The Singapore Free Press, 22 September 1947
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Title Section21 1947-09-22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 1 1- 5 964 SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS21 words
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Article, Illustration463 1947-09-22 1 Two posts to he combined THE office of the Special Commissioner m Singapore is to be closed, and the functions of the Killearn MisMon transferred to the office of the Governor(ieneral, Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, cables the Free Press correspondent m London. A spokesman463 words
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Article217 1947-09-22 1 PARIS, Sunday. Gftcgl Marshall, I nited States Secretary of his told M. (ieorges Bidault, French Foreign rei ry. that aid for Europe under the Marshall n is unlikely to begin before the spring. shall made no secret that at best a ion of Congress toReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 217 words
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20 1947-09-22 1 .>cw lUKft., i>U.. HOOVER, former and mmc t.onthe .r.'' tided ation 'ural ire-*" ReuterReuter - 20 words
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212 1947-09-22 1 MASKED youths ol the Irgun Zvai Leumi's Black Squad tonight kidnapped a 22-year-old girl commando I of the Haganah, m continuance of the abductions by i the two Jewish terrorist and underground organisations of each other's members for "intelligence Questioning." The kidnappers forced their wayU.P. - 212 words
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Article197 1947-09-22 1 BRITAIN'S WARNING TO BALKANS LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN does not approve of the policies of the present governments of Rumania and Bulgaria, and to a lesser degree l Hungary, despite her recent rati- flcation of peace treaties with j bhose countries, a Foreign Office spokesman said tonight. Iri a statement toA.P. - 197 words
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110 1947-09-22 1 LIGHTS MAY BE SWITCHED OFF WITHOUT NOTICE FROM tonight onwards, no announcement will be made of areas likely to be blacked-out should the Singapore Dublic fail I to co-operate by reducing their I electricity consumption. Any area might without notice be cut oil from 6 to 10 p.m. "If j110 words
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Article41 1947-09-22 1 Fsfcli Ali (India) on Sunday served notice m the United Natio.ns Steering Committee that India would move that the Indian South African dispute should go straight to the General Assembly without further dlaeassiorn m the political committee.41 words
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Article, Illustration41 1947-09-22 1 picture. GILBERTE ELIZABETH LAZARUS, a young writer, who was found guilty of sending letterbombs to high British officials m Cyprus and Palestine recently. The Mons Criminal Court m Belgium sentenced her to a years jail and fined her 1,000 francs- A.P.A.P. - 41 words
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Article213 1947-09-22 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE Chinese r* man and two boys were killed when the open lorry m which they were travelling was m collision with a military lorry m Mandai Road at 7 p m yesterday. Seven others a man, two women and213 words
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Article58 1947-09-22 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I In a motor accident at 1.30 1 i o'clock last night m Napier Road, just past the Tanglin circle, three! servicemen were injured and are; now lying m the hospital. Six persons were m a station wagon when it hit58 words
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Article71 1947-09-22 1 REPORTS received :n Shaii^hai from Canton yesterday said that the authorities there have given life gaol sentences to 13 smugglers during the last month for shipping contraband on steam launches and exchanging fire with customs agents. At the same tim P tt vva s revealed thatU.P. - 71 words
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Article38 1947-09-22 1 A GRENADE exploded on Saturday night m the street m front of the headquarters of General Charles de Gaulle's "rally of the French people" organisation m Bergerac, 50 miles east of Berdeaux There was no damage.38 words
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Article40 1947-09-22 1 The Singapore C.I.D. at 5.30 o'clock yesterday morning arrested a Chinese man and a Chinese woman after raiding a house m Slow Wee Road, where they recovered a .38 and a .45 revolver and 10 roivids of animuniUon.40 words
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Article427 1947-09-22 1 121 MUSLIMS BUTCHERED ON TRAIN LAHORE, Sunday. IN a refugee train which arrived m Pakistan today from Delhi were found the sword-slashed corpses of 62 children, 29 women and 30 men, reporters were told by the Khan of Mamdot, Premier of West Punjab. Also aboard the train were 106 wounded.Reuter; A.P. - 427 words
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Article86 1947-09-22 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A POLICE spokesman this morning said no motive had yet been advanced for the murder of a 42-year-old Chinese fisherman, Toh Ah Bee, who was found dying m his drifting "kolek" (boat) off Seletar beach at the 10th mile Yeo Chu86 words
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Article110 1947-09-22 1 LONDON. Sunday. JEFFREY Hamm. leader of the British League of Ex-Service-inen an organisation said to include former members of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists was charged at a London police station tonight with using insulting words and behaviour following disturbances m the East EndReuter - 110 words
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Article49 1947-09-22 1 Four Chinese, two of whom were armed with pistols, who attempted to rob two Chirftse women at a bus-stand m Joo Chiat Road while they were waiting for a bus at 10.30 last night ran ..way when the occupants of shop louses nearby raised an alarm.49 words
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Article, Illustration1242 1947-09-22 2 Hall Romney - 'ATMOSPHERE' IS THERE Hall Romney LONDON LETTER from A DAY or two ago, after my lunchtime sandwiches and beer at my favourite offFleet Street "pub," I spent a quarter of an hour or so wand' vine* among the ruins which enemy bombs have left m the neighbourhood of the Temple.1,242 words
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Article219 1947-09-22 2 SNOW SIGN POSTS ••IIUTHIN the present year. Vr sign- boards will appear high up the slopes of the Himalayas marking snow -survey sites, which m future years will yield measures of the annua! snow-cover of the Himalayas." says Dr. J. E. Church, the wellknown American expert m his report submitted219 words
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Article, Illustration250 1947-09-22 2 THE ARMY'S PUZZLE-SHOP a iwu i bureau ot 11 Current Affairs has followed the demobbed soldier into Civvy Street m the gui of the Bureau of Current^ Affairs, an md pendent and non-profit-making organisation set up by the Carnegie Trust to carry on for civilians the war time work of250 words
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Article, Illustration219 1947-09-22 2 WEST opened the diam md Jack and Eas* slaved ,n<> kin*, boutb tiled to forestall the knocking ou lils en-.ries by ccckmc b*Jt, d < East continued. N m <> later had an insoluble pr blem. Unless the club dropped m two U ads. S Uth OOOld219 words
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Advertisement80 1947-09-22 2 CL ix>eict>vte i l f- n i^ fll «w iv _*5%2 1^8,7 k> _>_•■ %vll_^ J m I Yes I persuaded him to come proudly. "Now we are all righr lave their milk tonight and their ce-eali p»^^ I tomorrow. What a relief it is tc have i In the80 words
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Miscellaneous940 1947-09-22 2 Vlwr_Dnfcl. .ShorW Piano Works Louis Kentncr; 9 m_ln_li__i with bINGAPOKE 9 30 A You Like It-A V^.rn^ ot \l^- Tnncni Yemenis! Blue Network your favourites 9.45 Australia Today 9 4 0 Interlude; 9.45 Can you Beat It?; 12 Oft—-* 00 n m IR- m.tr~ m th*'^"' 9■ 5 5 <>940 words
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Miscellaneous144 1947-09-22 2 YOI JR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DORN today, you have an 0 active imagination which sends you to visionary heights, and often far away from hard, practical facts. If you are to make a necaa of your life from the outside world's point of view you144 words
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Article442 1947-09-22 3 Impossible to solve Holy Land issue Li Nations Gmenl Assembly approaches the Lg I n> ted whit li is due to be debated this week <|.>n»e that n .atever solution it acimposcd by military fo cc, cables an ru-pondcnt from New York. aye been confirmedA.P. - 442 words
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Article30 1947-09-22 3 BY SHAJ .men c 1 C of people-rr. 1 J___» with n. IB I am so op* mmml Lgfal I I i i t D'30 words
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Article20 1947-09-22 3 Dl. ri Bureau i ritiea I cul. but im- i i sharo ri* A PA.P. - 20 words
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Article28 1947-09-22 3 I Party 1 i. d an I the EL Flushing ■Jots, y published m its afcr the headline ss flouted a Mr t.. riA««,28 words
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Article213 1947-09-22 3 pKAYEKS were ottered at two Kent convent schools for I- 1 the two Mothers Superior who had pleaded guilty, through their counsel at Liverpool earlier m the day, to smuggling goods hy air from Eire. Each was fined £50, with £10 10s. costs. They213 words
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Article40 1947-09-22 3 THOUSANDS of starlings which disturbed people m a Milwaukee (U.S.) suburb have been scared away by forty-eight aluminium owls placed m tree hr.un hos. The birds went to another Milwaukee suburb, which now wants to borrow the owls.40 words
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Article106 1947-09-22 3 A a o .*.i.e<r*. gang oi former sailors are held responsible for much of the looting which has helped to reduc^ the value of the Guiuan Naval Base, Samar, from $150,000,000 to only0 nly a fraction of that figure, Manila newsmen reported after an inspection of theA.P. - 106 words
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Article30 1947-09-22 3 which the entire ol the provided by no a year was Prof D Cockcroft, mic Re! S l at the World r a; TV Hague I ReuterReuter - 30 words
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Article379 1947-09-22 3 REBUILDING EUROPEAN TRANSPORT THE requirements of trans-continental trans -:_rt hive lon-r imposed on Europe a degree of cooperation achieved m few other matters. The immense destruction caused by u>war provides an opportunity for still closer coordination m this sphere, and the report of the technical committee on transport of the379 words
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Article59 1947-09-22 3 HIGH prices m America were too much for 73-year-old Mrs. Anne Boyer, of Savannah, so she went to bed and unless lhe Government comes to her aid, she says, shell stay there without eating unt'l she dies. "I can't afford food at present prices," she says. Even59 words
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Article90 1947-09-22 3 TWO LONDON CHURCHES PULLED DOWN TWO London churches, St. Andrew's, Bromlev-bv-Bow. and All Hallows, East India Docks, both m the borough of Poplar, have been the fir to be demolished under the scheme of the London Diocesan Reorganisation Committee. Both sites w*ere acquired by local authorities for housing by agreement90 words
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Article97 1947-09-22 3 11 deep sea diver, Maurice Far- gues. made a world record descent of 120 metres m the Mediterranean near Cap Cepet, Toulon, but he lost his life. Dressed only m bathing trunks, and wearing a face mask connected with oxygen bottles on his back, Fargucs wentU.P. - 97 words
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Article101 1947-09-22 3 'ST. PENICILLIN', SAYS CHURCHILL NATURE, Mr. Churchill told the International Conference of Physicians m London, is like many modern statesmen prodigal of pain. "I should like." he said, "to find a day when we could take a holiday a Day of Jubilation for good St. Anaesthesia and the chaste and101 words
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Article63 1947-09-22 3 I*)R. Roscoe Pound, Dean-Emeritus of the Harvard Law School flew from New York on Friday to Shanghai to complete a revision of the Chinese judicial system. The 75-year old savant started the work a year ago when he was appointed adviser to the Chinese Ministry ofA.P. - 63 words
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Article17 1947-09-22 3 A bogus wing commander was detected because he wore the D.F.O. ribbon upside down.17 words
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130 1947-09-22 3 EXTRADITION REFUSAL AIDS SUSPECTS J7K3RMER Philippines solicitorr general Lorenzo H. Tanada is reported to have told residents of Zamboanga that the refusal of the Chinese Government to permit the extradition of 20 Filipinos resident m China forced him to drop treason charges against al least halt ol them, A ManilaA.P. - 130 words
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144 1947-09-22 3 A I one of the greatest demonstrations Lonaon nas ever seen, at least 50,000 people gathered to hear Mr. Harry Pollitt, Communist Party Secretary, outline a Communist programme to solve Britain's crisis, make a stirring call for drastic socialist measures, and launch a144 words
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Article32 1947-09-22 3 The U.S. Embassy m London ls taking over as offices flats which it owns m Grosvenor-square, W. The staff 40 pre-war now numbers 300, and may rise to 500.32 words
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Article107 1947-09-22 3 A TELEGRAM sent m Italian, saving: "Tomorrow evening i I shali die," was sent by William Henry Coulson, 58. of Virginia Cottage, Bradford Abbas, Dorset, to his wife, from whom he was separated. But a friend translated the message: "Tomorrow evening I shall arrive." She107 words
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Article37 1947-09-22 3 Australia will keep up clothes rationing indefinitely to assist Britain m conserving Empire dollars. The Federal Cabinet ls expected to consider readjustments of the existing ration scale m view of the shortage of cotton goods.37 words
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Article, Illustration55 1947-09-22 3 picture. Mr. Winston Churchill, icartimc Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, is seen feeding 'Dinger", the albino kangaroo which was presented to him m 1946 by the Stock Owners Association of South Australia. The plcture*wtu taken at the London Zoo on ,1 recent visitA.P. - 55 words
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Article63 1947-09-22 3 PHILIPPINES BUYS U.S. BRIDGES THE U.S. War Assets Adminis--1 tration has granted the Philippines a US$lO,OOO,OOO credit tor the purchase of surplus property m the United States. Minister Narcisco Ramos and Juan Barretto, Philippine embassy financial counsellor, signed on behalf of the Islands. Immediately afterward they placed an order underA.P. - 63 words
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Article34 1947-09-22 3 Passenger tyre manufacturers shipped 42,453,947 tyres m the first seven months of 1947 an increase of 18.96 per cent over the similar period of 1946, the Rubber Manufacturers Association renorts.- A.P.A.P. - 34 words
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Article46 1947-09-22 3 A DUTCH study commission will visit the Netherlands East Indies next February to examine the possibility of cultivation by Indonesians of ground nuts and soya beans. The commission is being assisted m its preparatory work by thj United Africa Corporation.46 words
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Article69 1947-09-22 3 THE Inkspots, popular American 1 singing act, made a last minute decision to appear at the London Casino. leader, Bill Kenny, said that their programme did not allow them even to giet cool between acts but they were continuing because the public must be considered. He revealedReuter - 69 words
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Miscellaneous62 1947-09-22 3 TARZAN Understanding By Edgar Rice Burroughs WITH TARZAN' S KNIPE, PEANE ■.hill >. H I INSTANTLY TARZAN SEIZEP H >sl iS^BHS^fi^^T^TT^ M\ i_L_lllWl BUT AT KULU'S CRIES OP PAIN W^^l_s_. —ANP &RAVE, LITTLE KULU, REALIZ/NG l/j/'-X ///^SJkIw 1 MOLAT ATTACKEP IN RAGE. v V4^ !^ImW)L W WAS HBLPEP PUT H62 words
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794 1947-09-22 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1947. Winning the Fight With Crime A REVIEW of the crime situation m Singapore during the first eight months of the year, given yesterday by the Chiei of the Criminal Investigation Department. Mr. R. C. B. Wiltshire, snows a steady decline m the794 words
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Article, Illustration912 1947-09-22 4 Frank Owen - Good Morning Frank Owen B y COMETHING signi- ficant m British politics, and perhaps profound, has occurred. While Mr. Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister of Britain, rests m the wings, Mr. Ernest Bevin, his Foreign Secretary, marches on to the stage of the Floral Hall at Southport and steals the912 words
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975 1947-09-22 4 IAN COX - United Kingdom Has Coal For 100 Years IAN COX By CCIENTIFIC study of coal has always been a particularly British subject and at the present time more effort is being put into it than ever before. If this were not obvious already it was certainly demonstrated by a number ol975 words
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Article, Illustration36 1947-09-22 4 ■vmTv,:-"- -<£ f At the O'Jth Annual gathering of Aboyne Highland Games, P-vm-mer C. McGormey (Gordon Highlanders) watches the young Earl o/ Aboyne and Lady Lemma Gordon with their mother, the Marchioness of Huntley, playing the drum.36 words
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Article250 1947-09-22 4 JOHN FISHES - JOHN FISHES A FEW words m Mr. n Bevin's speech have set the world staring at Uncle Sam., treasure chest at Fort Knox, Kentucky. There under guard of a whole battalion the Americans have buried a hoard of gold worth £5,000,000,000. Mr. Bevin says it would250 words
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Article144 1947-09-22 4 NOW that the King of Enghas dropped from his title the words "Emperor of India" and "Indiae Imperator." which were added to the "Royal Style and Titles" by Queen Victoria after the annexation of India to the Crown m 1858. the "Empire" no longer includes India, and144 words
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Article22 1947-09-22 4 In fee winter is past J* flowers appear on UK "j tin- tone of thpsii^-n:« n i.s come. 2of Solon: aj22 words
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LOCAL NEWS
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Article, Illustration161 1947-09-22 5 WOMEN CAN AID MALAYA V *41 A I{ s interviewed it ss Man iceporier U ach the women of Malaya is the Epowfffl or the ueiterniiiit and serr h club life. This was the I iia BrirlfMW, National General m Austnlft, who passed through iIM I m route to the161 words
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Article122 1947-09-22 5 UK'S DUTY TO MALAYA STRESSED Fre e Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (By Ai r Mail) "THERE i s a deep conviction m th 0 minds of all concerned m the w-lfar 0 and industries cf Malaya that, it is the bounden duty of the British Government to face up to122 words
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Article, Illustration369 1947-09-22 5 S?tt_t ft to no vi »c "temporary wood-and-no j„ new type, semi-permanent Improvement Truvt demolish their tLir v f antee of th^-" intention to tSwrZtttiZ. thCir hUtS aS SO n as they et new fortm<^t rlh T r hf. neW hOU^, Will b read y369 words
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132 1947-09-22 5 U.K. TO HELP PADI GROWING IN SARAWAK AGRICULTURAL soil research with a view to increasing areas under wet padi cultivation will be the first step to be taken m Sarawak with a grant from the Colonial Welfare ar.d Development Fund. This scheme will involve the expenditure of $56,000. This work132 words
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Article227 1947-09-22 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent AN authoritative Kuomintang source m Singapore has re- ceiyed news that the Chinese Foreign Office is to open negot.at.ons w,.h Britain. Siam, Indo-China, Philippines, the rf____^ thC lniled S a teS n th —Weot Chinese elections m their respective territories. This follows227 words
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45 1947-09-22 5 LANCERS FIRST MET C.-in-C. IN 1931 ■HEN Ger. Sir NVil R.'chie. I'll. Ck 2n;i '■■■■> at E" Regim-n*' a X k-* the crtr h made E ReeiE Back Wa ft neof Kte 'CXi- o the Indian Army and. I -re replaced I .hey ft bravery against45 words
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Article144 1947-09-22 5 THE Government of Sarawak has deferred the proposed reduct on of 'he rubber export tariff. A statement m the Sarawak Tribune states: 'lhe question <.f rubber export tariff was brought up at the first Press conforenet which was held at the office of tiif Secretariat. The144 words
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Article108 1947-09-22 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S trisha riders have been granted an extension to th f end of September to pass their proficiency road tes t which is being conducted by Inspectors of the Vehicles Office. Th P dispute between the trishame n and th P authorities has108 words
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Article50 1947-09-22 5 NO COMPLUSION TO USE VOTE AN official statement reminds the people of the fact of registering themselves as voters for the Singapore elections m no way compels them to use that vote, should they so decide d\irin° the election campaign. The closing date for electoral registration is Friday, Sept. 26.50 words
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Article242 1947-09-22 5 rpHE Army Labour Exchange makes every effort to rind other jobs for those retrenched. This assurance is given m a statement relased by Army Public Relations explaining policy towards locally-engr.gori civilian emnlovees. The over-all employment i civilians is governed by the finances allocatted by the242 words
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Article32 1947-09-22 5 The Officer Administering the Government has appointed Lieut. Com. Edward Hugh Lee, D.S.C., Royal Navy, to be honorary Aide-de-Ca.mp m place of Lieut.-Com. K. U W. Moss, Royal Navy,32 words
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Article519 1947-09-22 5 RUBBER WILL PAY FOR JAP GOODS r ree tress Staff Reporter RfIAI^YA'S exports of rubber to Japan will provide the necessary gold dollars to enable her to purchase goods from the Japanese. Explaining this, Mr. L K. Averill, officer m charge of the Singapore Trade With Japan Office, told the519 words
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Article, Illustration67 1947-09-22 5 Fourteen-year-old Nan Wah student, Tang Kum Yue. daughter of a commercial artist, Mr. Tang Ying Chee, was told by the Coroner, Mr. W.G. Porter, last week she was lucky to be alive she snatched her purse containing her savings of $13, plunged through the staircase of a burning house m67 words
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Article304 1947-09-22 5 90 OFFICERS TRAIN FOR COLONIES Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, (By air mail). MINETY Colonial officers are al attending a Summer school at Rhodes House, which is breaking new ground m the training of civil servants. o^ The K CXpe iment is Dein -g watcho«i •by Servers from France SW?_304 words
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Article43 1947-09-22 5 The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research m London is appointing a senior architect to undertake responsibility for organising and maintaining a centr P of information relating to housing problems m the Colonies and hav c invited applications for the post.43 words
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Article61 1947-09-22 5 Sunday, The following Malay Girls have gained entry into the new Malay Girls' College: Halimah binti Mohd. Taib. daughter of Capt. Mohd. Taib. Malay Regiment, T. Zailan binti T. Zakanah from Tuanku Mohamed School. Kuala p:iah T Halimah binti T. Hussein from King George V School. Seremban.61 words
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Article529 1947-09-22 6 Commonwealth talks on migration OTTAWA, Sunday. L_R. A. A. Calwell, Australian Minister of Information and Migration, has proposed a Commonwealth conference on immigration which would discuss shipping needs and the transfer of surplus population from Britain to the under-populated dominions, writes an A.P. correspondent. In529 words
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Article, Illustration54 1947-09-22 6 •w^v tour The constitutioji for the great African colony of Nigeria, introduced m 1945, provides for an African majority, with 24 nominated unofficial members and four elected members. The Africans take their elections seriously, and the recent election campaign icas fought with gusto. This picture shows a typical candidate's poster54 words
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Article, Illustration47 1947-09-22 6 Young David Housego. of Epsom (Surrey), is seen making friends ivith two of the pit ponies which have arrived m London from Northumberland and Durham for the coming "The Miner Comes To Town" exhibition. The pit ponies will be stabled m the Royal Mews- at Buckingham Palace.47 words
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161 1947-09-22 6 CHINA MUSLIMS DEMAND 'INSULT' RETRACTION SHANGHAI, Sunday. THE Chinese Muslim Association has sent a letter to the Central News Agencj holding it responsible for any "untoward incidents" which might occur if it failed to correct an allegedly misleading report on the reasons why Chinese Muslims m Peiping last week wreckedA.P. - 161 words
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Article74 1947-09-22 6 A London police court sentenced Philip Ragon. civilian chlel of a United States army office m London, to five months' im prisonment fo r failure to pay a €1,000 fine for violating impor regulations. Ragon, a former Lieut-Colonel In the army, who handled cash claims mU.P.; A.P. - 74 words
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Article38 1947-09-22 6 A Briti_.li newspaper correspondent m New Delhi reports that he has been informed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Premier of India, that no censorship has been applied to foreign news m India and "none was intended."- A.P.A.P. - 38 words
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Article52 1947-09-22 6 Th e Chairman of the Binning- nam Estate Committee said at a press conference that of 59 000 names on the Birmingham ho'us- I mc register, more than 3,000 are prospective bridegrooms who have -nade it clear there would be no marriage until a house was a™*. IReuter - 52 words
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Article96 1947-09-22 6 rvHtb. Philippine Supreme Court, m a decision affecting the i nationality of thousands of Philippine-born Chinese, held that the principle of citizenship hy birth does not apply m the Philippines. It said that Chinese who were born m the islands are not necessarily Filipino citizensU.P. - 96 words
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Article221 1947-09-22 6 IMPORTANT new evidence on the origin of cancer, which 1 kills each year 70,000 people m England and Wales (more than those who died m six years of war from rockets and bombs), is given by Dr. Percy Stocks, chief medical statistician of the Genevil221 words
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Article66 1947-09-22 6 EVLN m the rush hours London's I'nderground travellers are more courteous than New Yorkers and "do not blight their eoarhes with tons of chewing ruiu,'' Transport Commissioner Sidney Bingham reports to Mayor William O'Dwyer alter returning from a months study of the L.P.T.B. To efficient America's largest city.66 words
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Article94 1947-09-22 6 Two more British women have* trekked from Beirut to join j the twelve "rebel" wives and five 1 children squatting m disused barracks at the Ras en Nakura frontier post on the PalestineLebanon border. They say they will stay till the Palestine Government allows94 words
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Article46 1947-09-22 6 General Manuel Avila Camacho, former president of Mexico, is reported to have suffered a heart attack recently while playing polo and to have been ordered by his doctor to remain m bed m absolute quiet for three months. Camacho'3 presidential term ended last November.46 words
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Article172 1947-09-22 6 Rockets instead of naval guns OOCKETS will supplant 16-inch guns as the main weapons 1V of the newest battleships m a year or two, the editors of Janes' Fighting Ships predict, reports A.P. from London. The 1946-47 edition of the authoritative directory of navaJ power said that Britain and theA.P. - 172 words
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Article47 1947-09-22 6 Thp Emperor of Japan's two sons had their first look at an American transport plane last week at the departure for the United States of Lt.-Gen. Robert Eichesberger, Commander of the Bth Army and Mrs Elizabeth Gray Vinin c of Philadelphia, Imperial tutor.47 words
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Article, Illustration31 1947-09-22 6 The Government of India and the n r Pakistan m New Delhi ha: /V l Aflfstim* /rom /fidia'i cap/,/ >» tons zc/to have been heading n possessions as they can, m an31 words
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Article157 1947-09-22 6 rr^Hh popular conception of Sinkians provm™ x mine of natural resoiu .redrreaih when specimens of Sinkians coal oil iron t«^N other minerals were examined recently by t» Consul, J. Hall Paxton, and an \.l\ iurr^mJl^ Chinese geological museum m the suburh (Sinkiang). su,)urbs H< TheseA.P. - 157 words
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130 1947-09-22 6 FARMER GORED TO DEATH BY SHOW BULL I rvELEGA'I _S to the InV stitute of Pacific Relations conference at Stratford-on-Avon saw Matthew Palmer, 42-ycar-olc i fai*m bailiff, gored to death Oy a bull which he was showing to them on Dor sin ton Manor Farm it was stated at the130 words
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Article53 1947-09-22 6 (MNLMA Zt the opening <>.*■ ll the Gaum<:. ma, Kilbun: On the firs: '3 paid ,1.000 to see 2*: B" ballet performed W 1 national Ballet < audience were ore goers and the! vfl^ ovation to this new W menl m cinema. £5,500 was taken a-^53 words
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Advertisement157 1947-09-22 6 I LAST DAY -TO-DAY- I COLUMBIA'S BATMAN •REX(Concluding Chapters) TOMORROW ktX i_r*r-^_B s_^a f\ mmWtmmmmWmm^mmmJt ALSO SPECIAL GIFT! Coloured Autographed Thoto of Roy Ropers t'.iven Free to All Patrons Who See This Western Classic! 11, 1.45. _r__.TLI-_l/ I'hone 4^5.6 45. IAInAY 3400 LAST DAY! _T i TiTY 411 B m157 words
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Advertisement37 1947-09-22 6 THE ACE OF ALL POWEtm You've Seen Bin j^^^^^rmurnmx j *lm*\ apt*** WmW JI a.m.- -'-I*-'-_* n iL'| 1 C A P I T 9 ask you yAM">^ to come f t *AL into my CAFIJ U37 words
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Miscellaneous9 1947-09-22 6 AINt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya9 words
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Article, Illustration719 1947-09-22 7 Baby Baltazar To Protest To Board By Our Boxing Reporter T>KIIIND the first round knockout of Filipino Baby Baltazar, Orient lightweight champion, by Siamese Som Pong, Singapore welterweight champion, at the Happy World Stadium last night, there was a dressingroom incident. Baltazar claims it contributed directly719 words
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101 1947-09-22 7 PRINCE ALV KHAN s Esprit deFrance, by Epigram out oi Francille. won the Irish St. Leger run over one and threequarter miles at Currah, Eire. Ridden by the crack Irish jockey. Mornington Wing, Esprit de France started a hot favourite ut 9-4 on.Reuter - 101 words
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Article38 1947-09-22 7 MEMBERS of tiu Old Rafflosia:i Asso eiation, who atv intmiUd m table tennis, ihould get m loud- with the Convenor. Mr. Lim Choo Ann. c/o Tho6. Cook Son, Ltd.. (Commercial Dept.), 39. Robinson Road, as soon as possible38 words
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Article, Illustration32 1947-09-22 7 canning Cardiff City goalkeeper, tips the ball over the bar. with Sherwood, the fuOback, looking on m the game m which Cardiff met Mdwall at the Den, New Cross.32 words
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95 1947-09-22 7 over- -forth. 0. 'lELDIMi a powerful side, which was led by Singapore's m Abdul Rahman and included several leading jilian players ;apore Rovers beat the strung jaforth Highlanders' team by two goals to nil In a fast and feßstinf came of football at Jalan95 words
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96 1947-09-22 7 LAST year's S.A.F.A. Victory Cup winners, the SingaRecreatUm Club, meet GHQ Signal Regiment m a first round game m the Cup competition at Jalan Besar Stadium today. Both are st? mg teams and one of the closest games m the competition can96 words
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Article135 1947-09-22 7 SIX thousand saw the former amateur cup winner, Barnet, the Athenian league team, b at the Sing Tao Sporu* Club of Hong Kong m their lost match m England oci Saturday. Both teams played fast ana delightful football. Hawkins score, first for Barnet, whileU.P. - 135 words
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317 1947-09-22 7 LEADING U.K. LEAGUE TEAMS MISSED STAR MEN Vyiii£ England's soccer team away at Brussels to play Belgium, _everal ol the leading English Fotball League clubs felt the absence of their star players In Saturday's games, when there were some surprise results. Preston North End, second m lhe first division, missedA.P.; Reuter - 317 words
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626 1947-09-22 7 By Courtcraft MISS Helen Hong of the United Family B.P. became Singa pores new women s junior badminton champion when she beat Miss Ng Sai Hoi (A.A.U.) 11—9, 11—8 m the final at the Clerical Union Hall yesterday. Miss Hong, employing new tactics which626 words
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192 1947-09-22 7 WALES beat England by 10 points to eight m the season's flr.st Rugby League international, after leading by 10 points to acre at halftime, at Wigan, Lancashire, on Saturday. B island failed to avmge last October, defeat by Wales but came very nearReuter - 192 words
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Article30 1947-09-22 7 J. T. Holden, 42-year-old British Amateur Athletic Association marathon champion, won a 30- mile road race at Surrey on Saturday m 2hr. 59 mm., 47 sec. A.P.A.P. - 30 words
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Article415 1947-09-22 7 INTERNATIONAL SOCCER BRUSSELS, Sunday. •'THE hero of the golden jubilee soccer international between England and Belgium, won by England by five goals to two, was right-winger Stanley Matthews, who played the game of his life, writes Vernon Morgan, Reuter's special correspondent. Matthews, who is tonightReuter - 415 words
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128 1947-09-22 7 BASKETBALL IS NEW RUSSIAN THREAT TO U.S. r|Ui_. gi^i*.? ioomed as the most A formidable threat to the United States domination of the Olympic basketball as interest m the American invented sport continued to grow by leaps and bounds throughout the world. Evidence of the increasing popularity of the gameU.P. - 128 words
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Article167 1947-09-22 7 LOUIS Chiron of France, driving a Taibot, won the Grand Prix of the Automobile Club of France at Lyons yesterday, covering the course of about 316 miles m four hours three minutes 40.7 seconds at an average speed of approximately 78 miles per hour. HenriReuter - 167 words
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Article100 1947-09-22 7 THE English Rugby League team to meet New Zealand m the first Test match at Leeds on Oct. 4 was chosen on Saturday as follows: J. Ledgard of Dewsbury. G. RadclifTe of Wigan. E. H. Ward of Wigan, J. Stott of Saint Helena. A.E.Reuter - 100 words
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Article37 1947-09-22 7 A crowd of 54,000 people saw Holland beat Switzerland by six goals to two m a soccer International match at the Olympic Stadium m Amsterdam yesterday. At half time the score was 1-1. ReuterReuter - 37 words
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Miscellaneous257 1947-09-22 7 Free Press Crossword No. 195 T~T U. 13 I ft |S I- |7 -fcr p js i i _L— JL_____ m zs~ mmm n-r mm -I Hi H»HCLUES ACROSS 1. Part songs for several voices (9) 8 aud 12 Across. Where Neuwo won the battle of the Nile (7, 3).257 words
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Article, Illustration24 1947-09-22 8 ■j Snatching a "breather" m the sun between shows. ilu/Vlfc Windmill Theatre Show girls relax on the roof oj the theatre, m Piccadilly, London.24 words
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Article462 1947-09-22 8 i tvc Press ...ail Reporter fFHREK Chinese have been detained and charged with gang robbery after a raid by bandits, armed with Service rifles and dressed m Japanese military uniform, on Wessyngton Estate (Malayan-American Plantations) near Rengam m central Johore on Saturday night. The bandits held462 words
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Article50 1947-09-22 8 lORD Nathan. British Minister of Civil Aviation, left Nanking by air yesterday for England after two days discussions with Chinese Governmost officials retarding the implementation 0 f thp recently concluded Blno-Britlah air •ransport agreement H r is ravelling via Hon c Kon^, Snma[Pore and Bangkok- ReuterReuter - 50 words
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Article57 1947-09-22 8 A BRITISH Army dispatch rider died m Jerusalem on Sunday of wounds received m an ambush by unidentified persons on Saturday night on a highway near Pc ah Tique some 30 miles northwest of Jerusalem H^ and another soldier Cams under automatic weapons fire TheA.P. - 57 words
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148 1947-09-22 8 MANILA. Sunday. SEARCH parties today found one dead and 25 alive out of 27 I United States Forces personnel who parachuted from their army I plane, when it ran out of petrol over North Luzon (Philippines) on _Jhc way from Okinawa to Manila.Reuter; A.P. - 148 words
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Article300 1947-09-22 8 l ree I'ress StafT Reporter 4 MASS meeting m Farrer Park yesterday, sponsored by PUTERA and the All-Malayan Council of Joint Action, passed a resolution protesting against the Singapore elections and rejecting the British Government s latest White Paper on Malaya's future constitution lhe meeting alsoU.P. - 300 words
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Article134 1947-09-22 8 PRAGUE. Sunday. NUNS, clergymen and teachers are among 100 people to be charged with taking part m the alleged plot m Slovakia to overthrow the Government of Czechoslovakia. The other half of -.he 200 who were arrested week ago have now been released. TheReuter - 134 words
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Article273 1947-09-22 8 COLOMBO, Sunday. THE formation of a strong interim national government as a preliminary to the attainment oi independence should be demanded by all right-thinking peopie m Ceylon, Mr. G. G. Ponnambalam, President of the All-Ceylon Tamil Congress, suggested at a general election meeting ln theReuter - 273 words
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172 1947-09-22 8 NEW YORK, Sunday DRITAXN today told lhe Steering Committee of the United Nations General Assembly that she thought it unwise for the General Assembly to discuss revision ol the Italian peace treaty as requested by Argentina The United States had_^ earlier strongly suppoiReuter - 172 words
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580 1947-09-22 8 UNO CLASHES LEAD TO NEW WAR FEARS Russia warns United States LONDON, Sunday. riEARS of a new world war aroused by the head--1 on clash m the United Nations General Assembly between Mr. George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State, and M. Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, were reflected mU.P.; A.P.; Reuter - 580 words
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Article, Illustration64 1947-09-22 8 Group Capt. John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham, chief test pilot for De Havilland, climbs into the Vampire jet fighter m which he broke the National and International Closed Circuit speed record at the international air races at Lympne, England. Flying at 496.88 m.p.h. he finished last m the handicap race, but64 words
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220 1947-09-22 8 TEHERAN, Sunday. THE legality of the oil negotiations conducted by the Premier Quavam-es-Sultaneh— who signed a 50-year agreement last year with Soviet Russia providing for a joint company to exploit the north Persian oil-bearing territories—was questioned in the Majlhs (Persian Parliament) today. Abdul HusseinReuter - 220 words
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Article46 1947-09-22 8 A variety performance is to be given this evening at 8.45 at the Victoria Memorial Hall m aid of the funds of the Sngapore AntiTuberculosis Association. Two orchestras and a large number of artistes are taking part. Guests are disked to turn up early.46 words
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Article375 1947-09-22 8 WAGE DEMAND IS CHANGED free rress Stall Correspondent XI ALA LCMPCR fTHB Pan-Malayan Council of Govern^ at a meeting tonight decided to revise J! demands and to urge upon the fiovernor. Sir 111 l that the revisions of basic wa*es recommitthe Wages Commission should ha^SS effect from Jan. 1 this375 words
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67 1947-09-22 8 U.S. HURRICANE DEATHS RISE MANY MISSING "THE toil of dead and dJ n Stall is has beendedu one of th of the -.'JOf the i. md business is ed by fierce winds. udded :erii KM looting bai bet: **fB from several tary guards ha\ ordei lerec 1 st:. t JReuter - 67 words
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Article31 1947-09-22 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY 4 SPECIAL Marw-Jj| ct pffH> No. J MJ *f loov nominal' So. I m. s-1.-> Ort So I *AS ob I No. S E.BJ f? I" __t >31 words
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Miscellaneous86 1947-09-22 8 WE A THE H Occasional showers WEATUER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the RAF.: Occasional showers and bright periods particularly early tomorrow when they are likely to be heavy and prolonged. Wind: Southeasterly, light, but heavy squalls likely early tomorrow. Temperatures for the past 24 hour*: maximum86 words
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Miscellaneous15 1947-09-22 8 SPORE HIGH 11DE* High: 3.29 a.m. 2. 53 p.m. Ixm: 8 42 a.m. 1.44 p.m.15 words
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