The Singapore Free Press, 24 October 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA yl^ l SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1946. EIGHI PAGES PRICL 10 CtNTS
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    RUSSIA ALARMS Mr CHURCHILL
    412 1 RUSSIA ALARMS Mr CHURCHILL LONDON, Wed. MR. Wjnston Churchill, wartime British Premier, speaking in Parliament today as leader of the Conservative Opposition, reiterated his assertion in the much-publicised speech at Fulton, United States, that the Soviet Union wanted "not war but fruits of the war," supported the Labour Prime Minister,
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    Russia Cuts Army
    78 1 Russia Cuts Army \iostow. Wed. m-SSIA iri^ announced X inothtr cut in armed the four:h since the end of the Presidium r the Suoreme Soviet said: djer-»?ed soldiers and non(Mß issioned orticers of land M would be sent home Hw^fn Nov 1. I^4<i. and Feb. 1.1547 It did not say
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    38 DEAD IN MINED WARSHIPS
    157 1 LONDON, Wed. H John Dugdaie. Financial :ary to :he Admiralty, House of Commons today 'u: cis.. were serious as t result of the mining of two Kish i accompanying •miser $quadron off Corfu including missing beone officer and Oto«s Two officers and 43 ftp were
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    STRIKERS HIT THE MAYOR
    67 1 fc COLOMBO, Wed Colombo, Mr. R. was severely as■ftoT^,a!t^oon by strikers a r had accidentally S5 n-.l n wo men a ■^Jm alighted to afctal me n removed to I P iPonb, the mob. B^> In a passing &<£m2 hospital a mammoth PW? thc hear t
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    'DESERT RATS' IN TANGUN
    84 1 'DESERT RATS' IN TANGUN 'Desert Rat' Lieut. -Col Roy Oliver. who .Z !I S tZ Pi iSiu b V ile E1 Aiamdn was celebrated in Singapore last night by 20 officers ?nd iZZZJI ?fJ!f 3 f hth Army DeseTt dress including jerkins, jerseys, fly-whisks, neckerchiefs tion SS^!!ri?«h ?L5M' as 4K
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    LADY GIMSON ARRIVES
    115 1 CINGAPORE today welcomed Lady Gimson, wife of Singapore's Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, who arrived by the Nederland Liner Oranj e from Southampton, shortly before noon. Lady Gimson was met by the Governor Ther P were 150 passengers for Singapore. Nearly 750 Dutch families are going o h
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    GENERAL DEMPSEY
    43 1 Thd London Gazette announced yesterday that Lieutenant General (Acting General) Sir Miles Dempsey, Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, has been made General. General Dempsey commanded Allied Land Forces South East Asia with headquarters In Singapore bafore leaving for the Middle East.
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    BETTER CONDITIONS FOR ARMY
    209 1 BETTER CONDITIONS FOR ARMY Free Press London Correspondent THE War Minister, Mr. Frederick Bellenger, assured Sir 1 Waldron Stnithers (Cons., Orpington, Kent), in the House of Commons yesterday that he was well aware of the need of improving the conditions under which the troops were Hving in Singapore, and action
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    TIN MAGNATE DIES
    43 1 Mr. J. Van Den Broek, managing director of the Billiton Tin Mining Company, died on Tuesday. He was a director of Kagera Tin Fields Ltd., tb-e AngloSiamese Tin Syndicate, and the Amsterdam-London Insurance Company, says A. P. from the Hague.
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    SAIGON FRENCH DIE IN AMBUSH
    127 1 PARIS, Wed pOURTEEN French soldiers were killed or are missing after running into an ambush escorting a Japanese liai>; rnis.sicn tryinp to establish ccntuct with Japanese Aia.y deserter guerillas 150 kilometres west of Saigon. While moving along a Hooded road between the towns of Chaidog
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    S'PORE CAN'T FIND UNRRA GIFT
    417 1 Free Press Staff Reporter COR the last two months, Malayan Union officials have been searching for part of an UNRRA consignment of 10,000 bales of clothing, sent to them through Singapore for distribution to poor people in their territories. And although almost everyone connected with
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    79 1 Field -M at: fc.il Smuts, Soutlf Africa s Prime Minister pictured addressing the Dutch Parliament. He is to tell UNO at its current session tha* 209.000 natives or South -West Africa want the territory incorporated in the Union of South Africa. Against the idea were 33,500 and 56 t OOO
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    200,000 FLOODED-OUT IN ASSAM
    36 1 Gopinath Bardoli, Premier of Assam, has gone to New Delhi to invite Pandit Nehru to return to Assam with him where 200,000 villagers are homeless because of floods, says U.P. from Bombay.
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    PAPEN QUITS JAIL
    36 1 Franz von Papen, for 23 days a voluntary prisoner of Nuremberg jail after his acquittal by the International Military Tribunal, left the Jail yesterday for a house in Nuremb«»rc savs UP. from Nurembs^»
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    MP QUERIES SINGAPORE BURGLARIES
    142 1 MP QUERIES SINGAPORE BURGLARIES LONDON. Wed AUESTIONED in the House *f X Commons today about th* increase of theft and burglary in Singapore, the Secretary of StaV** for the Colonies, Mr. A. Creech* Jones, said it would take time before the old law and order w» c re-established. Effort was
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    THIEVES OBSERVE DEEPAVALI, TOO
    49 1 Only on e robbery was reported in S ngapore during the Deepavali festival yesterday. A Chines* woman living in Tyrwhitt Road was robbed of $200 in cash and some jewellery valued at $280 by three Chinese armed with pistols who entered her house last night.
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    MURDER IN STORE
    22 1 A Chinese, Chia Watt Seng, was fatally stabbed last night in Canal Read. Singapore. He died in hotpital later.
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    900,000 U.S. Fighters Are Jobless
    80 3 900,000 U.S. Fighters Are Jobless PRESIDENT TRUMAN, at a Washington Press Conference recently stressed that 900.000 out of the present 2,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. were ex-Servicemen. "It is the nation's responsibility to see to it that veterans looking for jobs get satisfactory employment at the highest levels of their
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    BETTER AIR CONTROL
    115 3 IMPROVEMENTS in Britain s 1 air traffic control were promised by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, following consultations with the air line operations and the British Air Line Pilots' Association. Replying to criticisms of dilatoriness in providing radar aid for blind landings and a r traffic control
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    STILL WALKING
    38 3 Bert Couzens was still walking strongly at Romford stadium on Oct. 15 after covering 1,070 miles in 390 hours. He has broken the record of 1,062 miles in 390 hours he set up in 1943 Reuttr
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    PLAN TO CRUSH BLACK MARKET
    269 3 A HUSH-HUSH plan to crush the housing black market U to be put into operation all over Britain soon. Experts of the Ministry of Works, who have drawn it up, believe that as a result tens of thousands cf building workers, who are at present
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    11 MILLION GET TAX REFUND
    130 3 1 1 MILLION GET TAX REFUND THERE were bigger pay-packets for 11,000,000 taxpayers last we«k when the increased earned income allowance relief comes into force. In his April Budget Mr. Dalton increased the allowance to oneeighth from one-tenth— but deferred the benefit. For the majority th e refunds will amount
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    FLYING CHESTNUTS
    13 3 Italian chestnuts for Covent Garden are arriving by air at Croydon
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    25 3 Chefs and kitchen staff of the Rite Hotel at a met ting ouuidc the Hotel as employees joined In the recent London hotel workers' strike.
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    DRURY LANE TO BE REPAIRED
    125 3 MR. TOMLINSON, Minister of Works, after consultation with Mr. Bevan, Minister of Health, has decided to authorise repairs of war damage to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The theatre is now standing idle with a comparatively small part of its structure damaged. The estimated total
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    THOUSAND HOMELESS
    24 3 Two hundred houses and shops were destroyed by a fir*? which made 1.000 people homeless in the Turkish town of Si nope.
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    ORDERS ROLL IN FOR U.K. GOODS
    504 3 ORDERS ROLL IN FOR U.K. GOODS ARDERS are rolling in to our manufacturers showing v their goods at the Britain Can Make It exhibition. How many millions they will reap cannot yet be estimated, but foreign buyers are eager to sign contracts ten or fifteen times larger than ever before,
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    12 3 London. af er he waS wn in in the Hou>e of Lords.
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    28 3 Queen Elizabeth as she inspected the salon of the 'Queen Elizabeth'. She Is atcor-panied oy Sir Percy Bates, Chairman of the Cunard-White Star Line, owners of the vessel.
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    BALTIC GIRLS TO WORK IN BRITAIN
    144 3 BALTIC GIRLS TO W ORK IN BRITAIN of a thousand girls from Germany are on their way to England to work in hospitals. They are M from the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia nia. all of whom are volunteers and most of whom speak English. The first 100 of the
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    FLAT RENTAL RUDUCED
    59 3 FLAT RENTAL RUDUCED Xjuaeas a *-•.< wu charged a basement fiat with t*o ■N a kitchen with bath, Georges-drive, Westfej«*nt of the flat told f Rent Tribunal: -mature broken, pn and bed linen were so ;"M»cculd not use them. Kl *^J^c-ed. and the gg^ touch makes them E^Jy- Mrs Jw.
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    MUSICIANS WON
    48 3 THE Musicians' Union has won its claim for £32 a moii'.b for the musicians who will play on board the Queen Elizabeth. Cunard-White Star Company which at first had relus:d to negotiate, has agreed to accept responsibility for the proper wage rate, and the conditions demanded.
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    68 3 \i results are being achieved at the John lnnes Hortiritoral Institute Morton, London, in efforts to produce a ■rties of swe<>t corn hardy enough to withstand Britain's fate. Mr. Gordon Haskell centre), the scientist in charge i sweet corn research, is seen discussing a cob just taken from ii fiprrimental
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    THIS IS BRITAIN
    331 3  -  Hugh Dalton By A glowing picture of Britain s happy industrial and financial position was painted t>v Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton— ln Washington for the World Bank and Fund meetings at a Press conference. Said Dalton. all smiles: Budget Hopeful of reaching balanced Budget in
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    RESPONSIBLEJOBS FOR S'PORE MEN
    354 5 RESPONSIBLEJOBS FOR S'PORE MEN r. ARTHUR CREECH-JOXES, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question by Mr. D. R. ReesWilliams (Labour. Croydon, South Dit.) in the House of Commons yesterday said that the policy of employing suitable, qualified locai officers in the Labour Departments p* the Malayan
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    Ye River Is Safe For Ships
    23 5 Ye River Is Safe For Ships lif :he Ye s fcs -si r nse ons fi^p-: i. -ater of ms: g. the in
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    A'PORE LECTURE
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    A ETERANS START AIR SERVICE
    54 5 The Hong Kong Airlines, formed by veterans of the Royal Air Fcrce and the Royal Australian A'r Force, opened its service to London yesterday when a plane left with 17 Chinese studenrs who are to study in England. The pline is expected to arrive kn
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    U.K. TROOPS ARE QUITING SIAM
    378 5 Prt- Staff Reporter BANGKOK. Wednesday. Soua are preparing for the great exodus »>ber, the deadline which has beer. I tn*-ps from Sunn. Arrangement^ :il essential military stores from the •he equipment will be landed in Singa\i tfl be --old by tender, and equip.v tabulating their
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    SMALLER UNION RICE RATION EXPLAINED
    65 5 Jht average rice ration per person in Singapore Is, at preser.:. cne kati <just over 21 ounces > per wc3k whilst in the Malayan Union it is thr?€ -quarters of a kati. The nee ration is lower in the Malayan Union because there it can
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    31 5 .n a Bfapore shops, textiles are ava lable in fairly larg^ Quantities bat pr«es arc hi ,h compared with what they were in 1941. Almost any kind ot textile Is available.
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    PRISON SHIP SKIPPER ON TRIAL
    114 5 SHIGERU KYODA, the master of the prison ship, Lisbon Mani, appeared in the Hons Kong war crimes court yesterday charged with acquiescing in the battening down of the hatches of the v:ssel and provkling insufficient life-jackets and lifebelts and provoking, needlessly, the deaths of 846
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    S'PORE SCENE
    83 5 A familiar scene in Singapore's Chinatown is the wayside •'shops*' selling; vegetables. Here is a typical vegetable vendor's roadside stall. The stallholders get their supplies from producers many miles away from town. Several ''shop pool together, charter a lorry and go into the countryside every afternoon, returning with
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    MUAR PARATROOPS LEAVE SINGAPORE
    384 5 WITH the exception of some men who have been left behind for reposting to units in South-East Asia and Japan, the 13th Parachute Battalion, 263 of whose members were charged with mutiny at Muar in May this year, left Singapore yesterday on the troopship Otranto westward-bound.
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    CHINESE STAGE SIT DOWN STRIKE
    108 5 FORTY-SEVEN Chinese Seamen in the British ship, Hickory Glen, on Tuesday staged a sitdown strike in the shipping office of G. S. Yuill and Co., Sydney, in an effort to obtain the suspension of the ship's officers. The Chinese were finally forcibly taken by 30
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    New status, ranks for airmen
    407 5 New status, ranks for airmen AS part of the compLt^ overhaul in the organisati -i tf the Royal Air Force, brought about by manv i peace-time responsibilities ar..? the need for continued h'£.i efficiency, a!! non-commissior-ed aircrew ranks, badges MKi categories have be^n abolishc". They are beine replaced bv I
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      27 5 -leather Report— jliowers 1 his Evening Jure.: hoo-s hi'.. I.- 9ta- \<j morning Lih-easterty 15 *.m. ■Marin c is Max t§, 1 idea It *S fx. to.
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    OWES WATCHES BRADMAN AT THE NETS
    495 7 OWES WATCHES BRADMAN AT THE NETS ADELAIDE, Wednesday. FLLOWING reports that Bradman was playing squash regularly to keep fit and that he had accepted the captaincy of South Australia against the M.C.C. in a match starting on Friday, I decided, in view of the fact that the M.C.C. were so
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    Narrow Shave At Stadium
    32 7 picture. unmlTW, C iian^i goalkeeper, fumbled and fell, but recovered the ball an. exciting incident in yesterday's cup tie when the scores were still two- all.- Free Press
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    SELETAR OUT TO MAKE FRONT-PAGE NEWS
    412 7 Weekly Rugger Notes By 'Winger* BECAUSE I said in these notes last week that it would take more than a unit Service team to beat the S.C.C. in their present form, some R.A.F. chaps out Seletar way cut out late nights, drank only milk
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    WIRELESS GROUP BEAT SELETAR
    106 7 Hockey FROM H. N. HANMER. ".'HE hockey team of 4 Special A Wireless Group beat Seletar *B by two goals to one at Seletar on Tuesday. Neither side showed a nign standard, but each overcame their lack of experience by keenness and determined Play, it was
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    UNKNOWN
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    INNINGS VICCTORY FOR MCC
    183 7 INNINGS VICCTORY FOR MCC m m Bill Bowes I PERTH. Tues. L I -iree nights and twoLjjmey :rcm Perth lo Port M tbe 2.000 r..->s of ■toert- til? MCC. arr.ved Ik:.-: x :h;s morning to ■tor r*o day fixing H XI at cxicr opposition, as exK T^ the E| and
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    MALAYS WIN AT JOHORE BAHRU
    103 7 J\HE Singapore Malay Football team beat a Johore team by five goals to four in a game played on the Istana padang yesterday. At half-time the Singapore team led by three goals to one, but Johore staged a great rally in the second half and
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    MATTHEWS AND STOKE MAKE PEACE
    159 7 STOKE, Tues. ALL the differences between Stanley Matthews, Stoke and England outside right, and his club have been amicably settled. This news followed a two hours' meeting behind closed doors at Stoke's ground today when Matthews met the club board. Owing to the publicity given
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    R.A.F. HOLDS SUCCESSFUL NOVICES' BOXING MEET
    287 7 FROM H. N. HANMER. A NOVICES' boxing competition was held in 209 Hangar at Seletar on Tuesday night and was a great success. The house was packed, and few left disappointed, for through-out the fighting was clean sporting and keen— an excellent show as
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    CAMBREL SHIRE ACCEPTORS
    205 7 LONDON, Wed. JT'INAL acceptors for the Cambridge--1 shire handicap to be run at Newmarket over one mile and one furlong on Oct. 30 number 38. They are witn weights and probable jockeys Sayani (9/4 W. Johnstone) Langt-.n Abbott (9/3 Tommy Weston) preciptic (9/1 Edgar Britt) Signalman (8/11
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    TEN CHANGI AIRMEN BEAT SCOTS
    518 7 TEN CHANGI AIRMEN BEAT SCOTS By Our Soccer Reporter •THE Royal Scots, meeting the RAF (Changi) at Jalan Besar Stadium y^s^ero brought off the biggest surprise so far in the SAFA Victory Cup competition but. after leading by two goals to nil, lost their grip and were beaten by three
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    INDIAN ARMY XI HELD TO DRAW
    84 7 |N the first of the series of trial matches to select an Indian Army Hockey team to tour Malaya shortly, the Indian Army trial team shared four goals with H.M.S. "Terror" at Seletar yesterday. The game was fast and even and both teams produced
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