The Singapore Free Press, 9 February 1950

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    20 1 The Si ngapor e Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA s SINGAPORE, THIRSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1950. PKICE 10 CENTS
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    NEW U.S. MOVE IN ASIA COLD WAR
    352 1 Arms aid for Indo-China? WASHINGTON, Thursday. J^S the Hritish and U.S. press acclaimed the British and American recognition of the French-sponsored Indo-Chinese governments as acceptance by the allies of Russia's cold war challenge m Asia, Administration officials here last night indicated that President
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    More Red flafs in S'pore
    8 1 More Red flaf s in S'pore portrr I
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    Gurkhas kill bandit chief
    15 1 Gurkhas kill bandi t chief s kl K»'p<»rtrr i R. r lo :hey ider M
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    COURT FREES BOMBAY REDS
    11 1 I 1 I n 's and A.P.
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    JEWISH WARNING
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    FUNDS FREED
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    US BID TO STOP AGGRESSION
    127 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. I TOTTED States Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. said yesterday that the I tiited States was 'trying to extend the area of possible agreement with the Soviet Union." He said that the United States must strengthen democracy around the world W it
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    JAP CONSULATES
    28 1 A Washington report the U.S. Government announce within a few hours' that Japan vull b«- p -rmittt-d to establish type offlcrs m <r American c; U.P.
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    U.S. House says out atom money
    103 1 U.S. House says out atom money WASHINGTON. Thurs. PHE Appropriations ComI x mittee or the United States Bouat ol RepresentaUvd last Dighi rtvomrmTided I :m per rent reduction In emergency funds for Ameri- ■> Atomic Energy Commis- slon. But the Committee said the reductions would not interfere with the present
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    DUTCH TO CLIMB HIMALAYA PEAK
    86 1 DUTCH TO CLIMB HIMALAYA PEAK A TEAM of six Duwh geolo•s and alptalsta plan to Simla, li..lia. m May next year to Climb 'hr 22.800 tept Shiila peak, highesi m the Spiti chain m the western Himalayas. Geologist Dr. T H. F. Kiomp of Bandung <Java» University is the leader.
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    Abolish middle man, S'ore importers ask
    174 1 Free Press Staff Reporter AIK Kwek Suan Loh, President of the Importers aTI and Exporters' Association, yesterday criticised as "waste of time and expense' the Indonesian regulations restricting; the handling o f cargoes from ship to buyer to certain appointed Singapore European firms. Mr.
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    PRISONER RETAKEN
    15 1 An escaped prisoner has been wounded and captured In Petaling Lane, Kuala Lumpur.
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    ARNHEM HERO TO SUCCEED BOUCHER
    125 1 ARNHEM HERO TO SUCCEED BOUCHER LONDON. Thurs. \IAJOR-GEN ROBERT E. **1 URQUHART. Urn man wh-> it-el Britain's airborne division at Arnhem Holland, during thp last war. is to take ov»*r command of Malaya District and the 17th < Gurkha Regiment' Division next month, the War OrTirH announced last nlsht. He
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    EUROPEAN AMBUSHED
    76 1 Fttt Press Staff Reporter Mr S. Vincent, assistant manager of Benin Estate. Rengam, was wounded yesterday m an ambush by ban.it the 35th m.s> Jonore Baaru. while travelling by cat on the Aver Itani Road. Bandit* opened fire at the rai and Mr Vincent was hi! m the
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    Record by accident
    71 1 AMATEI'R glider pilot Helle Luck. 17, broke the South African glider altitude record by an ar(id»*iit yesterday. when he divd into a cloud and suddenly was whipped upward through hail and snowstorm. Clad only m troust is. he was; almost frozen by the time he managed to
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    ELECTION EIGHT BEGINS
    121 1 LONDON, Thurs. PRIME Minister Mr. Clement Attire < Labour > and Mr Winston Churchill < Conservative' jresterdaj set out on I tours of thd provinces In pre--1 paration for in** general election on Feb. 23. Mr. Attlee launched his 1.000-mile journey from Watford, on the northern fringe
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    REDS ORDER U.K. RAILS
    73 1 REDS ORDER U.K. RAILS LONDON. Thurs. AN order of 50.000 tons of steel rails for the Chinese Communist Government has been received m London and is being studied by the Board Of Trade purely' from the angie of steel supply and without regard to political consideration. Buyers for the Chinese
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    Estate raided
    40 1 Estate raide d Kre P Pre» Staff Reportrr A fang of 150 bandits a Chinese estate, Gua Ifasa at the Bth m s Kluang M sing Road yesterday. They j robbed the occupants of the koi heir ideniii; c. .'lables.
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    FIRST CHILD, 5s
    33 1 The Australian Premier Mr. R. G Menzies. has announced that from Junt> 20 allowances of five shillings a will be paid for the first child m each famil}' A. P.
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    PLEAD GUILTY
    35 1 Three young Poles have pleaded guilty to spying for France "not for money but for a French visa" when the Stettin sp v trial began its third day before a Polish military court.
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    GREECE ENDS MARTIAL LAW
    33 1 /GREECE abolished martial KM law throughout the country yesterday. Police restriction on the free movement of people was also lifted m preparation for the general elections n^xt month.- Reuter
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    Dangerous to be funny
    74 1 I^K \NK KIRTON. 43-year-old Briton, who was held m F jail m Buenos Aires for six days, apparently because of a joking telegram, was released yesterday. He had been held charged with "crimes a* ata«f the security of the state" after he received a cable rnnjratuUting
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    Penang terror gang active
    129 1 Free Press Staff Reporter PENANG, Thursday. 'PERRORISTS sei fire to three police boxes and a street lamp-post m Penang last night and sent the Fire Brigade out four times within 16 minutes. The police boxes were not manned at the time and there was no casualty.
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    Food, not bombs to beat Reds
    148 1 —SPENDER CANBERRA. Thuja. pOMMUNISM m Asia must be stopped food and not bombs. Mr. Percy C. Spender, Australia's External Affairs Minister, said m Canberra m an interview with United Press yesterday The Commonwealth must review its vast resources, htsaid. and develop a plan o:
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    RAF rocket accident
    67 1 Free Prey* Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR Thl /CHINESE laboiii rs on a i.n V i mine close to lw X I Lumpur airfield ';Jd lucky apes this morning when i cket acciden tram a r»a» fa R A F within a i m Tlie accident occurred h
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    NEW WALK OUT
    23 1 NEW WA LK OUT Russia ptiterda her boycott of j activities by wndk a meeting of a cl the Interr-atio: nc? Fund Reuter
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    Mystery of the Man From Baghdad
    954 2 *XRANGER-THAN-FICTIOM CRIME THRILLER BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT npiIRKE Scots police officers s:it down m an office m Albanystreet, London, one nigh! last week to reopen the mystery of Ihe unsolved murder of Stanley Setty. the Man from Baghdad, whose mutilated torso s washed up
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    Who DID Kill Setty?
    78 2 ll'ltl.N Brian Donald V? Hume appeared at thr Old Bailey thai-Red with the murder of Stanley Sctty a reamarkaMe slorj of under world intrigue was unfolded a stor> a s (hrillint; as any crime thriller.' the jury n>uld not agree on thrir vrrdict. Humr pleaded yuiltv
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    TROUBLE OVER A FOREWORD
    216 2 TROUBLE OVER A FOREWORD j OR D DOUGLAS. Marshal ol the! R.A.I d that •rd to a book B tie of Britain withdrawn. k i> Engines London. and the Squadron Lead- Whitnell. is I t n haVe been a pilot with 85 S d iring July >oy of the b-!o'<
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    A THEATRE 'HAT TRICK'
    330 2 (CHRISTOPHER FRY, Britain's most promising play-wright. looks more like a gentleman farmer than a poet, but lives, m fact, m a Cotswold farm labourer's cottage. He hates London and won't come near the place if h e can help it, but he now has three new
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    Six Men in Search of a God
    438 2  - Six Men in Search of a God PETER QUENNELL Reviews new books m, U.K. ANE clay, some years before the war. a grave question of political expediency was being discussed by a special commission of the Executive of tli c Communist International m Moscow. Representatives of the British Communist Party
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    QUICK LOOKS
    78 2 lor What Wt Wa\c JU reived. Heinema Mond B h a u> The arifi s art Kom< 'fr.riQ to br thankful f I lh- World Next l><»«»r. by Fritz Pi ti r. <G 12s 6d (iraphic and harrowing ■.nt. wh h a note on the dust-cover r. us
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    MEMORIES OF A K.C.
    110 2 IF is not i and human the Law Courti are presented with great effect by Sir Patrick Hast I SOUK the Famous trials m which he has appeared His "Cases m Court" 'Heinemann 15s. gives also a fascinating insight Into the complicated strategical and tactical problems
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      175 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR BOX.SI today, your poten- ing. happy personality am lialities are excellent, although you are inclined but you must work hard to t» worry about trifles, you develop them Children «"on f t let others realize it should be encouraged by Your capacity for laughtheir parents to develop
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      273 2 F.P, Crossword No. 915 111 B^^K-^ |^^S j2^l~™ "~*^^^j IBH IHfll )BHf BsHT"""" CM B 9 \< K(»SS 1 bum k Bess? <4. s>; 7Th .t.-.-n for crosj mothers? v4>. 3 Possibly sjvue more frr.; <s>: 9 Cum m pollti lan? 3.- 10 When quoted they might be the <*r\
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    JAPS LOOK TO EMPEROR RULE
    258 3 Tribal ideology is not dead mirnTWi B t TOKIO. Thursday. gl/lM san. Tokios John Citizen, scurrying y round the streets shabby and ill-fed, is looking forward to the day when Mac Arthur's Japan- beFor the man-in-the-street here is still fi^rppiv devoted to the little man
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    PROBE INTO JAVA ARREST DEMANDED
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    Fortune-tellers do well in Bangkok
    126 3 BANGKOK, Thursday. n Ml ELLEM dues much more than merely UW9 m >iam. He studies the palm m ma give* advice on business, social nulv matter^ H, > aKo something of a healer. hard work, sitting uncomfort--::ion oo a raised dais, listening •roubles and problems.
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    I.R.O. SHIPS TO CARRY TROOPS
    58 3 THE Intel iv Refugee Organisation has announced that eight of Its chartered ships reiurnino: from Australia %iil m future rail at Jai to carry home Dutch m under a special agreewith th^ Netherlands government The ships used by the :on to move displaced persons from
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    TWO RARE, NEW DRUGS STUDIED
    223 3 TORONTO. Thursday. AIK.DK \I. research workers In Canada are making a bid to develop the two rare, new drugs. TH and cortisone which are believed to be BSflfal far the treatment of arthritis. With supplies now brin^ made available Canada from a limited •ource m
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    GUNMEN'S HAUL
    24 3 GUNMEN' S HAUL F.\t gunmen \>a.k.ed the library of Morgan for Nt Tuesday -ook USSI6.OOO In refees and departed within ihree minutes, Reu ter
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    Arm shipped to REd China
    148 3 Arm shipped to REd China HONG KONG. Wed THE Chinese Nation i .i. Me 1 1 Age tiie Cominform waa helping to smuggle military sup through Portuguese Macao to the Communism m China, Indochina and Siam. Quoting r< i p- I For::. Inform had set up a transhipment cci I
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    Bridge Hands
    279 3 HKX I Mill. bidding is imporuai. unfortunate who held the irdi ik him bo« 10 ne: en ip^des on thii deal, m my opponents did. North had no :wo bid; then he *o up With a cue-bid m ht< took seno'ivv pl\u 4 and 5 not rump ')ids
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    KERMODE ARRIVES
    18 3 Brst Brll Lsh Ambass i i Indonesia, Mr. D. W Kermode. has arrived In Diakar;:i Reuter
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    School teaches marriage art
    193 3 COPENHAGEN, Thursday. /MH'PLES who now say: "Let's get married as soon us possible" may, at some time m the future, have to say: "Let's get married as soon as we can get our marriage school certificates." The Marriage School, believed to be the world's flrit. which
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    BRITISH GET U.N. PRAISE
    49 3 DJAKAR I A Wed Francis S. Sayre. chief J US. delegate, told the] U.N. Trusteeship Council on Tuesday that it should com-, mend the BriUsh <mv •stration of Tanganyika f<>r' its efforts to promo. c the political, economic and social advancement of the terrl- tory.
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    Pak. praised
    23 3 The Bou Federation and Ibe Cape Ifuftj lim League have welc< mcd Paion to the m Indian I nent i I
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    Red slogans in Rome
    65 3 KO.MK Municipal authorities m oured the (itv the >lhcf day for special chemicals to obliterate onnmiMiM anti-American itogsai painted M walls. The slosanx innm^ them. "He w tut neitliei tbe Ameriian wav of life nor the Amniian uav of death, were printed duriim the night, it
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    SHANGHAI IS NOT TOO BADLY OFF
    228 3 HONG KONG, Thursday IN spite of financial chaos and growing regimenta- tion. Shanghai is still considerably better off than am other city m China. This is according to Chines c who have recent lv visited both North and South China, m both of which
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    W. Europe asks for more aid
    41 3 PARIS. \V WZSTERN Europe h^ tier US s Sj 000-11: la Marshal] aid st Commun T ted m at the ha!!-v former G- n Th. US 18.251 r^ad-. r<qp said. ha> and the i A.P.
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    REDS ACCUSE THE VATICAN
    20 3 REDS ACCUSE THE VA TICAN 1 SOViLT put lie church v j denouru I rdinal Spellmai i chu; l U.P.
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    FRENCH DOCK MEN STRIKE
    9 3 FRENC H DOCK MEN STRIKE LLE6 i'l iI Reuter
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      98 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. I V.W I 1 ins oi»f<)\ Rope OLISEI M: The Gay »lier (FVTRM iiindi >r\N Khl 1 Hindi M\l)K\^: Who's Gui'.f. CATHAY The O;>ar Emt'.d the Phanr.m S'.vordsChme^t rioub'.e feature.. PENANG l f o\ llt.X: .re LIDO: Ben^awan Solo \TH\V: Ifangajrarkanal Tamtl». CLOUF: Mv Wild Iri>h
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      440 3 crwrADfinP "Fran the London Bdltflrtato'-leUn: 4 1 <ir3lWw«"vftL (BBC>; 4.55 "Composer of the days Melbourne and Sydney Xl I v NFTWORK) I Week' 1 JS. Bach'; 5.15 Races, read at dictation speed; .ji ,nH liVmPtro "Balance of Europe' <BBC>: 5.30 440 Services Concert Hall: 5.18 484 and 41.7 metres. -Travellers'
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    The Singapore Free Prss THURSDAY, Feb. 9, 1950. DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
    564 4 The Singapore Free Prss THURSDAY, Feb. 9, 1950. DEMOCRACY IN ACTION KIING is more certain h.;n 'hat Radio Peking nor broadcast a summary from Sir Henry! eech at y ester- j day's meeting of the Fede- ral Legislative Council became nothing would give i heir via the lie > direct
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    H—the Symbol That Destroys
    669 4  - H— the Symbol That Destroys William Hardcastle ~j->y^ UISTORY will probably record that the Hydrogen Bomb was born on September 23, 1949. For years there has been nothing "top secret" about the awesome explosive potential of the hydrogen atom. Back In 1946 a theoretical treatise on the weapon by Hans
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    U.S. Rolls Out Our Barrels
    295 4 U.S. Rolls Out Our Barrels WASHINGTON: M E R I C A N S are baring British beer delivered to their doorstep—and hking it. Britain's beer salesmen have found the road In this already vell-alcohol-ised nation hard and full of pitfalls. But they are having considerable success. As G.I. Joe
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    It Seems To Me....
    909 4  -  POLITICO By |F ALL the Jeremiahs and woebetidera are to Ik* believed, it won't be lon^ before the once dreaded uranium bomb will l)e relegated to the schoolboy's box of parlour experiments with common chemicals. There is something of the Fat Boy m the make-up of
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    ...WITH THE WIND
    14 4 A m an Oodr.~ vhei six mi i who couki occurdastst
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    DO YOU WANT TO RETIRE?
    370 4 DO YOU W ANT TO RETIRE? —Thousands Hafe the /c/ cc Says F.G. PRIKCr. WHITE A FOOL, they say, is born every minute. And it is a statistical fact that m the same period of time, m this country, a man retires. More than that really —for the figure la
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    S. EAST ASIA WOMEN BACK U.N. PLAN
    400 5 S. EAS T ASI A WOME N BACK U.N. PLAN 'Garden of the nations Free Press Staff Reporter yyOMEN of South-East Asia and Europe have greeted with "great enthusiasm" a plan to build a "Garden of the Nations" at the site ot the new United Nations building, Mrs. Lois Jessup,
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    Work begins on skyscrapers in Singapore
    96 5 Wor k begins on skyscrapers in Singapore frtt- Press StarT Reporter m» l lONS are being laid for what will be the buildings m Singapore. One is the torey Asia Insurance Company's at r mhiyson Green. The other is the nk of China building m Battery Road. insurance building, when
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    U.S. ENVOYS DUE HERE
    15 5 U. S. ENVOYS DUE HERE V If r t 1 :n lean oegin Mr. i-
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    U.K. branch of U.M.N.O. urged
    116 5 F.P. Malay Correspondent IN view of tli p increasing Qtunbtr of UMNO member! who have secured Government scholarships for hipher studies m the United Kingdom and also became there are at present many Malay students there, it is proposed that UMNO Shoi establish a branch
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    LESS TEA IN U.S.I.
    18 5 Indonesia produced 55.000 000 pounds of tea last year. 10,000.000 less than expected A.P.
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    FINED FOR TRESPASS
    92 5 ARRESISD while fishing m .i pond m the Raffles Colcompound. 20-year-old Dhirmaiingam of Dunearn i was yesterday fined $12 :n the Singapore Fourth PoCourt He pleaded guilty to an amended charge of tres- i pass having originally been I charged with theft of eight rrom the pond
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    'Blow at heart of terror'—Gurney
    338 5 'Blow at heart of terror '—Gurney Free Press Staff Reporter KIALA LI MPI R, Wednesday. ANNOUNCING that 100,000 people had volunteered m a week for the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Bandit Month, the High Commissioner, Sir Henry Gurney. today declared that this "overwhelming response strikes at the heart of th e Communist
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    MAILS
    61 5 Surface mail is «-\|,,-cted m Singapore today from Ceylon. North Borrwo, Labuan. Brunei; Miri. Siam, and the Fed?ration. Latest t mes lor posting surface mail today at the G.P.O. are: noon for Java. Australia, and Tndo -China 4 p.m. for Great Britain. N. Ireland. Eire: Europe. Egypt; North and
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    BARTER AT 7 INDIES PORTS
    176 5 Free Press Staff Reporter BARTER trade between Mrlaya (Singapore and Penang) and Sumatra is now generally allowed m Sumatran ports, where there are no banking facilities, on a 30—70 per cent, basis, the Indonesian Trade Commissioner's Office announced yesterday. These ports are Bengkulis, Selat Panjang,
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    NOT QUITTING
    30 5 Mr Sandy G Pillay and Mr. C F J Ess Singapore Prove Party Commissioners, rday Issued "a categoric al denial' of reports that they might leave the Party.
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    ALLEGORY AT THE CINEMA
    256 5 Free Press Staff Reporter /i OLDEN MADONNA opening VI at the Pavilion today and starring Michael Rennie and Phyllis Calvert is a bewilderin? alieg rv with a Venice setting. We see a group of Italians flea-bitten. avaricious, black-hearted changed by their faith m the woodcarving of
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    PRAYER-DODGING MUSLIMS FINED
    84 5 F.P. Malay Correspondent Malays m Mukim Gunoi Sali, Kola Star have been fined by the Religious C rl m Alor Star for neglecting their Friday prayers, the rii:s;in M?layu reports. This is the first time court sentences have been passed on Malays who neglected their Friday prayer*
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    NEW MART FOR OUR TIMBER
    210 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE latest possible new market for Malayan timber is the Tnited States, where a 10-ton trial shipment of graded Malayan timber was received favourably. The total export of Malayan timber for last year was 13.904 tons, of which more than half
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    POSTAL HOIKS
    55 5 There will be no delivery of Utters by the Singapore Post Oflice on Friday next and there will be only one delivery ion the morning of Saturday, Feb. 18. During the Chinese Year holidays— on Feb 17 and 18— public holiday hours of business will br observed «*t
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    JAP GOODS WILL FLOW IN SOON
    261 5 Free Press Staff Reporter I ARGE shipments of Japanese goods, made under the agreement signed by the United Kingdom last November, will soon be on their way to Malaya, Sarawak and British North Borneo. Quotas of goods worth approximately $10,600,000 have been allotted to
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    $3,900,000 FOR POLICE BUILDINGS
    132 5 $3,900,000 FOR POLICE BUILDINGS Free Press Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, V. OUPPLEMFNTARY cx O ture ol $3.900,00t police buildings to be trected by the Public Works D< ment was approved *>) Federal L< nislative Council at its meeting this n A further $IRO M emergency works w proved Police jun;le
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    PADI PRICES: NO CHANGE
    95 5 Free Pres> Staff Reporter KUALA LUMPUR. V THE Federation Gover does noi consider i "economically feasible j present to reduce the chase price for oadi $15 to $10 a picu! m the prfec paid m othei producing coun: Burma and Siam This was ct&ted m rep
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    ASTIVEL A SPRING CUP PROSPECT
    1178 6  - ASTIVEL A SPRING CUP PROSPECT ALLAN LEWIS Convincing win m sprint race By AFTER his convincing victory over six furlongs at Kukit Timah yesterday, Astivel will gain many supporters for the Spring Cup on Saturday, Astivel won from Dark Brocade and Perostan, both of whom finished strongly. Indian Heather and
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    Y.M.C.A. cricket XI
    67 6 THF: v. ill rep v u ca mi I 2 pm >:• Raad KTOUnd: I B D Hoi kan. J C. Cooke. Tan HVCk <- O DS Kan. Coulthread Edward Punf aßha c Fernando. Reserves: Ten Klr-4 Hln and Ten r.n Dsaptre Mr. J I. > ay
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    Won after mam disappointments
    267 6 TWO horses which stored their maidtii wins m Malaya yesterday after many lllnppatnticatl were Jack's Darling and Hector. Running true to her first* day's form, Jacks Darling had no trouble m acc< v. _> for the field In the second race, for Class. 2, Div 2
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    STORE CHESS TOURNEY
    98 6 pOURTH-ROUND results m i the Singapore chess npionship were: Kiong Chin Eng bt Lim Chey Bale Lasol bt. Lee Chun Quan, P u^j Kheng Hong. X wk ?*nc; N Singh bt. H. Campbell; Candaawaay bt. Mah Bcmj Quan: Dr Lim KoK Ann d with Tajr Cheong Ann.
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    Victoria School 'A' XI beat S.E.S.
    109 6 VICTORIA School A" Serangoon English Scb first team by four goals to nil m a thrilling t>occer match on Victoria School ground \e Victoria Schools centre-10. Amin. who scored two soils the most outstanding player on the field. Tlie other two goals scored by
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    WALKED OUT
    28 6 Press photographers who walked out of the Empire Games on Tuesday, yesterday settled their dispute with the organisers over the iacilitios 1 for photographing events A.P.
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    U.K. visitors impressed, but were beaten
    218 6 U.K. visitors impressed, but were beaten Free Prt-ss Kugl> v Reportej TAKING control of the game from u,r .Malayan Combined Service, had little h m beating Hong Kong Services b> v points a try and a penalty goal) t<. nil stadium last evening. n Tlie visitors, although not score, were
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    Seeded players win m Manila
    73 6 LI Philippines men lawn lennis champior won through the fi: ■••>'■ Heraklo Weisf A j I 0 Beyro Philippines 6-1. 6-1; Pedro I 'Span, beat Sam Ang -Philippines. 6-3. 6-2 India' beat fosque i Phi] Dilip Bose ilndii bea* rnitz 'Philippines 6-0 6-0 c Carmona
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    23 6 THE .wor.d Baaka-Billtton 1 rO World on Saturday. F<b. 11. at 8 p m. who v. tilt d:nn.-i pa: the Se
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    46 6 J)l I A.I. Ihe B fa »r«cr< Zealand I hl badl\ m HC»«M« 111 the I. i prop«rl\ and i Th#- tiniii thr t»i I 10-< m (hi In ««n» h an lth|,ir. d winniru London v .«nd V» p*rt Th* htL, IK
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    YOUR HIGHNESS IN GOOD FORM
    449 7 YOUR HIGHNESS IN GOOD FORM Cup horses wind up training By ALLAN LEWIS gPRING Cup candidate, YOUR HIGHNESS (Spowart) galloped impressively on the training track this morning when sent out with Laraculla (Little) and Sisteron. They went from the three, which they ran m 39 sees. Your Highness was well
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    21 7 Maxim to rest for 2 months I) JOA :.md by rr. :v.o\ MOIC Man •on. j do any I I A.P.
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    Helen Gordon sets new swim record
    284 7 ['WO swimming title> went U Scotland, two to Australia, and one to England, at the Empire Cames yesterday. Th c yards women's breast t S h r °iq^Ti^"^jH^n Gordon, Scotland. w h o cut the 1938 time of Storey, England, by 4.6 seconds by
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    JOHORE C.C. MEETING
    68 7 JOHOHE BAHRL*. Tues The anu aig of the Johore Club will b^ held at the Johore Ciwl Service Club on j0 p.m. All sportsmen from Johore or elsewhere who are interested ar* <1 to attend. omers to the Suite <nd years playing members are .i t<> 1-
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    47 7 picture. M <tro (VVahab) forges ahead half a furlonff from home m the fourth race at Bukit Timah yesterday, with Raheen fTBHoh) eominr throu?h m the rentre between Sweet Menory (Woods) and Maestro. Baheen just ?<>t »P ii« (unc r. snatch the rare from Maestro. Free Press
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    Fortune's Favourite given 9.3 in Cup
    406 7 WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY pOKTINtS Favourite (9.03) tops the weights for the Spring (up. main event of the Singapore Turf Club Spring meeting, to be run on Saturday, the last day of the meet. A field of 14 is handicapped, the bottoiirweight bein£ Ballroom date
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    Sunderland will not visit Paris
    79 7 ijll.l. Murray of Sundenu.ia. the English l.t;u;ue Dnt d.^.iion U'.tin. sau; his .side would not play B ienos Aires In Paiia next Sunday. The Racniß Club of Pans hrn Invited Bunderland to iilay m t. •doubi*- header" i Colombea stadium. Murray did io». ';:\e tny
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    TENNIS STARS INVITED
    65 7 TWO Philipp I s «UtfSi F Ampon and R. Deyro, l.aye accepted the ni\i;.ition of lie an Lawn Tennis Association to play exhibition matches a: 1 ahore and Karachi during the third week of February. Other foreign visitors ill ek the American stars Patricia Todd and Gertrude
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    Can Sands take Som Pong's punch?
    373 7 j jOW tough is Alfie Sands? When he stopped AllIndonesia's champion, Bobby Njoo mi n the eighth round on Jan. 20, Alfle had this to "ay: 'Njoo's Er neve hurt me But > Australia's most promising welterweight be able to say the same thing
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    NORTH RUGBY STAR GOES ON LEAVE
    44 7 /\APT. W. MacDonaki. wellknown Taiping sportsman and North rugge* player, has left for the United Kingdom on leave. Capt. Mac Donald turned out for the Camp United m League soccer last season He is also a good golfer.
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    Perhimponan Stia win tennis
    90 7 IN a friendly came of tehnu ihe| Pcrhimponan BUa Cub beat IRA.SC. Pulau Brani at the latter's court last Sunday by >ix mutches to nil. Results: Singles: H. Jamil beat Capt. McKenzie 6-1. 6-0, Abdullah H. Ahmad beat Lieut. Gourlie 6-3. 6-2; Mahpuz beat SSpt. Hopp
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    RAFFLES INST. v. V.S.
    18 7 Raflies institution neat their old rival*, the Victoria S*b«»l..*t sq rsi tfa Wictorti 5-
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    Saturday's golf at Island Club
    192 7 Saturday's golf at Island Club fPHE qualifying round of tbe Island Club Duffer* Cup competition will be held on Saturday. The competition la open to B Division players The qualifying round is over 18 holes 'stroke play on handicap.!. Eight lowest score* will qualify for match-play stage* m event of
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    SEMI-FINALS MAY BE PLAYED AT WEMBLEY
    237 7 "FHEKK is a possibility that the Football Association cup semi-finals will this year be played at Wembley Stadium. A proposal to this effect will, it is understood, be put to the F.A. Council at their meeting on Monday by Mr. A. Brook Hirst, the
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    Burnley may force a draw with Arsenal
    552 7 *FHE fifth round of the Football Association (up x holds the centre of the football stage m England on Saturday, but there is also a lengthy League programme. One of the closest Cup battles may be the meeting of Arsenal and Burnley, for
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    Boxer k.o.'s himself
    101 7 IN a bantam -u-«-iiiht held m the Police-R.A boxing tournament at Tanglin last Francis I (Police 1 after i°ad" points for the flrsi slipped and km out m a coi Anf Wai Leung. Other rcsttlti night's fights >p lice tioned first w Flv-weieht: Si 'Sgx. Dinn on
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    SYDNEY HORSES FOR K.L.
    49 7 111 iced s>(i Kuala Lum] on the Nieuw Hoi. Singapore next Tuesday On board are alto a number Australian being sent to Siam breed mounts for They comp: batch of a total of 800 T iude :hem the Bydn< toga and Daii i Reuter A.A.P.
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    CHIANG BOMBING 10 BIG RED CITIES
    323 8 President Li to be impeached HONG KONG, Thursday. IN anticipation of early Red air action, the Nationalists are going all out to exploit their advantage by stepping up their air offensive. Following up their Monday raid on Shanghai, which the Reds claim caused more
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    E. German Govt. purge intensified
    98 8 BERLIN. Thurs. DURGING of bourgeois and government departments :n R mtrolled Eastern Germany was intensified yesterday with the flight of two provincial ministers to Weal Berlin and the reported arrest of five leading ministerial officials. About 20 other ministerial; "s were reported to have been
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    British stand on U.S. oil
    131 8 WASHINGTON. Thurs BRITISH memorandum to the US Stale Depart has given the sprcifie assurance that U.S. companies will have tjie opportunity to maintain and expand their )il s.iles m the sterling area according to the degree by which they reduce the dollar of oil. The
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    Osborn due here
    31 8 Gen. Albert Osboni interi national leader of the SalvaI tion Army, has left London to tour aimy centres and conI duct campaigns m Malaya, Indonesia and Australia. Reuter
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    SEEKS TRADE POST
    31 8 SEE KS TRADE POST The Indian Republic has j formally given notice to the Philipoinefl of her de»ne to I enter Into I bilateral tr i treaty with the islar. i
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    LONGEST TRIAL FOR MURDER
    70 8 LONGEST TRIAL FOR MURDER THE loafed nrardei trial In British legal history ended In London yesterday with the death sentence for a 2G-year-old labourer conTlcted of murdering: a local elnema manager m a holdup The condemned man. George Kelly, had been v.\ ihe dock 32 days 13 during the first
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    N.Y. STOCKS
    35 8 A rally m at eels and n.o^ors pulled the New York Stoc«c f\-i-h viige out of a slump fmtil'day with final prices fiactioua'ly I. Transfers tot n lied 1.400 .000 -hai ps A.P.
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    MORE JAPS FREED
    19 8 A repatriation ship arrived m Japan yesterday from Siberia with 2.031 prisoners! of war aboard. A.P.
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    'Russians hate Soviet'
    92 8 \VALE I'niversity protVss«tr. Dr. Vladimir Petrov. who was once a political pritoner m the gold mines of Siberia, told a Notre Dame University uathering m Southbend (Indiana) yesterday that the Russian people do not "dare fisht against the Soviet system despite the fact that it is an
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    'APPLY SANCTIONS'
    34 8 U.P. The Syrian delegate Mr Ahmad Shukairy has asked I I the UN. Trusteeship Council Ito apply economic sanction! to "victory-drunk" Israel to j enforce the international!™- I tion of Jerusalem.- U.P.
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    ANTI-TITO MEN GO ON TRIAL
    45 8 ANTI-TIT O MEN GO ON TRIAL t:.il public trial of 15 former Democratic Party mem- m used of membership organization workln| !<• overthrow Marshal Tito'.-, uovernment began i:: the Belgrade district cou: yesterday. The Public Proeecutoi Alekander AtanackoTic serted thai ail \ht- bad confessed fully.- U.P.
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    Rubbers and tins are unchanged
    222 8 Rubbers and tins are unchanged LONDON, Thursday 'pilt London Stork Exrhange was quiet yesterday. with rubber and Un prices unchanged. British Government securitie> encountered fresh selling i and moved lower T)ie decline m gllt-edg gave hesiianry and uncertainly to industrials and. m tho closing stages, the load- ers were Widely
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    KING LEOPOLD
    28 8 rhe Belgian Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed a bill providinc for a national referendum on whether exiled King Leopold should re- turn to the throne Reuter
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    Red atomic attack in 1950: U.S. warning
    237 8 Red atomic attack in 1 950: U.S. warning WASHINGTON, Thursda> I FADING atomic scientist. Dr. Harold Trey, yes*J terday warned that Russia might soon plant atomic bombs m American and European harbours to alienate the Atlantic Pact nations and thus break up the anti-Red alliance. Dr. Urey, who discovered heavy
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    Bergman film is banned
    58 8 MEMPHIS, (Term.). Thurs I^HK Memphis film tensor hoard yesterday >.»« 'Stromboli." the new picture made by Boberto Kossellini. and decided it 111 not objectionable but banned it ■eCAMM In^rid Bergman is the star. A Rome me^sat;'' >a>» the Rosselini-lngrid baby is "m perfect health" and both
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    U.S. ROBBERS TAKE $130,000
    41 8 'pWO armed robbers jrester--1 day escaped with an estimated US. $130,000 aftp r a daring bank hold-up m Phoenix. Arizona. A vault clerk gave them the money and he and several other employees were locked In. Reuter
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    U.S. BANK MAY LOSE CHINA LOAN
    128 8 U.S. BANK MAY LOSE CHINA LOAN WASHINGTON. Thurs THE Chinese National, oue tte IS Export and Import Bank U5537,000,000, i and the possibility of colledy much of a political guess," Mr. Herbert Gaston, chairman of the bank, said yesterday Mr Gaston testified to the House Appropriations Committee that the loan
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    K.C. defends 9 Africans
    71 8 Accra rhur* MR C 8. N X Counsel .*nd Mr Ralph Illlner arriwd her* by air jresterd ij n to dffend Kw&me Nkmumah and eight <ith«r A:: with inciting an ilWai itnke. Hie trial m acl.-ouir.d OB 3(t when tie dt fen« p prodoced couns- 1
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    BARTER HOPES
    21 8 Philippine Commerce Department sourcef that the Philippines can do an annual barter tradf 1 with Japan totalling US$lB.5OO 000
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    4 FILMS BANNED FOR CATHOLICS
    121 8 ROME, Thursday -vrOLCANO" the film which Italy's leading star Anna Magnani made while Roberto Rosselini was directing Ingrid Bergman m "Stromboh on another volcanic island, has been banned to Catholics throughout the world The ban was imposed by the Catholic Cinematic Centre, which pronounces on
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    18 8 The Shah of Persia has appointed 28 members of the first Senate m Persian history Reuter
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    London tin
    53 8 In the London tin market /c icrday. spot closed unchanged at £599 15s. and three month* 1 1 ned upward to 584 15s. Settlement vu at £100. In the morning t,e;»iou T5 tons Ml sold and In the n'urnoon 2rt t<v>s was boufht for £5M Tor d*M' c
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      80 8 THE SAINT by Leslie Charteris jfl WAS LOOKING (OKAY. AND I |(l WAITED iT^/vDj S«OULO BE 1/ %OW THAT I'Vt SATISFIED VOuS -X /■J^ISf 20CPOO UTHg WfXT y f W«|T)NG GA&S fOd TE«V« S^Au. I TgU iQU WHAT *11?22'2%! 5!T2?, i THAT WEB6R MAOINVJueSTION-y M STRIPS y MHU wAPPfN (FATLJAftT
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