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CEREMONIES TO MARK SINGAPORE TATUS AS CITY
Singapore, Sept. 16.
on September 22, before the At 8.00 a.m. alorial sun gets too high in the sky, this focal of Far Eastern trade and communications assume the dignity of a city.
The Royal Charter granting city status is to presented by the Governor of Singapore, Sir klin Gimson; to Singapore's Municipal Com- oners who, like the people they represent, polygot community made up of all the races the Orient.
antarles at the
ceremony, reminiscent
on
European
1kok from the pillared en- capital, merges imperceptibly
of the Municipal Build into the across a wide sweep
native quarter where
of the East appears to the inner roads of the veneer of Europe. teeming with the shipping
brought greatness
ppare
10 ne midst of the pomp
without any
Singapore-which derives its
to name
and
pura,
from the Sanskrl! "Singa-
meaning
"Lion City" La city of contrasts.
3 hour of the occasion,
hele difficult to pleture this ter
or 0792
ing
In the space of an hour, the it visitor can look over a Hindy П Moslem mosque, á British colony as the Buddhist temple. an Angilean 132 cathedral, a death house where
swamp it was
go when it was bought
aking Chinese go to die, & hits Malny rulers for 8,000 smart night club, and a rubber dollers (approximately broker's office where dents are made by telephone each day for sterling).
pine. the purchase of over 100,000,800 ubber, pepper, palm oil, copra and on Straits dollars worth of "ribbed reul of other cargoes smoked sheet."
£300,000,000 ced from Singapore ndepth to mainly from
spek
R
m rele
tered
ore
now
a myriad of paling places, each he can be served with anything from tortoise with mushrooms, Malaya frogs' legs and water lily seeds. fin soup, monkey's a lesser extent, Trom the shark's
countries, that brains, curries or just roast Landing
pre draws its life's blood, Cas it does as the em- and shop-window of the
occured his harbour,
at
German
lowenie
her
best
He can be treated for tuber-
culosis by eating black monkey brain soup, swallowing newly- land-locked born mice alive and whole-or
all verdure-covered islets, with BCG
fil-looking prahus from ar, lumbering
from across the
Sca: endt
ploading
Chinese Acto
provided by the Anti Tuberculosis
South i
OVER MILLION Pith helmets have been dis- elongated
tramp carded by European men, and rardly sport nchers and spredy liners from their womenfolk
But thousands Thing, America and Australia. hats these days.
labourers of
from Women Samsui, in South China, In- variably wear strange, bulky mede from red head-gear
their skin materini to protect from the blistering sun.
ak,
STILL GROWING
than 5,000 ocean-going excluding coastal vessels Jan dies than 75 tons, now call
oncinerar at this port.
forced to ere er
ako today on important
junction. air
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the
1 Kaliang handles 30 movements daily while mcee in hand for the con- rriffe et a new airport en the many the ntribution/ volume of trame and REDquiremen's of commer-
jcicers.
prawling city itself is
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Milady, shopping for a smart dinner party, walks round a preoccupied Asian, who squats on the pavemen: eating his rice with his fingers,
total Singapore Island has a population of over one million. is made up of 125,000 This Malays, 801,000 Chinese, 75,000 Pakistanis, 12,200 Indiang and
10.300 Eurasians
Europeans
other racts, Modern sheerline ar
are represented on the Municipal Commission by 27 of old-fashioned Shop Commissioners and a
a president. which tre beflagged on
of the Coinmissioners days with washing thrust Eighteen windows on leng bambae have been elected by popular vote since 1948. The remainder narrow s'retts, some of are nominated by the Governor Across the Johore Causeway being
with the links colony has beed and
padal which
Malaya. Com- nlongd haws (replacing coolie the mainland that for ekshaws), vie for pas-munist guerillas continue their
the era the laics: models cf campaign of terror..
has have been þad American cars,
of emergency citing pot
the been declared in Singapore and Orc encircled and Oriental, Singa- police stations
barbed-wire defences. monny Who's Ince
nn with
been adly war hierd of the two But, the elty has so far
In fact, the 10702 baw
peaceful.
of
presents
A state
Joint rydern commercial quar-authorities soy
police that "serious
or th its dazzling white crime figures are as low today cir millor splendid boulevards, as in prewar years-Reuter.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1951.
They Broke A Hospital's Record
Sen.
Taft
Bursts
Into Print
Three sets of twins out. of five sets born in ten days at St. James' Hospi- tal, South London. Tils has broken the hospital record!
ROMMEL'S
Tiniest Republic Votes
San
San Marino, Sept. 10.
Marino's handful of valers went to the polls today to thresh out the issues of Communism-on a 24-square- mild scale,
All 29 of the Uny, Jandlocked Republic's Police Force turned Dut to preserve order. They word reinforced by 38 of the State's. 82 volunteer militiamen. Liquor salo wae banned- except, of course, for wine with meals. No carrying of weapons was allowed, even for hunting, There are only 7,301 eligible Vaters and all but 3,750 of these live outside this postage- slamp Repubile whose total population is 14,000. Women are not allowed to vote.
At stake are all 60 seats of the Council which Koverny Marino, wallet and castled and perched
precariously
overlooking the mountaintop Adriatic coast.
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Fighting out for the Coun-
cil seats are four parties: the Communists who have govern-
ed San Marino sinca 1945, the Socialists who until this year
pooled their vole with the Communists, the Chirstian De- mocrats whose party has a majority in Italy, which sur- rounds San Marino, and The Neo Fascist Industrial Patriotic Labour Association.
NO SPEECHES
The Leftwing control of this 3,851 year old Republic way broken two months ago when a mounting 'Ananial crisis forced the Communists to form "caretaker" government with the Christian Democrats,
The Council chosen today will elect a new government by October 3,
No political specches were permitted in the last hours be- fore the polis opened at ? a.m. Loday.
Neither was
there allowed any further placarding of the uncient city.
This was easily observed-- there was no room for placards.
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All four parties bad plastered the town with them for weeks in advance.-Associated Press.
To Answer Critics SUCCESSOR New Group
Washington, Sept. 16.
Senator Robert A. Taft has written a book phrased to fit snugly into his campaign for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination.
He named it "Foreign Policy for Americans" to be published on November 15,
The book is in answer to ene of Awa big objcetions to his presidential amination raised by Republicans and others who hold also that Mr Taft, is an uncom monly able man.
Such persons are likely to say they would favour. Mr Taft's nomination next year excep: they doubt his political sex appeal und fear his foreign policies.
The Senator's friends hop: his book will be as forcefully per- guasive in the held of foreign affairs as the 1950 election returns the are held to have been question of vote appeal.
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Freak Plane
Crash Traps Housewife
SPEAKS
Iserlohn, Westphalia, Sept. 10. General Ludwig Cruewell, who
succeeded Rommel as commander
of the German Afrika Corps, today demanded the release of crimes German soldiers in war
But events may have weaken-prisons and complete equally in as he was a European army as the condi- cd Taft's. position
tions for West German rearma- completing his manuscript.
Cruzwell was speaking at the Senator Taft-has-been-ament... champion of Chinese Nation- alist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Arst West German reunion of
Afriko Corps veterans. shek.
Although he urged this year The two thousand ex-Service- that the United States get out men--the palm insignia in their wildly nothing buttonholes applauded of Korea, there was isolationist about the Senator's when Cruewell said that Wes
Germans would refuse to be Far Eastern foreign policy.
European Army He has proposed backing mercenaries in
said that Cruewell
their an immediate iTL- Chiong in
in arms for comrades of Communist China. Italian vasion
among those Last April Mr. Taft said the two years
the meeting United States' should support | whose Chiang "to the limit" with should honour,
We must 1101 American-manned
forget how planes and
wore
memory
nuval vessels against the Com-many brave Germun and Italian munist Chinese.
on
now coreen-
sailers died bringing us aur supplies," stated.
NEW SCANDAL
Applause greeted him when Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang's Nationalist army
he told the audience that the
trated
Formosa hold key Italians had erected a monu-
ment positions
to Rommel in the desert. Taft's in Senior
Cruewell said that the ussocin- plans for the Pacific frontier.
tion must be above polities. Boiling up in Washington now
itself fair and square is a umplex story of graft and placed
West German Re- near treason among Chiang's behind the Nationalist air and army officers. public.
Chiang has ousted his top Amid blazing petrol and ex-representatives here on graf; former ploding ammunition, Mr Robert charges.
retired 75-year-old proprietor, tore at the serious charges against others of shal Erwin Rommel-Reuter.
cat'ege Chiang's representatives here et a Cornish rubble smashed down by a pilotless and against his Formosa heurl- plane, to rescue a woman buriedquarters, in the rubble.
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London, Sept. 16.
meeting was attended by top generals nf the Afrika Corps and by the widow They have countered with and son of the lute Field-Mar-
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The Truman Administration With his bare hands he un-will seize any good chance
her discredit Chiang. This may be of ruins the covered
out 47-il. kitchen, and drugged
Constance If Chiang and his Nationalisis
with year-old Mrs Eliza
discredited Lower Be
American public, keystones
Taft's Far East Tureig of Mr
tlicy will have crumbled con siderably-United Press.
May of the hamlet of Trefreeck, Port Isaic.
"Sove my dog." she said, "he's But s worth more than I am. Mr Henry ran back he saw the dog, pedigree Samoyed, valued AL £180, ulready burned to denih.
The Recident is one of the big- gest freaks of the air. The pilot, the Royal Idzerda, of Licut.
Squadron, at S Dulch Naval
the Merryn, exercising with British fleet, developed engine trouble.
TURN ROUND
was
the
"Private" War Thing
Of Past
London, Sept. 16. Mr Philip Noel-Baker, Minia ter of Fuel and Power, here tonight that the
Decide Not
Not meing of Korea
To Strike
Rome, Sept. 10,
Italy's railway workers de- cided today not to take part in
Was
snil true that
there would be no more "pri- vate ware"
"If the nations pence have resisted in far-off and dimeult they will
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To Push Federation
Washington, Sept. 10,
new religious group h been formei lo help push plan of a federal union of the democratie countries, it was an- nounced today..
Leslic
the
frequen
The new organisation, known
for GS Religious Commitice Federation of the Democracies, is headed by Rabbi Jerome Pines of the Congregation of Bethesda, Maryland
Co-chairman is the Reverend. Glenn, pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church here,
"Church of Presidents
Fresident Truman's wite
ly attends. The group is akin to the At- lantic Union Committee headed Court by the former Supreme Justice, Mr Owen Roberts.
However, it calls itself an while educational organisation the Atlantic Union Committee operates in the field of politics. The Religious Committee plans an "educational campaign umong clergymen and religious organisations on the need for a de- the federal union of mocracies in order to combat the dangers of war and Com- United aggression." - munist Press,
The Bride
Dived Under The Table
London. Sp. 16.
A wedding guest brandished a lended revolver sud the bride dived under the table, the magis- trates werz told a Cheshare. Bucks
Seventeen-year-old Mrs Nancy Beryl Baileki rad that after her she register office marrings who want
notleed one of the quests swaying ntression backwards and forwards.
He had a gun in his raised
"and he hand."
she said, saying that he was going to blow someone's brains out.
Korea,
will resist wherever it will begin," he added.
protesting walk-out,
crease demands, disrupt services.
He fervently believed that no
WAS
"It was then that I took a dive under the table,"
Her husband, Michael Balcki. of Beech Burn camp, Chesham Bois, said that he wrested the gun from the man's hand. It was loaded.
a 24-hour strike of the nation's nation, however powerful, could He set the aircraft-a Firefly
to ses, then baled 1,500,000 State employees, hope today to attack and ravish -to fly out.
ils neighbours without finding As he
falling the scheduled for Wednesday, but
self opposed by those who be The trick of air by some plane,
track. against
the refusal of the lleved in the Charter of the on its current, tumed and dived into the back of Mrs Government to meet wage in-United Nations.
will seriously Mr Noel-Baker was speaking May's cottage,
at the 100th anniversary cele-
Wedding guest Robert Ratbie no. Lieut. Idzerdi Inded in the
Ramuge, 20-year-old bus condue- Past and telegraph, telephone, brations of the Yugoslav
tcr. was said to have been falten Ken. Then he swam nearly half
and State and local ddministrational uprising.
"When I went to visit Mar- to hospital after the gun had been mile, and climbed 10ft. of
In 1947, we started taken from him. shat Tho elif to the waiting constguards.
vour of the elrike,
the trade agree- He told the court that he d "I must go and see what has on unions have voted in fa-
he sald, and ran
The Rallway Union said the talks about happened,"
W:9 contrary to de-ment between Yugoslavia and not realise the seriousness of L
at the time. nearly three-quarters of a inlle striker
practice,
but urged the United Kingdorn," he said.
Breams the humlet to see if he could mocratle
"These talks have led to big not the Chamber of Deputies
to results. Our exchange of certificate he was acut £3, And forget its obligation Mrs May was taken to Wade-to
of timber and minerate and food for being drunk in charge of a the conditions bridge Hospital, whore she is improve
burns and state workers. Asunciated stuffs has been a big thing for
us beth."Ruler. seriously ill with suspected fractures.
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