The Singapore Free Press, 9 October 1946
1946-10-09
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Title Section21 1946-10-09 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE FN MALAYA y. \M* SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.21 words
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Article246 1946-10-09 1 Verdicts m Spore OutramJail war crime trial] I rcc Press Staff Reporter THfiH i-nine Japanese were found guilty by a War rime> ourt m Singapore this morning on charges concerned with the brutal and callous treatment %i prisoners of war and civilians lodged m the militan246 words
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Article65 1946-10-09 1 ENVOY HELD, RUSSIA PROTESTS WASHINGTON, rue*. s has delivtr the sta:o tug agairm issian Am- N'oviko- at .F. I New Tort, Hpoo kl Friday [ro:a L>oa "imcnf i todby prore^t a: altered la communicate with General and th: be oog tary I Achesoa told that Mr, ectod to Willi dReuter - 65 words
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Article32 1946-10-09 1 The Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee. told the Commons yesterday that there was. as yet. no decision to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate Britain's Press says TT.S. from London.32 words
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Article39 1946-10-09 1 YORK CRASH SEARCH ABANDONED I I Reporter. i l~ slocd '-^t the search wreckage of th* tta raft, which sea north-west v afternoon. ail 14 pas people. The crew of six f mail. passengers withheld till have been m39 words
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Article19 1946-10-09 1 m to be po> •■•".ng of the i arly s diplo- g that Qe to pr.--19 words
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Article130 1946-10-09 1 LONDON, Tuesday. WITH civil war raging m her northern provinces Greece has asked Britain for arms, the Foreign Office disclosed today. It is assumed that any supplied would be used \o equip local reserves called up to fight the armed bands. Not only are left-wing IVReuter - 130 words
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Article58 1946-10-09 1 NANKING. Tues. A PROPOSED ten-day truce on the Kalgan front was turneddown by the Chinese Communists today. They called the proposal a Government trick to gain lime." China Government dispatches from Peking said the Communists were smashing at the walls of Paoting. Other accounts aid that Government ICinioreementsA.P. - 58 words
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Article64 1946-10-09 1 Four hundred members ot the staff of London's Savoy Hotel went out on strike yesterday for Union recognition, says Reuter. Chefs, waiters, waitresses, kit-chen-hands and chambermaids manned picket lines with placards bearing such Inscriptions as "Staff of Buckingham Palace are organised and have recognition. What64 words
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Article, Illustration75 1946-10-09 1 THESE NAZIS ARE FREE Top picture shows (from le.'t to rifht) Hans Fritsche, von Pa pen and H almar Schaoht receiving their release papers from Col. Andru.v Security Officer m Nuremberg Jail. The German Council .of States announced m Stuttgart that von Papen would be tried for high treason if75 words
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Article251 1946-10-09 1 LONDON, Tuesday. BRITAIN wants to ban the use of the atom for purposes ol war. In Parliament today, moving the second reading of the bill to give the Government exclusive control over the development of atomic energy m Britain, the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, saidReuter - 251 words
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Article48 1946-10-09 1 TWO men were found shot near a military camp m Nee Soon village Singapore m the early hours of this morning. Police investigations are being carried out. One of the men is an Indian and the other is believed to be a Japanese.48 words
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Article318 1946-10-09 1 LONDON, Tuesday. IN answer to a question by Major W. Wyatt Labour, Aston Division, Birmingham), the War Minister, Mr. Frederick Bellenger, said m the House of Commons today that he had already taken action to discover who was responsible for the Muar paratroopers' camp being318 words
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Article28 1946-10-09 1 S'PORE LOOTERS ADOPT NEW TRICKS WITH the Police keepuig a careful check on the movements of lorries and other vei xles, looters m Singapore have B'Jc-pted nsw tactics.28 words
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Article42 1946-10-09 1 Sir Henry Thyham. retiring Governor ot the Central Provinces, said when he arrived at Liverpool yesterday, that it had been estimated that the Calcutta riots caused more than 40.000 casualties lather than the official 4.000 says Reuter from Liverpool42 words
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Advertisement18 1946-10-09 1 7Stogw phs 4 p 11 jertKe film* Chea. 1 »a«la» ,r „EW EX Pboto Studio JM s&sik-* CI18 words
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Advertisement139 1946-10-09 1 NEW CHINA """OPTICAL CO YOU piobably lost your silverware m 1942 (we lost ours about that time and a whole lot at it too!) We know you don't want to carry oh indefinitely without some of the more luxurious things of life. What about replacing that handsome cheery silver tea139 words
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Article, Illustration42 1946-10-09 3 Gathering uhr harvest u ij woman has the job «j tyin- up the stooks after m^i b? an old machine •hi.hdoes not bind as it M the outskirts of Bochuin. cl ts She is at work m a ficiJ Ruhr induNtrial city.42 words
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82 1946-10-09 3 9 NATIONS WILL MAKE ATLANTIC SAFE A DEVELOPMENT of the floating war-time weather n stations m the North Atlantic, which is to take full effect by July next year, will provide more accurate and longer period forecasts and make for safer sea and air transport. Nine States of the North82 words
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Article43 1946-10-09 3 Any ex-soldi: r under 40 can rorj rejoin tre Army tor three or four yeers. tne War Office anj nounc2s. Previously, short serI v'ce engagements had been restric'ed to ex-s r ldiers aged be- tween 30 and C43 words
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Article, Illustration61 1946-10-09 3 Concern at her twin sister's weight is shown by Suzanne Mullane (right) at Prahran J (Melbourne) Baby Health Centre. When these seven- f months-old twins were born Suzanne was only 4 lb. while her sister. Sandra, was 7 lb. Now Suzanne is 1 lb. heavier i than Sandra. Between 8061 words
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Article80 1946-10-09 3 SCOTLAND Y^vRD has been called m to investigate the murder m York of four-year-old Norma Dale, whose body was found on waste land near her home. Chief Insp. Robert Stevens and Det.-Sgt. Kennedy have left for York, where a post-mor-tem revealed that the child had teen strangled.80 words
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Article143 1946-10-09 3 DEPORTS that the British Government will enter the nylon A stocking business has brought joy to millions of English girls— most of them bare-legged. The Ministry of Supply announces that it has signed an agreement to manufacture machinery for commercial producers of fully fashioned stockings.U.P. - 143 words
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Article73 1946-10-09 3 AN outline erf a secret apparattus which Teleradio, Ltd., is making for the Government wa* handed to East Kent Appeals Committee when a director of the company, Robert Barnett. <39>. successfully appealed against disqualification from driving for not having an insurance certificate. It was stated73 words
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Article, Illustration60 1946-10-09 3 U-^l'-tred sheep, once fine animals and now reduced to little more than skin and bone. beia< handfed by Mr. Sid Fletcher on the 30,009-acre Jews Lagoon shce^ station, 45 miles from Narrabri. m th«» recently thought-stricken area of north-western New South Wales. The sheep were all thai remained of large60 words
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Article77 1946-10-09 3 THE bicycle of tomorrow is to have a battery concealed m the framework which gives th? cyclists motive power when going up hills A model is to be shown at the "Britain Can Make It" Exhibition m London The bicycle is made of a77 words
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Article38 1946-10-09 3 Production of passenger automobiles and trucks m the dotted States and Canada during the week ended Sept. 21 totalled 81.162 vehicles, according to Ward's reports, compared with 88,888 vehicles manufactured during the preceding week.— A.P.A.P. - 38 words
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Article293 1946-10-09 3 NOISE PUT THE DEATH RATE UP "/VANNED" music progi amines v m some factories were worsfor the nerves than the noiLJ A machinery, Dr. J. G. Drew BM Dr Drew added that noise; injurious to health included toJloud radio music, the ltj'*u.% >* roosters, the barking of do?s. and caterwaulingReuter - 293 words
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Article73 1946-10-09 3 PAT QUITS THE SHOW MISS PAT KIRK WOOD th stage and film a i ress. recently quit the cast dJ Sweet Bye and Bye' the N m York musical sr.ov. m which >1. J was to star She is said to be do»vn ftilli "complete ccllans". asciiJed to bhtz nerves,73 words
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697 1946-10-09 5 MALAY A RICE QUESTIONS FOR COMMONS Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Tues. MANY important questions on Malayan affairs will be asked m the House of Commons m the next few days. Rice m particular and the food situation m general will figure prominently m the discussions. Mr. L. D. Gammans, who697 words
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Article, Illustration67 1946-10-09 5 UORE than 500 Chinese nationaas m who had been stranded m Europe as a result of the war, including a number who had resided m Germany and Italy for several decades, are m Singapore today on their way back to China. The majority, however, are not67 words
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Article211 1946-10-09 5 jAfthan»i ha- opened a school for airmen's children, most I »f whom arrived with their mothers by the lirittanic bt month. Principal of tbe school is Mrs. B. C. Hazell, MJL Ikiai. whose chief assistant is Mrs. K. Cafferty, B.A. (Edinkr?h College of Arts). :nREUTER - 211 words
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Article89 1946-10-09 5 ARMY WILL PAY PYKE ALLWANCE effect from ta^is month, •yijj cost o! living allow**tl be paid to civilian emJJ^ the War Department. W«to:ha: date. War Departwere paid an h n 'f wh -«h included cost J^y-A^-a-n cases, this J2L?*J er than that pay■roaer the new system 55*?* Wl!: suffe la89 words
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Article17 1946-10-09 5 I ??V Ho <« Ken- will cpeak The Way Out' I** mcheon meetyjrG^ da> Cecil s17 words
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Article53 1946-10-09 5 Licences for the import of textiles from India into Malaya are now being granted. Applications from Malayan Union importers should be forwarded to the Comptroller of Customs (Import Control) Customs Office, Brickfields Road, Kuala Lumpur. Singapore importers should continue to apply to the Registrar of Imports53 words
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Article, Illustration38 1946-10-09 5 9th MOOR PRAYERS The Free Press cameraman was at Kusu Island when me Ninth Moon Festival was at Us height. Here are a few women who journeyed from Singapore by motor-boat to pray at the Kusu Island Ittrau.e.38 words
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167 1946-10-09 5 MAJOR Charles Hughes Cousen, a PoW m Singapore m "1 1942 and former Australian radio announcer, was committed for trial at Central Court on a charge of high treason for broadcasting from Radio Tokio. Committing Cousens, the Sydney magistrate, Mr. Farrington, said the trial would167 words
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Article105 1946-10-09 5 LABOUR UNION WANTS BAN ON TODDY THE Singapore General Labour Union will suggest to the Government to ban toddy m Singapore, reports the Chungnan Jit Poh. The newspaper states that at the second annual conference of I the General Union, the following resolutions have been passed: To petition to the105 words
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Article46 1946-10-09 5 THE Singapore Trishaw Labour Union has decided to observe Oct. 10, China's national day. as a holiday, states the Chungnan Jit Poh. The paper also states that the Union has been informed by the Government that thMr members will oe supplied with textiles.46 words
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Article245 1946-10-09 5 —Port News— Free Press Shipping Reporter DIRST of Singapore's rice ships to arrive this week, the China Siam liner Halvdan has brought 1,104 tons of rice from Bangkok. The Messageries Maritimes vessel Auguste Pavie, is expected m Singapore tomorrow with a shipment of 1,100 tons of rice245 words
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Article170 1946-10-09 5 CELEBRATIONS of tbe Tertth 01 October, the anniversary of the foundation of the ChJne»3 Republic, will take place m London. On the eve of the "'Doubie Tenth" the son of the Chinese Embassador m London, Mr. Bing Cheng, who is also organiser ol the Chinese Amateur170 words
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7 1946-10-09 5 Years before Army reforms In S 'pore7 words
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Advertisement44 1946-10-09 5 Vl CTORIA THEATRE THE STAGE CLUB PRESENTS 'Oh. lith and )2th October at 8.30 p.m. "TO-NIGHT AT a.JO" ONE ACT PLAYS BY NOEL COWARD g^ ,p n »2 5« and $1 can be obtained from Hare 9RJ a.m l*^f pm and Theatre Bex Office44 words
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Advertisement294 1946-10-09 5 Be a Master of English Improve Yoar Speech aa< Writtwg m a Few Hour; it you are intejesteo m acquiring a command ol eooo English foi ousiness, professions j ana social •jiirr> -yet, voj are Invited tc write today lor a copy of 'Word Mastery" issu-c ov ths Regent instrti'te294 words
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Miscellaneous21 1946-10-09 5 JgAHMffi TIDES ■►tV h w ater: 10.08 U In: Ml p. m X ft, fez ">* water: I^V 1 :In 28 P-m21 words
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Article217 1946-10-09 7 THE finals of the R.A.F. Malaya Command athletic championship meeting, which is open to all R.A.F. Units and personnel m Malaya, will be held at Seletar on Saturday. The three-miles final was won yesterday by F Lt. Scale, (Changi). Second was Lac Harron (Seletar). Further217 words
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Article72 1946-10-09 7 NEW YORK, Sat. JSuy i Sugar) Robinson of New York ana Tommy Bell of Youngtown, Ohio, are matched for a fifteen-round bout at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 20, the winner to have the recognition as the world's welterweight champion by the New York Athletic Commission and National Boxing Association.A.P. - 72 words
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Article250 1946-10-09 7 ELET AR AIRMEN BEATEN TWICE h ne .i\ilisy^nangi, \\x-bire By Sultan ir \irmtr. -ullered two successive defeats m reW *Z*L matches played on IVlonday and Saturday. On fr\| Chane.. 'hey lost by one goal to nil to the The previous Wednesday on their own CSihev had beaten Changi two-nil. r^S,250 words
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Article190 1946-10-09 7 m i the 1 th both •re. ::ne, >•■*:.. past .1 shot anfe EX:. I who J d James hot acks Smith was win?, i Sutton tX- j r.. the oed io But- r-:i :he ball .ore ta s Third to interval, entered Janes headed another goal190 words
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Article186 1946-10-09 7 RUGBY players m Army units which are unable to raise their own sides will be invited to play for the Singapore District team if they care to send the following particulars to Major F. G. G. Rapsey, "X" Branch, HQ Singapore Dist. Name, number, rank, unit186 words
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Article415 1946-10-09 7 jVO. I, British Transit Camp cricxot team continued their run of successes over the weekend. On Saturday they beat the Singapore Lines of Communications Signals by 47 runs and the following day beat the Rocklltes by 22 runs. Against the Signals 30 -year-old Capt ..in Alan415 words
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Article, Illustration51 1946-10-09 7 Si. Andrew*! Oil Boys' rugger team one of the strongest am keenest Asiatic sides m Malaya photo* vaphed before they met Sultan at Raffles College on Monday. Sultan won 16—5 after a hard tussle. Photo on the left shows Ross, the Old Boys wing threequarter, tackling a Sultan51 words
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Article209 1946-10-09 7 SYDNEY, Tues. THE full Itinerary of the English cricketers for their current tour of Australia is: Oct. 11-14, v Western AusiraUa at Perth; Oct. 17-19, v Combined Team (including four players from Eastern States) at Perth; Oct. 22-23. v South Australian Country at Port Pirie; Oct.A.P. - 209 words
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Article120 1946-10-09 7 Free Press Correspondent Kuala Lumpur, Tues. THE Selangor Hockey Association is writing to sister organisations m Malaya on the question of slate matches this year. This was stated at yesterday's general meeting by the Chairman Mr. E. C. Jumeaux. Among matters discussed was the question of120 words
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Article27 1946-10-09 7 Zurich. Tues. Jan Derken of Holland won the world's cycling professional sprint championship when beating Georges Senfftleben of France m two straight runs here this morning.- ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article542 1946-10-09 7 THE two-day week-end cricket fixture between the Combined Changi R.A.F. and F.W. Marsh's XI played at Chan^; Airfield resulted m an interesting draw, and produced century innings by S. K. Sundram and D. Riley. Batting first. Changi had a bad start with only seven runs542 words
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Article50 1946-10-09 7 MEMBERS of the Chinese Swimming Club who wish to participate m the club's table tennis open singles championship ~ior men. but have not sent m their names, are requested to get b touch with Mr. Lim Choo Ann 01 23, Penham Building not later than Oct. 17.50 words
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Article245 1946-10-09 7 THE Singapore Cricket Club had an easy victory over the Tengah Airmen m a game of rugger played on the padang yesterday, winning by 18 points (one goal one dropped goal and three tries) to nil. Although they fielded only 14 men the Club always had245 words
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