The Singapore Free Press, 26 June 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press The Singapore Free Press y. Ks'> SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    S'PORE WILL BE EMPIRE RADIO LINK
    316 1 S'PORE WILL BE EMPIRE RADIO LINK By HARRY MILLER, Free Press Reporter (SINGAPORE is to be the centre of a vast Imperial radio link between the United Kingdom and Australia. I understand that the Imperial Government plans to set up a powerful broadcasting relay station m Singapore, to link the
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    American Army to keep officers
    154 1 I WASHINGTON, Tues. i to ease the lives of American other weed ty Secretary of War James P** 1 terminal leave pay for other ranks, curbing of saluting, arid limitation h eal for officers to \ve:ir distincD n t r men and confiie their 1
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    ARMED MEN HIT AGAIN
    104 1 ARMED MEN HIT AGAIN YET another daylight robbery took place yesterday when three Chinese, two armed with pistols, held up the inmates of a house m Bras Easah Read, Singapore, and got away with $450 cash. About $130 m cash and $90 worth of iewellerv was robbed from the occupiers
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    ITALY: BIG 4 DISAGREE
    32 1 ITALY: BIG 4 DISAGREE LKio, i I gn Ministhe m n r n drait d a i .o this i rta r. h Mr Ernest bare dea] and it n tj ir.e
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    BURMA HOME CUARD
    20 1 Ii latest step a v. have teen m ei^ht acoits have V I d or captured, Rangoon.
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    GETS GEORGE MEDAL
    33 1 The George Medal has been awarded to Edmund Per?ra. a house servant m Klmbulapitya estate, Na'jombo, Ceylon, who rescued four airme n f-om a blazing aeroplane, reports Reuter from London.
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    MOSLEMS ACCEPT INTERIM GOVERNMENT
    154 1 NEW DELHI, Taes. THE All-Inda Moslem League ha agreed to join the interim Indian Government proposed di the Britsh Cabinet Mission a.d Viceroy Lord Wavell, it was announced by the League secretary, Nawabxada Khan. af. A. Jinnah, president or the League, talked w th WJ^gg^ the
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    A TRISHA MEETS A JEEP AND...
    127 1 There arc more than 3,000 t: is has on the road m Singapore. Everyday they aye involved m accidents with military and civil traffic. In th s Army Film Unit picture trisha and jeep hay» had an 'argument* and a military and chil policeman
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    House sits 20 hrs, longest since '36
    164 1 House sits 20 hrs, longest since '36 LONDON, Tues. THE chimes of Big Ben were ringing out 11 a.m. when 2">o hollow-eyed unshaven Members of Parliament trooped out of the Commons chamber this morning after the longest session for ten years. It had lasted 20 hours 28 minutes. It was
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    58.000 JAPS LEAVE
    17 1 rttty-eight thoi :and Japanese have new been evacuated from Java, says Reuter from Batavia.
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    CHANGI FIRE THREA TENS EXPLOSIVES
    70 1 CHANGI FIRE THREA TENS EXPLOSIVES IN explosive store at Changi Air- 1 oort was threatened when a children's borjfire spread to laUangs nearby at abort 6 pjn yesterday. The airport crash tend°i attack-. Ed Immediately, but as a steady breeze fanned the flames toward the ezolosive store the R.A.F. called
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    AMBASSADOR IN SINGAPORE
    64 1 Sir Horn co Seymour, retiring Ambassador from Nankin o',0 arrived m Singapore aboard H.M.S. Anson on his way home to U.K. Lrdv Seymour is expected by 'plene. Sir Horace and Lady Seymour will stay at Buklt Serene as guests of Lord and Lady Killearn. Sir Horace will
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    15 FLY THIS PLANE
    45 1 The United States announced yesterday completion of the world's largest land-based bomber, says U.P. from Washington. The plane has six 3,000 horse power engines en the trailing edge of its 230-ioot wings! It requires a crew of 15 to fly it.
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    10 warships lie off Trieste
    245 1 TRIESTE, Tues. THE possibility of an explosion from the inter- national trouble-spot of Treste has been emphasis d by the arrival of ten British and U.S. warships m the Gulf of Venice. One of these ships is ihe heavily armed, 10,000 ton cruiser, Fargo, reports
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    6 MORE JAPS HANGED AT CHANGI
    147 1 6 MORE JAPS HANGED AT CHANGI FCR torturing and killing Andaman Island civilians during the occupation, six Japanese were hanged on 'he Changi gallows this morning. They were: Chief Petty Ofticer Nagaoso Hirio, Petty Officer Tada Miyashi, Chief Petty Officer Azaki Sukuichi. Civ;! Administrator Mitsubashi Mataichi. civilian interpre er Hashida
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    BNB AGREES TO SELL
    92 1 Shareholder! of the British North Borneo C mpany, one of the last great chartered treoinc nomnanles which contributed > much to the building up ot the British Colon:::] Emnlre m the 17th. itth and 19th centuries, yesterday oar: d ti hand over the Oomoany'f I iterate
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    U.K. IMPORTS LP ON 1939
    71 1 BONO KOXG, Tues. TRADE figures for the first five 1 months of 1945 chow that Hongkong is reg: Ining its pre-war eminence. Imports are already higher than m 1239. An improved trade with Malaya is recorded. Imports for the January- May period totalled £13.968.750, compared
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • Article, Illustration
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      13 2 Lun.i J p n°r, the artguMl sweater pirl makes a very iin^ clothes-horse.
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      Britain must have a car race track
      926 2 Says CHARLES FOTHERGILL gEFORE the war the visit of the German Mercedes-Eenz and AutcUnion racing cars at'. rae t :d to Donington Park, m D royshire. a crowd of nea y 100,000 who paid £12,100 m admission and car parkin* fees, to experience
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      The unending war against plague
      569 2 The unending war against plague IT is the British Army's boast that during the 1939-45 war it was the world's healthiest army as well as the healthiest amy that Britain has ever put into the field. For this it has to thank the Army School of Hygiene at Kaogh Barracks,
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      147 2 I. B. T. (L08D0N) LTD. 4, Dra pers' Gardens, London E. C. 2. Cables: Ibctexport London Manufacturers. Distributors Exporters. Solicit enquiries for MEDICAL, SURGICAL OPTICAL SUPPLIES CHEMISTS* SUNDRIES GENERAL MERCHANDISE. (Piano Concerto If. \f. V. recordings MJTIR SCHNABEL. P.ano uitU London Philharmonic Orchestra, ttec'hoven Concert j No. 1 m C
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      156 2 COLOURFUL t ALL M\l \> W PRIMIEtf TONIGHT MIDNIGHT ALHAMBRA From the St v miracle *M<MI V A JHOOU' (now tmaa i D Bombay 1 HINDI -*TV\! M Imm* "B AS ANT" From Kitchen Maid to Mil of —from the mmmW t« the Bi? W* It's a soul waring man
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      70 2 mflndrdKC Exclusive m Malaya to the Singapore Free Press I I NEARBY. HIDDEN IN BUSHES. 11l ti I I I SUDDENLY, A PIGEON FLIES MANDRAKE I ALMOST NOON I POUtf 4LSO M/r- MAYBE H |#1| OUT OF THE SKY- fg> M/ 75 47 7W£ SB< KIDNAPPERS <»C^S^& AREN'T L iJpJ^^L
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    • Miscellaneous
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      188 2 dfdfdfd SINGAPORE RED NEIWORK from ooon to 2 pjn. and Jf U 11 pm on 225 metres from noon to 2 pm on 4.825 mes see In 61 metre band and from 7.45 to 9.30 pjn on 4.78 msc/see kn 61 metre band CHINESE noon to 1.15 i»m (news m
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      119 2 ENGLISh i pir. tc t JJB <«___■ at 130 pm and 8 pa np* cxrept ot. Sur.d^ys afierofl session open* at 5 son y^ lines at 8 H I v:3Goa» TONIGHTS tHGtILIGSTS 8 18 pm Ar 8 32 p.m. H Shackle Clu?j -:mu shore" a E pp. grammr. B. B.
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  • PICTURE PAGE
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      THE NAVY THROWS A CHILDREN'S PARTY
      111 3 tta Ktn threw a if 3 war?/ for Dutch children at Medan vjmatra recently. .v#l?isrs were hosts too. Here a Sc,t! wins m some football. 15 idw, the swine was popular. a The jeep train, driven Vv Lt. Cdr A. Tyson. Senior Vaval Officer
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press WENESDAY,JUNE 26, 1946.
      481 4 BRITAIN is making a spectacular industrial recovery, to judge by the export report for May. which snows that the rate of exports has mor? than doubled" m the last six months, rising from fifty per cent of the 1938 nonthtf average volrm? for
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      THE MAN WHO CAME BACK
      1806 4 MAJOR "X" was demobbed recently. Now he's back m the Army, m Singapore. "Yes," he writes, "it was marvellous to see the old folks at home to say all those things that could never be said m letters yes, it was wonderful; but that doesn't
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      621 4 NO. 1 SALESMAN m the Middle East is now George Ritchie Rice. Ihe official title of this G4-year-old civil _*ervant is Director-General of tht? British Stores Disposal Mission and he is responsible for liquidating all Army and Navy stores accumulated m the Middle Eastern countries during the
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      'Hell-Ship' Versus Troopship
      243 4 'Hell-Ship' Versus Troopship Leliera^M To Km* TN vi. v. 1 r«P^t -c. ship' c the poor on the L. would you romm< This C East last to come to tak-' given us. V, j Castle v I should civilian.-: h aboard the with only 6 It is sta* passeneer were
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      FAITH
      14 4 The Lord h them that nil that Mm »P° n truth Psalm* J^J^X
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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      34 4 THE PEKING CO. Cull und Inspect our ivide range of: CURIOS JEWELLERY PEKING CARPETS •JADS <5c IVORY CARVINGS. iMrze Selection of: CAMPHOR CHESTS 6c BOXES •embroidered LINENS etc., etc. Ho. 81, HI6H ST. SPORE.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      73 4 QUIZ You start with a three -lettered word. Add on one letter and re-arrange to answer the second clue. Add another letter, rearrange and make a word to answer the third clue, and so on (a) Infant or nn < three -letter word). (b) Legal wrong (four-letter word). (c) Hunted
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      U.K.'s IMPORTS TO S'PORE DUBLED
      274 5 U.K.'s IMPORTS TO S'PORE DUBLED U,/00,OOOIn Vehicles Free Pre ss Reporter Mav T o„ t Si r ffaPOre fr m the United Kingdom during 'frthTJ^L*^ Were the hi^est since the Kb* ome a, lf ri r C 25 Üb e thoSe for A P" > according to monttVv*^ P assed
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      27 5 t:» -v Ii :e i st-olls on ihe of th> Anuitania. en r.a-rmuda with »he Bri-ti-h Parliamentary Delegation i- co-f rrin-r with Emplt and I" S. leaders
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      MAIL TO MALAYA -A QUESTION
      93 5 MAIL TO MALAYA -A QUESTION A .1 vi passenger liners ft liners leaving BriMalaya were from liver- :.z via Cochin, and two London, wuich sailed Sal \.»:er of Transport. Mr. Barnea s ating this Commons y?sterre^iv to a lid mans for Malaya Tied by two ships from d by one
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      SELETAR MURDER INDIAN CHARGED
      40 5 SELETAR MURDER INDIAN CHARGED I Maxlappaii, was yes- charged with the murP Kandlah, an Indian ed by the RAF n Sunday night. Hah was killed while asith a number cf other inside a communal hut cooUc lines of the RAF.
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      MISS HONG KONG
      40 5 i KONG, Tuej— Jet-hair: d I Mlai Lee Lan, 23, was I Heng Ko^g, before a 3 000 m the colony's ty contst. <ur> and a watch were d to her by La^v Youns. the Governor. U.P.
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      SHB To Pay Cost Of Living Allowance
      167 5 SHB To Pay Cost Of Living Allowance JHE Singapore Harbour Board has decided to pay a cost of living allowance to all its staff who are not members of the provident fund— that is. men who receive less than $250 a month. The staff has been divided into three grcups:
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      3 BUS THIEVES SENT TO JAIL
      113 5 Six Chinese— Ng Ah Huat, Leong Ah San, Tham Wing Chin. Fung Ah Luk, Lian Chiew Chuan and 13-year-old Sim Teow Koon were found guilty of loitering and frequenting buses with the intention of committing theft at Singapore yesterday. Leong, Tham, Fung ard Lian
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      JUST A 'PIE-DREAM'
      30 5 r -ar industry's foreI 6.G.0 000 cars annually :t ti.e years was called ream"' by Walter Reuther. U ci the C.1.0. United c ays U.P. from Detroit.
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      SCHEME TO AID CHINESE ABROAD
      115 5 CHINESE v...0 returned to Cli.na during the war from Malaya, Burma and Indo-China are being assisted to return to th.ir overseas homes by the Chinese Government and UNRRA' While UNRRA has undertaken to send them out ot the China border free of charge, the Chinese
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      Defence Services Eligible For Arrears
      340 5 THE following is a list of Civil Defence organisations and essential services to which the scheme of payment of arrears of salaries to members for the period up to and including Feb. 15, 1942 applies: m Passive Defensive Services formed under the Fassive D'ence Regulations,
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      'DEATH' RAILWAY GUARD TO HANG
      136 5 HAYASHI Eiahun, a Korean camp guard on the Siarn Burma "Death" railway, was yesterday sentenced to d.at.h by hanging on being found l guilty of inhumane treat ment of an Australian prisoner whom he violently kicked m the stomach, with fatal results. The trial was
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      PRESIDENT SHIP DUE
      57 5 Scott E. Land, one of the first I ships to sail under the charter of 'American President Lines, is rx- pected to call at Singapore m the course of her maic-en voyage toj wards the end of July. She has I a gross tonnage of 10.684 tons
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      AUSTRALIAN FOOD FOR U.K.
      47 5 )i l h h r P a >»n?-off pennant s teaming from her mai.unast,. the aircraft-carrier Implacable arrives at Devon po rt from Australia. Stowed on board wrre 17,000 cases of fool for Britain, brought from Australia at the request of th* Government.
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      Mayan PoW Left £2,600 To Friends
      256 5 WRAYLEIGH, ESSEX, Tues. ARRANT Officer Ronald Raven, R.A.0.C., who ded In a Japanese prison camp m Malaya m 1943 at the age of cL m a e a W i" bef re leaVing hls home m Western Road, Rayleigh for Singapore. In this will,
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      CHINESE TRY TO KIDNAP TOWKAY
      55 5 CHINESE TRY TO KIDNAP TOWKAY Free Press Correspondent PENANG.-A kdnapping attempt by four Chinese youths, who went In a car to the home of a prominent Chinese towkay m Anson Road. Penang was foiled. W T hen a police «patrol car arr: ed, the pan had made £"od their escape.
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      K.L RADIO TELLS STORY OF ARMY IN MALAYA
      168 5 K.L RADIO TELLS STORY OF ARMY IN MALAYA LT -GEN. Sir Frank W. Messervy K.8.E., CB., D.5.0.. last night opened a series ot broadcasts from Radio Malaya <K.L.i m the form of plays telling the story of rehabilitat on m Malaya. In following weeks at the same time on Tuesdays
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      3 DIED IN NEWS OFFICE FIRE
      49 5 The Evening Fost Mercury whose plant was pertly destroyed by fire at Shanghai r»pp?ared yesterday as a four instead of an eieht-page paper printed on prsses of the Chine-e-own^d Enelish language daily the Daily Tribune. Three Chinese died m the fire A. P.
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      TEXTILES FOR SINGAPORE
      187 5 TEXTILES are to be distributed m Singapore by a Govern-ment-sponsored system which will cover as widely as possible commercial houses, co-operative soc et ies, Goveniment departments and other institutions. The date of, and quantity for, distribution are not given, m the o^cel announcement. The various Chambers oi
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      Jungle Girl Gets Medal
      135 5 Miss Nona Bak<r, mr only English girl guerilla m Malaya during the Jap oc.-upation, fi; ur s in a list ut additional Kin.'s bi*thda> honours announced yesterday. Miss Baker has been awarded th« M.B.E. (Civil Division). In December 1941, wh.-n the Japanese invaded Maja>a. Miss Baker
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      8180,000 BAIL FOR DETECTIVES
      179 5 BAIL tola i.ng $13.7,00 *as fixed by Mr. H. A. Foi rer, presiding m the Seventh Police Court yesterday, ;.t the conclusion of the inquiry into hurt charges against Sycd Hussein Ali Alsagoff, Ignatius Carvalho and P. Bsppmh, all three accused being committed to stand their
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      NINETY MORE
      31 5 Singapore hotels are -xpecting another rush for ac^ommndation with the arrival of "Charon" (font Fremantle tomorrow morning. The ship is carrying a ootnplement of about 90 passengers tor Singapore.
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      UNCLE MAC IN CAIRO
      34 6 li;.le Mac of the BBC's Children's Hour, visited Cai.o re en tly and cot to know the children there. Here he is seen relaying messages for young lis'encrs m England.
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      'UK leads world in industrial revival'
      178 6 BRITAIN is recovering from her war wounds more quickly than any other country m the world and industrially we axe more ahead m many respects. This claim based on Board of Trade figures, was made by Mr. George Gibson, chairman of the North- Weste.n
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      £1,750,000 ORDER
      37 6 Mr. Walter Nash. Deputy Prime Ministe* of New Zealand, announjed during a visit to the Stafford works of the English Electric Company that his Government had placed an order worth £1,750.00 C with the firm.
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      3 YEARS WORK
      28 6 A. V. Roe aid Co.. Ltd.. Manchester, have enough order to keep their Chadderton and Woodford factories working lor the next three years at least.
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      Tired Waiter Gets College Education
      87 6 CEVENTKfN year-old Oxford restaurant wait:r John Vaama* ney serve 1 t'-S. Colonel James Ho. vi 11 cf Bitmingbam, Michigan, with 'dinner for one" and w^»s rewarded with -college educa ion m America. The Colon 1 noticed John's drooping shoullers a~d asked: "Are you ti:ed?" John
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      BRITAIN BUYING BELGIAN BRICKS
      63 6 Orders for 60,000.000 bricks have been placed m Belguim by a purchasing commission on behalf of ths British Government, and further orders are expected. The bricks will ba used foi housing ani oth«?r priority work They will be distributed by the Government. Present orders represent about
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      INVESTIGATION ON DEOLALI
      64 6 Three parties— each consisting of an officer, a senior N.C.O. and two British other ranks which were sent to investigate condit ons at the Homeward Bound Trooping Depot, Deolali. have just submitted their renorts. They conclude that complaints concerning food, iimenities and accommodation have no real basis.
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      NAVY DEFENDS COST OF ATOM TEST
      423 6 NAVY DEFENDS COST OF ATOM TEST BIKINI ATOLL, Tues. FE U.S. NAVY has defended the expense of the niymic bomb tests next month and denied that the costs will soar above half a billion dollars even though the operation does compare m the number of ships, personnel and supply problems
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      RAF, ARMY WOULD NOT BE'BEARERS'
      206 6 RAF, ARMY WOULD NOT BE 'BEARERS' AN order that Service men returning from Jndia should handle baggage belonging to first-class civilian passengers was cancelled after N.C.O.'s had refused to detail their men. This was disclosed at Liverpool when the 20,000-ton liner Franconia arrived from Bombay. An R.A.F. sergeant said that,
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      SAILORS CAN'T TAKE IT
      111 6 AMERICAN seamen who are said by their captain to be "overfed" have threatened to stage a stay-in strike rather than live on British rations. The idea of havine only one egg with their breakfast bacon for a few days while they wait for a homebound ship
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      FUTURE AMERICANS
      35 6 Over 100 JewUh boys and girls from Czechoslovakia, who arrived at Newhaven, will s^end a month ir camp near London and then go to America tc be trained as citizens of the U.S.
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      Film actor routs angry club women
      154 6 BRITISH film actor George Sanders recently laced angry U.S. club women ccme to demand an apology Iter film insults and added S3mc more of his own. They gasped as he told them: "I like the oriental idea of keeping women m harems." When he
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      WOMAN IS SHOT IN KING'S HOUSE
      181 6 IN a London mansion she was netting ready for King George I of Greece a woman has been found murdered. She was Miss Elizabeth Maclindon, ajred about 40. Her body lay m a locked room on the ground-floor of the house m Chestersquare, Westminster.
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      60 5 SUNDAY SOth JUNE 1946 J^S BOXING -HAPPY WORLD 8.45 PM. M**mß I****7 MR- N. L LIM PRESENTS THE YEAR'S BIGGEST <# t- >^X BOX OFFICE ATTRACTION *2§ '"\w > TEDDY LEE t ;iw£^*te\ BRITISH K.O. KING QF THE R NAVY) 'LA Former 147 lbs. Champion Siamese K.O. King Jjjg 1
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      219 6 KAGLE-UOf PRESENTS A STIRRING VIVID DRAMATIC HIT: "NOEL COWARD SCORES AGAIN" 'hmW?-*^^*- ita a 1 *mWk N* ~1 W mmmmmlPe/ -A%\ --M jhpJlia!. y^ /-M\X X^MP-Z' r -A-Mm-—-m *3 _T?m m M^^^ mm _P^ j| ml mi-i ifai m xm fij m Ami Iv JP Bf ™r^ HOUOWAY^^ t J
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      BETTY NUTHALL WINS AT WIMBLEDON
      303 7 BETTY NUTHALL WINS AT WIMBLEDON w| WIMBLEDON, Tues. cUI) pr v.ir Wimbledon tennis fawurte-— Betty NuthiU j il M. Anhfeu, France,— renewed rivalry when t in the first round of the women's singles Jl v. sa paying the fi-st match since returning recently and whi?e both lacked the oldtime 4
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      CHINESE ATHLETIC v JOHORE TODAY
      98 7 CHABITI socctr ma.en between 1 the Cheese Athletic und the Johore State XI will take Oi&ce at Jalan Besar ihMlr— to-day. ki '-.-oil at 5.15 p.m. The fallowing are th-> teams: Chinese Athletic: Wai Mun: Chin C- k S-*p? Que Chwee Leng. Thian Teck. Chwee
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      AMICABLE B. P.
      53 7 The Amicjle Badinint m Party will begin sports activities from Jury, and all former numbers are a-ked to communicate with Mr. Rober* Tan. or *ith Mr. Tan Chwee Yoog, c o Singapore Municipal Rates DrparUMOl or tn Mr. Low Poh Hve c o Black Cat Book Store.
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      U.S. Wins Cup
      23 7 Misa Parlin? Beta (I'.S.V) r.nd Mrs. Jean Nicoll Rostock photographed before their WWhtman (up match which the American girl won.
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      ALL COUNTY MATCHES END DECISIVELY
      217 7 LONDCT Tues. ALL County cricket games ended decisively to-day, and among the winners were Yorkshire, with an innings Victory over Notts, and Middlesex, who beat Gloucester by 13a runs. Lancashire, having won on Monday, still lead m the champicnship tabic with 100 points, with Vcrk
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      SEVEN FOR 18 AT TANGLIN
      190 7 \T TANGLIN BARRACKS on Sunday afternoon 11 Port Operating Group "B" team will and truly brat Ordnance Directorate by tax wickets. The bowling of Barnes who took seven wickets for 18 runs *nd the fourth-wicket partnership of Pairhull and Carter for 38 runs were the
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      TEN-WICKET VICTORY FOR ENGLAND
      718 7 TEN-WICKET VICTORY FOR ENGLAND LONDON, Tues. ENGLAND beat India by 10 wickets m the first Test match at Lord's to-day. India's second innings closed with 275 runs on the board leaving England to get 48 to win. They had 37 minutes m which to knock up this total before lunch,
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      SCOREBOARD
      442 7 Reuter minutes but the next bail beat and bowled him He hit five lours m a very good innings. Nayudu, restraining his natural hitting inclination till now, pulled Bedser for a 'our out the Surrey man bowled him m the next over and the innings i which had lasted
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      WRESTLING RESULTS
      112 7 AT last Saturday's wrestling at the Great World Jeff Conda knocked out Dara Singh m ths fifth round. Singh created a sensation when he pinned Conda In the second round. The next two rounds saw plenty of rough play, but this ended m round five when Conda threw
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      TAN TOCK SENG WINS 3-2
      37 7 IN a return game of socrer played at the General Hospital ground, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Eleven defeated their keen rivals, the Kandang Kerbau Hospital, by the ode! goal 'm five.
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      ENGLAND RUGBY TRIAL
      166 7 •THE final England trial m preparaI tion for the Services International Rugby tournament will take place at Seletar R.A.F. ground at 5 p.m. tomorrow. The following teams have been selected. PROBABLES C.P.O. Taylor (RN), L.A.C. Clapman (RAF), Lt.Col. Roy Ley land (Army), Pte. E. Eccleston (Army), F/Sgt.
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      95 7 Feb. 19. 1945 FLEET ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ'S TASK FORCE Landed on IWOJIMA i dred ani Fifty miles from the heart of Japan IN TECHNICOLOR Om Standard 35 MM. Equipment amphibious operation was filmed and now the ft EARS OV SINGAPORE WILL SEE A HEAR ski Chronicle of Inconceivable Daring and
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      6 8 Londoners shopping m Bu.iingto.i Arcade.
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      £4-10s a Week for learners
      104 8 SHEFFIELD, Tues. rX-servfc.men who were prevented by the war from 1; arnin? a trade are wanted by the cutlery industry for trainin-; to become craftsm n. During their appr-*nti:eship sta^e thry will receive K.i 10s. wetklv The sehime has b.en started by the industry a*
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      70 INQUIRE INTO JP's POSITION
      164 8 70 INQUIRE INTO JP's POSITION LONDON, Tue-. DRIME Minister Clemeat I Attlce axmounc din ih Commons today that a X yal Commission was t;> te set v i With Lo:d dv Parcq cs Cha rman to consider th? posittcn ct' Justices of the Peace. The commission w.ll be asked v
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      NO WORK DEMOBS WARNED: 800,000 STAY OUT
      259 8 NO WORK DEMOBS WARNED: 800,000 STAY OUT LONDON, Tues. DEMOBILISED men who are waiting fer executive jobs or to open shops instead of taking up productive work werr warned last night by Mr. Shinwell, Minister of Fuel and Power. He said "They will discover, m due course, unfortunately, and I
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      STORMS SWEEP UK, FLOODING
      52 8 Thunder, hail and rainstorms swept man v parts of England yesterday. Hooding roads and houses. At Dover, roads resembled rivers and there was heavy thunder and lightning. Folkestone hed hailstones like pebbles. At Thorpe. Norwich, lightning hit the electricity power station, cutting oft current over a
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      TRACING EUROPE'S RAILWAY STOCK
      58 8 Delegates at yesterday's meeting of tne European central inland transport organisation were told that 60.121 locomot.ves, 07,797 passenger coaches and 1.100.319 goods wag'/ofls have been provisonallv identified. The task of this organisation is to trace rolling stock and inland shipping scattered throughout Europe and return it
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      BADMINTON CAPTAIN WEDS IN S'PORE
      44 8 The wedding took place on Saturday before the Registrar of Marriages of Mr. Yap Chin Tee and Miss Josephine Seng Kirn Heok Mr. Yap is captain of the Singapore badminton team and a member of the Devonshire Badminton Party.
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      'PEACE IF U.S. ENDS CHINA AID'
      112 8 A DEMAND that Ame: lan forces quit China and the United States stop all aid to Chinese un.il peace, order and a coalition is attained was made at a news conference by Dr. Tao Heng-chi, president of the school for refuee children, says A.P.
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      Drug woman left £25, 000 to Dr
      462 8 Drug woman left £25, 000 to Dr LONDON, Tues. A LEGACY of £25,000 and the payment of £10,000 m one year to a Harley Street surgeon were mentioned at Uie St. Pancras inquest on the Hon. Miss Leslie Gully, ha.'fsister of Viscount Sclby and the graad-dauffcter of a former speaker
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      NEW JAP CASH
      54 8 AMERICAN forces m Japan are to eet a new military currency. This is an attempt to control the How of money to the United States which already has exceeded $35,000,000. Americans are said to be sending more money than they arc collecting over the pay tables, reports
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      QUERIES ON INDIAN ARMY FAY
      243 8 LONDON, Tues. JN the House of C mm ns yesterday C. Duncan (Cons. Perth) asked the I Under Secretary for locha what steps are contemplated to extend to pensioned British efficers and other ranks of the Indian Army the improvements recently announced for equivalent ranks
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      NAVY SIGHT ZION SHIP
      228 8 J ,300 A board JERUSALEM. Tue?. IT was officially announced tonijrht that the refugee ship Beauharr.as carrying 1.300 illegal immigrants tn Palestine, has been sighted b| the British navy 150 m les off Ha fa. A Panamanian ship, the Beauharnais left Vado harbour m the Gulf
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      FRANCE APPROVES U.S. ATOM PLAN
      38 8 Alexandre Parodi, French dels gate, told the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission yesterday that his government approved m principle the United States plan for atomic control and for outlawing the atomic bomb. A.P.
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      9 COMMUNIST SEATS IN CZECH GOVT
      41 8 Communists will get nine o! the 2G ministerial pests m the new Czech government, it was indicated yesterday as the premier designate, Klement Qottwald. renewed his efforts, to form a government, reports a.p. from Prague.
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      BIG 4 TURN DOWN AUSTRALIA'S CLAIM
      34 8 The Big Four foreign ministers at the proposal of Boy et Foreign Minister, Molotov, yesterday turned down Austria's claims foi frontier revision wi.h Italy, says U.P. from Paris.
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