The Singapore Free Press, 25 July 1949

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press _^RCEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 1* SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1949. PKH h 10 l FMS
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    TRUMAN FIRM ON ARMS AID PLAN
    386 1 But Congress may say 'No I\ SPITP t r WAS H»N(JTON, Monday. f>rut, of Congressional threats to <ut any such programme to ribbons. President Truman Con res 5 present a W» 4 50,0©0,«00 arms plan to He will ask Congress to annmva $U3O 000.000.warth
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    Bandits fire on Night Mail
    31 1 Bandits fire on Night Mail Reporter TlfaU Lumpur la^t I by bandlis lenak and Layang were no v ere fired i- 1 i he tit. :d for a I -nt on.
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    EGYPTIAN RED PLOT SMASHED
    48 1 i pread Com-' .he I: gypI Ismailia D m the -mashed polico. in identifl-:ingU-ader us Greek with a mployed in the Brii rmy TVlesraph I Plan- to brat fatker pbell, 28-year-late Sir Mall, will try to iher's world wmI on Lake Cod) this week.
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    NEW STRIKE THREATS IN BRITAIN
    105 1 NEW STRIKE THREATS IN BRITAIN LONDON, Morday. A THREATENED strike ot 1.500 mlnefporken and renewed trouble m Srltains nationalist railw lys today counter-balanced lilt expected return to work of 15.656 London dockers after a 25-day stoppage. The Colliery Winden Federation announced last night that tt had sent 21 days' notice
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    27 1 I u«jv piwiur. k e harle* with Princess Elizab?tn photographed by British newsreMs at the Windlesham Moor. Surrey, home of the Princess and the Duke of Edinburgh.
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    BOY'S 13-HOUR CHANNEL BID
    52 1 OHILIP MICKMAN. lfi-year--1 old grammar scl-00l 1307 of Wakeiield, Yorfcsnire, swam for 13 hours in -he English Channel yesterday but failed to complete the crossing from Cap Griz Nez to Dover. He was seven or eight miles from the Engiisn fhore when he was persuadea 10
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    ARGENTIN V FREEZE
    24 1 Argentina is na/ing the coldest snap in many years with a wave of South Polar air covering the *n:ire country.- U.P.
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    MORE TRADE ESSENTIAL
    150 1 M CANBERRA, Sunday. R. Joseph Chifley, the Australian Prime Minister, said today in his weekly "report to the nation" broadcast that the solution to the dollar problem had to be sought only in an expansion of world production and trade and not in its restriction. "The drain
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    VAN ROYEN HOPEFUL
    145 1 Free Press Staff Reporter DR. JAN VAN ROYEN. chairman of the Netherlands delegation in the Indonesian peace talV:3 :ji Java, said before leaving Singapore by air for Batavia yesterday that the only thing which could prevent the transfer of sovereignity in Indonesia was a continuance of the
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    'KAREN LEADER ALIVE'
    127 1 REPORT RANGOON, Monday. rFHE Karen National leader, Saw Ba U Gyi, who was -1 reported to have been killed, is now in charge of the defence of Toungoo, rebel central headquarters, in anticipation of a Government assault, says the "New Times of Burma." Earlier, unsubstantiated reports claimed
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    BURMA REBELS BOMBED
    61 1 BURMESE Governnient aircraft scored direct hits on rebel concentrations In Toungoo, Karen stronghold In Central Burma. 175 miles north cf Rangoon, according to unofficial reports reaching Rangoon yesterday. The reports said "he Karens were moving out of Wysaunslebin, on the Ran-s6on-Manc!alay railway 98 miles north of Rangoon,
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    Churchill on holiday
    35 1 Mr. Winston Churchill a'Ua spend a holiday of two weeks at Gardone. the Italian re■art on Lake Garda, before going to Strasbourg lor the j meeting of the European j Council.- A.P.
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    Calling Frank Buck
    108 1 SPOKANE Washington, Sun V POWERFUL black panther tor? a 300-lb. gorilla to pifcoin a ?orv battle here loday. 400 spectators watched in terror. The panther slipj>ed under an unlatched gate connecting IWO cagei at a wild animal show and pounced on the gorilla. '<>r more than two
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    SEA-WOMEN PAY DEMAND
    55 1 SEA-WOMEN PAY DEMAND rE C.1.0. Marine Cook and Stewards Union at San Francisco has demanded an end to discrimination against women In sea-going Jobs. Mr. Bryson, Union p: dent, addressing delegates at the closing session of the union convention, called for the rigid enforcement of a contract provision which entitles
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    'Govt. will smash the Communist Party'
    246 1 CALWELL TELLS STRIKERS— SYDNEY, Monday. fyHE Immigration Minister, Mr. Arthur talwell, x declared yesterday that the month-old Australian coal miners' strike was "the last big fight the Communist Party will pull in Australia," and that "Communist wreckers will never ruin this country." Mr. Calweil
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    'Big progress' at Jogja talks
    219 1 BATAVIA, Monday. fTHE Indonesian Republican Premier, Dr. Moriam- med Hatta, told the plenary session of the interIndonesian conference meeting at Jogjakarta that great strid/s were made during the past week towards reaching an agreement on the proposed new Tnited States of Indonesia. Dr. Hatta said
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    NICHOLS IS BACK
    79 1 BKVCBLN NICHOLS, wli.-.M" pungent, searching commentaries on the American scene gained the Free Press many new readers and pleased old oi»» s four months ago, will he back again next Wednesday, and for three Wednesdays after that. "These Amazing Americans" in four instalments is Nichols at his
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    Roem for Holland
    43 1 DR. Mohammed Roem, chairman of the Indonesian Republican delegation am! A K Prin odigdo, state secretary, are leafing for thr Netherlands .shortly to preDurr for the round table conference at The Hag ur, reports Aneta, the Dutch new:; agency.— Reuter
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    Varsity trial demand
    33 1 The Chancellor of Sun Vat Sen University lias demand Bd that the Canton authorities give an immediate trial t to 10 professors and 120 students arrested for alleged Communist sympathies.
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    Macao troops
    33 1 The Portuguese trooper Nyassa passed through th<'Suez Canal carrying 800 reinj forcements for Portugal's tiny ind colony of Mucao, oil j the Communist-threatened South China coast. Port Saiu dispatches said yesterday
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    C.I.D. arrests three students
    130 1 C.I.D. arrests three students Free Press Staff Re|M>rtrr student! of the 1 Singapore Chin. High School have b detained by the cid. under I Emergency R gulatlona on suspicion ot beii Communistic 111 C I D. mm Tim < yang c. both on Bukit Tl 1. and the Nan Chiau
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    Police canteen robbed
    64 1 |7*OUR mon, r, bo r Chinese, r i He Police c R id at 4mi thl.i mornfnir. i up a Malay, the son ntractor, at ih« it Gi a i h $1.50D cush The men hnko a window to ri and Foreed him how then irhere the
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    Rubber prices
    22 1 t tWWOML Markrt co,rr^jM»Ddent *Ive* the prir'N of rubber '.'n cent% prr lb i at 11 m.m. today M follow
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    94 2 BORN today, you have great deal of talent, especially in the field of music and the arts. You must cultivate optimism, for you are much too inclined to be pessimistic. You are impatient to hrvom? a great success instantly. It takes time ami you must learn to
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    Bridge Hands
    252 2 TDERHAPS Ea.st bid once often in thi;, deal, but he redeemed himself by collaborating with his partner in the excruciatingly careful defence which defeated the contract. The pit [alb were many. West got of! 10 the excellent lead of the club ten. Souih won and led in diamond.
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    23 2 Sketches by FRANCIS MARSHALL LEFT: Many people go cur to iwlm by boat. ABOVE: Ik* flowery drive to the Piccola Marina is charming.
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    Is This Beauty Spot No. 1?
    1046 2  -  IRIS ASHLEY IT turned out that ticket bought in I jsJ;in(l (iii! not allow one to take the direct h;Kit from Naples to Capri. The company's little tripper steamer goes via Sorrento. There's only half an h '.i difference, anyway. S>> 1 settled on
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    HAVE YOU A SICK DRAGON?
    455 2 IF you have a sick Mragon needing treatment with penicillin send it to Honeybill and Jackson. Or perhaui- you Wtsb to make your b*st friend u birthday present of a viper? Honeybill and Jackson will be delighted to oblige. Britain is enjoying a boom in
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    Death Is Not So Strange
    113 2  - Death Is Not So Strange A Doctor by DURING the last few month! a Diunoer ui prominent people died suddenly: ana me result is, naturally enough, that medical men tind many ui their patients asking anxiously about the risks of sudden death. A great d*'al ul this anxiety is completely
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      1063 2 SINGAPORE t)utrh i BBC); Australian New i 1.1 (Kin? vKTivoKKi 9.00 Kuoyu *bbc>: y.bu But the mow a programme ol Recent isi Vni T j niese (BBC); 0.45 English. News Rt leases; 7 Musk to Charm; 7. 30 **>* ana 41.7 metres. Hli i )bPr Pn ce s 10.00 Radio
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    F.D.R. OUTLINES U.N. PLAN TO STALIN AT TEHERAN
    1941 3 F.D.R. OUTLINES U.N. PLAN TO STALIN AT TEHERAN sdsdfdf >. mber 15, tiile Presiwas across the Cairo and :erences in lowa there extraordil, of which left this inged for an The Presito the deck. to the port five-inch guns time. Sudfrooa the bridge arned over and real tiling! It's til
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    VICHY HAS AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX
    286 3 VICHY, French town of 30,000 inhabitants, is strongly fighting its inferiority complex. It was associated for four years with a capitulation regime and its name then meant the provisional capital of the "French state." Though it was only provisional, it lasted too long for Vichy
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    The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 25, 1949. ARE WE VERY INTERESTED?
    585 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, July 25, 1949. ARE WE VERY INTERESTED? Qthe paper for Thursdf the Lei C that S:t: t! all rone TIH d ncy if ied on Singap other than mount of led on textil Ims, cars and buy fv .md ckoned up ilarly publisht-d trade r
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    Malaya before the House
    1256 4  -  Hall Romney \LONDON I LETTER By MALAYA'S affairs will again have the attention of Parliament shortly, for before the House rises for the summer recess there is to he what one M.l\ has called "a very considerable debate" and another "a full debate" on the colonies.
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    The Atlantic Pact
    1126 4  -  CARLTON J. H. HAYES A treaty which gives name and substance to an Atlantic com- >> munity'' existent since the discovery x of America... Collectivc action on the i part of the Western nations as the surest way to "protect and > secure them against s aggression
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    The Catholic war against the Reds
    123 4  - The Catholic war against the Reds WILLIAM L. RYAN By Communism appeals to have revived its "outstretched hand 91 policy as ;i weapon of counterattack ;ii;;iinsl a bold Vatican offensive. The Communists apparently are fearful that their campaign to penetrate the strong Catholic ranks of Europe will be stopped dead
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      23 4 Z 2~+ an 2m\. 1 !<>< 13. Batter) l n;ul for Exquisite Br I dozens v Addir/^ A II Sole D.ttribuion: Borneo Sumatra Tru
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    HERS GIVE UMNO FUND
    4 5 HERS GIVE UMNO FUND
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    FAMILY ON A WORLD TOUR
    84 5 Free Tress Stall Reporter AN American family of 13 w r ill arrive in Singapore by the President Monro during the August Bank Holidays on a world tour. They are the inter-related ShribeiHarig family of Akron. Ohio. Included in the grouu is Mr. Bert A.
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    EUGENE GOOSSENS
    116 5 A recorded interview with Mr. Eugene Goosens, permanent conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, will be broadcast over Radio Malaya at 7.10 p.m. today directly after the news. Mr. Goossens passed through Singapore yesterday on his way to Britain to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Edinburgh
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    SALES UNDER INQUIRY
    516 5 Prices may be brought down Free Press Staff Reporter T HE u Q Ue u St !i O °l whether there should be established in Singapore a Municipal wholesale market to which all fish landed in the Colony should be brought for auction, is being studied by
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    Extortion by a special
    96 5 IPOH, Sun. ALLEGED to Have made a Pxtol V t 1 i d n eSPread practice of whom h m °t^ ey rom Deopie wnom he threatened with arrest under the Emergency a^un a i!r S Da^^S V was sentenced 0 a total of four years'
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    AIR BYLAWS MAY BE REVISED
    189 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TK) allow Malayan Airways to build a staff canteen Kallang Airport, Singapore Municipal Commissioners have decided to waive a 16-year-old by-law restricting the erection of buildings or other structures within 500 yards of the perimeter of the aerodrome to certain heights.
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    BIG SUGAR IMPORTS
    115 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Assistant Secretary for Economic AiTairs, Singapore, Mr. T. Van-der Qaast, yesterday explained the sharp increase in the value of 1 Malaya's imports in June I from Australia and Formosa. Malaya imported $14,169,--171 from Australia ($9 541.- 042 in May) and $5,613,027 from
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    GAVE WOMAN A BLACK EYE
    55 5 BLNTONG, Sun— A 36--year-old woman, Chew Lim, who assaulted a younger woman during a quarrel, was fined $20 in the Benlong court. "After giving me a black eye with her fist, she went on to assault me with a pair of wooden clogs," said the
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    S'pore quizzes travellers
    228 5 S'pore quizzes travellers picture. Free Press Stall Reporter OINGAPOKE could do with less foreign exchange control, more hotel accommodation and a general inquiry bureau, the Civil Aviation Department has been told by air travellers passing through the Colony. These opinions were given in reply to a printed questionnaire issued by
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    CLASSES FOR JOURNALISTS
    114 5 F. P. Chinese Correspondent THE Singapore Chinese Y.M.C.A. has started an evening class for the training ot would-be Journalists, the first of its kind in the Colony. The class Is to be limited to 50 persons, who must be either holders of the Senior Cambridge certificates or
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    PASSPORT FEE DOUBLED
    79 5 {jjiEES for passports isiued by the Chinese ConsulateOeneral in Singapore are now nearly double that char^; previously. The Chinese foreign Ministry has given, notice that a flat rate of U.S. $lO is to be charged tor either a m-w passport or a renewed passport, beside U.S. 50
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    ITALIAN LINER DUE HERE
    63 5 tfIRST ship of the Uoyd Trlestino to resume the company's post-war service to tiie Far East from Italy will be the 9,583-ton Toscana, :iich is due at Singapore from Sydney on July 31 The Toscana Will b< an Immigrant-style shin with accommodation for over 400 passengers
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    M.G.S. SPORTS
    14 5 The Methodist Oirla Bchoo Singapore. will >iold it annual snorts on Aue
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    Council on Malay language favoured
    143 5 Council on Malay language favoured F.P. Malay Correspondent. qpinion among concerned -vith the I Kress of the Malay l favours the formation of .i Council of Language to it <=: development. Miss M B. I of the School of Oriental African Studies. I her 72-page report on th« Ma las
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    The crowd booed the wonder fight
    1694 6  - The crowd booed the wonder fight HARRY MARKSON J The crowd jeers as the Joe Louis-Billy Conn 'wonder fight 1 flops Mike makes another million Louis gives the customers what they want by beating Mauriello Mike collapses in the street and recovers to stage the two Louis-Walcott bouts. PROMOTING the
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    SCOREBOARD
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    Fifth-wicket stand average N.Z. disaster
    117 6 Fifth-wicket stand average N.Z. disaster I ENGLAND third 1 Mih-wleketsta! kept the to fourth (Ticket luncheon int.-r run^ ju st J Donnelly Reid before Reid u That stopped the i stumped at 2 bowler, claim of throe I Youth had md. Br. the you:. Play for i:-. wicket wit showed
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      158 6 mOftdrdKß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya iFr^vT '^?^il"^r^S'^?3 I DEP.EK BROUGHT 1^ LOCKS MEAN I BUT, MANDRAKE, IF I I'LL HAVE T TrTruc c7^r7Tll( L?;\ l! V tl Oa O^y^^^^A IT HERE/ H OVV H NOTHING TO HiM. THEY FIND YOU lAITH h TAKE THAT HSl^Jte' if
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    INDIA MAY BANHORSE RACING
    496 7 Madras, Bombay take the lead I rum A Reuter-Press Trust of India Correspondent HOKSKKACING is faced with an uncertain future in India. In Bombay and Madras racing is on the way out; other provinces have' yet to announce their policy. Racing will be banned in Madras
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    Seletar gain outright win
    209 7 IB (lined the onh outright victory in pore Cricket Association tourBit the expense of Johore C.C. by 44 to play for the week-end played a big Hi took live wickets for ven for 24 in the t-trick. HP I ndrum four for 30, for 32 to
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    MORE RAIN IN PENANG
    38 7 I P K.t (iiiy Correspondent PENANG, Mon. HI WV rain held up training on the Penang »urs(> this morning. Only the third and sand v>vre open ana ;t feu horses were Riven slow work.
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    ITALIAN WINS
    135 7 u Coppi of Italy yesterday 1 the Tour de France. < cle rare over a an 3,000 mil s. ich Ls considered to be Frances Ing event compatriot and Oino Bartali, 11 mins. on ag£i\ journey ov.r re :id.-, rough and riloua mountain al time was 149 49
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    CAPT. WINDSOR WINS SNOOKER
    91 7 In the final of the Royal Engineers Old Comrades Association Snooker tournament played at Qillman Baruvks en Friday Capt. Nf J Windsor, RE., defeated Sgt Maj P. W Turner, RE. by three frames to' on-, the scores being 43-35. 48-28. 36-45. 50-32. A feature of the
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    HORSE SCRATCHED
    50 7 I PARAMOUNT will not run in the Stewards Cup at Goodwood tomorrow, it was announced last evening.- Reuter picture. I DO yard.* itHmss rate ai the Raffle H ion athletic sports hoa on .turday. Loh Rw?im W«l from hontc Sou Yam in 11 1/5 J»econds.- Free Pres s
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    Java Chinese weak in attack
    517 7  - J ava Chinese weak in attack CRUSADER By Indonesian Chinese... 1; R.A.F. Combined... 0. BEAUTIFUL goal scored by their left winger, Tan Yoe Liong, two minutes from the end gave the Indonesian Chinese footballers their second consecutive victory yesterday, against R.AF. Combined. The visitors, playing clean, cool soccer, helped to
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    1-m. franc race
    41 7 MR. E. Constant's IrLh-bred thre^-year-old Bahadur Fair, by Khan Bahadur out of Niliu>h Fair, ridden by Fernand Rochetti, yesterday beat G. Beauvoisc Prince kindou by length to vin ttti 1.000,000 francs (£912) Prix Eugene Adam at St. Cloud.
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    INTER-STATE CRICKET
    216 7 F. P. Cricket Reporter MALACCn beat Negri Sembilan by five wickets in th« ir inter-State hxture played at Beremban yesterday, while Belangor Europeans boat The Rtst for the first time since 1934 in the annual "classic." Results of yesterday's games played in the Federation are:Malacca defeated Ne^ri by
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    Jockeys given mud bath in Penang
    297 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. JOCKEYS had a mud bath on the renang racecourse yesterday. The course was not exactly ruined after eight races, but the clerk of the course and his labour gang will have a busy time between now and Wednesday
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    Currie makes a save
    34 7 Currie makes a save I u:i-..« lac »w..\.;. (Oaikeeper. saves a shot by Liem Tiong Hoo. the Indonesian Chinese insiderifht, in yesterday's soccer at Jalan Besar stadium. Tlie visitors won one-nil. Free Press picture.
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    S.B.A. JUNIOR FIXTURES
    250 7 'piES in the Singapore junior badminton championships this week-rnd are: Saturday, July 30. at 7.30 p.m.: Lee Blew Hee (Amicable) v. ch'H.* j Foolc Cheong A A U M I Yunos bin Amran (Western* v. j Lim Kim Periw I Mt-rryumc I Cheang Seng I/Dck (S.C.S^A.) v.
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    ITALY LEAD 2-1
    87 7 TTALY won yesterday's doubles match 1 to take a 2-1 lead over I France in the European zone final of the Davis Cup at Roland Garros Stadium, Paris Gianni Cucelli and Marcello del Bello, the Italian pair, beat Marcel Bernard and Henri Bolelli 3 6. s—l. 4
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    Aziz snatches victory after 3-set struggle
    511 7  -  VETERAN By /JNLY one of the 25 ties in the Singapore Badminton Association's junior championships played off over the weekend reached a high standard. The only match which provided some thrilling rallies was between Seow Watt Peng (Mayflower) and A. Aziz bin Ahmad (Perhimponan).
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    RED THUEAT TO CANTON GROWING
    265 8 RED THUEAT TO CANTON GROWING Chungking is HONG KONG, Monday. AS the Communist drive in Shensi believed to be aimed at Chungking, where the Nationalists plan their last stand gained momentum with further advances, the Nationalist military position in Hunan further deteriorated with the abandonment of Changsha, the provincial capital
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    7,500 m.p.h. planes soon
    58 8 LOS ANGELES, Mon. JET-PROPELLED planes will be streaking through the skies 80,000 ft. up at 1,500 in. ph. within ten years, and with greater safety, Mr. Harold Luskin, Douglas researcji engineer, told members of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences. He added even greater speeds and higher
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    Big H.K. opium haul
    92 8 Big H.K. opium haul HONG KONG, Sun. HEROIN and opium worth over $500,000 have been seized here, representing the biggest haul in Hongkong's history. Revenue inspectors seized 22-1/3 pounds of heroin at Kaitak airfield valued at $360,000. At the same time they seized 3,700 tahils of opium valued at $148,000.
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    Jungle training for China Reds
    74 8 LONDON. Monday. THE New China Corrmunusi News Agency m a radio report picked up in London last night said that 'People's Liberation Army" units are in "jungle" training south of the Yangtse River in preparation for a c-ampaign in South China. The broadcast said the
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    CHINA REDS BOOST $ RATE
    61 8 CHINA REDS BOOST RATE THE Chinese Communists 1 increased their official currency exchange rate again yesterday— by 100 Red dollars to 2,100 for on<» U.S dollar. Rice, the stajite commodity to which wages are pegged fluctuated between 48 000 and 50,000 Communist dollars for one 165-pound bag. The Reds are
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    MOTOR RACE CRASH
    29 8 One man was killed and three people seriously injured when a racing i:ar crashed into the crowd at a motor race in Achen (Germanvi yesterday. A.P.
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    Indian TUC asks Govt. cut prices
    120 8 NEW DELHI, Monday. THE Working Committee of the Indian National Trade Union Congress yesterday demanded that action be taken to reduce price levels in India by 30 per cent. The Committee, representing 1,270,000 workers, expressed deep concern "over recent serious trends in the national
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    Soviet deports 250,000 aliens
    56 8 WASHINGTON, Monday. RUSSIA has deported a quarter of a million people of non-Russian extraction from areas along her frontiers to combat "Internal dangers." Washington officials said yesterday. Reports specifically mention the Iranian Dorde>- from where Soviet secui'.ty forces were said to have removrc' about 15.000 people
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    U.K. AID FIGURES
    47 8 Britain received $25.819 000 of Marshall Plan funds during the week ending July 20 the Economic Cooperation Administration announced yesterday. The French naval Catalina which disappeared with 17 servicemen aboard during airsea manoeuvres off Agadir, Morocco, on Friday night is now considered lost.- Reuter
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    E. Bengal food prices drop, famine averted
    247 8 DACCA, Sunday. (MIK possibility of a famine in East Bengal, where a good shortage was reported last month, is now ruled out, Syed Mohammed Afzal, the Province's Food Minister, announced in a broadcast. Prices of food, which he said had been high not
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    Seeking strand of blonde hair
    76 8 TOKYO, Mon. THE Mizusawa Observatory has sent out a call in this nation of dark-hair-ed people for a strand of blonde hair. Just any hair will not do, particularly Japanese hair which tends to be coarse. The observatory's hydrometer used in measuring the degree of
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    SKIER KILLED
    25 8 Nils Gestensson, one of Sweden's leading sKiers, was killed in a motor c 'ycle accident in Stockholm on Saturday night. He was 31.
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    THE RED FLAG
    39 8 nEMONSTRATORS Identified u by police as Communists hauled down the Indian national Hag from a part In Madura. South India last night and burnt it after attempting to set the local Congress office on fire Reuter
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    Headache over girls
    91 8 GIRLS orphaned in the. great Bengal famine of 1943 and in the communal rioting of 1946-47 are giving U,, West Bengal Government officials a No. 1 headache Grown to marriageable age in the orphanages, these girl, finY ing it extremely difficult to find husbands due to socYal
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    Pakistan's 'no' to Asian pact
    219 8 Pakistan's 'no' to Asian pact KARACHI. M i) The Pakistani Government has officially denied t Pakistan had formally agrr« ci to attend the anti-Communist South Pacific Union Conference, planned for next month In the Philippines. It is being sponsored by Prestdi Quirino ar.d Gem mllssima Chiang Kai-shek. The StocKholm paper
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    Top Ku Klux Klansman freed
    87 8 B. ALABAMA, M f EADING Ku Kiux KlansLj man William Ku^h Mor i was released from jail in Biri minghum jrest on <US» $500 bond The Director ol Federated Ku Klux KUni Incorporated had been sentenced en July 7 when he refused to produce Klan
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    AID FOK DOCK STRIKE L.VON
    68 8 THE Yugoslav Trad* Union Federation decided yesterday to give the striking Federation of Canadian Seamen 500.000 dinars The crew of the 7,131 ton Canadian steamer Trldale which has been idle In Wellington, New Zealand Unce mid-April because of the Canadian itrlke, have decided to continue
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    WORKERS NEED UNDERSTANDING
    108 8 iNnr^ T PTA^ U E R IDGE (N C^Mn*). Monday. INDUSTRIAL leaders should give greater heed to <J^ n fac i ors if the y want to see production roll lly 1 a i} d labll1 ablln dantly, said the secretary of the Industrial Relations Centre of
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    PAKISTAN VISITS
    16 8 The Pakistan naval frigate Jhelum arrived in Istanbul yesterday a four-day goodwill visit.- Reuter
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    COTTON PRICES UP
    23 8 British mill owners have to pay more for thr cheaper types of cotton grown In Egypt, beginning today A .P.
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