The Straits Times, 20 May 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED LS4S TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAT 20, 1952. it PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    The Straits Times BRITISH FIRMS TO QUIT CHINA
    325 1 BRITISH FIRMS TO QUIT CHINA Traders can't carry on, so Eden sends I note to Peking LONDON, Monday. BRITISH big business is to quit China. The: Government has sent a note to the Chinese I Premier, Chou En-lai, telling him that all large British firms in the country are preparing
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    76 1 ■Hi n.Md.NiiKs sa> it take* lhre t »rcond» to s.rip oil the special protective clothing shown in this picture. Tbe rlothine is designed to protect atomic energy research workers while they are working withj. new chemical. One splash of it could kill or seriously disflgare. The special -clothinj will protect
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    $13,290 lost in week-end burglaries
    170 1 $13,290 lost in week-end burglaries SINGAPORE C.I.D. are investigating a $10,820 robbery and a $2,470 burglary which occurred in the Colon* over the week-end. Victim of the five-figure robbery was Mrs. J. Wilson, a European housewife. Three men. one of whom was masked, entered her house in Duchess Road on
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    French capture
    18 1 HANOI. Mon. French forces captured the Vietmlnh strcnghold of Lao, near Hanoi, after strong air attacks.—UP.
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    Americans fell for the 'firemen'
    108 1 Americans fell for the 'firemen' UPPER HEYFORD Mon. rpHE Americans took a bit of J. a beating yesterday when they took on British troops in a "game of war" in this area of Oxfordshire. A British force of 150 oaratrooperx came down near an air base defended by hundreds of
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    WON TITLE -DIED
    44 1 DURBAN. Mon. Indun. amateur boxer, A. R. Naldoo. aged 21, died In hospital here less than 24 honrs after winning the Natal nonEurooean featherweight, title on Saturday. He collapsed on leaving the ring after his ♦bird boot of the evening Reuter.
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    Man asks to be sent to gaol
    170 1 TIRED OF CARD 'FARCE 9 A SINGAPORE Harbour Board labourer asked for a long term of imprisonment yesterday to rid himself of police attentions to his Identity card. "If you will grant m« this I will be grateful." said Chong Wong to the
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    Big demand for Thomas Cup Souvenir
    82 1 "THE STRAITS TIMES THOMAS CUP SOUVENIR will soon be ready. If you have not already placed an order with your newsagent, yon should do so now, as bookings have been heavy. The 34-page Souvenir, with an attractive four-i-olour cover, tells in words and pictures
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    Boy dies in accident
    75 1 A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy. Seah Goh Goh, died last night in the British Military Hospital, Singapore, after he was knocked down by a military lorry at the 8i m.s. Bukit Timah Road. Seah was taken to the hospital by two R.A.F. officers who passed by the scene
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    Zulu trouble
    58 1 DURBAN. Mon. Mounted police have been rushed to the Masomeni Zulu reserve on the Southern Natal coast where authorities fear open warfare may break; out following week-end faction fighting in which 19 huts were burned down. Malewa, son of a candidate for the chieftainship was shot dead. The
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    IT TOOK A WOMAN TO GET DOWN TO ROCK BOTTOM
    249 1 IT TOOK A WOMAN TO GET DOWN TO ROCK BOTTOM trtta, unsuccessfully e»cavatinj a hillside for two year s to tat a good granite base far opening a new quarry, a Singapore firm has solved Us problem by enp%ia| the city's only consultant geologist a woman he is Mr*. F.
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    Soviet trips are banned
    75 1 NEW DELHI. Mon. INDIANS have been refused 1 passports to visit Russia and China during the past year "on grounds of public interest," the Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, told Parliament today. In a written reply to a Communist. Mr. H. N. MukerJee. Mr. Nehru said 115
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    No invitation
    26 1 LONDON. Mon. The Prime Minister. Mr. Churchill, said today Britain was not inviting American observers to its forthcoming atom weapon tests in Australia. A.P.
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    Jap Judges' tour
    30 1 LONDON. Mon. Three Tokyo High Court Judge* now on a month's tour of England visited a London prison and a Borstal institution for Junior offenders today.— Reuter.
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    CAUGHT NAPPING
    39 1 UEMBAN, Mon.— Maarof bin Yunid, a special constaJ ble, was today sentenced to one month's gaol for being found asleep while on duty at a road block at Mantin. Maarof, had two previous conviction* lor similar offences.
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    More cuts in air travel
    67 1 LONDON. Mon. BRITISH Overseas Airways today cancelled six more long distance services because of petrol shortages caused by the oil strike in the United States. They included outgoing flights to Sydney, Australia. the Gold Coast. Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and one incoming flight from Nairobi.
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    Fifty overseas Chinese shot
    44 1 HONO KONO, Mon— More than 50 former overseas Chinese land-owners were executed last Monday at Toishan, the independent Sing Teo Jin Pao says. They were found guilty of handicapping the land reform programme and having lived as exploiters.— A J.
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    THE QUEEN WILL TAKE SALUTE
    30 1 LONDON, Mon.— The Queen on horseback wil take the salute at the Trooping the Colour ceremony held annually on the Sovereign's official brrthaay. June s.—Reuter.
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    Coronation beer with a kick
    45 1 LONDON, Mon.— A firm of brewers announced today it will market a special beer for the coronation in June next year. It will be three times as expensive five shillings a pint and three times as strong as usual.— A.P
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    NEW CHIEF AT TRUCE TALKS
    34 1 TOKYO, Mon.— United Nattons truce delegation mem- ber Major-General William K. Harriscn will become chief delegate of the United Nations Korean armistice i tefcm at Panmunjom on May 23.
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    LIGHTS OUT: THOSE BOILERS AGAIN
    101 1 T ARGE areas of Singapore were in darkness for four hours last night because two boilers were out of commission at St. James power station One boiler Is having Its annual survey and overhaul, causing longer blackout schedules than usual during the last few days.
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    NATO FLEET EXERCISE
    41 1 LISBON, Mon.— Units of the French and Portuguese fleets left here today for two days' manoeuvres in the Atlantic under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation programme. Ten French planes now at Lisbon airport will also take part— Reuter.
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    RUMOURS-AND RUBBER PRICE INCREASES
    164 1 RUMOURS-AND RUBBER PRICE INCREASES 'THE PRICE of rubber jumped by one and a half cents on Singapore rubber market yesterday after speculative buying by Malayan dealers, mostly Chinese. June first grade closed at 88 cents a lb.— the highest price since a fortnight ago when the present price rot set
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    She thought it was her husband
    158 1 She thought it was her husband LONDON, Mon. WILLIAM Rowland Williams, aged 28, left a wedding reception to get hi* bicycle, but instead went into the bed of his best friend's wife. It was said in a Ramsgate. Kent, court today. Williams was charged with "having carnal knowledge of June
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    Diplomats fired
    29 1 LONDON, Mon— Donald Mac Lean and Ouy Burgess, diplomats who have been missing nearly a year, are being fired by the Foreign Office. It was announced today.—UP.
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    Jungle mutiny: 2 held hostage
    204 1 RIO DE JANEIRO, Mon. TWO AMERICANS sent Ato Investigate the wreckage of a Pan-Ame-rican airliner that crashed in the Brazilian Jungle are being held as hostages by a group of volunteer army parachutists. The parachutists are demanding that a U.S. helicopter airlift them from the
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    Rail crash in India: 45 die
    52 1 NEW DELHI. Mon. At least 45 persons were reported killed and 35 Injured last night in the head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train in north-west India. The Railway Ministry said mlx-up in orders sent the two trains on the same
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    Oil from Russia
    13 1 JERUSALEM. Mon— lsrael is to buy oil from Russia.— Reuter.
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    New disorders expected on Koje Island prison camp
    264 3 New disorders expected on Koje Island prison camp KOJE ISLAND, Monday. gRIG.-GEN. Haydon Boataer, the new commandant of Koje Island prison camp, predicted new disorders today as troops of the crack 187 th Airborne Infantry Regiment mounted guard in a sudden shift to reinforce the camps'* security. Gen. Boatner, who
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    Gen. Dodd goes to hospital
    73 3 SEOUL, Mon. I,'HiHTH Army medical an- taeiities confirmed today that Brit-Gen. Francis T. Dodd was fat a hospital ■ear here for "medical observation" An Army spokesman said Gsn. Dodd. who was seized and ndd hostage by Communist prisoners on Kojo island recently, had boss "feelinf
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    U.S.arms for police in Egypt
    74 3 U.S. arms for police in Egypt CAIRO. Mon. rpHE Minister of Interior, 1 Murtada El Marghi Bey, announced yesterday that the Egyptian Government had allocated E 1 .500,000 to purchase arms and equipment for the police. The funds also provide for the training of Egyptian police missions in the United
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    BERLIN ROAD STAYS OPEN
    32 3 BERLIN, Mon. Allied patrols ran normally for the PC.nd successive day today along the 100-mile autobahn Unking Berhn with Western Germany without any interference from the Russians.— Reuter.
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    Rode into train
    27 3 STOCKHOLM. Mon.—Cyclist Sune Jonsson, 23. was killed yesterday when he rode into a train at the head of 25 riders crossing the railway. U.P.
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    Resign call to 'peace' delegate
    107 3 Resign call to 'peace delegate CANBERRA. Mon. Australian External A Affairs Minister, Mr. R O. Casey tonight "deplored very much" five Australians* decision to attend the forthcoming Peking "peace conference." In Bydney, one oTOhe five. D&. John W. Burton, former Australian High Commissioner In Ceylon rejected a demand by Mr.
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    HOME FALLS IN RIVER
    58 3 LONDON. Mon. During one of the warmest May weekends in Britain for years a storm hit South Wales— and swept a house here into the River Banway. With it went the owner, but he managed to drag himself ashore In time to rescue his wife from
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    TO GIVE HIS VIEWS
    37 3 KHARTOUM Mon. Sir Abdel Rahmaa El Mahdi Pasha. Sudan religious leader who favour* Independence for his country, has accepted an Egyptian Government invitation to send delegates to Cairo to explain his views. Reuter.
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    French grant to Tunisians
    49 3 TUNIS, Mon. rpHi: French Minister of ■a Pensions, Mr. Emmanuel Temple, speaking at a Tunisian ex-servicemen's congress in Tunis Isst night, said he had obtained a grant of 57.000,000 francs to help needy Tunisian ex-servicemen. Two bomb explosions were reported in Tunis last night. —Reuter.
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    No curfew during fast
    23 3 TUNIS. Mon.— The curfew in Tunisia is to be lifted during the Ramzan fasting period beginning on Sunday. Reuter.
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    'Call Duke King,9 clergyman urges
    169 3 'Call Duke King, 9 clergyman urges LONDON, Monday. A CHURCH OF ENGLAND clergyman yesterday iA suggested in a sermon that "King" was an appropriate title for the Dole of Edinburgh. The Queen and the Duke, said the Rev. Reginald Clifford Caul, of Rand, lines. "are an exalted example to the
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    HAIN OF SNAILS BLOCKS ROADS
    50 3 ALGIERS. Mon. RAIN ladrn with tiny snails fell over wide area near Oran daring a freak storm yesterday. Th« fall was so thick that some road* were impassable orer an area of two square Several motorist* were forced to pull up in the slippery jroinr.-Reuter.
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    RED MURDER ATTACK
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    Israeli envoy
    64 3 JERUSALEM, Mon. —An Israeli Legation Is to be opened shortly in Tokyo— A.* SAIGON. Mon.— Mr. Tran Van Duong, Mayor of Go Yap, eight miles fr<uj Saigon, wax seriously wounded and a local dignitary waa killed when four armed men burst into the Mayor's house last night The
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    Power explosion kills 4
    47 3 AN EXPLOSION y «t^. y Kfij^JSJ "STt^ PWfcr **/Klmarnock'««d killed four nin. .v w^? n> wlth cloth fs blazing, crsartei throuch the shattered meUl dopr of the room to safety. A wife M of featfa-WcM TfeoOand wm "blacked our by Mm explosion.— Renter.
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    COSTUMES OF INDONESIA
    60 3 WEARING different forms of their native dress, these throe Indonesian girfe appea red at the An* exhibition In London of Indonesian arts and crafU. Soen la Grosvcswr Square are (from left): Miss >tje TieosJjr, «f Celebes; Mrs Corry Besik. of West Snma»ra (wearing a headdress called a
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    Agreements don't end oil strike
    132 3 BOAC LOSIN6 £30,000 PAIL? DENVER, Monday. T»HE coalition of 22 oil unions kept the 18-day-old 1 oil strike going yesterday, despite scattered contract agreements. The Government said that even if the oil strike were settled immediately, restrictions on the use of aviation fuel would continue
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    5 RED SPIES SHOT
    33 3 TAIPEH, Mon— Five Formosans. convicted of being Communist agents. were executed today by a firing squad. They were charged with plotting the forcible overthrow of the Nationalist government.— AP.
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    PARIS CLASH
    33 3 PARIS. MOn— About five people were hurt m scuffles in the Champs Elysees area tonight between police and North Africans trying to distribute leaflets. About 100 North Africans were detained.— Reuter.
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    DEARER OIL
    24 3 LONDON, Mon.— Motor and aviation spirit and oils will from today cost between a farthing and a penny more per gallon.— Reuter.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    267 3 LONDON. Mon r VKK Stock Market cooUnued on (be mum lull vote wtttcn persUted throughout test wsefc. Burin— wss wry aaall with ■nk of It tattaf ptec* In aolecUd McuriUM. Abasnea Of interest in tad«*» trUU ouaed aosM aMgtaUy lewer movementa but loaaea were restricted to lew pence
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    London Tin Price
    31 3 Lo ndon Tin Price LONDON, May 19— Cash Bay e r s £&7: Sellers £M 9; Forward Bayers £961; Se Hers £M 2; Settteaseat (up £4). Turnevrr: ana 40; p.m. 40
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    U.K. RUSHER
    32 3 LONDON. May 19 —Spot 25 '4 d June 25 ',d.. Juljr-aept 2Sd Ort Dec. J4',d Jan -Mar JSSd Mar cJ f U^d,. June c.ii. 2S'.d July elf 25d Markti Idle.
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    S TORE POLICE OFFICERS START INSTRUCTORS' COURSE IN C.D.
    156 4 They will work with civilians in wartime CINGAPORE Police plan to train all membeis of the Force in civil defence has started. Twenty-seven probationary inspectors are now training as instructors in 'rescue work' in the Civil Defence School in Kolam Ayer
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    57 4 FIVE MALAY PEONS of the Singapore Imports and Exports Departmert seen in their new uniforms. From left they are: Haron bin All. Rabani bin Kamari. Mohampd Tahir. Mohamed bin YusofT and Abdul Rahman, Three of the five are members of volunteer organisations, and they hope to persuade thr other two
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    ST. JOHN DAY ON JUNE 21
    53 4 KUALA LUMPUP. Mon. Tc raise funds for train irs people In first aid. home nursing, hygiene and child welfare, the Selangor branch of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade is to hold a flag day on June 21. observed throughout the Commonwealth as
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    UNION ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT
    38 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Malayan Railway Daily Rated Locomotive Enginemen's Union. Kuala Lumpur, branch, has elected Mr. A. John as its president. The past president, Mr. K P. Ponnusamy, has retired from railway servir*
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    Rest House party
    35 4 KOTA BAHRU, Mon. A tea party was given yesterday at the Best House. Kota Bahru. by Kelantan Adult Education Association to meet Dr. Laubach, the literacy expert from the World Literacy Organisation.
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    5 smart peons, but they're so hot...
    159 4 SINGAPORE Imports and Exports Department? 3 five peons have now got uniforms for the first time and yesterday they posed to have their a photographs taken. Most. Government peons are not in favour of the uniform material or style. They say :hey are
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    GAOL, $300 FINE FOR $10 BRIBE
    50 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon D Perumal, who offered a bribe of $10 to a constable to release another Indian, arrested for being *n possession of a Jar of toddy, was sentenced to one day's imprisonment and fined $300, in default, a further three months' imprisonment.
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    WHISKY FRAUD ALLEGED
    176 4 WHISKY FRAUD ALLEGED rro clerks, George Yeo Peck Tiew and Chia Ah Kwee. pleaded not guilty in Singapore yesterday to cheatIng a wine-merchant. Ng Kwang Meng. of $1,025 worth of whisky and brandy. Yeo and Chia were alleged to have ordered six cases of brandy and four cases of whisky
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    $16,500 gift to school fund
    55 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. The Malayan Chinese Association, Johore, has contributed $16,500 to the new village schools building fund. The schools in the new villages of Salong, i Suial'. MerElng, Sedenak, Bekok. Ulu Tiram, Pandan, Sagil Bahru. Sri Medan. Cha'ah and the 33rd mile village. Kulai.
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    CASTE SYSTEM ATTACKED
    78 4 CASTE SYSTEM ATTACKED KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. STRONG criticism of the Hindu caste system, which resulted in the oppression of ten million "depressed class" Indians, was voiced by speakers at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to celebrate the 60th birthday of Dr. B. Ft Ambedkar. leader o^ India's "untouchables." Mr
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    Junior Red Cross
    33 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. In Kuala Trengganu today the Mentri Brsar of Trengganu. D&to Kamaruddin bin Haj: Idrls, presented 300 schoolchildren with badges and certificates of the Junior Red Cross League.
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    NO 'DISPUTE', SAYS SIR CHENG-LOCK
    195 4 NO 'DISPUTE', SAYS SIR CHENG-LOCK IPOH, Monday. MR CHENG-LOCK TAN, president of the Malayan Association, today attacked "mischief makers in the Association who, under the cloak ot anonymity, are stirring up discord among the officials who have been rendering valuable service for the cause of the community." "There Is no
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    Glasses for illiterates
    56 4 KOTA BAHRU, Mon ¥\R. FRANK LAUBACH, the literacy expert from NeW" York. Is now in Kelantan holGing three classes each of about 30 would-be Instructors' and 30 illiterates each day The course started on Saturday and ends on Wednesday when the acting Mentri Besar, Tungku Serl Maha
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    Pirate taximan fined $30
    40 4 KUANTAN, Mon. Wong Choke Weng waa fined $30 in Kuantan for carrying fares in his private motor car. Police had found Wong carrying passengers in his ear when stopped at Gambang Road block on four days.
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    He drove lorry into gate: $30
    42 4 KUANTAN, Mon.— Tan See Klat, who drove a lorry Into the main gate of Airfield new village, was fined $30 in Kuan tan. He was fined another $20 for not being licensed to drive the lorry.
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    'The Voice* a new language to learn
    120 4 'The Voice* a new language to learn rl IS MONTHS time Mr. Kenneth Topley. Asmstant Secretary or Economic Iffairs, sinapore should >c able to C-ak Chinese ently He will i Pc n d the ;im c in the Portugese coony of Macao. "I am not leaving the Malayan Civil Service."
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    S'pore gets first 5-way traffic light
    105 4 SINGAPORE'S first "fiveway" traffic light is due for its first trial this morning, at the junction of Middle Road. Short Street and Sophia Road with Selegie Road. A traffic police spokesman said yesterday: "It should work well, because we have worked out the approximate
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    Milkmen fined
    25 4 KUANTAN. Mon— Arulan. Muthu. and Raman, were fined a total of $40 in Kuantan for selling cow's milk without a town board lincence.
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    No licence: $20
    26 4 *JOHORE BAHRU, Mon Chong Choon was fined $20 in the police court for falling to renew his licence to sell price controlled goods.
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    SIX MONTHS* GRACE FOR YOUR CARS
    137 4 MALAYAN motorists, who have had their cars for 18 months can now. on a declaration of change of residence. Import them into Britain and clear* them through the Customs free of licence, duty, and purchase tax. Previously, the period wax two years. The Automobile
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      93 4 j legislative Council, Victoria Memorial Hall. 10 am. Chinese YJI.C^, badminton and basketball 5.30 pm fret Mathematlrs class. 5 30 p.m.; free English claases. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., table-tennis, 7.30 pjn Y.W.C.A., 5. Raffles <}uay. Mandarin classes, beginners rlasn. 9.30 a.m.: advanced class. 10.30 am. R.C.T.C: Inter -Denominational Bvangellstlc
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    COUNCIL POUNDS THE TABLE OVER POWER STATION
    174 5 COUNCIL POUNDS THE TABLE OVER POWER STATION Firms told: Name the date and keep to it gINGAPORE City Council has asked all tht suppliers of materials needed to complet( Pasir Panjang power station when they expect to deliver. And the Council will keep tht suppliers to these dates. This, said
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    31 5 IHI I'OKTI (.1 i;m; MINISTER for Overseas Territories. Senor Kodmjues, being interviewed by Radio Malaya on his arrival in Malacca yesterday. With him i s his wife. Straits Time s picture
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    Mother of 2 is probation officer
    156 5 Mother of 2 is probation officer rpHIRTY-YEAR-OLD Straits A Chinese schoolteacher, Mrs. Nellie Llm. a mother of two girls, will become Singapore's first woman probation officer, when she joins the Department of Social Welfare on Nov. 1. Mrs. Lim will leave her post at the McNair afternoon school for domestic
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    Citizenship law passed
    81 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. SELANGOR Council of State today unanimously passed, with several amendments, the Selangor Nationality Bill which received Its first and second readings last year and was then sent to a select committee. It gives effect to the decision taken by the Federal Legislative Council a
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    A Govt scheme
    43 5 The scheme to train Malay youths in Negri Sembilan in the building Industry, reported In yesterday's Straits Times, was drawn up by the State Government, and not by contractors. Thirty youths will begin training in July under four Chinese contractors.
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    Pupils told of election
    82 5 MR. Lee Kirn Chuan of the Public Relations Department, Singapore yesterday told 300 students of th e Chinese High School of the importance of elections, and the qualifications to register for votes. H e wil] talk at six other Chinese schools this week. He will also
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    $3,560 FINE
    41 5 JOHORE BAHRU. Mon Low Teo Swee, a Kuala Lumpur businessman, was fined $3,560 in Johore Bahru for trying to smuggle 288 bottles of perfumery and 288 botties of hair cream, valued at $479, on which daty payable was |356.
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    Tax men's strike threat 'hasty'
    113 5 OTRIKE THREAT by 19 examiners and assistant examiners of the Colony Income Tax Department was described as ."a hasty move" by the general secretary of the Singapore Government Administrative and Clerical Services Union, Mr. S. Sinnathamby, yesterday. He said that negotiations between the union and
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    Union loses patience at Govt. delay
    131 5 rpHE Mental Hospital UnlA formed Staff Union will hold an extraordinary general meeting soon to, discuss what action to- take to settle I dispute with the Singa>re Government. The general secretary, Mr. Llm Chwee Seng, told the Straits Times, yesterday that members were impatient
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    He stabbed his divorced wife
    58 5 IPOH, Mon— Charged with stabbinß his divorced wife with a pen-knlie, middle aged Chen Kooi told the Ipoh Magistrate today that they had been married for 13 yeaw before she left him and when he s*w her again he lost his temper and stabbed her.
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    MR. G.W. DAVIS FOR LEGCO
    37 5 The Commissioner tor Labour. Singapore. Mr. Geoffrey Wiliiam Davis, has been appointed a Nominated official member of the Singapore Legislative Council in place of Mr. Alfred William Frlsby. retiring Director of Education.
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    Woman cyclist fined
    24 5 SO AM AT, Mon —A young Chinese cyclist, Eng See Hal, was fined $5 at Segmat for carrying a pillion rider.
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    GAOL FOR SOLDIER WITH TROUBLES
    133 5 A SOLDIER with a lot of troubles went to gaol yesterday. The Singapore Third PoMc< magistrate. Mr. H. Livingstone sentenced Private K. McLean R.A.0.C.. to two months- im prisonment for stealing a car Pte. McLean had been re manded in the Woodbridg* Mental Hospital after
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    NO PERMIT: $10
    22 5 MUAR, Mon.— lbrahim bin Moideen was fined $10 at Muar for selling rojah without a licence along Bakri Road.
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    Today's Colony blackout schedule
    181 5 fHE followinc areas wUI be ■UWe to bUrkouU today:— DAT Mlrl Rd., Slat Rd.. Baklt Pasoh. BAT.. Trafalgar St.. Sa«e SL, Ramah St., Peefile'i Park, Nansen Rd., Lam Soon Oil Mills. Guan Hin. V£. Network, I' E. Kacterv. River VaJter Rd.. KlUlney Rd.. Orchard Rd.. Armenian
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    Malacca goes gay to greet the Minister
    295 5 by Roy Fcrroa MALACCA, Mon. rDAY has been a day Eurasians here will never forget. Amid pomp, gaiety and introductions, thoughts flashed back to the 16th century when Portuguese ruled Malacca and when St. Francis Xavier preached here. While Malacca slept, the 1,600-ton
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    THEY WILL GET $18,000 AID
    142 5 THEY WILL GET $18,000 AID THE Singapore Government -I has set aside $18,000 this year for youth organisations, said Mr. Carl de Souza of the Social Welfare Department at the annual meeting of the Singapore Youth Council. He said youth organisations, including those not affiliated to the Singapore Youth Council,
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    DEATH
    42 6 EE ANN HOE. 64 years died 10 25 a.m. 19.5.52 at 5 Pearl Bank, leaving 2 sons, Ec Sim Mong. Ec Sim Chwee, 2 daughters, 2 daugh-ters-in-law, 2 sons-in-law and 10 grandchildren. Funeral Wed. 21.5.52. cortege leaving for Bidadarl at p.m.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENT
    47 6 MRS. Tan Soo Jin and family wkh to express their heartfelt thanks to all relatives and friends for their expressions, telegrams, letters of condolences, scrolls, wreaths, loan of cars, night visits •eng lays, attendance and assistance at the funeral of the late Mr. Tan Soo Jin.
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    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    39 6 OVERSEAS LEAGUE Annual Dinner May 24th. Raffles Hotel at 8.15 p.m. $9 per head. Apply Secretary. P.O. Box 1550. CATHEDRAL Clothing Shop B.P.C.K. Orchard Rd. Winter coats. Men's wear. Frocks. Great Bargains. Wednesdays 4.30. Receiving counter temporarily closed
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      The Police Command
      680 6 The Federation Police Commissioner is understood to be looking to Singapore for one or two senior officers to fill posts in the reorganised Federation police force. Thereby arises a problem for the Police Commissioners of the two territories how an interchangeably of officers can be effected with
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      Korean Deadlock Continues
      429 6 Admiral Fechteler's statement in Washington that the U.S. Navy is capable of maintaining a blockade of the Chinese mainland appears to have been accepted as a hint that the United Nations may break off the armistice talks in Korea. It seems a far reached assumption. Asked whether
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    IS THE KREMLIN FOR PEACE OR WAR?
    1457 6 The Soviet Doctrine-// I REFERRED in yester- day's article to the increased Soviet aggressiveness against ail "reformist" or "evolutionary" Socialists, and it is very Important to grasp how much this is an Integral part of the doctrine of LeninStalin. Since it is a
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      'Glorious holiday'
      161 6 MR. C. D. HOUGHTON, secretary of the Malayan Planting Industries Employers' Association, is reported to have said, "During the last two years everyone has been having a glorious holiday the estate worker with his high wages, the rubber Dlanter and estate staff man with their bonuses." Many planters
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      RENT ADVICE
      153 6 I BELIEVE the new Rent Control Bill is the result of the deliberations over a lengthy period of time, In camera, of a committee appointed by the Government. the majority of the members being landlords; a committee which Jias never consulted those persons who are particularly well qualified
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      TAX PROBLEM
      47 6 DS.T. in his letter headed "Disgrace of the Brothels" on May 17 said that each prostitute must make more than $1,500 a month. If this Is so. I wonder if the six experts coming from England to catch tax dodgers will look Into It. XIX
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      THE LEVIES ON RUBBER
      189 6 ,V AM directed to refer to the 1 letter from "Klyne Street" which you published under the heading "Arming Against A Slump" on May 15, and to ask you to correct his misstatement that when rubber is 84 cents a lb. the duty payable on export
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    On the Margin
    435 6 Still Retreating YOU thought, no doubt, that Retreat had been well and truly beaten? But no. A military correspondent wno signs himself Nesconon 1 rolls the drum anew, with reference to Ahir's findings of last Thursday. Nesconon considers it far-fetched to suggest that i the beating of
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      725 6 CLASSIFIED ADS. TO MARTHA, wife of Jimmy Milne, a son. William James, In Singapore on May 14. Both well. PETERS: To Vivian wife- of Harry a son and brother to Phillip on 17.5.52 at D Cot Us Clinic. WILLIAMS, to Betty wife of J:hn A. C. Williams, on Saturday at
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    POST STRIKE: MALLAL TO QUIZ GOVT.
    290 7 Stoppage enters eighth day as he wants the air cleared SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT'S stand on the postal strike, which enters its eighth da> today, is expected to be made clear at today's meeting of the Legislative Council. Oral questions on the subject intended to be
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    BIG RUSH FOR MAIL AT NEW CENTRE
    194 7 BIG RUSH FOR MAIL AT NEW CENTRE NEARLY 30,000 letters were distributed from the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore, after it.« conversion yesterday into a postal distribution centre. Thirty-one men and women, working full-time, cleared letters at the rate of about 4.000 an hour. Because of the Legislative Council meeting today,
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    BOY GAOLED
    31 7 Neo Ah Huat, a 17 -year old labourer, pleaded guilty In Singapore yesterday to assisting In the management of a chap-ji-ki lottery. He was sentenced to one month's Imprisonment.
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    Heavy load
    22 7 Cargo discharged and loaded at the Singapore "roads" and wharves of the Singapore Harbour Board last month totaled 627,837 tons.
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    3 WOMEN HELD
    17 7 In the Batu Gajah area of Perak, police arrested three women suspected food suppliers.
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    Helen Traubel
    54 7 to sing here Helen Traubel, the prlmadonna of the Metropolitan opera. New York, is to give recitals in Singapore on June 18 and 19. at the Victoria Memorial Hall, under the auspices of the Singapore Chamber Ensemble. Miss Truubel Is at present in Japan in the course of
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    Funds open as 100 go on picket duty
    84 7 ABOUT IN Singapore uniformed postmen and telegraph messengers picketed post offices yesterday seventh day of the postal strike. There were no Incidents. Many Singapore trade unions have started strike funds to help the Post and Telegraph Uniformed Staff Union. Singapore Cigar Workers'
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    Decree of nullity
    79 7 MRS. Nest a Winifred Sullivan, who took divorce proceedings against Mr. John Patrick Sullivan on the ground of non-consummation of tbe marriage, was granted a decree of nullity by the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley. in the Singapore High Court yesterday. Mr. Sullivan was ordered to pay
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    Home Guard men praised
    42 7 IPOH. Mon. Potential officers and NCOs of the Home Guard organisation now undergoing training in Ipoh were pnused by Sir Cheng-lock Tan this morning when he visited their training camp. Later Sir Cheng-lock visited the Guntong resettlement viliage.
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    S.C. FINED $150
    23 7 SEGAMAT, Mon— A special constable, 21 year old Yusof bin Daud, was fined $150 at Segamat for deserting from duty.
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    33 apply for woman's job
    59 7 npHIRTY-THREE have ap--1 plied for the post of a lady assistant welfare officer in the Singapore City Council. Several of the applicants are 6Chool-teachers, a few, University graduates and some, housewives. The Job carries a starting basic salary of $250 a month rising by $15
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    BUS UNION MEN QUERIED BY POLICE
    74 7 BUS UNION MEN QUERIED BY POLICE SIX committee members of the Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union were questioned by the Singapore Police yesterday in connection with tbe recent three-day strike by company busmen. Six more will be interrogated today. A Police spokesman said yesterday: "Police subpoenas were served on the
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    Bandits drag policeman into jungle
    87 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon GANG of 30 terrorists A. attacked a mining kongsi Hi the Tapah area of Perak yesterday- and occupied an auxiliary police post. Auxiliary policemen in another post some distance away counterattacked and drove them off. The terrorists dragged a captured auxiliary policeman
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    HAD PILLION
    23 7 KUANTAN. Mon. Leong Yoon Tong and Taw Tan Hoo were fined $6 for carrying a passenger and leaving a bicycle unlocked.
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    Civic reception to Thomas Cup teams
    184 7 Iiff ALAYA'S sports world will be represented at the ITI civic reception which the City of Singapore will give on June 2 to the players and officials of teams participating in the Thomas Cup badminton mat* hes. i Invitations have gone out to all
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    23 7 MISS BETTY LIl daughter •f Mr. Liv Shao Tjwong, of Singapore; sails in Jane to study education in the Pacific Union CoUege. Callfornia.
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    ROTAN for ARMED ROBBER
    177 7 CHAN THIAN SOON, aged 23, who was found guilt* at the Singapore Assize Court yesterday of armed robbery at a house in Changi Road, was sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment and 14 strokes of the rotan by Mr. Justice Knight. With two other armed Chinese.
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    CG presides over talks
    59 7 rE Commissioner-General, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, held a conference in Singapore yesterday with the Governor of Singapore, Mr. John Nlcol and the High Commissioner for the Federation General Sir Gerald Templer. Also present were the Service chiefs. A Phoenix Park spokesman described it as "a routine
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    'L' drivers made it a loser
    108 7 LEARNER drivers, trying their hands at heavy traffic manoeuvring, spoilt Singapore Traffic Police experiments at Saturday's races. A police spokesman said the new arrangement to make all traffic enter through the main gate and leave by the other would be tried again tomorrow and
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    WORK—AND WAITING
    76 7 WORK— AND WAITING POLiCt bejp was needed to control the crowd which went to collect mail frow the temporary post office at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. SIGHT: One of the many posters, displayed •■tslde the Hail by the striking postmen. BELOW: Mr. D. W. Naylor. personal assistant to the
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    MCS MEANT ONLY FOREXPA TRIA TES, SAY GRADUATES
    278 7 rpHE Malayan Civil Service is intended to be a A "senior political civil service staffed by expat dates", says the editorial of the May issue of the Grad, magazine of the Singapore Stamford Club. The Grad bases Its opinion on a speech
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    Counterfeit charge
    69 7 CHOO Kar Tong. aged 27, was in Singapore First Police Court yesterday charged with having 200 counterfeit Indonesian ruplahs at East Coast Road on t Sunday. Tan Alk Cher, 41. and Wong Yoke Soon, 31. -were also charged with counterfeiting < Indonesian rupiahs of 100 j rupiahs denominations
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    Search is called off
    63 7 PENANG, Mon. /X)MBINED air-sea search V* by RAF. planes and! marine launches for Leading Aircraftman Allan Leong, who crashed in a M.A.A.F. Harvard trainer plane, off Batu Ferringhl yesterday, has been abandoned. A funeral service will be held at mid-sea on Wednesday morning for Mr. Leong.
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    Clearer past for S'pore
    53 7 OOON visitors to the SingaO pore Victoria Memorial Hal] will not have to strain their eyes to identify the Colony's past leaders whose portraits decorate the interior walls. The City Council Is to lower the portraits to make them more readily visible. And the portraits are
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    $7,000 theft in K.L. cafe
    52 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Jewellery worth $6,500 and $650 disappeared from the safe at a restaurant in Ampang Street yesterday. The discovery was made b >' the proprietor when he returned from Port Dlckson where he had spent the weekend. The police found a skeleton key
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    Airport quiz 'is not sinister'
    151 7 Airport quiz 'is not sinister' ALL WORKERS. Gov- ernment or otherwise, whose daily duties take them to Kallang airpoit. Singapore, are being asked to provide full personal details for dossiers which will be kept by the C.I.D. as a security measure. A Government spokesman told the Straits Times this yesterday
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    The Comet leaves
    49 7 rE world's fastest air liner, the De Havllland jet Comet which arrived !a Singapore from London In 19 hours 13 minutes flying time, left yesterday for Bangkok The Comet, which is on a training flight, Is fully equipped with seats and catering facilities for 36 passengers.
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    Malacca J.P. aged 90, dies
    43 7 MALACCA, Mon— Mr. Ham Ah You. aged 90, Malacca's oldest Justice of the Peace, died yesterday. He was patron and president of many associations and a members of the Chinese Advisory Board. The funeral will be on Thursday.
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    IT'S BARGAIN TIME IN THESE SHOPS.BUT
    138 8 - Traders aren 9 t happy about it y f 'ITII fortunes invested in over-stocked textiles, piece-goods and luxury commodities, Singapore merchants, mainly Chinese, are now selling below imported costs to recover part of their capital. In various parts of the City, many Chinese piece-goods
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    30 8 ONE OF THE TWO TIDaL CONTROL, GATES in the recently completed land drainage project at Senggarang in Johore which will reclaim* M square miles of swampy land for agricultural purposes.
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    Bookings begin for Coronation
    122 8 Bookings begin for Coronation AIR and sea bookings for the Queen's coronation in London next year were begun in Singapore yesterday more than 12 months before the event. Hundreds of Malayans are expected to be among the thousands of overseas visitors who will flock to London for the Coronation which
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    Yogi gives talk in Tamil
    54 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Eight hundred Indians, including 200 women, this evening packed the Selanpor Chinese Assembly Hall to hear Yogi Sri Shuddananda Bharatl's first public talk in Tamil. The Yo?i will end his meetines in Kuala Lumpur with a prayer service at the Shudda Samaia
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    Bail for woman
    31 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon.— Ho Toon* Low, a woman, was allowed $250 bail In the Sessions Court pending trial on a charge of possession of seven tubes of chandu.
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    Johore to reclaim 630 square miles
    235 8 GIANT ENGINEERING PLAN rPHE JOHORE GOVERNMENT is working on a A gigantic scheme, described as the largest engineering project in Malaya, to reclaim for agricultural purposes 634 square miles of waste land contaminated with sea water. The scheme calls for the building of a
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    TRANSFER
    31 8 TAIPING. Mon— Mr. H. E. Josselyn. District Officer, Larut and Matang, Is to be transferred to Ulu Kelantan as District Officer. He will be succeeded by Mr. Wolfers from Tapah.
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    Beggar gaoled
    44 8 SEGAMAT. Mon— "l live by begidng and have no money for the purpose." said 57-year-old Saw Yew charged at Segamat with failing to take out a- fresh identity card to replace a lost one. He was sentenced to a week In gaol.
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    Farewell party at Muar
    48 8 i/lUAR. Mon.— lnche Abdul '/ahlm bin Dawang, acting Assistant Collector of Land Revenue, Land Office. Muar, was given a farewell teaparty by the Muar Land Office staff before transfer to Johore Bahru He goes to the Office of the Commissioner for Lands and Mines.
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    Bus driver fined
    24 8 SEGAMAT Mon.— For faillr? to have first aid equipment In his bus, 52-year-old driver. Padmadhan Nair, was fined $15 at Segamat.
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    Chinese-speaking Tungku
    54 8 BKCALA LUMPUR, Mon. ELIEVED to be the first Malay Government officer to Ko overseas to study Chinese, Tungku Said Abdullah, of Neirrl Semhilan is leaving next week for Macao, after a course in Cantonese at the Chinese Language School in the Cameron Highlands. Tunuku Said Abdullah is in
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    BABY WAS KILLED BY TOY BELL
    52 8 BABY WAS KILLED BY TOY BELL JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. WHILE PI^AYING with his toys, baby Hassan swallowed a small bell, which stuck in hLs throat. His father, Haji Ahmad, heard choking sounds, could not remove the bell. Th« babj was taken to hospital, where he died. Verdict at the inquest
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    ACQUITTED
    33 8 SEGAMAT. Mon— Lau Kok. aged 47 was acquitted and discharged by the Segamat Magistrate when a charge of having permitted his house to be used for gambling was withdrawn by the police.
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    SOON YOU'LL SEE FILM THAT NO-ONE WANTED
    186 8 SOON YOU'LL SEE FILM THAT NO-ONE WANTED THE Federation Government has sent to London a print of "Accusation", the first anti-Communist Chinese film to be imported into Malaya so that copies can be made for the Emergency Information Service's travelling projectors. 1 A Government spokesman said in Singapore yesterday: "As
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    Stowaway aboard
    58 8 A YOUNG Arab stowaway was discovered on board the 4,249-ton freighter, East Hill, aoon after the ship arrived In Singapore yesterday from Calcutta. Twenty-six-year old Jawah Rahd is believed to have stowed away when the East Hill called at Aden. His presence was reported by the master Asoon
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    THREE FINED
    33 8 MUAR, Mon.— Chlo Ah Ngo, Tan Hock Kit and an Indian Kllloo. were each fined $15 at Muar for moving foodstuffs without a permit within a restricted area at Bukit Pasir.
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    CARD DEFACED
    24 8 MUAR, Mon. Tot failing to report that his identity card was defaced, Chua Leng Poh of Tangkak, wasr at Muar fined $10.
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    Chandu charge
    21 8 KUANTAN. Mon— Chla Gee. of Semambu Estate, wacharged n Kuantan with possession of chandu. He wa; allowed $500 ball.
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    Man shot in house: 30 knew nothing
    192 8 TN A HOUSE where more than 30 people lived Ho Ah Beng alias Lav Ho alias Ho Kee Fatt, s 34-year-old newspaper seller and a school teacher was shot three times "without anyone being seen on the evening of Apr. 7. I Yesterday,
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    FOUR TO DISCUSS MIXED MARRIAGE
    53 8 THE Malayan Forum will discuss over Radio Ma laya at 8.30 tonight the subject of "Mixed Marriages." The panel will be: Mr. Tan Kay Hai, of the Social Welfare Department, Singapore; Mr. Hugh Lewis; an Englishwoman married to Chinese; and the Enrlish wife of an
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    ON $100 BAIL
    33 8 JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. D. Beerapathram, charged in the General Hospital with attempting; to commit suicide at Boon Heng Estate, by hanging hlmselr with a rope was aKowed ball of $100.
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    HAVE YOU GOT A TOUGH TODDLER?
    612 9  -  NURSE BRIDGET »FHE mother of a two year old boy writes that her model baby is turning into a little savage. He cries and screams when he cannot get his own way, refuses to go into his cot to rest and is being generally
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    The Men Are Usually Scared Away
    573 9 Feminine duellers have sometimes winged or even killed their rivals; but the object of their battle usually prefers a WIFE with a fainter heart. yLfHEN two young Californian girls decided to settle their differences with a car duel not so long ago. another page
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    GREAT BELIEVER IN NEW TRADES
    285 9 FROM AN ESTATE BUNGALOW /XX)KIE is a great believer Kj in learning new trades and has been pestering me for some time to buy some very small nails. As a rule I get what he asks 'bar paint, for he paints all and sundry if
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    Take Care Of Costume Jewellery
    254 9 Take Care Of Costume Jewellery r|\HE good costume JewelX Eery which many fashionable women wear nowadays may not be so valuable as precious Jewellery, nevertheless It deserves the same care and attention if It is to remain an attractive ornament to the wearer.. By far the best way to make
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    CRUELTY TO SWfM SUITS
    67 9 MAJOR HARVEY DU CROS makes swimsuitt and is horrified at the way women ill-treat them. "A satin swimsuit," h» declares, "is a fashion garment and should be treated as such. "Women would not dream of throwing a silk dress in the boot of s car, or
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    48 9 tt>?t-i!.i's debutantes igirlt having their first season in society > made their bou at the traditioi al Qucei Charlotte's Ball a few days ago. Here the white-clad debs file past the huge birthday cake, which practical jokert had wired for firecrackers to go off when, the cake was cut.
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    Siam Plans A New Burma Road
    182 10 Siam Plans A New Burma Road BANGKOK. SIAM intends to construct a third international highway Unking this country with Burma, it has been announced by Major General Mom Luang Karb KunJara, Acting Director of the Public Relations Department. A decision to this effect was taken at a recent meeting of
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    SURVEY OF JUNGLE 'GAP'
    145 10 SURVEY OF JUNGLE 'GAP' A SURVEY project to obtain new and exact Information about the size and shape of the world has started In the heart of Africa. It is the "closing of the gap" the accurate measurement of the approximately 650-mile blank in the 30th Meridian of Longitude which
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    MALAYA SAYS GOODBYE TO COMMANDOS
    933 10  - MALAYA SAYS GOODBYE TO COMMANDOS GEOFFREY GELDARD The men the bandits fear are going to more peaceful lands By QJOON the men of No. 3 Commando Brigade, Royal Marines, will br> jumping from landing barges and capturing strongposts on the coast of Malta O. C. in a make-believe war, and
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    NINE MEN WHO RULE VHEPRESIDENI
    944 10  - NINE MEN WHO RULE VHEPRESIDENI FREDERICK COOK DV ol T INE men now stand In the spotlight In the U.S.A. They are the Judges who make up the Supreme Court of the United States. They have to decide whet- f her or not President Truman has acted illegally in seizing
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    Australian Stock Exchange
    129 11 Australian Stock Exchange From Our Own Correspondent MELBOURNE, Mon. rpHK share tone on the Melbourne Stock Exchange improved today. Rises outnumbered falls for the nrst time In weeks. Although most price fluctuations were small turnover was still light. Closing middle prloas. all In Australian currency. Included: Loan 34% 1M«-S6 482/18/t
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    20 11 MELBOURNE, Mon. VTALUES at today's Melbourne wool sales were fully firm on last week's Improved rates In Adelaide.
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    ESTATE SOLD
    41 11 THE directors of Tenom Rubber Estates have now received a firm offer to purchase ihe company's MengattaJ estate, in North Borneo, for £325,000 sterling. The offer has been accepted subject to the approval of the shareholders, says a circular.
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    U.K. EXCHANGE
    32 11 HONO KONG. Mon. P<REE market currency exchange of Hong Kong dollars was quoted at the close today as follows: US«I HK16.5275 (cash); HK16.5575 (T.T); HK515.95. One tael of gold $303.
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    SPECULATIVE BUYING ON RUBBER MARKET
    182 11 Devaluation rumours bring 1 1/2 cts. gain By Our Market Correspondent TiHE price of rubber rose H cents on the Singapore market yesterday. June first grade closed at 88 cents a lb. The price went up following speculative buying by Malayan dealers on unconfirmed rumours
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    TIN: $485 A PKUL
    13 11 SINGAPORE, Hon.— May I»— MM a piml (op |3H).
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    LESS DEMAND FOR LUXURY GOODS
    95 11 I\EM\ND for luxury o^ods in countries like the United States has dropped under the load of taxation necessary to help free world defence preparations. This year the total per capita average tax load for Americans is estimated at $530, five times that of 1938. Under
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    U.S. SYNTHETIC SETS RECORD
    35 11 ITS. synthetic rubber production yj was a record 3,003.000.000 pounds in 1951. compared to 1950s 1.166,000.000 pounds, the U.S. Tariff" Commission reports. The previous record production was 1.904.000.000. reached in 1945.
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    Malayan Shares
    76 11 Market dull rnHB Malayan Share Market M. was dull and featureless in all sections yesterday, with restricted business within quotations. Yesterdays price changes by the Malayan Share Brokers' Association were: INDCBTBIALS ■■ran Baßara Jackson A Co I.H 1O» MIMNO Burma Malay is 8 M/Honf Fatt 5/t (/I Kuchal
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    THE PRODUCE MARKET
    72 11 rpHE Singapore Produce Market was again dull In most sections yesterday. Pepper sellers kept prices unchanged, offering Muntok at $630 a plcul, Sarawak at $615 and Lampong (black) at *545 Trade m copra was ve-y dull, with sellers unchanged for May at $27 a plcul and June
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    TALAM MINES
    14 11 The output by Talatn Mines Ltd. for April 1953 was 325.56 piculs.
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    SINGAPORE SHIPPING
    202 11 CHIPS alongside the Slnffapore H»rbour Board godown*. or eipectrd there by 1 a.m. today, are:— l/ 2 Onnjr-; 4/S War Hindoo: Coal PlantTat An: f/7 Travaneore: ■/> Chandpara; U S Otis Bland; 13/14 Breconthire: 15/16 Straat Makassar; M Crest m. 19-20 Hal Hlnc NWJ Larianc N.W. 4 Renfam;
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    Company reports
    285 11 T*HE directors of Kuala Oeh Plantations Ltd., announce that the Interest on the outstanding 7>4 per cent. Income Debenture stock will be paid at the rate of 7 1 per cent, per annum, for the 15 months to Oct. 31. 1991. less tax at 9 '6d in the
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    SINGAPORE TIDES
    30 12 TOIMV: H ;h ORO9 '7 HI and ***** <-,»<; Low 0202 •2»i nnd 1471 il 61 TOMORROW: 0916 '8 2) and 2114 ■H:j 0?5« 12 ftl and 1520 iJ»I
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    WOODCOTE INN-PARMITER DUEL FOR CUP!
    419 12 WOODCOTE INN-PARMITER DUEL FOR CUP! Top sprint will be a thriller By EPSOM JEEP HIGHLIGHT of tomorrow's racinf at Bukit Timah will be the Woodcote Inn— Parmiter clash in the valuable Summer Cup race over 6-f. With other top-flight sprinters like Uninsured, Good Gamble, Firm, Zanzibar, Scotch Express and Billdaw
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    Squash this vicious soccer
    283 12 Squash this vicious soccer By SCNTWEL IT U time that both S.A.F.A. and the Business Houses F.A. paid more attention Co their Junior match.es. A bit of a bore, no doubt, but unless these associations buckle down to it they are going to find themselves in the middle of a
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    India 214-8 after 101 for 1
    216 12 LONDON. Mon. INDIA, after a solid opening partnership of 101 runs by Roy and Mantrt 'he tourists' best start of their tour again batted disappointingly today In 'he second day's play of the M.C.C. v India match here at Lord's. The tourists at close
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    BANK WIN 12-0
    39 12 Hong Kong Bank swamped Mansfield Sports Club 18—0 In a Singapore B.HP.A. Dlv 1 game at Shell ground yesterday. Scorers were B. Rosario (4). Belns (3). V. Klass (3). Peters (S>. and S. da Scusa (1).
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    RAJA PUAN CUP
    29 12 TELUK ANBON, Sun. The Teluk Anson Malay School won the Raja Puan B'sar Cha>'<T.ge Cup when the Ku->l< Kaiw'i Malay School rave them a wmlk over.
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    SUMMER CUP PROBABLES AND JOCKEYS
    207 12 SUMMER CUP PROBABLES AND JOCKEYS DROBABLB llue-up and jockeys for the Summer Cup worth $18,000 In stakes and added money for Class 1. Dlv. 1, sprinters over Sf. at Bukit Timah tomorrow arc: 717 UNINSURED 9.07 (Daniels) 5 breg by Pull Bloom— Pair Araby Eaaseil 838 GOOD GAMBLE 9.02 (R
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    "Gift" goals give C.A. two points
    291 12 Chinese Athletes 3; Kota Raja 9. WHERE was nothing In this SAFA. Dlv. 1 fame at A Jalan Besar stadium yesterday to break the gloom that hung over the ground. Athletes, presented with two "gift'- goals in the first session, beat a disjointed and
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    Solperion, Harrovian are ready
    316 12  - Solperion, Harrovian are ready EPSOM JEEP B y rO PROMISING youngsters in the van Breukelen Stables worth keeping an eye on at Bukit Timah tomorrow are Solperion and Harrovian Soiperlon, a good looking three-year-old chestnut by Sol Oriens, has been wcrking in great heart. With Roy Perclval astride. Solperion strode
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    Shirai is first Jap world boxing champ
    205 12 TOKYO, Monday. yOSHIO SHIRAI of Japan tonight won the world' flyweight boxing championship by a decisio over Dado Marino of Honolulu in a close 15-round bout. The decision of the three Japanese officials was unanimous. \n estimated crowd of 42.000 saw the fight.
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    Indian Cup team train in secret
    329 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. DKHIND closed doors tonifht, India's Thomas Cup "team began their final training for their iriterzone tie against Denmark which Is to be played here this weekend. Mr. Tan Teck Soon Hon. Secretary of the Selangor B.A. told the Straits Times that
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    BREWERIES JUST BEAT OFF N.T.S.
    106 12 OREWERIES S.C Just scraoec through to a 3—2 win over Netherlands Trading Society in a Business Houses F.A. Dlv. 2 game at Farrer Park yesterday. Breweries opened scoring in the 22nd minute through All wh headed in a high ball from Oemnc and Just befor-
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    Battle of the telegrams has ended
    147 12 KUALA LIMPI R, Mask THE "battle by teles-ram" fee--1 twtfn tke Sdaager and Sinrmporr badminton umcU Uom hat ended hi a strategic "retreat" by the Colony. Tke latest caMe from Us Singapare B.A makes aw menUon of IU bU U stage exMMtto» gaaaes the
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    ENGLAND HELD TO DRAW BY ITALY
    264 12 FLORENCE, Monday. r:ALV and England drew I—l here yesterda-v in one of the poorest international soccer matches seen for years. England led at halftime with a goal by inside right Broadis and Italy's inside left Amadei equalised 18 minutes after the interval. A draw
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    MAY MEDAL TO MRS. SMART
    47 12 The L.O.U. Monthly Medal played over 18 holes at the Island Club on Sunday resulted: A Division: Winner: Mrs. K Smart 88 14=71: Runner up: Mrs. B. James 88—15=73. B. Division: Winner:— Miss Kitty Meyer 99—31=88; Runner up:— Mrs. J. Strickland 98—27—
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    S.O.S.C. SWIM TRIALS TODAY
    243 12 AU Buong Hoo (V MCA.) and Wtebe Wolters fSS.C.) will swim the 100 metres freestyle before the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council's officials at the Chinese Swimming Club at 5.30 p.m. today in an attempt to qualify for Helsinki SOS C have set 69 2 seconds
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    Britain lead Yugoslavia
    121 12 «3NDON, Man.— The Brltalnoslavia clash In which Britain had a 2-1 lead was the only undecided tie at the end of yesterday's games in the second round of the European Zone of the Davis Cup. Six matches wen completed yesterday and In a seventh Argentina took a
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    BOYS BEAT TEACHERS
    41 12 Combined Schools beat Teachers Training College by 10 runs in a friendly cricket match at Raffles Institution ground on Sunday. Combined Schools: 113 (A. Delllkan 38, Stevens 39, D. Keyt 3 for for 35) Teachers T. College 103.
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    R.C. WIN 7-1
    24 12 KLANO, Mou Klang Rover* B.C. went down to Pert Swettenham R.C. 7-1 In an Dtr. soccer game played on Padang today.
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    MONERASINGHE HITS HUNDRED
    54 12 TAIPINO, Men. Schoolboy T. Monerasinghe scored the first century In district cricket lire on Saturday for King Edwaro VII School against R.A.SC The School won by 102 runs. K.E VII School 161 fcr five dec. (Monerasinghe 108). R.A.S.C 49 (Sandragesu two for 3, Monerasinghe four for 10.
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    24 12 KUALA KANGSAR. Mon. Last year's Joint league soccrr champions. Iskandar Polo Club and Ramblers, drew o—o In the Kuala Kangsar District League.
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    Ooi was too easily beaten
    403 12 Ooi was too easily beaten BADMINTON By our Badminton Reporter WONG Peng Soon gained his easiest victory In his series of matches against 00l Telk Hock when he beat hit old rival 15-3. 15-5 at Singapore's Happy World Stadium last night. Peng Soon was In full command from the first
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    Thunderhead runs second
    145 12 PARIS. Mon. rpHUNDERHEAD 11, winner of the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket and Joint favourite for the Epsom Derby, was beaten into second place in the French 2,000 Quineas at Longchamps yesterday. His conqueror in the one mile race was Baron Ouy de Rothchild's Ouersant, who according to
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