The Singapore Free Press, 11 March 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA L 15.T99. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947. PRICE l« CENTS
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    After freeze comes fog
    59 1 !|M m BriU.n has brooght with it Nf, tl ods. ft ini raud. IH over the Ihumes an yesterday halted all slbfping. I Dover .1 It > winfhr Air Muustr> furf kin of air will nd over all Britain and will kUin to cut h>me luel
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    Govt may seize S'pore's buses
    201 1 fre? Press Staff Reporter '"VLRNMENT action to commandeer the Singapore Tracompany buses and provide new drivers for them •sume one of the most important public services rther delay is likely following the complete break- t>nciliation negotiations between STC workers and I at la>t n'trht's meeting
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    US SENDS PROTEST TO DUTCH
    64 1 M N TON. M n. W nding a to Holland E imposed on authorities —ds East Indes IT e nvxem-nt f ex■r v'-a Indonesian a rea s unde r K INlnniilm RepubliB D partxea: spjc.smau K >n March V regulations K "ere a^ restricting Th
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    FRENCH TO FLY TO HONGKONG
    20 1 FRENCH TO FLY TO HONGKONG f announced I Chinese IS!* a *r r ?om Pleted l c «nlon and A.P.
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    UNKNOWN
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    SHINOZAKI TELLS HIS STORY
    440 1 Free Press Stalf Reporter AN appeal by the Catholic Bishop Devals in 1942 to >ct what he could do about the women and children included i? the concentration area in upper Serangoon was referred to by Mamoru Shinozaki. the second prosecution wllnwi who continued his evidence
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    S'PORE CHINESE SHOT DEAD
    85 1 Free Press Staff Reporter In the early hours of this morning, the police from Paya Lebar were called out to investigate a murder in tahe Yeo Chu Kang Road, Singapore, for which, no motive has been found. The victim was a Chinese male. He had been
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    AIR MARSHAL FOR FAR EAST
    56 1 Air Marshal Sir Roderick M. Hill arrived at Kaitak airfield by air yesterday on a tour of India and i he Far East Command, says A P. from Hong Kong. He will discuss th e proposed changes in the technical aspect of the ir.ernal organisa'ion
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    UK footballers may strike
    89 1 BRITISH professional association football players decided at a meeting of the Players' Union in Manchester yesterday that they would strike on the evening of March 21 unless the Ministry of Labour agreed to arbitrate in the wages dispute. This threatens the biggest matches of the season,
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    ANDAMANS VITAL TO MALAYA—MP
    351 1 ANDAMANS VITAL TO MALAYA— MP LONDON, Monday. FUTURE administration of the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands was one of a number of questions which would have to be considered in connection with arrangements for the transfer of power from Britain to India, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Under-Secretary for India, said in
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    SHIP ON TOW
    26 1 The steamship Hawkesbury, bound from Baltimore for Hong Kong, is being towed by a U.S. coastguard cutter because of a fouled pump.- A.P.
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    BID TO MURDER ROXAS
    413 1 MANILA, Monday. DRESIDENT Manuel Roxas of the Philippines escaped assassination by a grenade-thrower late tonight as he concluded a speech in his campaign tor an amendment to the constitution, giving equal opportunities to Americans to exploit the economicwealth of the islands. Eighteen million Filipinos will vote
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    BANDITS RUN OWN 'GOVT'
    121 1 BANDITS RUN OWN 'GOVT' RANGOON, Monday. OANDrtS bands operating ;-i Central Burma have established a "parallel government"' with headquarters at Natmaufc, home town of the Deputy Cnaiiman of the Interim Government, U Aung San, near the oiitields of Ycnangyaung, according to reports in Rangoon newspapers today. The rep;i\s added: The
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    POLE-CZECH PACT
    40 1 A 20-year Polish-Czech treaty of alliance by which the countries agree to "take all measures po^i ble to avert any threat of attack by Germany or any state allied with her/' was signed in Warsaw yesterday, says Reuter
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    U.S. RUBBER WORKERS TO STRIKE
    123 1 U.S. RUBBER WORKERS TO STRIKE WASHINGTON, Moo. THE United States is face*. with the possibility of str k« in the near future among coal miners, and coramun riti ns and rubber workers. Coal: J~hn L. Lev us set Marvh 31 as the strike deadline jvhen h? ordered his 400.000 soft
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    SIAM TO EXPORT MORE
    183 1 SIAM TO EXPORT MORE WHILE 'here .top of 19,000 tons in Skun's rice export in February, shtpmem* during March would amount a 75.000 tons, and in April. UO.tOf tons. These nsures were g: by Dr. Edith Summerskill mcn.ary Secretary to the Mm of Food, in 'Ye House of C jnons
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    REVOLT CALL BY BURMA REDS
    37 1 The Communist Party of Burma yesterday called for a "countrywide revolution" of Burmese peasantry, Reuter says. A Communist conference ait Pyu, central Burma, also resolved to unite Burma, Karen and Indian peasants
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  • FEATURES...
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      BRITAIN IS SICK BUT NOT DEAD
      917 2 Hall Romneys London Letter WHEN an American jour- nalist in London, cabling to his paper in New Vork this week, described Britain as "an old, run-down luuntry", he did rot mean to be flattering. I think he was inclined to liken us to a
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      308 2 THERE is a bridge crime in today s hand. See If you can spot the c-ime and the criminal before we reveal them. West opened the six of spades, Bast played low, and South won with the ten. Declarer next led the ace of dute end ruffed
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      THE CHEMICAL DESCENT OF MAN
      471 2 THE CHEMICAL DESCENT OF MAN CHEMICAL discoveries that have outstripped Darwin and may foretell man's future evolution have been described in a report to the American Chemical Society by Dr. Robert R. Williams, who synthesized vitamin B-i. Dr. Wiiiiams' report was in response to award of the P-rkin Medal, one
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      HE FINDS JOBS FOR OTHER MEN
      264 2 HE FINDS JOBS FOR OTHER MEN WHEN RQMS. William A. Ree, Grenadier Guards, left the Army after 21 vears, he looked round for a job and found one finding \bs for uther ex-Servicemen. He was appointed one of nearly 50 professional "jobrindeis" employed by the National Association for Em ployxnent
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      884 2 o n!rk Kit t nvn Summary; 9.00 a.m. Jazz Club; 7.00 metres. 5-5 30 p m. 19.84 mei\*\Ul\J IVIALAI A p.m. Forces' Favourites: 7.15 p.m. tres and 49.38 metres. &.3UFrederick Riddle (viola); 8 p.m. News; night 19.84 metres and 49.38 Singapore 8.30 p.m. Round the Halls from the m; trcs
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      99 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today UORN today, you have the capacity for completing a project once It is begun, despite all odds Opposition to your ideals only makes you struggle all the harder to achieve them You will never accept defeat. If temporarily suffering a set-back,
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      19 2 QUIZ i Mm Norv I .jsM. I G ChaaaaCM r.sor. Jtt d? la Ro ami 1UD on board u
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  • NEWS...
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      U.S. TO RETURN FORCES LOOT
      218 3 >1K and historical loot brought home from other countries by members of the American armed forces is I be collected for return, and the Government threatens to anyone refusing to give up any such objects worth >r m^re. 1 in a recent memorandum written :e
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      ASPIDISTRA GIRL ACQUITTED
      15 3 19 Bare.' nded ifter ;mM\ at Bert'•g c d she :ch a
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      UK WRITES SKYWAY CODE
      479 3 Regulations will cut air crashes BRITAIN'S new skyway code, designed to impose ihore positive control on air traffic and reduce flying risks, will be brought into force within the next few weeks. These now rules of the air, which four Government Departments have been debating for
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      LUCKY CHICKENS
      22 3 In his chicken house Mr. r\ Q. Raggett. Sandhurst (Berks), found a fox sleeping within 10 feet of perched chickens.
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      Frantic to get husband back
      268 3 Frantic to get husband back II DGE FORBES stated at special divorce sessions in BirJ mingham that a wife was so frantic to get her husband back after the co-respondent died that she was "prepared to go to any lengths." He granted a decree nisi to the husband, Mr. Roland
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      RIVAL CLAIM TO ANTI-MINE FLAIL DEVICE
      180 3 MAJOR A. S. J. du Ton, who claims to have invented the anci-mine flail device for tanks, was asked at the resumed r.g in London of the Royal Commission on Awards whether fir ere were o.her claimants. He said that the only one he
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      RETURNED MINERS
      24 3 A to.al of 9,501 men and boys entered or returned to the mines the first four we?ks of nationalisation of the pi>s.
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      Naturalisation revoked
      82 3 TI!F British naturalisation of Claude Felix Pierre Duvivier has been revoked because of "disaffection and disloyalty," the London Gazette announces. He became naturalised in 1932. When a mnn called Claud? Felix Pierre Duvivier pleaded guilty at Exmouth in January, 1940, to two charges under the Defcnre Regulations, s?ntence
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      He got the all-clear
      83 3 S? u A BULL, a bomb-disposal officer listening to him intently with a mine-detector it luoks as though the "a-bomb-in-a-bull" answer to ths old riddle has come true at last. Here is the explanation. Iford Lord Waterloo, a pedigree bull belonging to a Sussex farmer, had
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      59 3 DIKING the Rnyal tour of< South Africa, the King and Oi-.-eii, accompanied by the two Princesses, went to Kenilworth Racecourse outsid* Cape Town, and walked amon.? the many racegoers when they reached the racecourse. Here they are seen acknowledging the cheers of the large crowd on their. arrival, accompanied, i*
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      SHOUTED, SAVED WOMAN'S LIFE
      48 3 MRS. ADA WHEADON, aged 09, iVI of St. David-road, Birkenhead, fell on the track between a moving electric train and the pla'.form at Birkenhead Park Station. A man shouted to her to keep still— and the train passed within a few inches oi her.
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      NAZI FORTUNES IN ARGENTINA
      197 3 TTHE International Committee for the Study of European 1 Questions, which recently disclosed that a vast Nazi network is being built up again in Germany, has issued another report in which they say an end should be put to any kind of dilatory proceedings concerning de-Naziflcation.
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      INVASION PORT SOLO TO FRANCE
      43 3 France has bought part of the artificial port of Arromanches, in Normandy, where Allied troops were disembarked af.er D-Day. It will be used at Port Gentil, in French West Africa and later at Libreville, in the French Congo.
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      HARDY MONKEY
      31 3 Only three monkeys survived out of a consignment of two leopard cubs, two baby bears and four monkeys which left India fcr English zoos in the liner Clan Angus
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      IT'S NO SECRET
      17 3 A S Louis designer is making men's straw hats with ;he wearer's telephone number
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      BBC WARS ON 'BLUE' JOKES
      284 3 BBC WARS ON 'BLUE JOKES VARIETY producers at the 8.8.C. have started a new blitz against "blue 1 jokes on the air. All scrip's are vetted by the producers directly responsible, and any doub f ful passages referred to higher executives. Often a script is blue-pencilled by Mr. Pat Hillyard,
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      GAVE HIS ARM TO SHOW DEVOTION'
      156 3 A 22-YEAR-OLD bigamist sacrificed an arm to prove his devotion to his second "wife," it was said during a case at Kent Assizes. Ronald William Horsfield. wno admitted the bigamy charge, was bound over for two years. Mr. B. H. Waddy prosecuting, said Horsfleld
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      ATOMIC RESEARCH
      27 3 India's Atomic Research Commit f ee recommends the establishment of a 200.000,000- volt atomsplitting machine at the Tata Institu e of Fundamental Resea rrh. Bombay,
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      ACTORS' PAY CUT PROTEST
      103 3 HUNDREDS ol ac'ors ana ac resses u f a mrc< ng la London supnor'ed a d°cis on by Brilioh Equity, tbe ac ors' trade union, o submit to arbitration their dispute on wage cu s af °r ihe cancellat'on of mitine-s because of the fuel crsis
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      85 3 Ham 2pm UlSpm 6'3Opm 915 pm The Most Thrilling CROOK STORY APPOINTMENT WITH CRIME" WITH William HARTNELL Robert BEATTY Joyce HOWARD class f i e d advertisements Classifies smaQa 50 cts uei line. Mm Cham «2/--9 Pobl.r Nob. •5/- oet \ng*k olums tncb Persona* A D o m (if fl
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      23 3 .^RZAN PhiFs escape foiled liy Edgar Rice Burroughs L^[ I RpTI\.'PPN up3 TWO OCCTi P?C V| I-^ fSi^'i^'SiJrui rMiM^^ i^fffSff^^^yr^sfl AN ADJOINING CELL.
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Mar. 11, 1947. Out In The Open
      828 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, Mar. 11, 1947. Out In The Open IT becomes increasingly appar- ent that the Singapore i Federation of Trade Unions, with headquarters in Snort Street, where the Communists fclso hold th:ir fervent meetings, is less an organisation devoted to furthering the interests of the workers
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      THE GENERAL TACKLES MINES
      1641 4  - THE GENERAL TACKLES MINES Peter Lawrence by THE OTHFA MAN THE frosty, black night 1 hung over the Welsh hills, as black as the faces of the men coming from the night shift. As they walked they sang and their pit lamps bobbed up and down like a chain of
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      FAITH
      23 4 He that hath a forward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief. Proverbs, 17, 20.
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      THE JOB
      203 4 PENERAL Godwin-Austen is now GOC, South -Western Division, National Coal Board. He controls more than 300 pits. He receives general instruction* from the National Coal Board (chairman, Lord Hyndley) and is responsible for their execution in his Division. Assisting him are experts in Colliery Management, Production, Labour and
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      492 4 OARBARA SHAW, one of 'he two girls who made their debut as 8.8.C. television announcers recently. They are holiday reliefs for Macdonald Hobley and Winifred Shotter. IN a small crowd watching a team of gymkhana motor-cyclists at High Beech in Epping Forest in 1928 stood a young
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      WRITING ON RICE
      77 4  -  Howard W. Blakeslee By r[E skiU of James W Zaharee, termed the world's champion miniature writer, is told by Irving Wallace in an article in the Saturday Evening Post which lists among Zaharee s various achievements his writing in ink the entire United States' Declaration of Independence
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      SFTU ATTACKS S'PORE GOVT 'CRUSHING LABOUR'
      304 5 SFTU ATTACKS S'PORE GOVT 'CRU SHING LABOUR' Free Press Staff Reporter tatemen. issued to the Free Press, the President of 2i B «r 3 mre Federation of Trade Unions, Mr. P. ttarks the Government for trying to crush L >es the Labour Advisory Board recently set r Sin^atM- wing: "It
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      DUTCH SEIZE 2 SINGAPORE SHIPS
      49 5 Fre« Press Staff Reporter rimei and detention of Singapore tradX E.I. Government has reached the linese Importers and Exporters Assoized vessels, which was carrying a 'oth and local-made tyres and tubes, p 63 chartered by Chin Hong Co., re it has to be bec»
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      GOVERNORS MEET
      7 5 ikiiig Mr. Pj^s Si! rence.
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      RICE FOR S'HAI
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      CONSTITUTION TALK
      9 5 aT^-'i I **m rn. on I ion."
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      AT HOME
      34 5 An At Home was held at the Chinese Consulate, Singapore, for members of the Lingndm Iniversity Alumni Association r on Sunday. The Consul General, Dr. Wii Paak-shin?, is a graduate of Lingnam.
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      UNREST HOLDING UP BURMA RICE
      453 5 UNREST HOLDING UP BURMA RICE BURMA'S rice export trade is seriously hampered by the political unrest and general insecurity in the country and the interminable labour strikes in Rangoon. In spite of a rich harvest and the energetic efforts of the Governmentsponsored Agricultural Projects Board to boost the exports of
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      Horse betting claim fails
      113 5 ASI'IT filed by Mr. G. W. Fernando of Panadura, (Ccylon> f against the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd.. Colombo, for the recovery of R5.88.60* has been d'smissrd with costs by Mr. V. L. St. flair Swan, District Judge of Colombo Mr. Fernanda's case was that
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      GOVT STUDIES PLANS FOR WAR MEMORIAL
      116 5 GOVT STUDIES PLANS FOR WAR MEMORIAL WB the Singapore Gov- menc are two plans recommended by the War Memorial 1 Committee, liie first plan cails; for Use grant of scholarships to people of Singapore to train for the higher administra- j I>osts of the colony— for eb at feast $30^»
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      CHINA TAX
      50 5 China's revenue from direct; taxes this year will amount to: about CN$8,500 billion, CJ which' Snringhai aione will yield *****, oilhor, according to a spokesman I of the Canton branch office of D^ect Taxation. Canton is ex- i Pe np d t0 yield ab0ut $SOa bmon i U.P.
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      WAR TRIAL
      33 5 -Photos by courtesy of These pictures show the prosecation (left) and the Court at the Singapore Chinese massacre trial which is continuing at the Victoria Memorial Hall.- Sin Chew Jit Poh.
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      TANI TO DIE
      48 5 Lieut. Gen. Hirao Tanl, divisional commander of the Japanese forces in Nanking during the rape of the city in 1937, was sentenced Xo die by a Chinese military court yesterday on charges of committing atrocities against non-com-batants. The accused naled nn hearing his sentence.- U.P.
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      Little Indonesia in Singapore 800 USE 'MERDEKA' AS A GREETING
      446 5 Little Indonesia in Singapore 800 USE 'MERDEKA' AS A GREETING Free Press Staff Reporter "MERDEKA This is the greeting when Indonesians meet, and this cry is becoming more frequently heard in Singapore today. Who are the members of the Indonesian community and why are they here? I set out to
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      GEN. GRACEY IS INDIAN SIGNALS CHIEF
      59 5 GEN. GRACEY IS INDIAN SIGNALS CHIEF LIKUT.-Gen. D. D. Graeey, (right, photographed with Gen. Slim) Commander of Ist Indian Corps, has been appointed Colonel Commandant of the Indian Signal Corp* in succession to Gen. Sir Robert Canells, who has vacated this appointment on reaching the age limit. Gen. Gracey was
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      SHORT SERVICE COMMISSIONS
      164 5 THE present scheme for Short Service Commissions will cease from the July 1, 1947 and, i n the meantime, acceptance for regimental duty in infantry regiments is confined to exceptional cases due to an anticipated surplus on the "run down" of that arm. Applications submitted by candidates
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      New ship line for Singapore
      395 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN old-established Canadian shipping line which formerly *i ran cargo services from British Columbia to South Africa is extending its freight services to Singapore, and the Lake Kootcnay, a 10,000 ton cargo ship belonging to the line, has just arrived in
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      WAR CLAIMS PROCEDURE EXPLAINED
      256 5 WAR CLAIMS PROCEDURE EXPLAINED INQUIRIES have been lece.ved 1 from the public as to why claims in respect of property alleged to have been requ'-siiionert prior to the Japanese occupation, whether by the Civil Authorities or the Armed Benrlces, should be lodged through the War Damage Claims Commission. An ofHcial
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      INDIAN ARMY RECRUITING
      96 5 ]\TORE Ahirs, Jats, Rajputa and Mahrattas are required to fill vacancies in the ranks of the Indian Army. During the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1946, the number of Ahirs who enlisted was only 23 per cent, of the total requirements for this class. Corresponding figures for Jats,
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      CHINESE SEARCH FOR RELATIVES
      141 5 CHINESE SEARCH FOR RELATIVES ELEVEN Chinese, who have lived in New Zealand lor the past 20 yep.rs, nrs on their way back to Chini to see if their families survived t- e Japanese occupation. All J> rtf?* came by r-iane from New Zealand to Sydney where they were scheduled to
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      WOMAN DENIES ASKING FOR YOUTH DRUG
      602 6 WOMAN DENIES ASKING FOR YOUTH DRUG burgeon loses five guinea claim At Trinity House depot, BUocwall, London, are kept and maintained the lantorns, buoys and signals that guide shipping through the dangerous waters and fojs round Britain's coast And some interesting experiments *»te carried on there too. Latest idea ii
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      AND THEN WIFE HIT BURGLAR
      215 6 AFIER Mr. William Taylor and his wife, Marjorie, had lain in bed for half an hour arguing with burglars in their bedroom at Windmill Hill, Hampstead, London, Mrs. Taylor leapt out, punched one of the burglars in the stomach, and made both run. The intruders,
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      FULLY FASHIONED FOR SERVICES
      58 6 Fully fashioned silk or rayon stockings are to be provided for ihe women's Services under new regulations now being framed, says a London report. New caps are being designed. Changes in men's uniform will end regimental dress traditions, such as the claret trousers of the 11th
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      EIRE RADIO CHIEF
      34 6 The new direc.or of broadcasting in Eire will be Mr. Robert Brennan, at present Irish Minister in Washington, who will be succeeded there by Mr. John Nunan. Consul-General in New York.
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      THEY GET MURDER SHOW
      140 6 THEY GET MURDER SHOW •TRIALS are to De held in Lon- don police stations as part of the plan for training 16,000 special constables tor whom Scotland Yard Is appealing. In addition to patrol duties and traffic control, these special constables will be called on to assist regulars at ceremonial
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      HIS DIVORCE TOOK 17 Yrs
      112 6 QELAY in bringing divorce proceedings under the poor persons' procedure on the ground cf adultery committed in 1934, was criticised by Judge W. Stewart, C^mmiss-on^r at Leeds Divorce Court. John Minett, m.ner, of Wood Green, Wh:tworth. near N rmantcn, was granted a poor person's certificate
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      HOME FROM HOME
      27 6 The Russian steel delegation, expec'.ed in Britain early in April, will visit the main steel producing centres in England, Wales and Scotland. Including Teesside.
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      EIRE BUTTER CUT
      25 6 Eire's butter ra ion is being reduced from 4oz. to 2oz; the margarine ration is to go up from 2 to 4oz
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      £400 tip for taxi-driver
      61 6 k tip "for courtesy" will enable ex-Serviceman Charles Amos, of Hamilton, Bermuda, wh"re until a year ago there were no cars allowed to buy his own taxi. Mrs. Clarence Gasque, of Chicago, widow of a company director, rave him the money after he had driven her
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      84 6 BEAUTIFUL as fairylar. grim as an old Nordic legend of the frozen wastes, this picture from Dartmoor tells of the hardships suffered by man and boast in Britain's grea: freeze- up Trudging throat, :i ihe snow in the picture is Mr George Easterbrook, of Rundlestone, who. every day for three
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      LATEST PLASTIC IS WALL PAPER
      121 6 pLASTIC PRINTED embossea wallpaper which looks as I though it has been hanci-painted is one of the post-war design available in Britain now that wallpaper factories are getting j back into production. Plastic de- signs are printed on pastti-ihaci-ed 3atinet f e papers by a
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      Atom electricity in UK-1949
      152 6 Atom electricity in UK -1949 BRITAIN'S first atomic energy station should be producing electricity from uranium by the end of 1949. Dr. T. E. Allibone of the research staff of M«jtropoiitanVickers, Trafford Park, Manchester shortly to supervise the construction of an atomic laboratory for the engineering industry who made this
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      FACTORY FOR SEA WEED
      274 6 FA CTOR Y FOR SEA WEED THE Depaitment of Agriculture lor Scotland i> >iud?» 1 ihe suitability of North Ui>t. in the Hebnde>. f w ereciion and operation of a factory for the utilisation^ million ions of seaweed growing in h waters, fe William Mackenzie, a member of the er^ineering
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      Pay £1,000 to leave .K.
      83 6 EpftGAPE organisations are siauszl'iig tax and currency ra^et« And other criminals out of Uie country to places where British j^«ticc cannot reach th« .u. As much Jl 1.000 u» being d Nt <he Channel tr'.p: nlaiit u»d wartim* I' -boat J.ascr. aic bing used. TV
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      HE GAVE PUB AS SUN'S MEMORIAL
      104 6 L'X-MEMBLRS ol itMt OoldstftMl Guards when vis.ting Cornwall will be able t j buy a drink ,in their own public hoius; Ye Olde Inn. at Gu'.val. ntoi PenI zance. Capta n M. Boi:tno. Ha of the present cwner, was killed at Oran in 1942,
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      JUST ONE DAY
      23 6 Maurice Chevalier, who was refused a permit in 1945 to tour Britain, is due in London for one day's visit.
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      140 6 Fi-ae Press Crossword No. 57 Bl^^feH l^^^^Bf 4 I I HH iHHI 5 )Hl 9b CLUES i E lievtr in the doctxine that natural causes arise from chance and n (10) 9 See ls> Acroas 10 Chief native officer of a company in the Indian Army (7). 11. Horizontal-branched evergreen
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      28 6 JA^"" Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya That MISS FLOSSIE FLITE. t h e H|BPi^*i f WirH US/ BUT TH^~ POuCC 'Tllil \IF YOU D ILL
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      ARMY FIELDING STRONG XI TODAY
      433 7 Rv our Soccer Reporter IatdrsMtai ffame in the S.A.F.A. league commY ft* trie Stadium today, against the Sinpeut** at b nave chosen an almost entirely differill i :ck *LY which was beaten by the odd goal in seven team t0 c^a •>•» ;he Malays V
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      GOOD SCORE BY S.C.C.C.
      126 7 GOOD SCORE BY S.C.C.C. t dai >n a I* irtcket. Co owing to good K SSn fielding, and eventuf*f* B A O s iased L^Sc-C cSninC l»«r Mattock JJ^d roml 45 rans for the :et~. MMICCCINTS OFFICE 5 S OfCC MgK lough n b tock 6, ulivei irtMrt b c
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      VICTORY BY THREE RUNS
      79 7 VICTORY BY THREE RUNS RASC -cared 45 Christinas c »eU to take three wickets for II Coy scored hared V"-» L— '-akin iu .rM y J Gol»:an dng ihrrc 1 W Qt iJr od (J. S Gaiis- S. Ma: Gre-nwo^d 0 Straw I C I :t out 4 Tc-.--BOHLIM, "--■-aas
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      CLAKE RANGERS WIN AT NEE SOON
      73 7 mee mm\' I ft** taTeS 11 Trar bv I" -ayid 't fc=* I- A E* 9 Nair fc R 5 3 Arod Rumblelow I y b Gant 13. BT^^iELh Jaobar b Gan t I E o for 12. I M I CAMP Croo^ S
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      CEYLON SPORTS CLUB ELECTS OFFICIALS
      120 7 THE 14th Annual General Meeting of 1 1 the Ceylon Sports Club was held at the Ta Tong Restaurant, Chulia Stxeet, on Saturoay. The following were t-ltcted officj bearers for 1947: Presilent, Mr E. M. Tainpoe-Phil-v.ce-prLsident, Dr. T. Balasxngham hon. secretary, Mr. C. T. Retnam;
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      U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
      38 7 LONDON, Man RESULTS ol Rugby League games played to-day are Rugby League Cu~). first round, second leg: Huddersneld 3, Dewsbury 0 cDewsbury eliminated). Rugby League other match: Swinton Carcassonne (French Rugby league champions) 2 Reuter
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      Amateurs fight for boxing titles
      241 7 SIXTY -POUR competitors were finally accepted for Singapore's first postwar amateur boxing tournament, preliminaries in -which were decided at the Happy World Stadium last night. There was a large attendance of boxing fans, testifying to the popularity of amateur boxing tax Singapore. Entries were larger
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      Baksi The Joker
      128 7 BIG Joe Baksi, who fights Bruce Woodcock over 10 rounds at Harringay next month, is a giant with the heart of a boy. With a passion for practical jokes, he arrived in England with explosive matches, butterflies that nutter from almost every envelope he hands you, and
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      SPRUNG DOUBLE BETTING
      303 7 SPRUNG DOUBLE BETTING LONDON. Mon. PLLOWING good reports at his progress on the sands at Redcar. there was a heavy demand for Langton Abbot at the callover on the Lincolnshire to-day when offers of 14 1 were readily token and, after last year's winner had been backed to win £24.000.
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      G. BRITAIN PLAYERS WANT £50
      492 7 Rest Of The Sport THERE are doubts whether the Great Britain versus Rest 1 of Europe soccer match arranged for Glasgow on May 10 will be played following the sensational resolution Laketi in Manchester yesterday, reports Reuter. It is not connected with the threatened strike
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      M.C.C. TOUR PROFITS
      37 7 MELBOURNE, Mon. THE Victorian Cricket Association announce that the England cricket tourists from sue games played in Victoria made £23,755, which is nearly half trie team's total profit from the whole Australian tour. Reuter
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      PORT VALE WIN 1-0
      28 7 PORT Vale beat Bournemouth by i one goal to nil in a third division (southern) league soccer match played yesterday, reports Reuter from London.
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      CHANGI SOCCER
      33 7 A FRIENDLY game of ?oecer between the Chanel Civilian Sports Club XI r.rd the Manr.malfti Indian S.C. XI resulted in a win fo^ th2 Changi team by six goals to one.
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      Changi R.A.F. Cricketers
      22 7 Changi R.A.F. Cricketers The R.A.F. Chanffi cricket team which beat the Singapore Cricket Club by four wickets on the padang on Sunday.
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      Vicar Tips Horse In Hational
      187 7 PLYMOUTH. Mon. THE Vicar of St. Barnabaj Church, Plymouth, the Reverend J. S. larkc. turned tipster today in )>Lparish magaaine and advised his tl»n n. to back Bricett in the drand National Steeplechase. -The National is ocr greatest rare," he wrote of the world's biggest
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      S.C C. XI v CUSTOMS
      69 7 m HE S.C.C. soccer team to meet the Customs on the padang tomorrow, kick-off at 5.15 p.m., is: T. W. Cctterell; D. Brennan, A. Glanvllle; C. J. Bcmbroke, S. J. Donaldcn, V R. Burton; H. Eichelsheim. A. Pyke, R. V. C. McKay. W. C. Bainbridge,
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      LOW SCORING AT WELLINGTON
      374 7 Scoreboard M.C.C.— 1ST INNS. Wash brook c Oakley b Wilson 68 Fishlock c Lamason b Murray 0 Edrich c Murray b Cave 20 ompton c Lamason b Chatties 27 Hammond b Cave Ikin c Tindill b Wilson E -am c Cave b Murray 14 Smith ran
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      IRISH BID FOR TRIFLE CROWN
      863 7 All In The Game From George Chishohn LONDON, By Air MaiL r VHE Rugby Union, whose clubs have been hard hit by the 1 weather, have extended the present season from April 19 to April 30 and will have a very attractive finale in the
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      36 8 A bea~*iml but d rim picture from near Rundlestone, Dor. moor. On the moor, wild ponies, desperate i »h food, have been eating each others tails and Bjhtuig for cardboard boxes and paper to eat.
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      CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      140 8 CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY k Np.iiai Market corr *«>ondent the prices of rubbei at 1) j m toda> as follows Buyers Seller* Cts Cta per lb per lb. N-» I R S S. Spot I I 4 1 42 No I f>b in bales March 43'., 43 >
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      S'pore shares
      82 8 I*HE Singapore share market opened quiely this morning with fair enquiries for shares such as Malayan Breweries at $22.25 or near. Wearnes 5-J.75 cum the dividend. United Engineers $14.25 cum dividend. Hammers $43. Gammons were sligh.ly easier with shares on offer at $5-.35. Traders are weaker with sellers
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      London stocks
      81 8 (XN the London Stock Exchange yesterday, the markets closed heavy being unsettled by the decline in giltEdged on deflationary talk and economic parliamentary discussions. At ftrlt selling of British Funds was little more than routine business but the decline was more pronounced as the day went on. This
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      New York stocks
      145 8 NEW YORK, Tuesday. ry* ih e New York Stock Exchange >esterday, in relatively quiet dealings traders were cautiously awaiting developments of the present conference on Ur.i ed States foreign policy. Th? market fluctuated quietly for niost of the session around midday levels cf changes up to one
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      Copra & Coconut Oils
      68 8 Copra Coconut Oils IN average cost of insurance and lreirht coots per ton of copra and cjccaut cil imported during 1946 from Empire s«.urc« other than Ceylcn were quo'xt as £30 15s Bd. and £55 ss. 3d. re cively. D tTd.ch Summerskill. Parliamentary S .rv to the Ministry of Food,
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      100,000 British are in India
      271 8 LONDON, Monday. fH£ number of European British subjects in India was about L 100,000 so far as could fce ascertained, said Mr. Arthur Under Secretary for India, in a pftffi&uimUtJ ieply tcday. Mr. Henderson added that he had no hrimttfr tion about occupational distribution. Mr.
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      AUSTRALIA SIGNS AIR PACT
      63 8 The AiLstralian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Erat, has signed an aviation agreement between the American and Australian Governments, says UP. The agreement sets up the Eagle Farm airfield at Brisbane as an international airport for the use of trans-Pacific commercial planes Australia previously had
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      BURMA WILL PAY
      47 8 The British Ur.der Secretary for India and Burma, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said in a parliamentary reply yesterday that the Government believed that the interim Government of Burma would meet financial obligations He added that the British Government had not considered Burma's future financial policy.
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      British way of freedom
      89 8 THE Washington Star said in an editorial on Monday that "it is of high significance that the supreme crisis of Britain and its Empire should have coincided with the holding of a Communist conclave international in character in London." Th? paper added that "at heart such
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      BIG FOUR WILL DISCUSS CHINA PROBLEM
      453 8 MOSCOW, Monday. AT the first meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow today, it was decided, at the request of M. Molotov, the Russian Foreign Minister, to discuss the situation of China in pursuance of the decision taken by the Big Three
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      U.K. SPENDS MORE ON EDUCATION
      81 8 U.K. SPENDS MORE ON EDUCATION LONDON, Mon. BRITAIN plans to spend £22,000,--000 more on €ducatio n this year. The Education Department's budgets published today fixed the total expenditure cf 1947-48 at £136,185.535 compared to £113,--785.112 in 1946-47. The biggest increase— £16,870,--00 go in grants to local education authorities, who will
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      INDIA GOVT TO BE SACKED REPORT
      200 8 LONDON, Monday. YISCOUNT Mountbatten's first move as Viceroy of India will be to call for the formal resignation of the Indian Interim Government, says United Press today quoting "authoritative" sources in London. This move would be carried out under the orders of the British
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      SHINOZAKI
      192 8 (Continued from Page I) with him and tried to help the women," Shinozaki added. Shinxaki spoke of a Second Lieutenant of the Imperial Guards Divisions. "He was a man of understanding and, with the Bishop, we were able to help the women and children who were taken out." The
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      U.S. SAILORS HELD IN PALESTINE
      80 8 U.S. SAILORS HELD IN PALESTINE JERUSALEM, Mon. SOME 20 American crew members A the unauthorized immigrant sh.p Ben Hecht were brought before the Arab magistrate in Haifa today and ordered to be held for 15 days pending their trial on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration into Palestine. The
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      FOG DELAYS PLANES
      37 8 The log yesterday delayed the departure of The British Overseas Airways Corporation's services from London to Calcutta and Jahanneshm? Fog had also delayed arrival of incoming plant* from Ca:i Lagos and Johannesburg. Renter x-eports
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      SINGAPORE TIDES
      18 8 H*t Lb* To-day Ollf S ft. 0715 1.5 ft. 1330 9» ft. 1931 2 1 ft.
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      HOME FUEL CUT FOR UK RECOVERY
      683 8 LONDON. Monday APENING ihv debale on Britain's economic position in the V House of Commons today. Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Tra?»e, announced that a central command lo plan industrial recovery uoulrt be set up and said that one at the
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      $10 MILLION BILL FOR U.S. SHIP
      207 8 BATAVU. M«j A CLAIM of $10,000,000 may be Mbn lands and Netherland Indies Gov. seizure by Dutch naval forces off olhna* United States Isbrandtren Lino ship. MartinJ*^ The ship was escorted to Batavia by the Dutch destroyer Kortenaer, a guard was placed on board
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      LABOUR MEETING
      33 8 Mr. P.A.B. MeKerron, Colonial Secretary, Singapore, will open the first meeting of the Singapore Labour Advisory Board to be neld in the Council Chamber, Secretariat, at 3 p.m. on Friday, March
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      PARIS TUBES CLOSED
      41 8 PARIS TUBES CLOSED As Pans Metro workers sUgcd an hour-lonr strike I w«rc prevented from entering th f tubes «rtaTkJ 1 2l prevented newspapers from appearing a!> CrveruirJS I including polk-emen, busmen sn^uavmf:i trlephti and teachers staged a protest for iljpbtr^l
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      UNKNOWN
      38 8 THE code of the dd bctw ..r.c West, on pore In a lenrtj publish a by Chester Gusrc. yesterday v *5J Gupta oeco^J ana I K frcm Br:-ar. h»w«fl tolerant ;.J.l tish are 1 us these Reuter
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      99 8 WEA THER Showers in afternoon W LA MILK foiecast for 24 hours from noon today compiled by the R A.F. Central Forecasting Station, Air Command, Far East: Weather will be mainly cloudy with brigtot intervals and showers during the afternoon, dying out about dusk Cloud will persist during the night
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