The Singapore Free Press, 5 March 1948

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA p SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948 fill* I li' II- I s
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  • 320 1 MALAYS FIGHT SIAM POLICE Eight die m border clash JUALAY guerrillas have clashed with Siamese police m the Jabut district of South Siam, state reports received this morning from the Malayan-Siamese border. Eight Siamese policemen are said to have been killed. The Associated Press quotes the Kota Bahru correspondent of
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  • 36 1 Four Chinese attempted to rob a Chinese tongkang m Boat Quay of bags of rice yesterday morning, but were repulsed by the boatmen. The gangsters threw bottles at tne tongkang as they retreated.
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  • 181 1 B LONDON. Thursday. RITISH industrial production rose about nine per cent last year above the 194G level. Sir Stafford Cripps. Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced at a press conference here today. Food and chemicals were at the bottom o* the list with a rise
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  • 81 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S C.I.D. chief, Mr. J. C. Barry, today announced a campaign to reduce bicycle thefts. He said most bicycle thefts were due to owners leaving their machines unlocked. Therefore as a warning, policemen m the course of their ordinary duties have
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  • 30 1 ion 1 im. the jublid aci- and of the Unix draft the Ff which yftkux count r it-.- are -ent. pned L irr.Dlied itandi- plan
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  • 221 1 JERUSALEM, Thursday. THRAPPED by Arabs, a Jewish convoy was wiped out 1 near Jerusalem today after a two-hour battle with their ambushers. Arabs later led British troops to 17 bodies which had been stripped of all clothes. An Haganah patrol which went to the convoy's
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  • 100 1 CHANCELLOR DENIES DEVALUATION LONDON. Thursday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cnpps, today officially denied reports that Britain had proposed a simultaneous devaluation of the pound with the Belgian franc and the Dutch florin. "Complete nonsense,' said Sir Stafford of the report, which originated m Brussels, where the Western
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  • 91 1 THE Queensland railway strikers' committee yesterday rejected the proposals of the Labour Premier, Mr. E Hanlon, for a settlement of the 30-day-old strike, which has left inland towns seriously short of food and .mobilized the port of Brisbane. To meet the challenge created by 23.000 striking railwaymen,
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  • 71 1 COMMONS AND THE CENSUS MALAYA'S population, as shown by the census figures, is "certainly underestimated," the Under-Secre-tary for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees-Williams. told the House of Commons yesterday. The census total was 4,877,678. Mr. Rees-Williams was replying to a question on food ration cards. He said that "immediate effective
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  • 75 1 THE Soviet Foreign Ministry has sent a second note to the United States Government protesting against violations of merchant shipping freedom m the Pacific and "insisting on immediate measures'' to end them. Radio Moscow alleges that American aircraft have been examining Soviet merchant vessels m
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  • 35 1 Two Chinese, one armed with a pistol, held up a special police constable who was off duty with a girl friend m Pickering Street last night, and took from them $106.50 m valuables.
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  • 256 1 LONDON, Friday. 'THOUSANDS of people who fear persecution m A Czechoslovakia because of their known opposition to Communism have tried unsuccessfully to cross the frontier into the American zone of Germany and are being detained by the Czech police, according to unofficial reports. Czech Frontier guards
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  • 165 1 LONDON. Thursday. BRITAIN'S Air Minister, Mr. Arthur Henderson, said m Parliament today that a potential aggressor must be made to realise that, if he J started trouble, "he would be hit hard and at once." He was opening a debate on i the Air
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  • 249 1 Defence pact on Antarctica ARGENTINE CHILE SIGN LONDON, Thursday. A RGENTINA and Chile today signed a "pact of mutual defence" for their claims to sovereignty m Antarctica, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Mr. Juan Bramuglia, announced. He said that the pact declared that both countries will act together m legal protection
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  • 92 1 On board HMS Nigeria, Thurs DETAILS of the first international incident involving foreign ships m Antarctic waters reached the British cruiser Nigeria today as a c patrolled m Antarctic waters. The message said an officer from an Argentine minesweeper boarded the Norwegian fishing vessel Brategg and
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  • 286 1 ASIA LOSES TEN MILLION TONS OF RICE BAGL'IO, Thursday. ASIA loses ten million tons of rice a year ui.oug'i the depredations of rats and insects or throu&ii wastage m handling, the Bagtiio conference of tne United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation was toM today. The loss is ten per cc.it,
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  • 56 1 A COPY of a "plan" to blow up New York City's railway stations, ferries and newspaper plants was disclosed by police after it failed to materialise on Wednesday night. The police got a copy of the j plan from a postal clerk, who noticed the
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  • 45 1 lINirED STATES exports last v year reached a new peacetime record, totalling $1 960,--000 000 (ompar.d with the $1,520,000,000 m 1946. the US. Department of Commerce announced yesterday Big price increases were an important contributory cause ot the higher figures.- Reuter
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  • 46 1 Lord Listowel. Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, will spend the weekend m Singapore m visits to the General Hospital and Bukit Timah Boys' Home and m meeting representatives of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and of local trade unions. and leading citizens.
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    • 414 2 No new look for them TURKISH women may be a little slow m adopting the new look m fashions, but they yield to no one concerning their political rights, according to Mrs. Mihri Pektash, Turkish delegate to the United Nations Commission on the status of women. "Since I've been attend
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    • 268 2 If AY Wister, fashion l\ writer for Cosmopolitan Magazine, says she has been convinced that one thing most American women offer nc love to is "new look" styling particularly to skirts that hang down to the calf. This Autumn, she remarked tn a cosmopolitan article, "ft was
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    • Article, Illustration
      331 2 yy T EST was lurking m the bushes, hoping to trap his vulnerable opponents by passing m the first round of bidding. The opponents fell into the trap all right, but when the trap was sprung West clumsily caught himself m it. Instead of catching the declarer. West
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    • 375 2 COOKING COLUMN Picnic pieces By Joan Castle ONLY a short time ago I considered curry puffs and sausage rolls the ideal picn'c fare, but after We had taken lunch to the beach every day for nearly a week to take advantage of an appropriately high tide, I had to devise
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    • 156 2 rERE aren't as many clothes cranks m Melbourne as. there used to be. Sydney, too, has fewer with queer tn.i <cs possibly because of clothes rationing but mare who, difT.djen'tly, are wearing more senstbLe summer c3_*thir_g, such as safari Jackets and open necked shirts, with the approval of
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    • 252 2 By Florence Mills, A.P. Correspondent WORTH, one of the oldest fashion names rt Paris, has based his spring collection on a hah"-open tulip silhouette. He achieves thds by minimising the waist and padding the hips. The silhouette, however, is not exaggerated and clothes arc simple and easy to
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    • 315 2 A FTER having been married 30 years, John Gaster, a farmer m Minnesota, told his wife Mary that he wanted to divorce her m order to marry a 20--year-old girl. Mary replied calmly that she would have no objection provided John paid her the money he owed
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 433 2 SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12.00 noon to 2.00 p.m 826 metres m the medium wave band and 7.20 megacycles In the 41 metre band. from 0.00 pjn. to 7 45 pjn: from 0 .80 pjn. to 11.00 p.m.: 826 metres m the medium*, wave band, and 4.825 megacycles m the
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    • 128 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast lor people bom today DORN today, your happyu to lucky nature is fortunately stiffened w th a certain will power and determination that helps you complete any task you set yourself to do. The problem is to get you to take life seriously enough to
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  • NEWS...
    • 213 3 'Nothing but eat, drink, entertain' WEALTHY "austerity dodgers from Britain are causing indignation all over South I Africa. Basking on sun-splashed hotel verandahs, they spend their time doing nothing but eat, drink, entertain and grumble about everything South African. And the South Africans don't like
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    • Article, Illustration
      80 3 picture The picturesque Gilles family at the carnival at Binche, m Belgium. They are father and five sons m costumes decorated with the Belgian colours. Notice the decorated clogs and lace at the legs. For the first time since the war the Binche carnival took place this year with no
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    • 203 3 'Japs for New Guinea plan 111 In thc Australian House of the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. no information on a suggestion, en mac! members of Gen. Macit Japanese should be allowed to md other nearby islands, that ho had not seen any EftciaJ or unofficial Inform* proposals. The Netherlands
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    • 29 3 Filipinos to revive Jikeidan I has the 1 but said .>e of r he .t. I i I to I Clean■"ere mind 1 1 rt it tj I Reuter
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    • 106 3 THE miracle" roses crowning the statue of the Mado;_ia m St. Man's Romaa Catholic Church. Heatoa Ncrris. Stockport, ureaent a problem to the Rev. James Turner, priest-ln -charge. For the traditional yearly cro-x-ning of the statue takeplace on May 1 and the chaplet
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    • Article, Illustration
      53 3 picture. Don Juan. Pretender to the Spanish throne, and his wife. Countess Maria, disembark from a pan-American world Airways clipper at La Guardia field. New York City. The travelling as the Count of Barcelona, the Pretender said he would go to Havana via Miami to join the exiled A.P. King
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    • 72 3 BRITISH and American capital to be invested m Australian industries 15 estimated at 47,000.000. This was d-sckaseci un a survey conducted by the Federal Government. Many of the new industries would already be ln one ration but for the snortage of manpower, building materials coal and other
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    • 31 3 Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Ls trying to get Mary Pickford's 1 permission to do a screen blo'graphy of his father, hero of j the silent screen, whom she 1 divorced.
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    • 15 3 SPAIN TAKES OVER REPORT m JJt that the Spa over has a 000 000 of
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    • 31 3 s.i'k, Wilts, on the main LonI Chippenham and Bath, has, m several claims to distinction. I **_f i m Hath too. ■ik'. the I H
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    • 26 3 A Royal Dutch AirUnCX L M. official at The Hague ,;rd retwrts that X.L.M and the Belgian Sabena air- lines may merge.— A.P
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    • 112 3 MRS. Nat Edgar, widow of the murdered London po- liceman. is to get a pension amounting to one-third of her ■j husband', pay, plus onemteenth for each of her two .11 boys. According to Major Donald Bruce (Lab.), m the Commons, she will get not
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    • 70 3 OPPOSITION members oi the Australian House of Representatives argued for an hour yesterday with the Gov- rnment, demanding action .nst the Communists. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chlfley, turned down their cloma* d for the withdrawal of Australian representation from Moscow and also rejected a
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    • 232 3 FELL IN LOVE CONFESSED CRIME PERSUADED by his fiancee to give himself up to the police, a 20-year-old youth appeared m Parramatta (Sydney) Court and admitted that three years ago he broke and entered a billiard-room and stole billiard balls worth £40. He was discharged without punishment, but was ordered
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    • 311 3 HONG KONG'S textile industry is living on a handc to mouth basis, says the February issue of the Far Eastern Review. The trouble originates m the difficulty of obtaining adequate supplies of Cotton yarn from Japan, Italy, China and the United Kingdom for the colony's estimated
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    • 102 3 COLOMBO'S electric power shortage has been overcome by the installation of a plant capable of producing 3,000 k.w. oi power obtained from America. Col J. L. Kotelawala. Minister for Trar_sDort and Works, anncmncing this at a press conference, said that with an additional plant obtained from
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    • 61 3 A LEAGUE of Doctors' Wives has been formed m Britain to "protect the doctor's wife and her home." Its members intenri to press the Minister of Health to provid 0 health centres and staff be- for* a comprehensive health service. The league has been launched by
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    • 54 3 A DROP m the population of the northern areas and a rise m the south during 1946 is shown m the Annual Abstract of Statistics for the United Kingdom. Though moer people have been leaving rural areas for towns, the big cities mostly show a drop
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    • 14 3 ISir Malcolm Sargent ls to receive the freedom of Stan.lord. Lincolnshire
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    • 227 3 3 men clean up 'naughty postcards' M PLUMP women m small bathing costumes will f*2 absent this year from the comic postcards sold >n the Isle of Man. Censors have banned 435 postcaros from being offered for sale m the shops. They have passed for "public exhibition" only 633 out
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    • 102 3 IN an upper room In a Hampstead boarding-house. 57--year-old Geoflrev Pyke. m- j vecitor of the war-time land- and- water "Weasel." and brains behind the scheme for a 2,000.000-ton man-made Iceberg as a huge floa'.kng aerodrome, took out his razor. Among his hundreds of scientific
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    • 26 3 Farmers' children at Antrobus. Cheshire, village school have asked for instruction m filling m Ministry of Agriculture forms during their extra year at school.
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    • 150 3 Envoy's car will make a Strange journey FRESH from the producion lines ot a British factory, an export car low b shipp:d. w.ll have a stran journey before it reaches its destination m Nepal on the norlh-east lro ti r of It It is going to Kathmandu city under the
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    • 82 3 OTILIO Ulate Blanco, whose election as president of Costa Rica was nullified by Congress on a charge of fraud. \-ros held m Ja"*l On We arc charged with complicity m killing two Customs guards on Tuesday night. Ulate may be tried, may go free, or may
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    • 39 3 Sir Philip Warter. head Associate^ Briusn Pictures, has gone to America to discuss picture-making plans tor rebuilt studios at Elstree Fascist candidates of Sir Oswald Moslev's new "Union Party" will contest the next municipal elections at Hamostead.
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    • 95 3 LEGISLATION requiring all residents of the Philip- j pines, citizens and aliens, to submit to fingerprinting nd photograDhing. has be?n submitted m the House of Representatives. Protection of the national government m time of crave emergency was advanced by I snonsors as the purpose of
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 68 3 TARZAN Safely dOW» By Edgar Rice Burroughs X S *?ZI2Z *^f ■J 3A,W _______^\>^H_F: I 4 •__>- A^RACIE OP EASE AND PRESENTLY TAR7AN VVJ K\>mM ft *S V S _-«T PRO <<= -T N ?|r-?t V^H_a_H-l T» 1 K L^ V^_l£ STO A3A,N UPON H S TW F£ET V-_irJp« l__Bfl
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  • LEADER.
    • 686 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948. Stopping Russia on the crisis which civiliza- tion faces, the British Government has two duties. It must continue the effort to reach an understanding with Russia, and simultaneously it must rebuild British strength as the fulcrum of Western Europe. The two are
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    • 793 4  - Lessons 'Monty' Learned RONALD PRESTON By Reuters' Correspondent CIELD Marshal Lord Montgomery, m his new book "El Alamein to the River Sangro," contrasts the relatively lavish administrative arrangements of the later campaigns of the war with the austerity n conditions prevailing during the Eighth Army's pursuit of the Axis forces
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    • 546 4 SPRA YING WITH ICE UNITED States Air Force pilots at Wilmington, Ohio, are conducting extensive tests on weathermaking possibilities. A "cloud physics" plan was put into operation last month by the allweather flying centre with the object of discovering whether placing dry ice m the clouds causes rom or whether
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    • 406 4  -  SPENCER MOOSA Rv A. P. Correspondent STRANGE new terms have been added lately to the glossary of China's civil conflict, one of the latest being "cubic bombing." This term i s supposed to denote "bombing from the top aj.d sides" of a given area presumably square.
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    • 637 4  - COLD HEADS, AND WARM FEET RICHARD TOMPKINS By A.P. Correspondent DRITAIN'S new House of Commons is designed to cool the heads and warm the feet of her legislators. But with the exception of air conditioning and foot warmers to accomplish this, the new House will not affront the lover of
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    • 671 4 People in Singapore make news OPENING today at the YMCA, a joint exhibition of Chinese and English Paintings by Miss LO KIT-LING and Mr. HAROLD W. OFFORD. This will be Miss Lo's 25th exhibition. She had her first instruction m art at the agx3 of 12 and by 16 she
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
    • 403 5 GOVT DEFENDS VILLAGE COMMITTEES Kecognised encouraged Free Press Staff Reporter CHARGE that the village committees m Singapore "are not legally constituted,"— made by a candidate m a recent elections speech —has brought forth a reply from the chairman i the Rural Board Mr c w A- Sennett, who said: "Village
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    • 69 5 PORE HAS ECHANISED AUNDRIES m start Kf porter -dries •he of mdries. ..-I and the Paear Road. I! s I nw 0[ mechanis;ble i :ve .cc. lue to .Applications laundi >n_iected :o a raided. -►plica• ::ccs to operate Led laundries. Three were turned Id down mrfrp] Commissioners ries should not
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    • 90 5 i I ong Branch of j WCA pt?€ a d:sn!ay of! a Wtdnes- i t .r'ir.e gesture to j Mrs. E. Squires. I -is leaving Sin- I fccfttly for South (needlework on display fine and has '"37 the girls over W of six months— since began instructi
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    • 28 5 Jj* tr a House oi Re■•as resolved to r Republican Gov- P« ol the Dutch Ml being ol first 'be coming ■y***ith the Dutch IS" 11
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    • 68 5 A Committee of Appeal ha. been established und^r the provisions of the Cinematograph Films Ordinance. Members of the Committee art the President, Municipal Commissioners, (chairman), the Commissioner of Police, (vice-chair-man) the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Principal, Raffles Girls' School. Inche Daud bin Mohammed Shah, Mr. Lie
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    • 31 5 In East Indonesia. the (Copra Fund purchased 115.000 l tons of copra during 1947. The export from East Indonesia totalled during the same *****0 tons of copra tsays Aneta.
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    • 169 5 the circum- to th. seizure fc S5. the Sin^aJCoorabie. lK?--' d tn Tuban, harbour ./'--b coast. i' 5 <* fruitless r of th e On Jan 23. with f proceed Uon menPtpers, .he made for Tuban. The Coorabie was intercepted by a Dutch patrol boat and.
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    • 220 5 Free Press Stall Reporter AN offer equivalent to $10,000, made to the Malayan Co-operating Committee of the International Student Service by the Headquarters of the organisation m Geneva, has been refused by the committee on the ground that this money should be made available to
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    • 197 5 Vice president may represent Chamber Free Press Staff Reporter UR. TAN CHIN TUAN. vice--111 president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, is likely to be the Chamber's choice for election to the new Legislative Council. With nomination day for the thr?e Chambers of Commerce European. Chinese ano Indian. only
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    • 70 5 PROSECUTIONS will be brought after the next fortnight acainst cyclists who carry extra persons on their bicycles within the Municipal Area. This has been found neces- _ary m view of the high percentage of bicycles involved In traffic accidents last year which were carrying more than one
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    • 62 5 Tlv debate on the Malayan Democratic Union boycott policy of the Singapore Legislative Council elections will take place today at the Centra: Kail, Medical College, at 8 p.m. Mr. Philip Hoalim, president of the Malayan Democratic Union will speak m favour of the boycott. Mr. S. C. Goho,
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    • 27 5 Takuapa Valley's No 1 dredge produced 285 piculs of tin valued at $38,000. during February. The company's No 2 dredge is engaged on "open-ing-out operations."
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    • 207 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A MUNICIPALITY based on the lines of the Singapore Municipality will be set up m Kuching, capital of Sarawak, if the recommendations of Mr. j. r. Hill, Singapore Municipal Treasurer, are [adopted by the Sarawak Government. Mr. Hill went to Sarawak last
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    • 32 5 Prizes will be distributed to the winners of the "Tears of the Yangtze" essay competition at the Cathay Cinema at 9.30 tonight. Miss Christina Lee will give away the prizes.
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    • 25 5 Mr. Nutcombe Hume a Director of the Colonial Development Corporation, will arrive at Kallang Airport by flying boat on Monday after-
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    • 35 5 The annual general meeting of the Singapore Scouts' Association will be held on March 15 and not on March 8 as previously announced at 5 p.m. at the Scouts' Headquarters In Stamford Road.
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    • 222 5 f\FF Singapore's East Coast yesterday morning, a v Malay fisherman picked out two members of the French Foreign Legion, who jumped overboard the Saigon-bound French vessel Bologne Surmer. The men had been swimming m the sea around Katong ior more than two hours. It is
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    • 28 5 The Gandhi ji Memorial Fund has reached a total of $76,216.35, according to the latest list of contributions Issued by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce.
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    • 44 5 The Dutch news agency says that the Chinese community m Macassar (Celebes) has formed a committee to collect funds for a gift to be presented to Queen Wilhelmina on the day that she will have reigned 50 years over The Nclherlandg. picture.
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    • 325 5 P_^wTrrr_T_- ree Press StafT Reporter OLLING Day on March 20— a Saturday— will not be made a public holiday, it was officially stated yesterday. Employers are asked to make their own arrangements to enable their voting employees to go to the polls. Police guards will
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    • 107 5 $2,500,000 GOLD FLOWN TO SAIGON Free Press Staff Reporter A CARGO of gold bullion, valued at $2,500,000, arrived m Singapore by air this week for dispatch to Saigon. Only a few people knew about the arrival of the gold which was escorted by Police guards from Tengah aerodrome and placed
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    • 286 5 Eurasian Union 'knows nothing' Hollandia Colony THE board of the Eura sian Union at Batavia, of which Dr. E. D. Wermuth is the chairman, has officially stated that t "knows nothing of a Mr. Loth who is reported to be m Malaya and is d^sc ssing with Eurasians m Malaya
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  • NEWS.
    • 366 6 Mind reading secret died with him r\NE-HALF of a great unsolved mystery which, known only to two people, has baffled scientists of two continents for 43 years has passed beyond the reach of all questioners. Zomah, who with his wife had baffled audiences of all nationalities
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    • 114 6 A MAN who has slept for a year is lying In a bed at Cushins Veterans' Hospital. Framlingham (Massachusetts). Every hour nurses feed mm with concentrated liquid food by means of a tube. He lies on his side and is turned over every
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    • 40 6 There "will be a newly designed sixpence m Bri'.ain iuxt year. The present reverse desien. with "G.R.1." m th? centre, and "Ind Imp" round the edge, is obsolete r.ow the King is no longer Emperor of India.
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    • 62 6 \3B-year-pld major m the Hyderabad State forces j was speared to death by a crowd after he had acciden--1 tally wounded a woman with a ricocheting .22 bullet while trying to shoot kites. The woman, although not seriously hurt, raised an alarm and a large
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    • 170 6 FR two hours Judge Scobell Armstrong listened to the alleged romances of Ferdinand the bull. The ladies m the case were three young heifers described as "N umbers 1, 2 and 3/* The Judge eventually said it would be a good idea to christen
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    • 91 6 THE gold squad of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been drafted to Ontario to search for air smugglers flying high-grade gold ore to the U.S. The gang is using an amphibian airplane from headquarters m northern Ontario and north-western Quebec. American police reports say the
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    • 89 6 THE average life span of a Chinese is only half that of an Englishman, Doctor Y. I T. Tsur, Minister of Health, told medical students m Nan- king. Dr Tsur pointed out that ar. EVglleh population oi 75,000.000 would be able to accomplish the same amount,
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    • 62 6 Sardar Baldev Singh. Indian Defence Minister, told the Indian Constituent Assembly that 418 British officers out of about 600 who had volunteered had been accepted for continued service with the Indian Army. He said 235 of them would serve for three months from Jan. 1
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    • 29 6 On cliar&cs of sitting ir. a local burlesque theatre and bombardi-ig strip-tease girls with a catapult, William C Kielo. 23. was sent to gaol ir Los Angeles
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    • 22 6 Midget submarines will be on virw during the Easter and August holidays m Portsmouth. Devon port, and Chatham dockyards
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    • 21 6 Petrol consumption by the Army at home has been reduced by 20 per cent, simce August last year
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    • 101 6 ROMNEY Marsh, famous for smugglers m the old days, j may be developed by the British Government to pro- j duce £1,250.000 worth more iood yearly for nation. The Ministry of Agriculture announces that it has referred the question to the Agricultural Land Commission, which is
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    • 53 6 Mr. James Forrestal, Defence Secretary, has restored the war-time censorship on United States Army, Navy, and Air Force chiefs. To halt what he called "public evidences of friction" he ordered them to submit to him for approval all public speeches and statements, including those to Congressmen,
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    • 45 6 Sir Mohammad Zafrullah Khan. Pakistan Foreign Secretary, who is m London for a few days before returning to the hearing of the IndiaPakistan issue m the Security Council at Lake Success, had a private talk with Commonwealth Secretary. Mr. Noel Baker yesterday. Reuter.
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    • 113 6 INQUIRIES by French police into the activities of a man named Jacques Goldschmtdt have led to the discovery Of a "factory" for paflntlng "modern masters." In a villa owned by Goldschmidt: the police found three faked Utrillos. several faked Picassos. and faked i paintings signed with
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    • 95 6 THE British Airline Pilots' Association has denied the rumours mentioned m the House of Commons that Air Vice -Marshal Bennett had given instructions to Tudor IV pilots not to report defects m the aircraft log. "None of tlie members was so instructed by anyone." said
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    • 45 6 DROFESSOR D B. Copland, 1 Australian Minister to Chirm, has been officially appointed Vice-Chaficellor of the new Australian National University at Canberra. The Embassy spokesman said Prof. Copland is expected to return to Australia at the end of the month.— Reuter
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    • 365 6 'Keep the nonEuropeans apart', he says rE mixing of Indian and European students m university life m South Africa is deprecated by the prominent Sotfth African educationist and author,. Dr. E. G. Malherbe, principal of Natal University College. Waging a policy of partial segregation m university education, he suggests that
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    • 408 7 ENGLAND STRUGGLE FOR RUNS 110 on for 9 wickets GEORGE TOWN, Thursday. A T close of play on the second day of the Third Test between England and the West Indies, England were m a bad position. In reply to West Indies 297 for eight declared, England have lost nine
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    • 254 7 WEST INDIES Ist INNS. (J. Carew b Cranston 17 J. Goddard b Allen C. L. Walrott lbw b Cranston m X Christianl c Itardstaff b Tremlett 51 F. "Worrell not out m G. Gomes c Evans b Cranston 33 E Weekea b Cranston 36 E. A. V. William* b
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    • 60 7 GOLD CUP TO COTTAGE RAKE day. A S£K outage nham use's SfSto 1 s*"* :1 by y BraPagets candidate, me by nee cond *C nor -'•loolbov. third In ml > two nirlong entered for the f£xs m Thursdays I 168 pounds m the thr:e miles. Rdr if ncr of the
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    • 49 7 -iWBRIDGE. Thursday. 2ss IVOR VIND, captain of the JJJjJf University Athletic I a daiked up two more Jsfcs today m the club c discus with a of 124 feet 9 inches. BLpolenolt at 10 feet. be hiph jump on ci av and yesterday was -.he Javelin throw.
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    • 61 7 HSHINGTON Thursday. ited Jack :n an exhibition teaonai tennis match 2-6, During the naKramer won 25 15. Dinny Pails delio Segura. South j t and 6-2. U.P. LONDON Thursday. I beat Middk- by stven points ri L. h .e second round of ill rugby cup nd nu
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    • 30 7 LONDON. Thursday. The Davis Cup first round match between Great Britain and India will be played on hard courts at Harrogate. Yorkshire, on April 22. 23 and 34.
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    • 181 7 RESULTS of S.L.TA. indoor tennis Championships at the Happy World last evening were: Yadi and M. I. R.sh.y brat j Chan Ah Kow and P. Sarathy 6—3. 6—4; A. G. B. Pakir MM S. A. Dawood beat F. E. Mack and R. F. Droogleever 6 1,1 6—2; Lt.
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    • 200 7 HW YORK Thurs. BSNEVICH. world 4.-.* .vavyweight chamimatt 1941. is a nine to a favourite to beat Billy m old Philadelphia J their second title X Madison Square gar■w night, for over £25.000 ■wich. who knocked out tenth round ln tie match m ear. has
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    • 177 7 T LONDON. Thursday. HE Scandinavian "invasion" was too powerful for the Home players m the All-Eng-land badminton championships at present being played at Harringay, London, and three Danes and a Swede reached the last four m the men's singles event, while four Danes will contest the semi-flnais
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    • 41 7 VANCOUVER, Thursday. II r ORLD touring Australian Tf Wallabies today defeated the University of British Co- lumbia 20 to 6 m an Interna- j ticnal rugby match. The Wallabies scored -.11 their points m the first half. U.P.
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    • 45 7 From Our Own Correspondent IPOH, Thursday. A LOSS of more than $35,000 was sustained by the Perak Turf Club last year, according to the committee's report, which will be presented to the annual general meeting of the Club on Monday. March 15.
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    • 95 7 1 npHE Malayan Chinese JL soccer team which will be leaving Malaya for Shanghai to compete at the China National Olympics m May, has invited the AllMalaya Malay Football Association to put up a team to play against them m Singapore on March 29. The Chinese
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    • 375 7 Below are the weights for Penang races tomorrow: Runn-med* Handicap Horses Class j, Div. J. 8. Furlongs Maestro 9.07 Firemaster 8.03 Renown 9.01 Timmo 8.02 Avail 8.10 Prince Merry Vimala 7.10 Miller 8.09 Bon Ami 7.07 Courtesan 8.08 Runnymede Handicap Horses Class 3, Div. 2, 8i Furlongs.
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    • 359 7 LONDON, Friday. THE unprecedented but senI sible precaution by the British Boxing Board of Control m having the European champion, Maurice Sandeyron of France, standing by at the weigh-in m case cither Jackie Pater.sen or Rintv Mcnaghan fail to pass the scales for their world.
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    • 517 7 By Free Press Racing: Correspondent A---.-.., PENANG, Friday. UKfcATLY improved horse since his maiden win er distance at Ipoh, Firemaster looks one of the best thing's ion the card at Penang tomorrow, the p ay K°K the P enan Turf Club's leap year meeting t»Z v
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    • 328 7 KEEN PLAT AT JALAN BESAR T'HE A.A.A. scoiea a conx vincing two-nil win over the R.A.F. (Seletar) m a well fought first div sion league fixture at Jalan Besar yesterday. The Chinese got their rirst goal m the opening minute ~>f Piay through Lim Bwang. he pat his side further
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    • 83 7 CHICAGO. Thursday. TOE Illinois Athletic Commission has ordered Dromoters Harry Mendel and Frank Harmon to use et**fht ounce gloves exclusive! v m nil the matches of their allheavyweieht card tonight. Tlie order varied with the or:vious Commission Dractice of allowing six ounce gloves. The step was taken
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    • 146 7 ■^^Crossword No. 327 _^_ft ammmmm _to W) 9. Meal («>. 11. Concise (5). l-tfc J> Measure of capacity (4). 16. I 4 A^,- 3 19 PerTnit <3). 21. 45 inches .;l U t (7> 26 Adversary (8). 27, Grief 32. Crop («>. 34, Freeze ST H '6.. 39, Soon (4).
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    • 34 7 Sports Events SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League. Div. I— S.C.C. v. Rovers S.C. padang, 5.15 p.m.; R.I. v. Victoria School (Ist and 2nd teams), R.1., 4 p.m. TENNIS: S.L.TA. Indoor Championships, Happy World Stadium, 6.15 p.m«
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY..
    • 191 8 Troops restore order in Accra ACCRA iGold Coast), Thursday. TJRITISH troops with "shoot to kill" orders restored order m Accra today following a weekend of rioting m which 23 persons were killed and many wounded. All Accra's hospitals are jammed with wounded. As the Gold Coast Government announced that an
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      12 8 An aerial vUtf of Broadcasting House m Great Portlana Street, London.
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    • 286 8 PEIPING, Thursday. THE recapture of Chuliuho, a railway town 27 miles west of Mukden, and of Hsinmin 35 miles west of Mukden, and the abandonment of Penshi, coalmining centre 35 miles to the south-east, are the highlights of dispatches today reporting an improvement m the over-all
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    • 116 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE British Foreign Minister, I Mr. Er.est Bevin. In a message' to the French For ign Mtitster. M. Georges Bidault. tc mark the anniversary today of the signing of the Dunkirk Treaty, said that this alliance was to become ever more necessary to
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    • 198 8 BATAVIA, Thursday. AN interim government for the Netherlands East Indies to be appointed and installed next Monday is expected to bring a resumption of political negotiations, through the United Nations Good Offices Commission, between Dutch and Republican delegations. Raden Muharam Wiranatakoesoemah, chairman of the
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    • 125 8 RADAR PILOTS CHANNELSHIP LONDON, Thursday. n^HE 1,067-ton Antwerp vessel Topaze arrived m the River Thames at Tilbury early today after the first English Channel crossing ever made entirely by radar navigation. The ship left Ostend yesterday m a thick fog which normally would have kept her m harbour, and visibility
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    • 112 8 HELSINKI, Thursday. FINLAND is likely to agree to start negotiations for a military assistance pact with I Russia, a Finnish Foreign Office spokesman stated toBright He added: "The President and Parliament, however, have the last word." This statement came six days after it had become
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    • 68 8 THE Uis. battleship Pennsyl- vania. survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and of the atomic bomb blasts at Bikini has been scuttled near Kwajalein, the U.S. Navy announces. Two other warships, the destroyer Trlppe and the at- tack transport Banner, have also been scuttled.
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    • 33 8 Wheat led a grain advance jon the Chicago Board of I Trade yesterday, caused by the U.S. Government's re- entry into the .flour market as A.P. a large scale buyer.
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    • 226 8 LONDON. Thursday. CX-KING MICHAEL of Ru- mania, who arrived here today from Paris on his wav to the United States, an- nounced tonight that he did not consider himself bot nd m any way by an act of abdication imposed i pon him by a
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    • 18 8 fti "l prr& N<> M,ot *i ,b M*. -***1 w fob I T Mlf of TfiX*^^m^\
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    • 474 8 Urgent, says Wedemeyer WASHINGTON, Thursday. rpHE United States should urgently give China A military aid m the form of arms and advisers, but short of active 'military participation, otherwise China will be overwhelmed by the Communists sahl the wartime Chief -of -Staff of Gen.
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    • 148 8 AKRON (Ohio>. Thurs. THE Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company today announced a 30 per cent, cut m production here owing to "sharp falling off of sales during January and February. after having maintained j peacetime highs for two years." This production cut will affect some 7,000
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    • 388 8 London Stock Ex-chan--* LONDON. ThursdaDIMOURS of currency devaluations, partic*c_* 1V concerning Holland and Belgium, brought fir* ness and a short burst of activity today to th mining section of the London stock markets, iH dividend- paying companies m demand. $n Reuter's financial correspondent. Rubbers ia neglected
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    • 162 8 FRANKFURT, Thursday. GERMAN political leaders m Bizonia have had the most serious Anglo-American warning yet against the possible catastrophic consequences of further delay ln vital legislation pending before the Bizonal Economic Council. The warning was given at a meeting called yesterday by Gen. Sir Gordon
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    • 82 8 She directs robberies by hypnotism ROME. Thursday. IDA PACITTX. who, with the aid of hypnotism and talismen broke the Italian record for robberies, was arrested yesterday with her two young assistants. Tlie police said the 54-year-old woman had successfully staged more than 1,000 robberies over thr_e years by hypnotising her
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    • 61 8 BRITAIN will upend £2.500.000 on her secret service this year. During the coming year, two officials will persist with the writing oi the history of the 1914-18 war at a cost to the taxpayer of £1,730. Funds set aside to entertain foreign guests visiting Britain at the
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    • 17 8 A commercial radiophone service between China and Great Britain was inaugurated m Shanghai yesterday. Reuter
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    • 249 8 PILOT TELLS OF HITLER 'S ESCAPE NUREMBURG, Thursday. A FORMER Luftwaffe pilot, Arthur Fredrich Angelotte-Mackensen, captured by U.S. officersaid today he saw Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun successfully escape by plane from Berlin to Denmark and on again as far as southern France m late April 1945. The pilot was
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 35 8 WEATHER— i Showers WEATHER report for the next 24 hoars compiled by the RAF: Scattered thundery showers this afternoon and early evening. Fine tonight and tomorrow morning Wind: Light northerly. Temperatures: max. 89: mln. 74.
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    • 18 8 STORE HIGH TIDES To-day Tomorrow 8.38 p.m. 6.38 a.m. 9.41 p.m. I 6.6 ft. 7.2 ft. 6.9 ft
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