The Singapore Free Press, 30 May 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE >. 1G,5!5. SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • 85 1 Army tilm I nit I'HOIO. Yesterday outside Singapore's Municipal Building Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander. South East Asia, presented a Japanese gun captured from the enemy m Burma and the Union Jack which was flying m Singapore at the time of the surrender, to
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  • 74 1 miERAN, Wed. pK!N( X Firouz of Persia to»«>nfirm?d to the United Press tl^at Hussein Ala had hern dismissed from his post 1 .1 representative to the United Nations Security Conn<i! "!le has been instructed by Premier to refrain from int°rference m Iran's affairs on Ihe I
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  • 131 1 GOVT REJECT PEERS' NO TO BILL LONDON, Wed. THE; Government has decided MM to accept the opposition ncnl passed by the House I last week which led 1 1 thr Governments defeat. amendment which was d by the opposition m the where the Conservatives nre a big majority would limit
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  • 507 1 April: $15 Million Exports, i $8 Million Rubber CIN(;APORE'S export trade has doubled between March and April. Exports m March totalled more than $7,790,000, m April, more than $15,837,000. Of the total exports m April, nearly $9,000,000 worth of 1/oods went to the United Kingdom,
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  • 234 1 NEW YORK, Thursday. TXR. TRYGVE LIE, Secretary-General of the UNO, has rTecided not to submit to the Security Council the Sterne c charges of the forcible seizure and holding of Siamese territory by French troops, the UNO spokesman said today. Dr. Lie has decided
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  • 59 1 LONDON. We*. THE Scottish National Party has decided that it would seek United Nations support m its demands for self-sovcrn-ment for Scotland. The party announced that it would ask Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (not a member of the United Nations) to present the demands, and
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  • 117 1 SUPREMO WILL NOT RETURN LONDON, Wed. A BRITISH Government spokesman said on Wednesday that Admiral Lord Lou s Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander m South Bast Asia, would not return to his J post after he comes to London for the June 8 Victory c »lebration. The spokesman said that the
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  • 111 1 MALAYANS' U.S. ASSETS UNFROZEN WASHINGTON, Wed. THE U.S. Treasury has removed wartime restrictions "freez- ing"' assets m the United States of residents of Malaya and Hong Kong. Treasury officials announced today. Special financial restriction imposed against Malaya and Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese occupation also were removed,
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  • 35 1 At least nine people were drowned and four others missing m flood waters which poured into homes and business establishments m New York and Pennsy- Ivania, says A. P. from New York.
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  • 70 1 Hong Kong, Thurs. TIGHT Japanese have arrived m Hong Kong afler a 1,500-mile voyage, taking more than five months, to surrender themselves to the British authorities. Starting from a port m the Sunda Straits, between Java and Sumatra last December, these Japanese intended to sail
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 1 One of Ihc women membe-s of the Royal house of Perak speaking at the Mala> rally held at Kuala Kan?sar on Tuesday. It was the first time m Malayan history that a woman made a public protest.
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  • 222 1 London, Wed. FNAL acceptances for the Derby and Oaks were announced today when 25 horses were left m for the Derby running at Epsom on June 5. and 12 for the Oaks runing at the iame course two days later. The probable runnrrs and jockeys for the
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  • 263 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE U.S. Government has settled the American soft coal strike on the terms demanded by the 400.0C0 striking members of the United Mine Workers Union. The miners will receive a pay increase of $1.85 (U.S.), a welfare fund financed by royalties on coal
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  • 85 1 NEW cigarette prices m Singapore have been announced, following the temporary imposition of increased import duties. The new prices lor 10 cigarettes are as follows Players. Gold Flake. Greys, Martins. Dv Maurier. Senior Service and Capstan 20 cents. Double Ace, Rough Rider and Wild Woodbine 15 cents
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  • 53 1 LONDON-KARACHI IN 21 HRS 40 MINS The British Overseas Airways Lancastrian which took oil from, Heath Row, London's new airport on Tuesday, on a 12.000--mile flight to Sydney. Australia, landed at Mauripur aerodrome. Karachi, on Wednesday having completed 4.640 miles of the journey m 24 hours and 40 minutes, says
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    • 9 1 jEWELLBBT cf CISTINCTION SUVA Jetrcllrr ,>i hard Road. >in;aporr
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  • 187 2 NZW YORK, Wed. URIC Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America, says that the Motion Picture Export Association, formed to help imrrl m film co-:-r\. n.es compete wi:h what he termed foreign monopolies, would expand its activities to Include 1C i-ounirics. Johns on.
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  • 103 2 FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE j all 1 the world have whistled and sunjj the words and musicof that popular folk sons. ••Frankie and Johnnie were Lovers.' Nou this son g has been used as the sub-.tance for a ballet These tw o pictures sh o v Walte; Crisham and Prudence Hyman
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  • 820 2 QUIT MAN IS BRITAIN'S SHOWMAN NO.1 I AM very proud of being a showman, and eepeciatiy 01 being the only theatrical manager iii V ngland who is generally referred to m that way. i am not 4 the well-known producer,' or the famous vaudeville impresario* or 'the musicalcomecty manager;' I
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  • 292 2 DLTRO; m history hav e so many people a i war.ted new automobUes, and never has States automobile industry fcund making cars i At present requirements for automobiles are nY than the number of cars the industry will be abk m the
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  • 147 2 THE decision to date "Siage Door Canteen/ m Piccadilly London, within the next few months, wUI occasion keen re- Rr^L ari i Ong nearly two million British, America and Allied Ser- vicemen and women who have n il* the past two pass- h?,h th n? Ugh
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    12 2 "It so happens. Mr. Penrod. that I can see right ihrou
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  • 111 2 'NO MORE SLAVERY' WOMEN WOMEN will nev ff slaves oi t th" washtubs In tins militant women's wctton of tl fttfld Enginerr;:iy r conference i recenUf by passta sc;tin« out* the 11 bo retained In th tiineerins 1 d Mr F. C Ooun< U was prepared to itai tice systrm
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    • 347 2 Bri Colonv^S £t.«5Se% EF*££L£ 845 am The Robinson family. Theatre Music. D.30 p.m ITMA. 10 RED NtIUORK from noon to 450 to ?5 n n p.m. Appointment with Fear, 10 30 I p.m. and t;.30 to 11 p m on SB 7 30 P- 711 Ivlusical Theatre of the pm.
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  • 124 3 Y;ie Coiciir Tarty consisting of COionel IVi'd n I t'.vn officers of the Cameronians hear the Union Jack irl> Municipal Euilding. Admiral Lord Leu's Mountbatlen unveils the captured Japanese gun wh!ch he presented to ihe people of Singapore at yesterday's ceremony. l.v. 'I'he Govjincr of
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  • 497 4 Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1946. jyjß. C. J. PYKE, economic adviser to Singapore and the Malayan Union, announcing that an economic survey is to be made of Malaya, contemplates a national minimum wage. Mr Pyke is right to say that the first thin?; before attempting to fix a
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  • 1169 4 DETURNING to Malaya after an absence of four years, I notice a number of things wrong which I feel sure could have been remedied since September, 1945, .granted a little knowledge, forethought, simple planning and equally simple legislation. Sanitation is worse* than I have ever
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  • 203 4 avoiding diplomatic rep^russio™ This habit has now spread to the A"Y'<?n Senate where jt has er i y n by fllibust ers m the Loan debate Senator his arrival duly read it to a' but at the ™al a t C here° t"^ comment whatever on th
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  • 48 4 I "Snoring seems to *e on° of the perils of peace.' toftd fie the Old Bailfv. Mndin« over James Henry Lovett 67 an engineer with 21 Mrs ri service who "succumbf< to t^e aggravation" O f a fellow lodgeri snores and hit him.-
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  • 491 4 By BILL McNAUGHT N^rVTn'r a e b^ illni »S to know where we «Uad s. The con/Idem* la not mis-' piacea. Britain can take it as she tea proved time and time again :>ne is apparently a very big camel ijlth a very
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  • 131 4 SNOOPER FOR DUSTBINS JME British Mil Pood has starts hunt lor bread Enforcement officer 1 Go into ifct and restaurants to see it is served to custcnw who have not asked f.. 2. Inspect hon dustbins. Col. O. M. Larx dinsional food officer w this information af: hf had icld
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  • 34 4 In ballot c Pirouette 0 What il a :>:..:• What have the common: <a' c< Halle v te\ He* Is it possible tx> What is a inn What Is a trape/ < Answers :n P..
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  • 20 4 Now there arc dm rifts, but the s;» Ind the-e are di 4 tdministralio ame Lor. l 1 Corinin:
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    • 31 4 Acknowledged to serve the bist food m town. Luncheons a specialty. Tel. 724*. SAVOY RESTAURANT BAR Arcade Building, Colly er Quay, Singapore. Quiet confenial atmosphere imported drinks efficient service conveniently situated.
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  • 453 5 MacMicnaelism must be buried- Gammans Free Press Reporter KUALA KANGSAR, We<L SUGGESTION that all the Mac Michael treaties should Ik scraped and a new treaty drawn up was rcade by Capt. L, D. Gammans, visiting British MJ\, at the com Itision of the discussions with
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  • 179 5 Utter Sincerity Of Malays Stressed i ree Praa Reporter KUALA KANGSAR. Wedr.t'saay. ive intenri w today, Sir Thccdoie Adams, who Capt. L. D. Gammans and Lieut. C.I. r tcur o! Malaya, gave mo his impre*i rr.os: waa the s and the m the c insult to know la deeply mi
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  • 30 5 BATAVIA. Wed. A DdU^i CSWernment survey baa revealed that Netherlands Indies tin mines cannot return to pre-war capacity operation before 1948, it is announced here. A. P.
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  • 86 5 LONDON, Wedw— The Sultan of Johore today visited the Malaya:. contingent which will take part m tSfte march through London on Victory Day and Inspected a guard 63 honour formed by the Jchore national forces. Tha Malayan contingent includes detachments freni the armed iorces of Hong
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  • 160 5 30,000 INDIANS FOR HOME CIFTEEN thousand Indians have applied to the Indian Agent for passages to India and are still waiting for their steamer tickets. They have been waiting since March. And the Indian Age>nt is expecting another 15,000 ap plica tions for passages m the course of the next
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  • 143 5 EVIDENCE that Mr. F. H. Grummitt, formerly a wellknown Penang business man. appeared to have been worried over conditions In general and seemed to think that the atomic bomb of tht^ Russians would soon make chaos of the whole world riven at the Coroners inquiry Into
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  • 47 5 THE next meeting of the East Society will take place on Thursday, May 39 at the Army Education Centre. Ar- men an Street, at 8 p.m. Mr. Homer Chen, of the Chinese Secretariat, will lecture on 'The influence of Confucianism on M C se Thought.
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  • 313 5 Free Press Reporter Kuala Kangsar. Wed. AN unprecedented scene was witnessed outside the Polo ?lub here yesterday evening when two royal ladies led a procession A several hundred Malay women from all over Perak past the line Sultans and Capt. L. D. Siimmans, M.P. and
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  • 54 5 VirHEN Grove Road, which runs aloiif'silp the Singapoe Airpoit, Kalian?, is reo»>:n:d, i v.i 1 be called MountbaUcn Road. Tli > name," Mr. Gimson said, wiil be a token of the hifrh rcrard m w!fifh you are he'd urn! will sland as a lasting mr.r.oiial to
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  • Article, Illustration
    42 5 Evacuees from Central Java l/einjr transported by air to Ha a\ia m the b\i exodus operation which started recently. This Army Film Unit picture shows internees durins the flij?M m a Dakota. Note the f^ot^car reminisent of internment days m Singapore.
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  • 243 5 Historic Flag And Gun For Singapore THE presentation by Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander m what was his farew*fl to Singapore of the Union Jack which was earned -it the capitulation of the island and hoisted again ai the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, and a Japanese gtm captured irom
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  • 275 5 SUPREMOS FAREWELL TO SINGAPORE A Perpetual Reminder HAD the Japanese net surrendered, th^ Allies would have lanrVd m fckdava a quarter of a million s >idier,s, with full naval and a r support against a total Japanese cccupalion to cc of 130,000, and the following assault would have been overwhelmingly
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  • 495 6 WAITED 8 YEARS TO MARRY SENTENCED MAN NEWPORT, May 18 (By Air Mail) pDWARD Royal Chaplin, who eight years ago was accused of the murder of Percy Arthur Cnsstrley and was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude for manslaughter, was released from Camp Hill Prison here at dawn today on
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  • 128 6 THE Government's new aural aid was demonstrated recently and a deaf ma'i heard perfectly with it. He was accompanying a party Pressmen who vis. ted the noUs Hill research station of the Pos- Office where experimental models of the aid have been made. Likely
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  • 347 6 WIFE'S SAVINGS ARE HUSBAND'S MONEY saved by a v/iiV from a Service allowance and allotment made to her by her husband remains the property of the husband, said Juage Campbell at Cambridge County Court. He ordered Mrs. Alice Rose FlaVell, a civil servant employed at the Admiralty, and living m
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  • 234 6  -  Acan Hodgson By THINK of five million new houses, five million new k-ttrr-boxes and pity the postman. What the housing programme will mean m extra w rfc for Britain's 65,000 postmen was discussed at the Union of Post Office Workers' conference at Eastbourne recently. Delegates
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    • 148 6 BAtAAH-LOST AND FOUND! LOCAL AUDIENCES GUERRILLAS! "^KO'S TRUE, TIMELY, TERRIF IC HTT^ ■lip 1 r\p RESISTANCE AGAINST THE fc^H^TiH? NAZIS! BIG CAST INCLUDES lllli^ ANNE DANA JANE NORTH ST4P BAXTER ANDREWS WITHERS liV***" *Jl/W 'SSSf CATHAY"^U 3 7 NOW SHOWING. BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO LOST IN A HAREM The
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 91 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya TtLL YOU IT WAS /f[\ Y\ SAW THE WHiTes\/YOU DONT SAyA I /he WOflV COME AOAIM WowV GoN A COLOURED MAW, GEORGIE.'A \I OF HIS EYES-THEY VpROBABLY fT WAS I TWSKWI mSTJ GEORG^E^— HE'D TURNED ALL THE LIGHTS J^UJ^ [WERE 6LAPJNC?-AND
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  • Article, Illustration
    70 7 At the r^eent 18 Gr.>up I.P.C. s"r>r s m~:t. th? (i.0.( Sin^apo c District. Major-Gen. L. H. (ox and Mrs. Cox won the visitors' race. Thr>e pictures show 'top) the G.O.C. and his wife receiving thei- prizes from Lieut. -Col. K. F. Grant, the CommaniUnr officer, anl (below)
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  • 56 7 GOLF CLUB OPENING ON SUNDAY Ining of the Royal >re Golf luh at is to take place taj at 9 am., when the F. C. Gimson, will host the Union :he clubhouse. ill be opened all match conthe president, Mr. i; the captain. Dr. t- \ii c-t aptain. and the
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  • 293 7 RETURN MILLS-LESNEVICH FIGHT PLANNED A RETURN fight between America's Gus Lesnevich, pew world cruiser-weight boxing champion, and Britain's Freddie Mills is already being planned. Immediately after the fight Lesnevich had a word of advice for Mills: "Keep going, Fredde, and you are bourd to get there." Coming from Lesnevich himself
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  • 94 7 Freddie Mills not only equalled American boxing abil'ty but his wisecrack m defeat topped tlie best U.S. vintake. Gee Freddie, your? the toughest kid I've ever fought and I've punched hundreds of 'em. You nearly had me 'cos I could not see you," said Lesnev.th when it was
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  • 109 7 CRICKET COUNTY SCORES LONDON, Wed. TODAY'S County Cricket scores are: At Manchester. Lancashire 271 'Edrich 55, Philli;son 58, Jenkins 8 for 92); Worcestershire 80 for 7. At Lords, Middlesex versus Nottinghamshire no play today owing to rain. At Kettering. Northamptonshire 126 'Parker 4 for 3>; Surrey 90 for 3 (Gregory
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  • 324 7 CRAWLEY DEFEATS ENGLISH CHAMPION IN OPEN GOLF SOUTHPORT (Lancashire), Tues. A NOTHER long day's play m the British Amaeur Golf /l Champicnship took place m nvxed weather on the Birkdale Club's links here today, but the third round will not be completed unt'l tomorrow when the whole fourth round will
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  • 60 7 REPORT has spread through racing; circles that Gordon Richards will net ride Edward Tudor, the Berkhamntcn hopo m the Derby, bvt -ould be on th- Aga Khans Khaled. Tlie storry^ha; b:e:i reotivinff som.-* credence m kMortedftftbc hettii-»pr circles but aske* abo::t it r.ordon saii. "Fvlwsxd
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  • 220 7 OSTLiiLEY. Middlesex. Wed. THE tndhtn tourists beat the Indian G\ml:hana by six wickets. Al f hous;h f he tuurisLs passed the Gymkhana score after four wickets had fallen I play continuec for the c-itertainment of Un crowd INDIAN GYMKIIAXA— Ist Innings Raiji Ibw Gul Moharncd 14
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  • 430 7 LONDON, Wed. rpilE King and Queen and Princess Elizabeth will drive along the racecourse at Epsom from Tottenham Cornrr just before the first race on Derby Day, Jun c 5. This popular innovation will be much appreciate,! by an expected record crowd of over hali-a -million spectators.
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    • 53 7 jViSITENESS! v the mraninf but d *n't see it. SEE THE ML\NING S In* B^-jtH Dar.ce it the !AL! !iI2KT" at the < lAT WORLD BARE I r.rAY, june i. rr.iJni-bt I JLONESE DANCING I FIIU PARAPHERNALIA. vpisssjaHHiji 3.2 2&KS G H I ••^IJlfJ^ 10-MCBEOW SATURDAY G/ano.-ous I V yy
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    • 315 7 BOUSTEAD&Co.,LId. TEL 5161-2 LLOYDS AGENTS OUB LINE \rUus from I X doe Ist halt Jane Passengers and cargo accepted to U.K. Hongknng and Sh^Mthai as opportunities o!Y«-r BURNS PKILP LIME Sail ne for Sydney Car yinc passengers and car^o First Class lare £80 siiurk *U4 return Second Class fare £53-6-8
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    22 8 A blaze of colour m Regents Park, London. This tuliji bed was grown from bulb* presented to Britain by the D\Uih.
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  • 108 8 LONDON. Wed. DRITISII coal miners have raised two million of the extra eight millions tons which Minister of Fuel Emmanuel Shinwell demanded of them. *'I would have been better pleased if we had ?ot the other six million." said Mr. Shinwell m announcing this
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  • 129 8 In an editorial the Daily Herald organ of the British Labour Party. said "there is speculation m many lands about a third World War Nor is it idle talk." "So far the portents are entirely psychological. There Is a deep suspicion m Russia of
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  • 128 8 U.S. SENDS SHIP FOR SPAIN NAZIS WASHINGTON. Wod. THE Unked Stated has chal- lenged Spain to make sood her promises to expell Nazi refugees to Germany, sending a ship to Dilbao for that puipose, writes Associated Press correspondent John Hightower. The State Department en Wednesday announced that the ship, the
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  • 479 8 MORRISON, CHURCHILL CLASH ON U.S. FOOD PLEDGE LONDON, Wednesday. MR. HERBERT MORRISON, Lord President of the Council, told the House of Commons today he had the authority of Mr. William Clayton, United States Assistant Secretary of State, for saying that there was not and never had been any misunderstanding between
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  • 66 8 The trial of len camp guards accused of burning alive four British women officers m 1944 opened yesterday before a British military court, says Reuter from Wuppertal. Germany. It is alleged that the women, who were p arachuted into France on a special mission were burned
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  • 397 8 ALDERSHOT, Wednesday. pESERTIOX with intent to avoid proceeding overseas m \J the troopship Corfu was alleged against Lance-Sergeant Roy Peach, aged 21, York and Lancaster Regiment, whose home is at Whiston Street, Derby, at a court-martial wh'ch opened here yesterday. The court-martial is concerned with charges again^i soldiers
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  • 126 8 FRENCHMEN HAVE ATOM SECRET STOCKHOLM, Wed. DROFESSOR John Andberg Tak- dory told the Scandinavian engineers meeting that the Swedish patent office had received applications from three French scientists for a new method of producing atomic energy. He identified the scientists as Nobel prize winner Professor Joliot Von Halban and Korwarski.
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  • 187 8 F EDINBURGH, Wed. E resolution asking for still further reduction m the brewing of beer so as to provide barley to meet the food situation -was approved by the general assembly of the Church of Scotland yesterday. The resolution stated the Assembly welcomed the decision of
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    • 250 8 ALHAMBRA A L i7^fl BEST SOUND IN TOWN Advanced Booking: Tel. J THESE MEN ARE DEFYING DEAXHJ They are behind enemy lines, playing the GreatJ International Game...not Tennis, or Footba!" but ESPIONAGE! DYNAMIC! TE«ft| HUGH WILLIAMS m 4 JAMES MASON 4 J MICHAEL WILDING Heroic CARLA LEHMANN |f/(\//ff r. «k
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