Anti-Arson Busmen To Get Rewards From Company THE Singapore Traction Company has introduced a system of rewards for its employees who show enterprise in combatting arson attempts on S.T.C. buses. The first two rewards of $30 each were presented to a bus driver
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    TROOPER ON DRIVING CHARGE
    57 4 From Our Own Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Trooper F. Farrell. of the Hussars Kluang. was charged j in the Johore Bahru Police Court today with driving a military motor vehicle on the Scudai Road without reasonable consideration crashing into a motor car Farrell pleaded not guilty
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    DEAD MAN HAD NO CARD, SON FINED
    77 4 from Our Own Corrnpondent MUAR. Tues. WHEN an old Javanese died at Sungei Mati his son went to the police for a burial permit, bat could not produce the dead man's identity card. As the offender was beyond the reach of the law,
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    Animal Lovers League 'Not Premature'
    237 4 MRS. R. S. demons, president of the Animal Lovers' League of Singapore, yesterday denied statements in a letter to the Straits Times, signed "Human Suffering. Singapore" that the organisation is "premature and a mockery of all the human suffering in Singapore". Mr T. Eames Hughes,
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    MARRIED AT MUAR
    18 4 MB. AND NKS. SFE Chionir after tbxir marriage at Muar recently. Lim Photo Studio picture
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    Shot Man Gets 3 Years9 Gaol
    312 4 Shot Man Gets 3 Years 9 Gaol PDUND guilty at the Singapore Assizes yesterday of having attempted to commit mischief by fire, 19-year-old Lee Ah Chuan, alias Lee Teck Chuan, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by «Mr. Justice Brown. Addressing the judge hrough the interpreter as he vas being
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    Scholarship Offer By Co-op Union
    107 4 Scholarship Offer By Co-op Union Singapore Urban Co- operative Union Is offering two Senior Certificate scholarships for 1951 for children of members unable to pay for their children's I school-leaving Certificate I course. Each award is worth $100 J payable quarterly. Closing date for application Is Nov. 8. Qualifying Exam
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    Divorce Case Postponed
    104 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A KUALA LUMPUR bank i"^ clerk, Mr. Thomas Coleman Jones, sued his wife, Ira Maureen, for divorce In the I Kuala Lumpur Supreme Court yesterday. The case was postponed In order that a point In law arising out of the "complicated question of Jones'
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    C.P.O. RETURNS
    27 4 BENTONQ, TUM. The Chief Police Offlcer, Pahang, Mr. J. O. H. Brett, has returned to Kuala Llpls from Perth, where he had an ear operation.
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    KALLANG AIR ARRIVALS
    234 4 'PHI following were among those who arrive* at Kallang airport, Singapore, ysterday. Passengers In transit are not Included Ip the list. BOAC (AiToawat) From Hont Ken|: Messrx. A. Oxley A. Vevers. WB. Nelson, R. Hughes, Ting Hsl Nun*. Chan Hee Fun. P. T.V-Qrano, V. W. Shiriro. Mrs.
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    1,000 NEW PHONES THIS WEEK
    527 5 Work To Start Soon On Bukit Timah Exchange QNE THOUSAND new telephone lines for Singapore will become available from Saturday night, when the Oriental Telephone and Electric Co brings into service part of its new automatic equipment. As soon as the extension is opened new
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    WEDDING OF GIRL RULED ILLEGAL
    169 5 WEDDING OF GIRL RULED ILLEGAL By Our Malay Correspondent THE Kathi's Court in Batu Pahat has ruled that the marriage of a Muslim girl who had not reached puberty was illegal and therefore null and void. The Court advised that the fir; and the youth concerned should be betrothed until
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    MALAYAN'S DEATH
    41 5 from Om O-> n (orip- nonrtrnt LONDON. Tues.— The death has occurred in Brinln ni Mr George Crnd^n Knox. formerly sp"re'ary of the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co., Singapore Since retirement from Malayn. Mr Knox had lived at Aberdeen
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    DRIVER IS ACCUSED OF THEFT
    238 5 qENCILLED notes on a copy I of the Straits Times were produced by a witness at the Court Martial of a Malayan soldier In Singapore yesterday Gulab Singh, an Indian watchman, was giving evidence at the trial of Driver Hussain bin Abdullah of the R
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    Big French Setback Shocks Legionnaires
    209 5 hundred French Foreign Legionnaires returning from Indo-China on board the Abbeville, which docked at Singapore yesterday, were shocked when a reporter showed them the news j>f the recent big defeat suffered by French troops on the warfront. Disregarding the heavy downpour of rain, a large
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    16 Holidays For Colony Next Year
    117 5 CINOAPORE will observe 16 i" public holidays and two bank holidays next year. Public holidays are: New Year"s Day (Jan. 1), Thalpu.sam (Jan. 23 1. Chinese New Year and the following day (Feb 6 and 7), Good Friday and the following day (Mar. 23
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    Woman (82) Tried To End Life
    75 5 AB-»- YKAR-Ol.l) Chinese woman. Yeon 5 Ah Yet. pleaded guilty in the Singapore Second Police Coort yesterday to attempt!** suicide on Oct. 9 by jumping into the Mea at the Trick Ayer Basin. The woman, who was rescued by a Special Constable told the
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    Bandits Fire On Elephant Train
    221 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tuesday. 'THREE elephant drivers and an elephant were 1 killed when bandits attacked an elephant pack train in Perak yesterday. A mahtnit and three elephants escaped unhurt. Two special constables were killed and another was wounded in SELANGOR yesterday.
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    BAN ON U.S. CARS STAYS
    53 5 rpHE Singapore Government is not contemplating lifting the two-year-old ban on the import into the Colony of American cars over 39 horse-power, a spokesman for the Import and Export Department said yesterday. "The ban still continues and that's all I can say for the moment."
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    Radio Men Get Higher Training
    213 5 Radio Men Get Higher Training rEN apprentices attached to Radio Malaya in Singapore are to be sent to study at the Technical College. Kuala Lumpur, next year under a new training scheme inaugurated by the department. The Director of BroadcastIng, Mr. J. 8. Dumeresque, told the Strait* Times yesterday: "We
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    SULTAN ILL
    50 5 From Oar Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Sultan of Trengganu is ill. and has gone to Penang for medical treatment. He is expected to be well enough to attend the conference of rulers on Oct. 25 and 26 and will return to Kuala Trengganu after the conference
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    BROKE CURFEW
    37 5 From Oar Own orrespondent KAJANO. Tues. Chen Fook, On Chen Soong. Lee Ah Chal and Lee Tong Eng, who appeared before the Kajanp Circuit Magistrate for being found out during the curfew, were fined $25.
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    DEATH
    31 6 PLOWERDEW. On 30th September 1950. In London, Nina Flora CVtra, beloved wife of Arthur Hirry Flower dew of Kuala Lumpur, and Mother of Wendy -V i hoiK and Nancy Oafflkln.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    35 6 MR. MRS. CHACKO of Carey fslaud thank all friends and relatives who attended their marriage nnd tea party held at Klang on Saturday 30th September and who were kind enough send presents nnd messages.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Oct. 11, 1950. Elections In Johore
    1084 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., Oct. 11, 1950. Elections In Johore Politically Johore has always been in a class by itself among the Malay States. It went a long way along the road since travelled by the Communities Liaison Committee and UMNO with its Johore Nationality Law which was drafted
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    Singapore: 'Hideous spectacle of almost naked island'
    3149 6  -  WINSTON S. CHURCHILL M^^g^^g— a^g— By IT is at least arguable whether it would not have been better to concentrate all our strength on defending Singapore Island, merely containing the Japanese advance down the Malayan peninsula with light mobile forces., The decision of
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      776 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. CREW. On 10th October at Malacca General Hospital to Ellxabtth and Douglas, a son. THE engagement U announced between Stanley V. Moseley, youngest son of Mr. A Mrs. P. Moseley of Precton, Rutland, and Eleanor Barbara May Thomas, rid fit daughter of Mr. Vn q. H. Thomas of
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    NO SIGN OF 'MISTRUST OF BRITISH
    386 7 M.Ps Comment On Onn's Statement *pOUR visiting British M.Ps, belonging to different parties, were unanimous yesterday in saying they had found no evidence of mistrust in Malaya towards the British, as had been asserted by Dato Onn bin Ja'afar at a London interview last
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    THEY HID SUGAR: $C5O FINE
    136 7 THEY HID SUGAR: $C5O FINE SUNDRY SHOP proprietor, Tang Wu Ngiap, •3. and his salesman. Tang Yong Tong 24, were convicted In the Singapore Second District Court yesterday of refusing to sell Government-imported sugar •n July 24. Wu Ngiap wa.s fined $230 or six \veks' simple imprisonment; Yong Tong was
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    TRKSPASS: $10
    29 7 For wilfully tespassing Into Ihe premises of the Singapore Harbour Board on Monday, three Chinese hawkers mre fined $10 each in the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday.
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    RNVR Unique InWarOn Reds
    91 7 HTHE Royal Naval Volun--1 teer Reserve in Malaya was the only one in the Commonwealth actively engaged against a Communist enemy, said Mr. Alan T. Lennox-Boyd. Conservative MJ 1 at a Press conference at Singapore yesterday. Referring to the high morale of troops here. Mr. E.
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    INCREASE INCOLONY CRIME
    142 7 INCREASE INCOLONY CRIME SERIOUS crime In Sln*3 gapore rose last month above the previous highest figure for the year. The Assistant Commissioner. CJ.D., Mr. D. K. Broadhurst. told the Straits Times yesterday that September's figure of 90 housebreakings was 29 more than that of the previous month. Armed robberies rose
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    Funeral Of Planter
    93 7 MR. J. B. Wellacott, the young Johore planter who killed In an ambush on Monday morning, was ouried yesterday with military honours at Bldadarl Cemetery. Singapore. He had been a captain in the Gurkha reserve. A small group of friends and fellow -planters from Johore attended the
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    Gold Bars In Shoes, Court Told
    180 7 Gold Bars In Shoes, Court Told A MAN who was alleged to have been found with 10 bars of gold hidden in his shoes when he was searched at a Customs station, was yesterday produced in the Singapore Relief Court on tentative charges of importing and attempting to Import 100
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    Two Years For Man 'Who Preyed On Society'
    399 7 Two Years For Man 'Who Preyed On Society' STOLE PIANO FROM BED-RIDDEN WOMAN A 56-YEAR-OLD Australian, with 11 previous con- victions, who was said by the Singapore First District Judge. Mr. 11. E. Kingdon. "to have preyed on society for a number of years", was sentenced to two years' imprisonment
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    FINED $60
    36 7 From Oar Staff Correspondent MALACCA, tues. -Tan Chin Teng was today fined $60 when he pleaded guilty in the Malacca Sessions Court to being in possession of 10 uncustomed 25-lb tins of powdered milk.
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    FATAL FALL
    29 7 Eng Ouan Chlan. 58. who fell into a junk while walking along Its edge, died shortly after admission to hospital. The Junk was anchored along Rochore Canal.
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    M.Ps DISCUSS STORE LABOUR PROBLEMS
    120 7 pOITR members of the visiting Parliamentary 1 mission yesterday afternoon met representatives of the local trade unions and their employers at a tea party given by the Labour Advisory Board, for what was termed "man-to-man" talks on various labour problems in the Colony. Matters discussed
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    "EARTH TREMOR" IN SPORE
    64 7 AN "earth tremor" lasting tor a few seconds, felt in the heart of Singapore yesterday at 1.32 p.m. dorIng a rain storm, was caused by blasting operations on the wreck of a floating crane In the harbour. The crane, which was sunk during a Japanese air
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    TRIUMPHS PLANES FLEW 900 SORTIES IN KOREA -ALL SAFE
    376 7 TRIUMPHS PLANES FLEW 900 SORTIES IN KOREA -ALL SAFE HAEJU...tbea POHANG ther INCHON... AFTER sailing 18,000 miles in action in the Korean war, and flying aircraft in 900 sorties, H.M.S. Triumph, light fleet carrier, with her crew of 1,000 men and 120 officers, docked at Singapore Naval Base yesterday on
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    LotiQn Had Poison: 4 Men Fined
    127 7 LotiQn Had Poison: 4 Men Fined ITHDUR partners ot the Chong F Park Medical Hall in Upper Nanking Street were yesterday fined $45 each by the Singapore Fourth Police Court, magistrate, Mr. S. E. Tel\ when they pleaded guilty Co three charges of selling rxi:sons without a licence The four
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    BODY IN DRAIN
    36 7 An Indian labourer of the Singapore Harbour Board who yesterday morning reported nndin e a dead Indian in a drain in Scan Imm Road, near Telok Blangah, wai later detained by the police.
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    ELECTIONS CHIEF
    17 7 Mr G.G. Thomson. Singapore s Public Relations Secretary, has been appointed acting Supervisor of Elections.
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    CHINESE CABLE SUPPORT TO CHIANG
    292 7 CHINESE CABLE SUPPORT TO CHIANG JIIGHLIGHT of the commemorative celebrations of the 39th anniversary of the Chinese Republic yesterI day was the sending of a 1 cable by representatives of 206 Chinese organisations In Singapore to Dr. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the j UNO. pledging unconditional i support to the
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    'I WAS DRIVEN OUT' ALLEGES SEAMAN
    183 7 UOHAMED Motaflr, a Pakistani seaman, at the continued hearing of the Seamen's Inquiry Commission yesterday, accused Capt. F. W. Jannjngs, Deputy Registrar of the Singapore Seamen's Registration Bureau, of d tiring him away from tht bureau irheneTer he went there for work. Motaflr further
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    Malaya 'Can Rely On More Aid From U.K.' Says Listowel
    177 8 'FURTHER GRANTS BEING STUDIED' AN assurance was given by Lord Listowel at a Press conference in Singapore yesterday that Malaya could rely on further financial assistance from Britain towards cost of the Emergency. "Further grants are now under consideration", he
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    MALACCA MALAY WEDDING
    33 8 MALACCA MALAY WEDDING ABDUL GHANI bin Abdul Rahman and Bokmah binte Sam who were married at Malacca this week. The bridegroom is employed at the Postal Department, at Koala Lumpur. Yon? Hengr picture.
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    "CONNIE" HELD UP AN HOUR
    140 8 "CONNIE" HELD UP AN HOUR A X.L M Constellation from Amsterdam, carrying 25 passengers, arrived over Singapore yesterday afternoon at 1.30. but was unable to land at Kalian* until 2.30. For an hour low clouds, which reduced visibility defeated at least four attempts by the pilot. Captain Kooper to land
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    Stowaway In New Ship
    82 8 rrorn Our Staff Correspondent PENANO. Tues. MAKING her first run for the Eastern Shipping Corporation, the 5,284-ton JalagopaJ arrived In Penang yesterday with a stowaway on board. The man. 31-year-old Krishnamoorthy. was found by immigration officials to whom he explained that he had stowed away because
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    KELANTAN UNION: OFFICERS
    80 8 KELANT AN UNION: OFFICERS From Our Own Correspendrnt KOTA BAHRU. Tues— At a meeting convened by the Tumpat branch of the Kelantan Daily Paid Workers Union, at the Tumpat Railway Institute premises, the following were elected offlci'bearers: President. S Pakiam vicepresident, Mohd Ali bin Muda: secretary. Ramlt bin Osman: asst.
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    7 APPOINTED TO LAND BOARD
    59 8 A seven-man board has been Unpointed to control occupation of land at the Jalan Eunos Malay Settlement. Members are: Commissioner of Lands (chairman >, Inche Sardon bin Hajl Jubir. Tuan Haji Abdulmajid bin Said. Inche Abdul Hamid bin Rafcnat. Inche Abdullah bin Abdul Ghaal. Tuan
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    SAMSU FINE
    37 8 Kroea Our Own Cot respeadenl JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Ng Kirn Slong. who was found in possession ot 1.5 gallons vi Illicit samsu near the Johore bus stand was fined $80 in the police court today.
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    CANCELLED
    55 8 From' Oar SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Malayan Railway Administration announced today that the passenger trains will be cancelled between Taiplng and Penang and vice versa on Thursday and Saturday. These trains will, however, run between Ipoh and Taiping and vice versa and the day and night mail
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    MCA TICKETS
    42 8 From Our Staff Correspondent SEREMBAN. Tues. The Malayan Chinese Association's million dollar lottery is selling fast in Negri Sembilan. Within a week of the receipt of Negri's 30.000 tickets more than half have been sold, an official of M.C.A. said.
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    *Many North Korean Troops Not Reds'
    231 8 \f ANY of the North Korean troops were not Com"1 munists, but conscripted into the army whether or not they believed in the invasion of South Korea, said Mr. Lionel (BUI) Hudson, Reuter-AAP correspondent in South East-Asia, in a broadcast over Radio Malaya last
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    TIGER (AUGHT IN PIG TRAP '
    54 8 TIGER (AUGHT IN PIG TRAP tM.n Out Own (v irJfnl PARIT Bl NT AK. Tues. y TIGER, weighing 15* katis and measuring over five feet, was caught in a pig trap at Ounong Semanggo) yesterday. Police informed the 0.i'. P.1).. Krian, Mr. Ci. C. Grace, who went to Semanegol and
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    Sc^aned Woman Charge
    63 8 F'-'om ""»r <» .in p»*4*nt BUKIT MERTAJAM, Tues.— Police Lance^ergeant Awang bin Ahmad, cnarged here yesterday with having caused i evidence to disappear with the intention of screening n woman, Wong Choy, from legal punishment, was granted $500 bail until Oct. 16. Awang: was alleged to have
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    SPECIAL COURSE FOR TEACHERS
    261 8 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LVMPI'R, Tuesday. A SPECIAL two-year Normal course for Methodist Mission private school teachers in Selangor is being conducted by the Methodist Mission. It has been organised by Mr. VO. Thalayasingani principal of the Methodist afternoon school, Kuala Lumpur and is being
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    K.L. WEDDING
    26 8 MR. AJtfD MRS. LEE Thiam Loong who were married at Kuala Lumpur this week. The bride was .Mis* Ching Yin Moy.— Eastern Photographers picture.
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    Goods Train: A Denial
    116 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. rE Malayan Railway administration today denied reports that drivers of goods trains were refusing to run trains alter dark in dangerous areas. A story circulating in Kuala Lumpur today alleged that goods train drivers stopped at the nearest station as soon as It
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    SHOW FOR FUND
    27 8 KLUANG. Tues -The cinema show organised by the O. E. S. teachers In aid of the University of Malaya Endowment Fund realised about $1,000.
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    'PASAR MALAM' DRAWS 40,000
    202 8 By Our Malay Reperter GLIMPSE into Malaya ll- teraturr, both old and modern: and the Malay aptitude for colourful and artistic work. Is provided at the "pasar malatn." or Malay night market, which ends In the New World tomorrow night. Together with Malay products are displayed
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    A mighty bitter winter; ahead says the shepherd
    1721 9 From Our Own Correspondent CHADDLEWORTH, Berks.. Oct. 1. II'HKN we went for our Sunday afternoon tramp today along the roads and lanes which open out on the vast windswept spaces of the Berkshire Downs we constantly felt the acorns crackling under our
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    PEOPLE VI THE NEWS
    265 9 SIR Thomas Beecham, quoted as saying to > a younr woman appli- cant: "Madam, I won't have women in my or- chestra. If they are pretty they Put my men players off. If they're not. they put me off." MR. George Alfred Borrett. £9-a-week Liverpool insurance
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      216 9 News: 10.10 Clote 13-8.30 p.w »on, Uozail); 8.3 1 K«<v<i; 945 SIMCAPORB as STpore; 6.30 "Happy Anni- "PeiMnallUes Parade"; 10 flic 10 am Nrwi followed hv 1A« S^pore: 7.30 Intar- Vir*lnlan«" Episode 5 10 30 fcLVuc", Ne N w7nJ°KX? 10.1. ™*T' Dsnw Mutic: ao Lif .i by Stic Linklater); Promenade
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      328 10 lON STAGE jMfc ON SCREEN BAI KWANG Wi+®\ "24 HOURS sin,, fc _> AFTER 3 Songs J^a- WEDDING" IN PERSON fcjlMPs BAt S KWANG 11-1.45 -4 TODAY -6.30 9.30 FRIDAY M^^l ACTUALLY STORY OF #_flT^ FILMED THE BERLIN I^fw^^ I -UL AIR-LIFT A GERMANY A 20th Century Fox Picture starring
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      235 10 Rupert and the Dragon Pills— l 7 The great dragon glides rapidly shelter of a Urge boulder. I know to the ground near Rupert, but it hat hat happened," he think*. does not hun him. Instead n stares T*" 1 weird whistling noise mad# at him in a punled way
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    London Stocks
    339 11 LONDON. Tues. rE growing confidence In sterling found reflection In further advances In British Government stocks today. Gains were again widespread and followed home and overseas buying of most issues. The section paused in the final stages of the day and closed with advances ranging up to three-eighth*.
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    MALAYAN SHARE?
    898 11 From A Market Correspondent RUBBER shares came in for moderately good inquiries in both London and the Malayan share market yesterday. Tin shares were hesitant and disappointing despite the all-time record metal price. industrials remained Qrm. i Price quotations, announced by the Malayan Sharebrokcrs 1 Association yesterday were:
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    TIN: $432 A PICUL
    16 11 SINGAPORE, Tues., Oct. 10— 5432 (up $11.62' to an all-time Malayan record.) <
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    £861 a ton in London
    25 11 LONDON, Tues., Oct. Mb— Spot: £BM— £862; Forward. £835— £837; Settle- ment £86*. Tarn -overs: mm. 169, p.m. 40. tons.
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    27 11 HONO KONG.Tuts. pTOES maruet currency exchange 1 for Hone Kong dollan was quoted today as follows. USBI HK3632. £1. HKtIS.M; one Uel of ROld HK1213.-UP.
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    Singapore Rubber
    262 11 OELLERS' reserve again raised the Singapore rubber price yesterday. October first-grade buyers quoted $1.68' /2 a lb., six cents above Monday's closing level. The market opened very steady October first-grade reached 51.68' 2 a lb before noon, when It dropped by half a cent. The market then fluctuated
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    PRODUCE MARKET
    80 11 From A Market Correspondeni BETTER overseas advices caused the wh.te pepper section of the Singapore produce market to firm up slightly yesterday, with Muntck sellers quoting $970 a plcul. Lampong black pepper was qu.n and unchanged at $630 a plcuL Some small buying Interest was shown in the
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    Alongside The S.H.B.
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    TOURISTS GAIN 1-0 WIN OVER SERVICES
    452 12 Better Adapted To Wet Pitch Banka BUliton 1; Combined Services PLAYING their fourth match in the Colony, the visiting Indonesian team. Banka- Biiliton S.A.. defeated Combined Services by a solitary goal at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday to keep an unbeaten record. Heavy rain throughout
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    COLONY HOCKEY TRIAL TEAMS
    100 12 rE Colony Civilian Hockey Trial, scheduled far yesterday, was postponed to tomorrow tfae to unsuitable (retina 1 conditions. The following are the teams: COLOURS: V. N. Mlal; Fernando, Lav Hock Chye: C. G. Krishnan. S. \>kx>. H. Rodrigues; Swee l.im Swang. N. Oorloff w. Ponntah. Abdul
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    BOXERS LEAVE FOR JAKARTA
    90 12 Lightweight Filipino boxers Little Paras and Little Nen e left Singapore yesterday afternoon by KLM Constellation for Jakarta where they are booked for fights with Bobby NJoo and the Dutch lightweight De Groot. Little Nene will be pitted against Bobby Njoo on Oct. 13 while Little
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    WALES FIELD 2 NEW CAPS
    120 12 LONDON. Tues —Wales Introduce two new -Caps" into their team for the international soccer match against Scotland at Cardiff on Oct. 20 They are J. Parry, the Swansea Town goalkeeper, and B. Allen Coventry City's inside forward. The most surprising selection Is at centrehalf where
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    KHALSA HOCKEY
    50 12 The following players will represent KhaUa Association, in a friendly hockey match against Raffles Institution on the school i eround today: 1 Santokh Singh. Sohan Singh. Sewa Singh Bajwa. Mohinder Singh. Manjlt Singh Wasan icapt.) Kultur Singh. Vassan Singh. Jerome Singh. Harbhajan Singh, Darshan Singh and Mohinder Singh.
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    ST. ANDREW'S WIN
    43 12 CT. Andrew's School Ist. XV K yesteraay beat a Police Training School XV by 38 points neven goals and a try) to three (a ir>i in a rugby match played at Thomson Road ground The half time score was 13-3.
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    Record Field Of 40 For Cesarewitch
    200 12 Record Field Of 40 For Cesarewitch LONDON, Tues. A record field of 40 runners is expected to go to the post for tomorrow's Osarewltch run over two and a quarter miles at Newmarket at 1.45 GMT tomorrow: Probable runners and jockeys are: Strathspey (C. Smirke). Chancellor (T. Lowrey), Cinna (W.
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    Smith Wins Oct. Medal
    278 12 rE Royal Singapore O.C. October Medal Competition (Stroke) was played last Saturday and resulted in a win for N. F. Smith in "A" Division with a net score of 89 and for K. L. Johnson in 'B" Division (net score 89). "A" Division Ball Sweep on
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    J.B. GOLF FOR POPPY DAY FUND
    45 12 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues— A mixed foursomes golf competition has been arranged by the Royal Johore International Club. Johore Bahru. for Oct. 18. 20 and 21. The proceeds of the competition wiil go towards aiding the Johore Poppy Day Fund.
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    Television May End Open Air Boxing In US
    212 12  -  Vernon Morgan •By LONDON, Tues. 'THE Joe Louis- Ezzard, Charles world heavyweight title bout may prove to have been the last big open air fight in the United States. Some American sports writers declare the death knell of such contests was sounded
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    DRAW FOR SUNDAY'S CUP GOLF
    492 12 FE following are the draw and starting times for the Sir Arnold Robinson Cup rPoursomes) Competition to be played on Sunday morning at the Royal Singapore G.C. course. First Nine: 8 15. W A. M Watts (12) A T. M. Stevens U7> and J. H
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    Browne Kicks 3 Penalties
    166 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues PLAYING on the Kuala Lumpur padang this evening Selangor Club beat Selangor Eurasian Association In a game of ruggftr by nine points (three penalty goals) to nil. Heavy rain which fell aU afternoon made the ground very heavy. There
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    19 ACCEPT IN CAULFIELD
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