The Singapore Free Press, 21 April 1950

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fc j" SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950. PRICE TEN C Bh.
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    BIG RED BID FOR HAINAN VICTORY
    378 1 BIG RED BID FOR HAINAN VICTORY Hundreds of ships m fight' Trvnpmr XT HONG KONG, Friday. IGNORING Nationalist claims of an imminent i V Ct j °I L m^ he four -day battle on Hainan Sk?& f eking Radio last ni^ ht indicated tnat this is the long-planned major campaign
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    9 1 picture Hawker n was this wai \lle>. Free Press
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    NO. 1 EXPORTER
    10 1 '.urers Britain urges! exI -immerclal A. P.
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    DEARER TEA
    10 1 i to pay r pound ..< purL:'' h India.
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    Bandits derail train, but no-one hurt
    22 1 to v- was upanis dc Anson sus- .aken :.d ran died to I fatally c m
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    State takes all
    24 1 Rumania has nationalised all fixed property owned by rural landowners, bankers big commercial concerns and other "elements of the bourgeoisie."- Reuter
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    CHINA TRADE 'UP IN AIR'
    193 1 LONDON, Friday. BRITISH trade with Red China is all up m the air and there is no telling when it may settle down, the Board of Trade President Mr. Harold Wilson, told the House of Commons yesterday. "It is not yet possible to make a
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    SUSPENDED IN VIETNAM
    96 1 SAIGON. Fri. T'HE Vietnamese Government has suspended four Vietnamese newspapers for periods varying from a week to 16 days, it was learned oJiciaiiy yesterday. Reasons for the suspensions were understood to be: "I Publicity given to clandestine leaflets. 9 Subversive articles. Ma *> False information about military
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    BURMA REDS IN TRAP
    57 1 White Band P.V.0.5.. at war with Communists m Western Burma, have thrown an armed ring around the Communist-controlled Irra•vaddy city of Prome pren iratory to a full-scale attack .or re-possession Prome. important road, rail and river centre 168 miles north-west of Rangoon, last month fell to
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    ADJOURNED
    14 1 India's Parliament ended its three-months' budget session yesterday and adjourn 3d indefinitely.- Reuter
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    CIVILIAN RILE
    18 1 Civilian high commissioners will be appointed for the three Western zones of Austria this summer.- A.P.
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    GUNS FOR NORWAY
    19 1 The first American arms for the defence of Norway arrived m O^o without incident yesterday.- Reuter
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    Air force talks
    23 1 All Commonwealth air forces will be represented ftt a three-day conference in London next month to discuss mutual problems.- Reuter
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    Clouds beat rain-man
    65 1 »ipu' York's official rainmaker. Dr. Wallace E. howcii N yesterday abandoned a fourth attempt to make the skies drip for the benefit of «M citys depleted r rV^ S i off with 150 pounds of dry ice— but 30 n»n--u,« c laur w"s back on'the ground a
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    SCOTS TUC BACKS WAGE-PEG
    90 1 SCOTS TUC BACKS WAGE-PEG GLASGOW, Fri. THE Scottish Trades Union Congress, meeting at Rothsay, last night decided by a small majority to continue support for the Government wage-pegging policy. But Immediately afterwards the conference decided by a l&ige majority to support "legitimate wage claims" and prompt increases for all low
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    ACHESON SPEECH
    19 1 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, will make a major policy speech tomorrow evening.- A.P.
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    Israel anniversary
    15 1 Israel yesterday celebrated the second anniversary of the birth of the Jewish Statt
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    GOVT. MAY SEND TROOPS TO DOCKS
    173 1 LONDON, Friday. "THE British Labour Minister, Mr. George Isaacs, said yesterday tha-; the rapidly-spreading dock strike m London was Communist-inspired and he indicated that the Government would call out troops if the situation got out of hand. Mr. Isaacs made the statements m the
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    Company chiefs found guilty
    107 1 JOHANNESBURG, Fit. npWO men who ran a finan ?ial 1 empire worth £100,000 000 were found guilty of m my charges of fraud, theft or contravening the Companies Act when South Africa's most complicated and expensive trial neared its end yesterday. After two years of hearings,
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    HE ATE 24 DOZ. OYSTERS
    42 1 3|R. T. C. ROUGHLEY, superintendent of Fisheries, ate 24 dozen oysters to win the oyster-eating contest at the recent annual conference of the New South Wales Oyster Growers' Association. His nearest opponent ate only 13 dozen.- A.P.
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    24 YEARS GAOL
    28 1 The prosecution yesterday asked for a 24-year prison sentence for ex-Marshal Rodolfo Orazianl on trial m Rome for treason and collaboration with the Nazis.— •P.
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    55 1 picture Australia's Defence Minister. Mr. Eric J. Harrison is welcomed on his arrival at Kalians; Airport, Singapore, yesterday by Captain Peter Heslop, A.D.C. to the Governor of Singapore. Captain L. Ambrose. QANTAS Airways manager m Singapore, looks on. Mr. Harrison is on his way to Britain where he will be
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    U.K. TOLD OF JAP TRADE MENACE
    226 1 LONDON, Friday. \|K. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, m a Budget debate speech last night said that "the powerful growth of German and Japanese competition is making itself felt." He added that British industry was going to need all its resilience,
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    From one who knew
    81 1 A VISITING amateur invaded the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Strat-ford-on-Avon and imiredUtely took over like an old "pro. 1 First he told the leading man Anthony Quayle, that he was not wearing his King's costume correctly. Then he cast a critical eye over the stage and
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    Truman on power of free press
    132 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. PRESIDENT Truman yesterday told American newspaper editors that the simple truth was the best defence against the deceit, distortion and lies systematically used by the Communist press. The President adressing a luncheon of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, said that m
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    Java troops in Macassar
    89 1 JAKARTA, Fri. rpHE first truckloads of Indonesian Nationalist troops from Java drove victoriously into Macassar yesterday following the rebel capitulation there the day before. The Indonesian troops were members of the Rusi Worang Battalion which arrived In ships off Macassar 15 days ago but were prevented
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    RATIFIED
    28 1 The Supreme Sv*viet of the U.S.S.R. and the National Council of the Chinese People's Republic have ratified the Soviet-Chinese treaty of friendship, co-operation an* mutual assistance.- Reuter
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    US seeks power for Bao Dai
    144 1 US seeks power for Bao Dai WASKINGTO. T*HE U.S. Secretary of Slate, Mr. Dean Acheson, intends to maki •'strenuous effort to convince the French Governmont that it v. allow the newly creat government of Vieta m Indo-China more independence of action it expects this regime survive and pain I confidence
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    PIGS, MICE ON RAMPAGE
    38 1 Wiid pigs are roaming la packs over fleicus around marshes m the Tiberias district along the sea of Galiilee, causing heavy damage. Field mice, too, are ravaging the fields m the Huift Valley.- A.P.
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    BERLIN REQUEST
    37 1 In a move to "re-estu the unity of iierlin anc to re-unite Germany' the West Berlin City Assemb.y lias unanimously requested all four Allied Commandants to approve city- wide fast elections under Allied control Reuter
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    POLIO TOWN
    19 1 POLIO T OWN Hanoi, m northern Vietnam, has had 241 cases of infar. paralysis m the iast six weeks
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    Israel crash
    16 1 Search is ander way for an Israeli plane whirh crash* ri m Gallilee A.P.
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    DON'T SERVE DIVORCE WITH THE COFFEE
    883 2  -  IRIS ASHLEY Make sure you're not one of them By I AST wetk a gie;it many of us read m I his piige Andre Maurois's winning to piarried people to be careful of their friends. Most of us, I think, lead it from the
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    Lower Busts
    31 2 "I 1 1 1- %JH Of »*OII n their Trie present (lav 15 of erect In which it c I woman, wh lower bust line and tuekfl her UU
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    Simple Look Replaces the New Look
    124 2 Simple Look Replaces the New Look < OPRING f Loi don I it miU dead ll ti Suits Mid drts.N»*s .:ip In some collect i« up In rich s fichu > eckI lon "THI v \nU clo In en Aral i i, and en for i tic iiHKlel A new,
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      443 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR OOKN on thiN first day of temperament. Wed MM* the incoming sUn. <me "orn undrr apriTaurus. you arc ruled by torn or Virgo for \<mr Venus th P (."d^ss of l«»\r best happiness although and beauty. You have a N(> tan harmonize with nagnetu. loTin| person- Pfacw,
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    AUSTRALIA RESENTS INDIA
    291 3 AUSTRALIA RESENTS INDIA Rivalry for Asia leadership A v m NEW YORK, Friday. underground rivalry" exists between India and Australia for leadership of Asia, although most Australians 'are unaware of it/ according to uerner Levi writing m the Far Eastern Survey Kuiietin of the American Institute of Pacific Relations. Ac'n?M
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    She was pursued for 2½ years
    81 3 She was pursued for 2 years LONDON, Friday. id film extra Charles Doherty writes, 1 tries to speak to 22-year-old Marion IM i the next 12 months, he will forfeit £50 or for three months. igh-street magistrate's court, Miss Warwick-way. Westminster, said had been a persistent but unwanted a film
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    35 3 photo Prince Rainier 111, ruler of Monaco, and his mother. Princess Charlotte (right) drink with their subjects m the palace courtyard during celebrations on the occasion of the Prince's accession to the throne.- A. P.
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    FLIGHTS TO JAPAN
    23 3 Argentina has inaugurated regular passenger and cargo flight services to Japan for the first timo xinM th P war- A.P.
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    BIG PURGE IN ALBANIA
    17 3 BIG PURGE IN ALBANIA rnent rs has Alabania Hodja. Bhose Abedin er of who was A. P.
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    If hair were aching teeth
    42 3 SYDNEY, Thurs. 4 BARBER shop m Sydney V has the following notice to cheer the balding: "Don't worry about your hair falling out. Supposing it ached like your teeth a. d had to be pulled out." Reuter
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    MONKS TO GO
    23 3 Czechoslovakia's Commun-ist-led government is going to turn many Roman Catholic monasteries into apartment buildings and social and health institutions.- A.P.
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    ROYAL MESSAGE
    30 3 King Farouk has sent a personal message to Mr. Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Minister, expressing hopes for Mr. Bevin's quick recovery from a recent operation A. P.
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    TO INSPRCT ISLE
    35 3 Lt.-General Elwood R Qje sada. chief of the U.S. Joint Task Force, set up to manage the next atomic energy tests at Eniwetok. is going to Enlwetok for a three-day inspection.- A.P.
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    LOOSE MORALS OF JAPS
    42 3 :iO. Thrus. :aany Japans men are the court. x of the court's M which trim i marriages, *4y* .he procession of women to the court shows democrat c protest against the intolerably loose ai£3 b/the nuKtl W£| A.P.
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    LONG-HAIRED BRITONS
    75 3 PORTSMOUTH, Thurs. WHILE women m Britain are wearing their hair shorter, the men are wearing theirs longer and m more stylish modes, Mr W. J. I. George, president of the National Hairdressers' Federation, told the annual meeting here. "While average man is now taking more interest m his
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    UNIONS WENT H-BOMB BAN
    57 3 X EARLY 400 delegates representing 726,420 Trade Unionists m Scotland have demanded unanimously tha' the British Governmeni should work for a ban on the manufacture of the hydro-gen-bomb and all atomic weapons. The delegates, assembled for the 53rd annual conference of the Scottish Trade Union Congress,
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    NEHRU FOR U.S.I.
    20 3 Pandit Nehrn announced that he may viiit Indonesia m June at the invitation of President Soekarno. A.P.
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    Ingrid gets joint custody of Pia
    188 3 HOLLYWOOD, Friday. f\K. Peter Lindstrom has agreed to give Ingrid U Bergman joint legal custody of their 12-year-old daughter, Pia, and to let her have the child whenever she returns to the country. Attorneys for the actress and the brain surgeon signed an agreement
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    IRON CURTAIN 'PRESSURE'
    53 3 Mr. Averell Harrimun. Marshall Plan roving Ambasor, has envisaged a time when 'pressure will begin to operate behind the Iron curtain to break down the Kremlin control. "When and how no one can predict," the wartime United States Ambassador to Russia told New York Democrats at the
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    TITO PROTEST
    20 3 Yugoslavia has protested against "Czechoslovakia's campaign of arrests and discrimination" against citizens and diplomats from Its country.— A.P.
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    CEYLON PILGRIMS
    19 3 Pope Pius XII will receive m audience the first Holy Year pilgrimage from Ceylon this week.- Reuter
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    Bridge Hands
    361 3 117 HAT do you bid? The problems of sacrifice bidding are complex. Theoretically, a set cf 500 points te profitable against a vulnerable game; m duplicate play the difference between a score of minus 500 and minus 620 may be huge when measured m match points. But In
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    'Point 4 must go through'
    80 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs The Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday urged approval Of President Truman's "Point Four" programme of aiding under-de-veloped nations, describing it as a "security measure necessary to winning the cold war In a report to the Senate, the Committee recommended endorsement of the full
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    U.S.I.S. TOLD 'QUIT PRAGUE'
    57 3 The Czechoslovak Government has requested thp immediate end of tne activities of the U.S. Information Service m Prague and Batislava m a note handed to the U.S. Embassy by the Foreign Ministry. The note also requested that Mr. Joseph C. Kolarek. U.S. Press Attache m Prague,
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    Cairo call for peace
    184 3 CAIRO, Friday. THE Egyptian Prime Minister, Mustafa el Nahas Pasha, has appealed to the leaders of the great powers to sacrifice their pride m the interests of ending the cold war and the triumph of peace. The Prime Minister issued his call m an exclustve interview
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    SHIP FROM CHINA
    22 3 Twenty Europeans and one American have arrived m Hong Kong from Communist China aboard the British freighter Hunan.- A.P.
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    'KARENS ARE SURRENDERING'
    41 3 'PHE Burmese Government has announced largescale surrenders, without disclosing figures, of rebel Karens m the Toungoo area central Burma. A Rangoon communique said Chin soldiers, who mutineered last year to join ihe Karens. also laid down arms. A.P.
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    $3 FOR EX-WIVES
    41 3 One dollar was leli to each of liis three former wives by an American who died m South Africa with an estate worth £45.724 m Souih Africa as well as assets totalling I U5527,000 m the U.S.A.- A.P.
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    Beggar is robbed
    66 3 TUJKIO'S foest-kM >»n bt\n ur, Mr X Ishikawa, was A robbed by a c«v uVnie man recently. Police were unable to prosecute the confidence man for about 1") d.t^ while they search 1 1 for the old beggar. Newspapers Mr Ishikaw i as complaining when taken to
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    'WHY I QUIT —BY INDIAN MINISTER
    83 3 'WHY I QUIT —BY INDIAN MINISTER NEW DELHI. Thurs. 'THE Indian Industry and Supply Minister, MookerJee, explained to Parliament yesterday why he had resigned. In doing so, he condemned Pakistan's policy tods its minorities. "The establishment of a homogeneous Islamic State is Pakistan's greed." lie said, "and the planned extermination
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    ARMY CHIEF STAYS SACKED
    69 3 The South African Hoiu>e of Assembly has supp I by 75 votes to 61. the Defence Minister's dismissal of LieutGen. Len Beyers, Chief of of the Union Defence Force. The dismissal had been attacked m the House by General Jan Smuts, leader of the United (Opposition
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    'TRAITORS' TO DIE
    37 3 Two Czechs were sentenced to death and a 20-year-old student to 14 years imprisonment and deportation after a trial of 16 people m Prague on charges of high treason, espionage atirt nnt.i-Rt.nt.«» activities.- A.P.
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    WINSTON FANS
    30 3 The "Churchill Club" of Japan now has 55 members, including noted writers and actors. They are trying out Churchill's advice that amateur painting is an "enriching experience".- A.P.
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    UP TO RUSSIA
    27 3 The British Foreign Office spokesman said that the next move toward atomic armament controls m the Ur,. Nations is still up to Russia. A.P.
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      52 3 WHAT'S ON IN K.L. PWII.ION: ODSOtf: Desire I anting MVDRAS: The \1HAY: Moi STAN: Char Tamil). N OM I NX) oi>i ON: BAT: The Spanish Oi ChintaNT PLEAIPOH For Tears. Lover. SIN: tM Big Cat. METRO :.e And Sam xy>I> HiRi Of Texas H rlrhandra MALACCA SA ttx ring -Mandarin)
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      361 3 OTMrfIDnDP thp Week— Saint Saens. 5.15 1 Movies; 11.20 Celebrity Violinist; blJMoHrWnr. "Special Despatch" (BBC); 5.30 11.30 News Bulletin; 4. p.m. uipfu,'nßK> "London Studio Concerts"; 6.00 Music For Teatime; 4.30 News (BLLfc n *Jl' Indonesian: News and Pro- Bulletin; 4.40 Australian Dance 484 and 41.7 meires. grammes <BBC); 6.30 News
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Apr. 21. 1950. ENIGMA AND SOLUTION
    464 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, Apr. 21. 1950. ENIGMA AND SOLUTION T7CONOMIC enigmas face the newspaper reader every day as he reads how country after country chases through a maze of regulation and control m an effort to preserve capital .d increase trade. An enigma of a difbothers all rul
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    THE DESERT HAS FOR GOTTEN
    1420 4 THE DESERT HAS FOR GOTTEN ALEXANDER CLIFFORD a former war correspondent, revisits the scene of Rommel's defeat and the Eigh th Army's triumphs. EL ALAMEIN: ■pHE way out from Alexandria is just the same. It still ripples up and down over the desert surface m the way that tens of
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  • Letters To The Editor
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      HINDU SELF-TORTURE
      452 4 I AM happy to note that Mr. A. P. llajah, m his capacity as vice-president of the Hindu Advisory Board, is Joining issue with the Singapore Chettiars m making a clarion call to fellow Hindus to discontinue customs of selftorture In offering worship at temples during Thaipusam and
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      TRAFFIC PCs, PLEASE
      301 4 MIUiIT I be allowed r-<--pect fully lo that the Officer in-eharse-of-Traffic consider the advisability of pasting a P.C. at the Junction of: Kallaiig Road and M batten Road, m i Bra-. Basah Road and Bencoolen Bt. only from 4.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.. when traflic is rather
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    Comets. Can Rule The Skies By 1955
    570 4 Comets. Can Rule The Skies By 1955 Says William Courtenay OE HAVILLAND'S 500--mile-an-hour Comet |et airliner gives Britain today her greatest chance m the air. By 1955 we could capture the business of supplying airliners to most of the world. But what is needed? We must show faith m ourselves
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    A TREK TO INDIA
    95 4 1 itodf life :n foreign cou re shortly ieav. an i 8 and b I 1 -year-old ehirt intend to set-up business together when t!. trip is c The> rim by d< ope U By k c most of they plan to reach B via France.
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    Frauleins Have Their Babies in UK
    7 4 Frauleins Have Their Babies in UK A
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      24 1 This is the Label of the FINEST BEER you can drink! ANCHOR BEER brewed and bottled in Singapore Distributors FRASER NEAVE LTD. SINGAPORE BRANCHES
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  • Free Press RACE FORM Special
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      Masthead
      9 1 Free Press RACE FORM Special Friday, April 21, 1950.
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      Five wins in row after period of trial
      1981 1 Five wins in row after period of trial Wally Bagbv's story AS TOLD TO ALLAN LEWIS WA BHL Ba rSh Started u his life as iockey at the age of ten. oe ng rather a harem-scarem youngster Wallv was la P mi2n ed L° TV f N W Z^^nd trainers"
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      'Nothing new in my methods,' says Yong
      1016 1  - 'Nothing new in my methods, says Yong TRESPASSER By "UfHAT are the sec- rets of your success?" I popped this question to Yong Thau ¥m, whose rise as a trainer is now the talk of Malayan racing circles, at his home off Balmoral Road, Singapore, one evening early Ihis week.
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      Full form guide for K.L. April race meeting
      7951 2  -  ALLAN LEWIS Compiled by One ride after another-* Two Wide Bo^l QN this and the following pages is the complete form guide for the Selangor Turf Club's April meeting at Kuala Lumpur, opening tomorrow. i I HORSES CLASS 3. ACTOR SIXTH (Nine
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      Longden shows 'Yankee crouch'
      310 4 Longden shows 'Yankee crouch pUTTINGS from Aus- J tralian newspapers ore full of Johnny Longden's visit to Melbourne for the Easter race meetings m that city. At the Caulfield meet on April 1 Longden gave an exhibition of riding on the South Australian horse. Beau Gem. Melbourne racegoers, After seeing
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      Race winner was a loser
      73 4 Race winner was a loser 0. and you ran be out of pocket even when you have a winner, as Mr. G. Ba; I tell you. H a 1:300 selling ram it XS:.' :.pai:y who I 10 per ant 4 oses and win a £300 ra^e. lea\ £450 debit to
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      COUNCIL VOTES FOR LOTTERIES
      106 5 Free Press StaiT Reporter KUALA LIMPI R, Thursday. B: :>9 to 33, the Federal Legislative Counapproved th? holding of public lotteries and welfare purposes and the setting up ia] and Welfare Services Lotteries Board. successrner.ciment 810 that it In force for a pears, ur. resolution of
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      PUBLIC MUM ON 'VICIOUS RACKET'
      331 5 PUBLIC MUM ON 'VICIOUS RACKET' Men who batten on women L'^"' P ubl 'f co-operation is hampering Singapore police and social welfare workers Se'&C^ a Partifula^ viciou^Xnn overseas. iir c head of the Social Welfare Department's antivice section, Mr. J. Buckoke said yesterday that there were a number of men
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      RED CROSS MEETING
      109 5 SIR John Newman Morris, famous surgeon and Red Cross worker, photographed yesterday at Raffles Hotel where he met members of the Singapore Rod Cross Society. Left to right (sitting): Miss K. Eastaugh, Hospital Almoner and executive committee member, Singapore Branch. Red Cross Society; Mrs. Faris, hon. secretary.
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      STOLE SCRAP
      33 5 After pleading guilty m the Johore Bahru police court to a charge of theft of 16 katis of scrap rubber, the property of Kelan Estate. Kulai. Llm Keng. was fined $80
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      MAILS
      52 5 Surface mail is expected In Singapore today from Siam Medan. Burma. North India Pakistan. Hong Kong, China,' Japan, and the Federation. Latest times for posting surface mail today at the OP.O. are: noon •or Pontlanak. Sarawak (except Mirl and Sibu> and Palembang 5.45 p.m. for the Federation; 6 p.m.
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      CERTIFICATES
      30 5 At 11 a.m. m the Secretariat Council Chamber or. Wednesday, April 26. Sir Patrick McKerron, Colonial Secretary, Singapore, will present 25 British naturalisation certificates to residents of the Colony.
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      More markets for Colony hawkers urged
      139 5 More markets for Colony hawkers urged Free Press Staff Reporter JETTING up of hawkers' O parks and markets m busy centres of Singapore was advocated yesterday by Mr. Teo Peng Bok, president of the Singapore Hawkers' Union, at the first public meeting of the Hawker Inquiry Commission. Mr. Teo said
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      MORE CRIME IN NEGRI
      120 5 SEREMBAN, T^Wl ARMED murders and robberies m Negri Sembilan increased last rnoruh. according to the monthly crimp survey released by policp headquarters yesterday. Lo> ser crime decreased, however. In March Uiere were three niurders and nine attempted murder?. compared with three murders and three attempted murders
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      Many S'pore Chinese still look to China
      208 5 Free Press Staff Reporter MANY Chinese In Singapore still think of China as their ancestral home. This is the opinion of Mr. Maurice Freedman, a visiting sociologist who spoke on "Chinese Overseas" at the British Council Hall last night. Addressing the East-West Society.
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      26 5 picture. MRS. Rita E. Han, who is m charge of the USIS Library at RaflftVs Place. The TSIS Library will open early next month. Free Press
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      Taximeters put off one year
      325 5 Free Press Staff Reporter RULES making compulsory ihe installation of taximeters m Singapore taxis are not likely to be enforced until June 1951 a year later than the date originally proposed. A committee of Municipal Commissioners, considering the new hackney carriage by-laws, has agreed that
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      JOHORE UNION OFFICERS
      86 5 At the annual general meeting of the Johore branch of the Malayan Union of P. W. D. Technical Services held m Johore Bahru, the following was elected officers for the year: Chairman, Inche Md. Zain bin Maidcen; vice chairman, Mr. S.V. Rrnandez; secretary, Y. If. Syed Ibrahim
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      PRAYER MEETING
      23 5 A prayer meeting m memory of Ramana Maharlsht will be held at the Ramakrishna Mission. Morris Road, today nt 6 p.m
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      BENHAM PAY REPORT: NO HIGH HOPES
      387 5 Free Press Starf Reporter SINGAPORE Government servants are not pinning high hopes of all-round increases m salaries on the report of the Benham Committee, which is expected to be tabled at the meeting of the Legislative Council next Tuesday. Many have already taker, to
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      C.G. FOR SARAWAK
      45 5 C.G. FOR SARAWA K Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald md Air Marshal and M**? Fo?arty leave Singapore b y air today for a brief visr Sarawak. They wfO fly to Sibu. ".here they will attend the annual Regatta tomorrow. They will return to Singapore on morning.
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      HE SHOUTED 'TO IMPRESS THE COURT'
      246 5 Free Press Staff Reporter JOHORE BAHRU. Thurs. WHEN Lim Ah Siang, who was charged m Johore Bahru Police Court today with being a person having no visible signs of support, was called on to take the oath before giving evkteaee. he asked the Magistrate
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      'Don't sit back and grumble'
      79 5 Free Pr^ss Staff X pur r SINGAPORE own boon i others who use the M pal utility <;erv.< ur°:ed to join 'he Ratepayers' Association Mr. S. H Peek presiding the Msoci&tion's mir* meeting yesterday Mr. Peek saici. '1 i all citizens \o takt a jr
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    BRIGHTON AND ARMY DRAW
    33 6 VY r ESTERDAYS UK. soccer X results were: English League. Third Division (South*: Watford 2. Bristol City 0. Friendly match: Brighton and Hnve 2. The Army 2 R'";ter. A.P.
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    29 6 YESTERDAYS U.K. Rugby rctultl were: Rugby Union: Balh 11, Taunton 6; Northampton 7. 'Bedford 3: Gi» 3. New- 9. Rugby Leagut Uverpool nley 2. Dewsbury 15 Reuter
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    'CAN'T SAY HOW IT WILL END'
    653 6 'CAN'T SAY HOW IT WILL END' TONIGHTS BIG FIGHT Maguire Record crowd is expected TH)M Maguire Snr., manager-trainer of British Empire middleweight champion, Dave Sands who fights Boy Brooks, Orient triple champion at the Happy World arena tonight, told me this morning that he could not say how the fight
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    TURNESA'S BID
    26 6 \yiLLIE TURNESA, the ly-W winner, has entered the British aniatfiir Rolf championship, llartlng on May 22 on the old course at St. Ana A.P.
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    46 QUALIFY FOR GOLF FINALS
    178 6 LM>KTY-Six players with aggregates of 151 or 1 better yesterday qualified for the linal two rounds of the "Silver King" £1.350 professional golf tournament on the Moor Park course, Rickmansworth (Hertfordshire). Yesterday players reversed courses compared with Wednesday's first round and the qualifiers thus survived
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    Rae Johnston suspended
    59 6 Rae Johnston suspended kae Johnston, the A ".an jockey who mostly I In Twice, was suspended -he rest of the current Epsom Spring meeting, the Racing Caler. official organ i anr.ouncE; J hLs r: n Roc dv SuburI Roc da Dial photo-finish by Iron D Ti :n BCevardi announf would
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    Navy lucky to take 2 points from Indians
    238 6 Koyai I>avy 3; IK < OOYAL Navy may count thenisr'w 1V got away with two points m tl League game with Indian Reoreal Besa- yesterday. Indians had what i disallowed m the Kcon<] half afi consulted a linesman. I r was a
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    CYMA beaten 1-0
    16 6 ]N a SAFA Juni r B Q match on the CYMA I Rrou
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    WEEDING OUT BOXER ADDICTS
    13 6 WEEDING OUT BOXER ADDICTS r out dri red i I H April U.P.
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    Olympic award for veteran
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    PERU WITHDRAWS
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    S.C.C. TEAM v. COLONIALS
    45 7 THE following have been selected to play for Singapore Cricket Club iigainst Colonials CO. tn ihe SCA tournament game on Sunto, ,t 11 a.m. on iSt. Joseph b ground Ewart. Gould. Heard Henchley Homer. Hvslop. Ivmr. "VptairV Margrave. Nelson. Potts Smith.
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    UNICORN XI WIN
    26 7 a FOOTBALL team from A the Royal Navy aircraftcarrier Unicorn, now visiting Yokosuka yesterday beat 1 lie Kanto all-star student XI by 3-2.
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    WINNERS AT KL HARD TO FIND
    1349 7  - WINNERS AT KL HARD TO FIND ALLAN LEWIS Big fields m all 8 races By KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. gIG fields and a reshuffle of horses m the two classes will make winners difficult to pick tomorrow, opening day of Selangor Turf Club'fl April meeting. Class three horses will provide tne
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    26 7 picture. r^ia 'fm BOXER h ™on their way to da TK, a' K r, menUlrrivfd m Singapore yeslrrW UIINI (f^therwe.ght) and Nai TnmZ (frathrr- Free Press
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    Upset in Rome tennis tourney
    402 7 OLKNARD Destremau of trance defeated young Tony Trabert of the Tnited States l n live sets yesterday m a third-round upset of the Italian international tennis tournament m Rome. The Frenchman dropped the first two sets 2— B Z~ r a 2 f lght ba<>k
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    PAKIR TO MEET CHEW BEE
    66 7 ()NG ("new Bee and A. G B PakiJ a... meet m the U of the YMC A. open tPimis championship?. Chew Bee beat Khamis m •eta and Pakir de(J. Jlollowaf 3—6. 8 ft— 2 i!. the semi-'flnals yesterci. In the mixed doubes Mrs. T A.
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    Sheffield Plate falls into drain
    171 7 From ALLAN LEWIS KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. SHEFFIELD Plate, m training this morning fell into a concrete drain ami hurt his hind leg badly. He will not rim tomorrow. Colin Tulloh, who was Injured when Everbrighl fel] on the first day of the Perak Turf Club
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    WINATION TO SCORE MAIDEN WIN
    808 7 lI7ITH quite a number ol IT horses sent down ti\m\ Clan the form m the Class 5 events will probably be hard follow for the first run. The two top divisions prepunters with formidable \U as there is more form to t ;ilow In these
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    Koreans beaten
    58 7 IWE Kor< an soccer which won th^ir first two games m Hong Kong nsx to I Combined Hon^ Kong on Wednesday evening by ihe single ed m )e gam^. The Koreans I< »st throuffh a penalty awarded Honn Kong two minutes aitf-r i\\o (start. Lee Tni Fai took
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    Prince Simon gains more support
    121 7 Prince Simon gains more support m f H William W< ard's American 0 Prince Simon, displaced the Aga X *olt, Palestine. < favourite last nigti the Victoria dull don) callover on I* 2,000 Guineas, the ftn f the English ctel which is to he run .i» Newmarket next lay. i
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    BIRTH
    19 8 A IK: On lCUl April a I Gaja'i Hospital, to Janrt of Robert Blaik. a son v el?
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    ACKNOWLDGMENT
    21 8 MR MRS. F. S. MOSAIC i Lumpur thank all uiio th?m presents ond n or. their wedding on April l
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    'Lattimore was in Red cell'
    207 8 EX-COMMUNIST TESTIFIES WASHINGTON, Friday. \|K. Louis Budenz, ex-( ommuniot and former editor of the New York Daily Worker, testified here yesterday that Professor Owen Lattimore, Far Eastern expert, was a member of a "Communist cell m the Institute of Public Relations. Mr. Budenz said that
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    Cut our pay request
    52 8 HONG KONG. Fri. AFTER much "persuasive pep talk." officers and men of Shanghai's Whangpoo police station have joined labour organisations m asking for a voluntary cut m wages. The police forlornly explained that they wished to "lighten the burden of the Government In view of rvisting
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    Hemmed in by shark horde
    94 8 DARWIN. Fri. JAILORS on a tug kept up a O rapid rifle fire into the water off Vunderlm Island. In the Gulf of Carpentaria dear a passage through t; sands of sharks. This was 'he first visit by white men In 27 years. Thousands of
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    BIG 3 HAVE AGREED
    57 8 The foreign ministers of Britain. France and the United States have substantially agreed on the great European and Asian issues which they will discuss at the London diplomatic conference m May A series of notes has been passed between Mr. Dean Acheson (US.), Mr. Ernest Bevln
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    CANTON BANKS HARD-HIT
    56 8 CANTON BANKS HARD-HIT All privately-owned Chinese banks m Cant n are facing bankruptcy and likely to be eventually absorbed by the People*! Crovernment. Thcr» a:- resent 11 such. banks operating. Four of them applied to the authorities many months ago for permission to close but were turned down by the
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    'ANTI-SLAV'
    25 8 Yugoslavia accused Italy yesterday of promoting an antl Yugoslav campaign during the Trieste zone elections which "might Jeopardise relations bptwppn thp tun countries. A.P.
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    MPs-C'WEALTH MUST AID MALAYA
    281 8 MPs-C'WEALTH MUST AID MALAYA Britain may cut forces LONDON, Friday. DRITAIN'S military strength m South-East Asia faces drastic cuts to enable her to fulfil Western Union commitments unless help comes from Commonwealth countries, authoritative quarters said jesterday. The Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Mr. Patrick Gordon- Walker came under fire on this
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    43 8 photo. Jawaharlal Nehru, Premier of India (seated left) and Liaquat Ali Khan, Premier of Pakistan (seated right) sign m New Delhi the text of the agreement on the measures to be adopted to deal with the minority problem m India and Pakistan.- A.P
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    Buyers attracted to rubber shares
    176 8 LONOTtf, Mtiay. Qt'IFT firmness was fairly widespread m the industrial section Of the London Stock Exchange yesterday, says Reuters financial correspondent. 3ritish Government funds were hesitant. Fresh strength of the commodity attracted buyers to rubber shares, which generally closed with small gains. Closing middle price*
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    SPEAKER NOT CENSURED
    43 8 The House of Representatives m Canberra rejected a motion of censure against the Speaker, Mr. A. G. Cameron, for his statement on March 30 that he would have only strictly formal relations with the Australian GovernorGeneral. Mr. W. J. McKell.
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    Roberto—Ingrid wedding soon
    72 8 Ro berto—Ingrid wedding soon BALDING Roberto Rossellini said m Rome yesterday that he expected to get approval from Sweden for his marriage to Ingrid Bergman within the next five or six days, adding, "We intend to to marry as soon as possible thereafter." Rossellini said he and Miss Bergman are
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    WARTIME KINDNESS: A REUNION
    104 8 TOKIO. Frl AIRS. Trinidad Roxas, widow i.fi of the late President, Manuel Rflxas, who arrived here yesterday on a world trip, was greeted by exLieut. -Gen. Nobuhiko Jimbo, the Japanese officer who hid Roxas from the Kempeitai during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. After the
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    DIVORCE SUIT
    24 8 Actress Helena Pickard filed a divorce action m London yesterday against actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke. They wer*> married m 1927. A. P.
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    WALL ST. SLUMP
    40 8 Corrective forces on the New York Stock ExchanK.' knocked as much as U.S. $2 oft Wednesday's prices. Finally the market showed many prices at losses up to US$l or so. The close was described as heavy. Reuter
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    MALARIA PERIL
    16 8 Reuter One of the worst outbreaks of malaria In the city's history threatens Nairobi.
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    HIS MARRIAGE WAS IDEAL
    152 8 LONDON, Friday. 4UTHOR Warwick Deeping who held that "marriage can be one of the greatest and most precious and r~ost enduring of all realities" but regarded "childless marriage as often the happier one", died at his home yesterday m Wey bridge (Surrey). He was 73. Of
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    28 8 The new Greek Premier. Gen. Nicholas Plastyras. yesterday met Yugoslavia's charge d'affaires m what seemed a move to heal the four-year breach between their nations.- Reuter
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    FLED INDIA
    22 8 The Pakistani Government reports that 509.016 Muslim refugees entered Pakistan from India between midFebruary and the end of March.- A.P.
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    Hubby fold too soon
    91 8 AS an Air France Constellation from Buenos Aires rV circled for three hours over a Paris airfield yesterday with a blocked landing sear, an Argentinian husband thinking he would be killed m the eventual crash confessed his sins to his wife. The plane crash-landed safely. The
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    'OVERSEAS CHINESE ANTI-RED'
    209 8 'OVERSEAS CHINESE ANTI-RED' SfcOLL, Fri. THE large overseas Chinese populations m A countries "do not like" what their relatives write about conditions In Red-held China. These overseas Chinese could be a powerful anti-Communist element all over Asia. This view was expressed by Nationalist China's roving ambassador, Gen. Wu Tehchen, here
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    Red defences near H.K.
    75 8 HONG KONG, Fri. CANTON military authorities have moved 5.000 troops to reinforce the defences at ntau, west of the British border, according to rer from Canton. Troops are being d>,patched to forestall any attempted Nationalist landings. The garrison at Nantau Is said to be constructing pillboxes
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    AGREEMENT ON KING LEOPOLD
    39 8 JJELGIUMS three main parties— Social Christians, Liberals and Socialist* have agreed m principle that the exiled King Leopold should return to the throne but transfer his powers temporarily to the 19-year-old Crown Prince Baudouin.- Reuter
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