The Singapore Free Press, 8 March 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA r>:.nw SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1948 PRICE l«> CENTS
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    21 – gun II a salute greets U.S. fleet
    69 1 21 gun II a salute greets U.S. fleet MM staff Keportei CgAPORE s host touting Ame- Fora 38 mornu from Fleet don imira ComI the Bf afteri r r was j and yers I \r Three Days m here i tilch me of I nged for nen. tl i I
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    rab boycott i Ycmen ruler
    22 1 BA lay last te the I Wazir's Lmam, and brit the Id be Crown Ahmed. re- Reuter
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    VISITING U.S.
    24 1 Ifr. Eamon de Valera. former Prime Minister of Eire, left Shannon airport yesterday for a private visit to the United States.- U.P.
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    DE GAULLE'S BID FOR POWER
    367 1 DE GAULLE'S BID FOR POWER New call for anti-Red bloc PARIS, Sunday. QEN. Charles de Gaulle today altered the whole political situation m France by declaring that as far as it lay with him all was ready for him to assume the leadership of the country. Political observers m Paris
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    FORD SAYS NO'
    36 1 Mr. Henry Ford 11. head of the Ford Motor Company, who is touring Europe, said m Stockholm last night, that he did not want to do business with Russian dominated countries. i A.P.
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    JAP MAJOR CHARGED WITH MASSACRE
    154 1 JAP MAJOR CHARGED WITH MASSACRE Free Press Staff Reporter THE trial of Singapore's last Japanese war crimes suspect. Major Keichi Mizuno, on a charge of complicity m the massacre of Chinese m the Arab Street area m 1942, opened before a War Crimes Court m the Supreme Court this morning.
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    NIZAM FACES UPRISING
    118 1 BOMBAY, Sunday. A private army with "60,000 muzzle loaders" is ready for an uprising if the Nizam of Hyderabad should cede his State, with its 85 per cent Hindu population, to the Union of India, stated the Sunday edition of the Bom- bay Free Press Journal. The
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    FOUR CHARGED WITH SEDITION
    63 1 A MEMBER of the Jamaica House of Representatives and two City Councillors all trade union executives were arrested m Kingston (Jamaica) yesterday, together with a trade union official, on charges of sedition. The four men are alleged to have been actively concerned m a recent strike
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    55 1 Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb, 72, who as commanding general of the various German army groups, participated m the invasions of Czechoslovakia, the Low Countries and France is chief defendant m the German High Command case at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Twelve other German generals and one admiral stand
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    BOLIVIA GETS BIG TIN CONTRACT
    122 1 BUENOS AIRES, Sunday. ARGENTINA has taken another step towards assuring herself of sufficient tinplate supplies by signing a contract for the purchase of 40,000 tons of fine tin from Bolivia during the next five years. The contract was one of six signed to Implement last
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    Labour MP in Accra protest
    206 1 Labour MP in Accra protest LONDON, Sunday. \|ORE than 600 coloured and white people demonstrated outside Government quarters at Downing St., Westminster, tonight while a deputation handed m a resolution at the Prime Minister's residence protesting against the Gold Coast "massacre of ex-Servicemen." A meeting at Trafalgar Square, traditional agitation
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    FINNISH REDS BREAKUP ANTIPACT MEETING
    142 1 HELSINKI. Sunday. A PUBLIC meeting against tne Soviet proposed Russo-Finnish friendship and military pact was broken up today by Finnish Communists, who surrounded the speaker and pushed him from the platform. It was the first sign of violence m the Finnish capital since Stalin proposed
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    MOTOR CYCLIST DIES IN MISHAP
    57 1 Free Press StalT Reporter 4 25-year-old Chinese. Tan A Kirn Hong, died yesterday m the General Hospital as the result of being injured at midnight on Saturday, when his motor-cycle skidded and overturned near the Shackle Club m Beach Road. Tan's friend who was riding
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    TANKER COLLISION
    23 1 TWO Norwegian motor tankers collided off the Hook of Holland last night, causing damage to both vessels, Lloyd's reported from Rotterdam
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    NINE ROBBERIES
    24 1 Tw:nty-i me Chinese seized $1,171 m cash and goods m nine armed and simple robberies occurring m Singapore during the week -^nd.
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    FORGED $5 NOTE: POLICE WARNING
    210 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ALL banks m Singapore and the Federation have been warned by the Police of the appearance of a forged $5 S.S. currency note. The Registrar of Criminals, j Malaya and Singapore, Mr. H. I F. Ridley, A.S.P., said today the forged
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    W. Europe pact almost ready
    79 1 BRUSSELS, Sunday. DELEGATES of Britain, Franc*. Belgium, the I Netherlands and Luxem- I bourg, conferring here on the formation of a Western Euro- pean Union, spent today putt- j ing the finishing touches to their work after having completed on Saturday the political, legal and
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    UK protests in Antarctica
    324 1 LONDON, Sunday. BRITISH warships taking the Governor of the Falkland Islands, Mr. Miles Clifford, on his tour of the Falkland dependencies, today handed out three protests two to Argentinians and one to Chileans m the dependencies. Protests were made to two Argentine ships m harbour at
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    Jewish unity moves to meet Arab threat
    305 1 Jewish unity moves to meet Arab threat JERUSALEM, Sunday. AS the Arab Liberation Army prepared for all-out offensive m the Holy Land, and hopes of a United Nations settlement faded, secret week-end conferences between leaders of the Jewish Agency, Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi m Tel Aviv brought nearer
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    85 KILLED IN KASHMIR KAID
    57 1 AFTER a bayonet charge by Indian troops had cleared raiders from a hill north of Uri m Kashmir, tribesmen counter-attacked with small arms and mortars. Indian troops supported by artillery broke up the counter-attack and counted 85 dead among the raiders, an Indian Defence Ministry
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    LISTOWEL FOR NORTH BORNEO
    45 1 THE Minister of State for Colonial Affairs. Lord Listowcl. left Singapore by air this morning for Kucfting. Brunei and Jesselton. From there he will proceed to Hong Kong. He expects to be back m London at the end of this month.
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  • FEATURES
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      EASTER BONNETS
      106 2 Four EaMter floral hats from New York, (tnjj left) ichitc eyelet embroidery, spring rose? and fresh green (jro. (jrain HbbOM frame this fitraic bonnet designed Ert Ta> tar; (top right) crushed into a tide I ing hat, lechorn yellou felt adds pale tea ro^cs and freesias tn accent
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      'FAR EAST WAR'
      894 2  -  Hall Romney LONDON LETTER By JJIELD Marshal Montgomery would appear to want the Far East campaign fought all over again. At all events, he has called for an exercise and conference at Camborloy Staff College for officers of all three Services, to discuss "the conduct of mobile
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      Swedes produce uranium
      325 2  - Swedes produce uranium A. DE MONTMORENCY By I A FTER two years of producing uranium principal element for atomic fission Sweden has increased her annua output to nine tons and is planning to build more' extraction plants and atomic piles. Swedish bovey-coal conis obtained fiom shale mines at Kvantorp m
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      'ESCAPE SONGS'
      556 2  -  ALLAN DREYFUSS By Reuters' Correspondent TERMANS turning from the bellicose wartime favourites such as "we are sailing against Eng 1 a n d," have now adopted popular music suggesting escape to tropical islands and beaches where the word calory is unknown and the housing problem revolves about a
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      Men Of the Hills
      507 2 Men Of the Hills For 130 years Ihe stocky Gurkhas from Nepal have fought under th e Union Jack m the Indian Army. Now eight battalions are to belong to ihe British Army and will be stationed m Singapore and Malaya. THE Gurkhas, tough little hillmen from the independent kingdom
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      17 2 7 Latest Books arc Arriving Regularly from London for you to Borrow from rTHE ULUPUT LIBRARY Little's
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      43 2 Attention Travellers!' WHEN VISITING SINGAPOP rTHE TAVERN fEuroDean Rpsid-ntint otell lfl .|v lH tr tfttJ the first hotel operating im«. furn jsbf<l tion. Spacious rooms luxurious room has its own bath to ItoeM Coo/ on,/ g«W 7/17 Tanslin RoAd. •Eft^M* S(l rabirs: "Tavern"
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      312 2 Bridge Problem THIS hand was pla>t\l m tournanent with varying ro- Norta-Soati vulnerable. SulLs. Few readied the pr^rnr irth dealer. contract <>f nve clubs. The north -South teams who arrived 4k a 10 7 three no-trump were naiver- j v. 4 2 ro"ipnr{i' ivr!-. 9 8 7 6 W^st 1M
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      773 2 ISJNGAPORF Malay; 6 Programmo Summary; mary; 530 Station Owning: 53: 605 Youth's Effort; 6.30 As I Saw i Echoes from the Shows; 6TJ Blue Network It; 7 Time Signal; 701 Arts to One; 630 World and Homi Corner; 7.30 New s In Malay; 7.45 News; 645 At the Console; T
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      34 2 YOUR LUCKY STA« Furtunt peo| BOK> t«iay. F*3 !u.!il> »piniiM"JJ not bfcoted jr to born to rerideas U ***< you i better »aj- ga Kg your toei, J» T3 control the Pl« !,ir hut «ter«
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  • NEWS
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      VAN MOOK, HATTA MEET THIS WEEK
      308 3 West Java State backs Renville terms THE Lieutenant-Governor-General/ Dr. Hubertus van Mook, and the Premier of the Indonesian Republic, Dr. Mohammed Hatta, will probably meet m Batavfa this week to discuss Republican participation m the proposed interim government for Indonesia. The meeting is expected
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      34 3 Monsignor Vincent Galat (with hand raised m salute), Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Church, walks past a guard of honour of Muslim riflemen as he arrives at the Holy Sepulchre Church m Jerusalem.
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      The value of a husband
      85 3 a can be sd on the life of a young doctor, brilliant promise To that question iv me at I-ods, gave answer. His assesssum ho awarded to 26-year-old Mrs. the young d >c tor's widow, and mother j idren. 33 \shcn and a a mLn-
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      Lend me your ears—African version
      100 3 Lend me your ears African version CHEGE Kibachia. the Bad Man of East Africa, must stay In prison until he learns to behave, the Hous^ of Comm< m was told. M.P.s woncN ered what he had done. "This." said the Colonial Under-Secretary. Mr. D. R. Rec~-Williams, s rather a dr
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      Escort had to be escorted, too
      63 3 A MILITARY escort sent to "collect" a soldier due to appear m court went absent, and another escort had to do the job. And that, said a sergeantmajor at Devizes 'Wiltshire) was the reason for the delay m bringing the soldier to court. The
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      CIIVPLUNS CENTRE
      24 3 A training centre for Army chaplains is to be set up at Bagshot Park < Surrey >, former home of the Duke of Connauuht.
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      Pakistan 'losing no slep'
      71 3 D 7 u ns lru de Commissioner for Pakistan, Mr. A. iUr Naid m s >dney that Pakistan was not "los- v < t the White Australia policy. He had of social or personal discrimination m colour during his nine months m **hh jjl m th<
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      PRIORITY FOR EMIGRANTS
      39 3 PRIORITY FOR EMIGRANTS Ijn CvBtai liner '•-•turns to the Halifax seransport duty on will carry more migrant* on each •n of an agree'ded with the KJJ? 01 is ln at Ity for a IN of emigrants on each voyage.
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      FRENCH COLONIES
      27 3 I. Indian Government discussions with Government the future of ues m India by i a referendum, a •or the French French Overseas confirmed last Reuter
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      TOWN FLOODED BY SOAP SUDS
      76 3 THE manufacturer 01 a new chemical soap powder decided that it worked all right. In preparation tor a trial sales campaign he gave free samples to all the housewives m Mou:.t Perm, Pennsylvania (population 3.700). Later m the day each housewife happened to try her
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      Election warning to South Koreans
      326 3 LT.-GEN. JOHN HODGE, United States Commander m Southern Korea, has warned Koreans that "certain elements" might try to disrupt the elections to be held m Korea m May. The elections will be carried" out under laws drafted by representative Koreans and will operate on the
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      THE MELODY LINGERS ON
      90 3 ONCE upon a time. Saxon minstrel made a harp to play at his King's funeral. That was 1,300 years ago. A hundred people m a room m London have now Heard the music of that harp or rather a reconstruction of it The original harp was
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      MAY TRADE IN STERLING
      79 3 RUSSIA and Siam have been included m the list of countries with transferable sterling accounts, according to the Bank of England. Russia and Siam will now be able to use their transferable sterling accounts to pay for any current transactions with those countries which also have
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      Aussie airline has big plans
      71 3 AUSTRALIAN National Airways has plans for a i\ chain of international air services "which will carry the Australian flag into every part of the world," the managing director of th c company. Captain I.N. Ilolyman, stated m Sydney. Across the Pacific, A.N.A. has immediate hopes
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      HOUSE MOVED BY PLANE
      42 3 A WHOLE house of four rooms and bath has been moved by air from Miami to Rio de Janeiro m 30 hours. It was an all aluminium house which Brazilian Government officials wanted to inspect m a hurry.
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      Red landing in Palestine— British peer
      102 3 Red landing in Palestine British peer A RUSSIAN airborne landing m Palestine after British troops withdraw is forecast by the Earl of Cork and Orrery, retired Admiral of the Fleet. He told the House of Lords during a foreign atTairs debate that a iarge-scale civil war between Arabs and Jews
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      Private airline for Ethiopia
      106 3 SULTAN Airways Ltd., a new private commercial airline, has been organised m Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) under the direction of the Duke of Harrar, Emperor Haile Selassie's secor.dj son. Veterans of the R.A.F. m the Middle East are among the flying personnel of the new air service.
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      INDIA WANTS EXARMY CANTEENS
      197 3 SIR George Jeffreys (Cons.), asked m the House of Commons if the Secretary of Commonwealth Relations was aware that the Government of India was proposing to take over compulsorily, without payment, various soldiers' homes m the cantonments vacated by British troops although these homes were provided
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      FIRST OF THE MANY?
      62 3 THE first Cambodian to enter the diplomatic service of the French Union will be Nong Kimny, who will become first secretary at the French Embassy m Bangkok. He is 38 years old, a former provincial governor and once was secretary-general of the Cambodian government. His appointment
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      WACS TO STAY
      32 3 gulars.- A.P. The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has approved legislation to create a permanent Women's Army Corps and take women into the Navy and Air Force as re-
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      FIRST LINER TO CRUISE
      295 3 TTHE first ocean-going ship to be run on a credit 1 system has arrived back at Southampton from Brazil. A month ago the new Royal Mail liner Anc'es left Southampton for Buenos Aires w*th 450 passengers on board, many of whom had paid £320 tor the
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      Prince claims an empire
      82 3 PRINCE LASCARIS. who traces his royal line back to 1.500 s.c, laid claim, m Rome, to the throne of a Middle East and Balkans empire. Previously, this 26-year-old descendant of 100 emperors was pretender to the thrones of Turkey. Bulgaria. Jerusalem. Cyprus. Armenia, and Britain. Now
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      MIDDLE CLASS NIGHTMARE
      85 3 Mr. J. A. L. Gunn, a wellknown Australian economist who is now In Colombo on his way to England, said that he was shocked at the increase In the price of goods m Ceylon and he was sorry for the middle classes to whom the cost of
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      Mother is taken for a ride
      104 3 Mother is taken for a ride THE varied uses for which 1 petrol applications are being granted was the subject of yet another question m the House of Commons. Mr. McKay (Labour) complained that petrol is being allowed to some peopl? To take mother out m the car to get
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      Saigon gaming is legalised
      105 3 EGALISLD-gaming nas r* 1 Lj turned to Saigon aid the large Chinese city neartv. Cholon. The concession to operate the games of change was awarded by the Provisional Government ol Cochi China to a syndicate, largely made up of Chinese, for a payment of 262.000 IndoCuirese
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      DISAPPEARED AT SEA
      69 3 DISAPPEARED AT SEA A CHINESE fireman of the KPM ship Vanderhagen recently disappeared suddenly and mysteriously while the ship was about 30 miles out from Macassar harbour. Police, who made an investigation when the ship docked, found no evidence of murder or suicide nor any indication of an accident. No
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      BOOMKIES PAY OUT
      44 3 More than 6,000 bookmakers have been asked to Rive ,at least £5 each to fight a bets tax. French people who do no I work classified as "olsifs" (icilers) will be made to pay 'a tax of nearly £60 a year.
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      IMPS' MADE TAX MILLIONS
      114 3 MR. Hugh Dalton's shilling-for-twenty increase m the price of cigarettes last April's budget brought a profit of over £14.000,000 to the Imperial Tobacco Company, makers of Players and other well-known brands The profit, disclosed In the combine's report to shareholders, results from the extra Is. being
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      60 3 IMPURITIES IN THE BIL€€ID Impurities m the blood ar« a common cause of Mood and ekin complaints. IH^ Clarke'* Blood Mixture, as a blood Wl^ftE purifying medicine, cleanse* the system L/yS and should restore normal health. tSSjSB'x Recommended m the treatment of Rheu- matic A.cheg> and Pains Stiff and Painful
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      38 3 Boy V. beast «y r Burroughs -7^ .T H .!!t a -^g!P. R <r^ a^M wzm halted' am! ad the tra.l .Vf v^T /#V^-'-vl SC^Evnh^E AHEA?"oTmER PEET JM^- i ~-3i^'v "*> h k •r*^ J *E«E TSEA2NS SAV.ETO*;;. > f
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. MARCH 8. 1948. The Council And Palestine
      682 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. MARCH 8. 1948. The Council And Palestine riMiE Security Council's rcfuJ. sal to accept responsibility tor the partition of Palestine is» none the less tragic because it was expected. The >. decision against the use of force to carry out the General Assembly's solution was
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      S.E. ASIA'S TROUBLE SPOTS
      992 4  - S.E. ASIA'S TROUBLE SPOTS HARRIS JACKSON Hv A. P. Correspondent COUTH-EAST Asia's two most troubled spots, Indo-China and Indonesia, exhibit numerous major similarities m their nationalist struggles. Their differences me fewer m number, but important. Both are gripped by attempts of Oriental nationalists to free themselves from the politica' and
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      30 4 Venerated by Malays long before the coming of the Brit 5 Shrine m the European cemetery on Fort Canning II I ffi of the founder of Singapore, a prin 1
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      EGYPT WANTS AN ARMY
      400 4  -  HAIG NICHOLSON By Reuters' Correspondent WHEN the question of the building up of Egypt's armed forces came under review m the Senate recently, it was revealed that the most modern planes are being obtained for the Egyptian Air Force, that arms and munitions factories are to
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      Chinese are 'pin-pricking'
      138 4 fHINESE authorities m Pei- ping, m what is generally considered a pin-prickinu; policy against the British, arc now seeking removal of all trace of bullet holes made m the walls of the British Embassy compound during the Boxer rebellion of 1900, when the legations m Peiping wen
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      THE WATCHDOGS OF PEACE
      757 4  - THE WA TCHDOGS OF PEACE ROBERT BIG IO By Reuters' Correspondent PATIENCE and vigilance have become two guiding principles of the United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans m its increasingly difficult role of watchdog of international peace along the frontiers of Northern Greece. The steady accumulation of indications that
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      'Brains Trust' Of The Colonies
      311 4 'Brains Trust' Of The Colonies TWENTY brains trusts are at the service of the British Colonial territories. On them serve nearly 300 of Britain's leading experts on social, medical, educational, and political matters, who give the Colonies the benefit of their special knowledge and wide experience. These "brains trusts" are
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Black-out is likely for 10 lays more
      40 5 Black-out is likely for 10 lays more &LSORV 3 lent tha' con igadue nal arts St B .x ratoi use before the Apr:). De>utt aiy, tobti been by the seltiose who deliberd a P" ire— :nch must the aut: ctra-
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      TOMEN'S DAY CONCERT
      29 5 TOMEN'S DAY CONCERT International May- and Dramatic •tli r with mi I the •onirom Is concert is a women members ;sa:.ese rmed ira. Ira matte oe.whirh rerd frcm Sumatra.
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      BACK PAY IS CAUSE OF BOOM
      34 5 BACK PAY IS CAUSE OF BOOM week a small boom npl who nths* ra have X*:K money i 5 s1 and April. P ink of Malaya a V *M Bum nding and 1 ndfalls.
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      ECONOMIC SURVEY
      19 5 ECONOMIC SURVEY I -R Sunday. jut I Iblc. I niai ver> y I -aid j I «e° Ucal I
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      40 5 picture. MISS SEAH KIM E\G, a member of the Social Welfare Department, who is the registrar attached to the Children's Feeding centre at Havelock Road. The centre was one of the places visited by Lord Listowel last week. Free Press
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      NEW LANGUAGE
      54 5 rennd •hor th? of the Rhio-Lingga Archipelago. "Aside from the Dutchromanized spelling, even the syntax and many common expressions have materially chanß?d under the influence of the Dutch language and of Dutch-trained Indonesian writers. As a result, the recently coined new t^rm 'Bahasa Indonesia.' or Indonesian nave. seems
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      RADIO TALK
      56 5 AT 11.40 tomorrow morning, 1 the Minister of State for Oolor.ial AftTairs. Lord LlsI towel, will broadcast to boys ai;d girls m English sr hools m Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. The talk, recorded yesterday before the Minister's departure today for North Borneo, will be broadcast from
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      JAP SCRIPT VALUE New bill shows up 'injustice'
      259 5 JAP SCRIPT VALUE New bill shows up 'injustice' Free Press Staff Reporter THE injustice of the back pay aweard to n on interned Government servants has been brought out very clearly by the publication of the Debtor and Creditor (Occupation Period) Bill, the Government Servants Back Pay Council submits m
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      CHECK ON LEPERS AT LARGE
      365 5 "Report them says Dr. Canton Tup Fr <* Press Staff Reporter [Hk attention of the Singapore Municipal authorities has been drawn to the number of diseased persons, bearing marks similar to those of leprosy, who are at large m Singapore and apparently free to move
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      103 5 The aircraft manufacturing industry m Malaya's southern neighbour, Aust- ralia, is largely centred at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation works m Sydney and Melbourne (producing under licence I Mustang fighters, Pratt and Whitney twin-row Wasp Rolls-Royce Merlin engines 1 and about to start production on Rolls-Royce Nene gas-turbine engines). The de
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      Crown land for building village halts
      321 5 Crown land for building village halts Free Press Staff Reporter AMOVE started by the Dree' or of Co-O"mtl nin the Federation, to provide commun'tv h Mis v contributory factor to the social deve'opment of the people of the country/* has been tak^n up by Ike Singapore Rural Board. The Board
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      U.K.-JAPAN AIRLINE
      56 5 A 80.A.C. through service ftom the United Kingdom to Iwskuni. Japan, via Hong Xcn g> W in opened on March 19. It will be operated by Plymouth class flying boats holding 22 passengers, mail and cargo. The service will be weekly. Mansfield and Co. Ltd Singapore. Penang and
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      JAVA EXPECTS RICH HARVEST
      63 5 I TJIHEA Plain <Krawang sector of West Java), promises a rich rice harvest this season. The harvest will be sufficient to satisfy the requirement^ of the other districts ir. West Java, producing export goods. It is vet too early to estimate the yield. but it •is
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      'RADIO DOCTOR' TENDS TO CARS
      161 5 Free Press stall Reporter NEW-TYPE equipment, costing U.S. $50,000, has been brought to Singapore from the United States to help m the assembly and servicing of Studebaker cars and trucks throughout Malaya. Introduced into this counI try for the first time is the i car
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      PARCEL POST RATES UP
      103 5 (INTERNAL parcels postage 1 rates will be increased by March 15. according to a Gazette notification. Parcels posted In Singapore lor delivery m the Colony, the Federation of Malaya. North Borneo. Sarawak or Brunei will be charged as follows: For a parcel not exceeding 3 lb.
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      IT ISN'T ALL WORK....
      118 5 At the Boys' Home m Bukit Timah, emphasis is not only put on correction and discipline but also on adequate facilities for study and recreation. The boys are taught useful trades basketry, carpentry, tailoring, etc., but they also attend school within the Home, and their spare
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      S'PORE HELPS PALEMBANG FOOD GROWING
      201 5 S'PORE HELPS PALEMBANG FOOD GROWING TO stimulate vegetable grow- ing m Palembang which is entirely m the hands of Chinese farmers, vegetable seeds are being purchase! m Singapore and also from Holland for distribution to Palembang growers. An official Dutch statement, reporting this, says that the expansion of vegetable growing
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      SCHOOL TO SEE WARTIME FILMS
      82 5 rjiHREE films on the warX time activities of the women m Britain will be shown to the students of the Nan Hwa Girls' School this evening by the Public Rela- tions Film Unit. In all. the Public Relations will give five shows during i the
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      W. BORNEO RUBBER
      30 5 Restrictions on rubber export from West Borneo has officially lifted, says the Dutch news agency quoting a report published by the Batavia Chinese daily Seng Hwa Pao.
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      PERCIVAL'S BOOK READY IN DECEMBER
      205 5 PERCIVAL'S BOOK READY IN DECEMBER Free Press Correspondent LONDON. Sunday GENERAL Percival's des\J patch has told only part of the story of the Malayan campaign. The rest will be told m his book. "War m Malaya." The general completed the book and handed it to the publishers some months ago.
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      SFTU ASKS RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED
      245 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions, m a 1 statement on the unemployment sif j JUon m Singapore, asks the Government to set up an unemployment relief machinery, stop the import of foreign labour, and postpone the demolition of the five
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      AMMO SEIZED
      36 5 4 PARTY of Singapore deJ\ tectives yesterday morning seized four cases containing 5.000 rounds of small arms ammunition dn Jalan Kayu, Changi. A Chinese and a Malay were arrested m connection with th? seizure.
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      ASIA SEEKS RIVAL TO I.E.F.C.
      237 6 ASIA SEEKS RIVAL TO I.E.F.C. New campaign likely at Bagnio SEVERAL Asian nations are expected to make a determined effort at the FAO rice meeting at Baguio early this week to form an Asian Regional Rice Council. However, a member of the United States delegation told Associated Press that it
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      122 6 picture. picture. Winches rattle all day aboard the steamer Flaminian (her crew call her the 'Flaming Onion') lying in Southampton harbour. Cargoes are loaded and unloaded, but she never leaves port. The Flaminian probably never will go to sea again, for she is the depot ship for the Royal Engineers'
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      Assurance on cloth shortage
      108 6 AN oflicial assurance that there will be no clothing shortage m Australia as a result of the Commonweal' h Government's decision to lift all restrictions on the export of certain woollen goods to dollar countries has boon given m Canberra. Ir was stated that manufacturers may
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      CZECH BAN ON U.S. FILMS
      76 6 SEVEN American films have been banned m Prague because actors taking part m them "were involved m the campaign against progressiveminded people and their activities," the Czechoslovak Ministry of Information has onr.ounced. As m Hungary, all films m which Adolf Menjou. Gary Cooper. Robert Montgomery,
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      500 BRITISH FRAUS
      15 6 Five hundred German pri-soi-ers have married British women, the War Office announces.
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      MICKEY GETS DOG V.C.
      120 6 MICKEY GETS DOG V.C. /\UR Dumb Friends League have presented their premier animal award, the Blue Cross medal, to Mickey, a nine year old Irish wolihound owned by D. Burt of Fulham (London) for saving a child from a Tire. The child he saved is fourteen months old Anne Roche,
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      THEY CAN WED AUSTRIANS
      69 6 4 PPLICATIONS for mari\ riage to Austrian girls may be accepted once again from British troops m Austria Although there has never been any real ban. says Reuter. applications were refused some months ago. when It was expected that a treaty wruld be signed and It
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      DOG EATS A MINK COAT
      105 6 A Paris lawyer. M. Perpessac. sued the director of Vichy casino. M. Barjeiis. for the return of his black poodle. Storm, which he left at the Barjeois home three years ago. Barjeois refused to give up the dog. He said his wife, who has nervous
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      Russia's giant industrial programme
      156 6 Russia's giant industrial programme TIHERE are indications that A Russia is m the midst ot an almost unparalleled Industrialisation programme, as Pravda revealed figures of the performance of the steel industry m the Soviet Union during January and February and a high performance m thf- eastern oilfields, reports AT Pic;
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      Atom scientists rap Congress
      109 6 IN defence of Dr. Edward U. *Condon, the Emergency Committee at Atomic Scientists, headed by Professor Albert Einstein, asserted that the U.S. House of Representatives sub-committee on un-Ameri-can Activities had "rend red a disservice to the interests ol the United States." The scientists criticised a report
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      Honduras wants to remain British
      228 6 THE population of British Honduras almost unJ animously want to remain with the British Empire, said a British Colonial Office spokesman. He said a considerable amount of thought had been given m London to the further development of the colony and an important document affecting
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      THE QUAKER WAS TOLD: YOU ARE EVIL
      266 6 THE QUAKER WAS TOLD: YOU ARE EVIL QEARDED, grey-haired Mr. John Fletcher, a Quaker D whose "forceful" personality influenced a young conscientious objector to oppose a court order, was told by Mr. Ivan Snell, the Marylebone magistrate: "Tluere are evil things m this world, and it strikes me that you
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      Higher wages, fewer hours
      76 6 BRITAIN'S weekly wages bill rose m January by about £100,000 because of increases granted to 320,000 workers while working hours for 96,000 workers were shortened by nearly four hours. These improvements are announced by the Ministry of Labour, were negotiated before the appeal for voluntary freezing
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      SELF-SUFFICIENT
      48 6 Indonesian Food Minister Kasimo has issued a statement to the people of the Indonesian Republic declaring there would be no need to import rice into Republicancontrolled areas m the near future. He declared that the Republic was actually exceeding its goal m its agricultural 6elf-oufflciency drive. A.P.
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      CINEMAS MAY CLOSE DOWN
      61 6 MORE than half of Britain's cinemas will have to close down m the near future because "English productions have slumped rather than Increased," said Mr. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association m New York. Meanwhile, In America. 16 per cent, of studio employees have
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      MUSLIM COLLEGE
      30 6 A Muslim college has been 1 planned for Kenya at a cost of £100,000. Most of the capil tal is being provided by the 1 Aga Khan.- Reuter
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      OUTSIDER'S WIN WAS IMPRESSIVE
      686 7 OUTSIDER'S WIN WAS IMPRESSIVE Rejected by big stable By Free Press Racing Correspondent ¥l PENANG, Monday. yiK Lancelot, an ungainly four-year-old gelding by Black Monk, surprised even his connections when he made an incredible run a hundred yards from home to beat the hot favourite, Fair Week, m the third
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      National Runners Beaten
      38 7 adicap iles 7 ake rt*d of the but s from '""who received II Sin the ••^j tell to win It 15 Kfabad mis: ike at circuit ,er able to get on r.ished but oehind Rowland
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      fricket Again Cancelled
      79 7 f ricket Again Cancelled lATHER poilt any chance Singapore had making a pood start of over the week end. match at Changi, Indian and Changi second teams completed an I B ■r 1 n and B first B I 259 for I nlay I f three B B A&S B^
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      OUTSIDER WINS S. ANITA
      92 7 OUTSIDER WINS S. ANITA ARCADIA. (California) Sunday.— Salmagundi, who came here less than two months ago without a victory to his credit, today captured the $100,000 (US) Santa Anita Derby by a nose from Call Bell m a stirring stretch drive. William G. Helis* colt had to make up nearly
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      IRISH SOCCER
      38 7 IRISH football league matches on Saturday resulted: Ballymena U. 0 Arda i Ban«or i Portadown 3 Derry City 0 Distillery G enavon 1 BTast Celtic 3 nientoran 3 Clifton Ville 1 Lmfield 2 Coleraine 2 Reuter
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      BILLIARDS TOUR
      100 7 LONDON, Sunday. KINGSLEY KENNERLY, the Midland billiards professional, who recently returned from a successful tour of India, will shortly be off on another overseas trip Kennerly is awaiting the corclusion of negotiations for n six months' tour of South Africa, and he expects to sail at the end
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      23 7 H<Tp^ngay Arena interior which Witt be the $cene of Olympic basketball and iveightli/ting contests. Olympics begin m London at the eid of July.
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      39 7 photos. annual hnPfrnre W?? •l?l m; l if er of the Carnbrid oe craft that will be used m the annual ooat race. Sims will build the winner this year as he also is building the Oxford Fix ooat.
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      SEPTUAGENARIAN SCULLERS
      123 7 NOliii^R septuagenarian 1\ sculler has taken up 74--year-old Australian Bill Fisher's challenge U> race against any sculler im tho world aged 70 or over Albert Haydon of Maalf (Sydney) says he 'Aill take FL>r.er on. but tieeds six rromhs' tra:nkiK. Flsiier hink^ thai any main fthould Dfc ready
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      Knock-out was in record time
      143 7 NEW YORK, Sunday. i^HAMPION Gus Lesnevich, having disposed definitely of challenger Billy Fox with the quickest knockout m light-heavyweight title history was sought today for a fifth crown defence against Ezzard Charles at Yanket Stadium m July. The 33-year-old champion" knocked out young Fox at
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      SKAARUP WINS BADMINTON FINAL
      155 7 ;.i)WDON, Sunday ?N the all-Danish mam .m :i I final of th~ AllEngland badminton cha. pionships, Join Skr.aiup be.tt Pi Hnlnt. 13-3 n RKaarup whc played f.ne aitaddßK badminton throughout owed his victory mainly to a splendid recovery 111 the second game when 5-10 and 8-12
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      League Tables
      748 7 I EAGUE tables up-to-date are as follows: FIRST DIVISION P W D LP A Tot Arsenal 31 19 9 3 59 23 47 Burnley 30 14 11 5 40 28 39 Preston 30 16 6 8 49 65 38 Derby 28 14 8 6 60 37 36 Man'sterU.
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      INJURIES UPSET CUP re-play
      340 7 INJURIES UPSET CUP re-play LONDON, Sunday. HERBY County moved into th e semi-final of the V Football Association Challenge Cup on Saturday trouncing the London Third Division outfit Queens Park Rangers, five-nil m a sixth-round replay The Rangers, one of the giant-killing teams of the annual knock-out tournament, met with
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      RUGBY LEAGUE
      74 7 i Home rugby league matches played on Saturday resulted: Bradford Northern 9. Wakefield Trinity 2; Hunslet 11, Dewsbury 0. Club Matches: Bellevue Rangers 17, Barrow 0; Featherstone Rovers 5. Rochdale Hornets 10; Hull 2. Bramley 5, Keighley 9, Hullkingston Rovers 0 Liverpool Stanley 2, Batley 15; Oldham 18,
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      DAVIS CUP
      87 7 STOCKHOLM, Sunday. THE Swedish Lawn Tennis Association today decided to bar the Swedish Davis Cup players Lennart Bcrgjdin and Tortsten Johannsson from participating m matches abroad. Unless they comply with this decision the players will have disciplinary action taken against them. At present both are waiting at Cairo
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      Olympic sivimming troubles
      233 7 Olympic sivimming troubles LONDON. Monday. THE proximity of the British swimming championships to the Olympic events there is a lapse of only 19 days between the ending of the national championships and the beginning of the Olympic Games puts a big strain on British swimmers taking part m the Games.
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      35 7 ILLINOIS. Sunday LLOYD Duff set a new American record of 8.5 seconds m the 70-yard high hurdles today as he led Ohio I State University to its second i Big Nine indoor track cham- pionship.
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      44 7 SPORTS DIARY FOR TODAY SOCCER: S.A.F.A. League, Div. I—Navy1 Navy v. C-%., Jalan Besar stadium, 5 p.m. TENNIS: S.L.T.A. Indoor Championships, Happy World s .iduini, 6.15 p.m. BADMINTON: Singapore Malays' tournament. Clerical Union 1 hall. 7 p.m. GOLF: R.S.G.C. Women's Monthly Medal, Bukit Timah.
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      TURKS WANT MORE U.S. AID
      54 8 TURKISH sources m Istan--1 bul reported yesterday that the Government desires to turn American aid from a military character and concentrate on bolstering the nations economic structure Consequently, Turkey is expected shortly to request a new American mission to Turkey for a survey of entire-
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      Ceylon to invite King to island
      293 8 Ceylon to invite King to island COLOMBO, Sunday. rPHE Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. D. S. Senanayake, will invite the King and Queen to visit the island on their way to Australia if they go by the eastern route instead of the Pacific, it is learned here. There would be
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      ISLANDS RETURNED
      36 8 The 50 Dodecanese Islands m the Aegean Sea were yesterday formally returned to Greece for the first time since 1522, when they w™e captured by SuleiSSn the Maemflcent, Sultan of tho uiroman Empir Reuter
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      ENVOY QUITS IN PROTEST
      60 8 THE Bulgarian Minister to London, M. Nikola Delaptechiev. resigned his post yest-rday m protest against the establishment of a Soviet system m Eastern Europe He told a hastily-summoned Press conference that he would leave the Bulgarian L/nation to take up work lor the iestoration of liberty
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      23 8 Miniature tractor ploughs churning up the road verges alonn the Barnet By-pass, near tsxgnau's Corner, Middlesex, in Britain's Grow More Food campaign.
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      Indian Congress has new plan
      215 8 NEW DELHI, Sunday. THE future of the Indian National Congress m free India has been drastically overhauled m the new constitution adopted here by the All- India Congress Working Committee. The new party constitution makes India's 700.000 villages the starting point of all constructive work
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      LEARN HOW TO LEARN
      108 8 HHHE Governor-General of 1 India. Lord Mountbatten. gave Indian students advice at the Silver Jubilee convocatJori of the Delhi University i yesterday. "Learn how to learn and go on learning for the rest of ycui lives." he tolci them. Develop character, intellectual 1 Integrity and mental
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      FRED HARTLEY IN S'PORE
      103 8 FRED Hartley, the wellknown band leader and composer, was a one day visitor to Singapore yesterday :on his way back to London from Sydney. At the end of a six months' BBC. contract he will probably return to Australia. Last night Mr. Hartley playi ed for
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      PLOT TO KILL U.S. GENERAL
      73 8 JLLERT Greek patrols today n thwarted a guerrilla plot to blow up a train carrying American Gin. van Flea a. d .Greek Chlej ol Stall. G n^ i Dmitrios Yadzis. Greek officers said 100 i pounds of dynamite wore rrr moved from the track three
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      Offered reward to surrender
      91 8 TOKIO, Sunday. JAPANS notorious poisonerbank robber was ollered 300.000 yen today if he would surrender by the end of March. A Crime prevention society made the offer over a national radio hook-up. The robber has been sought unsuccessfully since Jan. 27 when, posing as a Public
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      EX-PoW IS PARTED FROM JAP WIFE
      366 8 SYDNEY, Sunday. 'THE Australian Legion ot Ex-Serviceman and 1 Women has promised to help Mr. John Henderson, 27, ex-BCOF member, to rejoin his young Japanese wife whom he secretly married according to Shinto rites. Taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore, Mr. Henderson joined
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      6 NATIONS RECOGNISE SIAM REGIME
      197 8 BANGKOK. Sunday. SIX nations— Britain, the United States. France, India. China and the Netherlands have already recognised the new Sinmese Government undor Premier Aphaiwong. They officially informed the Sianvse Foreign Office of their recognition j following Parliament's vote of confidence last Friday. Sanguan Tularak. former
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      MALAYAN SELF-GOVI UP TO THE PEOPLE
      612 8 MALAYAN SELF-GO VI UP TO THE PEOPLE Lord Listowel on the future Free Press Staff Reporter IN Malaya, as throughout the British Common--1 wealth, the aim of the British Government is to give increasing power to the people of each territory, and give them the time and opportunity to prepare
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      22 8 An Arab patrolling the U' -,>» Which the Jew* have bet m generations except durwrj 1 Jews have been stovr,vray for th, r
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      NEW COUNCIL FOR SUDAN
      75 8 NEW COUNCIL FOR SUDAN THE Northern Sudan Ad- visory Council yesterday I decided that Sudanese tribal I chieftains, known as Nazirs, I should be eligible for el ction ito the proposed new Legisi lative Assembly and still retain their positions as Nazirs. The Advisory Council, is discussing a Sudan Govern-
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      GERMAN HATE FOR JEWS 'WORSE NOW'
      168 8 GERMAN HATE FOR JEWS 'WORSE NOW' FRANKFURT, Sunday. THE German people would willingly re-adopt the Hitler policy of slaughtering Jews if the American Army were not here to halt them, Mr. William Haber, American adviser on Jewish affairs, told the United Press today. Mr. Haber, Gen. Clay's top expert on
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      Fugitive priest still at large
      110 8 ROME. Suday. rE unofficial Vatican news agency, ARI, reported today it was unlikely Monsignor Edoarad Prettner Cippico. former librarian m the Vatican archives, who escaped from the Vatican this weekf after being unfrocked for alleged "falsifications and swindles." would surrender soon m order to see
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      26 HURT IN EXPLOSION
      59 8 Twenty-six people were hurt, 14 seriously, m an explosion on Saturday night at a plant at Waltham, on the Ottawa River. 70 miles northwest of Ottawa. The firemen were yesterday searching the ruins for 15 or more people who. it was feared, were trapped by the
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      N.Y. STOCKS
      43 8 AN the New York Stock, i v Exchange on Saturday, late recovery tendencies »re extended but enthusiasm was lacking. Final trading produced no material change m the early price pattern, which were irregularly higher, and !th market closed very steady.— Reuter
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      Govt, revert in Manchurian
      111 8 SHANGHAI, S OI'MOURS that the (iowrnment \m A% to abandon all northern Manchirii hd Changchun, the capital of the \<ir<! Hi ,t revived today with news of the Nationalist nm "strategic withdrawal" from the railiji of Szepingkai, 100 miles north of Mukden Meanwhile, as Nationalist n
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      'Monster' adds & multiplies
      73 8 'Monster' adds multiplies WASHINGTON. Sunday. two-headed mechanical monster that multiplies millions and adds billions will solve the Navy's mathematical problems m g missile research, it was unveiled today. The Tnachine. an a viatic calculator, weighs live tons, and fills a space CO by SO feet. It will take four months
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      BURMESE REDS BEHEAD THREE
      75 8 COMMUNISTS m the Central Burma town of Pyinmana have publicly b headed three people prho refused to pay taxes to a Communist "independent kov< ment" m the district, it waa authoritatively stated m Ran goon yesterday. The Communists are conducting a terror campaign In the interior
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      SHANGHAI RICE PRICES SOAR
      154 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday /COINCIDING with the introduction of rice rationing, the price for the staple has hit an all-time high of CN53.400,000 per picul (133 Ib.) with a jump of CN$3OO.OOO Even In rice-producing areas prices are also skyrocketting Wi\jle tlie authorities m charge of food supplies
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      AFRICANS & UNIONES
      91 8 AFRICANS UNIONES A jgi:w Anglo-Frencn Belgian labour confer ence held m Nigeria, recom mended M ths ext« whether possible, 01 voluntary system ot col. b&rgainin;" m dealing with African .th workers. Tiio «.o ference, attended by repr sentatives of cmi) ers and employees as W< Government officials, recognised the constructive
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      12 8 Madame Chiang Kai-shek i$ expected to visit Mukden shortly. UP
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