The Straits Times, 12 February 1958

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    19 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 80,000 The Straits Times Estd. 1845. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1958 *r 15 CENTS
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    Lock icon JAKARTA STANDS FIRM
    410 1 LET THE REBELS DO AS THEY WISH/ SAYS DJUANDA Sumual: this is it next step to proclaim revolutionary government Ultimatum to Cabinet rejected JAKARTA, Tuesday. fHE Government today rejected the ultimatum from defiant Central Sumatra demanding its resignation within five days. The rebel group, including Muslim politicians
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    Lock icon CHOU QUITS AS FOREIGN MINISTER
    439 1 CHOU QUITS AS FOREIGN MINISTER He asked to be replaced HONG KONG, Tuesday. rpHE Chinese Communist Prime Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, was today replaced as Foreign Minister at his own request. Mr. Chou has held both posts since the Communists won power in 1949. On his recommendation, the National People's
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    SAFE IN SINGAPORE HARBOUR
    10 1 THE SEGAMAT in Singapore harbour yesterday
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    Malay classes dispute—up to the Tengku
    568 1 Malay classes dispute up to the Tengku KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, may be the only one who can settle the 40-day-old Malay secondary classes row. It was said tonigtn tha, the efforts by the Malay Otherwise Trained School Teachprs' Union to settle ths trouble would
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    DOBBY GIVES NOTICE OF RESIGNATION
    259 1 rjOCTOR E. H. G. Dobby, Dean of the Arts Faculty at the University of Malaya, has resigned without giving a reason. The university authorities received his letter of reslgna tlon, from hl s home In the rsle of Wight, about two; weeks ago. It gave
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    INDONESIAN GUNBOAT FIRED TWICE AT SHIP
    234 1 INDONESIAN GUNBOAT FIRED TWICE AT SHIP -THE 362-ton Segamat "surrendered" to an Indonesian gunboat after she was given two bursts of ma-chine-gun fire, the master of the vessel. Capt. Mohamed Said bin Mohamed Dems, 42, said yesterday. The vessel, detained for nearly 24 hours at Tan Jong Plnang, was released
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    Lock icon The big wind
    30 1 WELLINGTON, Tues. A wind of 270 m.p.h. the highest ever recorded in New Zealand was clocked by a meteorological balloon at 30,000 ft. over Invercarglll today. Reuter.
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    Budget surprise hits the tax man
    151 1 Huge stocks of liquor drawn from bond to beat the expected rise In duty In last December's budget are believed to be responsible for the big drop In Singapore Customs revenue in January. The rise In duty never took place and local dealers were
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    S.I.T. homes for citizens only
    118 1 S.I.T. homes for citizens only Only registered citisens of Singapore will In future be eligible to apply for Singapore Improvement Trust houses, tbe Trust announced yesterday. The new ruling means that all non-citiiens. including British subjects not born In tbe Colony, will be disqualified from setting SIT accommodation The decision
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    288 1 2 a.m. news roundup MAC IS BACK TODAY TO TOUR CITY Tbe British Prim* Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan. will get a firsthand view of how Singapore lives and works during an informal cat tour this afternoon. He will arrive from Australia at 8.0 thU morning. He will begin an hour'i
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    Lock icon CEYLON PARTY PURGE ON
    93 1 COLOMBO. Tues— A Ceylone.se Cabinet Minister today led a movement to purge the majority Sri Lanka Freedom Party "Marxist elements." A large group of party members, led by Mr. C. A. S. Martkkar. Minister of Posts and Broadcasting, favours appointment of a screening committee. Prime Mlnis'er
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    Lock icon 'WIDOW, 66, POISONED TWO AGED HUSBANDS'
    390 2 Prosecution: Both died of Mh— rt flacks* just after marriage LONDON, Tues.— A rosy cheeked widow of 66 Murdered two of her huebands with rat poison each within a fortnight of marriage a magistrate was told yesterday. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wilson listened intently as
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    Lock icon 23 DEAD IN AMERICAN BLIZZARDS
    88 2 NEW YORK, Tues—Blinding snowstorms, sleet, freezing rain and sub-zero temperatures in the United States yesterday closed many schools, kept thousands of workers from their jobs and were responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people. Frost was reported as far south as Southern Florida.
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    Lock icon BARONET: I GAVE MISTRESS £40,000—SHE WANTED MORE
    349 2 BARONET: I GAVE MISTRESS £40,000— SHE WANTED MORE Court told she threatened him with disclosures lONDON, Tues. Sir Strati Ralli, 81--year old millionaire, said yesterday that his ex-mistress used to frighten him by saying Uiat if their liaison was exposed he would lose his friends and be barred from the
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    Lock icon Grace: No twins
    29 2 MONTE CARLO. Tues. Princess Grace of Monaco expects her second baby in midMarch, palace officials said here today. They denied that she was expecting twins. Reuter.
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    Lock icon Police protection for camel
    55 2 CAIRO. Tues. A camel was given police protection today. His master save the animal a violent beating and It lifted him in its jaws, then threw him to the ground and stamped him to death. The dead man's family tried to kill the camel, but the
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    Aid for Africa
    27 2 LONDON. Tues— The Colonial Development Corporation advanced £4 380.00) for development In Africa during the last financial year it was reported today— Rev ter.
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    Lock icon Home again
    23 2 LONDON. Tues. The Queen and Prince Philip resumed residence at Buck ingham Palace today after spending seven weeks at Sandringham— Reuter.
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    Dr. ISMAIL: THE FUTURE OF TIN 'PROMISING'
    127 2 Dr. ISMAIL: THE FUTURE OF TIN 'PROMISING' WASHINGTON, Tnea. Malaya's Ambassador, Dr. Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, said today that he la "firmly of the opinion that the long-term outlook for tin is basically sound and promising." He acknowledged that "there may be temporary setbacks in the tin situation", but
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    Lock icon Girl friendly with a Siamese youth must leave school
    226 2 COULD RETURN IF SHE DID NOT SEE HIM 1 LONDON, Tues— A star British high himpcr, Mhw Mar> Bif nail. 18, told reporters yesterday she bad been ordered to leave the exclusive Mill Held School at Street. Somerset, because of bet
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    Lock icon CYPRUS CRISIS TALKS
    131 2 Lloyd, Foot fly in ATHENS, Tues.— Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, the British Foreign Secretary, and Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, arrived here today ror Cyprus crisis talks with Greek Ministers. Special security precautions were imposed at the airport. No comment Mr. Lloyd, who flew from London, said:
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    Lock icon Hunger strike
    28 2 CALCUTTA. Tues. One hunderd West Bengal teachers began a 15-day nunger strike last night to back demand for minimum pay scales and Improved servic9 conditions. U.P.
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    Lock icon Fewer Reds
    26 2 LONDON. Tues. -Member ship of the British Commu nist Party— 34.ooo before the Russian intervention In Hungary—is now 25.000. It vu disclosed today.— Reuter.
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    Lock icon India to get more U.S. dollars?
    271 2 '$225 MILLION LOAN NOT ENOUGH' WASHINGTON, Tuesday. INDIA may get another US$5O million in economic aid from the United States within the next few months, in addition to US$225 million in loans already offered, informed sources said last night. An Indian mission, led by
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    Lock icon French cabinet meets on Tunis
    387 3 L^MbING RAID A 'THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY' FAMILIES KICKED OUT AS GAILLARD CONFERS WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR PARIS, Tuesday. fHE French Prime Minister, M. Felix Gaillard, last night summoned top Cabinet i Ministers and his Chief of Staff to an emergency meeting on the
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    Manchester United manager in hospital
    42 3 MANCHESTER UNITED manager Matt Busby, who was seriously injured in last week's air crash at Munich airport, lies inside an oxygen tent. Seven of his team and 14 other people were killed in the crash. IP picture.
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    Lock icon 100,000 MOURN MANCHESTER UNITED AIR CRASH DEAD
    365 3 Men kneel to pray on rain-soaked pavements MANCHESTER. Tues.--| More than 100,000 grief-stricken men, women and children lined the streets of i this city at midnight last night to pay homage to the air crash dead of the Manchester United soccer team. Women
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    Lock icon 'Outer space' man doing fine
    59 3 NEW YORK. Tues. Airman Donald G. I am II who is spending a week in a small steel chamber at San Antonio air base to find out if a man's nerves can stand a rocket trip to outer space. bor e up "exceptionally well" during
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    Lock icon Widow chosen
    31 3 LONDON. Tues -Mrs Katherlne Elliot, widow of the late Colonel Walter Elliot. Conservative M.P. for Kelvlngrove, Glasgow. was chosen today as the new Conservative candidate for the constituency— Reuter.
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    Lock icon PLAN TO ADMIT INDIANS INTO AUSTRALIA UNDER FIRE
    144 3 PLAN TO ADMIT INDIANS INTO AUSTRALIA UNDER FIRE MELBOURNE, Tues. Former Labour Immigration Minister Mr. Arthur Calwell, who has often been criticised for his refusal to allow certain Asians to stay in Australia, today attacked a proposal for a quota of selected immigrants from India and Pakistan. He said that
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    Lock icon Copter cops
    20 3 SYDNEY. Tues. Police here have successfully tested a radio-equipped helicopter for traffic control, it was announced today— Reuter.
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    Lock icon PEKING: LET'S QUIT KOREA
    75 3 LONDON, Tues —The British Government has received and is studying a Chinese Government statement calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from North and South Korea, a Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday. I The statement was handed to the British Charge d'Affaires in Peking, Mr.
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    LONDON STOCKS
    236 3 LONDON, Mon Closing middle prices of selected stocks not including stamp duty were: LOANS Consols £48% 4 Funding 4% £89% H War 3-,% £64 1516 BANKS Mercantile (£l> 32 8 Chartered <£1» 419 +/S Hongkong ($125) £45>i INSURANCE Con. Un. (uU.) 73/74 Royal 76/44 —/I Prudential £40 T
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    RUBBER
    27 3 LONDON, Mon. Spot 227«d.. Mar. 22\d. April-June 23d. July-Sept 23 \d., Oct-Dec 23',d Jan-March 23'« d.. Feb c.l.f. 22\d.. Mar. c.l.f. 22\d.. April 22\d Tone: Easy.
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    TIN
    21 3 LONDON. Mon. Buyers £730. sellers £7304. Forward buyers £725 U; sellers £7264. Settlement *****, *m. 300 tons, p.m. 140 ton*.
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    Lock icon BID TO GET IRAQ OUT OF BAGDAD PACT?
    162 3 BID TO GET IRAQ OUT OF BAGDAD PACT? AMMAN, Tues.— Saudi Arabia wfll demand I r a q's withdrawal from the anti-Com-munist Bagdad Pact as her price of admission into a proposed federation with Jordan, it was reported yesterday. Iraq's King Feisal is due here today to discuss with King
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      105 3 The Vital Link between School and Home ARTHUR MEE'S < mi mti:vs ENCYCLOPEDIA Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia a an COMPLETE IN 10 VOLUMES. arknoHlrdg'-d masterpiece among reference AVAILABLE IN book, for young people. If. authentic text ttSS'ShgH^gf'HSSS? beguilingly combines erudition and entertain- BROWN HALF-LEATHER ment in a way quite unique
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    'FIND JOBS FOR BLIND'
    96 4 'FIND JOBS FOR BLIND' PENANG, Tues. FINDING employment for the blind in Malaya was a major problem, said Mr. John Wilson, director of the Royal Commonwealth Society tot the Blind, at a press conference here yesterday. The blind, he said, should not be left in Idleness. Unfortunately employers often were
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    New engineer
    32 4 SUNGEI PATANI, Tues Tbe Senior Executive Engineer, Sungei Patani, Mr. J. W. Pirn, has left on transfer to Kuala Lumpur. His successor is Mr. A. R. Titford from Kuala Lipis.
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    Cohen leaves
    23 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Mr N. L. Cohen, who relinquished the appointment of President, Sessions Court. Johore Bahru, left far Britain yesterday.
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    THUGS CHASE CONTRACTOR INTO A PETROL KIOSK
    93 4 THUGS CHASE CONTRACTOR INTO A PETROL KIOSK ASVNGEI PATANI contractor, Mr. A. Subramaniam yesterday eluded seren thut» who trailed him in a car. Mr. Suhramanimm was rr turning to Sunjri I'atani from Kulim In the afternoon wben be noticed a ra- following him near Merbau Pulas. Whfn h e stopped
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    Temporary homes as help in checking illegal building
    347 4 SUGGESTION IN COLONY BY CITY ARCHITECT ()NK way te help check the buildin tz of unauthorised houses in Singapore was to provide more site* nearer industrial areas where temporary houses could be erected. This was recommended by the City Architect, Mr. Hugh
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    Judge visits lower courts
    45 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Mr. Justice Sutherland tocay visited the lower courts the rirst judge to do so this year. The Judge was shown round by th? Sessions Court President. Inche Harun bin j Hajl Idris and the Registrar Mr. Vincent Das.
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    New licensing board officials
    85 4 TANJONO MALIM Tues The following have been appointed members of the Rubber Supervision Licensing Board for Batang Pa dang district in South Perak for 195 A: Tuan Syed Zahintddin bin Syed Hasan (chairman), Inche Abdul Majid bin Mohamed YusofffT, Inche Johan bin Mohammad Yassin, Toh Muda
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    O.B.A. dinner
    30 4 The Anplo-Chlnese School Old Boys' Association will hold a dinner on March 1 at the Lee Kuo Chuan Auditorium, Barker Road, to celebrate the school's 72nd founder's day
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    He'll check on dispute
    59 4 KUALA l/JMPUR, Tues The Commissioner for Labour. Central Malaya Mr R. C. Wilkinson, will inquire into the dispu'e over the sacking of 70 workers at the Kelantan North Eastern Transport Service during a tour ot the East Coast this week Mr. Wilkinson said today that he
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    Mosque opening
    25 4 KULIM. Tucs. The Raja Muda of Kedah. Tengku Abdul Halim. will open nn $8,000 "Mfrdersali" ipravir house) at Kulim police headquarters on Sunday
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    LACK OF TRAINING FACILITIES
    177 4 Penang naval volunteers' diaadmntape PENANG, Tuesday. T«HB Governor. Raja Sir Uda, today referred to x the "lack of training facilities" of the Penang Sub-Division of the Malayan Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. A volunteer organisation I such as this would give the I citizens an opportunity to
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    DEFENCE MINISTER LEARNS ALL ABOUT A LIGHT MACHINE-GUN
    52 4 DEFENCE MINISTER LEARNS ALL ABOUT A LIGHT MACHINE-GUN IHI MIMSTKR FOR DEFENCK li.itn Abdul Razak hin Dato Hussein is shown bow a licht machine-eun unrk> by Capt. ilasfaim bin Mohammed Syed of tbe Ist. Transport Column Federation of Malaya Volunteer Force The minister visited the force's headquarters on Monday. Straits
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    'Secret weapon' to smash extortion racket launched
    147 4 'Secret weapon' to smash extortion racket launched SINGAPORE police yesterday launched their "se- cret weapon" in the campaign to wipe out extortion The secret weapon is a mobile police station mannei by handpicked detective? under an Inspector At 5.30 pm the station- a police van draped wltli banners In four
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    Town Planner
    27 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues Mr. J. Nicholls, former head of the Southern Region of the Federal Town Planning Department, has been appointed State Planning Officer, Johore.
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    KIDNAPPED GIRL-'WE WERE IN LOVE' SAYS YOUTH
    221 5 KIDNAPPED GIRL -'WE WERE IN LOVE' SAYS YOUTH BUKIT MERTAJAM Tues. A 17 YEAR OLD youth smiled happily as he left the Bukit Mertajam sessions court today with his 14-year-old girl friend, whom he had been accused of. kidnapping. "I love her," Ng Ah Kow had earlier told the court
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    'Stern action' threat in row over new union
    328 5 PROTEST AT ADMIRALTY'S ALLEGED RECOGNITION THE representative council of the 10,000-strong Naval Base Labour Union in Singapore, will meet soon to consider "stern measures" against the Admiralty for allegedly recognising a new union in the base. This follows a mass meeting on
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    FASHION SHOW IN SEREMBAN
    51 5 DATIN KHADLJAH (centre), wife of ttie Mentri Bcsar of Negri Scmbilan, presents Miss Paramrswary Paramasivam with the first prize at a fashion parade held at the King George V School. Serein ban. Ten girls took part in the fashion show in aid of the Gurney Boys'
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    WOMAN STABBED IN BED
    56 5 BUKIT MERTAJAM. Tue« —A married woman, La.i Peck Nye, 26-year-old mother of two girls, was found stab bed to death in bed at hehome at Kampong Cros< Street here last night. Lav is believed to ha/-.' been attacked while her daughters were sleeping near by. Police
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    Rural industry seeks US market
    208 6 EXHIBITS ALREADY ON THEIR WAY I^UALA LUMPUR, Tues. —More than $5,000 worth of Malayan handicrafts,silverware. straw mats and baskets will be on display to Americans at the seventh Washington state international trade fair. The fair will last from April 11 to 20 at Seattle. The
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    Post office
    21 6 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. A post office costing $30,000 is to be built at Tampoi. a suburb of Johore Bahru.
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    Graduates to meet in Federation
    171 6 THEIR TRIBUTE TO MERDEKA KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. THE fact that the first meeting of the Guild of Graduates of the University of Malaya will be held here on March 8 is a victory for Federation graduates who fought for two years for a meeting to
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    Plea for aid to new villages
    83 6 Plea for aid to new villages FNANG, Tues. The secretary of the new villages service fund committee, the Rev. Arnold J. Lee, is appealing for qualified and registered nurses to help take charges of clinics in new villages. "We also need an Asian doctor. and assistant nurse he writes in
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    4,000 potential citizens
    59 6 BANTING, Tues. Four thousand Indian employees from 23 rubber estates in the Kuala Langat district are to take their oaths of citizenship soon. "This is the result of a joint citizenship drive by the Malayan Indian Congress and the National Union of Plantation Workers," Mr. Daniel Jayaratnam.
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    Girl tried to Kill herself
    58 6 PENANG, Tues.— An attractive 20-year-old girl, Kang Pa-ig Tee, said in court today that she took 40 tablets of aspirin with soap water "because I had a headache." Kang pleaded guilty to attempting to commit suicide in her house at Hutton Lane last night and
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    ON THE RUN: 270 BANDITS IN CENTRAL PERAK
    365 6 ON THE RUN: 270 BANDITS IN CENTRAL PERAK Successes but warning against over-optimism IPOH Tuesday. *pHE 270 terrorists who have made Central Perak one of the country's blackest Emergency areas are on the run. Three weeks ago security forces launched the biggest and most concentrated anti-terrorist onslaught of the Emergency.
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    NEW YEAR GIFT PARCELS FOR THE AGED POOR
    73 6 MR. RINME SHAW hands out a packet to a smiling woman, one of the 1,150 aged poor who received gifts at the annual gift day at the New World on Monday. More tli.ii $***** worth of gifts were given away to people
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    Labour to form Krian branch
    77 6 PARIT BUNTAR. Tues.--Flushed with its success in the Penang City Council and the Taiping Town Council elections, the Labour Part/ of Malaya yesterday decide 1 to form a branch in the rice bowl Krian district. The decision was taken 1- at a meeting which wa.,
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    Chettiars elect new officials
    64 6 Mr. L. A. A. N. M. Saminathan Chettiar has been elected president of the Chettiars' Chamber of Commerce, Singapore. Other officials elected were: vice-president, Mr. PR. A. M. Vellayappa Chettiar; hon. secretary, Mr. AR. M. AR. Arunasalam Chettiar: tant secretary, Mr. M S. SP. Perianan Chettiar;
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    Air chief back
    27 6 BUTTERWORTH. Tues. Group-Capt. P G. Ling? Commanding Officer of th* Royal Australian Air Force Butterworth, has retumeJ from a fortnight's vacation in Hong Kong.
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    Health check
    23 6 MERSING. Tues— Dr. V Ray. South Johore health offl cer, is touring kampongs in the Mersing district checking public health measures.
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    Transferred
    19 6 MERSING, Tues— lnche Mohammad Nor bin Mohammad Amin, hospital assistant in Mersing. has been transferred to Johore Bahru
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    MINERS DROP CLAIMS TILL AFTER NEW YEAR
    121 6 MINERS DROP CLAIMS TILL AFTER NEW YEAR KUALA I I MPI K Tues. fTWE directors of the Hong Fatt Mine and representatives of the workers have decided not to allow their differences to interfere with the Chinese New Year festivities. So they the management and the National Union of Mining
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    Student reports loss of $2,000
    55 6 PENANG Tues.— A Penan x Chinese school student ha; reported to police that h I lost $2,000 while travelling tn a bus yesterday. The boy said the money was wrapped in two bundle < of $1,000 each. One packet was in his trousers pocket, and
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    War lull
    22 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. No casualties either to the Security Forces or the. Communist terrorkts were reported in the Federation today.
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    LIM BROKE PLEDGE, SAY TRANSPORT MEN
    283 6 rpHE president of the Singa- pore Lorry Owners' Association. Mr. Tan Puat Tang, said yesterday that the Chief Minister. Mr. Llm Yew Hock, had failed to keep his promise to help nine Colony passenger and goods transport associations, badly affected by the recent increase
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    $3,000 police post opens
    51 7 KOTA BHARU. Tues.— A new $3,000 police post at Gual Perlok in the Paslr Mas district of Kelantan was yesterday opened by the Deputy Chief Police Officer. InchAbdullah bin Hanaflah. The building materials were bought from funds contributed by the people of Gual Perlok and Rantau
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    Turf club sweep: More prizes next month
    272 7 Turf club sweep: More prizes next month NEW SYSTEM SIMILAR TO FEDERATION LOTTERY IPOH, Tuesday. 'THE Perak Turf Club will introduce additional prizes for its unlimited sweep at its next race meeting here in March on nearly the same lines as the consolation prizes in the Federation Social Welfare Lottery.
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    BROTHER-SISTER TEAM TO GIVE CHA CHA DISPLAY AT DANCE
    81 7 BROTHER -SISTER TEAM TO GIVE CHA CHA DISPLAY AT DANCE A brother and sister i. mi George and I.orrtta >Undi>7a. will five an exhibition of the cha cha in the Filipino style during a ball to be held at Fraser and Neave Hail. Singapore, on Monday in aid of 8.AT.A.
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    PERAK GETS TWO NEW COUNCILS
    87 7 PERAK GETS TWO NEW COUNCILS TAP AH. Tues— Two new local councils have bee.> created in Perak as the result of the Tapah and Tanjong Malim fuwn boards be.11!? raised to the status or town councils. Baoir new village with a population of 000 people which was until recently pan
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    17 called to the Bar
    99 7 LONDON. Tues— The fol lowing Malayan studenU have been called to the Bar in London:— Alice Tan Kirn Yoke (Singapore), Tsai Yuet Lan Upoh)) Hashim bin Abdul Hamld (Perak). Mah Ho/ Choon (Kuala Lumpur). D Singh (Kuala Lumpur*. Mohamed bin Ya'acob (Kelantan), Ong Loke Mul
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    Chandu fine
    28 7 SEGAMAT. Tiies Caught In a police raid with chandu and smoking apparatus In his possession at Chaah new village. Lee Mcc, 55. was flnpd $200 here
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    PROTEST BY MALAYAN WOMEN
    259 7 PROTEST BY MALAYAN WOMEN No delegates for Colombo talks KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Women leaders here today protested because Malaya will not be represented at the flrs*t Asian-African Worn c n s Conference starting in Colombo on Saturday. The leaders had been In vited by the Indian Deput? Minister for External
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    Dagger man is fined $90
    67 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. N. Naysamalal, 27, was found with a dagger hidden at his waist wheo he was taken to the High Street police station for questioning regardIng allegations that he was livinc on the Immoral earnings of his 17-year-old wife. He pleaded guilty y(
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    Mr. Gunn 'baffles' officials with Darwin statement
    189 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tuesday. pOVERNMENT officials here said they were bafflu ed by the statement of the Malayan High Commissioner in Australia, Mr. Gunn Lay Teik, that the Federation was looking for technical experts in Australia to help in a "secret" scientific field. They
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    NEW POLICE HQ
    121 7 $200 000 steel and concrete building will serve the Dindings District CITIAWAN, Tues. A modern $200,000 police headquarters for Dindings District is being built at Lumut on the West Coast of Perak. It will house the police sta tion as well as offices for the staff. The
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    Braga: Why only Federation lottery?
    163 7 The Minister for Health, Mr. A. i. Braga, said yesterday that he strongly favoured the legalisation of sales of Federation Social Welfare lottery ticket*, but he would prefer to see a Singapore state lot'eryor a pan-Mnloyan lottery Mr. Fras:a ft-e;- :d tha* I Jits was
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    Police party
    31 7 SEGAMAT. Tue.v- Mr J. J. Raj. DSP was given a paity by members of the police force of Segamat Circle. H> Is leaving on promotion t j Kuala Lumpur.
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    DEATH
    23 8 U Wtrii $1$ iHimimmm) DENIS H. SCOTT of Farley Grange. Westerham, Kent, Chairman of Revertex Ltd., died suddenly on 9th February, 1958.
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    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    182 8 20 Wordi tl* t Minimum) MRS. S. CHELLJAH of Klang thanks all relatives and friends for their wreaths, telegrams, and attendances during her husband's funeral. MRS. CHAN KIT SIANG and Family thank all relatives and lriends for their kind attendance at the funeral of their beloved one and for
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      The Tengku On Tour
      715 8 The Tengku On Tour The Prime Minister's South East Asian tour has opened a window on the world even if it has not answered all the questions of the impatient who have demanded of the Alliance Government "a foreign policy." Foreign policies are not ordered from j the grocer. One
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      The New Tras
      269 8 Just over six years ago Sir Henry Gurney was murdered and Tras became a ghost town. Perhaps the majority of its inhabitants neither condoned nor assisted in the crime. But they shielded the murderers by their silence. Life has now returned to Tras. Last September the Government
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      Chou's New Job
      195 8 Mr. Chou En-lai's departure from the Chinese Foreign Ministry is a little more spectacular than it sounds. Prime Ministers who are al.s< Foreign Ministers usually fin' the double burden exacting even when parliamentai> duties me non-existent, bu Mr. Chou has never showi signs that the strain V«
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    CHINA'S TROUBLESOME NATIONAL MINORITIES
    1096 8  -  DAVID CHIPP by THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS HAVE LAUNCHED 1 AN IDEOLOGICAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE 3 NON-HAN PEOPLES WHO ARE RESENTFUL OF CONTROL BY OUTSIDERS PEKING. AN ideological and educational campaign to counter local nationalism which has shown a marked increase in the past few years has
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      PROTECTION FOR INTERPRETERS?
      156 8 PROTECTION FOR INTE RP RET ERS rE Interpreters at the marathon City Council meeting deserve much sympathy for the ordeal to which they were submitted To translate the Malay language into English or Chinese requires not only an Intimate knowledge of t language but a lively mind and an aptituda
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      Why debates were lengthy
      100 8 MOW often are we going to have City Council meetings lasting for more, tb^n twelve hours? Most of the .«p"Pches tracle by Councillors during the meeting were Intended to boost their party popularity. They should note that we elected the Councillors to look after the welfare
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      not a bad record
      195 8 not a bad record wonder why our Mayor and his PAP. colleagues find It so neces.su 17 to deliver long nauseating tirades on colonialism so often at the Council meetIngs. If it Is done for the education of the masses, then I am afraid they are being misinformed, for the
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      REVALUATION OF HOLDINGS
      115 8 YOUR report on the subject of revaluation of holdings In Menglembu <S. T. Feb. 1> by itself was not wrong but the headlines were misleading. The meeting discussed revaluation of holdings in the Menglembu area but not rates of assessment It tfa.s itfMMd by some Councillors that
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    Mayor starts a new dispute
    302 9 Mayor starts a new dispute THE Singapore Mayor, Mr. Ong Eng Guan, has started another controversy among city councillors this time over the question of. when future council meetings should start. Some opposition members principally working councillors are protesting at a proposal that they should Pit from 9.30 a.m. in
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    Thieves raid pig sties
    44 9 RAWANO, Tues. —Thieves have stolen nine pigs worth (850 from two pig sties near Rawang new village. Three of the pigs belonged to Tham Kwal and six to Chan Yee who found the sties empty at feeding time early today.
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    Alleged to have robbed woman
    63 9 IPOH. Tues —Bail of $500 was yesterday allowed S. Subramaniam. 33. who claimed trial when acused of robbing a woman of cash and Jewellery on an estate road on Saturday. Subramaniam was alleged' to have robbed the woman P. Nachi. of two gold rings a
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    Commemorating a battle
    65 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Malay Regiment, which utd its first real taste of tile during the siege of i|x>re by the Japanese nay in 1942, is to com•ni'morate its action In the defence of the island tomorrow. The regiment, which was it the t' m e just
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    Tin men: Let's woo Russians—or else
    434 9 Tin men: Let's woo Russians— or else REDS SEEN AS NEW MINING THREAT; THEIR PRODUCTION RATE IS NOT RESTRICTED 'THEY MUST JOIN COUNCIL or PRICES WON'T BE STABLE' IPOH, Tuesday. RUSSIA should be induced to become a member of the International Tin Council, if the measures taken under the International
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    MALAYAN SCHOLAR TOURS TROOP ZONES—IN U.S. MUSICAL GROUP
    143 9 MALAYAN SCHOLAR TOURS TROOP ZONES— IN U.S. MUSICAL GROUP A YOUNG Malayan student in the United States has been recruited as a member of a musical show now entertaining American tro>ps in the Pacific area. He is Syed Alwi of Pondok Tanjong, Perak, who obtained a major in journalism at
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    New posting
    26 9 JOHORE BAHPU. Tues.— Mr. S. V. Navaratnam, a first-year pupil engineer, has been posted to the Engineering Design branch, head office, P.W.D Johore Bahru.
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    TRAINER SENT DUD CHEQUES—FINED
    116 9 TRAINER SENT DUD CHEQUES— FINED T POH, Tuesday. A P^CE-HORSE trainer, Sam Kwan Tjoa, sent to .he Acountant, Employees Prcvidcnt Fund, ifi K lala Lumpur, two cheques wh ch were dishonoured, the Magistrate's Court here was told today. Tjoa, of Ipoh, pleadtd euilty to two charges of failing to pay
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    106 die in read accidents in Perak
    68 9 106 die in read accidents in Perak IPOH. Mon. Bad driving caused 106 road deaths. 18 of them children. In Perak last year. 11 less than in the previous year. There was a total of 3.351 road accidents during the year as compared with 3.140 in 1956. Ipoh. the capital.
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    'Elect headmen' call by UMNO
    40 9 KOTA BAHRU. Tues The Ulu Kelantan UMNO Division wants penghulus in the state to be elected by the people. A resolution to this effect was adopted at a meeting of the division during the week-end
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    Muslims angered by British weekly
    126 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— The Federation Government has been asked to take action against the British weekly Everybody's for an arllcle which is stated to have offended the Muslim religion. The offendinc article appeared in an October 1957 issue of the magailne It contained a refrence
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    Pet. PIARA, THE SOLDIER SIKH, MEETS THE PRESS
    222 9 Pet. PIARA, THE SOLDIER SIKH, MEETS THE PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Malaya's first European Sikh convert and the only turbaned soldier in the British Army In Malaya met Pressmen at a special conference arranged by his Commanding Officer today. Private Claude Raymond Perfect. 20 then told for the first time
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    Tin theft
    40 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Two hundred katis of unwashed tin ore worth $400 was stolen from San Lee Hin Co. at the 18th mile Kuala LumDur-Rawang Road between 11 p.m. on Feb. 8 and 7 a.m. on Feb. 10
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    Booked-for trip to moon with adventurer Ahmad
    346 9  - Booked-for trip to moon with adventurer Ahmad JILL CROMMELIN •FIRST FLIGHT SOONER THAN YOU THINK,' HE SAYS By YESTERDAY was a 1 normal, uneventful day until 8 p.m. Then I was booked on a trip to the moon. In the ordinary way I am not even fond of flying But
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    Menon elected Congress chief
    65 9 PENANG, Tues. -The Penan K State Committee of the Malayan Indian Congress has unanimously elected Dr. N. K. Menon president of the local Congress. Dr. Menon. who returned to Penang ten days ago from a two-month holiday In India, succeeds Mr. N. T. S. Arumugam Plllai
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    Students off
    14 9 Eighty-four Malayan students yesterday left Singapore for Australia by Qantas for studies.
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    'Ang Pows' for poor
    75 9 KUALA LUMPUR Tues More than $12,000 worth of Chinese New Year presents were distributed to the poor here yesterday by the management of Shaw Brothers Limited. Before dawn nearly 2,000 poor and aged people from all over the state gathered at the organisation's Buklt Bintang Park
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    WORKERS' INJURIES: BOSSES FINED
    141 9 WORKERS' INJURIES: BOSSES FINED I^UALA LUMPUR, Tuea. The managements of a coffee powder factory and a sawmill wert fined $100 each today for failing to report accidents- In which their employees were involved. A Labour Officer, Mr. Koh Thian Swee, prosecuting, told the Magistrate's Court that under the Workmen's Compensation
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    ELECTION DEFEAT ROW
    80 9 BENTONQ. Tues. The Bentong branch of the Malayan Indian Congress is to ask the Alliance national council to take disciplinary action against the Bentong UMNO youth section over the defeat of Its candidate. Mr Jagir Singh In the Town Council flections here last December This was decided
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      JUNGLE ADVENTURE WITH ALI AND MAT
      777 10 ALI opened his eyes and sat up in bed with a start. Something had awakened him from a heavy sleep and for the moment he felt quite bewildered. Then he realised that a chattering sound was coming from the direttion of the window, so
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      Tough Baby Sue
      35 10 Despite her youth. Susan, the tiger cub, looks capable of taking on the whole world, and winning too. Susan's mother is Nepti, a tigress from Malaya who lives at the London Zoo.
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      IT'S SO EASY TO BE A MEMBER
      374 10 Dear Boys and Girls, Here are the six winners of our picture puzzle contest. A. Alim Rahtm. 9 |alan lumat, Singapore J4, Tommy Lim. 163-A Burmah Road. Penang, Soong Toj Yin, Anglo-Chinese School. Seremban Rofah binte Abdullah. 38 Low Road. Kuala Kangsar. K.
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      Turn again the Lord Mayor
      175 10 Turn again the Lord Mayor rRN again Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. The story of Dick Whittington is our Classic example of a young man getting ahead in the world. You have all heard the story of Dick and his famous cat, but did you know it is historically
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      MORE PEN PALS
      160 10 HERE are some more pen pals for you. Lian Chai Hock, aged 12, 329 Jalan Aisagoff. Pontian, Johore. Aziyan Hamzah. 109-C Jalan Mahmood, Baling, Kedah. Stamps, badminton, singing. PL. Nachiappan. aged 12, 79 Ampang Street, Kuala Lumpur, Stamps. Loh Kirn Leng, aged 13. 188-B Tanah i.iat, Bukit
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      1132 11 HOW AUSTRALIA WON MANDATE ON NEW GUINEA First blow against Germany in World War I JUST after dawn on September 11, 1911, a party of 40 Australian naval reservists scrambled ashore over a coral rubble break-water a few miles east of Kabaul on the island of New Britain. It was
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      280 11 toughest FOR ROUGHEST xTOBS This is Goodyear's famed HARD RO»"rT <dL/ v LUG. rolling unharmed through work that /2^R*fc would ruin ordinary giant tyres. ([%jaL\k| //D "V Heavily armoured sidewalls and shoulders Bkj|P^' [~\«r" '"N^ minimize damage from sharp rocks and l!wHF\|^ '^X snags -deep, powerful cross-lugs dig In and
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      246 11 Vetrnten #O. By \tttz. The Saint By Leslie Hturteris 4 ggggt**ZiZ*oP*~ -'^^flrTms is Tah.ves -the vouNkS man I Tso we /uust take n a^i away fxom) r I*- r T*Tt^^i W>»TTS, J A'HO C1506EV5 ORDERS BV JA 1 YOU- STARTING WITH SI T o '-^r C 1 SIR. nrrr GETTING
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    BROKERS' REPORT
    367 12 The Malayan Share Broken' Association reported: "Industrials were firm and tins and rubbers were irregular. The turnover was small." Singapore and Federation brokers resorted the following business done yesterday: Fraser St Neave ords $2,574; Gammon $2.20; W. Hammer $2.02; Henry Waugh $1,47 4 (overnight); Hume Industries ords A
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    SPORE SHIPPING
    199 12 Ships lylnif alontudr the Sincmporc Harbour Board whmrvrs or expected today are: Pyrrhur 1/2, Satsums Maru 4/5, Houtman 6A, Blntang 6/7. Breconshlre 8/9. Carpentaria 10 '11, Frankfurt 13/14, Bantam 15/16. Um&rla 18 Theta Star 19/20, Sumpltan N Wall 2. SeUngor N. Wall 3. Reginald Kerr 21/22, Stanvac DJlrak
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    MININGS IRREGULAR: MERU TIN ANNOUNCE TEMPORARY CLOSURE
    584 12 By Our Market Correspondent J'INS after their firm spell on the Malayan Share Market in the past few days became irregular yesterday. The announcement by Meru Tin that it will have to close its mines on Saturday because it has fulfilled its quota
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    OFFICIAL PRICES
    23 12 SINGAPORE, Feb. 11. RUBBER: 77 f cents per lb. (up five eighths of cent). TIN: $358.25 per picul (down 50 cents).
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    AUSTRALIAN STOCKS
    139 12 I MELBOURNE. Tues TNVESTMENT shares recorded a firm tone with A.C.I, up 6d. providing the sharpest price movement on the Stock Exchange here today. Base metals leaders eased back following the announcement that Broken Hill mines planned to reduce working time equivalent to one day a fortnight. Oils
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    RUBBER PRICES
    144 12 February Aral grade rubber bayers f.o.b closed in Singapore yesterday at 77 cents per lb. up flve-elghths of a cent on Monday's closing price. Closing tone: Steady quiet. Closing prices to cents per lb. yesterday were: OFFICIAL: Int. 1 R.S.S. Spot fob buyer* 77%, sellers 78: Int. 1
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    EXCHANGE RATES
    87 12 The Malayan Exchange Banks' Association made the following changes In Its rates to merchants yesterday (all rates to $100): Canada: buying airmail T.T. 32 "Si. O.D. 324. 90 d st 32% credit bills. 32 15/16 trade bills. Selling IT. or O.D. ready: Belgian Francs 161 5 t Italian
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    118 12 Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per pic il yesterday were: Copra: quiet; UK/Continent February March $30 buyers. $31 U sellers. Coconut oil: quiet; bulk $45 4 sellers, drum $49 seller*. Pepper: steady: about 20 to 40 tons of business reported done on white pepper; Muntok white $102.
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      882 12 NOTICES THE NEW SERENDAH RUBBER CO., LTD. (Incorporated In the Federation of Malaya) NOTICE Is hereby given that the 44th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the reI ouice of tne company, No 1, The Embankment. Kuala Lumpur on Monday March 17th at 10.30 a.m. AGENDA 1.
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    Lock icon 'The Wallabies are rough and tough— but not hoodlums'
    282 14 'The Wallabies are rough and tough but not hoodlums' MELBOURNE, Tuesday. ARE the Australian Rugby Union Wallabies, as the bulk of London critics suggest, a bunch of blazered hoodlums who specialise in kicking when their opponents are down? The answer, most emphatically, Is that they are not, says the Melbourne
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    1052 14  -  JAC K FINGLETON llv O'NEILL a '2nd BRADMAN'? yiKMAN O'NEILL, the brilliant young New South Wales cricketer whom most Australians will insist upon calling "our second Bradman," lost a tour of South Africa but won instead a job that will
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    PCFF MAY MEET BARRAGE off QUESTIONS
    112 16 PCFF MAY MEET BARRAGE off QUESTIONS IPOH, Tues. The Perak Chinese Football Feden tion suffered a deficit oi 5419.14 last season in spiw of gate collections amoun* ing to $4,729.90 in Malayau hinesr Football Associa tion Cup matches and friendlier. The highest item of expenditure was $880.25 for entertainment, with
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    53 16 3 to give exams KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Malayan Hockey Federation Umpires Beard has appointed a three-mem-ber board to conduct exami--1 nations for umpires. The members of the Examinations Board are V. T. Duray. K. Aryadurai and M. Muthueamaru. They will travel to various centres in j the Federation to
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    47 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Teh Yok See won the "A" medal stableford competition |at the Sekangor Golf Club, scoring 37 points. J.D. Allan won the ball sweep over the first nine 'old course i while CJ. Burford was winner over the new course.
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    19 16 KUALA LIPIS, Turs.— Raub and Kuala Llpls drew their Home Guard Cup soccer ma'ch 5-5 here today.
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    BIG 'CLEAN-UP' by FAS
    577 16  -  VICTOR NAYAGAM Penalties fsf players or clubs connected with betting, bookmaking on matches By STRICT DISCIPLINE RULES ENFORCED Past 'incidents' lead to moves to combat vices in S'gor football gUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Football Ass( ciation of Selangor has passed a set of rules aimed at
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    215 16 N. KOREA CAN'T SEND TEAM TO TOKYO They are not affiliated TOKYO. Tuesday. KOREA is not eligible to compete in the 111 third Asian Games on May 24 to June 1 in Tckyo, a spokesman for the Games organising committee said today. This Is because North Korea is not a
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    Invited teams keep SAFA in doubt
    205 16 3INGAFORE Amateur Football Association officials were wondering yesterday whether their plan to recovt.* the financial losses of last year would sueThe plan Is to arrange (or as many touring teams as possible to play here this season, but no replies had been received from
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    S'pore TTC too good
    86 16 CINGAPORE Teachers' Training College beat Malacca T.T.C.- 3-1 In their inter-college hockey match at Paterson Road yesterday. It was a scrappy encounter played In blinding rain with pools of water all over the pitch. Singapore opened scoring with an unexpected goal through Latif within minutes of
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    64 16 ST. LOUIS. Tues— Ame rlca's champion soccer team, the Kutl s of St. Louis, have received a favourable response from Russian Embassy officials to a challenge for a series of matches against a leading Russian team, club officials said last night. If arranged. It would
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    113 16 AIM-KAMA— lst INNS: 401 S. AFRICA— I*I INNS MrC.lrw c Grout b Mw kifT 1 F.ndran Ibw Davidson TaTfleld Ibw Brnaud (.od'ard r and b Merkiff f Illusion c Craig b Kiln* 7* MrLran r Grout b Davidson Burner st Groat b Kline tl Wait* Ibw Brnaud It Hrini-
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    31 16 KUA.LA LUMPUR. Tues. Young Men's Sikh Association will visit Kuala Kangsar. Taipine and Penang to play a series, of hockey and cricket matches over the Chinese New Year holidays.
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    133 16 Fire Risk, now with Doc Rodgers. was lightly excerclsed. Time to Reason, looking superbly fit after a spell, was pulling hard at the end of a half-speed spin. Ellen s Treasure was trotted round by Smith Pontican (Dragon i ran 3f in 43. Hopeful Blue
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    Lock icon PAKISTANIS 195 RUNS FROM VICTORY
    202 16 DORT Or SPAIN, Tues Pakistan. with seven wickets in hand, need 195 more runs to beat West Indies in the Second Test which ends here today. Hanlf Mohammad, Pakistan's brilliant opening batsman, was 73 not out at the close of the fifth day's play yesterday
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    113 16 IPOH, Tues— Four former champions will take part in the 14th North Malayan golf championship to be played on the Tiger Lane course here during the Chinese New Year holidays next week They are Bob Lauriston. who also won the
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