The Singapore Free Press, 14 June 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE lfrV SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICL 10 CENTS.
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    NO FAIRY
    31 1 I am not a Fairy Godrcothfr Do indeed lr?ok like onr LorJ Killrarn, Special C oaimis>ionf r for Southv^ia openin* the Victory t)it on in Singapore on Wrdn^day nifht.
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    KING UMBERTO FLIES TO TEMPORARY EXILE
    385 1 K£™£££ f WI- forTKeSd to in H. lhe U u la Pe ple s vote for a r eP«s>Hc, arrived in Barcelona by plane last ni^ht en route to temporal exiem Portugal. Before he left he issued a SSSUr a Tr* 0 thc Italian
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    King Without A Throne
    19 1 x-.Aiv.ni' Lmberto pic lured driving: with his uife who was Princess Marie Jose of Belgium.
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    TERAUCHI CREMATED
    113 1 THE cremation of tns remains j of Field Marshal Count j Hisaichl Terauchi. fe'ipcvm-* Comj mander of the Jaoanese Fxnedi- tionary Forces, Southern Re- gions. at the tin.: cf the Japanese surrender? took place at the Japanese Cen^rcry in Singapore iat 4 p.m. yesterday. Count Terauchi died on
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    MODEL FARM
    21 1 Fifty peasants expelled by the Nazis from Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden. are to be resettled on Hitler's farm, says Reuter
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    5 British soldiers die in ambush
    125 1 PARIS, Thursday. C Uah soldiers are reported to have been killed, five d and one missing in an ambush of a British conid 72 miles from Saigon, according to the French v AFP Saison correspondent. The renewal of Vietnam s resistance is believed to
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    LOAN MAKES NEW PROGRESS
    58 1 nan was toda? huh approved by of Representatives niittee. «M 20 in favour and I to reporting it to lor nnal ratification. I to the House rules Placed on the legislative business. i delay is expected there xta are that the House begin next Wednes;se leaders
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    FUNNY MAN DIES
    17 1 Butterworth, welland screen comedian. sjured In Los Angeles r ran into a building. Reuter
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    ACQUITTED
    51 1 Corporal Thomas Allardice <20) of the South Lancashire Regiment, was acquitted at the Resumed court-martial at Aldershot trying men alleged to have been concerned in the Corfu incident at Southampton on April 8 when 800 troops walked off the troopship because they objected to the conditions on board. Re
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    ATOM PLANT TO SAVE LIFE NOW
    95 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs THE U.S. Army's famous "Man--1 hattan Project," birthplace of the atom bomb, will attempt to convert atomic energy Into an instrument to preserve life, the War Department announced today. The atom bomb plants, the War Department said, will be turning out radioactive
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    CB FOR ADML EGERTON
    50 1 Rear Admiral H. J. E^erton, Flag Officer Malaya, has received the C.B. in the Kind's birthday honours. Rear Admiral Egerton, who has flown to Bangkok to attend the King of SianVs funeral recently took over his appointment in Singapore from Rear Admiral J. A. V. Morse.
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    AMERICANA
    70 1 A Labour leader from India n created turmoil at a Detriot conference of the Michigan Congress of Industrial Organizations council— whose leaders demand wage raises of at least 13'/2 cents per hour, says U.P N. Fazail Flahi Guarton. pre- ident of Indias Railway Federation, told the delegates that the
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    GIRLS ROUNDED UP
    20 1 Japanese police on Wednesday night arrested 50 "street girls" in the third largescale roundup since the occupation.
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    GUN BATTLE LN LONDON HOTEL
    159 1 LONDON, Thurs. SCOTLAND Yard's flying squad and hundreds of detectives took part in the big comb-out of London's underworld last night. They were searching for seven men, one of them armed, who used violence during two attempted robberies early yesterday. Shots were flred when three
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    'WHITE WEDDING' IN HIROSHIMA
    45 1 The first white woman to be married in Hiroshima since the atom bomb, wedded last Saturday to a Cameron Highlander at Nagata Roman Catholic Monastery. The bride was Mary Eileen Cummins, a nursing sister in the Eighth British General Hosnitai U.P.
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    To honour men who died in the peace
    258 1 To honour men who died in the peace By EDWARD BISHOP Free Press Services Correspondent A MEMORIAL to the 347 officers and men of the British and Indian Army who have been killed in the Netherlands East Indies since the official ending of war hostilities is to be unveiled by
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    Both sides win big battles
    272 1 'PEACE' IN CHINA NANKING Thursday. DOTH sides claimed new military successes in the seventh D day of the 15-day truce. The government's Central News Agency said Nationalists were advancing in Manchuria and had frustrated attempted Communist landings near Tsingtao. The Communist New China News Agency
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    COTTON DELAY
    28 1 The British Government has announced a three months delay in taking over the purchase and distribution of cotton from Liverpool and Manchester markets, reports A. P.
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    LABOUR ATTACKS GOVT.
    145 1 LABOUR ATTACKS GOVT. A REVOLT against the Government's agricultural policy was among the main leatures at today's meeting of the Labour Party's conferer.c says Reuter. A big surpr.se was created when, against the advice of the Minister of Agn culture, Mr. Tom Will a!ns, the delegates carried by M overwhelming
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    ICKES HITS AT TRUMAN
    74 1 AROLD Ickes, former Secretary of the Interior, today charged that "at times President Truman nas placed his personal loyalty above his duty to his country Ickes charged that Trurran "has relied for advice upon a shadowy group of small and i»eliseeking men." amon? whom he listed
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    DEATH SENTENCE
    41 1 Two Jewish terrorists, Yousof Senkson, a-ed nineteen, and Itzah Michael Azbel. aged twenty-four were sentenced to death by a military court in Jerusalam last night reports Reuter. They were found guilty of firing at members of the British forces
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    FASTS ON COFFEE AND WHISKY
    63 1 Claude L. Baxter (41 > completed the third week of his projected 100-day fast today, and said that he was determined to go through with his foodless marathon to dramatize the plight of the world's starving. Since start me on his fast 21 days apo.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      Burma's suffering is not over yet
      1277 2 Burma's suffering is not over yet GHLT one ytar ago Rangoon was retaken bv ttiat clar ng sweep of Briti-h, Incian. and African t oo a :s from Meiktila down through lower Burma, which was, perhaps, the mest brilliant 01 all the great feats of the 14th Army. What that
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      Frances Cabrini—firct U.S. Saint
      547 2  - Frances Cabrini—firct U.S. Saint JOHN FISHER In the Vatican they're making ready to canonise By ROME. Tuesday. HINT of what i'«ipi* ni:i 5 in «he Vatican CUt* be get by watching the Flo eri;i. or decorations departxnont #ji the Holy See. When, "for instance, they scrub the floors and wash
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      8 2 Really dear! Y«u'rc not fn the Army ium^
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      163 2 \\\Y SMASHING Hli OF OIR GENERA* k\ 1 ill SPLASHING OBJECT OF OUR ADMIRATION M. G. M's SUPREME f m% TECHNICOLOR PIUJE ■fr^f PROUDLY PRESENTING ESTHER WILLIAMS x iSfe^'^ (Pacific Coast Swimming Champion 1938-^9) RED SKELTON f/.s the only mal? student in a ~'g^T Girls' College) V W" MIDNIGHT TO-NIGHT
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      63 2 n1383dr31C6 Exclusive in Malaya to the Singapore Free Press HELP THE L, YOU'RE NOT BLIMP, I NO, MISS, BUT L I OH, WHY DOES I I lIT ATTRACTS ATTENTION MI 4S lcrAftTPLtVH.fi I BLIWP M«sT| feaWwj MYBROTHEfI .sj THE POOR MAnJ MX T^Li~^<KCS Y /1/ %~£\fTZ* Ss^ 1/ WEAR THAT
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      415 2 RADIO LISTEMXG SINGAPORE S-J»£ atU NtIUOEK frm ikmw to D D r* 2 p.m. and »3f to II «a 22> B. D. L. metre* from noon to 2p m on 4*25 520 pm V o m <•$* CHINESE noun to 1 13 pja (news metre* pm "H tn Hokkien at
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      S'PORE HONOURS THE KING'S BIRTHDAY
      128 3 un in Singapore to celebrate the Kin ;'s lirih- i parade <>n the pailaiig. Yesterday* services irraed pcsl the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson v va'fMsi in the birthday honours irn, urn the right carrying hut) watched with i Singapore's Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. /I. 1
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946. New Forgotten Army
      556 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946. New Forgotten Army SOMEBODY blundered m PiGg*M pore yesterday when the Forces staged the bHSf*t ever r:ilitary parade in the Colony to celebrat? the King's Ifcrtfc(>.av without, for th*- iir.st time for more than 20 j*irv civ:? bring any representative of the
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      SOLDIER SENDS US A BITTER-SWEET LETTER...
      534 4 SOLDIER SENDS US A BITTER-SWEET LETTER... THIS letter is 'Bitter Sweet.' sweet ntvs for your fine newspaper, and the bitterness directed at a 'grateful ally.' Here .we go then: On behalf of my fellow Servicemen, who are receiving The Singapore Free Press regularly, I should like to say -Well Done"
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      £1,000,000 for British films
      92 4 BRITISH Lion Film Corporation is to raise £1.000,000 in ordinary capital to 'assist the British "independent film industry." It has acquired a controlling interest in Sound City < Films) Lta for £380.000. as its own studios are insufficient for its proposed programme. As it has no
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      BIG-MONEY JOBS IN COAL MINING
      365 4 THE recruitnig sergeants are out—in civilian elothrs. For the Army. Navy. R.A.F.? No. for the mines. And they are offering big-money jobs to the boys who show they can do them. Th* 3 coal must come up if Britain's exports are to go out and
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      410 4 DROMOTED. Chief of Naval Staff, Vice-Admiral ST Arthur John Power, aged 64, is now full Admiral. He commanded Ark Royal from 1939 to 1940, when tne enemy claimed almost every day to have sunk her but got no nearer than a .fifteen ft miss with a bomb.
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      India builds planes for own Air Force
      206 4 PLANS for a national aircraft industry in India lo supply the needs of (he Royal Indian Air Force as well as civilian aviation have been approved by (he Government of 1 India. Based on the recommendations of the United Kingdom Aircraft Mission, which
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      TRADE SHOW IN SUMMER
      125 4 rDAY in London designers are working on a large exhibition j which ls being organised by the '> Council of Industrial Design and is being planned to open in tfte summer of 1946. It will be called Britain Can Make It.' ana will show the general
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      FAITH
      21 4 Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may hive right to Jhe tree of life. Revelation, Tl 14.
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      The First To Liberate Java
      29 4 Men of the landers, who u< r first Britivh t; Java, chancing <,t> pest in Bntavi.i (»r first duties <>: Uu i to safeguard rx-li
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      PREFABS IN PLASTIC AT £110
      112 4 PER MAN deM u triaiists ire first bid in the v and they an h prefabricated plastics. They have a!" types which m Berlin on Juae 15 produced Individ England. In I France. They are nrM and execution ud in a matter < skilled labourer
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      41 4 QUIZ j 1. How did Mesopotamia get its name? 2. What sain was famous for feeding the birds 3. Who was Cleopatra's husband? 4. Is Andalusia in Spain or South America? 5. What is- St. Swithin's Day? (Answers in Page 6)
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      STEPS TO CLEAR S'PORE HARBOUR WRECKS
      322 5 Free Press Reporter I' ,of the wrecks of liners, freighters, war transjunks, launches and sampans that were Singapore harbour during the Malnyan campai '•> hc salvaged by the port authorities tttutea dacccr to shipping both in the inner ids, and steps are being taken
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      CROWN IS SYMBOL OF UNITY'
      234 5 THE Governor-Genera!, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald broadcast the following message from Radio Malaya yez"Today is 'the King's Birthday. In person and office His Majesty means much to hundreds of millions of people associated in the British Commonwealth and Empire. The Crown is the symbol of their
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      FAREWELL PARTY
      64 5 A tea party was organised bv the Singapore Y.W.C.A. in conjunction with their usual fortnightly meeting, yesterday to bid farewell to Miss Nancy Russell. Director of Y.W.C.A Weifare work for Malaya, who i« leaving shortly for Australia on retirement. The gfatherin^ also welcomed Mrs. J. Stott who has
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      60 MALAYANS RETURNING
      79 5 a of Australia is due at Singapore on Juno 60 Malayan men. children returning Most of the women. d are destined to husband* in north h carrying also ■rfred Service men *'ar Fa -tern F+atloos. passengers will, howiborked at Sinsasemcnti having ncm to disembark j that T
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      SIKH ROBBED
      22 5 ten all armed with 1 a c im^atriot of to the value in Uoper ThomWettanfej nfTht aj* in a motor-
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      GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO HAVE HQ HERE
      47 5 GOVERNOR- GENERAL TO HAVE HQ HERE IT Ls understood that Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Cov.morGen n ral of the Malayan Tnion and Mnsapore, vI I hortlv move bis headquarters from Pcnang to Singapore. Mr. Macnonnld has mai itai i-f-J temr^rary headquarters at Pcnaag since his arrival in Malava.
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      DEATH RAILWAY WORKERS RETURN
      29 5 Free Press Correspondent PENANG. Thurs Nine hundred and s?vemv-one Malaya:s v.ho were press-ganged by the Japanese for work on the Burma Siam Railway, returned today
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      ROBBERS FOILED: ONE KILLED
      134 5 Free Fress Correspondent IPOH, Thurs. WHEN four Chinese armed with spears and one revolver attempted a cang robbery or a Punjabi home in Siputeh. some I distance outside Ipoh. their ven- ture ended in disaster; ono of their number was leit kiiieu, ana I three others
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      EUROPEAN ACQUITTED
      53 5 A European, Alec Davidson, who. on April 10, at Penang, was charged with being in possession of firearms and ammunition, and was granted bail in the sum of $150,000, was acquitted and discharged when the Court Inspector said he had received instructions from the Deputy Public Prosecutor to
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      NEW HOUSING BILL SOON
      64 5 THE Free Press understands 1 that a bill will soon be introduced into the Singapore Advisory Council dealing with the position of war absentee tenants and landlords and lessees and lessors. It will also deal with various problems arising from the interruption caused by the Japanese
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      90,000 CHILDREN GIVEN GIFTS
      112 5 I CIXTY-TWO thousand schoolj** children and 30.000 other children in Singapore received gifts of biscuits and sweets yesterday in honour of the King's birthday. In addition, -gifts were sent to the let^r hospital, the mental hospital. Sime road transit camp, the home for destitutes the boys
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      JAVA MASSACRE: 'DUTCH NOT TO BLAME'
      307 5 k DENIAL of Dutch responsibility for the massacre of j Chinese at Tangrranu in .Java j early this month is contained in a statement issued in (Singapore yesterday by the Nctnorlands Consulate General. The statement says: "Reports in the Malayan press regarding the massacre
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      34 5 C'hce s for the Kinf—from Lt. Gen. Sir Montagu S onlord drputy^ Supreme Allied Comman-fer, SEA<\ lord KU earn and Sir Franklin Gimson. (Army Fi m Unit's picture from yesterdays King's birth ay p&jade).
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      SumatraExtremists Murder Airmen
      198 5 SumatraExtrem ists Murder A irmen rONDITIONS in Sumatra continue to deteriorate, and Indonesian extremists are almost every day murdering Chinese, looting and setting fire to property, writes the I/ohdon News Chronicle's special correspondent from Medan. On the night of June 10 and 11, their victims were members cl the Royal
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      LIFETERM FOR PADI PLANTERS
      120 5 Free Press Correspondent IPOH, rtalfJL APPEARING in the Superior A Court, before Lt.-C)t. J. G. Adams, charged with abduction, two Ma'ay p»di j planters were senti n ,rt to life imprisonment. A third Malay planter, jointly charged, received a £e.:U*nce of 10 years' rigorous imprisonment. The
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      ARMSRECOVERED
      20 5 Tuar.t^r-lour revolvers. r:f'.e> and haihd grenades and 240 rounds of ammunition were recovered by the Singapore Police during May.
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      He helped men out of Army, gaoled
      267 6 He helped men out of Army, gaoled DIRECTOR HAD A KIND HEART 11M1EX men began to leave the Army on rather mystcr.'ous V? medical grrcunds, Scotland Yard spent a year J n trackfaif ilr.wn Hie cause, suspecting a misdemeanour somewhere. Its men travelled thousands of miks between London, the far
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      SENATE VOTES LEAVE PAY
      109 6 Washington, num. The* ise oi Representatives has od and sent to the S3Zlftt« *.e--rtelaUoa giving i;a.^t xnj pre.j?nt •nlisted men pay ior furlough \i..\e they had not received while i*i -orvice It wrs voted 379 to 0. l)rc l?«islation srts a; ths stand- d VvO-and-a ha.i-days
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      GIRL DIED IN DENTIST'S CHAIR
      62 6 AT a Lincoln Inquest recently the coroner described as 'extremely rare the case of a 23-year-old Dunholme 'Lincoln) woman, Edith Mary Blmshard, who died in a dentist chair as she was recovering from mis administered before she had 11 teeth extracted. It was stot?d that
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      DIPLOMAT DELAYED
      21 6 Lord Stangatc's depanure from London to resume talks In Cairo has been delayed pending further consultations says A. P.
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      Clothing austerity goes out
      211 6 Clothing austerity goes out BIDDING good-bye to austerity regulation?, d signers haw rea-ly let themselves -go in 120 1:0.1--austeritj coats su.ts and dresses which were on display at the May Far Hotel. London, recently. Here are seme of the novelties on exhibition. A roughly triangular evening handbag— with a 2it
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      PANCAKE HATS THIS AUTUMN
      137 6 PANCAKE HATS THIS AUTUMN Food and housing insured designs for autumn hats shown by leading London milliners on the stage of the Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury-avenue. W.. recently. Sausage brirr.s. muffi:: and jliiiviney pot crowns and window box hats were striking ityls. I'C-spitH the novelty of design the Fats were surprisingly
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      GOOD NEWS FOR WOMEN
      28 6 •Nylon stockings a~e back on to the market in Urge quantities. Here workmen at a British factory are seen examining fiu in for flaws.
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      EXPLORER DIES IN BED
      143 6 THE man who went to look for the lost mines of t lie Queen of Shcba In Abyssinia on a pushbike has died In a London hospital. He was the 35-year-old explorer John Carveth Wells, who had been almost completely paralysed for repriv 11 vears. But
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      DRIVERS' YEAR OF GRACE TO END
      137 6 DRIVERS YEAR OF GRACE TO END SCOTLAND Yarus trafl.c expert, Sir Alter trip?. Assistant Commit aoncr. *H act shortly on his January -car-freedom must stop warning, with special emphasis on unauthorised parK'"ft the beginning of the year wSSSHgs divers Vho could not find ga l-ite not seriously in peoples W
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      GOT WET, GAVE UP
      90 6 OF three escaped German prisoners, described as dangerous, hunted by 200 military and civil police near Canterbury: One was captured in a ditch after he had pulled nettles over himself as cover. Another was beaten by the weather-— rain-soaked and wretched, he walked into the barracks
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      SIX DROWNED
      23 6 Six children have been drowned la recent months while catching tadpoles from a stream in the Macsslas district of Newport. Monmouthshire.
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      TOO LONG TO MAKE TOO FEW
      136 6 BECAUSE of a Brifsh film shortage, moro than 1.000 cinemas in the year 'ended September 30, 1945, did not show suffic ent films made at home to comply with the law. Cinema managers must show at least 174 per cent. British films. But not
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      122 5 I l PHONE F^El lUM 2A50 7OO£9^ OPM It's a Brand New Idea in Musical Extravaganza! A Magnetic Hit A MADCAP GENIE HURLS FRED JCAN THROUGH CENTURIES of MYSTICAL MADNESS in t_ L _r r t! > \i_l Bfll General Estiibwion. also Latest Paramoubt Newt, THE VICTORY PARADE IN LONDON
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      158 6 o^l^ Answers 1. Mesopotamia was named t-i? iiriri mesos, meaning m. aaie and potamos. river. It lies between the ligils and the Eupniaic> '2 St Francis of Assisi. 1 Her brother, from an old rni^ptian custcm. 4. In Spain. 5. July 15. It is a traditional oeli^i that if it
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      INDIANS OUTPLAYED BY SERVICES
      433 7 PORTSMOUTH, Thurs. j\DIA was outplayed here today by the Combined I gen ires, scoring 110 for the loss of six wickets in re pl> to the combined side's 241 for four. They art- in danger »t bein£ made to follow on as the game has become
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      DAVIS CUP: SWEDEN LEADS BELGIUM
      62 7 >l i)( KHOI M. Thurs. SHH>f\ '•••at Beltium in the d«»ah! ■> -Mat* h of the semifinal «n the European zone Patis i If toda*. sufd" now leads two •>ne with two singles to he placed tomorrow Twia% I- Tiart Strand and T-»M*n insson bfat
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      WILLARD TIPS CONN TO WIN
      146 7 WILLARD TIPS CONN TO WIN RO.\IE. Thurs. F:.d heavyweight I Willard thinks will defeat Jje rninji t» >ut n June that Conn is avvweitrht who MM fat." tWllHf army profevsi^cied that Conn ■out because of bn 9k comes his :.pion declared Conn almost lia and even though v. Conn is
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      NEW LIFE B.P.
      68 7 ral IfeeUap of the iartminton Party, the I lected office -bearers '!:n? Dec 31 1946 Ml Hoo Chun Kah: Mr. Cr-iani? Seng Mr Nicholas hon. veasurer: Mr. tnn. auditor: Fns: hon. sports P>h Hve hon. asst. Mr Charlie Yeo: MaiMS. Ch^ah Ho^e Fr.oo: Tan Ttt. :<•» Lin.
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      JOHORE ROVERS
      36 7 C-^t SSGAMAT Row--; visited SeI "d »nd played 7 ont and :n *hp other Sro-Malay XI the I?ovfrs were 1 ?oal ir three. •s. rurrers-up in socc°r competition. Mafel and the rr.ch tMs scoring
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      DEVONS BEAT AIRBORNE SQDN. IN THRILLING SOCCER
      341 7 (From Our Own Correspondent) BATU PAHAT. Wed. A VIGOROUS and th-illing game of soccer was witnessed on the padang to-day when the First Devonshire Regiment beat the Third Airborne Squadron R^.E. from Muar by the only goal of the fame scored four Irfinutes
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      At Lord's
      22 7 Hinalekar faces Laurie Gray in the match between the Indians and the M.C.C. at Lord s which the Indians won.
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      BROOKES SCORES 66 AS REST BAT IN TRIAL
      534 7 LORDS, Thursday. IN bright sunshine play in (he Test Trial began at 3 o'clock this afternoon and when stumps were drawn The Rest had scored 146 for five. The Rest decided to bat first, Brookes taking the opening over from Bowes who
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      LIGHTWEIGHT BOUT
      42 7 BROOKLYN, Thurs.-Ike Williams of Trenton, New Jersey, recognised by the National Boxing Association as the world's lightweight champion, beat veteran Bobby Ruffln of New York in their 10-rounds non-title ffght. Williams weighed 138 U lhr and Ruffln 140 lb A.P.
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      S.C.R.C. CRICKET
      55 7 The following will represent S.C.Jfc.C. at cricket aga'nst R.A T Tengah at 11 a.m. at Thomson If: td on Ovnday: Lew Kv Pow, Cheah Kin? Swco, Ed Oft Oip Lee, Sean Kcng SL-v. "jl-sra Khoon Poh, Ong Swee Kerv, rhia Keng Hock, Chua Boon Unn. Ytp Mook Kim,
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      SWIM RECORD
      47 7 MARSEILLES, Wed. M. ALEX JANY of Toulouse broke the European 100 metre free style swimming record here this afternoon when covering the distance in 56 7/10 seconds. The previous record of 56 8/10 seconds was established by Helmut Fischer of Germany in April 1936 Reuter
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      LOW SCORING IN COUNTY CRICKET
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      230 8 Mihailovitch BELGRADE, Thursday. THE prosecution at the Yugoslav Military Court t'*day charged that Gen. Draga Mihailovitch and Col. McDowell, chief 01 the U.S. mission to the Chetnik headquarter*, held parleys with the Germans in 1944. Mihailovitch replied that they did hold a conference with the
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      53 8 The Governor-General, Mr Malcolm MacDonald. has expr«s<-' ed. his willingness to attend the' Oxford dinner, for members of Oxford University, which will be held in Singapore towards the end of the month, or early next month. Members wishing to attend should contact Mr. s. K. Chettur at
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