The Singapore Free Press, 10 July 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA IfcMfe SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    THREE-STONE RING FOR PRINCESS Philip staying at the Palace
    711 1 THREE-STONE RING FOR PRINCESS Philip staying at the Palace LONDON, Thursday. k LL England is m love this morning m love with the royal romance. The news of Princess Elizabeth's betrothal to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten was not unexpected, but that seems only to have made the event that much more
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    62 1 Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, pictured with the Commonwealth Prime Minister, Mr. J. ii. Chifley, daring Lord Montgomery's visit to Canberra ior important defence talks with Australian Government and Services leaders. The CIGS is m Perth, capital city of Western Australia, today and will meet
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    OFFICER IS JAILED FOR THEFT
    179 1 OFFICER IS JAILED FOR THEFT Free Pi^ss Staff Reporter /CHARGED with the theft of pub- Vj lie property. *****5 Capt. A. R. Duncan, of The Black Watch, has been sentenced to be cashiered and to six months' imprisonment with hard labour, following a general court martial which sat at Fort
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    SEVEN-DAY WEEK
    17 1 German coal miners m the Russian zone of Germany must work seven days a week.
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    GREECE DEPORTS 2,500 REDS
    174 1 ATHENS, Thursday. TWO thousand five hundred and twelve people arrested m Greece yesterday after the discovery of an alleged plot for a big Communist uprising, were last night deported by sea to the island of Spithalia m the Saronic Gulf. Arrests are continuing, it is stated
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    16 States for Paris talks
    271 1 PARIS, Wednesday. QIXTEEN countries out of 22 have so far accepted the Anglo-French invitation to next Saturday's conference here on the Marshall plan for economic aid to Europe. The first three days of the conference .will be devoted to the organisation of debates and the
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    SPORE SENDS GOOD WISHES
    41 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Office* Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. MacKerron, today will cable to Princess Elizabeth the congratulations of the Government and the people of Singapore on I the occasion of her betrothal.
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    90 KILLED IN INDIA RIOTS
    213 1 CALCUTTA, Wednesday. |1H vaYC of rioting between Hindus and Muslims 1 b< into its third day m Calcutta today with six people ted Killed and 39 injured m various parts of the city j v ihc death toll has now reached 90. The police today
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    U.S. INCOME TAX CUT
    22 1 $4,000,000,000 annually.— A.P. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved a bill to cut income taxes by U.S.
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    FORGED NOTES SEIZED
    55 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.I.D. yesterday arrested four Chinese m a house m Bukit Panjang for alleged counterfeiting of Indonesian banknotes and printing milk labels. Thousands of 10-guilder notes and a large number of the milk labels are stated to have been j found. The
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    BROOKE RADIO BAN QUERY
    167 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. IN the House of Commons today, Mr. L. D. Gammans (Cons., Hornsey), asked the Secretary of State for Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, why the Department of Broadcasting for the Malayan Union and Singapore had refused to allow the former
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    3 GOVERNORS: SET-UP MAY BE REVIEWED
    468 1 3 GOVERNORS: SET-UP MAY BE REVIEWED LONDON, Wednesday. /CRITICISM m Parliament of Malaya's wealth of governors brought today from the Secretary of State for the Colonies the assurance that when the constitution oi Malaya has been concluded, then "the whole of this set-up" can be further considered. Mr. Creech Jones
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    19,000 ENLIST IN UK
    36 1 The British War Minister, Mr. Fretieiick Bellenger, replying to a Parliamentary question, states that 17,500 men and 1,900 women have enrolled m the Territorial Army up to June 15 this year. Reuter
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    NO RICE FROM INDO-CHINA FOR S.E. ASIA
    97 1 NO RICE FROM INDO-CHINA FOR S.E. ASIA SAIGON, Wednesday. INDO-CHINA is not able to spare any surplus rice this year for food-short areas m South-East Asia, including India. An exception has been made, however, for China which is expected to receive 3,500 tons of rice this month from Saigon. A
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    DO YOU KNOW YOUR POSTMAN?
    881 2 Help Others By Helping Yourselves WHAT do you know of the workings of the Post Office? You know the postman because he brings you your letters; but do you know how he gets them; how they come from upcountry; how they come from overseas; how
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    278 2 NORTH chose something odi^r than the best bid on two occasions. For his first bid, he should have selected .one heart rather than one diamond. And when West bid five clubs he should have doubled. His hand offered little to recommend a five spade contract particularly as
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    Mandrake
    9 2 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya
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    ART CLASS A new King Henry VIII
    555 2  - ART CLASS A new King Henry VIII Pierre Jeanerrat By UEREis news— the discovery by a Birmingham working man of an unrecorded contemporary portrait of King Henry VIII painted shortly after his accession to the throne. This discovery is noteworthy for several reasons. First, it adds most important document to
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    NO ENGLISH ACCENT
    392 2 /CONSTANCE COLLIER. L a n Englishwoman herself, is brave enough to assert that there Is no such thing as a British Acrei.t, however her fellow screen playeis may rt^ard tne frequently unfamiliar pronunciations emanating from the motion picture screen. As far as MUi Collier is concerned It
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      390 2 crvnAPORF U— 'Days of the Week'; 11.40— W oiiiunruni, 12.00: Sound Sense: Stds. 8 Q 91 Blue Network 'Writing An Article*. 12 00— 2.00 pA —485 metres to the BBC nediom wave band 122 megacycle* wr second In the 41 metre band London 6 00— 11 00 p.m.— 485 metres
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      348 2 ITorld News; 8.15 Today's Ballad Singer— lsobel Baillie (Soprano); 8.20! Everyman's «Music; 8.30 Australian News: 8.40 Console Celebrity Nicho- las Robins. 8.45 Around the Band- "r stand— The Band of H.M. Royal H:rse Guards; 9.00 Half -hour of charm; 9.33 Master Pianists— Recital by Vladimir Horowitz; 9.45 Rhythm on RecordTommy
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      186 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune peop^ tan £v BORN today, v.ij are gft stern m >«.»>: i-jpj" of il>cipline and ethics Ritfat i risht; wron? i> KTong Ha is no middle n.ith far v are concerned And, of course u r wi\ i always the rr:!it on fMHi not permit to
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    57 3 Considered to be among the strongest of Berlin's air raid shelters and perhaps more familiar to dweller? m the German capital than any ethers, the bunker (left) near the Berlin Zoo was blown up last month by engineers of the British Army of occupation. Picture above shows blasting clouds rise
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    Drive to sell Communism
    290 3 BERLIN, Wednesday. npHE American Military Government's official German J- language newspaper says that Soviet Marshal L. P. Beria has worked out with the Soviet military authorities m Berlin an extensive propaganda campaign for selling Communism to the Germans. The newspaper, Die Neve Zeitung, said it was
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    CHINA GOVT. PURGE IS SOUGHT
    310 3 CHINA GOVT. PURGE IS SOUGHT U.S. awaits Chiang's decision T MK 7 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. HE United States Ambassador, Mr. J. Leighton Stuart, is believed by diplomatic and other well-informed quarters m Nanking and Shanghai to have been trying to induce Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to carry out a real overhaul of
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    THEY WANT TO BE STERILISED
    145 3 THEY WANT TO BE STERILISED r. pi CRT, Wednesday. I m have re- b no hope 3 per cent, of fictima of the rilization programme. Ott Weiss of the Department, G a Stuttmart a report; ra C m of States n Zone which is lav foi "plann- c EQcialfl said
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    Burma hero did not tell his mother
    230 3 THERE were two surprised people I m a humble home .n Park Lane, Slough, Buckinghamshire 23-year-old Eric Richard Robson and his mother. Eric learned he had been awarded the George Medal and his mother heard for the first time of his gallant act
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    MORE SUGAR FOR BRITONS
    97 3 THE sugar ration m Britain will be increased from eight to ten ounces a week from July 20 Supplies to manufacturers of cakes, biscuits and confectionery will also be increased. The Ministry of Food announcing this said that the increase would be m the. form of
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    $1 PINEAPPLES NOT A LUXURY
    84 3 BANNED goods, dried e»oS and tinned salmon will be m reduced supply this year, the British Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, id a Press conterenoe m London, aciding: "We shall have to be very careful with the dollars and these are hi?h-prieed foods." Mr. Strachey
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    SPY RING APPEAL IS UPHELD IN CANADA
    48 3 The Ontario Court of Appeul allowed the appeal of Harold Samuel Gerson, a Montreal engineer, and quashed the five years' sentence passed on him last October on charges of espionage, says Reuter. The charges followed allegations about a Russian spy ring.
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    M.C. FOR BURMA PARACHUTIST
    77 3 M.C. FOR BURMA PARACHUTIST THE Military Cross h^s been awarded to 25-year-old Flight Leiut. Frank William Collard, a member of a team which parachuted into Elephant Point. Rangoon, m May, 1945, and controlled the air strips, enabling the position to be captured. Previously Ft.-Lieut. CoUard had made only two parachute
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    92,946 SCOUTS IN P.I.
    33 3 In the Philippines, there were 92,946 Boy Scouts at the end of i May. One troop at the Culion I leper colony is among those re- cently reconstituted.- A.P.
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    EDINBURGH TO WELCOME ROYAL FAMILY
    189 3 EDINBURGH TO WELCOME ROYAL FAMILY EDINBURGH, Wednesday. OVER a mile oi streets will be lined with detachments o* the three Services for a ceremonial welcome which Edinburgh has prepared for the Royal Family next week. The King, Queen and Princesses are to be m residence at the Palace of Holyrood
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    VISITING BRITAIN
    26 3 Princess Katherine of Greece arrived m England on Tuesday by plane with her husband, Major Richard Brandram, British Army Officer, now stationed m Cairo.
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    This Toogood story is true
    99 3 AA: 10. out) find on his first day m London. Almost too good but Mr. Tocgood found it was true. And Mr. Toogood has £650 reward. Mr. Charles Too good, who came up from his Bristol home to work at a brewery he is a
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    TARZAN
    9 3  -  Edgar Rice Burroughs Chase m the trees By
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    ARABS TIGHTEN JEW BOYCOTT
    200 3 A RESOLUTION to "ex-communicate" any Arab selling land to Jews was adopted by 1,500 Palestine Arab leaders meeting m Haifa. This resolution was one of 22 adopted to tighten the Arab boycott of Zionist goods and services, reports A.P. It was introduced m behalf of the
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    P.I. gets 84 warships
    56 3 MANILA, Wednesday. PRESIDENT Roxas will for--1 mally accept 84 United States Navy ships for the Philippines offshore patrol at a ceremony aboard an auxiliary mme -sweeper. Rear.-Adm. H. H. Good, of the U.S. Navy, will transfer the vessels, symbolizing their change of status under terms of
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    PRINCESS WAS CAUGHT IN THE RAIN
    136 3 PRINCESS WAS CAUGHT IN THE RAIN LONDON, Wednesday. IN defiance of threatening clouds, the Grenadier Guards Band played "Isn't it a lovely day to be caught m the rain" wihen Princess Elizabeth, Colonel of the Regiment, inspected the Ist. Battalion of the Gitenadier Guards at Chelsea barracks Ten minutes later,
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    APOSTOLIC DELEGATE TO THE INDIES
    31 3 Pope Pius XII has established an apostolic delegation to the Indonesian Archipelago, naming as apostolic delegate Monsignor George de Jonghe D'Ardoye, Arch- bishop of Mista.— A.P.
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    EAGLE, CHAMOIS FIGHT ON CUFF
    98 3 A SWISS gamekeeper m the national came reserve above Martigny, Rhone Valley, saw a fight to the death between a bi? eagle and a full-grown chamois. The chamois was crossing a narrow ledge when the eagle flashed down and tried to knock it over the
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    'ANNA AND THE KING' BANNED IN THE PUNJAB
    89 3 'ANNA AND THE KING' BANNED IN THE PUNJAB THE Board of Censors for tha Indian province of Punjab has banned the film. "Anna and the King of Siam". The picture was banned alter a protest filed by Capt. Enant Singh, editor of Filmo. According to the Associated Press, Singh was
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    THEY DRANK FUEL
    30 3 One soldier died and 22 others are recovering: m a Bremen hospital from methyl alcohol poisoning contracted by drinking cooking stove fuel, Army officials an- nounced.— U.P.
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      40 3 CAPITOL OPENING TO-MORROW I m mi M B&inl Bfi §f r w\ "Compelling thriller Robert Siodmak a magician of melodramas!" Herald Tribune. "Neat, compact. You will want to applaud Miss De Havilland for the superb performance. You'll be absorbed!" —P.M.
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1947. It Is All Very Secret
    714 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JULY 10, 1947. It Is All Very Secret IT is all too clear that if the diehard elements who apparently form a majority of Singapore's Municipal Commissioners were to get their way. the new city council would be a very much less democratic body than
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    RAIL ROADS IN CHINA
    897 4  -  Dr. Cheng-Hua By m the Far Eastern Engineer f HINA'S railroads are mostly stateoperated and Govern-ment-owned, while private enterprise is limited to the construction and operation of minor lines. It is natural that private capital can only be induced to invest m a railroad promising good
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    QUIZ
    99 4 1. What names are given to the brightest stars m each of these constellations?: fa) Lyra: (b) Orion; (c) Aquila; (d) Cards Major; (c) Taurus. 2. Can you recall (a) whsre and when Charles Dickens was born; (b) where and when he died: (c) where he is buried? 3.
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    A BRIEF FOR NATIONALIZATION
    1004 4  - A BRIEF FOR NA TIONALIZA TION George Woodcock By Assist general secretay Trade Union Congress QUESTIONS of wages, working conditions, and hours of labour will, under nationalization, still have to be be settled within industry by the traditional process of negotiation and agreement between trade unions and the management. The
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    Britain fights a new Battle
    599 4  - Britain fights a new Battle Politico by BRITAIN'S Labour Government is "only tinkering"' with the food and dollar crisis, said Mr. Anthony Eden m Tuesday's debate m the Hou&e of Commo> c. This is what the government is tinkering with--an over-all shortage of wheat and other grains, a world ?aS
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    NEW STEP TO PREVENT RICE WASTAGE
    504 5 Free Press Staff Reporter WASTAGE of vital rice shipments {coming into Singapore and handled at this end for transference to the Malayan Union will be cut down to an appreciable degree when a new scheme is put into operation soon by the Food Control
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    FILM 'SHOTS' IN S'PORE
    37 5 The Free Press took these pictures when "shots" were being taken at the Great World for the BOAC documentary film featuring the airways' LondonSydney air route. Final "shooting" is taking place at present.
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    REWARDS FOR AIDING TROOPS
    100 5 THERE are iiuny Known cases m which individuals assisted Allied Servicemen during the Japanese occupation. Certain persons suffered death or maltreatment, which resulted m disablement at Japanese hands as a direct consequence of giving such assistance. The question of rewarding: those individuals, or their dependants, is
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    ROTARYCLUB WILL BUILD T.B. CLINIC
    255 5 ROTARY CLUB WILL BUILD T.B. CLINIC THE Singapore Rotary Club 1 will go ahead with the i scheme to build Singapore's] first T. B. Clinic out uf donations coming from Rctarians and the citizens of Singa-, pore. The expenditure target figure is $80,000. it was announced by the Rotary Vice-President,
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    NEW COLOURS FOR QUEENS
    170 5 I i, nill be presented UN vjueens Royal Regiih:s afternoon at 5 n the Padang by the Administering the Meat, Mr. P. A- B. Mcl it me PaOacff, Mr. ■fli be received by a j-e from the Battalion. ikUtalion Commander. D L A Gibbs. D.SO. will
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    TALKS ON CARE OF ANIMALS
    73 5 C". Dj ran Sunday, July t 1.45 p.m., the Singa- Veterinary SurME H Witheringtcn. a fortnightly from Radio Malaya :are of ar.:mals m the rica *il! deal with best breeds for the 1 < boose a puppy, care, common diseases, series, Mr. With- deal with
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    Y's CLUB TALK
    24 5 Y's C LUB TALK next hinctfccou meeting ...d at OecUra RestauSaturday, at 1.15 p.m. D CMiu.gs of Raiftes speak on "Museums v lex Culture"
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    VICTORY SAVINGS
    16 5 V o cry savings certi- Malaya ur> to July 2, n anted to $555,147
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    GENERAL HOSPITAL
    16 5 n July is, the visiting he Singapore General »iD be from 5 pjn to
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    LABOUR GRATUITY PAYMENTS RAISED
    316 5 pRATUITIES payable to daily-paid Government emplDyees will be increased by an ex-gratia payment of 75 per cent, according to a circular issued by the Singapore Government. This decision has been taken pending a general revision of the rules for calculating gratuities for daily-paid employees and the
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    INDIA BUYS JAP SILK
    115 5 AMjfliMFraß of the Indian trade delegation m Japan told United Press that India will buy at least 1,000,000 pounds of Japanese raw silk up to the end of 1947. He said the deal, through SCAP, will probably materialize m about two weeks' time. The price— U.S.
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    BOAC FILM UNIT SHOOTS' SPORE
    273 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE is shown m the film 'Three Days at Christmas' which the Green Park Film Unit of London is producing. It is a documentary film featuring the British Overseas Airways Corporation route from London to Sydney. Three members of the film
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    S'pore port news
    71 5 S'pore port news Ships alongside the Singapore wharves yesterday (godowns m brackets) were: Main Wharf: Ozarda (31-32). Maron (34-35). Titan (38-39), Cuacum (41), Eurymedon (42-43.) West Wharf: Brastagl (l-2v Sumpitan (3), Elpenor (4-5). Glenaffaric (8-9), Hoegh Silvercrest (15-16). Empire Dock: Andrew Jackson (27-28). At the Wharves Today: Ma tang (40-41).
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    BIG DROP IN RUBBER SHIPMENTS
    205 5 RUBBER exports from Malaya during June fell by 33.000 tons compared with May shipments. The June total was 62.542 tons I against 95.961 tons m May. Details of June shipments are: Singapore 31,008 tons, Penang I 17.054 tons, Port Swettenham I 14,480 tons. Principal recipient
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    MUSLIM INFLUX INTO BRITAIN
    314 5 MUSLIM INFLUX INTO BRITAIN WEDGED solidly m the British framework today are 10,000 Muslim men and women from all parts of the world. They include a large number of former Indian Army soldiers who took their demobilisation m Britain and have stayed on to try and make their fortunes m
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    COLONY TO MERGE WITH CANADA?
    459 6 Newfoundland to hold plebiscite' BEFORE the end of this year the 316,000 people of Newfoundland, now a British Colony and once a British Dominion, are expected to vote on the political future of their 42,500-square-mile island which lies at the mcuth of Canada's St. Lawrence
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    FRANCO'S LAW
    45 6 THE Madrid Government has announced that the proposed Franco "law of succession* has been approved py a more than 12-to-l majority m Sunday's referendum. The announcement said the provisional returns showed 12.628.983 votes for the measure. 643.501 against, and 25,689 were nullified.— A.P.
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    CHINA 'WAR' ON THE LOCUSTS
    117 6 A TWIN anti-plague drive aimed at aiding China's farmers safeguard the country's food crops and livestock has been launched by UNRRa and CNRRA as part of their agricultural rehabilitation programme. Under a joint anti-locust campaign designed to rid China of her most voracious cropdestroyer insects,
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    £500 BURGLAKY FROM ISMAY
    42 6 BURGLARS at the Viceregal estate (Delhi) stole clothes and jewellery estimated to be worth €500 from the resideiice of Lord Ismay, Chief of Stall' to the Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten. The jewellery belonged to Lord Ismay *s daughters Reuter
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    Attack on 'pagan homes
    100 6 JlxN attack on "pagan homes" was made by Mr. b. L. HaHward headmaster of Clifton College, Bristol. "I shall not be able to keep boys here," he said, *if I do not get co-operation from the home. "Pagan homes distract the attempt to give religious education,
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    ANCIENT ORDER REVIVED AFTER FOUR CENTURIES
    196 6 ANCIENT ORDER REVIVED AFTER FOUR CENTURIES The Duke of Gloucester (third from left), as Grand Prior of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (oldest order of chivalry, dating back to the 11th Century), attended a ceremony at the Palace of llolyrood House, Edinburgh, m which the Order was
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    WIFE SINNED, THE MAN DID NOT
    256 6 i JI'DUK FOltllfcS m Birmingham Divorce Court cave this unusual ruling: A wife committed adultery with the co-respondent-bat the co-respondent did not commit adultery with her. He I Rranted a decree nisi to William Henry Green 33 of I WolveHiampton, on the grounds of
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    BURMA COMMISSIONER
    34 6 I Mr. Reginald J. Bowker, British I High Commissioner designate to I Burma and at present British Minister to Egypt, is expected to take up his new appointment m I October.— Reuter
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    'GREY MART IN GERMANY
    290 6 THE "ffrey market" is rapidly superseding th market m the British Zone of Germany. This new?* of trading, which may receive at least the tacit a Ppro J> the authorities m order to keep industry alive and Z^ employed, is based on barter-H>r "compensation a^ called
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    INDIA RESTRICTS CAPITAL REMITTANCES
    149 6 INDIA RESTRICTS CAPITAL REMITTANCES TO obviate the possibility of 1 large remittances of capital from India to sterling area countries pending the negotiation of an interim agreement with the British Goverment, the Government of India has lound it necessary to limit remittances to those required for definite trade payments and
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    SHE WORKS FOR WORLD FEDERATION
    207 6 SHE WORKS FOR WORLD FEDERATION A PETITE blond ice-showt:;rl n N i'^ is m Pari^ h have a world-wid ed m 1950 to adopt tional constitution Blue -eyed, Vital dy Schneider has New York\s Huntei -:e c has interrupt c h r Amens ice-skating career I travelling nussU n for
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    U.S. failure in film contest
    70 6 il the Brussels Wurld fi petition were, on the aver.?? poor artistic qualih and ~L lectual value, say the ail p ffian jury who have m**, 1 than 47 films m a moat? British films, saw one nw> ber, were of the hicheq qu'to The
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    ENGLAND BEAT Sth. AFRICA IN 3rd TEST
    403 7 ENGLAND BEAT Sth. AFRICA IN 3rd TEST Washbrook plays aggressive game LONDON, Wednesday. ENGLAND defeated South Africa by seven wickets m the Third Test, and gained a lead of two X \in> *•> zero with one match drawn m the present scries. Kngland, needing 129 for victory, m three-i-halt hours
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    MANILA MAY SEE WORLD TITLE FIGHT
    70 7 trORK, Wednesday. bins n will con- Hug his world .:r.rionship m Flashy Sebastian taan*s manager B thai month may pr anoten want jtfai k tiftk match m had been I the champion"? New York or. a und «BI rmlt him to a Angeles on
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    DOCKYARD BEAT AIRMEN 3-2
    112 7 DOCKYARD BEAT AIRMEN 3-2 soccer at v Mondaj even- SI we Department a f three-two. lira -re ading two- t hall timi ban Un N-S.D. ccNtid not b^at I I f goalkeeper, who iav-cs mtcvlea to go the reduced the^lead. rwarda cane the was just •ben the winning ••'•■ci trom
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    DALY LEADS IN IRISH GOLF
    90 7 r rjRUSH, July 5. T -->-der Oi the 3ii- BOM chimpionship ;^n title, is lead- the half-way wish event on the *inks where the •»S played today M to add to hi. Max Faulkn. S roke Paultoer *as not favourably Jjftl back br.lhantly no course
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    201 7 Stuth Alike lit. I.i^iugs 239. England 1st. luangs 178. SOUTH AFRICA 2ND. INNINGS. j Melville b Edrich 59 Dye; b Gladwin 1 Mitchel! c Hutton b Compton 6 Nourte b Edrich 115 1 Viljocn c Hut ten b \V right 32 Dswson b Edrich 9 Rnv,an c Evans b
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    NON-BENDERS' XI
    40 7 I »m represent the '■;> "U cnclcet against p r- ap 0n Saturday, 'Capt.), P. A B. .^M.G.. H. B. Neon, A ng. c. F. Bogaars, Maj. Garden Mac- r O J "hnson, Claude r. P. Manon. E. G.
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    HEANEY SPARS AT NEW WORLD TOMORROW
    215 7  - HEANEY SPARS AT NEW WORLD TOMORROW Our Boxing Reporter By LEO HEANEY, young Australian boxer who arrived m Singapore last month to fight m Kirn Lim promotions, will spar at the New World Park tomorrow night with Jimmy Bird, Jar Tar bin Jabbar and Terry Daniels. During tne past fortnight
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    GHQ SIGNALS WIN
    30 7 GHQ Signal Regiment beat Blakar. Mati by ten goals to one at football on Sinday, and the Customs Sports dub by six goals to nil on Wednesday.
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    COUNTY CRICKET SCORES
    115 7 LONDON. Wed. PRICKET closes: At Birmingham, v Warwickshire vs. Lancashire. Warwickshire 207 (Cranmer 55. Dollery 52, Pollard, right arm. fast medium, 6 for 77). Lancashire 55 for 1. At Worcester, Worcestershire vs. Hampshire* Worcestershire 155 (E Cooper 51, Ransom 5 for 54). Hampshire 29 for 0. At
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    S.C.C SOCCER TEAM
    32 7 THE following will represent tne S.C.C. against Navy m a. league soccer match at Jalan Besar stadium today: Aiken; Roberts, Verall; Tinsh, Mitchell, Hutchinson; Donaldson, Forbes. Clifton, Milton, Smith.
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    BRITAIN HAS ONE REAL OLYMPIC HOPE
    417 7 LONDON, By Air. WHATEVER Britain's prospects In the Olympic Games next year— and they are rated rather poorly the Old Country at least has a real hope m swimmer Jack Hale, of Hull. Wtien he recently took 5.8 sec. off Norman Wainwright's mile record
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    ST. LEGER
    23 7 LONDON, Wednesday. The St. Leger will be run- at Doncaster on Saturday, Sept. 13, instead of the traditional Wednesday, gept. 10.
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    SUPPLY RESERVE TEAM
    19 7 The Supply Reserve Depot soccer XI which beat Jollilads one-nil at Victoria Schoool ground on Tuesday.
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    YOUTH SERVED IN WIGHTMAN TENNIS
    254 7 LONDON, Wednesday. WHILE British lawn tennis followers have not much hope that the Wightman Cup, the international trophy competed for by woman players of Britain and the United States, will be recaptured this year, they count as a step m the right direction the infusion
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    INTER-VARSITY TESTS: KARDAR IMPRESSES
    183 7 INTER-VARSITY TESTS: KARDAR IMPRESSES I LONDON. Wednesday. WITH the inter-University match between Oxford and Cambridge over, (Cambridge forced a creditable draw yesterday after being outplayed on the first innings), averages have been compilea and show A. Kardir, the India Test player well placed. During Oxford's 13 games cf which i
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    GORDON RIDES 100th WINNER
    146 7 /CHAMPION Jockey Gordon Vj Richards rode his 100 th winner this season recently. This is the 16th season he has topped the century mark, and he has a sporting chance of beating his all-time record of 259 winners m a season established m 1930. With 21
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    BOXING QUERY
    86 7 LAC H. Recce of BHO Signals wants to know, to settle the usual argument, m which round Max Schemeling knocked out Joe Louis. The answer is the 12th round. This was m the first meeting between the German and Louis, and it was a non-title fight as neither
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    BILL BOWES HAS HIS BENEFIT
    984 7 Yorkshire Pays Tribute BIG Bill Bowes, Yorkshire and England cricketer had his benefit match a fortnight ago when Middlesex were the visitors and victors at Headingfey. Bowes captained his county side for this game and, m tribute to a man who has done so much
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    Tandberg Wants Woodcock First
    55 7 STOCKHOLM, Wednesday. JACK Solomons, tue London J boxing promoter, said he wanted Olle Tandber* for a fight against Brace Woodcock m London. The match, he said, might take place m London m October, provided that "Mike Jacobs releases Tandberg from his contract for a fight with
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      255 7 Free Press Crossword No. 144 CL.Ufc.fe ACROSS 6. Front part 6t stage between curtain and orchestra (10), 9. Largest lake m Wales, formed by river Dee (4), 10. Inhabitants of New England (7), 11. Chess piece having power to move both as the rook and as the bishop (5), 12.
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    37 8 Brungerley Bridge, connecting Lancashire and Yorkshire, replaced a wooden one washed away m 1814. Before the latter was built people crossed b> steppmg stones, near whUh Henry VI was arrested after his flight from Waddington Hall.
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    World warned Of new food crisis
    198 8 PARIS, Wednesday. irilS Secretary General of the International Emergency Food Council, Mr. Dennis Fitzgerald, told delegates of 33 nations at today's meeting here of the World Cereals Conference that "frugal management of grain is an absolute necessity if the world is to avoid a
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    SIAM GRATEFUL FOR U.K. HELP
    61 8 SIAM'S first Ambassador to Britain, Nai Direfc Chaiyanani, yesterday presented his credentials to King George at Buckingham Palace. He said afterwards: "Siam will never forget the unstinted aid given by Great Britain to the Siamese resistance movement nor the generous consideration that she had shown
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    ELIZABETH AND SAILOR PRINCE
    592 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE story of the Royal engagement goes back to 1943, when the press first linked the Princess with two young Guards officers Hugh Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, and Charles Manners, Duke of Rutland— and with Prince Philip of Greece. The Princess met Philip of
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    U.K. ACTS TO PROTECT RUBBER INDUSTRY
    389 8 Creech-Jones on price fall LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government has taken "certain appropriate steps" to protect the interests of Malayan rubbergrowers who, it is claimed, are suffering from unemployment and distress as a result of United States controls on rubber imports. This was stated
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    30 8 photo. United States Navy, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean flagship New Jersey under the Forth Bridge, Scotland. The visit, with Admiral R. Connolly aboard, is part of a training cruise. Planet
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    QUESTIONS ON PAYMENTS TO MRS MEREDITH
    201 8 LONDON. Wednesday. IN the House of Commons today, Vice-Admiral Ernest Taylor, (Conservative M.P. for South Paddington). asked if the Secretary of State for the Colonies was aware that Mrs. Meredith, widow of the former Registrar of Vehicles under the Singapore Municipality, who was interned
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    Anglo-French union 'vital to world peace'
    159 8 PARIS, Wednesday. GEN. Charles de Gaulle today urged strong co-operation between Britain and France as an essential condition of a united Europe without which, he said, the danger of Russian hegemony over the whole continent would eliminate the last chances of preserving peace m
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    THE MAN WHO SAVED MONTY
    154 8 REEDS WELL, Australia, Wednesday. PROBABLY cne of the most moving incidents m Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's tour of Australia will be his re- union m Perth tomorrow with the man who once saved his life Stephan Bavan, formerly a private m the Ist Battalion Royai
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    BURMA PLAN FOR REHABILITATION
    62 8 RANGOON, Wednesday. A NINE-POINT programme of short-term rehabilitation was announced by U Ba Gyan, Rehabilitation Member of the Burmese Interim Government. The programme includes vigorous measures for the suppression of lawlessness In the country, speedy restoration of transport and communications and Intensified agricultural production. A long-term
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    ATOM BOMB FILES STOLEN
    228 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. HIGHLY secret data on the atomic bomb was stolen from Government flies, but part of the data has since been recovered, according to a member of the UJS. Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. The member, who asked that his name be withheld, said
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    INDUSTRIE LS ARE FIRMER
    439 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. AFTER a hesitant start today, the Stock txchau developed firmness m most sections due to funi» recovery of gilt-edged securities, which showed some hi point gains, says Reuter's financial correspondent info trials followed their lead with Breweries and Collier* prominent. Anglo-IraDians
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    RUBBER PRICE
    104 8 A SPECIAL Market t urrespunaa rives the pricf* of rabbet 11 a.m today as follows Buyers iefe Cts t>er 1b I No 1 S.S.S. Spol No 1 R.S.S. foe m bales. July No 2 R.S.S fol m bales, July :>> No 3 R S.S for> m bales. July
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    New York stocks
    35 8 ON tlu New Vat* I J M yesterday, early way U> irregularity witl n covering one poirt with losses of DM r market steaditci bill were feeble and t: barely steady Reuter
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    FRIENDSHIP TREATY
    16 8 A one- year lr: i between Italy and P'-- was signed m Rcw U.P
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    PROSPECTIVE M.P.
    16 8 Maj.r John P bell ha& been seleci Parliamentary Con didate for E st Reuter
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      70 8 WEATHER Cloudy this afternoon WEATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Cloudy this afternoon, becoming fair tonight and tomorrow morning. Wind: Light scuth -easterly, becoming calm daring the night. Sunset 6.41 p.m., sunrise 6.33 a.m. Moonrise 12.01 midnight; moonset 11.39 a.m. Temperatures: Max. def., mln. 74
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