The Straits Times, 4 January 1954

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    12 1 The Straits Times Lstablishod 1845 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANTARY 4, 1954 15 CENTS
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    A-WAR DANGER LESS
    107 1 Dulles sees hopes for peace in Berlin talks NEW YORK, Sunday. Secretary ol State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, said today that weemenf lo f in |lcrlin W^^ powers reduce the threat ol atonic warfare itlon ol Europe becomes at long last a possibility," ho said in a
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    Margaret is eighth best dressed
    127 1 Margaret is eighth best dressed M\\ YORK, Sun. I»i:i\( is> m tRG \i:i i Is placed eighth in i he 1953 li s t of the arid'a ii essed women, compiled by (he New York j)ress Institute. i he Kin inv> oi Indsor !'H tenth plate. :intl thus oliiii.ilh relinquish
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    General freed
    118 1 Grn. ntence <>n war I onvi IT. P. I Mr. Dalles said that during past year -our society of ■as gained a moral over the forces of .;>!!." The US he said, could be confident that thf New Year would make peace and justice more .•secure. Gen. Gruenthcr,
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    Partisans in Poland blast trains
    67 1 Partisans in Poland blast trains BERLIN. S\in. V NT! -COMMUNIST partimuis in Poland blew up one ira:n and wrecked a cond on Christmas Eve. a Bi rlin newspaper reported last night. The newspaper Telegrar •;a:n bound for Ea-st t;< rmany with i'>od was biown up by a land mine and
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    French mop up Reds in vital delta area
    53 1 troop immunist-led Vietminh Of thr Rod Riv nd-to-hand battle with Thai I nd d arms bJna, i and N 31«. y HANOI. Sunday. »8, continuing to mop up i forces in the southrr drlta, clashed today in strong rebel forces. The Binh,
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    Taipeh assembly
    38 1 r TAIPKH. Sun. Genoralis...wvi Kai-shek was re)iitcd today to or tending wit the second .seslion of Nationalist China's National Assembly schoduled o oprn on February 19 for the Mention of a president and rice -president. Renter.
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    Attlee is 71
    32 1 oncrat illations from all over he world are arriving at Great Aissenden, Burk.s. for Mr. Clepent Attire, the Labour leader md former Prime Minister. vho to 71 today. Reuter
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    REDS MAY DEMAND A RANSOM
    171 1 REDS MAY DEMAND A RANSOM NEW YORK. Sun. UNITED STATES experts, who have learned Communist methods from firsthand experience, said last night that America might have to pay ransom for the release of 30 of its natiui.als held by the Chinese Reds. The National Broadcasting Company told the story of
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    Soviet aid to China's army
    43 1 TAIPEH. Sun. The Ta Ta<> news agency, which speaks for the Nationalist Home Ministry, reported today that 23 divisions of Chinese Communist troops would be fully equipped by Soviet Russia along Soviet lines before March this year. A.P.
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    More freedom
    36 1 CAIRO Sun. President Mohammed Neguib has promulgated a new basic law for Gaza in southern Palestine piving the local inhabitants and Arab refugees a creater measure of self-covernment under overall Egyptain military rule.— Reuter.
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    Reds in islands
    35 1 TAIPEH. Sun. The Chinese Communists have infiltrated N'aiionalist-he'.d islands just iff the China mainland, a Nationalist dispatch reported here today The islands have beon held by Nationalists dofenders for four years. U.P.
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    Cor blimey! What's all THIS about?
    40 1 A ROADSWEEPER in Trafalgar Square, London, looks up from his sweeping and gapes in amazement. Cor Blimey. Is someone stealing the lions? Ni>. Maybe a student stunt, a theatre prop, or something. Popper picture.
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    Six Reds stepped in out of the rain—and died
    61 1 Six Reds stepped in out of the rain— and died KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. IIEAVY tain led to the killing; of the six Communist terrorists contacted in the Jementah area of Segamat. north Johore. early yesterday. They stopped in a temporary camp to shelter from the downpour. As they talked, their
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    AVA (IN SLIP) POSES FOR STATUE
    111 1 AVA (IN SLIP) POSES FOR STATUE ROMK. Sun. 4YA r.ARDNKR posed i\. yesterday in a chilly studio for a statue with very lit 1 1 rlnthinc on. Miss Gardner wore a slip. Assen Peikov. a wellknown Rome sculptor, who is creating the statue for lisp in the motion picture "The
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    Study of Asian legal problems
    149 1 The patrol, from 'A' Company, the 2/6 Gurkhas, crept through the deep jungle and surrounded the six terrorists. Within seconds, it was all over. The six terrorists were shot and killed before they had a chance to reach for their weaOne of the dead bandits
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    HANDY PRIZE, SAYS FAMILY MAN
    265 1 ANOTHER $5,000 must-be-won word puzzle contest starts on Page 11 today. Each day this week we shall publish a puzzle and in each one will he six words with a letter missing. All you need to do is fill in the missing letters with the
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    CANADA IS OUT FOR TRADE IN S.E. ASIA
    87 1 CANADA IS OUT FOR TRADE IN S.E. ASIA C^ANADA wants to expand her trade with South East Asia, says Canadian Senatei James A. MacKinnon. The senator, former Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce (1939-48 i is in Singapore on a "personal factfinding tour." He said his governments' plan to gradually
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    MALAY REGIMENT GET ANOTHER TWO
    32 1 KUALA LUMPUR. .Sunday. 4 PLATOON of the 2nd Bn. The Malay Regiment. killed two terrorists, including a woman, in the Slim River area of South Perak yesterday.
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    Argentina in mountain bid
    161 1 BUENOS AIRES. Sun.— A sroup of Argentines and one I Chilean will try an assault next May on the unconquercd Mt. Daulagiri (26.000 ft. t in the Himalayas. The expedition will b^ I headed by Lieutenant Fran- I Cisco Ibanez of the Argentine Army. It la
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    Young Omar receives his reward
    120 1 Young Omar receives his reward KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. rr»ERRORISTS ambush< d X Omar bin Kamal. lfi-year-old patrol leader in the "th Segamat Scout group and hit homeguard fathe r as they were cycling home to Kampong Pekan Jabi, two miles from Segamat. in November 1952. Omar's father was killed in
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    Crash kills 8
    35 1 MADHII), Sun. Three oflV cer.s and live men of the .Spanish Air Force were killed l :l .st night when a bomber Hying from Albacete to Seville crashad. Thrre were no survivors
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    Kuala Lumpur has worst schools record
    31 1 Kuala Lumpur has worst schools record KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. I PARENTS' protests against Inadequate aehosUng facilities In Kuala l.iimpni have exposed the Federal capital as the "blackest spot" In the Federation- .>,..
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    BROADER GUIANA PROBE IS SOUGHT
    148 1 BROADER GUIANA PROBE IS SOUGHT GEORGETOWN, Sun. A COMMITTEE representing J\ 15 organisations, mainly tradn unions. asked the Guiana Governor. Sir Alfred Savage, yesterday to send a cable to Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, stating thr.t the ternu of reference of the commission of inquiry were
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    Soviet students off to Britain
    36 1 LONDON. Sun.— A group at Soviet students has left Mascow by air for London to take part in the festival of the British Na'ional Union or students. Moscow Radio reporteo -A.P.
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    Crash in trees
    76 1 TOKYO. Sun.- A US Air Furo C-4G transport plane crashed inlo agrove of trees on the west coast ol Japan today, killma all four American members of the crew. Kuala Luirpur has the lar..'librr ol .students Racked from schools and the biggesl number of children ol school-going
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    STOP PRESS
    124 1 COMMONWEALTH PLAN 108 TRADE j LONDON, i i —Fin I i monwc i > i, btill mwealth :ind Empire production and expanding trade tiff non-Communist world.— Beater, sacked from two Government feeder schools. 23."i boys and er seven v sion. bllan r-i c i .M-k> 1 and 480
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    The wife who waited
    69 1 tokvo. Sunday. CORPORAL Claude Bate tirlor r.mic li.uk irom Comma nit n tod:iy to a Japanese wife who s..bl»ed nnrontroHaM) ;iv she cluni: to him in the torridnr of Toky« arm] hoxpitM l. Kvoko Asaki. the Japanese i;ni irho u.iilcl more lhan three years for her
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    The capital with too many hills
    100 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. yyiTHIN a few years Kuala Lipis, capital ol Pahang for over half a century, will become :i M has-been" town. It will then be reduced to a mere district capital and a rail-link between the northern and southern parts of Malaya
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    R.E. Association
    168 2 Tiic Singapore branch ol tin- 1 Royal Bnguieers Association will hold Its annu.i! meeting In the nrmnastum at Olllman Barracks at 3 p.m. on Jan. 8 The need to develop the economii resources of eastern Pahang, and the difficulty of expanding Kuala Lipis to cope with increasing Government
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    U.S. to aid in Liaquat quiz
    125 2 WASHINGTON. Sun. The I United States will gi VP p a kis- i tan informal help fa contacting investigators who might be able to help solve the two-year-old murder of Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, diplomatic officials said today. The comment was in
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    U.S. soldier marries in Moscow
    109 2 U.S. soldier marries in Moscow MOM O\V. Sum till rlrrk in Ike Bill Xli I M BMB) BCTt .mil aH Amrrii.iii iiiny scrcatit urn.named l<«l;n .it thr British \iiihavs.ulor's nlihl.v, t iimm-i lit! inln (hapt'l for IBM iMiaMnii. It was a »liil«- ucddiin; romplrlr wild hridoiiiaul. The Msbop <>l lulli
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    The Queen's lodge is blacked out
    111 2 The Queen 's lodge is blacked out ROTORUA. Sunday. MOOSE I.odue. the Queen's thrpp-day "holiday" iTI home at this famous New Zealand beauty spot, was plunged Into darkness for two short periods tonmht by an electric power failure. T)i- ire fnnlg]:: by :< fault tn the high tens on cable.
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    New 'cold war'
    30 2 NEW YORK. Sun. A trrm de .yen.-d to hall the <-<>mm"n miri ;md other i i ailments has been announced hv Air Force officers hei A P.
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    BUILDING WAITS FOR LIBRARIAN
    103 2 lL r ORK will not start on Singapore's new si onn 000 library until the librarian, who is expected soon from England, ha.s a look at the plans. "The librarian must set the plans." an official toH tht> Straits Times yesterday. "After all. it will be
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    RED RADIO SURPRISE
    62 2 MOSCOW orised Xi (h hwin's Monitors said the Soviet for the sudden change tn th Most Moscow musical pro or songs about tractor statwi 1 P. LONDON. Sunday. Uj listeners j/e.^terdatj by nlnaSntncnjie to Watch b: broadcast to South-Fast Asia. announcer gave nn exp r modern music
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    PORTRAIT OF A GENIUS
    143 2 A BOY. from Colombo, Covlon, has startled the world at music. Bohan De Saram, scon above, who played his 'cello on T.V., had never seen the instrument four years ago. Today, worldfamous cellist Gaspar Cassado acclaims him as a genius and Pablo Casals says: "There are
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    AMERICA URGED TO THINK AGAIN ABOUT RED CHINA
    46 2 PROVIDENCE. Rhode Island, Sunday. THE Providence Journal said today that Mr. Arthur Dean, chief U.S. nrq;otiator in Korea, is urging Washington officials to review U.S. policy towards splitting Communist China from the Soviet Union l .without military aptinn
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    Barbara's new husband
    39 2 BARBARA HI'TTON and Porfuio Ruhirosa, seen (above) were married in New York last week. Ru biros a, international playboy and former diplomat, was previously married to Doris Duke, another of America's rirhest heiresses. A P. picture.
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    Torpedo boat hero dies
    107 2 ROME. Sun. Captain Giuseppe Alonzo, 66, hero of World War I, died here on Friday. Piloting a torpedo boat, he sank thp rirrarinaught 81 Istvan nf tin: Austro-Hungarian Beet A.P. iwnuuui military action. Mr. Dean made two points clear: 1. He does not agree with some
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    TRADE OUTLOOK FOR AMERICA 'VERY BRIGHT'
    206 2 WASHINGTON. Sundn THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK for America this A very bright, though the rerord trade of last may not bo reached, said Mr. Sinclair Week* Secretary of Commerce, today. Replying to gloomy forecasts of thr ec< experts Mr. Weeks, in his annual report, said
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    Don 'tsack these 142, says union
    140 2 THE Singapore City Council Water Department Labour Union yesterday asked the Water Engineer to find jobs for 142 redundai.' gers. The men were hired on a temporary basis for thr rxter.sion of water works. Mow that certain parts of the jcb have been completed,
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    SOVIET GOLD LINKED WITH SMUGGLING
    108 2 SOVIET GOLD LINKED WITH SMUGGLING SALZBURG. Sun. -An inter- national gang wp.:> reported to be smuggling n.ckel behind the Iron Curtain and one newspaper linked its art' with recent deliveries of Soviet yold in London. Police headquarters in Salzburg announced that they and Munich police had seized a I <ar
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    8 die in crash
    33 2 PATNA. Sun.— Eight people were killed and six injured in head-on collision early yesterday between a passenger train and -.joods train al Raxaul. an Indian town borciering Nepr.l. Reuter.
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    This should please the film censor
    109 2 SINGAPORE FUtl) 5 Mr- Cynthia Koek have her w °rk whrn amrnrimrrr Film Ordir.anro a: setted. Ml dims will thrr h adult exh > i •B' 1 (universal i r'np classification guide t n par^m v ma management oblisorl tn oxlurir fmm srrrrnins;- films.
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    Zsa Zsa's black eye
    102 2 /s\ C IBOR the actress, wears in r\p p. id Ii over tlic Mack pye foi she blamed Porflria Rubirow the Dominican ex-«lipk»ni3( who married Barbara Mutton thr mttiiooaireM /sa Zsj said that Rul hit hrr in I fit «f tempri when she refused to man
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    Refugees sail
    25 2 TRIESTE. Sun Thr jer ship Toscana lefl wth 725 refugee i mlgr; .a under the au thP Intrr-Gnvrrnmcnt., •rittrp for European von. U.P.
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    Cardinal at base
    25 2 tokvo. Sun Pranpia c dinal Spcllmnn nf Nrw V arrived at thr key Far Yokosuka today lor tensive tour. I.P r^— 'i
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    16 TRAMPLED TO DEATH
    74 3 TOKYO. Sunday. AS I throng of upward ot 700,000 people who wanted to wMi Emperor Hirohito a happy \.u Ifear milled inside the Imperial Palace iunds yesterday and trampled to death nearly ore of people when imperial guards tried to the main palace pates. nds, pn
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    Elephants run amok n sideshow
    124 3 Elephants run amok n sideshow I ONDON sim 'I'llKl I elephants ran mok .it .i iinus at her* M'steidav bring frightened by i tn i they were making their waj to the Milling about, stampheir feet anil s\\ mi: :eir trunks thrv lumbered into a sideshow and brenghi it down
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    Spy-hunters leave to see Igor
    277 3 Spy-hunters leave to see Igor WASHING! SI i the I Publicity veto lias of any i by the nment Metropolitan police reported their latest count .showed IC and 13 Injured. ncy said one was s Ch ali > ral other chll- pped to their mothers' intured In ll.sh. n officer
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    Saved his commander
    63 3 SEOUL, Sun. LIEUTENANT-General K s. Thimayya presentee; medal for bravery today to Corporal Thak'ur Sinch who ommander from anti-Communist war prisonThe citation said Thakur ard to his in'o a PoW compound on September 25 to rescue Major- and Major Qrewal, both seized by the prisoners as hostages.
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    THEY DON'T LIKE TO GET DIRTY—NEHRU
    41 3 THEY DON'T LIKE TO GET DIRTY— NEHRU BOMBAY. Sunday. INDIA'S Prime Minister. Mr. Nehru, yesterday attacked educated Indian youths" disinclination for manual work and mentioned some Indian students studying dairy farming in America who had showed reluctance to "dirty their hands."
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    2-gun Turpin is fined $17
    95 3 LONDON. Sun. RANDOLPH Turpin. British and I in pue middleue Uht b*xing champion, was fined El OIS17) at Ahergele. Wales. vesteTday for keeping a rifle without a firearms certificate. The Bench ordered the rifle a .22 to be confiscated. Turpin. 25, pleaded not guilty. A
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    Sinking ship is in harbour
    63 3 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun.— Crew of the SS Permanente Silbercrow wo n thei r battle against the sea yesterday and sailed their crippled ship into Sa n Francisco harbour. The freighter, a cement carrier, has been slowly ailing with water from a "gaping I hole" in
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    King leaves
    121 3 HOMF. Sun. Kinc Tnh- huwan. Kin:: of Nepal, left by I plan fnr Cairn after a four-day visit to Rome. A.P. Mr. Nehru inaugurated in Hyderabad the 41st session o! the Indian Science Congress the country's principal scientific organisation. The Nizam of Hyderabad \\a-< among the guests. Scientists
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    Arabs study water plan
    94 3 x BEIRUT. Sun A committee to study the "Johnston Plan" for water development has been appointed by th>.' Arab League, according to the Beirut paper Da.ly Star yesterday. Th# plan being studied wn.' presented to the Arab states and Israel last October by President Eisenhower's per
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    House schemes locked up
    88 3 CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Sun. i The Dominion Republic's Federal Health Department yesterday padlocked nine of 12 housing developments operate,! by a U.S. -owned .sugar company because they "are completely inadequate" and constitute "a public danger." The secretary ol Health said th.it during the last two years i
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    China tops 500 million
    72 3 TOKYO. Sun. COMMUNIST China claimed copulation had topped the snn m.'.l'in mark. A N China News AgMICJ monitored here. howrvor. did not mention the date or the exact population figure. China held its cen.sus last July and it was presumed today's broadcast referred to the oi
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    THE ROYAL FEAST
    58 3 THE ROYAL FEAST Tin: QDEEK, Qaeea Batata »f Taaga and the Duke or Edlabwgh efcaf togrthrr durinthe l<as| giVCI liv Oucrii Salole in honour of Hie Koval visit to hrr island kinurionj Tun thousand Mekliag piys were cooked for the banquet at which the jjiirsls sat on lllc ground native
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    Churchill's future is top question of British politics
    62 3 Churchill's future is top question of British politics LONDON, Sunday. THIS week's edition of the influential weekly review Economist said the future of Sir Winston Churchill was the immediate question murk over British politics in the year now beginning. "Will he retire within the next few months and be replaced
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    'U.S. OWES THANKS TO MRS. PANDIT
    231 3 WASHINGTON. Sun. riMIE Washington Post pubM. lLshed an editorial yesterday calling attention to the defence of the United States by Madame Pandit and said th#t Americans should be thankful for her statements on behall vi their country. "Disagreements with Prime i Minister Nehru ought
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    Japanese told to keep out
    666 3 SEOUL, Sun A semi-offl- I cial South Korean Government newspaper warned today that Japan must keep its national/-: I out of Korea for the protection k of both peoples unless the Japanese attitude changes. The English-language Korean Republic called the recent arrest of a Japanese
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    LYDON WASN'T THE ONLY COWARD, SAYS GENERAL
    138 3 LONDON. Sunday. MAJOR-GENERAL "Mike" West, former Commander of the Commonwealth Division in Korea, surprised Britons yesterday with a disclosure that several British soldiers had been courtmartiallcd in Korea for cowardice. Ir— i On a television programme called "Press Conference" he was asked about
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    'Taj Mahal' mosque for Brunei
    523 4 ht HAititY >iiijj:ii AN Italian artist who saw the photographs exclaimed. "It will be a second Taj Mahal." He was looking at a scale model of Brunei's S 4 000.000 mosque, a Saracenic edifice of marble and ?j mosaic and bronze, with its great gilt
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    MOSQUE SITE
    43 4 The new mosque will rise on this site in B runei town. The kampong will be cleared the residents are now building new homes elsewhere and a sawmilj will be moved. Piles, 100 feet long, will be driven into reclaimed ground.
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    Guns roared, men died on the prairie as thousands rushed to claim a a new life on Indian land
    1839 5 Guns roared, men died on the prairie as thousands rushed to claim a a new life on Indian land AILONG the perimeter of a great p ijrvle of American prairie, men and women trembled with pent-up excitement •he taut silence before noon on i E t number 16, 1893. Poorly
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    DEATHS
    28 6 OOH El passe* v illness, a ence 89, 1 1 Funeral 1" a ..v NfADAM Qoh SW( 8(i Iwlo in. Chi l 5-I-..4 Than) ed to al
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    34 6 2» H»rW. Slu < minimum i MR AN VM MIN ton Kin tendaiM c of the late Madam I .i-ok Imm wishes to tender und friends -vho sent telegrams, wreaths and scrolls, paid nlsht
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    16 6 </« i minimum) ES ft Kncinpcrs Levels Delivery: tx stork. rhe Scientific d., 35. Quay,
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    The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Jan. 4, 1954. Standards in Education
    795 6 The Straits Times Singapore. Mon., Jan. 4, 1954. Standards in Education Superannuation is tin- >■■ fale that looms over hundreds hoolchKdren all over tho r'<- leration. They have failed in their school promotion examinations twice and they must go to make room for those have not failed in their tots.
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    Little Thing Looms Big
    423 6 Little Thing Looms Big Banning in Singapore of the film version of Graham Grene's btst-selling novel "The Heart of the Matter" is having repercussions out of keeping with eith°r the importance of the film or of the ban. Already the banning is being seized by the j left-wingers in Britain
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    Ridiculous
    129 6 Months ago Singapore City Council decided that all taxis must be fitted with meters by January 1, 1954. Fewer than half are so fitted today, Jannary 4, and those without meters ply just as those with naeten ply. And nothing happens. We do not ask that the drivers who
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    The Communists' deeds are catching up with them
    1941 6 The Communists' deeds are catching up with them 'THERE were very tfood reasons for taking my trip to the Far East. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans who were killed and wounded in Korea are the best evidence that what happens in that part of the world affects America. And
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      415 6 'THERE is no denying it. English is a universal language. It is the langu- 1 age of science and pro- 1 aress. For these reasons English should undoubt-; edly be the dominant! language in this country. The fact that Malaya is a eosmooolitan country makes 1
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      Library needed
      103 6 A FREE library Is needed in new village of Guntonjr. Ipoh. Ou r village hag improved in many ways making for physial comfort and well-being of its inhabitants; but little has been done for their intellectual requirements In a small village like this I here there Ls no
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      45 6 lyilEN the law is amended y to bring the S.T.C. buses in line with others many people may find themselves left behind bus after bus during the rush hours if the com pany does not increase the numbers of buses AN ORSKRVKR. Singapore.
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      310 6 Lord Norwich I SUPPOSK that M remember the <h most vividly .short stay heir- in th< period or our But history wil] r< I orel Norwich, or rat] Duff Coop many-sided En made < much more than men elans, if Alfred Dull had done no more tl
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    SO MALAYA MUST COUNT COST AT EACH STEP AS SHE PLANS PROGRESS
    395 7 By HARRY MILLKR KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. KKSS in the Federation will continue this year but over all plans elopment will hanu r the shadow of the shortage of money, ition will nol In- retarded hut the nature of
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    REMEMBER MOTHER COUNTRY, HE URGES
    90 7 KUAI.A I.UMPUR. Sunday. rHE new Agent of the Indian Government, Mr. P. Madhavan Nair. yesterday urged Malayan Indians n be united and to maintain the traditions of their mother country. He was speaking at a farePty yen :n honour of dr T. V Hamakrishna Rao.
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    Man slashed
    49 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A suspected housebreaker was badly slashed with a parang by a householder while taking refuge from police. The incident occurred on the outskirts of a kampong at the 2i milestone. Ipoii Road. Kuala Lumpur, at 4.40 a in. on Saturday. A man «;u detained.
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    THEYSEEK SEATS FOR ALL
    195 7 THEYSEEK SEATS FOR ALL KUALA I.UMPUR. Sun THE Selangor division of the Malayan Trade Union, Council today decided to recommend to its central committee that MTUC seats on the Federal Legislative! c me:! should be repre- tentative of all workers. It suggested that one seat should be allocated to each
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    THEY DONATED 5 GALLONS OF BLOOD
    111 7 KOKTV IKilll people called at the new Klooil Transfusion Centre at the c.rm 1 il Hospital. Singapore, during tlie special session yesterday. Of these. ::n gave blood and the rest were enrolled as future donors. The 30 who save their hlood included 15 Chinese.
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    $300,000 IS 1954 SATA AIM
    177 7 $300,000 IS 1954 SATA AIM THE SINGAPORE Anti-Tu-berculosis Association has prepared a comprehensive programme this year to raise $300,000 for the care and treatment of T.B. patients in the Colony. In his annual appeal for j funds over Radio Malaya last night. Mr. G. H. Kiat. chairman of SATA, said
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    Mabel wants to be an opera star
    225 7 day. \ltln>ii: h I tan .suit: in 11. i11. m. I am nut able I" ■cat it lliifiitiv." Mi he I. who tried for the scholarship last year, was told that Nile was too younc to make the trip to Kirn land But
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    S.A.T.A. launches big drive to help the poor and sick
    177 7 <THE Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association has launched a New Year drive to rncruit more members. Mr. G. H Kiat. chairman of the association, yaid yesterday that much money would be neee'ed by the clinic during 1954. "S.A.T.A. Ls doins a very
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    Jobs warning
    22 7 Singapore Government was warned of increasing: unemployment In thp Colony by R. K"Simy. leader of the Traction Company workers. yesterday
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    'The new Malaya is better'
    155 7 'The new Malaya is better' KUALA LUMPUR Sun. THE new Malaya, more vigorous than the old. i.s facing its future boldly, sairt Dato Sir Roland Braddeil. at the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club's New Year dinner at the Majestic Hotel last night. "Don't you think it would a splendid New Year
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    FIRE STOPS FIVE FROM SCHOOL
    173 7 THE NEW YEAR fire which drstroyrd the home of Mr. John Rodrigues. a Government rlerk in Singapore, may prevent his five children from going back to school next week a* their text books went up in flames also. The tive are Daisy and four other
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    The weather
    164 7 Minimum Temperature (7 30 p m. dp. Jan. I to 730 am. on Jan. I): Sliißapore 74 decrees. Penan* 74. Kota Bahru 74. Kuala Lumpur 74. Ipoh 72. Kt.iinlan 74. Maximum Temperature (7.30 am to 730 pm. on Jan. 3k 91nsapore 8!1. Pcnane Bn. Kota Bahm (not I
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    KOTA BAHRU SCHOOL IS COLLEGE NOW
    107 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. THE [small English School. Kota Bahru. Kolantan. I has been renamed the Sultan Ismail College, the I Oovernment of Kelantan announced today. The collvge will be housed in a new building, with a stu-tU-iit.s hostel, costing about $200,000. The old building
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    Taiping graduate
    28 7 KUANTAN. Sun. Mr. Vel lupillal Nadarajah. an old boy o: the Kin': Edward VII B bod, Taipins. has jraduatpd from the Institute of Civil Engineers, U.K.
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    Fund is $47,127
    28 7 PENANO. Sim Penanc I 'Quoen's Hall Fund rrarhrrl I $47,127 at thr "losp of thr yrar I iThL<= inrludrs $24,000 from the I IScttlPmfnt Oovernmmt.
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    Vital role of the aborigines impresses him
    333 7 IPOH, Sunday. \|K. Vernon Bartlett, journalist and former *1 Member of Parliament, said hrrc today he was struck by the extent to which victor? over Communist terrorism in Malaya depends on the aborigines. Mr. Bartlott. who U t.ourinc: thr Federation. Is particularly interested
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    They will help flood victims
    53 7 KUALA KANGSAR. Sun.The M.C.A.-U.M.N.O. Alliance committee, which was formed here earlier this week for the Kuala Kangsar district has adopted a resolution to help flood victims in the area. This nlan of aid will be co- 1 ordinated with that drawn up I by the
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    WANTED MAN
    53 7 I 111. NAM allow is wanted for ■aestionini in Prnans police Hi- is Beej Krr l,ian. alias Chee Sens, ali.is Ifoni Prow, alias Yeans. < ar. tnnrsp. ace ahniit W, hricht .1 feet I inches, medium huilri. fair complexion. Information may hr civrn to any polirr oilier or
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    Withdrawn, yet they still want these 10c. stamps
    88 7 Withdrawn, yet they still want these 10c. stamps KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. THE Coronation 10-cer.t stamps, issued .n Malaya to commemo the Queen's accession to th< j throne were withdrawn on Dec. 31. M.nt copies were in greater demand bj pti ighoul the world tlrin pa'tci by thp authorit.es. Few numbers
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      158 7 SINGAPORE T.i.i Morning Star; 7.:>j News: 7IS MelOtI) Mivii:.-. 8 Kin Him In The Sin: 8.: to Miliy HouewiviCorner; !i Ckw Dowa: mi Matinee; l.:m Ma«S; I.4f> Balliid Time: J Close- Down- BM CJcIhUIi. an I m- OrchMtn; 5.1 A GWMng All Children: 'i Uaiantn 1 CboMS; News 7 1.)
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    Services workers will get pensions
    55 8 pOR the first time, some of the 40.000 Services r workers employed in Singapore and the Federation are to be put on the pensionable list by the Navy, Army and Air Force. The president of the Singapore Army Civil Service Union, Mr. S. T. V.
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    HE WARNS GOVT. TO HEED THE JOBLESS
    481 8 HE WARNS GOVT. TO HEED THE JOBLESS THE Singapore Government and big employers in the Colony were warned to heed the rising rate of unemployment by Mr. R. K. Samy. leader of the Traction Company workers, yesterday. He told about 1.000 petrol 1 dealer's employees at the Victoria Memorial Hall
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    Education post still vacant
    53 8 Job of Assistant Director o: Education (Technical) was first advertised six montlis ago. no one has yet been appointed, the Singapore Direc- tor of Education. Mr. A. McLellan. said yesterday. "It is very difficult to get people who are well qualified technically to come out here."
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    Postmaster goes
    23 8 valingam, postmaster at Kuan- tan. has been transferred to 1 Raub. He will be replaced by I Inche Yusof bin Mohamed
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    Dog vaccinations off to slow start
    83 8 KUALA LUMPUR. Sunday. THERE was very poor response to the anti-rabies vaccination here yesterday. Less than 120 dogs have been vaccinated in the two centres, said Lt.-Col. J. D. Daly, the Selanpor Veterinary Officer. He told the Straits Times: "This may be due to
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    Into hospital
    54 8 After 190 days in the lockup ward. George Eric Morris, a jobless and epileptic accountant, has now been admitted into the Singapore General Hospital as an ordinary patient. A magistrate on Saturday ordered him to be unconditionally discharged after he pleaded <:uilty to a chare? of having no
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    Boy stabbed
    37 8 A 14-year-old boy. Soh Hay Yam. was stabbed in the neck last nißht at Boon Tat Street. Singapore, during a quarrel with another boy. He was taken to hospital. His condition i s not serious.
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    One-man picture show in Spore
    37 8 \f R. FRANCIS WU. of Hong Kong, an international ally famous photographer, arrives in Singapore today to put on a one-man show of his works at the British Council hall on Wednesday.
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    Service for businessmen
    38 8 About 350 people attended a Businessman's Service conducted by Archdeacon R. W. Woods in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore. yesterday evening. There were prayers for the blessing of God upon the commercial life of the City.
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    New tenants
    158 8 KUANTAN. Sun.— The State Agricultural Oltirc, the nr.-t department to move to Kuantan from Raub in the .shiltin; of the capital, will occupy the old Chuntt Hwa Chines" School building at Padanß Lallan^ temporarily this week. The exhibition will be opened by the Commissioner-Gene-ral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald,
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    They trapped 2 Reds at night
    49 8 THESE THREE \IK.WIHI of the Somerset Light Infantry took part in a .successful nuht ambush on Dec. 27 tthen both terrorists contacted were killed. They, are, from left: Ptr. (irahani Davey, 2/I.t. Oliver Kiev (leader) and Pte Freil Ballard. Army A. P. picture.
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    'Give housing allowance' call
    68 8 The Hingaporo ship* and General Stores Employees' Union has asked the Straits Steamship Company to pay housing allowance for those not giv°n quarters by the firm. In a letter to the company, the union also asked for annual bonus for workers in the stores department. If
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    Let cattle stray
    30 8 KLANG. Sun. A Klanu man P. Kunippiuh. 46. was ttned $70 or a month's ua<'! for allowing cattle to ttrav on a public road on October a
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    FUN AND GAMES AT THE PSYCHOLOGY CLUB
    40 8 THIS LOOKS an m able contest, >'i s^ Jennj < heata p*li h i' lier partner. Mr N.nl at the jet-tofethei of the Kuala Lumpur l'-w liolo;:' Cl«il> Oil urdav niuht. Stl Times picture
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    THEY WILL FIGHT FOR AN ELECTED FEDERATION GOVT
    137 8 THEY WILL FIGHT FOR AN ELECTED FEDERATION GOVT PENANG. Sunday. THE Pan-Malayan Labour Party will make firm A demands to have Icdcral elections introduced by the end of the year. Chairman of the party, Inche toon a. Sopiee, said today that it would take all necessary steps with other political
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    900 villagers to select 2 in second poll
    107 8 ALOR STAR. Sun. ABOUT 900 villagers of Bedong. seven miles from Sungei Patani. in Central Kedah, will go to the polls for the second time on Jan. 16 to elect two headmen for the local council. Five candidates will fight for two
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    3 lallang fires in half an hour
    56 8 There were three lallang fires in 30 minutes in Singapore yesterday afternoon. The first, near Tan Tock Seng Hospital, was put out by a fire engine from Central Fire Station The Army F!re Service dealt with the other two at the H'2 mile,
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    'Help new villages' call to church
    119 8 'Help new villages' call to church MALACCA. Sun. A CALL for greater efforts by the Methodist Church to help the new villages was made by the Rev. D. Raymond L. Archer. Methodist Bishop for South -Ea.st Asia, at the 59th anmiTT conference today. He also urged the church to develop
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    Bandits fire at house sentry
    56 8 Terrorists fired at the sentry outside the assistant manager's bungalow in Ulu Remis estate in the Reniiam aria of Johore on Friday. An area security unit v. nch •aa rushing to the bi.ns.uow was fired on by six terrorists After a ten-minute onto the terrorists
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    They're all in favour of mass marriages
    96 8 KUANTAN PAHANG port < lie movi ami Mali Alter reading oi the I by the Johop branch of the United Leacue. many Paha lay have backed th providing all Muslii foua rites arc obsei Inche Wan Abdul A ku Abdullah. lor wrong with
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    61 NEW AIR-STRIPS FOR FEDERATION
    128 8 KU.« yHE Civil Aviation Drpai programme in the Fodo Engineers have started work on the last three strips al Qua tiusang, Kelantan, Chukai. Pahang, and Uriah, Perak All arc expected to be com pleted before the middle ol the year wiic n the programme Is
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    Union officers
    69 8 Tii>- Singapore i ;ui(l City Counc I I has electt <i thi ior 1954 r. Manlkkam Mr 8. Dur i secretary. Mr. R asslstuni gem ra M. Chiilfinbt rai Mr. k. wor committ< Mes rs I' 1 Mandon K Pa Mandore s Kathami Mand dhlya C Oops 8
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      42 8 MUrj t Ink m I i.vi i i Bern roh il v Junior li.unli < < Nl'A Yt Photo i., it p vlirll lhr.il.rl:. P POWI CenMi: St. \.i.ii em < iiii.-.i.ii < Inn.-. .1 I i ni p m bcxly-bull(lln« pm > w i n d«i
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    INDUSTRIALS CONTINUE FIRM: TINS EASIER
    202 10 INDUSTRIALS CONTINUE FIRM: TINS EASIER Share market review Year-end turnover was very small By Our Financial Correspondent DUSINESS in fhe Singapore share market Inst week was at a low ebb but even so, considering the Season of the year, a slightly higher turnover occurred than what might have been expected.
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    Chermang Development
    90 10 IN the year ended Septemi A ber. Chermang Development Ltd., whose shares are held by .several local rubber companies, made a net profit of $226,162 which is equi' alent I to 31.4 per cent. Dividends totalled 20 per cent. At balancing date net liquid assets were $962,503, or
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    Pahang Consolidated
    94 10 IN the year pnded July last Pahang Consolidated Ltd operated the largest lode mine in Malaya and earned a profit of €460.203, after payment of United Kingdom profits tax and deduction of maximum dividend of 15 per cent, on preference stock. This is equivalent to 122.7 per cent.
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    Peko Gold Mines
    69 10 AT the annual meeiing oi Pcko tTennant' Creek) Gold Mines in Sydney on December 21, the chairman told shareholders that it was proposed to double the capital of £350,000 by an issue at par (2s. 6dj payable ls. 3d. on anplicai tion and Is. 3d. toward the
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    Sione Tin
    66 10 IN the year ended March last Sione Tin cF.M.S.) Ltd. incurred a loss but if. a s it la hoped, the sale agreeireH f«) r the leascb at a disappointingly small price, will soon be ratified, then the Board Will propose liquidation of the com- pany. In the
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    S. Tronoh Tin
    69 10 IN the year ended December. 1952 Southern Tronoh Tin Drcdeing Ltd. workins two dredces made a profit, aftep ijnnent of United Kinedoir prorits tax. of £137.403. eQU'.v.i'PH to 68.7 per cent, and paid dividends totalling 50 per cent At balancine; date net liquid assets equalled £193.820 o
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    Tronoh Mines
    766 10 IN the year ended December. 1952. Tronoh Mines Ltd operated four dredces to make a profit, after payment of United Kingdom profits tax. of £646.523. equivalent to 215.5 I per cent. Dividends paid totalled 130 per cent At balancing date net liquid assets equalled £936.367 of 15s. 7Jd.
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    Business done in shares during last week
    209 10 TiE following list of business done in the Singapore share market from December 28 to December 31, inclusive, is reported by one firm of sharebrokers: INDUSTRIALS Consolidated Tin Smelters 24 Fraser Neavc ords $2.02 to $1.95 Gammons $2.90 to $2"95 Hammers $2.87 i.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    128 10 LONDON. Sat. F spite of the absence of most of the principle overseas markets, due to the New Year holiday, all groups yesterday were very firm. A feature of the session was the rather sharp advance in the banking section following the announcement of an incrraae |n the
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    PRICES REMAIN VERY STEADY
    802 10 *nnntinliitj in 4i r lifts During the week there was considerable discussion as to the trend of rubber this year. Generally it was felt that, especially during the first half of 1954. prices would show a small improvement but that this advance would not reach the
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    222 11 TWO-TEAM RACE IN THE FIRST DIVISION Liverpool still floundering LONDON. Sunday. rr\\\ Midlands rivals, olvcrhampton Wan--1 derers and West Broinwich Albion, arc raring from ;ill opposition in the first division. Both wn yesterday, whereas the two clubs (mediately below them, Huddersfield and nicy, were beaten. Wolves, who gained a forUMe
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    ARSENAL HIT BY FOG
    72 11 FOOTBALI/S L v™* nnomv struck at the English league imme when fog caused three matches to be post- pr.'fd and three abandoned they had hern .started Arsenal were three goal.s up A<=ton Villa in their nip tie pirview when play topped after 28 minutea Tommy Lawton,
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    LEAGUE TABLES
    972 11 P W D L F A p\< P W D L F A pi.-, 28 iv 8 4 fi4 33 39 LeJcwtcr 2n 8 I fi2 40 34 romwirh 2fi 17 4 S fi9 3fi 38 Doncaste;- 26 II 3 8 43 30 33 Held 2S 13 7
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    Pirie for America —'almost certain'
    308 11 LONDON, Sunday. ORITAINS "athlete of 1953". Gordon Pirie," said "yesterday that it was "almost certain" that he would accept a scholarship at an American university next year. It is believed that he will go to either Oklahoma I'niversity or the niversity of Southern I r<llif<irnio
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    Bassett wins in one round
    175 11 PARIS. Sun PERCY BASSETT, world interim featherweight champion, last night knocked out Jacques Herblllon. French lichtweisht champion, in the HIM round of a scheduled 10--round bout. Bassett. a fighting fury, floored Herblllon three times. The Frenchman went down for a count of eight under a
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    RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS
    84 11 LONDON. Sun. Yesterdays t'Ugb} league results were' Barrow 10 Halifax 0; Batley 11 Cork 5; Bradford Northern 1H Castleford 8; Bramley 10 Belle V'le Rangers 10; Featherst one Rovers '1 Doncaster 4: Huddersfield 34 Leeds 0: Hull 23 Oldham 3 Hunslet \2 Wakeneld Trinity 2: Keighley 21
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    England rugby XV lose in final trial
    325 11 LONDON. Sun. SEVERAL games in the rugby union programme yesterday had to be abandoned j through fop. i The England final trial at Twickenham was played, howover, England losing to The Rest by six points (penalty goal, try i to eight points (poal,
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    Saturday's U.K. soccer results
    217 11 THIRD DIVISION (S) Aldershot 1 v Pk. R. 4 Rnurnrmouth 1 I.eyton O. Bristol 1 Southampton H "oventry 1 Reading 1 Crystal P»l. It Colchester (.iMingham Soulhrnd lps«irh 1 Millwall Northampton 4 Brighton Shrewsbury 1 Exeter Suindnn 0 Norwich Torquay 2 Wstlnrd WaNall 0 Newnorl 1
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    England plan to run five soccer teams
    970 11 England plan to run five soccer teams By A Special Correspondent THE staging nf extra "B" Internationals for under-23 age group footballers, and special training for 22 specially selected players at the end of the season for matches against Yugoslavia. Hungary and the World Cup is only the beginning of
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    ALL BLACKS HELD BY ULSTERMEN
    242 11 BELFAST, Sunday. A FIVE-FIVE draw, with each side scoring a" goal, A was a fair reflection of the All Blacks game with lister here yesterday. The tourists were faste behind the scrum but I'lster were their equal ut forward. Although on form with his defen&ive
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    Reg Harris hurt in race crash
    59 11 MELBOURNE. Siro.^Wltl.sM cycling champion. RBg Harris. crashed into another rider la i the third heat of the "world .serins" match race here la^t night and suffered a badly gashed knee and an elbow injury. The match has been post- i poned until Harris is
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    Sungei Wangi win
    37 11 SI riAWAN. Sin. Stiner-i Wane Estalp Tamil Behool wen ch.impions of knockout soccer competition of thf Perak Indian School Teachers Union here Lumut Tamil School were runoert*up. Eieht, schoots took par. in thr t/iurney.
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    Best Bet's earnings now more than $100,000
    159 12 By EPSOM JEEP REST BET became one of the few horses on the "Malayan Turf to win more than $100,000 in stakes and added money when he triumphed in the Commissioner-General's Cup over 1{ miles with topweiffht of 9.00 on a heavy track
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    44 12 rIE yrar's raring honours went to Shaw Stable with 42 winners and $336,000 in total winnings. Leading trainer: Jack Spencer, 60 winners. Champion jockey: Billy Ragby, 45 winners. Leading stakes winner: Skryne Primrose, $39,507 in slakes and added money.
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    R. Breukelen, Bougoure win top honours
    193 12 JOCKEY Garnet Boueourr's i brilliant ridirm during the I Prnanc: Turf Cluh's Christmasrfew Year Mootins crotiitcd him with nine winners— almost a 'hirrl of thr total number of races daring four-day pro-!. gramme. i Bougoure rounded off neat season with a =rand hat-trick on
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    Harun Idris wins U.K. badminton
    353 12 LONDON. Sun. r<HE HARUN IDRIS won the sintjlcs and doubles badminton titles in a tournament for M il.iv students in Britain. He beat Che Jallaluddin in the f:n.il organised by 'he Malay Society and. partnered by Che Yussofl Zalnal. won the doubles fro:n Che Kha'ljah
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    Otago lose by 32 runs
    98 12 DUNEniN. Sun AUCKLAND her OtafO by 32 runs in their Plunket Shield match here yesterday. Auckland .scored 153 and 206 and Ot.ico 22n and 1(17. K Childs took <our Otago first innings wickets for 54 runs, and D. B Clarke claimed five for 47 In
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    STORE K.O. HOCKEYDRAW
    71 12 STORE K.O. HOCKEY DRAW The draw for the nuarter-nnal round of the Singapore Hockey Association's senior knockout hock.-y compel n km resulted: Winner of Latin Wanderers and i Onlverattj v r a.f. isi: raf, Ch;'.nci v BJtC.i winner of CSC I and REME v 9.CR.C; University lind team v Indians.
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    NEGRI TEAM WIN
    45 12 i SEREMBAN. Sun.- A Nfgrl horkey XI defer.ted Combined Malays by two goals to nil in a Keenlv.ontested game at the Tadans today. Both goaU, were netted by the! Oxford blue. M. Lewis. o flf penalty I bullies, one in each half.
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    SELANGOR REGAIN GURDWARA CUP
    354 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. CELANGOR SIKHS regained the Kf Gurdwara Cup by a clear-cut 2-0 win over Perak Sikhs in the Ust match of the third All-Malayan Sikhs hockey tournament on the Headquarters, Malaya, ground this morning. Selangor won the trophy in 1952 but last It to
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    JOHN SOH WINS ANOTHER RACE
    231 12 PENANG. Run. THE first All-Malayan Cycling carnival to be held on floodlit tracks began last nlcht at Victoria Green. Singapore's 16 year old schoolboy, John Soh. who won the 50 miles round-the-island raco in the afternoon. cave another brilliant performance to win the two mile.^
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    Brisbane cricket Tests have cut profits of tours
    63 12 From JACK FINGLETON (Exclusive to the Straits Times) CANBERRA, Sunday. THOSE AUSTRALIANS who try to see across the other side of the fence have known humiliation this week in the dictatorial refusal of the Australian Board of Cricket Control to see the
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    Jamaica lose three quick wkts to MCC
    222 12 KINGSTON Sun I t FINE a;ticklng spill *bMa A yielded three wickets for three runs In eight balls enablfd theM C.C. to hold Jamaica to 226 lor six on the opening day of their match here yesterday. Jamaica had appeared to oe on
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    SHA dollar fund
    415 12 The Singapore Ho. key A.-snri,,. lion's "dollar-a-wallah" fund closes on Saturday. Contributions should be sent to Mr. Cecil Wong. 69 China Building. Singapore 1. to English cricket to suggest that Brisbane's Test again.st the M.C.C. should revert to Melbourne in next Summer's series in Australia. Brisbane had
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    MCC TO MEET ON TEST VENUE
    105 12 LONDON, Sui~ Tlie MX C committee will consider ai He next meetiiiß the Australian Board of Control's rejection of lhe;r request that Brisbane be omittel from the test venue.s on tiie next Encland tour of Australia. R. Ai;d. the MCC Secretary, eatd thai no
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    NEW ZEALAND GO TO 505 IN TEST. REID SCORES 135
    298 12 CAPETOWN, Su NEW ZEALAND built up the h«gc total their first innings on the day of tl>«> third against South Africa here yesterday. The hom< had scored five runs without Joss before stump drawn. When Now Zealand show SO 4415
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    SCOREBOARD
    139 12 NKW ZKAI.ANn— Ist INNS. (J. Rabone lhw h Van R>ne\eld M M. happlr Waite b Van Rvnrveld 71 M. I'iioir c M<(.lew h Adi mk II B. Sulcliffe c Waile b Ironside <>•> J. Reid b Murray I I .1 Keck run out I". .Mooney b Ironside 4 A.
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    Nathan scores 4
    34 12 Genial Youngsters beat th. Club Rangers 7-1 at Farrer Park Ir a friendly aocccr matcn nsterdaj Scorers lor Genial Youngsters were: Hainan (4), Rama i2i and Xavler Ahmad scored for Ranscis.
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    KRiSHNAN BEATS ARKiNSIALL IN STRAIGHT SETS
    74 12 \i 1 1 1 KIMANATIIA.N K. 1 1 -old Imii I Cap p!.i> er lodaj c i Kt.i.ior upset with thi with which hr dispn .lack Arkinstall of \u in the imal ol Hie \:i( lonal l>awn i championships. Xi i-.liii.iii won i, In
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    C'wealth win third Test by 6 wickets
    42 12 THE (."ii... wicket: drawn. ihrir INDIA— Ist InnCOMMONM KM I II 1 i li IMM b 8 P. Bowlii DMMONM I M I ll I) R I c Gupte o Buntit f-.1-n-n i 1-n-K o
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