The Straits Times, 5 December 1950

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  • 19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1950. if PRICE TEN CENTS.
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  • 477 1 Attlee In US For Talks On World Crisis WASHINGTON, Monday. THE British Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, arrived here today for momentous talks with President Truman and said tnat the United States and Britain must stand together to maintain peace and resist aggression. As Mr. Attlee
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  • 200 1 NO LET-UP IN BANDIT FIGHT, SAYS C.G. THE Commissioner General. Mr Malcolm Mac Donald, said at a Press conference in Sinre yesterday: •Even with *the worst interpretation of the situation, there is no question of our giving ir.) resistance to the.teri s in Malaya". Th( terrorists had got he because
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  • 74 1 TOKYO. Mon. Premier 61. i ;eru Yoshida today saFd h" has no intention of learming Japan and whatever I it Truman said Japan is not thinking of sending t or volunteer forces to foreign countries. king before the Lower I Budget Committee. Toshlda assured the Comnittee
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  • 21 1 ADDIS ABABA Mon. A public holiday was proclaimed i to celebrate the United decision to federate and Eritrea.— Renter
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  • 40 1 I >NDOM. Mon.— Sir David Kelly. British Ambassador to t v today discussed with the Foreign Secretary. Mr. B n the forthcoming Paris talki on the Western reply to Russia's call (or a Bis Four 1 -r -Router
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  • 160 1 CHINESE DRIVE ON CAPITAL TOKYO. Mon. /CHINESE Communist armies \j closing in on Pyongyang seized its two northern defence anchors today and were expected to take the abandoned former North Korean capital within 24 hours. Nearly 150,000 United Nations troops were in full retreat south along most of the sagging
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  • 22 1 SANTIAGO, Mon. Two crowded buses collided here last night killing 14 and injuring more than 50 people, somp seriously. Reuter
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  • 69 1 LONDON, Men.— The British Labour Government was forced in the House of Commons today in effect to reoudiate the Defence Minister, Mr. Shinwell's statement that General Mac Arthur exceeded the original objectives of the United Nations in Korea. Mr. Ernest Davies, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, told the
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  • 149 1 P^ DAKOTA of the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived at Singapore yesterday to fly urgently needed medical and food supplies to 30.000 starving refugees on Ambon In Indonesia. The white mercy plane Is expected t» leave Singapore today with about two and a
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  • 850 1 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. 4 COMPLETE revision of the proposed new rubber duty was announced by the Federation Government late tonight. The new formula will yield a lower duty. The method of imposition has also been changed. The duty will be fixed at
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  • 96 1 THE following table illustrates the rates of duty calculated under the Government's new formula (all prices are of cents per 1b): (II) Total of (I) Replanting: (II) exclud(l) and new ing Rubber Pri-e Duty planting Fund cess .11l 60 80 90 00 10 130 130 140 50 60
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  • 53 1 Lim Chew Leng, a 35-year-old manageress of a coffee shop in Serangocn Road, Singapore, was found lying on the floor of her bedroom yesterday afternoon with a stab wound on her neck. Police found a blood-stain-ed pair of scissors nearby. The woman was sent to hospital In
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  • 35 1 BRUSSELS, Mon— A Belgian Air Force pilot was killed today when two Belgian military reconnaissance aircraft collided over Brussels and crashed in a suburb. The pilot of the second machine escaped uninjured. Reuter.
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  • 491 1 Maria asks questions about her father Straits Times Woman Reporter MARIA Bertha Hertogh has shown interest in photographs of her father, brothers and sisters, "and has already asked many questions about them," her mother, Mrs. Adeline Hertogh, told me yesterday. Mrs. Hertogh is staying at the Girls' Home of the
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  • 69 1 HONG KONG, Mon.— The Washington order putting strict control on shipments of all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong and Macao has this port* greatly worried, but so far it has not affected the local market. However, some shippers said that if the U.S. screens
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  • 48 1 ROME. Mon.- Italy's Supreme Defence Council, comprising Service chiefs and leading Ministers under the President, Luigl Cinandl, met today to consider an Increase in Italy's rearmament effort. So far a special grant of 5.000.000.000. lire (£28,750,000) has been made to the Forces. —Reuter.
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  • 28 1 BANDOENG, Mon. The conference of the Plantation Commission of the International Labour OrgaUsatlon was opened at Bandoeng today In the presence of VicePresident Hatta. Reuter.
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  • 20 1 LONDON, Mon.— Mr. David Ben Gurion, the Israel Prime Minister, has arrived In London on a private ylglt.—Reuter.
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  • 250 1 FOUR WICKETS TO FALL— BUT COMPTON, HUTTON STILL THERE. England Needs 163 On 'Worst Test Wicket' yiCTORY for England in the first Test at Brisbane today depends on four men batting stars Compton, Hutton, skipper Brown and bowler Wright plus the weather. England need 163 runs to win— a formidable
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  • 56 1 HONG HONG. Mon.—American members of the crew of the freighter Flying Clipper, who refused last week to sail for Chinese Communist ports, withdrew their objections today. The ship will leave lor Tsingtao and Tientsin tomorrow. They feared war with China might break out while they
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  • 146 1 POLICE OFFICER SHOT jyjß. Quek Mong Song, a 25-year old police inspector attached to the Central Police Station, was shot while driving along ClemenU Road, Singapore, last nijjhi. Mr. Quek was hit on tht» side. His condition is not serious. The inspector, who was off duty, was in the company
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  • 44 1 HONG KONG, Mon.— Th:* pro-Communist Ta Kung Pao. in dispatches from Peking. Shanghai. Hankow and Chungking. told of street parados and rallies cel'bratin? the "victory of the Chinese volunteers ..In Korea" and embarking on "new antiAmerican and HelD Korea" campaigns.— A. P.
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  • 12 1 AMMAN Mon.— A new Jordan Cabinet was formed today. Reuter.
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  • 173 2 WASHINGTON, Monday. SENATOR Tom Connally said yesterday that he will a»k the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to accept an E.C.A. proposal to transfer 5 per cent of European Aid funds to Asia. Senator Connally explained that. Instead of the original appropriation of U5535,000,000, the extra
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  • 94 2 LAKE SUCCESS, Mon. Signatures from Malaya Indonesia. Ceylon Syria, Lebanon and Egypt are among 1.000.000 contained on a scroll petition to U.S Secretary General Mr. Trygve Lie asking for an immediate plebiscite on Kashmir. The petition was presented by Inamullah Khan, secretary of the World Muslim Organisation
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  • 68 2 HONG KONG, Mon.—Chinese Communists on Saturday sentenced to death and executed three "Nationalist secret a§ents" for burgling the Nanking residence of the Egyptian Charge d'Affaires and wounding the diplomat. Thirteen accomplices were sentenced to prison terms from five to 15 years. The official Chinese news agency
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  • 34 2 HONG KONG, Mon. T^e troopship Devonshire arrived yesterday from London with replacements for the Hong Kong garrison. It will leave with an equal number of servicemen whose terms of duty have expired.— A.P.
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    22 2 MISS Marian McNamara, a secretary at the New York State Civil Defence Commission, displays the civil defence insignia. AT. picture.
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  • 132 2 Trans-Arab Pipe Line In Operation NEW YORK, Mon. THE Trans-Arabian pipe line system started opera, tion at the Mediterranean terminal near Sidon, Lebanon, over the weekend when four tankers took aboard more than 700,000 barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia. The 31 -inch oil pipe line Is the worlds
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  • 24 2 JAKARTA. Mon.— The Indonesian Government has denied a report from The Hague of an Informal compromise agreement on Western New Guinea.— ReuterAAP.
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  • 91 2 GLASGOW, Monday. CIR Robert Sinclair, President of the Federation *f British Industries, said in Glasgow; "Oar position is critical. More than 60 per cent, of our food and a large part of our raw materiab have U come front abroad. "Our considerably -strained economy has to
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    • 889 2 NOTICE^ FAI EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE SHIPPERS we hereby Informed V im effective £.12 50 the Base Raies on Tin Ore. and Tin and Lead Alloy will be Increased to 316 W and 240/- W respectively. NATURALISATION NOTICE IS HERKBY given lh:ii TAN HONG TKK also known as H. T. TAN
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    • 768 2 NOVICES rl V. SELANGO TURF CLUB Applicat'ons are invited for the appointment of Clerk of the Course. Applicants should state age. experience In maintaining lawns and turf, handling of labour etc., and knowledge of Tamil and Malay. Salary to be fixed by arrangement. If services are satisfactory during a probationary
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  • 283 3 'Ensure Safety Of U.N. Troops &iys Robertson TOKYO, Monday. f lEUT.-Gen. Sir Horace Robertson, administrative commander of all Commonwealth troops in Japan and Korea, today demanded censorship to ensure the safety of United Nations forces. Gen. Robertson made this demand at a time when British, American,
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  • 171 3 Peking's Terms For Cease Fire In Korea LAKE SUCCESS, Mon. *THE Chinese People's Republic might be prepared to settle the Korean conflict with a cease-fire line established on the 3Sth Parallel among other terms, sources close to the Soviet Union said at Lake Sucress yesterday. These sources, tn close touch
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  • 144 3 KONG KONG, Mon. J^OSERT FORD, a former RA F wireless operator vlin rju taken prisoner when tfc Chinese army occupied Ci-.: ir.rio in the thrust towards I in October, is accused having poisoned a high Lama priest according to the X China news agency. T; i" victim,
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  • 79 3 YO, Mon.— Japan will h ye G 150,000 cotton spindles in 1953 if the three-year plan for yarn production incv?ase drafted by the Econom c Self-Support Council i.- carried out. The council proposes to i .:se cotton yarn production by 54 per cent. The targei
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  • 74 3 WASHINGTON, Mon.— Mr. Henry Wallace, former joint chairman of the Progressive Party who once advocated closer United States-Soviet friendship, said yesterday he was convinced that Russia was out to dominate the world. He toid a meeting to raise funds for a national negro welfare agency:
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  • 22 3 LONDON. Mon— More than 5,000.000 people in Vietnam Qndo-China> have signed the Stockholm 'peace" appeal, according to reports here.— Reuter.
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  • 142 3 Desert Battle Over Con voy Hold- Up AMMAN, Monday. ISRAELI and Arab Legion troops clashed today 1 when an Israeli motor convoy tried to force its way through an Arab road block in the desert near Wadi Araba. Firing ceased later on the orders of the Jordan-Israel Armistic Commission. Casualties
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  • 176 3 HONG KONG, Mon. THE leader of the Chinese troops in Korea is a 42-year-old, sallow-faced, bushyeyebrowed soldier who rarely smiles. His name is Lin Piao. Although coming of a well-to-do family his father was a landlord he became a Communist early in life, and now commands
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  • 34 3 TEL AVIV. Mon.— Jews in Biblical times were not lefthanded. This old belief is being dispelled by Dr. Richard Raphael Pokorny, who has finished the first major text-book on Hebrew handwriting. A.P.
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  • 21 3 KARACHI, Mon.— There are 40,000 tuberculosis sufferers in Karachi's refugee-swollen population of 1.400,000, said a medical official. A.P.
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  • 19 3 CAIRO, Mon— The Egyptian Government has banned the export of lower grades of medium staple cotton varieties.—A.P.
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  • 41 3 OTTAWA, Mon.— Canada's :n.30 wheat crop is estimated a' 461,730,000 bushels by the Federal Statistics Bureau, rnmpared with 367,406,000 in 1949 and a ten-year average of 394,000,000. Other crop increases were reported lor oata, barley, flaxseed and rye.
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    20 3 PITTSBURGH, U.S.. snowbound and halted by the recent blizzard. In the foreground are cars almost buried in snow. A.P. picture.
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  • 209 3 New Guinea Test Case— lndies THE HAGUE, Monday. fiS the eve of a conference with the Netherlands on the future of West New Guinea, Indonesian leaders last night expressed the hope that Holland would accept their proposal for a Dutch-adminis-tered territory under Indonesian sovereignty. i They have made clear that
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  • 187 3 U.S. BEING WEAKENED IN ASH Adenauer BONN, Monday. RUSSIA'S overall objective is to capture Europe, including an unhlirmed Germany, so as to consolidate it with the Soviet power and thus emerge as strong as the United States, Chancellor Conrad Adenauer declared in an exclusive interview yesterday. "In order to further
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  • 120 3 RANGOON, Mon. THE British Ambassador to Burma. Mr. Richard Spealght will give a full assessment of the Burmese situation to Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the CommissionerGeneral, at the Bukit Serene conference this weelc. British sources say he wilJ also exchange information with other Far East diplomatic
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  • 102 3 BERLIN, Mon.— Dr. Kurt Schumacher's Social Democratic Party is still the largest single party in the West Berlin city Parliament, according to provisional results of Saturday's voting. A record 90 per cent poll was recorded despite the cold wind and sleet that swept the city's streets
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  • 86 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Mon. A Manila journalist who helped furnish material for the Bell Report says the United States is partly responsible for the situation in the Philippines. "The Philippines Government was not entirely to blame," said Mr. Roberto Villanueva. general manager of the Manila Chronicle. He
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  • 187 3 CHINESE GET SCRAP RUBBER FROM U.S. WASHINGTON, Mon SENATOR Flerbert R. O'Conor. a Democrat, said yesterday that 10,E00,600 pound* of scrap rubber had been shipped from the United States to Red China since the Korean war began. He demanded sb'.Dments be halted. Mr. O'Conor saW the shipments increased after the
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  • 64 3 CANBERRA, Mon. The Australian Minister for Immigration. Mr. Harold Holt, announced today that immigrants to Australia would be liable for service under the national training scheme. The only exceptions, he said, would be immigrants who were subject to "certain international restrictions," under which they might lose their
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  • 53 3 MALTA, Mon. PRINCESS Elizabeth left Malta for Greece yesterday in H.M.S. Surprise, escorted by the destroyer Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh. They will spend a week in Greece as guests of King Paul and Queen Alexandra and leave on Dec. 12 to return
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  • 187 4 Police May Get E.S.A.M. Aid From Out Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. THE Ex-Services Association of Malaya is considering a proposal ol granting cash relief to members of the police (force who are wounded Jn combat with bandits, and to decendents o* Jhose killed. The president of the asK -i:ition.
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  • 89 4 I Kiii (,'t:: (Inn in rcpondrnl MBAN. Mon. Tan I Chan, a Kuala Pilah dealer, who was flnert $300. in default four Biontha imprisonment for t .-lving ruboer without sett Ini written authority tor sale, appealed in Serembn? Hi'?h Court. 1 Rawson argued th<' ap i al
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  • 129 4 MR. FRED Hartley, famous British lisnt orchestra leader and broadcaster, is staying two days in Singapore before leaving by QEA BOAC Constellation for Sydney to run his own programme for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Hartley, who ran "Fred Hartley's Music" programme for the 8.8.C., told
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  • 43 4 From Oar Own Correspondent KAJANG. Moh. For obstructing a constable in the execution of his duties. 18-year-old Tan Moon Chin was fined $25 at Kajang He obstructed a constable who was going to arrest a woman. Cheong Yoke Kiew.
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  • 32 4 I rom Our Own lorrfspondent MUAR. Mon. Wong Chin Chiong. who was found in unlawful possession of six katis of scrap rubber, was sentenced to one years hard labour
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  • 94 4 BECAUSE its dormitories will become "desolate and dirty" if they are left vacant, the Singapore Chinese High School has decided to ask tho Education Department for oermission to accept student hoarders next year. The school was closed for two months between June and August this year
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  • 43 4 The first aircraft to operate the new QEA Paris-Singapore service is due at Kallang today. The service has been inaugurated to help 8.0.A.C., whose Far East Argonaut service is temporarily suspended because of the electricians' strike at London airport.
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  • 42 4 l-rcm <>or Own C'orre.'pondent BENTONG. Mon. Patpanathan. a labourer in the Police Station, is alleged to have induced a woman. Tulasiammal, to give him $400 to obtain the release of her husband. The case has been postponed to December 15.
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  • 781 4 AN immigration inspector who until recently financed boxing and wrestling promotions, Teoh Khoon Inn, aged 34, was yesterday convicted by Mr. P. Claque, the Singapore Fourth Police magistrate, on a charge of illegally accepting $2,000 and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment. He was
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  • 89 4 from Our SUIt Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. rriHIRTY-nlne-year-old barJ. ber Nam Poh, alleged to have raped an 11-year-old girl on a revolving chair, was today cleared at a preliminary Inquiry before Raja Sulalman in the First Magistrates Court. submitted that the girl did not tell
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    49 4 A HARD pillow, but Gurkhas are tough, and two-year-old Ramme Gurunt son of Rifleman Ranbahadur, of the 6th Gurkha Rifles, was no exception when he arrived in Singapore after a h oliday in Nepal. He was among 170 Gurkha passeng ers in the Kut Sang.
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  • 169 4 SINGAPORE Municipal Commissioners have authorised the closure of portions of two main public roads for five-and-a-half hours during the air display at Kalians Airport on Saturday. The roads to be closed are Mountbatten Road from Kallang Road to Fort Road and Geylang Road from
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  • 177 4 SINGAPORE'S newly-elect-ed and re-elected Municipal Commissioners will take their seats with their fellow Commissioners for the first lime at a special meeting tomorrow. With Commissioners already sitting, they will be selected for appointment to nine standing committees besides 27 special and ad hoc
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  • 32 4 BENTONG. Mon.—A rubber planter. D. M. M. McArthur, faces a charge of assaulting a Malay. Mat Seh bin» Mohamad, on Telemong Estate. The case has been postponed to December 12.
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  • 68 4 From Our S'aff Correspondent PENANG, Mon. A NINE-feet long python was caught by two policemen in a Rangoon Road house. Mr. James Tait, who saw the snake sleeping on a rafter in his house, said: "It looked like a large bundle of coiled rope three
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  • 80 4 AN anonymous Singapore father has offered good conduct prizes to the pupils of Gan Eng Seng School, said the headmaster, Mr. P. F. Aroozoo, at a recent meetin? of the school's ParentTeacher Association. Mr. Aroozoo explained that "the father must have noticed the serious decline in morals
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  • 91 4 The trial of Kwok Tai Seng, who was charged at the December Assizes yesterday with having, on Aug. 15 last, imported 1,000 taels of goid into Singapore without a licence, was adjourned to the January Assizes. Mr. C. G. Toh, on behalf of Mr. R. H. Green,
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  • 58 4 From Our Staff Correspondent TAIPING, Mon. Sir Christopher Cox, Education Adviser to the Colonla 1 Office, visited Taiping schools with Mr. E. C. Hicks, Senior Inspector of Schools, Perak. He saw the handicraft exhibition at the St. George's Institution and also attended the first social
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  • 36 4 A Tamil labourer named Doralsamy Ganesan, of New Bridge Road, Singapore, was stabbed at a friend's birthday party at Wing Lcong Road, off the 11th milestone Changl Road. An Indian has been detain-
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  • 307 5 Count 'Smoothest And Quickest YeV 8ut..... ALTHOUGH the first result in the Singapore Municipal Elections on Saturday was known by 9.20 p.m. it was not announced to the public until just before 1 1 p.m. The first counting to finish was in the
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  • 97 5 Dutch Santa To Come By Sea Today A STRANGE visitor—but a welcome one—will arrive at Singapore by sea this afternoon, landing at Clifford Pier at 4.15 p.m. All Dutch schoolchildren in Singapore will be there to hail him—for it is St. Nicolaas, the Dutch Santa Claus. St. Nicolaas. in bright
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  • 173 5 GIFTS FOR U.N. TROOPS tM AJOR-General D. Dunlop, ITI G.O.C. Singapore District, s appealing lor public sup>ort to the Singapore District rund to provide Cnristmas lifts and comforts to men of he United Nations Forces in Korea. Maj -Gen. Dunlop said that he Fund was originally Inended for Army units
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  • 35 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— The Johore Bahru courts staffs will run a satay .stall at the Welfare Week Fun Fair on Dec. 7 and 8. There will be a beer garden close by.
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  • 117 5 ST ANTHONYS CONVENT. Middle Rosd, charity bazaar, 9 .i ,m, to 6 p.m. SEAMEN'S INQIIRY COMMISSION, Chinese Advisory Board Room. Chinese Secretariat, Havelock Road. 10 a.m. Y.W.C.A., Raffles Quay. Wayfarers" sewing party. 3 p.m., Christinas play practice, 4 p.m., ballroom dancing. 5 p.m. V.M.C.A.. Orchard Road, tennis tournament,
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  • 77 5 ACTION will be taken in future against motorists moving slow and obstructing traffic and those not giving right of way to vehicles on the right at uncontrolled junctions and traffic islands, warned an official Press statement issued in Singapore yesterday. The warning added that traffic, on
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  • 194 5 RACES 'ARREST TWO GAOLED From Our Staff Correspond IPOH, Monday. TWO Chinese civil liaison officers attached to the A Commandos Tan Chee Hong and Chung Ah Kam, were sentenced in the Magistrate's Court, Ipoh. today to two months imprisonment each for wrongful confinement of Mr. Lee Kum Huat, a Singapore
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  • 95 5 (IIRIS of the Singapore I Chinese Girls' school, all of whom are ardent admirers of Queen Mar. v "Grandmother Queen" they call her--recently received two signed pictures and a letter from the Queens Lady-in-Waiting conveying the Queen's "warmest good wishes and assurance of her Majesty's interest
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  • 21 5 LUCKY S'PORE GIRL FIFTFEN-YEAR-OLD Patsy and her father Mr. D. C. Lee of the China Insurance Com pany. Straits Times picture
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  • 152 5 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. npHE Peninsula Malays Union will oppose any J- attempt to set up a Malayan nationality. The executive committee of the P.M.U. decided at Kuala Lumpur last night to call a mass meeting in February to discuss the subject. The
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  • 40 5 A European. M. Albert, was tentatively charged in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with housebreaking at the Shackle Club, Singapore at 1.35 a.m. Trie case was postponed till T)Pf 11 Rail nf $500 was fixed.
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  • 184 5 PATSY, 5, EAGER FOR TRIP TO U.S. SHY, reserved but selfconfident, a l£«-year-old Singapore schoolgirl, Patsy Lee, told the Straits Times yesterday that she was looking forward to her trip to the United States. "I would like to see what America is like and to see Father Gehrlng again, but
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  • 32 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The British Council has awarded a U.K. Visitorship to Syed Naslr bin Ismail, acting Inspector of Malay Schools. Johore South. He v/ill leave on Dec. 28.
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  • 100 5 THE Free Press second Christmas supplement of 20 full-size pages will be out tomorrow. If you liked the first, you will eni<>\ the second even more. It is crammed with entertaining Christmas reading, games, tricks, cocktail recipes, cartoons and stories by Britain's foremost writers and many
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  • 57 6 JOAN CLARKSON thanks all Hies* I'r their kind sympathy. Av thfi: were so many messaRes ,,>,,. regrfts she cannot acknowiedRtti>.TTi now but hopes to do so in due coure MR MRS. D. E. IJXK3ATT ot Melton Constable. Norfolk Ki I'll, thank all friends and who sent flouers and ,e,it
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  • 747 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Tues., Dec. 5, 1950. Unlimited Hawkers At their meeting last Thursday the Singapore Municipal Commissioners rejected the report of the Hawkers Inquiry Commission. It was said that their decision amounted to "adoption"' with major amendments, but that was just soft soap. The main recommendation of the
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  • 415 6 The Shopkeeper's Prices If Government policy and outlook is fairly represented by its spokesmen, which is not an unreasonable assumption, then it is time for protest. In a recent broadcast Mr. A. Josey told Malayans there is no justification for the current increase ii the cost of living, the responsibility
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  • 1274 6 "THE REALM OF THE MIND AND SPIRIT" Report On Communist China- By a late resident of China. Published by special arrangement with the Manchester Guardian. THE defects of Communism are to be found not so much in material things as in the realm of the mind and spirit, and therefore
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    • 178 6 THIS country has lately witnessed a tooth-and-nail neht to resist higher taxes. Anti-Communist posters stare out and radios blare that "there is not enough room on a fence" and that we should "take off the gloves But in the streets, coffeeshops, homes and clubs a common topic
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    • 77 6 A BOUT February this year the Government of the Federation of Malaya granted us pensioners three months' arrears of basic pension in anticipation of revision of pension; but until now we have heard no more of the matter. This kind of delay causes anxiety among
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    • 226 6 T WRITE to thank "Cecil Street" for his column of Nov. 30 headed "A Chinese Poser I found It really instructive, and very delightful too, as it brought back the many happy hours I used to spend with men of the old Middlesex Regiment about the
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    • 251 6 THE TEST AT ANDERSON SCHOOL AS one responsible for th? organisation and conduct of the test for new admissions carried out recently at Anderson School, I feel I should rectify some of the misconceptions from which your correspondent of last Thursday, "Disappointed Parent," appears to be suffering. We are not,
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  • 432 6 On the Margin Ha>e A-Beah! TWO Scotsmen have written to the Sassenach who produces this column about hLs ruminations of last Thursday in which he answered a Chinese correspondent's criticism of English accents and finished up by asking this Chinese how he got on with? the Scottish burr. No doubt
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    • 53 6 1 MOB^^ 1 HERRINGS FRESH or in TOMATO SAUCE AGENTS C E MORTON (malaya) LTD. SINGAPORE KUALA LUMPUR PENANG IFf fry-oK- B<y/ ydSsT jgr just fed n^g ISiiM makes Kirn clwrnp/Al /fl Qljgj^ in every fcussZe Jf Sq^JjT ""wyt ELSIE th« BORDEN cow /iSPlf* KLIM-VMILK /gP fIkST IN FtIFUINCI THI
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  • 422 7 One Shot By Ipoh ham pong Guards From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. bandits, including two women, have been killed in Selangor, Perak and Johore and a number of bandit camps destroyed in the Federation in the past 21 hours. The bandit killed in
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  • 126 7 PAYMENT TO M.Cs TO BE OPPOSED OPPOSITION to the decision of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners to pay inemselves $30n a month from July I, this year la expected from Mr. X Ugatheesan, Independent, City Ward, when the decision goes before the n?xt ordinary full Board meeting for continuation. Mr. Jauatheesan.
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  • 71 7 All private roads owned by ti W ;ir Department in the military *retm of Singapore Will be closed trom 6 p.m. on Saturday to 6 p.m. on Sunday. The areas affected are. Alex« ldra and British Military KpitaJ Colombo Camp. Fort Canning B.O.D.. Alexandra »Dcpot Road'.
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  • 35 7 I wo Chinese, cne armed i knife. tvld up a Unlay. Omar bin Daud. at 6 ,-milr Yeo Chu Kang Roact. Singapore, last night and robbed him of S53 and an Jdentit'- rarcl.
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  • 33 7 The veteran trooper Empire Halladale (14.000 tons) which damaged a blade of her projv Uon en route to Singapore from Hong Kons. yesterday Ft named into King's Dock. B.n'zaoorp. tor repairs.
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  • 53 7 STATUETTE presented by the old boys of the Ismail FnjJ'sh School. Kelantan, to be awarded to the "Perfect Boy" who must be both a student and a sportsman, and of good character. The pewter statuette was designed and made by the Malayan Pewter Works, at Kuala Lumpur.
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  • 86 7 'Thief Cut My Neck,' He Says From Our Own t oncspondenl JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. (IHELLIAH. charged with > attempting to commit suicide by cutting his neck with a penknife, said someone unknown cut his neck while he was sleeping, stole ?50 from him and ran away Asked why he had
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  • 32 7 Tan Tiang Soo a motorcyclist, who was involved in a collision with a G.P.O. van in Orchard Road, Singapore, last night, was admitted to hosDital in a serious condition.
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  • 46 7 From Our SUIT Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A curfew has been declared in an area in Ampan? stretching North from three and ihree-quarter mile from Kuala Lumpur, where (here have been several shootings recently. The curfew will last from 7 p.m. to 5.30 a.m.
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  • 57 7 A 20- YEAR-OLD British soldier, Leslie Short, was killed yesterday afternoon when the jeep in which he was riding collided with a civilian lorry on Yio Chu Kang Road. Singapore Leslie, who was a member of the Royal Signals, was attached to Singapore District Another soldier
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  • 68 7 A decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted yesterday in the High Court by tile Chief Justice, Sir Charles MurrayAyusiey. to Simone Oermaine Barretto against Frederick Alexander John Barretto. on the ground of adultery. The judge tUrecled that a son iged four
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  • 65 7 From Our Own Corespondent JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. Tang Foo. a woman, and Kwong Foot Chan were convicted in the Johore Bahru Police Court today for unlawful possession of 60 katis of rubber latex and 52 sheets of rubber belonging to Fraser Estate, Kulai. Tanp
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  • 99 7 rE application made last week before the Chief Justice of Singapore, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. for an interlocutory injunction against work on the proposed 18-storey skyscraper on Raffles Quay was yesterday dismissed by consent of both Darties It is understood that the work on the $2,500,000
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  • 29 7 Governors of British territories in Borneo and Malaya will meet in Singapore tomorrow to confer on Colonial matters. The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. will preside.
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    40 7 Maulana Abdul Alim Siddique will recite the sermon at the South Bridge mosque. Singapore, on Friday MR. AND MRS. L. A. GIBSO N. photographed by the Straits Times on board the East Asiatic ship, Kina, in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 155 7 THE man who has played golf on 72 courses in 17 countries played on his seventy-tkird course yesterday— in Singapore. His verdict: The Royal Singapore Golf Club course is among the six best in the world— for beauty of scenery and good condition.He
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  • 41 7 AQ.E.A. Constellation flying on three engines returned to Singapore yesterday when it developed engine trouble soon after .leaving Jakarta for Danoin. It landed safely at Kallang for repairs with 38 passengers aboard just after 3 p."'-
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  • 48 7 Three men and one woman were reported missing in Singapore yesterday. They were 30-year-old Lam Tang Kong, of Taniong Pagar Road, 18-year-old Kow Kirn Chwee. of Holloway Lane 20-year-oid Tan Chong Kong of Thomson Road, and 38-year-old Sim Poh Chin, of Cheng Cheok Street.
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  • 141 7 A REMINDER that traffic accidents should be reported to the nearest police station within 24 hours was issued yesterday in Singapore. An official statement said that under the Road Traffic Ordinance, It was necessary to report accidents involvlnp a motor vehicle in,, which. damage or
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    25 7 MRS. HERTOGH. Miss Phyilis da Sqnza and Bertha have a game of dominoes at the Thomson Road Girls' Home. Straits Times picture.
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  • 167 7 QOVERNMENT has been asked for a yiOU.000 loan by the Singapore Government Officers' Co-oper-ative Housing; Society to enable its members in the lower income groups to buy homes by instalments. If the loan' is approved, the Society intends to repay it in ten years. Mr.
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  • 130 7 FESTIVAL OFCHURCH MUSIC A FESTIVAL of church music will be given in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, tomorrow and Sunday evening at 5.30 p.m. in celebration of the affiliation of the Cathedral choir to the Royal School of Church Music in Canterbury. The festival Is always held on St. Nicholas Day
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  • 29 7 Goh Cho Meng, a four-year-old boy. was knocked down by a motor-cyclist at Jalan Kayu. Singapore, last night. He i s j n the General Hospital
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  • 234 7 Row over radio ended in stabbing COURT IS TOLD- AN objection by the chief tenant of a house to one of his subtenants playir.tf his radio at all odd hours of the day, was alleged to have led to a stabhing at Tras Street. Singapore. Yesterday, a Tamil, Snppiah Sivakadadchan,
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  • 50 7 When Wong "King Kee, aged 33, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a bale of cloth, valued at $707, he gave notice of appeal. He was allowed bail of $2,000 in one surety pending appeal.
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    • 118 7 COCKTAIL EVENING GOWNS for the festive Season JV SUGGESTIONS Jk' SettS ctt SUPER FINE FACE POWDER 400 ■ACE POWDER SMALL 225 LIPSTICKS 3 50 POWDER ROUCE z2s CREAM ROUCE M COMPACT ROUCC 4.00 MILK OF ROSES 3.00 MORNDEW CREAM 3.25 »AY LOTION 3.00 CLEANSINC LOTION 4.50 ASTRINCENT MILK 2.50 SKIN
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  • 406 8 Language Lack May Not Bar Fed. Citizens From Voting K.L. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS PLAN From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. THOUSANDS of Chinese in Kuala Lumpur, who are elifcible for Federal citizenship but who cannot speak either Malay or English a necessary qualification will be allowed to vote in the
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  • 99 8 'BRIGGS PLAN' MEN IN KEDAH 1 rum Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Mon. rCOPE with the Briggs Plan for the resettlement of Chinese squatters, five local resettlement officers have been appointed in Kedah and Perlis. In addition, a junior Chinese Affairs Officer has also been posted to Sungei Patani. Two
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  • 68 8 A 28-year-old Chinese, Khoo Kok Kwan, was fined $1,100, or eight weeks' imprisonment in the Third Magistrate's Court yesterday for possessing 47 lb. of dutiable tobacco. Another Chinese, Tay Ah Seng, aged 26, was fined $200. or six weeks' imprisonment for being in possession of 35 lb
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  • 71 8 BCG CAMPAIGN DELAYED Fiom O'jr Own Coriespondtnt JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The start of the BCG campaign in Johore Bahru had to be deferred yesterday due to the non-arrival of the tuberculin ointment whicn has to be used in preliminary tests. Tne ointment had beer, ordered from the UNICFF, Bangkok, but
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  • 54 8 From Oni Own Corrrspondt-nt JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Owing to the increasing number of cases of inconsiderate driving in Johore Bahru, the Police have decided to take action. Arrangements have been made for speed checks along Jalan Scudai and Kota Tinggi road where most of the speeding
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    41 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES being hoistftd at tne U4ft Consulate at Penang on Saturday for the first time in nine years. The Consul-Gene ral, Mr. W. R. Lang don (second from left), went from Singapore for the ceremony. Straits Times picture.
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  • 30 8 The unveiling and dedication ceremony of the Singapore Volunteer Corps War Memorial has been postponed from Dec. Bto Dec 21 The Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. will pprform the ceremony
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  • 82 8 KLALA LUMPUR, Mon. JOHORES acreage of 345.979 of ordinary rubber and 76.030 of highyielding rubber tapped in October was the Federation's highest. Of 1,634.470 acres of rubber tapped in the Federation, 339.467 acres was of high-y'elding rubber. Tappable rubber not tapped amounted to 135.618 acres, representing
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  • 55 8 PEACOCK DANS IN SPORE MR. VICTOR DORAI, a 27- year-old disciple of the famous Indian dancer Gopinath. doing: a peacock dance at the Singapore Indian Fine Arts Society's variety concert in the Victoria Theatre last night. The concert, in aiid of the Assam Relief Fund, will be repeated at 8.30
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  • 236 8 THK Seamen's Registration Bureau hus always co-operated with seamen's unions in Singapore, Captain F. VV. Jannings, Deputy Registrar of the Bureau, told the resumed hearing of the Seamen's Inquiry Commission yesterday. Capt. Jann'rgs said that as a rule members of the unnr.s rame to his ofP«e
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  • 79 8 From Our Own Correspondent BENTONG, Mon. Chew Kirn Phee. 20. was charged in the Bentong Court with having made seven false reports to the police. He was alleged to have reported, on separate occasions, that three Chinese he knew had revolvers and ammunition. Chew, who appeared
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  • 249 8 (Continued from page 6) and flnajly to his public expulsion from the university. Professors in the audience were his friends and knew he was Innocent, but they dared not speak a word for him; he was found guilty no* of spying or actively opposing the Government but merely
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  • 122 8 'Councillors Hard To Find': Sultan From Our Staff Correspondent ALOR STAR, Mon. INHERE seemed to be great difficulty in getting suitable Malay unofficial members to sit on the State Council, the Sultan of Kedah said when he opened the Baling Agricultural School exhibition yesterday "This Is due to the fact
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  • 48 8 A 26-year-old Indian, Abdul Kadir Awi Mamoothy, was charged in the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday with using criminal force on Patricia Sheperdson with intent to outrage her modesty at Queen Street. Abdul claimed trial and was granted bail of $500 until Dec. 11.
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  • 22 8 From Oar Own Corespondent SEGAMAT, Mon Dr. B. Bhlmayya, of the Segamat Government Hospital, has been transferred to Johore Bahru.
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  • 955 9 CEYLON NEWSLETTER BUDDHIST REVIVAL: A WARNING BY THE P.M. From Our Own Correspondent COLOMBO. T«E Prime Minister has given a warning, which many people believe long overdue, to those who are trying to make political capital out of the preat Buddhist revival in this country. If they persisted in their
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  • 403 9  -  DON DOANE By STUTTGART: of former 1 Nazis are back in their school-teachinj? jobs in Western Germany. Most of them were small fry"— what U.S. and Germen officialdom call "nominal Nazis." They just joined the party to hold their jobs or keep out of trouble. But
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 243 9 "^^hw^^^pV P^biS*. WBm*~ V^nwfent^Z^ fo^j s 'A l^^ AH and Kakiah tamed to take them there first." follow Hor- Rid, when the Kins He took the children up the suddenly exchUnted "No, w»it! »j««ntaln where they had first I think we will let then tee seen him. "Come to the
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  • 278 10  -  DRUSILLA Barbara Davies shows the under-20s. By AKBARA DAVIKS. this ..inactive young Luntl ,ne.\ is out to sum the yriz/ters —those patronising persons who look your wav when you're 17 or 18 and "You can't find smart to icear at your age.' "Ycu can't be
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  • 461 10  - Through the gap in the fence Planter' s Wife I WfE were sitting peace- fully drinking a pre-tiffin ginger ale and Iwas gazing gratefully into the extremely nice garden of our new bungalow. A half circle of trees flank the lawn and at the back are a number of taller
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  • 174 10 rpHE modern British girl has stopped growing by the time she is 17. And until she develops middle-age spread Miss Average does not put on any more weight either. These facts were discovered during the most detailed survey ever made of the heights and weights of
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  • 635 10  -  NURSE JANET By IN all the excitement of Christmas, which of all the festivals chiefly concerns the child, that the little one enjoys and wishes to take part in the numerous preparations is oft.p" overlooked Children a c naturally generous, so give them the chance
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    47 10 very little guidance wonderful things can be made Two match boxes stuck together with glue or sticky paper and painted or covered with coloured paper, make an excellent box for < THIS WEEK'S bonniest baby $5 winner is Yasmin << Saif, of 21, Goodman Road, << Katong, Singapore.
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    • 79 10 Boby Penelope Wilton ifa&^j/^^^ j of.Seremban tl^V l^ i /I It FOR THE. WORLD'S BABIES Mrs. Wilton is extremely pleased with the progress Baby Penelope has made while on LACTOGEN. The above photograph was taken when Penelope was nearly six months of age. LACTOGEN is highly recommended to all mothers
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    • 219 10 Once again for your t Christmas we have fought prize-winning DC E E U X from the 1 950 ROYAL NATIONAL SHOW BRISBANE At Christmas time particularly we like to have something special for our customers, and we are happy to bring you once again the prize-winning beef from the
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    • 269 10 SINGAPORE Trez Amgos from Malacca 7. 40 Radio Doctor; 8 Sonata Recitai BFEBS 10 a.m. News. Empnrenry News <R. Strauss); 8.30 Aa S'pore; 9 from K.L.; 10.10 Close; 12 Malay; "Variety Bandbox"; 9.30 News; 4-45 p.m. "Prom the London 1 p.m. Radio Orch: 1.30 News. 9.45 "Keyboard Melodies"; 10 Editorials"-
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  • 312 11 LONDON, MOn. AWAITINO develoymenti in the inter«atlona] situation, the London Stock Exchange showed caution today and price movements generally were to lower levels. British Government funds were widely half a point down and weakness was shown by Japanese bonds. Final levels in th« latter, however, were above lowest
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  • 187 11 IQHIPS in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board uodowns yesterday were: Outer Beash: Hai Hsuan. Nitw Holland. Maung Baraa. Wosaruj. Waibalong, Ontfa. Toboali. Batavia. Seechuan. Steel Navigator. Melcong Stan Meifo. Ein Haven. Bantam. Troja. Choog Ta, Bmpire Halladale. Charlton Star. Tjipondok.
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  • 266 11 U.S. Govt. Proposal Brings Weakness JtfEWS that the United States Government was considering resuming its war-time purchasing of all rubber imports to eliminate private competition caused a weak and irregular rubber market in Singapore yesterday Sellers opened at $1.71 alb. for December flirst-grade on a weak market, and,
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  • 30 11 \MANSFIELD Company write iTI to advise shippers that the Tientsin winter surcharge of $4.50 per scale ton will be effective from Dee. 1« till March 16. 1951.
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  • 38 11 SINGAPORE, Mon., Dee. 4—1516 (down $2). £1,037} a ton in London LONDON. Mon. Dec. 4.— Spot .tl 035— X 1,040; Forward £966— £979; a.m. settlement £1,055 (down £10) Turn-overs: a.m. 40, p.m. 25 tons.
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  • 182 11 frees A Market Correspondent COME business wag done In the copra section of the Singapore produce market yesterday at $47 to $4«i a a picul. The tone was decidedly easier, with sellers opening at «47. A* this price, some business was done. Later transactions were reported at
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  • 325 11 Quieter, Easier; Business Small From marvel CorrespoaassU I'HE Malayan s^are market yesterday was rather quieter again and prices continued to ease. Actual business done was on a very small scale. Price changes announced by the Malayan Stiarebroters' Association yesterday were: Buyers S»t*»r» Alex. Bricks Ords 195 2 05
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  • 32 11 HONG KONG, Mon. ■p<REE market currency exchange far Hon<r Kootj dollars waa quoted today as fallow*: USSI HK*6.42' V (cash). HKs«.43'4 (T.); £1 HKSHBS; one tad of fold HX3I2—UP
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  • 38 11 npHE Malabo Exenaßg* Banks Association announce*] yesterday that control direct rate* for Candian dollars were: Buying. T.T. 34 9 16. Airmail (O.D-) 34 11, If". (90 days) M 15 16; Selling T.T OD ready 34 U.
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    • 370 11 PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS TO NEW rO*K AND BOSTON VIA CITLOf* INDIA fCVn MEDITERRANEAN POUTS S'pora 9. Sham Kenans Pres. lotmson 5/9 Dec. 10/11 Bee. 1 2/1 J Oee Fret Monre* 15/20 Bee. 21/23 Dec. Mt. Oavfe 22/27 Dec. 28/29 Oee. Dec Pres a—banai 30 Dec/5 |a» 6/7 |an. 8/9 |an
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  • 721 12  -  JACK FINGLETON England With 4 Wickets In Hand Need 163 Runs To Win Test By (Exclusive to the Straits Times) BRISBANE, JVfcmday. AFTER THE maddest, craziest cricket scenes in living memory here today, England tomorrow need 163 runs with four wickets in hand to
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  • 136 12 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LCMPL'E, Mon. Following this weekends uproaroui meeting of the Football Associrtion of Selangor, when one delegate claimed that certain affiliates to the Association had not been registered or exempted from the Societies Ordinance and therefore the meeting was unlawful, the
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  • 129 12 SBA Singles Final Is Postponed THE SINGAPORE Badminton Association singles final for 1950 between reigning champion Wong Peng Soon and Cheong Hock Leng scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed. President of the 5.8.A., Mi Lim Chuan Geok told the Straits Times yesterday that the match will take place after the
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  • 51 12 The Island Club's December mixed foursomes resulted as follows: Winners—Miss A. TalbotSmith and B. W. Smith 89— 20$ tS}.; next best returns were by Mrs. A. Week-* and A. M. CrawleyBoevey 76—51=70'i: Mr. and Mrs. Hiddleston 91—19 72: Mrs. Rintoul and R. E. L. Wlngate 90 17. -72'
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  • 250 12 By REGINALD HAYTER BRISBANE, Monday. pVERY BALL kicked up a piece of turf which had to be patted down throughout the day's play in the Test match today. Lindwall made the ball lift viciously and at the other end Bill Johnston was even more menacing
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  • 332 12 MOVE to form an interstate hockey competition on the lines of the H.M.S. Malaya Rugby competition will be made by the Singapore delegates of the Malayan Hockey Council at its coming annual general meeting. The Singapore Hockey As Tjciation approved the suggestion at a committee meetIng
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  • 129 12 HONGKONG, Mon. THE Swedish Djurgardcn football team scored their second victory in a series of three matches here when they defeated the combined Chinese by seven goals to one. A capacity crowd of 14,000, including Governor Sir Alexander and Lady Grantham. saw them score an
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  • 26 12 THE men singles final of the 1950 V.M.C.A. tennis tournament, scheduled for yesterday was postponed owning to rain. The match will be placed today.
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  • 24 12 TAIPING, Mon.—Owing to rain, Saturday's Bayley Cup final between the Taiping Indians and the RE.M.E. has been postponed to tomorrow (Tuesday).
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  • 22 12 SEGAMAT, Mond.—The Town Padang. Segmat's only public playing field, has been closed for repairs. This will curtail soccer and hockey activities.
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  • 113 12 ''THE Singapore Teachers College hockey team will leave the Colony on Thursday for the Federation by air. The team is hoping to be away for about ten days. Seventeen players and three officials will make the trip which is financed by the Teachers Training Association. The
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  • 120 12 PERTH. Mon. WESTERN Australia gained a first innings lead of 23 runs against the Sheffield holders. New South Wales, on the third day of their Shield match here today. At the close they required 281 runs for victory on the final day tomorrow. Western Australia scored
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  • 92 12 BRISBANE, Mon.—Three men who are playing for Australia in the Test match here are included In the 12 from whom the Australian XI team to meet the MCC at Sydney in the match starting on Dec. 15 will be chosen. They are Arthur
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  • 47 12 BOMBAY. Mon—W. H. SutclU ffe (Yorkshire). R. R. Devey (Kent) and H. W. Stephensbn (Somerset) arrived here from London yesterday evening to join the Commonwealth cricket touring team. They are to replace L. Jackson <Derbyshire), R. Spooner (Warwickshire) and J. Laker (Surrey). —Reuter.
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  • 126 12 NEW YORK, Monday. OZZARD CHARLES'S heavyweight title defence J against Nick Barone at Cincinnati tomorrow night will feature this week's boxing here. Ezzard's 15-round bout with light-heavyweight Barone of Syracuse, New York. was scheduled originally for last Tuesday night. but the weather caused a
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  • 34 12 HOCKEY: Ceylonrse S.C. v Singapore Veterans, Balestier Rd.; Khalsa Assn. v Shell S.C. St. George's Road; C.R.E. (South) v P.4.T. Union, Serangoon Road. TENNIS: YMCA C'shlps, (men's singles final), Bras Basah Road.
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  • 232 12 AISIKALIA Ist lnn».: KNGLANU— Iit lnn». R. Simpson b Johnston IS V ashbrook c Ha»selt k Johnston 1 n I. tram v Irerson k Johnston 16 D Compton c UndwaM b Johnston :l J. Denes c Loiton k Miller 1 Button not out S MclnlTrn fc Johnston 1 F
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  • 248 12 PENANG have withdrawn from the three-day quadrangular hockey meet between Singapore, Penang, Selangor and Perak which starts at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. Penang's place is now being taken by Malacca. The programme for the meet will be as follows: Saturday. Malacca v Perak. V. I.
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  • 120 12 U.K. Success For Sir S. Palmer IPOH. Mon—Malayan Racegoers will be glad to know that Sir Sydney Palmer, a pillar of the Malayan Turf before his retirement from Malaya, is having a good run of success in England with his promising hurdler Attentif. Attentif, a. French-bred four-year-old bay by Fair
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  • 19 12 Jockey Doug. McPherson will be leaving for a holiday in Australia after the present Ipoh meeting.
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  • 108 12 /COMBINED Serv.xes will be without the services of full-back Coulson when they meet Johore in their HMS Malaya Rugger Competition at Johore Bahru on Saturday. Coulson hurt a shoulder while playing in the Scotland versus The Rest match on St. Andrew's Day. With
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  • 22 12 ISTANBUL, Mon.—Turkey's national soccer team defeated Isratl S—2 yesterday, In a fast and Interesting game witnessed by 25,000 fans.—A.P.
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  • 375 12  -  EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Monday. FRESHENED up since his spell, speedy Trigger galloped in great heart on the training track this morning. With Noel Healey astride the Denturious gelding went at half speed from the half mile sprinting smartly over the last two furlongs.
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  • 85 12 BOMBAY. Mon. INDIA were 355 for 5 in their second innings at close of pfay today In the second unofficial Test match against the Commonwealth here. Watched by a crowd of over 20.000 India returned their uphill battle to avert an innings defeat. Continuing their second
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  • 54 12 MR. Mark Bowden, one of Malaya's prominent racehorse trainers in prewar days, died last Saturday in Perth. West Australia. Mr. Bowden, who was 66 years old, returned to Malaya soon after the Liberation, but decided to settle in Perth after a short stay. He leaves a
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 33 12 SINGAPORE TIDES TODAY: 6.55 a.m. (J8) and 7.15 (7-7): 12.14 a.m. (3.4) and 103 p.m. (4ft.). TOMORROW: T 43 a.m. (8.2) and 8.34 p.m. (8.1); 1.24 am. (3.8) and 2. 10 p-m. (3.2).
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