The Singapore Free Press, 10 January 1950

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA r SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1950. I'KICE 10 CENTS
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  • 341 1 'Not remedy, says Bevin COLOMBO, Tuesday. (COMMONWEALTH Foreign Ministers here, led by Pandit Nehru, generally agreed with the view of ihe British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Brvin, that circumstances in Asia do not favour a PaciOc pact similar to the Atlantic pact. Mr. Bevin, who was
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  • 83 1 c orrespondent JKOK. Tues. M Governis divided in arding reI he Chinese government, 'his issue by < abinet yes■d no tanlead to th*» t ral debate lent 'l foreign mesa Parlian cabinet memimmediate re?>ons of trade. sport of rice, Sum's comI that up until CMM
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  • 44 1 NILA. Tues j s Bank oi 1 has an- i shipment ot silver placed in r sal keeping rred without r r-h Formosa. vcre carried by General Claire na Air TransPhilippine Airr was shipped Statet banks on \lanst Kai-shek's Reuter
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  • 22 1 se ommunist I Ihh agreed to Y i recognition of its unmunist New Igmej report messate received •n. Reuter Photo.
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    37 1 A.P. The Rev. Michael Scott. South- West Africa's ambassador extraordinary, who ha s arrived in England from New York where he presented the case of S. W. African tribes against the aims of the a liUm Government.-
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  • 14 1 The Chinese Communists have accepted India"s offer of full dlDlomatic recognition.— U.P.
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  • 221 1 'Sudden attack, says Capt. Jones Aboard the Flying Arrow, Tues. •lyK were 19 miles from the nearest land and were anchored in international waters when we were attacked unexpectedly by a Chinese gunboat," said Capt. David, Jones of the Isbrandtsen ship, Flying Arrow, after its slu'lling by Nationalists off the
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  • 107 1 U.S.I. SEEKS LOAN FROM AMERICA WASHINGTON. Tues. THE newly-created United States of Indonesia has asked the Export-Import Bank for a loan, Dr. Soemitro, the Repu b 1 1 c's first Charge D'AfTaires in the United States announced yesterday. He disclosed the request after he had presented his credentials to the
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  • 56 1 TWO people were killed and an unknown number injured when a bomb exploded at an election meeting at Mudaliarpet, an industrial suburb of Pondicherry, on Sunday night. M. Edourd Goubert, Socialist leader and acting President of the French India Administration, and his followers escaped unhurt. No
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  • 22 1 An Italian fishing vessel struck a mine and sank with all hands off the Yugoslav coast last night. A.P.
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  • 16 1 Trade talks between Burmese and Japanese representatives are going on in Tokio. A.P
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    67 1 Frightened people rushed into the streets when Calais was violently shaken by earth tremors last' ncr frmr seconds yesterday.- Reuter picture. One of the two American Bell heli copters recently delivered to the Italian Air Force lands in front of the Colosseum, Rome, aftei the machines have made
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  • 45 1 riXAMINATION of a person's teeth can reveal whether Vj the person is Jeft or right-handod claims an Osaka nodical professor. His claim is under investigatlM by mpdi< inr aulhorities. The professor Made the claim alter examination of 15,000 persons, he said.
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  • 64 1 LONDON. Tues. A PULL meeting of the British Cabinet will today be told the date of this year's general election, and an announcement is imminent. according to usually well-informed London sources. All political parties are now tipping February 23 as a likely election date, hut political sources
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  • 365 1 From ALUNGTON KENNARD Free Press Special Correspondent COLOMBO, Tuesday. 'THE Commonwealth is likely to find itself partially A divided todav when it discusses China. Discussion will centre not on the political change in China but on the economic effects and. especially, advisability of encouraging trade
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  • 134 1 JAKARTA, Tuesday. INDONESIAN extremist leaders of Darul Islam 1 have proposed a cease-fire on condition that their rebel forces be recognised but their offer was turned down by the Government, it was reported yesterday. In rejecting the Irregulars' otter, the Republican Government said no army could
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  • 74 1 PITTSBURGH. Tucs. MORE than 47,000 soft coal miners struck in five of America's richest coal states yesterday, in the second big strike within a fortnight by members of the United Mineworkers. Tlie miners refused to enter pits in many mines In Penn&yvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky
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  • 27 1 Monty Banks, film director i.usband of the British comediene Miss Gracie Fields, will be buried today in the Adriatic coast town of Cesena. A. P.
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  • 19 1 The Soviet Union Is to hold elections for the Supreme Soviet the two-House Russian parliament March 12.
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  • 70 1 TAIPEH. Tues. TWO Chinese Nationalist Military policemen were last night standing guard over the British Consulate at Tamsui. some 20 miles north of Taipeh. after demonstrations of Chinese Nationalist resentment at British recognition of the Communist regime. Three soldiers on Sunday demanded the lowering of the British flag
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  • 71 1 SYDNEY dockers whose flveday strike against nonunion labour had threatened to spread to all Australian ports, last night decided to return to work today. Employers claimed the men were doing so without gaining their original demand that all docks first-aid men should be members of the
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  • 32 1 The Canadian Finance Minister. Mr. Douglas Abbott, said yesterday that he would be willing to attend another meeting with the British and American Finance Ministers at any "appropriate time."—
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  • 25 1 Senior ministers in Canberra are charging the British Government with placing every conceivable difficulty in the way of Australia liftlnc petrol rationing.- Reuter
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  • 361 1  - BANDITS FROM MALAYA WORRY INDONESIANS JOHN GILES By Free Press Special Correspondent PENANG, Tuesday. COMMUNIST bandits chafed out of Malaya by the British security forces are worrying the Indonesian authorities in north Sumatra where senior officials, including army officers, now travel about only under armed escort. European military observers attached
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  • 98 1 SAIGON. Tucs. TWO Vietnamese were ki.'eJ and several injured nere last night when Vietnam students demonstrat d outside the French Governor's residence for the tmme release of five other- r Dently arrested on poll grounds. The police fired blank the firemen used hoses to
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  • 44 1 Free Press SUil Reporter THIRTY bandits went to leo Then Eng Estate, n.'ar Batu Pahat. yesterday, d'.atributed Communist leaflets and ordered the labourers lo stop work. The men complied but -esumed work after the ban till had left the estit^.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • 651 2 My Advice to 'Mrs A Leave Him LIE brawls, hits me about, and is always going about with other women. I can't think tha t the strain is good for our two children," writes Mrs. A. "Shall I break the home up and divorce him?" Your husband has already broken
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  • 64 2 A DESIGNER AT 15 EMMA KNVCKEY. aged 15. of New Zealand, believes in starting young. Her first dress designs were childish sketches drawn at the age of seven. She has recently been in Britain learning the secrets of impeccable British tailoring. Here are two of her own designs a town-and-coun-try
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    70 2 For a scene in RKO Radio's "Bed of Roses," Joan Fontaine wears this soft blue organdy party dress designed by Hattie Carnegie. The fitted bodice is boned and strapless and features a cowl-like collar to soften the shoulder line. Skirt has soft, impressed pleats to pile the desired fullness. Both
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  • 394 2  -  KAY MURRAY By AMERICAN house- wives will soon be able to serve pre-baked, piping-hot rolls with no more trouble than warming them in the oven. It took a couple of men Joe Gregor and Jake Jacobson, ex-G.l.'s to discover the secret! The partners embarked in the bakery
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  • 211 2 HERE U a simple-to-cook recipe from New York. Carrot -Potato Chowder Required: Two cups scalded milk; 4 cup butter or margarine; l white onion, minced; 2 cups boiling watei 2 carrots, diced and cooked; 1 tablespoon flour; > 4 teaspoon paprika <or pepper < 2 cup
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  • 107 2 LOVE ON LINEAGE AN enterprising group ol Sydney university students have let themselves up as an amenuenis. They'll write anything from a scientific lecture to a love letter for clients too busy or too tongue-tied to do it themselves. Said Sam Maugham, the group's "contact man," who is a 26-year-old
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 226 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR DORN today, you have an excellent head for figures and find all business matters are easy for you to handle. If you can conquer a certain tendency toward shyness, you may become an important leader in your social world, too. You enjoy company, are very attractive to
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    • 308 2 F.P. Crossword No. 889 ACROSS 1 Ruinous sort of linen. is>; 4 A soft one's required in a lit lie while. «8»; 10 Use too much soft soap. (7); 11 Dastardly act ol course makes one give vent to anger. (7>; 12 He has Journeyed to see the Caaba. (5);
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  • 239 3 Safeguard to any threat B„ f A IX LONDON, Tuesday. I s gradua,I y building up her air strength in the Middle East a s a safeguard against any threat or aggressive move towards the Mediterranean area. ai r experts said. Long-range bombers, supplementing
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  • 48 3 1 YORK. Tues. rorld'i largest Of silver— the .'■s goes on .it the United :il be sold for the Internatioi..isatlon, but owners will •eclaim their properties. is found by s Most of i: looed ih and o:her conauered i Fur ope.— A.P.
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  • 23 3 Germans to join Soviet manoeuvres ■0\.) and 10.000 police i a Russian armlet using r.s In the Baltic '..ct Qor_ I ud U.P.
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  • 70 3 HI'DDERSFIELD. 4 FLORIST near here has A installed ultra-violet ray lamps in his shop, with which to dispense that "beach tan complexion which shows off a buttonhole to its best advantage. The florist. Mr. Raymond Cowling, of Westsate, claims that five minutes sunshine tonic each day
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  • 85 3 NEW INDONESIAN NAVY IS BORN BATAVIA. Tuesday. jHI transfei of two Dutch naval corvettes to the slang within the next few weeks will mark th of the new Indonesian Navy. also mark the birth of a new surge tg .md profiteering alona the rich, irretlines of this archipelago. for quick
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  • 169 3 AI'CKLAND. Tuesday. "TWO men who had been missing in a small plane since Dec. 29, trudged out o f a bush yesterday and told a backwoods farmer how they had escaped death when their Tiger Moth crashed into a tree. They are 19-year-old
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  • 35 3 Bengal Reds fight police I lioa t Been and se- of a held here A st-domli rial Trade at the made a cmne h r h^ crowd incident adk a*. 3 tnmcan M ami Reuter
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  • 31 3 Mr Ernes' Bevin. the Bri:ish Foreign Secretary, will rtsll Cairo. Benghazi and Tripoli as well as Rome and Paris on his way back from the Colombo conference Reuter
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  • 25 3 The Deputy Premier of India Mr. Sardar Paul, that India will not reduce present expenditure defence until relations with Pakistan improve A. P.
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    276 3 WIT:. portaat to k- Iding •;:a: fuDtSt w-.for:. I can be exchanged. With C matter of Keeping the bid i -cjnomy. Jump-bids made later us»* I oi bi e the skip particularly wh3IC Ui« responder ha* .t more I r les-s oatnd. Obser.-e Soutb's 'vo diamond A great
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  • 44 3 The International Labour Organisation governing body has decided to establish an international fact-finding and consolidation commission on freedom of association. Governments. Labour Unions and Employes Associations would be competent to make complaints of the suppression of Trade Union rights.— Reuter
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  • 25 3 TO REJOIN CHI ANG Madame Chiang Kai-shek is planning to leave Hi" United States for Formosa, a Chinese Embassy spokesman said in Washington Monday Reuter
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  • 18 3 T\v West Bengal Government declared unlawful seven Communist-led student and labour organisations in the province.— Reuter
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    47 3 photo Lady Hare wood, the former Vienna -born concert pianist Miss Marion Stein, has settled down to London life after her continental honeymoon. Lord Harewood is music critic on the London "New Statesman and Nation" and they were introduced by the British composer Benjamin Britten. A. P.
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  • 185 3 MANILA, Tuesday. QNE of the older American residents in the Philippines, a retired pensioner named Elmer Mocklin, has been shot to death by his youngest son, who also turned the gun on Mocklin's Filipino wife. Junior, 14 years, told police he did it
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  • 25 3 The Syrian Assembly on Saturday ni^ht voted confidence in the new Government under Prime Minister i Khak'd Azim. formed a fortnight ago. Reuter
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  • 96 3 TIIK ca.se of a woman suing an elephant will be heard in Bristol this month by a judge who is a musician of international repute. But it il not likely that Rosit the Bristol Zoo elephant will actually appear in court as defendant. Rosie s passion for
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  • 275 3 Bangkok fair was a bedlam BANGKOK, Tuesday. THE Vajravudh Youth Fair in Sanranrom Garden is A finally finished and seismographs and geiger counters the wcrld over can now turn their attenti4»n to such quiet things as earthquakes and atom blasts. It's hard to believe there ever was such concentrated noise.
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  • 121 3 4000-year-old tablets unearthed CHICAGO. Tars. TPHE manner, morals and mathematics ot an ancient people are being br to light by an expedition In Iraq, according to Dr Th -kild Jacobsen. Director of 1 the Oriental Institute. Chicago, who receiuiy from Iraq The expedition has uncovered clay tablets bearing cuneiform writings
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  • 64 3 'Russia plans no destruction SOVIET Russia has no intention of using a energy for destructive purposes Dr D Englthardt, Russian scientist a' present in India or, a one-month tour, has declared in Poor.a Dr Englehardt, who u direcor of the Pavlov Physiological Ins*;'ute in M< >.•, addec. Atomic ener^v \g
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 45 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. «)i»n>\ c» HtW mvdh\- <»\ 1 I M < in i P£NANO OPJCON: ha Tak— ufvn- ian> IPOB "V. 1 M N Rl BY: om;>\ rii.M GK *ND (EREMBAN bh? e I Itafl. < \PI! C>n-| MALACCA A!r Tunnel 'Can- 1 KK\ Fiddlers I.
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    • 484 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS (Singapore) and his orchestra I.IS Re Bill- NhTWOrtK) bltshment Newsletter: 4.20 Mut." IXI and 41.7 metres .n"*/'.' 1 1 «?i for T?ftlime (eonld.»; 4.90 N«w? m- news from K I IS Metres -o Metres. 31 Bulletin: 440 Music lrom the at in a m Vl^tres and 49 Metres
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  • 542 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. Jan. 10. 1950. MALAYA— THE KEY POINT JUST how vital Malaya is to the rest ol the Commonwealth can be judged from tho a for the Commonwealth Foreign Minist »-:•<" Conference just being at Colombo. Out of the six points for discussion, at revealed by
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  • 1051 4  - India Is In The C 'wealth for Cash ALWYN TEBBIT The attitude and problems of two new dominions are examined in the first of four outspoken surveys which we are publishing; as a background to the Commonwealth Conference now beinjr held in Colombo. By HARD FACTS INDIA'S total exports in
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  • 597 4 PAKISTAN IS NOT A FAMILY' MEMBER DAKISTAN, like India,' is in the Commonwealth for her own good. She has no more sentimental reasons for continuing her membership Mum has India, and does so for economic and strategic reasons. As one of the world's new countries (and the largest Muslim State).
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    17 4 A contingent of the 3rd Carabiniers leaving Canterbury Cathedral after trie ceremony of laying up the standard
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  • 852 4  - ..Now the Scots Want Home Rule George Murray By (SOMETHING remarkable is happening in Scotland, and it is time Englishmen realised it. The Scots want I heir own Government and Parliament in Edinburgh, and if they continue us they are going now they are likely to &et both. There have
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  • 187 4 Rhona ChurchiD r^HE London Zoo's only •giant panda lay clutching her tummy rocking her head and rubbing her sore eyes just as though she were a human suffering from ,00 much turkey, only with her it was too little hamboo. The Zoo
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    • 24 4 ♦WWW .V.V.W.V.V.V. I: BEST SHEFFIELD 5 CUTLERY if bIbT V* 'JiPbbbm*'^^^^^^^ a I US. deSILVAii I- Jewellers 1 06 Orchard Rd. Tel: 2466 j-
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    • 71 4 BREAD ROLLS To help our custom .e a de^cr p* on c 4 I BREAKFAST ROLLS bread i 2 DINNER ROLLS yf^ J Sim lar L^ 3^ .Hait re VIENNA ROLLS ©Round n acre Halt s ze SPECIAL ROLLS These are very slightly sweet. little more fat content TK plain
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  • 317 5 CONTROLLER WARNS RICE RETAILERS Dishonesty will not pay Free Press Staff Reporter Food Controller will not hesitate to cancel rice retailers' licences if investigations uncover malpractices by retailers, warned Mr. A. D. Butler-Madden, Deputy Food Controller, Singapore, yesterday. Twenty licences were cancelled last year, and shopkeepers were prosecuted where offences
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    74 5 picture. QFFICERS of the Royal v Pakistan Navy's flagship, Jhelum, pictured yesterday on the eve of their departure for Pakistan after a six weeks' stay in Singapore. This wardroom group includes the commander C. S. Ahmed (sitting under the photograph of Mohamed AH Jinnah), on his right Mr. B. A.
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    46 5 pit ture. Ml (.»t»rup Cowr i> >et*n r hrrv with I bug of 1H lick ht* batined on I 13 morning in SinIhtN in believed to i rrrord f«»r one gun in p.»re thi> N»*aNon. Mr. irrived here a few j .mo from Shanghai. F. P.
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  • 47 5 TAIPING, Mon Ooi Thai claimed trial before the Taininu Magistrate toi day on a charge committing criminal trespass into the compound of garters occupied by Ifong Kal Cheong at Jalan Padang The case was postponed to Jan 23 Bail be Inc fixed at $200.
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  • 11 5 The Singapore Rural Board will meet on Jan. 19.
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    59 5 picture. TJI i: l>ificcr Administering I lie Government of Singapore, Sir Patrick McKerron, wilh the comma nder. Lieut. Commander t\ 11. Ahmed, inspects a guard of honour formed by the ship's company of Jhelum. flagship of the Royal Pakistan Navy, at the Naval Base yesterday. Jhelum, having completed a six
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  • 12 5 itated in perbe granted in Communist. :::er th^ eacti be
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  • 264 5 Free Press Staff Reporter i a special meeting ot Singapore Municipal A^ Commissioners, called fo r Jan. 17, \o consider the reports of the four-man committee on the cessation of work on the Pontian waterworks tunnel, most of the Commissioners are expected to accept the
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  • 118 5 $4,700,000 IN CHINA REMITTANCES Free Pn-ss staff Reporter remit tariff s from Malaya to China totalled $171,158 in December last year. Of this amount $136,128 was remit ted through Singapore banks, and the balance through banks in the Federa tion Of Malaya. The total for the whole y<ar was $4
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  • 221 5 Free Press Start" Reporter •THE Director of Education, Ifr. A. W. Frisby, will at 6.30 p.m. tomorrow the first session of the adult English class organised under the auspices of the Pasir Pan j .ing Rural District Committee, In conjunction with the Education Department in Singapore.
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  • 281 5 Free Press Stall* Reporter rilK past-School Certificate classes started last pear by four leading boys' schools of Singapore —St. Andrew's, St. Joseph's Institution, AngloChinese School 4iid KaiTles' Institution have proved of such benefit t< students intending to enter the University of Malaya that a wider field
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  • 136 5 NEW $200,000 S'PORE GIRLS SCHOOL Fr»e Press Staff Reporter TV3 meet increasing do- mands for accommodation by students in Singapore and the I eration. th e committee the Chun? Hwa GirK School in Singapore planning to have a n 5200.000 building erect; I at the junction of P; Lebar and
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  • 258 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r pO improve the water facilities of kampong x dwellers in Geylang Serai, Singapore, Miss Amy Laycock (Progressive- East Ward) has asked the .Municipality t o increase the number of standpipes in the area. The matter is being referred to the Water
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  • 31 5 RU BBER CHARGE MUAR. Mon. N« Siah. aged 48. was lined $10 by the Muar Magistrate for conveying scrap rubber at night without a permit tinder the Emeruenry 'Rubber Control Regulations.
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  • 14 5 Salim bin Abomandan. «1O« died yesterday in a traffic accident in Singapore
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  • 63 5 INDONESIAN CHAPLAIN The Bisbup <-f Bii ihe Rt. Rev.' Henry V Baines. has appointed Rev. S B. M Rector of St. Mary's, R w Sands. NSW to the I B Diocese ol Singapore. The post lell vacant i.t'.ir mont when th.e R< v. R B EU idolph ed Chaplain to
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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    • 85 5 for skirt Appeal SKIRTS by GOR-RA and HARELLA Women recognise f t lie <.'\tr:t six k- .uul jf &ffijispti t|ii;ilit> ol tlK'St' f *sJTw^ P^iJl PRICES FROM jk $25.00 4| .-4/.VO skirts can he made to your individual requirements by our Ladies Tailoring Def)t. ROBINSONS RAFFLES PLACE SPORE GIFTS 1
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 57 5 MAILS in •ore today from Grea; 3: ,i ii:, N Ireland. Bire Europe Bg>T>t. Africa. Wesi Indies Ceylon Sibu, Hong Kong China .aid !he m. I atest for posting mail today a I the Ci.P.O. are: litxin tor Kelantan (parcels onlyi and Java; 5.45 p.m Thailand and f Federation: i»
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  • 483 6 3, 000 NEW TEACHERS FOR COLONY Recruitment in five years Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE'S Director of Education, Mr. A. W. Frisby, yesterday announced that 3,000 teachers will be recruited at the rate of 600 a year under a five-year plan to educate children between the ages of six and
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    27 6 Dicture hy DOZENS of pigs were offered as gifts at a Chinese temple in Race Course Road. Singapore, to celebrate comnletion of thp temple's new building wee
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  • 185 6 ITECESSARY travel docu- .> nu nts may now be issued the Immigration Depart Havelock Road, to Cnin:\tionals resident in Colony who are unable to ob- tin a national passport. -ese nationals wistung return to China from re via Hong Kong not in possession of a i travel
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  • 41 6 r PHE London tin market closed loi v. Spot w\ts dtvn £1 id. with £M0 10s. N;rvty-d.iy futures were down £2 lus 6d wi'h €.^B3 bid and £583 10i .-sked Total turnover vm 119 I A. P.
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  • 29 6 -ruE Reconstruction Finance Corp which sells tin from U B Oovernmeni stcrk. yesterday reduced the price a rt.tlf cent 10 "7 cents .US' a pound In A.P.
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    49 6 piciurr SIXTY-three Singapore Municipal *lrrkv took an examination «n the result ..t depend salary increase*. The examination of two papers, essay and precis writing in it and reasoning and comprehension, and rmut, tions in the afternoon. On the raised platiorn seen the Municipal Secretary. Mr T M Free PresS
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  • 420 6 Free Press Special Correspondent SlBl\ Monday. > TAMES of ten people whom the Sarawak anti--1 cession party Kokan Tigabelas (Thirteen Essential Ingredients) had allegedly decided to assassinate were quoted today from a diary said to have been kept by one of the ten Malays charged with
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  • 136 6 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Representative of the Government of India in Malaya Mr. J. A. Thivy. said yesterday that all Indian employers .-.hould make Jan. 26. Indian Republic Day. a holiday. The programme for Jan. 26 celebrations has now been fixed. There will be a
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  • 110 6 KUALA LUMPUR. Mo a A young clerk. K. Singaram, who pleaded guilty to using a forged birth <•• I rate, was today sentenced to six months' rigorous impn- sonment at K'iala Lumpur Chief I: r Raja Abbas said that Sir.caram called at the offlre of the Central
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  • 117 6 1 alongside the SmO gap«>r»- Harbour Board wharvej yesterday (godowm Ir bracket!) wore: >!.»in Wharf: B"ncl. uch <-i:-43' Sarmi (41), An Kvang '4"' H<v*h un '38-39 1 I 33-34 >. Knipir.- no«k: M&ndevlilc '17- M>, Charles M I• od (21-22i P ederlck C 127-Ml Mvr- I ist b
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  • 143 6 ATTACKED DIVORCED WIFE Free Press Staff Reporter ALOR. STAR. Mon. pHARGED with hacking his t divorced wife with an axe and permanently disfiguring her face a Malay farm.r Saaid bin Itam. offered in the Assize Court yesterday to re-marry tn« woman. When the Judge, Mr Jus■Ace Callow, asked if she
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  • 173 6 LONDON r«e«d nONTIMKD easiness in the London change, due to the prospect of a. earl plection, restricted active busint-s* fWUidi Reuttr's financial correspondent. sennip nruria m umuci buyers and prires movrd to lov. British Government fu: particularly dull. L .1 per cent were vfcftcjpreaci In
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    • 283 6 Mdndr2k6 Exclusive In the Singapore Free Press in Malaya -BUT IT WALKEDAWAY. NOT IN MY WELL ,BOYS,THAT^ThE HWT TlUt IN AFTER VVL'.'E I LAOY EWiNE ViY J IT'S STILL MIXiO UP- DEPARTMENT HISTORY THAT A LIVE MUMMY i DISPOSED OF LIS COMPLIMENTS. 1 /.'HAT WAS iJA MOVie PUBLICITY STuNT. BUT
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  • 414 7  - SAFA SEEKS DIRECT AFFILIATION WITH F.A. CRUSADER Redrafted rules of Association approved By SINGAPORE Amateur Football Association, eontrolling body for soccer in the Colony, is seeking direct affiliation with the Football Association of England. This is In accordance with the redrafted rules of the Association, which were passed at a
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    24 7 An S.C.C. forward gets ready to start a move into H.M.S. Terror territory during yesterday's rugger match on the padang. H.M.S. Terror won 8—5
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    2 7 SHAMRERN SRIMADEE
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  • 123 7 1 WIKKN PROVINCE needed 187 runs with nine MHOiul- innings wickets in hand to avoid an inms defeat when play closed on the second day of heir match against the Australian tourists at Port }!i ibttli ye>terda> ed to fallow on after replying to the Aus
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  • 161 7 AN H.M.S Terror XV beat -T\ the S.C.C. -A' by eight points <goal and try.i to five goal> on the padang yesterday. This gave the sailors their third win over the S.C.C. this season. Both teams took time to settle down and play in the first
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  • 174 7 irirwftiiUirt i»t inn* m »\>riK\ PROMNtt— ltt Inns. o inell b Bill Johnston K Dimbleb* c Noblet b Lin dwell 54 l>-»p*r b Lindwalt 13 n«iU c Langlfv b Bill Johnston 11 Pinableb* c Langle* b tohnston I b Bill Johnston 3 <k b lan Johnson 4 not out
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  • 67 7 httmn schoolboys ill in Malaya on y v.iii play St. Joseph's ion at cricket on the round tomorrow at 2.30 I I win wrvc as a trial -ation for the game ne Singapore schoolon Saturday. The Australian boys XI tov will be Reggie Paul. Ji
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  • 87 7 A former li?ht-hei»vv •vewiit boxinp champion of Britain. 1);ik Smith died at his Dwtfwti hor/.e during the week-end. At the height of h's rareer ).e ma police champni'.ship" ana manv Service titles v.her serwng wi'h the Army in India. His fcx xuiv. career ended vhefl he
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  • 37 7 FAmpon and R. Carmona of the Philippines yesterday won th*> men's doubles final in th* AllIndia lawn tennis tournymtn'. They beat ihe Spanish pair Pedro Masip and Jaime Partoli. 6—2, 6-8. 6—2 6—2. U.P.
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  • 198 7 HOCKEY OLAYING better hockey especially in the first half t the Singapore Women's hockey Association team drew with the Singapore Veterans two-all on the Padang yesterday. The women put up a stout resistance to the men who In i tVie second half found their I stride
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  • 61 7 ENRIQUE Canessa, president of The Buenos Aires Racing Club, expressed surprise yesterday at the news that Portsmouth and Wolverhampton have cancelled their matches with the Arerntine champions. Canessa said thai the matches were arranged directly between the Argentine Football Federation and the British sides, and
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  • 61 7 PROMOTER Jacks 80l BOOS iaid yestertlav that he ha18.000 tteketi for the Joey MaximFreddie Mills world li'-ht heavyweight title fight in London on Jan. 24. Grass receipt lor niHhousc will be about £65,000. Maxim said his share is 20 per cem of the pnv*s takings,
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  • 166 7 THE football associations of Portugal, France, Belgium and Argenina are being asked to send their national teams to play against England in connection with the Festival of Britain in 1951. A programme is also being arranged by the Football Association for matches against
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  • 269 7 Free Tress Special Correspondent SEREMBAN, Monday. VEGRI SEMRILAN has a rugby "find," a new arrival who, unfortunately, came at the tail-end of the season. He is Bleakley, a nippy, opportunist, stand-oIT half, whoso play on Saturday was reminiscent of Bennett of Selangor. Only Bleakley did
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  • 233 7 FEATURE of the draw for the fourth round of the F.A Cup to be played on Jan. 28, made yesterday, is the luck of London teams. All five concerned will be playing at home. They are Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham and Tottenham, who are
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  • 66 7 ROYAL Singapore Goli Club's women's competition for January (Stroke) was played yesterday. It resulted in a win for Mrs. W. G. C. Goss in "A" Division with a nett score of 38. for Miss M. Hadley in "B Division with a nett score of 34* 2 and
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  • 834 7  - French set on beating Scots PETER LOVEGROVE By PRANCE'S national XV, which have never yet won the international tournament though they have been runners-up three times since the war, travel to Murray field on Jan. 14 to open the new championship season. The spirited Frenchmen, frequently brilliant, often erratic, always
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  • 59 7 WOMEN'S SKI CHAMPIONSHIP TWENTY-ONE-YEAR OLD Miss Hilary Laing m Aberdeen won the British I Ladies Ski Club championship held in Switzerland yesterday. The contest is open to all nationalities and Miss Laing beat a field of Swiss and British skiers, including last year's champion. Miss Shi i na Mackintosh. Miss
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  • 271 7 Srimadee, (he colourful Siamese featherweight who fought a draw with Sing.t pore's Mok Kai Khoon on Dec. 30 at the Happy World, wants to go to Australia, if somebody could get in touch with Stadiums Ltd., Sydney, and IN them know about it.
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  • 239 7 ALLOWING are UK foolball fixtures lor Saturday, Jan. 14: IMUH liMi I i»i\ i Arxn-i, Hvdrf*-rsti<>l4 Birmingham v RJa< kp \-i.,n R >lton v llvrrpoul "frk» Kurnlr* f\.ri..n rnrUHuutb < u'hr.m Mi.n< hr.in C. Minrhrslrr I h. <.r a MiddirsbroiKh UoUfv N>wra*tl«- v i h. •.i.. n
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  • 50 8 REA On Jamu.y 7th, to Catharine, wife ol J. T. Rea, M t" B I»ugh:er. WONG: To Dai Mooi. wife of K S. Won-, at K.K Hospital. on 9.1.50. a daughter. Doth wo)!. \CE To Josephine, wife William Miller, a son. en the Fh January, 195<> at Kandanj: Ml.
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  • 377 8 Govt. still hopes for aid HONC. KONG, Tuesday. RESPITE evident indications that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is unshaken in his determination to fiffht to the end, talk has heen revived that he will eventually flee either to the Ifnited States, Japan or the Philippines as his
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  • 38 8 U.S. to attend Cevlon talks The United Stat*-, has accepted an invitation from the International Labour Ortice to send observers to Its first Asian Regional Conference to be held In Ceylon fmn Jan. 16 to Jan. 28 Reuter
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  • 223 8 WASHINGTON. Tuesday. PRESIDENT Truman, presenting: his 1951 budget to Congress, yesterday disclosed that foreign military aid expenditure was being almost doubled, while a 20 per cent cut was being made in outlay on other international activities, including the Marshall plan. Declaring that "the threat of
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  • 61 8 CANBERRA, Tues. IMIK Australian Commerce Ministi-r. Mr John McKwcn. is to open a drive for greater tr.ide with Indon«'»i.i. He announced that he would see what could be done at i government level to extend two-way trade, and plans an early increase of trade commissioner
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  • 29 8 The Indian Government has announced the appointment of Mr A. K. Sen as Charge d'Affaires in Communist China, pending the appointment of an ambassador A.P. photo.
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  • 86 8 LONDON. Tues. Market demlf In spot rubber were made yesterday at one shilling three and 5 6 pence per pound— highest pric»* paid in free market trading for over 20 years. In 1928 the price of spot rubber reached one shilling 7-7 8 pence. The
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  • 21 8 Holland has lifted restrictions on the import of textiles from Britain and the Commonwealth, France and other countries. Reuter
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  • 154 8 LONDON, Tuesday. 4 BRITISH doctor was quoted in the London newspaper Empire News as telling how he per formed the "mercy killing" of three patients whose cases were hopeless. His "frank confession" was published under the title: "Why I Let Three People Die.
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  • 18 8 Japan has received hor first post-war shipment of Australian livestock— live llllawarra short -horn cows
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  • 13 8 Denmark ha s decided to recognise the Chinese Communist Government.- Reuter
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  • 23 8 The Jewish Agency has announced that 345.169 immigrants arrived in Israel since the state was Droclaimed on May 15, 1948.- A.P.
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  • 90 8 U.S. love life— Red view THE CZECHOSLOVAK state -controlled press yesterday described the United States as a land where sex appeal pushed out love and citizens live in "constant fear" of unemployment. One paper said that in 1948 more than 3?,000 women, nearly all under 21, were arrested for sexual
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  • 40 8 in ,'t lively ration in the Nov. York Stock K\ihan;e yesterday, more than 2.500.000 shades werr I traded, but the market finbht d below the new 1949-50 peakl Wtablishrd early in the mornlnc. T"!ie market rlivo.i steady- Reuter
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  • 32 8 Miners in Scotland, Yorkshire and Lancashire yesterday rejected a proposal by their leader 8 that they should snelve claiming wage Increases for a year to aid British economic recovery.— Reuter
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    33 8 photo. This car, which was parked outside the Spanish Embassy in Rome, was overturned by Communists in an anti-Catholic demonstration while the Pope was inaugurating the Holy Year at St. Peter's Basilica- A.P.
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  • 278 8 Less U.K. goods for area LONDON, Tuesday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, yesterday warned Britain's sterling war creditors that he is going to slow down paying them off in exports in 1950. The reason, he told a press conference, is that Britain must send more goods to
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  • 233 8 PITTSBURGH. Tuesday. tfUCH wonders as "bottled sunlight" for home lighting and kitchen ranges that cannot burn food are forecast in the January issue of Westinghouse Engineer, a company publication. O«.«*l- Bottlo sunlight, it says, will come from highly efficient phosphor powders mixed into building material, paint
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    • 13 8 men tides Toda> 1 .Stia.m: 35 p.m. Tomorrow: 3.35 a.m. S 35 p.m.
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