The Singapore Free Press, 4 January 1947
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Title Section19 1947-01-04 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA j it>.:4i. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS.19 words
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Article, Illustration270 1947-01-04 1 The Test AUSSUIES SCORE FREELY Oiourtn day of the third 1 at between England and a ralia today at Melbourne, a advanced to the good of 112 for the loss of Barnes '.unch interval. game is being piaypd IB weather and. although tho is no* taking spin, it is •he270 words
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Article44 1947-01-04 1 art4if tha* th: d Royal visit to South i Should do postponed 'until progressive poLcy is ha tbmt country" was d says R:u:cr irom London, n d-5^ at umn] conference of i ■:■> i c 4 rat on d v 250 delegates.44 words
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Article233 1947-01-04 1 Free Prens Correspondent LONDON, Friday. 'THE New statesman and Nalion prints a letter in which 1 Mr. John Sharp, former British Po\V in the No. 2 Railway Construction Group in Siam, refers to the sentence of 25 years passed at Singapore on Lieut. Col.233 words
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62 1947-01-04 1 Gen E"sf v.hower. now U.S. j Army Ch?r:-oi-StGiT. said in 1 M ami fCfkltoy, says Reu^er, j that h^ refuses to consider tnJpossibiiiy of a iulur^ political, U-?reer He sad that th P mention I of his ram e a candidate lor. the presidency f62 words
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Article450 1947-01-04 1 THE British Colonial Office and Sarawak Govern--1 ment have "at no time made any offer, monetary or otherwise, to the former Rajah Muda of Sarawak, Mr. Anthony Brooke, declares the Colonial Office in a statement issued in London last night. The Colonial Office statement follows the450 words
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Article114 1947-01-04 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A EURASIAN woman, Irene Methias, was waylaid by two Chinese near Jolly Theatre, Upper j Serangoon, Singapore, shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday and stripped of h^r jewellery consisting of four gold bracelets, a gold chain and locket, worth $220. One of tt>e114 words
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Article87 1947-01-04 1 NEW YORK, Fri. THE British Government today i handed JRussia, the U.S.. France and China de ails of the complaint to be filed with the United Nations agaiust Albar.ia Charges to be laid formally j before the Security Council within the next, tew days will ask lorA.P. - 87 words
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Article104 1947-01-04 1 Coal cuts trains in Britain LONDON. Fri. TWO British railroads curtailed their seryice today as the f^oal shortage cont;nued to hamper industry and transport K»rouehout the country. The Gieat Western Railway announced that 76 trains would cease passenger runs and the locomotives diverted to freight haulage for the present. SixU.P. - 104 words
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Article206 1947-01-04 1 'S' pore didn't ban Brooke' Free Press Staff Reporter SIR Franklin Gimson. Governor of Singapore, revealed at a Press Conference today: The Joint Supply Board will last until the end of the i shortage of grain. The bill for food subsidies not yet know.. because the Ministry of Food nu.206 words
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Article44 1947-01-04 1 The 3,000-iop. British freighter, the Empire Dirk, sent a distress message at 454 a.m. from 150 mJles northwest of Lingayen Gulf in the China Soa, and U.S. arm/ tugs from Manila are now on t>;e way to assist her, say? AP.44 words
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Article19 1947-01-04 1 Eighty-five Republican trainees for civil services in Sumatra are. n<-oscr>t. underdoing l.\al siudies, according to Antara.19 words
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Article306 1947-01-04 1 BANGKOK, Friday. THE Siamese Ministry of Commerce survey this morn in? states Siam will deliver only a third of the 60,000 ton* of rice scheduled for January export under the revised agreement. Only 20.000 tons are available out of light crop ju>t harvested, the rest are needed306 words
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Article113 1947-01-04 1 PARIS. Fri. FRENCH dispatches sa:d today that the French Colonial Minister. M Mar:us Moutet, »»ns fired upon bv Vietnam snipers while visiting the Vietnam wounded in a Hanoi hc^i'al No one was hurt. Later as M. Mouiei *.ou:ed ib» city with a strong cs^nr leader of113 words
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Article22 1947-01-04 1 Comrrunis »s yesterday claimed i that Chinese National Army losses in killod, vovnded ana captured last year .o.alled 414 00c22 words
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Advertisement34 1947-01-04 1 FOUNTAII PENS Sajes 6 years guaranut r .nK 3uDDiv tree TMe guarantee saves vou ootr rtme ano Mone* T. T. LEE J4. Chnlia St.. Singapor* (Pen makes an ideal eiit> i TIGER HEADACHE CUKE34 words
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Article90 1947-01-04 3 KALGAN JAIL IS EMPTIEST "A P long stone corridors and I cells of the Kalgan City jail c crowded with more than S.-jOO murderers, t>anc\.ts, politi«a: prisoner? and petty thieve > I- s today the empties: Jail m C f :.a. a.s well as bui^ the ljne■es: rlace in theReuter - 90 words
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Article, Illustration244 1947-01-04 3 BRITAIN, which ranked first in pre-war years, took second place to the United States in the number of ship entering and clearing Chinese ports in the first eight months of 1946, according to unofficial statistics. Between January and August, total entrances and cl^pi ances atReuter - 244 words
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Article147 1947-01-04 3 air passenger and r*r f igh; Sydney. Australia, has been jpened by Cathay Pacific A:rThis new service, which will *>e i cnce weekly both ways, o* the first direct air link beiwten Australia and China. The Imw Hong Kant '--■•"'■ci fir via Manila. Morotai Island. Darwin and147 words
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Article132 1947-01-04 3 THE Communist headquarters have published the exchange of telegrams between Gen. Chou En-lai ana Tung Pi-wu and UNRRA officials in which the Chinese Communists protested Maj. General Lowell Rooks' refusal to place the Communist charges of unfair CNRRA diitrlbution before the L* IHUIA CouncilU.P. - 132 words
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Article429 1947-01-04 3 AFTER more than a year of civil war and many delays and postponements, China's National Assembly is now meeting in Nanking, and the people of China are hoping that peace will at last return to this, the world's most war-ravaged land. China has known no peace forU.P. - 429 words
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Article38 1947-01-04 3 The Nanking newspaper Chm Kuo Jih Pao was ordered b7 the Ministry of Interior to suspend publication for one week for publishing an editorial in whicn it allegedly attacked and insulted Premier Joseph Stalin. Central NewsCentral News - 38 words
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182 1947-01-04 3 Shanghai NO LONGER PARADISE FOR IMPORTERS SHANGHAI has ceased to be the paradise for imnorters. especially of luxury and semi luxury goods, which it has been in the past year or so as a result of the Chinese Governments new import restrictions. Prior to the enforcement of the new regulations182 words
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Article, Illustration34 1947-01-04 3 To speed up tilt r.ha u liiation of China, Britain if supplying the Nanking Government with steel for bridge-building. Here are pictures of bridge girders, awaiting shipment from the United Kingdom.34 words
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Article200 1947-01-04 3 PEACE BASIS OF CHINESE CULTURE MR. C. RAJAGOPALACHARI, Education member in the Indian Interim Government sa:c Shantiniketan Bengali tfc&t spirit of tranquility was the very breath of Indian and Chinese culture and their thousands of years' old wisdom." Laying the foundation of tno newly established teachers training institute. Rajagopalachan saidA.P. - 200 words
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144 1947-01-04 3 RAFFLES INSTITUTION EVENING CLASSES These classes will re -open on Monday Jan. 20th at the .old Raffles institution building (Eras Basah Road I The present classes in Radio Engineering, Builders' Quantities. Plumbing. Electrical Installation Work Structural Engineering. Elen: Engineering Science and Elem. Eng. Mathematics (providing basic Engineering knowledge English (aiming144 words
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Advertisement169 1947-01-04 3 ARRIVING BY AIR FROM SYDNEY'! r the premii:re or COLUMBIA'S N. P. PERY'S PRODICTION OP THE DARING EXPLOITS OF Sfll CHARLES KINGSFORD SMITH at the KfcA W£EK LYON PHOTO CO. tienownt^- »or 3upenm *no <j\i\c* MfvM Developing 'Print tin mad •F.niari^n* r\lrr> sent ir todav reaay tr,e next lav «r169 words
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Miscellaneous9 1947-01-04 3 T ARZAN Seeking human prey By Edgar Rice Burroughs9 words
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Article60 1947-01-04 5 MUSIC for Everybody at the Victoria Memorial Hall tomorrow night promises to be one of the best concerts tne Radio Malaya Orchestra have given yet. The programme includss ballet music from Tschaikovsky's 'Svan Lake," incidental music to "The Merchant of Venice" by Rosse and a solo by60 words
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Article39 1947-01-04 5 According to the Fishery Division of the Indonesian Welfare Ministry, fresh-water fishery ill Priangan residency has recently progressed to such an extent as to be capable of delivering 30.--000,000 kilos of fish monthly, according to Antara. ReuterReuter - 39 words
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Article269 1947-01-04 5 $7,000,000 is already spent Free Press Staff Reporter IT is the intention of Malaya's finance chiefs gradually to reduce the subsidy on rice and other "protected" foodstuffs in 1947 until a point is reached where artificial help can be abandoned completely, saving millions of dollars269 words
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Article106 1947-01-04 5 THE G.O.C. Singapore District, sends the following Christmas message •1 was away from the District over Christmas and was ur.able to send you my go>d wishes for lht>t soascn, to I take the opportunity ol wishing all ranks of Singapore District the very oest of happiness106 words
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Article14 1947-01-04 5 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation have reopened their branch in Amoy.14 words
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Article16 1947-01-04 5 President Soekarno has donated 5.000 rupia Republican currency) to the Chinese Association, Djokjakarta16 words
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Article74 1947-01-04 5 A DUTCH news agency report says that 13,500 Japanese PoWs at present employed by the Dutch for various work will be repatriated to Japan before April 1 1947. in accordance with Gen. MacArthur's recent order, according to Antara. The PoWs will be sent atReuter - 74 words
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Article50 1947-01-04 5 The United Provinces Government has asked its magistrates to submit a list of the Indian names of towns, streets and even rivers, which have hitherto been spelt and pronounced "in the English way." The Government, it is understood, desire to deAnglicLse" Indian names iri thfUnited Proviso ReuterReuter - 50 words
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Article439 1947-01-04 5 S'pore Ford Plant Is Re-opening Free Press Staff Reporter A FEW months after the Army agree to the de requisitioning of the Ford motor car assembly plant along the Bukit Timah Road, a $400,000 rehabilitation scheme will be launched and engineers will replace in four months' pre-war equipment so that439 words
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Article, Illustration82 1947-01-04 5 Here are some of the prizewinners of the Fancy Dress Competition held at the New World amusement park on New Year's Eve. There were about 30 entries, and on display were many attractive fancy dresses. Winner of the competition was Miss Lucy Lam and second was Mtes Leong Choy San82 words
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Article47 1947-01-04 5 The Union of Oil Workers is petitioning the Republican Government to safeguard the interest of Indonesian labour by enactment of regulations on the import of foreign labour into the country, reports Antara. The decision was made at a meeting of oil workers at Pladjoe.— ReuterReuter - 47 words
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Article418 1947-01-04 5 RAF WILL 'BOMB MALAYA •"TACTICAL bombing exercise to be known as Operation 1 Redlion" embracing the whole of Air Command. Far East, will begin with the arrival at Changi on Jan. 15 of a flight of Lancaster bombers from No. 7 Pathfinder Squadron of Bomber Command. This exercise, of aRafpro - 418 words
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Article169 1947-01-04 5 NEW YEAR HONOURS FOR RAF OFFICERS, members of Princess Mary s Royal Air Force i Nursing Services, and airmen, of j Air Command, Far East, are j among those on whom the King i has been graciously pleased to •j confer awards in the New Year j honours. Here isRafpro - 169 words
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Article20 1947-01-04 5 The first Indonesian college for courses on mining will be opened here some time in January, Antara reports.20 words
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Article, Illustration36 1947-01-04 5 BATHING BEAUTY Miss Janet Choy who won the third prize in the Bathing Beauty Competition held at the Odeon Cabaret in the New World amusement park, Singapore, recently. The first prize winner was Miss Anna Tham.36 words
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Article86 1947-01-04 5 THE Bureau of Marine Affairs, under the jurisdiction of the Republican Ministry of Defence, is at present working on extension of inter-island sea traffic in Indonesia, The report says that small shipyards scattered over the country ar^ working at high pressure to build vessels of from 60Reuter - 86 words
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Advertisement260 1947-01-04 5 o ROMANCE! m UA MOST ENCHAN^EJt) STORY THE WORLD H.\S EVER KNOWN! Q Jcanftt* Mat Donald and Gtne Raymond in I pJ Striking Dual Roles A THE PLIGHT of SIR JOHN CARTERET! F i n v i i 11\ pj-.il (ounfry I I Famous Songs I* j Scenes Of 3^-260 words
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Article217 1947-01-04 7 PLAYING on their own tfn.ur.d RE ME. defeiled 47 8.0.H. 0V thre° eoals to one in a game of soccer 47 B.GH. kicked off but. REME took possession of the ball and OFlynn put them in the lead in the first minute aft r <* -010 effort.217 words
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281 1947-01-04 7 MELBOURNE. Sat. L'IVE Test matches, each of six days' A duration, between India and Australia for the next season is the tentative programme announced by the Chairman after a meeting of the Australian Cricket Board of Control. The programme, which will be submittedReuter - 281 words
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Article, Illustration889 1947-01-04 7 Winger - Winger Rugby Notes By ONE small item of Rugby history has been made in Singapore by the inclusion of a Singapore "All Blues" player in the side to represent South Malaya in next Saturday's North-South match to be played at Kuala Lumpur. For John889 words
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Article62 1947-01-04 7 A team to represent the Singapore Indians against the Royal Air Force (Paya Lebar) at soccer to be played j today at Paya Lebar will be selected I from the following: Sithambaram, Baboo. Kadir. A. Rahim, Kanagasabai, R&moo, Appavoo. Jamal, Paul Davis. Vijeyrctnam. B. i Jaffar, I.M. Anjullia.62 words
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Article923 1947-01-04 7 From Rill Bowes und crashed the last ball straight at »ide mid-cn for a catch. Two wickets in two minutes and England's rising hopes were dashed again. Bill Voce missed his first ball flighted full toss which dropped straight len his to*, and he left lbw.923 words
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Article125 1947-01-04 7 AUSTRALIA—IST INNS.—26S ENGLAND—IST INNS. Hutton c MrCooi b Lindwall Washbrook c Tallon b Dooland *>2 I Edrich lbw b Linduall 89 j Compton lbw b Toshark Hammond r and b Dooland 9 Ikin v Miller b Dooland 48 Yardley b MrCooi Evans b McCool 17 Vocp lbw b Dooland125 words
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Article54 1947-01-04 7 EDRICH, COMPTON WERE NOT OUT From Norman Preston MELBOURNE. Fn THE general opinion here tonight L&. that neither Edrich nor Compton. should have been piven out. A picture taken an instam after the ball struck Comnton showed both his legs outside the leg stump. Even Tallon, the wicketkeeper, did notReuter - 54 words
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Article100 1947-01-04 7 BERLIN. Sat THE Olympic flag which was kept in Berlin since the Rames of 1936 and then last for a time after Germany's collapse, was found in the building of the Berlin Municipal Bank. It has been released bv the Soviet military authorities and Dr. Detrow:;ky.Reuter - 100 words
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Article, Illustration62 1947-01-04 7 Cliff Anderson, bantamweight champion of New Guinea, sends Mickey Francis. Australian champion, through the ropes in their recent fight at Harringay, which Anderson won in the sixth round. The fight was an eliminator for the Empire bantam title but Anderson, being Al 2 lb overweight, it was announced62 words
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Article260 1947-01-04 7 THE Special Commissioners Cricket Club beat 162 C.RJE. by 38 runs in a game of onccec played at Thomson Road Police Training School ground on Sunday. Scores were 162. I Kl K V. K. Pandalai Ibw Mattock Hj Im) r (lough b Mattock 0 C260 words
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Article211 1947-01-04 7 Free Press «Hockey Reporter) \f EETING for the second time within 1 X A a month the S.C.R.C. trounced a Recs XI by five goals to two in a hockey match plaved at the padang i yesterday. The Chinese were definitely on top most of the211 words
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Advertisement182 1947-01-04 7 The following players will rep' the Sambos Rang rs at soccer agalnH i he Jj:iilad.-> A O at the S^.nboe Spor*. s ground today at 5.15 p P£to:ri. Chev-»ng Mun Khum. A I Jchnny Loe <Capt.) Aris. Parmcno K3h Khui. Gin.in, BDfßßaa, Mah Ilarjjtsoemorto Referee: Mahn:c<^d o. Ib.al.im DESPERATE BID182 words
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