The Straits Times, 12 February 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAY AS NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1952 PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    A SILENT LONDON PAYS HOMAGE AS THE KING RETURNS
    467 1 Crowds line streets to Westminster mtv v a LONDON, Monday. JUh body of the King was today brought to London— a capital silent and mournful. From the Norfolk village of Wolverton, two miles from Sandringham, a black-painted train carried the coffin
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    30 die as plane hits flats
    190 1 30 die as plane hits flats ELIZABETH, Mon. A I l^ast 30 people were killed when an air llnei crashed into a block of flats here today In the City's third air disaster In two months. The plane, i four-er.Uned Douglas n 0 c had 62 people aboard The building,
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    The Queen 'dedicated to people'
    237 1 The Queen 'dedicated to people Q LONDON, Mon. UEEN ELIZABETH today, in a message to Parliament, pledged herself to follow the example of "selfless dedication" set by ber father. The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, brought the message to the House of Commons to be reJad by the Speaker. Mr. W.
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    Destroyer goes to ship's aid
    48 1 HONG KONG. Mo n A British destroyer was today rushing to the aid of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company ship Wingsang flying the British flag. The Wingsang signalled that she was being attacked by a heavily armed junk between Swatow and Amoy AFP
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    24-ounce baby
    47 1 LONDON, Mon. A 24ounce baby, born three days ago, is being fed with an eyedropper in an oxygen tent at St. Teresa's Hospital. Wimbledon. The girl smallest ever born at the hospital Is expected to stay in the tent for three or four weeks —Reuter.
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    NORWEGIAN KING IN LONDON
    35 1 LONDON. Mon.— King Haakon of Norway arrived in London today as the first of a long list of monarchs and state representatives coming to attend the funeral of the King— Reuter
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    Bandits kill asst. estate manager
    104 1 Bandits kill asst. estate manager KUALA LUMPUR Mon. RANDITS murdered Mr. R. D. Harrison 35-year-old assistant manager of Voules Estate, in the Tenang area of Johore. In an ambush en the estate road this morning Two special constables were wounded but security forces followed the Rang and wounded one bandit.
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    $10,000 ransom paid to pirates
    56 1 HONG KONG, Mon Armed pirates attacked the British steamer Wing Sang (3.560 tons) off the China coast today and held an American diplomat and the British master for $10,000 ransom. Messages received here said the ransom had been paid. The diplomat was identified as Mr.
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    28,000 TROOPS
    19 1 TUNIS, Mon— About 28,000 troops and armed police have been sent to Tunisia from France and Algeria
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    TWO OF GURNEY'S KILLERS DIE
    142 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. |if EN of the Malay Regiment and police killed two 1M of the gang which murdered Sir Henry Gurney in a battle in the Raub area of Pahang during the week-end. A member ot the public gave information that five bandits were
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    Korea: Talks on final item hit snag
    137 1 Korea: Talks on final item hit snag TOKYO, Mon. IINITED Nations delegates u today threatened to break off talks on the final ceasefire agenda item recommendations to Governments if the Communists insisted on making "Inappropriate" recommendations. Vice-Admiral Joy, chief UN delegate, said the Allies considered "inappropriate" the Communist demand that
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    Birthday guards
    26 1 CAIRO, Mon. Police In Cairo are to take heavy precautions today King Farouk'S 32iid birthday. Special guards will be put on foreign embassies. U.P.
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    INJURED BOY GETS £10,500
    40 1 LONDON. Mon.-A ttve-year-old Australian boy today received £10.500 damages for injuries he received In a highway accident while visiting Britain 14 months ago The boy's skull was fractured when he was hit bv a truck. -Reuter
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    330 CHINESE GO HOME
    32 1 330 CHINESE GO HOME HONG KONG, Mon -Three hundred and thirty Chinese repatriates from Indonesia and Singapore arrived yesterday aboard the Dutch ship TJlluwah. They left by trains for the border. Reuter.
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    Rupiah 'may hit Singapore'
    177 1 l mm Our Own Correspondent LONDON Mon. DISCUSSING the possible harmful effects of the devaluation of the Indonesian rupiah on the Malayan rubber industry. The Times City Editor says that Indonesian rubber production In 1951 may have exceeded Malayan shipments by 100,000 tons and the new
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    We COULD finish it in three months: Templer
    367 1 KUALA II Ml'l X, Monday. THE High Commissioner. General Sir Gerald Tempier, has told senior (iov1 eminent officers in Kuala Lumpur he is certain that with the support or the entire population in Malaya he "could lick the Emergency in three months.
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    PARA TROOPS: BANDITS ARE ON THE RUN
    213 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. VI EN of "C" Squadron of the Malayan Scouts who iTJ tracked through the heavy jungles of Kelantan to link up with paratroopers dropped in Northern Malaya on Saturday were today relentlessly pursuing a gang of bandits who had held
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    Rulers greet the Queen
    70 1 THE Sultan of Johore, on behalf of himself and other rulers of the Malay States, has sent the following message to Queen Elizabeth "On behalf of my brother Rulers of the Malay States of the Federation of Malaya, myself and my people I send congratulations on
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    Windsor income is ended
    58 1 LONDON Mon.— The Duke of Windsor received a*" allowance of £2*006 a year from the King which ended with his death the News Chronicle reported today. "So far as Is known, there was no arrangement for any other payment to be made If the King should
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    Soldier wounded
    20 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. In an operation in the Tampin area of Negri Sembilan, a soldier was accidentally wounded
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    19 KILLED IN SNOW SLIDE
    97 1 19 KILLED IN SNOW SLIDE LONDON, Mon. TN a mountain ski lodge near Bregenz, in eastern Austria, a giant avalanche killed 19 persons during last nighc. Rescue workers dug out 30 others, 10 of them injured. A raging blizzard today held up ship s and isolated many islands in the
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    'Held daughter's hands in flame'
    36 1 NEW YORK, Mon. A 22-year-old mother is being held on $1,000 bail on charges of holding her three-year-old daughter's hands over a kitchen gas flame for playing with her lipstick— U.P.
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    Chiangmen have new arms from U.S.—report
    209 2 Chiangmen have new arms from U.S. report GUERILLAS LIVE OFF THE LAND RANGOON, Monday. TEN thousand of Chiangs Nationalist troops operating on Burma's north-eastern frontier have new American arms, reports an Informant who claims to be familiar with the border situa- tioa. have seen them," he said. Their leaders boast
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    29 2 KING PAUL OF GREECE on cratches leaves an Athens' cinema after seeing the British film, The Tales of Hoffman. The King: sprained his left knee while yachting. \P photo.
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    FRENCH WIPE OUT 100 REDS
    141 2 FRENCH WIPE OUT 100 REDS SAIGON. Mon. THE French General Staff yesterday announced a successful three-day operation against Communist-led Vietminh rebels north of the highway linking Hanoi with the Port of Haiphong. The French Headquarters said that French troops had wiped out about 100 Vietmtnh troops and captured an important
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    15 who had arms sent to gaol
    58 2 TUNIS. Mon— Fifteen Tunisians who were among those recently arrested in a search lor arms In Tunis and the Cape Bon area were yester- day sentenced to prison on charges of unauthorised possession of weapons. The sentences, by a mllli tary court varied
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    RECORD PAYROLL
    15 2 WASHINGTON, Mon. Americans earned a record $251,100,000,000 in personal income last year.— U.P.
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    HE WILL HEAD MIND WAR AGAINST REDS
    104 2 NEW YORK, Mon. j^DMIRAL Alan G. Kirk, former United States Ambassador to Moscow, has been appointed chairman of tt» American committee for the liberation of the peoples of Russia. The committee was formed a year ago with private financial backing to aid "antiCommunist
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    SALUTE, STANDARD GREET QUEEN
    93 3 QUEEN ELIZABKTH. in mourning, is saluted (LEFT) as she steps from the aeroplane on arriving at London airport to set foot on English soil for the first time as Sovereign. Witfi the Duke of Edinburgh, Her .Majesty flew round the clock to England from Kenya on
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    Persian rioters kill 55,wound 200
    160 3 GOVERNOR BEHEADED TEHERAN, Monday. [^IEKCE mountain tribesmen who beheaded a local governor and three other officials on Saturday light fought with swords and knives yesterday. ;illing 55 persons and injuring more than 200. The casualties increased the toll in the elections o 71 killed. Martial
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    AIRBORN
    34 3 MANILA, Mon. A yuung Dutch mother is reported doing well in a Manila hospital after giving birth to a baby on board a KLM airliner shortly before landing at the international airport yesterday—UP^
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    FOUR KILLED
    25 3 GIJON. SPAIN. Mon Four people wer P killed and 66 others injured near here vesterdav when a bu<s Dlun?pd into a ravine —AFP
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    LATEST PRICES STOCKS
    275 3 LATEST PRICES STOCKS LONDON. Mon. RUBBERS hardened on reported better outlook in Malaya, but oils gave ground on some profit-taking on recent rises. Closing middle prices of selected stocks, as supplied by special arrangement with The Financial Times were: i LOAN* Contuta 0 Funding 4". 9»i War 3J% 80i RWKs
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    TIN
    25 3 LONDON. Feb. 11 Cash Buyers £985 Sellers £986; Forward Buyers £985; Sellers £986: Settlement £984 (down £11). Turnover: a.m. 240 tons; p.m 90 tons
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    RUBBER
    35 3 LONDON, Feb. 11— Spot 37*, d., Mar. 37' 2 d.. April 37' id.. Apr.June 37d.. July-Sept 35\d., Oct-Dec 34» 4 d., Feb. c.l.f 37' id., Mar. c.l.f. 37'4d.. Air. c.l.f. 36\d. Market Very quiet.
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    COURT MOURNING WILL CHANGE SOCIAL LIFE
    349 3 LONDON, Mon. THE mourning period for the King is the shortest for a British monarch in recent history, but it will change the life of the Commonwealth. It will alter the Easter fashions, restrict entertainment of the Army, postpone weddings and balls of ;he
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    IN BRIEF
    160 3 THE Dean of Westminster I Dr. A. C. Don. said on Sunday that Britons had overworked the King He asked them to spare the Queen from much pressure. Dr Don' s statement underscored intimations in some papers that overwork hastened the Kings death. The Governor-General oi Australia, Sir
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    RICE QUOTAS ANNOUNCED
    53 3 BANGKOK, Mon. Rice export allocations up to Oct. 1 have been announced by the Siamese Ministry of Commerce They total 790.000 tons. The following allocations were made: British territor- I les 295,000 tons, Japan 200.000 tons; India 160,000 tons; Indonesia 90,000 tons; Philippines 30.000 ton s and
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    MORE RUBBER FOR REDS
    35 3 COLOMBO, Mon.— Ceylon's third shipment of rubber for Communist China left Colombo at the weekend on the Soviet freighter Nikolaev, It is learned here. The shipment amounted to 1.800 tons— A.F.P
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    £5,000,000 tor riot victims
    55 3 CARIO Monday. A BILL will b,. submitted to Parliament today providing for a erant of £5.000.000 to victims of Cairo's linu ir v 26 riots. Announcement of the Bill was made at the office of the Prime Minister. AH Maher Pasha. It said the funds would
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    DELAYS WERE SERIOUS IN BUSIEST YEAR AT THE DOCKS
    229 4 DELAYS WERE SERIOUS IN BUSIEST YEAR AT THE DOCKS Tonnage and revenue a record OEVENUE of Singapore Harbour Board— and R the tonnage handled— in the year ending June 30, 1951, were the highest in its history, says the Board's annual report, published yesterday. Revenue was $37.565,814 during the year,
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    126 4 VfR Andrew Tan, 30-year-1 old Chinese book-keeper chosen to express the Singapore man-in-the-street's reaction to the King's death in the General Overseas Service of the BBC, today says: "Its an honour to hay« been selected." Mr. Tan will be heard in a one-hour programme, "A Commonwealth Mourns its King," to
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    Didn't renew road licence
    58 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. NG Pang Ho, Teo Bok Soon, Tan Choon Teck. A Solomon. Hassan bin Abdullah. Pen Guan Choon. Sim Hock Ho Khor Chit Ming, all of Singapore were each fined $15 today for not having renewed their road tax licences. Tan Kuan Ker. a
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    CANDIDATES FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
    43 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Six candidates, including two from Muar, came before the Selection Board yesterday for Sultan Ibrahim Scholarships. Those who are awarded the scholarships will be sent to the United Kingdom or Australia to study for their professional qualifications.
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    Sergeant is cleared of lie charge
    118 4 OTAFF Sergeant Ronald Bearle of the Fourth Supply Reserve Depot, RASC. i was yesterday acquitted by a court martial of a charge of telling a subordinate to give false information to military police investigating the lost of 35 hinds of beef The meat wag
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    SMUGGLED WATCH ALLEGATION
    69 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. j Haji Wahid bin Besoh was charged here today with at- tempting to smuggle into Johore from Singapore a watch worth $130 on which duty of $19.50 was payable. J He claimed that the watch I was an old one despite a receipt in
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    35 FINED
    22 4 Thirty-five Chinese were each fined $25 or five days' imprisonment yesterday for gambling in a house in Calcutta Street, Singapore.
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    Alleged bribe tor driving licences
    332 4 CLERK ON GRAFT. CHARGE A 25-YEAR-OLD clerk, Lee Hee Hiang alias Vincent Lee of ihe Regimental Paymaster's Office, Nee Soon Military Camp, was charged in the Singapore Relief Court yesterday with corruptly offering S6U to a Traffic Office tester, F. S. Kennedy, as a reward
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    HIS BROTHER'S MARRIAGE ANGERED HIM
    70 4 HIS BROTHER'S MARRIAGE ANGERED HIM KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. ANGRY because his elder brother married a girl against the icishes of his family, Atan, alias Omar Salleh bin Abdul Mujid broke into the brother's house and assaulted him. Today Atan waa> found guilty 0] house-breaking and was bound over for six
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    3 months gaol for wire theft
    77 4 3 months gaol for wire theft CJUBRAMANIAM Govlndai^ samy was yesterday sentenced in Singapore to three months' imprisonment for stealing 150 yards of cable wire valued at $1,000 from a military store on Blakang Mati last Wednesday. Govindasamy took the wire from the store whiU the watchman was asleep. An
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    FOUND DROWNED
    21 4 A 38-year-old businessman, Tan Peng Kia, of Chin Hin Street, Singapore, was found drowned in the harbour early yesterday
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    Case fixed for hearing
    65 4 rE case against the secretary of the Tiong Bahru Community Centre. Pwee Sye Cheow. was yesterday oostponed to April 2 for hearing. He is charged with assisting in the Centre being used as a common gaming house. Pwee was arrested with 19 others when police raided
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    FINED $50
    36 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. For storing goods on the five-foot wav and causing obstruction. Lee Teck Kwang, a shopkeeper of Jalan Dohby. was fined $50 here today. It was his second offence of this kind.
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    PARTIES OFF
    26 4 Singapore Government House dinner and cocktail parties, scheduled for Feb. 19. 21 and 28. have been cancelled because of the death of the King.
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    COLONY BREAKS WITH AAM
    118 4 COLONY BREAKS WITH AAM rE Singapore branch of the Automobile Association of Malaya has broken away from it s parent body. Singapore is to form an automobile association of its own. This was decided at a meeting of the A.A.M's Executive Council for Malaya, In Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday, following
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    RASC men on mischief charges
    91 4 RASC men on mischief charges KUALA LUMPt'R, Mon. ALLEGED to have been members of an unlawful assembly and committing rioting ana mischief, two; R.A.S C soldiers, Mohamtd HanifT bin Aziz, and Mohamed Zain bin Tahir, appeared before Inche rbnuiim in the Kuala Lumpur First Magistrate's court today. Both claimed trial.
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    Pay cut temporary,' union told
    70 4 REPRESENTATIVES of the Singapore Lighter Workers Union and the Eastern Lighterage Company met yesterday to discus* the pro- posed reduction of $10 each| per month in the wages of workers. The meeting ended without! arriving at any decision, aaid Mr. N. Thankasamy, secretary of the
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    Singapore route marcK may be called off
    241 5 Singapore route marcK may be called off YOUTH WEEK IS CURTAILED CIR Franklin Gimson, the Governor, will launch Singapore "Youth Week" on Feb. 25 by opening an exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall. Because of the King s death the week s programme has been amended, Mr. L. Rayner, vice-pre-sident of
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    49 5 MADAME Germaine Mounier. celebrated French pianist, receives a basket of flowers from Mr. Lincoln Page, president of the Singapore Chamber Ensemble Society, at Kallang Airport yesterday evening after her arrival from Hon e Kong by 8.0.A.C. Madame Mounier is to play several piano recitals in Singapore.— Straits Times picture.
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    Emergency from an armchair
    86 5 MANY Britons will soon be able to see anti-bandit work and other aspects of Malayan life from their armchairs. Th,. 8.8.C. i s to film a television story of the Emergency and the changes it has wrought on the Malayan people. Yesterday the B.B.C's roving television
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    THEFT OF 55 TYRES: 6CHARGED
    136 5 THEFT OF 55 TYRES: 6CHARGED glX men were brought before the Singapore Third Police Magistrate, Mr. H. B. Livingstone, yesterday to answer various charges in connection with the theft on Friday last of 55 motor car tyres valued at $13,750 belonging to the Singapore Harbour Board. Three of them, Lee
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    He sold wheel to buy petrol
    59 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon.— Ahmad bin Tambi, a lorry cleaner, was sentenced today to six months imprisonment to be followed by six months' police supervision, for misappropriating a spare car tyre and wheel. Ahmad borrowed a car to go to Muar On the way he
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    Blackout areas
    234 5 Blackout areas SUBSTATIONS, liable ■<, load shedding louay: DAY Pasir I'an.jaru Reformatory Rd Oxygen Factory, Cressonite. St" James, Miri Rd., Silat Ra B X T Trafalgar St.. Anson Rd., Sago" St.. Ramah St., Peoples Park -Nanson Rd., Lam Soon Oil Mills, Cuan Hin. U.E. Network, U.E Factory, River valley Rd.,
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    Surrendered bandit's plea
    68 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. THE appeal of Kong Meng, a surrendered bandit, against a 12-year penal servitude sentence for consorting with armed persons was dismissed by the Federation Court of Appeal today. Kong Meng had been svntenced to Imprisonment by Mr. Justice Hill at Ipoh. He pleaded guilty
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    330 cylinders recovered
    51 5 TWO gas cylinders which went adrift after last week's tongkang explosion in Telok Ayer Basin Singapore, were found on Pasir Panjang beach by Chinese fishermen over the week-end. The Marine police have so far collected nearly 330 cylinders, most of them in the sea within the port
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    SENT FOR TRIAL
    35 5 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon.Abu Sam bin Pandak Karim. aged 25. was committed for trial at the High Court. Ipoh. on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm and S2 rnurH- of qmrrninitinn
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    GAMBLERS FINED
    19 5 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon Twenty-five Chinese and an Indian, were fined $25 each it Sugei Siput for gaming.
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    MRS. FOZDAR RETURNS
    28 5 Mrs. Shirin Fozdar. leader of the women's emancipation movement in Singapore, returned by air yesterday She has been a guest observer at the Indian elections
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    CAREER TALK
    35 5 Mr. C. G. V. Rudd spoke on electrical engineering at the Paya Lebar Methodist School hall last night in a series of career talks sponsored by the Singapore Rotary Club and the V.M.C.A.
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    POLICE SERGEANT WAS 'HIGH-HANDED'
    202 5 'Escape' appeal succeeds MR- JUSTICE Rogers, in Singapore High Court, said the action of a police sergeant who arrested a tally clerk who had boarded a ship on lawful duties was "as high handed as his subsequent evidence was unconvincing." "I can find no excuse or
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    Singapore Diary
    100 5 YWCA. Raffles Quay: MancUiin class 9.30 a.m.; advanced 10.30 a.m. YMCA, Orchard Road: Stafl meeting n.30 a.m.; Malay, French and commercial classes 5.30 p.m.; Judo class 5.30 p.m.: Gymnastics and keep-nt class 5.30 p.m.; St. John Ambulance meeting (tennis pavilion) 5.30 pjn.; Choir practice 8 p.m. CHINESE YMCA:
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    Family escape terrorist bomb
    66 5 PMJII BI'Ni.AK Monday. Mi: (.oh Soo Pin assistant manager of the Red Omni iiiK Co. Bagan Serai and his family had a narrow ewa^c from death when a hand-grenade flung into their house at Kuala Kurau h v a terrorist failed to ex nlode Th«- grenade
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    FOR COUNCIL
    31 5 JOHORE BAHRU. MonDr. N. K. Sharma, who recently retire^ after 26 years service with the Johore Medical Department, has been appointed a member of the Johore Council of State.
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    Wages Bill for Colony Council
    155 5 THE Wages Council Bill, based on the British Wages Act, will come before the Singapore Legislative Council next month, the Deputy Commissioner for Labour, Mr. R. Middleton-Smlth, said yesterday. The main object of the Bill is to set up machinery for fixing minimum wages for
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    ACSU joins WD salary discussion
    111 5 '"THE Singapore Army Civil Service Union yesterday named Mr Chew Seng and Mr. S. T. V. Lingam, as their representatives to the joint consultative committee, which will resume discussions shortly on the question of revision of salary and cost of living scales for War Department
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    PERSONAL
    39 6 PAST Pupils of Convent Holy Infant Jesus requested meet at Convent 16.2.52 at 4 p.m. to welcoin* Mother General. Concert following. I AM TUCK. Good news contact Tlinm Soon immediately at Wan J'» Hotel Haadyai do not delay.
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    17 6 PLEASE SAY r prayer for Al ICE JANE SHELLEY and those drowned at sea 12.2.42.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    43 6 A CKNOWLEDGMENT REV W.H.T. ABRAHAM MethodM Church Klang. Miss V. Abe Kirn Mr. S. Abraham and Mr. C. Abraham gratefully thank all them who rendered assistance. nert wreaths and condolence during their recent berr.ivcment and at tho funeral of Mrs. Rose Chinnamah Abraham.
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    DEATH
    40 6 H ARR !S?ON RICARD DAVID dearly bekwd husband of Pamela «nd father of Martin and Judy, killed by bandits on 11th Feb. "52 nt Voules Estate Tenang. Funeral :.> Chrrr.s Rond. Cemetery Kuala Li;mpur on 12th Feb. at 4 p.m.
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    MISSING
    27 6 V'HITE Sealyham dog, brown m.i: kings, No. 1288. answers to Ml a Wally. missing since night 9th from 47. Mount Fabor Finder rewarded. O'Parrcll INI office.
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    The Straits Times pare, Tues. Feb. 12, 1952 The Congress Victory
    814 6 The Straits Times pare, Tues. Feb. 12, 1952 The Congress Victory The Congress Party's victory in India's general election can hardly be classed as any kind of a surprise. But the casual reader of the cables from India will wonder in what way this Congress triumph affects the victory meetings
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    The Templer Method
    276 6 The Templer Method When General Templer tells Federal Government officials, as he did yesterday, that he has not come in any spirit of t criticism of the past, he is being diplomatic. It is certainly not the whole truth. We hone. The new High Commissioner has begun well. He was
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    PROSPECTS FOR A 'NEW EUROPE'
    1337 6  - PROSPECTS FOR A 'NEW EUROPE' PAUL-HENRI SPAAK By Joint President of the European Movement, ex-Prime Minister of Belgium, ex-President of the U.N. Assembly BELIEVE that the 1 ensuing months will be decisive for the "European" idea. It would be absurd to deny that, despite intervening difficulties and the few disillusionments
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    'Royal Household' affairs
    218 6 'Royal Household' affairs LONDON. T^HE "Royal HouseL hold", officially inherited with the proclamation of Elizabeth II as Queen, is a complex one, embracing, among many other things, all the swans in British waters. There are nine Roya Palaces in this world, jewels of fabulous worth, race horses of fleetest foot,
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    Foreign aid depends on NATO
    286 6 Foreign aid depends on NATO PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S detailed request for about $10,000 million to spend on foreign aid in the next fiscal year is expected to reach Congre.ss within the next week or two. The request will supplement. Mr. Truman's January budget message in which he said that later he
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    On the Margin
    386 6 Maininolh topic J-jOvV many p?ople nave seen a dead elephant and a dead whale lying on th« ground together? We know of one such person. He has ju.st written to us from Jeeseltan. This remarkable piece of news-Avas thrown in by him at the end of a
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    'SCRAP S.I.T.' PLAN TO BE DISCUSSED
    819 7 Dr. Hill wants seven district councils I HARBOUR BOARD MA Y LOSE POWERS gWEEPING changes in the administration of the Singapore City Council, the Improvement Trust, the Rural Board and the Harbour Board will be discussed within the next few months. The changes are
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    SULTAN SELLS LAND FOR VARSITY
    199 7 SULTAN SELLS LAND FOR VARSITY KU *LA LUMPUR, Mon. Federation Govern- ment has sent a cheque for $5,000,000 to i Johore Government to pay the Sultan for 815 :icres on which the University of Malaya is to' be built near Scudai, j Johore. The Fcdt-ration Director of Education. Mr. L.
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    Boy killed by car
    44 7 A seven-year-old schoolboy Wong Jong Kong, was killed by a car at the 14J mile Changi Road yesterday. The Traffic Police last night appealed for witnesses to get in touch with Inspector Ahmad bin Malek at the Traffic Police office.
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    Minute that stretched to two years
    189 7 Minute that stretched to two years ON Sept. 2, 1949, a Singapore Municipal Commissioner asked for a definition of a taxi. His request set the relevant file passing through the hands of at least 90 clerks and officers. It travelled a distance of about 10 miles in two years, and
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    EXHIBITION IS POSTPONED
    32 7 Opening of the Colombo Exhibition, which was to have taken place today, has been postponed to Feb. 23. The Governor-General of Ceylon. Lord Soulbury. will now perform the ceremony.
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    BROKE CURFEW
    27 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Ho Tak Sin, and Hew Hong, two Kulai tappers, were each fined $40 today for being out of doors during curfew hours.
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    Airline men meet for 4-day talks
    195 7 Airline men meet for 4-day talks ABOUT 25 airline representatives from all parto of South-East Asia will pack into a small office in Singapore's MacDonald House at 10 o'clock this morning for the first session of a four-day 'get-together' meeting at which they will discuss their difficulties and problems in
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    Decree nisi granted
    51 7 JAMES Tan Hong Ngiap, a building contractor, who petitioned for the dissolution or his marriage to Lucy Heung on the ground of desertion, was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Rogers in the Singapore High Court yesterday. The decree is «to be made absolute in three
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    5 Malayans are called to Bar
    70 7 The following Malayan students have been called to the Bar in London: Samsuddin bin Nain (Negri Sembilam J. G. Ng (Penang), F. B. de Souza (Singapore). Abdul Wahab bin Mohamed Ghows Singapore) and Abdul Kadir bin Samsuddin (Malayan Administrative Service). Also called to the
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    LADY LOCKHART & SON ARRIVE
    34 7 LADY LOCKHART SON ARRIVE PENANG. Mon. Lady Lockhart, wife of the Deputy Director of Operations, General Sir Rob Lockhart. arrived in Penang this morning on the*Chusan. She was ari companied by h?r vmS son
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    GENERAL'S VISIT
    21 7 General Sir Charles Keighttley. C-in-C Far East Land Forces, left Singapore yesterday on a three-day visit to dong K«ng
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    Two tankers damaged in collision
    106 7 Two tankers damaged in collision A SPOKESMAN of the Shell J\ Company in Singapore yesterday confirmed that two |of their oil tankers collided in the Musi River, near Palembang in Sumatra, on Sunday. Both ships aa c seriously damaged. A cable received yesterday said: "At approximately 7 ia.m. Sunday the
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    ENGINEER DIES
    29 7 Lieut. -Col. Reginald David .Walker. MC, OBE, a district engineer with the FMS RailI ways before the war, has died lat Bognor Regis, Sussex. He was 59.
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    GUARD THREATENED TO SHOOT SERGEANT
    145 7 UfHEN Mohamed Dom bin Othman, a special constable, was caught by Sergt. A. Nicholas, talking to a guard 50 yards from his post at the Royal Bakery, Keppel Road, Singapore he told him: "You'd better be careful, otherwise I'll shoot you." i In Singapore Third
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    Exhibition by Indian painter
    57 7 An exhibition of paintings by the Indian painter Shiavax Chavda was opened yesterday in John Little's store. Singapore, by Mr O. O. Thomson, Public Relations Secretary. This is the first of three exhibitions of paintings being staged in the next few weeks by the Singapore Art
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    Dummy drop
    29 7 ARMY despatchers throw out sand-filled "dummy" paratroops in a feint operation last week-end over North Central Malaya. These Army despatchers normally fly on supply-dropping missions over Malaya.
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    All Singapore to pay King homage
    230 7 SERVICE IN CATHEDRAL TO the tolling of the bells of St. Andrew's Cathedral Singaporeans of all races and walks of life, led by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, will gather in the Cathedral on Friday morning for a memorial service to the King. The
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    RAFthanked for help
    39 7 rE Colonel of the Special Ai r Service Regiment, which provided paratroopers and ground units for the antibandit operation now In progress in North Central Malaya, has thanked the R.A.F. for help in mounting the attack.
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    REMITTANCES TO CHINA
    33 7 Family remittances to China during January totalled $3,134,633. of which $2.056,058 came from Singapore and $1,078,575 from the Federation. Singapore's figures included remittances made by Federation's residents through Singapore banks.
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    $100 for the boy nobody wants
    180 7 AN almoner at Singapore General Hospital. Miss Elizabeth Milne, who appealed for donations or suggestions to help a mentally deficient orphan boy patient, yesterday said that she had received $100 and one suggestion. The boy, admitted four months ago suffering from severe malnutrition, is
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    TRADE WITH FORMOSA IS WELCOMED
    158 7 TRADE WITH FORMOSA IS WELCOMED SINGAPORE Chinese business circles yet'rd.Twelcomed Formosa's plans to open Sl5 nUl'on trade links with Malaya. Prominent traders said the move indicated lie financial stability of the Chinese Nationalist Government They were confident thai Bingap re a prosperity could be enhanced Government officials said that Malaya
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    QC sees City President
    67 7 gIR Thomas J. Strangman, I Q.C., the chairman of the I Singapore Traction Company, who is on a 18-day visit to Singapore, paid a courtesy call on the President of the City Council, Mr. T.P.F. McNeice, yesterday. "It was purely an informal visit and no questions
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    Lottery kiosks are planned
    38 7 JOHORL BAHRU. Mon. A proposal is being considered to set up two kiosks in Johore Bahrn to sell state welfare lottery tickets. One kiosk may be in the market and another at a cinema.
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    Man. wife freed: Bond for son
    205 7 Man. wife freed: Bond for son IIAW JOON KWEK. pr prlej tor of a liquor shop n Geylang Road, and his wife were acquitted yesterdav >n the Singapore First D..s'.r.ct Court of applying fals,. tr de marks of Guinness and Malayan Breweries stout to cheat thp public. They were also
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    DEATH
    26 7 GRACE EVELYN (DoO, beloved wile of Win* Martinus. p.wed away pnMefoflj at 11.30 last ni«M. Cortege will leave 17, Highland Road, at 5 p.m. today.
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    Singapore probe sought into rice prices, production
    236 8 Singapore probe sought into rice prices, production HE WILL WARN COUNCIL ON WORKERS' HARDSHIP THE Singapore Government will be asked to set up a committee to examine rice prices and the possibility of increasing rice production in Malaya at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Wednesday of next week.
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    44 8 MR CHENG KIM W II AT I 51. who ha s been appointed Commissioner for Emergency Regulations, Singapore. He succeeds Mr. H. E. Woodford. who died last December Mr. Cheng ha s served for 33 year s with the Colony Government. Straits Times picture.
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    MUTUAL TRUST IS GROWING, HE SAYS
    177 8 MUTUAL TRUST IS GROWING, HE SAYS pOOD relations between f employers and workers were building up a feeling of trust in "the other man,'' Mr. R. F. H. Caddick, Assistant Trade Union Adviser, said in Penang today. Such relations were essential if a team spirit were to be built up
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    Road mishap every 40 minutes
    71 8 Road mishap every 40 minutes TIIKKE i s a road accident in Singapore every 40 minutes. "We have averaged 35 to 40 accidents a day this month." a traffic police officer said yesterday. rhere have been four deaths in accidents. In January there were 1,088 accidents 78 more than last
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    COURT ADVISERS
    64 8 KUALA LIPIS, Mon. The j panel of advisers for juvenile I court.s in the Kuala Lipis district hag been chosen as follows: Mrs. M. I. OHara. Mr. A. M. Shariff Mr. Ong Seong Tek, MBE, Mr. Seong Sik Yong, Che Halimah btnti Haji Jamil, Che Hallmahton binti Abdul
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    FOOD CLAMP IN KINTA
    45 8 IPOH. Mon. Two towns and four resettlements areas in the Kinta District are declared food restricted areas under the Emergency Regulations. They are: Jelapang and Tambun, and the resettlement villages of Kampong Tawah Pasir Pinji, Changkat. Kinding, and Kampong Tebing Tinggi.
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    Bound over on rubber charge
    51 8 SEREMBAN, Mon. Chong Kan Llan, 38, was bound over for 12 months In the sum of $200 here when he was found guilty of unlawful possession of approximately four katls of scrap rubber. He was also ordered to pay $40 towards the cost of the
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    HIS NEW POST
    34 8 TELUK ANSON, Mon. Inche Shamsudin bin Hajl Mohamed Sidin has become DADO.. Lower Pesrak, in place of Inche Abu Hassan bin Abdullah, who has been transferred to Batu Gajah as ADO.
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    Gaol means hospital
    79 8 A CHINESE icho appealed to the Singapore High Court not to send him to prison because he had a lung diseaue icas ordered yesterday to be kept in the prison hospital until he recovered. Hr was Ho Wan Suee, sen- tenced in the District Court to nine
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    Control 'harmful to Singapore'
    425 8 PROTEST AT NEW BILL DIG ID controls are bound to prove harmful to the interests of Singapore as the great commercial centre of South-East Asia, says the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce in a memorandum on the Exchange Control Bill of 1951 sent to the Financial
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    C.I.D. after cloth thieves
    77 8 THE Singapore C.I.D. are investigating a $10,600 textile theft from a shoo In Middle Road. The thieves entered the shop by breaking the lock of a grill door. A gang of 10 Malays and Chinese tried to remove a coil of cable wire, property of the
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    'Herons' for Java feeder service
    215 8 'Herons' for Java feeder service DRITIS H-MADE de Havilland Heron aeroplanes, small, fourengined, 14-seaters, may next year be landing on lonely Indonesian airstrips which were made by British and Dutch prisoners-of-war during the occupation. Fourteen Herons have been ordered by Garuda Airlines— the half Indonesian Government, half Royal. Dutch Airline
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    100 see a free film show
    63 8 SEREMBAN, Mon. More than 100 members of the Children's Animal League of the Malayan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Seremban branch, including the consort of the Negrl Ruler, Tunku Ampuan, saw a free showing of the animal film Bambl. Mr. W.
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    Students chosen for K.K. college
    72 8 KAJANG. Mon.— Two Malay students from Selangor have bee n selected to fill vacancies in the Malay College. Kuala Kangsar. They are Junid bin Mohamad Yusoff and Idrus bin Zainal, both from the High School. Kajang. who wer c chosen after a competitive examination and
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    GURNEY FUND COMMITTEES
    59 8 IPOH, Mon. Da to Laxamana, deputy to the Mentri Besar, Perak, has been appointed chairman of the state committee for the Sir Henry Gumey Memorial i Fund. I Leading members of the communities are being in- vited to join the committee. said Dato Laxamana Districts i and
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    $90 FINE FOR SPEEDING
    28 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Hussain bin All and Chew Che e Leong were each fined $90. for driving at more than 30 miles an hour.
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    FOUNDATIONS MAKE OR MAR
    514 9  -  MARY DUNBAR °y j IIOW many of us, or rather how few, will give a thought to the lact that clothes can bo made or marred by th" foundation garments worn beneath? Ur:il twenty-fWe years ago coneta were more or less .standardised. They were made for
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    37 9 Here at last is a really sale high chair, guaranteed n-A to Up even if baby clambers up the side. It is one of the features of the British Furni ture Exhibition held tn London this week.
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    When To Drop The Late-Night Feed
    709 9  -  NURSE JANET MOTHERCRAFT IN MALAYA D v A MOTHER wrote rx recently asking *advtoe as to when she shouic: c top her baby's ten o'clock ni^ht feed. She said her baby hud started mixed feeding and was now six months old. He did not
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    COMBINING A JOB WITH A FAMILY
    794 9  -  RACHEL ROSS By SINGAPORE must be one of the most expensive places in the world in which to live, at the present moment, which doesn't make things any too easy for young people contemplating marriage and the setting up of a home, or for
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    27 9 Ten-monthi-oid Kat .erine i^.uper, ac.uph.ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Draper, of Wearne Bros Kuala Lumpur, toms this week's $5 prize as Bonniest Baby of the week.
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      325 9 Straits Times frosswor o out for part 0 the Eble (6). 1. Rob a host for a headgear 8 |s 9 2. A round dance? (4). I J i^sj 3. investigations with a coy HI I II P 4. The diplomat to make 10 KssS TT~^^ sk^ gj^ gjg :air
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    Building material prices
    510 10 Wi lil reference to y:ur report ot Wednesday. Building materials are cneaper.' 1 and to the controversy between the Selangor Hardware Dealers' Association and the Seiangor Chinese Builders' Club, we, as one of the biggest building firms in Malaya, have first-hand knowledge of the prices of building
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      AN EMERGENCY REVIEW
      1120 10 TiHE protests against the appointment of Mr. 1 MacGillivray are unjustified. 1, among many, believe that a suitable man could have been found in the Malayan Service. Some of those I think suitable are my personal friends, but, the decision having been made by the Secretary of
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      Buddhism and unity
      265 10 r pHERE is no sacrilege whatever in removing an image of the Buddha from one temple to another temple, or from one place to a morp congenial place. Tne Outram Road Buddhist temple, which housed an image, has so far served as a shrine-room, a residence for
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      MARK OF RESPECT
      37 10 AM really sorry to think that Thursday was a working day after out King had passed away. At least as a mark of respect, it should have been observed as a holiday. SURPRISED. Singapore.
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      RADIO WHISTLE
      52 10 PAN any of your radio enthusiasts tell me (quietlike) the reason for the everlasting whistle that one gets from both the Singapore (Malay and English) and the Kuala Lumpur stations? It is definitely absent from all other freauencles. Perhaps it is due to a Singapore-cum-Ruala Lumpur "sunSPOt RADIO
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      280 10 Bonnets, bees and bonds A/TR. JOHN Laycock appears j to have a "bee in his bonnet" about premium bonds. I can understand the men- i tality of the other opponents of premium bonds who op- pose them on the grounds that thev are lotteries, or semi-lotteries (although they completely ignore
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      NOT SO FAST, PLEASE
      112 10 FROM Saturday morning's Straits Times, I observe that I am expected to touch 120 miles per hour over the line in the "standing kilo." May I please be informed from what source I may obtain the assistance of jet propulsion, the best way in which this
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      VOLUNTEER SURVIVORS
      82 10 I AM Keenly interested to know t'f survivors of the Singapore M.S.V.R. Volunteers who took part in the quelling of the mutiny of the 5th Light Infantry which broke out on February 12. 1915. 1 Joined the Singapore Volunteer Artillery on the 29th August 1907 and was in
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      TERRIBLE SMELL
      76 10 IS DETECTED f HAVE on many occasions travelled down to SingaDore by bus. The JohoreSingapore bus stops somewhere around the Municipal night-soil centre. The smell around this centre is terrible. I notice also that thousands live around this area. Can't the City Council do something to eet this
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      RACING IN MOURNING
      107 10 (ENTIRELY agree with "Loyal Briton" that the announcement of the Selansor Turf Club that their Saturday meet would be held In "mourning" Is nothin<? Dut pure hypocrisy. It seems that horse-racing is considered so important in Malaya that pages or the daily paoers and precious hours of
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    Double tax hits new industries
    124 11 says M.P. *pAX concessions made by colonial governments, with a view to encouraging the establishment of new industries, are being nullified by the operation of United Kingdom double taxation agreements, according to Conservative M.P., Mr. P H. Smitners. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked to
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    154 11 LITTLE activity was reported In the Singapore produce market yesterday, and prices in several sections sagged -slightly on lack of foreign enquiries. Copra, howevei. maintained a steady tone, buyers for Feb.March shipment raising bids from S3IU to $32', a picul, with sellers reluctant to meet the market.
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    Australian share market
    146 11 From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Mon. ITOE downtrend of share prices x was accentuated In Melbourne and Sydnney today. Palls coTered all sections of the market and ranged from Id. to 2s. share. Base metal and gold shares moved erratically. Federal Loans held firm, six of the
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    MILD FLUCTUATIONS IN RUBBER PRICE
    203 11 Market closes quiet From A Market Correspondent itflLD price fluctuations were experienced in the Singapore rubber market yesterday when sellers, who had been very reserved in the morning came out to accept bids. A fair volume of business was transacted at around $1.30f a lb.
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    TIN: $489 8/4 A PICUL
    11 11 SINGAPORE. Mon., Feb. 11—1489.75 (down $1%).
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    EXCHANGE TO MERCHANTS
    88 11 rpHE Malayan Exchange Banks x Association at the week-end announced agreed rates of exchange to merchants as follows: BUYING Air Mail T.T. OJ>. 90 d st. Credit Bills New York 32 13/16 32 15/16 32 1/16 Canada 32 13/16 32 15/16 33 3/16 Trade Bills New York
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    Gordon (Malaya) Rubber Deal
    40 11 Gordon (Malaya) Rubber Deal directors of Gordon (Ma•laya) Rubber Estates have sold the company's Kedah property known as Gordon Estate, comprising 905 acres of rubber, most of which was planted between 32 and 35 years ago, for $606,000 (approximately £70.700)
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    RUBBER CROP
    14 11 Bukit Katil Rubber Estates Ltd.. rubber crop for January was 23.245 lbs.
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    H.K. EXCHANGE
    34 11 HONG KONG, Mon JfREE marKru currency exchange for Ho-ig Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US$l HK$6.7l (cash), HK56.74 (T.T.i £1 HK515.85; one tahil of gold HKS324.S— UP
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    Malayan Shares
    216 11 Market opens on buoyant note THE Tin section of the 1 Malayan Share market opened the week on a bouyant note yesterday. Industrials were quietly steady, while a little more interest was shown in Rubbers. Price changes announced by the Malayan Sharebrokers' Association yesterday were: Talam Mines Ltd.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    192 11 gHIPS alongside the Singapore I Harbour Board godowns or expected there by .7 a.m. today, are:— 4-5 Indrapoera, 6-7 Glenearn. 8-9 Plying Trader. 11 Peleus 13-14 Breconshire, 15-16 Pyrrhus. 18 Straat Soenda, 19-20 Hoegh SUverstar, North Wall 4 Hong Soon, North Wall 6. King Bay 21-22 Yochow, 23-24
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    West Indians have easy job today
    307 12 NEW ZEALAND OUT FOR 189 CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. THE West Indies require 115 runs, with all their second innings wickets intact, to beat New Zealand in the first Test here. New Zealand were dismissed in their second innings today for 189 leaving the West Indies
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    57 12 THREE WEST HAM forwards get together and jump for the ball near the Sheffield goa>- On the ground i s Cox. the Sheffield left back. Th e others are (left to right) Gazzard; Woodgate; Hawkins and a Sheffield defender. This fourth round F.A. Cup tie at Upton Park on Feb
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    Scoreboard
    117 12 NEW ZEALAND— IST. INNS.: j:«6 WEST INDIES— IST. INNS.: i« NEW ZEALAND— IND. INNS. Emery c Stollmeyer b Valentine 18 Rabone lbw o Goddard Scotl b Ramadhin Reid b Valentine SutchtTe b Ramadhin Smith b Gomez Moonev lbw b Gomez B*ard c Christian! b Worrell 10 Moir lbw Ramadhin
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    TIE DECIDED AT THE 26th
    93 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. One of the matches in the Selangor Golf Club championships Dlayed during the weekend that between Burford and Hart was so even that it was not decided until the 26th hole. The results are: R. Collett bt R. G. L. Wall one
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    JNR. ENTRIES CLOSE FEB. 14
    67 12 The closing date for the Junior Tournament of the Singapore Cricket Association has been extended to Thursday, Feb. 11. Only eleven entries had been received up till yesterday. The team convenors' meeting, to arrange inter-club fixtures, is fixed for Friday, Feb 22, at 5.30 p.m.
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    WORLD TOURNEY
    34 12 BOMBAY, Mon. The 1953 world table tennis championships will be held in Bucharest, the International Federation Congress decided here yesterday. The Congress gave England first I opinion on staging the 1954 championships.
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    29 12 TODAY: High 0014 (8.71 and 1137 96' Low 0544 i 3 9l and 1810 (1 ft.) TOMORROW: 0033 iB.9j and 1309 i».7i; 0609 i3.4l and 1835 ill)
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    Malaya must get used to the venue
    606 12 DEFENCE OF THOMAS CUP By Our Badminton Reporter SINGAPORE'S Happy World Stadium has been selected as the venue for this year's Thomas Cup competition challenge round game in which Malaya will defend their world badminton title on May U and June 1. But
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    DADO MARINO TO DEFEND TITLE
    55 12 HONOLULU, Mon.— Dado Merino, world flyweight boxing champion, will defend his title against Ycshio Shlrai, of Japan, in Tokyo on May 19, Sam Ichlnose, Marino's manager announced here. Shrai t.k.o.'d Marino in the seventh round of a non-title bout In Honolulu last December. Mariro is
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    Speed aces prepare for Dunearn kilo
    446 12 Speed aces prepare for Dunearn kilo tK>UR ot the six Jaguar XK 120s r entered tor the Singapore Motor Clubs kilometre speed trial to be held at Dunearn Road on Sunday, Feb. 24, will be driven by Federation competitors. They are Saw Kim Thl*',, Ho Yue Kong. F. N. Ferguson
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    S. AUSTRALIA HAVE 225 LEAD
    65 12 BRISBANE. Mon— South Australia led by 225 with one second Innings wicket to fall at the er.d of the third day of their Sheffield Shield match against Queensland here. South Australia, 17 foi two <U Saturday's close, took their second Innings score to 325 for
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    1956 OLYMPIC SITE REFUSED
    191 12 MELBOURNE, Mon. THE Melbourne Cricket Ground trustees today refused permission for the ground to be used as the site for the 1956 Olympic Games, except possibly for the opening and closing ceremonies. The Prime Minister of Australia stated late last night that the Melbourne cricket ground
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    C'wealth pick strong team to meet MCC
    169 12 COLOMBO, Mon. A STRONG Commonwealth team has been Chosen to meet the M.C.C in their four-day match starting here on Feb. 16. The team, announced today, Is- F C. de Saram (Ceylon), K. Miller. N Harvey. G. Hole (Australia) V Maukad, P. R.
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    S. Nakano in semi-finals
    126 12 ASIAN TENNIS MEET COLOMBO, Mon. S Nakano of Japan entered the men's singles semi-finals in the Asian Lawn Tennis championships here today, defeating Straight Clark of the United States 6-2. 6-0, 6-3. The Indian pair Naresh Kumar and Dilip Bose were beaten 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4
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    S.E.A. basketball meet in S'pore
    201 12 A SOUTH East Asia Chinese basketball championship will be staged in Singapore in May. Mr Goh Chye Hln, president of the Malayan Chinese Sports Federation told the Straits Times yesterday. Five teams from overseas are expected to take part In the tournament the first of
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    PEN-HOLDER GRIP EXPONENTS HAVE THE LAST LAUGH
    357 12  -  CONRAD NG By THE Eastern "pen-holder" grip has been vindicated! At the World Table Tennis championships, which concluded at Bombay on Sunday, five e£ponents of this style took world titles. They were the Japanese winners of the men's singles and doubles and the
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    DROBNY WINS
    55 12 LYONS, France, Mon.— The men's singles of the international covered courts tennis cnamplonships here was won by Jaroslav Drobny. He beat Kurt Nielson 3-6, 13-11, 12-10, 3-6, 6-2. The men's doubles was won by Drobny and Francois Garnero of France. They beat M. Mltie and D Branovic of
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    He's been 20 years at it
    148 12 A KEEN follower of badminton In Singapore for the past 20 years. 33-year-old Willie Tan. elected honorary secretary of the Singapore Badminton Association, will be an asset to the Association that is the opinion of many players. Willie, a founder member of Horlicks B.P.
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    Sponge-lined racket helped Satoh to win
    124 12 TOKYO. Mon. ANNOUNCEMENT of Japanese A victories in the World Table I Tennis Tournament in Bombay I made 50-year-old Yoshinorl Harada the happiest man in 1 Tokyo. Harada invented the 'sponge i racket" used by singles champion Hirojl Satoh. The racket is lined with
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