The Singapore Free Press, 24 May 1946

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  • 21 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE No. 16.550. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 339 1 MALAY WOMEN PROTEST Free Prc^s Reportci Tkce ol Malay womanhood DSt the Malayan Union I heard for the first time by L. D. Gammans, visiting and S.r Theodore Adams. b touring Malaya on behalf Sir Edward Gent, at Batu Paha: vest rday when North Johure women said. "We protest ugly.
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  • 103 1 London, Wed —Windows of houses over a quarter of a mile away were shattered by an explosion m a paint stort m £j>nuiwham toaay. The store was completely destroyed and pieces of concrete, some weighing several hundredweight, were flung nearly one hundred feet. The explosion followed a
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  • 217 1 Tory peers defeat Govt in Lords LONDON, Thurs. QOYERNMENT was defeated by 65 votes to 13 m the House oi Lords today where the Conservative Oppi. sition has an overwhelming majority. It was the first division m the House of Lords during this Parliament. The issue was the control of
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  • 261 1 TEHERAN, Fri. A REVOLT has been started m some parts of Azerbaijan, Northwest Persia, "home rule" province, by elements opposed to the province's ruling Democrat Party, according to unconfirmed reports reaching here tonight. The reports said the revolt was still m progress—though only scanty information
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  • 430 1 Still More For India U.K. Makes Wheat Import Sacrifice LONDON, Thursday A LLOTMENTS of wheat to India, which the United States r\ and Canadian Governments have agreed to support will secure to India shipments m 1946 at a very much higher rate than m any previous year despite the acute
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  • 86 1 Two British officers have been found shot dead on Outram road, one of the city's main throughiares, it was announced In Lucknow last night. A.P. reports they were members of the Army special investigation branch and recently had been conducting "important investigations." The names of the officers were
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  • 283 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. QTRiKE paralysis gripped the United States after 250,000 workers, engineers, and trainmen on 337 American railways walked out today. Business and industry throughout the country are faced with an immediate shutdown owing to the lack of rail transport. The strike of
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  • 66 1 JERUSALEM, Thurs. A CLASH between members of a British airborne unit and Jewish soldiers from another regiment took place at Beit Nabala near the Jewish city of Tel Aviv. Preliminary inquiries show that the disturbance arose through remarks which were regarded as insulting directed at the
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  • 45 1 Killear n's Son Married Ihe bride, Miss Nadine Ptichei and her father Vice-Admiral C H Pilcher R N ißetd.) DSO. leave for her wedding at St. Pauls. Kni^htsbridne. with (apt The Hon. liatnm Tampson, Scots Guards, son of Lord Kill earn, Special Commissioner, Souti.-East Asia.
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  • 473 2  -  William Glover, A.P. Writer. By UNITED bTAf ES passenger and cargo ship operators hope to obtain a greater portion of the world's sea-iyme commerce than they have carried for many decades. I heir chances of fulfilling this desire are based to a large extent on
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  • 66 2 Thousands of young trees are being. ordered to make London a city of boulevards. Plans have been drawn up to speed the scheme for improving London although the Councils, have not yet definitely decided what layout should be adopted. A Ministry of Town and
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  • 1138 2 this year and the percentage of flour extracted from wheat was raised as a result of world-wide shortages. Moreover, m view of the prolonged rationing of clothes and the severe wartime cut m the production Of household goods, there is now an enormous
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  • 76 2 Women Make News MRS GROMYKO. Ibe Russian Ambassador's wif? Wi Andrei Gromyko is an interested spectator at the sessions I*NO I>urin* a conversation with Gene al Andrcj Shapar at the Serority Council meeting she points out the d« Kates' table. Ber hushaiid heads the drlecatitm fus?d to discos* the Persia
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 481 2 SINGAPORE TONIGnt-S HIGHLMJHTS teO*M B I rti. 10 PJn Favourite,. U3op r X.v. pm. on* 6.3* to 11 pm on 125 of Varieties, 10.30 p.m. "Music m the today's papers Shi;:mal"s As'^or metres from mmn to Iml on ins Art *e Shaw Style". Down mcj/sec. m 61 metre band and
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  • 177 3 HENLEY AGAIN. Picture shows the Henley Open Challenge Cup race in progress on the Thames. Boat in the foreground is the prototype of the "Firefly" class, built of moulded ply by the Fairey Marine Company, and mailed at Henley by Lt. Charles Curry, RNVR. BACKHAND SHOT
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    • 531 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MAY 24. 1946 II U a far ciy from those prewar days when cv n Mr. Baldwin pretended to oelive m the League oi Nations uni that! ri-jht m itself was mignt. Today there are f?w illusions I amor.;* the pcopl°s oi" the world tha:
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    • 1762 4 By C> ril Falls, leading British military writer. THE Seventeenth Indian Division was engaged m fighting the Japanese for a longer period than any other three-and-a-half years, not counting breaks for training and reorganisation. It fought them when they were m very great
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    • 463 4 RADIO SEAC TO TELEVISION. An old friend of listeners to wireless programmes out here has just been chosen from 118 applicants to be temporary announcer for the BBC Television Services .at Alexandra Palace. He is 28-year-old McDonald Hobley, known to Far Eastern listeners as "Mac," who was
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    • 66 4 1. How long have street traffic 5 lights bc?n in use? 2. Why is German white wiiic I called "Ho-k"'? s 3. What is "Mediae"? 4. A fathom is <a* 2, (b) 6 <c> e 15. <d) 24 feet. Which is Vori rect? o 5. It is estimated that
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    • 7 4 Kindr>c«s 1% fh* v.--which virtue i
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      56 5 i,p ai jonore rwnru yi-stcrday when Maliys he!,| a prof st rally against the Milaviui >n and made an address to visiting M.P.'s. Caot. LI). Gammans (cent c) and Lt-C'ol D II. Rees Williams. Sir Theodore Adams is at extreme ri'iiit Pato Aivang bin Omar %peaKini,' at the
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    • 44 5 .dv who sat for the don Chamber of Coavnerce tpd autumn 1941 cxama:e asked to ciM at their -•the schools lor their results \r ;ficat?s If passed. Canwhusp schools are not v and private canrtirt a NmN call at the Educaon < >**
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    • 520 5 White-collar workers say salaries 100 small Free Press Reporter J|IGH salaries paid by all branches of the Services, lucrative monthly incomes from trading, the handsome dividends from pedalling a trishaw These are some of the reasons why Singapore Government heads and civilian employers are finding:
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    • 342 5 'Down With Union Malay Rally Free Pre.^s Reporter JALAYS of Johore staged a protest rreeting and presented I Bfl address to visiting British M.P.s., Capt. L. D. Gama and Lt. Col. D. R. Rees-Williams, yesterday, at Johore •:u. Bearing slogans such as "Down with the Malayan Kong Live the Malays"
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    • 119 5 Retained Stolen Money Charge Alleged to have retained property which they knew or had reason to believe to be the proceeds of a robbery, a Chinese woman, Lee Ah Hens, a Eurasian, Mabel Santa Maria, and a Malay, Rose Mariyam, had the charges explained to them before Mr. L. C.
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    • 125 5 S.E. ASIA TEXTILE WINDFALL ANE hundred million yards of textiles may be forthcoming from Japan fcr South-East Asia countries and, if so, they would be drawn from old stocks m Japan. sa d Lord Killearn. Special Commissioner m South-East Asia, speaking at a Press conference m Singapore. Lord Killer, rn
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    • 132 5 A SPECIAL model housing scheme with designs and models of dwellings suitable for Malaya will be a feature of the 17th Malayan Exhibition which Is to be held m Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 3. 4 and 5. Schedules for the competitive sections including agriculture, horticulture, local indvstrtes.
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    • 197 5 PENANG PORT TALKS Free Presj Correspondent P^ANS are now being formulated m preparation for the restoration of Pena/ig to a iree por!' status. A meeting of repir.-/ ntatives of three local chambers of commerce h^s been railed by the Assistant Comp f roller cf Customs, Penang, m order to discuss
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    • 129 5 DESERVING his defence, Manikam Tanapathy, Superintendent of the Outram Road prison during the Japanese occupation, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the next Assizes by Mr. H. A. Forrer In the Seventh Police Court, The charges framed against Tanapathy are: (1) That you on May 28,
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    • 225 5 rIE importance of growing more food m Malaya could not be over-emphasized, said Lord Killearn the Special Commissioner m South-East Asia. "I sometimes wonder," he said, 'whether with the capitulation of the enemy, there has not been a sort of feeling that the government which
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    • 293 5 MORE RICE MAY GO TO MALAYA P.E pcscioiliiy of an inc;vas. of 20 per cent, m the allo cation of rice for Malaya wac mentioned by Lord Kilkvmi j Special Coinmissior.er in < South-East Asia, at a pres? conference m Singapore yes terday. The rice situat on. said Lord Killearn,
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    • 54 5 The Supreme Allied < ommander, South east Asia, Admiral Lord ouis Mountbaitcn will lea*, c Changi airfifld on the evoring of l»'ur*c:a.v. May 30 to prtx ecu to London to atteid the Viitory Parade on June 8. Lieut. Gen Sir Montagu Stopford will assume tlie ui;ties of
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    • 148 5 STATING tna' Aw Boon Uat. described as ;h. MUMftaf par f n°r of Chop Hop 800 of T< i lok Aver Street. h3d made r. big maisi'ijaf prollt from tho tl Mr. T. L. Tan, m thr» Second Disiict Court, yesterd^v Mic.i him $1.0(»9 or one
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    • Article, Illustration
      25 5 Capt The Hon. C>raharii Lampson. Scots Guprds son of lord Killearn. Special Commissioner m South East Asia, pictured with his b ije Mi>, Nadine Pilohf.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • 636 6  - Speed Is Services Ne w Wa tch word L Cpl. R. Scott. By THE enterprise of a recently demobbed soldier, m setting up a mobile blacksmith's shop to do runping repairs for farmers m sparsely-populated districts shows what can be done when Army ideas are adapted for civvy-street. The Army
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    • 786 6 (By Prof. F.A.E. Crew, recently Director of Medical Research at the War Office m an interview). THE -best thing that happened to Britain m the war was the "invasion" by Dominion and Allied troops and their inter-marriage with British women. It is nonsense
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    • 300 6 JUDGE SPEAKS OUT MOST outspoken judge of our time is 74-year-old Mr. Justice Charles. Following m the tradition of Avory and Darling, his remarks from the Bench are invariably crystal clear, often unpalatable to their subjects. In the Norma Dawn ring case recently he said: 'I consider Miss Dawn is
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    • 56 6 THIRD OF TROOPS H AVE LEFT N.E.I. About a third of the British and Indian troons m the N.E.I. have been withdrawn, said Mr. Frederick Bellenger Financial Secretary to the War Office m reply te a question m the House of Commons yesterday The remaining two-thirds, he said, were m
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    • 37 6 Five British planes yesterday evacuated the first batch of 203 civilian internees from the internment camp at Soerakarta, central Java, the Netherlands Ne*- S i g C b e P° rted says Renter from Batavia.
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    • 90 6 u£ n A menc a since 1318 m this country since 1926, though they were not generally adopt?d In London until 1931. 2. Hock, which used to ta called "Hockamore." is a corruption of the German Hock-heimer w?ne° f b9St brands of Rtotntali 3. Medloc 'Mediterrfnean Lines of
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    • 144 6 MILLIONS QUIT SHIP BUILDING BOURNEMOUTH, Wed. TTHE Minister of Labour. Mr. 1 George Isaacs, speaking yesterday at the annual meeting of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions at Bournemouth, said that by tne I end of this year we should have reduced the numbers engaged m shipbuilding and engineering
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    • 38 6 Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and Poland have not yet replied to invitations to the London Victory Parade, says Reuter from London am y m£ J y be the onl y three Allied countries not represent
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    • 41 6 Sisters of Merry help to sow potatoes for next vrars food for the Germans. The picture shows a nun sharin; her basnet full of seed potatoes rith a German woman, at a foou production centre near Vunster.
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    • 94 6 A colonel, who during the war devised the equipment used by fighter planes to contact eneniv aircraft and who is now Assistant Military Attache m Paris, has successfully appealed against a sentence of four months Imprisonment before the London Sessions Appeals Committee, says Reuter from London.
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    • 165 6 A 3 U A unn A daily 5 shows ALn AMbK A 11. 1 30, 4, 630 915 SIGNIFICANT: 3 midnight premiere honours: PUBLIC RECEPTION: packed houses every show! (We're still tr>ing to keep our roof down ITS LOVE-TiIINDER! PRINCESS TAHI.% (who kills merely by her eyes* GAVE HER LOVE
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  • SPORTS PAGE
    • 284 7 ENGLISH R.L. TOURISTS IN TEMPER Lr.gllsh Rugby League .;..> > have siarteci tu.i; urn m a temper, they reached Sydney, ra a tired, travel-worn :l team, after a 500-miles train n Australia. stead of the compliex^nncies between visitors customary on isions. the folmarka were flung about. Crockfard, English Rugby C
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    • Article, Illustration
      67 7 A penally Roal st-orcd a lew minutes before the »*nd save tVakefield Trinity victory over Wigan by 13 pom's to 1^ m the Kugby I^ai;ue C'hallj nge Cup Finai played at Wembley on May 4. These pictures show Mr. Clein 1 at Attlee, the Prime Minister, shaking
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    • 227 7 SARWATE GETS HAT-TRICK AT EDINBURGH EDINBURGH, Thurs. CENSATIONAL bowling, including a hat-trick by J C. S. Sarwate, enabled Irdia to bring off a surprise win here today, Scotland being skittled twice and being beaten by an innings and 56 runs. Sarwate, who mixed his leg breaks am; off spinner? m
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      28 7 Tami MauricUo, ti*e can teavvueifcht wlu» last Friday aight knocked -out Bruce Woo irock. trie Br.ii^b heavyweight eban»»ioi». iti fifth round of their fight at Madison Square Garden.
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    • 252 7 INDIANS— Ist INNINGS Merchant Ibw McKenna 10 Mu.vtaq AH c Mortimer b HoJgp 2C Modi c Uergle b McKenna 0 Harare c Hodge b M/-Kenna 101 Gul .Aloha rone d c Clark b Kirkol 21 lla'ecr c Clark b NI hoi Z9 Sohoni c Clark b McKenna 2 Parwate
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    • 367 7 BRITAIN MUST BUILD NEW DAVIS CUP TEAM gRITISH TENNIS, prestige suffered an eclipse at the handfl of France m the first round cf the Davis c up, when i f became very obvious that Tv tain needs \o start building neu te^ms for the fulure. Wilting In the News Chronicle
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    • 43 7 LONDON. Thurs. The Indian cricketers are broadcasting personal greetings to relatives on the 8.8 C. Eastern Service at 4.45 p.m. GMT on Sunday. It is noped ali members of the team will bo able to speak during the 15-minute broadcasting.- Renter
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    • 473 7 ENGLAND'S international sower standard did not show up m a favourable light m Paris last Sunday when Prance won rather more handsomely than the margin of two goals u> one would suggest. A week earlier at Stamford Bridge, England scored Tour goals m 25 minutes
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    • 363 7 JESSE PYE IN BIG TRANSFER ENGLAND insi'ie- forward Jess?* Pye, and his Nott< County team mate, the Insh full back. Patrick Ratfiiffp, have been transferred to Wolvcrhampton nderers at a fee believed to be S 00. ihe star-finding genius 01 Ma.^or Frank Buckl^v shorn m his ability to discern a
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORT
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      24 8 The Lake District. A vie-.v of Grasmere from Loughrigg Fell, a viewpoint which inspired some of Lakeland's famous poets m thrir first passages.
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    • 357 8 TRENCHARD HAS ARMY PLAN 'PARSONS SOULD BE SOLDIERS ERST' WESTMINSTER Thursday. THE suggestion that curates, civil servants and numbers of the legal and medical professions would be better equip ped for their work if before taking up their posts they had the additional qualification of three cr four years m
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    • 104 8 TERRIBLE THINGS TO COME WASHINGTON. Thurs. AMERICA has a weapon more deadly than the atomic bomb, Albert Thomas. Democrat, Texas, told the House of Representatives today. He gave no indication what it was but hinted that it had been developed m the United States Navy's Bureau of Medi'ine and Surgciy.
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    • 305 8 Romany Honeymoon For Brig's Daughter BRAINTREE. ESSEX, Thursday. MISS EDITH HELEN HUME HENDERSON, of Martin's Hall, Stebbing, near Braintree, Ess:x, on'.y daugh'ei ci" the late Brigadier M. Hume Henderson, formerly of Sandhurst and the Indian army, is taking "a real romany bx neymoon" following her marriage to her gardener, Arthur
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    • 77 8 LONDON, Wed— An R A.M.C deserter., William Ratcliffe, aged 26, posed m Hull as Norman Raymond Annett, an American soldier, claiming to have landed m this country from a U.S. Army plane to marry a British girl only to find that she was married. Relatives of the
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    • 34 8 The Australian Government is sending a judge to Batavia to investigate the murder of the three Australian war crimes investigators last month near Buitenzorg hill station, south of Batavia says Reuter.
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    • 268 8 BASES PLAN HALTS TALKS CAIRO. Thurs. THE Anglo-Egyptian treaty re- vision talks have been temporarily suspended while the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, is consulted on the disputed clause m the new treaty on the use by Britain of bases m Egypt if there is a "threat of war."
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    • 33 8 The Ministry of Food has granted private importers !n the United Kingdom licences to import China tea says from London The imports will be distributed under normal tea rationing
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    • 158 8 ANNOUNCEMENT T/ie Aw>ti.i:ian Government C >mmisrijner. M CUu.ie MMMJ, ha^ no 1 establish .d his office In the L'nion Buildirg. Cjl.icr Quay. Te*np rarv ret mmodation is located m Rj m E? on the third f.oo.- and te ephrne r.umt)?rs are 0823 ar d 382. All en.vi is en ma
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    • 33 8 NOTICE. Ministry of Supply Tin Ore Buying Agency Conditions governing the purchase of metallic tin will be advised en application to Head Ore Buyer, Tin Ore Buying Agency, 3 Market Street, Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 235 8 ENTERTAINMENTS CAPACITY HOUSES ENTHRALLED 3Y~ THIS. ONE OF THE YEAR'S OUTSTANDING FEATURES! IT'S DRAMA jP'SPB"vL/^'?*i} AT IT'S HEIGHT* Sig^jjujAfeßiguJl ACTION iOO^.o^a— EL KHOBAR S S, B^ TO th, d««.t th, Is splendid QvV— WCTUW CAN OfMt %V^ >#C! I^^^. «*O«f ACTION Ct AM v,; I II I- JH K^mA AOVfNTUM
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