The Singapore Free Press, 2 December 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press

  • WOMAN'S PAGES
    • 905 2 This is an answer to the article printed m the Free Press Nov. 27 under the heading "A New Singapore Mem Asks Why" HAVING lived m this country for a good many years, I can hardly consider myself what your correspondent of 27th Nov. calls
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    • 62 2 r*ETWEEN 35.000 and 40.000 diD vorce petitions will be ft led this year, said the Lord Chancellor. Lord Jowitt. m the House of Lords recently, when h* announced that some of the peed-up' recommendations of ihe Denning Committee would rovne into force m January. Lord Jowitt also said
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    • 42 2 ffcctt dresses recently arrived In London from America and are now on sale m the shops. The dress brine shown bof fuchsia silk with a tunic effect and cap sleeves: it is trimmed with black sequins Price £3. 15s.
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    • 145 2 CPRLNG suits, due m Ifci shops m January, are getting right away from rusterity, with their bright clear colours, ex-citing buttons, pleats and more pleats bigger and bigger sleeves. And higher prices for Utility <cats and suits is good news, Indirectly. For th« womnn wbo pays £5
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    • 378 2  -  JOHN HALL UK's teen-agei trenuT 1 YOUNG Jchnny, w: I wanted to be an engine-driver wheir he w*. six, now grows up wan'irg an office job. Twice as many boys and girls fre-h from school are goinir into office work today compan i with even eight years
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    • 94 2 your luckySTAR recast to: fMf t>>rr today noKN w>da> y«o are v hitious prrsonoil? BSSrageouv and tfijcr all kinds of excitement U fact to bf at your best, wt must be m the midst if constant arti\itV This fes wearin: F* hut you seem k thrive >n it If yogr
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 54 2 opening VICTORIA THEATRE TONIGHT FOR 6 NICHT s AT 8.30 p.m. COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS BLANCHE LJTTLERS COMPANY IN "MADAME LOUISE" By VERNON SYLVAINE LONDON'S LATEST LAUGHTER HIT URST CLASS FARCE FROM THE GARRICK THEATRE PRODUCED BY WALLETT J. WALLER BOOK EARL^, ROBINSONS. RAFFLES PLACE, MORNING AND AFTERNOON THTATBK BOX
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    • 10 2 j To our P^onsfor^ coU, CHRISTMAS casavan v ic CATH^U
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 241 2 Crossword Puxxle Wo. 82 Lin i!i i«Ti N i f 1 TH I Ulcams tremwlouslv. 1 >sinyf r 3Om of the IS A. MM )Bl'° j If 5 Pitfall. ki fjev-j »r'S^j fS? «s>• 6 Mocks V 1 II t I Attack m the highway I L— L I*^l I
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    • 235 2 DlirilO lUf A t nvn Taik, 10.00 p.m. In musical mood a KHLUU MALAYA |10 30 ML Salute to rhythm p.m. Test match commentary. 11 Singapore prn Nem^ headlines and close-down: RED NETWORK .Chinese lnalm. O U l^l M^ 2*5 metre.; also 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. 4.325 BBC megacycles
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • 907 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, DEC. 2. 1946. Nips Get Away With It THE new policy of proceeding with only the most serious charges against the Japanese war criminals who have been held m Changi jail will not. after all. mean that thousands, of toughs will escape the punishment that
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    • 1360 4  -  JOHN HALL by PUT down that shopping basket for a few moments, Madam, and let us discuss the contents tea, butter, cereals, perhaps a tin of paint for the front door, perhaps a pillowslip. Wholly or partly, 'those things came from abroad. The Men of Whitehall
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    • 207 4 j 'HE leader of the Swedish trade union movement, MR GUN NAR ANDERSEN, who died recently m Montreal, was on intimate terms with his opposite numbers m Britain. Mr. Andersen had been attending the International Labour Conference, and was pteparing to visit Biitain when he collapsed and
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    • 73 4 AT a meeting oi Uie Sin^'^orc 1 Hokien Guild at the te Bt Hean Club, presided orer by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, it was resolVed to estabii&h a Nan Ch'ao Oir s Middle School m Kun Yam Road There Is enough room lor 10 to 20 classes
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    • 207 4 Letter To The Editor INY art cie on the rem^vai A of colour bar is high'y commendable m that it sounds a' proper warning to cer'a n people m official circles who might be prejudiced against the lifting of this bar Although Mr. CMedi Jones has voicxd the
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    • Article, Illustration
      17 4 K eater reported recently that v, r m legate to the I'nited Nation* Wfmnisation V a «t
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    • 55 4 lUX Xl M Th- UK fir* sip, hal r m H seonc sap. 0$ :ht: pa. by m ega! Quml '^c tact i stop. Of *hf ww& B r. rook r p^res. Th<Te wt had it wanes. A- ill po: out The of mea^f c by 1 Horn Hi
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    • 11 4 Lrt »M thos* that p^ t^* U«st m Ih^e r«)«ice
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  • Page 4 Advertisements


  • SPORT PAGE
    • 1181 6  -  George Chisholm All In The Came.... From LONDON, By Air Mail. I ONDON'S First Division teams are toiling. Arsenal, L Charlton and Brentford are m the last half of the league table with only six points between Charlton, leading side of the three, and the
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    • 340 6 Archie Quic k's Sports Parade LONDOM, Saturn THE inside story of the nx ol Wolxerhampton Vnkttn was told me by its former chairman. Mr. A H vice-president of the Football league, member of it> mv a^ement committee, one of its ei^ht represenUtivMo tht Football Association,
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    • 46 6 Chief Hit, Of The flat Season The Kinc George VI Stakes. run for th- first time at Ascot. was won by the French horse Souverain ridden by M. L«Hlierou. Picture shows Bright News leading the bunched field at the first bend. Winner Souverain is lying fourth.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 265 6 /?*fl I /2T EXTENSION' m ihAtnbr^ 2 6 3 0 9.1s phone 6 909 <4~l DON'T DARE MISS IT! INTRODUCING A NEW TYPE OF FIGHTER! Th BfIIIRARniPRT HS sows DUiflDHIiUeCn: destruction 1 Upon him depends the Success of every Mission! WERE YOU IN TOKYO when it started raining bombs. Bombs,
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 78 6 JAN t Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press to Malaya NOW SiT THERE ANO^ OHO.'— SO GEORGIE^I /^HE'S QUITE PLAIMLY*\? -AMD HE'S H<5T LIKELY Tb\ Bf DO >bUR BIT OF TYPING- > KNOWS THE <^ THE YOUNG MAN WITH ftE WlTfo MADAME CYPRANO V 1 THIS CASE ISN'T (MYSTERIOUS ERICf-J
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  • NEWS PAGES
    • Article, Illustration
      35 8 St Davids m Pembrokeshire is lifl* more Han a village. The cathedral siaiMs m a sheltered valley and clos? by are the ruin> ot the palace built by Bishop iiowu m the 14th Century.
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    • 93 8 A SYNDICATE of li men, mostly of Italian origin. are guarding near Cue. Western Australia 245.000 worth of cold they have just mined They struck the vein of ore at a depth of 1 !Oft on a lease held since before the war. It is now
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    • 175 8 Continued from page I 1 space on each floor for score* of cars. It will t>? built on much the same lines as the Lex' carage m th-e West End of London To carry people speedily to the higher floors of the hotel th-ere will b? five
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    • 48 8 A DULL Singapore share market this morning with rubbers still neglected. Thp only tins quoted were Retalings which were offered at $8.35. In Industrials Malayan Breweries were at $14.75 with Malayan Collieri? s pas^inß business at $2.55. Fraser and Noaves were buyers at $2.75
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    • 42 8 A woman as Fnance minister an^ a ,P ri est as "minister without portfolio are included m the n ew government ol Croat a. one of ■x states forming the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, reports KPut' r from Belgrade
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    • 66 8 Duiing October Br.tain aver aged 4 000.000 tens of coal a week m her a H-out drive for increased production. More than 26,000 motor v:hicles were turned out 6 000 more than during the prtv ous month) of which 15 000 will to the home market In
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    • 274 8 MAYOR K. C. Wl/ ot Shanghai has issued a >hoot to kill order to the police and placed the Woosung garrison m a state of emergency following two days rioting by thousands of unlicensed street hawkers. Riot vans and police armed with tommy-guns and
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    • 190 8 'Coatinuea irom Pa^c- l\ -ir:ncd picket*, one person died and 11 were Injured as a result o! clarhe* m \ariow p.;rts cf the c'!> Some furniture shops were set on I fire, and It was reported that mob« I detained a passenger train Injuring 'several passengers No casualty
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    • 57 8 In yesterday's polls m Bavaria and Greater Hes.se to elect democratic s:ate legislatures and vote on constitutions, which will almost entirely restore to the Germans the government of American-held Germany it is estimated tha* almost 60 percent of the 7.000.000 el ctors had
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    • 190 8 JERUSALEM Sun. CIXTEEN mines, laid m Jerj- salem streets by terrorists. w?re chared today by Br:tish tappers without casual^es though the windows o! neatov houses were damaged wh?n tr.e mines were blown up The police today gave details of Saturday night's shooting, sayir? that
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    • 97 8 NANKING. Moil. 'THE foeai po.nt of China's civil war has moved into Manchuria, with military sources mdd eating that the next largescale battles could be fxpected there rather than around the Communist capital of Yenan. Government forces aa c reported to have reached
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    • 166 8 TEHERAN Sunday 'THE Persian Prime Mm ster. Ghavan Es Sultamh, today again cabled Dr. Sa la mullah Djavid, Governor of Persia's northern "home rule province. Azerbaijan, announcing the Central Governments decision to serd troops into Azerbaijan to supervise the general elections, which are scheduled to
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    • 466 8 BERLIN, Monday. WHILE the economic chief of the American Zone m Germany, Brig. Gen. William H. Draper, Jnr., warned, m a report that zonal boundaries must be wiped out or the Potsdam Agreement re written, the British Military Government at Hamburg announced sweeping
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    • 16 8 GERMAN MISTREAT OWN MEN A -3d Up g^ Off S SQffi ?R j2 Of t! AP
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    • 115 8 WASHINGTON. Sun. CUPPLIES of natural rubber available for manufacturing countries during 1947 may reach 1.200.000 tons as compared with 860.000 tons during 1946. according to a report of the four-nation study group released by the UJS. State Department, says Reuter. The Study Group, composed of representatives
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 115 8 TODA\ AT THt 1 r J 1 1 Kfljl 4 Shows 1.30. 4. 6.30 H. 3,, pfr OME OF BRITAIN'S BIGGEST WINNERS... 'OAILY MIRRW REALLY OELICHTFUL MIXTURE OF LAUGHTER AM) TLARS ARTISTRY AND ENTERTAINMENT BRITISH PICTURE TO BF PROUD CF. SHOULD BE S£» »W»--finmHUß, HKHAEL REDGRAVE MERVYN JOHNS jJ BASIL
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 135 8 WEATHER Showers this afternoon WEATHER forecast for 24 tmurs from noon today com^Ted by the RAF Central Fow asUng Station. Air Command. South 1 a AsU: Weather fair throughout with •mattered showers m the late afternoon Wind light ncrth«rl> this afternoon and tomorrow mornin* Olm tonight Sunset 6 27 p
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