The Singapore Free Press, 4 September 1948

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 17,260. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1948. PRICE io ckmm
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    Moulmein seized by rebels
    207 1 New threat to Burmese Govt RANGOON, Friday. 1/ > tribesmen on the east coast of Tenas- mil province have rebelled and seized the telfC towns of Moulmein and Thaton, 95 mi!e> and 75 miles respectively from Rangoon, it ii officially announced tonight. mmunications between the capital
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    66 1 iZ!t Uc the Returning Officer, Mr. C. W. A Sennett (right), looks on the three candidates who will contest the Rural Z. es XJ? y e J e tlon J? r the Sin 9apor e Legislative Council on Oct. 16 draw their election symbols out of a hat. L. to
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    11 HELD IN DAWN RAID AT CHANGI
    26 1 Id and thirtyen- ring a p reak era- sens resI Nations 24 h irs ending at .•.umber, and one
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    13 killed in plane crash
    37 1 I- -6ELS. Saturday, aboard the DC-3. misthe I Congo are reported 1 killed The niane le. plane. ard. which iney on crushed aircraft nd any two reports "*hat eavy »:r.dfdfdfdf U.P. recently
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    VISCOUNT DEAD
    28 1 The seventh Viscount Portman, who owned five of London's squares including Portman Square. 12 churches and 40 public houses, died at his estate near Grimsby yesterday.
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    P.I. POLICE HUNT DOWN GUERILLAS
    160 1 Am ipivo n *v MANILA, Friday. LIPLNO Constabulary force of 12,000 men reinforced by 8,000 Filipino troops, are hunting down Hukbalahap guerillas in Central luz f following the Huks' refusal to accept Pr-wWent Quinno's surrender terms. aeni D the past few days there have been
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    Soviet troops enter Sinkiang
    173 1 NANKING, Saturday. CjOVIET troops numbering one full brigade were tonight to have invaded Sinkiang province in what was believed another Russian strategic move to gain control over China's remote north-west frontier regions. A full equipped Red Army Brigade, moving down across the border from Siberia, is
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    COTTON KING HELD
    45 1 Mr. Yung Hung-yuan, young chief executive of the fabulous cotton and flour mills j interests of the Yu..g family' of Wusih who fled to Hongkong last week, was arrested 1 and detained by the Shanghai police yesterday upon his ret u r
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    ARABS SHELL JERUSALEM
    44 1 SIX-POUNDER shells have been fired by Arabs in the direction of the Jewish suburbs of Jerusalem, states an Israeli communique. Count Bernadotte. United Nations mediator, announces that 14 nations have so far answered his appeal for supplies for 40.000 Arab refugees.
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    WATCHMAIN DIES
    35 1 Prittam Singh, a watchman employed at Great World Park, who was involved in an accident with a lorrv at Keppel Road on Seat 2 H I In the General Hospital early this morning.
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    Volcano hides quaking town
    71 1 MANILA. SaturdTT^™ A DENSE pall of volcaniP smoke and ash shrouds the quake town of Mambajao. north-eastern Mindanao, where Mount Hibokhibok has been violently erupting for the past three days. The earthquake has caused panic among the 70.000 inhabitants of Camiguin Island. About 7.000 refugees have
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    GIRL IS KILLED
    38 1 Free Press Stan* Reporter Knocked down by an S.T.C. bus. a 10-year-old Chinese girl wa s killed yesterday at the junction of Merchant Road and New Bridge Road. She has not vet been Identi- fled.
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    1,000 REDS HELD
    28 1 Athens police yesterday arrested over 1.000 Communist suspects, while ln a military court one woman and five men were sentenced to death for Communist activities.
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    REDDER & REDDER IN JOGJA
    167 1 REDDER REDDER IN JOGJA BATAVIA, Fri. THE fusion of Indonesian left-wing parties with the Communists into a Communist Unity Party was carried a step further today. It was reported from Jogjakarta todav that the Republican Socialist Youth Party, Pesindo, has now Joined the Red Front. All four major leftist parties
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    INDIA BANS DAWN
    29 1 The Government of India has banned the Muslim Lea ue newspaper Dawn, Jod by Mohammed Ali Jtnnan, Governor-General of Pakistan, and now published at Karachi. j
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    New Catholic bible
    30 1 The ftrst volume of 'lie Roman Catholic Church's new English translation of thp Old Testament! will be published in America nexi. Tuesday. It modTnlses manv pbrmMt.- U.P.
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    PHONE LINES CUT NORTH OF K.L. '
    55 1 PHONE LINES CUT NORTH OF K.L. KUALA I.I'MPUR, Sat. TELEPHONE lines from Kuala Lumpur north- wards were tampered with j early this morning:, causing considerable delays in northward calls. Police sources confirmed that sabotage is suspected. The actual point of break- j down is believed to b P somewhere between
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    Air Day rings the bell
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter APPROXIMATELY 15,000 one dollar tickets have been sold for the first Air Day in th« history of Singapore whi***h will take place at Kalian Airport this afternoon. grand fly-past of ■Jr*r?fl a of youth or^an'si'tons will mark the opening of the
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    'Lift blockade' hopes renewed
    236 1 BERLIN, Friday. REPORTS criculating here today indicated that the Russians are making technical preparations to lift the 72-day-old blockade of Berlin. The German director of railways in the Soviet zone had been summoned by Russian authorities to receive instructions regarding re-opening of traffic with the West,
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    CIVIL WAR FEAR AGAIN IN FRANCE
    187 1 PARIS, Friday. FRANCE is in the gravest political crisis since the war after a fruitless week of struggle to find a Premier and a Cabinet, and there is increasing talk of an early general election, which might sweep Gen Charles de Gaulle to power.
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    AUSSIE TROOPS 'NOT IMMORAL'
    67 1 REPORTS of immorality amongst Australian occupation troops and Japanese girls which were "breaking up i engagements back home," are exaggeration according to Mr. E. Y. Russell of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Japan. Mr. Russell also said that Gen. Mac Arthur told him the Australians were
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    SEVEN PISTOLS IN ENGINE ROOM
    60 1 Seven revolvers were seized by Customs Officers from the engine-room of the L. S. T. i Charles McCleod yesterday. The Charles McCleod aiYiv- ed from Rangoon Wednesday. i Customs officers boarded the ship at about 11.30 a.m. yesterday and found the seven revolvers hidden in
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    48 1 The Soviet Consul-General, Mr. Jakob Lomakin, waves to newsmen as he leaves the New York Consulate shortly after the news became public that the U.S. Government had revoked his credentials as a result of his conduct in the case of Mrs. Kosenkina, who jumped from the Consulate window.
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    S'pore Assize murder trials
    104 1 THLRE are 71 cases on the calendar of the September Assizes whic^ open in Sinj gapore Supreme Court on Mo. day. Of these. 12 have ben brought forward irom the last Assizes, and two are retrials. There are four charges of k murder, and two of
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    TOKYO ROSE LEAVES
    22 1 "Tokio Rose" Japanese woman broadcaster, bega.". the rturn trip to her native America yesterday to face charges of treason.
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    Gold's Surprise Fall
    28 1 A wooden box found on LaGi arda airfield. Nov Yor:. yfiterdav. contained Jo 8 000 in gold bars. It had drop-. 1 nf a truck.
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    Aussie £ rumours: boom at banks
    248 1 Aussie rumours: boom at banks Free Press Staff Reporter nANKS in Singapore in the past week have transacted four times their normal business ln Australian pounds, on reports of probable revaluation to parity with sterling. Yet practically none of the business was speculative. Businessmen with commitments later in the year
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    80 killed in train wreck
    69 1 HON'G KONG Saiurci IT least 80 persons were ren ported cKari 15 d and 90 injured in a disaster at Chinese terntorv north of Hong Kor day. The accident i m blamed on bad tracks which to; one railway car into a padifleld. telesco^d two
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  • FEATURES...
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      WOMEN are like the SEA
      3018 2  -  S.H. Marsden A SHORT STORY by COR 20 years he had been a deepsea diver. He knew all the wiles and cunning, all the treachery and ferocity of the sea. There were men in the Nordholm Salvage Company who could tell strange tales of Stephen
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      Bridge Problem
      53 2 DIAMONDS are trumps. South leads. North and South art to win six of the seven trick* against any de'ence. South makes two high trumpo North discarding the top hearts South leads a heart. North discarding the top spade. West wins and must lead a spade, giving South the
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      121 2 LUCKY STAR gOKN today. you are blessed—or cur^edwith exceptional versatility you can do things so <-asj|> that you may not k to any one thing long enough to become a real specialist in the field Hou ever, with due warning, you should be able to overcome this shortcoming and develop
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      108 2 m3ndr*3KG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Pres* in \lalava I IMARRV .l NO/ I'M SICK OF I I WE'LL DISCUSS THIS LATER/ I WHAT IS THE MYSTERY OT THESE wmTL _J t ennxm-rmr I t A STAYING DOWN PUT HER IN THE BRIG/ THIS IS ALL STRANGE PEOPLE, LIVING IN
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      REDS IN HONG KONG ARE ACTIVE
      268 3 Propaganda in the schools rjFFICIAL concern at the growth of Communist "influence in Hong Kong's major trade unions and doubts as to the motives behind this expansion draw attention to the widespread general activities of Communists within the Colony. No accurate figures are available
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      Queen Juliana' and consort
      30 3 Ih her consort, Prince Bernhard, Queen of the Netherlands on Mon- ts 39, will be Holland's second r 3ernhard ot Lippe-Biesterfeld •id they have four daughters.
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      STATE DRIVES BY JULIANA TODAY
      157 3 STATE DRIVES BY JU LIANA TOD A Y BEN JULIANA will make her first appearance Sovereign this afternoon when she will make :hrough Amsterdam in the creamploured calash given by Queen Emma to Queen Wilhelmina for her investiture ln 1899. She will be ccompanied by an escort of cavalry officers
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      SHINWELL WILL WAVE GOODBYE
      55 3 BRITAIN'S Secretary for War, Mr. Shinwell. will, watch and the Scots Guards band will play on Sunday when the Second Guards Brigade sails from Southampton for Malaya aboard the transport Empir Trooper. The Brigade consists of the Second Coldstream Guards, the Second Scots and a small
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      STRIKE BAN
      49 3 CECRETARY of the U.S. Army, Mr. Ken: eth Royall. backed Ge::. MacArthur's no-strike policy for Japanese Government workers. The policy has been under Russian attack. Mr Royall said MacArthur's b nich led to a temporary ban on such strikes, were not contrary to APied occupation policy.— A.P.
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      BOLLAEKT TO QUIT
      39 3 M Emile Bollaert. French High Commissioner in IndoChina. said in Saigon that he would not seek a renewal of his mandate as High Commissioner, and that he expected to leave IndoChina in a month's time.— Reuter
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      Unamerican activity
      14 3 tm\ as icund of the look her .ether mp to the U.P.
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      Pakistan on N.E.I.
      10 3 Pakistan on N.E.I. with r. of a I ..done* a
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      14 3 Jimmy ("Jeep aged 18 months, of Indiana, ia an old hand at n skating.
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      MUSLIM ADVISER
      19 3 M USLIM ADVISER Dr. S. I. M. Ibrahim has been appointed a member of the Singapore Muslim Advisory Board.
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      "UNOSIA"- MINIATURE STATE
      241 3 PARIS. Wednesday. WHEN the French Premier-to-be M. Robert Schuman, handed over a golden key to M. Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation the Palais de Chaillot here about 11 acres of western Paris will become a United Nations state-within-a-state. From that time and during the
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      Why Americans 'brag, talk big'
      258 3 UK. TEACHERS TOLD— EIGHTY men and women teachers from Britain went through three-and-a-half hours of dos and don'ts in Washington before setting out on a year's teaching in American schools. They sat ln a 90-degree temperature at Washington American University and were given these rules
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      PLANE ROLLED, THEN CRASHED
      44 3 WITNESSES at the Weston- Sup* r-Mare. Somerset, v iest on the occupants of an R.A.F. Mosquito aircraft which crashed at Weston aerodrome said th* y ww the machine approach the airfield at a high speed and go into a roll.
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      Australia in danger-Casey
      106 3 "lINLESS we take immediate u and drastic steps to inoreas# the population, we will not hoid Australia" declared Mr. R. G. Casey, former Governor of Bengal and Federal President of the Liberal Party, speaking in j Melbourne recently. Mr. Casey said India's 400 000.000 and the Asiatic
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      The Qantas kangaroo
      34 3 tain K. O. Jackson, Qantas Constellation commander, makes friends with a kangaroo at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney. The Sydney-London service, because of its long hops, ts known as the Kangaroo service.
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      KLMA Airr lines – a success story
      601 3 KLMA Airr lines a success story AIR DAY 'STARS' WHEN Queen Wilhelmina visited the first Aviation Exhibition on October .7th, 1919 she was shown round by General Snijders and a young flying officer, Albert Plesman. Though no one knew it at the time this was the beginning of the now
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Sept. 4, 1948. Compensatory thoughts
      705 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Sept. 4, 1948. Compensatory thoughts WHATEVER may be the of the war damages compensation scheme which is now ready for discussion by the Legislative Councils of the Federation and Sinpore, nothins is less Ilk than further British financial aid substantial enough unnecessary a heavv programme
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      THE ADVANCE OF AVIATION
      933 4  -  WICKHAM STEED By TF, in these days of uncertainty, it is not easy to look far ahead it is easier and may be enlightening to look back and to review phases of technical achievement, especially in the conquest of tbe air. I have been moved to
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      FAITH
      83 4 I Thou hypocrite, ftrst cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then I shalt thou s?e clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. St. Matthew 7, 5. Speaking sp+ed at a demonstration >f fhc Ha Aacraft Company s latest contribution to naval
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      69 4 When i c Sth Grays ȣV>ex.> Senior Scout Troop were wondering what to do with their summer holiday, they decided to have a real adventure. So Scoutmaster A. J. Lowne, and nine senior s, from juurteen to seventeen, have climbed into a specially chartered plane at Southend Airport to fly
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      62 4 l-famous Paris dressdesigner, Schiaparelli, has looked to the jungle for footwear styles in the coming winter. Here are seen. from left to right, winter boots m Persian Lamb, high-heeled bootees trimmed with monkey fur, glace and suede high-boots, reminiscent of the once- fashionable "Russian boot." and I c opar d
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      TRUMANGOES ON TOUR
      533 4  -  SCOTT RANKINE By Reuters' Correspondent WASHINGTON. AS political experts continue to predict the election of the Republican candidate, Governor Thomas Dewey, of New York, in November's Presidential election, President Truman's adrs are planning for him the most intensive and extensive election campaign in the history of the
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      Flying heros
      143 4 THE struggle to maintain face of the advancing Japai forces and the brilliant shif impio vised or restored an detail in that admirable H.M g 44 Merchant Airmen,'' but the the story are worth recalling hei The first shot in the enemy Empire air lifelines in the Far
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      BARRIERS DOWN IN HONG KONG
      528 4  -  W. E. PARROT Bv Reuter— A.A.P. Correspondent THREE years after liberation, Hong Kong sees its postwar reflection in a complexity of bright and dismal colours. Some hoped for much and have been disappointed. At libertion they cherished thoughts of a more democratic government structure, economic
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      103 4 tT i-^' v Modern Homes Demand t II k INSULATING BOARD. Your protection against Heat Termites. CANEC ls made ln standard b ur, siMi and ii easily cut to any shape or siae. thus possible a variety of decorative effects. I smooth finish and light colour provide I light reflection;
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      'NO FALL IN COST OF LIVING'
      720 5 MRS WONG TELLS THE FREE PRESS Marketing problems are examined Free Press Woman Reporter THOUGH many food prices have fallen a little in the past few months, Chinese housewives— one of them Mrs. S. Wong, a school tea "her at Seletar— claim there has
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      85 5 The Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. is this month visiting seven village committees in different parts of Singapore island. His first call was at the Upper Serangoon village committee, and was welcomed by Mi. Nq Kok Nam and Mr. Cher Poh Chia, chairman and secretary, respectively. Complimenting the
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      YPICAL BUDGETS
      178 5 YPIC AL BUDGETS I-»,,KIF txpical budgets submitted to the Singapore Municipal 1 ommissioners are: Mr W *>Ui one child, a year old. basic viUry MOO I r«« allowance ?7t. »otal £170 ner month: Provide ti. ptioai and housv rent $16 50. marketing $86.10. .»at'* wages, toilet r. quisle* S'4 wife's
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      'Everyone's duty to fight terrorists'
      98 5 here for only a short time, but he thought the oeople in England did not "realise what a terrible strain the Malayans were undergoing.'' I Free Pre-- Mail Correspondent PENANG, Friday. Hsis in Malaya will not be overcome u i til every citizen in the
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      'GRATITUDE' SCHOLARSHIP
      67 5 GKADI'ATfcS of Trinity College. Dublin. ivho were prisoners in Malaya daring the Japanese occupation, have established a medical scholarship at Trinity College and Dublin's Kotunde Hospital, available to a Mala van each year for five years, in recognition of help given bv Malayan students to the donors durine
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      SOCIAL & DANCE
      24 5 SOCIAL DANCE THE PUman S..o:thand Wi Aa hold its first social and dance at the St. Andrew's School Hall, Woodsvule, tonight at 8 o'clock.
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      TERRITORIAL WATERS BILL
      103 5 r TX) meet th e situation which A arose following a recent Singapore Court of Appeal judgment that Singapore Courts had no jurisdiction over the Colony's territorial wa the Government is to introduce amending legislation at j the next Legislative Council meeting. A Gazette notification last night
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      COLONY MAKES BOTTLES
      47 5 SINGAPORE'S first modern glass company has started the manufacture of glass bottles and it is expected to be in full production in about six weeks' time. The company is the Singapore Glass Manufacturing Company, which is a subsidiary of Australian Consolidated Industries of Australia.
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      SHIP FOR INDIA
      37 5 The Shirala, bound for Madras, Negapatam and Calcutta, is due in Port Swettenham on Sept. 14. Deck tickets will be sold at Boustead and Co.. Ltd., Port Swettenham on Sept. 9, 10 and 11.
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      TIMBER PRICES 'MUST BE CUT'
      333 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHERE are 18 sawmills working in Singapore at the A moment, and the industry is reported to be healthier than it was in January this year. The Forest Officer, Singapore, (Mr. C. O. Flemmich) says that the accepted reduction in wages,
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      144 flying hours in a month
      212 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ■fHE Royal Singapore Flying Club has done a total of 443 hours since the war and members expect to reach their target of a 1,000 hours of flying for this year. Mr. C. A. Le Mesurier, Chief Flying Instructor of
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      ART DISPLAY BY SCHOOLS
      60 5 MORE than 700 pictures by Singapore school children and art students will be shown at the seventh interschool art exhibition in the British Council Hall. Stamford Road, from Sept. 13 to 18. The Commissioner-General. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. will open the display of oil paintings, water colours,
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      ROTARY CLINIC FOR T.R. CASES
      66 5 THE Colonial Secretary (Mr. P. A. B. McKerron), cut the first turf of the new Singapore Rotary T.B. Clinic in the grounds of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Moulmein 1 Road, Singapore, yesterday evening. Mr. McKerron, who is President of the Board of i Management
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      YOUTHS JAILED FOR ARMS
      209 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA Ll Ml'l K, Friday. IN view of the situation in the country, Mr. Justice A Spencer Wilkinson, at the Selangor Assizes today, refused to send two Chinese Youths to a W Home after he had found them guilty on a charge
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      TERRORIST CAMP DESTROYED
      104 5 TERRORIST CAMP DESTROYED c Press Special Correspondent JOHORE. Friday. IN an attack on a suspected terrorist concentration near Kluang. Johore, Army forces today destroyed a number of large huts. The camp was deserted. In one of the huts was a large store of ammunition. Cooking fires were still hot when
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    SATURDAY SPORTS PARADE
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    PITY THE POOR BOWLER
    926 6  - PITY THE POOR BO WLER ALEC BEDSER By I ET'S have a look at k some present-day bowling problems. Well, first of all, I'm a medium fast bowler, slower than Lindwall or Larwood, but faster in Toshack. If you bowl slow you u>.iuli> rely upon spin I flight; if you
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    47 6 Bruce Woodcock, British heaiy weight champion, (seen her > taking the mil count after being knocked out by Joe Baksi last year-the fight in which Woodcock had his aw broken) is to make a come-back on Sept. 21 when he fights an American Lee Oma over eight rounds.
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    IT WAS ALL A FAKE
    264 6 4 CROWD at a fair near (Yorkshire), threatened to tear the booth down when they believed pepper had been used by a wrestler to blind his opponent. They demanded their money back and became so incensed that police had to be called It all began
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    Slave market in soccer
    640 6 By A Special Correspondent T WANT to tell you 1 about f o o t b a 1 Ts human blood-stock market. Have you ever seen cattle auctioned? The animal, having been certified as sound in wind and limb," is sold to the highest bidder. In
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    TITLE RETAINED FOR 7TH YEAR
    71 6 M H^ Osborne Du•U and Miss Louise Br u Sh. of states the US. Women's I tlonal Doubles Title for the seven tl-. bv defeating their compatriots Miss i ris Hart and v a t: S Todd 6-4 8-10 6-1.;:. al at Longwood Cri üb.
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    CRICKET CLERK
    106 6 A M >h crick F" like developing, er is news t< Roland Thompson. 10-\ old of Binl- :a;sr bowler, so impressed Warwick- I shire in his first year 1:. cricket that th<y have already played him thre e times in the.r club and ground team, and once In
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      50 6 jAAJNt Rxclnnivo fo *-»'tit«oj»o#v. Pr*pss in Mnlnvn Eric s "Newest Look K'' VE never felt so^i /cur out the e*Treme\ \P J Ef///j|i^ dsess show is 2. Moo humiliated in my styles, jane. 1 try UHEY ve gone!) f /////S^ Ha Vv L,FE/ FRITZ #EM Wllh ONE 0F E r^liis^
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  • SPORTS..
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      LITTLE NED TO WIN BIG RACE TO DAY
      749 7 Lucky Three and Snaps best From EPSOM JEEP DARON is a doubtful starter in the chief six- furlong sprint race at Kuala Lumpur today, final day of the Selangor Turf Club's Aug. -Sept. meeting, and this may be taken as a pointer
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      Selections by "Call Boy'
      68 7 {^ELECTIONS hy Call Boy for today's K.L. races nc: Race 1: LUCKY THREE Br one I- lash Race 2: AiRI'AL Bright Eyes Ham br ion Race 3: BLACKPOOL ?naps Chapter Race 4: LITTLE NED Some Class Race 5: FLECrROPLATE Courtcnay Mac Scott Race 6: PCIRFIE KNIGHT
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      U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES FOR TODAY
      286 7 U.K. SOCCER FIXTURES FOR TODAY |X)LLOWING are U.K. foot- ball fixtures for today: ru>r division A»W>n V. v Derby Co. Burnley a Newcastle i Charlton A. V Manchester C. Chelsea t Bolton W. Evert** Birmingham C. Manchester a Bnddersfleld T. Preston N I v Middlesbrough >hefn>ld I a Arsenal Stoke
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      SELETAR HAVE THE BEST SWIMMERS
      488 7  -  MALCOLM USHER By SERVICE sport took on a new role at R.A.F. Seletar this week when the R.A.F. swimming team championships were held for the first time in Malaya. This competition, I understand, will in future be organised on an annual basis. Honour of being
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      Solomons is hopeful
      72 7 MR. Marshall Miles, manager of Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion, has replied to London promote* Jack Solomons' cable offering Louis a fight against Bruce Woodcock. Miles says: "Have made no change in Louis' retirement. If there is any I will contact you after the Oma vs. Woodcock
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      ATHLETES WERE TOO GOOD
      123 7 BY lur Uie superior t<-am. the Chinese Athletes convincingly beat the Malay PA. when they met in an S.A.F.A. second division socc r match played at Geylang lium yesterday. The CA. team dominated the game soon after it started. Playing a confident game they gained a
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      Von Nida scores great victory
      216 7 Von Nida scores great victory NORMAN Von Nida, the brilliant Australian pro- j fessional, scored one of the greatest successes of his spectacular golfing career in storms of rain, thunder and lightning at Royal Mid- Surrey, Richmond, yester- day. He twite went round the 6,405 yards Parkland course, rated at
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      McKenley, Wint set new times
      127 7 HEREBERT McKENLEY of Jamaica, bettered the world record of 33.2 sec. for the 300 metres when he covered the distance at Stockholm yesterday in 32.4 sec. McKenley was running in the international contest at Stockholm Stadium, in which competitors from Jamaica, the United States, France
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      28 7 The last of "he 6.000 overseas Olympic athletes leave Londem for home today when the Indian contingent, numbering about 50. make 'heir departure. They sail from Liverpool. Reuter
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      Roy Bain makes a comeback
      274 7 GOOD goalkeeping by both goalkeepers, Roy Bain for the S.R.C. and Aitken for the S.C.C, was a feature of the first division league game between the Padang Clubs at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. The Recs won three-one. It was Roy Bain's first competitive game for
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      S'pore track is very hard
      247 7  -  CALL BOY m ALL during the ten day/, the hard. Oone-ciy trai Kuai.v Lumpur has been caust. g concern among trainers, and now it app likely that they frill t with the same problem v. they travel doun to pore this week .v d to
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      HUTTON 107 N.O.
      38 7 r!E M.C.C. and Yorkshire match at Scarborough ended in a draw yesterday, rain again greatly restricting i play. Scores: M.C.C. 444 for 5 declared. Yorkshire 175 for 1 (Len Hut- ton not out 107) Reuter
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      'Train schoolboys for Helsinki'
      539 7  -  Forward S.H.A. PRUDENT SAYS' By IF Singapore is planning to send a hockey team to 1 the 1952 World Olympics in Helsinki promising players among the schools must be taken in hand and trained now. Mr. G. E. N. Oehlers, president, the Singapore Hockey /\ssn., said
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      276 7 FIRFAT WRESTLING!! H" lfcfl THRILLS TO-NIGHT at 9p.m. INCE AGAIN SUPERB MATCH-MAKING GUARANTEES ANOTHER TERRIFIC SHOW. BIG MATCH NO. 1 ~ZT .AMBONG^J F nrse champion of Bangkok. Pride of -%%%%-Wf Chinese. Gained World wide fame for £y his perfect physkine. I VERSUS Ml RIZA BEY Pf* l^ H^ wt t
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      250 7 F.P. Crossword No. 4ft 0 I y-.\2 |3 |4 I J5 I- 0 l^ jo 7X ■mamaaaiJmmmA y-aaaaa, F^j—ir'^ 14 if---— ■i I aaaamm >■■)■»■ i .■■Vi «,iml Ml'il' -«m j j >^^__. 20 a u] "~T3 T^r- iiiiiiii nu in 1 i«i ni ii mi W '23 24 25
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      BIRTHS
      44 8 KERR-PETERSON— At Bungsar Hospital. Kuala Lumpur on 3rd September 1948 to Jean, wife of R A Kerr-Peterson a daugher. JACKSON: At the Penang Maternity Hospital on Sept. 3, 1948. to Charms, wife of P. H. D. Jack •on (Offlcer-in-Charge. CID Penan a son.
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      ENGAGEMENT
      43 8 SONG-LTM. The engagement Is announced between Song Chin Lock. th« youngest son of Madam Lai Ah Mai and the late Mr. Bong Kee Poh. and Miss Lim Kit Pong, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lim Swee Kee of Dalat, Sarawak
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      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
      58 8 Miss B. Yselman sincerely thanks all relatives and friends who sent wreaths and attended the funeral of the late Mrs. O. Odd:e a Mrs. Yeo Wah Hin family sincerely thank their friends relatives for wreaths, senglays. etc sent, the loan of their cars lorries, and kind attendance at the
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      MUST RESTORE SECURITY NEWBOULT
      379 8 OA G replies to critics Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. THERE is going to be a much more difficult proposition to face than what has been mentioned here in council and it requires the full support and determination of us all that, come what
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      'China would welcome him'
      81 8 MUNICH, Friday. COL-GEN. Alexander von Falkenhausen, German wartime commander in Belgium now held at Liege for trial on charges of war crimes, will be welcome in China at any time, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's secretary, Mr. Shih Lo, said here today. Gen. Falkenhausen, who was military adviser
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      STRIKETIES UP 120 U.S. SHIPS
      131 8 STRIKETIES UP 120 U.S. SHIPS SAN FRANCISCO, Friday. EXPLAINING the collapse ol the negotiations over wages, which have led to the walk-out of 12,000 dock workers, and 16,000 seamen, Mr. Harry Bridges, leader of the longshoremen said: crawled on my hands and my knees and all I got was a
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      Tamil congress moves
      31 8 The Ceylon Tamil Congress group in *he House of R lives has joim-d forces with their f_>rmei enemies the United National Parts U.P. [which ii now in power.
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      Nation grieves for Benes
      181 8 Nation grieves for Benes PRAGUE, Friday. EX PRESIDENT Edu a r d Benes, who fought a lifetime to keep Czechoslovakia free, died today, a disheartened man. Twice President of a nation racked by two Great Wars, Dr. Benes, died in a coma in his country home at Sezimovo Usti. He
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      'Hyderabad has right to appeal to UNO'
      130 8 'Hyderabad has right to appeal to UNO' LONDON, rriday. THE Foreign Secretary of Hyderabad State. Mr Zahir Ahmed in an official statement in London to:. on behalf of his Government said that Hydt rabad's appeal to the United Nations 8 urity Ccu;.cil could not be taken m breach of her
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      Nehru's pledge on currency
      68 8 NEW DELHI, Friday. THE Indian Premier, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, today assured Parliament that the Government was not planning to tamper with currency in the battle against inflation. Denying rumours, he said, "There is no question of refusing the full value of currency notes nor of devaluating
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      Indian reserve hank
      27 8 The Indian Parliament \isUrday passed a bill 10 '-.a ?nahs* \he Reserve Bank of India. It may come into cJloct on Jan l. Reuter
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      Greeks battle with Albanians
      249 8 Greeks battle with A lban ians BELGRADE, Friday. ALBANIA alleged in a cable to the United Nations today that three battalions of 'Greek troops marched in battle order into Albania yesterday and were engaged in a six-hour battle with Albanian forces. They crossed the frontier near Pogona, armed with small
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      LONGER HOURS HINT IN U.K.
      156 8 LONGER HOURS HINT IN U.K. LONDON, Friday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Staflord Cripps, In a statement today urging closer managem ntworker- co-operation to increase production, hL.ted at the possibility of increased hours of work if other methods failc-4. Production was higher than beiore the war. tit said, but
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      PRICES ARE IRREGULAR
      416 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Friday. THE London Stock Exchange was practically devoid of colour today, says Reuter's financial correspondent. The approach of the week-end restrained business to very small proportions and. price movements were slightly irregular. In the industrial section, store and motor shares were better. Tobaccos
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      B-29 lost in UK mock battle
      263 8 LONDON, Friday. fHE crew of a T.S. B-29 Superfortress, forced by engine trouble to bail out over Holland today, added a grim touch of reality to the start of a fourday mock air battle of Britain. The aircraft, abandoned over the Scheldt Estuary, crashed
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      U.S. war games in the Med.
      104 8 AS the U.S. Navy's Sixth Task Force yesterday began two weeks of training exercises in the Mediterrane- an, it was annoiinced in Washington that a new task force will be sent soon to replace the 14 warships now in the Mediterranean. The new group
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      A FILLIP FOR U.K. TRADE?
      89 8 The oi'.don Star has suggested that the Duke of Edin- burgh should be "Pep Leader" to spur Britain's prockn 1 drive. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said that both Prince Albert and the present King, when Duke of York, 1 encouraged greater Industrial production an r1
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      Rubber prices
      164 8 4 BPBCIAL Markel lorrespondinl Rives the prices of rubber (In cetV.s pei lb.) at 11 a.m. today aa follow v Buvers. Scller> No. 1 KSS Spot. loose 45"Si 45 S f.o.b. in bales Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 45 H 455. No. 2 US 42»* I No. 3 R.S.S.
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      A CROWN JEWEL BEING RETURNED
      146 8 TOKIO. Friday. A CROWN jewel worth U.5.525,000, given to the Japanese Government during the war in order to secure better treatment for two interned East Indies Sultans, was today j formally returned to the Netherlands Government. Brig. -Gen. Patrick lanscy of the Allied Bead martyrs,
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      DEATH FOR CHINESE CURRENCY FRAUD
      53 8 THE special Shsj .^>- trict Court yesterday impose a the first ck under the Ml tmergency regulations on Wong Chungtseh for blackmarket economic transactions. Wong was engaged In secret, rad'o transactions in currency with South Ch!..a and Hong Kong. Another man was sentenced to five
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      566 8 THE MOTOR VEHICLES (COMMERCIAL USE) REGUIi^ NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A HAULAGE to TAKE NOTICE 'hat I. Ee Kim Ku. oi No 21&4 -pat, Alor Gajah. Malacca, by occupation a rubber detw^sß reiailer and sundry goods shopkeeper r mfM Commissioner of Road Transport Federation of Malays k l mit to
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      11 1 Singapore Air Day FREE PRESS SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1948.
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      S'PORE IS A WORLD AIR POINT
      15 1 S'PORE IS A WORLD AIR POINT that linked Australia, i and England in July, 1938.
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      Route Pioneers
      814 1 ry of air transport in South East Asia an with a number of experimental flights, from England and Australia, in the 1920'5. \t. made a reconnaissance of the route n India and Australia during 1918-19. liu tra- orfend a d who sue- j by Lt K 1919 for
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      IMPORTANT
      54 1 THK follow in. -norn a comparison betv»rrn 'he passenger and fr« f Kallang Airpon f.«r thf (irst -it months it wmt \t,d n,e flrat six months of Jun--Dec. Passenger* arrived Pa->; mmjtam drpartrd 1,r,52 1 Mails m ominf 98 27S 1 5T.Q85 Mails ilbs.) ougoing M.m Z« Freight (lbs.)
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      SEE FOR YOURSELVES
      97 1 AIR travel has become so much a part of] our normal lives that we tend to overlook the amount of organization and work which makes it possible. Some aspects of that organization and work will be evident at Kallang today. The airport itself took six years to
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      CRUCIAL FAR EAST SECTOR
      655 1  -  THE crucial sector in any route between Euiope and the Far East Is that between Cairo and Karachi. Imperial Airways beean their Empire route-building task on this sector, ln collaboration with 'he Air Ministry, in 1925. A lot of painstaking research, especially Into the operation of
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        209 1 TWE PKOPKIKiOKS OF > —j&sst~— 'OVALTINE* fc- hundreds of letters from ~~^^i«^S^— v many of the world's T\ i C~~ athletes, i flying men and raclnu ists. volunta > to the supreme value of 'Ovaltine' as a source 1 1 endurance. At the last three Olympic Games- 1932: Berlin. 1936
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        277 1 FULL PROGRAMME OF EVENTS T»HE following is a list of ride flights. This aircraft will circle the alr- times and events for this! 2.18 K.L.M. Dakota ending port and fly past prior to landing, afternoon's Air Day. Entrance and positioning for joy ride flights. 3.50 Item by Roval Singapore $1:
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      Regional Air Development
      563 2 The first two territories within the region to be linked by regular "internal" services were Japan and Manchuria with the opening of a Japanese service to Dairen in 1929. KNILM opened local services in the NEI in 1928-9 and ran services up to Singapore from Batavia in
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      Changi may change Eastern travel
      1133 2 THE development of Changi may chai. picture of air travel in the East substantially, but in all probability only by way of intensification. The mi features of the picture l not likely to be radically altered But British, or Commonwealth, aviation ls likely be the
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        71 2 SPORTS AND GAMES FRESH STOCKS ARRIV** Hotspur Rugby *f Hotspur Runni Springbo* R .^,by B Jf Ruftby Stock ii Rugby Je Chinese Official B RATES COMPETITIVE Special Concession to Clubs and Forces ROSE CO., LTD 86. NORTH BRIDGE ROAU PHONt 6396 SINGAPORE SIAMESE AIRWAYS SINGAPORE BANGKOK HOKGKOXG Intermediate SINGORA PHUKET
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      Making Flying Safer
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      'Bump 'searchers
      398 3 EVERY other day, i Cranfield airfield, near Bedford. England, a British European Airways Mosquito takes off in search of the air-pockets wnich threaten to hold ud the world's Dlans for high soeed travel. The "bump"' has now b come a major threat to orogress in this direction anc:
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      UK's AIR POSTWAR PATTERN
      307 3 UK's AIR POSTWAR PATTERN VLTITH three flying- boat and three landplane services a week between England and Australia, the main outlines of the postwar pattern of British air communications with the Far East were laid down. In place of the Lancastrians as passenger carriers have come in the Q.E.A. Constellations,
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      Dutch began 18 years ago
      99 3 THE Dutch opened mail services to the NEI in 1930 and developed the passenger side of the business by the purchase of Douglas aircraft from America during 1936 and 37. Between October 1P37 end the outbreak of war. KLM, like Imperial Airways were operating three
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        102 3 In the British Empire MORE MOTORISTS USE than any other OIL CMI ■mmmaaaam^maaaY ill I km MaE^mM I] M mm* DUNLOP build the best tyre for every purpose TH» OLS^Of RUBIES CO rm MAIAYA* ITD SINCAPOtI KUALA LUMPUR ammmmaarmwammmmmammmmmmaawmmmmmmmmaammammaaaaaammmmmmmaammammmmmaaaaamaarmmmmam Many a man has good cause to regret a neglected cough
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      How Kallang Airport grew
      488 4 How Kallang A irport grew CEVENTEEN years ago, Kallang Airport, Singapore's main civil airline terminus, was a black tidal swamp in the basin formed by the confluence of the Kallang, Geylang and Rochore rivers. Nevertheless, after careful tests, it had been chosen as the site of the airport which was
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      FLYERS IN KL.
      593 4 qX) fulfil Malaya's x need of pilots in times of crisis the Kuala Lumpur Flying Club has, over the last few months, accelerated training and now has 34 fully trained "A" licence pilots. Twelve people of all nationalities an» at present under training and the waiting list
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      S'pore's Club
      410 4 THE Singapore Fly-' ing Club (as it was then called was founded in 1928 at a site near to the Royal Singapore Yacht Club, under the Pn dency of Mr. F. G. Lundon who still holds i that title. There being no aerodrome in Singapore at the time,
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      ENTHUSIASTS OF PENANG
      350 4 THE Penang Flying Club was formed by a small band of enthusiasts early in 1934 and three De Havilland Gipsy Major aircraft were ordered from the makers in February. Flying instruction commenced on May 16, the first President of the Club being the Honourable Mr. E. Newbold,
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