The Singapore Free Press, 14 October 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 15- SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    RUSSIA BACKS PARTITION, SHOCKS ARABS
    753 1 I More con sulates threatened NEW YORK, Monday. RUSSIA today backed the United States in endorsing in principle the partition of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab .States. Russian action has shocked the Arab States, but is not likely to weaken their opposition. It is
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    News US action in Surope foreseen
    131 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. ■DLI-SUBO inference at the White K today between President Truman and leading fUtCMen and diplomats is believed to foreinew and more positive United States action to •the European food and economic situation. 1 scusscd at the meeting was Mr. Herbert E >n,
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    CONGESSHEN FIRED AT
    29 1 Greek military sources reported nltf&t that two United States Congressmen were fired on with mortars while making a tour of northern Greece. Neither was injured.- U.P.
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    KASHMIRIS FIRE MUSLIM VILLAGES
    105 1 KASHMIRIS FIRE MUSLIM VILLAGES KARACHI. Monday. THE Pakistan Government today "protested strongly'' to the Government of Kashmir against attacks bv armed bands on Muslim villages in the Poonch district of Kashmir, bordering on Pakistan. The note issued by the Pakistan Foreign Affairs Ministry tonight said: "Armed bands which include troops,
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    315,000 cut in armed forces
    272 1 LONDON, Monday. THE British Government announced tonight the decision to release 402.810 n>cr and women from the arnv.-d forces by the end of March, a move to reduce expenditure and provide more manpower for industry. With the call-up of 87,500 men in the next six
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    FUEL MINISTER WARNS: 'THREAT TO NATION'
    139 1 FUEL MINISTER WARNS: 'THREAT TO NATION' LONDON. Monday. UR. Hugh Gaitskell, Britain's n^w Fuel Minister, in his first Dublic speech since his appointncnt last week, said today: "If :his winter the domestic consumer »oes crazy and there is a runaway expansion in electricity demand, that is going to be the
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    ARMED GANG TAKES CLOTH
    39 1 Four Chinese robbers, one of whom carried a pistol, cleared $5,000 worth of cloth Irom a tailor's shop in Coleman Street early this morning. The robbers got into the shop by climbing a back wall.
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    CEASE-FIRE ORDER 'COMPLETE FAILURE'
    156 1 BATAVIA, Monday. QUALIFIED informants said today that the United Nations Consular Mission's report on the situation in Indonesia characterises the United Nation's "cease-fire" order a complete failure. A summary of the Mission's -inclusions was cabled to the United Nations Security Council on Saturday, and its full
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    USSR BALKANS PLEA REJECTED
    121 1 LAKE SUCCESS; Monday. THE United Nations Political Committee today rejected Russia's bid to lay the blame for Balkans disturbances on the in ternal situation in Greece and "interference" by the United States and Britain, after Mr. Herschel Johnson of the United States and Mr Hector McNeil
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    SIR FRANKLIN GIMSON
    27 1 The Governor of Singapore, Sir Franklin Glmson, to dae to arrive at Kallang Airport on Friday morning at 9.30 o'clock, after leave in Britain.
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    PRINCESS ACTS AS GODMOTHER
    58 1 PRINCESS ACTS AS GODMOTHER Princess Elizabeth acted as godmother when the infant daughter of her lady-in-wait-ing, the Hon. Mrs. Andrew Elphinstcne, was christened at Worplesdon, Surrey. She was accumvanied by Lieut. Mountbattcn and Princess Margaret. As sfie smilingly posed, nursing the baby, she said she ivas afraid she might let
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    GERMANS ARE HOARDING, SAY ALLIED CHIEFS
    111 1 FRANKFURT (Germany). Mon. IN the strongest criticism of the German Government since the end of the war. top American and British officials today accused thp Germans of concealing their food and demanded that they bejrin to do their shar e in tho world food
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    PARIS STRIKE THREAT
    24 1 A strike paralyzing all Paris bus and subway lines was ordered on Monday night by tine General Coni'ed?ra'tion of Labour.— A.
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    KING ADOPTS A LEPER CHILD
    74 1 The King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth are each to adopt a leper child, for whose medical care and education they will be responsible. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are also adopting leper children. There are many thousands of children awaiting adoption and the
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    £ million mining plant still due
    217 1 million mining plant still due Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Monday. MALAYAN tin interests in London take a less optimistic view of the delivery of mining machinery to Malaya than the Ministry of Supply and disagree with the recent Ministry statement that only about £500,000 worth of orders for mining
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    SYDNEY WEBB DEAD
    39 1 Mr Sydney Webb (Lord Passfield) died at his home at Lip" hook in Hampshire, yesterday, aged' 88. He consecrated the whole of his life to the study and! promotion of the principles o£ state socialism. Reuter
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      90 1 Mr RmJ SHROFF'S CARPETS as GIFTS for Christmas nnb the wcw IJear/ th time to send an IDEAL CIFT An op^ortun.ty offered to solve experienced back home. >N SHROFF S CARPETS. We send your selection home SHORTEST POSSIBLE ThME for Our CIFT SCHEME facili_Payment by ENGLISH CHEQUES °RMRS STRAITS DOLLARS
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    'NOTGELD'
    157 2 NOTGELD' nESPERATK shortage cf ct irs in R^magen a" d ct! e r ci'.ies of the British Zone of Germany is anothtr -ig'i pointing to aji Impend! g mcne.ary collap.>e in the Reirh on the 1923 model, accoroing t the rews: aper Die Welt oi Ks.imburg. Some citi s lave
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    FLYING INTO BRITAIN
    802 2 FLYING INTO BRITAIN By A Special Correspondent THE approach to England's most famous landing field, the London Airport, takes the incoming aircraft over two of the most historic pieces of England, Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace. The fact that one of the must modern constructions oJ man should lie
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    REBIRTH OF MANNERS
    379 2  -  K. Jalleh tiy TjCTHLN the Japs came into this country they brought with them, among other things, bad manners. When they left they left it behind as another legacy for the peopl e of Singapore. The young had no respect for the old. And if there was
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    BRIDGE PROBLEM
    213 2 WEST opciird the diamond queen and. as s<on as dummy went down, declarer began berating hL> partner for not doubling thr <> tiiiimond.s. The spate rose to a full flo d when, after ruffing the third diamond, South led to dummy s l-.^art qu-en and. Eimt showing out.
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    Pelicans & People
    437 2  - Pelicans People Elliott Chaze A.P. By Correspondent |>ELICANS and people act pretty much alike in a hurricane. They both take a beating. They both get excited and do the wrong thing. They both get killed. But somehow the pelicans manage to be a little more dignified aboat it. With hurricane
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    29 2 This is the view you will get of Windsor Castle as you fly over to land at London Airnort n» .v. left is St. Georges' Chapel. airport. On the
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    236 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DORN today, you have a ma;--u nctir personality and the executive power which makes you a leader. You women have more timidity in your make-up and might be held back temporarily by your environment. But if you will break away from
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    BARODA'S DAPPLE-GREYS
    178 2 SOME time ago, the Maharaja of Baroda, Impressed by the Windsor team of dapple grey steeds, made up his mind to acquire a team of the best for his service in India and to that end his English agent approached the well known trainer. Mr. F. J. Honour,
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    UNKNOWN
    181 2 e Mineral r*i *hich the 'SI Pottery f^S lor Pamt ~,??1 a "f «ram lc f j A new mm Jffji^ Tal c in St iiSL 5 ha s bc en knov tlft volutionar,JJ?e of S?> mi^s near r. .^i largest or terms to the touch. Wi-ii^ and soapstone
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      20 2 Manf!rakB Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press In Malaya S W,u X\ Oc(jn/u,h//vo -tLtCi y^ /^Ti^Vk MY DAM/^UTPQ MADDvmr tuc
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      211 2 i RADIO PROGRANN SINGAPORE Blue Network 12 00 2.00 p.m. 185 metres in the medium wave band 7.22 megacycles per second in the 41 metre band. 6.00 11.00 p.m. 185 metres in the medium wave band 4.826 megacycles per second in the 61 metre band except from 7.45 9.30 p.m.
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      256 2 TIFSDAY metres. 5 36-night IS 10.30 a.m. Aiustralian N«WI Bill. 19.38 metres, tin; 10.40 Records by Request; 11.00 ru^n\Y\nDW* "'Star Parade" Efram Zimbalist.; j p r Woridlfcnßvl I.cnaz Friedman: 11.15 Ballad Singers" jy "Harold Williams." 4 p.m. "Umr.or Easy**; 1 45 Var.lc^ Q l^' Music" Harry Horlick and Orch *3°
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    UK SMUGGLING IS MAJOR INDUSTRY' HONG KONG, Mondav.
    592 3 UK SMUGGLING IS MAJOR INDUSTRY' HONG KONG, Mondav. K ,itish colonial authorities under fire n to South inina mruu&ii goes volume that everybody guesses at and t& know. The subject is a touchy one with i nloniil (.overnment whose duties, in part at n These oilicials say they are doing
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    UNKNOWN
    27 3 ;r;!,r. r 'rd "<ilurd.iv ...id voted demand they •Kir ihr tanbUP? JJV,], „ni.»"d I**"* JJI of war $750 a If fl ch day's intrrir 1 m
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    UNKNOWN
    62 3 L Princess I :nade zh is high ver, dc< d P Inoui romoun on the r.a- d and the Palace r_ I Qient (ik tee* decyinf a regown was b?:r.g juaa's wecdir.e fift for r*ss Hi be a se- antique silt coat, u Canadian IMi Ministei id tha-. had
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    OVERHAUL OF JAP LANGUAGE
    34 3 OVERHAUL OF JAP LANGUAGE to simplify the JapnbeV Mary J* toft school and at tee reduce cv. S£ s to the I absoluteSJL::"- han av3P* ought to know tor ■r rtducg** characters se] >ar.
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    REGIMENTAL MEMORIAL
    6 3 J J°ok ot remem-
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    They want to limit 'kissing'
    72 3 WEAVERS are opposing part-time •housewives* shifts" in British textile mills, because, they say, the "shuttle-kiss" might be unhygienic if too many gave it. The "kiss" is the weavers way of drawing thread through shuttles with their mouths. Mr. B. Starkie, secretary of the Manchester and
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    China war waifs await 'adoption'
    283 3 TWO HUNDRED Chinese war orphans are waiting for 200 American families to call them their own for at least a year, says Mrs. Edna Blue, international chairman of Foster Parent^' pla n for War Children, Inc., an American non-profit organisation, reports A.P. from New York.
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    QUEUES FOR NYLONS
    37 3 Queues for Nylons will be back by Christmas in America. For a ftsg women have been able to buy all the nylons they wanted. Now fashion has decreed that only black nylons will do.
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    U.S. ENVOY RETURNS
    18 3 Mr. Walter Bedell Smith, the United States Ambassador to Moscow, has arrived in New York.
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    ELECTRIC CUTS CLOSE DOWN FACTORIES
    136 3 ELECTRIC CUTS CLOSE DOWN FACTORIES ABOUT 20 factories in Tsingtao have shut down after the Tsingtao Electricity Works had cut off current because of a critical coal shortage. Current supply is limited to lighting between the evening hours of 6.30 and 11 p.m. It is feared that tens of thousands
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    STAR'S CONTRACT
    19 3 Rita Hayworth is guaranteed £75,000 a year for the next five years under a new Hollywood contract.
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    OCCUPATION COST
    26 3 Lord Pakenham, Minister responsible for the British Zone of Germany, said that Britain has poured nearly £275,000,000 of goods and services into the Zon<\
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    WAR ON INSECT PESTS
    106 3 WAR ON INSECT PESTS Britain's "backroom boys" are noio planning warfare against insect pests. At Rothamsted Experimental Station (Hertfordshire), they have erected a 105-foot tower, with traps placed at intervals to catch pest invisions flying at various heights. These traps have powerful suction apparatus to suck in winged insects that
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    MONTY: WHEN I MEET MR. VISHINKSKY.....'
    138 3 HIELD- MARSHAL Viscount Montgomery, speaking at Southampton, said that next time he met Mr. Vishinsky he would have a "few words" to say to him. He was referring to a recent .statement by Mr. Vishinsky in which he likened Mr Churchill to Hitler. "He
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    U.K. EXPERTS TO BLOW UP NAZI PLANTS
    456 3 rjERMAN engineering plants that could be used to make* heavy armaments will suffer a knockout blow by a group of British technicians which is being formed with headquarters at Minden, Westphalia. This group, known as the Disarmament and Demolition Unit, is to demolish
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    ABBEY WORKER'S DEATH FALL
    50 3 A verdict of accidental death was recorded at the Westminster inquest on Norman Roy Whitehouse, aged 40, of Edgwafe, a carpenter, who was killed by a fall of 55 feet from the triforium in Westminster Abbey, when engaged In work in preparation for the Royal wedding.
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    BARGAIN BINDER
    52 3 Using a binder bought for six •shillings at an auction eighteen years ago, Mr. h. Elson, a farmer of Fradley, Burton-on-Trent, has just harvested a hundred acres of oats, wheat and barley. The machine has harvested a hundred acres every year since. Replacements and- repairs have tost under
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    SOUTHERN CROSS MAY FLY AGAIN
    132 3 MEMBERS of the family of the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith have objected to the "Southern Cross," plane in Which Sir Charles made many of his pioneering aviation flights, being flown again. The Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford, has given permission for the plane to
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    CAREER CUT BY WEAK HEART
    110 3 THE brilliant military career o$ Brig.-Gen. Frank Merrill, whose "marauders" made history in the Burma campaign, has been jeopardized a military hospital in Manila a heart ailment which has confined the former chief-of-staff in a military hospital in Manila since Sept. 24. High-ranking officers .of
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    HK FIREWOOD TO BE RATIONED
    55 3 IT is predicted that firewood will be rationed in Hong Kong shortly after the arrival of Gov-ernment-chartered ships at present loading firewood in Borneo ports. The ships are expected to return to the Colony before the middle of October. Reportedly the supply on hand is
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    DEATH SENTENCE
    39 3 The death penalty was announced on Friday on Benjamin Cruz and Bonifacio Valertano, who were found guilty of robbing and slaying Judge Basilio Bautista, his son and three MP would be rescuers last September in Manila— U.P.
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    OLD MASTERS IN DANGER
    115 3 PRICELESS art treasures L belonging to Britain are in danger because of shortage of labour and materials delaying the installation of an air conditioning plant in the National Gallery. Thousands of pounds worth of damaged was caused by damp which has been ruining the "old masters"
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      46 3 TARZAN Piracy By Edgar Rice Burroughs LOUiE STEPPED OUT. "WE'RE j CRIMP AND ME FOR THE ti {^^SY^^'^^^^^^^^S^^S^ >r VtjßW^^G2« I i W Ivi Jl I B^A y^^HH I THc CAr l AIN IC I rit- t?KIL/W7C I Duu by vnitrd Frsiurr Pyndte»te Inc -^t53" I
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1947. The Palestine Test
    612 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1947. The Palestine Test pALESTINE may yet prove the test of UNO's fitness to survive. But it is a test which the big Powers, who will have the responsibility of executing any decision that may be reached, do not seem anxious to face.
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    Don Iddoon's Diary
    1198 4 MOW that Britain has laid it on the line no one in America seems to want to pick up Palestine. The abusers, the advisers, th e advocates of partition, admission, and revision are all tip-toeing on the other side of the street. There are no volunteers for
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    UN's TOUGHEST BABY WAITS FOR NURSE
    1120 4 C 0 II EWHE R E in the world there is a man who is going to get a job in the muddied turbulent, hot-tempered city of Trieste. And when he gets it he will have a rather better chance than anyone else in
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    FAITH
    17 4 The Lord hath d.»n e great things for us; whereof we are glad. —Psalm 126, 3.
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    SCIENCE CORNER
    25 4 M I from tl:e"up; I m I I 1 bat H I I nucU 1 j I 1 I wbicl -:B| I H
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    'Scholarship Boys
    457 4 "Plasma of promise pumped annually into the blood-stream of the nation. CIXTY-THREE thousand 11-year-olds in Britain are basking virtuously in a glow of parental admiration and awaiting in trepidation the new world that opens for them behind strange classroom doors this month. Among them ar e the future
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    Indianbeams broadcasts to Indies
    129 5 Indianbeams broadcasts to Indies Division P^L All-India Radio has I (cast s^vice fS***Lo tbC service on of InSar- 1 Ssiw'S p alled SS cultural affinity vo countries and enrice s. but merely the old iggle," -India endence gJL if still in the grip of nave h o: naturally turn with
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    EXTORTIONER FINED, JAILED
    49 5 Mr. H A. ed j 19-vear-old who exon June 29, t J' 1 us Imprison] -r in default nine isonment uni to und-ir^o non for two ve: t* is£e d his victim to pav )f money once a d h' makinz one of mad bin H
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    S'pore port news
    9 5 S'pore port news ■39), Em- an (13'. 15-16>. (13.
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    $22,000 IN FINES
    21 5 *f. e Pt- 31 vr ar s collected In Court rom owners and who s of TV 481
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    $630,586 SAVED
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    WIFE'S CONDUCT IRREPROACHABLE
    127 5 decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted to Kung Gek Neo. also known as Kunu Gek Ean. bv the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray- at the S.nc.apore Hi -h rt yesterday, when she petitioned for a dissolution of her iage with a Singapore
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    CHINA REMITTANCES
    19 5 Figures of family remittances to China durirtg September are follows: Sir.wap'>r.' $1,123,198, an i Malayan Union $554,283.
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    £28,000 FOR LIGHTHOUSES
    249 5 MALAYA and Sarawak have placed orders with Chance Brothers in IK lor £28,000 (about $238,000) of lighthouse equipment. The firm has at present 16 lighthouses under construction in the Far Fast. In addition, the firm has been asked to draw up schemes for the modernisation of lighthouses
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    AVOIDING PARTY POLITICS
    123 5 IN view of the existence of the Progressive Party, a sub- committee of the Singapore Association appointed to consider and recommend a joint election policy has decided there was no lontrer any need to pr reed with this work. The committee uf the Singapore iation aureed unanimously,
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    GIKL CHARGED WITH THEFT
    132 5 A 22-year-old Chinese girl, Dorothy Choo, wax produced oeforc try Singapore Fourth Polire Magistrate, Mr. R. J C. Wait, yes'erday on a charge Of Lh ft. It was alleged that Dorothy whil<^ cmploy-cd as a servant, committed theft of 46 qpoonj and 12 detaert knivr-o. valued
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    POLITICAL 'OFF SEASON' IN SINGAPORE
    419 5 POLITICAL 'OFF SEASON' IN SINGAPORE Election plans not yet made Free Press Staff Reporter it has been officially stated that election campaigns can start now or at any time," none of the political parties in Singapore has even mapped out a campaign. Out of the eight or nine political parties
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    3 INDIANS FACE HURT CHARGE
    80 5 THREE Indians-George Fern- ando. C. A. Henderson and i Arogisamy— were produced before the Singapore Second Police Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Goh. yea yday, and charged with voluntarily causing hurt to S. Seenivasan. It was alleged that they entered B shop in Upper Serangoon Road
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    ROYAL WEDDING FUND
    53 5 Contribution* to the Princess Elizabeth wedding celebration fund can now be paid MH the counter of the G.P.O. or «'my other post office in Singapore. At the G.P.O. contributions will be n < lved at the stamp counter. No house-to-house collection for this fund Within the Municipal
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    MORE JAP SHIPS DUE TOMORROW
    317 5 *ree Pros Waterfront Reporter THE fourth allocation of former Japanese warships to Britain is expected to arrive at th e Naval Base dockyard tomorrow. The ships include a second class transport, the minesweeper Wakataka and a submarine chaser. They are bcinij escorted by another ship,
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    CERTIFICATES READY
    34 5 All teachers who passed the teachers' training course arranged bv the Department of Education Singapore in 194(> may now collect their certificates from the Department of ration. sth Floor, Fullerton Building. Singapore.
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    MPs OFFER AID TO SINGAPORE
    103 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THREE Members of Parliament have written to the Singapore Association, expressing willinp-n-ss to assist th e Association in any possible way. The MPs ar e Mr. Walter Flet- cher, (Cons., Bury), Mr L. D. Gammans (Cons., Hornsey) and Mr. L. D.
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    143 5 A mural tablet in memory of Major (temporary Lieut. Col.) Ivan Lyon, DSO., MBE., of the Gordon Highlanders, who distinjuished himself in daring attacks on Japanese shipping in 1943, 1944 and 1945, will be unveiled on Sunday at the Tanglin garrison church by the Chaplain General, GHQ., FARELF., the Rev.
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    S-W Pacific jamboree next year
    410 5 1 JAMBOREE for scouts of South-Wast Pacific countries will be held in Australia at the end of 1948, says The Malayan Educator, official organ of the Malayan Teachers' Union. In an article in which he laments the fact that Malayan scotft s were n o
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    MORE CEYLONESE PIONKERS
    93 5 A, other batch of 923 members o: the Royal Pioneer Corpa (Ceylon Section) arrived In Singapore yesterday from Colombo by the 27,000-ton troop transport Goorgic The ship also disembarked 2.290 British other ranks. 134 civilians and members of the women's services from the United Kingdom The Georgic
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    MAP OF MALAYA
    38 5 MALACCA, Monday. Speaking at a lunaheon meeting of the Malacca Round Table, yesterday, Mr. A. H. W. Lilly, Survey Officer, Malacca, said before lornthere would be a new map of Malaya printed by the department.
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    TRUMAN BLAMED FOR EUROPE'S CRISIS
    586 6 t Churchill begged for loan at Quebec WASHINGTON, Monday. HENRY MORGENTHAU Jr., America's wartime Secretary of the Treasury, says the Truman Administration wrecked President Roosevelt's plans for speedy post-war recovery in Europe when it "brutally terminated" the LendUm Act in August 1945, reports Associated Press.
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    ECAFE OPENING
    35 6 President Roxas of the Phillipines has been invited to open the second plenary session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and thp Far East on Oct. 24 in Wanda.- A. P.
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    EMPTY TIN' WAS BOMB
    55 6 rpiIROWING rubbish on the X embankment at Crofton Park Southern Railway Statioa, S.E., a platelayer saw a tin roll into a small hole and disappear. The hole, five yards from the track, turned out to be deep. Now a bomb disposal squad is seeking a 500
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    U.S. FIRMS SOLD 'DUD' ICE CREAM TO PHILLIPINES
    132 6 THE U.S. Govemnumt has filed Federal Court action seeking to enjoin three Oatcland f California companies lor alleged violation of contract, under uliich they bought 641,494 pounds of surplus ice cream and Acre to have labelled it unfit lor numan consumption. The
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    SPECIAL AGENT SHOT
    22 6 A Philippine Government special atst'iit. was killed and another was wounded in a shooting affray registration of new voters
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    CLIB FOR BWKKRS
    23 6 The Hongkong ChißtM Bankers Association is constructing a Donthnuse club on the tenth floor of the East Asia Building A.P.
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    GERMAN LABOUR HAS 'FREEDOM IT NEEDS'
    161 6 DR. Kurt Schumacher, chairman of tht» Social Democratic party in the American. British and French zones of Germany, savs ho believes the American military government is allowing Germany's labour movement "the democratic freedom it needs." Speaking to newsmen in New York following his arrival
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    Roxas approves Forces overhaul
    249 6 Roxas approves Forces overhaul PRESIDENT Koxas has approved the reorganization of the armed forces of the Philippines Republic, featuring three major commands under the direction of the President and a duplication of the American system. The reorganization is based on the combined plans of the Council of National Defence and
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    FOOD PARCELS TO BRITAIN
    45 6 Christmas food parcels for Britain posted in Auckland have risen to 30,000 weekly from the normal rate of 14.000. The post in Auckland have risen to 30,000 weekly from the normal rate of &oM5 e po t omce is handiing A.P.
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    ANNIE GETS THE BULLET
    46 6 A NNIE Get Your Gun," the x\IJ.S. musical show, has been banned in the Southern cities of New Orleans, Birmingham (Alabama), Atlanta and Memphis, because there are three Negroes in the cast. "It's social equality in action," explained the Memphis censor chief.
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    FREE AIR TRIPS FOR ARMY WIVES
    87 6 WASHINGTON, Monday. FREE plane rides to the Pacific have been offered by the U.S. Army to a limited number of wives, children and othe r dependents going out to join U.S. army and air force personnel. Dependents, including infants over six months old, will
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    HIGHEST U.S. BIRTHS
    41 6 The United States population incjeased by 2.279.000 las* year— the largest eain in history, the Census Bureau reported. On Jan. 1. the total population was 142,673.000 about 11,000.000 more than rerjorted nn Anrii 1940 ppn. sus.— U.P. F199
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    'JAP LEADERS EXPLOIT U.S. FEAR OF REDS'
    344 6 MK. W. MacMahon Ball, former \ustnii I AlUed Council in Japan, s, !(1 i n l mem^ohJ the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, t ha <J is to exploit in every way possible AmerW? m^ kk don of Russia and Communism" v, r V° ar
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    UNO INDONESIA COMMITTEE TO MEET IN SYDNEY
    96 6 rriHE United Nations "Committee A of good offices," which will attempt to settle the Indonesian dispute, will proceed to Indonesia "by the first available air transportation." it was announced in New York. This announcement followed the meeting of representatives of the three countries
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    CHANGE OF PRISON
    75 6 WOMEN prisoners are to be shifted from Hong Kong to the former women's prison establishment at Laichikek. in the New Territories. A fleet of 30 trucks will transfer the prisoners and wardresses. Two days after the Japanese started operations against the territories in 1941 the women in
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    'DEMOCRACY LNEIROPE ON DEFENSIVE'
    100 6 'DEMOCRACY LNEIROPE ON DEFENSIVE' .6KINGTON. x G! Lucius D. C of th( Q that demoeier the defensive in Europe and "nothing can survive by bcing in ir.e delessive." who is back boi to attend Anglo-American en* •es on Occupation Zone told reportai that te emphasised his belief tha: nomic stability
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    'BRITAIN WILL PULL THROUGH'
    70 6 AMR. McCLOY, President of the ITI World Bank declared in a speech* that he was convinced Britain would manage to weather the economic crisis with or without a new dollar loan. "I have the greatest confidence in Britain's ability to face facts ajjd take necessary measures",
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    CHAIRMAN EXECUTED
    41 6 China's Democratic League has alleged that its chairman for the Northwest, Mr. Tu Ping-chen. was executed by the Government at Sian on falsified charges of opium smuggling and pro-Communist activity. A formal protest is beine: made to Chiang Kai-shek.
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    HUNGER MARCH
    46 6 Two thousand villagers from several unions of the Howrah District adjacent to Calcutta made a ten-mile march to the city to represent the difficult food conditions in their areas. They came in procession shouting slogans such as "Give us rice or we shall die."
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    STEEL OUTPUT UP
    34 6 British steel production in September totalled 1,153.416 tons the highest for any month since March 1943 and the biggest September output in history, the Britsh Iron and Steel Federation has reported.
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    PRINCESS CAN NOW DRIVE CAR
    48 6 THE Queen. Princess Ettg t heir Scottish holiday whjW It-it Balmoral casUe on for Lt)Jioo«:. Prli rgaret P- test on i ot the test Mr. wj Scott, cl Nortl d h *S*S the Prlncesi had beer. by removing the L md hand:: Reuter
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    CHAMPION OF HOUSEWIVES
    34 6 Sir William Savf.B* J^* on bacteriologies d ed himself to hou*^" *> out the world when Health Conference. nwn^J washed cliches shouw j d .ir wiped as o p wnung disea« U.P.
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    JUDGES APPOINTED
    9 6 JUD GES APPOINTED The Governor of <£; E Just ..if
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    BIG HUNGARY STRIKE
    10 6 T* Huncorn iSve:work of B in Reuter
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    HUSTLING TACTICS MAY UPSET S'HAI
    495 7 ]peedy ßAF Team should Do Well By Our Soccer Reporter hai Chinese footballers will play their third game |O*J t,xlay when they meet the Royal Air Force \irmen ran play their normal fast game, they ie hk Aft iho tourists a better test tha n
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    BANKERS TAKE THE RECS BY SURPRISE
    339 7 By Forward H.K.S. Bank XI 3; SRC 1 PLAYING their first club match this season, the Singapore Recreation Club were surprised and beaten by the newly- formed Hongkong and Shant^hat Bank hockey XI by three goals to one on the padang last evening. The
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    RUGBY UNION RESULTS
    19 7 U.K. Rugby Union results yesterday were Lancashire 27. Ulster 3r r!rn«c v^ve 0, Maesteg 9. Reuter
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    MAYFLOWER B.P. OPEN TWO HEW WENT COURTS
    73 7 MAYFLOWER B.P. OPEN TWO HEW WENT COURTS By (ourtcraft r badminton Party tig of i with Moul- vities May. :n--nong :\:on par':* s and champions of proud. then me thrl chiblrst class badminton by ra in tag Soon's Form W^ng lowed glimpses of n he defeated Smiles. Peng nuch ning
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    Veterans Hold First Practice
    236 7  -  Our Soccer Reporter By rpHIRTEEN members of SingaJ. pore's Malaya Cup Veterans' Football Club got together for their first practice at McNair Road ground yesterday, and the general impression conveyed was that, with a few more such practices, they should be able to field a useful
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    Cablemen Beat B.O.D. By Solitary Goal
    114 7 THE Cable and Wireless Hockey XI defeated the 223 8.0.D. Hockey XI by a solitary goal at St. George's Road last evening. Though the Cablemen played better hockey and maintained a superiority throughout. poor finishing by their forwards robbed them of a bigger margin
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    S.C.R.C. HOCKEY TEAM TO MEET COLLEGES
    72 7 THE following will represent the S.C.R.C. at hockey against the Combined Colleges at Hong Lim Green at 5.15 p.m. on Friday. Lee Ah Chio; Dr. Ong Bwee Law, Cheong Thiam Siew; Goh Chin Chye. Cheah Kim Swee. Lau Hock Chye; Au Tat Chu, H.
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    S.R.C. HOCKEY TEAMS
    77 7 T^HE following will represent the SRC. at hockey tomorrow against the S.CC. on the S.C.C. padang: B. Noronha, R. Barth (capo, P. Neubronner, H. Hoeden. P. Pennefather, J. Scheeder; C. Lloyd. R. Barker, J. Stanley. A. Clarke and E. Ebert Against the St. Joseph's Institution on the
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    RETURN TITLE FIGHT
    38 7 MANAGER Irving Cohen announced in New York yesterday that Rocky Graziano will defend his world middleweight boxing championship nu'ainst Tony Zale. the former chamnion. in a return 15-round bout at Miam'. Florida, on February 12.
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    REFEREE NAMED
    49 7 Waltham of London will referee the world flyweight championship fight between Dado Marino of Hawaii and Rinty Monaghan of Ireland In London on Oct. 20, the British B xinf Board of Control announced yestt relay. This will be ♦Vif first world LiLle lob lor Waltham.- A. P.
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    U.K. SOCCER PROGRAMME
    265 7 The following are U.K. Football fix- Southend U. v Crystal P. tures for next week: Swansea T. v Swindon T. SATURDAY. OCT. 25 Walsall v Norwich CFIRST DIVISION THIRD DIVISION (NORTHERN) Arsenal v Everton Accrington v Tranmere Bolton W. v Blackpool Barrow v Rotherham Burnley v Manchester
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    Penalty Missed At Highbury
    68 7 BUTLER, Portsmouth's goalkeeper, throws himself to make a brilliant save from Rooke's penalty kick, in the game in which Arsenal lost their first point of the season when they were held to a scoreless draw at Highbury. Some 60,000 watched the game, and for the third
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    AMARNATH CREATES GOOD IMPRESSION
    472 7 T AMARNATH, India's cricket captain made a splendid Jm impression when the first official function in honour of the Indian cricketers took place in Perth yesterday. It was a reception in which the West Australian Government, the Mayor of Perth and the Western Australia Cricket Association
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    Nelson Sports Club Win Two-One
    172 7 JN a fast game of soccer played at Kampong Bahru yesterday the Nelson Sports Club defeated the merchant ship s/s Elpenor by two goals to one. John Chua opened the scoring for the NtLson Sports Club shortly after the kick-off. ThrtM- minutes after the interval
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    KATONG EURASIANS WIN ONE-ALL
    43 7 IN a fast and inu-ivstiiig hex-key match the Katong Eurasian Sports Club defeated the Cable and Wire! ss Hockey XI by one goal to nil at St. Patrick's school ground on Sundav. Osbert Rozario scored for the Katonc; Club.
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    BONUS FOR CHAMPIONS
    40 7 U.S. Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler's office announces that each member of the championship New York Yankee team, which won the world series last week, will receive about $5,800 of the total gate receipts as his share.
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    More Big Bets On Ces'witch
    408 7 npHERE was heavy betting on last night's callover on the Cesarewitch, first leg of the autumn double, running tomorrow, various horses being supported to win a total of £152,000. The northern-trained K.imponneau maintained his position as favourite, being the best baoked horse of the night.
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    Ces are witch Doubtfuls
    59 7 Ces are witch Doubtf uls fORNEVILLE will not run In the Ccfiarewitv?h tomorrow unless the going eases. Other doubtful runners are Almaliva and Fiedor 11. There has been substantial support for the French horse, Mor.sieur L'Amiral, to win the race and a London bookmaker, Alfred Cope, said he is likely
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    23 NATIONS ENTER FOR OLYMPIC BOXING
    79 7 TWENTY -THREE nations have submitted entries for the boxing competitions in the 1948 Olympic Games from Aug. 9 to Aug. 13, the organizing commit, tee reports. "Th's will mean that nearly 200 of the world's best amateur boxers will be seen," the committee said.
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      259 7 Free Press Crossword No. 2 Jl 1 1 z I I 3 I 4 I 5 I p I I tLbU AC'KOSS 1 and 9, Popular name of 42nd and 73rd Highlanders (5, 5). 5, Dandies (4). 7, Asiatic labourers (7). 9. See 1 Across. 11. Mirth, fun (8). 14,
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    Reds hold 90 p.c. of Manchuria
    376 8 NANKING, Monday. SYVEK 90 per cent, of Manchuria is now in Communist hands, the Chinese Premier and commander-in-chief of the Nationalist forces in Manchuria, Gen. Chan Chun admitted here yesterday. The Government controls only 38.9 per cent, of the population in Manchuria, he added.
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    HOME
    49 8 picture In historic times the bell of Aber Church tolled during fog to guide travellers across the Laven Sands from Ancjlescy. Now the area is a favourite holiday resort know* chiefly for its glen which passes inland between the steep sides of Maes Geer and Dridd Du.- C.O.I.
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    HANDSOMEST SOLDIER" DIES
    78 8 I FIELD-MARSHAL Sir Archibald Montgomery Massingbird who served in the South African War and was Deputy Chief of General Staff in India from 1920 to 1922, died yesterday at his; home in Lincolnshire, aged 75. Sir Archibald was Chief of Staff to Lord Rawlinson' s Fourth Army
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    MERCHANT NAVY FOR INDIA
    145 8 NEW DELHI. Monday. jNDIA is taking measures to build up a big merchant navy. The Government was reported to be actively helping Indian shipping companies to buy and construct additional tonnage. During the next five to seven years, India hopes to gain 30 per cent, of
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    DALFORCE BACK PAY: TWO CHINESE JAILED
    242 8 CV3UND guilty on a charge of attempting to cheat Major H. S. Pqcock, Officer Commanding, Administration, Locally Enlisted Personnel, by impersonating members of Dalforce (a unit raised at the last-minute to defend Singapore against the Japs in 1942), two Chinese, Chong Chee Choon and
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    BOYS' BRIGADE
    52 8 The first Singapore compeurvy of the Boys' Brigade will hold their 13th annual compaiw in-j spectkm and display at 77 Prinsep Street on Friday at 5.15 p.m. i Mr. Some Kok Hoo, Assistant Superintendent of Police, will be the inspecting officer, and the Rev. T. C. Gibson, will
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    CIVIL LORD TAKING WAGES PETITION TO UK
    157 8 THE Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. J. Edwards, leaves Singapore today after a week's administrative inspection of the Naval Dockyard. He takes with him, for reply from London, requests for higher wages made to him by European workmen and dockyard unions.
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    RUBBER PRICES
    98 8 A SPECIAL Market corr«pj* ent gives tbe prices o! nsbW at 11 a.m today as follows Buyers w Cts. Cft p«r Ib. No I 8.8.1 M* B M I, n i ii-.min.il Rfci Oct. s I 8.5.1 fob j,. ,n balrs Oct. No 3 K» t-'O ft in
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    150 ARRIVE IN SAILING BOATS
    24 8 ANE huudrod and fiTO day voyage from f Va Boyan- ds ar o e^ latives and mends oi Sinß-iPore__
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    DEFENCE OF COMINFORM BEFORE UNO
    281 8 DEFENCE OF COMINFORM BEFORE UNO LAKE SUCCESS, Monday. RUSSIA today officially defended the new Communist Information Bureau before the United Nations, declaring that workers' organisations had a "perfect right" to Join forces in the face of international collaboration by world capitalists. The new Communist organization was supported in the Assembly's
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    'VIETNAM RESISTANCE NEAR COLLAPSE'
    445 8 Ho Chi Minh 's Hq reported taken SAIGON, Monday. I\R. Ho Chi Minh (head of the Vietnam Republican Government) is being bottled up and he may soon flee for his life or be killed,'* a French Government spokesman claimed today, reporting on the progress of the
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    JAP OFFICERS TO HANG
    108 8 Free Press Stall Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. THE former Commander of the Japanese llth Regiment in Malaya, Lieut. -Col. Watarabe Tsunahiko. will be shot for his part in the Kuala Pilah massacre of March, 1942. This sentence of death by .shooting wa^ passed by a War
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    SCEPTICAL VICAR
    40 8 The Rev. A S. Hopfctnson, Vicar of St Mary's Church. Battersea. London, said yesterday in his parish magazine; "I do not believe there were two individual people called Adam and Eve from whom all humani ty descended."- U.P.
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    At the Theatre AMUSING SHOW
    106 8 I AST night at the Little Theatre, Armenian Street, the Little Theatre Players put on their third show "The Torchbearers.'' Originally an American satirical comedy adapted for the English stage the Players somehow seemed to lose the satire and made it into a farce. However,
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    28 8 Cairo's Muslim Al Azhar University has received an in vita tion from the University of Prague to attend the 500th anni verfcary of its ioundauon nexi. year. A.P.
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    GILT-EDGEDS IMPROVE
    398 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON. Monday TN general there was not a great deal of activity ontht 1 London Stock Exchange today, says Keuter's financial correspondent. Gilt-edgeds were In the limelight and some substantial improvements were recorded, though in final dealings most prices were an eighth below the best.
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      58 8 WE A THER Showers lljf i:\TIU. it report fox the next If 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F.: Generally cloudy daring- afternoon, with some showers. Fair during nigtot and tomorrow raornin«. Wind Ufht south-easterly. Moonrisr: 7 00 a.m.; moonset 6.33 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 85 dec; min. SINGAPORE TIDES High 1t.54
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