The Straits Times, 25 September 1955

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  • 16 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES Unqe&t HfeffSatei' I in No. 1,048 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1955. 20 CENTS.
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  • 273 1 Tin* da if after the amnesty ratty -20 bandits raid an estate A hell of a time' JOHORE terrorists are brazenly defying the amnesty terms by staging a constant series of incidents. On Friday night about 20 bandits raided labour lines on Bukit Serempang Estate, 26
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  • 131 1 Boy gassed in the Benny Skou f N 17, a L on board the h freighter rcome -..cie fumes hed to I iom of the take provi- cook, when bich had and he fell .•His. 1 ember, who pantry iter to net in 'he Ch:ef ■P»*r and the chief was
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  • 31 1 JAKARTA. Sat. The Indonesian cabinet has approved a list of delegates to represent this country at the Colombo Plan consultative committee conference in Singapore Oct. 19.— T. P.
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  • 67 1 Three share $5,000 The $5,000 prize i in the Straits Times Word Puzzle "T" is j shared by three people. Each will re- ceive 51. 666.67. They are: Mrs. Elizabeth Chan, 15, Margate Road, SINCAPORE. 15: Wee Boon Cheng, co South Engineers Ltd.. 40. Cross St.. SINCAPORE, 1: Yee Yoot
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  • 87 1 ITTHILE Singapore's 10--man special committee works out the future of local government in the Colony .it has been decided to extend the life of the City Council for 10 months. There will be no City elections at the end of this year. and Councillors 'elected and nominated)
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  • 76 1 A youth, who escaped a prison-warder's attention when he stole a bicycle parked in front of the Outran* Road prison, was arrested later when he tried to sell the bicycle to a detective, a Singapore Court vas told yesterday. Abdullah bin Said admitted stealing the bicycle
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  • 50 1 MEXICO CITY. Sat. A dynamite-loaded lorry and a train collided last night near Torreon. touching off a shattering explosion that took the lives of more than 40 people. In a chain reaction, the collision and explosion set off the cargo of a second dynamite-carry-ing truck. A.P
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  • 197 1 THE industria' section of the three civil Services unions m Singapore yesterday decided to put 12 demands to I the three services the Army, Navy and Air Force. The demands were carried unanimously at a meeting of about 7.000 workers at the Badminton Hall.
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  • 91 1 The street girl and the policeman TOKYO. Sat. CAN a policeman marry a former prostitute and still keep his job on the police force? Tokyo's metropolitan police board says 'No. The Civil Liberties Bureau and the National Justice Ministry says 'Yes. The police board forced the policeman to sign a
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  • 43 1 BUENOS AIRES, Sat. Argentine newspapers published without censorship today. The advent of Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi's revolutionary regime marked the end of strict regulations imposed on the press by the junta that took over from President Peron last Monday.
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  • 44 1 An unidentified European last night tore down the banners and paste /s set up by striking workers at the Adelphi Hotel. Police are investigating. A spokesman for the strikers said they will sue the man for damages if he is traced.
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  • 36 1 The Singapore Burma Trade Association l?<st nie;ht save a dinner at Cathay Restaurant in honour of the retiring Burmese Consul-Gen-eral. Mr l> Ba Thaung, and the Incoming Consul-Gen-eral, Mr. U. Aung Myat Kyaw.
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  • 39 1 Acting on information Inspector A. Fernando recovered on Thursday evening 674 rounds of .45 ammunition. 11 rounds of .303 ammunition and one motar shell. They have been handed over to the Army authorities for disposal.
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  • 95 1 SINGAPORE Customs have arrested a man in connection with the seizure on Friday night of 400 pounds of gold, valurd at $787,000. He is a Chinese crew membrr of the Norwegian vessel, Helios, in which the gold was found during a Cus- toms' search
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  • 50 1 GRETA TAKES A TRIP BY YACHT— STILL SEEKING SOLITUDE GRETA GARBO, travelling incognito in the yacht Christina belonging to Greek shipping magnate. Mr. Aristotle Onassis. during her visit to the Acropolis after the yacht called at Piraeus. As usual she did not wish to be noticed but was. A.P. picture.
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  • 166 1 He's all wrong, says the Tengku TELOK ANSON. Saturday. "IT IS WRONG TO SAY that Malaya cannot be independent just because she has no navy or air force," said the Federation's Chief Minister. Tengku Abdul Rahman, at an Alliance fun fair here last night.
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  • 55 1 A four-year expansion plan for hospitals in Singapore is outlined by the Minister for Health. Mr. A. J. Braga, in a Government Paper published yesterday. Under the plan, there will be more than 3,250 beds in Singapore's hospitals by 1960 The expansion has already been started
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  • 54 1 Depandants of SpeclaJ Constables, who are injured or killed on service will in future receive gratuities or pensions. A Bill de.sighed to amend the Police Force Ordinance to empower the Governor in Council to make regulations for granting these pensions and gratuities has been introduced in
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  • 92 1 Colony lawyer admitted to H. K. bar HONG KONG, Sat, Mr Kenneth Seth, the Singapore lawyer, was today admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Coart of Hong Kong. Formalities were waived az Mr. Seth's certiflcats of acl mission and all his privat< papers were lost riur'ng the Japanese occupation
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  • 32 1 Basri bin Sasman wanted on a theft charge by the Malacca police was ordered to be taken to the Federation after he was produced in a Singapore court yesterday.
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  • 28 1 JAKARTA. Sat. An official announcement said the government of Prime Minister Burhanuddin Harahap would outline its policies in a statement to Parliament on October 7. A.P
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  • 290 1 Busmen to mass at a grave ABOUT 400 Singapore Traction Company workers will spend their day off today in "paying their respects" at the grave of a conductor, Sockalingam Suppiah. The workers will assemble at their union headquarters in Race Course Road and go to the Lim Chu Kanß I
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  • 873 2 I cured a woman's fear— with my KNIFE llli:illC]|||||||ltlllC]IIIIIIIIIIIIC31IIIIIIIIIIIC}llllll!IIMIC]llllllllllll[lllllllllllll»llllllll^ GEORGE SAVA,j famous surgeon, 1 continues his 1 j CASE-BOOK STORIES -illlllllltJllllllllllMHIIIIIIIIIIIICJIIIIMIIIIItJIIIIIIIIIIIItJIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIHlliiiif? THIS story begins with a letter. A lettrr sent to me by a woman. It began: "For many years I had dreaded cancer. The picture of people dying of
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  • 856 2 AND HERE'S ANOTHER GEORGE SAVA STORY JEALOUSY which threatened to wreck a marriage was cured by the surgeon's knife. It happened like this An agitated voice startled me on the •phone in my consulting room. The voice was familiar but the utter despair in it disconcerted me.
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  • 1182 2  -  JOHN GOULD By- Fis clinic day in Singur, a village of 6,000 about twenty miles out of Calcutta where i the farmers grow rice, potatoes, jute and banaI nas. On the verandah of the Health Centre I building dozens of young mothers squat, holdI
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  • 340 3 Condemned man's wife sees Marshall C IHCAPORE'S Chief Minis t c r, Mr. David Marshall, yesfcr day assured the yfc of Ong Ah Too, wlO was condemned tc death last Monday f fhc murder of fh: American newspaperman, Cene Symc nds in the May 12 hat her husfcaid had the
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  • 19 3 In >n bar I 13 pieces of tin $286 bong and icb Road. m the comsterday.
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  • 14 3 Lam .Seek >":• who irtlcul4n of the vchiwas nflrd re curt yes-
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  • 71 3 Flyin? Officer Peter |jmcs Carver w.it married to Mits Barbara Karen Hammonds in Singapore yesterday. They are seen at the reception at Wattcn Eitatc after the ceremony at Carrison Church. Tanglin. The bride is the daughter of Mr. C. S. Hammonds of the Straits Times editorial staff,
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  • 105 3 A stamp of Sir Ernest Shackieton's 1908 Antartic expedition was exhibited yesterday at the sixth annual Stamp Club exhibition in the V.M.C.A. hall in Orchard i Road. At a stall exhibition envelopes etched with a picture of the Singapore waterfront were on sale. Stamps for immediate
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  • 294 3 WORKERS: WE ARE OWED 5 MONTHS PAY' Mr. Marshall also considered helping the repatriation of unemployed people. A number of Chinese without jobs wanted to go to China, When he was told that there was no provision for the Government to pay for such passages. Mr. Ma/shall said: "If we
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  • 38 3 The Singapore Film Society presents a famous French film. 'Casque dOr" at the British Council Hall at 6. 30 and 9 this evening. Admission free to members Lapsed mem- < bers can re-enrol at tho hall.
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  • 288 3  -  GEOFFREY BOLAND By MALAYA is to try an experiment to see if one of t\r bugbears of the rubber industry can be removed. From Oct. 1. for an unspe- ciflod trial period a system is to be introduced for the registration of forward
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  • 148 3 KUANTAN, Sat. Medical authorities today sent out mobile inoculation teams to neighbouring villages in a bid to stop the typhoid outbreak in the town spreading to kampongs. The teams visited villages in the Jabor Valley which lies to the north of the town.
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  • 324 3 DIVISION I Acton Villa 0 Bolton 2 Burnley 0 Man. I nitrd 0 Cardiff 1 Hudderslicld 2 C'hanton 2 Birmingham 0 I.uton o West Brom. 3 Man. City Z Blackpool 0 Portsmouth 1 Everton Preston 0 Sheffield V. Z Sundrrland 3 Arsenal 1 Tottenham 3 Newcastle 1
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  • 329 3 ANGLMNG^*! s ai wj I RECORD again this week the story of a successful day's fishing which followed directly upon the fact that the anglers concerned were unable to reach the spot for which they originally aimed, and were forced by circumstances to seek strange waters. In
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  • 269 3 REPRESENTATIVES of more than 12,000 Asian Government servants in Singapore yesterday described the demands put up by expatriate officers, in view of the Malayanisation scheme, as "fair" except for three points. Local men maintain that pensions should not be paid to expatriates with
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  • 55 4 The single-seater Fairey Delta 2 is teen here landing at Farnborough for the Flying Display and Exhibition. This Shell photograph shows the elongated nose lowered, drawbridge style, to give the pilot a good forward view. This experimental research aircraft is powered by a Rolls-Royce Avon jet engine and
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  • 713 4 Dr. BRIAN WELBECK |-|OW far can temperament help us when it comes to choosing a mate? Can one tell, by knowing to which "character groups" a boy and girl belong, whether or rot they will be happy in marriage? Is it bes' to seek
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  • 387 4 I watched fight with a ghost LONDON. I HAVE just watched a Young married couple fleht with a ghost for possession of their home. I started my lonely vigil in the haunted house near Wyndham -place, Plymouth, at 8 p.m. 1 sat on a bare landing on the top floor.
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  • 139 4 EAST MEETS WEST.. You Can Thank Dior! he has Introduced two long boxpleats down each side of the gown to preserve mr tapering appearance in keeping with the latest "Y" line look. And that is a start. Howfar will it ro? I asked M onsieur Bernard Lau rent, one of
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  • 524 4 But. will the 'C'-LOOK CHEONCSAM last for long? much about Dior's plans, But he did say the cheong-sam-style dresses had attracted considerable fayourable comment from fashion observers in Paris and London. But the western version of the cheongsam is likely to remain very modified. "Although the Chinese girls look very
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  • 231 4 WHOOSH -and Fifi bales out at zero ft. ALONG the runway sped a Meteor fighter at 157 WHOOSH—and out of the cockpit came a man. a second. ONE SECOND after he had left the cockpit his parachute began to open. TWO SECONDS, and the bundle in the blue-overalled aviation suit
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    122 4 AT long last Frenchmen have realised something the Chinese men, and women too, have known for centuries the cheongsain style is cunning and it can be figure-flatter-ing. There is a Chinese influence in some of the latest fashions from the top French fashion houses. And last week, one of
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  • 933 5 Malaya s barber shops, bootmakers and tailors were a happy surprise for the Australians M has only a handful of Diggers yet, but the advance party S ?h th Second Battalion. Royal Australian is delighted with what it has found here c and
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  • 91 5 Kcd lor his mi after be- i day"s $10 by Mr. J < 'bourn. Fourth Mardajr. ided Riulty to attempted sulK >ad on .isfd a broken in cut his Hind hi his k who hart rt that a i cost him v a
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  • 147 5 reemathy Paramananda Ramadevi. an authority I vnd ancient Indian texts, will include Sin her near-future tour of South East Asia idi'vi. who under the iru Ananda in his retreat in the Himalayas, is making the coming tour at the request of her disciples
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  • 223 5 CHEW CHONG JIN. a security officer working for Pan-American Airways, was acquitted by the Singapore First Criminal District Court yesterday, on charges of illegally importing and abetting to import six slabs of gold valued at more than $30,000 at Kallang Airport on June 17 On
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  • 56 5 Chua Ah Leh was yesterday charged with being a member of Gang 108 and with having extorted $2 from two men, Phoon Mun Luen and Chiang Peow Yin, in Albert Street on Sept. 10. He claimed trial. Bail was opposed and he was remanded till Dec. 5 when
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  • 197 5 Says one young man A 15-YEAR-OLD Singapore lad is out to smash the popular theory that classical and jazz music don't mix and his proof is going to be himself. This young man of music is budding boogie woogie organist-pianist, Oan Tiang ago. Since
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  • 192 5 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. TH E Federation Government has again called a halt to the recruitment of police lieutenants— this time until the effect of the amnesty on the shooting war can be seen. An increase of about 100 in the establishment of police lieutenants
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  • 25 5 Mr. Otwald Camiriiera St. Maria and Mitt Mavii Constance Ree after their wedding at the Cathedral of the Cood Shepherd in Singapore yesterday.
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  • 134 5 New contest for Colony artists SINGAPORE artists have been invited to take part In an International Art Contest, the finals of which will be held at Tampa, in Florida at the end of November. The Singapore contest is sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Prizes will be awarded to
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  • 905 6  - Make a million with a clag machine' here J.C. TAN By A UTOMATION is to- day's maßic word. It means frighteningly efficient "brainy" machines doing work which would otherwise require thousands of man-hours. But the first man in Malaya who can massproduce clogs cheaply is going to hit "uranium." This
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  • 477 6  - THE TRANSLINGUIST THE MONKEYS Jou Bienming by THE TRANSLINCUIST is meant to serve the double purpose of transliteration and translation. It transliterates by means of "tonal spelling," wherein the sound and tone of Chinese speech can be learned from the written and printed word. It translates Chinese into English, thereby
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  • 702 6 'A bragian hussy' is caught YESTERDAY, after a programme of music, the Federation Police Band Beat Retreat on the town padang before a large audience. The Tuan. with his usual aplomb, took a seat next to the A.0.. who had to leave early, an event that filled the old fool
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    • 285 6 CHRISTMAS AT^^pg' **MKkB SEA,RETURN NEW YEAR'S .''^•B EVE FOR SINGAPORE ifE' celebrations! S^ \*^^B A NEW EXCITING WAY TO SPEND YOUR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY m.v. "ASIA" AIR-CONDITIONED THROUCHOUT CHRISTMAS CRUISE TO HONCKONC Leaves Singapore Dee. 22nd Arrives Hongkong Dec. 26th Leaves Hongkong Dec. 28th Arrives Singapore Oec. 31st ROUND TRIP FARES
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    • 358 6 LASSIE' ROLLED OATS SLOGAN COMPETITION RESULTS Ist PRIZE $500 rr^, J5 c Singapore ,V Cyl °"<. XnO jJW 20 R,mb,, R,,d Singapore 15. Jffl JAW Niyor Estate Kluang, lortore. 7 CONSOLATION PRIZES OF $25 EACH Mr*. M. dc Villencuvc. Mrs. Annie E. Chaw 31 Broadrick Road. 86-6 Prince Chorlcj S
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  • 910 7  - Handsome males can be 'office danger' CHARLES MEREDITH By EMPLOYMENT agencies have established the fact that handsome men find their good looks a definite drawback when it comes to job-hunt ing. Agencies checked up on the efforts of 282 men aged 22 to 34 who were trying to find employment
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  • 779 7 TWO years ago my jo* brought 1 me to a new town where I have fallen In love with a girl of the same ia>th and language as my own. FYom the difficulties she overcame in ord« to meet me. I believed she loved me too.
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  • 141 7 TWO English slrb have helped to discover the Spain of 2,000 years ago now hidden beneath the sea. They ignored the danger of moray eels their bite is poisonous and 12ft. octopuses. The two girls Miss Eleanor Morrison 25-year-old teacher, and Mrs. Eileen Howdle. a secretary of 22
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  • 232 7 Down with women bosses! I AM beginning my fourth month of working almost exclusively with men. There isn't another woman in the department and it's heaven! Let the TUC argue about women's rights equal pay and opportunities. I'm right behind them as long as I never attain have to work
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    • 19 7 THEY WERE JUST THE RIGHT MEN FOR THE JOB, BUT 400 EMPLOYERS TURNED THEM DOWN BECAUSE THEY FEAR THAT-
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  • 170 8 :^^«^Sayi ESME BAPTISTA*^^*: UOMEMAKERS can now obtain locally-made materials handcrafted in Malayan batik to individual taste and design. Craftsmen are creating exciting textiles. Have you ever wished that you could create your own colours? Here is the chance now to fulfil that wish. A sarong
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  • 890 8  -  SYLVIA LAMOND By All tMIU.N, ALL. AND SIZES! This is a fabulous fashion year with something to suit everybody. Slender tube lines to make shorties look taller; tiny waists and vast skirts to make beanstalks look rounder. BLACK brown and blue are the outstan ding 1956 col ours. Rich,
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  • 137 8 Average figures CHORT or fat.... tall or skinny. "there's something in OUR range for YOU" say the fashion firms. But when I try to cover the Smith figure (not too short, fat, tall or skinny— but not quite average) in something smart, reasonable and off the peg what a difference
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    • 29 8 straw or leather are made with curved bambo handles. Shadow striped shoes in shades of honeybeige and white or in various shades of grey have striped tcarves to match
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  • 1069 9 By THE COMPETITION EDITOR ENTRIES for the Straits Times Word Puzzle "T" again soared but there was less unanimity of thought. In two cases prizes were forfeitec because contestants omitted to fill in blank spaces. Below are the comments I of the judges
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  • 269 9 WHEN 27 young Malaya- bound volunteers of the Women's Royal Air Force boarded the troopship Devonshire at Liverpool on Aug 24 none of them thought she would find her ideal man aboard ship during the voyage. But two of them did. They are Leading
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  • 34 9 Looking at tome of the spot prizes for the Press Ball: Three LP records, brandy and champagne and the model wears another prize, a mauve cotton H-line dress. Story below.
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  • 310 9 fTHIS year's Press Ball, to i X be held by Singapore journalists at the Sea View Hotel on Oct. 8, promises to be quite an occasion. That many lovely young girls will be present is a foregone conclusion. The word has spread that somebody, anybody
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    • 102 9 II inning answers to Word Puzzle *T* "|"HE $5 000 prixe for Straits Tim M Word Puzzle Contest "T" was won by Wee Boon Cheng, 40 Cross Street, Singapore; Mrs. Elixabcrh Chan, 15 Margate Road Singapore; and Yee Yoot Ching, 1611, Pasir Pinji. Ipoh, who submitted sets of answers which
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  • 375 10 NO THIRD FORCE In the battle which, unhappily, will very soon < have to be waged in earnest, the line-up becomes < clear. It is Mr. David Marshall and the decent people of Singapore against the wreckers. In the < Assembly, it is the Chief Minister against an
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  • 894 10 THE KIWI TROOPS WHO ARE COMIXG TO MALAYA from DAVID FINLAY WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sat. 150 to 160 New Zealand soldiers arrive in Singapore in mid-November as their country's Army contribution to the anti-terrorist campaign, one of their biggest challenges will be Malaya's heat.
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  • 993 10 In reply to D. Ablshegam's letter, the problem has resolved itself as the terrorists are obviously not going to avail themselves of the amnesty. K. PAUL. Johore. Now that the Communist terrorists have shown themselves to be committed irrevocably to pillage and murder what do you
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  • 419 10  -  JEFFREY FRANCIS By A few montlis ago the Sunday Times drew the attention of its readers to the urgent need for a life savers' club at the popular beach of Port Dickson. Not long after that, a public-spirited clerk. Mr. C. Karuppiah, roused the interest
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  • 369 10 Billy Bull the s I And what I snarling I »ng there I smell re, I of tho 1 made in Malayan! Malan would f Because a J white. th( ■■■■< boiled dov.. I is not the actu i I should be I* for which h. .:\X and sent packing
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    • 4 10 SINGAPORE. SEPT. 25, 1955.
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  • 191 11 I1T.1S1) FIVE YEARS BUT Mr. ALWIS RESTORED MY SIGHT. SAYS MADAM HO D people gathered in a Singapore school hall last week of ftnding a cure through faith for their maimed and was mainndlans. were 'hiding deaf new. le variety 1 a
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  • 267 11 WOULD YOU LIKE THE CANE? FOND FATHER IS ASKED IPOH, Saturday. I THE Ipoh Magistrate, Inche Jamal bin Abdul Latiff i today asked a businessman if he would like 1 to be caned instead of his son. I When the magistrate i threatened to order the cane for his 14-year-old
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  • 28 11 Mrs Keith Woodeson. formerly Ruth Langdon. daughter of a previous U.S. ConsulQeneraJ in Singapore, has given birth to a daughter Diana> in Boston. Mass.
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  • 139 11 r imre yesid Polish speculative 51.48J grade, threeabove the "aU-ady at. •-per lb. fob. sellers H SS Orto--148 •t buyers 2 October Wi; No. 3 "f Com'<i"n noon iv Sept Bu>er» SrUrn 148 bales Ot. 148 148>i No. 1 R.S.S. Nov. 147N, 147', I No. 2 R.S.S.
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  • 70 11 The chairman of the Malaj Women's Welfare Association. Che Zahara binte Nooi Mohammed, is planning tc leave for Peking on Tuesdaj if the Singapore Government gives her permission to visli Communist China. She has been invited by the Democratic Women's Federation of China to spend a few
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  • 26 11 This baby tiger, seen with friend, will be one of the 'stars' of the Animal Lovers' League rally next Saturday. Story below.
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  • 348 11 rE annual rally and flag day of the Animal Lovers League falls this year on World Animal Day, next Saturday, which the young members of the league take as a happy omen. The A.L.L. the largest single youth organisation in Singapore Is planning an
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  • 195 11 THE Singapore Covern- menf will agree *O fill vacant top specialist posts in the Medical Department with suitable men WITHOUT experience if necessary. The Department advertised for specialists late last month, waiving the usual requirement ten years' general and five years' specialist experience The
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  • 276 11 PENANC. Saturday. A CROWD OF 10,000 gathered on the Esplanade this morning had a fright as the helicopter, bearing the Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman received a sudden check in its flight before it landed Some sheets of white cloth, placed on the
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  • 50 11 The Ladies Section, Malayan Chinese Association, Johore Bahru branch, held a social at the association's premises on Thursday night. The president, Mrs. Ten Yoon Song. hoped these would be regular meetings and that the membership of 40 would increase The ladies section was formed in July section was
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  • 96 11 YOUTHS HAD RED PAPERS ALLEGATION Three youths were charged in Singapore yesterday with having copies of a terrorist document Thang Shew Theng Won* Tsung Chan and Chin Yoke LJn were alleged to have had two copies of a pamphlet entitled Support the Manifesto of O.H.Q. of the Liberation Army on
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  • 30 11 Mr Leong Ban Soon, of Geylang Road, found his room had been ransacked when he woke up yesterday. Gold rines worth 5195 and 5370 in cash were missing.
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 92 11 is the drink is the Scotch B r^ fT^I ot lcr quite so gfitt! refreshing as Scotch Whisky. rYou can drink it short or i !r**\ long, as the mood ukes you, 1 j^Ttj 881 wlictlicr served neat or *w<bV J^^Ba with la^ cold dnught^of MH f^^*^i\ Ke d water,
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  • 502 12 •IITHEN Surveyor John ITT Turnbull Thomson 'returned to Singapore In 1 1841, the town consisted >of about 30.000 people (of every nationality on earth. Chinese and Malays preI dominated. The Euro[peans totalled some two hundred, and those in the ships in port number[ed not more
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    81 12 IJJIIIIIIIIIIM Illlllltllllllll ***** l *****ini, 1 THE SUNDAY TIMES' WEE I CAMERA CONTEST First prize in the Sunday Times Camera Contest this week is awarded to Ch'ng Seng Poh of 5 Cuan Hup Street, U.O. Box 96, Klane, for his study "How's The Catch?" (above). Second prize to Wan Ghee
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  • 637 12  -  G. SCOTT BUSHE. BY pHDDR Singapore photographers have been successful In having worfc accepted for showing in the 46th annual exhioition o* the London Salon of Photography, which opened on September 10 and will continue until October 8. Among photographers, the London Salon is counted
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 275 12 When you think of it, you have everything to gain from buying your Blue Gillette Blades in a quick-feed Dispenser. After all, you pay only for the blades -the Dispenser is free. *S* I Here are the advantages: the Blue r&jw't <£|Vft Gillette Blades sharpest in the I world are
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    • 95 12 'TROVER t*Sl™Ji J&m&U 107" WHEELBASE PICK-UP TRUCK NOW WITH OR VVITHOL' STATION WACON SOOY h'Rii I Ik A 4-WHEEL DRlVE— with the cross-country ability I the smaller 86" wheelbase LAND-ROVER. Body lengl 6 feet, sufficient for 12 passengers and a driver. CHAMPION MOTORS LTD 304 ORCHARD ROAD «"d |ALAN TICA.
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    • 163 12 Papular Crossword ACROSS DOWN 1. Insect (11), 9. Diminish (4), Murmur with discontent .0. I» a crew (3). 12. Bearded 7) *JLST 4)i V' vJSA [l\\ (8), 14. Manner (4), 15. Punish 6 Subject to forfeit (8),, 7. (4), 16. Indifference (6), 18. 9 r<c<ns (S) 8 T »kes plunder
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  • 193 13 H Ava I are P I \N It' her Blra .'aph had WT brolherr Ml »M M* d laJrnl at h.r 'ir had it \ud lin rv 3^^,, h i no S j{ ronsirtrd C v w m woo a :r alonr W M
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  • 1173 13 Venice found it hard to see the films for the champagne corks... inuitehMwo n !lav Ut Film Festival of course—approximprTss e ion al that h t r h W two a day. I sometimes get the ssion mat the films are considered of secondary importance. I
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  • 201 13 Niven gets a bug-eyed new look IT'S tihe bug-eye lens that does it said David Niven. with the air of explaining everything. "You know Todd-AO." Tell me more." I said, blinking It's like this." he said patiently. -An ordinary cine-camera lens tak»s in what your eyes can see. But the
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    • 94 13 ]3^W If you want to make friends 3u ye got to look smart helps a man to make friends a$ much as looking smart and •••ic^hed— and there's nothin? bener than a perfectly-groomed head add the final touch of distinction. Hair Dressings will give you this extra smartness, for thej
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    • 124 13 ]^|j^H# FURNISHING S I I (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) r 1 RAFFLES PLACE, SINGAPORE. TEL: 5167-8-9 ?Tlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll»MIIMIIIII!Hllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll? V m m Vk. I^H a^ni n^P tMa^n^B^nß v >. I* v^aW r v TITUS $"7 in LATEST IMPROVEMENT >y&/ TO ALL TITUS' WATCHES t^sC WITH SOLFIX BALANCE' with UNBREAKABLE SPRING INCABLOC 17 and
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    • 724 14 COMPANY The Manufacturers Life is proud to announce that it is now providing more than Malayan $6,000,000,000 in life and rttirement protection for its policy-holders around the world. In the past, many people have contributed to the expansion •nd growth of the Company. We are particularly proud of our Life
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    • 1016 14 by Edgar Rice Burroughs wilA TAEZAN AM7 THE KCP IOJieHT O-ASHCP ON /^BBB^ir'fl^LiiJr?. J«g^\ IKk HOeSCBAOCvSO PCeCCIX THAT BOTH WERE BBBBBBi^^^J^gBBr L^-^^Ti^AV I V A »UfcLE[?TOTHE«MUNr?... C~Wv^K \f^fi\ THIKSTV CXV THE gEC? kINJIGMT CMA^l^' BUT INI WIS CAAEBN6SS I [THE APC-MAM TWCN IBOSC WPPINGOPP WIS I fK^WS^^^E > HE ABANPONEP
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  • 1764 17  - he Biggest Battle of My Life! I Joan Ithodcs firtttt IJy not a cent left when I reached London It I was lunch time and I went to Lincoln's Inn Fields c office workers go to eat their lunch sand jchcs and lie on the grass. -,>d them like a
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    • 12 17 INVICTA WOULD FAMOUS SWISS WATCH L "IIVI>ABI.E AT ALL LEADING WATCH DEALERS
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    • 293 17 MB STAY OUT m FRONT Every day in every way you'll be happier in a Hillman. Big car motoring at light car cost sleek, trim luxury lines roomy inviting interiors, perfect suspension and brilliant but economical engine performance. No less than 6 models to choose from. Come and see them
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  • 580 18 npiIKHK has been increasing comment and justifiable criticism of the present system of taxing vehicles. Briefly, this system is based on an obsolete method of calculating horse-power, and when applied to modern engines it gives results which are inaccurate and misleading. As a result
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    143 18 If Malayan fnotoritr* ever tec th»« charging along one of Hie up-country roads, they'll recognise it as "The Rhino. an American invention being used in jungle and swamp countries. The vehicle has a cruising speed of 45 mp.h. along a highway. Its inventor. Elie Aghnides, an American
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  • 834 18  -  'CRUSADER' By IN recent years there has been a regrettable tendency for some leading sportsmen xpeer to be "spoon-fea specially in the way o tnce. They fee. jt they are indispensable and that their services should be paid for. Although it might not be in the form
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    • 7 18 MMI I=^^ar THIS WAY i MALAYAN AIRWAYS
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    • 217 18 Saloon,,, Convertible... or Traveller W- Wigfiggggß^^^ i3gv~* I i minor n.»vrxLS» MEET THE BIG THRH St «,Jjfc ggMgggk •K§§fc MALAYAN MOTORS LTD. \JS^SV Wearne Bros Ltd FEDERATION REPRESENTATIVES DONT GO ON SUFFERING 7 End those dreaded night attacks o ASTHMA I AND BRONCHITIS! rJZ{% 'jfwggggr Do you go to bed
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  • 812 19 fijians take 12 [cents as Johore jjeat Singapore Johore look the honours yesteri (he Diamond Jubilee athletic match lingapoit at the Johore English College j u nd. Johorc athletes won 16 of the 27 events gramme, and the Fijians claimed 12 of lor the State. the
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  • 141 19 I.T.r>etitors will I Singapore lob meet at I today at isaw AU for for 10 h.p., p EU for 25 tion race 1» for 25 h.p., Is $5. Water-Sltl A«•iiibitlons of •■ie pror>ed meet Is Johore's, itlons. The skiers will perform tricks and novelty acts anc. open
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  • 362 19 Defence takes honours in Selangor's win KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. 4 STERLING defence in which Edwin Dutton, Poh Chiew and Sai Cheong were outstanding, was mainly responsible for Selangor's two-nil win over Johore in their F.A.M. Cup semi-final played at the T.P.C.A. stadium today. Sclangor will meet Penang in the final
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  • 158 19 TUCK KONG'S FIVE-YEAR SUSPENSION RE-IMPOSED IPOH, Sat. rt five-year suspension imposed on Kamblers' right full back, Chan Tuck Kong, by the Ipoh and District Football League, which was lifted last week after 15 months, was re-imposed again today. At an emergency meeting the league comEiittee cancelled the remission and ordered
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  • 98 19 pEYLON Sports Club dropped I their first point in the SHA first division league when they were held 1-1 by Chinese at j; Roid yesterday. Chinese, la-st year's beaten kiu vi I. .its, opened scoring in the llth minute through Khoon Keah and hung onto this
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  • 174 19 JOHORE BAHRU, Sat. PLAYING in place of Roberts at centre threequarter, Stevenson, of the police made a successful debuc for South Johore RFC today when he scored three of the four tries against RAF Seletar. The final score was South Johore 14 points <one goal and
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  • 649 19 NINE records were broken and one equalled at the Tiger Swimming Club's championship: held at the clubs pool in Pasir Panjang yesterday. Two of the records wee beUerd by Dan Eng Guan, who won fie Individual championship *tth wins In the 120 yd, 240 yd.
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  • 609 19 New Zealanders hold S.C.C. with late goal TN A HARD and fast game seen on the padang yesI terday, the 14th Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force held Singapore Cricket Club to a draw at II points all, a goal, a try and a penalty to a goal and two
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  • 59 19 S.A.F.A. senior Cup: Royal Navy v R.A.F. Seletar, Jalan Besar. 5 p.m. Junior Cup semi-final: Koyil Signals v Alexandra F.T., Jalan Besar. 4 p.m.;' Balesthr United v Dockyard "A", Geylang. Friendlies: R.A.F. Chantf v Rajaji S.C., Farrer Paik; Pulau Bukom v Junior A.A., Bukom; Maxwell S.C. v Kinta Ranger;.
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  • 137 19 T IM Wei Lon, defending cham-*-A pion entered the semi-finals of the Singapore Badminton Association's siiiooiboy.s singles championship when he beat Long Tern Chan 15-4, 15-6 last night. The semi-flnal stage In the schoolboys doubles was also reached. Of the four quarter finals only two
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  • 121 19 \IISS Tan Chwee Neo of Rex iTA Badminton Party is indisposed and has been given a postponement in the women's junior singles final against Mrs. Nellie Sidwell of the Useful B.P. The other flrnl in the S.B.A )unlor championships will be played today at the Gulllemard
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  • 104 19 ACROSS: 1, Grasshopper. 9. Wane. Hi, Oar. 12, I'nahaven. 14. Mode. 15, Cane. 16. Apathy. 18, Blows. 20. Glasses. 21, Lank. 22, Clink. 23 End. Ml Phase. 25. Him. 27. Baize. 28, Wavy. 29, Cubicle 31. Wires. 32 Earned. 33. Ship. 34. Aged 35 Impolite. 37 Sea. 38.
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    • 290 19 sol Itch Cause il ed in 4 Days Hn and Itching x^ I Minutes i 'O#»8 r«ck »-d Infection*, as well as Rl.igworm. z. |i»iwmii It stops th* Itch and soothes ana »olft of your cool* the skin In 7 mlrutes. 3 It -'^ra brp«ik and makes the skin soft,
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    • 187 19 RED LION taste-thrilling ORANGE OR PINEAPPLE Fly by big 4-engine Clipper* < C/^ J"^ Choice of first-class or it] 3 flights weekly -Tuesday, _«&ffi* t *L|jjt^M (l Connections at Manila with t^TOE^ SB^^Mat^ Super-powered "Strato" Clippers WFm to the U.S.A., or Super-6 Clippers r-j"*- |H to Tokyo via Hong Kong.
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  • 2580 20 Leong scores his 30th win, loses allowance By EPSOM JEEP gARAKAT, cleverly handled by apprentice Kitson Leong, sprang a spectacular upset to pay $121 for a win in the Gold Cup trial over a mile at Bukit Timah yesterday, first day of the Singapore
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  • 188 20 KUALA LUMPUR. Saturday. HF. SHEPPARD. of Siiua- pore, will lead the Malayan Cricket Association's team in a series of matches against Hong Kong sides in Hong Kong from Nov. 17 to Nov. 28. Geoffrey Walker, who has led the Perak team for the
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  • 323 20  -  EPSOM JEEP BY TAMES AITCH a bright Gold Cup prospect, was out for a testing gallop on the training track at Bukit Tlmah yesterday morning. Ridden by Chris Schiller, this four-year-old went the Cup dstance In the bark stretch he was tolned by Shamrock Slipper
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    • 377 20 ENGAGEMENT HorW. f,m (minimum) CHENG WEE: KAI SIEN. youngest son of the late Mr. Tay lAong Hin and Mrs. Tay and Molly, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wee Boon Klang. DEATH 20 Word* fin (minimum). JANAB HAJEE K. M Mohamed Ismail. rlf"~l***l partner of Messrs. O. A. Hajee Mohamed
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    • 130 20 AGFA SUPER ISOIFTTe j ALWAYS ONE STEP AHEAD THE FAMOUS AGFA SUPER i NOW WITH LIGHT VALUE SCALE Coupled combined Range and 12 exposures 2J" x 2i" (6 x 6 Colour corrected Solmar 3 5 BEHN. MEYER CO. LTD.. P.O. Box 2OOoJ5; PATERSON. SIMONS CO. ITO.. Kuala lum; dsresli ji'om
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