The Singapore Free Press, 24 June 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press T//£ OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE lb l- SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    INCENDIARISTS FIRE ARMY DUMP IN S'PORE
    324 1 Free Press Reporter pIRE destroyed seventeen stalls m the New World Amusement, Park, Singapore, and damaged six others, a Chinese temple at the Bth mile East Coast Road was severely damaged by fire; and a further outbreak of fire did further damage at the
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    RAIL FERRY ON RICE ROUTE
    57 1 RAIL FERRY ON RICE ROUTE Mnl v cd by I 7Zu n Kn linrers, iperarilv the a ross the al Bangnow ca.v>injj :in a day, which Ihe i> i t» carry rice to stt -ed areas ai I \via \rm\ I ilm sheu the ferry m d .laps helping i
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    CRUWCS PANIC IN QUAKE
    74 1 CRUWCS PANIC IN QUAKE SEATTLE, Sun. bqnht, extend*h to Vancouver, and as far :.d, Oregon, shook of the Pacific resulting m and causing among Sunday a no repor ts of i'-ih the quake i from buildings and ca*s. damaged at bridge and broke of homes. -n the earthquakes o ocean
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    UP A THIRD
    31 1 The cost of living for the people m the cities of the United States has increased by a third as compared with 1939, says AP. from N*ew York.
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    2 More Officers Free One Held
    269 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. 'J'WO more of the British officers held as hostages by Iffm 1 Zvai Leumi. the Jewish terrorist organisation, were released tonight bringing the total now free to four. A report oi this latest r correspondent m Tel Aviv by a that the
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    PROTEST TO U.N.O. BY INDIA
    146 1 NEW YORK. Sun. INDIA has filed a formal complaint with the United Nations, charging the Union of South Africa with discrimination against approximately 250,000 Indians living m South Africa. The complaint was filed by Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, chief Indian UNO delegate, Sir Ramaswami said that
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    MUFTIVILLE
    54 1 PREMIER Sidky Pasha, of Egypt qualified as "ridiculous" speculation that the Egyptian government's grant of sanctuary to the Mufti, would jeajardize the Anglo- Egyptian treaty negotiations, says U.P. from Alexandria. A Reuter reports a new Arab village to be called "Haj Amin" m honour of the Mufti, is being
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    PEACE MISSION BEATEN UP
    180 1 NANKING, Sun. A LEFT-WING delegation of 10 men from Shanghai who called themselves the "Anti-Civil War Group" were beaten up and brutally mishandled by the Chinese Secret Service agents upon their arrival m Nanking, a Democratic League spokesman said today. The delegation had been detained for
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    CONGRESS STILL SAYS NO: MORE RIOTS
    238 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. WITH the meeting of the Congress Party's Working Committee here today it appeared certain ihat iheir decision to reject the plans for an interim government of India remains unaltered. The committee is expected to pass a resolution to that effect tomorrow
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    CHINA COMMENT
    39 1 The New York Herald Tribune said m an editorial the evil war m China is actually an international conflict, to at least as great a degree, as it is an international matter, says U.P. from New York.
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    22 1 the Indian Test bowler Amarnath, whose in-swiigers accounted for four of Fngland's rrratest batsmrn m the first Te^t at Lord's on Saturday.
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    ANSON HERE TOMORROW
    57 1 One of Britain's latest battleships, H.MS. Anson is due at Singapore's naval base tomorrow. When she arrives Admiral Edelsten, who commands the 4th Cruiser squadron and has been flying his flag m Swiftsure which returns to Singapore from Batavia today, will transfer his flag to the battleship
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    IRISH MAIL CROSSES BLAZING BRIDGE
    182 1 IRISH MAIL CROSSES BLAZING BRIDGE THE 2.30 Irish mail train from Holyhead to Euston had to run the gauntlet of flames, smoke and fumes when crossing the tubular bridge which carries the raaway over the Menai Straits from Anglesey to the mainland. There were more than 700 passengers on th
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    FORMBY IN 'V' HONOURS
    210 1 FORMBY IN 'V' HONOURS LONDON, Sunday. £TAGE t ;nd film stars, icfet)tists ami aircraft techn:cians and thousands cf <rdinary men and women who played their part ;n achievii.ij victory are included i:i an aodiliooal Victory Honourg Li^t published today. Among them are Mr. George Formby. cue of Britain's film comedians,
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      What Britain has to shout about
      1011 2  - What Britain has to shout about FRANK OWEN by pY all the rules of the game the British U people have no right to be existing now. If ever a great nation, by its slotn tind folly, handed its dest.-ny over to the mercy of its mortal enemies we did
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      There's no future in it
      269 2 IJARRY Holden, of Bromsgrove. M Worcestershire, has had thirty years' experience as a professional water diviner. He says "There's no future m it." Holden, who has just retired, thinks we have discovired as many sources of water supply as we need m the British Isl:s,
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      Japanese take a new god
      340 2 rVERY day at noon, a little crowd began to gather a front of Gen. MicArtliur's headquarters, a big, formerly commercial, fcr.ilding In Tokyo, next tc the Imperial Theatre and facing the moat which surrounds the Emperor's palace grounds. Even on bitterly cold winter days, when
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      518 2 GTMOADnDr metres; from noon to 8 ,1.00 on 12 -10 35 pm GSV 16.84 1.01 p.m. voices m na-monv 1.15 diIIUArUAL m 1 J n X f, pm metres. 8.20 p.m— 12.20 Pm. personal call. 1.45 pm. Rhythm RED NfciuoKK from noon to "f i 30 al P t 11
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  • PICTURE PAGE
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      MULBERRY HARBOUR STILL FLOATS OFF NORMANDY
      149 3 dfdfdfdf While t::e coast of Normandy still bears the scars of invasion f n l Dorians get dov* ta the hrsiness of reconstructing the Commando ratfs which prepared the way. Pictured Ml veteran paratroopers w>n take part m the latest documentary "Top Secret.** The
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. JUNE 24, 1946.
      503 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. JUNE 24, 1946. ARDENT Left wh.g.rs must have felt their pink souls turning pale wh?n th^y read the reports frcm Neu York last Week saying *hat the British delega'e to the United Nat-ons Organisation Security Council, St Alexander Cadog:.n, was putting up a defence of
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      A Soldier Goes To Bournemouth
      997 4  -  MAJOR WARWICK CHARLTON By A former 6taff officer at HQ, SACSEA he left Singapore last month writing m 'he Daily Express. I HOPE they know m Bournemouth that WE are not so green as we used to be. By WE I mean the millions of
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      LOOKING AT THE EMPIRE
      19 4 Major Charlton surveying a part of the Empire from a coconut tree m Johore Bahru.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      632 4 t UTSIZE ANNIE. There lives v at Stonehouse, Plymouth, Mrs. Annie Coles who, at tne age 01 •?6, weighs over 22 sione. The foods she needs most are fish and poultry, but her weight causes her to collapse when queueing. ana lor three months she has tried
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      Science And Aircraft Make War On Pests
      721 4 EVERY year the world loss of essential foods through infestation totals £1,500,000,000. "Operation Joseph' designed to store m the fat years against the lean, can be prejudiced if pests invade granaries. Pests assail food at all stage*, from the seed m the ground
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      Seaweed is A National Industry
      211 4 Seaweed is A National Industry TWO years ago the British Ministry of Supply despatched a party of scientists n the coasts of Britain Th- r tasks was tc survey the extent of the seaweed "crop Today the collect: processing of seaweed *M almost to the dimension a national industry. Ana
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      74 4 QUIZ 1. What colour was nanifd after a battle? 2. What pianist entered the Church :n order to escape matrimony? 3. What is the correct name fra native of Naples 0 4. What is the correct name for a native of Manchester? 5. What musician *s said to have composed
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      58 CONDEMNED JAPS IN CHANGI JAIL
      320 5 58 CONDEMNED JAPS IN CHANGI JAIL 41 Have Hanged Eight Condemned llmllP Free Pres s Reporter n n *SinLi 3P "Z cnm,nals ha ve already been hanged eaol for thtr H 6 X" c r an ,her 58 Changi fh.i I V. de th senten ces to be confirmed. Two
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      INQUIRY INTO SHIP EXPLOSION
      93 5 1 Co PENANG Sun. aboard a vessel rred on Marcn '*0 Utim m lour men I .\v members I two Japanese he subject of an -sterday by the Foulsham. the incident, a Hamid om MeriMd was about Pulau Rimau ion occurred. rendered unconing to saw the
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      TRADE OFFICER TAKES OVER
      119 5 fl I oar RE IT nao now bfta duties as Trade Tor the Colony of r.as varied experI r^de Union work m 3r.:i;: Canada. He started ba vorl as an apprentice kldtnfl trade m the Lde -a. whcit the Labour Tr I'mon movement nas among the
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      BACK PAY NEWS SOON
      87 5 I°°^ ENT announcement back pay for mem:apore Passive De--ntial Services is f the end of Ju*>randm recently Govern men; by Committee >t the sive Defence and recommended: of back-pay m I to the rank r. 11 •al. to all members 7 mcd for the peiiod 1942
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      TWO WOMEN CHARGED
      26 5 s Correspondent Two women. Loh Ches Ai Vim (17 ausing voluntary I a parang to „re e Teblng Tin«gi. ail m $30C. each.
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      Reference Books For Sale
      109 5 COME useful work of reference on technical and other subjects as well as copies of Colonial and departmental papers are available m Singapore and can be bought from the Superintendent of the Government Printin° Office Among the books are "A Dictionary of the Economic Products of
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      MORE MALAYAN APPOINTMENTS
      100 5 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies has aporoved the following appointmentsMr. John Wilkinson, Mr. Philip Johnson Steel and Major Thomas Maddoclis to be Administrative Officers, Malayan Adm'nistrative Pool. Mr. Peter Andrew Durgnat to be a Probationary Assistant Conservator of Forests Malayan Forest Service Major Frederick Ernest
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      S.E. Asia Has Plague News Service
      123 5 S.E. Asia Has Plague News Service LORD KILLEARN, British Special Commissioner m South East Asia has temporarily assumed the responsibility for a Health Intelligence Section run on the lines of the old League of Nations Far Eastern Health Bureau. This section will be looked after by Lord Killearn's office. The
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      MORE FLATS TO BE RELEASED
      47 5 The Singapore Chinese Swimming Club will be completely derequisitioned by the beginning of July. A'so to be released by the end of this month are Orchard Road flats (opposite Orchard Road police c t qt'on» km*** •22*2J Institution flats and St Nicholas.
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      Committee For Rubber Storage Set Up
      375 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. AS a result of a speech made by Mr. S. B. Palmer at ihe Malayan Union Advisory Council meeting recently when he alluded to the difficult situation confronting the rubber industry due to the lack of storage and
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      Tenancies Adjustment' Bill Soon
      289 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. THE Japanese occupation of Malaya has given rise to many difficult problems relat ng to lana and buildings and m order to adjust those problems a Bill w.ll be introduced at the next meeting of the Malayan Advisory Council to
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      FIRST JAP TO HANG IN BURMA
      59 5 picture. H.st Jap war criminal to be hanged m Burma was Capt. Uyeno Masakaru who went to the gallons m Rangoon Central Jail last week for his part m t^e killing of two American airmen and a British airman. Her? his coffin is borne
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      Hindus Want Inquiry Into Disturbances
      132 5 THOUSANDS of Hindus m Sing--1 apore attended a mass meeting m the compound of the Sri Perumal Temple m Serangoon Road yesterday at which it was unanimously decided to appeal to the authorities to set up a comm ssion immediately to investigate the recent disturbances
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      Police To Act Against Hawkers
      302 5 Police To Act Against Hawkers OTRONG police measures are to be taken against Singapore's 20,000 unlicensed hawkers who have not only resisted with force recent night raids but, m some cases, have attacked shopkeepers for underselling them. It is understood that Singapore Municipal Commissioners have recommended rigorous police action to
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      PERAK JUDGE IS RETIRING
      53 5 Free Press Correspondent TAIPING— After 39 years service m Peralc. Raja Salim bin Raja Mohd. Yusof. District Judse. Perak North, has gone on leave prior to retirement. He is a direct descendant of Sultan Hussein who transfer r^d the island of Singapore to the British for
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      V.M.C.A. FREED AT KUALA LUMPUR
      27 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Kuala Lumpur V.M.C.A. has been derequisitioned. Plans are being made to cater for civilian and service people.
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      Supremo With V-Malayans
      96 5 Supremo With V -Malayans Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Sunday Adml. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South -East Asia, inspected the Malayan Victory Parade contingent m Kensington Gardens. and spoke to each man individually. Lord Louis, who was made a viscount m the King\ Brthday Honours on June 13. said
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      CSE WILL STEP INTO ENS As SHOES
      195 5 CSE WILL STEP INTO ENS As SHOES The arrival of Tommy Trinder m Singapore marks the last approaching d-ssolution of ENSA m South Asia. He will be the last artiste to leave early m August. The new entertainment organisation, known as Combined Services Entertainment, which is to provide entertainment for
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      WHITTLE WILL BUILD SUPER AIR FLEET
      286 6 THE Government is to build a new three-arm super-air fleet to replace all but the smallest aircraft of the RAF, the Fleet Air Arm and the civil air lines. And the job of building it has been given to Air-Com-modore Frank Whittle, Britain's No.
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      59 6 The Freedom of the City of London was recently conferred on three gr«.at war leaders, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Viscount Portal of Hunger ford. Here they are seen after the ceremony on the balcony of
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      CENTURY UP
      34 6 Muffet. a wh.te cat belonging to Mrs. J. Walter Kergujon of Azusa. California, has reached the 100-mark. Mattel's 99th and 100 th kittens arrived recently. the owner of the 11-year-old cat said.
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      QUIZ Answers
      35 6 1. Magenta— a brilliant crimson dye discovered soon after the battle fought between Nappolecn 111, and the Austr'ans at Magenta, m Northern Italy m 1859. 2 Liszt. 3. Neapolitan. 4. Mancunian 5. Mozart.
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      ENGAGED 40 yrs AGO, WED NOW
      110 6 FIRST engaged forty years ago, a Presbyterian minister and his sweetheart were married recently. When the bride— Miss Ethel Morgan, of Oakdene House. Pembroke gave her twenty-first birthday party, it marked also her engagement to Mr. David Milward. whose brother was pastor of the
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      P.T. ON IKES CITY SWORD
      78 6 BECAUSE General Eisenhower M could not come to London for the V Parade the City Corporation are faced with an export problem. They are to send the general the Eisenhower sword of honour recently completed, presented to him !n token when he was made a
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      BLACK LIST
      23 6 Paignton. Devon. Council are starting a "black list" of allotment holders who do not show satisfact y progress on their plots
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      CITY OF LONDON TO HOUSE 100,000
      159 6 MEW plans for the city of London to be pubPi lished soon will reveal that provision has L'cen made for an increase m the City's population from 5.000 to 100,000. Extensive requisitioning and buil«i ng of new blocks of flats are part of the
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      600 YEAR SPOON
      28 6 Still bearing traces of gilding. a spoon made m France m the 1300s and dredged from the Loire was sold for £110 at Sotheby's jLondon.
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      Deserters' wives get raw deal: MP
      182 6 A PLEA for the wives and families of soldiers musing and posted as deserters was made m the Commons when an M.P. suggested that dependants were being forced to live on public assistance and charity which they were really entitled to a pension as
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      Magnet got nail out of boy
      104 6 HIS airman father's knowledge of electricity saved the life of Roger Openshaw. aged 2' years, when the child popped a 2' m. nail into his month and down it went. Helped by another Air Force radio expert, L.A.C. J. E. Openshaw set to work
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      Legion seek security before pensions
      187 6 Legion seek security before pensions EX-SERVICE men and women of the last war are now more interested m employment, housing, food and security than they ar*. m pensions. Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice made this comment recently when he was re-elected president of the British Legion at the silver jubilee conference
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      'FANATIC' FIRED HIGH ALTAR
      87 6 THE high altar of the church of St. James. Aylestone. Leicester, was set on fire recently by an Intruder who broke m during the lunch hour. Th? fire-raiser believed by police to be a religious fanaticstarted five other fires, using a torn-uD Bible, banners and altar
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      GOODWILL MISSION
      29 6 Labour's goodwill mission to Russia next month will include Professor Laski. Mr. Harold Clay. Mic_ Alice Bacon. MP. and Mr. Morgan Phillips, secretary of the Labour Party.
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      GROWING UP
      19 6 Newcastle Local Government Reform Committee propose extending their boundaries to make the city Britain's sixth largest city.
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      £500,000 JOB
      15 6 Leith Dock Commission are to spend .£500.000 on improving and enlarging their docks.
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      231 6 CAPITOL'S MEMORABLE WEEK ENdT Never A Greater, Enthusiastic Gathering of Cinema Fans, Well-known Swimmers, Well-known Musicians, and Lovers of \rt And Beauty, To See, To Study and To Appreciate The Season's Finest S rm Offering OUR THANKS TO i THE SEASON GOES ON! 5 SHOWS DAILY /|1 AOlTfill 11a.m., 2p.m.,
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      69 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya J^^v^ /so rr wasS/because didn't} Pweu, rTs blownVoh ho!- x want -rT^ MEAN-YOU I mmW* S7 YOU'-BUT-/ WANT YOU TO NOW.'-COME ON-\CA"ICH The* RID HAH DED ME?/ \_\W WHY DIDN'T BARGE iH AND BLOW) WE'LL RUSH ROUND J TOMORROW NIGHT f-
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      TEST IN MOST INTERESTING POSITION
      536 7 TEST IN MOST INTERESTING POSITION LONDON, Sunday. .ct writers m Britain's Sunday newspapers topi l.- ,-rec on two things— that the first Test between rd India is m a most interesting and onen posrt a: IIMU the new England medium fast bowler \Ic C IV •> Flayed himself into England's
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      'PAT' SATISFIED
      188 7 LUrflXMf, Su;:. INDIA, a though put out m titxm hours and to ni:iiu es ft r acaetty 200. had the satis. a:t>on of fe.ting up a new record tn a test for ircua at Lords Leaun,' the figure of 183 m IC3J wri c Leaiy Constantine. Their captain,
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      TEST TRIAL
      31 7 LONDON. Sat. The Kent County Cricket Club have informed the M.CC. that they are prepared to undertake the Test tral at Canterbury on July 10. li and 12.- Reuter
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      ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR BOBBY LOCKE
      123 7 MANCHESTER. Sat. BOBBY Locke, 29-year-old South African golf champion, for the second time m a month has won another major British tournament the £1,500 three-day Brand-Lochrv event which ended here today. It was the last biT tournament before the British Open on July 1. Locke
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      INDIANS REST
      117 7 LONDON, Sun. The Indian cricketers, anxious to be m the b~st trim for continuing the Test nght with England tomorrow at the keenest itch, rested at their London i.otel today. Mr. Gupta, the manager, said rone of them intended to do anything else but take it easy. He
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      QUANDARY
      85 7 A photograph of one of cricket's rarest incidents two batsmen at one end, the wicket broken m an unsuccessful attempt to run out one of th; batsmen, the ball on the grout. d and tbe wicket-keeper helpless. Th is happened m a recent match m which the Indians were
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      COMMUNICATIONS WIN SULTAN CUP SOCCER
      552 7 THE final of the Sultan Inter-Port Association Football Cup. playtd at Blakan Mati on Friday, b2tween the Communications and Guard Transport Divisions ended m a fourone victory for Communications. Both teams had played hard games m the earlier rounds but the standard of play m
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      DINNY PAILS BEATEN IN FINAL
      255 7 DINNY PAILS BEATEN IN FINAL LONL'ON Sat AUSTRALIA'S numoer two. Uinny Palls. Wimbledon's 'set-ded" number one. losi a ternflf duel with Francisco Pancho" Segira colourful South American who r-u\kt number three tn »he United S.ites m the final of the London grass courts lawn tennis championships %t Queen's Club here
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      COUNTY CRICKET SCORES
      69 7 LONDON Sat. To-days County cricnet close of play scores are: At Buxton. Derbyshire 79 (Garlick 4 for 19 > Lancashire 235 for 6 (King 66, Place 88). At Brentwood. Essex :<23 for 9 declared (Averv 102) Northamptonshire 8 for 0. At Gloucester, Middlesex 152 (Goddard 6 for
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      RUSSIAN VICTORY IN RADIO CHESS
      74 7 LO NDON. Su:V TJUSSIA defeated Great Britain 18 ■i*- games to six m a four- day Chess match, played by radio which ended Saturday. Russia was defeated by an American team *n a similar tournament last year Mr. Botwinnik, the Soviet Champion and contender for
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      RECS WIN BY TWO RUNS AGAINST S.C.C.
      337 7 I\ESPITE a g ood bo W ii ng r e ff ort Dy Bishop who took six wickets for 22 runs, the S.C.c/lost to the Recs on the Police Depot ground yesterday, the match ending m a thrilling finish with the Recs* ahead
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORT
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      HOME...
      9 8 An English girl picks flowers m the meadows.
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      FRATERNISING THREAT TO OCCUPATION
      262 8 BREMEN, SUN. rRATERNISIXG by American soldiers with low-type Ger- man women is creating a grave risk that the entire purpose of the American occupation of Germany will be destroyed a United States Army Chaplain said today. Fraternisation has caused the men fn forget why the war
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      ARMY PLANS QUOTED BY MOSCOW
      182 8 ARMY PLANS QUOTED BY MOSCOW MOSCOW, Sunday ATASJ dispatch from Washington, today quoted th€ recent appropriations and the committee's appro vai cl a -even billion dollar annj budget which is "almost twfce greater than the War Department's peacetime budget. The dispat.h adds that the budget proposed by President Truman for
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      CALCUTTA PAPER ATTACKS SMUTS
      39 8 An attack m the Indian Nationalist newspaper Amrita Ba7aar calls Field Marshal Smuts -the chief perpetrator of shameful crimes against thousands of Indians who made South A f rica their home," says UP. from Calcutta.
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      EISENHOWER TELLS HOW WE DID IT
      533 8 EISENHOWER TELLS HOW WE DID IT WASHINGTON, Sunday. GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER, U.S. Army Chief of Staff and formerly Supreme Allied Commander m Western Europe, m a massive 123 page report on the sweep of his American and British armies from Normandy to the Elbe, stated that America and Britain worked
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      THEY WANT TO JOIN THE EMPIRE
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