The Singapore Free Press, 27 December 1946

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    16 1 SoeSmaapoitjfrceBttj5> LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i M SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946. PRICE 10 CESI~.
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    XMAS ISLE MUTINY TRIAL OPENS
    368 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Christmas Island mutiny trial began this morning. At a General Court Martial at No. 2 Indian Transit Camp, Bukit Timah, Singapore, stven Indian soldiers faced trial for whilst on active service joining m a mutiny m His Majesty's Forces, m
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    6 KILLED AS THICK HiTS FILM CROWD
    65 1 LUMPUR, FTi. v.. re killed and six J when a alleged to have rom outside the teen at Selangor Club ..ased by military ■ao a crowd leaving :/:r.a m Batu La Lumpur. dead were two a I rl of a Eurasian i:a pedaller
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    35 1 ate Chun-hill, daughter of Mr Win-a >n ChurchiU. opened ihe Gran* Bazaar at tbe All Saints Hal! •■nhano. London, recently. She seen, dart poised m her left hand. t i »ime after opening the basaar.
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    US BLAMES RUSSIANS FOR S'HAI BRAWL
    37 1 US BLAMES RUSSIANS FOR S'HAI BRAWL I> ptu me::: m Washour.jed t\am\t it ha- n complaints tr.ut :z*jns were attacked J* B-S -y poi.ce m Shar.g--23. The State blanwd the two RusQghting which oca motor-^r a:r'- Reuter
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    MONTY AS COLONEL
    15 1 Field-Marshal Viscount Mont2ornery has been appointed Colonel 01 the Royal Warwickshire Kesiment
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    NEWSPAPER GAGGED
    28 1 hini anti-Soviet Bulgarian Demor.ewspaper 'Zname' rmanently suppre-s-Biigarian Government. Ron Sofia. UR KECOKD nan has flown from Britain m 10 hours beann<r the pre- by 11 mltiutes.
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    BROOKE ON HIS WAY
    23 1 Mr. Anthony Brooke ex-Raja Muda of Sarawak, sailed from Hong Kong for Singapore aboard the KPM steamer "Tjibadik" yesterday
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    XMAS THIEVES STEAL $3,125
    141 1 XMAS THIEVES STEAL $3, 125 Free Press Staff Reporter. THREE armed robberies were reported during the holidays with a total loss estimated at $3,125 The first occurred on Christmas Eve at the 13th Milestone Jurons, R:ad where a Chinese tamily were held up by s'x Chinese, one armed, who got
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    P.I. takes world copra trade
    185 1 MANILA, Friday. STIMULATED by high world prices, the Philippines copra production available for export during 1947 is expected to reach a record 750,000 long tons, a new high record. It is estimated the shipments will comprise 500,000 tons of copra and 250,000 tons of coconut
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    UMBER FOR U.K.
    43 1 Timber exports from the United States zone of Germany between new and the end of next July will total £3,750,C~00, and will go to Britain and Holland. It Ls estimated that this timber v/ill be enough to build 40,000 houses
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    MORE CHINESE SHIPS FOR S'PORE
    134 1 nETTEi? protection for China's B 140 000 seamen. including som 50,000 serving aboard foreign is provided for m a con seamen is !ncreas.u n vi will shortly be augmented by a 159 American "surplus" aggregating about 800,000 tons. 3 Certain Chinese lines are contcmolat ng
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    IN THE NEWS TODAY
    9 1 IN THE NEWS TODAY A riew of Christmas Island.
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    If Teacher Copied Jane
    136 1 WO'jEN sehoo} teachers m New South Wales should copy "Jano" the comic strip character, and use their charm tv get x the same* pay as ma'e teachers, a ■±p?al*er said at the annual Teachers Federation Conference m Sydney. Del-gates laughed uproariousfly when the speaker— Mr. S.
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    MALAYA TO PAY MOKE POSTAGE
    94 1 MALAYA TO PAY MOKE POSTAGE Free Press Staff Reporter AS Irom Jan. 1, 1947, postal rates are to be increased m Singapore and the Malayan Union. Internal postage for letters will he increased from eight cents io ten cents for letter weighing not* more than two ounces, plus three cents
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    OYSTER DOES YOGI
    50 1 An oyster frozen solid goes into the state of suspended animation and can live that way for ten months, lor. Victor LoosanofT of the United States Fish and Wild Life service said m Washington yesterday, says A. P. If thc oyster shaken it usually dies, he added.
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    FIERCE FIGHTING IN HANOI
    478 1 FIERCE FIGHTING IN HANOI WAR IN INDOCHINA PARIS. Thursday. FRENCH dispatches from Hanoi this afternoon reported fierce fighting m the southern suburbs of the city where French troops were .making slow progress against resistance m the Annamite quarter. The Annamite suburb north of Hanoi is now completely surrounded and the
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    NEW OIL PIPELINE PLANNED
    208 1 LONDON, Fri THAT there may be two pipelines rarrying oil from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean is suggested by the announcements made tonight by the AngloIranian Oil Co. m London and by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey m New York. Anglo-Iranian announced tha
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    BEAVERBRQGK IN HOSPITAL
    69 1 MIAMI. Thurs LORD Beaverbrook. owner of London's Daily Express rived m Miami from Nassau m the Bahamas ioday and entered St. Francis Hospital for treatment for a chest complaint. He was me: by a nurse and was assisted from the plane but walked through the airport office
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    162 DIE IN U.S. XMAS
    26 1 CELEBRATION The holiday death-toil :n the United States since Christmas Eve mounted yesterday to 162, including 142 traffic deaths, says A.P
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    MPs ATTACK WAR OFFICE
    577 3 'Unfair to wedded under -21 soldiers MEMBERS of all parties united m the Commons to condemn the War Office's refusal of marriage allowances tQ soldiers under 21, who have, instead, to apply for war service grants. Mr. Wallace (Soc., Chislehurst, Kent) asked why youngsters should be
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    Missing nephew calls on Monty
    196 3 PRESENTING himself to the hali porter at the Grande Bret; gM Hotel, at Athens, a young man m a grey flannel said '1 am Montgomery's nephew." Inside the banhall was Field-Marshal Montgomery, at dinner with Minister Dragotimis and high officers. M Would »k him if
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    MOTHER WRITES TO KING, STOPS CALL-UP OF SUN
    106 3 MOTHER WRITES TO KING, STOPS CALL-UP OF SUN i BIRMINGHAM mo:her who rt pealed to the King to keep tvv son out of the been told by the Minis .-our that, by the King s ..d. her son on discharge :chant Navy will not up ~jr.. Dennis Morton '21>, d
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    U.S. PHILOSOPHER, 87 MARRIES
    20 3 Dewey, at 87 the American philosophers. anted m New York a 42--petr-eld social worter, Mrs Grant.
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    SANDERS DIVORCED
    27 3 c Sanders, British-born ata. actor, insisted m a divorce settlement with his wife that ne the occupancy of one or he won under the see-
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    GIRLS LEAVE THE MIKING VILLAGES
    26 3 Of 3.400 girls leaving mining village schools m th e Doncaiter area, m the last five years, 854 became domestic s.rvants.
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    SERAPHIC SEX APPEAL
    28 3 In Hollywood they are trying to replace the old-fashioned SA. (sex appeal* with S.S. A. (seraphic sex appeal., which experts describe as that stained-gias, look
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    STAGOERED HOLIDAYS
    31 3 Summer holidays are to be starred for 40.000 Luton workers next year. The four weeks be fining July 5. 12 and 19 and August 16 will be ballotted for.
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    BOY KILLS MOTHER
    127 3 ACCORDING to his father. 17--year-c:d John Sangster, who had lived all his life under the hars-i dlseip.ine of h's mother, finally rebelled. And m a fight with her son the mother was killed. John Sangster lives for mus.c jKe bought a trombone to learn •to play and
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    55 3 Simultaneous Christian and Buddhist holy services were tonducted during the memorial service at Thanbyuzayat. Burma to commemorate the thousands of Allied PoWs and Asiatic conscripts who died wh'le working on the Burma-Siam "Death" Railway. Picture shows the Bishop of Rangoon reading the address assisted hy .the Bishop of S ngai>ore
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    'UNFIT.' HE LIVED TO AGE OF 99
    25 3 In Coatesville Pennsylvania I William Marshall, rejected as medically unfit for the Civil War (1861). died aged 99.
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    DISHONOURABLE, SAY WASHERMEN
    57 3 The 4,000 Chinese laundries In New York have gone on strike against the bio* power laundries which do their rough work for them. These big laundries want to rp.ise the wholesale price of laundering by a third. The small laundries say: "It would force us to charge
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      264 3 I%I|TUIIV BES,EGE3 BY SafHl nfll HUGE CROWDS! SINGAPORE. LIKE ALL WORLD CAPITALS, SALUTES CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA AS THE GREATEST EVER! 'TOR ALL THOSE WHO LIKE COLOUR. MAGNIFICENCE. ACTION THfc CATHAY CINEMA IS THE PLACE TO PATRONISE OVER CHRISTMAS UHh STRAITS TIMES 11 j..***. 1.45, IT'S ON PHONE 4.15, 6.45 EVERYONE'S
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      82 3 TAP7AN Ev J nter es By Edzar Rice Burroughs ZZ Z^= T4S FLEE N3 SPROUL fUON LIMPED INTO, Egfr -afFft^ NOOSE EXPERTLY FOR "'-EN-y STEPS TIKAR^/ L^HaBBHRI I™ 5 U NDERB»RUSH. JK Br J^ yg, THE TOP OF A DEAD J^VA i? '™S NEXT S RACED o^^ THE J^M^M V>7V^_>-
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    GAY NEW YEARS EVE IS PLANNED
    286 5 Sncr^o^r^ Press staff Reporter S m Part will C* tolklay revelries, and New Year's Eve, 1946, kmi S JL ST a !L WIW withi memory. Not for a me^t be^ drawT^ ambiU US P rogramme <* entertaiß- °Jl c Sin^pore Hotel— the Sea View—
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    37 5 The children of Singapore cajne m for a good time this < hnstmas. These pictures top) were taken at the Asiatic chJlJrtfi's party at Caldecott Hill, Singapore, and (left) at Gen. Slopfcrd's party at Tyersall Palace.- Free Press
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    SHIP RAID BY POLICE
    176 5 Five Press Staff Reporter AFTER watching the ship A *'Foo Chow," alongside me Singapore Harbour Board gi -downs for some time, police swooped on the ship just before Christmas and discovered riuantities of cloth and cigaretles alleged to have been stolen from SHB premises. The ship,
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    TWELFTH NIGHT: SCHOOL MATINEE
    223 5 Fntt Pretso Staff Reporter BEFORE the Victoria Theatre closes for three months for its first maior post-war "spring cleaning" early m 1947. the Stage Club is using its final three weeks' bookings to present a drama festival, catering for the varying tastes of all Singapore theatre-goers.
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    H.K RIOT CASE IS DROPPED
    95 5 THE Crown will drop the esse against the police co::s:ab»e RamSTsyed. who It accused of casing the dsath. of a Cheese hawke? Wong Sui-c^eon^ when the Hone Kong High Court reconvenes today. MMtml The Court ordered a re-tv J mgnen the jury faikd to agre?
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    ARUNDEL CASTLE MEN HELD
    63 5 Three British firemen from thc liner, Arundel Castle, were taken into custody following a fatal brawl m Kowloon on Christmas night, m which sub-inspector Alexander Seddon Anderson of the Ho:ig Kong police died of a fractured skull after being knocked down by the firemen wiih fists.
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    100 HOMELESS
    20 5 One hundred people are 1: useless as a rasiiat of a fire near Yot's WK Singapore, yestcrriay »s
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    NEW CHINESE AIR SERVICES
    23 5 The Central Air Transport Cknponitioi', one of China's largest aviation concerns, have completed plans to inaugurate two international airlines.
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    WILL STAY ON AIR MAP
    151 5 THAT Ceylon will always nave her pbce m the chain of Empire air stations was confirmed by Bri am's Air Chief. Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Lord Tedder of Glenguin when he arrived at the Ka' unayake Aerodrome, near Colombo, by special York aircraft
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    'MALAYS WILL REJECT FEDERATION PLAN'
    343 5 THE L'tusan Melayu, leading Malay daily m Malaya, m an 1 editorial entitled ''Democracy m the Dustbin; Interests of Masses Trampled," published on Christmas Day, bluntly declaring: "We would not be wrong m concluding that the plan is a far cry from a democratic system
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    With 13 shells,VC defied the Japs
    412 5 With 13 shells, VC defied the Japs WIDNES, Lancashire (By air mail). WHEN he sailed m 1940 for Singapore, Lieut.-Com-mander Thomas Wilkinson, R.N.R., told his sister: "Whatever happens, I won't be taken prisoner. I'll have a smack at hem, and, if necessary, VU go down fighting." It was announced m
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    S'PORE TRIBUTE TO JINNAH
    74 5 S'PORE TRIBUTE TO JINNAH TRIBUTES to the -political far--1 s:ghtedness" and "de'ermined stand" for Pakistan were raid by representatives of the Arab. Malay and Indian Leagues m Singapore on Wednesday at a mass meeting of Indian Muslim League adherents to mar-, the 71st birthday of the President of the All-India
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    MINISTER FETED
    31 5 The Chinese Consul m Singapore, Mr. A. C. T. Kworijg. ectertaneo at lunch the new Egyptian Minister to China, Sir lilas Ismail Bey and his tw-> «-<-—-. tar ies yesterday.
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    AUSSIES TWO DOWM IN DAVIS CUP
    255 7 AUSSIES TWO DOWM IN DAVIS CUP rrjfi, luited State* won the ■s^^ Thursday, i tap round of tlie Davis Cud whS? h m the ch*l- Ted Schroeder beat Australian J^i an here <;_.. c>-2, *_<>, and 6-3. £^2 n Br °mwich 3—6 Kramer .U.S., defeated Australian Din^°£ti Sin i ,cs
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    ARMY WIN FIVE-TWO
    126 7 Our Soccer Reporter Adeemed to have been a Ma* over Christmas, Na*tv at sea" ah^n they rr. '^an Besar Stadium *ere beaten by five coals that saved* Navy s the last ten minutes ■ftfl Army had sco-id t a defence tha* j outrun and out--9m -f>oted Gascoigne
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    BY ONION RUSULTS
    65 7 ONDON. Thurs. r suits were facing dub de Park 41. Public n 0. Neath 10; Bath Sftr*i 8; Bristol 3, Pontypool 3: Gloucester 6. Taylors 3; Headinglev "WW 32 Striken 9. London Welsh Diana 0: Nortnm C; Swansea 3, Obion 3: Redruth mou:h Albion S. 0 Cheltenham
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    SYDNEY SUMMER CUP RESULT
    52 7 SYDNEY SUMMER CUP RESULT y. Ihurs. KM) saw Keisos Fresco out or Sydney Summile and fiv*» dwick here today. :u. 10 to one. •M set to carry -as. oter w- h\ pare over Mrs. Silver Link with to one with H Air with 8.1, startI irther three- I away, third
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    21 YACHTS IN 690-MILE RACE
    140 7 aaarr.Tr* SYDNEY. ThurS TWEN"i\O.\"E \achta. fit cI t t .l radar equipment, started from Sydney harbour at 11 a.m. today on the annual 690-mUe race to Hobart, j Tasmania. I The radar gear enables aircralt of the Australian Air Forre to keep watch over them
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    HAPPY-GO-LUCKY B.P.
    25 7 The \fayfair Badminton Party of Kajang has been revived under the name of the Happy-Go-Lucky Badminton Party. Kajang. Ulu Langat. Sheffield Shield Cricket
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    Test Players Bat And Bowl Well
    320 7 OPFMIvr- c MELBOLRNE, Thursday, .hi o I 6" hemeld ShieW S«**»*. New South Wale's took ?J, gamst vic '»«-ia, and were dismissed tor j-05 to wh.ch Victoria replied with 154 for one when sTunZ were drawn New South Wales opened bright I^^^ 123 for
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    JOLLILADS A.U.
    42 7 -eh played at ol «rrcunU od drew v. ith th- 2nd "B" Coy. by he Jollilads was Buntare selected to r match aga'nst H -pi al Johore Johore Bahru. ajan Railway I -:^a. TnnmbyRa^a;;. m m Mur.iy.indi, I 8i :aved;n.
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    All Blues Candidates Have Good Trv-Ont
    276 7 BY WINGER' WITH mor c experience n d great; r weight m the scrums the S.C.R.C. mad it an easy 18 poin.s (three goals, on c try) to six i two tries) victory over the Indians when the two teams met m a rugger
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    SOM PONG WAS TOO FIERCE
    210 7 I AST ingot's tit.c bout bHueoi Som Pon« < i 43 3 /4 lb.) and Jimm^ Welch U37y 2 lb.) ended Ipcinting.y, Welch retiring tns first round, :eaving the ese the welterweight chaw--01 Singapore. A silver belt ed by Dr. C. J. Pagiar, was nted
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    HOCKEY TRIAL
    14 7 There will be no State hocked trial 0:1 the S.R.C. padang tomorrow.
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    HUTTON OUT
    11 7 HUTTON OUT tne d .r t -aS^-tar 17> an,, was ou
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    WOLVES WIN ON TIME
    510 7 WOLVES WIN ON TIME Ax/T-n LONDON, Thurs. MID some shocks of the holiday w.J!? 00 pr °Bramme. Wolverhampton Wanderers, rated by some of their supporters as the best team for years, sand supreme at the top of the Piist Division four points m front of Liverpool their nearest rivals. A
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    CSA TABLE TENNIS TEAM WINS AT KL
    147 7 DLAYING .before a record crowd the Chinese Sports Association, SingaSSS LT?? league champions of ll\t S S*? 1 by four to one at Kuala Lumpur last night. Ia addmon, they won the silver cup presented by Mr. Yin Van, mana^ er P^ t
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      257 7 rst\\ sap IMPROVED SOUND! f-aihatwbr-a 11-2-4.15-6.30-9.15 lh\ PHONE 6 909 mCj SONJAS GREAT SVCCSM! SONJA HENIE (ex-Olympics Champion Skater) SKATES TO TANGO "JEALOUSIE" GYRATES TO LILTING CHINESE MUSIC IT'S THE BEST X'MAS ATTRACTION FOR 7 HE BEST X'MAS SINCE 1942! PAYNE »JACK SjlHp ItanrrM by First of MALKaI OF IIV.L.
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