The Singapore Free Press, 29 July 1947

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    20 1 The S ingapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA m M SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    SHAHRIR INVITED TO HOLLAND
    666 1 SHAHRIR INVITED TO HOLLAND Dutch will 'end war m a week CUTAN Shahrir, former Indonesian Premier now m India, may go to Holland. He has been invited to do so by the Dutch Labour Party, which is seeking a way to end the war m Indonesia. It was officially made
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    30 1 Dicture. n i I&AZONIMATA, <r the dislapaacse pri- Malaya and rdaj thai Omsc ild no kmcei ol>ey era aiowins Gen. M .a > -> abuh>hins the n Jajsuwac service ers -Tw€ fr-.xs
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    CHINA TO VETO MONGOLIA
    273 1 NEW YORK, Monday. j rfllNA today turned down Outer Mongolia's bid for p Brakership of the United Nations with an nnprecedent- M ittMk which drew a Soviet retort that certain mm Easl parties might like to force a United Nations kTtstigatfea >imilar to that connected with
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    $5,000 FINE FOR HAYING TOBACCO
    111 1 $5,000 FINE FOR HAYING TOBACCO Irec Press Staff Reporter A FINE of $5,000 with the alternative of 12« months' rigorous imprisonment was imposed m the Third Police Court today on a 36 -year-old Hokkien, Ng So Teng, who pleaded guilty to possession of 440 lb. of dutiable Chinese tobacco on
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    IRGUN TO HANG KIDNAPPED MEN
    171 1 JERUSALEM, Monday. PALESTINE tonight faced a new crisis as the Irgun commander confirmed the "sentence of death" passed on the two British sergeants kidnapped m Nathanya on July 12. The kidnapped men will' die "immediately following" the hanging of three condemned terrorists who go the
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    IRISH CHANNEL SWUM IN 16 HRS
    46 1 rM Blower, the 33-year old Nottingham swimmer, waded up a Wigtownshire beach yesterday the first man ever to swim the Irish Channel. Blower swam the 25 mile crossing m 15 hours 26 minutes. Ke swam the English Channel m 1937.
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    JOSEPH LAUREL ON TRIAL
    32 1 The trial of Joseph Laurel, President of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, opened formally yesterday moming before the first division of the DeoDle's Court m Manila.- U.P.
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    BURMA DISTURBANCE
    25 1 Troops and armed police were rushed yesterday to the Thara'waddy and Henzada districts of Burma, about 70 miles north of l Raneoon.- Reuter
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    IRWIN JONES TO BE RETRIED
    114 1 ffiHE Singapore Court of Criminal 1 Appeal, m a judgment deliver'e3 this morning, ordered the retrial of the 38-year-old contractor, Irwin Oliver Jones, who was sentenced to death at the Singapore Assizes on April 2 for the murder of a Eurasian ex-PoW Maurice Fox. I
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    'FLOATING SLUM' IN HAIFA
    78 1 'FLOATING SLUM' IN HAIFA The illegal immigrant ship Pr sident Warfteld renamed "Exodus 1947" by the Jewish underground Hasranah organisation- >.s rammed by a British warship when she attempted to es<ape after being intercepted off the Palestine coast. The seised ship, known as the "Floating Slum", is here seen arriving
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    $8 million trade with japan
    312 1 $8 million trade with j apan nee Press Staff Reporter JAPAN is buying more from Malaya than she is selling to this country. The value of trade done with Japan during the last seven months totals $B,ooo,ooo— the greater part of the purchases being recorded during the past six weeks.
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    ASK HON. MEMBERS?
    38 1 The House of Commons Kitohen Committee has reported that 2,259' pieces of silverware and dishes disappeared from the re. freshment rooms and kitchen at the House of Commons m six months. It made no accusations.
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    PORT ABLAZE AFTER SHIP EXPLOSION
    277 1 PORT ABLAZE AFTER SHIP EXPLOSION PARIS, Monday. BIG fires are raging tonight along the Brest waterfront and business quarter of the town after a burning Norwegian freighter loaded with nitrate of ammonia had disintegrated with a terrific explosion m the harbour, blasting every window m the port and killing 20
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    DIVIDING JAP REPARATIONS
    89 1 mH£ principles laid down by the JL Far Eastern Commission for the sharing of reparations from Japan were stated m Parliament' yesterday by Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Foreign Under-Secretary. The share of particular countries wtil be determined on a broad political basis, taking into account the material and
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    MPs GOING TO JAPAN
    31 1 A British Parliamentary delegation of four or five members will arrive m Japan towards the end of September for a visit o< ten to 14 days.- Reuter
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    DIED AT HIS WORK
    29 1 The Rev. Jean Marie Masson. ig?d 72, Raman Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, collapsed and died m his chair yesterday while attending to the day's work.
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  • FEATURES
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      QUIZ Answers
      27 2 1. There is no scientific evidence f\2kX regular exercise, even hard I aining. either lengthens or liortens life. 2. H lbs. 4,320 calories. 3. No.
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      London Letter TAILPIECE
      223 2  - London Letter TAILPIECE Hall Romney By T am told that radio's foot--1 ball commentators are beginning to study *he pronunciation of Chinese name? mi n "preparation for the vi-it next month of the Sing Tao footballers from Hong Kons. Mr. Aw Boon Haw seems to be rinin«? the affair m
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      22 2 Mitheline Morriss, 21-year-old, Paris born ballet <*ancer. roes through her paces for her performance for the Ballets des Champs Elysees m London.
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      YOUTH RAILWAY LINE
      493 2 Anew kind of "international Brigade" is rapidly being formed on the so-called "youth railway line", now being built by tens of thousands of young volunteers between Samac and Sarajevo, m central Bosnia. The Yugoslavs- call it an "international brigade for peaceful construction." It consists of youth groups
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      325 2 HERE is another kind of hand which generally winds up at no-trumn because, to many players, there seems to be no other playable contract. But m this ease, both North and South realized 'he improbability of a notrump same and the bidding went: Arc you horrified that
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      THE BATTLE OF THE PAY-LOAD
      914 2  -  Courtenay Edwards by and flight refuelling may win it for Britain's Atlantic airliners CKIPPER Wilf Harrison, a British South American Airways pilot, left Bermuda on a non-stop flight to London m a Lancastrian. He is able to do the 3,700--mile journey on-stop becuase nearly 2,000
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      WAXEN NOT
      113 2 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IMERICAN magazine A "Look's" corre pondent m England writes that he finds the mark of slow death on Britain. On the faces of people, he says, he sees a waxen look which presumably portends impending demise. In the late 1930s another American wrote a
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      LOOK IS DEATH
      140 2 life of Britain has rr.:sie<i!nr superficial observers. This as cause for wonder becut Las also dtceived sane of Bttain's own EtfttaMNß. TVEN Is Victorian Dk E» sorr.e statesmen thoac that Britain wai or. the :xt Tin nan Ln "Look wroa i ariicle with ti:€ :-s'. ">:.'.:"- He
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      321 2 W'tfmmm Till! 1 I JII 'J J J 1 1 5 v U "W^Pffl SINGAPORE Blue Network 12.00—2.00 pan —485 metres In tae nedium wave band Jk 7.22 megacycles ler second m the 41 metre band. 6 00— U 00 p.m.— 485 metres In tne liediom wave band A 4.825
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      440 2 Gladys Swarthout Mezzo Soprano) and} 5-5.36 p.m. 19 84 metres and 49.38 Webster Booth (Tenor,; 7.15 Fame u.» metres. 530-night 19 84 metres and Conductcrs— Sir IJamilton Harty; T. 30 Australian Pianisrs— A recital by Value ,*9 M »»«'""es. ATCUng; 7.45 Talk; 7.55 Singers— TUESDAY AFTERNOON Malcolm McEachern; 8.00 News;
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      130 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people bom today BORN today, you are a very energetic and active person, physically as well as mentally. If tied to a desk or a routine job, you will become restless and moody. Yet you have peaks of enthusiasm and optimism and at such
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  • NEWS..
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      POWERS' SPLIT OVER GERMANY BEING WIDENED
      598 3 POWERS' SPLIT OVER GERMANY BEING WIDENED BERLIN, Monday. YIKTI ALL i all hope has faded that Germany will be united by i1 1 ir Power agreement this year or even next. The economic v%ar between the United States on one side and Russ< on the other over the Marshall Plan
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      HUMBLE NUN CANONISED
      101 3 VATICAN CITY, Monday. A 19th Century French nun who spent 40 of her 70 years at menial tasks m her convent has been canonised St. Catherine by Pope Pius. She is the tenth: Roman Catholic saint created this bear. With the canonisation of Catherine Laboure to whom
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      NEW RED PLOT IN ALLIED ZONES
      217 3 QECRfiX agents of the Moscow-directed Free German CoirJt•s tee, organized m Russia during the war by German General Friedrich von Paulus, have infiltrated into the American Zone's largest internment camp for Nazis with secret orders to members, according to SS internees at Darushadt, reports
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      36 3 Mr. Raymond LovelL the British actor, and the f»fjm«' M Mlss Tamara Desni, Russian actress and dancer known as "The I- lame Girl," are here seen leaving the Russian Parish Church m London after their wedding.
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      MOVE TC BOOST COAL OUTPUT IN GERMANY
      159 3 MOVE TC BOOST COAL OUTPUT IN GERMANY THE Anglo-American military Government m Germany will give prizes of 40.000 calories— a normal month's food supply— to i high production miners as an incentive for increasing the Ruhr coal output, reports U.P. from j Berlin. The extra food will be m the
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      LINCOLN PAPERS MADE PUBLIC
      198 3 jyjICROFILM copies of the 20,000 papers comprising priceless Abraham Lincoln documents, which have now become public property m Washington. will be sent soon to Britain and other countries, so that keen students of America's civil war history all over the world will be able to study
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      BIG GOLD FIND
      41 3 THE Rupununi Gold Mining Company of Canada claims one of the richest gold strikes m recent years m British Guiana, assays having yielded 100.53 ounces to the ton equivalent to £879 10s. at the current American price. A.P.
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      BIG MUSLIM EXODUS TO
      504 3 Pakistan prepares to rule NEW DELHI, Monday. •pHE prelude to India's independence and the end of British rule will begin next week with the start of a big exodus of Muslims from this capital city to Karachi, where the temporary capital of Pakistan will be established
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      4 3 A.P. of other problems.—
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      OLD ACE RECIPE
      29 3 South African oldest European. Mr. Peter Chandler Pringle, ol Johannesburg, is 117. His formula for long life is honey, maize and plenty of fresh air.- Reuter
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      86 3 Mrs. Doreen Burke (centre) and Mr. Frederick Brittain and his wife Gladys have a hearty laugh outside the Brentford (Middle. sex) County Court after Mrs. Burke had won her suit against the Brittains for possession of her flat which she had sub-leased to the couple. "We are still good friends,"
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      Marshall's 'ring' round Russia
      236 3 Marshall's 'ring' round Russia rE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, is quietty deploying some of his youngest and most able career diplomats to trouble spots, m preparation for a diplomatic battle for peace with the Soviet Union, writes the United Press diplomatic correspondent at the White House. Mr.
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      RUNA WAY TRAIN IS 'LASSOED'
      115 3 RUNA WAY TRAIN IS 'LASSOED A RAILWAY engine started out on its own how, no one knows— from the yards at Alton, Illinois. Traffic was diverted out of its way all along the mam line. Twenty-five miles along the tracks another engine waited on a side line until the runaway
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      26 3 i CAPITOL!"! STARTS- TO-DAY I mum (MARA WALTER SLEZAK ||f| I SIN BAD the SAILOR^OT§gL ANTHONY QUINN GEORGE TOBIAS Mw^i I' SHMLTMENSLY II S'MRE, IPOH *>E«»«6
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947. The Indonesian War
      824 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1947. The Indonesian War A FTER nine days, the world is A still wondering why Holland began "police action" m Indonesia. Militarily, the Dutch operations have probably gone according to plan. But internationally the Dutch are bringing down on their heads boycotts and
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      Dan Iddon's Diary
      1205 4 Dan Iddon's Diary Hard facts about Europe can't compete with banshees m the U.S. sky THE locals stare up at the American sky and see flying saucers. The Europeans gaze m the same direction and see a pot of gold. Both groups are suffering from astigmatism, spots before the eyes,
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      IAN COSTER'S COLUMN Not So Dusty...
      498 4 IAN COSTER'S COLUMN Not So Dusty... Today the Free Press starts a new feature by lan Coster —a sparkling column of comments about people. SOAP, chocolates, fruit and ardent letters are piled on an 11-stone, sft. 6in., 31-year-old Australian, VIC DUGGAN, by fans all over Britain. Why? Because he's king
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      ONE WAY To STOP WAR NOW
      944 4  -  Lord Vansittari By •Whether or not history trios to repeat herself... to let the Twentieth Century repeat itself is suicide' TT has been observed that what is most needed nowadays m foreign affairs is courage. I would add that courage has always been the
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      QUIZ
      44 4 1. Does regular exercise lengthen life? 2. How much does each pound of fat used up by violent exercise amount to m body weight and what amount of calories? 3. Does regular exercise make for more or redder blood? Answers m Page 2.
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      FRESCO FOUND
      125 4 A discovery o: dodobVi able historic ar.i artistic value bag ton Mil m the indent church !Sa: Ponziano, at Lucca, m TUS--cany by the American r .> toricaf expert. Dr. Edwari Garrison. The discovery whicb m about while the church w ing redecorated Is ttkf -esc a Saint,
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      Girls warned of 'romantic love'
      358 5 MALACCA PADRC HITS OUT Free Press Staff Correspondent < MALACCA, Monday. I 1 \KMM' m&eA the danger of "completely arrangeif' puiiipi and idealising romantic love" was given by the Burr H. Baughman m an address at the Methodist Girls' h In the United States, he
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      106 5 T.B. is Public Enemy No. 1. Fight it m self-defence, runs the slogan written on the wall of TB stall m the Great Woild Amusement Park where the Trade Fair is be ins held. This picture shows the photographs which are on display at the stall and the interest taken
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      SHOOTING WAS JUSTIFIED
      118 5 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, returned a verdict oi justifiable homicide after an inquiry into the death of Koh Ho, one of the crew of a sailing junk on which police opened fire. Police evidence said the junk continued its course after being j challenged,
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      MALAYAN GIRL TO STUDY LAW IN BRITAIN
      171 5 MALAYAN GIRL TO STUDY LAW IN BRITAIN TWO Malayans have recently 1 been admitted to the Middle Temple, London, for the Michaelmas Tern., which begins on Oct. 13. They are Miss Nancy Yeap Chin Poh of Penang and Mr. Ng Ek Teong, a Raffles College graduate who is now teaching
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      VICTORY SAVINGS
      15 5 Sales of Victory Savings Certificates up to July 23, 1947, amounted to $566,974.
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      Union helps girl to study abroad
      227 5 A YOUNG Chinese girl, who was too poor to be able to take advantage of a $16,000 scholarship to an American college, has left Singapore to join the college. She is Miss Ruth Ho, of Kuala Lumpur. By a grant made by the Singapore
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      JAPANESE FACES TOBACCO CHARGE
      49 5 BAIL of $5,000 was allowed m the Singapore Third Police Court yesterday to a 25-year-old Japanese, Yokozawa Matsua, who was charged with the possession of eight sacks of dutiable tobacco leaf, weighing 3201 b., at Woodlands on Sunday! The case was postponed till Aug. 15.
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      POSTMAN JAILED
      45 5 AN j.ndian postman oi the General Post Office, Kuala Lumpur, A. Muthusamy, was yesterday found guilty of stealing a letter m the course of transmission by post and sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson at the Seiangor Assizes.
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      S'pore port news
      214 5 Free Press Waterfront Reporter THE first Unicraf t tug out of a consignment of 15 purchased by Government early this year for facilitating the loading and discharging of cargo m Singapore Roads, was put into commission yesterday. However, the tugs will not serve their intended purpose. With
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      DENTISTS OFFER AID TO S'PORE GOVT
      306 5 DENTISTS OFFER AID TO S'PORE GO VT Plan to assist school children Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore branch of the Malayan Dental Asso- ciation has submitted to Government a plan for the dental treatment of Singapore's poorer and den-tally-neglected schoolchildren, offering the services of its members m giving such
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      Dept Planned To Find Jobs For Seamen
      260 5 THE Government of Singapore proposes to do away with the practice of licensing "Ghaut Serangs", contractors who supply seamen, and has a scheme to establish a central registry of seamen, to which shipping companies and masters could apply for their crews. Names on
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      77 5 Some of the prisoners of Outram Road Jail are seen working outside the prison breaking down a wall. Prison labour has been used since the last jail break for certain security measures which have been going on now for some time. These measures include the heightening of the surrounding wall
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      S'PORE BUSMEN, PLEASE NOTE
      96 5 EQUALLY instructive to bus conductors and passengers m Singapore as m UK is a new London Passsenger Transport Board poster telling "How to be perfect bus conductor, and how to be a perfect passenger." These are the rules it lays down: For the Conductor: Give the
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      SUMATRA TRADE NOT AFFECTED
      183 5 Free Press Staff Reporter "TRADE between Sumatra and Singapore has not decreased 1 m spite of the situation m Java, Mr. T. van der Gaast, of the Economic Affairs Secretariat, told the Free Press yesterday. Up to last week, the number of ships calling at Singapore
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      FILIPINOS WANT MANILA TO BE FREE FORT
      144 5 FILIPINOS WANT MANILA TO BE FREE FORT MANILA will become the distribution centre for southern Asia if it were converted into a free port, according to Mr. Cornelio Balmaceda, former Director of Commerce. The discussion on the question of making Manila a free port was led by Mr. Jose Espino,
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      51 5 TERMITE DAMAGE tr^YOUR HOME ;A\ v J \E*£ rf^J^ eS HID DEM PLACES Jg^V HEAVY OAMA6E IN A S//MT TIME TrrluLn^T EXPERTS *THE COCKPIT" CONTtNBNTAL BAR C °CKTAI&B WINES SMACKS G^room Mrwc by re~mation <mly rr m »'«wk pdA. »j tifte 7 0XL "«K TBl 7482 B«gkok. Hotel <W NedeHanden,
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  • NEWS...
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      BOOMENG WALL STREET IS UNEASY
      482 6 BOOMENG WALL STREET IS UNEASY Rush for consumer goods near end? NEW YORK, Monday. PESSIMISTS m Wall Street, financial centre of the United I States, see strong points of resemblance between the current climbing stock market and last year's spring market which, overnight, went into one of the steepest nosedives
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      EGYPT TURNS TO AMERICA
      451 6 .AGRICULTURAL Egypt, considering plans to improve and expand her industries, is beginning to look to industrial America for technical advice and assistance, says Associated Press. Latest expression of the Egyptian Government's growing interest m studying American industrial processes and techniques is the forthcoming official visit to
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      NIGERIA SEEKS HOME RULE
      171 6 I^R. Zik has arrived m London with a delegation of five, U £13,500 and a demand for self -government for Nigeria and the Cameroons m West Africa (population 20,588.000). Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik to everybody m Nigeria), 42--year-old self-styled "George Washington of the Jungle"' and leader
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      London's past being dug up
      255 6 WORK has just started on digging up the secrets of London's past Excavations are being made m one of the large areas devastated by German bombs, and are being called out under the supervision of the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council. Mr. W. F.
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      ECCLESIASTIC NIGHTCAPS
      53 6 "VJO ecclesiastical person shall 11 wear any wrought nightcap, but only plain nightcaps of black silk, satin or velvet," says one of the Church of England's Canons regulations governing Church practice. It's time they were brought up to date, comments the Rev. Alvan Birkett, of Chesham Bois, Bucks,
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      WHITEHALL TO STOP RUNNING INDUSTRIES
      79 6 WHITEHALL TO STOP RUNNING INDUSTRIES yHE Government's aim is not to run any more industries from Whitehall, other than the Post Office. "And you certainly cannot run them from the House of Commons," Mr. Marquand, PaymasterGeneral, told Parliament. HLs statement arose out of a question on the Government's refusal to
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      EXIT THE 10 H.P.
      25 6 Vauxhall is dropping its 10 h.p. car and will make only the 12 h.p. four-cylinder and the 14 h.p. sixcylinder car.
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      Guards, U.S. sailors fight
      94 6 MOKE than 200 American sailors— in England on a "goodwill" visit and British Guardsmen stationed m London fought a pitched battle m Piccadilly. Ten guardsmen and five Americans were arrested by Military Police and police escorted away a mob of "Tommies." An argument began between a
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      29 6 A m_. .Ed di&play by athlete at the Olympic Stadium m Helsinki, mi the opening of the Finnish Gamr* Festival. The 1952 Olympiad mil be held m this stadium
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      U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS SURPLUS
      68 6 £OR the flrst time m LI years the United States Government has ended a liscal year with a surplus. For the year ended June I: the Government had a surplus of U. 5.5754 .000.000. The surplus was approximately U. 5.5500.000.000 smaller than President Truman had forecast.
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      MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA
      52 6 THE largest number of migrants to Australia m p.ny month since the war ended was recorded m March, when 3,834 arrived from overseas for permanent residence, mid 1,845 permanent departures were recorded. Nel migration of 1.398 persons m March exceeded the monthly average m pre-war years since
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      RAT INVASION
      56 6 ALBERT A, the only totally rat- free province of Canada, is threatened by invasion by an army of rodents reported to be moving westward across the neighbouring Saskatchewan. Government officials have hurried plans to head off the rats as the latest reports placed them at 35 to 50
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      BORROWED TIME CLUB
      53 6 BORROWED TIME CLUB CTAFF SOT HHru r r w^n mUitan v,-^^2 m both w r: xaiv b «"^p Borrowed Tim r.ub ir. ii^ for peop;.- x ;c? I g*£ve< d „h ay; He plans m I fe to keep members busy acc"^ and hop* s acquire acS house when tn-y
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      62 6 JANI Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya THE BULL-FIGHT MUST JM^M AH, CHIQUITA, YOU AWAIT^ BE OVER 6X5- N0W.... x \V V y u LOVER WITH A 1 J§P <>^{fHW^^H I WONDER IF DON ANSELMO *< 1J SMILE. 1 THIS MOMENT J| /T\ /Lo^ I lIHHHI GOT MY
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      BUTTON MAKES SUPERB CENTURY
      372 7 BUTTON MAKES SUPERB CENTURY England 142 On With 3 Wickets LEEDS, Monday. EONARD HUTTON completed a superb century his first against South Africa for England whose score at close of play was 317 for seven wickets, giving them a lead of 142 with three wickets standing, after two days* play
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      Soccer Fans Disappointed
      143 7 Soccer Fans Disappointed Byl l i\Tl6N of the f V W V versus Sinff I v hV Hou- Rons soccer u m inference to a iuur'> > the combined i::u> son Sunday, has dis*22te4 Singapore appoint" d fans s0 -w r do int out that, as this IY !a htvi
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      HEAVY BETTING ON ST. LEGER
      191 7 LONDON. Mon. THE latest callover prices on St. Leger Tunning at Doncaster on Sept. 10) at the Victoria Club today were: 5 2 Migoli. taken and offered; 4 l Pearl Diver offered; B—l Arbar taken and offered: 9 l Sayajirao offered 20—1 Mermaid offered, 25
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      LEAGUE GAME OFF
      26 7 TO-DAY'S S.A.F.A. league fixture between the Chinese second selection and the Singapore Cricket Club has been postponed at the request of the S.C.C.
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      MIDDLESEX MAY GAIN CLEAR LEAD TODAY
      452 7 Outschoorn Scores 60 LONDON, Monday. is result of today's play m County cricket games, Middlesex may gain the lead m the championship table f evening. At present Middlesex and §J5T^ iL top with 152 points each, Midd^ X v 'Middlesex 'dSSarS 1 their second
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      INDIANS GET GAME VERSUS SING TAO
      223 7 II By Our Soccer Reporter j Ov.'NG :o OK advanced flying j fate Tuesday, Aug. 5. instead j Th^dav. Aug T -of the Sing j Ti Sparta Ci'.:b ol Hong Kong. Dm tourists will play only two gar.-s in Singapore this week-end >: r
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      FORM SOCCER BODY
      63 7 j^"-u,; a L u;an Fo :ball Coun J Cee-S Z% formed on Sunday a-, a :eri &ua.a Lumpur at which de*er^ pr'esen- Sl associatiom !rJ\ f A t v X I<aac as elected chair- I S a~-tHl councii a "d Mr. M. Ponnu- j A^r vl m^
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      AMERICANS HAVE 9.4 100-YARD RUNNER
      335 7 By Archie Quick POMING away from the A.A.A. championships m which 14 L out of 19 titles went out of England, I was given a copy of the American Athletic Association and it made me even depressed regards our Olympic games' chances at Wemev next
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      JAMAICAN SPRINTER IN ACTION
      44 7 E. Mac Donald Bailey, the Jamaican athlete, wins his heat m the 100 yards m 9.9 sec. during the A.A.A. Championship at White City. He won the final m 9.7 sec. which is .1 sec. more than his British record.
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      RAF SPORT IN MALAYA NOWWELL ORGANISED
      884 7 By A Special Correspondent DURING the past few months the sports organisation m R.A.F., Malaya, has been taking definite shape. It may now be claimed to be a replica, m miniature, of the organisation of R.A.F. Sports m the United Kingdom. A Central Board
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      NORTH v SOUTH OR S'PORE v S'GOR?
      912 7 Malayan Cricket Test... By The Sports Editor THE inclusion of 1? Singapore and Selangor players m the 1 two teams which will meet m the first Malayan cricket Test between North and South during the August Bank Holidays at Kuala Lumpur has not
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      CIVILIAN CRICKET XI v SERVICES
      80 7 THE following; will represent Ih? Combined Civilians at cricket against the Comb n d Services on the S.C.C. padang on Saturday and Sunday: Pearson (SCO, Homer (SCO, L?ckie (SCO, Noon (capt. SCO, S. K. Sun dram (CSC), Anchant (SRC), Bain (SRC), R. V. S. Sundram
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      304 7 free Press C^wßs^ord No. 157 Gi I I I j '^B^B^B^B^H B^B^B^B^B^H 1 bHHHI BBb^ 111 I I I I C LUES ACROSS 4. Member of any race supposed to have descended from Shem, including Hebrews and Arabs (6), 7. Religious prohibition among Polynesians (5) 8 and 21 Across. The
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      HOME...
      25 8 HOME It is believed that Sunninghill Park, near Windsor, has been selected as the official residence of the Royal lovers, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
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      150 trains for India troop movements
      133 8 150 trains for India troop movements NEW DELHI, Monday. pOMBATANT units of the Vj Indian Army infantry, armoured corps, artillery and engineers allotted to tfie two new Dominions of Pakistan and India, nave already started moving to their new locations, a communique Irom Armed Forces Headquarters, India, announced tonight The
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      Evatt unlikely to see Hirohito
      299 8 Free Press Correspondent TOKIO, Monday. riURING his stay m Japan, the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Herbert Evatt, will not |2e Emperor Hirohito unless the Emperor personally isks permission to call on him. There is no cerUinty even then that it would necessarily be
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      BOY WILL BE CANED FOR ARMS, AMMO
      151 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH. Monday. SENTENCE which was deferred on Chew Too Yong, a 13-year-old boy convicted of possession of j arms and ammunition, was deli- vered this morning when Mr. Justice Cox Evans ordered the accused to be given six strokes
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      PoW GUARDS JAILED
      47 8 Col Junichi Nakano, Capt. Yaychachi Imamura and Lieut. Jiro Wakasugi, Japanese officers who ran PoW camps m Formosa were sentenced to imprisonment for 20 years, 15 years and cne year respectively yesterday. Their prisoners included Gen. Jonathan Wainwright and many men from Bataan.- U.P.
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      SHANGHAI UNDER MARTIAL LAW
      207 8 SHANGHAI, McAday. OHANGHAI remains under martial law, although no curfew restrictions are m force, after the incident outside the Golden Castle Cinema m which seven policemen and one civilian were killed, and 15 others wounded. Reports indicate that the casualties were caused by the Chinese military
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      NEW U.K. BID FOR TRADE AGREEMENT
      453 8 Why Moscow talks failed LONDON, Monday. BRITAIN will make a special effort to resume trade talks with Russia despite the breakdown *ast week of the protracted discussions m Moscow, the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, told the House of Commons
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      44 8 picture. The Queen is seen chatting with the Prime Minister, Mr mfr Attlee and Mrs. Attlee (left) on the occasion of th< Royal Fas visit to County Hall, London their first since the fonJ*? 1 to attend the London County Councils' recepti..i -Platift Nfl,
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      SELLING WAVE HITS PRICES
      501 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Monoay. ON the Stock Exchange today, a fresh sharp dedi m British Government securities further unset* other markets, which were easy at the close, m Reuier's financial correspondent. This new sells wave, while perhaps not on the same scale as on Friday
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      DECORATION WHILE ON TRIAL
      60 8 U.S. Navy chief signalman, Harold E. Hirshberg, who is facing a general court martial on charges of having beaten fellow prisoners m a Japanese prison camp, was decorated on Friday for his part m the defence of Corregidor. Hirshberg was called from his unit to receive
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      British troops kidnapped by guerrillas
      222 8 British troops kidnapped by guerrillas ATHENS, Monday. THE British military mission m Athens were making enquiries last nigrht regarding the alleged abduction by Greek guerrillas of two British soldiers between Lamia and Domokos m Thessaly. The kidnapping, they had been informed officially by the Greek authorities, took place on Sundaj'
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      STAGE CLUB DO WELL IN FARCE
      122 8 AT the Victoria Theatre last night A the Stage Club put on the famous Ben Levy farce "Springtime for Henry." This play has plenty of slick dialogue which requires slick delivery of lines and last night's audience seemed perfectly satisfied that it had got
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      BRISBANE SHIP TO UNLOAD HERE
      92 8 BRISBANE, Monday. /pHE Dutch freighter Grootekerk, X which leaves here on Tuesday, for Rotterdam, will land at Singapore 400 tons of cargo earmarked for Brisbane still m its holds. Waterside workers offered to unload the cargo and seamen agreed to tow the ship to a
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      'BABES IN THE WOOD' MURDER
      208 8 GUILDFORD, Monday. A HANDSOME, 21-year-old window cleaner, was charged today by the police with being "the tree man" who killed two little children a brother and sister m what has become known as the "Babes m the Wood" murders. After frightened parents had ordered holidaying
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      News York Stocks
      54 8 ON m He. "2J3 Narrowly m t ifwrnoocij dealings Price change Uons to MM fairly well divid Pressure agains ladii« bly Industrials and rails. w*- f increase towards the c!^*. unsettled most r'Jier a '^T(« market closed r- the da^ »v r showing derliiv 'ip on rjp
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      STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      77 8 A SPECIAL Market t^ZZi fives the pric«* 11 Lm today w frjjj 0 No. 1 8.5.6 No. 1 «JS.S No. 2 »^.S. tot P te teios Ansro** No. S &&S. f«* -k IB iMtaS AUf^l .-J" Tone of M*rk«* SINGAPOKR fJSS; < Commer Uo^i prlow J
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      94 8 TO WATER CONSUMERS WHO NORMALLY NEED A CONTINUOUS SUPPLY A memorandum Is available at the office of the Municipal Water Engineer, Singapore, giving advice -o Owners, Proprietors. Managers and those responsible for the operation and maintenance of factories, shipping supplies, institutions, hotels and other places where continuous supplies of water
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      94 8 I WEA THER Mainly fair WEATHER report for the next 24 hour- comuiipd i>v thy H.\t Mainly fair, with risk of thundery showers this aftrrno^n and even'ti*. Wind: S uth-easter!y, mainly lifht, but rathrr squally m any showers. Sunset 6.42 p.m., sunrise 6. 35 a.m. Sffetmrise 3.50 p.m. moonsvt 4.08
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