The Singapore Free Press, 12 June 1946

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    19 1 The singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    ITALY ROYALISTS FIGHT GUN BATTLE
    315 1 ITALY ROYALISTS FIGHT GUN BATTLE NAPLES, Tues. AT least four people were killed and 50 injured in a Run battle between Monarchists and Italian troops and police which raged for hours in Naples today while Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Cabinet tried—and failed once again to solve the puzzle of King
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  • LATE NEWS
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      TERAUCHI DEAD
      85 1 TE RAUCHI DEAD t [r >m the Headquarters cf Allied* Comma nE Asia this that Field Hisaichi Terauchi, .ur.nndcr of the Expeditionary hem Regions, died haemorrhage at i tcday at his quar- re. on in poor health for and was prevented tending the surrender of to the Supremo r taut
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      $1,000,000 DAILY ON ATOM BOMBS
      36 1 n $1,000,000 daily are sit by the United the manufacture arr.l jm-bombs and -ion of new uses energy. This statemade in the Senate 1 bate to control •m spending, says U.P.
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    TOMMYGUNS RING COURT
    190 1 Mihailovitch BELGRADi:, Tues. GUARDS with tommygans were posted round the military court when the s:cend day of the trial of General Mihailovltch, former Yugoslav War Minister ani leader of the Chetnik guerillas, opened today. Mihailovitch pleading not guilty to the collaboration said he had refused American offers
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    POLAR EXPEDITION
    30 1 An expedition will leav, for the South Polar r^ l^ ll3^ Norwegian under command of Norwegian cSmmandw Finn Ronne i Am4^in An^rcti- association for the expedition. A.P. and
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    BRIDGE PLANNED OVER WHANGPOO
    60 1 Shanghai's Whangpoo river, waterway of China's metropolis and the greatest port, will be bridged for the first time when the scheme, drawn up by the local Public Works Bureau, goes through. Dr. Thompson Mao, who is working out details of the bride e reconstruction plan, estimates
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    70 VOTE ON LOAN
    44 1 The House of Representatives Banking Committee will vote in Washington tomorrow on the legislation ratifying the British loan, it was announced by Committee Chairman B. Spence. Only six of the 27 Committee men have thus far indicated opposition. A. P.
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    TOJO TAKES THE BLAME
    108 1 TOKYO, Wed. GEN. Hideki Tojo's lawyer said yesterday that the former Premier will assume full responsibility for starting the Pacific war when he comes before the Allied Tribunal He added that Tojo will arg le that international custom gives Emperor Hirohito immunity, since no sovereign in
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    Untitled
    23 1 ire-Admiral Sir Denis Bovd, new Commander in Chief, British Pacific Fteet, who hoisted his flag at Singapore yesterday in the aircraft carrier Venerable.
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    TRUMAN VETOES BILL
    30 1 President Truman vetoed the Labour Disputes Bill because he said it would compel men to work for private employers in a peacetime democracy, says A.P. from Washington.
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    Dutch 'fled to Singapore hills'
    220 1 Free Press Reporter A REPORT that 900 Dutchmen had "fled to the hills surrounding Singapore "rather than be shipped back to the Netherlands East Indies was described as "highly coloured and incorrect" by the Singapore Dutch Consul-General, Mr. M. F. Vigeveno, to the Free Press
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    PALESTINE: UK PUTS 6 QUESTIONS TO U.S.
    206 1 PALESTINE: UK PUTS 6 QUESTIONS TO U.S. WASHINGTON, Tucs. PRESIDENT TRUMAN today appointed a Cabinet commit--1 tee on Palestine and authorised it to negotiate will) the British and other Governments. Mr. James Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, Mr. Robert Patter.- on, Secretary for War, and Mr. John Bnyder, Under
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    Pacific Fleet to use Singapore
    508 1 By EDWARD BISHOP Free Press Services Correspondent SINGAPORE'S naval base is to replace Sydney as a dockyard for the British Pacific Fleet, the fleet which shelled Japan alongside the American Navy. Yesterday evening only a few hours after he had hoisted his flag in the
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    U.S. Has Atom Control Plan
    80 1 WASHINGTON, Tuts. THE t'nitcd States has completed a definite plan for international control of atomic energy for submission to the United Nations Atomic Commission, the Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, announced to a press conference today. Informed sources claim the plans envisage "international atomic
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    JAVA: 2,500 CHINESE RESCUED
    71 1 JAVA: 2,500 CHINESE RESCUED BATAVIA, Tues. DUTCH troops have rescued 2,509 Chinese including hundreds of women and children from a:i area to the west of Tangerang, not iar from Batavia. where the Chinese were massacred recently by Indonesian extremists Many of those rescued had been imprisoned by the Indonesian Republican
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    HAUPTMAN DIES
    23 1 Gerhart Hauptman, 83-year-old German dramatist, novelist, poet nnd Nobel Prize winner, died on Saturday, it was announced in Berlin. A. P.
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    PRESIDENT QUITS
    33 1 The French Socialist President Felix Gouin resterday tendered cabinet, in a constitutional step his resignation, along with his designed to pave the way for the formation of a new government. A.P.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      Problems of the Future of Asia
      531 2 Problems of the Future of Asia THE idea that national democratic sjflf-government will bring internal peace and mutual harmony to the hitherto subject countries of th? East is an illu ion— at least as I see it\ said H. V. Hodson in the course of a broadcast recently. •It may
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      GUNS INTO PLOUGHS
      99 2 pEOPLE in the Eastern Zone cl Cermany complain they had to /a-ree" to forgo scm-3 ct their rations to make possible the Leipzig Fair; vast quantities of ?gss, potatoes and meat went to th? lS b S CUy t0 feCd Moreover nothing could be bought without special
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      FREEDOM BEHIND IRON BARS
      898 2 Here for the first time is the complete story of Broadmoor Asylum where windows are barred but the word "prisoner" is forbidden. By STANLEY JACKSON THE warm air was heavy ordered to be "detained during with the scent of flowers His Ma J es ty's Pleasure."
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      Sardine boats are out again
      268 2 Sardine boats are out again r ANCE again, the small, i single-and double-masted boats, together with steam- power vessels, sail from the f villages along the Portuguese i cqast to bring back millions of tiny sardines which play such an important part in the 1 1 country's economy. For the
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      Getting The Words Tared
      56 2 rHE ma£i;«-,R miniatur--which the tfea spying, may b ing to letter-w: undreamed of blind. The apparatus with trunk telepl calk between could bo sutoni it Hidden In I was afterwards u agents to furpra victims inrti r fin Now it can be < telephone at bom
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      492 2 «EU NKmORK tr.n> "VuLAY^S ZT* ffcw |VS* 8MP9 1 ottWl "™> 4 p pjn. and t3» to n pm n til 12« pm« «nd frj S <new> at om HmEi n»«»r»». 10 541 Melody Mln 5 p m at 1.10 pm.), and from 1 pjn to TOmrirr-c n^? Pm) «f/
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  • PICTURE PAGE
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      THE CINDERS FLY AGAIN
      209 3 THE CINDER S FLY AGAIN hftt*m*J racing is the ra^e again in Britain. Thousands flooding Wembley, Bradford and I Hum. thrill to th? a 1 biosphere cf Hying cinders and exhaust, though speedway is sill rather an aus*erity sport. Above picture of n pre-war race recaptures old thrills. Before th
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1946.
      525 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1946. ONE of the less for-unat? features of tie world war on famine is the knowledge that while most peopl:s are having to make do with even less toed than ti:~v had while the war w?s on the people of America. v/Mch was
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      THE RACE TO HIT 760 MILES AN HOUR
      767 4 BRITISH test pilots ar* being calJed upon to run such big risks in the quest for supersonic sp^ed that, soon it Will be necessary to try out our high-speed planes with robot pilots, writes Court ?nay Edwards in the Daily Ma:]. This
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      Britain's Newest Jet Plane
      340 4 BRITAIN has a new jet plane built to attain a speed of 675 m.p.h. It is a flying wing, tailless. It is 'a singb-reater fighter, so revolutionary that it is unlike any fly^rg wing built berorc. It has its ruudcr and tal fin fitted on the
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      FAITH
      23 4 I What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, uiil he &ive him a stone? Malthe*, 7, f)
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      557 4 j^MERICA IN THE THROES. The present era of peace and plenty which New York is enjoying »s, it seems, not by any means typical of the rest of that country, according to Cornelius Ryan, who has been visiting Hyannis, Massachusetts, a typical New England town of about
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      Newsprint for coal
      181 4 SWEDEN would like to give European countries bigger newspapers in exchange for coal. More coal would enable her to increase her production of newsprint, which has dropped from 280,000 tons annually in 1939 to just over 200,000 tons today. As it is production is expected to fall
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      LARGEST HOTEL IN FAR EAST
      104 4 k MODERN fan? air-ccndit;on- e d hotel, planned as t,.e largest in the Far East is to be constructed here at a' cost of about $18,030,000. The hotel will be built on the site of the present world-known Grand Jott*. whi^-h is to be to~n
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      'Flying Dutchman' Spans Atlantic
      259 4 'THE FLYING DUTCHMAN" is the appropriate name accorded to the new Transatlantic <enke of K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines), which h-s be?n inaugurated, and which will use Prostwi intc*nnr *k ainMirt The Infl V. a thric^-wrc 1 cww I Arr^erdnm ard v made with n titd "Twenthe."
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      QUIZ
      67 4 1. Who said Music is the brandy of the damned?" 2. What are the six legally defined forms of homi-cide? 3. Where did J. G. Lockhart. the biographer <a> die, and <b> where is he buried? 4. Who wrote: The shades of night were falling fast. And the rain
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      37 4 THE PEKING CO. Cull and Inspect our xoide '■ait^e of: CURIOS JEWELLERY •PEKING CARPETS J IM tic IVORY CARVXNttS. I.irze Select i >n of: CAMPHOR CRESTS tic BOXES •embroidered LINENS etc., etc. l.'o. 31, HIGH ST. STORE.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      HIGH-UPS STOP RADIO TALK
      232 5 Last-Minute Change 'frore Programme Free Press Reporter i of the Singapore radio authorities of the need to refer to higher authorities an I'nion— -caused the last-minute cancel(hjy ni^ht of after-the-news talk on the tf the U\o Members of Parliament, Capt. r.ms and Lt.-Col. I). R, Rees-Williams,
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      PoWs For Bayonet Practice
      173 5 PoWs For Bayonet Practice _j railway engineer alleged to nave sat CiTicr whiie two ot Lnf two British (Of oayonet pracbamboo sticks. a Singapore War yfit.rday charged treatment of Briand Dutch in the deaths of "ing of otreis. rr.o*o Juji, who was the huildin:: t»i Bur- .iv in 1942 and
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      V-PARADE NEWSREEL ARRIVES
      68 5 V-PARADE NEWSREEL ARRIVES PAUMONT British newsreel of th? U Victory Parade in London un Saturday arrived in Singapore V special plane yesterday and was exhibited at the Pavilion la.,t llt shows the parade fro<n beginning to end. and includes a glimpse of the Malayan contmcent Also on the same newsreel
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      Two-Purpose Beach Suit
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      Higher Rubber Price Unlikely
      101 5 Higher Rubber Price Unlikely Free Press Correspondent London, Tues. THE rubber discussions here are now expected to continue at least till the end of this week. Iho atmosphere is friendly but the Americans are reported to be adamant in their refusal to discuss anything higher than the present Malaya price.
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      LEFT FOR U.S.
      57 5 TWO of the bj-st-known memb2rs of the American colony in Singapore sailed at noon yesterday for the United Sta es aboard the "Sea Shark." They were Col. Charles I. Da'.is. U. S. Army Liaison Officer in Singapore, and Marc Purdue, Associated Press correspondent who came to Singapore
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      KILLEARN BACK
      25 5 Lord Killearn. Special Commissioner, S.E. Asia, returned to Singapore, yesterday, from Siam. He will open the Victory Exhibition at the Happy World tonight..
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      INFORMATION ON WOMAN'S DEATH
      102 5 W_'\R Crimes investigators f'.e. seeking information concernto* a Swopart vvoman named Mrs. Doris Stratton AdGtf whom, it stated some tim^ in Seperrber or O.tooer. IW3 when confined In the Kem.eitai Headquarters in Hl n Kuala Lumnur. her body was seen to drop irom wmuow m that
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      Jap Jaiied
      57 5 A Japar::s PoW, Tanabe Katsuyasu, was sentenced to six weeks' rirr-ous imprisonment by Mr. R. C. Hoffman at the Fourth Court, Singapore, yesterday, when he nleaded Guiltv to a cYmtpp o f having stolen a camera valued at $50, the property 01' an airman frcm the Band Tent
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      'CONFESSED' AFTER FIVE BEATINGS
      176 5 'CONFESSED' AFTER FIVE BEATINGS I|OW a Ceylonese member of the Straits Settlements Civil Service was alleged to have been severely beaten by members of the Japanese Special Branch and forced to sign a confession which purported to be his proposed plan to sabotage St. James' Power Station, Singapore, was related
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      DETECTIVE SHOT DEAD
      63 5 Free Press Correspondent PENANG, Tues. WHILE cycling home to Butterworth last nisht, a detective, Chcow Fook Cheong, a longservice member of the police force, was shot dead by an unknown gunman, a short dis- i tance from the village of Bagan Ajam. According to a police report,
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      NOT ENOUGH GODOWNS FOR RUBBER
      113 5 NOT ENOUGH GODOWNS FOR RUBBER Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. THE difficult situation which has arisen with re?ard to rubber, because of lack of godown oc- commodation and shipping to re..iove the rubber was referred to at today's meeting of the Selangqr Advisory Council presided over by the Gove-nor,
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      Nurse And PoW Testify for Jap
      234 5 TWO letters one from an American ex-Pi»W and the other from a Japanese Red Cress nurse were produced as evidence yesterday in support of the defence case for Cant. Wakamatsu, one of four Japs charged in the Singapore War Crimes Court with being concerned
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      KEMPEITAI CHIEF TO BE TRIED
      54 5 Free Press Correspondent PENANG, Tues Maj YoshfI nobu Hizashikawa, former Peatac Kempeitai chief, whose arrest was ordered last week by Gen. MacArihur. will b? brought out from Japan to Penang to stund trial on a number of charges, it was announced today nv the local
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      DINNER PARTY
      35 5 Stall-holders of the thiee amusement parks in Singapore gave a dinner at the Tai Tong restaurant in the New World last night to welcome Mr. One Peng Hock on his return from India
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      Contractor tells of scrap deal
      373 5 Court Martial PIVING evidence on oath, an Indian contractor explained U how he hoped to make a profit of $29,900 on a contract to remove scrap from the former Polo Ground, Singap: re. in November last year, at the resumed hearing of the field general
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      Nap Made Hlsa A Stowaway
      114 5 WHEN (hu (hone a 2U-yea-- old stevedore was loading the s.s. Glenapp in lion* Kong, on June 1, he decider! to have a nap. So he told M* K C. HofTman in the Fourth Court, Singapore, yesteT^ay, when he was charged with hrin.? a stowaway.
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      Spring Cleaning Windsor Castle
      35 6 Windsor Castle is bavin? a super-spring clean to restore it to its pre-war magnificence. Above a couch in the Queens Presence Chamber is seen being overhauled. Another picture in column four.
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      Manager is shot as 2,000 hear his voice
      235 6 Manager is shot as 2, 000 hear his voice TWO THOUSAND people sat in the Odeon cinema, Bristol, listening to a voice talking about British films. They did not know that the owner of the vo ce Robert Parrington Jackson, th e cinema's manager was lying in his office with
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      3yrs TO CLEAR AMMO DUMPS
      53 6 It is disclosed that ammuniten and explosives will remain scattered round the Britten countiyside in dumps for at least three years. At present COO.GOO tons oi muirtionn line \erges alon? 15.C00 railes of country roads, although In seven months neaily 330.000 tons ammunition will have
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      £100.000 FOR APPEAL
      39 6 100.000 FOR APPEAL The Archbishop of York. Dr. Garbctt. says in his Diocesan leaflet for June that €100.000 has been promised or paid tov.ard Yor": s share of the appeal of the two archbishoos for ,•£050.000 for training ardinandi
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      Thief tied up escape expert
      77 6 A GANGSTER who tied up manager Joseph bawson, of the Super Cinema, Gravesend, Kent, and made off with £300 from the office safe, picked the wrong man. Mr. Dawson, who once toured the country as the Great Dawson, offering C>o to anyone who could tie
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      CATERPILLAR ARMY
      32 6 Moving in a solid block nearly two miles square, millions of caterpillars approaching a reservoir threaten the water suoplv of tens of thousands of people in Abertillery District in Monmouthshire.
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      U.K. RAILWAYS TO CHARGE 2d.-A-MILE ON JULY 1
      398 6 U.K. RAILWAYS TO CHARGE 2d.-A-MILE ON JULY 1 FOR the first time in British railway history the third class passenger is to pay 2d. a mile for his ordinary ticket from July 1. That is the effect of the increased fares announced by Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport. Twopence
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      COLONEL TO WED AUSTRIAN
      157 6 COLONEL TO WED AUSTRIAN |\ESPITE repeated War Office 1/ statements that no British officer or man of the Occupation Forces would be given sanction to marry a German or Austrian woman, a British colonel has filed notice of marriage with an Austrian woman at Marylebone. Bride-to-be is Maria Holy, believed
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      17, HE MISSED MURDER BY 1/2 in.
      62 6 A youth who knifed a policeman and missed cutting his jugular vein— which would have killed him— by only half an inch. was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at Cambridgeshire Assizes. He is Frederick D. Murray, ot Milton Ernest, Beds, who pleaded
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      Untitled
      43 6 QUIZ Answers 1. George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman"). 2. Murder, manslaughter, excusable homicide. justifiable homicide, infanticide, suicide. 3. (a) At Abbotsford, in the room next to that in which Scott died: <b> In Dryburgh Abbey, at Scott's feet. 4. A. E. Housman.
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      OPERATION REYNARD
      47 6 Guns and smoke bom^s will be used to exterminate a family of monster foxes which are raiding at St Margaret's Bay District, poultry yards in a broad daylight at St. Margaret's Bay District. Kent. Foxes even appear in the village main street In the afternoons.
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      WE CAN GIVE IT!
      90 6 HIGH praise for British industrial enterprise is lorthcomlng from Mr. W. B. Henderson, chief of the Clearing Corporation of Chicago. The Corporation recently placed an order for a 30-ton press with Messrs. Vickers Armstrong. Ltd*. Newcastle. The machine was delivered ahead of rchedute and more than
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      TO VISIT POLAND
      18 6 Sir Hartley Shawcross. Attor-ney-General, is to visit Poland on the invitation of the Polish Government.
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      YARD SMASHES POLICH GANG
      144 6 CCOTLAND Yard believe that In the past few months they have got the best of their own "Polish problem." Detectives who have investigated certain types of crime, off-shoots of the black market, have found that, in many cases, deserters from the Polish forces were concerned. It
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      71 5 IT WAS I WHO SMASHED ALL THE HOX-OFFICE fP?:^ RECORDS IX THE IS. A, IXDIA, SIIASGHAI, T J^i HONGKONG and OTHER PLACES I VISITED" W-\ ADORE! METRO -GOLuv» IN- MAYERS l^i/lM' 1 rrtL-^~ \O> BEAUTIFUL lL^ ,iYC<^ sfc-V^ MATCHLESS &<sf ?&> GEM c o o v v' i MIDNIGHT PREMIERE
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      140 6 ENTERTAINMENTS i m\\ j- LASTDaT^ ■■K&ltftSiaSEfS^S^ 4 Shows 1 30' 4 30 6?09 V, MELVYN DOUGLAS ELLEN DREW and RUTH HUSSEY "OUR WIFE" Added Attraction: Special by air from London: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS Showing THE VICTORY DERBY «c VICTORY PARADE OPENING TOMORROW THK MUSICAL MIRAC NOW SHOWIV* WHAT DO THEY
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      56 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya i sister.'— i'm Ncrr)(h\ vj) 1 GT I i |Mj Ij?^^' nine, > KT DONE YfeT7 J/\| |W3 Oi=S»=? •-^"■"■^Pfil I TEN YouRE OUT. 1 V( /l« i V I kk\ NOR AM I \J^H rtVMkJACn/- tdauiiu/* >\ f*J, el N
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      WORCESTER REGISTER ONLY VICTORY
      307 7 WORCESTER REGISTER ONLY VICTORY LONDON, Tuesday. ccrcd the only victory in County cricket ishiag to-d: y. and they owed it largely to rn in the second innings at 33 for one after lead of 1.°.3 runs on the first innings. Worcester, left with 137 runs to make to win on
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      DRAWN GAME AT CARDIFF
      140 7 CARDIFF, Tucs. -..i ch between ihe Glamorgan was Inns: 376 for 6 U lst INNINGS ban 5 Hi 10 Bafcti b Sarwatr r k San I n :> 'i I -f»ar b H*nk>Ml 0 s b >ar»atp J I j» Ml •> t (>l»M<>R<.\\— ?nd INNINGS
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      Australians Beat Britain At Tennis
      95 7 MANCHESTER. Sat. THE Australian tennis players won aM tb*ir singles matches against Great Britain today without loss of a set, but the British team whkb was untried and young did not disgrace itself. Even Dinny Pails 1 g 2 6 l victory over Derek Barton,
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      PATERSON FIGHT POSTPONED
      58 7 LONDON, Mon. THE world flyweight title fight between Jackie Paterson and Joe Curran will now take place at Ilampden Park Stai'ium, (Glasgow, on Jul« 10. The fight was originally fixed for June 26 but had to be'postponed due to the eye iniury Paterson sustained in his fight
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      NOTTS'TEAM TO MEET INDIANS
      226 7 NOTTS' TEAM TO MEET INDIANS LONDON, Tues. IJOTTINGHAMSHIRE'S team to play India next Saturday will ce selected from G. F. H. Heane. T B. Reddich, W. W. Keeton, C. B Harris. J. Hardstafl, F. W. Stocks H. Butler, F. J. Woqdhead, A. Jepson, E. A. Meads, H. Winrow and W.
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      PENANG HOCKEY
      56 7 Free Press Oonr.. PENANO, Sun.— Kaala Lumpur Civil Services narrowly defeated the Pc.mng C.RC. bv the odd coal in three in a game of hockey ph.yed here to-day. The visitors combined better and had tne letter of the exchanger. Scores were -"-nlli and Reutens for the Civil S-rvices
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      THE END
      41 7 This picture of the Woodcock- Mairiello fi«*ht shows the collision that cost Woodcock fisht. Note the expression of pain and surprise in WoodcocYs face as MauriMlo swings in the left which won him the fight in the fifth round.
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      OXFORD UNIVERSITY NO LONGER THE 'UNDER-DOG'
      314 7 QUITE the most outstanding thing in University cricket so far this summer has been the form revealed for Oxford ty Donnelly, the New Zealand Test batsman, writes Graham Silkirk. Oxford have become so accustomed to being "under-dogs" in their various contests with Cambridge— and
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      ORTIZ KNOCKS-OUT CONTENDER
      44 7 SAN FRANCISCO. Tues SWIFT-moving Manual Ortiz retained his N.R.A. world bantamweight championship last night when he floored Jacki* Jiirh-h for the full count in the 11th of a scheduled 15-round fight. This was Ortiz* 15ih successful defence of his title. U.P.
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    • Davis Cup
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        YUGOSLAVS' GREAT WIN OVER FRANCE
        157 7 YUGOSLAVS' GREAT WIN OVER FRANCE PARIS, Mon. yUGOSUAVIA scored a great I triumph in the Davis Cup third round match when sh? eliminated France three games to two. Having won the first two singles en Sunday France was wpII placed but lo*t the doubles ytsterday Mitic. Yugoslavia, leveled matters when
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        SINGAPORE HOCKEY TEAM WIN 3-0
        117 7 Free Press C rr MAL\C3A. Mon. Muthucumaru's KI had no difficulty beaUr.g the Malacca Indian Association a* hockej .his evening by three goals to nil The visitors dominate! play but many pretty moves of th*ir forwards i were frustrated by the stubborn home I defence
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        RECS' CRICKET
        56 7 The following will represent Kecs at cricket against G. H. XI at 11 a.m. on Sunday at Changi. P. D'Almeida (capt.), E. Barker. G. Clarke, F. Chopard, R. Jansen. E. Le Mercier, D. Ross, C. Schubert. J. de Souza. A. Watts. G. Wcsterhout. Umpire: R. Minjoct. Transport will
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        AMERICAN GOLF
        49 7 PHILADELPHIA Mon Herman Barron, White Plains, Mcv York, veteran won the first prize oi $2,500 in the Philadelphia Enquirer Oolf tournament today, oaring out youthful Lew Worsham of Bethcsda. Maryland. b > three strokes in the 18 -hole playoff. Barron scored 70 and Woisham r .3. A. P.
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      CHINESE v SIGNALS IN TODAY'S SOCCER
      411 7 r-DAY at Jalan Besar Stadium, the Singapore Chinese Football Association make their second appearance since the liberation when they meet the R.AP. (Signals) in aid of St. Dunstan's Fund for the Blind. The game is being held under the patronage of Wing-Cdr. Rev. T
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      11 8 Students take a break at St. Andrew's University, Glasgow, Scotland.
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      Well Burns Villagers
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      YACHT SAFE FROM GALE
      187 8 HARWICH. Tues. CO U R amateur yachtsmen, aboard an eight-ton pleasure yacht Pierrette, were saved bv Clacton liic-coat men in a 60 miloper-hour gale yesterday. Cno of the shrouds snapped and left the vessel with onlv a small auxiliary engine to fight ■gainst mountainous seas. She
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      MONTY VISITS EGYPT
      45 8 Field Marshal Lord Montgomery arrived Cairo yesterday. An embassy statement announcing the Field Marshal's arrival said Lord Montgomery is studying on th* spot various military problems connected with the Middle East. He is to visit Palestine, Greece and Italy also, says Reuter.
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      HEALTHIER COLONIES
      54 8 DDT. insecticide, which is hailing typhus epidemics on the Continent, is making Britain's colonies healthier to live in. Malaria mosquitoes, the fly that causes sleeping sickness, and other tropical pests are being eliminated by DDT. spraying. Thousands of acres of uninhabited coastal land in British Guiana, for instance,
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      MAY NATIONALISE CHEMICALS, OIL
      240 8 BOURNEMOUTH. Tues. DEPUTY Prime Minister, Herbert Morrison, told the Labour Party Conference today that a scheme of nationalisation of the chemical industry and of fishing industry, petroleum and agriculture "was actively before the national executive committee". The Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee said that if the Indians
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      AMERICA HAS FEW CARS TO EXPORT
      294 8 AMERICA HAS FEW CARS TO EXPORT EXPORT of motor cars and lorries will be very tiffin for several years while manufacturers fill the domestic market requirements of upwards of 15,000,000 vehicles. Exports since V-J day have been very few. Output has been low and the possible foreign markets are limited.
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      SURETE TAKES MUFTI CASE
      93 8 PARIS. Tues. THE Surcte— France's Scotland Yard— has taken up the ca.^o of the former Grand Mufti v: Jerusalem and is trying to trace how he got out oi France and who is responsible. Meanwhile. Arab centres throughout Jerusalem were on the second clay of their
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      JAP RACKETEER SHOT DEAD
      73 8 JAP RACKETEER SHOT DEAD Giichi Maisuda. boss of 1.200 small-time racketeers, in Tokio, who acted to convert the black market into an ethical modern business enterprise, was fatally shot In his Tokyo s offlce last night. His organisation voted today to name Yoshiko Matsuda, 30-year-old widow as the new boss
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      'DEFEATFOR NATIONS' WARNING
      132 8 'DEFEATFOR NATIONS' WARNING WASHINGTON, Tues. THE United States Secretary .«f State, Mr. James Byrnes, warned In a press conference today that failure of the reconvened Foreign Ministers conference In Paris would be a defeat for all mankind as well as for the powers represented. In Paris, the Foreign Ministers' .deputies
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      39 8 A Contingent of 120 Indian tioops of all ranks who hav° fought on fronts all over the world will be visiting Germany from June 17 to June 23, the British Military Government announced yesterday.— A. P.
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      147 8 COLOMBO, Tues. CMUGGLING of gold and cloth into Ceylon by air, specially from India, has been attempted on a fairly big scale and all passengers arriving in Ceylon by plane are now carefully watched. Smuggling is not confined to civilians, a Customs official said. Three or
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      81 8 There were great traffic holdups In the city area o: Singapore tliis morning when the traffi police and the military carried lit a rehearsal of the arrangemen s tor traffic routes for tomorrows big parade. Lines of vehicles three or four deep were held up Along Hill
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      83 8 ROBBED AFTER CASHING CHEQUE IfWOK Siew Mun, pay clerk in a shop In Mosque Street, cashed a cheque for $500 In the Overseas Chinese Bank, Singapore, yesterday morning and left to return to his shop. He was passing the public lavatory In Club Street, when three Chinese hustled him into
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      PENANG RACING
      26 8 Free Press Corr., PENANG Tues.— Training for the Ponang June race meeting opened at Bukit Gantong this morning when horses were given slow work.
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