The Singapore Free Press, 20 July 1949

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  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA kldsjklsjdifjioejiojreioeuri SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, Jl I.V 20, 1949 'KICK 10 I tM>
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  • 438 1 To set up U. S. of Indonesia HATAVLV, Wednesday. [NPONBSIAN Federalist and Republic^'representatives will meet in the Republican capital of Jogjakarta today for the first session of the inter-Indonesian conference to set up the future United States of Indonesia. One problem facing the conference is
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  • 5 1 Forged notes warning ur i
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  • 10 1 Reds kidnap W. Germans tj G I 1 P U.P.
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  • 8 1 DIVORCE FOR ELLEN DREW übhim I OUt A.P.
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  • 125 1 THE HAGUE, Wednesday. SUGGESTION made at Ihe Commonwealth Finance Ministers' conference thai an interlatlonai tin and rubber agreement should be drawn ip similar to the international wheat Agreement has iroused interest in The Hajjue. headquarters of the nternational Tin study Group. The Group has already discussed
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  • 86 1 LONDON. Wednesday. liHE National Dock Labour Board Last night ordered all striking London dockers to return to work by tomorrow morning or run the risk of losing their work contract benefits. The Board, is a loint unionemployer group and sets down terms <>i employment on Bri-
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  • 68 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. rpHE United States produc-d I seven per cent, more tin plate and tlnplate m 1948 than in 1947 but consumed only two per cent more tin. the Bur Mines said yesterday This difference is accounted for by wider use of electrolytic tinplat^ which
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  • 58 1 \IARSHAL Stalin and the ill British Ambassador, Sir David Kelly, discussed AngloRussian relations and several other questions of mutual Interest at a meeting in trie Kremlin last night, an informed source said in Moscow yesterday. Sir David himself, however, rold Associated Press his visit was only a courtesy
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    38 1 photo Two lot ai policemen and a villager surveying the wreckage of the K.L.M. Constellation whiih crashed on (ih.ttkopar Hill outside Bomr>ay in July 12, killing all 4T> aboard. Thirteen American journalists wre aiinMij; the passengers. A. P.
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  • 25 1 The First Battalion or me ting's Own Scottish Borderrs will sail from Liverpool on he troopship Devonshire tolay for Hongkong. Reuter
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  • 39 1 South Korean police rialm- ed yesterday that five arresred i Korean journalists had von- fessed to being 'secret agents" for the South Korean Labour Party, which has been labelled Communist by the South i TCnn»nn flnvPinmptlL Reuter
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  • 129 1 LONDON, Wednesday. niHE Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin, will leave England at the end 01 the week for a European health* resort "to rest", said a surprise announcement from the Foreign Office last night. Britain's crisis-burdened Cabinet has thus suffered its second casualty within
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  • 107 1 FRENCH CARRIER IN S'PORE Kree Press start Reporter 4 21-GUN salute was Bred J\ by the *****-ton French I earner Dixmude on her arrival In the Singapore Outer Roads from Colombo this moraine. e salute was returned by a ba* :v Stationed at B'.nkan M Thf Aircraft carrier pui in
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  • 27 1 AS a gesture of sympathy with the London dock strikers, Marseilles dockers working on the 6.7v5-toD British ship liinailia stopped work ve»terdav for 30 minutes Reuter
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  • 177 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. r rilK I.S. Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee is meeting today to discuss relations with Britain and Canada in the Held of atomic energy, it was announced yesterday. Senator Brian McMahon confirmed that the "hush-hush" meeting held by President Truman at
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  • 92 1 GENEVA. Wed. A RUSSIAN draft resolution Biking the 60-nation conference, now drawing up a new International Red Cross convention here, to ban all methods of mass extermination in any future war. was declared Inadmissible In committee yesterday. Atom bombs, bacterlotogifla] and chemical warfare were
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  • 33 1 Mr. Sarat Chandra Bose. leader of thetlndian Socialist Republican Pfcrty, announced in Geneva yfsterday that he plans to call 'a 'United So-i-ialist CongresM* in India towardfl the end of the year.
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  • 77 1 DENMARK Wed DWISII Vikings in a modern replica of an old loilgsthip, the Hugin, 9t\ off OB a ten-day voyauc at r«>s> the North Sea vsterday to "invadf" Britain In commemorttion of tin* Brst Vikinn landing In England I.MW fcan The Qugla b «'xprrled to land the bearded
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  • 254 1 Milverton hits colonial policy LONDON, Wednesday. I ()Kl> VIILVKRTON. a former (iovernor of North J Borneo and Nigeria wtio recently resigned from the Labour Party and joined the Liberals, complained in the House of Lords yesterday nbont the "uncertainty and doubt" throughout the Colonial Empire of British intentions if the
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  • 85 1 PRAGUE Wed. rrHE Communist Ciech OovX ernment rned ai! Roman Catholic pi ir.a. 6 re be taken against them their followers if any tXU p were made to carry oul the Vatican threat >>t ex< munlcatlon for Catholic members of the Communist Party. \n Informant .-aid that
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  • 19 1 A squadron of British Royal Air Force Vampire Jet flehterj i *ill visit Turkpv n'p^f mom?..
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  • 47 1 THE Earl of Hare wood. 26--year-old music-loving nephew of King George VI, U to marry 22-year-old Marion Stein, a talented Austrianborn planiM The Earl of Harevood is The fldcr son Ol the Princess Royal and is 11th In succession to the throne. Reuter
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  • 133 1 Oil from rubber discovery LONDON, Wed. DRITIBH scientists found a "very pnm Ing" oil from rubber x*-*>d which could be a product of the rub industry, lord Hani told the Houae of Lorda yesterds rd tfankey who li rhairof the 1 -li Product* incil ipeaUni a deb.r p on Poioi
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  • 34 1 LONDON, FJOLI <> '(is of -iv Berlin airlift ?h* British C believed I n ty :it "air Middl i would i» rid rquipn :uM n Tt. > to redu B •:ifi n| a U.P.
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  • 40 1 rut <l% M ilt im i. ft i>t in tuts p.M ih at it 4 m a-» I<i||<i\\ V i» in b.il»-x N<i 1 K > >s s.. K v >. i 1 urir itl rtl .4 rk sii.<il\ ■■icl
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    24 1 i hi- Republican i rrmicr, Dr. Mohammed Ilatta. who i> vigorously defending the ai\ Royen-Roem auree menl against attacks by extremist Krpubiu an critics.
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  • 906 2 Keep your hair on WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS NOTfc: Letter* which are not suitable for publication in this column cannot be answered privately. Tbere is. therefore, no need to send stamped addressed envelopes for a replj WAVING read your articles <■ v e r y Wednesday, Doctor. 1 think you
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  • 590 2 MY SIDE OF LIFE HARROGATE: ARE doctors bccoming ovcrnechanised? Here in t [arrogate, where the l British Medical Association held its annual neeting. Dr. C. W. Curtis Bain, the presi- < lent, gave a warning j )f c a s e s w h ere factors* are diagnosing
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    21 2 Phi attract m delled by Jeanm ry of Paris o?id shou the CycUng Parade wl Jar din 1 1 1 A.P.
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  • 307 2 13HIDOE detectives are warned that a serious br.dge crime was committed In todays hand. West opened the eight of hearts in response to his partner's bid in that suit. East played the queen of hearts, and South played the ten allowing East to hold the first trick. Eftst
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  • 137 2  -  PAUL F. ELLIS By pERHAPS j c something m; wrong with > heart. Ho\ve> 1 1 lit nol sure. I le wants ikl\ ice of i s|)( many miles So he telephone and i Lstanc< other end Ol Then your i are sent over the Result:
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    19 2 \ln Airriaht as sfte appears in 'he film "Champion; 1 disToday's Pin-up girl is Lola A^ngh t a^.^ rtists
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 832 2 tftUe CNOUOr/ 1 M4<>JEV YOU w SINGAPORE News 943 Piano r.-f.'ii I Cheung Mun Chit 10.15 String IL (BLUE NETWORK) .Time— Earl Towners String > I E^!?r > NEOi: a;EPUI?E<;TOC 481 ;md 41 7 metres I Orchestra 10.30 Dance i-iusic u t<yjps Emergency news from K.L. from the Cothny Restaurant.
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    • 101 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BOKi\ today, you have a genuine talent for meticulous duty to an objective. You know how to carry out a plan to its most minute detail provided someone tells you what is to be done. This lack of initiative is likely to be your worst handicap, for
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  • 2011 3 [The Private Papers Of Harry L Hopkins Today's instalment of the Hopkins papers* describes the beginning of the protracted and often bitter dispute over the opening of the Second Front. Mr. Churchill was against an attack from the west in 1942 because he
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  • 89 3 OyE subject that came up during the talks in the United States was not mentioned in any public statement until four months after Roosevelt's death: the progress of experiments on the fission of uranium from which came the atom bomb Churchill later cabled Hopkins concerning the discussions at
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  • 644 3  - How to be a bullfighter and live William Stuttard By RECENTLY I Waiiavited to a Spanish home which resembled a Museum of Tauromachy. After a servant had peeped through the little grating— seen on all Spanish front doors —to see whether I was a friend or foe, I was courteously
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  • 413 4 ROUGH, tough and ready that's what the Federal police jungle squads are. And wherever there's trouble that's where you'll find them. In the Federation there are 145 bands of these trouble-shooters and more and more are being rapidly trained. Day Off night, they are ready for
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  • 489 5 Atew Middle iiwm pipelines A V- shllt in oU Production from the Muted States to the Middle East, an increase in living standards of Middle East countries and a strengthening ii the Arab position in their "cold war against Israel are probable results of
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    9 5 I ig dpsiffn <..r the .in. It Britanstar of
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  • 30 5 World metal resources being used up •s of k d up, 11 Dlrec•\iu of lpsson lid be m warnn<? a !s nonol •■d hi uid. nora v -mini thi Reuter
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  • 25 5 i rical tma hca r.nd n, Is the session'' i which will 1 hours of played re shortl r brass Reuter
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  • 25 5 I i safe 1 rted re- i. iirm that ar time us. By '.ivtduals .-till look In a ple- ontracta hftfnM A.P.
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  • 65 5 questions were asked in the Commons recently about Hong Kong defence and uur attitude towards the Chinese Communists, Sir Thomas Moore Con., Ayr Burghs) asked: "Is it not a fact that since the Corfu and Yangtse disasters we have no more cheeks to turn That," replied Mr.
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  • 77 5 I>OLICE threw tear gas I bombs into a crowd of striken and their non-strik-ing workmates who fought at the Fiat motor works in Turin recently. Major clashes were re-*> ported from other districts of the city, where police riot squads hustled away troublemakers. The strikers weTe
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  • 53 5 U^. Senate has approvl ed the nomination of Mrs. Perle Mesta as Minister to Luxembourg. The only opposition to the appointment of this wealthy friend of President Truman came from Senator Forrest C. Domiell, who gave a loud, vigorous no when his turn came in
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  • 190 5 RESISTANCE: loader Colonel Jean Delore, held for alleged plotting against the Government, wrote and sealed a letter in his cell. Then he hanged himself One passage in the letter read: "A wild bird of the Maquis cannot live in a cell, particularly when he is
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  • 247 5 ]t|R. Shinwell, the War Minister, answering protests ITI in the Commons about a speech made by General Sir Ivor Thomas, C.-in-C. A.A. Command, said: "It would be better perhaps if highranking officers did not indulge in political comments." Mr Gallacher (Communist) asked "Might I ask the
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    56 5 The Italian Communist* in their anti-Atlantic Pact campaign have petitioned all Italy for signatures to a protest to be presented to the Italian Parliament. Here is Mrs. Cinciari Rodano (centre) provincial secretary of the "Union of Italian women" going through a pile of signatures. Watching is Marjherlta Saponare who has
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  • 125 5 MR. William Denis Kendall, a British M.P. tall greyhaired bachelor, has set ud home on board a yacht moored in mid-Thames near the Houses of Parliament He lives in a saloon furnish- I ed with a piano and book- cases, and shares the 300 horse-power
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  • 82 5 BLOOD FOR $'s j THE British are now giving their blood for dollars, Mr. F. Griffiths Woollard, member of the London County Council reported. Mr. Woollard. who recently i returned from a trip to Ame- I rica, said that he found some British visitors there were selling their
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  • 84 5 I OENATOR Pat McCaran, Democrat of Nevada, chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee, revealed plans to "expose in detail the spy activities of i aliens who enter the United States under 'he cloak of i diplomatic immunity. More than 100 cases have j been
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  • 105 5 LIVED 17 DAYS ON BEER, SALT A 68- YEAR -OLD Sydney caretaker, who was believed to ha,ve lived for 17 days on a daily diet of a spoonful of beer mixed with .salt, died a few hours after he had been taken to hospital. Police broke down the door of
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  • 156 5 O IX young men in TwickenO ham (Middlesex), suffering from T.8., were told they had only six months to live. So they decided to see as much of the world as they could in that time. That WOf J.venly-four years a^o. Th" sole wirrtvor <n
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  • 44 5 A conference of United States Air Force Reserve liaison officers from points in the Far East met at the headquarters of the United States Far East Air Forces In Tokyo on Monday ana continued through yesterday, Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters announced. Reuter
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  • 74 5 CONFORMING the lifting \j today of the ban on KLM planes flying over India, the Indian Foreign Ministry said Dr. Mohan Singh Menta, Indian ambassador designate, would fly to The Hague so.in. His departure had oeen postponed because ot the Dutph "police action" in Indonesia resulted
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  • 20 5 British sources confirmed recently that the An^loAmerican airlift may be reduced by two-thirds from September 1 U.P.
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  • 241 5 WHILE German-born Mrs. Gertrud Margarete Pond was being marked by the Gestapo as the wife of a suspected British agent, her British Army oflicer husband was living with another woman, said Mr. Justice Hodson in the Divorce Court London. Mrs. Pond was given a« decree of
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  • 34 5 Five of the men convicted of the murder of Mahatma Qandhi, have decided to appeal to the Privy Council East Punjab High Court which on June 21 dismissed their appeals. Reuter
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  • 282 5 MOST BRITONS FAVOUR SEX TEACHING A FTER interviewing 2,000 people In Britain MAM Observation investigators say sex education is whole-heartedly approved by 76 per cent and only 15 per cent were against it. Nine per cent were undecided. "One person in four over the age of forty-five is against it,
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  • 20 5 The British-owned AngloIranian Oil Company has agreed to double Its royalty payments to the Persian Oov- ernment. U.P.
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  • 178 5 Europe must cut prices, UN report THE United Nations In survey of world economic conditions said that W ern Europe must adjust Its prices and vary meet the competition of the United States, especially in Latin American markets. European countries had so far been able to achieve a remarkable expansion
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  • 68 5 NEW 'FIRST FOR RUSSIA GEN. Vaasllj SUlin son, said In an k tion article in the Journal Ogenyok r»,at Rus industry »r<-w it a tier rate than tta tl of any other oounti Be arM<-(l thai R i^.sla producod 40.000 platief a yrar In the last three days "and that
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  • 52 5 THE British G dr-feated thret- tlmr, the Hou.v of Lo: on Its bill to nationalise Iron and steel Industry. Thu brings the tc !;il defeats on th« bill to 12. The Lord! throe amendments seeklr rlct th*» pnw»-rs of Steel Board w: i trol the
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    • 61 5 I SYRUPS 1 SOLE AGENTS! Federation •^JV r"Hl^fc Malay «|j tmmSlmk Singapore J H. VAVASSEUR CO. (M) LTD Weld Quay, Penanj?Laidlaw Building Kuala Lumpuv. SybAgents: V. R. Vick Co., Ltd. Bank Chambers, SINGAPORE. CL TOMANGO k *±ahaFT§ari haya puasa Hari Raya Puasa more than ever. to -,he dellcloua flavourings and
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    • 55 5 AUTOMATIC RADIO GRAMOPHONE Iftcopirathtg PHILIPS Reetiver 485 A. with Magic eyt. Garrard Automatic Record Changer. PRICE: $750.00 LESS 10% CASH, OX' on easy terms. KOSTER COMPANY LTD. 10. COLLYER QUAY lit FLOOR TEL ***** M \#^^W For the offic worker JJ^ yf who want! fii^t claM lunch at an R
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  • 625 6 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1949. SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE TilK proposal to reduce warl damage claims other than those of the rubber and tin inc. made by Federation members of the Joint Committee which is examining the war damage coml nsation scheme, stands r><> chance of acceptance.
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  • 998 6  - A shilling ticket will take a Red into Hong Kong GRAHAM STANFORD REPOR TFR OM THE FR ONTLINE COLONY By who is on a 3U,UUU-miie air tour of the Colonial Empire. HONG KONG IT costs a Communist agent just Is. to &et into Britain's front-line C o 1 o n
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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    • 441 6 YERY touching is the solicitude of Marie Stopes for the prolific mothers of Singapore. But in expressing her hope that too much attention will not be paid to local opposition to contraceptive teachings she is somewhat less convincing in claiming that her own part life experience
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    • 65 6 I heartily agree with "Indig--1 nant." What is the Municipal Health Department going to do? Surely it is their responsibility to put a stop to this menace to the health and comfort of users of the public foot path. In voicing public grievances of this sort the
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    • 154 6 MOW that business firms 11 are spreading to Orchard Road, which is rather far lor delivery by hand from Collyer Quay, it is of interest to note the new postal rates from July 1 letter, four oz at the old rate 13 cents new rate 25 cents.
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  • 7 6 EVA BRAUN'S PROPERTY I I I A.P.
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  • 679 6 Bleary-eyed tribesmen guard vital East fron tier LASHIO, Burma Rd.: CONDITIONS in China's Eastern province of Yunnan, on the Burma border, are causing uneasiness here despite Nationalist claims to have stamped out pro-Com-munist insurgents and mutineers who last April had seized the Burma Road town of Paoshan. Reports reaching here
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  • 364 6 SORGHUM spells FOOD for Britain npODAY 30 giant trae- tors are working tint out on a quarter of a million acre food-ior-Britain farm In the heart of Queensland, Australia. Out there, 'Joo miles from the nearest lisable town, a handful of food commandos are harvesting: bigger breakfasts for you. They
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    37 7 the r-:irtl picture. hjna v i; ciety <»' Singapore visited i johore'' palace at tho invitation t>f a "lahki»ta «>i Johore on Sunday. They were The picture shows Mrs. Tay j h^r daut! Phyllis, serving them- Free Press
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    63 7 MEN of the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards photographed just before they sailed on the troopship Dilwara from Sinuaporo <n Monday. The Pipes and Drums of the 2nd Battaiion Scots Guards and the Pipes of the Ist Battalion Kcaforth Highlanders and their military band played in the doekside until the ship
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  • 98 7 Free Press Woman Reporter Indian and Malay men go regularly to parlour in Dhoby (ihaut to have their and set. the Chinese Rirl hairdressers yesterday. 'the way he liked it." you think it improves I asked him. tie gave an embarrassed laugh and said he
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    5 7 MR. SI1AHI1) I L (IAFOOR
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  • 223 7 PAKISTAN NEEDS MALAYA PRODUCTS Good business rree Press Staff Reuorter PAKISTAN needs many of Malaya's manufa( tyred rubber goods such as bicycle tyres an crepe-soled shoes and pineapples. This wa stated in Singapore today by a Pakistar businessman, Mr. Shahid ul Gafoor, who i touring South-East Asia. Mr. Gafoor said
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  • 86 7 yiMUAruK^s criminal inveiitigation Department chief. Mr. E. V. Fowler, and the Secretary tor Defence, Mr. Gerald Hawkins, will speak about their work In the third and fourth series cf lectures conducted by the Y.M.C.A. on the "Machinery of the Singapore Government." Mr. Hawkins will give his talk
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  • 148 7 THE full list of medalists, book prize and college scholarship winners in the recent King Edward VII College of Medicine professional examinations is: Medicals First Professional, silver rneda^: Ahmad Ezanre bin All; bronze medal. Chan Kong Thoe- book prize. Ahmad Ezanee bin Ali and Chan Kong Thoe.
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  • 28 7 JOHORE BAHRU. Wed. The Normal Class examinations in Johore will be held on Aug. 12 and 13 at Johore Bahru, Batu Pahat, Muar. Segamat and Kluang.
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  • 130 7 Free Press Staff Reporter THE little British -owned China coaster, Foochow, which ran the Nationalist blockade of the Yangtze at Shanghai on June 25, arrived In Singapore yesterday with 390 cases of Japanese textiles. J This .shipment brings the total shipments of Japanese textiles received to date
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  • 272 7 will the Government pieise give an assurance that businessmen and lorry drivers will not be p|Osecuted for loading and unloading goods in Malacca Street from tne middle of the road, owin^ to private ctrs blocking the entrance to such premises?" toe a&^. He inquires whether
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  • 239 7 fARDENS all over the world w which last year sent numerous requests to the Sin- j eapore Botanic Gardens for Malayan seeds received a i total of 967 packets, says the Gardens' annual report tor j 1948. Seeds received In change amounted to m packets. The
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  • 29 7 Surface mails are expected to arrive in Singapore today from W. Australia. N. India and Burrm'. Closing time for posting surface mails to Hone,' Kong today Is noon
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  • 31 7 It is officially announced that the average selling price cf rubber (No. 1, R.S.S.) at the Singapore auctions during the quarter ended June 30 wa^ 34.49 cents per pound.
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  • 186 7 rree rress Stan Keporter 'PEN people were killed In road accidents in A Singapore last month— twice as many as in May while the total number of accidents rose from 564 in May to 575. Those killed were three adult pedestrians, two child pedestrians, two
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  • 43 7 EXC LUSIVE LIFTS m/IR. Tan (Municipal South-West) will ask, in the Singapore Legislative Council, how many lifts in Fullerton Building; are reserved for the exclusive use of the members of the Singapore Club, and what are the grounds for allowing such exclusive use.
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  • 282 7 JINGAFORE Municipal Commissioners propose to conduct an experiment with the re-surfacing of wo main roads in town by using: the "Recondo irucess. The trial is to determine how much the work vill cost when carried out by the Municipal Engineer's Department. Emphasis is laid on the Experimental
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  • 60 7 Ronreser.tativt^s of the Malay Nationalist Party in Penan 1 rectntly visited tho detention camp at Puhui Jerejak with foodstuffs for Malay detainees. The foodstuffs were contributed bv Party members and were Intencle' 1 to help detainers during the fasting month. Government permission la being sought by
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  • 114 7 Free Press Staff Reporter Tilt Traflic Advisory Committee has agreed that while a one-way traffic scheme in Singapore might bp necessary in the future, steps should first be taken to increase road space available to moving traffic by controlling parked and loitering vehicles, and by the provision
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  • 187 7 Women plan balloon appeal Free Pr»ss Sta.T Krportrr gINGAPORI Plying Cluh plans may drop ba lions and pamphlets on Aufj. 7 appea'tng for funds for f-ity o' Malaya. aocordIng to pli *wn up by the Lotus Club The rljb, Whose m< nib rs are Indian and I women, Lfl to
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  • 38 7 U MNO CONGRESS The twelfth C UMNC w. .»'ld 0 the Au Bukit Meitajaii\ fliuh School Onn bin Ja'afar, IB of Joliore i.s ,i statement on I position iu the i iiiK the BultfJU and Mentlil i B^sar.
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  • 393 8 HIRES SPORE PLANNING; EXPERTS Recruiting in TV PHE manager of the Singapore Improvement Trust, Mr. J. M. Fraser, is recruiting in the United Kingdom staff for the Colony's future planning body. He is now doing research work on planning with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in London. It
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  • 290 8 BIRTH CONTROL ISSUE Free Press Staff Reporter. KUALA LUMPVR, Tuesday. A SPECIAL meeting of the Malayan Christian Council may be called to discuss birth control following the recommendation of the central division of the Malaya branch of the British Medical Association that Government action should be
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  • 138 8 MAN TRAILED GIRL: FINED AFIFTY-year old Cmnese who wu stated to have trailed a teen-aged working girl for "some time," was fined 525 in the Fourth Police I for trespass. He was Leo Bah Chye. of Emerald Hill Road The girl he was alleged to have been a nuisance to
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  • 18 8 The Wesley Methodist Youth Fellowship will present "Wesley isia." a r»-vue of songs and drama, tonight
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  • 198 8 Kidnapped man 's body recovered Free Press Staff Reporter IPOH, Tues. THE body of Yong Tet Hian, the soi of a local miner, who was kidnapped at Ipch on the evening of March 3, was foun in the Ta.3ek area near Kapayang yesterday. It wa- lying face downwards in a
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  • 84 8 SHIPS in port alongside the Singapore Harbour Board wharves yesterday tgedowns in brackets) were: Main Wharf: Bantam (31-32). Benreoch (33-34). Benvorllch (38--37). Mount Mansfield (38-39> Soudan (42-431 Wes* Wharf: Gi^ngyle .(4-5 Katong (6-7). Olaucus iB-9), Soestdijk «11), SUverwalnut (IV--16). Empire Dock: Pernside (17-18). Ro^ang (19-20 >. Idoir.enea.s (23--24).
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  • 270 8 be required to stiok up Communist posters in various parts of the distr: The judge said: "You failed to do your duty and must therefore be punished." Free Press Staff Reporter. IPOH, Tuesday. 7IFTEEN-Year-Old Chan Sin Mong was at Ipoh Assizes today sentenced
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  • 98 8 THE sfory of largo s* piUering of rice imported DO Government account from lighters in the Telok Aver Basin, was told in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. Answering two separate charges of theft Involving approximately 14.000 katles of rice valued at more than $3,500. were two groups
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  • 233 8 Prices remain quietly steady London Stock e!^ GRADING in the Ion,: consisted main n w fc£J tic end of account. oadent. Carry -on r /"^UI J upied the dealer att, A de session lhf Weaiitil Prices in most ■>• > lained quietly steady i le volume of bastiM lfflclent to
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    • 109 8 |pWM| Jfc ft fI t MBM Hk r lITNVI ►•HINT* Jl7«^ WIL. 1 n j ACK w\RNER KATHLEEN HARRISON PHONE bC}O3 SUSAN SHAW PETULA CLARK I last four shows Vote for HUGGETT 2 4.15 6.30 9.30 p.m. ESTS^inr" TOMORROW— "COULD EASILY BE THE NEXT ACADEMY AWARD WINNER. IT CRACKLES WITH
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    • 106 8 m3lldr3k6 Exclusive to the Singa/>ore Free Press in Malaya -.-r-r --~-g 1 I GETS KINDA SPOOKY |Y£AH -SAY- I'M JUST P THIS ff«f« j WHY IT'S A AAAABL£ STATUZf] Wl'K rAKING NO CHANCES. THIS H| AT NIGHT frj (MR ABOUND. CLOSED [^m/OrVAarj ..^^^l JANE Exclusive lo the Singapore Free Press
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  • 1734 9  -  Rosalind Ratnam SHORT STORY by (he i I I I u In li e with his oiler of lining the famous Phang >m the house of Phang, Ghim Hoe's t i was charged with c n w pose it is there, on a nail waiting for i
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  • 372 9  -  JOHN FISHER by VVAK drums sounding from the Khyber Pass area will give Mr. Bevin one of his first headaches on Friday. Two exceedingly angry envoys are waiting now in London to tell him about the quarrel between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has been
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  • 561 9  - There's change across the Atlantic H.O. BRANDON by the confusing tangled aftermath 01 the war, one can now more clearly see the outlines of America's changing face. These outlines are emerging quietly and rather unconsciously, but they are little short of "revolutionary." The old European concept of the New World,
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  • 780 10  -  IVAN SHARPE By A SPECIAL committee is inquiring into certain aspects of cricket. I suggest there should be an inquest to include all aspects of the game, in view of the present position of first-class cricket. It is supposed to be a summer game, but
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    50 10 -Picture by Mr. C.hon? Kow Thye, honorary secretary of the Singapore Chinese Football Association, introduces members of the S.C.F.A. side N> the Mentri Besar of N>;ri Sembiliin prior to Saturday's M.C.F.A. Cup match at Seremban. Negri SetnbUan Chinese won onenil to enter the final of th> competition.- K. S. Kong
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  • 197 10 Free Press Seremban Sports Correspondent NEGRI Sembilan Chinese repeated their v'~tory over their Singapore compatriots when they clashed in Seremban in the Southern section final of the M.C.F A. Cup last Saturday. This time they did not win by the convincing margin they did when the Negrl
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  • 541 10 INDONESIA CHINESE HERE ON FRIDAY 'Will beat the local teams By CRUSADER BIGGEST event of Singapore soccer during the coming fortnight will be the visit of the Indonesia Chinese, who are due by plane on Friday. They are the first outside team to "invade" the Malayan football field this season,
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  • 530 10 Malayan soccer stars 15 Bj K. WOO 4 RIGHT-WINGER turned left-wing* > old Yeap Cheng Eng, t.ie first PeiUUlf Kii footballer to have been selected to represent < h in the Olympic Games, held in London I a Few of those who know Cheng E;:;
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  • 52 10 !IHE South African tennis player, Eric Sturgess, on Monday beat Sweden's Torsten Johansson 6 3, 6 2, 7 .i In B match at Varberg, B Swedish summer resort. In a mixed doubles match Sturgess and Rita Anaerson U.S. defeated Johansson and Mary Halford k ßritain) 6—2. 2—6. 6—
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  • 70 10 THE following will represent the 1 S.A.L.S.U. Lads B.P. in a friendly badmimion match of four singles and three doubles to tx played against Greenwood B P. at the Happy World covered stadium today at 7 p.m. Chan Mun Kit. Chan Swee Lam. Aziz Bin Ahd.. Ee
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  • 294 10 'Isolation policy must be curbed By VETERAN Hj^HERE is a definite tendency among Malaya's topranking badminton players to isolate themselves once they have attained a high position. Many a time I have heard that so-and-so is afraid to play for fear of being beaten. If this tendency is allowed to
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  • 34 10 highest price ever paid lor an Uruguayan soccer player 90,000 pesos has ben. paid by an Italian soccer club for D. Garcia, star player of t Ho ru>fpnsor Club, Montevideo.-- A. P.
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    75 10 Group photograph taken on the occasion of St Andrew's School cricket match between Old Boys and Present Boys last week. Seated (second row). from left to right: On* Beng Bee (school cricket captain). Dr. 1). I). Chellia/i (vice-princip;»" i Dr S. H. Tun donor of shield). Rev! Canon Adams (principal
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    • 154 10 Phone 4042 TODAY! 11-1.45, 4.00, 6.30 9.30 p.m. 20th Century-Fox's LLOYDS OF LONDON" The Picture That Skyrocketed TYRONE POWER To lame And Stardom PREMIERE RELEASE Tomorrow 9.30pn *•£<•* »i i«W» S >Nith Kirk Houglas Paul Douglai Jeffrey Lynn 1 CATHAY i "i8 F. For Comfort Tele. 3400 LAST 5 SHOWS
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  • 353 11 PERMITA DORMEZ SHOWS GOOD PACE picture. Sj. in 37 A on soft track Free Press Rating Correspondent PENANG, Wednesday. pERMITA Dormez (Lay cock) did an outstanding gallop on a yielding track this morning, when he clocked 37 2/5 seconds for three furlongs. He ran wide out on the main track,
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  • 33 11 picture. Inspector P. M. Pennefather (Police) clearing the bar in the high jump event at yesterday's triangular athletic meet on the Padang. The Police finished third in this event. Free Press
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  • 539 11 AFi'LK a iiiatcn of lighting cricket, Glamorgan obtained a brilliant win against Derbyshire, made possible by a century from Phil Clift, in the English ounty championship yesterday. Dropped when 22, (lift remained until the end and batted five hours for his third century of
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  • 33 11 SAMMY Snrad wen the l T S. $2 600 tcp money in the Dapper Dan Open golf tournament at Pittsburg on Monday. He defeated Lloyd Mangram by m stroV;e A.P.
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  • 121 11 professional, yesterday headed the 98 qualifiers in the North British 2.000 guineas golf tournam n nt, with an aggregate of 137 for the 36 holes. He backed up his record first round of 66 at Pannal on Monday with 71 on the Starbeck course and led Tom Fairbalrn,
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  • 33 11 THE July L.G.U competition at the Island Club was won by Mrs. -Meaker with a r^re of 71 nett The next best score was that or mis^ Chute— 72 nett.
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  • 23 11 SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Inter-Com-munity League Army v. Eurasians. Jalan Besar stadium, friendly: Tion« Bahru Rangers T. n Pa dun? TENNIS: Y.MCA. tournament.
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  • 449 11  -  VETERAN By IT has now been definitely confirmed that the 1949 Malayan badminton championships will be held in Kuala Lumpur. The venue is the Victoria Institution hall, where the last Malayan tourney was held. The Singapore Badminton Association, on hearing that there was a
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  • 201 11 mHEKE will be two runs for T each division of class 1. 2 and 3 horses at the Singapore Turf Club Autumn <Oold Cup) Meeting to be held on Aug 27 I^^fwednesday) and Sept. I VhTmam y e ventorthemeet- (stakes $4,000) over six furlongs.
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  • 329 11 struggled for seven hours and 19 minutes against the accurate bowling, backed up by good fielding, of the New Zealanders at Glasgow yesterday and were beaten by ten wickets. Following their first innings of 137. made in reply to the tourists' 423, they made 299
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  • 121 11 I/O I If points for first-innings lead in their drawn match against Gloucestershire increased Worcestershire' lead in the county crirket championship table to 12 clear points o\er Middlesex and Yorkshire. Worcestershire now have 116 points wi'h Middlesex and Yorkshirr folding joint second place, each with 104.
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  • 208 11 SGT Rowsweli 'R.A.Fj improved on the Singapore and Malayan records for throwing the discus at yesterday's triangular athimeet among Singapore Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, R.A.F. and Police on the Padang. His distance was 121 ft. 4 1/2 ins. The S.C.A.A.F. were the winners of the meet. Full
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  • 404 11 Chinese 1* WITH only five players from the s'(k- wli;«li i the RJLF. Combined, the Chinese put up a«i insipid perform iiuo against the Indians in t.i r Inter-Community League soccer match I The Chinese team v. ak in all except goalkeepina. and If
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  • 281 12 U.S. plan, say Communists WOSC, KONG, Wednesday. AN economic blockade of Communist-occupied China lasting from ei^ht to 10 years was predicted by Gen, Chou Kn-lai, one of the Chinese Communist leaders, in a statement quoted last nitfht by the Communist Peiping radio. Gen' Chou. w\ o
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    61 12 -pliioto. i k smvfcr musuiroom* irom (<><* i>Hrin;r, r inouui vl the volcano on Palma. one ot the Canary Isles, ax four riv«TN of lava flow down the hillside, engulfing several villa&e>. One river, three-quarters of a mile wide, threatened the port of Puerto Naos. and huge trenches were dux
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  • 123 12 'UK FLAG ABUSED' -CHINA CANTON. Wed. > NATIONALIST CHINA has t railed the Attention of the United States and Britain to alleged abuse of their national Hags by vessels in the harbour ol Communist-held Shanghai The Foreign Office si I ment implied that the flags were bein* ust d by
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  • 90 12 CAIRO. T THE v.-w ptia ernm« nt has lifted all restrictions rding the search of forels in Egyptian territorial waters imposed when the Palestine fighting began In 1943 wever. it was und< i that shipping authorities will retain the right to halt and search ships
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  • 80 12 TOKYO. Wed. India. China, Pakistan and Mam otiered recognition and friendship to Japan at (he International Labour Organisation meeting at Geneva, the Japanese Vice-Minister of labour. Mr. Mitorn Ecuchi, said in Tokyo yesterdaj >lr. l'jiiuhi. who had acrompanied s.< .A. P. officials as an observer, added.
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  • 16 12 A heavy hailstorm in Venice yesterday killed two-thirds of the pigeons in St. Mark's Square U.P.
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  • 184 12 LONDON, Wednesday. pOLOUR-CONSOIOUS South Africa has Informally warned Britain against acceptance of a white queen for the black Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland. The Oxford-educated chlel of the tribe. Sereis? Khama, last year married a London typist. Ruth William* The tribesmen have expressed their willingness to
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  • 23 12 Thousands <>f workers began to leave their Jobs in Israel's main industries yesterday in virtually a general strike U. P.
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  • 21 12 The Second Chamber of the Dutch States-General yesterday approved the North Atlantic Pact by fiS In 7 (Com. munisO votes.- Reuter
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  • 89 12 I^ISSING Is "0.K." and should not be condemned as dangerous nifan* of spreading bacteria, says an Illinois Health Department report. *It is a pleasant greeting an agr^rab!t» salutation and a boon to the mental health of mankind." The Department says that, if a person harbours
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  • 384 12 ACID MURDERER TO HANG LK.WKS (Sussex), Wednesday. r plIK jury yesterday rejected the d€f€IICC plea that suave 39-year-old John (ieorge Haigh, a company director, had been driven insane by dreams of Christ bleeding on the Cross and that a dream spirit had led him
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  • 201 12 GUATEMALA UPRISINC GUATEMALA CITY, Wednesday. IJKWY lighting raged yesterday between the Gov- ernment and revolutionary troops in the second d;i> of an attempt to unseat President .luan Ji^e Ares ah.. Government planes strafed rebel armoured ears which were attacking the presidential palate, where
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  • 48 12 FLICE authorities in Qu« 7011 ciry. northwest > x f Manila, believe they have solved The recent widespread looting of telephone \ible with the arretl of two young students The students, who were caueht cutting cables, confessed to selling them to 1 Chinese junk dealers
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  • 124 12 'Dollar cuts no cure LONDON, Wed ryllE Canadian Finance "Minister. Mr. Douglas Abbott, said last night that everyone at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers* talks had agreed on the main principles of what a longterm solution of the dollar problem should be. h- told i>'port* pi thai l( remained to be
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  • 124 12 ii' J r.iBB. or Selangor, Vt qualified for the match ages of the Bcottlsh amateur g<»n chainplonihip which starts on the Muirfleld course, Eax Lothian, tod a record entry man -sary lor two qualifying round to be played at Qullane and Muirtteld and <>7 p] with 36-hole
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  • 21 12 Dockyard vorken tmp] ed by Hamburg ihipjards, downed tools yrs'erday for l. r > mlnutet u i dismantling protest Reuter
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    • 75 12 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris IUA1 UAT $yM VI WILL YOU HAVE SOHCBOPy ?LT "«>; BO^ 1 uhT vvmO I OO<T V y"" Hfefil'i K pc^ '4^ CALL ONE OP THE (y-i?fffVf /BE GLAD IBE T CCIAO MC=>E> J AffE /<KC> BfTT» J X GLAD TO^-vjyfc-E- JJS STABLES AND K4VETWEM
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