The Singapore Free Press, 22 November 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 4 SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    FRANCE NEARER TO CIVIL WAR
    442 1 FRANCE NEARER TO CIVIL WAR Action call m Red manifesto r.t>i ?v< it r. PARIS, Friday. pthMH Communists have been warned by the party to M stand by for union and action." M. Leon Blum, veteran French Socialist leader, told the National A MCMMy today that this was an open
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    Egypt claims an Italian colony
    67 1 LONDON, Friday. >ador. Abdel Fat tali Pasha, surprised ulsters' deputies meeting on Italian g for Egypt the whole of Eritrea and liland as an Arab country. Libya I ryp- i only a putiea rdlr port have the it times m which American ceediftigi it was
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    NEW PLANES FOR AIR SERVICE FROM DEC 1
    221 1 NEW PLANES FOR A IR SERVICE FROM DEC 1 FROM T. 11. TAN i. Ec Press Special Correspondent LONDON, Friday. EXPERIMENTS aboard the Qantas Constellation Ross Smith all the way from Sydney to London have been so successful that the Qantas Constellation service is definitely Starting from Sydney on Dec
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    British trade boost mainly with Asia
    148 1 British trade boost mainly with Asia LONDON, Friday. THE greatest increase m Britain's export trade lor the three months ended September was with countries of Asia, the Board of Trade announces. The total value of BrUish exports In this period was £302,000.--000—greater by £37,300 000 than In the second quarter
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    SOVIET DEFEAT ON THE VETO
    138 1 NEW YORK. Friday. npHE United Nations General 1 Assembly lato tonight approved a United Stales proposal referring the controversial Big Power veto question to the year-around "litthe Assembly"' for detailed study. plte strong opposition by the Russian deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Vishinsky. who particularly
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    RUSHING US. AID LEGISLATION
    37 1 THE U5 .5597. 000, 000 stop-gap aid legislation, requested by President Truman is expected to be r.udy by Wednesday night and will I then be rapidly puss.'d through li<' S' nate Appropriations Commit!
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    FARRAIN TO RESIGN
    55 1 (^APT. Roy Fair an. who last j month was acquitted m [Jerusalem on a charge ol murdering a Jewish boy, will shortly resign his Army commission. He is writing a book which he intends to call ''Winged Dagger"— emblem of the British airborne commandos with Which he
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    43 1 KING MICHAEL of Rumania, who was among the foreinn monarch* who attended the Royal Wedding m London. No date hat been announced for his return to Rumania, but reports that he would not go back to his Soviet-dominated country have been denied. I
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    DEBATE ON INCOME TAX POSTPONED
    107 1 AT the request ol the Unofficial members the Singapore Advisory Council, who have been end continuously for the past f»'W days m Select Committee examining the draft estimates ot the Colony for 1948. the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson. has agreed to postpone the debate on
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    PYKE RETURNS FROM GENEVA
    45 1 THE Economic Adviser to the Malayan Union Government, Mr. C. J. Pyke has returned to Malaya, alter five months to Geneva as representative of the Malayan Governments at the International Trade Organisation Conference. He is to report to the two governments.
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    Royal pair tour estate in jeep
    236 1 LONDON, Saturday. pRINCESS ELIZABETH and Prince Philip on Friday spent many hours m their secluded honeymoon mansion, occupied by the pleasant but prodigious task of looking over many thousands of congratulatory messages from all over the world. Earlier, they went riding m a jeep.
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    INDIA TROOPS ROUT HAIDERS
    84 1 INDIA TROOPS ROUT H AIDERS AHMED riud. rs estimated at 500 Strong attacked an Indian Army column but suilered wen re casualties and were dispersed m the Jammu district of Kashmir. according to an Indian Defence Ministry communique Issued yesterday; The communique audcd that near Beripattan, recently liberated by Indian
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    GERMANS STRIKE FOR MORE FOOD
    72 1 I THE first protest strike m the United States zone of Germany against the food situation Was staged m Mannheim yesterday, when between 60,000 and 70,000 workers m factories, offices shops and public utilities, including tramcars. stopped work for an hour. Later a food official
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    TITO TO VISIT SOFIA
    21 1 A Yugoslav Government delegation headed by Marshal Tito is due to arrive at Sofia (Bulgaria) tomorrow. Reuter
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    Today's Racing BUKIT TIMAH SWEEP POOL TOPS $425,000
    279 1 Today's Racing BUKIT TIMAH SWEEP POOL TOPS $425,000 Free Press Staff Reporter ♦yHE Big Sweep pool will top $425,000 at Bukit Timah this afternoon, the final day of the Singapore Turf Club's Re-opening meeting. This is a Malayan record and means that there will be four pools today, the first
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    JAPANESE NAVAL BASES FOR U.S.?
    102 1 The U.S. Huuse of Representatives Armed Services Sub-Com-mittee has proposed that the United States make an early peace treaty with Japan, without other powers if necessary, which would permit the United States to keep naval bases m Yokohama, Sasebo and Kure. It also urged the
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    ASIAN PLAN TO BARTER FOOD
    126 1 MANILA. Friday. 4 SIA no loss than Europe is t\ confronted by a gigantic food problem this winter and when delegates to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia "pen their session at Baguio on Monday a specilic proposal for (he exchange of needed foodstuffs
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  • FEATURES
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      ON PENGUINS
      869 2 A f&alayan Bookshelf I ALL good Penguin enthusiasts know Penguins Progress," the excellent little booklets from which they were able to get the latest news about Penguin books, ami so make sure that they had not missed anything during the year. "Penguins Progress" was a war casualty and
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      LOUIS v 'HUNGRY FIGHTER'
      425 2 UNDER the glaring lights of Madison Square Garden on December 5, Joe Louis, perennial champion of th<- world's heavyweights, will risk his title against what the American boxing writer* Call a "hungry fighter." Louis' opponent will be Jersey Jot- Walcott. of uncertain aeo and spotty record,
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      191 2 cpades ;ir<- tramps. Boutti leads. North and Smith are to win all m\ tricks against am defence. This problem is simply a trump j squeeze but that is Uie m t difficult squfr*» to recocnise m actual play. Smith H-ad.s the qut*on and ten of spadts. N>rUi dus<-;ir(Hn«
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      ARTIST FAKERS
      247 2  -  Pierre Jeannerat by rffi Pilgrims Emmaus" a picture gTeeted with a flourish trumpets m 1938 as a I lost masterpiece by Venn one of the foremost D 17th-century masters, and bought for the R<>tt.*rdan Museum for €55,000 is now officially recognised having bees painted b\ living Dutchman, the
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      356 2 SINGAPORE Blue Network 11 9* I 00 p.m.— 4XS metre* tn the medium wave band A 7.22 megacycle* per second ta the 41 metre baad 6. 00— 11.04 pjn. 185 metres ta the medium ware band 4.826 mefaeyc4e> per second In the 61 metre band except (ram 1.45—9.30 p.m. when
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      925 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DOKN today, you are fond of D excitement and activity. You are not <ni< for routine and will find that if pushed into such a job you will be unhappy and discontented. (1ungr > our job, if necessary, to find thr
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      China sees Commonwealth as her friend GREAT WAVE OF PRO-BRITISH FEELING
      587 3 China sees Commonwealth as her friend GREAT WAVE OF PRO-BRITISH FEELING pRO BRITISH feeling is m flood tide m China today after dec ining to record low depths m the months imand bemi-official public pronouncements and editorial comments m the more responsible Chinese newspapers m Shanghai and Nanking, reports Reuter
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      MINES REVERTING TO OWNERS
      61 3 THE Mentoukou coal mines, among the largest m North China will be returned m full to ieir British and Chinese owners with the exception of extra machinery and equipment installed by the Japanese during the occupation. 4 The Mentoukou mines, operated under Chinese-British management were taken
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      Tidal wave threat to Hangchow farms, highway
      22 3 1 an- II has Shan- and the iring ill, the highway i farmers Fifteen driving
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      CHINESE CODE WILL ENDURE'
      106 3 THE Australian Minister to China Professor D. B. Copland, m a ■peech m Shanghai said he was convinced that the Chinese way <>i life, "that has endured longer than any other." would survive the crisis through which the country was now passing. Australia had no other
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      FARES INCREASE
      43 3 ALL Chinese shipping linos have increased their farts from 30 to 50 per cent while gasoline lias jumped 32 per cent, says a UP. mesage from Shanghai. The Executive Yuan reportedly has a 90 per cent public utility increase awaiting approval.
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      DELEGATION LEAVES
      55 3 The Chinese' delegation to the ESCAFE conference m Baguio (Philippines) will leave Shanghai i by plane for Manila today. The head of the delegation. Dr. T. F. Tslang, will proceed to the Philip- pines direct from the United 1 States, where he serves as ptr- manent Chinese delegate
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      PLEBISCITE TO SETTLE ILI UNREST
      142 3 THE Chinese Government v to hold a plebl t-tle differences between the l Soviet IU tribal leaden [n China's trouble torn Northwest tin Province oj Blnkla i and the Chinese adminisi ration 'here General Ctoans Chi chu director of President Kai .shck\s tieadquarten In tins
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      U.S. is following Stilwell policy
      322 3 fLYDE Farnsworth, a Scrippa-Howard correspondent writing from Shanghai, says that Secretary of State Marshall's current policies on China appear lo 'stem back to those of the late General Stilweli. ...despite the f:ict thai Slilwtll had to b e relieved Of his command to keep China
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      ARMED FORCES ACADEMY PLAN
      102 3 IT is reliably understood that the Chinese National Defence Ministry plans to establish m the near future an •"Armed Forces Academy" to train cadets commissions m the Army. Air Force and Navy with the help and advice of American Advisory Group officers. The Academy probably will
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      JAP RAYON YARN FOR SHANGHAI
      76 3 riMIL Central Trust of China 1 authorities disclose thai a large consignment of 5.000 bah s Jap rayon yarn is exp< cted m Shanghai shortly. It is believed that arrival of the stock will force down prices, which have scxirtd during the past weeks. They
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      SCOTSMAN PLANNING A NEW HONG KONG
      264 3 "THE repianning of Hong Ron*? In conformity with modern 1 needs and standards is to be the subject of a preliminary report by a distinguished Scotsman, Professor Sir Patrick Abercrombie, who is spending a month studying conditions In the Colony, reports Router. One oi
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      NEW ACADEMIC ERA DAWNS FOR CHINA
      319 3 NEW ACADEMIC ERA DAWNS FOR CHINA ANEW chapter m the 20-year-old history of China's National Academy, the Academia Sinxa, has been opened with a decision to honour the natirn's outstanding scholars and scientists with membership m the leading scientific research institution of the country. The present plan is to admit,
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      Chinese plrales menaced by 'battleships'
      147 3 Chinese plrales menaced by 'battleships' THE Chinese navy has been so successful m blasting pirate ships out of the South China Sea with a modern cannon that surviving pirates have spread the word "battleships" after their Actually the Government has been using American landing ships 01 various types armed with,
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      'EARLY TREATY IS VITAL'
      148 3 I COMMENTING or. the Chinese Government's projects for calling a preliminary peace conference soon, the official Kuomintar.g organ. Central Daily News, has expressed the hope that these will meet with approval, especially of the United States and Russia, as an early decision on the matter is
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      SHENSI REDS IN RETREAT
      64 3 NEAR the North Shensi city of Yulin, routed Chinese Communist forces are said to be fighting rearguard actions while the main body retreats to the southeast and south-west. Four Communist brigades are claimed to have been totally wip- ed out by Ninghsia reinforcements m th£ A
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917. Rubber and the Geneva Pact
      780 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917. Rubber and the Geneva Pact ■-'.i•: dis bm nt nd In London he BrttJ i i otaiii rubber I I j A itlon of controla on igh it dieted f Ameri< uld be preDar--1 make considerable .n return fur a Ith I
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      WHERE THE ORIENT IS STUDIED
      1406 4 WHERE THE ORIENT IS STUDIED I AST month a new term began at the School of Oriental and African Studios m Makt Street, part of L ondo n University's great unfinished block jof buildings. During tho cour.se of the session about a thous.md .students aro expecied to bsgin or continue
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      EUROPEAN RATTONS
      504 4 EUROPEAN R ATTONS U 0 W well does Europe eat? Do other countries fare better than Britain? Two British obeer/aw (one ol Mmb .-<i ox-UNRRA eXCUtiv«) havo just return ed from a 7,500-mrte tour m search of an answer. The factual report they have brought back fills the entire copy
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      ITALIAN POLITICS
      359 4 By John P. Mcknight A-P. Correspondent ROME, IN Italy, just free of Fascism's oneparty dictatorship, political parties today are legion. Many are small, local or regional groups without national aspirations or chanoe6. There is, for example, the tiny "unionist movement," which has one plank m its platform to
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      FAITH
      19 4 Trust m the lord wit* thine heart aiul lean not onto thine own undcrvi ;nding. Proverb L S.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Malayan air travel rates to be reduced
      113 5 and excess baggage charges are to beyan Airways, who will also introduce a "t'lueen Singapore and Batavia m the new passenger fares and freight rales IK-c. 1. sfi baggage rat<>> art reduced on all and fares for passengers have t> n s from
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      95 5 iJ^lP* Gatherings attended the Singapore Cricket Club and Singapore Recreation Club on ihursday evening to celebrate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Philiv. Duke of Edin--burgh. At the S.R.C.. the President, Dr. c. J. Peglar. (standing above) is seen with a large wrty during the Club's dance Mrs. Paglar is
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      MR. E.C.H. CHARLWOOD
      176 5 »i a. coiisiynmem. xijeurunce raie on yi-ntral cargo is i%% cts. per $100. Far< s to and from Kuar.un and Kota Bharu will be as follow as from Dec. 1: Kota Bharu to Kuala Lumpur (rift Kuantan or direct) $70. Kota Bharu to Singapore (via Kuala Lumpur)
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      NEW ORGANISATION
      31 5 A movement of Banka and Billi*'»n Indonesians has been established at Djakarta under the name of "Gerekai Rakiat Indonesia Bangka Billiu.n" The movement supports the Republic oi indonr Ma.
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      'CREECH JONES DISTORTED HARTAL FACTS'
      187 5 'CREECH JONES DISTORTED HARTAL FACTS' "IT would take a good deal more to convince the reactionary Colonial Office that the cemocra.de movement m Malaya means real business." says a statement issued yesterday by the Malayan Democratic Union commenting on the recent statement made m Parliament by Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary
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      SCOUTS DANCE
      75 5 THE Seventh Group Boy Scouts 1 Rangoon Road School). Singapore, are holdinc a dance this evening at the SVC. Kail Beach Road, between 8 p m and 1 a.m. The dance is to raise funds for the Group. Highlight of the evening will be exhibition dances by Mr.
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      CHINESE GIRL ARTIST HOLDS EXHIBITION
      221 5 Free Pre>s Staff Reporter MRS. Wu Paak-Shing, wifo of the Chinese Consul-General m Singapore, opened an exhibition of paintings and calligraphy at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce this morning at 10 o'clock. The exhibition presents 120 Chinese paintings by Miss Lo Kit-Lingr, 8.A., and 100
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      FOUR SAWMILLS MAY CLOSE DOWN
      484 5 FOUR SAWMILLS MAY CLOSE DOWN Due to labour costs, shipping snags Free Press Staff R -porter HUE to the unfavourabte economic conditions prevailing m the Singapore sawmill industry—principally the high wages demanded by workmen one of the major groups m the industry is considering the closing down of its four
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      MALAY MEETING BARS PRESS
      78 5 The Press was barrod from a meeting of the Singapore Malay ftliorii ion.s \siuoi was held behind closed doors wher. they met yesterday at North Bridge Road to discuss su-ps to be taken regarding the Australian Governmer.ts order for the deportation of 14 Malay seamen to
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      26 5 Mr. «nd Mrs. K. L. Liauw photographed after their tc«CiCii*ig at Johorc Bahru, recently. The bride was formerly Mix* M. L. Phoon. Studio de Luxe picture
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      GIRLS FIND MAN IN CONVENT DORMITORY
      85 5 An Indonesian, Surhato bin Surano, jumped into an empty bed and pretended to be asleep when he was discovered by girls of St. Anthony's Convent. Middie Road, m their dormitory at 4 a. in. on Nov. 14. Yesterday he was found guilty of housebreaking
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      COMMISSIONERS BACK DISMISSAL OF LABOURERS
      122 5 THE recent dismissal of nine labourers m the Singapore Municipal Town Cleansing Department has been confirmed by the Municipal Commissioners. The Commissioners state that the action of the acting Superintendent or the Town Cleansing Department m dismissing the men who refused to carry out orders,
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      Alleged attempt to cheat bank
      75 5 A charge of attempting to cheat a Chinese bank m Singapore of $4,000 by means of a false cheque, was preferred against a 22-year-old Eurasian, Frederick Phillips m the Second Police Court yesterday. Phillips said he found the cheque at Marine Parade, Katong, and subsequently
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      SUCCESS IN MUSIC
      26 5 Francisca Bacsafra of Singapore was successful m the Rudiments Stage 111 examination of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London.
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      ANXIOUS PERIOD' FOR CITY'S WATER SUPPLY
      412 5 ANXIOUS PERIOD' FOR CITY'S WATER SUPPLY CINGAPORE faces a "period of anxiety" mi n connection with <J its water supply until a $27 million project for a new waterworks, with headworks m the Johore River eight miles upstream of the Kota Tinggi bridge, is completed, possibly m five or six
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  • NEWS
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      PLOT TO SEIZE POWER IN JAPAN
      214 6 PLOT TO SEIZE POWER IN JAPAN Secret gangs await opportunity OFFICIALS of Gen. Mac Arthur's headquarters believe that, beneath the .surface of genuine Japanese interest m democracy, revolutionary forces are planning the overthrow of all occupation reforms and th e post treaty re-establish-ment U Japan. They say they had no
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      Why Far East air tour cost £20,000
      238 6 QN his recent air tour of Australasia. SlngapsjN and the ♦r, n i .^V>u Lnrd Nath m Minister of Civil Aviation. r\u ,i H IHl>^ m l MHHially chartered plane, used i; .>» a ii!.'"-\v f tn)l :l!Ul Uui u>iM tost to p«
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      JAP TRADE OUTLOOK 'PROMISING'
      76 6 JAP TRADE OUTLOOK 'PROMISING' W York. Friday. THE J' Japanese trade promising/ 1 out that "sub.lil n covery In the value of prival indled trade must .iv,a:t several developments. 1 ■a Imports will i r> 1 it iv. ly limited until th. 1 oe treaty. 2 l tabll hment ol
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      RECORD SUICIDES IN CANTON
      69 6 QURiNu September v* suicides v m cant hi sotalled a record of 30. Sue ides In previous months thii >«ar wer« January, 14; February 13; March, 3; April 12; May, 8, June, 15; July, 17; Ai.yu.st, 14. Sepumtxr thus was 100 per cent, above the monthly
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      RAF JET RECORD
      49 6 pHOUP cap iain John cunningu bams speed of 49*1.88 miles per hour In a l> U. ::.ind ar.d vampire Jet Agtiter over a leo kilometre course m Ljrmpne on Aug :u last has been ixl ;us aji intomatKina] record by th<- Federation Aero- nauniquo Internationale. Reuter
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      BULGARS PROTEST
      46 6 me Bulgarian Government l .6 I to the United Nations that 18 rifle volleys were I scrota the Grock-Buluarian frontier on Nov. 7 by three or four persons who fled into Greek territory, the official V ilav news I agency reports from s<*i\\ A.P.
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      39 6 Afr.s. E. Meyers, ivife of a retired U. S. Air Force general, who testified before the Senate War Investigating Committee m Washington holding an inquiry into the wartime contracts of the. multimillionaire airman aru. planr manufacturer, Mr. Howard Hughv^.
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      UNESCO TOLD TO SURVEY MALAYA
      66 6 11 FUND to aid reconstruction of films, press and radio m tho war-a^v;us.tnted countries has been recommended by committee of the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation meeting m Mexico City. It wma nirgftcd that UNESCO's .survey of nim. press and radio technical needs
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      U. S. TO TEST GIANT BOMB
      93 6 WASHINGTON, Thursday. rpHI IS Air Petce WiU t>r«in 1. trst tlr»>ns of the udDil's heaviest boasa 1 l&atf-povii-drr m 4lM»ut tun ireeka at Moroc ;\ir »».t-c m the California Desert Twehrc »»f the nbtsiles ha\«--be<-n delivered bi tin- Arsaj OrdiKiiuo Department for the ezperimente.
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      U.S. CAPITAL TO DEVELOP P.I.
      174 6 A N American oil i dicate «nd a big West C lumber concern have initiated partnership bids with the Philip:»r the construction oj I "',OOO ix sos oil refinery and a .'i.000.000 pesos plywood manufacturing plant. Private Pi] pino capital haa also iidor tho bids
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      Government gives union concession
      401 6 CEYLON PUBLIC SERVANTS TIIIO I evlon Government has decided to grant the rij4ht to all public MivasUi to form MsocisUioiMi withoul tuK} official interfereru c, BUpervifiMSj or control. Tho Prime Minister Mr. Swußiyakt, announcing this m a communique said that ixcept m the CSg€ <»f the
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      59 6 JANC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya L. UOT IN FIRST.' /1| |i| fel /ay APPEARING ICttoßOl^'S I MSA fpUnd to OF ANY VcEORGIE'^S ''^sB»—^ <—^ f===- SUDDENLY BEFORE /ADVICE— I'M Ge °tQiC-PofOie'!s ASSISTANCE, Ay 1^ ;^«k' -^\1? RD T LOVACF SORE HE'LL JDstectivs V^MISS V P^Wr^'?' BM
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      GOING FAVOURS CHATSTER Bagby Thinks His Mount Will Win
      519 7 GOING FAVOURS CHATSTER Bagby Thinks His Mount Will Win 1V By "CALL BOY" R"tL* £Lt w m S ke t i le goint he vy a Bukit out ?or £!*> one of the few horses broSlht driLle e-friv T*i Spm o ver two rl ongs m a slight arizzie early
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      EPSOM JEEP gets Today
      56 7 EPSOM JEEP gets T oday pK l\ n -;**»r Mirth ni\W V' a three safe enhance b^"-"" mx 11 is t ood ht~t«T llp foe ,k, rt« think SI E- «**Ty M with morning "SUalli liberty 6* X irr stable *v J t «;»id v l.t-M with j" r Kashmiri
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      Good Day For Bagby?
      57 7  - Good Day For Bagby? CALL BOY By MANY veteran racrroers are looking forward to a good day for jockey Bagby at Bukit Timah this afternoon. His mounts are: Rare 2. Desert Queen; Rate 3. Double Aries: Race 4s CoM Wave; Race i, Counsel II; Race 6, Chatster. Race 7. Rex
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      ALL THE FINAL SELECTIONS
      153 7 <CALL 4<EPSOM JEEP "TBESPASSEB" I POINTER- Most Favoured FP. •^TLE ON SILVER J» P.^o S T Selgcti <>"» BACE 1 Flying Fortr*. Ga/iiJ 1 11 YIN G FORTRESS BOHRAH SILVER JUPITER Slhr Jupiter BohrafcT s>lv"5 >lv -»"P«*r Pr.ttle On Prattle On »TO^TREL n^ FraUle_O» Sihrer Jupiter
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      TODAY'S CARD
      334 7 Race One 2.00 Horees Class 2, Div. 2—9 Furs. Value $2 000 2" QU S23 R 4/f'« a 900 <Martin > Turner 7. 000 FLYINC; FORTRESS 4 T.M !sSSwi>" W jj?i ou r,, d «v, TKfTra Boon';:; 040 PRINCE Kte KQQ BSi Hobba Race Two 2.40 Horses Class
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      Queensland Play Slow Cricket
      746 7 ODSLAND. ling first m their four -day match against et tourists, at Brisbane, played restrained tump* were drawn had scored 289 for <vf n wicket n Morris scored 115. took the field m the warmest weather sienced m Australia m a match. The r ;ind favoured
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      UK FOOTBALL PROGRAMME
      258 7 The following fire UK. soccer fixtures for today: FIRST DIVISION Arsenal v Huddersfleld Bolton W. V Manchester C. BurnJey v Sunderiand Charlton v Derby Co Liverpool v Blackburn' Manchester U. v Evorton Middlesbrough Blackpool Portsmouth v Grimsby Preston JXJEL v Wolves Sheffield Utd. v Chelsea Stoke City
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      EXHIBITION TENNIS
      50 7 WITH the sanction of the Singapore Lawn Tennis, Association, the V's Men's Club of Singapore is sponsoring a tennis exhibition by prominent players of Singapore to be held at the Happy World Stadium on Tuesday, Dec. 2. at 8 p.m. m aid of the Y_M.CA. Tennis Pavilion Fund.
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      AMATEUR CHAMPIONS IN ANTI-T.B. CARD
      651 7 THE Singapore Amateur Box m aid of the Anti-T.B. F Dec. 3 shows the promise of be sen ted since th c re -occupation Service champions who i tournaments m the United Kin will b e taking part. In addit weight champion of Bengal Archer,
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      59 7 ALL W WRESTLING HAPPY WORLD i'GHT AT 8.45 P. M. Q BOMBER (AUSTRALIAN CHAMP.) m io x 5 BOSCABOA (CHINESE FLYING-KICK p^couTyiHo L K. SENG vr M »GHTY '.JSTRALIAH JT^ITTTI Rp<\ii JIAMFIUN Alex Smith 10 x 5 M Kanin <^W UQMBER fsuaU Prices ThriUs VO?Jr jtr^--' <: :ian jgia^^M r
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      79 7 Free Press Crossword No. 245 CLUES ACROSS 1. Inner portion of a dome (6). 8. One of the most beautiful *v,r»n k lakes on borders of Cumberland and W estmorland Jo??o VeVv^maJJ ChSS darkening the eyes (4). lor CLUES DOWN Motor race held In the Isle of Man (2). U)
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      31 8 RehearttHß tor the roual tDeddt*O t* Hyde Park, the Princess' escort of Lifeguards wore their full dresi of White plumed helmets, red cloak*, white buckskin trousers 1 black thigh boots.
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      SPIES FOUND IN ATOM BOMBPLAN!
      99 8 SPIES FOUND IN ATOM BOMB PLAN! WASHINGTON. Friday. SPIES from nil en mj natkN i worked In the i plant at Oakridge. Bhffx Clarei i (."v.non, 1 v- t from Misi r !iit mJ f a Co na] invest l- rned this oi to the I r main at the
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      DEATH
      11 8 c I N 105 Ens 1 t Road uneral at
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      Chinese ignore the elections
      295 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. 4 I MOST complete apathy prevailed m China's first democratic elections which opened m all Nationalistcontrolled constituencies of the nation today, to elect 1.190 representatives to the National Assembly. In Shanghai and other large cities, businesi went on us usual with practically no outward
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      MORE FOOD CUTS LIKELY IN BRITAIN
      123 8 MORE FOOD CUTS LIKELY IN BRITAIN LONDON. Friday. THE public may b<- even atly rationed In fuocL^.uii.s early \i. the new year Britain. s £200.000. 000 cuts :n imports from the. dollar area to have the full tcHxi import i\ have not I m con •>f the already .-.mall British
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      ORANJE STRIKE QUAY WALL
      76 8 ORANJE STRIKE QUAY W ALL THE 20.000-ton Dutch muturp Oranj«\ which called at Southampton to land passengers tr.»m Batavia. was caught by the wind as sht- was entering ci'>ck h<t stern swung right across the dock and .struck the quay wall afN-r she nearly struck the P and o liner
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      'BOMB LONDON' RABBI FREED
      214 8 'BOMB LONDON' RABBI FREED F FRANCE has dr pped the charge against Rabbi Baruoh Korff, former vice-president ol the United .States Political Action Committee for Palestine who was held m connection with ;i r« ported plot to "bomb" London with propaganda leaflet!, the United States Department reports. Officials from the
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      ARMED PEASANTS BATTLE POLICE
      235 8 ROME, Friday. |>LOODY skirmishing In the strikebound Apulia agricul--13 tural region ot south-eastern Italy yesterday added several more persons to Uio growing toll Ol deaths exacted by Communist inspired disorders durum the past week, dispatches to Rome papers said today. Striking peasants near Bitono,- Bar] region
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      G.G's WIFE LAYS FOUNDATION STONE
      170 8 THE new ten-storey Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation building m Orchard Road was formally named Mac Donald House- m honour of Malaya's llrst Governor-General when Mrs Malcolm Mac Donald laid the foundation stone at 11.30 o'clock this morning. The Governor-General was present at the ceremony,
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      M.Ps ACCLAIM SELF-RULE FOR CEYLON
      497 8 M.Ps ACCLAIM SELF-RULE FOR CEYLON tail supponea by all parties LONDON, Friday. ALL political parties m the HHoves c of Commons today welcomed the British Government's measure to raise the island of Ceylon to full self governing status as an independent country within the British Commonwealth. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones,
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      ALL-OUT DRIVE ON GREEK GUERRILLAS
      156 8 MBOPHOULIB, Greek Prim*•Minister, presided here tonight at the opening ol a military ference expected lo lead to v new all-om winter drive against toe Greek guerrillas. The conference was attended by representatives ot the British and \J:.v.< d Bt iti military missions m Gr- r.
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      Film Preview HUMOUR IN 'CAPT BOYCOTT'
      6 8 Film Preview HUMOUR IN 'CAPT BOYCOTT'
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      LONG LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS
      380 8 LONG LIST OF IMPROVEMENTS London Stock Exchange W TOE London Stock Exchange, af^^^Lß J ilowly turned better and eivntiullv C S ll long list of improvements on the day, par Sri M ,n tßtetriab, Bays Reute^ nnancial corr^ 1 II Demand was mostly f*>r the better class is&JTJk H bn-wery
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      149 8 DOW* \M» LNTED Urs i-Mmedi.i atlon or. H X No 7t' I: i rrn-rT«;M.ii.i A.« X Stock I Arrived j T al] britlsti set fox home or car dm at the price ol on. 6 V H <V IMV. A C M nits: CELEBES MOTOR CO. 11l l-avrr.dei St. Singapore
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      48 8 WEA THER- Showers WKATHKK report for the next 21 hnurt compiled by the KAK: (loudy with intermittent r.un ScatWrrd thunderstorm this evening. Moonrise: p.m.; mo«i»N»t I 01 a.m Wind: North to north ra«t 5 to 10 m p h Temp«-r»tures: Max. 83 dec. Y~ »nin 73 \*z V
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      135 8 RUBBER PRICES A SPECIAL Market correspondont ftrei the priors of rubber it 11 am today as follows: Buyer* Sellers Cts. Cta. per Ih ocr Ib No. l R.S s. Spot loose l" t No I R.S S. fob m taiM n«e. It 12 No R S S fob m hairs
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