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Title Section18 1949-04-20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i;.4M. SINGAPORE. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20. 1949. PRICE 10 (BIS18 words
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Article272 1949-04-20 1 GOVT. REJECTS RED DEMANDS M' night flareup on Yangtse NANKING, Wednesday. LAlh last night, the Nationalist Government sent a message to Peiping rejecting the Communists* 24 terms for peace negotiations, the deadline for the acceptance of which was midnight, and made counter-proposals for an extension of the time limit, itReuter - 272 words
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Article59 1949-04-20 1 MYSTERY OF DYER DEATH I |fDNE\ > L)lOH no suspinouJ surround -j- WilI.'1 3 ana Prof Faffles L" flios? was -d oom p j ih p-Dllce I o why he OKI ius lire. I wiew--1 My land I m Sin- be:i renurttd rom NOlng i hen ia v I SheU.P. - 59 words
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Article, Illustration33 1949-04-20 1 Captain Joy Bright Hancock, chief of the "Waves," U.S. equivalent of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Captain Hancock, who is sft. was paying a visit to Miss Jocrlyn Woollcombe. director of Britain's W.R.N.S.33 words
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Article15 1949-04-20 1 ARGENTINE MEAT MOVE Il',--riw i >es ope- x~\\ mii '»rdav. it pacicln? •v.-i' ship- A.P.A.P. - 15 words
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123 1949-04-20 1 Govt. buying up private lands in Java BATAVIA, Wednesday. THE Federal Government decided to repurchase private lands m West Java outside Batavia township, the Information Service of The Home Affairs Department announced today, according to Aneta, the Dutch news agency. Repurchase will be done by mutual agreement based on ;heReuter - 123 words
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Article59 1949-04-20 1 BRITAIN'S relations with '.he Republic *t Eire will continue to be handled by the Department for Commonwealth Relations and will not be transferred to the Foreign Office, said a spokesman yesterday. Britain's envoy m Dublin, Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, will continue to be known as UnitedReuter - 59 words
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Article, Illustration40 1949-04-20 1 The entry of Newfoundland into the Canadian confederation as the tenth province was welcomed at Ottawa by a salute from 25--pounder guns m the shadow of Canadian Parliament buildings. Similar salutes were fired m the provincial capitals of the dominion.40 words
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Article137 1949-04-20 1 MANILA, Tuesday. PRESIDENT QI'IRINO at a conference late yester--1 day m Bag uio disclosed that the $500,000 loan to Indonesia, which the Cabinet reportedly had approved earlier was "purely a business proposition." He said that Indonesia s application either m cash or surplus goods was being considered137 words
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Article141 1949-04-20 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. DRESIDENT TRUMAN yesterday signed into law a t 15-month U. 5.55,430,000.000 renewal of the Marshall Plan Present at the ceremony at the White House were the Foreign Aid Administrator, Mr. Paul Hottman and the Special Aid Ambassador to the Marshall' Plan countries, MrA.P. - 141 words
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Article51 1949-04-20 1 mHE Australian Government I yesterday charged the chairman of the West Australian Communist Party, Kevin Healy. with "uttering and publishing seditious statements." Healy Is the second Australian Communist leader to be charged. Australian Communist Party leader L. Sharkey is awaiting trial m Sydney for a similar offence.U.P. - 51 words
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Article39 1949-04-20 1 rriHE Secretary o* the TransI vaal Indian Congress. Mr. V CachaUa. said m Johannesburg yesterday that the re Sort of the Durban riots comnTiVsion presented nothing new and he felt that Its nnamg* must be rejected.- ReuterReuter - 39 words
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Article, Illustration77 1949-04-20 1 FAMED writer of detective thrillers. Leslie Charteris, will begin one of The Saint' series m the Free Press on Saturday. Leslie Char teris is an exMalayan m son of Dr. S. C. Yin of Singapore, and an old boy of St. Andrew's School. His detective novels77 words
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Article21 1949-04-20 1 President Truman *ent the new International wheat agreement to the Senate yesterday with ft plea lor early ratification ReuterReuter - 21 words
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274 1949-04-20 1 RANGOON, Wednesday. BURMESE Government forces, with Maymyo (35 miles west of Mandalay) back m their hands, yesterday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to White Band Communists inside Mandalay to come outside the city and face them m battle. The Army challenge said that If theReuter - 274 words
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Article61 1949-04-20 1 THE Ceniral Bank of China, m an apparent move to boost the morale of the Government troops m Kwangtung Province, is paying silver dollars to the men m the ranks. All officers and enlisted men have received one silver dollar each as allowance and another silverA.P. - 61 words
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Article34 1949-04-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE C.I.D. arrested 24 gamblers and three secret society members yesterday. One Chinese, a suspected member of the Malayan Communist Party, was arrested under the Emergency Regulations.34 words
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Article32 1949-04-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 16 mm. film projector and a film distributer, of a total value of $1,000, were stolen from the Singapore District Headquarters, Port Canning, last night.32 words
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Article78 1949-04-20 1 A 50- YEAR-OLD Siamese nurse employed m Mf 'bourne A for 21 years by a clergyman's family has been deported under Australia's Asiatic exclusion policy. The Rev. C. W. Norwood protested against the deportation of the servant, Meh Jerm Bufetr, and said it night provoke serious repercussionsA.P. - 78 words
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Article25 1949-04-20 1 Sir Noel Charles, new British ambassador to Turkey, conferred with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin. yesterday before leaving for Ankara U.P.U.P. - 25 words
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Article65 1949-04-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Y^ESTERDAY afternoon a X police pary at a squatter are,* at the 4th mile Chemoh Road. Ipoh. surrounded a hut. A Chinese ran out and fired at the police who shot and killed him. Hi* pistol fell into a mining pool He65 words
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Article17 1949-04-20 1 AN Indian military mission, headed by the Defence Secretary, Sardar Patel, is due In Washington.17 words
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Article175 1949-04-20 1 KARACHI, Tuesday. PAKISTAN today charged India with a number of breaches of the Kashmir cease-fire agreement, m a Government statement issued to the press. The Pakistan Government said it had received no protest from the United Nations Commission about breaches of the cease-fire agreement alleged toReuter - 175 words
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Article40 1949-04-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Three Chinese, one armed with a pistol and two with knives, broke into a house m Sembawang Road at 8.15 last night and robbed a Chinese family of $31.50 and two opium pipes.40 words
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Article201 1949-04-20 1 Red offer to lift blockade LONDON, Wednesday. REPORTS of a Russian approach to the United States on the possibility of reopening fourp.jwer talks on Germany if the Berlin blockade were lifted are substantially accurate, according to usually well-in-formed quarters here last ni^ht. The original approach fn»m the Soviet Union isReuter - 201 words
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Article30 1949-04-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter In the 24 hours ended last night there were ten arrests m the Federation thre« In Selangor, two m Perak and five m Pahang.30 words
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Article24 1949-04-20 1 A SPECIAL Nark* imw fm dent givw t he prU«« of rubb* no emti per Ik.) at 11 *.ra to&*f M follows:24 words
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Advertisement131 1949-04-20 1 FINDLATER'S SHERRIES PORTS RARE OLD SHER R I E S DRY FLY Pale Amber m colour; possesses the bouquet of a true fino 9*oo bot. DRY CLUB An exceedingly pleasant wine, on the dry side, which will be appreciated either as an aperitif or at dinner. 9*oo bot OLD FASHION131 words
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Article, Illustration518 1949-04-20 2 Best actors 'feel' their roles EK)R ages there have r been two schools of thought on acting. One says the best actors ••feel" their roles. The other insists on an intellectual approach. The "thinking" process m iramatic portrayal may be all right on the stage, or m En^Uih movies, saysA.P. - 518 words
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Article142 1949-04-20 2 CATHAY: Tomorrow HOMECOMING." starring Clark Gable tana Turner. Anne Baxter and John Hodiak. is a love story set during the last war. ♦liss Turner, m the guise of a nursing sister, wins Clark Gable's love but gets mortally wounded, so Gable returns home to his everloving wife. Miss142 words
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Article436 1949-04-20 2 Ralph Dighton - Ralph Dighton By yALENTINA Cortes^ is returning soon to her native Italy because she doesn't want to lose her appendix on foreign soil. Despite the unfortunate circumstances, she returns m triumph. She has Just completed a role m "Malaya," on loan from 20th Century FoxA.P. - 436 words
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Article, Illustration268 1949-04-20 2 IVTIIEN partner passes a takeout double, thereby converting it into a penalty double, it means, of course, that he is strong m the bid suit. It is usually best defence, therefore, to lead a trump at once, thus minimizing the opportunity for declarer to use his own small268 words
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82 1949-04-20 2 BROADWAY is talking today about British comedian Tommy Trinder's brilliant guest appearance at Leon and Eddie's night club on Easter Monday night. Trinder, en route to Australia, literally laid a Broadway audience m the aisles and astonished everybody by more than holding hisU.P. - 82 words
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Article826 1949-04-20 2 S.C. GEORGE - The Gentle P eople S.C. GEORGE b .y Barker a wast r, I ha* m v has escaped lo an is, n d ■■.<., j--. There he is befricn >j k. WaiJ '^o^. J^ have married. Mara is yo .,n h ltlf J^; ft t bl| Nl becomts enamoured cf826 words
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Advertisement33 1949-04-20 2 M- r a h«. c inv to rfpi< U Ba»-k-r m tomorrow* ifjstalment P»ofes>sof Ipo Si j L'• Lesson 1 T stanrfs for '<""< 'Scuse my X"" School i> cvtf I'll K4VO th A/woysolyo^rjer^i33 words
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Miscellaneous182 1949-04-20 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BORN today, you are a rather strange combination of characteristics. Although loving, kind and considerate, you can be domineering and stubborn wben pressed to do something against your will. You have strong will power and a magnetic personality. Consequently, your influence is going to be felt for182 words
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Miscellaneous204 1949-04-20 2 SINGAPORE (BIX'E NETWORK) 484 and 41.7 metres. Eraercency news from X I. at II am TODAY 10 to 10.10 News from K.L.; 1 Dance Music-Buzz Ad lam; 130 News; 1.45 Waltz Time; 6 Programme Summary; 6.02 Children's Programme; 6.20 Radio Orchestra: 7 News; 7.10 Shares it Anncts; 7.15 Interlude; 7.30204 words
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Miscellaneous416 1949-04-20 2 6.15 Report from Britain UtiC > 6.30 News In Cantonese iBBO. 6.45 Indonesian: News A Programme. 7.15 News In French (BUC». 7.30 English News: Prograjime Summary; QUESTION TlME— address letters to the PAR EASTERN SERVICE. BBC, LON- DON (BBC). 8.00 Siamese: ProI gramme Sc News: 8.15 Siamese (BBC). 8.30 News416 words
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Miscellaneous298 1949-04-20 2 8.43 Melody on the Move; 9 00 Calling Southern AAsiaa a talk by Ingle-Hall; 9.10 "Singers and Their Songs" Birltone Herbert Janasen; 9.30 Auatrallan Artists Perform; 10.00 News; 10.10 Light Orchestral: 10.15 Women's Newsletter; 10.30 Music for Millions; I 10.45 Australian on Record with Leo White orchestra Geoff Brook: 11.00298 words
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Article, Illustration20 1949-04-20 3 ftnet* Margaret waves goodbye to children on the ?.i visit to Downend Children's Homes At Bristol.20 words
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Article, Illustration209 1949-04-20 3 US REVOLUTION THEN-. i GEORiil negro who said he was trained m *>meow testified at the conspiracy, trial of 11 U.S. fommunisN that a Negro nation was to have been famed from southern sections of the United States k the flames of violent revolution. WilliamA.P. - 209 words
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Article17 1949-04-20 3 Jjj*^ us -.hreaiening nomads of the Beja Asiara ribes In the Sudan, where frj? ravaging grazing ReuterReuter - 17 words
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Article137 1949-04-20 3 EAR-OLD woman who has brought 12 legal at a cost of £6,000 and who is now is been barred by the High Court from "Ntag further actions. i-.nucks was Lord Goddard. Justice, as a said Sir >ss, K.C., the -a!, had caused "8 and waste137 words
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Article370 1949-04-20 3 INDIA IS TO BUILD TALLEST DAM yjigantic 'Lost Horizon 9 project J^f ,?J Mount Eve *est, m the lost horizon dam^ 17 *i, Nepal India P lans t0 build U* th^J n e f rth steel and concrete yall that will tower 750 feet out of a rocky gorge. nnrtKA.P. - 370 words
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Article54 1949-04-20 3 UNDERGRADUATES at the University College of Wales, Bangor, wanted a bar In the men's common room I for 800 delegates to the International Students' Congress there this week. But Bangor magistrates have refused an application for a licence for the period of the congress. The college has been54 words
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Article, Illustration40 1949-04-20 3 j^afe^lessoii m roping a steer, m this case a plywood cow. It was invented by Earl Duane. rodeo and film trick roper embryo cowgirl six-year-old Sheila Fine (left) sets the "cow" m motion while Mike Marian, nine, waits her turn.40 words
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Article83 1949-04-20 3 rE Madras Government has banned betting on horse racing throughout the presidency, with effect from April 1 next year. The Minister of Information, Mr. M. Bhaktavatsalam, stated that by this measure the Government would lose a revenue of Rs. 2,700,000 (about £202,000) annually. The Madras GovernmentReuter - 83 words
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Article96 1949-04-20 3 MOSCOW Radio recently quoted the official Comlnform weekly journal m Bucharest as saying that Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and his "clique" were performing a special task m the plans of the Imperialists for the preparation of a new war." "American Imperialists have right-wing socialist agents suchReuter - 96 words
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Article166 1949-04-20 3 He quitsto avoid a strike jyfß. CHARLES ROUT, 50--year-old watchman at Brodsworth Main, biggest pit m Yorkshire, is giving up his five-room home to prevent a strike of 3,300 miners. He has told Major-General Sir Noel Holmes, chairman of the Divisional Coal Board: "I am not prepared to be the166 words
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Article58 1949-04-20 3 THE Government has decided that Scottish school children are not learning to speak English properly. So a strong team of "speech therapists will visit schools to deal with complaints that pupils are talking m a careless, inarticulate, and defective manner." But there will be no attempt to58 words
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Article158 1949-04-20 3 Ship-to-shore Rhine service RHINE river shipping belonging to five countries will have ship-to-shore radio service m operation probably by July this year. Government communications experts of the countries using the Rhine Belgium, Holland, France, Switzerland and Western Germany reached a preliminary agreement to establish the service at a conference atReuter - 158 words
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Article73 1949-04-20 3 "TIASTERN sector German police fired on demonstrators m a crowd of 30,000 people watching cycle races at the Berlin Stadium. A police car had to run the gauntlet of an angry crowd to get away after the shooting. Spectators were beaten up, box offices overturnedReuter - 73 words
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Article152 1949-04-20 3 CONSTANT night watch wa s kept by police for two months for a "Peeping Tom" who was frightening Durham University girl students by looking through the windows of their rooms. They eventually arrested John Carr, 28, painter, of Summer vJJle Durham, and he pleaded guilty toReuter - 152 words
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Article, Illustration46 1949-04-20 3 Phyllis Calvert, film actress and collector of educational curios, was a visitor to "The English at School "Exhibition hi London where she saw some of her own pieces on display. Here she is with one of them a terrestrial globe hi the form of an umbrella.46 words
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229 1949-04-20 3 A WARDING £250 damages and costs to a Swansea A hotelkeeper who alleged that a Food Enforcement officer called him "the biggest king-pin black marketeer m Swansea", Mr. Justice Sellers said: "Those who have a duty to pry into other people's business should conduct themselves229 words
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Article82 1949-04-20 3 THE Far Eastern Economic Review said yesterday that Hong Kong has enjoyed boom conditions since the end of war. "Trade m terms of value has been higher than at any time m the history of the colony," the Review said. The reason for the phenomenal increaseA.P. - 82 words
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Article53 1949-04-20 3 Buyers market in U.S. now THE post-war UJS. sellers market has declined m nearly every line of commodities except cars and metals, the Commerce Department reported It said the turn towards the buyers market was accompanied by a slight drop m the production of goods and services m January and53 words
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209 1949-04-20 3 f fH£ House of Lords gave Countess Mountbatten permission to present her private Bill seeking greater control over the £1 400.000 left to her by her grandfather. The Bill says she finds that provisions of her grandfather's will are a "source of difficulty and embarrassment"209 words
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Article61 1949-04-20 3 THE Rev. L. B. Z Davies, 47- year -old r»ctor of Claxby (Lines), is to appear before a Consistory Court. His bishop has told him that he must not perform church services from today until the proceedings are concluded. Six weeks ago at the Old Bailey61 words
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Article76 1949-04-20 3 THREE young maids at a 1 Youth Leaders' Hostel m Chepstow— Gladys, Lilian and Kathleen were powdering their noses m their bedroom before being introduced to the. Duke of Gloucester. They heard a step on the landing, and all three dived into a cupboard. It was76 words
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Article, Illustration352 1949-04-20 4 PERAKS 32nd SULTAN INSTALLED If UALA Kangsar, last Satu-day, was the scene of Royal pageantry, the occasion being the installation of Sir Yussol Izzudin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Jalil, K.C.M.G., 0.8.E.. as the 32nd Sultan of Perak The Sultan photographed at the ceremony is seen on the right. ToLee Tuck Soon - 352 words
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Article216 1949-04-20 5 NEW CALL FOR US AID ASIA PLAN Big projects proposed miti cuiurary 10 me Judgment, the advice and the counsel of the overwhelming majority of the best informed, impartial students of the world." Mr. Stassen said the European Recovery Programme for Europe, fostered &y former Secretary of State. Mr. GeorgeA.P. - 216 words
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Article84 1949-04-20 5 boys, one d-a-half. the years old, J^ an •impossi:n a county *ril '^..dren's home Jfare. Hertfordshire. f^^j, managed to as much too :nb. and it-nmnim skirt* the Markets- Home. K*fctl by n of the or duced fer.ces. and :h^ two river. ible." said c horn? last ■hali-year-z.84 words
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Article100 1949-04-20 5 FOB u-r ki history :.oi ventured :::e In Polar England's A 12ft. llin. tanle o: On species v/as re- H unhain, i-^tuary. caused conmnbit d among 8r1-..-'.oriana. Dr. C Frazer, Deputy Keeper tfWogy a: :he Natural HisT^ltiii- rtb Kensing"a. wrote to Nature: I His is or.lv the100 words
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Article49 1949-04-20 5 VTORMAN Baillie-Stewart, ii Jailed for aiding the enemy by broadcasting from Germany during the war. has been released from Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight. Mr. L. A. Hislam, secretary of the Freedom Defence Committee, says Baillie-Stewart is almost certain to try to leave for Germany.49 words
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Article125 1949-04-20 5 i-'ATIONAL scheme for vaccinating Britons tuberculosis will start this year, the ■*ry of Health has announced. The vaccine, I hH developed during the past 20 years, •te administered by teams of experts to volunteer Bacciiius Caldmed after ■•entors. which has ■*Mely jsed m Scandiwhere125 words
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Article71 1949-04-20 5 TTJE Greek General Staff has claimed that between April 1 and 15,852 guerillas were killed, 89 surrendered and 906 were captured all over Greece. During the same period army casualties were 101 dead. 409 wound eiJ and 54 missing, the announcement said The heaviest toll wasA.P. - 71 words
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Article66 1949-04-20 5 TWO boys who escaped from the open Borstal institution at HoUesley Bay, near Ipswich, broke into a canteen and ate: One tin of fish, one tin of peas one tin of sweetened milk, 2 lb. of brown sugar, i lb barley kernels, 1 lb. of margarine, one packet66 words
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Article54 1949-04-20 5 T*HE St. Pancras Coroner 1 said there was no substance for the suggestion m a letter left by Mrs. Ida Young 40 year-old Czech wife of Commander B. P. Young, R.N., that her husband had left for her the rope with which she hanged herself. Verdict: Suicide54 words
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Article, Illustration36 1949-04-20 5 The King's Troop of the Roya! Horse -Artillery rehearsing—in Regent's Park, London the musical drive they will contribute to this year's Royal Tournament. The Tournament, annual display by the Services, opens m London on June 16.36 words
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Article170 1949-04-20 5 -geon" nas vi- ed m to operate. V»^ V e yer 7 sick Old JSV- con-! kSiJ""" Pofg Art GaUery jCJi v m; -ala assistants to I Pierre Je^n>ry hung with masterpieces awaiting treatment. In his "surgery," an airconditioned shelter full of Instruments, lay a170 words
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Article, Illustration37 1949-04-20 5 photo. The dog m the New Look dress wheels her bassinet m authentic style m Ringllng Bros, and Barnura and Bailey's Circus, which has just opened its spring season at Madison Square Garden. New York City. A.P.A.P. - 37 words
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Article280 1949-04-20 5 RICHARD SORRENSON wore his Savile-row type 1V of clothes well. He was 40 and plausible. He was enthusiastic and persuasive. People believed what he said. To would-be emigrants he seemed to hold the key to a golden future as golden as the print of his280 words
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Article92 1949-04-20 5 MRS. Valeric May Col-clough-Hoey was warned by Mr. Justice Vaisey m the Chancery Division m London that she would be jailed if she spoke to her husband when he is entering or leaving his office. Messrs. Markmaster, Ltd.. of York Buildings, Adelphi, had complained that Mrs.92 words
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Article134 1949-04-20 5 THE world's fastest jet air race will take place over a four-sided 20-mile course starting and finishing at Elrndon Airport Birmlng bam, on August I— August Bank Holiday. The cream of Britain's jet fighters and Jet pilots will compete, and as it la an international handicap134 words
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Article52 1949-04-20 5 JOHN William Shelley, 43, of J Ouildford-street, Portsmouth, was bound over for six months because of an incident after a football match between Portsmouth and .Liverpool. It was stated that Shelley ran across the pitch m an annarentiy aggressive attitude to the Liverpool goalkeeper, who called for52 words
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Article302 1949-04-20 5 M rjET cracking or go home", Southern Rhodesia has given this warning to austerity migrants from Britain who imagined that m this African territory they could get-rich-quick m "the easy way." The report of a Development Commission urging "All pull your weight" says, "Reports from other302 words
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Article184 1949-04-20 5 Spiritgets notice to quit THE spirit of Ching Wing Woo, long-dead Chinese diplomat of the days of the Mandarins, hovered uneasily over The limes, a rambling ten-roomed house In Wellington road, Smethwlck, Staffordshire. For Mrs. Gladys Skelding. 42-year-old medium whcr claims Ching Wing Woo as her spirit guide, has been184 words
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Article116 1949-04-20 5 THREE days spent hidden m a ship's lifeboat, which left him cramped, frostbitten, and seasick, have not cured 18-year-old John Peter Ryan's love of the sea. John, whose home is m Fallowfleld, Cambridge, stowed away m the 650-ton motorsteamship Splrality at King's Lynn, and crawled116 words
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Article43 1949-04-20 5 NEGOTIATIONS are under way In Seoul for the withdrav/al of American forces from South Korea, says the U.S. State Department. A spokesman confirming a report from President Syngman Rhee said the actual withdrawal would probably come m a few months A.P.A.P. - 43 words
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Article62 1949-04-20 5 rE former U.S. President, Mr. Herbert Hoover, declared m Washington the waste m military spending was "startling" and that defence expenditures were seriously imperilling the nations economy. Mr. Hoover told the Senate Armed^Forces Committee that Congress was allocating thousands of millions of dollars without knowing exactly why62 words
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Article32 1949-04-20 5 Mrs. Margaret Good, mother of the Bristol quads, has appealed for help to balance the family budget. The quads cost, about £4 a week, Sodbury Rural Council, Gloucestershire, was told.32 words
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Article176 1949-04-20 5 IN any month, 15 per cent, more women than men are ill m Britain. And 37 per cent, more women than men complain of illness Men are more sensitive to season, though. I These are facts from the 1944-1947 Survey of Sickness for England and176 words
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Article, Illustration202 1949-04-20 5 npHE foreign "fly for pay" pilots m Israel, who served m the Israeli Air Force, have received cash offers t° serve m Spain m the event of a fresh civil war m that country. These offers evidently come from the exiled Republicans m France.A.P. - 202 words
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Article31 1949-04-20 5 A 15-year-old girl who appeared before East London Juvenile Court as being beyond parental control, was said to have smoked ten cigarettes a day when she was at school.31 words
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Article85 1949-04-20 5 TO help m the upkeep of his 16-roomed vicarage at Sedgeford, Norfolk, the Rev. S. C. Mascall and his wife opened part of it this weekend as a youth hostel. 'We have had only iwo people so far," Mrs. Mascall, who will run It unaided, said85 words
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Advertisement93 1949-04-20 5 AND HIS CITY SUCKERS LASSUS TROMBONE MINKA BD 1174 PEOPLE ARE FUNNIER THAN ANYBODY MY OLD FLAME BD 1200 I KISS YOUR HAND MADAME I'M GETTING SENTIMENTAL OVER YOU BD 12 J 4 DRIP, DRIP, DRIP. HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS BD 1115 HAWAIIAN WAR CHANT I DREAM OF BROWNIE WITH THE93 words
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632 1949-04-20 6 The Singapore Free Press WED NESDAY. April 20, 1949. NO LACK OF ADVICE MEN oi most shades of political opinion m Malaya and Singapore seem to have reached tacit agreement that what is needed out here, apart from a steady flow ot financial help, is a datrd programme of the632 words
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Article16 1949-04-20 6 He that loveih not knoweth not God: for God is love. I. John, 4. 8.16 words
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Article, Illustration227 1949-04-20 6 1 70 million Indians go polling BOMBAY: ONE hundred and seventy million Indians, the largest single electoral unit m the world, will go to the polls m the first general elections under India's new Constitution. The Indian Constituent Assembly, which has been discussing the Constitution for more than two years,Reuter - 227 words
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Article, Illustration670 1949-04-20 6 JOSEPH VEIGA - Pirates pester trade on China's rivers JOSEPH VEIGA By HONGKONG: NAVIGATING ships along South China's rivers is a precarious undertaking today because of piracy and terrorist activity on the part of what are officially described as "bandits" who operate along the shores of narrow waterways. Conditions prevailing today parallel, mReuter - 670 words
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Article374 1949-04-20 6 Denis Warner - CAN THE JAPS BE UN-JAPANESE? Denis Warner By IT is not so long since the Allies, and the Americans m particular, were very much concerned with all forms of Japanese activities, and it was on these that all Allied investigations m Japan centred. For this reason it is perhaps surprisingReuter; AAP - 374 words
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Article76 1949-04-20 6 Mr. Dennis Hope and Mr. Harry Anstice of Bedminster, Bristol, have converted a £20 ex-Government lifeboat into a 'fluid jetpropelled craft capable of a speed of at least 30 knots. Mr. Hope has evolved a new i principle, full details of which -cannot be disclosed until patent negotiations have been76 words
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Article, Illustration506 1949-04-20 6 Asia is searched for bauxite WASHINGTON: THE United States Bureau issued a report on "sources of bauxite m Asia", intended primarily to provide information on the bauxite deposits which provided raw materials for Japan's pre-war aluminium industry. Distance from Japan is 4,500 miles. The report said that the only knownA.P. - 506 words
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Article51 1949-04-20 6 PHENOMENAL Easter holii day weather held out for holidaymakers m Southern England who crowded beaches and parks for a final sunbathe before going "back o work." People m the north were not so fortunate, with heavy rain and cloudy skies break Ing the weekend heat wave.—Reuter - 51 words
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246 1949-04-20 6 AN American population expert suggests that birth control is an urgent need m the "peasant villages" of the Far East. There, according to Dr. Frank W. Notestein, are huge populations that need a form of birth control which will be "acceptable, effective and cheap.'A.P. - 246 words
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216 1949-04-20 6 CARTER L. DAVIDSON - Elizabeth doesn't want company yet.... CARTER L. DAVIDSON By A K2L»* Elizabeth.^ housewives. (W want company^ g row hoiwumu^fi are nisi so ru7 ion is like of hi b.ncon. aboi. for months r.paujn."? damage Orman bomb*? meted on the foot* century and-a-mansion Decorators modf-n ciuc. nitj; the fu varc :r.scn'A.P. - 216 words
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Advertisement21 1949-04-20 6 Idrcnuuyt a/ Time from month Scie Agtnts. mftfiAftEE KHATEM 6 CO. 18 Robinson Road. TUCK CHEONG 441 a MM ii"-i.« uoad.21 words
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Advertisement9 1949-04-20 6 THE COLITMN ON UNION MATTERS WILL APPEAR NEXT WEEK9 words
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336 1949-04-20 7 ILLEGAL RURAL BUILDING STILL RIFE Govt continues check-up Free Wess Staff Reporter LATEST official reports on unauthorised houses m Singapore rural areas show that inspectors of the Rural Board located an average of 50 such houses each month during the quarter ended last month, and obtained court fines totalling $1,383,336 words
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Article, Illustration53 1949-04-20 7 Mr J- van Royen. interviewed by the Press and Radio, mi his arrival at Kemajoran airfield. Batavla, recently. Dutch representative on the Security Council, Mr. van Royen is m Batavia for the round-table talks between the United Nation? Good Offices Committee, the Dutch, the Federalists and the Republicans. The discussions53 words
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Article, Illustration166 1949-04-20 7 Free Press Stan Reporter i PROPOSAL that Dr. T. H. Silcock, Professor of Economics at Raffle s College, be "lent" to the :::ed Nations Organisation to serve as Social \d\i>er for South-East Asia for nine Btffe. i> being considered by the College authorik :s now166 words
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Article45 1949-04-20 7 f the Munici- will be c: a traffic r. :i MixvcU Road, Road and roundD up by ::ie€r and by memAdvisory a! derations. Municipal -ie Empress space avallTrarf.c Adjßoari have also recom- be con- 3::dge and :ed from X r. Bridge45 words
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Article27 1949-04-20 7 There were 28 deaths from tuberculosis m Singapore during the week ending April 9. The infantile death rate decreased from 93.20 to 89 4627 words
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Article19 1949-04-20 7 Mr. B. C. J. Buckeridge, Deputy Registrar of Vehicles, has been appointed a Police Magistrate for Singapore.19 words
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Article, Illustration26 1949-04-20 7 Inche Abdul Manaff bin Abdullah and Inche Kamsiah binte Haji Idris who were married on Sunday m Singapore. The ceremony took place at 74 Jalan Sultan26 words
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Article24 1949-04-20 7 v Director PubUc "ion »Far ring m Sin- his way to I end view Information He wU be reS ?apor« after hia24 words
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Article85 1949-04-20 7 "I have no home, no monej and am too ill to work." said Lee Yiu In the First District Court yesterday, on being charged with having no identity card. Lee added that he had an attap hut m Geylang, but il had been demolished.85 words
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Article147 1949-04-20 7 Free Press Staff Reporter CONFRONTED with housing problems ever since the liberation, the United States Consulate General m Singapore has followed the example of many firms m the Colony by buying six houses and building two more to accommodate its staff and those of the U.S.147 words
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Article32 1949-04-20 7 Mr. H. W. Moxon has been appointed a member of the Board of Management of the War Risks 'Goods) Insurance Fund. In place of Mr. A. A. Baker.32 words
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Article235 1949-04-20 7 Wet rubber imports: Dutch view f OMMENTINO on reports "apparently inspired by owner- of rubber remilling factories," that import* of wet rubber Into Singapore from Sumatra have dwindled since the beginning of this year as the result of Indonesian export restrictions, a spokesman of the Dutch Consulate General m Singapore,235 words
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Article59 1949-04-20 7 A talk on "The development of the trade union tradition" will be given by the Trade Union AdvUer, Singapore. Mr. A. Simpson, under the chairmanship of the President of the Army Civil Service Union Mr. 8. 8. Man yam. on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 331, North59 words
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Article248 1949-04-20 7 TENGKU Yaacob ibni Sultan Abdul H a m i d the acting Deputy Director of! Agriculture, Federation of Malaya, is leaving for England j via U.S.A by the President Grant on Sunday. Tengku Yaacob is a younger brother of the present Sultan of Kedah. He was248 words
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Article287 1949-04-20 7 THREE TO HANG FOR MURDER rpHREE men who took part m the murder of a young boatman at sea were sentenced to death m the Singapore Assize Court yesterday. They were: Ong Chee Boon, Tan Ah Mvi and Ng Ah Seng. They were found guilty of the murder of 19-year-old287 words
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Article105 1949-04-20 7 MRS. NAN MONDAY and Mrs. D. V. Welch, wives of Servicemen, who came to Singapore early this year to Join their husbands, said m the First District Court, Singapore, yesterday that they knew nothing about having to obtain identity cards until recently. Mrs. Monday said105 words
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Article103 1949-04-20 7 THE Radio Doctor will be answering listener's questions over the blue network of Radio Malaya at 8 tonight. All questions should be sent to Radio Doctor, Department of Broadcasting, Cathay Building, Singapore. A new series of broadcasting begins this evening at 10 o'clock, when Mr.103 words
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Article, Illustration51 1949-04-20 7 The general manager of the London Express Syndicate, Mr. W. T. Aitken, (central figure) is photographed during his visit to the office of the Singapore daily newspaper, Utusan Melayu. He was shown round the plant by Inche Yusof bin Ishak (left), the editor, and by the Inche Samad Ismail, a51 words
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290 1949-04-20 7 MALAYAN Airways has been granted permission by the Governments of Sarawak and North Borneo to open an air service between Singapore and those territories m the near future. It is hoped that the Kurhlng and Jesselton airfields will be ready early m June when a290 words
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Article33 1949-04-20 7 Mr. A. Corbet has been appointed tc be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Improvement Ordinance m place of Mr. Robert Renton who Is on leave.33 words
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Article165 1949-04-20 7 TEN YEARS INSTEAD OF GALLOWS FE sentence of cit., passed at the Sin^ap -re Assizes on a Punjabi. Hg.z. at Moor, who fatally woundec i bus conductor during a scufl c m a trolley bus, was altecea o ten years' rigorous .mpr> i ment by the Full Court f Appeal165 words
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Article27 1949-04-20 7 Driving rain off Singapore yesterday morning resulted n the P and O Canton berthiof alcngside the Harbour Board wharves nearly two hours behind schedule.27 words
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Article22 1949-04-20 7 IPOH, Tues.— Mr O (J. Duddell of Evatt and C< s Ipoh branch, will shortly to England on leave.22 words
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Article213 1949-04-20 8 JAPS MAY PAY MALAYA MILLION For tin looted during war AN official of the Singapore Economic Affairs Department said yesterday that Malaya might get about £1,000,000 from the sale m Japan of Malayan tin looted by the Japanese during their occupation. "The United Kingdom Liaison Mission m Japan, working m213 words
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Article, Illustration60 1949-04-20 8 pictures. A fleet of 41 vessels of many types is operated by 986 Coy., Royal Army Service Corps Water Transport, round Singapore and Malayan coastal waters. The fleet is stationed at Pulau Brani. These pictures show an engine room crew of a landing craft at their morning break for tea,Army PR - 60 words
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Article102 1949-04-20 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent MALACCA, Tues. riRIGHTENED by the F strangling and stabbing of three Chinese squatten by bandits, about 40 others In the Ayer Item Machap area have begun a voluntary evacuation. Police today recovered the three bodies from a swamp where they had102 words
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Article310 1949-04-20 8 ERTRETRETRTRE LONDON, Wednesday. 'THE three-week trading period on the London 1 Stock Exchange which had included among other things, the Budget, local elections and the dock strike—ended yesterday on a firm note, says Reuter's financial correspondent. There were small downward changes m a few tin and310 words
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Article243 1949-04-20 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. HEAVILY armed police guarded the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall when the Selangor committee of the Malayan Chinese Association held its first meeting today. A large force of policemen with automatic weapons were stationed round the building while243 words
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Article30 1949-04-20 8 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues.— The managers of Han Yang, Sedenak. Sungel Tekong and Nlyor Estates were each fined $15 today for not keeping the estate motor vehicles In a serviceable condition.30 words
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Article159 1949-04-20 8 ALLIED POLICY TOWARD EX-ENEMIES A NGLO- AMERICAN affairs A specialist. Dr. George Stewart, lecturing to more than 600 officers and men of the Army and the Royal Air Force m the Astra Cinema. Changi. yesterday, said he thought Britain and America would allow both Japan and Germany to rise to159 words
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Article172 1949-04-20 8 GIRLS IN CABARET SQUABBLE SEVERAL dance hostesses came to the Singapore First District Court yesterday as witnesses m a case m which a hostess is on trial on a charge of criminal intimidation. The accused, Margaret Chan. Is alleged to have threatened Fatimah binte Rahmat. another dance hostess, with bodily172 words
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Article193 1949-04-20 8 From Our Own Correspondent TELUK ANSON. Tues— Mr. E. F. Allen, Agricultural Officer. Perak South, has left here on transfer to Ipoh ai acting State Agricultural Officer, Perak. LOANS Consols SOS +fc Fund 4 1960-90 113% War 34% 104% RAILS Can. Pac. (£5) 19 BANKS Chartered <£5 pd.)193 words
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Article, Illustration62 1949-04-20 8 picture. Five of Macao's leading table tennis stars, Wong: Seek Tim, Wong Wen Ling, (captain), Roul da Rosa Dugue (1917 champion). Ma Hong Veng and Leong Mun Oon, members of a nineman team from the Portuguese colony, who arrived m Singapore yesterday m the Canton from Hong Kong to participateFree Press - 62 words
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Article80 1949-04-20 8 MALAYA Is one of the best markets m the world for Scotch whisky, said a director of William Grant and Sons Ltd., distillers, Mr. W. Grant Gordon, In Singapore yesterday. He arrived by the Canton from Hong Kong with one of the firm's representatives, Mr. Arthur80 words
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134 1949-04-20 8 REL^R-Admlral J A. Collins, first member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and Australia's Chief of Naval Staff, passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to attend a naval conference In Britain. Tasmanian-born Admiral Collln* said last night In an Interview that hii trip134 words
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Article122 1949-04-20 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANO. Tuesday. A NEWLY-MARRIED couple returning to Ipoh after spending Easter In Penang dded yesterday In a motor crash at the Buklt TengahBuklt Mertajam cross roads m Province Wellesley. They were burled at a Joint funeral this afternoon. The couple, Mr. and122 words
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40 1949-04-20 8 YOUNG GIRL JAILED FOR HELPING BANDITS CufrespondtnT sion of arms and 22? SIS Dec, and cap: J per^ sicn son The J was fool m another p r.. yea: Lin to three years nd Lot Mo! to a year's ""H»40 words
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Advertisement92 1949-04-20 8 King Smiler" orders the world-wide use of Cow and Gate Milk Food. M And we are trying hard to carry out the wishes ol B wise and beneficent Ruler for we know the «orl m Babies are waiting for Cow and Gate. Something m Uttle better, something a little different,92 words
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Miscellaneous161 1949-04-20 8 mdlidrdkG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya MR BOUNCE CROSS-EXAMINES J/qiiiTfei-i uirMiin M^ppiYM^p^fr i SfBMIT M'LirP V t j^. .*^£2HBBB| 7* 1 MRS DAMPER IXPIcT A LADY OF YOUR I ITS NO SIGN OF \(y^ 1 T J T161 words
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Miscellaneous49 1949-04-20 8 A:r rr.*...- are dNe* Laau&r.. Sarawak Bru:.e; tse Er -CM* Bata- P Soirabeya ar.d Pacing C iing tines te paung is-mi-Ua r :he G.F Bata- 4 z for UK Ader. Arab*. Carrot Europe bill DM, Iraq. Ham ar.i P UM t.vt B b America. HoUtai, Sam ut Mcdar. 649 words
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Article, Illustration1352 1949-04-20 9 SYDNEY S. BIRCH - SYDNEY S. BIRCH by Chief Detective Inspector former Second-in-Command of Scotland Yard's Fingerprint Department HISS X UNMASKS HER BOSS-HE WAS A SPY UIE bravest girl I I t r knew was a Irish secrel agent. H>t kl the only duties at rtbn.i VawTa FinDepartoeni into that world of1,352 words
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Article108 1949-04-20 9 A WHALE MEETS ITS END f*own to kwi m »hi!im snips W hard, lonely liie. ci\ili- onetimes as long v tht-ir rewards ■*•■*>. i .r they share the Nurwecian arrived m New ■•the hr>t lap of its Mat to Tonsber* LJ* been it <ea 10 o»t»st of which was »hf108 words
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Article767 1949-04-20 9 K.S. CHIIA - Punctuality or the lack of it K.S. CHII A by ORIENTAL punctuality!" How often have you heard this exasperating reference uttered by young Asiatics at Chinese dinners which would not get started. It is not "punctuality they are complaining about. This carping reference is usually made by English educated Chinese767 words
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Article493 1949-04-20 9 From A Special Correspondent XyELL-known Lon don milliner Hugh Beresford arrived m Australia recently with a collection of his loveliest Autumn models for 1949. N The 150 hats were mostly soft fur felts, velours, velvets and the new luxury fabric, melusine. Australian seasons are the reverse of493 words
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Advertisement50 1949-04-20 9 TONIGHT THE COCKTAIL HOUR with FRANK PICKFOKD at the Piano 7 TO 8 P.M INFORMAL DANCE FROM 8.45 P.M FRANK PICKFORD his ORCHESTRA I Jimmy Stewart I tn the kind of part you want < sfe*ES'' W^^ f i*You Gotta Sta^Happyl ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING!! THRILLING GRIPPING. A MAGNIFICENT STOR V SAT.50 words
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Article639 1949-04-20 10 CRUSADER - C.A. ALL OUT TO DEFEAT ROVERS Key match m League today CRUSADER By DOTH Chinese Athletic and Rovers take the field today confident of success m one of the key matches of the S.A.F.A. Senior League. For C.A. it is their stiffest test so far this season. "We beat Rovers639 words
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Article327 1949-04-20 10 THAT m the language of thoroughbred ancestry. It Is universally and arbitrarily accepted that if a mare has two colts by the same sire, they are. of course, brothers. If she has two colts by different tires they are half brothers. But two colts by the same327 words
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Article, Illustration351 1949-04-20 10 Malayan soccer stars... No. 5 By MARK FERNANDO A BORN footballer is Dollah Don, who will captain Johore's Malaya Cup team this season. He is also the skipper of the Permuda Club XI, who are making a bid to retain the League champidnship which they351 words
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315 1949-04-20 10 A $70,000 new sports ground at Balestier Plain and the building of a new and spacious tennis pavilion at Bras Basah Road ar e being planned by the Singapore V.M.C.A. The General Secretary of the Association, Mr. Rowland Lyne, told the Free Press yesterday that315 words
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Article, Illustration142 1949-04-20 10 picture. picture. The start of the 100 metres breast-stroke race for «omen at the aquatic meet of the Chinese swimming clubs <>J j>»» gapore and Penanf held at the S.C.S.C. pool In Ambe' Road during the week-end. Left to ty* i: m J^SSV£ Yoke Ying (Penang),Free Press - 142 words
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Article473 1949-04-20 10 KEN JALLEH - KEN JALLEH By rpAKE eleven good footballers of any nationality, J- add a sufficient amount of harmony and plenty of co-operation, put them on the field and you have the Singapore Rovers. The history of the Singapore Rovers goes back to 1937, when a group of473 words
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Article56 1949-04-20 10 Saturday s U.K. soccer fixtures Ar~ na UtUfc* Asion v i-hn^ BJa<kp«ol v l';» f I-lvi t| v 'fUt^* bhHhrltf I Jr».i w v^ liilham »«t«U) c I I Ij, Pl wi.. an. Arj ",h a •< Kriiht. t H y»»w»c I C J" M «*T MiiU *»*«l! N..ah..i,.pi. )n56 words
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Advertisement111 1949-04-20 10 LAST 3 SHOWS U-1.45-4.W-6.30-9.30 KW6/iKM MtfK. ASonqh'Born rev... i- TICHSICOLOR o-c-**. HOWARD Hi'A^S TOMORROW More Refmhing than I "Sitting Pretty" and "Miracle on 34th Street" I JEANNE GRAIN WILLIAM HOLDEN w EDMUND GWENN APARTMENT C ■♦<•• 3 and Writt«M fe/ Scr««a by GEORGE SEATON fr^vMd b y WILUAM PERIBERO Phone111 words
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Advertisement78 1949-04-20 10 lr^if;UJiii|»|i™ii,uui TOP SECRET REVEALE° AY AT W^% -UAX THE J a I FIVE SHOWS „T II om, 1.45, 4.00, 6.30 09^ B-^ap-' i i, in c j s^^rarit *L.^W^^k PENNZOIL, flows fast tc farthe-* Jj^ cause it to free of sl«^ InsUntly to reduce fUrting we. tt« bo* f PENNZOIL78 words
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Article337 1949-04-20 11 THOMAS CUP TO BE PUT ON DISPLAY Malayan team back m June ♦JHE beautiful trophy presented by Sir George Thomas for the international badminton competition, which has been won by Malaya, will be exhibited at various centres m the Federation before it reaches Singapore. The victorious Malayan team is due337 words
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Article, Illustration70 1949-04-20 11 picture. The Macao table tennis team, which arrived m Singapore yesterday by the F. and O. Canton. They will be entertained to luncheon by the Chinese Chin Woo A.A. tomorrow. On Saturday the Singapore Table Tennis Association will hold a luncheon m their honour. The Chinese Sports Association will giveFree Press - 70 words
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Article289 1949-04-20 11 Lflf EKH AMFTON Wanderers, tuning up for their bi< date with Leicester City m the totball \nn jciation Cup final on April 30, showed jjinjj form yesterday m beating Sheffield United 4in a I easue match. It was the worst defeat for vytfield this season. ingA.P. - 289 words
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Article64 1949-04-20 11 lone but fflng disla 3 «m the 26 miles mm 50 8 annual rac? the 13T other -he Joimqp of New 2 hr. 35 mtn waa 2 hr. v m B>k: suh He was a^a'.n. but a him r^: ied m to Ame* I &m N gro.Reuter - 64 words
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Article74 1949-04-20 11 B class iaiak. of the Malay irj Singapore* requited AS H; Ikmail •8 acs- X a R.,.::m ls > I Su^lman M bpm 15 Sim) «-15> ,_l5) 3 H' Ha<y»ar 15* wo. Ka *he '"A* ■Ail. be starting Eunos .-nil —30 Basir Abdullah Hi N^.rn l5) Yusof74 words
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Article155 1949-04-20 11 LATEST addition to the amenities at R.A.F. Station, Changi is a nine-hole jjolf course, m which all the natural features of the land have been cleverly utilised. There are no sand bunkers, these being considered unnecessary on account of the natural i hazards, such as155 words
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Article76 1949-04-20 11 'pHE probable runners and jockeys for the City and Suburban Handicap, to be run over a mile and a quarter at Epsom today number 11. They are: Impeccable (Gordon Richards). Hope Street (E. Britt), Rear Admiral (D. Robertsons, Native Heath (Eph Smith), Mighty Maharatta (C.Reuter - 76 words
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Article50 1949-04-20 11 T'HE 1^49 U.S. Major League baseball season •pened on Monday with two upsets as Philadelphia defeated the National League ch/impions, Boston Braves, 4—o and Washington beat the favoured Philadelphia Athletic 3—2. President Truman tossed out the first ball, left-handed, to officially open the season. A.P.A.P. - 50 words
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Article, Illustration26 1949-04-20 11 picture. AtnbJer, the K.E.M.E. goalkeeper, gathers a high shot m yesterday's S.A.F.A. Senior League match at Jalan Besar stadium. Pulau Brani United won 10-0. Free PressFree Press - 26 words
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Article47 1949-04-20 11 ASCCCER match will be played at Fairer Park between the first team of the Dutch Club and R.A.F., Tengah, tomorrow at 5.15 i pm. Th° Dutch Club tram will be: Huy-singh; Teunissen, Keur; Sqnsvelt, Mathot, Ten Duis V Oudenallen, Grummels, Kermer Warrchers, Guld mond.47 words
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Article74 1949-04-20 11 FIRST DIVISION Anton Villa 1. Sanderlaad 1. Wolves 6. Sheffield 0. SECOND DIVISION Coventry C. 1. West Bromwich I Sheffield i. Chesterfield 0. THIRD DIVISION NORTHERN Bradford C. 2. Acerinjfton St. 8. Third DhrWon Southern Torquay U. 2. Cry*Ul Pal. t. Scottish "A" Division Third Lanark 3. Hibernian IRISHReuter - 74 words
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Article48 1949-04-20 11 TO Meveagh was yesterday named non-playing captain of the Irish lawn tennis team to play Chile m the European-zone DaJis Cup match m Dublin on Acrli 30 May 2. and 3. The players will be Cyril Kemp Guy Jackson, Jip Mehnlf and R E«an A.P.A.P. - 48 words
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Article48 1949-04-20 11 THE fallowing will represent the 1 Chinese Association against the Chinese Swimming Club on silndav at the Chinese Associa Uo at nion: Chua Yam B«k Koh Chen? Moh. Chow Vow Shmg C*Tn Peng Ki^n and M. S. Ong Rcenes: Wen? S.ew Choon a^ri Quak Seng Hoe.48 words
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Article95 1949-04-20 11 HAVE Sands, the Australian triple champion, outpointed Luciene Caboche of Prance m a tenround middleweight contest at the Royal Albert Hall. London laat night. The light was disappointing, and there were few highlight* throughout the ten rounds. Sands' eagerness to please after his recent defeat by theReuter - 95 words
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Article109 1949-04-20 11 PREEN House B.P. defeated U Junior B.P. 4-3 m a bftdminton friendly during the week-end. Results were (Green House B.P mentioned first): Heng Boon Guan beat Tan Thoo Mong 15-4 15-9; Tan Huat Kcng lost to Tan Chye Toon 4-t5. 5-15; Heng Kwan? Hock beat109 words
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Article53 1949-04-20 11 LORD Rosebery's Yoyo won the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom yeserday. Mr. P. Bartholomew's Birijik was second, and Mr. P. W. Harris' Now or Never third. Twelve ran. Yoyo won by a neck, with six lengths between the second and third. Laurentls, Urgay. Fedor n and Timocrat didReuter - 53 words
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344 1949-04-20 11 Singapore XI selection late in week SINGAPORE'S team to play RAF. Combined at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday In the opening match of the southern section of the Malaya Cup soccer competition will not be selected until late m the week. The selectors must have already made up their minds344 words
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Article22 1949-04-20 11 PRASER NEAVE Sports Club meet Robinsons Sports club In a friendly soccer match fit Parrer Park at 5.15 p.m today:22 words
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Article103 1949-04-20 11 YESTERDAY'S Rugby Union results were: Bath 3, Leicester 8; Bridgwater and Alb. 0, Coventry 0; Cardiff 8, Northampton 15; Llanelly S, Welsh Universities 6; Newport 5. Barbarians 6; Pontypool 19, Devonport Services 0; Stroud 6, Notts 6. Newbridge 24, Birmingham 6; Aberavon 20, London University 8; ExeterReuter - 103 words
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Article56 1949-04-20 11 THE man who sells English Derby winners iws made another big deal. Leon Voltsara. French racehorse owner and breeder, has sold Jack Hylton, London theatrical lmpressarlo, a share m the three-year-olds Royal Empire and Lord Drake. Both are entered for the mile-and-half Derby classic atA.P. - 56 words
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Article48 1949-04-20 11 rpHE 15th annual interJL college cricket match for the Allen Cup will be played at the Raffles College ground m Bukit Timab this week-end. Play will start on Friday at 4.30 p.m. and resume on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at the same time.48 words
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Article512 1949-04-20 11 ALLEYNIAN - ALLEYNIAN By AHORSE which ran two very good races at the Peraic Turf Club meeting which concluded on Saturday is Astivel. a four-year-old French gilding. Owing to currency regulations it is seldom that we come acra-s a French-bred racehorse In Malaya nowadays. With the sw.eplng512 words
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145 1949-04-20 11 UP to yesterday 185 entries had been received for the Singapore Turf Club's Summer Meeting to be held on April 30, May 4, 7, 11 and 14. Entries close at noon today and the total is expected to reach 200, Class 1, 2 and145 words
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474 1949-04-20 11 Pulau Brani forwards in scoring mood Pulau Btani United 10; K.fc.M.E 0> DULAU Brani United forwards made merry at the expense of R.E.M.E. m yesterday's S.A.F.A. Senior League match at Jalan Besar Stadium, registering the first double-figure score m the competition this season. R.E.M.E. had previously lost o—70 7 to474 words
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Article93 1949-04-20 11 rE H\ r Combined team to play Singapore Civilians m the opening: match of the Malaya Cup soccer competition at Jalan Besar stadium on Saturday was selected yesterday. Durden, star goalgetler of RAF. Seletar. will lead the attack. The team is: S<t Sharland (Tengah) Cpl. Cargill93 words
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Article70 1949-04-20 11 VIRGINIA BEACH. Virginia. Tues: South African professional Bobby Locke defeated Frank Stranahan 68 to 70 on Monday m an 18-hole play-off for the Cavalier specialist golf championship. Stranahan, playing only for the title since he Is an amateur, was handicapped by an ankle injury and the sameU.P. - 70 words
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Article74 1949-04-20 11 SUBJECT to approval by Utt 0 Australian Board of Control, an Australian cricket team will make a one-month tour of Ceylon. Arthur Maiiey, the Australian cricket writer, who was pa&sing through Colombo, consulted the authoritlesi there on the possibilities of such a tour. If his plansA.P. - 74 words
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Article40 1949-04-20 11 pOLLOWING are the fixtures for the opening of the IMB cricket season m the United Kingdom on April 30: Lord's M.C.C. v. Essex; Ox.ord Oxford University v. Gloucestershire; Taunton Somerset v. Glamorgan (friendly); Bradford Yorkshire New Zealand. ReuterReuter - 40 words
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Article35 1949-04-20 11 LEAGUE SOCCER: Snr. Di?, C.A. t. Rovers J. Boat; Jnr. B. Grp. 1. S'roon Assn. v. Airport S.C.— GeyUnc; Jnr. R. Grp. 1, hanjj Prison Offi<ert v. Rocklitcs C.V.M.A. crnd St. George's Road.35 words
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Advertisement73 1949-04-20 11 "r\Jn O of a series' introducif g 11 Ut O personalities behind the "MOUTRIE SERVICE I iSjL < Moutries siiLe 1 >31 I I I J /or I looks after our I wholesale distriI Mr. LIM CHIN WAH I We are the Sole distributors m Singapore rim/ Malaya for "His73 words
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Article86 1949-04-20 12 TOKYO. Wednesday. JAPANESE archaeologists yesterday claimed the discovery of stone implements and the remains of a dwelling by inhabitants of Japan 6.000 years ago older than any discovery by Japanese archaeologists thus far. The discovery, said to have been made by Chuyo Zigawa, a 25-year-old memberReuter - 86 words
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Article509 1949-04-20 12 P/tf w for India completed? LONDON, Wednesday. A COMPROMISE plan for keeping India m the A British Commonwealth after she becomes a Republic has already been found and will be placed before the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conierence when it convenes here tomorrow, according toReuter; A.P. - 509 words
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Article, Illustration62 1949-04-20 12 pictures. The British cargo ship, Richmond Hill bo r ye) T"!"!"* Reppel Harbour drydock for repairs after being In volved m a collision with an American tanker off Sultan Shoals. 20 miles off Singapore. Picture below shows he taping hole m the port side of the K l o 1Free Press - 62 words
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Article201 1949-04-20 12 US ARMY PUSHED BACK HEIDELBERG. Wed. SEVENTY THOUSAND United States troop* with 1 200 tanks and armoured vehicles fell back yesterday; In face of an imaginary 100.- j 000 strong aggressor force": attacking the American lone of Germany m two columns from the Czechoslovakia frontier. In the first phase of201 words
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Article225 1949-04-20 12 BOSTON, (Mass), Wednesday. REV. Father Leonard Feeney, a Jesuit teacher and author, said yesterday h e had been "silenced" by Catholic Archbishop Richard rushing because "I believe there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church and Archbishop Cushing believes there is." Father Feeney supported threeReuter - 225 words
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Article104 1949-04-20 12 LAKE SUCCESS Wednesday. EGYPT demanded before the United Nations that m any solution arrived at by the U.N.. Libya's unity must be re cognised and proclaimed. Ahmed Pasha Mohamed Khashaba. Egyptian Foreign Minister. also asked that "for strategic reasons" the desert plateau of Sollum. aReuter - 104 words
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Article14 1949-04-20 12 Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise, 75--year-old leader of world Zionism, died m New York yesterday.14 words
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Article94 1949-04-20 12 'RETIRE AT 50,' SOVIET PLAN MOSCOW, Wed. THE Russian Government and the Communist Party yesterday issued a decree melting out first steps m a new three-year plan for a vast increase m livestock and the production of food and raw materials. Higher wages, with award of the title of "HeroReuter - 94 words
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Article84 1949-04-20 12 QN the New York Stock Exchang yesterday. Chrysler: encountered renewal of pressure, incited ing offerings for Canadian account and a small decline took the price to 51 1/8. There was a fair amount of sales In Chrysler for cash and immediate delivery. Rails averaged lower m response toReuter - 84 words
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Article18 1949-04-20 12 Marshal Graziani. Mussolini's last war secretary, was admitted to Rome's military hospital 'yesterday with a st roke.— A.P.A.P. - 18 words
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220 1949-04-20 12 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. AS the result of orders from President Truman early last week, the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, has Instructed State Department officials to protest with greater vigour against limitations on the entry of Vnlted States motion pictures into Britain, South AfricaA.P. - 220 words
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Article53 1949-04-20 12 THE British-licensed newspaper Montags Echo reports that the Soviet Atomic Research Institute, formerly located near Polsdam, has been moved to a new location on the east coast of th* Black Sea. The paper said a "handful" of German atomic experts and about 165 technicians are employed byU.P. - 53 words
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Article24 1949-04-20 12 Mr. Kenneth Royall. U.S. Secretary of the Army has submitted his resignation to President Truman, the New York Dally News reports.24 words
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Article95 1949-04-20 12 INDIANAPOLIS. Wed. A STOCK Austin automobile has completed a seven-day endurance run here, having donr 11.875 miles at an average speed of 70.88 miles per hour. If the contest board of the American Auto Association verifies this average. Austin will have broken the 21--year-old stock carU.P. - 95 words
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Article53 1949-04-20 12 rE Sclndla Steam Navigation Company, Indian shipping firm. Is to start a cargo service between Australia and India In June, the company's Brisbane agents stated yesterday. The service will carry wool and general cargo from Australia for Colombo, Indian east and west coast ports and theReuter - 53 words
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153 1949-04-20 12 LOS ANGELES, Wednesday. l EADER of the British La- bour Party, Dr. Harold Laski, told a large audience here that the labour union is a trustee of the world's future. "Either we go forward to a community In which men share In gain asA.P. - 153 words
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Article24 1949-04-20 12 A $2,000,000 (U.S.) pulp and paper mill will be designed and built In Canada for shipment and Installation In India.- A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article75 1949-04-20 12 BUENOS AIRES. Wednesday. XROOPS were early yester- day patrolling the street* of Argentina's northern provincial capital of Salia after rioting In which four people were killed and 30 wounded, some critically. The riotinß occurred after a call for a general strike by the provincial branch ofReuter - 75 words
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Article32 1949-04-20 12 Leaders of Britain's electrical trade union yesterday called off t strike which has kept over 2.000 workers In two J. Arthur Rank film studios idle for 11 days. A.P.A.P. - 32 words
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Article165 1949-04-20 12 LONDON. Wednesday. rpHE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, warned teachers against training pupils to "accept, without criticism, an authoritarian uniform view" when he addressed the conference of the National Union of Teachers at Margate yesterday. Mr. Attlee said. "Whether this doctrine is one of aA.p. - 165 words
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190 1949-04-20 12 SH.\\(;h\i u^ rTHE 24 points m the Chintz Comm nf a v. 1 turn to the Nanking Hover nT Ut Reds have demanded must l»e a,^^ whi <*> th dude the abolition of ail Sii l 0 *!f ted l <*iav since 1946 andA.P. - 190 words
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Article105 1949-04-20 12 U.S. 'CERTAIN' TO CHOOSE WOOMERA SYDNEY. Tj. >day THE United Ratal li tain' to select Australian Woomera rocket range for tests, according to the Canberra correspondent of Sydney Morning Herald .quoiing an authoritative source m the Federal capital. He said that Common wea.r. defence authorities were prtparlng for American useReuter - 105 words
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Article25 1949-04-20 12 NEW POST FOR TWINING The King has approved ihe appointment of Sir Ed^^rd Francis Twining, Governor North Borneo, to be Go\ rrnor of Tanganyika RerterReuter - 25 words
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Miscellaneous12 1949-04-20 12 HIGH TIDES loda> 2 SSajM; 524 pjn Ttaun.: 332 a.m. TIIp v,12 words
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