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S'PORE GOVERNOR TO HAVE BLANKET POWERS

Singapore, July 12.

bill, giving the Governor of Singapore blanket power to suspend, superceds or suppress any existing law, will be introduced into tho Legislative Council' here tomorrow, it war reported today.

The bill will increase the Governor's existing emer- gency powers enacted to help deal with the present Communist disturbances in Malaya and Singapore.

The ordinance will add to 1. The colllery raid was carried the Governor's present power out at 7.00 a.m. (local time) to- to arrest or detain any person day, the reports said. without trial and the right to restrict people's movements and impose a curfew.

14 the

Corruption Prevention Legislation

A Bill for the prevention but the of corruption will be pre- telephone lines to the mine are sented to the Legislative cut, and the police said that Ave Council tomorrow for its Chinese employees were

shot: First Reading. Both police and military are

Explaining the objecia and being rushed to the scene. Balu Arong

only

coalmine reasons for the Bill which is to operating in Malayu and serves he called the Prevention

erna. Corruption Ordinance, 1948, the railways and industrial concerns. and

The terrorists swept through Acting Attorney-General, Air. G. the colllery town

Strickland, sold with

it in 10 assimilate the law of Hong Kong in relation to corruption to the Jew In 'force in the United King- dom.

It also extends, the report said, to two years the period during which a person can be detained without being charged strengthens the control over illens.

regulate

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streets

of

tnachtegans blazing. Rocket- The ordinance authorises trials firing Spitfires are carrying out the ip camera and gives the Gover-reconnaissance flights over

the area and more troops are stand- for the right to

A second object is to lighten laws governing evidence in bothing by at Kuala Lumpur. criminal and civil trials; penalties The Senging rubber estate was the respective tasks of Investi-

AT by 30 arined Communists gating and proving offences,

He added that in assim ting this morning. The Italian mana- ger of the estate, which is about the law of the Colony to the law

of the

United Kingdom regard 20 miles of Ipoh, escaped through of

han nevertheless been had to the the rubber trees. The terrorists are now in control of the estate, fact that the latter has grown up

plecemeal and that it is

linder the regulationa may be who spécifled by the Governor, thay also specify by what courts persons shall be tried, says the report.

rakded

the

con-

Consequently, it will be open but police and troops have beeldered desirable in Hong Kong to the Governor-In-Council to ordered to retake tipake the death penalty for | Reuter.

arm offenses. The regulation

provides for the censorship and control

of publications

communications.

and

The seizing of a colliery town and a rubber estate in the first attack was reported on the

Malayan Collieries mine at Batu Arang, about 26 miles from the Foxderation capital Kuala Lum➡ per. About 150 miles way, armed Communists raided Sengang Rubber Estrile, Dear Kula Kangsar,

MUST WE CHANGE OUR

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SEX STANDARDS?

Recent surveys or sex have puzzled and upset many people: have our ideas of simple decency been outmoded by these "scientific" findings? In June Reader Digest, Dr. Joshua Liebman, Robert A. Millikan, and other intellectual, moral, and scientific leaders give their answers to this challenge to our spiritual ideals. -Don't-miss-this-discussion of one of the

most vital questions of our times.

Also in Reader's Digest

Hawyour prayers are answered. Whether child or hard-headed businessman, God

Bay. Earl A. Blackmai

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Regulation Restricts Hyderabad

arca...

that public servant should be

ds.

in at least

unfavourable a position as others and should be more severely punished."

CHINA

SDAY

REHABILITATION of about 560 premises and alterations and additions to about 4,000 were approved by the Govern ment during the 12 months.

Many damaged and demolished buildings in the Colony, however, still have not been touched. These contribute to the current housing shortage.

In the picture above taken at Wanchai is one of the typical damaged structures which have been in their present "condition for more than two years.

The ground floor in occupied by shops, the first floor by regular tenants, and the upper roofless floors 'by aquatters

China Mall Photo,

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LETTERS

Memorial Chapel Appesi

Bir-At the Prize Giving held on "Baturday, 10th="

Warden'd "Report 45274 In that

wha th appeal to Talks the" Balande öt money required, some 11323,000 |13~mable" i › commencăment- Steilha, first portion 'ef; the College, ¡Chapel (to, be:a. Memorial in tre- ** |||membrance of those who were killed or died in the War and Japaness Occupation. went on to say that

there

Wib may like "to finve ́n share'il น Chapel. am writing this letter therefore to draw the attention of all Internees Stanley, especially ihoad who occupied the various buildings of ths' College' cadið had thủ'' bonofil fof! solid" "roofa :avel; their "beads and fade use of much valuabl woodwork to augment the very scanty Fuel Rations supplied" by the Maps, to send, whatever they fan afford, however small a sum it may be, to this Fund. No better Memorial could he raised in re- membrance of the devoted

Vicen example

miền

Bor-

by

his

Canon Ernest Martin and beloved WINN Kathleen (who died in Stanley) to all and sun- dry interned in Stanley.

Canon Martin has just left by alr, on a

wall deserved holiday,

to visit Professor Sewell at Chengtu-it will surely gladden his heart to

on his retum

to

that the necessary money has been forthcoming.

Aby donations for this purpose shdod Be forwarded to" Mt. F.G. Maunder, c/o E. Olt & Co., Ltd., 2nd French Bank Building, 18-"Quéen's Road Central;"or."Mr. Chih-Yi Tsung, "e/o' United

maka anapinė puikan. Troßèrs, York Building.

BID TO TEMPT U.S. CAPITAL

Corruption is by no means an casy charge to bring home as those who practice. It are por- milly skilful in covering up their The task is rendered i traces.

more 'dificult by the fact that is the practice for the judge to dircet the jury where the pro secution evidence is thist of an accomplice and his evidence is not corroborated that it is dan-Mr. day notified the public that

gerous' to conviét. The practice blocked account was being set follows English Taw and has the up at all afters of the bank, InfoJobvious common

sense founda- which payments to or on behalf tion that such evidence should -It is of any person in styderabad State not lightly be accepted could alone be made.

however, believed that the word

New Delhi, July 11.

The Reserve Bank of India to-

Rule Of Evidence

ABROAD

Washington, July 11, Paul G. Hoffman, the Marshall Plan Adminis- trator, today issued an order permitting Ameri- can business to spend $300 million in estab lishing factories in Europe with a United States Government guarantee that their foreign cur- rency earnings will be converted into dollars, Hoffman, in a press statement, described the plan as a substantial inducement to American capital to seek profitable employment abroad."

He emphasised thegreat potential value of the plan, in aiding recovery in Europe and added that applications Tor

GEN RITCHIE ARRIVES

H. BIL DOWBIGGIN.

Wants Penfriend

Sir, I wonder if through your newspaper" I might got in touch with_pen" friends in Hong Kong or elsewhere, w

who

are my age dr_older.

* I am a Fulpino giri, aged 25.

ke photography, torrespon playing classics on the piano, dence, travel, gardening end

I live in a suburb of Manila. I would like to know more about Your place and its customs. }}-(Miss) -Alicia. G.-Gloria, --4. F. Roman, San Juan, Rizal, Philli pine Republic.

Personalia

The Indian Ministry of Fin- "dan

"dangerous" has an unfortunate ance, issuing the text of this effect on the minds of Juries in n&tiflention, stated that persona the Colony who tend to treat it Mr. in Indle were prohibited from as equivalent to direction to ranking any such payments un-acquil Clause of the Bill seeks lens a general or special exemp-to readjust the balance by sub-

ion,

was granted by the Reserve stituting a direction which 13 Bank.

stil fair to the accused without These regulations follow the giving the jury a wrong impres Government of India Ordinance sion. nf July 1, restricting the trans- fer of Indian Government securi- ties held in Hyderabad, the Pre- mier State of the Indian sub- continent, which has refused In the evidence must be confined to It is a rule of evidence that dia's demand for "substance of the Issues before the Court. This

General Sir Nell Ritchie, Com- accession.”—Reuter.

rule often leads in corruptionmander-in-Chief, Land Forces ed under the Marshall Plan, and Nathan, HB Tall, M Melloy,

East cases to the exclusion of evidence South

Asta, arrived in will be available also to nowy any EG, Scifrosbree, C which to the lay mind raises a Hong Kong by BOAC plane paper, magazine and book pub-on, A. EMS.

Huber, and Mi

M:-Boutross. strong presumption of corrupt from Singapore yesterday after-lishers and cinema producers dealing, namely the unexplained on accompanied by Mrs. Rit- entering the foreign field of ex Among the week-end arrivals enrichment of the person accused. chic. They were met at the air-panding

'excluded unlessport by the G.0. C. Hong Kong. tion, Present" oversat the Benihsula Hotel were Mr; | Such evidence

Pravda On

Berlin Plot

Moscow, July 11.

Americanbogatejaid nist Party

today,

14-

guarantees would be judžed by Week-end departures from the the degree to which such an Peninsula Hotel Inchided Mr. and investment. Would have this

the Mr EC. Gunnerson, Mr. and primary purpose.

Mrs. S. H. Strange, Mr. and Mrs. W Kaufmann,

Messrs. R. K The guarantees were authoriz» W.,

Hoffman Invited

V-Nor Ros,

dus. and Mira. Premnath," Mr. and Mrs. Indus M Naturadas, Mr. and Mrs. try at large to file applications Henry T. Samson, Mr. and Mrs, for quarantees 2000 JAJ. Vermeulen, Mesars. HS. sible so that he could apprale Lee:: Paul-Soong, James Grant, the probable voluming Cool Fill, E. M

veatment and take soundings an to each country's attitude wards the entry) at capital.

MacDiarmid,

G F Martin,—"D"

at American Solomon, and Menten Yen.

trestlemenjen

Burro NK, 2 Groege

years,

it can be shown that it is con General Matthews and his A.D.C. nected with the charge 'before General Ritchie Inspected a the "Court, e.g. that ar acefired Guard of. Horiour" provided by The recent allegations of a paid money into his bank at or the 10th Gurkha Rifles drawn up Communist plot to seize Berlin shortly after the time he re- at the auport before crossing were "born in the innermost received some corruptly. in ways you least sus cesses of the British Embassy in

the Harbour to Hong Kong In The honest man whose sources the G.O.C's launch.

D. D pect...and why some Paris," "Pravdo," the Soviet of incoma are constant should General and Mrs, Ritchie will prayers are their own

newspaper, have little difficulty in explaining remain here until Friday when The guarantees will be opera answer.(Condensed from

arrivals from the any unexpected accretion to his they will fly to Japan for a short tive for a period of 14

Kingdom by BOAC This forgery," the, newspaper finances. It is accordingly con- stay. They will then return to The 'conversion" of added, "died without blossoming sidered that in offences for which Singapore via Hong Kong. The rencies will be dying-bout were Dr.

*Preign; ctir to cok-end ' forth. Its authors, remembering provision is made by the Dillí vurpose of their dismal failure with Protocol evidence of geheral enrichment visit is a

General Ritchie'd of exchange, recognised by the AS, Moodie Messra, MacDiarmid, N. Y. TOK É. 11. Graves and MTE. routine inspection of United States Government. M., were compelled to disavow for which no satisfactory account Forces..

Paulson (@* *erries, 27 1. No guarantee of prófits is pro- hastily their own invention."

admis-

vided, nor does the Economic Cooperation Administration offer M Kirkorlan (from Calcutta); Although corrupt persons are

any tosurance against: ordinary Mears, FB. West, Chau Poh business risks, cr against the sang and Tam Hoon-slang (from

Bangkok). political risks such as the byer | Prywatn • throw of a friendly Government. -Reuter

Ban't use a "good" excurs. Milton was blind. Beethoven was deaf, Thackeray saw his adored wife go insane... yet these men ignored their alisis and went on to sablints achievement. Dr. Fosdick away your excuses you can find a glori tells how by having the gril to throw ous new meaning in life.

Your budget CAN host high prions,

been devised to divert attention

pravda" said the plot had is forthcoming, should be

ible.

from the splitting of Germany, very often not foolish enough t which, it said, was taking place pay large sums-into their bank

* Budgeting isn't painful pennyplaching or at the Coblenz Conference of

bookkeeping-it's a way to get what you Western

want moit with your money, say this mar-Reuter.

ried couple. They llat six simple stops that

are solving money problems forthousands

--may make your family happier.

(Condensed from Coronet)

Spat check for cancer. Here is dramatio news of a quick, sidfiple test to detect can. cer of the womb early-before it becomes

■Ellice. W. L-White describes this cheap yet accurate text any doctor can make Chating the results analyzed by an expert),

yel the way in which

their

Yugoslav Spy Scare

German Premiers account has been operated may afford considerable indication of thisir financial affairs and ..and occasionally material-which would

Belgrade, July 11, clause 12 of the Elli Yugoslavia told the world to- icable.

The same

same may be day it is defending its borders Bald or share or purchase ac- against "spy tetrorlit groups." counts. Accordingly cintise 10. of

Cropped Hair

A Lifesaver

These

groups, it said, were

the Bill enables the Attorney organised by war time Nazi

FILIPINO'S DEATH FALL

"S"Aboard the same aircraft werd

Week-end departures for the Unlled Kingdoin by BOAC ́ ware Mualite EH, Winkha Kaufmään,2. W Mella E. G

Chím |Shiptree}1» 8.TEL MICHMI,

Wallshej (Mrs. H. Kaufmann, Mrs Woo Bau-Bribe, MI M. J. Stuart

Bischono and Miastame aircraft, wers

Aboard New York, July: Id. Army Sgt. Charles Metjay, 30- MIX Jean Begg (for“ Calcutta); General to authorise the in- collaborators now in exile and year-old Filipino patient at the Mestre. M. Curtis, L.A. Lowl Bangkok, July 11.

vestigation of such accounts by an unidentified foreign intelligence Fort Dix New Terkey Army S. G. Bull and Yee Mei-tzun (for

Hospital, on 15aya, hurt, Bangkok). Close-cropped hair is

General more the police..

service Singha-

The interior ministry in plunged 12 foot to h

Among the passengers who communique said the leader of Saturday from the

Manhattan Hotel spy group is Anto Pavelic,

Ho had registered at the hotel furday by CPA were i Miehere, Yugoslav No. 1 war criminal and

F.M.Ö Lambert, JH · Gemmell, Etwe "hours" Creation premier of the Tokyo, July 11.

puppet

pon - L. Bonietka 6.AZíperkus, D. One. million Tokya residents Pavelic is believed to be in exile

government. during the war. Fress. that thronged the railroads on Sun in Italy-Associated Press. he would take the life of every day for last trips into the coun

To try before fares are boosted #g woman in Singhaburi The sud- den and unexplained deaths of per verities has on a several women in the provinca

Condensed from Ladies Home Jownal) than just the rage in

In this fszne medő articles of lasting interest, | burl province in Siam: it is u selected from leading magazines and current life saving measure." books, and condensed to save your thuna.`,

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