The Singapore Free Press, 18 May 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE a ,Jl5. EIGHT PAGES SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1946. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    SNOW GREETS MALAYANS
    132 1 <Frc? Press Correspondent) London, Saturday. jVfjALA VAN'S contingent to the ITI Victory Parade who arrived here yesterday are very fit after an uneventful voyage, but are feeling the chill of an exceptionally cold spring m their Kensington Gardens camp (there were snow showers m North London en
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    AUCHINLECK STAYS ON FOR INDIA
    294 1 AUCHINLECK STAYS ON FOR INDIA U7HILE discussions for an interim government for India to M be constituted m the next few days are continuing, G ral Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces m India, who holds the war portfolio m tht :oy*s Executive Council, said that he would
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    22 1 ja^y. the only dog known to lave heen registered as a Po\V iii a Jan iamp recci.ed the animal's 'VC m London.
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    U.K. TO GIVE UP 200.000 TONS OF WHEAT
    639 1 AS thc Government announcement was being made m Singapore yesterday that the rice ration for Singapore and the Malayan Union is to be cut as from Monday (details m Page Five) Mr Herbert Morrison, the Deputy Prime Minister, who is on a
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    MORE CLOTHES
    32 1 An increase m clothing coupons from 42 to 52 yearly is expected m Britain this summer according to a forecast by Sir Stailord Cripps, President or the Board of Trade.
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    Woodcock Fight Result
    66 1 Woodcock Fight Result New York, Friday. Tami Mauriello, one of the leading American contenders for thc world heavyweight title, knocked out Bruce Woodcock, the British heavyweight champion, m the first round of the scheduled ten-round fight at Madison Square Garden tonight. The knockout came m U mm. 16 sec. Woodcock
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    EUROPEAN CESSION VOTES CRITICISED
    233 1 <Free Press Correspondent London, Saturday. AN analysis of the Sarawak voting is causing a lively controversy here between those who consider the verdict the best possible thins for Sarawak In any case, and the opposition who stress that the indigenous majority is actually against the cession
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    MR. TRUMAN SEIZES U.S. RAILWAYS
    248 1 MR. TRUMAN SEIZES U.S. RAILWAYS Washington, Saturday. TWENTY-FIVE hours before a strike schedule for 9* p.m. 1 (G.M.T.) tonight, President Truman last night signed an order for Government seizure of strike-threatened railways. He had just met the heads of the Brotherhood cf Trainmen and Engineers, and had called on all
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    GI SWEETHEARTS GET PASSAGES
    57 1 The House of Representatives Immigration sub -committee h»3 approved a bill to let foreig 1 fiancees left overseas by American fighting men come to the United States to get marriedprovided the American boys still want them. This also applies to United States Army women who may
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    WOMEN DO EXPIATION
    28 1 The Mayor of Cologne has d:ii led an "Expiation S?rvk«e f for women between 18 and t»» m orJer '.o clear uu the mind streets.
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    More Bee? Tax For Germans
    85 1 BERLIN, Fri— The Germans are to pa> more for their beer. Cigarettes and ma'.ches untkr new tax laws published by the Allied Control Council m B:ri n. The highest increase is on drinking; al?ohol Ihe tax Ml alcohol is increasei by 100 and !'OO rer
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    WRITTEN OFF
    19 1 Eberhard Faber. 87. chairman of the board of Eoerhard Faber pencil company, has died m America. UP
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    BRITAIN REBUKES POLAND
    120 1 BRITAIN REBUKES POLAND LC-DON. Sat: Britain ocr« turbed by Polish oTicials' assertion that UNRRA v.a s using food icr po'.ilical purples ir Europe, told that war-liberated country on Friday that the remarks were "peculiarly inapprcprr c and offensive. "If British efforts on Poland's behalf are to te met m this
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    300 BATAVIA NIPS LAY DOWN ARMS
    131 1 300 BATAVIA NIPS LAY DOWN ARMS Three hundred Jape.ne.s" trcops In the area west of Batavia. who have b"en guarding arms were relieved today and came forward with their rrms and stives to be disarmed by the British troops, According to the DrttisJi spokesman, reported by neuter. The last British
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    IMPRISONED WOMEN TURN TO LIPSTICK
    362 2 NEW YORK, Saturday. WOMEN can be made more content although they have I T to endure privation m prison camps threatened by revolt —if they can have a little lipstick, some rouge, face powder and silk stockings, says Capt. Harold L. Guyton. The captain should
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      MOW BRITAIN DELIVERS THE GOODS -BY AIR MAIL
      697 2 MOW BRITAIN DELIVERS THE GOODS -BY AIR MAIL By Charles Gardner, formerly Air Correspondent to the BBC, served throughout the war with the RAF. THE question of air freight services m the United Kingdom is one which has never been fully tackled. Freight-hauling is such a difficult market for aviation
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      20 2 No sarong, but Dorothy La ;our is as alluring as ever m her dramatic role m "A Medal for Benny."
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      "Suggestion" To France
      63 2 WASHINGTON. Wed. The Unlttd States and Britain have asked France to guard against any violations of Siamese territory by French troops m IndoChina, US Government officials said today. These "suggestions" were sent to Paris following reports that French troops had fired across the Mekong River with machlnequns
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      12 2 A striking angle shot of Bri.ain's first post-war air liner, the Vikin
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      NATIONALIZATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
      954 2 NATIONALIZATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? By Oscar H. Hobson, Finance Editor of the "News-Chronicle" (London) jyiTH the issue of the terms of the Coal Nationalization proposals, following on the passage of the Bank of England Nationalization Bill through the House of Commons the Labour Government's industrial policy may bo said
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      81 6 F o-i 'oil ftcr— ji of l.a-"\el*i etartej trom !i finalists r !i rr.l.'tl.r Purser, as their '-It reliant Navy (Ju.en. to cel?--l»»st« I a.nh? l)s Merchant Navy Comforts Su'vic? Week. Miss I.r "r. amhe h"s M o irhart Navy Que^n embarked from U i latasl r Pi:r. I.onien. by
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      Do You Want To Be A Hotelier?
      648 6 A F7HE iik 191-1-13 war many demobilised men sank their il gratuities and savings m such ventures as poultry NOW there is a very definite trend towards the hotel and a f^ocd many people have found to their cost that this business too
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      QUIZ Answers
      78 6 1. Miss Grrta Oarbo: she repr. seats the Muse of Tragedy In a moftaic en the floor of the i r er I landing of the National GalkTV. 2. Yes: during the General Strike of 1926, ho edited the British Gazette. 3. Dr. Johnson's biographer, James Bos well.
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      BRITAIN'S GREEN PASTURES
      627 6  -  W. H. Holton "I Want To Stop Here For Always" By FOR NATIONAL TRUST want to stop here for always.' He was a brownfaced, clear-eyed boy of about fourteen years of age, coming down the w inding English lane, bringing m the cows for milking. His blue
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      3 COUNTRIES-3 WORLDS
      658 6 By Judy Harden. AFTER a glorious month A m the United States and a depressing week m England, I am now m Germany's pre-war capital. It w hard to believe that these three countries are part of the same world. America overflows with everything. England is stripped
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      GERMAN ATOM PLOT
      175 6 WASHINGTON, By Air Mail. A PLOT to kidnap all German workers on atomic energy, concentrate them m a projected Bavarian redoubt, and force them to produce an atomic bomb pressure as a last desperate bid for victory was formed by the SS late m the war, according
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      One Man Army Gets Medal
      85 6 THE Australian radio broadcast, quoted by I/.P., that Warrant OfT^er MatH thr-one-man native army oi Manus Island, w. o slew 110 Japanese m sun-battles with the invaders has bren awarded thr Distinguished Se vice Cross for hraverv. In February 1945 M.im and a companion killed
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      292 2 SINGAPORE I TONIGHT'S HIGHLIGHTS mY 9 K£l> NETWORK from ooon to' PnK Kadio Orchestra; 832 n Asking 9P m Fanfare. 930 -'P« and 63t to 11 pm on g/" *l»rratn»«fr_ Mrt "l 3 h pn J; News. 7.30 p.m. BBC P n BBC s P° rt s Commentary and •"■tre.
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  • PICTURE PAGE
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      RADIO BURMA CALLING ALL SERVICES
      119 3 1 i plc-ure shows Sgt. M. Edwardes, Question Master of Burm 1 i> > Brains Tru^t. discussing a "Joad" point with Lt.-Col. :»L:l!:r.. Chiel Education Officer, Burma. Burma Broadcasting 2»Uk!lcs arc a government concern and broadcast programme-* for Indian and British listeners as well as
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1946.
      450 4 HJE have the odd spectacle if today of Mr. Attlee's Government doing their best to give away the Indian Empire with cne hand (to Indians who can't agree who among them should accept it) while with the other hand they propose to
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      The Things Demobbed Men Do
      328 4 1 n Two ex-Army officers, oj I nine other ranks and -j J_ an ex-sailor have started a scheme to prj\Vle Hendon (London* house- wiv.rs with domestic help. The housewives help service, j run by Lieut.-Col. J. F. J. Pockt! lington and Major D. R.
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      And Now Package Furniture'
      105 4 VISITORS to Stockholm re- cently have been Interested by a new idea— called by the Swedes 'package furniture.' Each piece of furniture is sold m a cardboard box. complete and ready for assembly, it is beautifully machined and any intelligent person can put it together from
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      Forces To Show The Flag To Win Recruits
      749 4 Forces To Show The Flag To Win Recr uits THE nationwide recruiting campaign for voluntary sen-ice m the regular forces announced by the Government (Free Press yesterday) is designed to bridge what the War Minister Mr. J. Lawson described as a "disturbing gap" between the present strength and minium peacetime
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      The 'Working Man's Car'
      47 4 Mr. Jack McGrath of Edinburgh Road, Lowstoft aircraft production inspector, has built "is own two-and-a-half horsepower "working man's car" He says the car which does 70 miles to a gallon could be mass-produced for ClOO. He has had £170 offered for it Reuter
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      286 4 CURPRISE SCIENTIST 19 year 1 old Daniel Boyd of Wal- thamstow, Essex, who has gained "Brackenbury" award of £100 a year to study at Oxford, outstripped fellow "better" educated undergraduates. Daniel left school at 14 and took job as an assistant m the Sir John Cass technical
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    • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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        An Old Malayan On 'The Newcomers'
        476 4 An Old Malayan On 'The Newcomers PX Malayans who lost everything they possessed m 1942 L< came back to assist m the rehabilitation of the country with a background of experience. In most cases we have met with nothing but frustration from many people who are newcomers. Every man one
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      Another Pint Of Food?
      213 4 Another Pint Of Food? I 1 DEER -DRINKERS dor/: but the fact that B: brewers took nearly hull home-grown cereal as m foi food m the crop yea--1946 makes the nutri value of beer a quest io: cxaminng. The Birmingham nutritio: t» pert F. W. Morris is not whether h
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      24 4 FAITH There Is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another plory of the stars. 1 Corinthians. 15. 41.
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      92 4 QUIZ 1. What famous film aaorns the floor of the v (jallery? 2. Has Mr. Winston ever been a newspaper t 3 "I do indeed romScotland, hi!* i rannot 1 wnat S-ot was responsibl this unusually modest del. lion t Th P record for s\ the English Channel stai 11.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      The Brookes
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      CHSTODIAN'S DEPARTMENT SUSPENDED
      123 5 CHSTODIAN'S DEPARTMENT SUSPENDED ..pie calling at the office of the ustodian of Property, m Ike N?.* Supreme Court. Singa--1 ore ytfll rday, were informed ;-..ii the functions of the ,if;.srtmfnl had been suspended I mrJin; the holiins of an inrairy ©niereJ by the Colonial > »-r.-*tar\. Singapore. 1 b was
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      Civil Courts Work Plan
      221 5 A COUNCIL of Judges, preled over by the Ch*oi Justice, was held m Kuala Lumpur on May 13, to decide a phased programme for the courts entertaining suits, actions and othtr proceedings, it was announc- .v^rday. ftei taking lino account all Mil circumstances. particularly the anticipated
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      TWO VOTES CEDE SARAWAK TO BRITISH EMPIRE
      639 5 TWO VOTES CEDE SARAWAK TO BRITISH EMPIRE (Free Press Special Correspondent) KUCHING, FrL DV 18 votes to 16 Sarawak's Council Negri (State Council) yesterday passed the second reading of the Bill for the Cession of Sarawak to the King. The Committee stage and the third reading, which are to take
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      Cigarettes Flood (Black) Market
      370 5 (Free Press Correspondent) Ipoh, Saturday. HACKETEERING m cigarettes has reached scandalous Iv proportions m Ipoh and the public is finding the position incongruous with official statements reiterating that the market is "flooded with fags." What the smoking public find instead is that the return of cigarettes
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      MPs Arrive Tomorrow
      219 5 CINGAPORE will be the centre of two important events during the next few days. The most important will be the arrival on Tuesday of the new GovernorGeneral or the Malayan Union and Singapore. Mr. MaL'olm MacDonald, and his installation the following day. Tomorrow sees tho ani al
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      'Clean-Up Singapore Cry'
      193 5 A CALL for action to tackle, the three most pressing I problems cf this city was I made by Mr. John Layeoctf, i speaking at the Municipal Commissioners meeting yesterday. He urged a sp.edy clean-up of the town, further steps to supj press rral&ria. and a big
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      NAAFI CANTEEN
      106 5 "THIS comes from your trying to live beyond your means As you get older, you will find that you will have to pay for having a d time." So said Mr. Paul Storr m the District Court yesterday when he convicted two canteen manageremployed by NAAFI. H Brown
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      SMALLER RICE BOWL FROM MONDAY
      435 5 MALAYA'S rice ration will be cut from three katties per week to 2U for men, from 24 to I*2 katties per week for women and from 1\ 2 katties to three quarters of a katty per week for children as from Monday. The wheat ration
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      35 5 General Mansergh, who 'i.^mands the Allied forces m the N.E.I. meets Dr. van Riook, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, who has just returned to Batavia from a conference uith his government i:i Holland.
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      JAP CIVILIAN TO HANG
      143 5 CENTENCE ol death by hanging *J was passed yesterday on Kojima Takeharu. a 35-year-old Japanese civilian, by the Sixth War Crimes Court, presided over by Lt. Col 3. E. Greene. The court found tlie accused guilty on all three counts of beating, torturing and ill-treating six
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      RNR Officer Charged
      80 5 Lieut -Com. J. J. Wilson K.NJU claimed trial before Mr. Paul Storr m the District Court yesterday to a charge that on Apr. 23 he assisted m disposing two Stuart Turner engines and one generator marked Wl) which he knew or had reason to believe to be
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      CEYLON TO HAVE A PREMIER
      118 5 LONION. Fri-The Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. George Hali, today announced the new constitution for the island of Ceylon There will be a Cabinet of Ministers, one of whom will be the Prime Minister, who will be charged with general direction iu:d control of the
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      48 5 DEATH 1 11-FRED A. Thiseira. BuiJJin? jnypector. Rural 80-mi. Expred last ever;i._r Funeral today. 4.30. Dr-^lv HP trJ. ESTABLISHED FIRM, managed tbr an influential person desires to •et m Agent lor ail! tmi and I.cJ 'o:r.pany m "i::ga-.ore Apply to Box No 11 Singapore Free -*Ti*s for intervisw.
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      128 5 ALL-IN WRESTLING TONIGHT GREAT WORLD ARENA 8.15 P.M. J^K Raraks 20th (>ntur% PromoUona presents an all-star <ard %E< JEFF CONDA < l (SEAC Ci. lc Bel W.n cr i yr^. A%^ DARA SIifGH At/fr i! ¥Tr\*j^ (Coloured T^r.or of Sine- p re. Nj^SN^V^ B lA AHERNE if 1 PETE MUKLE
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      SLRREY TRIAL AT OVAL
      20 7 Nuel Bennett. Surrey's new cap am. drives a ball during; the county's trials at the OvaL
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      CENTRAL STATISTICS TOP ALFSEA CRICKET LEAGUE
      405 7 11*: I H 13 points gained from 11 games, five of which they drew three and lost three. Central Statistics hold s lion m the Alfsea Cricket Club league tables. Second d positions are held by Postals with 12 points and with 10, these
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      POSITIONS IN THE LEAGUE
      137 7 Tb( at>;e excludes matches played against Ceylon XI who have Iran Urn lofie, Ttams affected are: Cent Stats, Postal, Tn, W. AG and All. -v FOR AGAINST P W. D. L. Aban. Runs. Wkts Runs. Wkts. Points 11 5 3 3 0 817 84 045 63
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      ATHLETIC MEET IN SINGAPORE NEXT MONTH
      220 7 To coincide with the victory r rations m London, a Victory sports meeting, under A A A rules, will be held at 3esar stadium on June 16. hoped to provide 11 events meet will take the form -r-team contest between fr.x tea: Ann? R
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      INDIAN TOURISTS WIN BY INNIGS
      349 7 Pataudi Modi Score Centuries Cambridge, Fri. THE Nawab of Pataudi and R. S. Modi both scored their i first centuries of the tour as the Indian cricket tourists beat Cambridge University by v an innings and 19 runs here today. This is the Indians' second
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      WEMBLEY: 1948 OLYMPICS
      130 7 WEMBLEY: 1948 OLYMPICS LONDON. Fri It is announced today that Wembley Stadium will stage most of the major events m the 1948 Olymnc f Games which arc srhedii London Mr. A J Flvin, the Manaeing Director, stated that the stadium will be given without charge and tbe Wembley organisation has
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      CAMBRIDGE DINNER
      91 7 CAMBRIDGE, Thurs.— The Indian cricketers were entertained 'to dinner by the Indian Majlis [Society of Indian students at the University at the Cambridge iestaurant last night Mr. Naskar, the society's president, made a speech of welcome, Pataudi and Manager Gupta returning thanks. Hafeez and Mankad will be I
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      YUGOSLAVIA WINS DAVIS CUP TIE
      90 7 BELGRADE, Trr Yugoslavia. European zone winners of the Davis Cup competition m 1939, will be represented by the trio which beat Egypt In the first round of this year's competition— Mitic, Palada and Puncer— against Czechoslovakia m the second round at the end of May.
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      CHARITY SPORT AT STADIUM
      308 7 Two sports events of sopcio< interest and both m aid of charirtake place at Jalan Be.say stadium this week-end. In the first, today, Army, the inter-ser-vice rugger champions, meet a combined K.N. and H.A.F. team fan aid of the Services Sport Fund, and tomorrow the Chinese
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      Hammond To Lead England v India
      48 7 London, Sat.— Walter R. Hammond, of Gloucestershire, has been chosen to captain England m the three Test cricket matches against In2ia this season. Hammond's selection was cxnected, for he was i notably successful skipper m the Tests against Australia m 1938. A.P.
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      HAPPY KNIGHT AND KHALED HEAD LATEST DERBY CAILOVER
      277 7 LONDON. Fri.— The result of the Newmarket Stakes at Newmarket on Wednesday was reflected m the Victoria Club callover on the Derby yesterday. Fleet Street, who was backed at 10-1 at last Monday's callover but is a doubtful runner, was offered at
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      15 7 Dick Barton, the British Davis Cup player, practices al the Cumberland Lawn Tennis Club, Hampslead.
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      PANCHO FIGHTS STRONG OPPONENT TOMORROW
      421 7 TO-MORROW night's boxing programme at the Happy World stadium includes fights for two of the boys going to Australia Kid Pancho who meets Dennis Colins and Boy Andre who meets Jack Birch. The Pancho-Collins bout of ten rounds tops the bill and is likely to
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORE
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      JOME
      57 8 In Britain at this time of the year the club cyclists are wheeling the '"bike" oat of the garden shed for a Sunday's run out into the country. This year theieare more weekend c>clists on the road than there have been since 1^39 now tha*. the factory I workers
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      OUT OF FAVOUR
      52 8 The United States State Department concurs with the Statement of the American diploImat Mr. Gconje Acheron m Tokyo that "the United States does not favour Communism either m th" United States of Japan." Acting Secretary of State Mr. Dean I Aeheson said m Washington.; according to a
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      £300 A WEEK MEN LOSE THEIR JOBS
      103 8 £300 A WEEK MEN LOSE THEIR JOBS Star script witers who have been earning up to A: 300 a week have been struck off the Metro-(Jold\vyn-Mayer B itish pictures payroll. They include* Evelyn Waugh, Nigel Ilalchin, John Brophy, Anthony Thome, G'aham Green, G. B. Sterne and Richard Dimbleby. Most of
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      'I COULD CAPTURE GIB. IN 20min'
      225 8 'I COULD CAPTURE GIB. IN 20min' Moscow, Sat. T'V/O of Germany's military attaches m Franco Spain said In a statement to the Soviet Government on Friday that Spain, "under the mask of neutrality, actually participated m the war on the side of Germany." The officers, now Soviet prisoners, are Lt.
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      BRITAIN GIVEN AN INCOME TAX HOLIDAY
      361 8 BRITAIN GIVEN AN INCOME TAX HOLIDAY LONDON, Friday. pOOD tttWP for a great number of wage-earnoi*s a "holiday" and bonus was given by Mr. Glcnvil Hail, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, m the House of Commons last night. Moving the second reading of the Finance Bill which embodied the budget
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      SICK WOMAN TRIED SUICIDE
      145 8 "Tell her not to do it again because next time it might prove fatal. said Mr. Paul Storr In i the District Court yesterday when :he cautioned and discharged a 37-year-old Chinese woman. Pang Ah Ngoh, who attempted to commit suicide by dunking a 1 solution
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      RUSSIA WON'T SHARE A MILLION
      171 8 Washington, SaY DUSSIA has refused to agree to repeated American requests to join with Britain, the United States and France m a common disposition of millions of pounds of German assets m Austria. U.S. government officials disclosing this m Washington elaborated m a Dress conference
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