The Singapore Free Press, 27 August 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA P SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    RICE STRIKE PARALYSES SINGAPORE BUSES
    295 1 Free Press Reporter CINGAPORE'S entire motor bus and trolley bus transport system was paralysed this morning by a lightning strike of more than a thousand drivers, conductors and clerks. The strikers say that it is impossible to live on rice supplied to them at controlled
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    First Demand Rice
    131 1 Taxi drivers in the town did a roaring trade, some charged double fares, and the demand easily exceeded the taxis to carry workers to their offices. Residents in Geylanc: were seen going to work in trishas, and Hundreds of office workers living in the East Coast and
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    40 1 The senior A.T.S. sergeantmajor in the BAOR, R.S.M. Constance Kirby, of Willesd<m, London, N.W.. is to act as "mother-in-charge'* of the first British Service wives on their journey from Calais to Germany. Picture shows R.S.M. Kirby with Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery
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    44 1 m LS, h dun. weil-ki own to .Malayans in pre■i da\s hi hor trips from Singapore to Penang iu_n ai<l back as she was lying o.i alir.outh on \uz 12. The ship was not as dam* ry a rale as earli?r cabled reports indicated
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    Sime Road Camp Trial Opens
    121 1 Free Press Reporter A LARGE number of Malayan ex-internees were present in j» the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore this morning for opening of the War Crimes trial of five Japanese who *ere once their masters in Changi Jail and in *Sime Road internment Camp. km
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    Opening Address
    64 1 The Court comprised Lieut.-Col. E. N. Blacklock (chairman), Major F. D. Fortescue and Capt. E. H. Dunsford. Mr. Yamacia and the S. Fukushima are defending counsel, with Capt. H. Hughes assisting them. In his opening address, Mr. Eber declared that the evidence would show that the last four
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    Peace Talks 18 WORDS OF PROGRESS
    52 1 Peace Talks 18 WORDS OF PROGRESS PARIS. Mon. jrcls of the praP^td Ital an accepted today Ucal and Terriol the peace bring ng the Is approved liberation, r I words in the five "j be considered. a made on any ites. The ined in the were adopted s vole, with
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    PLANES FLY ARMED OVER YUGOSLAVIA
    130 1 UDINE, Italy, Mon. WITH its machineguns loaded, an American Flying Fortress arrived at Udine from Vienna to. day with a cargo of mail and freight the first UJS. plane to fly the normal route from Vienna since the Yugoslavs shot down two transports this month.
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    KILLEARN MEETS van MOOK
    142 1 I ORD KILLEARN yesterday be- gan a "sounding" mission on the possibilities of a Dutch-Indo-nesian settlement with a 40--minute conference with Lieut.-Gov.-Gen. Hubertus Van Mook. No announcement was made on what was discussed, but a British spokesman said Killearn was i ottering to act only as
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    France Calls Siam A Gangster
    419 1 RICE TALKS OPEN IN BANGKOK TALKS have begun in Bangkok between Britain, the United States and Siam for an amendment of the agreement for the supply of rice to Far Eastern countries, including Malaya, the Siamese Foreign Minister, Direk Chainam, announced yesterday. The agreement, signed
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    BREAKS JAIL
    64 1 (See report in page 5' This is Kaneyama Yoshio. 23 year old Korean ex-PoW jjuarc. who escaped from Changi jail yesterday. Kaneyama < his Korean name is Kim Yon? Pani was dressed in grey clothes stencilled with his number. R.O. 2050. Information as to his whereabouts should be
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    EVATT DUE IN SINGAPORE
    71 1 JJR. HERBERT VERE EVATT. u Austrclian Minister for External Affairs and leader of the Australian delegation at the Paris Peac* Conference, will arrive in Singapore this afternoon by special Lancastrian. He is to spend the night with the Sir Frr.nklin Gimson, and this evening will meet
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    U.S. HAS HUGE FOOD SURPLUS
    243 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. THE United States, with record-breaking harvests of wheat and other crops coming in this year, is in a position to export huge quantities of food to the "have-not" areas of the world. As a result of bumper crops in maize, used to a
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    RECORD COAL OUTPUT
    27 1 NEW record for production has been made at Desford collery, Leicesterhire, where in 26 working days in June output has been over 52,500 tons.
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    PLAN FOR AN INDIA HIGH COMMISSIONER
    146 1 PLAN FOR AN INDIA HIGH COMMISSIONER LONDON, %lon. AN announcement from No. 10 A Downing Street tonight :>ays Preliminary arrangements for establishing the office of United Kingdom High Commissioner in India are now well in hand. A proportion of the Staff will arrive in India in September under the deputy
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    INDIA TROOPS SEND POOL COUPON BY AIR
    166 3 INDIA TROOPS SEND POOL COUPON BY AIR THOUSANDS of British troop£ serving in India will be able to have their weekly flutter on the football pools as a result of arrangements just completed to have the coupons flown back to England. This scheme, which Littl: wood's of Liverpool, are starting
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    3 JAILED FOR STAMPS THEFT
    101 3 THREE of four men accused of conspiring to receive 195,000 two-pence. halfpenny stamps were sentenced at Aylesbury. A fourth man, William Guard, of Chelsea, S.W., was acquitted. The stamps were said to be part of nearly 3,000,000 stolen from a High Wycombe post office store.
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    UK IMPORT COSTS HAVE DOUBLED
    258 3 f. p\i\ > main imports have more than doubled in I jft since 193& Food, drink and tobacco show the tsi i rise, iioard of Trade figures show T that imports these three categories, for the second quarter of I nliaiicd ilo0,7:>0,000. The same amounts,
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    Workers eat in streets
    74 3 Mill* r^ P«ured »»to s ork lumhes from I I"? L as i Protest H in restau,i, i »f eating r Id -l« ft si?ns put a .heck on vh lt because housenH huvin? over tks and roasts, meat ',-tinues to accumaate in the Csvn distrut
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    RAFs TO LEAD BETTER LIVES
    88 3 THE Air Council intends to ensure that every man has a job when he leaves the RAF. and that life in the Service shall be really comfortable bv whatever standards of c vilian life it is judged. Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert said this in
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    LAND OF THE FREE
    84 3 LAND OF THE FREE Committee To Sssure Britain Is m to enm lie has the l mountains ,-hairv.an t 't:-e. 1 e. to < aay, ri*!iti I of a vess 1 i I moor. ind rj.r.niDii 1 ted land tNs Lt X>l E r o* Eppin^ f ver, presif Assocla-
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    HE ADVISES ON HOLIDAY
    110 3 LORD INMAN is to be principal adviser to the Secretary for Overseas Trade in the establish, mer.t of the new non.governmental organisation for the de. velopment of the catering, holiday, and tourist services which the Government has decided to establish. The appointment -announced by the Board
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    39 3 Marshal of the Royal Air Force, lo.d Te.'der, w'«:o served in R.A.F. Seletar, before the Pacific War, hrlds his baby son Richard in his arms to be p*'oto r-phed for the first time. With Lim is Lady Tc icier.
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    PCHILDREN MUST STAY ON LAND
    33 3 mt m rliamenuri M the Minister of m W I Agriculm ie war-time employing the land would .oconW -irtments m iest possible W tem of ex- for urgent
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    MURDER CHARGES
    15 3 ■:.30. C har--1 Lee. s.E W at Greend with the and mother- Harler.
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    58 ARRESTS
    19 3 Scotland Yard information ro r m received 456" 999" calls during the week-end, leading to 58 arrests
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    MPs SEE DOCKS
    27 3 The London docks were inspected recently by nearly 100 MPs who sailed down the Thames as guests of the Port of T ~ndon Authority.
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    'Little Italy' Holds Pageant
    110 3 The Saffron Hill district of London, known as "Little Italy,'* recently held its annual street pageant in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the pageant starting out from St. Peter's Ital an church in Clerkenwell. Young girls of the parish, robed in blue and wearing
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    'Hell-fire Corner' is demobbed
    192 3 'Hell-fire Corner is demobbed THE Thanet coast, after its war-time battering, was stripped of its battle-dress to welcome Londoners in their thousands for a holiday. 4, He11-fire Corner" is demobilised. Repainted, its gardens are planted and the side-shows reopened; the barbed wire has been removed and a holiday invasion up
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    'BATTLE OF BRITAIN' AVENUE
    26 3 The Minister of Transport said at Maidstone that the London-Maidstone-Dover road, now under repair, will probably be called "Battle of Britain Avenue."
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    ' We Are Going Out; Are You With Me ?
    1014 3 We Are Going Out; Are You With Me KLUANG MUTINY TRIAL Free Press Reporter KLUANG, Monday. DEFERENCES to a meeting at a Paratroop canteen at which the lights were switched off and a voice spoke in the darkness, "We are going out tomorrow, are you with me?" w r ere
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    RAF PLAN ALARMS FISHERMEN
    429 3 SCARBOROUGH. A proposal by the R.A.F. to ex- tend the existing pract ce bombing range at Skipsea to include a target for rocket projectiles was strongly opposed at the quarterly meeting of the NorthEastern Sea Fisheries Committee at Scarborough on fc^e grounds that it would still
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    PRIVATE FIRMS OUTBIDDING GOVT. FOR LABOUR
    219 5 Free Press Reporter MUNICIPAL and Government Departments in Singapore are having the utmost difficulty in retaining their labourers and lower wage-scale workers in the face of abnormally-high salaries offered by private firms. The Government Labour Department reports that while Government Departments pay labourers little
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    Bombay is a paradise of 'in-laws'
    122 5 Bombay is a paradise of 'in-laws' nmmmTSES»S 1 iudian post h rare Messim having £_fl__i |lSi» mothers. "-,,,,2 to the report >' I K-,adhyaksh. 1 adjudicator -ho has just Weted an inquiry into the JJJJds n> the postal em. J^ ft, increased »a?es and rhr Win 5 r,porl sU,d tel
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    TRUST CHARGE
    16 5 Id: scribed I driver, was nth criminal n >oect of 83 hing betlM First
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    ALSAGOFF GETS THREE YEARS
    205 5 tH'SSEIS |li UsagiC former head of a section of the S P*« i Br mm. Il of the Japanese Police dealing with ral offenders, and a prominent member of the Arab rontmun mm* >entenced to three years' rigorous b} Mr. Justice Worley yesterday on a charge
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    PIRACY OFF JOHORE RECALLED
    86 5 PIRACY OFF JOHORE RECALLED j|- lirj n Shigaree boatmen I a pirate ol 53.850 in d immedi- taken nim l D r. Mr Poh Mar. ii. I on its way <o brag fish thy were Kukop, two their boat. robbed i i'ajv tn i uly 3, 1 boat, anchor- B
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    'SQUEEZE MEN' ARE JAILED
    65 5 TWO young Chinese, who at- Umpted to 'squeeze" money from a Singapore dentist, were y stcrday sentenced to 13 months' r gorous imprisonment by Mr. Paul Stcrr in the Fiist Police Court. Le Chee Chiang and Chia Sv. e Meng w?re convicted on a charge of
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    POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH HAVING RICE
    213 5 A policeman with 17 years' service yest*vday made his defence in a case in which he faces, along with two other members of the Singapore Police Force, the charge of being in wrongful possession of 25 bags (4.500 katis> of rice and of moving the
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    HOLD-UP MAN IS JAILED
    96 5 A CHINESE. Wong Ah Peng, who robbed a fishmonger in Kampon^ Batak. was sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thorogood In the second Singapore Assizes yesterday. Prosecuting, Mr. M. Buttrose. D.P.P., stated that Wong was one of three Chinese who waylaid the complainant
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    AIR PASSENGERS
    122 5 'I'TVENTY-roUR 'pas <p«erb l.f! Singapore jcstcrday by BO. AC. flying boat for the United Kingdom. India. Hong Kong and Bangkok. For U.K. A.V.M. L. P. Prndred Mr. J W. McColl, Lt. Col. W. P. B. Pitt. Mr. O. R. S. Bateman. For India: Major 11. Ca^hin. Mr. L.
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    3 MONTHS FOR RUNNING RICE
    77 5 lyilEN Revenue officers Inter- crptcd a sampan on Aug. 24 in the waters off Jurong. they found on board, under a carp.o of firewood, four bags of Siamese white r^re. Yesterday in the Second District Court, L m Buck Hoe. who claimed that he was
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    JAIL FOR FOOD SMUGGLER
    53 5 A fine of $1,000 and a sentence of six months in prison, were imposed in the Second District Court yesterday on a Malay, Haii Melan, who had in his possession in a sampan at Telok Ayer basin, Singapore, three bags of Siamese rice and two bags
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    Supremo Gives A Plaque
    74 5 VESTERDAY, Major (i en B C. H. Kimmins unve'Jed a plaque at the Sophia Road entrance to Cathay Building a sift from Admiral Mount, batten to Mrs. Loke Yew, owner of the building, in commemoration of the use of Cathay flats as the Sun-*-mo\ headquarters in
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    COURT HEARS OF B-29 RAID
    292 5 THE bombing of the Singapore naval base in January. 1945, by a lone B-29, which en its return from the mission was pounced on by Jap fighters and brought down was recalled yesterday at the War Crimes trial of 44 Japs for atrocities alleged to
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    Malayans have saved $33million
    184 5 Malayans have sa ved $3 3m i llion CINCE the re-opening in October 1945 of the Post Office Savings Banks, 51,000 new accounts have been opened. Up to the end of July this year, (he people of Malaya had saved in P.O. Banks a total ot $33,423,070. In July 1946,
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    First Service families are due on Sept. 15
    253 5 Free Press Reporter OF the 250 women and children, constituting the first Service families to join troops in the Far East, who left Liverpool in the trooper "Britannic" last Thursday. 60 are destined for the Colony, while the remainder will disembark in
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    Bread Profiteer Is Jailed
    35 5 FOR selling a Mb. loaf ol bread at 30 cents over th«controlled price. 16 year-old Khoo Chuan Hoc was sent t«prison for one month, in th«Second District (curt yest. i day.
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    $1,000 FINE FOR CIGARETTE DEAL
    70 5 When police raided a room on the first floor of a building m Upper Serangoon Road on Aug. 25. they found 941 tins oi Players Navy Cut cigarettes and 300 tins of Gold Flake cigarettes belonging to Naafi. Yesterday in the Second District Court. Han
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    KOREAN POW ESCAPES
    206 5 THE second escape irom Chi Prfjon within a period of one land a UMf months since Japan, ese prisoners were incarcerated there, was effected at about noon yesterday when a 28 year-old Korean ex PoW guard, Kaiuyama Yoshio. atai discovered missing. Kaneyama. whose Korean n~m« is Kim
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    DISTILLER FINED
    42 5 A $3,000 fine, or in default 12 months' imprisonment, was passed on a Chinese woman, Tang Tuan, in the Third Police Court yesterday, for distilling six gallons of samsu. Twelve-year-old Chua Choo was also fined $25 ou the same charge
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    SELETAR AIRMEN WIN 6-0
    387 7 SELETAR AIRMEN WIN 6-0 From Sgt Slipper R.A.F. Seletar 6 HMS Sultan 0 THE Seletar Airmen played their best game this season to beat IH.M.S. Sultan by six goals to nil lln a game of soccer at Seletar on Saturday. I Three goals were scored to each half, the first
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    ST. LEGER CALLOVER
    99 7 LONDON, Mon. TOE Victoria Club callover on 1 the St. Leger tonight was: 7—2 Airborne offered. 75—20 taken 9-2 Gulf Stream offered. 95— HO taken, 6-1 N-Tgal, B—l White Jannet both offered, 10—1 Fast and Fair offered 100— 9 taken 100—7 Groupier offered 15—1 taken, 20—1 Radio
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    R-A.F. SELETAR SOCCER TEAM
    53 7 THE R.A.F. Seletar team to meet the Combined Y.M.C.A. in tomorrow's soccer at Jalan Besar Stadium in aid of the Y.M.C.A. Rehabilitation Fund is: Ashlev: Nicol, Johnson; Kingsburv, 'Scutt. Faton; Pobson. Dicltinson. Sutton, Waddell. Smith. On Saturdav the R.A.F. Seletar will meet the Dutch team at
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    R.A.F. Base Cricket
    31 7 Service or civilian cricket teams e'esiring fixtures with the R.A F Easr Seletar. should contact the snorts secretary, Sgt. Marsh, on lei. no. 2772, "Mews'.'., exchange extension 16
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    Forks become county champions
    257 7 Forks become county champions [LONDON, Mon. s jjj!>l 1N winning their match against Sussex 1 i Made certain of winning the county cricket n hip their present total of 212 points being TE t |u ,uarest riva,s can reach even by win 22nd time \orkshire has won the title, in
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    Second Bid To Swim Channel Next Week
    66 7 Second Bid To Swim Channel Next Week lOSDON. Mon. on(i feme* Chilean lhai -nv>n J*J n-da* »he:i about hail a Mrom^orr "-ar Dover, is I father attrmpt on I or Si-p* j v.h.» m*3 «»•»'> de- i h-. the c h in- of t.de. 1t^.04l t^.o4 ronfidenc? lOatoj that L
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    NONDESCRIPTS ALL OUT FOR 29 RUNS
    150 7 NONDESCRIPTS ALL OUT FOR 29 RUNS I I L on I '.XI Lt m* 215 I C toss and K opened kr was h then mm put on It :.en p a*as bow'. M irv His L idwtal for P Hon They had i B* ist over two Ij Itfl
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    JACK LONDON WINS AT JO'BURG
    29 7 JOHANNESBURG. Men— Jack London, former British Empire heavyweight champion, won a 10 round boxing decision against Nick Wolmarans, the South African heavyweight champion. A.P.
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    HORSE OWNERS FORM ASSN
    148 7 Free T.-css Correspondent IPOH, Mon. ASIATIC racehorse owners, who, n held a meeting on Saturday' just before the Ipoh races, moot- i ed the formation of a Malayan Racehorse Owners' Association. Owners of three States were present under the chairmanship of Mr. Foo Meow Chin, and
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    27 7 CHICAGO. Mon.— Eternal Reward, a little known horse, surprised spectators at Washington Park by winning the $102,250 American Derby and navinu $205.60 for a $2 ticket- A.P.
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    BURGHLEY ELECTED I.A.A.F. PRESIDENT
    241 7 STOCKHOLM. Monday. f ORD BURGHLEY, former Olympic hurdles champion, was today elected president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation by general acclamation. Lord Burghley takes the place of the former president Sigfried Edstroem of Sweden, who is relinquishing the post at his own request. :cordmg to
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    Policemen At Play
    26 7 Th- Poli.e cricket team go out to fl«sld atainst the S.C.C. on the pa dang on Sunday. The Club won by 73 runs.
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    INDIANS WANT 334 RUNS TO WIN
    318 7 i o. By LEARIE CONSTANTINE SOUTHEND, Mon. THE Indian batsmen, generally reckoned to prefer fast bowling to anv other type, showed up poorly against Essex pace here to-day and were all out for 138, meaning they are 165 runs behind. u onfin Everybody expected
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    SCOREBOARD
    194 7 ESSEX—IST INNS. —303 INDIA—Ist INNS. Mushtaq Ali b R. Smii i J Modi c Wilson b R. Smith Merchant b Peter Smith 38 Armanath b R. Smith Mankad c Wade b R. Smith II (Jul Mahomed b R. Smith II Sohoni b R. Smith P nnerjce c Taylor b
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    CYCLING FINAL POSTPONED
    77 7 ZURICH, Mon. THE world cycling championship judges decided today that the final for the world's professional championship will be run in Zurich two weeks after Senfftlebeiia (France) has made recovery from a broken collar bones, but net later than Oct. 6. SnfTtlebens sustained injury during yesterday's racing
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    36 7 PO^TI AND. Sun.- Ben Hogan ot H?r3h?v. Pennsylvania, won the l°i6 national profess onal Golfers' Asrociation championsh p with a six and four win over Oliver of Wilmington. Delaware, in a 36 hole finals.- A .P.
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    SITUATION VACANT
    27 7 WANTED Intelligent, smart young woman receptionist European professional office. Excellent salary according to qualifications. Please reply own handwriting Box No. 23, Singapore. Free Press. I
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    LOST CABIN TRUNK.
    82 7 A reward will be given to any person giving information leading to the recovery of a brown fibre cabin trunk, w.th wooden hoops and one or both handles torn off. bearing Natal and Durban labels with the name "Manning" and certain Service Cyphers, containing ladies' clothes, missing
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