The Singapore Free Press, 9 September 1948
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Title Section18 1948-09-09 1 The DSingapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ,gf,mf,mr SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948. PRUT" 10 CfcNl*18 words
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Article, Illustration294 1948-09-09 1 Giant anti-Red move in Berlin 1^ w approach > Kremlin BERLIN, Wednesday. ASk iden oi anti-Communist parties m Berlin A jm: a\ a giant demonstiation for this aftero m the heart of the city it was reported from that the three Western envoys would urn appr >;uh, probably direct to294 words
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44 1948-09-09 1 Free l pondent ABRI 15 mflts terttaj r le t&froc r AMR bandtti icked F Bucgtf .•."•e m JdtMOn hamm, ng shed and the iv XnJ Bidor. Perak, and pollct fcfr 1 13 men. but two If! If44 words
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Article51 1948-09-09 1 JH BANGKOK. T:. feAJIQ- :1~ may jr visited -DStaf md Penang ca»e m i to JacJc -P the m hiM city Art* a-.t to M^la.a thema Prtr»t« garbage SSJ*. M pro«W t pal garvould to empty the cans ■«t PIMU was also much fBWB^ treet Uvhta AAP - 51 words
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Article12 1948-09-09 1 ■m spy hungers ->na on M«rs m H:::y -ptonage.12 words
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Article90 1948-09-09 1 Muar feels better now MUAR. Thursday. MUAR has been angry with General Percival since the publication of his despatches on the Malayan campaign m which he referred to the first bombing of Muar In January. 1942. as being followed by an exodus of the town's Inhabitants. Muar resented the slur90 words
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Article116 1948-09-09 1 JAPS WANT AGENT IN SINGAPORE Free Press Correspondent TOKIO. Wednesday. rE Japanese Government Is anxious to appoint a trade agent to Singapore and the Federation of Malaya. The appointment would be one of a number the Japanese Board of Trade wishes to make to prepare for an increase m Japanese116 words
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Article46 1948-09-09 1 PRESIDENT Quirino last night cautioned foreign correspondents m Manila against accepting "too literally" local press repous 'which may reflect against the Government Internationally." In recent weeks the President has asked local newspaper and editors to "play down" the Hukbalahap armed peasant disturbances46 words
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Article214 1948-09-09 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. A NEW Burmese Cabinet is expected to emerge m the next few days from meetings of Parliament behind the heavily barricaded walls of the Secretariat building m Rangoon, sources close to the Government said today. Among its immediate problems will be appeasement of the214 words
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Article107 1948-09-09 1 A PARTY of Malayan, Nigerian and Gold Coast journalists has arrived m England for training as part of a scheme to develop newspap m the colonies, Mr. J. Fletch-er-Cooke told the United Nations Special Committee on Non Self-Governing Territories m Gen va yesterday He saidReuter - 107 words
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Article41 1948-09-09 1 NINE Chinese were arrested by the C ID -m Singapore yesterday. Seven were held under the Emergency Regulations and two for being members of unlawful secret societies. The total of emergency detainees m Singapore this morning was 269.41 words
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Article36 1948-09-09 1 SIX traffic accidents were reported m Singapore yesterday the lowest day's total for a long time. In them only two people were slightly injured: a European cyclist. Mr. Pragar. and a Chinese cyclist.36 words
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Article23 1948-09-09 1 The United States Pacific Coast waterfront strike will not affect American President Lines ships calling at Singapore, It is officially stated.23 words
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Article23 1948-09-09 1 Mrs. Malan. wi.'e of South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister, has adopted one of .83 German orphans who arrived m Capetown yesterday.23 words
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Article76 1948-09-09 1 WASHINGTON Thursday THE United States told Rus- sla yesterday :hat unless Moscow had new proposals to make on the Droblem of the Italian Colonies it would be useless to hold further fourpower talks on the subject. While expressing the view that it, would be bett.er76 words
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Article53 1948-09-09 1 ri UN-CARRYING Communist vf workers and police yesterday guarded the Benes state funeral to put down any antiCommunist demonstrations among the hundreds of thousands who flocked to the funeral. The Premier, Mr. Zapotocky, said: "Benes 1 acts built his monument In thp hearts of ourUP - 53 words
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Article127 1948-09-09 1 Free Press orrespondent BANGKOK, Wednesday. rE Indonesian Republican Finance Minister, Dr. A. A. Maramis, who is alleged by the Dutch to be the chief figure m the sale of opium abroad by Republican authorities, left Bangkok by air yesterday for the United States. In America,127 words
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Article80 1948-09-09 1 TWO taxi drivers, a Malay and a Chinese, were held up m Clementi Road at 11.15 p.m. yesterday by two men, believed to b€ Ceylonese military personnel, who relieved them of a total of $76.40 m cash and valuables. The drivers were m their own80 words
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Article40 1948-09-09 1 Nineteen passengers were burned to death yesterday and 12 seriously injured, when a bus. out of control, crashed into a canyon en route from Madrid for a fiesta at a nearby Spansh village.— U PUP - 40 words
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Article78 1948-09-09 1 A SPOKESMAN for General Douglas Mac Arthur yesterday accused Russia of j using half a million Japanese prisoners of war as slave labourers to increase the Soviet military potential General Mac Arthur had sent a "sharply worded letter" dated September 3 to Lieutenant-General Kusma N. Derevyanko.UP - 78 words
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Article117 1948-09-09 1 MacMahon Ball MELBOURNE, Wednesday. ]ljR. W. MacMahon Ball, former Australian ITI representative m Japan, says that Australia should send urgently-needed technical and professional men to independent nationalist governments m South-East Asia. Addressing a dinner of the Junior Chamber of Commerce here, Mr. Ball said AustraliaAP - 117 words
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Article183 1948-09-09 1 Move to cut food prices Free Press Staff Reporter rpHE appointment of an advisory panel to the Food Controller of the Colony on the supply and demand of fresh fruit and vegetables will be discussed at a meeting today of Food Control officials and importers. One of the panel's functions183 words
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Article30 1948-09-09 1 The American-operated newspaper "Tientsin Evening Journal" ha& been suspended for three days as punishment for a misleading report which amount* to "exaggeration of Conv^unist bandit influence", *t*te« ReuterReuter - 30 words
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Article, Illustration308 1948-09-09 1 Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday. ADMINISTRATIVE control of first class magistrates m the Federation has been removed from the Executive and placed m the hands of the head of the Judiciary. The Chief Justice, Sir Harold Willan, disclosed this today when308 words
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103 1948-09-09 1 LONDON, Wednesday. CPEAKING at the TIC annual conference at Margate (Kent) today, Mr Arthur Deakin, British p^evident of the World Federation of Trade Unions, declared that the Federation rapidly becoming a tool of Soviet policy. Hitting back at left-wing delegates to the T.U.C.Reuter - 103 words
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40 1948-09-09 1 Rita Hayvorth. the film actress, yesterday denied report* that she plans to marry Prince AH Khan, son of the Aga Khaii Her divorce from the film actor Orson Welles will become final m November.40 words
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Article24 1948-09-09 1 Israeli military police yesterday arrested 15 members of the Stem gang m a raid on a camp near Tel Arir.24 words
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Article105 1948-09-09 1 THE Singapore Harbour Board Staff Association Is asking the Board to set up a Conciliation Board m connection with the revision jf salaries. The Board will also oe asked to allow the Association to nominate a candidate (or the post of Personnel anol Welfare Manager, which will105 words
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Article688 1948-09-09 2 A MALAYAN BOOKSHELF IT really is about time someone produced a good life of Sir Stamford Raffles: a biography that is readable, well-balance-ed and historically Bound. Bernard Shaw once remarked that "The English do not deserve to have great men," and this neglect of one of the most688 words
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Article218 1948-09-09 2 New books at Raffles Library THE following new books will be added to Raffles Library. Singapore, within the next; few days Bu:-; v Miracles and II Bt-mard Acworth*. Robert Helpmann (Gordon AniVmy), s of the Sadler Ballet Compu:./ G rdon Anb DrauCT^'s I ael Ayrton). Ballot D.'si^n 'Cyril W. Beaumont).218 words
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Article183 1948-09-09 2 PAVILION OF WOMEN is foils, are woven into a story t *v* mnc which embraces a great one of the most deeply yariety Qf human exper f ence meditated of Pearl Buck's and is told with all the aunovels. In it she returns to183 words
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Article387 1948-09-09 2 IN the dial described yeoU?rday, the spade situation WU almost the same as m today I hand. The difference WU that South held three ipadl ten. and lost h s contract hy ag the ten to the first spado trick. \V» st held a blank Ja» h that387 words
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Article179 1948-09-09 2 FEW will challenge Geoffrey Gorer when he asserts m The Americans: A Study of National Character, that "the future peace and prosperity of the world depends on th£ mutual understanding and fruitful collaboration of the English and American peoples and governments, and that such understanding and collaboration are179 words
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Article254 1948-09-09 2 BOKN today, your keenest interests li c m the fine art>, paiticularly literature m all its forms. You have an imaginative, intuitive, and alert mind which is able to look at the commonplace and see something new and interesting. You know how to dramatize life and to254 words
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Article113 1948-09-09 2 it were a fatherauthoritarian, wicked, past its prime, old-fashioned, passed and left behind, but still a father AND what of the British Empire? Says Mr. Gorer: few Americans have any doubt as to how the British Empire is run; it is run completely despotically and autocratically, the113 words
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Article22 1948-09-09 2 SHE HAD SCRUPLE )rc al ro T po lOt eg ur T oei m km the ta im N Ur sp vei22 words
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Advertisement140 1948-09-09 2 REX SA'. ft MNITE! r\VT SATURDAY AT MNITE a v *«o*ic A a CAPITOL MALAYAN LANDSCAPE CALENDAR Kelly Walah Ltd of Raffles Singapore. will so publish an illustrated calendar, the Malayan Landscape Calendar, will contain thir* photographs by Dr C GibsonS depictina: various Malayan scene r this should form fir^t140 words
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Advertisement99 1948-09-09 2 ffawß !*> boat \rr u avim' c^wn ?jS \l £X ®€hv **£> mi Jy*\ s o'"^^ A^J Immediate Delivery FORDSON 5 and 10 CWT. VANS J FORDSON CWT "jSfe^^fc^iiYfi' ni Load space v^Jß^^^^^^^^H 65 Cubic feet >*' a^v aHI i r« The Fordson (5 cwt Cr 10 cwt Van looks99 words
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Miscellaneous474 1948-09-09 2 tdfmtfmc SINGAPORE tit nn Graham Gibbs; ti 30 from 12 00 noon to Z 00 pan J 485 metre, ta the medium wave tU W rld3 W Musi< band and 720 megacycles In p a br el Faur. 7 RaU:o A. 'V TS baDd S>"S£r2 from 600 pm. to 145474 words
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Miscellaneous42 1948-09-09 2 80< World and Home News; 8 05 H-ard .V dlea are Sweet; 8.45 The Masqueraders; 9 00 The Radio SEAC Show; 930 Radio Newsrrel; 945 SEAC Theatre; 10.45 Chorale; 11 00 Make Believe; 1130 World News from London; 11 40 Programme Announcement*42 words
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Article, Illustration322 1948-09-09 3 SOVIET ROCKET PROJECTILES ADVANCED Germans aid jet production 'BOOST' TALKS Sixty urions will be represented at a "boost-production" conference to be called m Sydney by *he Australian Premier Mr. Joseph B. Chifley on October 16. THE Russians are making rapid strides m jet-craft x designs with the help of GermanUP - 322 words
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Article, Illustration74 1948-09-09 3 \TE. (England), Wednesday. L ting Britain's 8,000,000 trade overwhelmingly rejected a uld urge the Government to .^asures to nationalise the Reuter Miss Lettice Curtis, 33-year-old British Government test t of Devonshire m the of the Spitfire XI which she set up a new women's record forReuter - 74 words
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Article77 1948-09-09 3 IN COLONIES SPEAKINO m the United Nations 16-nation Committee on Non-Self-Govern-ing Territories. Mr. B. Shiva Rao. India, praised the British T.U.C. for Ul help and advice m building up the trade union movement m India and said he would commend the British attitude to other colonial powers MrReuter - 77 words
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Article73 1948-09-09 3 AFTER a man hunt "almost unprecedented m China's criminal investigation history" fcur persons have been arrested m connection with the Finance Ministry "scandal" on August, 19 m which a secretary is reported to have made a "fortune" on advance knowledge of currency reform plans. Ten high Governni-nt73 words
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Article, Illustration27 1948-09-09 3 British officials have told the Economic Co-operation Admin stratlon that Britain opposes the idia of curtailing the removal of reparations plants from Western Germany.27 words
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Article209 1948-09-09 3 A SPOKESMAN for Lieut. -Gen. Derevyankc, who returned to Japan last week after an absence of 13 months to resume his- post as Soviet member en the Allied Council, on Tuesday attacked Gen. j Mac Arthur's labour policy prohibiting strikes and collective bargaining among GovernmentReuter - 209 words
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Article28 1948-09-09 3 Foreigners are not expected to be affected by Chinas new travel regulations requir ing all persons going to Hong Kong first to obtain written permission.28 words
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Article75 1948-09-09 3 HOSTILE booing was drowned m a storm of applause Ms Edward J. Volz, ■A delegate from the riean Federation of Labour, addressed the Trades Congress. The interruptions came as z told the conference no trade union moveat ruled by Communists ing else but try abotage75 words
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Article33 1948-09-09 3 - Two Italian prisoners cf •ar just returned from Russ a brought back a list of three thousand names of their Tenors still r<eld ir Soviet camps. Rome newsDa pers report.33 words
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Article280 1948-09-09 3 MANY "ordinary citizens' are so dishonest they make professional criminals look like amateurs, says Professor Joseph Lohman of Chic:. University. Lohman cites survey figurto to show that amateur lawbreakers carry off more loot every year than all of the na- turn's professional thieves. "Deep down everybodyUP - 280 words
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Article126 1948-09-09 3 OVER 3,000 Communists were killed m the first major clash of the new Government counter-offensive m North Kiangsu. The battle took place along the highway linking Shuyuan, about 90 miles east of the East China headquarters at Hsuchow, with the Lunghai railway and ended m the126 words
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Article33 1948-09-09 3 'JAL AZAD The first Indian passenger boat, "Jal Azad,' r which graved m London last month, will leave for Bombay on Sept. 25 with 100 British md Indian passengen» it was karned today.33 words
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257 1948-09-09 3 Korean problem THE United States is looking to the forthcoming session of the United Nations' General Assembly m Paris to solve the main American problem m Korea how to get out without losing face, says the UP. correspondent m Seoul. The correspondent adds:257 words
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Article100 1948-09-09 3 ORINCE Baudouin, son and heir of King Leopold of the Belgians, reached his constitutional majority yesterday as the three-year-old monachical controversy dragged on without sign of solution. The young Prince celebrated his 18th birthday quietly at his father's villa near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Only a100 words
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Article, Illustration107 1948-09-09 3 Communist demonstra tions m Berlin are becoming more serious. Right: A German Police cordon m Potsdamer Platz near the British sector of the city during a recent demonstration. In the background crowds are assembling for a Communist organised protest meeting. Many of the demonstrators had come107 words
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Article82 1948-09-09 3 RESQUER TOWS BOY WITH HIS TEETH Robert Campbell, a year-old Glasgow life-savin? Instructor, swam a mil? and caught a rubber dinchv on which 14-year-old James Johns* on was being blown out to sea at St. Andrev Campbell took the ain&hv's tow rope m his teeth and brought Johnston n arAP - 82 words
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Advertisement82 1948-09-09 3 V-7/- ir HAGEMEYER TRADING CO. MALAYA LTD. SINGAPORE .KUALA LUMPUR PEN ANG fOil rOI/Jt RELAXATION, COME TO:THE TAVERN •Titppan Residential Hotel) (Open To Nun Resident^ CLOSE TO THE BOTANICAL GARDEN (Natural Cool Breeze) AIRT I.LXI lilOlSLl FURNISHED ROOMS A Sto-k OnK FIRST CLASS LIQUORS MEALS |fl AC Hours Up To82 words
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Miscellaneous41 1948-09-09 3 TARZAN Chief issues Order /?> Edgnr Rice Burroughs A] /y jßh J" 'WHAT SEEK YE IN THE "1 f~ ***** I *YE ARE UNDER THE HAND OP TTi^^^p^ W*; >^S lANO Of THE^ HCS« HER, ||P W^S^S SUTEN. KiN<3 OP THE HESI-HES.*41 words
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Article712 1948-09-09 4 TEN million pounds is not the sum it was. but as a j contribution to Malaya's war damage compensation scheme from an impoverished British Treasury it Ls not to be despised. Yet it is viewed with veryjaundiced eves, and not only by the representatives of the tin and712 words
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Article, Illustration881 1948-09-09 4 ALEXANDER CLIFFORD - ALEXANDER CLIFFORD by BERLIN. THIS is the time to remember Sudetenland and Memel and Czechoslovakia and all the other places where Democracy has been bamboozled and sabotaged and defeated. For it is happening again here and now m Berlin under the very noses of the881 words
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Article, Illustration493 1948-09-09 4 By JOHN HALL *T»HE Clerk of the Weather (m person) has gone for a few days' holiday m East Anglia. And at the Air Ministry's central weather forecasting station at Dunjtable <Bedfordshire > where they have been celebrating the centenary of weather reporting In Britain, the staff493 words
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Article382 1948-09-09 4 By Alan Humphreys HYDERABAD IT was a little past midnight when the orderly thumped excitedly on the bedroom door of a British colonel of the Hyderabad Army. An Indian Army force had crossed the Hyderabad frontier, the message told him, and when a party of Hyderabad troops382 words
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Article224 1948-09-09 4 pARMELO, a darfceyed Italian boy who has no arms, was brought to an eighthfloor suite of a Piccadilly hotel recently as a typical specimen of the bomb-mutilated children of Europe, hidden away m monasteries and caves so that visitors need not see them. For Carmelo Bova,224 words
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Article431 1948-09-09 4 By DOUGLASS M. ALLEN, Jr. PEIPING. THEREisaphantas- magoric atmosphere m this 3,000--year-old city today. You feel the incongruity when you see the hammer and sickle flying from the Soviet Consul's car as it arrives m the Imperial City for a state reception given by Vice-Presl-dent Li431 words
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Article484 1948-09-09 4 By the Rev. I). R. DAVIES THIRTEEN hun- died dele£;: and officers representing more than 400 churches from the Arctic Circle to the Antipodes, from Texas to Tokyo, gathered m Amsterdam last week for one of the greatest assemblies m the history of the Christian Church*. Bishops,484 words
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Article47 1948-09-09 4 U.K. drink more run less whisk DRITAIN D wax bu will be dou:. REiIOIU UV en million Rum imi five m 0:... 1 gallons 3 938 this 1 have tolc X.he\ of 1938 s will be wines t< Total last six moi j gallons 11 the same47 words
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Advertisement6 1948-09-09 4 \pc/esiULtd (tHCOIPOSATEi) M CEYLON) SINGAPORE. PiNANG6 words
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Advertisement61 1948-09-09 4 For Latest Loveliest Fabrics m LADIES' GENTS' WEA (Exclusive Range m Woollen Suitings with DISTINCTIVE TAILORING HOONDAMAU 68, North Bridge Road, ■fagapcve ptu^ *wirwv With trained Staits at offices the World, Cook's are well qua handle your air-travel They are agents for all reco&n THOS COOK 6c SON (CON TINE*61 words
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Article255 1948-09-09 5 Metal to be sent to U.K. Free Press Staff Reporter SftMoa, 15-inch gun, erected by the British c the war at Changi, is being cut up nt to England as scrap for the Ministry -apply- It is tne second gun going to the Into! Kingdom255 words
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Article40 1948-09-09 5 61 JOHORE TEACHERS PASS EXAM passed Normal Class English Plia:, Md. rjwb i Kn&hna J V. Gurnam -i-ny, Choo Chaoan d s. Qtc iro, !alid. 3. A G: I ■p VerI rej Iraac. ~\rai G Par.k.. II Vadi- L A40 words
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Article32 1948-09-09 5 From Sunday morning, the 225-metre transmitter of the Red network of the Singapore ion of Radio Malaya will be replaced by a 400-metre emitter with a frequency of 753 kilocycles.32 words
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Article237 1948-09-09 5 COMPENSATION Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wed. AN attack on the British Government for its "betrayal of Malaya" over the war damage compensation is made m a memorandum to members of both Houses of Parliament and shareholders of the Tronoh 1 group of tin237 words
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Article38 1948-09-09 5 The new Director of Education, Mr. A W. Frlsby has been apoointed to be a member of the Committee of the Raffle?; Museum and Library m place of Mr. J. B Wilson who has resigned.38 words
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Article218 1948-09-09 5 LONDON, Tuesday. THE Financial rimes, commenting on the annual A report of the London Tin Corporation, described future prospects for investors m tin mining as "good", provided terrorism m Malaya does not interfere with production to any greater degree than it has so far. The Corporation,AP - 218 words
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Article163 1948-09-09 5 AT a general committee of the People's Education Association held at Handy id on Tuesday, it was agreed that a test of the progress of all its 170 pupils should be held m November, and that further classes should be opened at Pasir Panjang. and at163 words
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Article60 1948-09-09 5 THE Indian archeologlst, Prof. K. N. Srinlvasan and Prof. Sivaramary have arrived m Jogjakarta. It is their mission to unearth and study ancient relics of the Hindu era, paying special attention to the famous ancient temple, the Borobudur. They were greeted at Maguwo airfield by Prof.60 words
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Article82 1948-09-09 5 TIPS Mr. Stanley offered i music students m Singa- pore are: Listen to concerts whenever you can, and go and hear the regular Wednesday night concerts here of the Junior Symphony Orches- 1 tra. Get a broader conception of music by reading the Oxford Companion of82 words
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Article, Illustration38 1948-09-09 5 The Sultan of Pahang (third from right m picture above) with Col. Andre, commandant of the Malay Regiment, (on the Sultan's left) watching jungle training operations (shown m the other two pictures) somewhere m the Federation.38 words
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482 1948-09-09 5 Free Press Staff Reporter /CHINESE music students were hard workers and had good brains but their ear for Western music was "not as good," Mr. John Stanley, examiner of the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music m London, said m his summing up482 words
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Article44 1948-09-09 5 gIX Chinese seamen of a disablsd motor tongk*ng, which. I had been adr f t for six days off j the coast of northern Malaya, were rescued by th« Straits Steamship vess«l Empire Passmore which arrived m Singapore yesterday from Bangkok.44 words
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196 1948-09-09 5 Chinese com market is strengthened Free Press Staff Kemirter THE Malayan and Netherlands East indies mar■- kets for Chinese textiles have been considerably strengthened against Japanese competition as a result of the pan-Malayan ban on the import if textiles from hard currency sou r ces, which m "hide Japan. A196 words
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Article117 1948-09-09 5 MALAYA'S l»o students at v-. i.mal Central I ;ly m kin? have I id tk ir monthly tivins cvt e:uh Eraa one mil old Chinese ca Ttncj seventy-five cents of iiunew. The oH all just enough to buy a p<> of mutton n T'-i^ students are waitingAP - 117 words
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Article96 1948-09-09 5 WILLIAM John Hellard. who escaped from prison Id Singapore m June last year while serving an eight sentence, was sentenced at Swansea. (Wales) yesterday to three years' penal servitude for breaking and entering. and larceny from a licensed premises. Defending counsel, for Henry Thomas, toldReuter - 96 words
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Article59 1948-09-09 5 Wee Sian Kee tbf I of Naafi grocery shoo at British Transit Camp. Nee Sooii pleaded euilt' m th? Third Police Court teiterd to criminal breach of trust of $1,660 on Sept The Magistrate llftl F 6 Oehlers* allowed oftm bail >f $2,000 m one sure'v59 words
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Advertisement78 1948-09-09 5 r /Vf > r m^ aspect the latest designs anr re^y|§*' .V vv^l\^ >^J IS on 'y tne 'owest price, the whole fW^l^S x^ \l ran 8 e extends to $9.75 for a WiMNf A'l^ .."V^f^^ 1 VV remind you that you mutt USWr^* :^^Bk see tne *e fabrics early78 words
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Article161 1948-09-09 6 LO>TDON, IT will be 1957 before all European waterways can 1 be considered free from the danger of mines laid during the war. Over half a million mints vvere laid during the war— 430.000 m North West European waters and the Mediterranean and 100.000 In161 words
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Article, Illustration585 1948-09-09 6 Million 'repats' m s—lo5 10 years SARONA, Israel. THE new state of Israel has Its own five-to-ten-year plan, and if not the most ambitious ever drafted, it is certainly well up m the runnings. It calls for the "repatriation" m that time ofNANA - 585 words
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Article22 1948-09-09 6 Australia ha* tncre.ised itl number of Government empi -i-, m the pait year by ***** to 539.000, ssys Renter.22 words
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Article, Illustration191 1948-09-09 6 RUSSIAN- trained Major-General Chiang Chingkuao, President Chiang Kai-shek's son and I economic warlord m the current battle against inflation, is something of a mystery man m China. Aged 39, Ching-kuao, has spent 12 years m Russia and he is married !to a Russian wife whom191 words
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Article76 1948-09-09 6 Four hundred Jewish Police march past the saluting base after swearing allegiance to the new State of Israel. Their leader. Sgt. Tabori, zoos m the London Victory Parade representing the Jewish section of the then Palestine Police. Below: Israel's Inspec-tor-General of Police, Yeheskiel Sahar (right), who76 words
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Article49 1948-09-09 6 their wheel chairs beneath the trees shadino the simlit lawns of Buckingham Palace, disabled ex- Servicemen watch a cricket match— part of the entertainment m the 97th Garden Party given for them by the "Not Forgotten" (uxociatfm. The men carnt from hospitals all over the C wntry49 words
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Article223 1948-09-09 6 SCIENTISTS FOR CONGO URANIUM ARE WASHINGTON. Wedi. 'THE atom-conscious House of Representatives A investigators set out today to learn why an international group of scientists have become interested In African uranium fields as a star-gazing base. Uranium Is a rare material used lor producing plutonium, which Is the of atomic223 words
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Article, Illustration22 1948-09-09 6 New currency for a new state of Israel *hows tier new Israel currency changed for the old Palestine pounds issued by Britain.22 words
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Article, Illustration65 1948-09-09 6 rO men who had killed v New Orleans detective and had sworn they would never be taken alive, meekly surrendered to Louisiana stale troops and the village Marshal recently m a couctry store near Baton Rouge. The pair, Dale Simpson, 2tf, and H. E. Miller, 23,65 words
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Article32 1948-09-09 6 South Africa oil search BRITISH I becor parly dr Alth crecy cloaks piper n anc along both H when the X was also In an American Haile i ting over a wide32 words
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Advertisement22 1948-09-09 6 REX Phone 4(M: Starts TODAY t— 4.ls— «.3#— S.lS SUCH GOINGS ON/ IT'S FIN TO WATCH WARNER BROS gf SO WHY TRY?!22 words
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Advertisement139 1948-09-09 6 PULSATING with HUMAN ZT*^ JIZTT EMOTIONS! 3SJ ZZZZ'Z" I MMIIiMIDiaiIIMMC' i I DAN OURYEA tl^ -OIOKI- ««MMer mm /'«^V "b I SS?M™ Ir^Rt of the Jorest" i^_ Starts TODAY ■MMWHWrrM At wMHiiHa^A 4.15 p.m :s° Temp. Mean* Comfort 6. 44 p.m. A Plater i For Th Intelligent An 4 Th139 words
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Miscellaneous72 1948-09-09 6 JANC Exclusir* h, th<> Sinpapnre Free Prmm* m Malaya f COSH_ f \KEEP A STIffI /l SHALL CEtVwELL, YooVe GOtV^ I/VIL HAVE A BOB^ A J DIDNT BARGAM4) UPPER LIP, ONE IF ALL JTOGd THROUGH 3r*£->^ WORTH MYSELF To FOR THIS! A THESE CHAPi WjTH IT NOWf— J&{7THs^\ SET THE72 words
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Article1020 1948-09-09 7 CALL BOY - CLASS 2 HORSES DO BEST TIMES CALL BOY By Today 's gallops at Bukit Timah TWO class two horses, Show Girl and Empire Rose, returned the best times at Bukit Timah this morning: when a number of horses entered for the first and second days (Saturday an. 1 Wednesday) of1,020 words
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Article211 1948-09-09 7 Wanf fo see Cup Final By CRI'SADER TH: ,)ore Chinese Football Association's first n the southern section of the Malayan .p competition has again been delayed and this time the S.C.F.A. are blameless. I-. day, Sept. 12, at Jalan Besar urn. Malacca. .:^:ead, have suggested211 words
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Article579 1948-09-09 7 G. M. La Porte (Dunlop Island Ramblers) scored two thrilling wins m the Singapore cycling carnival's grasstrack championships which were held on the S.C.C. padang yesterday. La Porte first won the one mile sprint and then m the last event of tne day, the 10579 words
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Article, Illustration31 1948-09-09 7 The winning team -earn which beat the WA.A.F. by 33 r icket played at Tanglin yesterday. .is the first fixture between women's id, attracted plenty of interest and Ided good cricket.31 words
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76 1948-09-09 7 Some Class Cameborough to miss cup SOMK CLASS and Gameborough will not be accepting m the Liberation Cup race for class one cracks over six furlongs on the third day. Sept. 18. of the Singapore Gold Cup meeting. Gold Medallist, who is well fancied to life the Cup, U m76 words
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76 1948-09-09 7 V) PARKINSON, a business to•cu'lwt at Wakefleld. England, won the Junior Matrx Orand Prix motor- :ycle raoe at Douglas, Isle of mail, yesterday He rode his Norton at an average speed of 78.97 mllea p?r hour. Ninety-five amateur riders started In the race, restricted to76 words
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383 1948-09-09 7 BRITAIN'S Oldest norse racing classic, the j.ncast-r St. Lt'gt-r. vh ..*h w.:s instituttd m 1776, will ihts >(>ar -l£O be the richest, prize ovor competed for on the English turf. The race, which will r*t run over one T.ile, aix furlongs and 132383 words
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Article, Illustration38 1948-09-09 7 The highest scorer Syt. Nuttall, captain of the W.A.AT. team, padding up during yesterday's women's cricket at Tanglin m which the ATS. beat the W.A.AT by 33 runs. Nuttall was the day's highest scorer with a well-made 32.38 words
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Article590 1948-09-09 7 CRUSADER - CRUSADER By REMEMBERING the fine cricket the South Afri- cans played during their tour m England m the summer of last year, the English cricket selectors have not made the mistake they committed last year when they sent a weak M.C.C. team to the West590 words
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Article63 1948-09-09 7 THE Merchant Insurance XI vtrrus the United Service Officers m a SCC. tournament cricket match on the padang on Surday at 11 a.m. will be: H V. Thome. S. J. Mas'*?rs J. C. Smith, J. W. B. AUktdty R. O. Whittington. R. A Murray R. M Nelson.63 words
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Article298 1948-09-09 7 PORTSMOUTH increas- ed their lead m the fir^t division of the English Football League yesterday by defeating Middlesbrough onenil. The win gave them 11 points m the table, two more than Derby County, who had the lead. Portsmouth, however, looked anything but League ieaders on298 words
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Article67 1948-09-09 7 riHOWING speed and good 3 m the first half of a third 6:\ \FA league match at Geylarj? Stadium yesterday, the P and Telecom> -rangoon Association by two goals to nil. Both the goals w< alf. :y chanr-s to the Postals were spoilt oy their left-winger If67 words
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Article112 1948-09-09 7 AT Meeting of the F OB Sunday the fo'.lov.ing «>. c elected ofllce-b are: ing year: President: Mr Chan Chet vice-presidents M icrs Kiong Cha; Woon. Lee Ong Choon Chi^ Joo. Tarn Tuai. Van Tan Bok Keng. Chua Teck Hon secretary Mr. Ch;on, Leng; hon ass\ s cAP - 112 words
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Advertisement72 1948-09-09 7 I iAi 4 J /*J. Jk I g I L i j HOUSEHOLD IjjijMi APPLIANCE* J Introducing the NEW CHELSEA AC/DC ELECTRIC KETTLE $30. Economical Lightweight I Safety device ejects rram socket when ke* > I boils dry. I V.i HMV Household Appliances are fully guaranteed for a period of72 words
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Miscellaneous148 1948-09-09 7 I F Crossword No. 484 I ~25 "7T"' ?f) 1 r~~" II jf mmi^ m U\t MLS UK< P& I 3, Han ay.ay (C) 11. Old Vtfrtatti (4 -3>. iT La- 21. Dry «3- 22. Fcrtif'cat on i 7). Ungej 5). 27. Period 3). 28. F« ga <3>. drink (4k148 words
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Article18 1948-09-09 8 THIESON.-At the Penan* pttaJ on Sept. 8, 19 48. to Muriel Alice, wife of •ihv Matbieson--a dauchter18 words
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Article47 1948-09-09 8 CHUA-KHOO. The engagement took place on 6th September. 1948. between Chua Bng Giap. eldest son of Madam Poh Geoir Lan and the late Mr. Chua Kirn Teow. and Khoo Gim Neo second daughter of the late Mr and Mrs. Khoo Peng Hong. < Malacca papers please copy).47 words
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Article210 1948-09-09 8 LONDON, Wednesday. AN elaborate hoax, as a result of which four surplus British RAF. fighter-bomb-ers are missing from this country, was exposed today. Scotland Yard has appealed to Continental polioe to help m rinding out where they have been taken. There have been suggestions210 words
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Article258 1948-09-09 8 SHANGHAI, Wednesday. IN the last three weeks China's President Chiang Kai-shek has given business Chinese and foreign, legitimate and illegal— its biggest scare m 21 years. The last time this financial hub of China felt the scare was back m 1927 when Chiang was marching258 words
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Article111 1948-09-09 8 J^ SPECIAL Market correspondent fire* the prices of robber (In cents per Ib.) at 11 a.m. today a> follows: Buyers. Sellers No. 1 R.S.S. Spot. IMH 43% 44 'o.b. m bales Sept. No. 1 R.S.S. 43% 43*4 No. Z R.S.S. 41 41 No. 3 R.S.S. 39* 39 K111 words
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Article30 1948-09-09 8 Independent British cinema owners are to support a new film producing and distribution cone cm which will have its headquarters and studios at Paignton. Devon ReuterReuter - 30 words
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Article385 1948-09-09 8 Underground declares aim By DANIEL DE LUCE, A.P. Correspondent JERUSALEM, Wednesday, (Passed by Israeli censor) JEWISH ex- terrorists, who made Palestine too hot for the British mandate, are confidenty planning a new campaign. Their objective is Jewish control of King Abdullah's Transjordan. Trigger veterans of385 words
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99 1948-09-09 8 BUENOS AIRES, Thurs. THE Argentine President, Gen. Peron. yesterday warned his political opponents that his patience was givlnur out and his voice would be firm when he ordered them all to be hanged. Addressing the Santa Fe celebration of "Farmers' Day, he identifiedReuter - 99 words
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Article77 1948-09-09 8 BRITISH Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee. is suffering from a 1 dudodenal ulcer which though it is In its early stages will require dietetic treatnrent for some weeks, said a bulletin from No. 10 Downing Street 1 last night. He has been suffering from eczema of the77 words
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Article78 1948-09-09 8 IX>RTY-FOUR persons. P mostly circus performers, are still missing In the Carib- bean after their small ship loaded with lions, tigers, and other wild animals, overturn- j ed and sank. A Norwegian motor vessel has picked up 12 survivors.— A.P A state of emergency has78 words
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Article443 1948-09-09 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. inpHE overnight news from Berlin and Paris served x to reintroduce a strong note of caution m the London stock markets today, say.s Reuters financial correspondent. Widespread marking down occurred m most sections and trading was down to a minimum. The443 words
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Article183 1948-09-09 8 JAPS MA Y PUSH TRADE VIA SIAM WASHINGTON, Wednesday. OIAM looms as an avenue through which Japanese industry may regain entrance to the Asiatic mainland. Reports from Tokyo and Bangkok say that Siamese traders are more willing to resume relations with Osaka business chiefs than most other Oriental peoples. TheAP - 183 words
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Article109 1948-09-09 8 batavia, Thursday. ALL sides, Dutch, Indone- sian and United Nations neutrals expressed bewilderment last night at Washington reports that "Indonesian-Dutch negotiations had been resumed under the United Nations Good Off es Committee and that prospects for settlement appeared bright." Negotiations had not been resumed, and settlementAP - 109 words
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Article199 1948-09-09 8 Brighton, Sussex, Wed. SIR Henry Tizard, a chairman of the Government's defence research policy cjmmittee and this year's President of the British Association of Scientists, today warned that Britain ould only keep her position among the great manufacturing nations by maintaining leadership m the application199 words
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Article, Illustration39 1948-09-09 8 vai Prabhakunver Gandhi, a Singapore widow, yesterday ended a 30-day purification fast at her home at Telok Kurau. She is watched by Jain priests, for whom yesterday was the holiest day m the year. Samvatsari.39 words
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Article50 1948-09-09 8 BOMBAY, Thursday Archibald Nye, last British governor of any Indian province, left Bombay by plane for London last night. Sir Archibald, who is succeeded by the Maharajah of Bhavnagar as Governor of Madras, is returning ita y as the British Hiph Comr sloner m New Delhi.50 words
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Article196 1948-09-09 8 PARIS, Wednesday. AS President Vincent Auriol today asked the French Socialist Parliamentary leader, M. Henri Queille, to try to form a new government, the Communist Party issued a militant call to action, urging workers to "impose" a democratic government, headed by the Communist Party. Several clashes196 words
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204 1948-09-09 8 War crimes judge says: 'JAPS SHOULD BE FREED' TOKYO, -1.,, A LLIED army and lc^al authorities connect^ L the war crimes trials here tod astonishment at a report that the Ind lre^ 1 of the International Military Tribunal Mr l^B Pal, m an interview with the Calcutta ne Statesman, had204 words
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Article146 1948-09-09 8 HYDERABAD. Wed. AS the Hyderabad Government today uncompromisingly announced that India was not entitled to send troop* to Secunderabad, former British cantonment seven miles north of Hyderabad City, plans for the immediate evacuation of 500 Europeans from Hyderabad were being rushed to completion. The Hyderabad announcementReuter - 146 words
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Advertisement258 1948-09-09 8 ■V i*^ *i^ I I I Jf w fl ACKNOWLEDGMENT Dr and Mrs. C. J. Paglar thank a! their relatives and friendi I r their kind attendance, wishes and also their valuable I on the occasion of the Birthday of Dr. C. J. Paglar. M(O>i>HMMrio\ v v \M NEW FLORAVILLE,258 words
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Advertisement158 1948-09-09 8 RAFFLES HOTEL TO>QGHT FROM 7 P.M. TO 8 F M THE COCKTAIL HOUR In the Popular New Lounge with FRANK PICKFORD at the piano and from 9 p.m. to midnight INFORMAL DANCE In the PALM COURT. Ml SIC by PATRICK FORBES it HIS ORCHESTRA. SATIRDAY SEPT. 11TH— RACE NIGBI EXTENSION158 words
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Miscellaneous8 1948-09-09 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today: 2.12 pju Friday: 2.54 p.m.8 words
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