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[23/10/65] Investigators are still working to determine the cause of last night's derailment near Bukit Timah station in Singapore.

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[23/10/65] Weightlifter Tung Chye Hong has set a new Malaysian bantamweight record of 622½ lb, pressing 181¾ lb, snatching 181¾ lb, and clean and jerking 248 lb, an improvement of 44 lb over the record he set last year.

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[23/10/65]* Dato (Dr) R. P. Pillay, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s personal physician, says the Prime Minister is steadily recovering from his shingles infection.

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[23/10/65] Sarawak police report that they have smashed two more groups of local Chinese Communists.

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[23/10/65] Tunku Abdul Rahman, speaking in a message for Deepavali, called for Malaysians to “work together” and “combine in all fields and spheres in order to defend this land of ours” from the influence of a “wicked demon,” understood to be a reference to Sukarno.

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[23/10/65] The Agriculture Ministry will spend $1,000m on development as part of the First Malaysia Plan.

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[23/10/65] Singapore’s bus companies are losing favour rapidly as private cars proliferate in the State. A leading company estimates that it has lost 9.5m passengers over 10 months.

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[23/10/65] Negotiations are underway for gynaecologist Prof Benjamin Sheares to vacate his clinic in the Medical Hall so it can be demolished for the construction of McAlister House.

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[23/10/65] A $3m plot of land on Battery Road in Singapore is being cleared for the construction of the 18-storey McAlister House. https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/photographs/record-details/6216583d-1162-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad

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[23/10/65] Workers remain hard at work to clear the tracks south of Bukit Timah, the site of the derailment of 17 cargo wagons last night. Railway authorities say services from Singapore should resume tomorrow, once new tracks are laid to replace the damaged section.

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[23/10/65] Malaysian delegate to the UN Trusteeship Committee Dr Mahathir Mohamed on British policy in Aden: “The world is a little sick of the paternalistic British attitude, and it is about time the British realised this.”

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[23/10/65]* The British Defence Ministry estimates that the cost of the 51,000-strong British presence in Malaysia amounts to around £250m (M$2.1b) a year.

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[23/10/65] A transport company employee has been fined $27,000 or five years in jail by the Sessions Court in Taiping for carrying 20 bundles of undutied textiles. Unpaid duty amounted to $2,622.

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[22/10/65] Part of a goods train derailed just south of the Bukit Timah railway station at 9.30 pm tonight. The night mail from Singapore has been disrupted as a result. Passengers are being bused to Johore Bahru to continue their journeys north.

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[22/10/65]* Premier Lee, in a Deepavali message, called for all communities to join together and work hard to make Malaysia “a beacon in the turbulent region in which we live.”

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[22/10/65] Tun Abdul Razak today called for all Malaysians to remember the importance of “mature respect for one another's beliefs” in his Deepavali message.

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[22/10/65]* State Governments throughout Malaya are now coordinating their programmes for this year’s Solidarity Week, though it is understood that the campaign will be known as Berjaya Week from now on to avoid political connotations.

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[22/10/65]* Tunku Abdul Rahman is recovering well from his illness, though it will likely be a week or two before he can be discharged from the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

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[22/10/65] Work on the bitumen track at the Merdeka Stadium for the SEAP Games has been delayed by heavy rain over the past week and a half.

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[22/10/65] Hundreds of forged identity cards are now known to be circulating in Singapore. More than three hundred blank forged cards were seized from a house on Jalan Hwi Yoh on 16 July.

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[22/10/65] A flour lorry collided head-on with a bus at the junction of Tiong Bahru Road and Henderson Road in Singapore this afternoon, leaving 23 injured.

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[22/10/65] Straits tin today underwent a $5.875 correction to close at $719.375 a picul.

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[22/10/65] Party Negara leader Garieb Abdul Raof has resigned from the party, citing his disillusionment with “communal struggle.”

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[22/10/65] The Registrar of Trade Unions has directed the Singapore Catering Services Staff and Workers’ Trade Union to terminate the membership of workers in the bowling section of Jackie’s Bowl.

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[22/10/65] A peon in Ipoh went to the police station to report the theft of the front wheel of his bicycle recently and returned with the police 15 minutes later to find out the back wheel had also been stolen.