The Singapore Free Press, 1 June 1950

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  • 18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA jkl;kj,.ijk,.hjklj SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1950. I'RICE TEN CENTS*
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  • 14 1 COLONELTO DIE FOR 'ESPIONAGE' n Muff on rendP the issador, i r d to
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    61 1 picture. Probably the most disappointed person of the eleven owners who demolished their huts at Changi Point yesterday, following the quit notice served on them by the Commissioner of Lands. Wi heng Peng Chay. Cheng is seen MikUng up the attap and planks which hud been his home and a
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  • 43 1 1 ->:ri:inn of •iirid» to i the r:irv; p Wuct iHind ii<! .md i |1K why thr nnt be dr iv]. n thr !-ir>t this morning nil of «pnr»MUM Hum v :th sUn uverii- nn d: 19 poNtn»n- d ;ii!i for
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  • 561 1 New move by Australia LONDON, Thursday. INTENSIFICATION and widening of the struggle against Communism m South-East Asia is seen m the Australian decision to send a transport squadron to Malaya and discussions on British naval aid to halt Red China smuggling arms and agents by sea into
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  • 28 1 Mr. E. J. Harrison. Australian Resident Minister m London, said yesterday he hoped the United Kingdom would follow Australia's lead m enacting anti Communist legislation. A.P.
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  • 156 1 Govt. praises estate men LONDON. Thursday. \IK.N employed m rubber production, rice-growing and other Malayan Industries are praised by Mr. James Griffiths. Colonial Secretary, m ti is report. "Colonial Territories IH49 ">o\ released yesterday. Thp medical and education authorities were highly complimented for their great progress m the of Communist
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  • 64 1 Cooper, 4ti. a O dustin.ui who was dismissed for following Queen Elizabeth through the city m v bright orange s;.ir*».»u«' truck and bowin- and waving to the ebeering crowds. S«»t his job back y»>sterday. At the requpst of the presrnt and former Magon of Behinijton. the City Council
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  • 76 1 HONG KONG. ThUTS. I ABOUR unrest again was 4 threatening yesterday as representatives of three labour unions met to discuss counter measures against the managements* rejection ot their demands for increased ai'cwThe three labour unions represent the workers of the China Motor Bus Company, :he Hon° Kong
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  • 52 1 T'HE anti-aircraft cruiser uSB Juneau, new flagship of the U.S. Naval Support Group assigned to SCAP. will arrive m Yokosuka naval base tomorrow. The Naval Support Force on duty In Japanese waters normally consists of one cruiser and four destroyers pitu one unit of the British
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  • 21 1 The British Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevln. will undergo his second operation at a London clinic on Saturday. Reuter
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  • 20 1 Reuter Siamese Kins Phumiphcn Aduldet and his Queen are scheduled to arrive m Japan on June 3.
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  • 178 1 'LOVE BOOKS SEIZED IN RAID' STORY Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE Chinese Hign School m Bukit Timah Road will curry on as usual, following yesterdays police raid m Ich 19 students were detained, the principal of the school. Mr. Cheng Ann Lung, said this morning. The raid was carried out
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  • 29 1 The Allied High Commission announced yesterday that It bad agreed m principle on plans for reopening West Germany to foreign investments barred ever since. the war.- A.P.
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  • 197 1 LOXDOX, Thursday. DRITALN yesterday rejected New French proposals to join France and Germany m pooling iron and steel resources on the grounds that Britain was asked to commit Itself on the plans before the details were worked out. A Foreign Office spokesman said that the
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  • 71 1 PHILADELPHIA. Tburs. IJARRY GOLD, me U.S. biochemist charged with delivering atom bomb secrets to Russia, told Federal Judge James McGranery yesterday. "I am going to plead but not to a charge of meaning to hurt the United States." Judge McGranery told reporters that Mr.
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  • 53 1 jy|ARSHAL Smuts is reported to be "very much better," He had a restful night and his breathing is much easier In the South African Parliament tho Prime Minister. Mr. Daniel Malan, expressed on behalf of himself and the Nationalist Party his deepest regret at Marshal Smuts'
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  • 48 1 A Madras Dislriot Session Judge yesierciay sentenced 22 people described as Communists to life imprisonment tor murder and looting a village m the Krishna district, 200 miles from Madras. They raided Veiuvoiu village, looted property and killed two villagers m an armed .scuffle.- Reuter
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  • 34 1 Australia has asked assurances from the Indonesian r.overnment that it wUi i itlure the safety of Australians m the archipelago, the Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies. said m Canberra yesterday. U.P.
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  • 78 1 HALIFAX, Thurs. forest fires swept Nova Scotia yesterday, raging O through some 18.000 acres of rich timberland on a iOO-mile front. Before the fire was detected covering a wide area between Halifax and Colchester country border near the Denas settlement to a point 12 miles east of
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  • 235 1 WASHINGTON, Thursday. A MERICA will not exercise its veto power to keep Communist China out of the I'nited Nations, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson. told Congress m a brief clash with critics of his Far East policy. After giving the Housf
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    22 1 pi( ture. Singapore's first voters for tin* Legislative and Municipal electoral rolls pictured at the General Post Office this morning. Free Press
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  • 44 1 TOKIO. Th A QUICKLY gumraonei tat In exiraordinar yesterday to try eigh J ese a» assaulting A:nig the not It on Tjp— Cooununisi laily ny which five American I wore bea'eti kicked and stoned More lolence is A. P.
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  • 31 1 'TIGHTEN AID' ThP U.S. National Ad. Council m a special rep lent Truman and said that the International Monetary Fund .v tighten up on dollar aid to its 47 member count]
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  • 210 1 Free Pre>s Slall K. f livr pWKNTV T \Y O-YEAR--1 OLD P J I) a d Manickam, a clerk employed by the SftttfA] <» I Kducation Dgpilttlt, got off t!i" bus at Full ton Building: this morning, walk d across to I General Post
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    • 29 1 D P OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY I. RAFFLES PLACE. SPORE COPP JOMN LITTLES) I TEL:BS7OO V^^.. Ue&, ith a ////A (Md ci^ alette MADE IN ENGLAND W 0. H. O.IWIUS» *RIiIOUA*i©NDON.
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  • 494 2  - An Old Sea 'Dog' Looks Back PETER QUENNELL reviews new books m U.K. f V()T every novelist is happy vvitli the characters he luis created. Cooan Doyle, a bluff and hearty personage, led towards the end of theii joint career a miserable life with Sherlock Holmes, the ■etive, sedentary drug-taking
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    54 2 Mack Sennett, famed film producer of the silent days, poses inth fanner star, Sally KUeri during his 70th birthday party at the Douylas ranch m Hollyuood, California. tip. Sennett, who made the "keystone cops" series m the heyday of the silent screen, iras born m Dennlle, Quebec. Canada. His real
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  • 153 2 The Brave Bulls, by Tom Lea. (Heineraann, LOt. 6d American tribute. m the m of a novel, to the highly developed and extremeancient art of bull-fight' inu The technical information is absorbing, ana tome incidental passages art uncommonly vivid. But the >j the thin and poorest stuff, while
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  • 447 2 PSYCHIATRY CAN BE A FALSE GUIDE (ESPECIALLY IN CRIMINOLOGY) "C. P." reviews "The Young Lag which he describes as a "disturbing book. 'pHE psychiatrist ex--1 plained to the judgi that the accused man had stolen because he had one leg shorter than the other, and that this had caused an
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  • 479 2  - A Heart-Rend ing War Story Pamela Hansford-Johnson By THE majority of crftics appeared to a^ree that Mr. Alexander Baron's first novel, From the City. From the Plough (Cape) was the best of all the war -novels up to the time it was published. In my view it is still the
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  • 7 2 I NANA
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    • 131 2 WOO HING BROTHERS I^. >outh Bridge Koad Singapore I>l 4119 l>tMl»T* m ail kinds ot n« k> atches all makes of will mrt il.irm rloi k«». spare part> and accessaries i \i)i ikies Rourrren Wf claim to have the largest stocks Sir \ariou^ types of watches on display E. Nassim
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    • 73 2 Copy is accepted for CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Personal. E H Deaths. Opporti. 'vat.on Vacant and Warded Proofs can be seen of STRAITS TIMES PHOTOGRAPHS Orders are accepted ior phol by our photographers or have rprxv-'ed m |N c Sunday Times and Singapore Free Piru We will accept ANSWERS TO BOX NUMBERS
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 158 2 New Crossword No. 62 fBE HU *2 BHT3 IHI 4 IHBTS~ ><$ CLLXS ACROSS 6. Rotating artist 0 (6). 7. 20. Just not too late <4, 2, I). 8 Spring for children, colour for the ailing (3). 9. Catch pan ol broken trapeze (6). 10. Heroic poem m the pictures
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    • 241 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR nOKN today, there is I three three bad. thrte v distinct touch of genius good. But don't insist it m your make-up but it muM happen this ua> You needs careful development nn determine the tenor of to be turned m the right >mir life if you
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  • 351 3 People pass on 'information MANILA, Thursday. DED China is one of the best sources of fairy tales 1V m the world today. Because Communism has throttled free speech, the Chinese, always great story-tellers, have taken to passing "information" from person to person with the
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    27 3 The King and Queen payin? a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show m the grounds of the Royal Hospital. London. Here they stand beside a miniature waterfall.
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  • 88 3 Less controls for Turkey ANKARA. Thursday. Turkish government faces its first vote of deuce tomorrow on a programme of more r;>nj>e at home and closer co-operation with broad. rnment of Premier Adban Meneres was In Parliament's approval for its platDemocratic* Party won a 48-seat the free election earlier this month.
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  • 58 3 HONG KONG. Thurs. £HINESE newspapers m Shanghai have been invited by the city government to criticise its administration and functions, according to arrivals from the nonh. However, on matters dealing with national defence, military and foreign affairs, public security, restricted financial and economic information and various
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    22 3 photo. (.rueral K. M. ari.ippa. c ommander-in-chirf of the Indian Army, lays a wreath on the cenotaph m London's Whitehall. A. P.
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  • 61 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. MR. JOHN DULLES. Re- publican adviser to Mr. Dean Acheaan, the U.S. Secre- tary of State, will go to Japan aooa to talk with General j Douzlas Mac Arthur about Om Japanese p»ace treaty. Mr. Acheson recently asked Mr. Dulles to takt- ov»r
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  • 29 3 Indo-China wants finished Japanese textiles m return for her raw materials, according to Dr. Radan Sodjono, head of the Indonesian trade mission to Janan.- A. P.
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  • 30 3 Japan's cxpjrs during 1949 amounted to 510.000.000 yen I a 510.000 sterling* which was double the previous year's figure, but only 30 per cent, of pre -war Reuter
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  • 16 3 M: WU- the United H M l, a. i I A.P.
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  • 9 3 irnalists New i :'->ur-rronth urn- A.P.
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  • 43 3 [^lAQUAT ALI KHAN I Minis;er of Pakistan arrived m Ottawa on Tuesday and was wplcorrpd by the tn Prime Minister. Mr Louis St. Laurent. He receive." a general salute n a Royal Canadian Air Force euard of honour. A.P.
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  • 95 3 MORE BANKS CLOSE IN RED SHANGHAI HONG KONG, Wed. jgHANGHAIS famous Bund the waterfront street which paralleled New York's Wall Street m the number of banks along its edge may soon be taking on a new look Reliable Shanghai reports hins; here yesterday said that three more banks last week
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  • 190 3 NEW YORK, Thursday. 4 IKLINERS, buses and passenger autos some day may glide over rubber nukwmji and highways. Motorists usin^ Route 18 at Tallmade. Ohio. have marvelled over '.he smooth rides they had on three stretches of hishwaj Each stretch 15 sixteenths ofa
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  • 59 3 Election hint ATOP rankin? cabinet minister hinted on Tue>da> that a British General Election may come soon. Mr. Hueh Dalton. Minister of Town and Country Planning, told a Labour Party meeting at Cuckfield. Sussrx. **it does not look as if this House of Commons will last very lon*. It is
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  • 59 3 p.CA. chief m Taipeh, Mr. Raymond Moyer. has disclosed that an official notice was received by the mission advising women staff members to leave Formosa but said that no deadline had been set. He said that the leavetakings depend on the cleaning up of work m
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    275 3 Bcti sides vulnerable and 60 on •core. West dealer. All Pass HAVING op^n?cs 'he bidd:n° fourth band, South cou'u |crd to pass the one spade over call. 1/ West took no action. Nor;h. \vi:^ a very weak hand, pass and the opponents would not oven be p.t game.
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  • 121 3 OP ERA TO HAVE STRIP TEASE TOKIO, Thursday. yilE Modern strip tease producer is going to take over the ancient Kabuki, classical Japanese stage play, and the Western Opera. The aim is not to popularise the Kabuki or Opera, but to draw customers to strip tease shows. In order to
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  • 40 3 A bill to permit Miss Sumiko Kato, a Japanese, to enter the United States to marry Mr. Thomas D. Jacobs Jr ot Pittsburgh and live permanently m the United States, was p. Ed by President Truman.- A.P.
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  • 26 3 British archeologists hjive discovered an observatory which was used 4.000 year ago m the ancient city of Nimrod. a Baghdad dispatch says. A. P.
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  • 255 3 Memories of the 'Gay Prince BRIGHTON, Thursday. TpHE spirit of the gay Prince Regent George walks 1 at the Royal Pavilion here, which will observe its centenary of ownership by the city on June 10. About 1800 the Prince of Wales, later George IV, gathered a brilliant court around himself
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    23 3 Members of the W.K.A.t. team who will take part m the Combined Women's Services P.T. Display at the Royal Tournament. Oly mpia. London.
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  • 38 3 A Fi.ipir.o security guard it the U.S. Air Force bu^ if (\a:k Field, near Manua was by a group of band is. who were aft*r a USS 150.000 pay roil kept m the he euarned. A.P
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  • 78 3 DOUBLING U.K. POWER SUPPLY LONDON OCIENTISTS have how to double Er: electricity supply bj B :iew power sr has been under ob for six months D Herald reported The Herald said I ?rrid would consist ai r>ed cables .slung Cram 90-foot, high gantries a quarter of a mile apart. They
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  • 61 3 "^TRS Ci iMv mi i Min^u-r tor Labour m Boston that the "main object" which the new seeks to obtain now ls lance mas? immifrration." Mrs Myerson told I i annual Labour ponvpnUon that Israel mu4 o^ made strong 'so that neighbours have any de>. try
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  • 40 3 Shoe repairmen go to college A COLLEGE {or shoe repairmen i> m Chicago. Sturiems who run repair d hour sesa. I held it a w»--The cou. management and ising. Among the are V iking the rr. hop location. r.er rela
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  • 22 3 Ch- US. J jCongntold 1 magazir. ;nd World an interview that the Un States has balance its b l U.P.
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  • 25 3 A German court m th Occupation 7. I 'enced former 3 -.ker Em.! Hechler prisonment on a cl sptHuialiny In cht C A.P.
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  • 20 3 Pakistan has c U553,223 ior retuj Middle E will b^ used to b pounds ol Pakistan wh U.P.
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  • 19 3 rued under a M I 'sUte of sk ge *-.l] i a regular fce^ion this year U.P.
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  • 57 3 \FIMI ended the life of a fisherman at J .1, 34 miles from Xow?ong. Assam. The fisherman haying netted the fish 11 a* about t;» p*JI it out of the water into his boat, when with an unexpectedly powerful jerk, the fish jumped into the waier dragging
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    • 87 3 VICTOR SILVESTER HIS BALLROOM ORCHESTRA FLOWERS AT DAWNING- Q SU.VMkR EVENING— QI. FB ZEPHYRS OF SPRINOTTME -Quick WalLi SPRINGTIME FLOWERS—^ FB 3_ YOU Ht NOPODY— Quick Step PP.F I ENDING- Quick Step FB B»H ANY TIME AT ALl— Slcr* Fox-Trot i*CV/ DO I K2.OW-- Quick Mep YOU CAME ALONG -Q'i.ek
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 249 3 SINGAPORE BFEBS [Singapore] ißLl'fc \*-:WORK) 4 45 p.m. Programme summary: ltfl m 4.47 "From the London Edit o: tM nn vBBCi; 4.55 Composer of the Tgenej ncw> frrv-n K.I. Week" Benjamin Britten. 5.15 m Balance of Europe" (BBC-: 5.30 at i 0 m The Adventures of P.C. 49"-^ TODAY The
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  • 395 4 The singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1950. Splendid Record •THE annual report of the Colonial Office, )\iblished today is bad revvs for those whose S« depends on pubPk acceptance of the belief that British i olonialism is an evil Dg. But for the pecple In the Colonies themselves, the
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  • 983 4  -  JOHN HALL BY KANO, Northern Nigeria. V() African wants to sec the British i^o yet The majority suv "We need you to show us how to do things for nnother 10 to 20 years," The intense Nationalists say the same, adding: "But we want control
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    15 4 Barbara Payton, who plays the lead m the Eagle-Lion film "Trapped*' coming to Singapore soon.
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  • 67 4 FOR some years I have forecast the weather with better results than official predictions. I Invite your readers to test my method:— Note the day and the time when the moon changes, and the weather for six hours afterwards. This will give you the general weather you
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  • 117 4 I'NDER the heading. "Do You Know the Pedestrian- A (Ciation of Britain Is Issuing a leaflet with succinct advice to all drivers. Justification for thus urgent propaganda i the fact that last year an average of IU6 childPT. killed or injured i n Brit Ish
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    44 4 Mucn zoo appealing ever 10 oe mistaken for a mons cr this mustachioed face is apt nevertheless to cause a ripple of sui mono the unwary ichen it appears above water level tike this. It belongs to Sammy tlie seal, at the London Zoo.
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  • 1073 4  - It Seems To Me POLITICO By ,JOME glorious knockabout abuse, m the old journalistic tradition, arrived on my desk yesterday a little late, but still worth reproducing. It all started with an article on Malaya which Woodrow Wyatt, M.P., wrote for the left-wing journal. Tribune. In this. Wyatt recalls: "Mr.
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  • 446 4  - The 'Rice Red' Tags On James D. Whi te By SAN FRANCISCQ. THE "rice Communist' has fastened himself on Red China. A "rice Communist is cne who pretends to go along with the Reds simply to keep his job or to stay out of trouble. He is not a convinced
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  • 63 5 ffCM Mill Reporter baiCfa 1 I 250 be tra Dcy training ore Sap- I C it butch of 2f.0 cc ..ihs' c bethia year yes:ee me the E y. d are a I age j go dl tci to m m ihflr p> tnj year ber
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    26 5 CICCTEEN-YEAB-OIJ) Rudy O Lim of the Johore English College, who helped his team to win the school quiz Ml tnised by Radio Malaya yesterdai Free Prrss
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  • 279 5 Development of Hong Lim Green Free Press Staff Reporter PLAN to develop Hong Lim Green on the lines of Farrer Park has been shelved by the Singapore Municipal Commissioners. The ground is now occupied by the Chinese Recreation Club, which is due to vacate it
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  • 109 5 T'HE hope that the Gov< ment of India will send Malaya, as its next repre,i person ol Kill teiial rank, and that the ■us of the new representative would be raised to 'hat of Commissioner, was expi sed by Mr. R. Jumabhoy. a Singapore Legislative Council member,
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  • 23 5 lir. Richard Byrne Corriden. Assistant Superintendent of Police, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Singapore.
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  • 1264 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE acting Singapore Municipal President, Mr. T. P. F. McNeice, took a lone stand at the Commissioners' meeting yesterday probably for the first time m Municipal history on a question closely related to the constitutional rights of the Commissioners. That question
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  • 226 5 Free Press Stall Reporter PEOPLE In Singapore who have copies of the sex magazines banned by the Government last month are liable to be prosecuted if they do not turn them m at the nearest police station a spokesman ft f the C.I.D. warned yesterday.
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  • 26 5 A dance m aid of St. Hilda's School Buidin? Fund will be held at the Sea View Hotel tomorrow, beginning at 8.30 p.m.
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    40 5 THE British Council Hall wan '-~d with children from nearly all the schools m »re all anxious to see and to hear the finals of thr i i Malaya school qoiz veslerday. Picture shows suaie of these prej*euL. Free Press
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  • 229 5 UMNO meeting with Minister opposed Free Press Malay Corr. READERS of the United Malays National Organisation In Kuala Lumpur told Utusan Melayu yesterday that they "see no reason why UMNO should send a special delegation to meet the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths." The were commenting
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    30 5 A LARGE Siamese elephan t bound for Genoa on the Danish freighter. Lalandia. shows off for Frw Press photographer A. C. Kok by climbing up and down the ship's hatches.
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  • 142 5 A GREY -HAIRED mou stached Chinese was sentenced to one years rigorous imprisonment yesterday when he was found guilty m the Singapore First District Court on a charge of assisting m the management of an illegal society. Inspector Koh Uaii Wan said that on May 9 a
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  • 349 5 By RUTH LANGDON T»E\ Siamese elephants bound for Genoa and x Rotterdam on the Danish freighter. Lalandia— now m Singapore have been conducting themselves with shameless :»bandon since they boarded the ship a fortnight ago at Bangkok. They have been drinking beer shooting straw and water down
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  • 109 5 2 CONSTABLES ACQUITTED Free Press Staff Reporter iXiWO po'. c-< n >:.-.■ 1 Johan bin Yusofl and Hashim bin Shahamudin. were acquitted and discharged yesterday m the Singapore Second Police Court w: they wen accused of assaulting a taxi-driver. Boh Ah Tew. near the Happy World Park on Dec. 25
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  • 96 5 ABOUT 30.000 peopie iii Sincapore are mt rice-ca Mr. M. k. Deputy Controller of Supplies, told the Free P I m yesterti.. Although they ma to the I- Contn,; merit for rice-cards. th> not and r b«iy their rice on tin ket. Mr. Kristek
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  • 33 5 The ii I .on vice-pi P G. Hon secretary Mr. R riano. A^: WKWttm V. Di 'dasan. H< I B cLeon Chairma: Con. F. A I n a c. ez.
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  • 28 5 TnVENTY-TWO j Ho A while Wharf. He was rescued by harf but dk a! r the arrival of thi Singh, returner-; a AntiiJ by dr
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  • 537 6 Two lucky goals for Sing Tao SING TAO were lucky yest^i day— Sino-Malays a little less, and had the hump team made better use of their chances m front of ffoal. Sing Tao would have suffered the first defeat of their current tour. It was Salleh's
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    57 6 PROBABLY the most keen y contested relay race this season was the 880-yards 'medley won by a margin of two yards from Tengah by the Equipment Win? Seletar at yesterday's R.A.F. Malaya sports at Chan&i station. Picture shows the winning it- am: From left to right. A C 1). Hiydon,
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  • 129 6 CERAN'GOON Rai MOOk'a Hill B P by I i to three m a bacim:. 1 fr °ndl- on Sunday. lit! (StTanßoon Range:'Ti^r.t'oned flr single: lav Yew Liang br Ool) Tiani? Song 11-15, i5-ii; Phoa Ku< litamg bt < Ah Bah 15-11 14-14 (3-D; Tuao bt
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  • 33 6 ENG SENG School v.i.l hold their 24Ui annuai athletir snorts tomorrow 830 a.m. on the 8t Josepli\s Institution ground. Mr. E Strickiand. Superintendent of physical education will »ive away the prizes
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  • 139 6 KING KONG v. SAVARAN TOMORROW I^ING Kong who deposed of the tough Jewish heavyweight, Sam BurmUter, m mx minutes wi.eo they met m a return fight at the Happy World arena last Saturday, will come up against a much younger and very fast £rappler m Savaran Singh, at the Happy
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  • 32 6 The New YorK Stock Exchange yesterday advanced fraction* to one dollar a share, except for radio and television issues which jumped as much as US$3. Shares traded totalled 1.500.000 A.P.
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  • 425 6  - Disappointments compensations CRUSADER WAS S.AF.A. RICHT? By 3INO-MALAYS' clash with Sing: Tao yesterday must have provided the S.A.F.A. bigwigs with plenty of food for thought. Dominant impression of those who saw the i*ame was that a fresh and fully keyed up SinoMalay combination would hay? done much better than a
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  • 254 6 MT*ljji^^^K£ll!^ilM^L^3^ !^y LONDON, Thurxdav T<HE strength of shipping shares v «s 1 the London Stock Exchange I buying m a market short of siiarts result* di n iS? spread advances of up to *N witli (>, amount higher at around 34s 6d nif Opinion was that
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  • 412 7 TOWELL WINS WORLD BANTAM TITLE Too fast for Manuel Ortiz yiC TOW EEL, South African and British Empire champion, won the world bantamweight title when he beat the holder, Manuel Ortiz of California, on points over 15 rounds m Johannesburg last night. It was Toweel's fourth title victory since he
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    74 7 This professional' looking starting gate is a feature of the track made by members of the Huyton Livers cycle speedway club, formed bj MMIIli; Cyclists at HIIVtOM near Liverpool. The track is Mid to be one of the best of its kind m the country. Mrs. Kose Kyle right (background),
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  • 183 7 \lvl X hindi— it Surrey off•uhr. turned m a wonderful piece of o m tiu- England v. The Kest Test trial at esterdaj b^ taking eight of the Rest lw« run> B bowling caused the Rest team. st hopefuls, to be put out r, born within
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  • 116 7 T'HE following 'r.. tectcd to play for the Sinhalt^ I XI ■gainst a Royal XI at Farrer Park at p.m. on Saturday (playtn the ground by 2 p .ir. >. F Perera (capt.). M- Perera, N •.a. G. Run* I Fruightr..- S Plj C I Horace Perera A
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  • 59 7 J.B. PRISONS GAIN 52 WIN I Press ton espondent JOHORE BAHRI T"HE J( :>■ I the Prl ■1 hard fought game five goals to two on the Is' ana ground. Ten minute* after the scored the first goal for the for the Police ten minutes I I it the n
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  • 25 7 T English Rugby 1 touring team beat Rive :..a at Sydney y by to 13 The touring •earn led 10-9 at ha Reuter
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  • 48 7  -  'THE Br. i South bury at I'm. 'and. y by three three tries mid one penalty coal '27 points) to one coal and one penalty goal (eight). :ch of the tour. They have now won four, lost two and Jravn ore PRIMO CARXERA
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  • 124 7 pKIMO CARNERA, iit boxing chant pion of the world, is expected m Singapore on June 14 to wrestle King Kong at the Happy World stadium on June 17. Camera, who weighs BSS Ib. and stands (if t 7 m tall is at present I'ulfilling I. rest
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  • 29 7 Services XI v.Sing Tao S i I !.in tf--xar x und.i> h.iN Smlmi \1 Mullen R.A.F. Ink l>.»\-r K..VK. > BHlinuer irric \r ti >Ji'i \rm\ \rni\ Re\rm> Donald Boniface
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  • 24 7 P U Li I v i c r fat S lit cus I o Cmtk, f o MclCpl. Short. :ale.
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  • 24 7 ISLAND dub tioi. I Medal day. S \<on o. A W( squai I pre Hiddlestoo ra), dgand Mr*. Bunu (3 dov i
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  • 361 7 MIDDLESEX, joint county leaders. were given a great start to their match against Worcestershire at Lord's yesterday by Byd Brown and Harry Sharp, who put on 227 for the first wicket. Declaring at 408 for dye, Middlesex had claimed three Worcestershire wickets for 33 at the
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  • 150 7 OWNERS' REQUEST TO S.T.C. SINGAPORE Racehorae owners' Association yesterday decided to recommend t<> ihc Singapore Turf Club that future programmes include runs over 5i furlongs, one and rive furlongs. The proposal. It was n ed at yesterdays commj meeting, has the backing of the owners" association m the Federation. the
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  • 186 7 W. Indies recover SOMERSET bowlers Arthur U W.-Uard and Horace Hawhose combiru i rouble on I pitch at Taunton Aided by smai iding, I and Haze, dismi half the tourists for 121. but lute batting by Alan Rae and Gerry Gumez helped West Indies to recover and score 267 before
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  • 75 7 Prin ce Sim on's next race JTIGHTY horses were nominated yesterday for the 30.000.000-franc Grand Prix de Paris at Lonsjcliamps on June 25. Among the entriei were William Woodwards Prince Simon and Marcel Doussac's Galcador, the first two m the Derby. Boussac has entered eight horses from his French stable.
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  • 19 7 Technical Wintj Selects! team, winners of the tuu-o-uar event at the R.A.F. Malaya sports at Changi yesterday.
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  • 325 7  -  ALLAN LLWIS MALAYAN TURF TOPICS By DHIL Tankard, who recently returned from Australia after a health trip, has been grant* I a trainer's licence. Phil told me yesterday he would make Kuala Lumpur his headquarters and would start m his new vocation with Steel Age. a
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  • 37 7 IJNPORTUNATELY to baci weather, it not possible to play for the Cup during .ys two efcovt toumamenl played off. and the ft I] en the B Take place at I >m- Saturday at 5 am
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  • 71 7 Last-minute goal decides A LAST minute goal by Joe a\ Carvallio gave the Singapore Medical Workers' Union a two-one victory over Indonesian "B" when th< In a s.a.f a. Jun I .er match at CV MA Aft- I about ten minutes. Indonesl ins surprised Medical, when Suboh. inn first goal
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  • 55 7 \orc-br- I I Bobby Locke. South A can and* B pion. and a 56, Includi a hole \n on Eg: champion. Hassan Has were the highlights of the first round m *he Spalding professional polf tournament a: Worthing, Busks, yesterday. Locke lowered the c> by t
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  • 12 7 T )Li BGATI E I July I r
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  • 58 7 L. JONES INVITED TO JAIN TOUR LONDON Ui T EWIS JONES. j 4 Df Service> X v and Welsh inter. bat cci a U n the R New Zeaia: by June:- 'ii ply sion. but he I to The decfetoa the growing to d h 30 p.. inj back, who
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  • 28 7 rvENis i on ired I result of T O V lay will b»- n. a mate:, following which aiII prmpioo from tourn.e km
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  • 42 7 JJILIP BOSE India q ed to meet Herold v. :ne eh; ..1 of the men > I v lawn U nament at Bun.. In the I of A 6-8. 8-G. 6i beat Im N by l-'i. 0- Reuter
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  • 15 7 1 pRENCM E rptra kn the I June m The 52-- A.P.
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    • 63 7 I SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT We take pride and pleasure m announcing the engagement of Miss Yun the Expert Dress- 'immW maker Designer J with an Extensive Experience. "IL >J Her Special Service will be tit your Akpoml I I B << fjg our }wie L~ commodious premises QURESHI S \(f Dressmaking
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  • 30 8 Straits Times Free Press tot th« MMMMMt jf ad GftiscfS, our Represent jfivt 3t Ist Fleer Singapore Cold Storage Orchard Road wiN receive small idvcrtisemcnts and *ns«ver« m So» numbers
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  • 39 8 THE ENGAGEMENT is anI Jean, younger dauehter fr and Mrs. V C Nolan 1 Gordon Phillio<;. H»n:*lp?*a Estate. KMiah. youngei son of Mr and Mrs G. G. Philips cf Wellington. New Zealand. < formerly of Barring ton Sorrfrset. England
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  • 26 8 HIGGINS. KITTY, oe'oved wife of Cap a:n James Hisgins, late of ijjore. called to rtst on 30 May IflHbank Military Hasp.. .vho knew her. RIP
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  • 237 8 38 jet planes m Canton INDICATING that Communist air force attacks on Formosa have begun, a Taipeh report says port authorities of the island's two principal ports, Keelung and Kaoshiung, have begun making plans to evacuate >hips "due to Communist air attacks." Officials of
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    94 8 The R.A.F. Coastal Command Sunderland flyinghoat which was forced down by Israeli fighter planes after it had crossed Iraeli territory near the Sea of (inlilee is here seen anchored m Tel Aviv harbour. It w;is released later the same day. The flyinghnitt was flvin» from Bahrein, on the Persian Gulf,
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  • 81 8 Hyderabadi plea to U.N. KARACHI. Thurs. \awab Mom Nawaz Jung, Indian-occupied Hych bad's representative at the i Nations, yesterday sent a written appeal to the President of rhe Security Council. asking the Council to discuss the question of Hyderabad at an early date I: >d to unclJ to cai: what
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  • 31 8 The Russians In Berlin have rejected an Ann. nan protest against the arrest and forced removal of a threepower military police patrol from the Berlin- West Germany super-highway.. U.P.
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  • 84 8 I.-C. CHINESE APPEAL TO PEKING SAIGON. Thurs. rniINESE living m oouth Vietnam have appeaied to the Communist. Peking Government "to intervene and to protest to the French Government to slop repressive measures by the French authorities ai;amst Chinese esidents. The rebel Vietnnnh raaio, reportthll appeal, added that >! ChtnetC re
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  • 169 8 CAPETOWN, Thursday. yilK wholi 1 purpose of the Racial Segregation Group Areas Bill is to kill the Indian community of 250,000 m South Africa by economic strangulation nnil it will eventually do so, declared Mrs. V. M. L. Kalliii^er, one of three members representing
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  • 122 8 LONDON, Thurs. PHE British Legion Of Ex-Servicemen has decided to press the Government to see that tonnei prisoners-of-war. including Malayans, are compensated by the Javanese Government. The resolution was passed at a conference on Tuesday and a draft petition is m w being prepared
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  • 74 8 RANGOON, Thurs. I^HE Burmese Prime Minister Th.ikin Nu. on his return from Britain and the Continent, said yesterday he expects the next two years to be devoted entirely to restoring Burma and working for I He said Dutch and Italian experts were expected short- >
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  • 82 8 APPLAUSE IN COURTROOM CROWDED courtyard yesterday applauded when the New Delhi District Magistrate acquitted Mr. John K. Edwards 27. a British businessman, of charges of assaulting the Argentine Ambassador to India, Senor Oscar Tascher -t. Since the Ambassador failed to appear m court to substantiate his complaint, the Magistrate found
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  • 33 8 British coal mines are losing men at the rate of 1.000 a month, Mr. Abe Moffat, president of the Scottish area of the National Union of Mineworkers, said here yesterday. Reuter
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  • 63 8 Aust. rumours again IN Canberra yesterday, the Australian Prime Minister, Robert Menzies, deprecate d speculation on the future of Australian currency. He said that no inferences one way or the other were to be read into his refusal to comment on London rumours th at Australia had applied to the
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  • 163 8 JAKARTA. Thursday. JAVANESE virgins and young men will dance the ancient wayang wong Hindu puppet dance on a spacious lawn m front of President Soekarnos Merdeka (Freedom) Palace to entertain the Indian Prime Minister. Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru during his visit here. Prince Susuhunan Pakubuwono XI r'Axis
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  • 27 8 Britain has approved the recruiting of 4,500 British migrants into Australia's regular army. A recent recruiting drive had yielded only 17,000 new men. A.P.
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  • 157 8 P. O. says Jap ship favoured LONDON, Thurs. r PHE United Slates yesterday fact'd two charges hovelled at her from friendly nations at opposite ends of the world. In London. Sir Wiiiiam Crawford Currie, Chairman Of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company, said that British interests were being discriminated
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  • 42 8 JERUSALEM, Thurs. ISRAEL'S polity of neutrality m the East-West (old war was reaffirmed by the Prime Minister. Mr. David Ben-Gurion. opening a Parliamentary debate m Jerusalem on the Big Three's decision to arm the Middle East. A. P.
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  • 43 8 Brig. Lord Caithness. C« m-mandei-in-Clnef of the Ceylonese Army, said m Colombo yesterday there was Do truth m press reports fro:n London that a new South-Ea Command was to be established with Ceylon as one of the area headquarters. Reuter
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  • 20 8 Another British ship, the 2.994-ton Tsinan, has beaten the Chinos* 4 Nationalist blockade to reach Shanghai
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  • 199 8 'Smutty stories in the Bible LONDON, Thursday. SAYING that he had come across instances of dirty-minded little schoolboys marking smutty words m the Bible,' Canon Thomas P. Stevens. Vicar of St. Paul's Church, Wimbledon Park, declared yesterday that many of the stori< s m Old Testament are unfit for children
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  • 78 8 German youths threaten to storm border HSU*, j SEVEN thousand West German < returning from week-ends big Bit: ed alone the East-West zonal border U J? yesterday and vowed to fight th«i r «iV tl t \l k Germany past 600 West German polj the British zone side of the
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