The Singapore Free Press, 3 February 1949

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA tISm SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1949. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    31 1 I-.: < I 'hennault. ihe IH the Fljiaf Tigers m told reporters at __n,hai that he believed new Vneriu-n Volunteer *r|e». coordinated with the hiiev \ir Wmtaa, »oU.d ul] Se effe* t.%
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  • 400 1 Acheson says 'no interest' WASHINGTON, Wednesday. D EJECTING point by point Marshal Stalin's 1X latest v peace bid and the proposal that President Truman should meet the Soviet leader m Russia or Eastern Europe, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, blamed Russia for the
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  • 152 1 NANKING, Thursday. ATIONALInI gunboats opened fire yesterday on Communist river craft discovered at the Yangtse irt of Kiangyin. about 85 miles north of Shanghai. wu Communist boats were sunk. Reports that the Communists had begun crossis the faagtat and were attacking Kiangyin have t>t been
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  • 34 1 I sS b^ h r ld Durban T^. between the African Indian ConE__Ti Afr!can lea -ers It nion, mit nal Conl the X -an race riots and J :re out-
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  • 111 1 Free Press Sta.T R:- porter IT is thought unlikely that Singapore representatives vill be invited to attend the Inaugural meeting of the Malayan Chinese Association called for on Feb. 27 m Kuala Lumpur. Two Chinese leaders m Singapore said this morning that invitations had
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  • 14 1 Shops have opened again m Hyderabad after 24 hours without violence Reuter
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  • 201 1 Malay antiAussie plan held up Free Press Staff Reporter rrHE Malay Nationalist Party's secret retaliation plans against the proposed deportation of Mrs. O'Keefe, Indonesian wife of an Australian citizen, has been held up pending approval by the local authorities. "We do not want to violate the Emergency Regulations," the President
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  • 86 1 JUDGMENT was entered by Mr. Justice Brown this morning for the Ban Hin Lee Bank against the United Chinese Bank for $31,400 m connection with a draft issued by the defendant bank m favour of Khco Boon Soo m February, 1942. Mr. Justice Brown also entered
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  • 116 1 BATAVIA, Thursday. HEADS of the Indonesian "autonomous" states telegraphed to President Soekarno and the Republican Premier. Dr. Mohammed Hatta, last night inviting them to confer on the establishment of a "national government, and replying to Republican conditions for participation m an interim government. Well-informed
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  • 58 1 THE 14,000-ton P. O. liner Corfu, reconditioned after war service will sail from Southampton tomorrow for Hongkong by way of Port Said, Aden. Bombay, Colombo, Penang and Singapore. With the two other liners, Canton and Carthage, already m service, she will make possible a monthly
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  • 77 1 Free Press StafT Reporter CAUGHT m the fire of a military ambush at Gelang Tenang Kampong, Segamat, early this morning a Chinese who was severely wounded and died soon after his arrest, was found to be m possession of four loaded magazines containing 83 rounds of
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  • 33 1 Nearly 1,000 members of the Royal Air Force air crews, technicians and ground staff —left Liverpool last night on the Devonshire. About 300 of them are destined for Singa- pore. Reuter
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  • 28 1 Singapore police bcreened a total of 1.264 people m two security checks last night m Covent Gardens and Kandang Kerbau Road areas. There were no arrests.
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  • 25 1 Three unarmed Chinese robbed a pedestrian m Koon Seng Road at 11.30 p.m. yesterday of $1 and a fountain pen valued at $5.
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  • 128 1 r m iIREE and a quarter million persons 1 have been re-housed m Britain since the end of the war, it was rv.noii' m London yesterday An official survey of the housing situation revealed t*i at more than 425.000 permanent hn. It. i.-c.i built m tha;
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  • 285 1 T LONDON, Thursday. HE Malayan village of Lintang was burned down because "bandits m thi s area, with the connivance and assistance of squatters from Lintang and other villages, had been responsible for the murder of three British planters, the killing and wounding of 19 Gurkhas
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    26 1 picture. One of the two locomotives which were derailed by bandits between Banir and Temoh stations m the Tapah area. See story, pace 5.- Free Press
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  • 55 1 I FRENCHMEN with families are paid more than batcbelori says the Government. In the Paris region, a man with four children, whose wife does not work, gets .8.250 lranc fi monthly m addition to his salary. For a father of I eight children, the bonus is
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  • 22 1 Singapore police arrested six suspected members of unlawful societies yesterday, two men found gambling and a Chinese wanted for banishment.
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  • 266 1 Free Press StafT Reporter TWO Singapore women have been appointed assistant film censors to the Film Censor for Singapore and the Federation, Mr. Jack Evans. They are Mrs. Cynthia Koek of Rochalie Drive and Mrs. R. Lea of Goodwood Hill. Both are English. There
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  • 271 1 REBELS TAKE SUBURBS OF RANGOON RANGOON, Thursday. KAREN insurgent successes ln two suburbs Rangoon the satellite towns of Insein and Thamaing are admitted here today as thousand* of panic-stricken refugees stream into the capital from the battle areas. The Karens evidently aim at the complete isolation of the capital. In
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  • 104 1 LONDON, Thur.uay. THE Foreign S_cre,ar>, Mr. Ernest Bevin, rejecieu a suggestion m th? Hou_e of Commons yesterday that he should bar Dutch airlines from usung the island oi Mauritius while they are denied transit across India and Pakistan on the route to Indonesia
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  • 101 1 LONDON, Tnursuay BRITISH industrialists and trade union leaders la.-t night saw Mr. Harold WiLs.n, President of the Board I Trade, to complain of (J man competition m world markets Industrialists are understood to have Riven Mr. Wilson a long list of German exports alleged to be
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  • 16 1 Argentina has established diplomatic relations with India and will set up an Embassy.—! Reuter
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  • 752 2  - One Of The Best War Stories Since VJ-Day PETER QUENNELL Reviews new Books m U.K. CTYLE, said Ed- ward Gibbon, who spoke with high authority, must reflect the tastes and disposition of the individual writer, and, if one had nothing but style to go on. hoth from The Jungle is
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  • 916 2  -  HOWARD C. HEYN By DORTRAIT, from afar, of a celebrated Hollywood household: A famous actress, blonde and bland. Her husband, a noted neuro-surgeon. Both foreign born, each deeply respectful of the other's career. Their daughter aged 10. Their house— sturdy, dignified— into which the public
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  • 153 2 ALL 1 COULD NEVER BE, by Beverley Nicnols, (Cape, 15 is one of the most entertaining and readable autobiographies oi recent years. Reading it. one realizes how Mr. Beverley Nichols romps through lite, meeting a continual parade of the 'great figures ot the day. Armed with a gift
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    • 820 2 lODAI ii.idij News Reel <BBCi; 10 45 SINGAPORE 10.55 to 12 Schools' B. .uuiusi. i Village Band; 11.15 World Affairs 12 Programme Summary; 1205 (BBC) 1130 N.ws Sc News Analy--185 metrto; 41 metres (12 p m Malay Variety; 12.40 News; .-is (BBC); 11.45 Rhodesia* v to 2); 61 metres (6
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    • 305 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, your pride and your personal ambition are very likely to get you a long way on the road to success. You are seldom contented with what you have and always are striving for something better. If you are conscientious, you will achieve it. However, don't
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  • 82 3 BRITAIN WILL DEFEND HK M.P. »H\i\> determination to defend Hong Kong HfjiiiiNt am aggression, from without or within, tlempruNi>ed >lr David (Jammans, Conservat when he addressed the Hong Kong Rotary Club. f J aid IWs determination was the unanimous view Wail parties iv th e House of Commons. i dethe
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    28 3 General of India. Sri Chakravarti Raja- n Kadi Mohammed El Amry, for Foreign Affairs, who attend* 1 rem c called by Pandit Nehru to the uar .n Indonesia.
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    33 3 •■■J van Beinum. -oid conductor of the 'us Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, has appointed conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is described as one of the five first-rate conductor* of the world.
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  • 21 3 ft are W** 1 perished m X Ta pmg and \Z Thursday Kj a 3r Ci Archi- Reuter
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  • 87 3 I\._ r.K>d Ministry has no* turned down a reque_. lor a special allowance of sugar for tea to newspaper editor: al workers to increase their "energy output factor." Dr. Edith Summerskili. Parliamentary Secretary to f h« Food Ministry, told petitioning Independent MP Mr Daniel Lipson
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  • 247 3 U.S. INDUSTRY TOLD: 'COPY BRITAIN' Morris cars 'invasion* A MERICAN industrial leaders have been advised by Mr. Philip Reed, chairman of America's General Electric Company to go to Britain and learn from British firms. Many of them were 'indeed tops" m the production methods. Mr. Reed, who is head of
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  • 162 3 Irish Catholics open 'war' on Communism AN all-out campaign against communism is being launched by the Catholic Church In Ireland. This has surprised the man-in-the-street who considers that Communist influence at present Is weak. However, profiting possibly from experience m other countries, the Church has decided that it is time
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  • 57 3 'PARLIAMENT' FOR ISRAEL THE ceremonial opening of the 120-man Israeli Constituent Assembly, chosen m the country's first general election on Tuesday, is to take place m Jerusalem on Feb. 14. The Jerusalem Municipal Council is now working out plans for building a "Parliament House" should the opening session decide to
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  • 65 3 THE House of Commons has given a formal first reading to the Commonwealth Telegraphs Bill which is to promote and co-ordinate the efficiency and development of the external telegraph services of the Commonwealth. It also extends arrangementmade by the Postmaster-General with Cables and Wireless Limited for
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  • 95 3 PRESIDENT TRUMAN has nominated Mr. Dean Rusk director of the State Department's Office of United Nations Affairs, to succeed Mr. Norman Armour -as Assistant Secretary of State. In addition to supervision of I the work of the Office of United Nations Affairs Mr. Rusk will assist
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  • 284 3 II'IIII.F Britain, Holland and Belgium were denying ECA charges that aluminium scrap and lead were being shipped to th e l\S.. considerable quantities of these non-ferrou s metals were on the high seas. Analysis of ship manifests published m the New York Journal of Commerce
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  • 252 3 Faster-than-sound pilot 's story CAPTAIN Charles E. Yeager, who has flown faster than sound 25-30 times, recently described what it feels like to a Los Angles Press conference. Captain Yeager Is 25. ruddy. -«nd green-eyed, with ireckles. short brown hair and drawl of his native Myra. West Virginia. His faster-than-sound
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  • 115 3 TWENTY-EIGHT men back from a nine-hour coach [pilgrimage to test State inns ■m Carlisle decided against them They set out trom Hartlepools. Durham, to settle a local controversy. Back m the bar parlour of the Ship Inn they sorted out j their opinions, and summed jup
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  • 266 3 THE social revolution m rural Japan which is expected to result from General Mac Arthur's agricultural reform programme will, it is thought, even change the system under which parents decide who shall marry who. In the towns pre-marital courtship is now more generally adopted.
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    59 3 Jack Buchanan, the actorproducer, returned to England after his recent American tour with a bride— the former Susan Basset t of New York. Mr. Buchanan, who was appearing m the Sacha Guitry comedy, "Don't listen ladies.' was married at Connecticut and the state law requiring couples to be m the
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  • 269 3 OOLDIERS and airmen will have the right of appeal against court-martial sentences, on points of law, if new recommendations are adopted. This military ♦'charter" would also limit the ttiem c a man could be detained while awaiting trial and it would speed up procedure. The
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  • 57 3 I THE Russian Embassy cierk who plunged to death from the third-storey window of a London hospital on Fri--1 day committed suicide "while the balance of his mind was disturbed." was the verdict i returned by the Coroner at the inquest yesterday. Thf i^ian Anatolv Kioilkin 39,
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    32 3 The first American GreeK pn late to become Ecumenical Patriarch ot the Greek Church, Archbishop Athenagoras, arrives at New York a r port on his way to Istanbul, Turkey, for hi enthronement.
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  • 317 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 3, 1949 END THIS TAIL TWISTING NODODY expects or even wants Mr. Bevin to don the mantle of Lord Palmenton. the Foreign Secretary of the nineteenth c r ntury, who believed m warmg and using the big sick, but the assurance by Mr Hector
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  • 47 4 CO colonial servants wives are going to school to learn languages. It is a hint the Colonial Office and Malaya might improve up- i on. Why not insist that all civil servants wives be fully qualified at some essential Job and so save passage money?
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  • 210 4 UNEXPECTED colleagues m aa berating the Federation Government are Mr. Walter Fletcher. M.P. for Bury "where black puddings is made." and Sardar Budh Singh, president of the Malayan Indian Congress. From a distance Mr. Fletcher makes British flesh creep with his reports of what nobody else sees going
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  • 828 4  -  JOSEPH S. ROSAPEPE By NEW YORK: DETWEEN cries of socialism "and 41 save free enterprise/ Congress will soon debate President Truman's proposal for a study of the American steel industry. m his "State of the Union" report m early Jamnry, the President brought out
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  • 251 4  -  C. R. BRUSINI ROME By IMPORTS of the ex*v istence of three andersea towns vi the Mediterranean, between Sicily and Tunisia, have stirred debate amonc Italian archeologists A Greek Johanm. Rodittis. considered m Sicily one of the best divers of the world, maintains that he visited the ruins
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  • 752 4  - White Paper For The Russians GORDON YOUNG STOCKHOLM By DUSSIA will not willingly go to war for at least 15 years and hard figures can be found to prove it. That is the belief of Scandinavian economic experts. They think that m the present condition of Soviet economic life may
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    43 4 Bombad:er Thomas Mackell, of Shepherd* Bush, London, who ha s a wife and four chiliren, gets the family settled m the creche i before going off to gun drill. thus elirninatiny am main complaints ay a mat member* of the TerrArmy. T.A. Widow
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  • 12 4 Hn thou *ia«ti»J uiir. ruler f«4 dilii;» -nth «hit »^j th-
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  • 966 4  -  POLITICO By |N 1840, the builders 1 gave number 68 Upper Chin Chew Street a last lick of paint, and the first tenants moved m. Singapore was a brave new town, a pretty bit of esplanade, a bundle of bungalows, which gave place at Mount Sophia
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  • 13 4  -  COURTENAY EDWARDS nfdjsfjsd I T G4 -i T m V 4 Ml
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  • 85 5 Frt N M.itT Reporter fining of s year practiSingapore, a when s shed beubout six because tieiency p wer Stanrnes n hitherto. Municipal r. Mr. the Free We inuing to -.ring, .md feed to fact that n be siven 111 cease V^" Stai ta say
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    75 5 Sir James Sleeman, Overseas Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Brigade, is seen addressing the Singapore Rotary Club yesterday. He appealed to Rotarians for financial aid to reform and re-establish the Brigade here. Sir James reminded his listeners of the part played bu the Rotary Club of Singapore m 1937
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  • 98 5 1 ,700 X-rayed at S.A.T.A. NEARLY 1.700 people have been X-rayed at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Clinic m Tanjong Pagar R<uid since the clinic was opened at the end of November. Sixteen Singapore's firms have signified their intention to send their employees tor examination, the latest being the Hongkong and Shanghai
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  • 126 5 Frre p r >s Staff .^respondent .day. Banlr he xl n night sen. or here 1 moved it ls at derailed j tender >n J 'V 19 a •ne train— J .ne and 1- rail- cd. The locomotive fell down the bank. The train according to
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  • 22 5 Mr. J. B. A. Lewis and Mr. W. F. Mayor have been appointed Justices of the Peace m Singapore.
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  • 348 5 Free Press Staff Reporter OIG strides made last year m Singapore's "Five-year 13 electric street lighting programme" are likely to b e overtaken this year when approximately 1,000 more new lamps are due to be added to the 642 erected during 1948. The 1948
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  • 45 5 Members of the East-West Society will speak "out of the hat" at 8.30 p.m. today m the British Council Hall, Stamford Road Each member will draw lots and speak on the subject picked. The public are welcome to take part m the programme.
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  • 56 5 A CHINESE employed on a tongkang (junk). Ec Seng, was sentenced to three weeks* rigorous imprisonment for not having an identity card, when he appeared m the First District Court yesterday Ec Seng said that he was on board all the time, and was too
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  • 91 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent A joint meeting of Chinese associations and public bodies throughout Malaya will be held ln Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 27 to discuss the formation of the Malayan Chinese Association. Invitations are being sent to various Chinese guilds and associations ln all parts of
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  • 52 5 The new Brigade Head- j quarters of the St. John Ambulance Association at the j old St. Peter's Church m Stamford Road (next to the British Council premises) will be opened officially this Sa- j turday at 10 a.m. by Sir James j Sleeman, Overseas Commissioner of
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  • 144 5 r VHE Kedah Police have offered a reward of S_o,ooo for the capture of a Japanese believed to have been one of the leaders of the bandit force ichich, on Jan. 13, ambushed and inflicted heavy casualties on security forces at Badak, V nth
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  • 277 5 THE Film Censor, Mr. Jack Evans, yesterday gave an illustrated lecture to 14 second-year Normal Class teachers on film censorship. It is part of a tentative Education Department policy, initiated last November, to take groups of trainee teachers around various Government Departments to give them a
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  • 444 5 VOTING AMENDMENT IS SOUGHT Motion by Mr. John Laycock Free Press Staff Reporter THE fight sponsored by the Progressive Party to secure the removal ot the property qualifications for Municipal electors will he renewed when the Singapore Legislative Co. mil begins its second session with a ceremonial opening on Feb.
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  • 26 5 Blank ammunition will be fired ln the course of the RAF. Regiment exercises which are taking place between 7.30 a.m. and 4 p.m. today
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  • 550 5 COUNCIL QUESTIONS ON RICE THE comparatively high price of rice m Singapore, the unemployment situation and the development of the rural areas are among the matters on wr^ Unofficial mcir X< »Ti will "«?k auestions at the busings meeting of the SlngaooTP Legislative Council on Feb. 16. The rice questions
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  • 117 5 Free Press iff K<- porter THE ceremony of opening the second session of the Singapore Legislative Council on Feb. 15 will begin at 9.30 a.m. when Empress Place will be closed to traffic, and will be occupied by a guard ol honour and the Police Band, The Governor,
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  • 132 6 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. NINETEEN out of 20 men who participated m the Communist attack on Qua I Musang m July were brought i to trial before the Kelantan Supreme Court, it was omi cially stated today. One man
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  • 177 6 Free Press StafT Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. CHINESE m Johore have decided to petition the Government for steps to be taken early to accelerate the hearing of appeals by persons detained under the Emergency Regulations. This was decided at a meeting of representatives of the Johore
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  • 394 6 BID TO EXPAND TRADE WITH INDIES Export quotas to be revised AT the first meeting of the Indonesia trade liaison committee m Singapore yesterday, the Chairman, Mr. T. Van der Gaast, said an investigation would be made immediately into the quotas of rehabilitation goods for export to Indonesia. Everything would
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    89 6 picture. Da_o (Dr.) C. J. Paglar greeting his wife on his return by air from Australia yesterday. He flew from Darwin m answer to an urgent, sumynons from the Sultan of Johore who said he ivas "a very sick man." Dato Paglar said that m Sydney he renewed his friendship
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  • 51 6 Free Press Staff Correspondent SEGAMAT. Wed. After being refused bail for a fortnight. Yap Bow and Mat Gam bin Sallo were offered bail m $1,000 each when charged before Inche Hamid with having extorted $100 from a Buloh Kasap Chinese In the name of the Malayan Communist
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  • 98 6 AN all-round drop m crime during January is reflected m figures issued by the Singapore Police yesterday. Armed robbe-7 headed the list with 13 cases against 18 m the previous month Simple robberies were half that of the previous month. There was a total of el-;ht
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  • 86 6 FOUND with four and a half i pounds of opium tied to his legs when he was search- Ed at Clifford Pier. Sze Ning Han. 32-year-old seaman from the Laudrles was remanded yesterday for sentence ln the Singapore Second District Court Mr. D. J. MacKay,
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    51 6 Members of the Teo Clan Association m Singapore (seen m this picture* were entertained by Mr Teo Kirn Eng at his residence m Tampeni s Road on the occasion of the Chnese New Year. Mr. Teo's residence and swimming pool are popular with picnickers, to whom he always extend* a
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  • 122 6 GOLD weighing 150 tahils (12 lb. was _ound concealed around the waist of a Chinese coming dc v.. the ADCway of the ship Sinkiang m the outer roads of Singapore Harbour on Jan. 25, it was alleged m the Singapore Second District Court yesterday. The man,
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  • 304 6 HOUND guilty of .trying to sell over 12,000 rounds of ammunition to a C.I.D. officer who was posing as a buyer, a Police corporal was sentenced m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday to six years' rigorous imprisonment. He was Corporal Abdul Malik, owner of a
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  • 63 6 Slept on during armed robbery THREE men who robbed a Chinese family m an attap hut m Charlton Road, off Paya Lebar. shortly before midnight on Tuesday left undisturbed six children whom they found asleeo. The thre? made off with cash and Dronertv valued at $204 The victims v i
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  • 341 6 LONDON. Thurso A FIRM start generally was made m the u^ Stock Exchange yesterday at the bej>innir.M new account but, due to lack of business gains were not always held, says Kruler > fin.r" correspondent. Rubber shares were unchanged while there was a fresh decline m
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  • 61 6 LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE I Lyon> Pfra, H R at: Am Rolls R shell ma Turner N i U' Xl MM |v D An.:/ Dpi K^p. n« \2 i Rubb Seel* t Ampa 1 A\ H ipoh > Kabui Lonrt Ma..n Pal:--.:.. I Peta i: i- > Wttm > S Tr
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  • 30 6 Tin* Sergei X Blngsp tons of rubber r o_r.>tf The unloaded 3000 Port Penang It Ls other Rus l:? *_I call at M month to 31
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    • 235 6 MdndrdKC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya _l(___ ___J |T3RSJSSS WERE CONCEALED] VSPIES WERE IN EVERY VILLAGE FRXH tfOtV/T OFTEW WPPEWf 0/1 W% W£l/E«Y MLAGf. W Woo_>. r- TOO. AND IF T^F NAME WAS 400S" MANDRAKE. HOW COULD THAT WAS -i-3 M 0 "HP-»- SPOKEN J •QUEEN EBONY
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  • 413 7 MALAYA MAY SKIP ASIAN OLYMPICS Will clash with Empire Games By THE SPORTS EDITOR MALAYA is not likely to be represented at the proposed Asian "Olympiad" which is to be held some time m 1950, the main reason being that it clashes with the British Empire lames which are scheduled
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  • 31 7 picture. A melee m yeterday 's hocke y match at the Naval Base m which the S.C.C. Women beat the C.-in-C. Naval Staff men's XI one-nil.- Free Press
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    24 7 lpiu thf Bnt>h born rtai rniovui? thf sunshine m ibde Park. m Lon--4*l. after starrtal m a he fore rttumins tv her California home.
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  • 114 7 S. Africa making Test changes THIRrtLN cricketers ha\ e been requested to i>semble it Johannesburg on Feb. 9 and the south African Test team to meet England there m the fourth Test match starting on Feb. 12 will be *lected from among them. are: D. Begbie, O. Dawson, T. A.
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  • 26 7 RESULTS of yesterday. Rugby; Union matches are; Ox ord; University 27. R.A.F. 3; Royal j Naval College, Greenwich, 19; United Sen Ices 8- Reuter
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  • 345 7  -  CRUSADER By TIIE success of the Siamese boxer, Phol Phrapradeng, against David Kui Kong Young, a contender for the world's bantamweight title, shows that the fistic art m that country is making excellent progress. The Siamese who save appeared m the Malayan ring notably. Sompong
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  • 325 7 FJESPITE the hard, fast, sandy ground which many of them found to their disadvantage, the S.C.C. women played sparkling hockey at the Naval Base yesterday to beat the C.-in-C. Naval Staff (Men) by the only goal of the match, scored 90 seconds from time by
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  • 23 7 THE Royal Navy first team drew two-all with Naval Stores ln a game of soccer played at the Naval Base yesterday.
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  • 54 7 H S_\2!__?f h Ha W-- World viend m Kuala l unpur v Hi? bout -V V- .V. r ten will be S m Se** ar rt b Walkey A' b:. the bout. r id b en L_**wtec- ht v r :r.t« deit and Mvdin l Tim'te
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  • 60 7 LOUIS B. MAYER'S 504 acre thoroughbred stud farm at Perais, California, has been sold to Ellsworth M. Statler, part-owner of a hotel chain, and Mrs. Meredith Howard Harless, c of a former Congressman. Richard F. Hariess of Arizona. The purchase price is estimated at over $1,000,000
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  • 145 7 THE Singapore Cricket Club v Combined R.A.F. fixture :n the pentangular rugby tournament on Saturday will be played at Seletar as the Jalan Besar stadium is not available and the Padang ground is too hard. The S.C.C XV will be: Garry. Ruper, Pennell, Homer. Darroch:
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    64 7 photo. ihe Bedser twins. Alec and Eric, chat with the C.-in-C, South Atlantic. Vice -Admiral D. E. McCarthy, and Mrs. McCarthy at the reception given m honour of the M.C.C. team at Capetown by the Governor-General and Mrs. Brand Van Zyl. The twins are godparents to twins born recently to
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  • 146 7 ONE of the greatest sensations m Tasmanian turf history occurred after fhe running of the Hobart Cup yesterday when R. H. Stump, owner-trainer of Paramente. who finished fifth, refused to allow a swab to be taken from the horse. Mr. Stump and the horse were disqualified
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  • 69 7 BO DC A. soccer fixtures for February are: 6un 6: O.H.Q. FARELF—Tanglin; Wed. 9: RE ME. Base— St. Georges' Rd.; Frl. 11: Aux. Police. S.H.B.— St. George.' Rd Sat. 12: Dockyard Asians St Georges' Rd Wed. 16: Kranjl Wireless— St. Georges' Rd Thurs. 17: Dlst. Signals— St.
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  • 33 7 VICTORIA School beat R A.F. (Jurong) 4 3 at soccer on tho school ground yesterday. Ramakrishna, Chek Kang <2> and Syed All scored for the pchool. Puller notched Jurong's three goals.
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  • 36 7 THE New York Yankees yesterday signed on their first Negro baseball player outfielder Luis Marques of tke Baltimore Giants and became the sixth Major il-eague Club to engage a N<*kTo athlete.- A. P.
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  • 215 7 CHORTAGE of local talent is causing much concern to the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association. Mr. A. R- Anderson, the pres'd^U, told the F~re Press yrstevday. "The on'v amateur tool's we have now are the »I1 s'a^ers. with the exc^'lon. of course, oi Tan Chooa Oxttm
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  • 82 7 MELBOURNE. Wed. THE Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach disclosed yesterday that he has asked a sports syndicate for £1.250 to turn professional and run m their meeting at Bendlgo, Victoria next month. His price, La Be*ch said, was not accepted. He added that he
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  • 64 7 RESULTS of the first qualifying round In the Singapore Chess championship, held at the YMCA yesterday were: Teh Kheng Hong beat A.M. Ismail, W. Groom beat J. Mat-! thews, b. R. Vakil beat G.l Singh, Lim Eng Hoe beat Mah Beng Gum E. Khaw beat Can-i dasamy,
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  • 177 7 jtf RS. Fanny Blankers Koen, th* "Flying Dutchifl woman" and winner of three Olympic gold medals, broke down badly at the invitation races m Brisbane, Queensland, last night. Her husband, who is also her coach, said later that the rest of her Australian tour is
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  • 53 7 ENGi D will b 3 represented by the fo^owing team against Malaya m the international badminton match at Torquay on Feb. 12: H. R. Marshland. R. C. F. Nichols. N. B. Radford. W. Shute. K. L. Wilson. H. J. Wingfield W. G. P. Birthwistle and A.
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  • 40 7 7-A -SIDE RUGBY The seven-a-side tournament, which winds up the rugby season m Singapore will start on Feb. 14. Any club ur unit wishing to take part is requested to send particulars to Mr. Quayle, c/o Thomas Cook and Sons.
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  • 223 7 27 countries challenge for Davis Cup rpWENTY-SEVEN nations ha\e challenged for this year's Dayi s Cup, entries for which have now closed. Under the 'revised rules the draw must be made by Feb. 10. An announcment is expected from the United States Lawn Tennis Association today on the date and
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  • 85 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. SELANGOR S soccer season which opens next month will begin with a competition for old boys from all English schools ln the state The trophy awarded for the competition Ls the Thomas Cup. In a circular Issued today, thf Football Association of Selangor
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  • 70 7 TWENTY non -acceptors were announced yesterday at the first acceptance for the Grand National steeplechase to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on Mar. 26. They are: Knight's Pass, Hamlet, Jack Tatters. Dunshaughlin, Sir John. Freebooter, Gormanstown. Coupe, Garter, Tasman. Inchmore. Grailie, Prattler, Some Chicken, Wicklow Wolf, Steel
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  • 78 7 rE following are the Joililads' AU soccer fixtures for Feb.: Feb. S, Joililads v. BMH Farrer Park; Feb. 6. Joililads v W<T Kranjl— Kranji; Feb 10. Joililads v. p.&T. Department— O o ylang Stadium; Feb 12. Joililads v Robinson Ar Co Oevlang Stadium; Feb. 13. Joililads v.
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  • 42 7 THE sth Group Royal Pioneers Corps <Ceylon) held the Singapore Recreation Club to a on-*--all draw at hockey on the Padong yesterday. Lembruggen opened the scoring for the Recs m the first half. Wijekoon equalised early m tb« second session.
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  • 54 7 rE team to represent the Tamil Tamil Brotherhood Association at soccer against the Ist Devonshire Regiment at Parrer Park tomorrow -rill be chosen frotnl Sithambaram, 6. Veloo, Tambyraj»h. S Mohlnda. Murugesu, 14. Chandra, O Suppiah. Param. A. Vljlaretnam. 8 Chandra. M L Osman, S. Muthiah, Sockalingam, Haron. T.
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  • 49 7 HE PoUce gained a 16—10 victory over GHQ Signal Regiment ln a ***** match at! Thomson Road yesterday. Ngon. Abram*. Saunders and McCully scored tries for the Police, two of which Maphui converted. Morrison and Clark crossed over for the Signals, May converting both tries.
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  • 50 7 THE following will represent the Municipal Treasurer's Dept. against the Municipal Architect and Building Surveyor's Dept. ln a table tennis match to be played at 26. Tyrwhltt Road at 2.30 pm. on Saturday. Leow Cher Young (capt). Loe Meng Kong. Cheong Yew Pan, Lim Soo Guan. David Kang
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  • 21 7 J^EE SOON Hockey Club and Khrilsa Association shared two goals ln a hockey match at St. George's Road yesterday.
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    • 87 7 FOR HOLIDAY HEALTH TANJONU BALAI (Off l.£ miles Jurong) HAVE YOUR AFTERNOON TEA IN THE DELIGHTFUL GARDENS BY THE SEA AT SOUTH WINDS HOTEL WE WOULD ADVISE OUR PATRONS TO COME ON WEEK DAYS AS WE ARE FULLY ROOKED at week wtmm iHE APE MAN f d_B|___| JOHNNY WEISSMULLER W»
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  • 422 8 'WORK FASTER' MALAYA TOLD Gammans on the bandits LONDON, Thursday. I'HK. Federation of Malaya authorities "must work faster" if they are to win their costly struggle with the Chinese Communist bandits trying to terrorise the country, said Mr. L. D. unmans, Conservative M.P. and former Malayan olticial who wa s
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  • 19 8 WERNLI: To Lucie, wile of A Wernli. on 31st January, at Ymngberg Memorial Hospital,— a sister for Joan.
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  • 37 8 CHERIAN-CHINNAMMA: The marriage between^ A. M. Cherlan. Alumootll. Tiruvalla, employed at Shell Central Laboratory, Kalian;. Singapore, and Chinnamma Thomas, will take place at the St. Thomas Church, Tiruvalla, Travancore. S. India, on Monday 7th.. Feb 1949.
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  • 109 8 HongKong will be defended LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN will take all practicable measures for the defence of Hong Kong, the Minister of Defence, Mr. A. V. Alexander, told the House of Commons today. The British Government, he added, was watching the situation m the Far East very carefully. Asked what arrangements
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  • 56 8 Asked if the arrangements included a definite limitation of the number of people who would be allowed into Hong Kong m view of the danger to the colony and the difficulty of feeding the people, Mr. Creech Jones said: "I can give the fullest assurance that that problem
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  • 141 8 Hanged himself 3 days after wedding A 27-YEAR-OLD Boyaneae. Sam bin Sukrl. killed himself three days affer his marriage to a 14-year-old girl. Manna binte Abdullah. Manna said, at a Coronerinquest yesterday, that Sam was happy with her. "I came to Singapore from Boyan about three months ago." she continued.
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    84 8 picture. The Sultan of Johore, who was reported to be 'very HI" a few days ago, i x reported to be making good recovery, sources close to his personal physician, Dato Paglar, said this morning. The Dato has made three call* at the Sultan's palace since his return by air
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  • 205 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. QJINCE 1941 the U.S. Congress Library has been O keeping 20,500 rare Chinese books from the National Library m Peiping, sent by the Chinese Government m order to keep them out of Japanese hands. These books have been kept packed and ready for shipment
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  • 147 8 LONDON, Thursday. ON the tests to be carried out by two naval expeditions to the Far North, the British Admiralty will base plans for possible future Arctic warfare. Naval Jet aircraft, special clothing, and modern technical devices are to be tried out for
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  • 28 8 r PHE Aga Khan will pro--1 bably leave Cannes for on Feb. 8 ot 9 to enter h nursing home for an opera tion.- Reuter
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  • 166 8 SEOUL, Wednesday. rtXE thousand Soviet-trained North Korean troops have invaded the American-occupied South Korean Republic, according to a high South Korean official, who said the action might develop into open civil war between the two zones. The northern invaders were supported by 2,000 other troops,
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  • 71 8 BERLIN. Thurs. REPLYING to a deputation of German women complaining about increasing molestation by Russian soldiers, the Russian commandant of a small East German town, according to the British licensed Telegraf. suggested: "Always carry some ink with you. In case of distress, pour it over the soldier's
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  • 111 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent fives tbt prlcea of rtibbti i in cents per *b )altl a m toda- I aa follow*: Ton* of market: Quiet. SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The Singapore CbamDa ol Com j merce Robber Association'! noor I prices yesterday were tn cent* per lb.: Tone
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  • 52 8 J^EW YORK crude rubber standard futures closed quiet yesterday, with no sale. Crude rubber No. 1 futures closed 15 to 19 points lower. Sales amounted to 71 contracts. Offers were: March 19.07 cents (U.S.) bid; May 18.81; September 18.50; Spot No. l ribbed smoked sheets 19 nom
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  • 44 8 THE New York Stock Exchange yesterday drifted aimlessly around noon levels m sluggish trading. Rails, which averaged ft shade higher, were little affected by news that the fact-finding board has been asked to re-enter the dispute. The market closed irregular.—- Reuter
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  • 90 8 WASHINGTON, Tues. THE director of the ECA Industrial Division, Mr. Samuel Anderson, told the Senate Banking Committee that the U.S. has a secret list of commodities barred to Russia and was negotiating with Western Europe to prohibit similar shipments. The materials had been listed
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  • 52 8 pRINCESS Aly Khan yesterday called on M. Marcel Rousselet, President of the Seine Civil Court, and formally confirmed her petition for divorce. The date of the formal attempt to reconcile the parties, which French law requires before a divorce can be made absolute, has not yet been
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  • 196 8 NEW DELHI, Thursday. THE Maharajah Sir Pratap A Singh, Gaekw'ar of Baroda, has ceased to rule his province m Western India with its 3.000,000 population, which by official edict has been m I tegrated into the Province of I Bombay. The 40 year-old "play-boy" iGa'kwar,
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  • 60 8 BRIBES REPORT SEQUEL pOLICE reports on Sydney Stanley, alien key witness m the Tribunal which investigated allegations of corruption m British Government circles, have been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions. A spokesman of the Scotland Yard said yesterday that the papers m the case were sent to the
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  • 207 8 TOKYO, Thursday. THE United States Secretary for the Army, Mr. Kenneth C. Royall. told a press conference yesterday that there were "no plans" to increase American military forces m the Far East "to any appreciable extent/ Mr. Royall declined to comment on Gen. MacArthur's
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  • 37 8 THE Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, told the House of Commons yesterday that the recen' agreement with Argentine and Chile against naval demonstrations m the Antarctic did not affect British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands
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  • 269 8 RHODES. Thursday. T*HE Egyptian delegates, armed with fresh instruc--1 tions from their Government, conferred here last night with the United Nations Palestine mediator. Dr. Ralph Bunche. presumably on Dr. Bunches latest proposals for delineation of armistice lines m the Negev, m Southern Palestine. Whether
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  • 33 8 United States' atomic bombs have been "substantially improved." but the nation still has no "super atomic bomb.' the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commlsioner, Mr David Lilian thai, said yesterday
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  • 327 8 Stalin's 'can't travel' plea merely excuse LOMMIN Th..-.. MARSHAL Josef Stalin's statement that 1 i?I "at the present time" go to WashinaioA^i of health reasons, to meet President Tru t__| garded here as either an excuse not to i or that he is not permitted to do so by hi
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  • 81 8 NEW ANTI-T.B. DRUG BEING DEVELOPED HAMBURG Th J A GEI KAN OictSS Dr X "US velopf-d il ™> T: _W__ here lor the expSj treatment iuberc_?l is hoped It ma\ > treat na J cauv penicillin drugi, _J accident* lj laborat. j come on much furthei :»$^Jl comple !Mtf fom>./u/'
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  • 69 8 WASHINGTON TSm\m »T«HE I': I mai;. Hun_: Munich b> pU-tf on Jig The two *-ew ere» a_jl of a Hunj lancfcc m Mi pass* The American repli* ed the HungarUr; and s who escape nisi l. and (V America °2 ••did i p r oppress! It
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  • 9 8 Th- formally tyrship of A.P.
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