The Singapore Free Press, 5 June 1952

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTEEMOOW Mf MAfcAYA PRONE Sim No. IMIO. JULI SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JUNB 5, 1952. PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS
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    NO ANTHEM FOR QUEEN
    577 1 Spore omits it at Birthday Parade Free Press Staff Reporter fHE National Anthem was not played at the Queen's birthday parade m Singapore this morning. This was the first time that it has been omitted from a ceremonial occasion. Twenty-four contingents from the Services, police and
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    10,000 gather in Federal capital
    159 1 10 000 gather in Federal capital t r e«* Pre>s Staff Reporter [ALA LUMPUR, Thurs. TEN thousand Malayans m Kuala Lumpur tociav wished their young Queen a happy birthday as arid guns boomed a n-gw salute to her iron Federal Hill. Tr v were awed b? the brilliant splendour of^
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    6,000 in S.A. march
    69 1 CAPETOWN. Thurs. ABOUT 6.000 persons led by tacti Commando officials an<i eight opposition Member f Parliament yesterday t < part n a silent march I protest against the High frt Parliament Act. to i the Governor-General 2 assent on Tuesday. T Ad creates a High ol
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    INDIES BARS LUXURY CARS
    45 1 ;ve and medium American cars will disappear from Indonesian Jwertji gradually following a ill Government measure. Jn a stringent austerity to'>ve. Premier Wilopo's Govp iment has announced the a£?° tt2' m °tor-cars priced JJO»« USS2.IOO will no lone^r Da Permitted U,P
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    Man shot by masked men
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A 38-YEAR-OLD Chinese, Lim Chin, living m an attap house m Boon Keng Read, Singapore, was shot m the head after a tussle with three masked armed Chinese gunmen who broke into his house at 4.50 this morning and got away
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    STEEL TALKS AT WHITE HOUSE TODAY
    99 1 STEEL TALKS AT WHITE HOUSE TODAY WASHINGTON, Thurs. U.S. steel industry leaders and trade unionists have been summoned to a White House conference today to discuss the nation-wide steel strike The 650.000-member steeljworkers union went on strike on Monday only minutes after the Supreme Court had ruled against President Truman's
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    BUILDING PLAN
    20 1 Authorisation for US$BB,--000.000 of Navy construction projects was voted yesterday by the UJS. House Armed Services Committee.- A.P.
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    LONDON HONOURS MENZIES
    72 1 LONDON HONOURS MENZIES LONDON Thurs. IN a 200-year-old ceremony, Australia's Premier, Mr. Robert G. Menzies, yesterday received the Freedom of the City of London, m the presence of Cabinet Ministers and Commonwealth representatives. He and his wife drove m an open state landau through cheering crowds to the Guild Hall,
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    WORKERS SPURN STRIKE CALL
    183 1 PARIS. Thursday. FRENCH worfcers yesterday scorned a Communist call for a 24-hour strike m protest against the arrest of party leader Jacques Duclos who has been charged with plotting against state security. The Ministry of the Interior laid last night that only two per cent of
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    Square dances for the Palace
    63 1 I rpHE catchy tunes of CanaX dian square dances will soon be heard In Buckingham Palace, specially recorded for the Queen. The British and Canadian broadcasting companies In a joint effort have recorded nine dances on three longplaying records so that the Queen and the
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    Governor takes salute
    39 1 picture. TfIHE Governor of SingaA por e> Mr. J. F. Nicoll, taking the salute outside City Han as the foot columns of the Forces march past daring this moraine's Queen's Birth da v parade. Free Press
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    Eisenhower winning in crucial test
    249 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. GEN. Dwight Eisenhower reduced to a few hundred votes Senator Robert Taft's lead m their neck-and-neck Republican primary race at South Dakota —the last directly between them. As he did so Gen. Taft's headquarters m Washington prepared to concede defeat. I Political
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    French kill 120 Vietminh
    31 1 French Union troops killed 120 Communist-led Vietminh soldiers and captured 172 yesterday m a new moppingup drive m the Phy Ly sector, 40 miles south of Hanoi.
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    POUND IMPROVED
    15 1 The British pound In New York advanoeri lflti US rent to 278.75.- A.P.
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    HE'LL END DISUNITY, INFLATION
    154 1 HE'LL END DISUNITY, INFLATION ABILENE, KANSAS, Thin. GEN. Dwight Eisenhower launched his bid for the presidency at his hometown here last night with blows at the Truman administration and Senator Taft,~ his chief rival for the Republican Party candidature. He told thousands of supporters that the entire arms programme of
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    George Formby to retire
    54 1 LONDON, Thurs. r«EORGE FORMBY, one of vf Britain's top comedians, yesterday announced he would retire. Formby, 48, has heart trouble caused by overwork and strain. He collapsed during a performance of the long-running "Zip goes a Million" m London last winter and spent the rf ltw
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    This takes the biscuit
    37 1 CINCINNATI. OHIO, Thus. THE son of a Singapore merchant studying business administration at the University of Cincinnati has won a prise He is Say Hoe Lim, and he wrote the best of the
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    Berlin tense as Russians move troops
    346 1 Berlin tense as Russians move troops BERLIN, Thursday. TOP ALLIED OFFICIALS yesterday ordered West x Berlin police to throw an armed security cordon round the West Berlin perimeter after Soviet troops had moved up close to the French sector border an hour before dusk. This followed two incidents m the
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    BRITISH MISSION TO KOREA
    143 1 BRITISH MISSION TO KOREA LONDON, Thurs. BRITAIN yesterday decided to send a mission to Korea to study at first hand and report direct to the British Cabinet on military and political developments. Field Marshal Lord Alex- < ander, the Defence Minister, will lead the mission which leaves tomorrow It will
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    Pope recovers from fever
    37 1 Pope Plus XII, 76, was ytricken by "an influenzal attack with fever" yesterday, but Vatican sources reported he was "much better" by night and would probably resume his routine today or tomorrow.- U.P.
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      64 1 cvcv CHOCOLATE PEAR DELIGHT In individual glasses, Make this tempting dessert with MOUNTAIN MAID PEARS and PLUMROSE CREAM Place m each glass A spoonful of whipped cream. layer of pears, sliced to release the favour A layer of grated plain chocolate or choco'ate flakes. pear slices. r op with cream
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      24 1 REBELS WARNED Burma's Home Minister, Bo Khin Maung Gale, yesterday warned underground rebels that the Government would om Ail nut to stamn them out
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    BALLET RUSSE ON TOUR
    149 2 Oai>c# H SSL WHAT does the Ballet Russe look like on tour? Agnes de Mille, who ranks as choreographer with Ashton and de Valois, tells you m her book, "Dance to the Piper". Forget, she says, the colourful backstage scenes of "Look," Ma. I'm Dancing" •nd
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    Look Out Britain, You're Going to be Got At!
    718 2 Says RODERICK MANN I Lee Mortimer 1 is: Being accused of libelling men, i women and! I cities. Being sued I for more than I four million 5 pounds but doesn t worry. He specialises gin in vice and graft I
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    Britain Meets the Challenge of the Atom Age
    1029 2  - Britain Meets the Challenge of the Atom Age J. Stubbs Walker By Harwell, the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment (H.M. Stationary Office). DEOPLE who think of the atom only as a modern horror of warfare, capable of obliterating entire cities when it is used m the form of a bomb,
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    GERMAN JET MAN WORKS FOR AMERICA
    111 2 rjERMAN aircraft scientist, Hans Multhopp, 39-year-old designer who- worked on wartime Focke- Wulf fighters is now m America as one of the top designers for the Martin aircraft concern who are building the British Canberra jet bomber '<» the United states Air fvjrce. citteenship
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    Who Was the Real SHAKESPEARE?
    738 2 Df Titherley gives his answ* says Eric Cillibrand Shakespeare's Identity Dr. A. W. Tltherlej (Warren and Sons). WHO was Shakes- peare?. Was he really William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, member of a famous Lancashire family and founder of the world's mast famous horse race?
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      114 2 I ON THE ART OF I READING H lecture* delivered m the by 1 University of Cambridge SIR ARTHUR ||l 1916-1918 QUILLER COUCH j||! **Tb«y <leal with literature m jj J the widest sense, nnd, being jj! th— nhr— literature. their j I >PP— J skould be irresist.bie." I CAMBMDCE
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      40 2 dnhnluu To bouwiid No. 479 YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION Aero*: I, Petrol. 7, Station. Strip*, t. Newgate. 11. atarUat. 14, AM. H, Hie* li. it, Arfocme. it, ZMpend Tellers. 11. Tartar. •mmt i, steer. 1. Stagi. ».*mtalj Order. 4 Kbterlmr I ««ut~
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      269 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR fjORN today, you have an im- petuoas nature. Yea fall m and out of love too rapidly. Yea get wildly enthusiastic ahoat one idea. The next day yen are all cooled off ahoat it aad- excited ahoat ■saarthlng else. While it is fine to show enthusiasm for
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    DIVORCE USED TO DODGE INCOME TAX
    308 3 DIVORCE USED TO DODGE INCOME TAX But couples still live together LONDON, Thursday. WEALTHY couples who secure divorces but continue to live together— in order to pay less incometax were mentioned m a memorandum from the National Marriage guidance Council to the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce. The council
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    3 RODE TO FAME OVER NIAGARA FALLS
    394 3 3 RODE TO FAME OVER NIAGARA FALLS NIAGARA FALLS, Thurs. CIX people have gone over Niagara Falls m a barrel. Three lived— and three were pounded to death by the waters. The only surviving victor of the fads now Is Jean Lussier, who bounced and floated In a home-made rubber
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    HUSBAND, 69, SET PACE'TOO QUICK'
    173 3 HUSBAND, 69, SET PACE 'TOO QUICK' LONDON, Thursday. THREE years after marrying again at 69 a chapel (bacon asked for a decree of nullity at Swansea Divorce Court. He alleged wilful refusal by, or the incapacity of, his wife who was the widow of a former friend and workmate when
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    'Germ war would be fruitless'
    53 3 Sir MacFarlane Burnet, world authority on virus and infectious diseases, said that any attempt to sow epidemics among enemy troops would be fruitless. "No intelligent bacteriologist could ever believe that the dropping of plague-in-fected lice could have more than a minor psychological or nuisance value,"
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    LOAN REQUESTED
    22 3 A delegation from MaGta has asked the Colonial Office for financial assistance which may run into several million pounds.- A.P.
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    BLONDE AND BEAUTIFUL
    60 3 THIS IS not the face that launched a thousand ships. But its owner, Jan Sterling, is as blonde and lovely as that Helen of long ago. Miss Sterling, under contract to Paramount pictures, has made steady progress since starting out m pictures only two years ago. In
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    A judge on 'this thing called sex'
    182 3 LONDON. Thurs. FROM the wisdom acquired taring his 61 years, 14 of t: m *s a Hi?h Court judge, Mr Justice Stable gave some i The to a youth just starting il f -Hs the road of life. !r> t id 17-year-old John
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    MORE TALK
    23 3 Representatives of India and Pakistan have met Dr. Frank Graham, United Nations representative lor Kashmir, for further discussion of demilitarising Kashmir.
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    SIAM'S NEW ENVOY
    30 3 Mr. Pote Sarasin, Siam's new ambassador to the United States, arrived at New York by air from London enroute to Washington tn assum« his new post.- U.P.
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    BUTTON LIGHTS MOUNTAIN CROSS
    38 3 P OP^ Pi?/s X// pressed en electric button on his desk ir > A the Vatican and 335 miles away m North Italy a t r oss on a mountain ton flashed into light. Reuter
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    BUCKLEY
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    FRENCH DECISION
    10 3 France decided to recognise the rrw Bolivian Government
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    33 3 SWIMSLIT DESIGNERS apparently think up new ideas each year to nwlu; swimsuits look less than 7™"™* Thb one, modelled hi actress Marie Wilson is of 24-carat gold lace over wA- with plunging neckline.
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    POLICE SEIZE LEADERS
    45 3 Police m Bombay arrested a Socialist member of the Bombay Legislature, Bhagirath Zaha, and 10 other party leaders when they headed a march of 5,000 persons protesting against official food price increases. The arrest brought the total among Socialists to 33. U.P.
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    Bishop spurned Red offer
    43 3 Bishop spurned Red offer Archbishop Chou Chi-shi has died m a Chinese prison because he refused to become the Communists' "Pope of China." The W^year-old Archbishop of Nanehang, turned down the Communist offer In 1951 to head a Chinese "national" Catholic Church.- U.P.
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    AGA KHAN
    18 3 The Aga Khan and his wife flew from Nice. France, to Brussels enroute to London. U.P.
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    LESS WORK FOR QUEEN IS URGED
    127 3 LONDON. Thurs. O»IX thousand, delegates of O the National Federation of Women's Institutes m London, have passed a resolution urging that the nation "should endeavour not to overwork our beloved young Queen, jre- her duties also as wife and mother/ Mrs M." F. Sandeil,
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    Matron cleared on morals charge
    239 3 LONDON, Thursday. T\R. ROBERT THOMPSON, who alleged that a hospital matron had written poison-pen letters about him, was held m a report to be "quite unfitted for his job and should be requested to resign". Failing that said the report —by two Health Ministry inspectors—
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    Iraq recognises 'King of Sudan'
    63 3 CAIRO, Thurs. IRAQ has recognised King Farouk of Egypt as King of the Sudan, the Iraq Minister to Egypt, Naguib El Raw! Bey, has reported to Egyptian Foreign Minister Hassouna Pasha. Egypt proclaimed King Farouk "King of Egypt and the Sudan" last October after abrogating
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    BLACKLISTED
    21 3 Eighty-three West German firms suspected of shipping strategic materials to the Soviet bloc have been blacklisted by the U.S. A.P.
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    DAUGHTER OF BISHOP FOR TRIAL
    145 3 LONDON, Thurs. BARBARA Alyson Brarineld, 23 year old daughter of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, will appear at Somerset Assizes this month accused of the manslaughter of a motor-cyclist. The prosecution said while Miss Bradfield was driving the Bishop home m his Daimler to
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    Bridge Hand
    300 3 Intercollegiate Hatd Ko_l# Both tides vulnerable Bast dealer. NORTH A Q J 6 2/ X I 4 0 S ft ft) WEST EAST 9 7 3 9 A X II! <7 A 10 6 S I S? Q J 8 0 X Q 0 *982* X Q J
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      277 3 QTMr*IIPODP Leeds.— Commentaries by Re* SiHViAr v^lib Alston and John Arlott on the 11.30 London Studio Melodies: 1 SSZISJ^I pjn. Andre Kostelanets His nrrh i^n Nwr i 45 Jimmy Wales. Presented by WJt. v*-«, SoSey Orch.^The Three'S 815 Our Town_A series of talk. beths; 2.15 Music of the South j*.,W*H
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    All at sea
    265 4 STOARLES COOKE, Jr., Is an v^ admiral m the United States Navy. When on the active list he commanded the Seventh Fleet m the Far East. He was probably a superlative sailor and equally as good an officer. But he has now become an amateur U.S. policy
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    The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 5. 1952. Tension in Berlin
    386 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. June 5. 1952. Tension in Berlin HERE is something unusual. A strong line has been taken by the British m Berlin. And the Russians are toeing it so far. Radio Berlin, which the Russians have been operating, is m the centre of the British sector.
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    A Junior Coronation
    667 4 BERNARD WICKSTEED WANTS... AT CAERNARVON, IN WALES I'VE got a good idea. After the real Coronation next summer let us have another one for the children. What I'd like to see is a sort of junior or kiddie coronation at which little Prince Charles would be invested
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    Britten's New Opera
    152 4 ILIR. BENJAMIN BRITTEN, IT! the 38-year-old British composer, has been granted permission by the Queen to write a Coronation opera on the theme of "Elizabeth and and Essex" which will be given a gala presentation at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, next summer. The subject, with
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    The Happy Dictators Get Cheers
    142 4 The Happy Dictators Get Cheers General Franco. wearing admiral's uniform, acknowledges the cheers of Hie crowd at *»c arrives m. Barcelona, to take part m the 35th Eucharistic Congress there. The Spanish Chief of State is given a bigger welcome Hun has been afforded to him m Barcelona for many
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    Royalty Has To Pay Its Way
    1244 4  - Royalty Has To Pay Its Way James Dow By ...so twenty men and two women are going over the Queen's household accounts to try to make ends meet men and two women are now going over the household accounts of the Queen. They have to decide how much should be
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    NEW VALIANT FOR VICKERS' TEST PILOT
    346 4 News from the Air ifiERY soon now Vickers chief test pilot, G. R. ("Jock") Bryce, who had to bale out of the first Valiant four-engined jet bomber m January when it caught fire on a test flight, will be at the controls of Valiant
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    Red Cross Prepares
    183 4 R ed Cross Prepares the shattered nu-r remnants of War 11. th e j*«4 tional r«j c r r ;i pessimistically JL 1 ing for the next S? In a new ret*. International Re d n? commends that f rr everywhere should identity discs at ai; t lPr r that
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    REGULARS
    49 4 CIVIL Defence v.ith a ence hss been star Switzerland. Instead 4 working as a separate arganisation. Swiss C D fighters will be attached v the regular Bvta Anr.v" Twenty fGur battalions i>'. C. D. men will be put o r the same footing as all ctr.tr Army personal
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    24 4 Always m the blackest colours, Hcrr Scnmidt. do they paint us. Ach jot c new Leader who will onct more the German character whitewash
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    NOT QUALIFIED? EXPLAIN THAT THEY SAY
    239 5 NOT QUALIFIED? EXPLAIN THAT THEY SAY War DepU men write to Command Secretary i WAR Department technicians employed m Singapore, who have refused to appear be- fore a selection board, yesterday asked the Command Secretary to substantiate his statement that some of the senior posts are held by people who
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    55 5 picture. AN ARTISTICALLY PRINTED VOLUME of the constitution of the Republic of India is on display at the Parliaments and People's Vote Exhibition, which Mr. Tan Chin Tuan, Deputy President of the Singapore Legislative Council, opened at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. Mr. Tan (left) and Mrs. Tan (centre) are
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    Malay passes worry Perak
    304 5 IPOH, Thurs. I»he Perak Government, 1 very much concerned about the limited number of Malay boys and eir is m English schools m the State, has appointed a committee to go into the matter. The committee will adTtoe ♦he Government w on we Measures to be
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    RECEIVING ORDER
    33 5 r .ing order was made t the Chief Justice. Sir Charles array- Aynsley. m Singapore High Court terdaj asainst Yeo Jin Gua! I 273. South Bridge R"ad n his own petition.
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    15 wanting power told: 'Wait till your number is 50'
    141 5 15 wanting power told: 'Wait till your number is 50' pESIDENTS of about 15 houses m Prankel Estate, Singapore, must wait till the number of houses wanting electricity m the area is 50 to get their supplies. Mr. Chan Kum Chee, a City Councillor, told the Free Press yesterday that
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    3 soldiers charged
    102 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. ffiHREE British soldiers were 1 produced m the KuaHa Lumpur First Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of robbing a taxi-driver. Mr. A. P. Jack, the magistrate, fixed the preliminary inquiry for July 8. All three were allowed $350 bail each m one surety.
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    5 5 THE rtUMWtOS HIGH COMMISSIONER, GcwiM
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    TIN EXPORTS
    13 5 Malaya exported 4,553 tons of tin metal and concentrates last month.
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    HOLY DAY FOR BUDDHISTS
    45 5 Singapore Buddhists will celebrate King Asoka's Buddhist Missionary Day on Saturday at the Sakaya Muni Buddha Gaya k Temple, Eace Course Road, Singapore. Rev. M. M. Mahaweera and Rev. Plyadaasi will lecture on the occasion. Rev. Piyadassi will speak m English
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    FAMILY PLANNING
    26 5 The chairman of the Singapore Family Planning Association. Mrs. Goh Kok Kee, wjll attend the British Family Puanninsr Assoclatio n's annual conference In London
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    Quicker fire service for west coast
    233 5 OINGAPORE'S new $H-million fire station will provide a quicker lire service to the Colony's west coast area, the City fire chief, Mr. J. G. Shaw, told the Free Press. Work has started on the station planned four years ago— on a six-acre site at
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    15,000 lottery tickets sold IN 3 hours
    68 5 JOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. JOHORE Bahru branch of the Malayan Chinese Association received 15,000 tickets for the MCA lottery to be drawn on July 13. and they were sold out within three hours. Johore Bahru branch sold 20,000 m the last lottery and 100,000
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    WAR MEMORIAL MAY BE OPENED IN AUG.
    150 5 rVHE $200,000 St. Andrew's Cathedral War Memo- rial may be declared open at the end of August, the Archdeacon of South Malaya. Yen. R. W. Woods, told the Free Press. He said the original estimated cost of the memorial was $250,000, but owing
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    Blackout schedule
    160 5 SUBSTATIONS liable to load shedding tonight are: 11. Circular Rd. Carpenter St., Cavanah Rd./Collyer Quay. Victoria Memorial Hall 1 2, Prince St./ Market St. Raffles PL/Malacca St., Boat Quay, Union Building, Hume Pipe, Rheein. Ford, Bin Seng, Wire Mesh. P.W.D. Quarry, Nanyang Mfg., Bukit Panjang, National Carbon, Princess
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    NEGLIGENT
    25 5 SEGAMAT, Tnurs.— Llm Tik Kian was fined $45 In Segamat for driving: his car m a negligent manner and 1 knocking into another vehicle
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    NO PERMITS
    25 5 SEGAMAT. Tburs. For dealIng m restricted articles without a licence Sundaram, 40, and Kathiresan, 50, were fined $20 each by the Sega-'-lat Magistrate.
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    They won prizes at show
    24 5 i picture. THE WINNERS at the R.A.F. baby show held ye«terd*y_at the Married r»llie« Chib, Changi. Singapore Free Press
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    T.B. HOME PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED-WEBB
    259 5 T.B. HOME PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED-WEBB Free Press Staff Reporter PLANS for the establishment In Singapore of a home for tuberculosis Incurables are progressing smoothly and all the problems connected with it will soon be solved, Mr. G. W. Webb, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, told the Free Press yesterday. The
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    They met in a ward—and fell in love
    161 5 They met in a ward— and fell in love WARD Ne. 21 of the Singapore General Hospital will always be treasured m the memory of two Singapore doctors. It was there that Dr Ivy Chew and Dr. Gwee Ah Lent met and fell m love. They will be married at
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    S'pore to train marine engineers
    135 5 S'pore to train marine engineers free Press Staff Reporter AC O U R S E to train engineers for the mercantile marine will begin m Singapore next month. The course will cover three months' study. Candidates must be over 21 years of age and must have been apprenticed for about
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    WOMAN DRUNK
    30 5 A 32-year-old woman. Chan Slow Meng, was fined $5 after she pleaded guilty m the Singapore Second Police Court yesterday to a charge of being drunk and Incapable.
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    1208 6 DON IDDON'S DIARY it Almost everybody is Eisenhower's *Best friend* SAr 'Ike will have to take the stump and holler/ said the Texan friend THIS trip to the Middle West is turning out more complicated than I expected. The girl clerk at the airlines office m New York used a
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    CONCERN
    48 6 CONCERNED at the numVy ber of desertions by Jewish merchant seamen, the Israeli Government reports that 35 men have jumped their ships" m the last few weeks. American shipping companies ate also affected and are offering bonuses to men willing to join ships bound for Korean waters.
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    OAK TEAVES FOR THE SERGEANT
    29 6 A nurse at the Royal Hospital. Chelsea, decorates SgtVurphy, D.C M. with a sprit of oak leaves on "Oak-App l e Day," celebrated recently.
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    He Banned Green Paint—and Made a Million
    750 6 He Banned Green Paint— and Made a Million Victor Sims meets the man behind Britain's Big Dippers F' you ask Mr. John Collins, the British milttbnaire showman, how he made his fortune, he will answer: "Being a superstitious man, I would say that I owe it all to a pot
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      242 6 MSHltlr^kß Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya H I AND THEN HI SAID THAT SHE SAID I I I WHArt THE MATTER I SHUT THE I I TEN CENTS FOR I JUST A MINUTE, P* Ir- THATr-6/aM-b/a^-OH»OEAR- WITH THE U6HT IN r 1 DOOR THREE MORE rr 1
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    The death of Charles w. Turley
    228 7 From Allan Lewis /iHARLES W. TwTley one Malaya's best known t«rf died] jf,— **^*y aoroin? m tfce &Ime*wm* Geaetal HospiUl. Tur^ T had been m Ul health for some time. He was m hospital some months back, but re€»*« re d w»» *ny atswiptdl
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    Brough in last four
    57 7 1 CL'ISE Brough, tU.S.) reached the of the northern taMfti '.oumamea- yesterday at Wwrriitii with a C-4, 6-3 wia c Bmui Par r rtdg?, a member of he British Whatman Cup ik«Bfe s«dgman, Na 1 seed m Mi« wangles, nude bis first ■aNM* hi the lourney
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    SIDDON CUP BADMINTON
    76 7 J of the City Council r-Depariment muMul for the Siddon be played at the Union Hall S:rangoon I >.«' -irdav. June 7 nlay < -«t 8 p.m. .s r. esting the final are F"e«:ricity and I Departments. 1 in S represent Br«:aeers DepartnieafeSii^ks. seah Eng Liat. C-hrcan
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    ACADEMY AWARD A GOOD BET
    707 7 ACADEMY AWARD A GOOD BET 1 oday s gallops at K. Lumpur F«» ALLAN LEWIS Lumpur training tracks this morning, with--7^l be d "rf»lp«»work from about the six and without any attempt to •A h me last fartongs m 40. Academy Award looks a good bet In the CL 4
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    34 7 Chinese Athletic gaaftaeacr. Yew Chang, beats Amicable left eit nil, Faak Lay ta the jump and tips the ball clear. Aa incident m the SAFA First Division game played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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    Athletics never in trouble
    253 7 Athletics never in trouble Chinese Athletics 2: Amicable A. A. 0. fiHINESE Athletics played a v/ hard attacking game to •core a well deserved win over Amicable A.A. m a SLA.F.A. First Division fixture played at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Amicables enjoyed spell* of superiority, but Omm were of abort
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    SURREY RECOVER AFTER BAD START
    356 7 SURREY, lemders ci the eoonty cricket ctamptoßship, pla jed themselves Into a sti ong position against the sound and attractive Leicestershire team at Kennington Oval yesterday. Od an easy pace pitch tney j survived a period of disaster to make 327 and then without their
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    Omar's late goal holds Stanvac
    302 7 Omar's late goal holds Stanvac I STANVAO B.C. were held to a two-all draw by Shell S.C. m a Singapore BHFA match at Shell ground yesterday. At half time the score was one-nil m favour of Stanvac who scored through Ismail Yusoff. Ob resumption Shall equalised when Chin Yong turned
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    Mankad mystery puzzles Britain
    215 7 XTIHQO Mankad, Indian all-rounder whom the HssUngden Lancashire League Club baa released tcr the match win not after ftll play for India mg ahut Eagland In the first Test at aMßa.aav^Aßa\A^B aaaaTaara^alt aa A sllS pviprW Z ■J**JIIC* Hi ah §qi|iS^a»iwi4^A gt noon F*azaaaaaa^ VHa Ana
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    Walkovers disappoint badminton fans in K. Lumpur
    993 7  - Walkovers disappoint badminton fans in K. Lumpur PETER KUM m?* singles players of international repute yesterday, at the first day of the Selangor "Internatleaar Open Inritatien Championships m Mala Lumpvr, concede* walk-overs. It was a great WUM«m» »»a the fl^to «tw nodes ox lus walkover to Loon? Pan Tap of
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    ROBINSON TO FIGHT IN TEL AVN
    130 7 ROBINSON TO FIGHT IN TEL AVN lACK AMOTOfc, managing J director of the Yuval Israel Concert Corporation announced yesterday that middleweight *»H»w»p*ft» Ray* Rofoinjon has signed for a title fight against French contender Albert Yvel of Ca uhlan ca in Tel Aviv's 50,000-seat p *ftta Stadium on August 2. Amldor
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    F.B.W. WIN 2-0
    33 7 PYINQ Boat Wtef heat Royal Air F-rce Seietar b tv« goak to nil m a SiDftpore UrJtel Services F.A. Junior Lenguc match at Beletar ?e»terdnv Scorers were MQ and Wh>t«.
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    More overseas duty for them
    58 8 More overseas duty for them The U.S. army yesterday reduced the length of time its officers and men may spend In the United States before becoming eligible again for overseas duty. The order means that those returning from the Far East now become eligible for further overseas duty after nine
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    ELECTION CHARGE
    32 8 Opposition leaders of Cey- lons Parliament yesterday decided to demand the institution of a commission to enquire into certain alleged irregularities m the conduct of last week's general election. Reuter
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    R.N. visit
    26 8 Royal Navy ships m the Mediterranean will visit ports m Italy and Greece during the Mediterranean Fleet's summer ex^rrtcA hA<rtnn<nnp on June 21.- A.P.
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    BIRTH
    24 8 OH to Barbara wife of Michael Oh Kwee Lrok on 3rd June at D'Cotta's Clinic a son William Oh Boon Leong. Both well.
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    IN MEMORIAM
    19 8 IN MEMORY of my loved and devoted husband, George Thompson, (Tanjong Pagar), who died sth June, 1933.
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    DEATH
    38 8 PETER JOSEPH LOH KENG CHOR. beloved husband of Sia Seek Lok passed away at General Hospital after a long illness j Funeral leaves Church of Sacred Heart Tank Road at 4 pjn. wreaths if any to Church:
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    SAIGON TO HAVE NEW GOVT. IN 24 HOURS
    251 8 SAIGON TO HAVE NEW GOVT. IN 24 HOURS SAIGON, Thursday. T*HE anti-Communist Vietnamese leader, Nguyen Van Tarn, who replaced Premier Tran Van Huu on Tuesday, was expected yesterday to announce a new government within 48 hours. A spokesman of the Ministry of the Associated States of Indo-China m Paris said
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    KING OF JORDAN 'TOO ILL TO REIGN'
    131 8 KING OF JORDAN 'TOO ILL TO REIGN' DAMASCUS. Thur. JORDAN'S Premier, Abu El Huda Tawflg Pasha, told a special 'parliament meeting yesterday that King Talal "can never reign again and his illness is considered by medical experts incurable." The meeting was held to "consider a serious deterioration m King Taial's
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    65 8 picture. KATHLEEN WINDSOR, authoress of "Forever Amber" is m London for a three weeks' holiday before going to Paris. "Forever Amber" is an historical novel based on the reign of Charles 11. Its uncompromisingly detailed descriptions of the social life of the era assured its huge sales m the United
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    Press spoils royal tryst
    66 8 FLORENCE, Thurs. KINO BAUDOUIN of the Belgians started homeward yesterday and Princess Margherita de Savoia Rosta sailed for Spain— their plans for a romantic get-together apparently spoiled by the flare of publicity. The monarch and the 22--year-old Princess have been linked romantically and his private visit
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    Prisoners seize their guards
    43 8 Several guards were seized yesterday as hostages at North Carolina's central prison m Raleigh by a mob of about 150 rioting prisoners. Disorders have been underway for a week at the prison, on the outskirts of the city.- A.P.
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    ILO MEETS
    34 8 V. V. Dravid, Madhya Bharat, State Minister* of Labour and representative of the Government of India, was unanimously elected vice president when the International Labour Organisation conference at Geneva resumed yesterday. Reuter
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    FARMER KILLED
    28 8 One Israeli farmer was killed and another wounded m a clash near Kalkilia between troops of Jordan's Arab Legion ?r»rt ft pronn of Israeli farmers. U.P.
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    ENGAGEMENT
    49 8 THE engagement was announced on 31st May 1952 between Mr. Jimmy Tan Tow Eng eldest sob of Mrs. Ob Thean Neo and the late Mr. Tan Khee Seng, and Miss Heng Helen eldest daughter of Mr. Mrs. Heng Swee Jin. at their home No. 55 Caimhill Road Singapore.
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    K.L. RACES
    170 8 (Continued from Page 7> Gilded Done (Lansdown) w?re kept together over three In even time. Pax Haven (Tain appeared to be eoing slightly better than Gay Ensign (Tulloh) to run three m 40 25, without being fully extended. Peter (McCloud) finished m front of Movie (Tulloh) and Spear
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    U.S. population shows increase
    43 8 The total population of the United States, its territories and possessions was 154,233,--000 on April 1. 1950. The figures reported as final represent an increase of nearly 20,000,000. or 14.9 per cent m the 10 years between censuses.- Reuter
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    MISS PHILIPPINES
    12 8 "Miss Philippines," Tereseta Villareal, has Madrid for a visit U.P.
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    EVEREST CLIMB IS STILL ON, SAY SWISS
    161 8 GENEVA, Thursday. MR. Othmar Gurtner, Swiss Alpine foundation representative, said here yesterday that as far as he knew the present Swiss expedition to Mt. Everest was remaining on the mountain and preparing to launch its final assault on the summit. He had received
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    JAPANESE SILK
    22 8 Britain is to import silk cloth from Japan, but she will export at least half of it, after processing. Reuter.
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    WE WANT RED CHINA IN U.N.: ATTUEE
    109 8 COPENHAGEN. Thurs. BRITAIN'S former Labour Prime Minuter. Mr. Clement Attlee said m Copenhagen, yesterday that the Western Powers "should sit down at a conference with the Russians as soon as they are prepared to talk." Mr. Attlee, who arrived here by air from
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    P.o.W. leaders rounded up
    187 8 KOJE ISLAND, Thursday. AMERICAN TROOPS with tanks, tear gas and A flame throwers yesterday bull-dozed barricades and destroyed propaganda bunting m a new clean up of Communist prison compounds on this South Korea island. They also brought out denant leaders without firing a shot and released
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    12 PEOPLE DIE IN FIRE
    25 8 A raging fire killed 12 people and damaged .300 houses m the village of Vasak, near the Pakistan border.— U.P.
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    EGYPT ELECTIONS
    17 8 General elections will be held m Egypt next October, based on new electoral lists.— A.P.
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    Cup ties: B.A.M. thanks Lee
    336 8 LETTER to the EDITOR Sir, May I request the ""courtesy of space m your correspor* ice columns publicly to thank Mr. George Lee of the Happy World for the service he has rendered to Malayan badminton by allowing the Thomas Cup matches to be played
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    MILLINER'S FANTASIA
    33 8 MILLINER'S FANTASIA picture. JANE MORGAN, American singing: star, sits among part of her collection of fantastic hats, at the Cumberland Hotel, London. She is now appearing at the Colony R«stAiirajn-t London West.- A.P.
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    Seretse riots spread: 1 killed
    181 8 Seretse riots spread: 1 killed SEROWE, THUrs. ANE African was bekilled and several wounded and three European officers injured m a tear gas and baton clash yesterday with Africans at Palapye, 30 miles south of here Lieut-Col. R. D. Lengley. Commissioner of Police for BechuanaCand, said that police reinforcements would
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    NOMADS SAVED 17 SURVIVORS OF CRASH
    110 8 NOMADS SAVED 17 SURVIVORS OF CRASH DAKAR, FRENCH WEST AFRICA, Thur. limiTE-rotyed Arab nomads ff saved the lives of 17 Britons m the BOAC Hermes airliner, which crashlanded In the Southern Sahara nine days ago, it was disclosed here yesterday. The survivors, last of whom was flown here last night
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    FIVE-YEAR PLAN
    19 8 India is to spend R5.20,--000,000 on a five-year plan to expand telecommunication links with overseas countries. Reuter
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    FRENCH PLAN MORE SELF-GOVT FOR TUNISIA
    247 8 PARIS, Thursda* U»AR-REACHING measures of autonomy and r government for Tunisia will be announcJr the Prime Minister, Mr. Antoine Pinay, mi n T dl b! on the North African protectorate which onT** the National Assembly today, quarters close v*? government said last night. to
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    Mossadeq meets Queen Juliana
    24 8 Persian Premier. Dr. Mohanimed Mossadeq paid I 45-minute visit to Queen Juliana at her palace a- t>. Hague yesterday. U.P.
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    ANOTHER TERM
    29 8 President Peron was sworr. m yesterday for his secord six-year term as President of Argentina. He is the flrr. Argentine President to w, ceed himself.- A. P.
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