The Straits Times, 11 July 1951

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    17 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS- PAGES SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951.
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    PEACE TALKS 'PROGRESS' U.N. team arrives back smiling
    353 1 PEACE TALKS 'PROGRESS' U.N. team arrives back smiling BUT REDS TOLD: NO POLITICS TOKYO, Tuesday. ITNITED Nations officers returned from talks with the Communists at Kaesong in Korea today with signs that progress had been made towards a cease-fire. The talks lasted four hours. They were smiling as they arrived
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    PRINCESS HAS MEASLES
    27 1 LONDON, Tues. —Princess Margaret Is suffering from German measles and will be remaining in her room at Buckingham Palace for the time brlnt.— Reuter.
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    Colonial aid will go on —GRIFFITHS
    182 1 Colonial aid will go on —GRIFFITHS LONDON. Tues. MR James Griffiths. Colonial Secretary, said in London today tnat the Government was determined to continue Its policy of encouraglnj and assisting: the development of Colonial territories to the utmost. He told 90 leaders of 41 British territories now attendIn- the Festival-
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    Three freedoms for Japan
    131 1 OCCUPATION TO END WASHINGTON, Tuesday. RESTORATION of Japan's independence without restrictions on its military, political or economic development are provided by the latest and nearlyfinal draft of the peace treaty. The United States has sen', to its major wartime allies the 5.500-word draft, expected to be
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    Terror news: another 'blackout'
    181 1 Terror news: another 'blackout' KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE Federation police today imposed another news blackout this time on incidents in the Manchis area of Pahang last Wednesday when a European mine manager, Mr. S. S. Cook, was murdered. A report in the Malay Mail today that bandits who killed Mr.
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    Gunmen kill planter
    67 1 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tues. MR. Chong Scow Thoon, 23-year-old Province Wellesley planter, was found shot dead 50 ft. from his house at Kampong Omar, Buklt Mertajam, yesterday, several hours after three Chinese gunmen had taken him away. Tne gunmen called at Mr. Chonß's house, off the Kedah-Bukit Mertajam
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    MEAT RATION UP
    27 1 LONDON. Tues— The Food linister, Mr. Webb, an•ounced today that the Brlish meat ration will- be inreased by 60 per cent this summer.— AP.
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    HEART STOPPED -BUT SHE LIVED
    42 1 MRS. IJ-.LLW KBITS, ased 37. sm Us happily at her San Francisco hi|nr. She had had just returned from hospital, where, during an operation, her heart stopped beating for 12 minutes. Surgeons revived her heart by massage.
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    SIAMESE FRONTIER CLOSED
    81 1 SIAMESE FRONTIER CLOSED BANGKOK, Tues. gIAM has sealed its frontier wjffi Burma and IpdgChlnvit was disclosed lasl nteht 1 An official decree denies entrance or exit to foreigners through the provinces bordering on the two revolt-torn countries, but the border with the Federation of Malaya remains open. The decree is
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    Gold haul in S'pore ship
    66 1 HONG KONG. Tues. REVENUE officers in Hong Kong yesterday boarded the E. Sang before she was due to sail for Singapore and Calcutta and seized 2,000 taels of gold, valued at HK $600,000. At Kaitak airfield, other officers seized 2,000 taels of opium in a
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    THE ALEX JOSEY BOARDCASTS 'Insulting' says Malayan Assn. head
    397 1 THE ALEX JOSEY BOARDCASTS 'Insulting' says Malayan Assn. head KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. THE question of Mr. Alex Josey's broadcasts on "Malayan Affairs" was "under consideration", the Member for Home Affairs, Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, told the Straits Times today. Dato Onn would not comment further, but at a meeting of
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    STATE INDUSTRY TO BORROW £75 MIL.
    104 1 LONDON, Tues. A £75,000,000 British Gov- eminent loan to meet capital needs of the nationalised xas Industry was announced last night. On Thursday the Bank of England will offer that amount of British gas 3} per cent, stock redeemable 1969 to 1971, at a
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    CRASH MISSES OIL STORES BY 50 Yds
    147 1 BASRA, Iraq, Tuesday. A BRITISH pilot today sacrificed his life and his plane to avoid hitting the packed oil warehouses at the Abadan refinery in Persia one of the world's greatest insurance risks. A foreman was killed. A twin-engined Dragon Ra[pide aircraft belonging
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    TENSION AFTER 69 YEARS
    45 1 CAIRO. Tues.— A state of emergency was proclaimed in Cairo today— eve of the anniversary of the British bombardment of Alexandria in 1882. Steel helmeted police and Egyptian armoured units stood by. The Government has banned all public demonstrations for tomorrow.—
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    LAW STRIKES
    28 1 ATHENS, Tues.— Greek -i vi! servants on strike for 50 per cent, pay increase wen today Joined by 40,000 employed In the public law services. -Reuter.
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    HORNETS HIT BANDITS IN FIRST RAIDS
    167 1 OORNET twin-engined fighters, new to the Royal Air Force in Malaya, made their first operation against the bandits during yesterday's airstrikes. Flying from Tengah, Singapore, two Hornets attacked a bandit target area in the Johore-Malacca border area, with rockets and c^nnonflre. Not only was
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    5 a.m. news Turpiris great win
    130 1 5 a.m. news Turpiris great win LONODN, Tues. RANDOLPH Turpin, the British champion, won the world middleweight title by outpointing: Sugar Ray Robinson over 15 rounds at EarU Court tonight. There were no knockdown*, •rpin stated treat finish. Torpln had a wekrbt advantage of 4«/, Ib. Turpln mealed list. 4"*
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    'Federal unions defer decision
    176 1 'Federal unions defer decision KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. TRADE union leaders in the 1 Federation tonight had not reached a decision after a three-and-a-half -ho v r meeting whether to join Data Onn bin Ja'afar's Independence of Malaya Party or form a labour party. The meeting— a crucial ore at which
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    RIOT REPORT
    48 1 From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON, Tues.«— The date of publication of the Singapore Riot Report may be announced by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the House of Common* on July 18 in reply to a question set down by Capt. L. D. Gammans.
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    ONLY ARMED GERMANY CAN SAVE EUROPE9
    174 2 ONLY ARMED GERMANY CAN SAVE EUROPE 9 ESSEN, Germany, Tuesday. fHE West German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, warned last night that unless an armed Western Germany takes an active part in Western defence all Europe will be quickly plucked by Soviet Russia. Russia's greatest victory would be neutralization and demilitarisation of
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    TAILOR'S SHOP IS ON WHEELS
    59 2 HARRINGTON, (LANCS), Ttaes. J^ TAILOR here has put his shop on wheels and drives round to customers houses for orders and fittings. He is 55-year-old Mr. Albert Louis Lunn. whose mobile tailoring shop cost him OTer tl.we to build. It is fitted with tables, mirror,
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    HIGH COL DUE TO BLACKOUTS
    49 2 SYDNEY, Tues.— Blackouts, in Sydney have cost manufacturers A £5.000.000 in private power plants, according to Alderman G. Lowndes at a Liberal Party Convention. Hr. sa'ld overtime and loss or man hours cost employers A £350.000 a week. This contributed to high prices —Reuter.
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    US FOOD GIFTS
    57 2 WASHINGTON. Tues. The Indian Ambassador. Mrs Vajaya Lakshmi Pandit, anci tht United 5- fates Secretary of State. Mr Dean Achesjn yesterday s>v r ne<? an agreement covering voluntary American re-ef parcels and supplies for India India lgreed to pemit these supplies to enter duty free and to
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    Soviet will not free Berlin road
    80 2 Soviet will not free Berlin road BERLIN. Tues. RUSSIA rejected totfay claims toy the Western powers lor freedom of access to West Germany from Wesi Berlin. Delegates from East and West debated the question for seven hours. No date was fixed for another meeting which is due to take place
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    To be promoted
    25 2 WASHINGTON, Tues. President Truman asked Congress yesterday to promote Lt. Gen. James van Fleet to the rank of a four-star General. A.FP.
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    CORFEW OIL AREA
    220 3 Military chief stops shipping at Abadan TEHERAN, Tuesday. RRIGADIER Gwieral Kamal, military governor v of Abadan, today ordered a midnight to dawn curfew for the entire area— site of the giant Anglo-Iranian Oil Company refinery. And all shipping on the Shatt El Arab river, which flows past
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    Britain still hopeful
    83 3 LONDON. Tues. THE British Government has not yet completely abandoned hope of Persia's agreeing to co-operate in the World Court's ruling on mixed supervision of the oilfields, a Foreign office spokesman said last night. The Persian notification to the United Nations that it no longer recognised the
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    CRUISER GOES TO 'COOL OFF'
    122 3 BAGHDAD, Tues. CEVERAL hundred officers d and men in the 8,000-ton British cruiser Mauritius anchored in blistering heat ofl the Persian oil town of Abadan, will leave tomorrow for Basra Iraq, to spend a few days •'cooling off." The Mauritius has been standing by in
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    MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION
    98 3 From Our Own Correspondent. LONDON. Tues.— Mr. Mlchaol Ward. 24-year-old son of Mr. W. A. Ward, Malayan Agent in London, will be a member of the four-man expedition to Mount Everett during the autumn of this year. Mr. Ward, who Is a doctor, U at present on
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    'General' may be fake
    62 3 HONG KONG. Tues— lf appears from here that one of the Chinese Communist negotiators at Kaesong is using a false name. Some Chinese here do not think he U a General at all— probably some political officer masquerading as a General. The man is "General Hsieh
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    Silent man gaoled
    71 3 NBW YORK. Tues. DASHIEL Hammett, 56-year-old author of the "Thin Man," has been sentence^ to six months' imprisonment in New York for contempt of court. He refused to say who put up ball of $80,000 for four fugitive convicted Communist leaders. Hammett is Chairman of the Civil
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    PRINCESS SAILS ON SEPT 25
    33 3 LONDON. Tues.— Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail from Liverpool on Sept. 25 for their visit to Canada In the liner Empress of France. Reuter.
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    TIMBER ON SHOW
    43 3 LONDON, Tues. Specimens of Malayan timber are on display in London's We3t End. The Malayan Agency have arranged a window display of panels and specimens used for flooring at the Quadrant Arcade showrooms of Messrs. R. G. Dixon and Co.
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    Egypt says 'no' to U.K. proposals
    182 3 Egypt says 'no' to U.K. proposals LONDON, Tues. gGYPT has rejected al. British suggestions for a settlement of the di&pute ol the 1936 treaty, says diplomatic sources. The Egyptian Government. it is understood, has made counter-proposals in an aide memoire handed to the British Ambassador. Sir Ralph Ptevenson. at Cairo
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    EX-MALAYAN PROMOTED
    55 3 LONDON, Tues— Air ViceMarshal J. D. Breakey, who is to be head of the Air Force Staff, British Joint Services Mission, Washington, was appointed Air Officer Commanding No. 222 Group in Air Command, South-East Asia in September 1945. The next month he was appointed A.O.C. Malaya, a post
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    Hong Kong export ban to stay on
    142 3 HONG KONG, Tues. IVfR. Kenneth Hansen, consultant to U.S. Senate subcommittee on export control, yesterday told Mr. Ko Chukhung, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, that America was unlikely to lift the export ban on strategic materials even if peace were restored
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    CAUGHT MICE BY THE GALLON
    49 3 SYDNEY. Tues So numerous were mice during a recent rodent plague in central west New South Vales that Mr A. C. Rowe. a wheat stack agent, measured his catch by the gallon 63 gallons in three week*. He estimated there were CCOO mice. Reuter.
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    A car you could almost take into the room of your bungalow
    93 3 A car you could almost take into the room of your bungalow YOU need not worry about finding a garage for this one-borse-pow«r car. Just lift m> the front and the front wheels, which take up most of the room, are pushed underneath the bonnet. You could keep it in
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    chiefs support Hay
    259 3 chiefs support Hay From Oar Own Correspondent. LONDON, Tues. rtf a letter to The Times, rubber industry leaders. Mr. Eric MacFadyen and Mr. F. D. Ascoli generally support Sir John Hay's views on inflation in Malaya. Regarding the assertion that not enough of profits Is being ploughed back, Mr. Ascoli
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    RESTRAIN AMERICANS, BEVAN URGES GOVT
    386 3 LONDON, Tuesday. BRITAIN'S former Labour Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, in a pamphlet "One Way Only", proposing new lines for Labour Party policy in Britain, urged the country to "restrain the Americans" in the cause of peace. "In 1953 the Americans will possess a dominance in
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    GUN-KNIFE DUEL OVER COFFEE
    85 3 MANILA, Tues. TWO Manilans were seriously wounded in a gun-knife duel following an argument over the price of a cup of coffee (15 cents). Raymundo VHUrama threatened the proprietor. Co Gui, with a gun after he had refused to supply a cup for five cents. Co
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    Defence pact agreed
    46 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. 'THE United States, Australia and New Zealand were reported today to have agreed to the terms of their proposed Pacific Defence Treaty. Officials said signing of the agreement might be delayed until the Japanese peace treaty conference Is he ld Reuter.
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    ANOTHER $10 MIL. FOR FAR EAST
    33 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. The Economic Co-operation Administration yesterday allocated $10,151,000 to the Philippines, Formosa. Burma. Indonesia and Slam. This brings ttie total Far East aid to $495,354,000— AP.
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    MISSING DIPLOMATStNO INQUIRY
    140 3 LONDON. Tues. TPHE Foreign Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrison, yesterday rejected a Conservative demand that an independent inquiry be made into how the two missing British diplomau aver rose so hlKh in the foreign service. Mr. Morrison said all ap- propriate inquiries have already been made into the
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    Rubber plan 'one step nearer control by Communists'
    339 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THK rubber stabilisation fund proposal by Government was an "intolerable" interference with private liberty and could be the first step towards nationalisation, said Mr. B. J. P. Joaquim at the Malayan Association meeting in Kuala Lumpur this evening. "It
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    6 Reds died of Beri Beri
    326 4 SIX terrorists, suffering from beri-beri, were forced by their comrades last December to make an 18-hour Journey through difficult country to a new camp at Ayer Hitam. In Johore. All six died. Four hundred Chinese rubber tappers on Ulu Ara estate and Malay Rompin
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    Police fraud alleged
    93 4 A COMMITTEE member of the Singapore Police Cooperative Society was yesterday charged in Singapore ASiizes with using as genuine a forged cheque for $130 which h e fraudulently obtained from the Society He was Sergeant Kamsir bin Haji Abdul Rahman of the Police Training School. CorporaJ Bahari
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    'Grow your food' —they show how
    143 4 'Grow your food' they show how SINGAPORE housewives are to run a grow-more-food exhibition next month. Organisers will be three members of the Tanglin branch of the Singapore Consumers' Association and two from the Consumers' Resistance Movement, Katong. Municipal Commissioner for West Ward, Mrs. Robert Eu, who is the chairman
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    Australian goodwill tour is off
    101 4 Australian goodwill tour is off rpHE Australian Trade Cv.niX mic.nner. Mr. aamiu Payne, said yesterday that nu plan for a party of Malayan business men to make a goodwill tour of Australia in September had been indefinitely postponed. The reason was. he said, that he would be leaving Singapore on
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    WELFARE WEEK
    44 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Johore Bahru District Welfare Week will begin on Aug. 26 and will end with a Grand Ball. The decision was made at a public meeting held yesterday with Che Shariffa Hawa. wife of the acting Mentrl Besar, Johore presiding.
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    3 men—tired of the Legion—go home
    223 4 3 men tired of the Legion go home TPHREE young Italians who deserted the French Foreign Legion by jumping from a Saigon-bound troopship in the Durian Strait, near Singapore, became free men yesterday when .they were put aboard the Italian liner, Napoli after two months in a Singapore gaol. They
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    P.I. consul due soon
    58 4 THE first Consul for Singapore's Filipino community of 400, Mr. Yusup Abubater Y. R&sul. will arrive In the Colony from Manila early next week. A Mohammedan Filipino lawyer, Mr. Yusup Abubakar, 34, has served his country since 1940, both In the Philippines and America. He was
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    NEW INDIAN ASSN
    44 4 •Rie $150,000 Indian Association building at Balestler Road, Singapore, will b.< opened by the Commissioner General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, on July 21. The Indian Association, is the first Indian social organisation to own a building or its own in the Colony.
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    AT THE UNIVERSITY
    56 4 MR. BRIAN HARRISON. Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Malaya, and Miss Isabella L. Butt, Supervisor of Hostels of the University, who were married at the Singapore Marriage Registry yesterday. A wedding reception was held later at the home of Dr. G. V. Allen, Vice-Chancellor
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    Tiongßahru bus service
    146 4 AN application by the newly formed Hock Lee Amalgamated Bus Company for a loop service in the Tiong Bahru area, Singapore has been forwarded to the Municipal Vehicles and Traffic Committee and an official reply is awaited. Mr. Quek Sing Ing. the company's managing director, said yesterday
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    92 4 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 a.m. News from K.L.; 10.10 Clot*; 10-45 to 12 Schools; 1 p.m. Dance Music; 1.30 News; 1.45 Lunch Time Prom; 2 Schools: 2.50 Close; 6.16 Programme Summary: 6.17 Young People's Programme; 6.35 Entr'acte— A Piano Interlude; 6.45 The Radio String Ensemble: 7 News and Share Market:
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    BANK CLAIMS $13,438 FROM 3
    185 4 rE Bank of China claimed $13,438 from three partners of the Thye Ann, a pawnshop, in a civil suit before Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson in the Singapore Supreme Court yesterday The plaintiffs held that the amount represented a revaluation of an overdraft which the defendants
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    FIRMS 'ROB' GOVT. OF CLERKS
    330 5 But the Senior Cambridge pass is not needed SINGAPORE commercial firms are "robbing" the Government of scores of recruits for its general clerical service every month, not because of higher salaries, but they are willing to employ those without a Senior Cambridge certificate. A survey
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    FOUND WITH RED PAPERS
    60 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tu.es.— Sixteen-year-old Pang Lee Wah, a trainee In midwifery at the General Hospital, Malacca, was today ordered by Mr. Justice Storr to be sent to an Approved School for two years. Pang was convicted in the High Court under the Emergency Regulations on a
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    $400,000 BONDS SOLD IN WEEK
    47 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. UP to the end of last week, 4,000 Federation premium bonds, worth $400,000. had been sold, the Acting Accountant General, Mr. J. H. Newbigging. said today. The bonds, issued for sale last Monday, "are coining along nicely.*' he said.
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    HE TRIED TO STEAL CAR
    92 5 A young Chinese. Chan Chin Poh, who tried to steal a car in King George V Park. Singapore, one night, was yesterday sentenced to nine ■months' imprisonment in Singapore. Quek Ah Kow, the owner of the car, said he was strolling in the park when
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    Bicycle was not his: $100 fine
    137 5 Bicycle was not his: $100 fine U/HEN he was given $50 by Soejerto bin Ranchopa to pay an instalment on a bicycle. Peter Teo said in court yesterday that he spent the money. Teo was fined $100 on a charge of breach of trust after he had pleaded guilty and
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    MILKMAN FINED
    19 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Ramamugam, a milk seller was fined $50 in Johore Bahru for selling adulterated milk.
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    EVENING IN SINGAPORE
    78 5 MRS. ANNE MUMFORD r^orirllin? a strikingly bold «'v •< if dress in stiff royal edsed with crisp white piqur and artificial •>vhitc sunflowers at the strapless bodice. Modelled at a fashion show held at the (old Storage Tea--Kitonis. Orchard Road, yesterday afternoon, this gown Was one of
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    Mother of 8 fined $1,000
    64 5 A MOTHER of eight children. Tah Ah Wee, was fined $1,000 or two months' simple imprisonment In Singapore yesterday for assisting In a lottery. When the police raided a house in Kirn Van Road they found $434 195 staking slips and a chap-ji-ki schedule. Tan
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    INCONSIDERATE
    19 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. Tik bin Maidin, of Pontian. was fined $25 in the Police Court for Inconsiderate driving.
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    There are 94 jobs going in N. Guinea
    157 5 I^INETY-FOUR jobs for semi-skilled workers in New Guinea are offered by the Singapore Employment Exchange. f The New Guinea jobs are offered by Shell Company whose spokesman yesterday said his firm was acting for the Netherlands New Guinea Petroleum Company. The jobs
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    S'pore radio dealer loses case
    152 5 S'pore radio dealer loses case £J DAWOOD. proprietor of o. Raja Radio *Co. Singapore, was yesterday ordered to refund a deposit of $120 for an ampMfler to Mohamed Yasin, an operator of a mobile cinema, by the Second Civil District Judge, Mr. N. L. Macassey. Mohamed said that he had
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    FAILED TO REPORT FOR CALL-UP
    58 5 For failing to report to a Manpower Selection Board at Port Dickson, a 20-year-old Chinese was fined $100 or three weeks' imprisonment in the Port Dickson Magistrate's Court yesterday. He was Llm Hoe Tai of Tanah Merah, who had failed to appear before the Board
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    NO LIGHTS: FINED
    27 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.Nroh Tian Chye. of Singapore, was fined $10 in Johore B.ihru for parkins hit car 00 the road after sunset without lights.
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    SKI MEETING LEADS TO WORLD AIR TRIP
    182 5 TWO young men who met last year while on a skiing holiday in the Austrian Tyrol, flew into Singagapore last night in a Percival Proctor plane, on the last lap ol a 14 000-mile air trip Britain to Sydney. Piloted by Mr David
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    33 5 MittAßAj aod i virj.i. -j Polish dancing team, who arrived in Singapore yesterday aboard the Corfu from Hong Kong. They will dance here lor a season starting on July 12. Straits Times picture.
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    STORE CONCERT FOR CHILDREN
    131 5 TTOE Singapore Chamber Ensemble— two girls and 1 23 men will perform for 650 Colony school children at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow evening. Presented for the first time by the Singapore Music Circle, the Ensemble will be conducted by Mr. Paul Abisheganaden. A public performance,
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    Day's rest for police
    69 5 CINGAPDRE policemen will get weekly holidays now. Orders for a day's rest after six working days were given by the Commissioner of Police yesterday. The system of weekly holidays for the rank and file was first tried out at the Orchard Road Division about two months
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    PROMOTED TO COMMANDER
    63 5 Lieut. Commander M. P Gordon-Smith, D.S.C.. who passed through Singapore in May on board the aircraft carrier, H.M.S. Theseus, after operations off Korea, ha--been promoted to the rank of Commander. He will be one of the youngest Commanders In the Navy, being only 32. He is trie
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    WALKING OUT KIT FOR SWACs
    48 5 Members of the Singapore Women's Army Corps (Volunteer) are soon to be issued with a 'walking out" uniform. The Adjutant of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, Captain W. Stewart, said yesterday "We have a keen bunch of women, and their numbers are steadily Increasing.
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    Singapore Diary
    116 5 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN EXHIBITION, U.K. Building. 9 a.m. 6 p.m. Y.W.C.A. Katong group me«U at St. Hilda's School, 3 p.m. V.M.C.A. Orchard Road. Stao. meeting 11.30 aJn., Malay conversational class, 5.30 pjn.; Judo training, 5.30 pjn.; body-bulldlng, 6.30 p.m.; Art club. 0 pjn.: Film Show. 8 pjn. CHINESE
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    Higher pay for S'pore police
    255 5 .MORE pay, better ac- commodation and more chances for promotion are to be offered to •attract better-educated men to Singapore police. The Commissioner of Police said yesterday: "We need a more composite and better-educated force. "To get the better-educat-ed Chinese, Malays, Indians and Eurasians w«
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    H.K. BANK TO PAY £2 A SHARE
    64 5 The Singapore branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has received a cable from its Hong. Kong head office, stating that an Interim dividend of £2 De r share free of Hong Kong Corporation Profits Tax will be payable on Aug. 13.
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    26 6 JAMES WILLIAM BALMON. Wtk! yew*. «t Genertl Ho*piUl, b^;Kpoit, on JO- 7 51. Funeral »t Bk^^wl »t 6 o.m. much regretted. Up-tountry pi-pers plcnM copy.
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    14 6 OLD EASTBOURNIANS. Pcr•onal news for Oofae Maeaxlne rtautred. Pleaae Box No A6381. S.T.
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    LOST
    29 6 LITTLE BOY has lp»t 9-montli old Blue Ro«n Cocfcir Spaniel, wearlnjj Licence No. 1S«*. Anyone *lth Information please contort Telephone No. 8*826 during ollire hours, ***** alter five.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., July 11,1951. Dr. Fenn And Dr. Wu
    1069 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Wed., July 11, 1951. Dr. Fenn And Dr. Wu Although the report on Chinese education has received a certain amount of publicity since it was released to the Press last week-end, very few people yet realise what a remarkable document this is. It is in sober
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    MORE BAUXITE IN JAMAICA
    55 6 WASHINGTON, Tues. More bauxite, basic source of aluminium, is to be mined in Jamaica with the help of a new MMthall Aid loan, the ECA announced here today. Under an agreement just signed, Rynolds Jamaica Mines Limited are expected to increase their bauxite oroduciion capacity from
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    ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF REUTER
    1444 6  -  STANLEY CLARKE "J LANDED in Normandy with the first glider forces in the invasion. I crawled as I have never crawled before. It was dark, it was deadly, and we landed in a country of stinking swamps and hidden snipers. "When I left the fighting
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      SIR JOHN HAY AND MALAYAN INFLATION
      438 6 IN his letter to the Straits Times July 6, "R.W." accuses Sir John Hay of inconsistency in his utterances of two years or so ago and now. No inconsistency. "R.W.". i You have just got yourself into a hopeless mental muddle as the whimsy
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      Was Mr. Thio Mis-reported?
      155 6 •JHE (Reuter) report from Los Angeles that Mr. Thio Chan Bee told the Moral Rearmament Assembly how he averted a "potential civil war" between the Chinese and Malays in Malaya should be read with a grain of salt. Knowing Mr. Thio Chan Bee as I do,
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      INVITATION TO SEREMBAN
      164 6 IN the Straits Times (July 6) "Asian Staff," Sepang, asks for more particulars of 'Diehards.' While I do not question the purpose of this, as this correspondent lives at Sepang. a place not far away from Seremban. I would invite him to my office to see the
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    On the Margin
    425 6 On the Margin The Day Mail [IAVING endured (and, up to a point, enjoyed* many a long hot day in M;;lay an trains in the past, ami having known what it is to become filthy with soot from the soft coal of Malay. Collieries blowing back from the engine, I
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    POWER QUOTA—PENALTY PLAN
    244 7 POWER QUOTA— PENALTY PLAN 'Will not favour rich 9 SIXFOLD CHARGES OVER LIMIT 'pHE Singapore Municipal Electricity Committee is understood in its interim report to have recommended an electricity rationing system by which a consumer will have to pay six times more for power he uses above a fixed monthly
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    Cod Siva to have bath in—MILK
    138 7 Cod Siva to have bath in— MILK Hindu God Siva, in the Sivao Temple at Kallang Road, Singapore, will have a milk bath, and new ornaments this morning. He was stripped of his ornaments by thieves during the Japanese occupation, and the Hindu devotees, fearing his anger, have renovated the
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    For trial on riot charge
    173 7 pOUR Malays, an Arab and an Indian Muslim were committed for trial at the next Assizes in Singapore yesterday on charges of murder and rioting. They were alleged to have been in a mob in North Bridge Road on the afternoon of Dec. 11 which
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    $3,800 CHEQUE —NO MONEY
    75 7 $3,800 CHEQUE NO MONEY r Singapore broker, Ho Leong Kee, was bound over for six months in Singapoie yesterday for cheating a shopkeeper of $3 800 Ho admitted that when he K.W yards of cloth from Lim Sian Tong, a Tanjong Pagar shopkeeper, he gave Lim a cheque for $3,800
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    $702,000 IN NEW SAVINGS
    60 7 Since the start of the Post Office Savings Bank campaign, in Singapore a total sum of $702,000 has been saved up to yesterday. In all 3 578 new accounts were opened. A record number of 757 accounts, with a total deposit of $124,000, were opened yesterday,
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    BLOCKED ROAD
    36 7 JOHORE BAHRU Tues Chin Huck Leong a timber salesman of Singapore was fined $25 In the Police Court for stop Ding his car on the road In such a way as to cause obstruction.
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    TO STUDY IN LONDON
    61 7 A SXUDKNT teacher at Pasir PanjanK English School. 22-year-old Miss Eileen Wong has been awarded a three-year scholarship to specialise in primary school methods of teaching at the Froebel Institute of Education. London. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wong Loon Cheong of
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    Bus workers —pay talks
    86 7 REPRESENTATIVES of the IV Singapore Chinese Bus Workers' Union, yesterday met officials of the Changi Bus Company and three representatives of 72-non-union workers to discuss working terms and pay conditions. The union representatives held the meeting on behalf of 37 workers of the Changi Bus Company.
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    HE STOLE FILES
    26 7 Tan Boon Yaw, who stole *ix flies worth $3 from No. 2 Sub-Depot, 8.0.D., was yesterday sentenced in Singapore to one months imprisonment.
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    $300 JOB FOR PENSIONER
    55 7 The Peoples Education Association will hold its annual meeting at the British Council Hall, Singapore, tomorrow at 5.30 p.m. The Association is advertising for an organising secretary to organise branches. The salary is $300 a month and the job is suitable for a retired but still
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    Five points for food fight
    292 7 CAMPAIGN to ease the food situation in the Wr£h« %i s tart «d immediately by Mr. R. A. Kc'tionO^rer 6 S aPP inted F Immediate measures to be taken are: 1 Increased import* of foodstuffs and raw materials such as animal fodder and fertilisers, from
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    A SHOW FOR ANY HUNGRY SOLDIER....
    210 7 A SHOW FOR ANY HUNGRY SOLDIER.... THIRTEEN Army cooks took time off yesterday and went to the ■eoond annual Singapore Base individual cookery competition at Nee Soon just to show how good they really are. They sweated all morning rooking galantines, tgg mayonnaise, sandwich spreads, gateaux, trifles, slab cakes »nd
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    THEIR RELIGION IS AGAINST IT
    55 7 MUNICIPAL Commissioners in Singapore hay« agreed that nurses in the Municipal service should not be asked to participate in any work that i s against their religious beliefs. Recently Commissioners received a request from a nurse that she be excused rrom family planning work as
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    Mutton men seek stalls
    114 7 A SPECIAL committee of three Municipal Commissioners have been appointed to go into the proposal of issuing mutton scall licences •o importers according to the number of sheep Imported by them. A leading Singapore sheep importer recently approached the Commissioners for a mutton stall at a
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    B.E.M. FOR TROOPER RIOT HERO
    114 7 WE British Empire Medal Trooper Moppett escaped •£J£! n bP^ n w awa f ded t0 °y «ar window and got Trooper B. D Moppett of the away from the enraged crowd Queens Own Hussars. Shortly afterwards while During the Singapore riots skirting another crowd,
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    New Dutch consul in S'pore to-day
    143 7 New Dutch consul in S'pore to-day THE newly-appointed Con- sul-General for the Netherlands in Singapore. Dr. Frans Adrian van Woerden, will arrive in the Colony today on the Oranje. Dr. van Woerden, who has been Consul-General in San Francisco for the past four years. was formerly in Shanghai and knows
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    SKYSCRAPER: REPORT DUE
    135 7 Several items of special heavy foundation building machinery may be brought out from the U.K. to speedup the work on the Asia Insurance company's 18storey skyscraper on the corner of Collyer Quay and Finlayson Green. A final report from Mr. O. E. Wilde, the British foundation-work export
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    UK TRAINING FOR 5 POLICE
    75 7 Five Malayan police officers one from Singapore and four from the Federation—are now undergoing a junior course for potential inspectors at the Police 'University' at Ryton-on-Duns-more near Coventry. Britain The aim of the Police College Is to develop the qualities of leadership in the trainees,
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    P.R .O. FOR KOREA
    29 7 Formerly R.A.F. Public Relation* Officer in Singapore Mr. Spencer Swaffer is back in the Colony on his way to Korea. He Is I?Crv P.R.O. in
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    NEW CHARGES, $10,000 BAIL IS CANCELLED
    377 7 NEW CHARGES, $10,000 BAIL IS CANCELLED IPOH, Tuesday. JEFFREY WATTS-CARTER, 41-year-old European former manager of Bedrock Estate, Bidor, who was on $10,000 bail pending his trial on Thursday h^ S l Yen XCK C arges nder the Em ergency Regulations had his bail cancelled and was committed to custody High
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    New rules for expors to Hong Kong:
    183 7 NEW ru!es governing the export from Singapore to Hong Kong; of a wide rante of essential materials including rubber and rubber products, war. and atomic enor-v materials and equipment w< re announced last night by Mr W. H. Walker. Controller of Imports and
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    FAREWELL PARTY
    41 7 A social party was held In honour of Mr. K. S. Maniam of Tronoh Mines Ltd.. Tromh on the eve of his departure to v. Bernam, Perak, by the ?S T^0110* 1 Mines Ltd and other residents of Tronori
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    MAO SUSPECTS HIS OWN COMRADES
    1047 8  -  HSIAO YING I Was Mao Tse-tung's Secretary— lo yyHEN we got a breathing spell between work, Mao Tse-tung liked to take a walk or have a few drinks, and hig constant companions were Liv Shao-chi and Jen Pi-shih. One day, after a conference, Mao asked
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    'Blackout' areas
    263 8 Substations liable to load skeddiiu; today are: DAT Atlas Ice, Happy World, Asia Rubber (Leronr 3), Sims At. Saw Mill, Shell Co., Lee Bobber Works, Mt. Batten Network, Spore Swimming Club, Tanjonr Rhu. Rhu Crocs, Nanyanir Ice Works, Cathay, McDonald House, Armenia a St. D.C., Tan Chye Place/
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    WEEK'S SCHOOL
    33 8 The Teachers' Union has arranged, with the co-opera-tion of the University of Malaya authorities, to hold a one-week vacation course (summer school) at the University between Aug. 10 and Aug. 16.
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    Reprint of Malay Pantuns
    219 8 Reprint of Malay Pantuns MALAY PANTUNS By A. W. Hamilton. Holland and StepJienson. Sydney, 5». THIS is the third edition of "Haji" Hamilton's book of pantuns, which he collected during many years in the Malayan Police in various parts of the country before his retirement in 1931 He was one
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      7 8 TOMORROW: Liv Shao chi shows his hand.
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      358 8 Ct r -al4- c Timoc CrOSSWOrd 26 smuggling (10). OTIaITS limeb V.IUSSWWIU 27. Footwear material 7). DOWN. I 2 4 .5 7 1. NoUy mixed dish for a meal MM SH 6 3,6). *li 2 Fever or can on et rnall y m I^_SSB__l^ i^H|!p m. 3R- N ste€l becomes
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    CHILDERNS CORNER
    39 9 CHILDERNS CORNER .4 high standard of marl;manship was reached by the Junior Archers of the Singapore Archery Club and the Naval Base Bowmen during an inter-club match on Sunday held at the University of Malaya grounds at Bukit Timah.
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    A CROSSWORD FOR ALL AGES
    271 9 Dear Boys and Girls, I do hop« you all tnioyed your Hari Raya holiday. Thank you very much those of you < who *ent me greetings cards last week. I had a job to judge our recent painting contest. A record number of entries arrived
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    A RUDE SHOCK FOR THE FAIRY
    739 9  -  A UN TIE KATHLEEN YOU remember a short while ago I told you that there were many different kinds of fairies? Well, I forgot to mention the Electric Fairies. At one time, there were :.o Electric Fairies at all, but now they are all
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    MITZI LOSES A PAL
    285 9 MITZI LOSES A PAL OOOR MITZI the 1 monkey looks so miserable these days. She is unhappy because she has lost her playmates Belore wp went on holiday, the Mttle puppies scent, most of the day running round Mitzi's tree. They wptp lust the rteht size for a monkey to
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    Talking About Stamps
    182 9 SStlP APPEARS ON GRENADA STAMP like Vialaya, has always issued stamps with the portraits of the reigning monarchs as the sole design. One exception was made however in 1898 which was the -400th anniversary of the discovery of the island of Crenada bv Columbus. Permission was obtained
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    28 9 "Yes thank yuu, tc\? nave enjoyed our Hari Ray a,' say the young guests at the party given by the Penang Benevolent Society, at Geylang Serai on Sunday
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    Bones from the past
    152 9 PVERY now and again some scientist or other makes a discovery which tells what we sumans were like in prehistoric days. Usually their discoveries give conflicting answers. The latest comes from Krugersdoro in the Transi vaal Some iossUised skulls ana bones were discovered by the assistants
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      285 9 What kind of a car is the hulselei? -4^| p ftlff »»"Stoßl«ht7- and "Four Fifty •'Wnlwl,,, |ar» can for dimming owner*— men end «<>uh» vboM tocUl iuuu *un>pt them v arbiter* of good uut«. U* Woheley they get Urn oar ityllng that hold, lv quiet dignity through »h« real*. They
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    London Stocks
    273 10 LONDON, Tues. IAPANESE bonds were strong •T on the London Stock Exchange today. Gains of up to three points followed similar improvement* on Wall Street with buyers encouraged by the stream of promising news regarding the peace treaty. Closing middle price* crt *electeo stocta M KippUed to the
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    SHIPS ALONGSIDE
    59 10 Shiw in the Singapore Roads and alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 pjn. vp*t«rdaT were: Hal Hsuan. Daviken. Hannah MoUer. SivaMt. Fossularca. Darlac. TroUua, Flying Bird. Stee. A«e Sanana. Oluf Maerik. Kola, Sam Manuel, Lee Ming. Jag Jamnua, Malacca, Stanvac Palembang, InchmuU. Tomar, Rajula Waingapore, Chang
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    243 10 BUSINESS in the Malayan share market yesterday was again mainly confined to Industrials prices of which in most cases improved. Tins were slightly steadier, while Rubbers were quiet. yuota nous vuiuuuccu uj the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: INDOSTKIALB Barws Sa>*r> *t.a* le. l*» BB Petrol f»/J Con
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    MARKET
    129 10 rE Singapore rubber market was fairly active^yesterday on switching portions from JuW to August within V™ narrow fluctuation*. Uncountry sellers for the first Umetadmy. offered rubber more ?r™y andill offerings wer. well "rSTUttloii eased slightly In the aftSnoon but the market clo-ed quiet with buyers tor totclon buyers 144^4.
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    TIN: $419⅞ A PICUL
    272 10 SINGAPORE, Tujf-T£ day's tin price: >41»I W 621 cento). London £875 LONDON, Toes. Cash Buyers £875, Seller. *885; Forward Bayers &.S3Z* Sellers £835; Settlement £877}. Turn-over: a.m. lit pan. 35 tons. S Malayan Sumel Waj Bfi> l? l ft. ran)oo« Tin J»/0 Taiam mm MKCtA «o
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    LONDON RUBBER
    29 10 LONDON. Tues. Spot d Aug. 43>,d.. Sept. 40^d.. OctDec 37d. Jan-Mar. 34d.. AprilimJe 31 d., nom.. Aug. c.i.f. iv&i Sept. cli. 3»%d, Octfl? rl.f 88%a. Market: Quiet.
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    88 10 THE Singapore produce market copra was again quiet yesterday with prices relatively unchanged. Buyers opened at $37 a picul against sellers' quotations of $39 but during the a^noon the margin narrowed to $38 and $38 4. Sellers were lowe r in the coconut oil section, but their
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    28 10 HONO KONG, Tues.— Free market currency exchange for Hong icons dollars «v qudlea »t 5.19 (cash). HK56,215 <T) £1 HK515.60. One Uhll of gold HKHQB.2S— P.P.
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    CANADIAN DOLLAR
    31 10 The Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rate* lor Canadian dollars were: Buvinp TT 35. Airmail (O.D/> 35 's (90 days> 35V Selling T.T.'O.D ready 34%.
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    Gurthries get 4-nil victory v Rotterdam
    148 11 QUTHRIE slammed Rotterdam Trading by four goals to nil in a Business Houses League Cup soccer game at Farrer Park yesterday. Jaffar opened the scoring after 25. minutes- and soon after the interval he netted again. Then midway in the second half Yaccb caught
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    Oxford beat Cambridge
    92 11 SmMKoa second with im /t™ Yor are L m S«m*ri«t (Ekkw Vaie)Match abandoned, no pj»y toda» rain Somerset 241 Glamorgan 84-3 dec.. Lane, JS6 |Q. Edrlch 142). Torkj bt M-Ki on Ist. inn>. (BradM>l Yorks 224 and 44-3 Midd"«ex Xe n k 2o^!"^ *W-^"su"ei""sl4 O Iecl! l
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    WONG IN S-FINAL
    42 11 Mi??v IB T Woi >« Peng Soon of 15?3 ts.^" 1 H Talyarkhan of India. iv-o, i>-2 m the Quarter-Una 1 nt »»<>**<* Club of India badminton cnampionshipt thL evening Plruz beat D. Dhongade and B Bhagwat of India 15-2. IS-7._TJ.P.
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    WONG GETS BEST CHANCE IN 10 Yrs.
    362 11 YOUTHFUL Wong Tong Goon, the C.S.A. table tennis star who has never won a major title. gets the biggest chance In his career when he meets evergreen Loh Kum Soon in the Singapore T.T.A. men's singles final at the Great World on Sunday
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    All-conquering Doris
    54 11 w?mK?i IAR «I. 26 year old A ra«»can, won three titles at Wimbledon this year. A polio victim at six, Mi ss Hart nas been an outstanding: example of What courage and v!« '•♦S tlo r f an She won aII three eve "ts this year without dropping
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    ENGLAND WIN TEST BY 9 WICKETS
    571 11 Hutton misses 100th century ™^i ivn,. MANCHESTER, Tuesday. ENGLAND defeated South Africa by nine wickets in the third cricket Test today and gained a kIL? t T?« ITin1 T ina L t one in the serles of flve ames Needing 139 in their second
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    Singapore 'A' v Chinese Athletic
    98 11 Singapore "A" soccer XI wil play a friendly match with Chinese Athletic at Jalan Besar Stadium on Friday. The Singapore "A" team will be chosen from Narayana, Chong Kum, Teow Keng, Johan, Yassin Roslan Daud, Ismail Bujang, Balan, Ibrahim Yusoff, Guthrie Obad, Jimmy Tan and
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    Second-half goals save Rovers
    353 11 £?vers 2; Pulau Brani 1 ROVERS S.C., down one-nil at the interval, came back with two second-half goals to win yesterday's S.A.F.A. Senior Cup game against Pulau Brani United at Jalan Besar Stadium Rovers had all the bad luck k golnR in the fl «t half.
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    SevenofHK's team delayed
    163 11 'THREE of the four Hon* Kong University sports teams, which arrived In Singapore yesterday aboard the liner Corfu to play the University of Malaya, will be seriously weakened by the absence of seven team members who are arriving; five days late owing to immigration difficulties. Twenty-three of
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    S'PORE CRICKET XI v JOHORE
    77 11 Singapore's cricket side to meet Johore in an inter-state fixture at Johore Bahru th s week-end is: Wee Chong Jin (capt.). Cheong Thiam Slew, Chua Eng Cheng, P. de Kretser, L. J. A. Diplock, W. Ratnayake. J. Smith, R. N. Sneddon, C. Thuraislnßham, S. Vellupillai,
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    PLAYINCALCUTTA
    26 11 BOMBAY, Tues.— The Malayar badminon visitors, Wong Pen<j Soon and Pirur, have be»» lnviteo to play in Calcutta exhibition on July 21 and 22.— U.P
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    TECHNICOLOR WILL PROVE HIS WORTH
    489 12  -  EPSOM JEEP Going beat him in Governor's Cup By rpECHNICOLOR, gallant second to Avalanche in the Governor's Cup at Bukit Timah last month, showed a great deal of galloping zest when he went out for a useful half-mile trial with stable-com-panion Your Highness (Charles) and
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    45 12 DICK SAVITT, of Orange, New Jersey, holds the three cups presented to him after winning the men's singles title in the All-England lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon on July 6, when he beat Australia's Ken McGregor 6—4. 6-4. 6 4, in the final.— A.P. ohoto
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    62 12 Selangor's Eric Monterio, Malaya's champion 350ccclass motor cyclist (left), and Reggie Trevor, Perak's youthful rubber planter seated on his powerful Vincent HR D Rapide, pictured' at the Lornie Mile Speed Trial held in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. Trevor's time of 45 seconds broke his own Malayan record for the mile
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    Heddle's top pair in peak form
    426 12 as fit as ever after a let-up, strode out in fine style over a mile. Uninsured (McPherson) went at half speed from the half mile moving faultlessly at the finish. troydon (J. Donnelly) came up the straight at a leisurely pace This topnolcher looks
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    TANGLIN TENNIS
    60 12 Results Of ties In the Tanglin Club's Tennis championship played yesterday were: Men's doubles: Thomson and Maj. Faulkner bt. N. J. S. Thorn son and P. A. Dreyer 7-5, 6-4. Married Couples: PL and Mrs H F. Bishop bt. Mr. and Mrs Nightingale 6-0, 6-1; Capt. and Mrs.
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    FINE RUN HAD 109 RATING
    471 12 Records of new horses...! TWO high-class three-year-olds are among the several Class 1 newcomers entered for the July races at Bukit Timah. They are Silver Crest, a striking grey by Bellacose out of Silver Betsy, and Fine Run, a well-made bay by Bobsleigh out of
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    TANTIEME IS FAVOURITE
    106 12 LONDON, Tues. Out tancUag Fiench four-year-old Tantieme was again soundly supported at the callover on the Festival of Britain Stakes at the Victoria dub here last night. He remained flrsi market choice at 7-2. Epsom Derby winner Arctic Prince was steady at 4-1, second favourite. Belle of
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    56 12 SOCCER: Junior Cup-Ues: Hotspurs v Blue Rovers at Gcylang; 5.11.8. v Indian R.l'. A" »t CYMA; R.X. Kranjl v RAF Tenjah at IiUDCA; Business Houses I.ge: Brewerlrs v OTKC at Breweries; Siroe Darby v M.P.H. at police ground; Stralls Times v Chartered Bank at Farrer Park. ATHLETICS: Inter
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    WATCH FOR RECORDS BY SCHOOLBOYS TODAY
    798 12 PROVIDED that the track is not »-ft, records will go tumDiing n I* today's Singapore Inter-Schools athletics meet. I expect at least i half-a-dozen new marks to be set by as fine a crop of schoolboy I athletes as has ever contested this annual
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    S.R.A. LISTS 21 NEW HORSES
    262 12 •THVENTY-one new horses are classified in the A S.R.A. amendment list issued yesterday. Seven are in Class 1, eight in Class 2, and six in Class 3. The list of amendments la:— TRANSFERS: Class 2 to Cl. 1:— Gambar Me'.ayu; Treasure Ship. Cl. 2 to
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    FOR HALL FUND
    257 12 FIFTY-FIVE-year-old Capt. George Wright, jl Singapore harbour pilot, boosted the Singapore Badminton Hall Fund to a total of $75,000 on Monday when he sent the Fund a cheque for $5,001.07. Capt. Wright's contribution Is the second largest Individual donation to the Badminton Hall Fund so far. The
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    Tempest best of Class 3 workers
    384 12 By EPSOM Jl ll' PASILY the best track perform-. ance by a Class 3 horse at Buklt Tlmah yesterday morning was put up by Tempest (Woods)' who galloped with 'gusto over 3f. in 37 4/5 In a workout witti Pennyworth (Spencer) and Totland. Tempest
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