The Singapore Free Press, 14 August 1950

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA r SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1950. i KICE TFN (I NTS.
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    BIG NEW ATTACK ON REDS
    349 1 A mericans battle through mud AMERICAN defenders of the Naktong river line attacked thismorninginamajorcounter-attackaimedatknocking an imminent North Korean drive off balance. The expected Red push has been heralded as the biggest Communist offensive of the. Korean war. The Twenty-fourth Division began this morning's offensive. Major
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    Mustangs quit, hope to return
    119 1 ANG FRONT. Monday. «g£ fvacuation of air force T UIIi :> from the vital ur^trip were vir(t.nipleted without A t dusk yesterday A Nations infegkyßM »nd dinners remained at the base hopin; 9Mn to make it possible for tinn en to rfoccupy the field. k
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    NO ROOM IN THE TANK...
    261 1 NO ROOM IN THE TANK From SYDNEY SMITH FUSAN. Sunday. 1 LANDED at Pohang today General Joseph Bradley said: "We hope to take th» town by !ate this afternoon. The South Korean 17th Regi m^nt is driving up to town, and I'm sending down four tanks to meet it. and
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    Malik shows no weakening
    153 1 LAKE SUCCESS. Monday. Tir^d Nations Security Council resumes today without any sign that its Russian President, Mr.; Jakob A Malik, has weakened m his oratorial j »ckide of action on the Korean war question. observers who have watched the Lake Success since the early days of
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    'No slur at people' motion
    179 1 'No slur at people motion I /GOVERNMENT is to bo ask!\J ed to issue instructions to responsible officers m the service to see that "some slur is not cast at a particular community" m statements made to the Press either through lack of information or misinformation In a question to
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    'LOST' TANKER IS LOCATED
    32 1 The 518-ton British cargo ship Joan Moller has radioed Hong Kong that she had located the 737-ton tanker Caltex 11, earlier reported overdue, m the Gulf of Siam.
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    H.K. TIGHTENS SECURITY MEASURES
    157 1 HONQ KONG. Mon. A SET of new regulations A and a set of odd ones designed to protect Hong Kong s welfare In case of an emergency have been ordered to be put Into effect. The new regulations empowers the army and police to: CommancV r
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    Churchill for H.K.
    33 1 The Daily Telegraph correspondent, Mr. William Randolph Churchill, who arrived ill Tokyo to cover the Korean war. was scheduled to fly to Hong Kong yesterday for a five-day visit. Reuter
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    RAAF COMMANDER
    26 1 Field Marshal O. Jones, Commander of the Royal Australian Air Force, arrived at Iwakunl airbase, Japan, j by Lincoln bomber from AusItralla yesterday Reuter
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    LESS COTTON YARN FOR JAPS
    36 1 GEN. Mac Arthur's headquarter? has suggested to the Japanese Government that the monthly allocation of cotton yarn for domestic use should be limited to 37.000 bales, according to Kyodo news agency.
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    CALL FOR UNITED STATES OF AFRICA
    198 1 STRASBOURG, Monday. VSTABMSHMEXT of a United States of Africa and setting up of an African Constituent Assembly have been proposed m a motion tabled In the European Consultative Assembly m Strasbourg. Signatories were Mr. Ronald Mackay. British Labour Member of Parliament for Reading. North,
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    INDIANS BUY USED ENGINES
    44 1 INDIAN National Airlines j are among the purchasers i of used Skymaster engines j taken from Skymasteri owned i by Braathen, a private Nor- wegian airways company. Braathen are fitting faster and more modern engines j In their Skymaster planes
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    Navy saves U.S. pilot
    125 1 TOKYO, UOO A BRITISH destroyer rcicued a force down United States pilot after .steaming throueh a dangerous narrow channel to the island southwest of the Communist-hold port of Inchon, It was an-, nounced last nicht. Ensign Elmer A. McCalium, 07 of Belvedere California,! was tail by
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    ENVOY ARRIVES
    24 1 The first ambassador of the Chinese Communist People's Republic. Mr. Wan? Yen -shu. has arrived m Jakarta by air from Singannrp Reuter
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    LOSE CITIZENSHIP
    16 1 All Turkish Communists will be deprived of their citizenship, Ankara Radio said yesterday. Reuter
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    Sex restraint advised
    50 1 The United States Government has sufffested that persons who have been exposed to atom bomb radiation, should 'refrain from be&cttinir offsprinf for a period of two or three months.' This was one of the 'practical conclusions' listed m a new handbook on the effects of atomic weapons.
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    WINSTON: CALL US EARLIER
    305 1 LONDON, Monday. MR WINSTON Churchill, Conservative Opposition ieader and Mr. Clement Davies, Liberal leader, have asked the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, to recall Parliament for urfent defence discussions ••in a week or ten days", it was announced today Mr Attlee who had already cut short
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    Rich men's sons die
    85 1 A SEARCH party his found the bodies of two 17 -year-old heirs to millionaire estates who apparently plunged to death while scaling Mount Whitney m California. The youths, Steven Reynolds, son of a millionaire New York broker and Christopher Stevens Reynolds, son of actress Libby Holman
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    King goes to Balmoral
    38 1 LONDON. Man. THE King left London last nigii: for the Royal Family's Scottish home at Balmoral. Queen Elizabeth stayed behind to await the birth of a. second child to hr»r daughter. Priii:- Eli Reuter
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    Menzies told not to visit Korea
    203 1 Menzies told not to visit Korea TOKYO. Mon. IT was learnt from usually reliable sources m Tokyo yesterday that Mr Menzies will nut visit Korea as Gen. Mar Arthur believes the situation m Korea "too fluid" to rttc the safety of the Australian Prime Minister Mr Mensios. arrived It Haneda
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    Squatters to seek aid
    99 1 Squatters to seek aid rOLLOWING a moeting y lF terday. the 2.500 squatt<r, at Havelock Road who v recently served with quit notices have decided to legal aid m an effort t-j s* i eviction proceedings. The land on which squatters have built thr r houses is required as the
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    STATUS RAISED
    19 1 Italy and Paki.r..shortly raise Lheir legation! m Karachi m i Rome to the status oi cm Reuter
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    A Temple 'Gamble'
    320 2  -  Stephen Sim dfsdfsdfds jPv /CHINESE wui snippers consult their gods on the slightest pretext. Besides using the "pue" (divining woods) to make the gods speak. they also cast lots foi 'divination. \t arty ary Chinese temple m Singapore posOf "divining bamboos or 'Chiang see" literally meaning "poetical
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    DEATH TO SEWERRATS
    47 2 DEATH TO SEWERRATS GENEVA mechanic is working -n an aiing :ith to one mies it ports rtor Sank -y. r ned to st isists i top n rhr lewer In trvii lo 13. t strike] of the F.xr re prdurinf which >nd white 'guinea Phe tea fill
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    NEW BASIC COLOUR
    238 2 THE birth of i new basic cn\ i ny thai i the fashion world i<> foundations r la n i rocking on Its from the doubl.- shock of b presented with TWO ne\^ colours m quick -.on. pek has seen the S inka Br(»wn" H Ro^e."' each
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    Around Town
    591 2  -  Jeanette By TWO American ladies A were told the other day when booking for a round the world trip, that Bali and Saigon were dangerous 'especially for two unescorted ladies'. I gathered from this news item that the two ladies were subsequently led to believe that Bali is.
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    SPOTLIGHT ON AIR DEFENCE
    624 2 SPOTLIGHT ON AIR DEFENCE Millions today live under the shadow of the atom bomb menace. Here correspondents m Europe and America report on the safety precautions, if any, which Governments are taking. Sweden /\\'E person In twelve m front-line neutral Sweden is m the Civil Defence Corps. Already there are
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    Coca-Cola 'War' Is On
    342 2  -  PHILIP CLARKE By PARIS: THOUSANDS of thirsty A Frenchmen are taking the fizz out of a Communist-backed campaign to outlaw CocaCola m France. French Bobby-Soxers are taking to "cokes'*. Coca-Cola was served m dainty glasses at a recent stiffly starched party of French literary lights given
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    5 2 'It e«lhrf jfi i)om bomb
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    Sadlers Wells 'Ambassadors'
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      470 2 •^■■S^ 1 ii ni **"V i if* v *W CTWfT! 21POTJP 1 ne— variety iIMMr; I vie I BLUfc NETWORK) via VLB) "Orcheafta iNI m,) U7 ■N'tlXl Concert": T .30 Talk -The Aisroi>\\ Uralian Scon. 7 40 'IncttgniU I n m B n weekly musical quix; o i'_ frogranun I
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      236 2 New Crossword No. 124 I!. I S KOSS l. "S eking the reputation Wtwa In the mouth" 4 The night's takings (4>. 8. Order to v- discharged tron hospital? «3-Bi. 9. Pictures may be hung here a«^ \\<'ll a 1 laundry (2, :i. 4t. n. Training tor children and animals
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    BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF U.N. BODY
    522 3 BIG BUSINESS AHEAD OF U.N. BODY Soviet walkout is foreseen LAKE SUCCESS, Sunday. A LIST of 62 subjects, many to them filled with international fireworks, has been announced for the fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly which opens at Flushing Meadow on Sept. 19. The list covers all
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    60 3 picture. Pon> express rider William Richmond. from ihe Chicago International Fair's "Frontiers of Freedom" pageant, gives a pouch of mail to helicopter pilot. Don Jergens (right) as Mr. Crosby Kelly, executive manager of the Fair assists. A twlce-a-day helicopter air mail service was started at the Fair to illustrate the
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    Do you like your nose?
    123 3 NEW YORK, Sunday. It means maybe you are going to have Or you are going to get angry. Or will get a letter. Or that someone is of you. It all depends upon local stperstition. ;ave their superstitions, too. One is :.eezes m succession is
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    Floods disrupt rail traffic
    28 3 Floods disrupt rail traffic rth Cnina are ivg the >.ay. AcCommnnist Aj ncy. a bridge I Ho m Ho- hed away. have not B either P^iince Aug. Reuter
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    New 'dream hotel' is dollar-catcher
    240 3 BRISBANE, Sunday. AUSTRALIA'S dream-hotel "dollar-catcher' openA ed its door to tourists recently. It is the Royal Hayman. a £A500.000 ounstruction of sun-filled luxury, sited on beautiful Hayman Island amons? the Whitsunday group, off Queensland's Great Barrier Reef Tho hotel and th*? two miles' stretch of
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    AMBASSADORFETED
    19 3 Th* Chinese Communist Mr. Mao Tse-tun;: h.;> iiven a banquet m honour of •:.r- newly-accredited Burmese Ambassador. U.P.
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    3 3 Lotdoi tipets Se':..e
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    'USE TAGALOG'
    24 3 NUlacanan Palace has ordered all Filipino government department secretaries to use Tagalog as the official language. The order takes effect immediately. Reuter
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    Egyptian Bill hits Lloyds
    128 3 CAIRO. Sun. A NEW Insurance Bill putted i by fcbe Egyptian Chamber of Deputies, and which Will become law soon, considerably affects Lloyd position as marine insurers m Egypt. Some weeks ago, it was reported that the Marine Uudei writers Association of Lloyds had Issued a
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    19 3 The Indian Embassy m China, with the consent ol the Central Peoples Governmen has opened a Consulate-Oe-[n Shanehai. Reuter
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    JAPS DO THEIR BIT
    32 3 Doing rheir bit for the United Nations war effort, Jipanes merchants ar," c-on-tribut!n c 4 various gifts to wounded GI S who have been -vacuated to Japan. Reuter
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    COUPLE TO CYCLE ROUND THE WORLD
    142 3 DOGMERSFIELD. Hampshire, Sun. ■TOE only worry that besets 23-year-old Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchings, who Is setting off to bicycle round the world. is what she will take to wear. In her caravun at Dosmersfield (Hampshire) is a wardrobe full of clothes. But Mrs. Hutehlnss thinks
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    29 3 pictur** An armourer fuses bombs >:\ l't\(* bomb lu\ <j1 :in American B-'Jfl mediuni l)umber based in Japan, in preparation for a bombing mission against North Korran o.iPnunist forces.- USIS
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    66 3 picti/re Mr. Uenys Rhodes and Mis* Margaret fl^Mnutenc. a:*.^r their weddine at St. Mar&nret's nurrh, Westminster. The bridegroom is the son of the late Major Tahu Rhodes, Grenadier Guards, and of the Hon. Mrs. Rhodes. The bride is the daughter of Lord and Lady Elphinstone and niecp of the Queen.
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    Bridge Hands
    281 3 E»it-UVai vulnerable South dealer '[-HE most beautiful plays In bridge are often simple, bu. require perfect diagnosis of tlvcurds. West opened the spanking and South ruffed the NOOOd spade. One round suincoJ ti yank the trumps and aff*r tbt vo high clubs were cashed. lummy'i last spade wai
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    WEDDING DRESS FOR A PRINCESS
    245 3 PARIS, Sunday. OKINCESS ALIX of Luxembourg will wear a bridal gown designed by the prominent French courturier. Marcel Rochas, when she weds Prince Antonie de Li?ne this week. The dress is m white satin with a billowing skirt veiled m white tulle. It has a
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    REDS 'OCCUPY THE BALTIC'
    258 3 STOCKHOLM. Sunday. SWEDEN is accusing Russia of ''occupying the Baltic* and her big newspapers ur?e the Social Democrat Government to take reprisals. Russia has announced that her territorial waters m the Baltic now run twelve sea miles out instead of the four sea miles which have
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    More Irying lo enter U.S. zone
    33 3 Thr numper of people illegally trying to enter the American zone of Germany from the Soviet zone has steadily risen since the Kor< an war began. Reuter
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    ZEELAND TO FORM NEW CABINET
    249 3 ZEELAND TO FORM NEW CABINET BRUSSELS. Mon. VI PAUL van Zee land. iTI. F Ore ig n Minister m Belgium's outgoing AllCatholic Government, yesterday agreed to try to form a new All-Cat hoiic administration. Prince Baudoum. I 19-year-old Chief oi called on him to un the task after the Minister
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    H.K. attracts much gold
    114 3 HON3 KONG, fc fHL .Id prtd Kong said to be U orld Is the tto" of Told f; lar away as Europe an t into the t: v f.Colony through I smuggling raek< The popular route taken c rarketeers ls to .sir; metal into H< ng
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      104 3 £ggs /io«/ rough time i Australia, hatching eggs, was raided by a "i. which swallowed the eggs, (aught m the act I tree and was brought down by a shotgun. the goanna vomitted the eggs. They were rethe hen. and m due time every tzs hati-li-KtiUi. PINE-TAR^SHAMPOO k'* Contains a
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      129 3 Golfer's hard luck WOMAN m Darwin broke both arms playing golf. Needing a 50-yard approach shot to give her par, Nhe became so excited that she threw np her hands and fell over a golfbag behind her. She broke both arms aboie the wrists. Reuter. BRITISH Seagull" Atf Outboard Motor
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  • The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Aug. 14, 1950.
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      Killed in action
      258 4 BRITISH journalism I r?iuch the poorer for the untimely deaths, ivhile on duty, of those two magnificent correspondents, lan Morrison and Christopher Buckley. These two men curried typewriters, not rifles, i7i the Korean holocaust. Yet they ventured into the very thick of the battle, facing the same
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      THE BATTLE
      86 4 THK uu U continues m j the ne murderous f.^-iion The North Koreans I ill manage to mass con—Hderable nnmhpis nf pi?n nnd equipment, despite very heavy losses and weeks of ceaseless air attacks en roads, railways and bridges. Evacuation from Pohang airstrip is an unexpected blow and
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      THE TURKS
      85 4 TURKEY want! to join the A Atlantic Pact and it would be a fine thino if she wtn admitted into that array of nations which nave united m the defence of Europe. The TurkN. themselves hourly threatened by the Russian niroe^ poised just over the border, havr *till
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    Malayan Police Force Recruiting Bid
    1386 4  - Malayan Police Force Recruiting Bid HALL ROMNEY Mr. Griffiths plans A financial aid Market for orchids Need for rubber research LONDON LETTER By nnHE importance atA tached to augmenting the Malayan Police Force with British officers is emphasised by the fact that recruits are being sought amons: officers of Metropolitan
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    61 4 The first turbine driven plane Jor fare paving recently as part of the London-Paris service. The journey mil h e Quicker than the normal service and is chiefly designed to fn rush on Britain's busiest air route. The BEA Viscount which ca auaurated a service which m two years time
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    THE WANDERING POLES
    209 4 U'RITING from Beirut. Gibson Cowan reports the departure by steamer for Britain of 700 Poles. For them Britain should be journey's end after ten years of almost incredible wanderings and travails. In 1939 hundreds of thousands of polos fled from the Germans only to run into the
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    6 4 A new picture of B&ity Grabfa
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    PORTRAIT OF A RUSSIAN
    680 4  - PORTRAIT OF A R USSIAN IRIS ROPER By HE was a man of heavy build with big, fleshy hands on which dimples vied with dirty fingernails. He wore a shabby suit, a none-too-clean shirt without a collar, but with a stud gleaming nakedly m the neckband, and a workman's cloth
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    T.B. IMMUNISATION DRIVE SHORTLY
    289 5 T.B. IMMUNISATION DRIVE SHORTLY B. C. G. team due here next month Free Press Staff Reporter THE Danish medical team to be sent out to Malaya by UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) next month will train groups of medical staff both here and m the Federation on how
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    52 5 picture. MR. TONY SCHOOLING (extreme left), of Radio Malaya w.th delegates of the International Confederation of Free Trade I'n.ons Mr. G. Chapman (American Federation of Labour). Mr. R. Dekeyzer (Belgian Federation of Labour), and Mr. Deven Sen (Indian National Trades Inion Congress) pictured m a Rad io Malaya studio yesterday.
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    'UMNO intervene' suggestion
    165 5 'UMNO intervene' suggestion MARIA CASE M i\ <i»rresp,»ndent S lON that the National should intervene Maria Hertogh. Dutch girl who was oek to a Malay her, has been made imnist of the Kuala II daily. Majlis. says that as -jughout the coundeeply concerned m r« happiness and re oi little
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    PNEUMONIA'S HEAVY TOLL
    93 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. f PHE incidence oi pneumonia m the Federation, l^st week showed an alarming increase over the previous week's total of cases. Sixty-seven cases. ?1 of which proved fatal, were reported las! week, compared with 32 cases and two deaths during the previous week j
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    Very few claims now—Custodian
    231 5 Very few claims now— Custodian TFree Press Staff Reporter HE number of claims for non-enemy property m the Colony is negligible now. Mr. D. H. Chapman Acting Custodian of Enemy Property, told the Free Press today. There had been very few claims since the exhibition held m his office, he
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    No August holidays for these teachers
    377 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 4 LTHOIGH English schools closed on Aug. 4 for their second-term vacation, student teachers of the June batch, who are undergoing a three-month course under the Education Departments emergency training scheme, have to go regularly for lectures and extra-mural work
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    More mechanisation in Malayan industry
    131 5 INCREASING resort to mechanisation m Malayan civil engineering construction as a result of the new equipment devised and used during the last war is mentioned by Mr. P. McNee, Director, Drainage and Irrigation, Federation of Malaya m his annual report. The tin and rubber industries
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    31 5 Picluir by Mrs. Lim Boon Keng and two of her grand -daughters Rasie Lim (left) and (irace Lim helped m the Red Cross Flag Day effort on Saturday. Lee Wai Meng
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    Self-sufficiency impossible
    496 5 MALAYA'S RICE OUTPUT Free Press Staff Reporter fLTITH the present rate of increase m population, Malaya cannot hope to be self-supporting m rice, says Mr. P. McNee, Director, Drainage and Irrigation, Federation of Malaya, m his annual report for last year, just issued. This fact, however, he urges,
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    FIRST AID CLASS
    40 5 First Aid class will be held at the St. John Ambulance Association headquarters In Stamford Road on Mondays at 5.15 p m beginning from Aug. 28. Those wishing to ritend are to enrol at the Association headquarter.'
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    LIFE-GUARD CORPS
    42 5 The first general and election meeting of the Singapore Lifeguard Corps will be held at the V.M.C.A. hall on Monday. Aim. 28. at 7.30 p.m. It will be followed by fi special screening of lifei saving, swimming and diving films
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    30 5 Ong Kirn Lai. a 19-year-old student of St. Michael's Institution, lpoh. who has just left Singapore on the Mount Davis to study chemistry for four years at Baker I'niversity. Kansas.
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    'Be Malayans'—Nehru
    88 5 ivn v c Pr^ 5/a// Reporter w.MuiAM settlers abroad should identify themselves A Kith the interests of the nationals of the country of their adoption and become part and parcel of its national Life MnL^H a sjhe advice given to the Indians settled m Malaya by Pandit Nehru.
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    Will save more for 2nd Europe trip
    247 5 Will save more for 2nd Europe trip Free Press Staff I. pOttTV -two-yearn ruel A!bu;. vernment clerk ugh money on a Holj V pore. n pie c h of h s i burning "save i a 1 ov( In Pfcee I Mr A\b\ q follow! on the variou s.ted and
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    Night bombing by Lincolns
    51 5 Night bombing by Lincolns IN their first combiiM ration by ni^ht [inoolns r.t i the R.A.F. Mid RA.A.F tacked bandit portt&oni [west Negri Sembilan In (early hours of yesterday m inc. The operation, which r reports established to I been most effective, m 'support of security forces operating m the
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    TO LECTURE TO FORCES
    54 5 TO LECTURE TO FORCES |>ROFESSOR T E. J< I Professor of Psych at Hull University, arr f< btcrday by QANTAS stellation to five an cxi series of lectures to th m Singapore and the F< r. tion on tx -l:all of t Office. The professor will tah current international a:
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      33 5 MAIL Surface mail i$ expected In Singapore today from the USA and the Federation. Latest times for posting surh-^e mail at the G.P.O. today urt: noon for Indo-Cluna; 545 pm. lot the Federation.
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    Tommy Farr was a real tough fellow
    1379 6  - Tommy Farr was a real tough fellow Joe Louis By continues his series of articles exclusiTely for the I KM PRESS m Malaya. rpHE Nazis were giving us hell those days. It was Italy, and the 92nd Infantry Division was taking quite a beating. It was fun. I went up
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    183 6  -  ARCHIE QUICK By years' old George Reader, Southampton's veteran Soccer referee, back from Rio de Janeiro hre be was voted star adjudicator m the World (up >erii's sayi it was as well that England got beaten by Spain m the final match of the qualifying competition
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    468 6 SRC, ROV win S.C.A. titles oing^porf r Ltion c:ub J Spurts Club, bpmme ptons m the Senior and T prick) rrSRc for the second v. bon this inaucural year of ;he competition. 8 r C lot of hi score of 136. 33. v Sanderson was hkru] where B^: and failed
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    AUSTRALIA IN DAVIS CUP FINAL
    102 6 AUSTRALIA IN DAVIS CUP FINAL AUSTRALIA k by thrw m th* intcr-zcir Davies Cud tion at R; terday. With the wm* -aadintwo matrht i Sedpman tennis u> Johanssn: by 6—4 7 5, give An> Tlif A fied to r 1946. Sedemun n:adf t, v slov ;y took ct>mn. f Same.
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    37 7 picture. IMRITII. captain of the \ic torious Singapore Malaya n which defeated Penan? 2-0 m the final it i Lumpur on Saturday, is chaired by members of his t .rul supporters at Kalian? airport yesterday. Free Press
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    Four O'Cock's brilliant win
    735 7  -  ALLAN LEWIS By qvM ILL fields did not deprive the concluding day of MBg Turf Clubs August Bank Holiday meet.my interest on Saturday, when new course is were set up m the two main races of the day v or lock II proved himself a e:rand
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    COLONY XI USED 'NEW TACTICS'
    250 7 'Ground never sure 9 Pates J^HOSE who listened to the commentary over Radio Malaya on the Malaya Cup final between Singapore and Penang at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, might have noticed that Singapore's attack was spread out to the wings instead of along the centre.
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    Bringing home the Cup
    60 7 picture. MR. R B I. PATES (m whi te suit i Hon. coach of the S.A.F.A. and the Malay* (up liim shortly after alighting from their plane at Kalian* yesterday. Harith is carrying the cup. Others In the picture are: (from left to right): Abdul Rahman,
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    MCFA lose 1-0 at K.L.
    121 7 From Our Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A GOAL off a penalty, convened by Henry midway in the first half, enabled Selangor Authentic? to beat the Malayan Chinese by one goal to nil in friendly soccer match played it Rifle Range road. Despite the slippery
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    U.S. SWIMMERS BREAK RECORD
    81 7 'pHE American iwinuoing learn bettered the v oriel's record In the 800 yards relay In an exhibition m<set ct Osaka, yesterday, winning m 7 mins. 50 sees. The listed record i.s 7 mins. 50.7 sec^. y<>i up by a YaJc University team m 1949. The American
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    Rugby referees to meet
    68 7 Rugby referees to meet The Singapore Society of Rugby Referees will be holding us discussion meeting m the room of the Singapore Cr:< i this Thursday. Aup--17 .it 5 30 p.m Iho last meeting was a great success and many point*! m the laws of the same were discussed. On
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    Shell Win 2-0
    83 7 B.C by two Motora S.C. m a SAFA H< ase "A" fixture at Oeylang stadium yesterday. ■h would have been one of the beht Business House fixtures this season had it not been for ihe :ough play. especially m tht second h;»lf when a Borneo defender was
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    Rugby League
    43 7 OESULT ol Baturd Rugby League chanty matches. Wt Barrow 2, St Helens 15; r ford 15. Feat'ierstone Rovers 12; Dewsbury 8. Wakefield Trinity 2; x 14. Huddersfield 10; Oldham 10. Rochdale Hornets 9: Pulford M, Blaina 0. Wides 16, 10 Reuter
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    FANGIO INJURED
    60 7 JUAN Manuel Fangio. Argentina's leading racing driver, was slightly injured at Pescara < Italy yesterday, while attempting to set up a third successive speed record for the Pascara course. His Alfa Romeo 158 skidded off the course and bang* d m a guard fence of baled straw, Fangio
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    MRS. DUPONT AGAIN
    35 7 MRS. Margaret Osborne Dupont of Wilmington. Delaware, won her third Essex County club women's tennis singles championship at Manchester (Massachusetts), yesterday by beating 20-year-olci Beverly Baker of Santa Monica. California. 6-3,6-o.— A.P.
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    NAVY DEFEAT INDIANS 6-2
    65 7 ROYAL Navy brat Indians by six goals to two m a soccer friendly at the Naval Bum' yestrrday. Two ot Navy's goals were scored when K. r. Mutthiah and P. Suppiah dt-tt»rtrd the bail into their own goal while attempting to clear. Th* Navy left winger
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    Picking the rest of the MCC team
    413 7 on the remaining players eventu- ally chosed to g 0 to Australia is the main topic of cricket conversation m spite of the importance of the fourth and final Test between England and West Indies, on which depends England's chance of saving the
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    PATTERSON BEATEN IN WORLD TOURNEY
    382 7 PATTERSON BEATEN IN WORLD TOURNEY SYD PATTERSON. Australian holder of the world amateur sprint title, was eliminated from the event during the world cycling championships, which were continued at Liege yesterday. Patterson, who wa s fancied I to win the title for thej: second year, was beaten by i inches
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    ELECTRIC TOTE
    16 7 A nc v electric automatic I has been installed I at the Calcutta racecourse.
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    Junior events in final stages
    484 7 BADMINTON By VETERAN A FTER battling for ten weeks, only eight of the 140 competitors are still m the running for the final honours. The week-end games brought the event into the quarter-final stage. Seven parties are represented among the quarterfinalists and their clash this
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    Prentice Cup
    76 7 I^OR the first lime since 1933. the Oxford and Cambridge lawn tomtit team won the Prentice International Inter-Collegiate Cup, when they beat the combined Harvard and Yale team from America by 13 matches to eisht m the biennial match at Wimbledon on Saturday. Oxford and Cambrid£p started the
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    BARTHELOT 120 NOT OUT
    132 7 BARTHELOT 1 20 NOT OUT JOHORE BAHRU. Mon. lOHORE Cricket Club scored J 263 runs against English College Past and Present on the J.C.C. ground yesterday and dismissed the College for 72 (Burton five for 19, Allport three for 13 Forced to follow on. the College fared better In their
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    208 7 K-OH. Sun I^HE Malayan P W.D I were won by Selangor -ZS points* with Negri Bembilan <22> runners-up at rpoh yesterday. Singapore I gain a single point The resi;: nn 100 Yards: 1 3. Emm High .lump: 1 Goh Sett] X «Sel.i. 2. P. Jani.ilndoin
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    DROBNY WINS GERMAN TITLE
    64 7 DROBNY WINS GERMAN TITLE lAROSLAV DROBNV. •I exiled Czech no% a <• Ben of Egypt def< u;<-d many s Gottfried Von C yesterday ;it Etambtui the German term ship T!.< Mures wen 6-4 Dorothy Head <U S the German natim; pion. Prau Inye Pohr teamed up to win ttte men's
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    BIRTHS
    107 8 iFATIEV: A: Bfttn Gajah. -Uh August, to Aureol. of D. D Wheatley, a daughter. i well. OOUHNO: r> Dur.a wife of Kenneth, a MM, It the Tounfbeif Memo- on Aug. 12'\\ ROBINSON: To Jane, wife of X A. N Robinson, at Malacca Oeacral ffnr'ir'. on 12 Ausi. iter. HEAPHY
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    ENGAGEMENT
    31 8 TAN-PANG: The engragement ti announced between John Bian KVW youngest son of Mr. Mrs. H C. Tnn. and Violette Chf»e Yin?, eldest daughter of Mr. Ac M.s. A. P. Pang.
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    DEATH
    41 8 MORRISON: On Aug. 12. 1950.! Lan E M. Morrison, beloved husfc J. of Maria and father of Ni< hoi as and Peira. killed m 9 ;ion m Korea while serving a* The Times special correspondent inth the United Nation* Force*.
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    MARINES IN HARD BATTLE
    436 8 MARINES IN HARD BATTLE Snipers hold up U. S. advance ON THE MASAN FRONT, Monday. PHE CUT-OFF North Korean Communists fought 1 stubbornly against Marine patrols yesterday as the Americans attempted to clear out a three-mile roadblock separating them from advance units farther up the Chindong-ni-Chinju highway. The patrols of
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    54 8 picture. A German expedition will leave m September to explore isolated areas of Ethiopia. T he expedition, first of its type orfanised m Germany since the war, will include three men and one woman. Photo shows the three men. (Left to right): Or. Willi Schulx-Weidner, Dr. Eike HaberUnd and Professor
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    The 'House' is going home
    293 8 LONDON, .Monday. IMI House of Commons will return next autumn to the historic chamber m which it had met for slightly more than a century before German bombs destroyed it on May 10, 1941* The Deputy Prime Minister. Mr. Herbert Morrison, said speakers and presiding
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    Gold hidden inside fowl
    112 8 HONG KONG. Mon. SOME gold speculators hit on a brUht idea of smug■Unai gold trum Macao Into Hong Kong Inside living chickens. But the Idea did not work out too well. The chickens died, the gold was confiscated and so were thf bodies of the chickens.
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    Tan Kah Kee
    28 8 Mr. Tun K.i!- K-e. wellknown Overseas Chinese leader m Singapore. -lias arrived 1 m Shanghai Irom Ningpo m the course of a China-wide tour. Reuter
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    World science blamed
    50 8 Melbourne man with a grudge against science wants to sue scientists of all nations collectively. He explained to his lawyer that he had been suffering "burning electric shocks" which he beliered were the result of scientists from all countries experimenting electronics. His lawyer declined the brief. Reuter
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    TRIBUTE TO TURKEY'S AID TO KOREA
    123 8 TRIBUTE TO TURKEY'S AID TO KOREA STRASBOURG. Mon. MR. Hugh Dalton, the dean of the British Labour Government's delegation to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg has paid a high tribute to Turkey's swift action over aid for Korea. In a major speech, Mr Dalton said, It is very good
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    'H-bomb is weakness'
    142 8 'H-bomb is weakness' WASHINGTON. Mon. THF existence of the hydrogen bomb would result In military ueakneiw rather than strength (or the United States, Prof. Hans Bethe, Professor of Physics at Cornell University, stated m a repor: published yesterday by the Foreign Policy Association. The Association is an influential priYftte organisation
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    Famine in South India
    91 8 KOMBAY. Mon AN acute food shortage has led to near famine conditions in parts of three Indian states, reports reaching Bombay state. In the southern state oi Madras, members of the legislative Assembly told the House of the prevalence of "starvation conditions" in a number of
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    Sex murders in Austria
    86 8 VILNNA, Mon. AN >idemic ci sex murders m Austria claimed a. new victim yesterday m this city of East-West intrigue. The limbless torso uf a 35-year-old woman and her severed legs were fojnri m two separate pillow cases on the banks of a stream flowing into
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    Ship trials
    34 8 The reconverted French luxury liner, Felix Roussel, j will undergo her final trials on a voyage from Dunkirk to Marseilles on Sept- ember 22. She will then sail I for Indo-China. Reuter
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    34 8 piclui. Sardar K. m p^^ < right) pro. tll > Us dentials as Indian mbxs" s.idor U the Republic China to Mao T^tan Chairman of thr Republic-, at a cr*,n« nf held m Pfkins rer»nt A.P
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    UK COAL SHORTAGE
    28 8 The British Food Minister, Mr. Maurice Webb, said In Copenhagen yesterday that Britain was faced with the possibility of having to im- port coal. Reuter
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    TRUCK KILLS 18
    23 8 Eighteen people were killed I and 30 injured when a truck aden with 50 people over- iurned In Peru A.P.
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    SIAMESE FLOCKING TO ENLIST FOR KOREA
    284 8 BANGKOK, Saturday. A CROSS a broad avenue m mid -Bangkok there is a long, low. ugly building: of yellow stone. It is the Ministry of Defence uiid its tiroary frontage is spiked with antiquated cannon directly facing the Wat Phra Keo m which sits
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    'A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE'
    205 8 LONDON, Monday. /CONTINUED recognition by the United Nations of Chiang Kai-sheks Nationalist regime threatens the whole world with war, it was stated in London by Sir John Pra.it, former Foreign Office expert «n Asian affairs and wartime chief of the Far East section of the
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    RAAF 'must remain in Japan'
    74 8 RAAF 'must remain in Japan' A major effort must be made to maintain tne RAAF m Japan now that it's m active operation m the Korean conflict, the Chief ut the Air Staff, Air Marshal George Jones, said before leaving Sydney by plane for Japan to Inspect th* Australian Mustang
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    NAVAL CARRIER MAY COME EAST
    37 8 Tlie British light fleet carrier Theseus is ?xpeci*»d to le^tve Portsmouth aockyard today for trials. If they pr >ye sausfac ory she will prt>bably leave for the Far Zast on Fridar Reuter
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    Soviet military leader dies
    65 8 MOSCOW. Mon THE chief, of the Sor:et Unions leading military educational Institution. Colo-nel-General Vyacheslav Tsveliev, haul died m Moscow. H~ c:ed af*<r a letHfThr illness at th* ne at 57. He served m rh« Soviet army from Itll ar*i twwttTided large units In th*> Turtes i.
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    49 8 Tn^ US. Depuiv S^rri-rarv of Defence. Mr Stephen Earlj'. sa:d last a -hat American forces m v nave performed a "military miraelt but tha- ti. jhead w.i 4 "iiave an Humi f m the wav we ar»* to n* to livp for some time to c\>r.
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    108 8 LONDON, lira. TtfE white hamer I H>di«, m h^ 15 rectory at I a twotoid pr obtain red £a.\ and how u» find will wear them He a&rr. beque&u left c siden's of :rte benefit of tJloved on. Ooceitwa> the moneyi ott pensed them to
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