The Straits Times, 8 December 1951

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    20 1 The straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 _L TWELVE PAGES m SINGAPORE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    LYTTELTON TOURS 'BAD' AREA
    284 1 Gurkhas kill 2 bandits 1 Vi mis. away MINISTER GETS RED STARRED CAP By A Special Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. WHILE the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, was spending an horn this morning m one of the most dangerous areas of the
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    S.B.A. LIFTS BAN ON 4 STARS
    217 1 S.B.A. LIFTS BAN ON 4 STARS SINGAPORE Badminton Association yesterday lifted the suspension imposed on Wednesday on the Colony's four star badminton playersWong Peng Soon, On* Poh Urn, Ismail bin Mar jan and Cheong Hock Leng. The Association last night issued the following statement: "Through the good offices of the
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    TREE FALLS On THREE CARS
    150 1 X it EIGHT people, occupants of these three cars, had miraculous escapes last night when a tree more than 70 years old fell across their vehicles as they were leaving the Capitol car park. Only one person was- slightly injured— Mr. Tan Boon Eng, aged
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    Supremo hint is welcomed
    185 1 Supremo hint is welcomed MALA LLMPLB. Fri. MX. Churchill's hint m Parliament on the appointment of a Supreme Commander for Malaya was well-received m Kuala Lumpur today. Community leaders said that, since the murder of Sir Henry Gurney, the general feeling here had been that a man with overall civil
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    'Mac Donald must go' —U. k. paper
    83 1 'Mac Donald must go' U. k. paper LONDON. Prl. IN a leading article on the visit of Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Malaya, the Daily Express today strongly attacked Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald. the Com-missioner-General, stating he "should be sacked at once' I- it
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    No deadlock in talks, Reds told
    188 1 No deadlock in talks, Reds told RED DEMANDS HONO KONQ. Frl—Catholic officials alleged here today that Chinese Communists were demanding money from foreign missionaries under threat of punishment. TOKYO. Frl. i tni TED Nations delegates I I at Panmunjon told the Communists today that the United Nations would never let
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    CHINESE AFRAID, SAYS ATTLEE
    549 1 LONDON, Friday. liflß. ATTLEE, Leader of the Opposition, said m the LTI Commons debate on Malaya that it was not purely a military solution which must be sought tn Malaya because m the military work they also had to keep the people with them. He believed
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    STEEL TALKS
    24 1 LONDON. Frl. Priority supplies of British sttel for Commonwealth countries are to be discussed by Government and Commonwealth officials m London. Reuter.
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    Siam's King signs
    55 1 BANGKOK, Fri. KINO Phumiphou Aduldet today signed a royal proclamation which legalised last week's military coup. A new government, dominated by military officers, began emerging after Radio Bangkok reported the signature. The royal proclamation approved restoration of the 1932 constitution and accepted the provisional national assembly appointed
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    GERMANS OFFERED 'THE KEY' ;
    136 1 GERMANS OFFERED 'THE KEY' DUSSELDORF. Germany, Frl. PRINCE Abbas Hallra, a cousin of King Farouk of Egypt told a press conference at Dusseldorf today: "Ejrypt offers Germany the keji to the Near East, for Egypt holds the key position there.' He continued: "We are fed up with the out-dated products
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    Mobs loot, fire offices in Teheran
    145 1 TEHERAN, Friday. fHOUSANDS of Communist-led students fought today with police troops and Government supDorters when bloody riots surged through Teheran's streets and mobs looted and fired the offices of many Left-wing organisations. Three people were reportI ed killed and scores Injured when police and
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    Hazel Scott spurns Miami
    50 1 TEL AVIV. Fri.— American Negro Congressman, Mr. Adam Clayton Powell, Junior, said his pianist wife. Hazel Scott, had refused to play m Miami, Florida, because of the segregation of Negroes and Whites there. Mr. Powell was commenting on recent anti-Jewish and anti-Negro outbreaks m Miami.— A.P.
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    Govt. closes another camp
    215 1 Govt. closes another camp KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. ANOTHER "sealed lips" resettlement area the Lubok Bandan camp m the Segamat area of Johore has been closed down, the Federation Government announced today. Abou 45 families have been moved out of the camp which was originally planned to accommodate about 1,500 people,
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    SERGEANT AWARDED THE M.M.
    163 1 SEBGEANT G. Monk of the Ist Battalion. The Green 1 Howards, has been awarded the Military Medal for "fault- c less leadership" In action i against Malayan terrorists, the London Gazette announ- t ces. f In October this year, Sergeant 1 Monk was leading a patrol
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    GOLD IN SHIP
    29 1 BOMBAY, Fri.— Bombay customs today seized gold bullion worth 400,000 rupees from the 5,180-ton British ship Daressa which arrived here today from the Persian Gulf.— Reuter.
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    PAY REFUND
    26 1 DAMASCUS. Frl The Syrian Finance Ministry wants Deputies to refund salaries paid to them m advance for this month because Parliament has been dissolved.—Reuter.
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    Crack troops are called in
    221 1 SUEZ WATER DEFENDED CAIRO, Friday. lEUTENANT-General Sir George Erskine, British Commander m the Suez Canal zone, said today the crack 16th Parachute Brigade had been rushed to the Suez area to guard the water infiltration plant, at present virtually isolated from the remainder of the
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    U.S. newsman told to quit
    47 1 TEHERAN, Fri. The Persian Government today ordered New York Times correspondent, Mr. Clark, to leave the country within 48 hours. Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi said the immediate cause of the explusion order was a dispatch Mr. Clark wrote about terror m Persia
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    MFMO TO JAPS
    26 1 TOKYO. Frl.— Japan Has been told by occupation headquarters to resume administrative Jurisdiction over: seven small Islands of the Ryukyus group.— AP 0
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    60 homes lost in bush fires
    48 1 SYDNEY, Fri— Thousands or firefighters, including 500 servicemen, last night battled bush fires gutting scores of homes on the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains. 69 miles vest of Sydney. Latest reports said between 50 and 60 homes had ,">een destroyed.— Reuter.
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    463 3 U.S. can use their British A- bases LONDON, Friday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, told th e House of Commons yesterday that Britain would not flinch from duty if it ever became necessary for the Americans to use atom bomb bases m Britain against Soviet Russia. Mr. Churchill said, however,
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    'ONE MAN MUST HOLD POWER IN MALAYA'
    195 3 'ONE MAN MUST HOLD POWER IN MALAYA' LONDON, Fri. THE Prime Minister Mr. Churchill, told the House of Commons yesterday that no decisions on Malaya can oe taken until ater the return to England of the Sf cretary for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton. Mr. Churchill described Malaya as "the
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    A mixed welcome for Adenauer
    92 3 A mixed welcome for Adenauer LONDON, Fri. rvR. Adenauer, the West German Federal Chancellor, waved greeting to demonstrators during his visit to Britain. The 75-year-old^ statesman drove to Oxford University m a convoy of five cars, each flying the German Federal flag. There a crowd of students some shouting welcomes,
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    Deadlock in disarm talks
    66 3 PARIS, Fri. THE Pour-Power disarmament talks ended last night In complete failure. Little remained except to report the deadlock to the Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. Representatives of Britain Prance, America and Russia completed their point by point examination of the Western and
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    Pool resources urges F.A.O.
    48 3 ROME. FrL— The United Nations Pood and Agriculture Organisation last night Issued an urgent call to all nations to pool their resoures to attack hunger and malnutrition. The PAO approved a long list of recommendations for increased output of food grains, fisheries and forestry.—Renter
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    Back to work on Christmas ships
    125 3 LONDON, Friday. BRITAIN'S big dock dispute which had threatened the country with a "black Christmas" was settled yesterday after direct intervention by the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton. Sir Walter announced In the House of Commons that the executive of the lightermen's union,
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    REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BREIF
    99 3 REST OF THE WORLD NEWS IN BREIF T«ANG SHING, 32, manager of the Victoria Transportation Company, was fined HKsl,ooo for importing into Hong Kong 47 cases of motorcar spare parts from Singapore without a licence. President Truman has accepted the resignation of Mr. Dean Rusk as Assistant Secretary of State
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    WOOL PRICE BILL
    78 3 The Sew Zealand Parliaiment has passed the Wool Commission Bill establishing a price reserve plan for wool sold at a reduction m the 1951-52 season tnly Edward Bormberg. American character actor, was found dead m his London apartment. He would have been 48 on Christmas Day. The
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    Espionage proof, says Gottwald
    91 3 Espionage proof, says Gottwald LONDON, Fri. PRESIDENT Qottwald. oX Czechoslovakia, has told his party lieutenants that when Deputy Premier Rudolph Slanssy, accused of treason, was arrested "imperialist espionage" was making ready for him to flee to the West. Mr. Gottwald, who Is Communist Party chairman, told Communist Cabinet Ministers, party
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    CHURCHILL, EDEN FOR PARIS
    37 3 LONDON. Pri.— The Prtmi Minister. Mr Churchill, and the Foreign Secretary Mr Anthony Eden, will visit Paris on Dec. 17 for talks with French leaders before their visit to Washington In January Reuter
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    Laughton wins court claim
    52 3 GUILDPORD. England. Fr. —Hollywood actor. Charles Laughton, won a court claim here yesterday Tor re-pos-sesslon of his Surrey country estate and for arrears of rent The English-born actor's lawyer said the estate, consisting of a house and 29 acres of woodland, had been rented out since
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    JUDO THROW CHURCHILL SAYS: WE WILL NOT FLINCH
    61 3 JUDO THROW CHURCHILL SAYS: WE WILL NOT FLINCH CORPORAL VERA APPLEGATE. of the Women's Royal Air Force, demonstrate the j udo hip throw to Aircraft women Maureen Dillon (left) and Rnby Nolan at the No. 1 R.A.F Police Wing headquarters at Pershore. Wiltshire. Victim of the "throw" is Corporal G.
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    U.S. to have atom artillery soon
    98 3 WASHINGTON. Prl .^MERICA has now develop- ed atomic artillery. Gen, eral. J. Law Jon CoUlns, announced here last night. Tbe general Indicated thai the new weapons may be ready for combat use In the "not too distant future The UJ3. Army's Chief of Staff
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    British decision worries French
    180 3 STRASBOURG, Fri. .AM PAUL Reynaud, 1 1T1- f ormer French Prime Minister, said at Strasbourg today that if BriI tain did not Join the proposed European army it [would be "very difficult" i for the French National I Assembly to vote for it. He was answering
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    Plane crashes, pilot unhurt
    61 3 BRISBANE, Fri. Senior Cadet A. R. Trousdell stepped out of his Wirraway unhurt after a spectacular crash landing m a field. His plane hit the neld, bounced across the road beneath light wires, tore through post and wire fences on both sides of the road and
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    267 m.p.h. WINDS AT 25,000 FEET
    43 3 TUCSON. Arizona, FrL— Winds of 267 mp.h. at 25,000 feet altitude were recorded by a weather balloon, here. The speed was so extraordinary that the weather bureau personnel here are checking their instruments for possible errors. AP.
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    200 trapped in new volcano eruption
    183 3 MANILA, Friday. TWO hundred persons were reported trapped late yesterday as a four-foot high river of searing lava rolled down the slope of the volcanic Mount Hibok-Hibok towards Nasag village near Mambajao, Camiguin Island. The population of the village fled before the scorching lava
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    UMNO youths to hold assembly
    64 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri. A GENERAL assembly of UMNO Youths 1 section will be held In Batu Pahat on Feb. 2 next year. Circulars are being sent to all UMNO divisions throughout the country. Programmes for the conference are being prepared and includes a parade of
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    Cake hawker fined
    35 4 JOHORE BAHRU Fri Thum Kee. of Singapore, fined $5 at Johore Bahru for hawking cakes without a licence, said that he was an nld man and had no other means of livelihood.
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    For 2,000 children it'll soon be time for school
    219 4 FDUR new Singapore regional schools, which will accommodate 2,000 pupils from primary one to standard four, will be opened on Jan. 14, an Education Department spokesman said yesterday. The new schools are the Bedok boys' regional school and the Bedok girls'
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    Railways earns 4 1/2 -m in October
    97 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. MALAYAN Railway revenue for October was $4,592,--043. Passenger train service* brought In $1,085,131. while goods train freight realised $2470.974. Other items of revenue are wharves ni1. 362: ferries and road services $90,510: rents and miscellaneota $234,066. The aggregate revenue for
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    After the poll is over
    111 4 THE Labour Party of Singa--1 pore,, will hold a postelection rally at Blair Plain. S.H.B. quarters at 5 p.m. today. The president of the Party. Mr. Lim Yew Hock, will Introduce Mr. V. K. Nalr. newlyelected City Councillor from the South ward. Mr. p. R.
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    Case compounded
    44 4 MUAR. Fri. —An Indian woman, Paroo. and two Indian girls. Leelavathy and Bagivathy. were summoned before the Muar Magistrate for using abusive language against a woman. Ng Peck Neo. at the Hospital Quarters. The case was compounded and all the accused acquitted.
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    PROF. SANDOSHAM CRITICISES PLAN
    239 4 r[E suggestion that Government should offer permanent employment m the medical service to doctors not at present eligible to ease the shortage of doctors m the Federation, is unwise, said Professor A. A. Sandosham, president of the Alumni Association of King Edward VII College of Medicine
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    3 cleared of corruption
    102 4 A FORMER Singapore police inspector. Othman bin Haji Kadir. was acquitted yesterday of corruption without his defence being: called Othman was charged with two detectives with corruptly accepting $300 from a tai'o 1 won" T«"*lc D r> an inducement to prevent Wong's arrest for an offence
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    WOMAN GAOLED
    35 4 A woman. Sam Sai Lung, afjed 38, was yesterday sentenced to four months' imprisonment m Singapore for possession of 84 gallons of samsu at a back-lane off Joo Chiat Road on Nov. 29.
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    TAKE THE BUSES OVERLABOUR
    137 4 A MdVE to transfer Singapore's bus companies to City Council ownership will be made soon m the City Council by the Labour Party This was disclosed vasterday by the Labour Party leader In the City Council Mr. E. V. Davies He said that th«> Pnr-v, aim
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    Sought job: gets gaol
    87 4 WHEN Ho Liang Huat. a released detainee, went to the Happy World park on Tuesday night to look for his friend, who had promised him a job. he was arrested. This was said m the Singapore Third District Court where Ho was sentenced to one month's
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    31 YEARS A TEACHER
    36 4 MR. M. MATHEW. of Rangoon Road English School, Singi,i>ore, w|ho is gfting home to India on leave prior to retirement on Tuesday alter 31 years' as a teacher m the Education Department.
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      113 4 TODAY Y.M.f.A.. Orchard Road. Student Christian Movement, meeting. 2.30 pm Singapore Chess Club, 3 pm.; Movie Circle. Life of Franz Schumann. 8 p.m. Chinese V.M.C.A., Selegie Road, music. 2.30 p.m.; badminton and basketball. 5 p.m.; Chinese chess. 7.30 p.m. British Red Crow. Handicapped Children's Club, outing, Katong Park. 10 a.m.
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      256 4 Todays Radio SINGAPORE 10-10.10 am Emergency News from K.L.; 1 p.m. "Saturday Ballroom": 1.30 News: 1.50 Interlude: a "Album of Harmony"; 230 "Rhythm Corner"; 2.45 "London Studio Melodies": 3.15 "Pun With Music": 3 30 "Tea Dance"; 4.15--5 "Southern Serenade"; 6.1S Children: 6.40 Fred Waring His Pennsylvsnlans; 7 News; 7.15 "Listeners'
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      184 4 Nativity ol Ike Blessed Vlrgla Mary: (30. IIS am. St. lamp*:. 6 30 Sam Ckrist the King: 7 30. 10.30 a.m. wrlll.h Military HosplUI: 8 45 a m Stt Sim Garriua: 1 30 am St. Anlhony (B.A.F. Ckand): 7 30 8 30 9.30 am St. Mlekacl (Selelarl: 7 45 lilt
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      185 4 S»«»U MML K.nipoD, Kapor Rd.: a.m.. Sunday School and Bible class, 10 a.m.. Morning Service: Rev Paul Lenn iMalavl; 4.30 p m. MY F. Devotional mrellnc; 5 30 p.m. EvenIng Service: Rev K KnuUen .English) rRCSBTTEBIAN Orchard Rd.: 0 am. Sundav School; 8 m Morning 8ervlce: Rev. F Short (Lon&on
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    IMPORTS CHIEF DENIES U.S. DOLLARS ARE WASTED
    274 5 IMPORTS CHIEF DENIES U.S. DOLLARS ARE WASTED SINGAPORE is not frittering away U.S. dollars from the sterling pool for the import of nonessential goods, Mr. I. R. M. Willis, Executive Controller of Imports and Exports, said yesterday. He was commenting on a reader's letter m the Straits Times which asked
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    NINE MORE T.B. DEATHS
    66 5 Tuberculosis took nine more lives m Singapore m the week ended Dec. 1 than m the previous week, a Health Department statement reveals. T.B. deaths m week-end ed Dec. 1 totalled 22. There were 30 deaths from pneumonia m the week compared with 26 m the
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    The girl who was friendly
    59 5 A finding of death by poisoning was returned at a Singapore inquest yesterday on 27-year-old Mabel Lim. a telephone operator. Marcell Siow. a school teacher, and Urn's roommate, said that when she returned from teaching she found Lim lying unconscious m the room. She said
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    WELCOME BACK
    41 5 SENIOR Police Courts interpreter and Commissioner of Oaths Mr. Dalwant Singh Judge, arrived back from leave m India by air on Th uraday night and was garlanded by City Councillor Mr. S. M. A. H Chishiy.— Straits Times picture.
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    Asian churches told 'unite'
    252 5 Asian churches told 'unite NOW is the time for the churches of Asia to get together, said Dr. Rajah B. Manikam, secretary i for East Asia of the World Council of Churches and the International Missionary Council, opening the Christian Literature Conference m Singapore yes"l terday. "East-Asian youth Ls organised.
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    15,000 on Colony relief last month
    89 5 AN all-time record of 4,000 Singapore families received relief disbursements from Social Welfare Department last month the officer m charge of its relief section, Mr. Woon Wah Siang said yesterday. This was 100 more than the previous month's record and about 1,000 more than
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    COCKTAIL PARTY
    38 5 The President of the City Council, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice and Mrs. McNeice will give a cocktail party at the City Council Chamber, on Dec. 15, m honour of the six newly elected City Councillors.
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    LONDON EXAMS ENTRY DATES
    62 5 Entry dates lor the University of London examinations are: Final examinations. June, 195a Jan. 10 Intermediate examinations. July. 1952— March 1. Earlier applications are, however, necessary for certain oral/practica' tests. I Entries for Mathematics, ad- vanced subjects for B.A. Honours and B.Sc. examinations close on Monday,
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    12 BANDIT FOOD MEN ARRESTED IN PERAK
    112 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. SECURITY forces rounded up a gang of bandit food suppliers and subscription collectors m a raid on a village near Kampar, Perak, yesterday. Twelve arrests were made after a patrol had found a I bandit camp and a big food
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    PRAYERS FOR THE KING
    48 5 Special thanksgiving prayers for the recovery of tht King will be said b y Singapore's Jewish community at the Maghaln Aboth Synagogue today.* A 20-line prayer, speclallj written for the occasion bj the Chief Rabi of London Rabi Brodle, has arrived lr the Colony.
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    DOCK WORKER GAOLED
    76 5 Idris Abdul Rahman a Singapore Dockyard labourer, was yesterday gaoled lor three months for causing grievous hurt with a folding knife to three people at Godown 4/5 of the SUB. on July .23. Idris had stabbed Tay Eng Chong, Lim Kai Mul and Quek Mul Kia on
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    NOT TO CONTEST
    30 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. i The Malayan Indian Congress will not officially con- test the Kuala Lumpur Municipal elections. Its President. Mr. K. L. Devaser. announced here today.
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    Blackout areas
    177 5 Blackout areas Substations liable to load shedding today are: DAY St. James. «Mlrl Road. Silat Road. Base Medical Store, Bukit Pasoh. 8.A.T.. Malayan Refrigerating Co., Trafalgar Street. Anton Road. Sago Street, Ramah Street, Peoples Park. Nanson Road. Lam Soon Oil Mills. Gnan Hin, United Engineers Network. United Engineers Factory. River
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      318 5 Straits Times Crossword m. No c mlxed here 36. Notes diminishing In pitch 1I I 2 II s I 5 17 I la I■* *> DOWN ""l"il""l"l""l"BTPi l^° T found ta central IM m M 2. Deed of violence ngaln*t 9 10 Toother (7). 3. Lived by one withdrawn 1
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Doc. 8, 1951 Ten Years Ago
    559 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Sat., Doc. 8, 1951 Ten Years Ago This time ten years ago, December 8, the first bombs of the Pacific war had crashed m Raffles Place, Singapore, and the first swarms of Japanese infantrymen had come ashore at Kota Bharu. At Pearl Harbour, half an hour
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    Arts Theatre
    467 6 December is proving a month of Intense stage and musical activity m Singapore. Rarely can the Colony have been treated to three stage plays m four wee.ks, as well as music on both a large and a small scale. One of the many developments which has led to
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    Fifiy Years Ago
    116 6 tlToin the Straits Tin.cv Dec. 2 to 8, 1901) OUR readers will hear with much regret of the unsatisfactory state of Mr Hugh Clifford's health so unsatisfactory is it indeed that Mr. Clifford will be compelled to return to Europe Mr. Clifford had ajreadv made a very
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    As I was saying
    1094 6  -  PHE reports of the Federation and Colony Income Tax Departments, a wit has said, are statements of fact founded on fiction. It is not an unfair description of two quite remarkable documents. Only a statistician of profound experience m the ways of the commercial world could
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    969 6 1 1 HAVE long told myself a secret and a personal fairy tale. It began when I read an old book written about Singapore In the 'sixties by John Cameron, who edited the Straits Times during that period. In his time it was the universal custom for Europeans to
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    SPORE SQUATTERS REJECT GOVT OFFER
    372 7 2,000 protest to M.C.A.'s fact-finding team LYTTELTON TO BE TOLD OF DECISION MORE than 2.000 Chinese squatters m the Paya Lebar area of Singapore yesterday told a fact-finding team, led by Dato Tan Chens Lock, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, that they were not
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    SQUATTERS SAY: 'WE STAY'
    62 7 SOME of the 2,000 Chinese squatters who fathered m the compound of the Presbyterian Chinese Church m Kirn Chuan Road. Singapore, yesterday to meet a fact-finding mission headed by Dato Tan Cheng Lock, president of the Malayan Chinese Association, and express their views on the Government
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    QUEEN'S SCHOLARS NAMED
    130 7 QUEEN'S SCHOLARS NAMED MR. Poh Soo Jin and Dr. Seah Cheng Siang of Singapore have been awarded Queen's Scholarships for 1951. There were no candidates for the Queen's Fellowships. Mr. Poh was born m Singapore In 1926 and educated at McNalr. Rangoon Road and Victoria Schools. During the war he
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    6 months for axe threat
    77 7 When Rengasamy Murugapal was charged In the Singapore First District Court with threatening to strike V. Ramasamy with an axe. he said he was drunk and did not know what he was doing. He was found guilty on a charge of criminal intimidation and sentenced
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    BBC RECORDER
    41 7 MR. EDWARD WARD, 8.8.C. free lance commentator, who is m the Federation for a seven-day stay to make recordings of community and political leaders for broadcast on the 8.8.C. Overseas Service. He is touring South-East Asia. Straits Times picture.
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    S.C. FINED $50
    40 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Frl Hassan bin Mohamed. a corporal m the special constabulary, on duty at the Metal Box Coy, who was absent for 43 days, was fined $50. m default one month's imprisonment, m the police court.
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    CYCLISTS FINED
    30 7 SEGAMAT. Frl. Three cvrlists. Koo Boon Keng (19), Tee Poh <24> and Ku Peng <28> were fined $5 each at Segamat for leaving iheir machines unlocked and unattended.
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    Painter is cleared of murder
    73 7 Painter is cleared of murder KESAVAN Sivarajan, aged 30, a. Naval Base painter, was In Singapore yesterday cleared of a charge of murdering Krishnan Paramu. He was also found not guilty of culpable homicide, not amounting to murder. It was said that while Sivarajan was m bed Paramu entered his
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    Textbooks unseen— for five weeks
    133 7 Textbooks unseen for five weeks IN Singapore schools yesterday 52,300 students 1 packed up their textbooks and said goodbye to their teachers at the close of the final term for this year to enjoy a five-week hniirinv. Most schools— Government Government aided and English schools had "closlnf day" programmes concerts
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    Artistes get together
    47 7 MR LEO CHERNIAVSKY, the world famous violinist, who is to give two recitals m Singapore, chats with Miss Noreen Stokes, Singapore's celebrated pianist, .m Raffles Hotel yesterday. Miss Stokes will accompany Mr. Cherniavsky, as she did m South Africa m 1941 Straits Times picture.
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    Cherniavsky meets an old friend
    134 7 TWO old friends, both well-known musicians, met m Singapore yesterday when Cherniavsky, the world famous violinist, greeted Singapore's pianist, Miss Noreen Stokes. Miss Stokes, who will accompany Mr. Cherniavsky at his recitals m the Victoria Memorial Hall on Dec. 9 and 12, accompanied him m
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    $500 in debt: took opium
    75 7 A WOMAN wanted to end her life by taking an over-dose of opium because she thought it was Impossible to pay her debts. This was said m Singapore Second Police Court yesterday by Inspector T. 8. Zain. when 34-year old Ang Kirn Kwee pleaded guilty
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    C.O.L. HITS NEW HIGH
    70 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.— Higher food prices and higher wages for servants raised the Federation's cost of living m October to the highest figure since the war. Basing It on an Index of 100. representing the cost of living In 1939. the Statistics DeDartment has assessed October's
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    Blanket charge: bail allowed
    62 7 Ebrahlm Mohamed pleaded guilty m the Singapore Police Court to fraudulent possession of two blankets valued at $30. Ebrahlm was found on Dec. 5 with the blankets at Prince Edward Road. As he was unable to explain the ownership he was taken to the police station.
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    ON TRANSFER
    26 7 SEGAMAT, Fri. Tuan Haji Ahmad bin Awang. from the Johore Religious Department, has arrived at Segamat on transfer as Asst. District Officer and Magistrate.
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    Man pleads: am an addict
    63 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri— Lee Chee Wee was sentenced m Johore Bahru Sessions Court to six months simple Imprisonment for having 4 lbs of opium. He said he v&s an addict, and had the opium was for his own use. He smoked 10 tubes of opium
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    Shoes stolen as he prayed
    56 7 While Mohammed Moldeen Rawther, a business man, prayed m the Sultan Mosque. North Bridge Road. Singapore, his shoes were stolen from the footsteps. In Singapore Second Police Court yesterday Saoikun bin Wartl was sent to prison for a month for the theft. He was arrested
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    FOOD OFFENCE
    30 7 MDAR, Frl. Ng Miang, who moved food without a permit within .a restricted area at the Sagil Resettlement Area, wu fined $20 or one month's Imprisonment at Mnar.
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    SCHOOL PROBLEM 'NEEDS TIME'
    246 7 ONLY time can readjust the problem of Singapore's over-age school-children, Mr. A. Halliday, examinations secretary of the Singapore Department of Education, said yesterday. Mr. Halliday said that one Singapore student In every four Is over-age— that Is. he will graduate from secondary school above the a*p
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    Councillors want to see Minister
    119 7 Councillors want to see Minister SEVERAL Singapore Legislative Councillors yesterday expressed the view that the Secretary of State. Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, should try to attend a special meeting of the local branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. This, they said, would give both sides an opportunity (or Informal discussions. An
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    Theatre case for London
    101 7 J^ JUDGMENT of Singapore Court of Appeal reversing the decision of Mr. Justice Storr, who had granted possession of the Theatre Royal to its owners, Messrs. Hardial Singh. Inder Singh. Hira Singh and Balwant Singh, will be contested before the Privy Council. An application, on behalf
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    ATTORNEY PREACHER IN COLONY
    138 7 IUR. JAMES E. Bennet, a m New York attorney, has arrived m Singapore on a world tour on behalf of the International Council of Christian Churches. Mr. Bennet i s author of the International Evangelical Sunday School Lessons, and secretary of the Pocket Testament League which
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    BLOCKED ROAD
    28 7 A 44-year-old woman. Ser Slang Imm, was yesterday sentenced to two days' slmplp Imprisonment In Slngaporp for causing obstruction at East Coast Road on Dec 3
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    Welfare plan for civil defence
    170 7 Welfare plan for civil defence CINGAPORB'S Department of Social Welfare will organise the Welfare Section of the Colony's Civil Defenct Corps. The new Assistant S?cretary, Civil Defence a post which has been provided for m the 1952 departmental estimates will be appointed early next year. It is the intention of
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    ERENCH FILM FOR COLONY
    46 7 Members of the Alliance Francaise will see a French film Orpheus by Jean Cocteau at the Victoria Theatre, Singapore, at 9 p.m. on Monday. Orpheus is a classical myth on humanity which expresses the struggle of man's aspirations love, wealth, morality—against death.
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    ACCUSED OF $5,000 FRAUD
    51 7 John Thomas Jones waa tentatively charged before the Singapore First Police Magistrate, Mr. R. C. S. Bell, with cheating Sum Cheong and Company of $5,000 at Bentong, Pahang, on Oct. 30. The case wa s postponed to Dec. 12 Jones was offered bail of $3,000 pending
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    DEATH
    20 7 BURNS: On Dec. 6th, PMrt Freder'cfc. beloved younger .son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burns Lamlash, Isle of Arran.
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    SINGAPORE FIRMS SUPPORT PLAN FOR THEIR OWN C.D. ORGANISATION
    154 8 SINGAPORE FIRMS SUPPORT PLAN FOR THEIR OWN C.D. ORGANISATION SINGAPORE business firms and factories yesterday backed the plan of the Civil Defence department that all offices and factories with more than 200 employees should have their own civil defence units. A spokesman of the Ford Motor Company of Malaya Ltd.,
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    Seek votes now, says Thomson
    181 8 Seek votes now, says Thomson IN accordance with the Elections Ordinance the electoral registers will be revised only between April 15 and Jun e 15 each year; the Supervisor of Election*. Mr. G. O. Thomason said. He however, urged all those eligible to be voters In the City Council and
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    Johore's public holidays in 1952
    90 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Frl. The following days will be observed as public holidays m Johore m 1952:— Chinese New Year, Jan. 27 and 28: Federation Day. Feb. 1; Good Friday, April 13; Awal Puasa. May 25; King's Birthday June 5; Hart Raya Puasa. June 24 and
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    BROKE BAN: $25
    21 8 SEREMBAN, Fri. For /einoving two katis of sugar from Mantin, a restricted food area, a Malay, was fined
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    Very quiet market in rubber
    220 8 Very quiet market in rubber CINCE the beginning of this month the Singapore rubber market has quietened down considerably and fluctuations have been negligible, says Lewis Peat'g weekly report issued yesterday. A matter of vital Importance to the Industry is the announcement m Washington this week that restriction on the
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    They want to appeal
    89 8 CORMER Vehicles' Inspec- tors, Chan Yong Fong and Peter Malcolm De Cruz, were sentenced to three months' imprisonment each In Singapore yesterday for extortion. They gave notices of appeal and were offered $1,000 bail each. They were alleged to have obtained $10 from Yeo Ah Guan,
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    Malacca teacher for America
    61 8 Mr. Chua Cheng Chye. a young schoolmaster from Malacca, leaves this evening by the J. L. Luckenbach for the United States on a oneyear Crusade Fund Scholarship of the Methodist Mission. He will join the George Peabody College for Teachers Nashville. Tennessee, to major In modern
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    130 brothers remember Woodford
    110 8 130 brothers remember Woodford QNE hundred and fifty Christian Brothers Schools' old boys and those leaving school this term, observed a minute's silence at a tea-party at St. Joseph Institution yesterday m memory of Mr. H. E. woodford, Singapore's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, who died this week. Mr.
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    GRANTED
    58 8 An application by one of the creditors of Nam Pheng Co., North Bridge Road, Singapore for the appointment of the Official Assignee as interim receiver to take Immediate possession of books of accounts and other papers and documents belonging to that firm, was granted by the Chief Justice, Sir
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    MINISTER'S SINGAPORE PLANS
    107 8 SINGAPORE trade unionists will put their views to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, at a tea party to be given at Government House, it was officially announced last night Mr. Lyttelton Is due back In the Colony today from his tour of
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    Mr. Lyttelton 'sharp shrewd say unionists
    599 8 KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. MALAYAN trade unionists, who yesterday interi viewed the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, described him today as "a sharp, shrewd man who seems obsessed with the idea that the Emergency must come before everything else." Mr. Lyttelton
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    K.L scouts stage; camp fire show
    57 8 AT YESTERDAY'S tea party crton by the old boys of the Christian Brother School* «t the St. Joseph Institution. Front row, left to right: Mr. Frank James, Rev. Bro. MeMan, Ret. Bro. Alban, Bishop Oleomendy, Mr. C. C. Tan, Mr. A. J. Bra fa
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    BAD FOOD CAUSED BOY'S BLINDNESS
    109 8 A SIX-year-old boy living m Florence Road, Singapore, has become blind through undernourishment. He is now m the General Hospital. Colony Social Welfare officers found the mother m extreme poverty and quite Ignorant of the cause of the eye Infection from which the child suffered.
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    French art show opening
    97 8 SINGAPORE art-lovers will be taken back to the deep and dark Middle Ages, when M. Gaultier de la Ferriere. the Cultural Attache with the French High Commission m Indo-Chlna, opens an exhibition on Monday, at the Victoria Memorial Hall. The Exhibition of French Sacred Art In
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    REARRESTED
    53 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Fri G. Edward, a labourer of Port Bwettenham, who was acquitted on a charge of theft m trie Sessions Court here on Wednesday, was re-arrested yesterday on a charge of disposing of four brass axles, valued at $378, and belonging to the Malayan Railway, knowing them to
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    MR. J.E. AMBROSE
    24 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Fri.— Mr. J E B. Ambrose, of Johore. has been appointed an Education Officer. In the Malayan Education Service.
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    GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE DOCTORS
    406 9 GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE DOCTORS DR Lee Tiang Keng's undertaking to arrange for the secondment of British doGtors to Malaya to ease the shortage of doctors m the Federation (reported by you today, Friday) is most encouraging. The Member for Health is to be congratulated. By the same token, Professor Sandosham's
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    W.D. MEN IN COUNCIL
    118 9 NOT long ago the question of two City Councillors who are employees of Military Departments was raised m the local Press. The latest elections have resulted m another Military Departmental employee becoming a City Councillor before the position could be made clear to the voting public.
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    CHANGI-BOUNT BEHAVIOUR
    99 9 I WRITE to complain about the behaviour of certain Europeans (not all, mind you* travelling m the Changi bus obviously Servicemen stationed at Changi. You can get a good picture of their behaviour if you travel by the last bus to Changi. at midnight. They shout, sing, make
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    CLUB FOR SEA FISHERS
    92 9 IT is proposed to follow up recent suggestions that those interested m sea fishing of all kinds m Singapore should get together. A number of pjople have already expressed a desire to see such a rlub formed, and there must he many others who would be
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    The cause: 'Demam Panas'
    79 9 IT is a pity that the local police cannot understand the real meaning of Demam Panas (Tever). For all diseases they take the easy course of Inserting these words m death certificates. It makes for confusion with the medical authorities concerned. Would it not be more
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    Wo,' says society to women
    227 9 Wo, says society to women POLYGAMY has cropp-j ed up again. Mrs. Shirin Fozdar asks. "If men. because of their wealth, can marry half a dozen wives, would a woman, due to poverty, be Justified m marrying many husbands? And how would the husband like the idea?" The two questions
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    'MEN ARE THE PROTECTORS'
    118 9 F£ statements made by some prominent Malays, (who no doubt are Muslim) that there is "no special objection to a woman" leading a party consisting of male Muslims, is erroneous, and indeed damaging to the Muslim Religion. For their information, I quote here the translation of
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    The speculator in housing
    160 9 MADAM Lim Boon Neo's criticism of the absence of rent control of new and furnished accommodation is certainly not untimely. I know of one case where a property speculator bought two new bungalows and has two others m the course of erection. Each bungalow contains I
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    THE REDS OF LIVERPOOL
    99 9 I WAS somewhat hurt by the naming of my home city, Liverpool, as a Communist centre by Mr. V. D. Kuppusamy m his address to a group of Perak teachers about to study at Kirkby. Lancashire. Liverpool may not be a place warm m Englishmen's hearts,
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    THE O.A.G. ON PENSIONS
    125 9 AM glad to hear that the Government pensioners are to approach the Secretary of State during his visit here. I hope they will bring to his notice the fact that the present O-A.O. of the Federa- tion of Malaya has publicly stated that pre-war pensioners are
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    AFTER THE POLL
    52 9 J^AY I, through the columns of your paper, congratulate Mr. AP. Rajah, my Progressive opponent m the recent elections to the Singapore City Council? He can always count on me to back him m forwarding any measure that is for the betterment of living conditions. A. R.
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    CONFIDENTIAL STUFF
    106 9 "yyiTH reference to '-Ratepayer's" letter on "much ado about nothing m the leakage of Dr. Hill's Report on local government, it must be pointed out that it is not the extent of the damage that requires Inquiry. It is* the "leakage." The report, marked "confidential," was handed to
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    CLERICAL CHEERS IN NEGRI
    208 9 CLERICAL CHEERS IN NEGRI "PHE Government's latest offer of increment concessions to the lower group of its clerical workers must be welcomed with more applause and cheers than Negri's IS minutes of continued clapping. For Government has at last recognised that unless the first few years are attractive, the possibility
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    View from the waterfront
    361 9 f OBJECT to "European Woman's" suggestion of plural votes for the Intellectuals until the un-lntel-lectuals have single voting powers. I refer to tne maritime workers who, for one or other of several reasons, do not have the vote. They are further handicapped m not being able
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    COMMUNISM: THE ROOT OF THE DISEASE
    284 9 COMMUNISM: THE ROOT OF THE DISEASE OAVING read Mr. del Tufo's recent Federal Legisu lative Council speech with care, and also a number of letters written to the Press, one is forced to the conclusion that a large number of people, both m and out of Government, still do not
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    BENTONG H.G. H.Q.
    49 9 'J'HE organisation of the Home Guard m Bentong is good but the Headquarters building, the armoury apart, is made of wooden planks and roofed with aluminium sheets. There is no shelter from attack. Has Mr Lyttelton seen about this sort of thing? HOME GUARD. Bentonf, Pahang.
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    AN ESCORT OF 2,000 MEN IN PENANG
    256 9 AN ESCORT OF 2,000 MEN IN PENANG THERE can be no greater indicaMon of the sorry state of aria rs existing m this country than that 2.000 troops, as reported, are necessary to protect one man m. of all places. Penang. We all know that there have been incidents on
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    London Stocks
    294 10 LONDON, Fri. CELLERS paused today and many domestic stocks In the London Stock Exchange staged a rally with bears actively buying back ahead of the weekend. At the opening British Government funds showed signs of continuing the recent downtrend but selling pressure proved light and was subsequently counteracted
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    33 10 HONO KONG. Prl. |7KEE market currency exchange for Hang Kong, collars was -•■inted at the close today as follows: US$l HK56.73'4 (cash). HKS6 76 (T.T.): one tahil of gold HKS322*; U.P
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    35 10 THE' Malayan Exchange Banks Association announced yesterday that control direct rates for Canadian dollars were: Bur* Ing (T.T.i 34 1/16. Airmail <OX>.) 34 3 '6. (90 days) S4 7/16; Selling T.T./O.D. ready 33%.
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    MALAYAN SHARES
    463 10 From A Market Correspondent RUBBER shares continued slightly easier In the Malayan share market yesterday. Industrials were steady. Tins received better buying interest and tended to improve. Quotation^ announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association were- INDCSTKALS Barcra >*llen Alei BrlcU. Pref. 3.20 2.30 Ord* 2 SB 1.06 Atlas
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    TIN: $4521 A PICUL
    493 10 SINGAPORE, Fri., Dec 7— 5452 50 (op $8.25.) London: €935 a ton LONDON. Pit Cash Buyers £935. Sellers *94J; Forward Buyers £917'}, Sellers C 920; Settlement £937^ (up S.ZV-,) Turnover: a.m. 85, p.m. 10 tons. Slone 4/. Southern KInU 16/6 18/. cd 8 Malayan 26/6 r,/,
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    Rubber at $U9i
    177 10 I*HE Singapore rubber mar- ket was very quiet yesterday morning with prices slightly below Thursday's closing prices. At the steady close December first-grade stood at $1.39 3 4 a lb. buyers, half-a-cent above Thursday's close. Trade was on a very small scale During the late afternoon prices
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    London rubber
    28 10 LONDON. Dec. 7— Spot 41 Hd.. Jan. 41d.. Jan.-M*r. 40ttd.. AprJune 38Xd.. July-Sept. 37Vid.. Dec. ciJ. 40Vid., Dec-Jan, c.lf. 40d., Jan.-Feb c.l.f 39 \*d. Market: Quiet
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    SHIPPING IN SINGAPORE
    96 10 CHIPS alongside the Singapore Harbour Board godowns at 4 pjn yesterday were: 45 Ordia. 44 Buloh, 42/49 Straat Malakka. 40/41 Indore. 38/39 J. L Luckenbach, 36/37 Astyanax, 33/34 Braeside, 31/32 Ceylon, 29 30 Shahsada. 27, 28 Benattow. 25 Peter Reed. 23/24 Eumaeas. 21/22 L. Van Toorenberg, 30
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    44 10 rpHE Singapore copra market yesterday was quiet and steady with buyers opening at $37 v, a picul and rising to $38. Sellers were reluctant and held off. The coconut oil section was dull, with sellers at $63 M and no buyers.
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    HMS Malaya Rugby Competition POSITIONS WILL CLEAR UP TODAY
    463 11 HMS Malaya Rugby Competition POSITIONS WILL CLEAR UP TODAY By FIVE-EIGHTH PENANG. Friday. THE four Northern States will complete their Rugby fixtures m this year's H.M.S. Malaya competition series tomorrow, after which the Northern championship position should be very clear. Perak and Penang are now on top of the table,
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    Services put strongest XV in field today
    581 11 By SECOND ROW SINGAPORE'S rugger enthusiasis are eagerly looking forward to the encounter bPtng playpd on the Padang today between Combined Services and Combined Civilians, (kick-off 5 pjn.). There is more at stake than the honour or appearing In. the HMS Malaya Competition
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    31 11 TODAT;, 6.49 a.m. (8 01 12.30 p.m. (32t. 7.U p.m. ii.l) 1.10 a.m. (».B>. TOMORROW: 7.39 a.m. (8 31. 1.33 pm. (3.1). 834 p.m. (8.3): 2 16 a.m. ISO).
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    ANNUAL RUGGER
    82 11 The following *i;! represent Raffles Institution against the Old Raffle.van.i In the annuaJ rugger match to be played at the R.I ground today Chan Wah Teng; PhilhD Thompson R. D Hilllard. Chew Fook Chun Boon Kok Peow iCapt.l Chan Shee Wah. Syed Abdul Rahman; S Vis vanathun Sung
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    RNAS SEMBA WANG
    57 11 The Royal Naval Alt Station Sembawang 2nd XV have the following free dates: December S 12 15 and 26. January 2. 9. 12. 16. 11. 23. 26 30 Teams wishing to arrange a match on any of these dates are asked to ret In touch with Lt
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    HARD TO ADJUST OUR GAME- Goddard
    277 11 HARD TO ADJUST OUR GAME- Goddard From Jack Fingleton. MELBOURNE. Fri. SAYING his team had learnt a lot from the Australians, the West Indies skipper, John Goddard told me tday he \s realising fully how difficult ft was for his team to change their natural game m such a short
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    ACS Present boys win
    150 11 Playing m a steady drizzle and on a water-logged ground. AngloChinese Schoolboys did well to beat Old Boys by two goals to one m their annual soccer match played at the Clerical Union ground yesterday. Present boys had much the better of the exchanges and would
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    Morris 208- n.0., Sid Barnes 107
    245 11 MELBOURNE. Frl. ARTHUR Morris, Australia's lefthanded opening batsman, played a sparkling Innings of 208 not out for New South Wales against Victoria on' the opening day of the Sheffield Shield match. 1 Morris received fine support from Sidney Barnes, former Test opener, who batted
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    S. Australia bat all day, 276-6
    114 11 ADELAIDE, Friday. SOUTH Australia, after winning the toss, had scored 276 for six by close today, opening day of their four-day match here against the West Indies touring team. There was little excitement In the day's play, and the batsmen seemed more intent on
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    Bangkok table tennis team here
    123 11 Bangkok's Ling Chin table tennis team of four unrter the management of Wong Yut Chrong arrived In Singapore yesterday on the same plane aa the Indian soccer tourlMs Mr. Wonii told the Straits Time*: •We have come her* to see the Colony's top-notch plavtra In
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    Film Fan has not much to beat WILL LIKE GOING AND DISTANCE
    284 12  - Film Fan has not much to beat WILL LIKE GOING AND DISTANCE EPSOM JEEP By IPOH, Friday. LMLM FAN has shown fairly consistent staying form throughout the season and I fancy him as a good thing against a lack-lustre lot m the $10,000 Iskandar Cup race over 1} miles for
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    140 12 EPSOM JEEP CALL. 801 POINTER RACE 1 BLONUIE LAI'DU'S CLAUDIUS MS Good Advice Blondie Good Advice Maudlin Branman Blondie RACE 2 TIMARUA TIMARUA TIMARUA 2.50 Sporting Pink Sporting Pink Brilliant Son Tuituilla Dar-Ks-Salnam -nortine Pink RACE 3 lASTERMAN OBSERVATION WHY WORRY 5.25 Observation Why Worry Masterman N»n.
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    190 12 THERE has been further rain In Ipob and the going today will be yielding at best, reports Epsom Jeep. Princes* Klna Is just coming to hand. There cannot be any doubt of her stamina. Early this, season In Ireland this daughter of River Prince scored cleverly In
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    1065 12 IPOH, Friday. RAPID RED scored m such fluent manner In his first serious test up the straight course last week that I feel safe m recommending him as a sound bet m any Class 3 sprint. This grand-looking- grey has a beautiful turn of
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    SEA DRAGON FOR RACE 5
    115 12 UEA DRAGON ana Screen snouia flghl out Race Five My vote goes to Sea Dragon rhis three-year-old grey ran a splendid race over the 7-f course on Wednesday For three quarters of the way he was always nicely In front but failed to rope with
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    INDIAN TOURISTS OUT TO UPHOLD 1949 RECORD
    652 12 INDIAN TOURISTS OUT TO UPHOLD 1949 RECORD T*HE All-India Football Federation touring team off x 15 players and two officials, under the management of Mr. V. R. K. Tandon, flew into Singapore yesterday from Hong Kong determined to uphold the good record of the Indian soccer team that toured Malaya
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    AMERICANS WIN TITLE
    80 12 MELBOURNE, Fri. J THE American doubles pair, m Ted Schroerter and Tony r Trabert, defeated Australians Adrian Quist and Geoff/ Brown 7-5. 6-4. 8-3 In th&. final of the Victorian double* championship today. There was never any doubt of the outcome after the Americans came from 1-4
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    NEW CLUB
    32 12 LONDON. Pri— Charlie Mitten. the Manchester United ouUlde-left will play for Kulham. the London Division I club, when his suspension for playing football m Colombia expire* on Dec. 31— Reuter.
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