The Singapore Free Press, 9 April 1947

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    23 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA I SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1947. I J R!< i 111 (IN Ir>
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    331 1 CUTAN SJAHRJR, Indonesian Prime Minister, accompanied by his Dutch wife and some of the Indonesian delegates who attended the later-Asian conference m New Delhi, is due m Singapore this afternoon on the way back to Java. Sjahrir will be met at Kallang airport by a representative of the Governor,
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    UK SKY GIANT
    36 1 lorkers the world's biggest Undplan^ is nearing Bristol Aeroplane Company at I il cj unterpart of the 'Queen Eliiabeth' the plane is the Brabaxon I' the gijantic .ire Almost ready for final assembly.
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    UK TREKKERS REA CM SOUTH AFRICA
    286 1 UK TREKKERS REA CM SOUTH AFRICA PORT ELIZABETH (South Africa), Tuesday. ALMOST five month- alter th».\ left Coventry m Lngland /i m two British Army lorries, ei^ht Rnton- have completed their 10,000 mile trek over seas, deserts and mountains to South Africa, where they plan to establish new homes. Members
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    HE KEPT TRYING
    35 1 A. P. Carles Brown, 86-year-old art -st, died m L ndon on Monday. Brown claimed an unbroken record of 150 rejection slips sent to him by the Royal Academy sine? 1888. U.P.
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    U.S. WANTS TO DEPORT 30 INDIANS
    23 1 U.S. WANTS TO DEPORT 30 INDIANS I -day. m V ided V V diaxu I the W X to ap- v ere Reuter
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    INDIANREGIMENT TO LEME JAPAN
    79 1 INDIANREGIMENT TO LEME JAPAN NEW DELHI. Tues. j INDIAN Armed Forces Head- quarters stated today that the Seventh Indian Light Cavalry Regiment wouW be withdrawn from the British Occupation Force m Japan. This would leave the 268tn Indian Infantry Brigade at Kuve and a squadron of the Royal Indian Air
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    WOMAN ROBBED OF $1,000
    69 1 WOMAN ROBBED OF $1,000 rO armed robberies took place m Singapore m the last 24 hours. One was m Blanco Court at 8 a.m. yesterday when a Chinese woman was robbed of $1,000 by armed men. The other took place at 2.15 o'clxk this morning when a gunman wayla d
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    MORE MOO FOR
    76 1 TUANS who leave 1 Si, gapore For a spell of leave m England will m future be able to take £20 sterling out of tht* Colony with them for "travelling expenses" instead of the £10 to which they have been limited since the end ot the war
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    FUND CHIEF RESIGNS
    39 1 President Truman has accepted the resgination of Harry D. White as United States executive director of the International Monetary Fund. White told the President that the "work of the Fund is now off to good start."
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    Britons rush to emigrate
    80 1 THREE HUNDRED I HOI SAND men. women and children who are planning to leave Britain to settle m Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, are creating a shipping bottleneck. Aus tralia House m London 15 pettin applications f or the passages at the rate of 300
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    61 DIE IN FIGHT OVER WOMAN
    194 1 61 DIE IN FIGHT OVER WOMAN CASABLANCA, Tuesday. SIXTY ONE people were killed m Casablanca, North Africa, yesterday during a savage battle between natives and Senegalese troops of the French Colonial forces arriving: from a BCUffie between two Senegalese soldiers and a prostitute. The young Moroccans intervened on the side
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    TERRORISTS KILL
    362 1 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. GUNMEN, using silenced pistols, ambushed two CID plain U clothes constables outride the heavily-guarded >■■ lasb£a police station tonight, and killed one of them. seriou> v wounding the other. The terrorists escaped m the c m leaving a nearby cinema. The attack was believed to be
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    48 1 Britain's new "chief planner," SIR EDWIN PLOWDEN, started his job to-day at the War Cabinet Office m Great George Street, London. He is starting with his awn MCTCtary and shorthand typist. Very soon his nucleus staff ol experienced planners thrfe or four only will be annmjnewl, says Reuter.
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    CHILD CHARGED WITH MURDER
    59 1 A nine -year -old schoolboy yesterday was charged m tile Juvenile C .-urt, Port Talbot, Wales with having murdered a four-year-old companion. The court has wlthlield accused boy's name. The murdered boy is Glyndwr Parfitt whose feet and hands were ted t:gether with shoelaces before he
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    DELAY IN SOUTH AFRICA PROBLEM
    44 1 DELAY IN SOUTH AFRICA PRO BLEM The Prime Mir. ster of the Un:on of South Africa Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, told the H:use of Assembly m Capetown yesterday legislation to include South west Africa 'n representation m tha Union Parliament would n~t proceed this session.
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    STRIKE CUTS FOOD STOCKS
    193 1 Free Pres* Staff R." porter npilf Australian shipping strike has canned the Singapore 1 food stocks to decline, and today black market prices are ri^in^ until butter— at Ihe "black market's own c n'rola~A price" of $8 a pound— fc ?no>t unobtainable. Pota' are only obtaiaaUc
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    Long leave for S'pore Governor
    83 1 Long leave for S'pore Governor I ne Press Staff Reporter GOVERNMENT House thu» morning loniirnu-d that Franklin GUWMMt, the (iover- i nor. will be leaving Singapore for a spell of leave m England j next month, when approval is J forth-COming from London. Official circles indicate that Mr. P V
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    'REPORT TO POLICE'
    139 1 'REPORT TO POLICE' Fiet t-xv— a c/.an Reporter ABOUT eleven days ago, two Chinese entered a house at l Oth mile Changi Road, Singapore, and attempted extortion of $2,000. There wa,s not sufficient money m the house and they took sway $75— all that was to be found. They threatened
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    NAZIS PROFITED FROM VICTIMS
    65 1 The American prosecutor of German war criminals at Nuremburg yesterday charged General Oswald Pohl and 17 other Germans of the SS "economic office" with crimes against victims m Nazi concentration camps. McHaney said that Pohl and his men had collected fees from licensed prostitutes at the
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    FORD DIED WITHOUT Or
    125 1 Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE Henry Ford, the richest man m the world, lay dying by candlelight at his flooded estate at Dearborn, Michigan, on Monday rrght. an employee ran half-a-mile to his engineering laboratory to summon a doctor. The River Rouge floods had disrupted power
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    BOARDED UP
    619 2 This article explains why the windows of Spores St. Andrew's Cathedral are still PRFE PRESS WOMAN REPORTER MANY people have wondered what has happened to the stained gla^s window of Singapore's St. Andrew's Cathedral. It was taken out when World War II began and put back on the
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    CHURCH WIN DO WS
    578 2 FROM A -S'lX'l \l OKKKSPONDI i IT is obvious, of course, that since the great point of woiking m stained glass nowadays lies m ihe quite unrivalled opportunities this medium offers fur rich and brilliant colour flaming jewel! fry, as Ruskin called it to <.h$ gn
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    TODAYS BRIDGE PROPI.E.M
    202 2 THE bid Jin^ r: na :onai ondge match I an a Brazilian four The b: the American team Is s- a. As may b arrived a t the inferior c mds rather than ior contract of six spad m was d bad break m diamonds, wh sma!:
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    FRESH FRUIT GIFTS
    237 2  -  Hall Romney jlu a u( LETTER by WHY, at present a basket of fj vegetables would be a acceptable present than fox furs and d: and cigars, gold cgai and cuff and the like, which Valentine Holmes K< disco ye: h ver less trouble than his Street
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    POLISH-DUTCH BARTER
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      344 2 WiliM \Y 8.00 d m Music On tl. and h tne News; 8. -H m i 9 a m 10 am. Accordetn Club (23rd Ay 10.15 r with I I <i: 11 4.- Sho- 12.15 ir; 1J .30 Band 1 p News Plasl p.m. Paradise: 1.15 Music* ppe; 1 45
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      201 2 Ql HAT LIVE— 2. 5. YOUK LUCKY Fortuii<»p!e burn BORN tiiday. you are a natal ral leader and oth instinctively turn help and advice. You are I t nipestuous and fi<'ry. Unless y v are (ireful. > ii. < me a despot m x own circle. Fortunately, howevtr. s v
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    TREATED WIFE LIKE CREW
    66 3 mander, who, the judgt w» wife as if she hus his submarine |r ted a decree nt>i on the ground of nd Lieut. Cmdr, Francis Nelson Kh>is lohibon. R.Y <>f I>nne road, S^aford, Sussex. JcuicJ the ion, was dismissed. Lieut.vife, Muriel Geraldine, now of London, S.W.,
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    Mr, Buliard did not forget
    96 3 MX ERNESI Bl I LARD, 77- old Norwich company director, ahvays remembered during his lifetime the soldiers d.sabled m the first world war. will, just publish d, proved they were not fcrgotten. The ultimate residue of 190,861 estate is bequeathed to the N t Forgotten
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    CLIFF CRASH
    13 3 Cliffs at Bacton. Norfolk, coled on :o the beach after is
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    POLICEE SEEK RAG MAN IN LONDON
    39 3 POLICEE SEEK RAG MAN IN LONDON jrching Ix>ndon s foreign md bone man, Joseph m tor alleged black mar ins during the occupation. up-dealer is reported to s profits. It is believed m- escaped from Paris to B Hi
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    SPORTSMEN GIVE AID
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    48 3 i child-lover, feeding a baby boy he back seat of his cab m London 1 Kal adopt the boy if v .inted a baby son. His baby II n.,\v has a young daughter and fen weeks* time. If it is a girl, certain to adopt his cab find.
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    WINDOW CLEANER HAD FILM PLAN
    545 3 WINDOW CLEANER HAD FILM PLAN Fooled city of 18,000, say police A I-ITTLE over a month ago George Kirby, 26-year old n one-time naval rating, walked into Durahm's No. 1 hotel. He was there, he announced, to make another "Efow Green is My Valley" type of film, with the Durham
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    LONDON WONT BE PAINTED
    35 3 London must make do wUh a wash and brush up despite the arrival of many overseas visitors this year. Public authorities. like ordinary citizens, can only get permission for essential repairs.
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    PARTED ONLY TO DIE
    197 3 PARTED ONLY TO DIE WHEN ailing, 86-year-oid Richard Bannard kissed his wife Sarah goodbye to leave for Daventry, Northamptonshire, public assistance hospital he knew he would never see her again. She too, knew that this parting- their first for 50 happily married years— was the end. But Mrs. Bannard managed
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    GIRL RISKED CLIFF DEATH
    80 3 MENA ROBERTS, 19-year-old Welsh shop assistant, rescued a stranded sheep from a precipice after f hre^ farmers bad failed. The girl by rope over the 100-foot precipice at Glandwir, Merionethshire. The precipice had a knife-like edge. Mena risked the rope breaking j and plunging her to
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    Motor in a matchbox
    103 3 CMALLEST electric motor m t h<? world two will go inside a J matchbox— will be on show at the forthcoming British Industries Fa>r. Invented by brothers J. V. and J. E. G. Eurich, the smaller of four types of "electro'.ors" is about one inch m
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    SPRING FLOW ERS
    21 3 First major consignment of Jersey spring flowers for Southern England and London mar- j kets left by air.
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    £30,000 dream under the sea
    239 3 UNDF.K the Bay <>i Biscay lies a 130.000 dream of adventinv There also lie five people one a woman who had hoped to make thai dream come true. That is the tragedy of the Famagusta landing-craft converted for £20,000 abandoned and sunk m the Bay.
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    SECRET PLANT FILLETS FISH
    139 3 BEHIND locked doors m Hull, Yorkshire. American engi--1 neers have been assembling a I secret 45-ftsh-a-mmute filleting i machine. First hint of the secret work came recently when the Hull Ice Co. applied for 6.0005t. of fish per clay for filleting. Realising that hundreds of skilled
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    THEY CAN'T HOLD PROBLEM BOY
    110 3 OF 14-year-old John Smith it was said m Canterbury Magistrates' Court: "He has escaped 29 times m 18 months from approved schools all over England. There isn't one that can hold him. "In the history of juvenile delinquency m this country there has never been
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    THE SQUAD THAT HELD THE FLOOD
    112 3 THE SQUAD THAT HELD THE FLOOD MAJOR (seated at left) m charge of a British Army flood relief squad, addresses his men hefore they begin the sealing of a serious fl^od breach m the banks of th-> River Ouse at Eant.i, Huntingdonshire. Recent British floods <aused the breach. I major's
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    £2,350 STOLEN BYTRALN GANG
    295 3 RAILWAY detectives and provincial police m Britain arc investigating the less of £2,354 worth of silver coinage which has been stolen from a train while m transit betw Liverpool and London. This is the second similar robbery within a short time. The theft is believed to
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    YACHT OT BE SUNK
    45 3 By the order of the executors of its la*e owner. T. B. F. Day s, of Durban, .he famous' yacht Westwood. said to be valued at £60.000 will be sunk, probably at Hurd Deep about 40 miles from Dartmouth, England Reuter
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    PENNIES IN POTATO
    14 3 A Scotch housewife at Carnouslie found two pennies inside a potato.
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    SCOTCH STILL STOPS
    28 3 Ben Nevis Distillery, ScoUano which restarted six weeks as^ after being closed for a year, is :gain closing, having used u^i its barley quo a.
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9,1947 Burma Polls Today
    472 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9,1947 Burma Polls Today •-i-iL long-promised elections m B to be held today a>r.d it is known m advance that the Anti-Fas Ist P pie's Freedom League, ied uy Aung San. Japanese-trained no turned his Burma Defence Army against the Nips m the later
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    MODEL 'T' CREATOR IS DEAD
    2144 4 MODEL 'T' CREATOR IS DEAD TTgM_gO DETROIT. Apr. 8x (REUTER) The death has occurred of the motor car magnate Henry Ford. Reuter, 3. 30 pia. FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTER AX a slogan "my job on earth is to make the best car at the lowest price," Henry Ford, eccentric, successful,
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    FAITH
    45 4 And he set I c ai d tin thousand <>i them to t>e i i of bard: ns, and foursi tfa esand t<. be h rs m the mountain, and three thousand ami six hundred overseers to -H thr people a 2 hronicles. 2.18.
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    S'PORE BEGINS CHECK-UP ON UNIONS
    411 5 S'PORE BEGINS CHECK-UP ON UNIONS I Inquiry into labour funds f Free Press Staff Reporter A^ w a ken against any trade union m Singapore whose funds may be found to have been mis-used or diverted to aid illegal organisations under the guise of donations for "trade union" purposes. The
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    10-YEAR PLAN FOR NEI
    16 5 HE me H I. I: B X X I Bi I V
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    CLOSER U.S. TIES WITH BURMA
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    CHARTER FLIGHTS TO NEI STOPPED
    93 5 X re and Batavia by a ye been discontinued, I. m Manila be- representatives of Camthe NEI Government a t Batavia his announced representations to the hi Republic con•ed flights of a Philippine airline bo:w?en Jo?; Jakarta •Indonesian Republican capital' and Singapore have brought results.
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    WHITES TALK OF 'NATIVE CAPITALISM'
    9 5 WHITES TALK OF 'NATIVE CAPITALISM' I m I I
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    NEW PADRE WELCOMED
    83 5 ma Syrian Church S r a gave a reception to their new ie Rev. V. E. Thomas, he St. Ancrew's School Hall, M Qday. Repr->s- j s of the Syrian and other resent. the platform were seated, lord Bishop of Singapore, and the Rev. Herbert F. hn
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    SPURIOUS NOTES
    55 5 THE Indonesian Minister of Economics A. K. Gani has announced that because of largescale counterfeiting m China and Singapore, the entire currency issue of the Indonesian Republic would be replaced m mid-sum-mer by a new issue of 300,000 000 guilders m banknotes to 'be printed by Thomas De
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    EX-MCS MAN REPLIES TO SJAHRIR
    177 5 EX-MCS MAN REPLIES TO SJAHRIR FORMER member of the Malayan Civil Service, Alwyn S. Haynes. m a letter to The Times of London yesterday commenting en Pandit Nehru's speech at the Asian Relati ni6 Conference, said: "I t protests and proms over much. It may be a good political move
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    MCAR GENERAL
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    40 5 ERNON BARTI.ETT. M.P. anc well-known jaurnali^t, who is visiting Singapore. SHOO TFIK EE who has been appointed deputy chairniin of the Malayan Central Welfare Council during the absence of the chairman. >.:. t Nrwboalt, who is short i home on leave.
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    FILM ON S'PORE IN PRODUCTION
    68 5 DOLAND Culver, well-known British character actor, has' •d for a featured part he film "Singapore," now m production at Universal— lr tergal Studios with Fred Macray and Ava Gardner m the ring roles. Culver replaces Philip Dorn, Dutch actor, m "Singapore." Dorn recently was stricken
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    KILLEARN FOR AUSTRALIA
    164 5 KILLEARN FOR AUSTRALIA 1 1 ORD Killearn, Special Com- missicner m South-East Asia,. j will leave Singapore for Sydney by air on April 12. on an official! i visit to Australia, at the Invita- tion of the Australian Govern-; ment. He will be accompanied by j Lady Killearn and by
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    AMBASSADOR FO INDIA
    30 5 The U.S. Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee have recom- 1 mended the confirmation of j Henry F. Grady as first U.S. Am- j bassudor to India. Reuter
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    ONLY GOOD CLOTH CAN PRODUCE RICE
    336 5 ONLY GOOD CLOTH CAN PRODUCE RICE *ree Press Staff Reporter AM V good printed cambric d! British manufacture, popU Jms and w;- c shirtings, barbed wire and zinc rooW materials will interest the Malayan padi planter It vva^ found recently that ;<somewhat infer, r i-ioth could not induce he planters
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    20 APPLY FOR P.O.JOBS
    68 5 20 APPLY FOR P.O.JOBS Free Press Stan Reporter CO far, about 20 women and girls have taken advantage of the oiier of work as clerks and counter-clerks m the Singapore Post Office. Interview are now taking place, and it is understood that the postal authorities are strictly insisting on the
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    INDIAN REPATS
    59 5 i The Government of India In- formation Service announces tint Uie special arrangements sane- i tioncd by the Government of India m April, 1946, for reception and dispersal of Post War Repatriates from Malaya ar.d Burma, will be discontinued after May 31. Intending repatriates are warned to make
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    AIRMEN HEAR ABOUT SPIES
    430 5 DERNARD NEWMAN, the famous D novelist and spy-story writer who is making a four-month lecture tour of the Far East for the War Office, spcke at RAF Station, Changi, Singapore, yesterday on "Spies m Fact and Fiction." Mr. Newman illustrated his Interesting lecture with many amusing
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    FOR SAFER JAILS
    355 5 —.^KILE the Prison Ref rrn *f Commission is b Ar.g ap* puiiHed m Sing^ve, the Malayan Union has earmarked a sum of $1,144,000 for security measures at Taiping, Kuala Lumpur and Batu Gajah prisons, and for the re. placement of jail equipm< New locks, additional ligj watch
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    49 5 Lady Gimson, wife of the Governor of Singapore, U veen aJd. y iff a UPtn s<jr ii' welfar« s workers at Government H« use Laay Gimson is shortly leaving Singapore, and will handover leadership m siiial welfare work to Mrs P. A. B McKrrron, wife < f th^ Colonial Secretary.
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    YMCAREQUIRES $75,000
    123 5 THK Singapore YMi A needs 575,000 foi rehabilitation work this year, says a circular issued b> the General Secretary, Mr. Roland Lyne, to members. Repairs to and equipment lor the Bras Baxah Road ground opposite the Cathay building are estimated to cost 525.000. To raise money for the
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    DUE BACK IN BATAVIA
    104 5 DUE BACK IN BATAVIA K. L. Punjabi, Indian representative to Indonesia, is due m Java on Apr. 13 fcr discussions with Sutan SJanrir, Indonesia!} Premier, en th I ng up oi rice deliveries to India. Mr. Punjabi is accompany the Indonesian de. to the Inter-Asian conference when it leturns to
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    EAST-WEST TALK
    39 5 A talk on Goethe will be i by Sgt. J. Lindsay to The V.M.C rary and Debatirg Society the V.M.C .A. premise^ m Orchaid Road, Singapore, starting 8 p today. Members and fnends interested are cordially welcome.
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    FRUIT VENDOR'WINS FANO DRESS PKiZE
    172 5 FRUIT VENDOR' WINS FANO DRESS PKiZE THE Male im Club at RAF Sta--1 tion, Changi, Singapore, was crowded to capacity on Easter Monday evening, when a fancy dress bail v.as neid. Tho RAF's own dance band provided accompaniment for dancing which began early m the evening and continiu d with
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    GLOUCESTERS INSPECT THE FLOODS
    141 6 THE DUKE and Duchess of Gloucester an m this party riding on a l ;ht train to inspect British flood damage. The Duke, wearing a trilby bat, is sitting m the truck at the right of the pi otograph. The l>uches«= ifl sitting m the truck
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    FRANC MAKES DRIVE FOR TOURSTS
    378 6 FRANC MAKES DRIVE FOR TOURSTS Alpine playground recovers FRANCES summer and winter resorts m (he Alps are read} to welcome some 100,000 <>l the many tourists the French Government expects this year and to entertain them m pre-war luxury and comfort. To this end, French local authorities, travel association* and
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    20-DAY JURY NEVER AGAIN
    153 6 20-DA Y JURY NEVER AGAIN MEMBERS ol a jury at Leeds Assizes who had been occu pied for 20 days on a y trial were told by Mr. Justice Oliver: "Never again will you be called on to serve on a jury." He thanked them for their services, but said
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    HUNGRY SHEEP BECOME PETS
    72 6 Blizzards aud Hoods m N Wal< caused sheep search for food 'o become dom> I pee. They are wandering about streets like dogs and will s on their hind legs to beg for food. A social welfare at nau Fes-iniog. Mlss I i Prive, has appealed
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    366,832 ART FANS
    16 6 Ebchibition of the King's pi tures at London's Royal Academy drew 366.832 visit*
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    BRITAIN DRIVES Oft EDUCATION
    156 6 Mli. GEORGE TOMLINSON, British Minister of Education direct I jrery local authority mi n England and Wales to prepare schemes to pr icilitiea for educational an i ure time needs for every one who has left school. At the same time the authoriare asked to prepare
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    "Triangle' lived in same house
    325 6 "Triangle' lived in same house A CASE m which a husband, his wife, and a co-respondent lived m the same house, wa.s decided by Mr. Commissioner Carthew m the Divorce Court m London. In a considered judgment he granted a decree nisi to Mr. Edgar Sidney Regan, a civil servant
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    BODY SHORTAGE
    57 6 Because there is a shortage of bodies for research at the Cambridge School of Anatomy. I land, the Norlolk Public H Committee has derided that bodies of people who die m is public assistance instilution can be sent to the school if there are no known relatives, or
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    R.A.F. EXCHANGE WITH U.S.
    122 6 THE R.AJ and the United es Army Air Force are operating the join*, trail plan which was announce January, with the exchange of high ranking officers. Ifty to sixty officers a will be exchanged. They will be from headquarters and commands. "It is the .same exchange
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    SMOKERS TROUBLE
    29 6 Any sudden or large cut m Tobacco supplies m Brita.n would cause a sharp rise m mild nervous troubles, according to m the current Issue of the
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    Spinsters raid Commons
    66 6 MOICF. than 100 'peaskMU a4 .> spinsters "dated Mr. James Griffiths, Minister of National Insurance, and Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Lord Privy Seal, who stn II d innocently into their midst m the House of Commons central lobl»\ Both promised to arrange appointments. Pn>bably ther" will br a
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    ODDLY ILL PATIENT
    27 6 John Maher. 66. walked into hospital at Oakland. Calif or U.S.A., and said: "I it-el sick Doctors found that he had swallowed a tooth-brush.
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    NEW COMMONS TABLE
    14 6 Canada will present the House >f Commons with a nev table.
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    RIVIERA LEAVE
    51 6 British troops from Palestine are to spend their leave on the French Riviera this year Hotel accommodation Is being taken over by Army authorities 1 *hat several hundreds of officers and other ranks may have a "rest cure" on the beaches and m gay haunts of the sunshine
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    STUDY CETRE OPENS
    22 6 Lent by :he I lord Mill, on I border, Er opened as a for the P: Studies, where coura
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    NO LONGER SILENT
    10 6 Gramophones duced In part at Caerwent. Chepstow.
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    35 6 I OKI) Prfsid< nt of the I L hands with the Matron ol smith, London. Mr. Morri J tal al ti^l lion during the period I from thrombo^L* of the leH I to conval^ hj
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    UNKONOWN
    188 6 OECRET orders hint bet J O ing them to be prepa; ing this summer. Tl to lorm an endless cha There art that the pc 1 since the war turn this 3 the reasons a I—There1 There is a fox goods which a: ed or m short supply :r.
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    NO BLUE PENCIL
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      137 6 Free Press Crossword No. 78 I I 3B 18l H mB Bjl I I KUofi Acroas. Where to the Domesday Book kept. (6 6) 7 The dfo8. Surname of Genera] of Salvation Army whom ceeded In 9 M«Md>.ws or rrasstanis f4i io n ll cattle i 4). 13 A lampoon
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      97 6 J/\plC Exclusive to the Shi*at>orp Free Press m Malaya J^VjZu 1 ?i- S Rrr E t L D IF T'/. ni l^Y-YES So LongV/you'v'E NO^B j^You SEE I'VE "CLUES nßAs'nForLiwr- AS You K^EP REASON FOR I SFUT HIM MY SILL V (UN)LIM«TED" HAS beTfc -nur fh Tc> TH!E Rulis That,
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    TWO PENALTIES WERE NOT ENOUGH
    116 7 TWO PENALTIES WERE NOT ENOUGH Malays Achieve A I Soccer Rarity By Our Soccer Reporter m all my soceei days have I Men a matdl m which W u been missed by the same side, but Besar Stadium Oh Malays achieved this m ho unbeaten Navy side m a league
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    Attractive Offerr To Fight Louis
    127 7 Attractive Offerr To Fight Louis New York, Tues. WAT Rogers, match maker for the Twentieth Century Sports Club who is leaving for London -V plane today, will make an attractive offer to the winner of the Brae; V. d ock-Joc Baksi place at Harringay on April 15. to meet Joe
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    ROSSLYN PARK BEAT STADE FRASCAIS
    80 7 LONDON. Tuesd T Rugby club, SU\da Franret visit to od, Surrey. lost a mod Park by a goal a»d a al and a rind Crouch scored ti Bradburn converting one. nd m the o m the side; re rather fortunate to -5c a by a
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    Wolves Regain League Lead
    297 7 rmiir r. LONDON, Tuesday. f Hfc renaming Easter holiday games m the English League today prciluccd a spate of goals no less than 33 being sewed m six matches. YValsalls remarkable B—o win at tiampton was their biggest ever and a revenge for theii heaviest defeat—
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    REVELRY WINS IRISH GRASH NATIONAL
    88 7 DUBLIN, Tues. RLVELRY the £10,000 steeplechaser who fell early on m the Grand National m which he was the second urite, won the Irish Grand NaiionI ::yhou c near Dub"i:i yesterday! by ten lengths at odds of 7 to 1 He was ridden by D.
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    LEAGUE SOCCER TABLES
    1042 7 POLLOWING holiday football igue tables up-to-date ar?: ENGLISH UELAGUE FIRST DIVISION Goals P VV D L F A Ptf 35 22 4 9 81 43 48 •ol 39 21 5 13 69 67 47 ester TJ 35 18 10 7 80 50 46 City 35 19 6
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    The First Circuit
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    AMP THE LAST FENCE
    33 7 These pictures of the (irand National show the field taking Becher's Brook for the first time and below, Caughoo, the 100-1 winner, over the last fence on his own.
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    Crowd Attack Rugby League Referee
    151 7 Crowd Attack Rugby League Referee LEIGH, Mon. A CROWD of 10,000 besieged the referee of the Rugby League match at Leigh. Lancashire, today uhtn he took refuge m the pll tent after the match After a 40--minute battle. In wMefa mountr-i r-tibh-s fought vainly to < iear a path, a
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    YESTERDAY'S UK RUGBY RESULTS
    83 7 YESTERDAY'S UK RUGBY RESULTS J.K. Rugby Leagu c results yesterday were: Halifax 0, Bellevue Rangers 10 uru?d after 55 minutes); Leeds !0, Qramloy 3 'Abandoned afl ninutes); Wakefield Trinity 3, Salford I (abandoned at half-time); Pcathertcne Rovers 14. Hullkingston Rovers 0 h abandoned after 60 minutes) Bp.t.h 12, Leicester 3:
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    PAYA LABAR AIRMAN WIN A SELETAR
    251 7 PAYA LABAR AIRMAN WIN A SELETAR Weekend Cricket Kesults DESPITE a hat-trick by Herrd and the highest score of the day 21 from Shea, Seietar could not hold the Paya Lebar airmen on Monday, and the visitors went on to record a good victory by 22 run<. A dogged 16
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    COLEGES BEAT SCRATCH XI AT KUALA LUMPUR
    236 7 COLEGES BEAT SCRATCH XI AT KUALA LUMPUR COMBINED cricket team drawn from Rafll* s ar.d Medical Colleges beat a scratcn XI m a game played at Kuala Lumpur over the week end. Notable performances were thei j bowling of T. Sivagnanam, wnol took eight wickets for 34 rur.s, and a
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    HAMMOND IS OPTIMISTIC
    114 7 LONDON, Tues. WALTER HAMMOND, oaptain of the England Test team, arrived m London airport today from Australia. He said the tour had been a great success "even if we did not do as well as we would have liked.' Hammond said there was no I doubt the
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    MILLS FIGHT OFF
    42 7 THE fight between Freddie Mills, Bri-' 1 tish cruiserweight boxing champion and Johnny Ralph. South African heavyweight champion, scheduled to take place at Johannesburg on Apr. 14 has been postponed indefinitely because Ralph has an injured knuckle, reports Reuter
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    LEAGUES MAY BE CUT TO 18 CLUBS
    353 7 LEAGUES MAY BE CUT TO 18 CLUBS Hew U.K. So&c«** Proposal LONDON, Tuesday. ENGLISH Football Clubs battling for points during the L Easter holidays were startled by the notification today of a proposal to come before the Football Association omcti on Friday that while the Governmeal ban on midweek soccer
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    SUSPENSION OF PAULINE BETZ CONFIRMED
    190 7 SUSPENSION OF PAULINE BETZ CONFIRMED NEW YORK, Tues. MISS PAULINE BETZ, United States and Wimbledon champion, and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke have been suspended from further amateur lawntennis competition, it was officially announced m New York to-day. The announcement followed a meeting of the amateur rules committee of the United
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    SYDNEY CUP WON BY 5-1 CHANCE
    175 7 Seventy thousand people saw Mrs. F. G. Spurway's Proctor by Acior out of Grand Escape, carrying 7.10 lb>. and starting at 5 to 1, win the £6 030 Sydney Cup on Randwick Course, Sydney, on Monday, beating the 7 2 favourite, Mrs. C. A.
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    JAMAICAN SETS NEW RECORD SPRINT
    52 7 GEORGETOWN. BRITISH ■-Herbert McX .Jamaica, ran the 220 yards m 20 4 secondi which h c\ irorld record on the curved tra< j the Inl to-day. ">v who is rum n ln the Olymnjc G I^idon nevt ye\r has 440 vnr^ m times whf->h r^.imed
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    BFCHMFS SECRETARY
    18 7 ANDREW Eeattle. that grand international nnd captain ha- D!*ysd hi^ la^t foo*bi c. Otv-p-wic-r-. Prp r
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    26 8 Thi> is Walsingh in> Market Place and pump. A small Norfolk town, Walsinghain boasts rained Ivgwtbllaii Prlon N» wWd" ivtir > vIH mad a piJ^ima-e barefooted.
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    —CITY NEWS— S'PORE RUBBER PRICE TODAY
    362 8 —CITY NEWS— S'PORE RUBBER PRICE TODAY Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m todkiy as follows: Buyers Sellers CU. Cts. per Ib. per Ib Ha. IK x* loose No 1 B.S.S. fob m bales April 44 S H fio Z 8.8.9 fob vi bales April 43
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    IKIN ILL IN BURMA
    43 8 J. T. Ikin, Lancashire cricket all-rounder, returning by flying boat from Australia, has been landed at Rangoon for treatment to a carbuncle on h's arm. He will now remain m Rangoon until ne is fit to fly home. Reuter
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    New York stocks
    158 8 On tht New York Stock Exchange yeserday, a wav of nervous liquidation over the slumbering stoefcmarket early m the fifth_hour bringing fairly broad_fronted declines of up to two points or more and causing the ticker to fall behind as much as four minutes at times. Stopless orders
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    Count's murder: sister detained
    356 8 MILAN, iuc>ya.\. "pIK brother-in-law and sistei oi Count (iinvunni Pellegrini 1 Malfatti, found murdered m the garden of his luxurious \i!la on Lake Garda ten days Wtn held by the Police ;«'ti.:\ on suspicion of slaying tin* 52-year-old muHonaire tad former officer oi the ft than
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    OLD LADIES' FOR SALE
    173 8 LONDON, Tuesday. TWO grand old ladies of the ocean. veterans of thrilling America Cap yacht races will their careers at Gosport. Hampshire, on Thursday. The Endeavour I and Endeavour 11, British heroines of galbut unsuccessful attempts to st the Cup from the United tea, will be
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    RUPEE-STERLING LINK IS CUT
    138 8 FINANCIAL provisions cuttiTig the link between thfl rupee and the sterling, passed by the Indian Leg is la Uve Assembly today, are described by London city circles as rational and not at all an unexpected move m the light of Indian commitments under the Bretton Woods
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    Ate watch to dodge iail
    69 8 «f m IN :tn effort to escape sentence for fraud, Dennis Whiting at I^wes (Sussex) swallowed a pecket watch, tin foil, a milk bottle cap \y\Wv a penny wrapped inside it. and some glass fiivn i window he imashed. His efforts were m vain, for
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    LIVE. LET LIVE' PLEA TO RUSSIA
    268 8 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A DEMAND that the Soviet I'nion agree to the principle ol iive and let live" to solve the problem <>f United States and Soviet relations WBfl made today by the Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, when he opened the debate on President Truman's
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    BEVIN AND MOLOTOVIN MOSCOW CLASH
    509 8 BEVIN AND MOLOTOVIN MOSCOW CLASH 9 MR ERNEST BEVIN, tine British Foreign Secretary, and M \Vicheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister, figured m a sharp clash during todays meeting of the Forei^ Ministers- Council m Moscow when M. Mriotof asked who had liquidated the original Allied ReaaratioM Commission. c Later
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    'LION MEN' ACCUSED
    103 8 DAR-ES-SALAAM, Tues. TANGANYIKA police have ar- rested 61 accused "lion men"i and their women accomplices, who will be tried for dozens of murders m which the victims appear to have been attacked and killed by man-eating lions. Thirty-five cases of killings have been reported to the police,
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    OLD TENURE ENDS
    15 8 Sale of Holly Bank Farm, Wigsley < Lines broke a 300--year-old family tenure.
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    GUFFS'BRiSTLE WITHDE DEATH'
    82 8 GUFFS 'BRiSTLE WITHDE DEATH' SDESLEy England* Tue^ THE clifls between Sidestrand. Norfolk, and Mundesldescribed at a Mundeslev inquest today as "bristling with sudden death Superintendent W Garner said m evidence that there were 1,655 land mines, each containing 26 pounds high explosives and primed to go off the instant someone
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    REGEIN APPOINTED
    35 8 REGEIN APPOINTED King Christian of Denmark has appointed Crown Prince Frederick as regent of Denmark. The King acted under doctors orders to take a complete rest as a result of a heart attacks la Sunday.
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    MUSLIMS FIRM ON PAKISTAN
    227 8 MUSLIMS FIRM ON PAKISTAN LONDON. Tucfld HAJJI SAII \R SETH, regarded a» one of Mr. Jin rii,hthand imn. de< ared m London today that what evei the ov&ooiim of the Doafcfcao which the new Viscount >!• in kitten. v.a> haviru with the variou> En< leaden then- wtte no poaribitKi -f
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    DRUK IN CHARGE OF A DONKEY
    44 8 William Scully. 66. was fined 5 shillings at Tower Bridge police court yesterday far having driven a monkey m city traffic while drunk Police arrested Scully wh.n the donkey scampered over an intersection aeninst a re<\ traffic U.P.
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    U.S. VILLAGERS TO HELP BEDFORD
    165 8 U.S. VILLAGERS TO HELP BEDFORD BEDFORD, New York, Tuesd T'HE citiaenfl of the 267-year-old village of Bedford i 1 York State have started a campaign to aid their flooded English namesake. They hope th^ir appeal will be supported by the inhabitants cf B^jford. The campaign was prompted by recent reports
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    WEATHER Afternoon show
    16 8 WEATHER Afternoon show I. •m now Mbit 'aopTfl -mat Ft'lß I I -:ht > m i I
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    BLESSING THE PLAMS
    23 8 BLESSING THE PLAMS .lie Jerusalem kn eU bef re Francs an I Gori. m front of th< The Easter st rv I backr
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