The Singapore Free Press, 26 September 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    Squatters on the march
    38 1 Hotel These photos show squatters, who "invaded" London's luxury flats, and their sympathisers inarching to Hv de Park for a meeting, and the police arresting; a Communist outside one of the invaded buildings Ivanhoe
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    RAF's YACHT IS FOUND STRIPPED
    127 1 RAF' s YACHT IS FOUND STRIPPED Tree Press Reporter UN dav, alter it had been slipped from its moorings ti «e i tk I,!e RAF Vacht C,ub at Chan?i, what remained r-oreu m,ist ,uxurio «s cabin cruisers afloat in SinTore J„« Was found b y the Changi police hidden in
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    CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN GREECE
    289 1 CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN GREECE LONDON, Wednesday. UEAVY fighting has broken out in the mountains of 11 northern Greece. Both the Greek and British Governments describe this fighting as "civil war". The Greek Government considered the fighting "an invasion of subversive elements from Albania and Yugoslavia with the connivance
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    POLAND STOPS JEW TRAFFIC
    86 1 PRAGUE, Wed. CZECHOSLOVAKIA revealed tei** day that her frontier with Poland has been closed to Jewish refugees since Sunday as the resuit of a British note that the traffic provided volunteers for i'tegai passage to Palestine. A Government announcement in Jerusalem today said that a civilian
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    Heath: moral insanity plea
    273 1 LONDON, Wednesday. SITTING quietly i n the dock at the Old Bailey today tall, handsome, fairhaired George Nevill Clevely Heath, 29-year-old expilot, heard his counsel, J. D. Casswell, in a statement to a tense court declare "Heath 1 killed and terribly mutilated two women in a
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    Sime-road Nips not to hang
    181 1 Free Press Reporter SENTENCES passed by Singapore War Crimes Court on five Japanese who were in charge of the Sime Road civilian internee camp, though confirmed by Major-Gen. L. H. Cox, G.0.C., Singapore District, have been revised. Death sentences, originally passed by the court have
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    NEW GOVT FOR BURMA FORMED
    69 1 RANGOON, Wed. DURMA'S first interim governD ment will assume office on Saturday "if everything goes well," Aung San, President of the Anti-Fascist League, told Reuter today. Aung San who is meeting the Governor for the third time tonight said that negotiations were almost complete, and
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    SHIPS COLLIDE IN ATLANTIC
    87 1 NEW YORK, Wed. The British freighter SS Liverpool Packet collided with the New Zealand Steamship Company's CS Kaipaki, 125 miles north-east of Halifax at midnight last nig*t Two men aboard i.he Li.vrpoo. Packet were injured and th* s*;ip reported her engine room flo:ded. She requested a
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    PEACE ENVOYS AGREE ON HER
    44 1 Second -Lieutenant Jacqueline Theron, prettiest girl at the Paris Peace Conference and regarded by delegates and their assistants as Beauty Queen of the Conference. She is assistant and aide-de-camp to Im father, Major-general Francois H. Theron, South Africa delegate.
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    STREET FIGHTING IN PORT
    129 1 TEHERAN, Wednesday. DEPORTS reaching here tonight from Bushire, Persian Gulf port, spoke of house-to-house fighting between coastal tribesmen and Persian Government troops. Some parts of the port had changed hands many times '.ut'ing the nghting. Ghavam es-Sultaneh, Persian Prime Minister, has opened direct negotiations with Nasir
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    PLANE VICTIMS NOT NAMED
    66 1 Free Press Reporter Today, 24 hours after the crash of the R.A.F. Dakota Mrcra.t in Hong Kong, in which 19 pconle including the crew of fiv^) bound for Singapore lost their lives, t3* R.A.F. in Singapore said that »hejr had not received the n_nirs of the
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    KLUANG VERDICTS
    28 1 Verdicts in the courtmarUa! on charges of mutiny of paratroopers of the 13th Paratroop Ba.talioa at Kluang are expected to be promulgated at Kluang 'this evening.
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    JAP NEWS SI'RIKK
    25 1 There is a likelihood ot a general strike of workers cf vernacular newspapers and broadcasting stations througncut Japan, says Reuter from Tok-v__.
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    3 DIE IN AMBUSH
    297 1 Free Press Reporter CONFIRMATION was received i n Singapore today of the Bangkok report of an ambush of Indian troops by Chinese guerilla bands on the Betong-Yala Read just across the Malayan frontier. The ambush occurred on Aug. 6 and involved a convoy of one jeep
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      AUTO-LOCKING GATES FOR CROWD SAFETY
      75 3 r [RIC :urn*:_..s which can I ittoo on crowd mist e en a footf r si jrs stadium a:-d in Linden a It lulfil a remade aft-;r the o the Bo:tan Cup Tie twnstflei click, the suectat.rs entering is i en to a <• ntral
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      BACK PAYMENTS FOR 300,000 UK FAMILIES
      312 3 BACK PAYMENTS FOR 300,000 UK FAMILIES THOUSANDS of British families in Britain are due to receive soon a small windfall in the shape of back-dated family allowances. The scheme has been in operation now for nearly a month and 300,000 applications have yet to be approved. Iji all cases, the
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      'Phone Wedding
      15 3 old ito-otuy Rilbura, sayin? Ike Atiantic (.1 biid^rroom. n v of Lanctt. Alabama.
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      Service was for the Lie-in-beds
      162 3 pt^BROOK. the County Armagh Northern Ireland village, which ha^ neither a public house nor a pawnshop, now a* a re-tor who sa jS that if people will not come to church, will take the church to them. H. R. Rogers startled the village last Sunday,
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      U.S. SHIP IN BRITISH EXERCISES
      91 3 U.S. SHIP IN BRITISH EXERCISES THE battleship King George V.. is leading the Home Fleet in autumn manoeuvres in the North Sea for three weeks ending Oct. 16. The fleet aircraftcarrier Implacable, which has about 90 planes, will take part. With these ships will be the second Cruiser Squadron, led
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      DISEASE ATTACKS PARIS STATUES
      45 3 A N fine Arts secFrench Ministry has confirmed rc- a committee of scienappotnted to find of protecting inst an outdisease." muments con.rtholeme Me••ance of the :v and to a the facade of dral. He of '-stone disreported in Belgium and in
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      AND NOW 'WHAM,
      43 3 ma* become a world*! meat Argentine for ahead with and freezing of bv a Nur- has a b.2 r. the mo_t r has nc ttle fat It is lass .-a us ages. to not like it, me a dog food
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      PROHIBITION IN MADRAS
      57 3 Arci? cre-third of the province of Madras will go "dry'' from Oct. 1, the province's Congress Government has announced. Eight districts are affected. In four of them prohibition was in force during the province's first Congress regim? in 1937-39, but was discontinued when the Ministry resigned. Now
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      LINER DEMOBBED
      18 3 Th 3 P. and O. liner, the 23,000--ton Strathaird has been released after seven years' service.
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      U.K. TROOPS MOVING ITALY H.Q.
      221 3 U.K. TROOPS MOVING ITALY H.Q. [trtITISH forces in Italy are to n\f be moved. HQ will be near Padua, 100 miles west of the Morgan Line, instead of at Caserta, 500 miles away. The move, in effect, will withdraw Allied occupation from twothirds of Italy. British military staff has Just
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      12,428 WAR CRIMINALS
      96 3 The United Nations' War Crimes Commission has issuad its 40th list of German war criminals, bringing the total number of criminals named to 12,428. Clad in bathing costumes in the chill air of a wintry day. 35 girl s competed in a contest to find the Personality
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      SISTERS THREE
      84 3 The Ross Sisters, singing starlets from the film "Broadway Rhythm'* arrived at Southampton recently. They are in England for the first time and are to appear in the new Sid Field show "Piccadilly Hayride'\ which is onening at the Princi of Wales Theatre, London, on Oct. 11. The
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      £200,000 GEMS ON HIS BED
      219 3 £200,000 GEMS ON HIS BED ON the cream counterpane of his bed in Room 334 at the Savoy Hotel, London, recently, Mr. Howard Hoeffer, 55--year-old New York jeweller, poured out a pile of rough emeralds from bags containing, he estimated, £200,000 worth of gems. They were samples of the product
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      Aborigines will be safeguarded
      416 3 ROCKET TESTS IN AUSTRALIA COMPLAINTS with regard to the proposed rocket-firing tests in central Australia appear to be based on an imperfect understanding of the facts. The assumption that it is proposed to treat the aborigines like the Bikini goats and deliberately train rockets on them
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      FOR UK TRIAL
      53 3 MAX MUNCH, former SecretaryGeneral of the Gestapo in Dresden, is to be sent to Britain for trial, charged with responsibility for the murder of RAF officers at Ctalag Luft 3 in 10 14, Frankfort Radio reported. The German Foreign Office said that 50 lost their lives "while
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      STEEL PLAN SCRAPPED: 'TOO BIG'
      198 3 THE British Government has decided on a compromise policy of acquiring control of the main steel companies, finding nationalisation of the industry too big a job, says the Daily Mail. Fcr this "half-way" plan an enabling Bill will be required, and it is assumed that
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      LEAVES HOUSES TO TENANTS
      61 3 TO many who did not know him well, Robert Tonge Holtby, retired miller of Driffield, Yorkshire, was an aloof abrupt man. Now, six weeks after his death at the age of 75, proof of his thoughtfulness and generosity, which he was careful to cloak during his
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      ADMIRALTY TO SELL WARSHIPS
      113 3 rE Admiralty is negotiating for the sale to private firms and individuals of- nearly a dozen warships of the "sloop category of between 1.000 and 1,100 tons. Among these is the Enchantress, which was built as m sloop, but served before the war as the Admiralty
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      C.I.D. WOMEN
      41 3 Police chiefs at the head o* Britain's big recruiting campaign to rebuild the police foree plan to set-up squads of Women Criminal Investigation Department officers. Uniformed patrol work, however, will remain the main lob of women in the forre.
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      Next week at the Theatre
      90 5 Next week, Combined Entertainment Services will present "Stardust" M the Victoria Theatre. Starlet of this revue is Kuala Lumpurborn 20-year-old, Tessa French who is seen in these pictures. Tessa escaped from Singapore just before the Jao invasion, and reached India where she became a corporal
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      STRIKE HITS BURMA FOOD DISTRIBUTION
      279 5 STRIKE HITS BURMA FOOD DISTRIBUTION Free Press Reporter Rangoon, Wednesday. DANGOON city is in a sorry state on the second day of the general strike. Dacoits are operating in large bands, and in areas north of the city where the Police have struck, there is little hope of keeping law
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      CSE REVUE TO TO BE REPEATED
      102 5 IN response to public request, Combined Services Entertainment have arranged for a matinee showing on Saturday at 2.30 p.m., of the popular production "London By Night" which is drawing crowded houses nightly to the Victoria Theatre. So numerous have been the request for a
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      CHINESE SCHOOL BOOKS REPORT
      67 5 p is reported by the Union Times that the special committee appointed by the Singapore Education Deoartment to study the suitability of textbooks for Chinese schools has completed its report lor submission to the authorities. This committee consists or Mr. Lee Chi Hua, Insoector of Chinese
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      STOREKEEPER IS JAILED
      45 5 A storekeeper. Francis Tan was sentenced to one day's simple imprisonment and a fine of $200 or a further two months imprisonment in the Fourth Police Court yesterday, for stealing a motor-car spare part from a military depot in Bukit Timah Road
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      CONSUL GOING TO API API
      84 5 THE latest move to settle the 1 Bagan Si Api accident is that Mr. M. S. Hsu, Chinese consul at Kuala Lumpur, will proceed to .he Api Api, It is learned that Mr. Hsu has instructed the president of Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Klang
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      Bangokook Chinese deny hoarding
      243 5 RICE FOR MALAYA CHINESE merchants in Bangkok, replying to recent criticism by The Economist that Malaya has failed to obtain rice from Siam because of hoarding by the Chinese there, say that the causes of the failure to ship rice to Singapore are insufficiency of stocks
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      COMMITTEE TO STUDY TODDY
      102 5 COMMITTEE TO STUDY TODDY FOLLOWING agitation for the abolition of toddy sales, the Governor of the Malayan Union has appointed a Committee to investigate the question of estate toddy shops and to make recommendations to the Government on future sales policy. The Committee consists of: The Deputy Commissioner for Labour,
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      BISHOP LEE
      22 5 The Rev. Bishop Edwin F. Lee will be preaching at the Paya Leoar Methodist Church on Sunday at 10 a.m.
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      WHERE TO GET YOUR BREAD
      437 5 THE following completes the list of bread retailers in Singapore. Earlier list was published yesterday. Chop Chuan Hin, 394-F Kim Chuan Read. Lay Yam Sen*?, 452 Haveiock Road, Lim Moh Soon, 925 Upper Serangoon Road, Lim Leon;? Ann. 153-1 Woodlands Road, Thong Huat, 368-1 Alexandra
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      SINGING AND DRILL FOR TEACHERS
      54 5 The Education Department has issued a circular to all Govern-ment-aided Chinese schools in Singapore to the effect that two course for training Chinese teachers in physical drill and sing ing have now started. Those wishing to join are requested to register themselves, in order to
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      Refugees adrift Jl days: 7 died
      229 5 Refugees adrift Jl days: 7 died AFTER 51 days in China Sea in two open junks, with 17 died, more than 500 refugees have reached the Portuguese colony of Macao. They are some of the 17,500 Formosans taken by the Japanese early in the Pacific war to Hainan Island, 250
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      BARBERS IN RAZOR DUEL
      49 5 BARBERS IN RAZOR DUEL In a razor duel yesterday morning at about nine o'clock two Chinese barbers inflicted heavy gashes on each other one on the loin, and the other on the head near the Southern Hotel, New Bridge houd. Both were taken to hospital in a military truck.
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      China to promote trade with Malaya
      215 5 THE Chinese Government is taking definite measures to promote the export of Chinese products to Malaya and other areas in the South Seas, according to Dr. Chan£ Tiencheh, newly-appointed Director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. One of the
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      NEW INDONESIAN STAMPS ARE OUT
      90 5 CTAMPS issued by the Republim can Government during its first year of existence together with new commemorative issues have been published in a special collector's album under the auspices of the weekly "Voice of Free Indonesia." Two of the stamps picturing the wild buffalo, signifying
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      OCTOBER 10 CELEBRATION
      64 5 OCTOBER 10 CELEBRATION Representatives of ail Chinese* associations and public institutions in Malacca have decided at a meeting to entertain leaders of all communities on the eve of] Chinese National Day, Oct. 10. In the morning of the saraa day, a commemoration cetr-mony wiil be held to mark the occasion.
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      CIVIC DECEPTION FOR TEST TEAM
      173 7 from !>ill Howes I L PERTH, Wednesday. IL in\G the Knglish team on behalf of the Board of l^iCMtM Mr A C Randal1 representative of i -t-alh >aid that the Board would do everything K_r*wre>s objectionable barracking. W* ker." he said, "is not a bad
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      SONY OF SINGAPORE
      14 7 ■uu. dJB-CH wa ma *fc> k* T ar a_7 Mi ntnmm>
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      JARDINE TO WRITE BOOK ON CRICKET
      144 7 LONDON. Wed. DORMER England cricket cap- tain, Douelas Jardinc. who has a.' great a knowledge of cricket In India as any Englishman llvj ing. has undertaken to write a jooi-lct with a view to helping younger cricketer in India to I learn cricliet on
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      Marty Servo To Relinquish His Welter Title
      97 7 Marty Servo To Relinquish His Welter Title NEW YORK, Wed. MARTY Servo, world welter- weight boxing; champion, announced he has relinquished hh title and is retiring from the ring owine to nose injuries. This was made known by his manager, Al Weill, today. Servo won the title last winter and
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      Malay Soccer XI To Meet Sultan On Saturday
      53 7 Malay Soccer XI To Meet Sultan On Saturday THE following players will represent the Malay F.A. a-ainst the H.M.S. Sultan at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday: /a my am: A. Rahman, Salle h; Taha, Har ith. Busu SharKfTMadon, H. Grahan, H. A. Rahman, Madon, Hussain. Reserves: Dollah (forward), Ngon (half),
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      SINGAPORE CUSTOMS WIN 5—1
      243 7 AFTER an even first hail in which each side scared a goal, the Singaapore Customs scored four times afte r the change-over to beat Johore Customs by fly? goals to one in a game of soccer played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday in aid of the
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      PADANG RUGGER
      34 7 S.C.C. players prepare for the rugger season with a trial on the padang. With several newcomers of note, the club is expected to be able to field a strong side this year.
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      NEW CAPTAIN TAKES OFFICE AT ST.ANDREWS
      176 7 NEW CAPTAIN TAKES OFFICE AT ST.ANDREWS ST. ANDREW'S, Wed. U7ITH tne age-old ceremony, former amateur golf champion and Walker Cup player Roger Wethered drove himself into office as captain of the Royal-and-Ancient Golf Club this morning when he drove the ball from the first tee of the old course. Th?
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      45 7 K C. The following will represent the McNair Cricket Club against the Katong Cricket Club In a match on the McNair ground on Sunday at 2.30 p.m. S. Perera, L. Perera, R. Parent Slba. Tarama. Jundoo, L. Vergese. G. Vcrgese, Appolo. Balla, Felix, Reserve: Noel.
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      INDIAN TEST CRICKETERS GET RADIOS
      140 7 LONDON. Wed. WHEN the Indian cricket team, which has bj«n touring Britain, leaves for Bombay on October 2, each player will carry with him a b and new radio set. At a reception, on Tuesday, in London, an electric company presented each oi them. 14
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      BRITISH PROFESSIONAL GOLF MEET OPENS
      217 7 HOYLAKE, Cheshire, Wed. BRITAIN'S professional match play golf championship opened on th e Royal Liverpool Club's championship links here today and will continue until the 36 holes final on Saturday. Earlier round.? by matches over 18 holes, one round among the original 64 qualifiers, were
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      RANGERS BEATEN IN CUP TIE
      232 7 RANGERS BEATEN IN CUP TIE LONDON, Wed. MATCHES in All the four main Divisions of the Football League provided an interesting midweek programme in which there were no major upsets. The chief surprise of the evening occurred in the Glasgow Cup semi-final replay when Rangers, League leaders, were soundly trounced
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      Honour for Wooderson
      115 7 LONDON, Wed. SYDNEY Wooderson has been awarded <**• Harvey memorial Gold i% and the C. N. Jackson memorial Cup by the British Amateur Athletics Championship Committee. The Harvey Cup is awarded annually for the best champion of the year and the Jackson trophy the best British winner
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      EIRE SOCCER XI v ENGLAND
      108 7 DUBLIN, Wed. THE Football Association of Ireland (Eire) team to meet England at Dalymount Park, Dublin, on Sept. 30 will be: goal, Breen (Shamrock Rovers); backs, H. A. Hayes (Huddersfield Town) and Gorman (Brentford); halfbacks, Carey (Manchester United, captain) Martin (Glentoran) W. Walsh (Manchester City);
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      ARMY ELIMINATION SOCCER RESULTS
      61 7 THIRD round results in the Army elimination contest for the S.A.F.A. Victory Cup are: Hq., Singapore District, and 177 CR.E. Works drew one-all at Fort Canning yesterday. 96 IWT, RE., beat 56 WTU three-nil. R.A.S.C. Training School drew with 69 lOH two- all in a replay
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