1961-12-11 — Page 6

Communists disturbances

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Singapore.

THE CHINA MAIL

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1961.

stepping up

S internal self-governing Singapore slowly moves to merger with the Federation of

MALAYAN NEWSLETTER FROM GREGORY WONG

Malaya as one of its states, the Communists and Effort

their sympathisers are stepping up their civil disturbances throughout the state in an attempt

to bring down Mr Lee Kuan-yew and his People's to kill Action Party Government and so kill the merger plans.

The Communists greatest Wen- Jan ik Ec workers and they have bren using this weapon like a big stick to "beat" the government at every available

Opportunity The result is that

Singapore has never experienced

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Communists

On the other hand Mr Lee and ls leftwing government have been treading softly ΙΠ their dealings with the workers, who pout Duet into power in the diz paltunn

grealest task Tuas been weering out the legitimate knevates and those that are Commutust inspired

But whole the workers weddi need great urging to resort to

violence in their labour disputes, the idealistic Chinese middle school students in Singapore are extremely volatile.

And with the Communists seizing on any issue te make things hot for the Government it was touch and go last week when Chinese middle school students

pickcted School Four examination con- ires for the whole week.

merger plans

and

One

still favour the old 3-3 Parents have followed suit and last week a number of The students showed Their dis- approval by boycotting the first examinations of the new system picketing the centres

human-chain Tactics the masked student pickets kept quite a number of candidates out of the centres The PAP Government refused to bring in the police for fear that the Communists would precipitate a

Using Middle

The Government has changed the system of the Chinese edu- cation and now instead of the usual

junior middle three examinations. and then the sendor middle three examina- tions. They have substituted the uddie shout four examinations and two years later the senior middle examir.ation

Certain educationists have ob- jeeted to this 4-2 system, and

SIN ON PARADE

Amsterdam.

WITHOUT

trying

hope. police to find

a pub, and bundled them into an open pig cart They were much forced to confess their guilt

who were the judges

are out

at

Repent

Then the cart was pulled Through the village As a rule

riot

Human chains

À| R candidates battled their way into the centres and In the end parents formed "breakthrough"

groups.

Using fists, elbows and boots. the parents broke the human chains to get their children into the centres. Every morn- ing the parents turned out to scuffle with the pickets but there was no riot.

Chain

reaction

While the

PAP is having trouble in keeping the state running, the opposi tion Singapore People's Alliance is falling apart at the seams. Three fenders of the party have resigned including the secretory- general.

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This has brought about chain reaction in the party with members resigning left and right,

The dissident members sald that the

reason for their re- signation is that they had "lost faith in the party leadership" of Tun Lim Yew-hock, a former chief minister.

They said that they could no longer tolerate the dictatorial manner in which the party was being run.

Radioactivity

high

Radioactivity in the Singa- pore atmosphere was un- usually high during the four days of last

last for a

month.

The Minister of Education was at оле Ume prevented from Boing into his ministry short time by the student pic- kets His parliamentary secre they was not so lucky. He was prevented for hours from level

a "people's trial" of a everybody is in bed by 10 pm, leaving the ministry to attend wife who sinned.

It was held in the isolater Dutch village

Staphorst

where Puritanism still reigns

For villagers have punished

teit

but this night all the villagers were at the windows to look at the sinners in their shane.

Outside houses where other

several centuries The suspert wives live the lantern- light parade stopped, and an CSCOTI publicly proclaimed:

"There is more room on the! cart, se behave yourselves

love affairs in their own way

So it was that they acted ac- cording to tradition when 48- year-old Barta Schoenmaker's husband complamed publicly of her misconduct with 45-year-old Derk Tunmermans, the village carpenter

About a month ago crowds of villagers seized Barta from

her home, and her lover from

At 3 am the proccasion was

hack at Barta's house The self- Ponted judges demanded that Barta and Derk should in the presence of the whole popula-

their repent

and promise to begin a new lite

London Express Service).

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the debate on merger in the Singapore Legislative Assembly

It was only after the assembly had passed a resolution order the police to effect his rescue that the pickets let him through. Of the 3.000 candidates, only 1,000 did not sit for the exams. And the

worst injuries suffered during the tive days

were numerous bruises and scratches. The absentee candidates are being given another chance to sit for the exams this week and from first indkations less than a third are

getting through the picket lines

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SHOW PAGE

reporters. Gerom Morel Mut eta Cleave

NO TRIFLING STELLA

PROGR

STELLA STEVENS is a new platinum blonde convention. She studies art and gusts to be a Hollywood actress with that faintly tragic look producer. that seems to be the latest in hip expressions "Most people in Hollywood don't take my She is currently on view on a soď jakz sloper intentions very seriously,” she admitted, “being in Too Late Blues.

a woman and being an actress. But I coŞNE across this story, Village Without Men, and felt it just had to be made into film so i have gone into partnership with a director.

Miss Stevens could be described as a Kim Novak model Mark t, therefore following in the direct line of Hollywood succession. When the wat first spotted her studio significantly wanted to put her into The Jean Harlow Story. She decided it would be better to start hor coreer as a less ambitious level,

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"I bought the story, being a short story it didn't cost so much as a best-selling novel, and I hope to make it on the island of Args next spring or in the falt.

"One producer with a six-picture deal with a major studio wants to make it as part of his programme."

Her entry into films was also in the tradi tional pattern. She was discovered by a tolent Added Miss Stevens, who is not o girl scout modelling clothes in the tea-room of u to be trifled with: "If anyone wants to make Memphis deportment store. She created a mild it in Spain or change the antionality of the scondo! by being photographed nude on a rug, clestochers or anything like that, just won't

Since then Miss Stevens has deported from stand for it."

The

milkman

with

ideas

On Nov. 2P, the radioactivity A YEAR ago Mike

Watts was o milk-

man in the Lambeth

rose to 39.3 times the average before The recent Russian nuclear tests. Then it dropped the following days to 20 | Walk.

times.

But. said Dr M. Huq, who is radioactivity measuring station in charge of Singapore's only

ยโ the University

of Malaya, there was still no danger to human life here. He said the danger level would be about 100 times the present readings.

The atomic research whit at the university is expected soon to start inspecting imported food- stuff for possible radioactivity.

"This," he said, "is where the danger lies."

Sole Agents: JARDINE MATHESON

CO., LTD.

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On Monday they start alming his story, The Pot Carriers. Elstree, starring Ronald Fraser. Carole Lesley and Paul Massey. Mr Watts is a mild man of 39 with glasses, & wiry moustache and a slow South London voice.

He has lived in South London all his life, and now has a coun- ell fat in Clapham, where he lives with his sister, two large lazy cats and several ticking clocks.

Joudly-

The Pot Carriers, a prison story laced with first-class dialogue, he originally wrete for television.

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QUICK TAKES

Okl-time top comic Harold Lloyd, who owns all his films, is going to re-issue some of them. First compilation: The Harold Lloyd World of Comedy Jeanne Carson in first drama- tic film part in crime story Seven Keys Tenor Mario del Monico to make film version of Verdi's Otello • Jack Clay- ton, whose The Innocents opened last week, says: "I will produce films for money but I will direct only films 1 believe in"

● Charlton Heston's first canedy, The Pigeon That Took Rome, guys wartime spy films Catherine Milinair, daughter of Duchess of Bedford, in French film The Doll Hattie Jacques: "I would like to think the public comes to see me as an actress rather than as a heavyweight."

JUDY

SINGS

AGAIN

in

JUDY GARLAND who has just played the pari of છું froway Gennen hausfrau

al Judgment

Nuremberg is coming to Britain next year to continue her non-glamorous dramatic actress.

career Ду

She will appear as a middle-

PICTURE BY

MICHAEL WARD

Orson Welles hiding

DEBORAH

WANTS

LAUGHS

tbal

HOW

ORSON WELLES is DEBORAH KERR, one of

on his way to Eng- the most hardworking and aged mother in Ronald Neame's land, swathed in bulk widely travelled of interna film drama, The Lonely Stage, and secrecy, to make tonal stars. announces her

at Shepperton Studios. But this

intention

new Miss Garland will preparations for his new spring. be allowed remind us of the film, The Trial. old Miss Garland, She will sing.

just

thought I

would. People are over-awed by the time theatre and it never occurs to them they could write a play but television comes inta the room, and you can see how bad it is and you know you write something equally bad.

"Not that I'd been to the theatre, anyway.

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the

"So just wrote about people I saw. I do a lot of gam- bling-horses and dogs like. And I like writing about criminals."

Five-part Baxter

COMEDIAN Stanley Baxter --who once said he had to in-

of resting until the

"If anything terrific comes up It is to be made in Paris, between now and then, It's just where it is said his wife, Paoula tough buns.

Far too many Mori, may be the leading lady. people in this business work

At home in Rome, Mr Welles until they can't think." continues to live interestingly.

He has converted the garage of his

B

She is in London for the potted film studio, with minia Innocents, the Henry James Roman villa into premiere of her new Alm The

personate other people because ture sound department,, cutting ghost story in which she plays he could never get far on his room and make-up section.

the governess. It is another What success Mr Watts has own face-made E sucessful had so far means that he has a

The whole place is guarded of these parts which Misa Herr dinner jacket,

film debut in Very Important by two fave dogs and all does with intense control. uses bathsalts Person, m which he played two telephones have been

cigarettes. parts.

nected

and smokes French And of

of course he goes to the theatre, and has theories:

Now Mr Baxter is to make

"There's two kinds of authors, his second film and play five There's the ones like Pinter and parts. It is called Crooks Willis Hall and Delaney and Anonymous-about a band of

spoken

discon-

RON TO

Behan who write the ken reformed lags with a self-help STAY STILL

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"Call a horror dim she said succinctly, and glug you. It's deeply paychological. But I must confess I would like to play more comedy Mrs Malaprop or something like that.

"It would be nice if they would even let me lose my

word, and.. Mr Watts paused syndicate on the lines of aminously, and there's the sort Alcoholics Anonymous, who write the written word— He will be the King of the DON RANDELL and his temper and break a few glasses, and their names I can't men- Confidence Men. And opens the glamorous wife, Laya occasionally." tion."

picture as a bishop.

BLIND BUT HE'S A NEWS CAMERAMAN

'It's confidence that counts'

San Francisco.

TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Harry Cardello is a top student in the City College Photography Department

here.

ture.

In addition to being a news photographer for the college's counting tiny notches newspaper. The Guardsman, dial containing

on the Harry also does portrait and

the f-stop fix- scente photography.

"Outdoor exposure is no real Nothing unusual in that? No, problem," he says. "Hot Indoors except for the fact that Harry I have to turn on all the lights has been totally blind since 1959., and -assume 1 constant amount

How does he do it? "Con- of light." fidence,"

"That le Gys Harry.

When it comes to focusing, he the most importen "thing a blind Bride pacing distances works person can have. Two years ago

for him. "Last year I

In an oxercise on cor

I never dreamed I'd be doing

The campus science

news aaguments, now. I feel

that if I'm familiar with the restingling distortion. The camera

I'm using I'm sure to get picture was factuled, so you can good_results.*

count the viedetian blinde

Confidence is not all Harry Bounced off

uses in his work. On a bright. To centre the building day he can feel the sun on his tapped againatinge // Bernadine fede and neck. On a cloudy day cane. I could tell when I was he's aware of the dut's absence directly in front of it by the way

Once he knows the exportine the sound bounced on, His Wants, he sets his camera by

*(London Kaprika. Bervice),

Ro

Raki-two of the

most-

are planning to

FILM NO. 128

travelled people in show- business

settle down at last in Lon-

don.

FERNANDEL, the horse-faced Ron Randell, the Australian French comic, celebrates his actor who has recently scored a 30th year in the business by big success as the Centurion in making his 128th film King of Kings, married Laya Raki,

German Javanes He is justly pround of his actress and dance, at a highly mountainous teeth, and I under- publicised London wedding in stand that three impressions of 3057.

these famous jaws exist one is then the Randells hard- kept in Paris, one in Marseilles emed to have stayed still and one in Rome. In recent months they have lived in Lo Angeles, New "At the least provocation," York, Spain, Germany, Mexico says M. Fernande), I rush to and Peru. They are soon off to the dentist. I thank God and

Parks, Berlin and Australis. my mother who have given me But the fist a friend has what I was at the age of 25, 1 But then it is back to London this face, though compared with

am now almost a beauty offered them until they find a permanent home there."

~~(London Express Service),

Jill loves Buddhist

JILL HAWORTH, the little girl of 14 from Bognor Regis, whom Otto Preminger chose for his film Exodus, is now off to Cambodia, to play the lead in Cast the Same Shadow,

It is a French Alm, and in it Miss Haworth, now 15, has a love affair with a young Buddhist. The producer is Pierre Courau, the man sible for that highly controversial dim, now of Paris L'Annes Dernière a Mużies

He has "borrowed" Mim - Ha Preminger, who has her under a 00.000 until she le 217