The Straits Times, 11 August 1952

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    19 1 The Straits Times MALAYA'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: ESTABLISHED 1845 TWELVE PAGES SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1952 X PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    MOCK WAR IN SINGAPORE
    294 1 The Volunteer army beats back invaders CINGAPORE'S volunteer farces yesterday faced their severest test yet when the biggest combined land, sea and air exercises were carried out. "Operation Rabbit" was a success, officers said last night But soon after the "war" was over umpires set to
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    LIQUID GOLD ON THEIR BOOTS
    55 1 PARIS. Sun. MOLTEN sold stuck to the boots of firemen when they put out a fire last night in the central shop and workhouse of Christofle, leading Paris goldsmiths. Damage estimated today at "tens of millions of francs" was caused by the fire, which melted
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    First batch flies out to S'pore
    94 1 SOUTHAMPTON, Sun. A FLYING troopship took off for Singapore tonight with 17 British Servicemen apd their families. An Air Ministry spokesman said this was the first of three experimental flights which, if satisfactory, would be continued to relieve pressure on accommodation Ln seagoing troopships.
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    MIG shot down
    27 1 SEOUL, Sun. British carrier-based warplaiies yesterday destroyed one Russianbuilt MIG-15 jet and damaged three others In three dogfights near North Korea's west coast— Reuter.
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    Strike threat
    37 1 LONDON, Sun. Engineers are considering strike action or a national ban on overtime and piece work to enforce their demand for a £2 a week pay rise for about 2,250,000 men in the industry. —Reuter.
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    Razor stopped arrogance
    52 1 Razor stopped arrogance NEW DELHI Sun.— Thirty prisoners were on hunger strike in Bikaner gaol today in protest against the forcible shaving off of their moustaches The gaol superintendent last week ordered the prison barbers to shave all prisoners to stop them "arrogantly twisting their moustaches while abusing the gaol
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    Devotees of goddess angered
    148 1 Devotees of goddess angered HONG KONG, Sun. >pHE police yesterday banned all worshippers from the now headless Buddhist goddess statue on the Lee Yuen hillock, presumably a precaution against possible eruption of the current controversy into rioting. The government is now levelling the hill for building purposes, but its destruction
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    'We found America,' says Soviet
    68 1 'We found America,' says Soviet LONDON, Sun. rE Soviet Admiral A. Golovko, writing in the Government newspaper Izvestla. claimed today that Russian sailors were the first to discover the coasts of North America, the Antarctic and "a considerable part' of Africa, says Moscow radio. He also claimed that Russia was
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    JAPS FREE 2 FRENCHMEN
    43 1 YOKOSUKA. Sun. Two French sailors arrested on Aug. 1 by Japanese police, and charged with beating up a prostitute and stealing her handbag, were released without trial when they apologized and repaid the money, the newspaper Asahl reported today.
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    Bandits burn down house
    29 1 Terrorists yesterday burned down a house and garage in the Paloh area of Johore after robbing the occupant. A truck In the garage was destroyed.
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    Few jobless
    16 1 AUCKLAND, Sun. New Zealand, with a population of 1,947,000, has only 50 unemployed.— A.P.
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    The Redlanders invade
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    And he couldn't find a middleman
    363 1 SIR GERALD VISITS VILLAGE TAIPING, Sunday. Vf IDDLEMEN in fish were scarce in the Chinese iTI fishing village of Kuala Kurau, Perak, today when the High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Temnler, descended on the place. "Bring me a middleman," the General told the Malay
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    School in a bandit camp
    64 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A SCHOOL was found in a terrorist camp located by a combined police and 3rd King's African Rifles patrol beside a cultivated area in the Trianf District of Pahang yesterday. The camp consisted of 13 hats and had accommodation for 30 bandits.
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    Duke better, says doctor
    48 1 ROME, Sun. Professor Sante Pisani, Italian physician attending the Duke of Windsor, said in Montecatln; Terme last night: "The general condition of the Duke is excellent and he is rapidly recovering from his ailment. The slight fever which he had this morning has disappeared."—Reuter.
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    EQUIPMENT CAPTURED
    31 1 A patrol of "D" Company, 4th Malay Regiment, wounded a terrorist in the Temerloh district of Pahang yesterday. He and another ban£» fled but some printing equipment was captured.
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    U.S. Judge was there
    77 1 IPOH, Sun.— Mr. Justice William O. Douglas, Associate Supreme Court Judge of the United States, was among the guests at a dinner held in the Station Hotel last night to bid farewell to Mr. P. Sankey, of the Ipoh Supreme Court, who is retiring after 40
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    BANKERS HELD
    35 1 VIENNA, Sun.— Four businessmen and eight senior officials of the Credltanstalt one of Austria's two big nationalised banks, have been arrested 1 on suspicion of illegal currency dealings, police said here today.— Reuter
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    Coal for Soviet
    23 1 TOKYO, Sun. Three Japanese shipping firms are planning to send their vessels to Russian-controlled Sakhalin soon to carry coal.— UJ*.
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    Bus burnt
    23 1 Bandits stopped and burned a bus in the Sungei Slput north area of Perak, yesterday. Rubber trees were slashed In Johore.
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    PEACE TALKS ON THE PHONE
    89 1 PEACE TALKS ON THE PHONE MACAO, Sun. MACAO officials have contacted Red China by telephone In an effort to settle the border dispute. Sources say negotiations for re-opening land and sea communication between the colony and neighbouring Chinese territory had now reached a "decisive stage." Details of the telephone talks
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    Arab military chiefs meet
    35 1 CAIRO, Sun. Commanders of armed forces and military experts from Arab League nations will meet in Cairo on Aug. 23 to set up a permanent military council of Arab States.— Reuter
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    'IKE' WANTS TO HELP THE AGED
    116 1 DENVER, Sun. pEN. Dwight Eisenhower said yesterday that he wanted to expand the American social security programme to cover 14,000,000 more persons and to increase old age pensions. After a meeting with three Republican members of the House of Representatives today, the general said:
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    Six dead bandits in weekend bag
    148 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday 2IX more terrorists have been killed and two others wounded by security forces in the Federation. Three of them fell to a patrol of the Ist CameronLans in the Segamat area of Johore. A fourth bandit was wounded. Two rifles were
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    JAPS CHANGE IDEAS ABOUT JURISDICTION
    229 1 JAPS CHANGE IDEAS ABOUT JURISDICTION TOKYO, Sunday. rpHE JAPANESE Ministry of Justice has ordered the police at Sasebo naval base to hand over to the Royal Naval authorities six British sailors arrested a week ago after a drunken brawl. The Justice Ministry interceded in the affair after consulting with the
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    Japs claim 'hover' jet
    41 1 TOKYO, Sun. Japanese i newspapers today feature..! stories of a Jet propelled helicopter built here by a Japanese aircraft designer. One j writer said it had a 60 h.p. jet on each of two rotor tips. Reuter-
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    $500,000 damage in S'pore fire
    176 1 FIRE in a godown in Canning Lane, off River Valley Road, Singapore, early yesterday morning caused damage estimated at $500,000 to hardwar t stored there and to rubber stored in an adjoining godown. The fire broke out shortly before 4 a.m. during a storm. Sixty
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    Restrictions go
    27 1 LONDON, Sun. Restrictions, imposed to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease, will be lifted in most parts of Britain at midnight tonight.— Reuter.
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    A-G FOR SARAWAK
    26 1 HONG KONG, Sun.— Mr. Geoigr E. Strickland, Soll-citor-Geneii! of Hong Kong and acting Attor..*y-General since July 1951, has been appointed Attorney-General, Sarawak.— Reuter.
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    Japs accuse U.S. officers of gem theft
    175 2 TOKYO, Sunday. JAPANESE prefecture officials reported to the Government today that two American officers stole over £1,000,000 worth of diamonds, platinum and other valuables during the occupation. They were taken from the prefectural office at Sendai, Northern Japan, according to a report made
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    Eruption on Stromboli
    43 2 Eruption on Stromboli ROME Sun. QTROMBOLI the volcano on the is.and of the same name, north of Sicily, erupted last night. Strom boli is the is'.ind where the Italian director Roberto RosselL'ni made a film stirring Ingrid Bergman before she married him. Reuter.
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    SUCCESS, SAYS ACHESON
    25 2 SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. Mr. Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, described the Pacific defence meeting in Honolulu this week as "most successful."
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    AIR CHIEF ON TOUR
    55 2 LONDON. Sun.— The Air Minister, Lord De Lisle and Dudley, left tonight for a tour of RAF. units in the Middle East. He will spend two days at Malta and will then visit R.A.F. units in the Suez Canal zone, starting at Fayid, before flying on
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    Dearer meat
    17 2 CANBERRA, Sun.— Britain will pay 16 per cent, more for Australian laaib from tomorrow.— Reuter.
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    Rebel attack beaten off
    49 2 RANGOON. Sun.— Burmese Government forces fought off a surprise attack by 600 Karen rebels on a military outpost at Henzada. 90 miles North of Rangoon, it was reported here today. Fourteen rebels were killed and 30 wounded. Reinforcements have been rushed to the area— Reuter.
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      407 2 THE PEACEFUL PROTEST BRUSSELS, Sunday. PROTESTING against Belgium's two years' compulsory military service law, 50,000 workers paraded today through the nation's industrial centres in a 24-hour general strike. Many Communist joined in the strike, but it was peaceful and opderlf.— U.P. AUCTION SALE OF Textiles. Roofing Felts, Bicycle Handle Bars,
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    MOSSADEQ IN SENATE CLASH
    237 3 Will resign if special powers are refused TEHERAN, Sunday. THE Premier, Mohammed Mossadeq, threatened last night to resign if the Senate refuses to follow the Majlis and give him extraordinary economic and defence powers for the next six months, informed sources said. The Premier met a
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    He may rule a kingdom
    57 3 Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan. 18-year-old son of •irk Kinc Talal, may rule the Ilashemite kingdom before long. The Prince was a favourite with his grandfather. King Abdullah, and was only a yard from the old King when he was assassinated in Jerusalem. The youth
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    BRITAIN ASKS U.S. ABOUT IT
    115 3 LONDON, Sun. I>RjTAiN is consulting the United States on the terms ol the recent Persian note on the oil dispute, a reliable source said here today Tiie Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, studied the note yesterday with his experts at the Foreign Office. The general disposition
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    Leaders sacked
    27 3 LONDON, Sun. Three leaders of the Czechoslovak Youth Movement were dismissed at a two-day youth leaders' conference in P mie. said ..ague Radio.— Rei t^r
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    Woman walks on the fire
    72 3 COLOMBO. Sun. A Buddhist spinster. 28-year-old Agnes Nona, was the first woman to walk unscathed through the red hot embers at the annual nrewalking ceremony at Katirgama, southeast Ceylon, this week. A year ago she was gravely ill from heart trouble and took a vow
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    Briton's record
    57 3 STOCKHOLM, Sun.— Mr. Tom Hayhcw. a British engineer, today broke the London to Stockholm non-stop record for planes weighing between 1,100 and 2,200 lbs. Mr. Hayhow, who took off from Croydon airport in a 120 h.p. Auster Aiglet, flew to Bromma airport here In six J:ours 41 minutes
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    Private meeting on Sterling
    139 3 Private meeting on Sterling LONDON, Sun. SENIOR Commonwealth officials will meet privately in London in the last week of September to prepare for th«> Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in late November. The general intention is that the officials should work until about the middle of October. They would fly back
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    Atom victims remembered
    56 3 NAGASAKI. Sun. Church bells tolled and sirens wailjed at two minutes past eleven here yesterday to commemorate the 73.000 estimated people who died in the 1945 atom bomb raid The Mayor blessed the memory of the victims. Later, in keeping with Japanese religious practice, paper lanterns were
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    Heart stopped— he lived again
    39 3 Heart stopped he lived again HAMBURG. Sun. A 19-year-old German. whose heart stopped beating for six minutes soon after he was struck b> lightning was kept alive for another 33 hours by an operation. He died last night —Reuter.
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    28 3 MISS JANE MCNEILI *?2-y ear-old daughter of Mr. John lVic?;.::'i. Q.C., who h to marry the Earl of Dalkeith, 28, heir to the Duke oi Buccleuch. A.P. picture.
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    Flowers fall on Eva's coffin
    202 3 BUENOS AIRES, Sunday. FLOWERS rained down from balconies to form a multi-coloured carpet along the broad Avenida De Mayo yesterday morning, when Eva Peron's coffin was taken on a specially raised gun carriage from the Ministry of Labour to Congress a mile and a quarter
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    Death for spy
    31 3 BERLIN, Sun.— The East German Supreme Court today sentenced a man to death and three other people to leng prison terms for alleged spying and attempted sabotage.— Reuter.
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    CEYLOISENVOY
    20 3 COLOMBO. Sun Mr. A. E. Goonesinhe, former Ceylon Minister of State, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary in Indonesia. —Reuter.
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    Six soldiers die in Rhine exercise
    111 3 BERLIN, Sunday. 3IX British soldiers were killed and one officer and two other ranks are feared drowned in the British Army's Rhine River crossing exercise "Spearhead," the Rhine Army announced here today. Three soldiers were killed by an explosion of a projec- tile left
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    German train for Queen
    53 3 BREMEN, Sun.— The first of 18 luxury railway coaches, designed to carry Queen Elizabeth II and her entourage on the Royal visit to Australia, were swung aboard a Norwegian ves/>l here today. The claret-coloured coaches were ordered by the Australian Commonwealth Railways and built at Kassel,
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    CHEAPER TEA
    41 3 DACCA, Sun.— The Pakistan Tea Board today asked the Central Government not to fix a minimum price for tea and demanded remission of the entire export duty on tea in view of falling prices in the world market.— A.P.
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    Base for U.S.
    26 3 SYDNEY, Sun. Australia has invited the United States to use the giant naval and air base on Manus Island, in the Admiralty Group.—Reuter.
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    Yugoslav denial
    22 3 LONDON. Sun.— Yugoslavia today denied Bulgarian allegations that last June her planes and soldiers had violated the Bulgarian border.— Reuter.
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    Japs cut taxes
    21 3 TOKYO, Sun. Japan's Finance Minister, Mr. Hayayo Ikeda, said yesterday that his Government planned to cut taxes.— Reuter.
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    I'm not Red, says the Archbishop
    170 3 I'm not Red, says the Archbishop LIVERPOOL, Sun. BEFORE sailing for New York in the liner Media last night, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Fisher, asked the captain to broadcast, a message to American passengers pointing out that he Ls not the "Red Dean" of Canterbury. The Archbishop heard an
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    Sealed lips in France
    72 3 PARIS. Sun.— A baffled detective searching for the murderers of the Drummond family said today that the local people were "a secretive crowd' who did not want to help the police. "Their lips are sealed." he said. The British food expert. Sir Jack Drummond, aged 61,
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    Queen Victoria
    32 3 HONG KONG, Sun. The Hong Kong Government is 10 rebuild the statue of Queen Victoria on its Causeway Bay reclamation site. The statue was looted during the Japanese occupation. —Reuter.
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    A KING'S PICTURE OF HIS SON
    30 3 KING i'Hl ■VHFIION of Siam took this picture of his son and heir, not yet named, who was born in Bangkok on July 28.
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    Egypt officers make pledge
    164 3 Egypt officers make pledge LONDON, Sun. NEWLY commissioned officers of the Egyptian armed forces taking the oath at a graduation ceremony yesterday, swore to carry out their superiors' orders "outside and within the Nile Valley," Cairo Radio said last night. General Mohammed Naguib, Commander In Chief, attended the ceremony, held
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    Nepal cabinet resigns
    33 3 KATHAMANDU Sun. Mr. Matrika Prasad Koirala, rrime Minister of Nepal, tendered th e resignation of his cabinet to King Tribhuvan today. The Royal decision on the resignation is expected soon.
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    SHIPS FREED
    22 3 TAIPEH. Sun.— Thirtyone Formosan fishermen returned to Kaohsiunu in Southern Formosa, yesterday after two months' detention in the Philippines.— Reuter.
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    Bad conduct
    36 3 BERLIN, Sun. A British Army court martial yesterday sentenced Private Edward Doherty, aged 25, who was said to have tried to cross into tne Soviet zone, tv 84 days' detention for bad conduct. Reuter.
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    Jap mission
    23 3 TOKYO, Sun. Japanese Parliamentary goodwill mission of seven members left here today for a tour of India and couth-East Asia. Reuter.
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    LINDY REMIGINO BEATS MacB AGAIN
    369 4 Two new world records set LONDON, Sunday. J^INDY REMIGINO, American Olympic sprint champion, again confirmed his superiority over Britain's "Black Flash", Mac Donald Bailey, when he won the 100 yards at the British Games meeting at the White City stadium here yesterday. But it was
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    Maxim 'shy' of Turpin
    144 4 NEW YORK. Sun. JACK SOLOMONS, the London promoter, said here today that negotiations for a world light heavyweight title fight between the holder. Joey Maxim, and Britain's Randolph Turpin. in London next month, were off. He added that he woud see lawyers on Monday about the
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    Cerda wins golf
    26 4 SPA (Belgium), Sun. Antonio Cerda, of Argentina, won the Belgian open golf championsh.p here today with a 72 holes total of 286. Reuler.
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    Davis Cup win for U.S.
    94 4 Davis Cup win for U.S. MONTREAL. Sun. T*HE United States gained a A winning 3-0 lead over Canada In their North American zone tinal of the Davis Cup here yesterday when they took the doubles. Vie Seixas and Herb Flam, the rjnlted States pair, beat Canada's Lome Main and Brendan
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    RAHIM MERICAN WINS 4 EVENTS
    43 4 KIRKBY (Liverpool), Sun. Rahlm Merlcan, brother of Kelan'an sprinter Sidique Merican, won four events at the first annual sports of Malayan student leachers at Klrkby College. He won the 100 yards, 440 yards, high jump and long jump.
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    Indians draw 0-0
    26 4 ZURICH, Sun. The Indian Olympic football team drew o—o with Zurich Club here yesterday, rain falling during the whole of the game.— Reuter.
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    Surrey, after title, hit by rain
    302 4 LONDON, Sunday. OAIN interfered with all matches in the county cricket championship programme yesterday and two could not be started. Surrey, anxious to make certain of the championship, were one of the unlucky counties, no play being possible in their match with Middlesex at
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    Indians play in the rain
    159 4 CHELTENHAM, Sun. I [tffOST striking feature of the opening of the match here i between the Indian tourists and Gloucestershire was that any play at all was possible yesterday. j Emmett and Martin Young did. however, bat for 100 minutes in between the showers, late
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    Goal crop heralds start of soccer
    307 4 Goal crop heralds start of soccer GLASGOW, Sun. FOOTBALL started again in Britain yesterday with the opening of the Scottish League Cup, which gets under way a fortnight before the English season. Rain made conditions unpleasant at most of the games but it did not prevent the two Edinburgh clubs,
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    Rex Layne seeks title fight
    81 4 OGDEN, (Utah), Sun.— Utah's farmboy heavyweight, Rex Layne. who now holds decisions over former champion Ezzard Charles and the present title-holder. "Jersey Joe' 1 Walcott. today demanded a shot at the crown. Layne outpointed Walcott in 1950, in New York, to gain his first recognition
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    COUNTY TABLES AND 1st CLASS AVERAGES
    314 4 Warwi k nire and Lancashire records include eight points for first innings lead in match tied. Sussex and Essex records include four points for (le without first innings lead. First six in the first class averages: LONDON, Sunday. ►RESENT standings in the coun'y cricket
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    Doris Hart beats 'Little Mo'
    278 4 SOUTH ORANGE (New Jersey), Sun. TVDRIS HART, 1951 Wimbledon MJ champion, beat 17-year-old Maureen Connolly, this year's winner, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Eastern grass courts championship here yesterday. Other results were: Men's singles (quarter-finals) Ken McGregor (Australia) beat Straight Clark (United
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    Free course of first aid lessons
    165 5 Free course of first aid lessons 1 THE SINGAPORE branch of 1 the St. John Ambulance -elation, which gives free .ining hi home nursing and first aid, is starting a new course of lectures on Thursday at its headquarters In Stamford Road. The organisers, Mrs. Pauline Garrity, brigade adviser, and
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    Screening in Ipoh
    78 5 IPOH Sun. The Lisntii Besar of Jerak watched Home Guards and auxiliary police screen nearly 3,000 people hi Yau Tet Shin and Theatre Streets early yesterday. The operation lasted from 1 a.m. to 6.30 am. While police cordoned off the area Home Guards searched the 100 houses
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    S'PORE DIARY
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    Federation chosen for efficiency of its medical services
    239 5 INDONESIAN DOCTORS TO LEARN IN PENANG PENANG, Sunday. rTOr T0 study maternity and child health methods in Malaya, a medical team of five Indonesian doctors and five midwives arrived in Penan? today on a three weeks' fellowship sponsored by the United Nations
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    31 5 Ai*r»ri fid"Ti;CS£ POH, a student teacher of the Seremban Convent and daughter of Mr. Ho Kirn Slew, of the Seremban Audit Office, who has been selected for the Kirkby training coarse.
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    50 5 THREE smart girls are Mary Wong Soe Ting (left) Chan Poh Geok (centre) and Chan Poh Puay, of the Methodist Girls' School, Singapore, who won the first three prizes at the inter-schools C.B. hand embroidery competition. Poh Geok was first, Poh Puay second and Mary third.— Picture by ARTHUR LIM.
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    Perak ruler opens housing estate
    182 5 IPOH, Sunday. nECLARING open the Ipoh Co-operative Housing Society's quarter-million dollar project of ten suburban bungalows in Kampar Road yesterday, the Sultan of Perak paid tribute to the society's enterprise and public spiri He said: "These buildings are the result of co-operative effort and enterprise,
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    Warning on new houses
    95 5 ALOR STAR. Sun. Before any plans for new houses are approved the authorities must insist that there are sufficient rooms, Dr. Low Chin Slang, Kedah Deputy State Surgeon, urged at the Alor Star Town Board meeting today. The Board decided not to insist on a proper
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    Left his post
    30 5 KLUANG. Sun Osman bin Nonal. Special Constable on Nanyo Kluang Estate pleaded guilty to absenting himself from duty. He was fined $200 or two months' rigorous imprisonment.
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    Labour asks more say on council
    138 5 IPOH, Sun. TH9 third annual delegates' conference of the Perak divisional committee of the Malayan Trade Union Council yesterday adopted a proposal to seek greater labour representation on the State Council. Mr. J. Emmanuel, who was earlier elected president, said that the State government
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    He wants unions to get more 'credit'
    196 5 to IPOH. Sunday. T»HE trade union movement in Malaya is not x getting enough credit for the wonderful work it has been carrying out in the country This yiew was expressed by Mr. O. L Wilkinson, Assistant Trade Union Adviser in the Federation,
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    Anniversary
    21 5 BATU PAHAT, Sun. The Chinese Recreation Club will celebrate its nineteenth anniversary on August 19 with a dinner and dance.
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    Today's Radio SINGAPORE
    76 5 Today's Radio SINGAPORE 10 ajn. News; 10.05 Tunes from Yesterday and Today; 10.45 Continental Touch; 11 Time for Music; 1 p.m. Monday Matinee; 1.30 News; 1.45-2 Home on the Range; 6.15 News; 6.30 Announcements; 6.35 Children; 7 Victor Silvester and His Orch.; 7.15 Album; 7 JO Spot the Favourites; 8
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    Youth leader to go on world tour
    257 5 |I|R. Eric Wee Sian Beng, president of the Singapore Youth Council, is going on a six-month world tour at his own expense. He will attend various youth organisations at their world assemMr. Wee leaves by air on I Thursday, with his wife, for
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    $105 FOR MOVING A DO6
    66 5 RAUB. San. AN officer of the B .E.M.E. Ist. Malay Infantry Brigade, Koala Lipis, was fined $40 by the President, Sessions Court, Mr. E. M. Smallwood. for taking a dog I from Pahanjc to Setanror and back. He was also ordered to pay $65 to
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    BAND AT RAUB
    17 5 RA UB Sun.-The band of the King's African Rifles played on Raub Padang today
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    Teachers reject salary terms
    197 5 PENANG, Sun. DELEGATES represent- me: nearly 40 Chinese schools in Penang' and Province Wellesley at a meeting yesterday rejected the new salary terms offered by Government as "unreasonable and impracticable." This view will be submitted to a special committee meeting of the United Chinese Teachers' Association,
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    Medicos put up a 'show'
    90 5 ALOR STAR. Sun. Four doctors and a dental surgeon gave clinical demonstrations with the assistance of patients yesterday evening when the Northern Division of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association held its first meeting In Alor Star. Dr. R. A. Pallister, who presided,
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    PLEADS GUILTY
    28 5 TELUK ANSON, Sun.— ldris bin Abdul Azia (24) pleaded guilty to being i n possession of suspected stolen property Sentence will be given on Aug! 26.
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    The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Aug. 11, 1952 A Little More is Needed
    517 6 The Straits Times Singapore, Mon., Aug. 11, 1952 A Little More is Needed When the United Malays National Organisation general assembly meets in Butter- worth next month it will be asked to pass a resolution calling on the Federal Government to stop bringing into i Malaya Br.tish troops or other
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    Worries are Groundless
    360 6 Newest-born of the alphabetically named world organisations. ANZUS Australia, New Zealand and the United States is already meeting with criticisms. To* the outhursts from the Philippines and Nationalist China against what they term the exclusion of real Asian nations from this Pacific defence pact are now added
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    ANNOUNCEMENT
    14 6 FOR wearable clothes with style •t rfsonable prices. Madeline's Sliow-rnom. 278, Orchard Road.
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    Island Trip
    269 6 Only a few miles from j Singapore are many islands quiet, edged with palm-shad-ed beaches, filled with the lure of .easy Adventure. But the holiday-making citizen of Singapore cannot go there without great cost in money, time and form-filling, even I though he just wants to get in
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    THE HOLIDAY IS OVER IN MALAYA
    922 6 THE HOLIDAY IS OVER IN MALAYA We are going to feel the blast of deflation, says a well-known Singapore Chinese businessman: COME six months ago I predicted in the Straits .Times that 'the price of immovable pro- perty and the cost of building had reached a peak. I warned your
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    Education for the Welfare State
    366 6 Education for the Welfare State "CANTILEVER" (Aug. 7) having accepted the essentials of my argument and compromised to a cynical disposition, this is only to clear up some points on which he has sought a reply. Nothing that I said about social service or education means that th e citizen
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    Frederick George Ritchie
    81 6 Taking pride in handicraft and learning As a youth and throughout manhood— Accumulating by experience The great gifts of commonsense— Serving this 'sland community With honesty of purpose and skill In peace and in war With hidden charity befriending Those in need of help and guidanceBeloved by
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      839 6 Question and answer on power I LISTENED with interest on Thursday evening to the President of the City Council's "grin-and-bear-it" talk on blackouts. I heard several things that most of us knew already that turbine generators are complex items of machinery to erect, and that electricity cannot be stored. And
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    On the Margin
    370 6 A visit to IVkan THIS is the strange tale of the Pekan Visitor. It comes to us from Kuantin, verbatim, as follows Two Government officials of Pekan that slow-moving town, were sold thin air last Friday evening (this is now the Friday before last.) They were having
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    PARKING PLAN: NO ACTION YET
    261 7 Who 11 pay for signs 9 Itroblem holds \p the scheme 4 LTHOUGH the Singapore City Council has accepted the recommendations of the Parking Problems Committee, providing for unilateral parking and the total prohibition of parking in certain streets in the City, nothing has been
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    Decision on MCA gift is put off
    174 7 Decision on MCA gift is put off pEPKESENTATIVES of SinMX gapore Malay organisations yesterday discussed whether or not the M.C.A. 5500.000 gift to Malays should be accepted hut without reaching: a decision Final decision was postponed until Sept. 7. The Malay I'niun of Singapore \\:is empowered to communicate with the
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    Dance girls' committee
    98 7 New office-bearers of the I Singapore Dance Hostesses' Association for 1952-1953 are: President, Lilian Ho; vice-presi-enny Lim. Mary Ang; serre:ary: Lee Ying Yeng; asst. secretary, Dorothy Davis; treasurer. Daisy Lim; asst. treasurer, Kong Yin Har; Auditors, Lily Wong, Ngan Swee Yin. Committee: Lo Yin Ping. Lee Ku:n
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    Sir Clutha arrives in Singapore
    106 7 Clutha Mackenzie, consultant on blind welfare to the United Nations, arrived in Singapore by air yesterday on a three-week visit to Singapore and the Federation. Accompanied by his youngest daughter, Susan, Sir Clutha will spend ten days in Singapore and 11 days in the Federation.
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    Friends fete sportsman
    78 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. Members of the Medical Bureau, Johore Bahru, today entertained Inche Rahman bin Haji Sirat. a colleague, to lunch at the UMNO premises, in honour of his victory at the recent Grand Prix meeting. Riding a Norton Manxman 348 cc, Abdul Rahman won in his
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    Girl hurt in accident
    75 7 Yap Poh Neo, a nine-year- j old girl, was seriously injured yesterday in an accident at the sth milestone, Changij Road, Singapore. She fractured both her legs and is now j in tl:e General Hospital. Lat* last night, the Singapore Traffic police said they were look-
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    39 7 THE SINGAPORE scout contingent at the Singapore railway station yesterday before leaving for the SouthEast Asia Patrol Camp at Kuala Lumpur. Also in the picture are three Singapore scout officials present to send the delegates off. Straits Times picture.
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    SEA contingents gather at Camp
    198 7 14 STORE SCOUTS FOR K.L. piVE contingents of 57 scouts and scouters from all over South East Asia were given a rousing send-off at the railway station in Singapore when they left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday to attend the South-East Asia Patrol Camp which opens
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    THIS PARTY WAS FREE TO ALL
    92 7 MORE than 2,000 people responded to an open two-hour invitation to everybody in Singapore to have free drinks at the new $500,000 Mvi Fong Hotel In Beach Road yesterday. The party was given by the management to mark the opening of the hotel which
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    Eurasians urged 'join regiment9
    159 7 Eurasians urged 'join regiment 9 KUALA LUMPUR-, Sunday. EURASIANS were urged today to Join the Federa- tion Regiment and play their part as "sons of the soil." They should "get out of the white collared class," Dr. J. S. Goonting, president of the Selangor Eurasian Association, said at its annual
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    STORE BLOOD BANK
    48 7 The position of the blood bank in the Singapore Blood Transfusion Service for the week ending Aug. 8 is: Groups O A B AB Total Donation 16 13 9 2 40 transfusion 33 15 17 4 69 Present stock in hand 17 35 7 59
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    Engineers celebrate
    44 7 TAIPING, Sun.— The Taiping Chinese Engineering Association celebrated their 33rd anniversary on Friday. There was a tea party at the association's permises Id Tupai Road, and at night there was a dinner at Hup Woh Restaurant at which many guests were present.
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    Sultan at ball
    21 7 KOTA BAHRU, Sun. The Sultan of Kelantan last night attended his birthday ball at Kota Bahru Union Club.
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    Rain—off again
    29 7 Rain— off again The annual meeting of the Singapore Naval Base Labour Union, scheduled for yesterday was postponed for the second time because of the rain until Aug. 24.
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    New Federal financial secretary
    94 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. MR. E. Himsworth, a former superintendent of Imports and exports, Hong Kong, has been named the new Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya. H e will succeed Mr. R. W. D. Godsall when he leaves on retirement after the budget meeting of the Legislative
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    SIX HURT IN COLLISION
    53 7 Six people were injured in Singapore yesterday evening when two cars collided at Yio Chu Kang Road, near the Woodbridge Mental Hospital. One of them, Mrs. Dorothy Faustina Hosienne, was admitted to the General Hospital. There were two people In one of the cars, and four
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    FINE UPON APPEAL
    77 7 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. In the Supreme Court today, Mr. Justice Buhagair, increased a lower court sentence, passed on Busari bin Ma'arof, a lorry driver, for causing a death by negligent driving. The lower court fined Busari $100, in default 20 days' imprisonment. Mr. Justice Buhagair increased the
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    FLATS BUILT FOR HOSPITAL DOCTORS
    116 7 A $400,000 block of six flats for resident medical officers of the General Hospital in Singapore is due to be completed by the middle of October, Mr. K. A. Brundle, Government architect, told I the Straits Times yesterday. I The flats are on a hill
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    ESTATE MANAGER FINED
    94 7 ESTATE MANAGER FINED JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. ANDREW Dickson, manager of Mawai Estate, Kota Tinggi, was found guilty today by Inche Taib Andak, President, Sessions Court, on a charge of criminal breach of trust in respect of $3,930.50, the property of Enemy Estates in Malaya. He was sentenced to one day's
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    3 Sultans pay visit
    38 7 KOTA BAHRU, Sun. The Sultan of Kelantan, accompanied by the Sultan of Pahang, the Sultan of Trengganu and the Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan this morning visited the Home Guard training centre at Pengkalan Chepa.
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    CAMP FIRE CONCERT
    47 7 BATU GAJAH, Sun.— Rain caused the Sultan Yussing School scouts' and guide; annual campfire concert to be held in the school hall after Lt.-Col. J. Suther had declared the fire open. The concert included a new school song written oy Mrs. E. S. Ford.
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    Rover Squires
    47 7 Five members of the newly formed 12th Group Rover Crew, Singapore, were invested as Rover Squires by the District Scout Commissioner, Eastern District. Mr. Charles Richards, at St Patrick's School yesterday. They were Joseph Boon. James Lim. Tom Wee, Toh Hock Guan and Peter Chong.
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    Council plan for 3 City crematoria
    222 7 SINGAPORE City Counci plan by its Architect Mr. W. I. Watson, for thn of land overlooking Macß 1 is considerig a $650,000 and Building Surveyor, :e crematoria on 11 acres itchie Reservoir and near Bukit Brown Cemetery. This is a new site. The original
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    Death of Mr. Chan YewKai
    88 7 KLANG, Sun. Mr. Chan Yew Kai, a well-known resident of Klang, died on Thursday at the age of 68. Mr. Chan was bom in Singapore and educated at the Victoria institution, Kuala Lumpur. He started his career as a teacher, then became an interpreter, a
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    Rotary talk
    35 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Sun. Mr. A. J. Day. Australian Trade Commissioner, Singapore, will address the members of the Rotary Club of Johore Bahru on Tuesday at the Johore Civil Service Club, at 5 p.m.
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    LABOUR SPLIT THREAT OVER NOMINATIONS
    210 7 A BOUT 2,000 members of the Labour Party of Singapore are expected to ask its general council to call an emergency general meeting immediately to protest against the council's choice of candidates for the December City Council elections. Some members of the general council issued
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    Miss Devi's Colony debut charms 350
    189 7 YOUNG Singapore violinist. Susheela Devi, last night charmed a crowd' of about 350 at the Victoria Memorial Hall, when she gave her first violin recital after her recent return to the Colony from Britain. Accompanying her on the piano was Noreen Stokes. Miss Devi's
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    Kerosene stove starts fire
    64 7 A kerosene stove exploded and caught fire in the quarters at the Customs House in B.ach Road, Singapore, yesterday, but the fire was put I out by the Fire Brigade. Two hours latter, the Fire Brigade also put out another fire in a house in Robinson
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    The New Energy
    300 8 HARWELL: (Her Majesty's Stationery Office. London 6s.) TELLING the story of atomic energy research in Britain, from 1946 to 1951, "Harwell", the first official account to be published since the United Kingdom decision to embark on a post-war atomic energy programme, demonstrates the Immense progress that has
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    A JAPANESE ACCOUNT OF MALAYA IN 1941
    872 8 FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF^^JIL SINCAPORE: By Colonel Masanobu Tsuji. (Tozainanboku Publishing Company, Tokyo. 280 yen, or 55.) |>EST-selling holiday "reading for millions of Japanese is a war book in which Japan's conquest of Malaya eleven years ago is presented as a series of surprises
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    Man's faith in a natural law
    355 8  -  BISHOP of LONDON By the DECLARATION OF FAITH. By Herbert Agar. (Collins. 12s. 6.) itfHAT can pull our sorely-divided world together? It is the question of questions at the present time and one that baffles the greatest statesmen of every country. Mr. Agar thinks
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    BRIDGE
    322 8  -  KENNETH By KONSTAM I AM a staunch believer In the strong No-triunp. I am even more confident that, If you do prefer the weak No-trump, the hand must contain a picture in every suit. Playing last week in a women's international trial match. Mrs. O L. Fleming flouted these
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    Cold war by one who knew
    267 8 Cold war by one who knew THE FORRESTAL DIARIES: The former History of rtie Cold War. Edited by Waiter Milks and E. S. Duffield. (Cassell. 25s.) By Nicholas Carroll BRITISH Cabinet Ministers whose work brings them into regular touch with senior United States officials must be growing nervous about the
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    THE ISLAND TERRORS
    170 8 THE DARK ISLAND: By Henry Treece (Gollancx, 12s. 6d.) iiENRY Treece, for his first n adventure Into the novel, has expanded a subject he has already treated in dramatic verse— though not, surely, quite so fulibloodedly. "The Dark Island' is a story of Britain In the first
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    Russian question mark clouds U.N.
    853 9 Russian question mark clouds U.N. SEVEN years and 50 vetoes ago, the Soviet Union helped to found the United Nations "to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Today the Russians are the biggest question mark clouding the future of U.N. Here is an American study of their position,
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    MALAYA'S LIVING STONES'
    305 9  -  NONI WRIGHT By "DATU HIDUP" (living "stones), the name given by Malays to stone monoliths about which little is known, have been discovered in a new area of Negri Sembilan. They must have been there for many hundreds of years but as far as Is known have
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      249 9 The Straits Times Crossword 7" 2 3 4*~ H| 5~~ ""7" T"~ 8 9 Z Z Zifc Z Z so ji Ifiliilil i i i nim ii j 23 I!" 25 11^~ ACROSS d. Hoot free (10). 1. The tallest scout in Derby- 12. VV. Yorks reek (anig.) shire (6).
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    TINS WERE ERRATIC ON METAL UPSETS
    560 10 TINS WERE ERRATIC ON METAL UPSETS lIN the four business 1 days left to Malayan markets last week by the Bank Holidays the turnover was small and scant attention was paid to aught but the plummeting tin price. Emphasis was on tin shares but the industrial section ruied quietly steady
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    Rubber crops in July
    31 10 Sime Daroy and Company announce the following rubber crops: Kempas: 370,700 lbs. in June: 408.200 lbs in July Radella: 15.500 lbs. in June: 16.000 lbs. in July
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    July tin outputs
    67 10 Austral Malay Tin Limited announce the following returns. The figures for each company are. hours run, j cubic yards dug and the number of plculs of ore recovered in that order Kampong Ka:nuntin<»: 489 j 114.000. 108: Thabawieik: 38n. *****. 775; Pungah: 543, 202.000. 369; Austral Amalgamated
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    Talam output
    10 10 Talam Mines' output for July was 346.83 picuhs.
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    SUNGEI TIIKANG
    12 10 Sungei Tukang Rubber Ltd's output for July WM 50.000 lb
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    'Less remote control' plea
    75 10 BRISBANE, Sun. AN investigating committee's report on the Queensland -British Fowl Corporation strongly criticises "remote control" of the oroiect, a "food for Britain" venture in Queensland. The report recommends a changeover from grain for Britain to beef for Britain. Urging less remote control, it quotes the
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    Business done
    141 10 BUSINESS done In the Malayan share market last week included: industrials. Fraser Neave Ord. $3.75, Gammon $2.56, Hammer $2.15, Robinson Ord. $3.45, Straits Trading $19.50. Henry Waugh $200. Wearne $2.10 and $2.12.-. Tins. Klang River $2.50, Kuchai $3.45, Petaling $6.47* cum div. to $5.95 to $6.10 ex div.,
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    BURMA WILL HAVE CONSUL IN STORE
    174 10 By Our Market Correspondent DURMA, the second largest supplier of rice to Singapore and the Federation, is to have a Consul In Singapore. Rinsapore Government has informed th e British Foreign Office that they would welcome the establishment of a Consulate in Singapore. Substantial
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    Klang Rivers pay 35 %
    94 10 Klang Rivers pay 35 Klang River Tin Dredging Company's dredge lost a total of two months' running time in the financial year ending March 31, 1952. while boilers were converted to oil fuel and ladder and bucket band were renewed. Profit for the period was $447,876 (56 per cent), against
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    16 10 Takuapa Va»°v r»------(Ni) won 479 plculs of we and covered 225.000 cubic yar^ in July.
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    Tulyar is backed to win St. Leger
    471 11 BUT GAY TIME GAINS SUPPORT LONDON, Sunday. JHE AGA KHAN'S Tulyar, biggest money winner in British racing history, is a seven to four favourite for the St Leger at Doncaster on Sept. 13, but Queen Elizabeth IPs Gay Time, at seven to two,
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    UP AND OVER-AND IT'S A RECORD
    32 11 RECORD JUMP: Schoolgirl Wong Siew Lian clears the bar at 4ft. 2in. to break the state record at Negri Sembilan A.A.A. championships at Seremban on Saturday.
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    'Help sport' appeal to N.S. Govt
    233 11 SEREMBAN. Sun. A CALL to Government to provide sufficient •porting facilities and playing fields to improve the standard of sport in Negri Sembilan was made by Mr. Lim Kee Siong president of the NJS-A.A.A.. at Seremban last night before the distribution of prizes won
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    Novices to get coaching
    103 11 IPOH, Sun. J7NTRIES for the hockey league open to women's teams in the Ipoh area will close on Tuesday, S«p' ember 16, and the draw will take place the following Saturday. Tbe women's section of the Perak Hockey Association also decided at a meeting today to
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    England's team for last Test
    74 11 LONDON, Sun.— England's team to meet India in the fourth cricket Test starting at the Oval London, on Thursday next will be chosen from the following 12 playeis selected today- Len Hutton, (Yorkshire) captain, Dave Sheppard (Sussex) Peter May (Surrey), Alec Bedser (Surrey), Godfrey Evans
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    Exhibition table tennis matches
    53 11 Former world Üble tennl champions, Johnny Leach and Richard Bergman and two Hong Kong stars Slh Su-chor and I Fu Chl-fang— will play exhibition matches in Singapore on September 11 and 12. Leach and Bergmann are now touring the Far-East. They recently visited Japan, Hong Kong
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    Staff beat School
    22 11 KLUANG. Sun. Government English School (Kluang) were beaten by the school's Staff XI by by seven wickets here yesterday.
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    GOALMOUTH THRILLS
    51 11 SOW FUNG, Negri left-iialf, heads a Boon Leon* turner kick off the goal line, after Yre Tham, Negri goalkeeper, was beaten. Looking on expectantly is Awanr Bakar, Singapore centre-forward, and Boudville. Negri centre-half. Singapore won this Malaya Cap match 4-0 at Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday. Straits Times
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    Special plans for MAAA traffic
    558 11 IPOH, Sunday. ELABORATE arrangements have been planned to cope with the heavy traffic that is expected in Ipoh during the Malayan athletic championships on Friday and Saturday. More than 100 men from the Traffic Police and the Auxiliary Police will be on duty to control
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    Eddie Arcaro wins American Derby
    45 11 CHICAGO, sun.— Mark-Ye-Well, a 3-5 favourite, won the (USJ 8148,000 American Derby at Washington Park by two lengths yesterday. Mark-Ye-WeU, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, and owned toy Calumet Farm, ran the mile and one fur.long In lmln. 49.6 sec. —A.P-
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    Superflights win
    18 11 In a badminton friendly on Saturday. Superflight B.P. beat Jacques BJ. by five games to two.
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    Teik Hocks had no opposition
    208 11 ALOR STAR, Sun. pENANG, with an overnight lead of four-nil, tonight went onto rout Kedah 9-D In their Poong Seong Cup badminton match at the Sultan Abdul Hamld College Kedah offered very poor opposltion to the powerful Penan* teem. The Teik Hocks, Oooi and Law,
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    Fijians beat Selangor Club by 7 wkts
    650 12 SUPERB FIELDING DECISIVE FACTOR KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. THE cricket team of the Ist. Battalion Fiji Regiment made their debut in Kuala Lumpur today when they beat Selangor Club by seven wickets in an exhilarating display. Following a sporting declaration by Selangor Club in
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    43 12 HOI THAM, the Ne'gri goalkeeper, and Awang Bakar, Singapore's centre-forward b oth miss the ball in this tussle in Saturday's Malaya Cup soccer tie at Jalan Besar which Singapore won 4-0. Standing guard in the goalmouth is Negri centre-half Boudvllle.— Straits Times picture.
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    Malaya cup table
    89 12 Latest positions in the Malaya Cup competition are: NORTH P W D L F A pU. Priak 4 3-1736 Penang 3 2-1744 Srlangor 5 2 2 18 7 6 Kedah S 1 1 1 5 5 3 Services 3-***** Pahan c 2 2 1 5 SOUTH Singapore
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    TABLE TENNIS Junior club Ige. starts
    121 12 TABLE TENNIS Junior club Ige. starts rpHE 1952 Singapore table tennis championships began with the junior lnter-c'.ub league at the S.B.A. Hall on Saturday night. Results: Saturday: Chinese Sporting Association bt 8.0.D.C.A. 5-2, Prince Edward Road Boys' Club Fowler 1 bt Singapore Admiralty Local Staff Union 5-1. Young Companions bt
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    GERMAN TITLE
    38 12 HAMBURG. Sun.— Miss Dorothy Head, ranking United States player, today won the women's singles title in the German lawn tennis championships here. In the final she Deat Mrs. Erika Vollmer. the German champion, 6-1. 6-3— Reuter.
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    TODAY'S SOCCER
    47 12 COMMUNITY LEAGUE: Indo- 1 nesians v R.A.F. at Jalan Besar. DIV. 2: Tanvl BA. v Police at Geylang: Medical Workers v RN Kran i at CYMA. DIV. 3B: BODCA A v Haikc-. v" at ROnCA BUSINESS HOUSES: Imperial Chemical Ind. v Rotterdam at Farrer Park.
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    TOURNAMENT BADMINTON
    61 12 In the Singapore Karela SaraJan badminton tournament, played at the Singapore Badminton Hall yesterday. Jansen Rangers beat the Highland Party by 4-1. Other results were: Friendly B.P. beat Naval Base B.P 3-2; Cosmopolitan B.P. beat SivaraJ B.P. 4-1. The next tournament of the Singapore Kerala Sarajan will bo
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    T.P.C.A .beat NS Ceylonese by 28 runs
    230 12 SEREMBAN, Sun. T<AMILIANS Physical Culture Association beat Negri Sembilan Ceylonese by 28 runs In their annual cricket match here today. TPCA scored 166 runs, of which C. Jayatilaka made 33 and E. Pachymuthu 30. H. T. Llngam tock four wickets for 32 runs.
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    Many runs on the Padang
    201 12 A TOTAL of 287 runs for onU six wickets lost showed the extent of the unfavourable conditions under which bowlers toiled j In the friendly cricket between S.C.C. and S.R.C. on the S.C.C. yesterday afternoon. Hulls topscored with 62 In S.C.C's 167 for four declared
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    SINGAPORE TIDFS
    26 12 TODAY: High C2lO hrs. (9.»rt) and 1430 (9.2); 0819 (2.5) and 2036 (2.3). TOMORROW: 0301 (9.1) and 1504 (8.9); 0855 (3.5) and 2128 (2.5).
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    7-run margin for Ceylon S.C.
    263 12 pEYLON Sports Club beat Slngapore Non-Benders by seven runs in a game of cricket played at Bales tier on Saturday Scores: C.S.C.— lst INNS. S Yogarajaa b H. W. Ward 0, S. A. Durai c Ward b R. V. 8. Sundram 19. A. Shegaran b
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    COLLEGE LOSE TO PWD BY 26 RUNS
    258 12 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. pWD Sports Club defeated the r English College at cricket yesterday by 26 runs For the College only Yap Chai Soon (27) entered double figures. Pot P.W.D., V. Singam took four wickets for four runs. P.W.D. SPORTS CLUB A. Lazaroo
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    Malays outspeed Europeans 5-2
    367 12 Malays 5; Europeans 2. IN a hard-fought Community League match at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday, the agile and speedy Malays, with superior craftsmanship and ball control, overwhelmed the ever-trying Europeans. Malays had the game won Ie first half with merpressure which threato rout the Europeans, vere
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    Worcesters & Howards will replay
    201 12 Worcesters Howards will replay IPOH. Sun. rjESPITE extra time of half an hour, the Federation zone final of the Caldbeck Cup soccer tournament between Worcesters and Green Howards ended In a two-all draw today. There will be a replay. The game, played on the Anderson School ground, proved a hard
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    PRESSMEN HELD
    19 12 The Straits Times drew 3—3 with the City Council at badmlnI ton at the 83A. Hall yesterday.
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    SPANSWICK 4-23 FOR SERVICES
    50 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun North cricketer John Spaaswick took four for 23 for Belang>>r Services against Police Depot at Rifle Range Road today. Services won by 78 runs scorers: Services: 175 (Elliott 63, Godwin 39, Henchley 4—34); Police 37 (Geoff de SUva 39. Garbett 17, Godwin 4—31).
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    Ist ROUND WIN
    27 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. UMNO beat Ulu Langat District 4—l4 1 in the first round of the Selangor Junior knockout .soccer competition a.t Kajang today.
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    Taiping tennis off
    24 12 TAIPINO, Sun. Heavy rain yesterday caused all fixtures in the Chinese Recreation Club's annual open invitation tennta championships to be postponed.
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    DRAW IN DIV. 3
    58 12 In a SAFA Div. 3B league soccer match played on the C.V.M.A. ground yesterday Singapore Fir» Brigade and Tuan Mong Old Boys Association drew 2-2. Soorers for Tuan Mong were Poon Kar Pee and Lee Chin Poh. Fire Brigade scored through Raja bin Ahmad and Saat
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    SABAPATHY'S 13 FOR 12 GIVES C.S.C. 'A' TITLE
    429 12 By Our Cricket Reporter THE former Colony all-rounder V. R. Sabapathy took a total of 13 wickets for 12 runs yesterday, a performance that enabled Ceylon Sports Club II to beat Sinhalese by an innings and win the Junior championship in Section
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    Water Polo Tigers beaten 10-1; juniors avenge it
    219 12 Water Polo Tigers beaten 10-1; juniors avenge it rpHE Singapore Swimming Club "A"' team, who are well in the running for this year's Singapore Amateur Swimming A.ssoclatlon Water-Polo "A"' div sion championship, scored a convnu-i« 10-1 victory over the Timers Swimming Club "A" in a lenEU* water-polo match played Singapore
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