The Singapore Free Press, 28 May 1946

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    Masthead
    20 1 The Singapore Free Press TH£ OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1946. r.;V3. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    RUSSIANS CUT THE V-PARADE
    397 1 RUSSIANS CUT THE V-PARADE LONDON, Mon. COVIET Russia, which yesterday, the fourth anniyersary of the Anglo-Soviet Alliance, accused Britain 1 nd tkf U.S of trying to impose their will on the Soviet Unior. by pressure, threats and intimidation," has decided not to send a Soviet contingent to London for the
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    JAP SWORDS AT WEDDING
    40 1 JAP SWORDS AT WEDDING o. luer (of the 16th Light Cavalry) four an archway or Japanese swords at the wedding of Lt -Col RN. Walker. Deputy Commissioner, Perak, South and Loveina M earns of the Australian Red Cross at Ipoh.
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    Electric Car Does 50 mph
    85 1 A LEADING British motor manufacturing company, working with an elec rical (n?ine?rins firm, has been ra-rjin- out experiments with an electric car, states the "Da ly Telegraph" On a test the veHrle has done 50 mil*s P"r hour. Ip to present the excessive we eht
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    NEW PRICES FOR WHISKY AND BEER
    214 1 NEW PRICES FOR WHISKY AND BEER THE increases in duty on drinks in Singapore are not all 100 per cent rises. The duty for beer, imported and locally manufactured, has been increased by 33.1 3 per cent. This brings the retail price for beer to 65 cents for a pint
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    MRS TCHENG SI PO DENIES ALL
    69 1 PEIPINO. Mon. MADAME, Tcheng Si Po, reported mother of octuoiets. today angrily denied the rumour and accused villagers for spreading "garbled old wives tales." Madame Tcheng, who lives in a village eight miles south of Peiping. said the story was based on mysterious rumours
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    U.S Coal miners defy Truman
    270 1 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. FOUR hundred thousand soft coal miners have quit work in Government -operated coal mines today in a challenge io the Truman administration. These miners have ignored the Government's request to resume work after the expiry of their fortnight's strike truce at midnight on
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    FIRST LORD TAKES COLOMBO 'ROUNDS'
    34 1 The First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. A. V. Alexander^ is due to Day a short visit to Colombo today to see ships and naval establishment here says Reuter.
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    JANE IS ON PARADE TODAY
    55 1 JANE IS ON PARADE TODAY JANE, the world's most famous newspaper strip girl, joins the Singapore Free Press today. Old SEAC Newspaper readers will find Jane s adventures contirue where she left off when SEAC closed down; new Jane tans can catch up by reading the story with today's strip
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    SIR BEN RESIGNS
    180 1 LONDON. Mon. CIR Ben Smith resigned today as Minister of Food for Great Britain. This is the first Cabinet change In the Labour Government. No. 10 Downing Street la*er anounced that John Strachcy, Parliamentary Under-Secretary ol State for Air, has been appointed to succeed Sir Ben. The
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    UK CALL TO END STEEL MONOPOLY
    59 1 Mr. John Wilmot, British Supply Minister, descrioed Britain's iron and steel industry as a "monopoly with a veneeance" and outlined a broad programme of nationalization or some sections, in the House of Commons yesterday. He said that iron foundries manufacturing iron castings would in
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    7 KILLED, 65 HURT IN INDIA RIOT
    40 1 Seven people have been killed, 65 injured and 176 arrested at Bareilly, United Provinces since Friday night, when disturbances broke out between two groups, says Reuter. In Mlahabbd three were killed In disturbances.
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    NEW ANTI-FAMINE COUNCIL
    201 1 WASHINGTON, Tues. A GLOBAL machinery to fight world starvation for the next 18 months has neared completion at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference. The 23-nation meeting is expected to approve a proposal for the rrw agency "International Emergency Food Council"— which would include all
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    French Raid Siam Towns
    416 1 BANGKOK, Tues. THREE French raids on Siamese territory from Indo--1 china in as many days were reported by the Siamese Government today and uneasiness was still apparent in the Mekong River border after a night of sporadic fighting. A Siamese Government communique said that F rciu-h
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    TWO MORE GI. BABIES DIE
    39 1 Deaths of two more babies which crossed the Atlantic in the GI. bride ship Zebulaon Vance has raised to te number of babies after the crossing to nine, says A. P. from New York.
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    STEVEDORES STRIKE IN LONDON
    129 1 LONDON Mon. TWO thousand stevedores from 1 three London docks. Surrey, Millwall and Royal Albert, were on strike tonight for trie right which they claim to nominate their sons to Join them at the docks as they did before the war. Earlier today many of them
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    ROXAS MURDER PLOT REPORT
    79 1 A plot to assassinate the Pres! dent-elect, Mr. Manuel Roxas" was reported today by a qualified source who declined tVu use of his name. The informant said that 75 picked men from Nueva Clja. Tarlac and Pampanga provinces were in Manila and. while he did not
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • Article
      The Mine Detector In Peace
      256 2 Thousands of portable mine detectors— the type used by Army sappers from £11 Alamein onwards are to be made for peacetime uses ranging from 6olving murders to sawinej uood. Mr. Stanley West, 36-year-old Londoner awarded the M.B.E. five years ago for inventing the detector, has
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      23 2 Crawford and tosesjoan. by the way, won the 1945 Oscar as the best actress of the year for her performance in "Mildred Pierce."
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      WOMEN BALE OUT
      184 2 •TWENTY-SIX modern "mer- chant-adventurers," most of whom were women and children, landed in Capetown recently, woebegone and disillusioned. They left Falmouth in March after paying £175 for the privilege of "sharing-the-work and shar-in^-the-expenscs" of the 250-ton motor-yacht Merasheen on her cruise to the Cape. r *^ey arrived
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      OPERATIOIN 'LUNG'
      37 2 A New Zealand boy with an iron screw embedded in his lung left New Orleans on the last leg of a 10,000 mile boat and plane journey to Philadelphia lor a deMcate operation, says A.P.
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      'I Was A News Boy'-It Did Me Good
      436 2  - 'I Was A News Boy'It Did Me Good TREVOR ALLEN BY MANY parents wonder: Is it good for my boy to go delivering newspapers or do other jobs out of school hours? Will it harm his health, his schooling? At twelve I was a newsboy mornings, evenings, Sundays and it
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      IMPORTANT WORK OF OUR WEATHER MEN
      706 2  -  SIR NELSON JOHNSON BY Director Of Britain 's Meteorological Office. T HAVE always enjoyed the "Voyage of the 1 Beagle" by Charles Darwin, with its brilliant description? of strange animals and plants which he observed during his 1831-1836 voyage, but for the student of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      123 2 fH'FmS! 91 saml «S f^ UneS flt 83 Dm N WS IL4O P m From Todays pipe™ S^ Merr^-R^nd 12 5 lln Musical UIC A l?£J?jr ;8 TONIGHT'S HIGHLIGHTS MAY 2B "*&£*s£. £J? 5.3 .j. r in Hokkien at 1 p.m. In Cantonese s A Post P m Hawaiian Music,
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      GERMANY STARTS TO GOVERN HERSELF
      206 3 WHEN the war against Germany ended in Europe the Allies found that all forms of national and provincial government had been completely disrupted. Now, though Germany is suffering from terrible food shortages and lack of accommodation, her local government system is recovering under Allied guidance.
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. MAY 28 1946.
      499 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. MAY 28 1946. yE3TERUAY we demons. rated how the Services pay scales lor derka exceeded thos? of the Government ani promised exar;pi?s of ho-v clerical workers have been Umpt^d by higher v from their civilian jobs. We abo p:cm'.«rd to show how "up grading" served
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      GUINEA-PIG TOWN DOES NOT WANT TO BE MODERN
      1061 4  -  Muriel Penn By CTKVENAGE, chosen to become the first of the satellite towns which the British Government is planning to develop round London simultaneously wiih the reconstruction and replanning of the capital, has become the centre of a vigorous ba^tlo. ii the
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      21 Meals Per Week
      74 4 LONDON, Mon. THERE is no reason why a family of two adults can't eat 21 meals a week on present British food rations, says the Ministry of Food. The Ministry has worked out a week's menu, based on rations available in March 1946, to prove its
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      FAITH
      22 4 Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it oe right Proverbs, 20, 11.
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      What they are eating in U.S.
      528 4 THF menu of one of the smaller New York restaurants is interesting reading to us in Malaya. To tlie ration-pinched it looks like a document from another world as indeed it is. It measures 15 l Ins b\ Mifrlni that is the breadth of
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      QUIZ
      41 4 Where did Monronism ori^i_ nate? What is a sobriquet? What are tortillas? What la Adam's ole? What is a pcrigrirition? By whom were the following loved: »a> The Queen or Sheba, <b> E.rvdice. <c^ Evar spline? 'Answers in na?e d.)
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      380 4 I THE OPTIMIST Telephone Ini quiries to Grpen Line coaches ■have averaged 500 a day since the summer weather bc^an back home. Among those on a recent day was one from a woman who asked the fare from London to jTunbridge Wells. When told that it was
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      TIME MOVES ON
      208 4 TIME MOVES ON WHEN the Ri tory moves iceux Castle in Bi clear of London the glare of H change will r £500,000. This outlay c. this fifteenth cent i and the buildings up in its parkland a gilt-caged alone, which is c by the Observa'o brings in about I
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      Changing Britain
      21 4 Changing Britain Villages, such as this one will soon be changed to meet the times, if Britain's plan have their way
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      NEW MINIMUM WAGE LEVEL FOR MALAYA?
      189 5 NEW MINIMUM WAGE LEVEL FOR MALAYA? ANEW nvnimum wage level which would be higher tha.i he 1941 level, was referred to by ;i"r. C. J. Pyke, fcconoAdviser. Malayan Union and Singapore, when he dised economic questions in Singapore, yesterday. Announcing that an economic urvey would be started almost immediately in
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      Untitled
      27 5 ■ut^nant Lee Mill of Wellington, New Zealand, who is an Amy official photographer, pictured at his wedding in London to Miss Margerita Wernham of Mile End, London.
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      U.K. Exports To Malaya
      116 5 London, Tues At- TER a slow s'art the export trade from the l'.K. to the lai East has lately been developing; most of the merchandse is being sent to the principal Malayan ports While there is ample room for a big increase, the volume of the
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      DOLLARLOAN INTEREST
      157 5 information has be*a re- ceived iron the Colonial Office. London, to the effect that arrangements have been made for ent interest due on Malayan Government dollar loans to be paid in Malaya as from April 1. Holders of these loans, who have registered their claims in this respect
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      Guard On Hurt Charge
      74 5 An In -lian guard. D. Jayapathama, 23, vho is alleged to have shot a Chinese in the leg last Saturday morning behind a godown in the Singapore Harbour Board area, had a charge of causing grievous hurt explained to him in the Third Police Court before
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      RE-TRIAL ORDERED
      46 5 The re-trial of an Indian police sergeant who was sentenced to death by the British Military Court in Sandakan, for the alleged shooting of five persons following the order of Japanese authoritlos in Borneo during the occupation. will be held next week in Sandakan.
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      'MALAYA RENT IN HALF'
      257 5 'MALAYA RENT IN HALF' (Free Press Reporter) Speaking at a dinner in the Astana at Kuala Kangsar, last night, at which all the Malay rulers were present, Capt. L. D. j Gammans MP. said "Malaya is j rent by political diflerences and no one can say how deep those dilferences
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      WIFE'S DRESS WAS CLUE
      169 5 A PARTY of Singapore hospital nurses having a holiday at Labrador Villa in Pasir Panjang towards the end of last month woke up one morning to find some of their belongings which included a gramophone, a founti^n pen and clothing missing. some days afterwards, one of
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      "I SHOT WANTY,' JAP CAMP CHIEF SAYS
      302 5 S IyiAJOR Mitsutani, commarder of a group of British. Australian, Dutch and American FoWs, on the eiam-Buima railway, yesterday told fie War Crimes Tribunal, of how and why he shot Fusilier L.W. Want) on New Year's Eve, 1944 Mitsutani faces charges of illtreatment
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      PRESENTATION TOMORROW
      32 5 PRESENTATION TOMORROW The ceremony in which Admiral Mountbatten will present the historic Union Jack and a Japanese field gun to the colony of Singapore, tak« s place tomorrow outside the Municipal buildind.
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      SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY INQUIRY
      485 5 Need For Free Education In Malaya A COMMISSION is to be appointed to Malaya to con- sider the Question of establishing a university in Singapore, said Mr. H. R. Cheeseman, Director of Education, Malayan Union, and formerly Director of Education, S.S. and F.M.S., in an interview yesterday,
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      200 OLD MALAYANS RETURNING
      255 5 200 OLD MALAYANS RETURNING LIVERPOOL, Tuts. 11/liEN the veteran ex-Gor-m man liner "impress of Australia 9 left Liverpool tocay with 70'J passengers ior Colombo and Singapore, she carried over 200 British Malayan planters and business ncn who, with their families, had to flee befcre the Japanese advance on the Ma!
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      PALESTINE POLICE
      25 5 Cne-third of Palestine's total expenditure next year will be used for the police force out of a total estimated expenditure of €20,484.216, says
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      'Rubber Surplus In Two Years'
      258 5 'Rubber Surplus In Two Years' IN the next two years the world will produce twice as much natural and synthetic rubber as it can consume. It, there fore means that if natural rubber is to maintain its place its quality and price must be competitive. Taking a long term view
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      PRINCE ABDICATES
      52 5 The British Crown rcpresen. tative announced yesteroay the abdication of Sir Narcndra Shah, the Maharajah of Tehri (Garhwal), effective from today due to ill health. He will be succeeded by his son, Tica Manavendra Shah. The state has a population of 397,000 and an area of 4,516 square
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      PERCIVAL ON FALL OF SINGAPORE
      61 5 *pHE fall of Sintrapore is explained by Lieut-Gener-al A. E. Pereival. uho was General Officer Commanding, Malaya, in despatches to be prblished soon. His account of the Malayan campaign up to the fall of Singapore on February 15. 1942, will apnrar in the London Gazette
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      63 5 ItAFFUS COLLEGE SINGAPORE. Preliminarv arrangements a^e being I VkK re-c;p» nin^ ol Raffles All siudents attd Uing the ihf 1D41— 194J academic t return to tho College >;ucnt., arj roq.:t Isd the under «?rr.rd ith- th<i: names, yar of study 1-191J. nature of s -holars'.TJp. U sf, and oijTstc taken.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      New Attitude To Sex Ban By Church
      303 6 A "CLEARER and bolder exposition of the nature and ii claims of Christian msrriaga" is urged by a cc 1 imittet cf the Church of Scotland as "the enly hope of real amendment" cf the attitude of young people toward sexual re-ia'-ions. It
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      3 TO DIE FOR POW MURDER
      76 6 The military tribunal in V/uppertal in the British zone has condemned to death three of 15 former members of Sonder Knommando Ernest," charged vith the murder of eight Tritish prisoners of war, the Eritish News Service in Germany said on Sunday, reports Reuter from
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      JANE JOINS UP TODAY
      119 6 TODAY JANE joins tho Singapore Free Press an.| carries en w Wt oT \vb n SEAC Services Newspap3r ended on 15 May. Jane nee-Jed a rest bemtman sh- was t en <nga?ed in the strenuous business of rannin a in the scantiest of gym shorts. Just
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      A TEN-POINT PLAN FOR BRITISH FILMS
      1253 6 A TEN-POINT PLAN FOR BRITISH FILMS By SYDNEY BpX— who made 'The Seventh Veil" independently of the big groups and has now become Mr. J.A. Rank's Number One producer BRITAIN has the chance to capture a lr.rge share or the world market todav because its films are, reel for reel
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      WHAT YOU CAN GET IN LONDON
      209 6 THERE are shortages of nearly all the good things of 1 in England, but in the "black market" a surprising number of things can be found by a person willing to pay prices and forget legality, wr,'es L. M. Hanna, A.P. con pondent. On
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      74 6 QUIZ Answers 1. New York. 1830. Headquarter now at Salt Late City. 2. A nickname, 3. Large Round Mexican cakes made of corn grair. 4. 4. Water. 5. A Wondering, 6. (a) Orphens, (c) Gabriel. EXQUISITENESS! You know the meaning but you don't see it. SO, TO SEE THE MEANING
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      44 6 'SSI' CATHAY OPENING TO-DAY 11 am 2 130— A 93) pm THOSE TWO CPAZY MEN OF THE SCREEN ARE IN TROUBLE AG AIM THEY'RE WOLVES IN SHEIK'S CLOTHING! h's thmlr funni+st yet! Preceded By faramount News: Victor Marches Through Ameri- General Eisenhower Takf' Salute
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      47 6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya /the old place NV fYI VIT makes You^^^H Wthat's queer/-^5 SsSi* f LOOKS QUITE i W V^ ■JJ ITHINK OF GEORGIE'S VH f DONT REMEMBER 1 BB^^^P^^ '^ERIE BY Mtr.HT I ANCIENT CHAPEL"^H| SWITCHING THE L/GHT (B T F
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      Admirals Meet Generals
      43 7 Admirals Meet Generals match between Adi anJ Generals, ivhk-h > be an annual fixture ur.s re\hed at CaaiHeatit Surrey. Well uar leadrrs took part. 1 -how Admiral of the 1 ord CtattMi, Rear- Sim lair Thorn ;on i..r (Jfneral W. Beach ■iIBS 'he tournament
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      MOTOR RACING
      51 7 > >t L T Indiana. Tues. picn Pucii Cara- the 50O.mile Memorial Day I eve:: though he canMercedes racing r.irope. American driver, bo was r~:eritlv ine motorcycle accident. I Caraceola his six- in car. Caraceola i the Thorpe car and to qualify in time which will take I
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      INDIANS WAITING SIGHT OF VECTORY AT LORDS
      242 7 INDIANS WAITING SIGHT OF VECTORY AT LORDS LONDON, Monday. on a rain -affected wicket, M.C.C. were skittled A out for 139 runs when they went in facing India's first innings score of 438 here today and following on, M.C.C. have lost three second innings wickets for 60. The Indians were,
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      SOMERSET WIN IN TWO DAYS
      179 7 County Cricket j LONDON, Mon. COMERSET scored a t\ o-day vic- tory by 56 runs over Notts today. Other close of play scores are: At Chesterfield. Derby 176 and 23 for 2; Kent 124 <Copson 5 for 26). At Brk Warwickshire 287. Gloucestershire 216 for
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      WOODCOCK ROSE TOO LATE TO BEAT THE COUNT
      427 7 WOODCOCK ROSE TOO LA TE TO BEAT THE COUNT ORUCE WOODCOCK, the British heavyweight champion, was knocked-out in the fifth round of hs fijrht with Ta*ni Mauriello, the American heavyweight, at Madison Square Garden on Friday. May 17. The knock-out came when Woodcock had a slight ioad over his opponent.
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      Opponents
      25 7 Mftsrietfo and Woodcocl. shaMn§, f-mils before »h» fiiht. *j*:i riello, standing on tlie stkl's, look taller. Actuals he is one ipch shorter than \\oo»3;o<k
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      BRITISH AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS
      324 7 BRITISH AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS BIRKDALE, Lancashire, Monday. EVERYTHING fa ready here for the opening of the first international golf championship to be played in Britain since the outbreak of war. Well over 200 amateur golfers are the outbreak of war. Well over 200 amateur golfers are ready for the
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      TABLE TENNIS
      131 7 The following will rep-esent the Chinese Swimming Club «n a friendly table tennis match cgainst the Y.M.C.A. a' the Tennis Pavilion. Bras Basab Road, tomorrow, starting 'at 7.30 pjn. Singles:— Chan Kwuk Ming. Wong Ton* Goon. Loke Seek Choone. Leong Yat Choon. Chen Tien Vine Doubles:— l oke
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      BELGIUM BEATS CHINA 3-2
      84 7 Brussels, Mom OELGILM entered the semi- final of the Davis Cup Kuicpcan division by a three-tno victory over China today and moves on to meet Sweden. The brilliant Chinese star, Kho Sin-kie, trounced both of Belgium's aces, Ph lippe Washer, who fell on Monday, and Jack
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      FORMER M.C.C. SECRETARY DIES
      92 7 LONDON, Sun— Sir Francis Eden Lacey. M.C.C. Secretary between 1898 and 1926, died at Warminster. Wiltshire, yesterday, aged 86. Flags were at halfmast at Lords today. Although a batsman of Rl ii\ pi 1 a former captain of Hampshire, Sir Francis will chiefly be remembered for
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      LIFELESS WICKETS HAVE FOILED BOWLERS
      211 7 LONDON, Mon. WITH cricket getting into its stride again and the return to County Championship play, many followers of the national same expected bowlers to come more into their own. They based this judgment on the less preparation of the mtches in the past years.
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      C.S.C. CRICKET
      61 7 The following will reoresent th< Ceylon Sports Club versus Tengah al--cricket at Tengah on Sunday: C. Thuraisinghgam capt.), K. Muthucumaru R. V. S. Sundram, U. W. de Silva, E. Doraisamy, S. Yogorajah, A. V'jevaretnam, P. van Rooycn, V. N Plllal, S. K. Sundram, W. Ponniah. Reserve, P. Q
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      SCOREBOARD
      202 7 INDIANS— Ist INNINGS Merchant e Hyatt b Dartes 14t Mu t:iq Ali b Gray 9 Modi b Wyatt 48 Amarnath b Wyatt Gal Mahomed c Griffith b Gray Ilazare b Marsham 91 Mankad e Eririch b Wyatt 11 Hindiekar e Bartlett b Hyatt 79 Sarwate not cut 19 Shinde
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      DERBY CALLOVER
      137 7 LONDON, Mon. The Victoria Club Derby call_ over today was as follows: 4 to 1 Happy Knight offered, 9 to 2 wanted; 6 to 1 Khaled taken ana offered; 17 to 2 Gulf Ctroum offered, 9 to 1 taken; 9 to 1 Fast-and-Fair offered, 19 to 2 tal:en:
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      AMERICAN GOLF
      65 7 ST. LOUIS, Tues.— Little Ben Hogan won the 43rd U.S. Western Open Golf Championship with a record 17 below par 271. He beat Lloyd Mangrum of Le? Angeles by four strokes to earn the U.S. $2,000 First Prize of the $10,000 tournament. This was Hogan 's sixth title
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      SOCCER TOURISTS
      44 7 PHILADELPHIA, Tues. The Liverpool Football Club defeated the Philadelphia All-stars, selected from the American and Na_ tional Teams, here 12 —0, for the fifth straight soccer win on the current tour in which first was taken by an English team since 1939.—
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORT
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      HOME...
      27 8 HOME l.iis is one of Britain's modern collieries in Lancashire, designed by Mr. J. H. Forshaw, Chief Architect and Housing consultant to t he Ministry of Health*
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      Bad News From England
      98 8 ACCORDING to many London publicans the weekend was the worst over for beer drinkers. Their explanation is that public bowses are fretting a quota basrd on martime drinking. They claim that country districts which "housed' scores of thousands of troops now have a surplus, but with
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      Forces Chiefs Will Lead V-Parade
      161 8 LONDON. Mon. •THE first to take the cheers of London's V-Dav crowds on June 8 will be the Supreme Allied Commanders and Chiefs of Staff. They w.'ll drive over a long route to be taken by a mechanised column They will reach the saluting base
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      TAKING OVER
      62 8 The Fifth British Brigade of the British Indian division of British Commonwealth Occupation Forces have taken over control of Shikoku from the 24th United States division, reports U.P. from Kure, Japan. NEW DUTCH GOVT Queen Wilhelmina has asked t>r Louis Joseph Maria Beel, leader of the Catholic People's
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      HALF A CROWN ENDS JAIL ESCAPE BID
      212 8 HALF A CROWN ENDS JAIL ESCAPE BID V > LONDON, Monday n/ILLIAM WRIGHT, 32-srear-dld convict who escaped from W a working party outside Parkhurct prison, Isle of Wight, on Friday, was caught' yesterday because be offered a half crown to two boys to get liim a bottle of lemonade. The
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      ANGLOPOLISH BALLET
      446 8 S pore First Night ENS A GARRISON THEATRE: Jan C.bcJs Anglo-Polish Ballet. One of the most encouraging features of Service entertainment in this war has been the popularity with the troops of what had previously been regarded as "high-brow" forms of amusement. In some quarters it is still
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      BEVIN WILL ANSWER MOLOTOV
      260 8 (Continued from pagt one) desirable tendencies in the preparation of peace treaties. "It has become clear that the 'peace offensive' in certain American circles expresses sometimes the plain desire to irrtnos? the will of two Powers on the Government of a third. "This proved to be
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      U.S. SLACKENS RULES FOR PRIVATES
      119 8 WASHINGTON, Mon. A SPECIAL army investigation board headed by LieuL-Gcneral Jimmy Doolittle has recommended revolutionary changes in U.S. Army regulations to correct abuses by officers and strengthen the rights of the enlisted men. The Board recommended that the army, 1 Provide a system for quick
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      COAL BOOMS IN POLAND
      88 8 WARSAW. Mon. MINING experts predicted today that coal production in Poland might reach 46,000.000 to 48,000,000 tons in 1946, making this country the largest coal-oroducing nation on the continent. Coal production has alreadv reached between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 tons a month, and is stiM growing. Poland
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      LESS COTTON
      33 8 The United States Agriculture Department estimated that 1945 world cotton crop will be 21,650,000 bales, the smallest since 192D-J4 and 12 per cent, below the 1944-43 figure, says U.P. from Washington.
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      'Monstrous'To Make Italy Pay
      120 8 'Monstrous' To Make Italy Pay LONDON Tues. THE Parliamentary Foreign Under-Secretary. Mr. Hector McNeil, last ni*ht endorsed a statement by a Conservative Member of Parliament that it would be "monstrous 1 if Italy is forced to pay reparations to Russia. Mr. McNeil told the Commons that the view expressed by
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      LITTLE HOPE NOW
      39 8 The United States War and Navy dcDartments announced yesterday that little or no possibility remains that men still listed as missing or missing in action during the war, will be found alive, says U from Washington.
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      £350 JOB BACK
      46 8 Arthur Bennett, former R.A.P. Squadron Leader, is to be given back his £350 a year job at the Urban Council Office. He will also be paid £233 compensation, foil awing an appeal by the Council against trie London Reinstatement Committee's orders, says Reuter.
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      WILL WOMEN QUIT INDIA?
      178 8 LONDON, Mon. SIR Waldron Smithers, Conservative, asked in the House of Commons today if arrangements would be made for the evacuation from India of all women and children immediately in view of *he recent decisions of the Brttish Government. Mr. Arthur H^clerson, Under Secretary for India,
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