The Singapore Free Press, 16 July 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE ererer• >. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. JULY 16, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS,
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    DALTON PROMISES MORE FOOD
    375 1 Loan L JVill Mean Limited Imports Increase LONDON, Mon. AS President Truman signed the Anglo-American loan agreement in Washington, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton told the Commons that Britain would be able to buy foodstuffs to give a more varied diet and, also, to carry
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    The Singapore Free Press
    138 1 raiiK Owen's I -n > rehimn 'CioDi whi:h appea r ed u the fo mrr Series i r *r XT -publis'ifd in :«T! rt v a> 15th— ill t r »i the Sit- apore Free i t e r suit of an n BTTrt «th the
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    26 Wagons Derailed
    62 1 Loaded wagons piled on ton of each other when the engine and 26 tracks or a freight train were derailed at WootUn Bassett, near Swindon, Wiltshire, blocking the up and down main line to South Wales, Bristol and Rath The guard, Albert Hawkins of Southall, Middlesex, was
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    HENDERSON WON'T GO TO BURMA
    42 1 A suggestion by Lt-Col Rees Williams, the Labour MP who toured Malaya with Capt. Gammans, that Burma Under Secretary Arthur Henderson should visit Burma was turned down in the House of Commons yesterday, says Reuter from London.
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    WREN'S GEMS PAWNED BY MURDERER
    81 1 WREN'S GEMS PAWNED BY MURDERER LONDON, Mon. PAWNBROKERS from Bourne- mouth attended an identification parade in London yesterday to see if they could pick out the man who had pledged jewellery belonging to Doreen Marshall. ex-WREN found murdered in Branksome Dene Chine. Another development was that "Peter" reported to the
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    26 PENS TO SIGN LOAN
    176 1 DRESIDENT Truman?' llf^UM presence of an unprecedented number of British diplomats ard American political i?adprs tonight signed at the White House the Congress bill approving the £937,500,000 loan to Britain. He called it a major step in revising and expanding world trade. President Truman said
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    RUSSIANS FREE U.S. HOSTAGES
    49 1 BERLIN. Tues.— The Russians v arly today released two Ameri:ans held for 15 days for enterntj the Soviet zone of occuoation without permit. MaJ.-Gen. Frank Seating, commander of the UJS. Ustrict of Berlin, said yesterday hat the two Americans were >?in* "held as hostages.' A.P.
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    Mauretania Sails For Home Today
    118 1 Mauretania Sails For Home Today |HK °>4,000-tcn Cunard- While S'ar 1 ner Mauretania leaves i -»r the United Kingdom this afternoon with 4,800 Service r -^n »nd 105 civilians aboard. compares with the complement of just over 1,000 uch she arrived from England on Saturday. The Services departures clear fcr,e
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    EXPRESS IS DERAILED
    43 1 LONDON. J.ion. fl n from London to was derailed at I miles north cf London. laj ni^ht. and the two •aches were flung on i, tir e breaking out in •u.siy injured passenf rescued by service'JJn* on the train A.P.
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    2 HURT BY BOMB
    17 1 I 91 were injured when exploded yesterday in :ib of AhT»edabad, from Bombay
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    PETER IN PARIS?
    30 1 Ex-K'ne Peter of Yugoslavia was X inPlris incognito on^Monriav niaht. according to tne SKce. who refused to d lS cK>s3 inis whereabouts, reports AJ*. T .Tom Paris
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    Russian spies at work in Canada
    206 1 Russian spies at work in Canada OTTAWA, Mon. THE fourth and final report of the Royal Commission on 1 espionage today charged that there exists a spy system in Canada and that in it there are several spy rings. The 250,000-word document tabled in the Commons by Prime Minister MacKenzie
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    MIHAILOVITCH: 8½hrs TO APPEAL
    175 1 BELGRADE. Mon. GENERAL Draja Mihailovich, U the Yugoslav guerilla leader, was today given eight and a half hours in which to appeal against the sentence of death before p. firing squad. The Ch°t"ik leader and the ten *o-&et*ti A *r.U sentenced with htow to face the
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    MARINES CLASH OFF JAVA
    143 1 MARINES CLASH OFF JAVA B ATA VIA. Mon. DUTCH marines who landed on Madura Island off Java's northwest coast retired after a clash with the local forces. According to the official Dutch statement the marines landed to take a coal-lighter from the port of Kamal to Soerabaya. They did not
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    STILL ANGRY
    41 1 Addressing Japanese press men in Tokio yesterday Mr. Alvary Gascolgne, British Liaison mission chief, told the Japs the British were still "most incensed at the destruction caused by Jananese forces, their atrocities and their manner of waging war.' Reutec
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    MALAY HAD REVOLVER AMMO
    145 1 MALAY HAD REVOLVER AMMO ONE thousand nine hundred rou'"is of British .38 revolver ammunition were recovered by ttingapore detectives at noon yesterday near the cooly hnes of the Sewerage Works in Alexandra Road. Acting on information, the detectives kept watch, and a Malay was seen taking out a large and
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    UNO SECRETARY FOR MOSCOW
    145 1 OSLO, Mon. Dr. Trygve Lie, Secrecary-Gtn-eral of the United Nations, announced today he will leave Osio Moscow on July 21 on an unofficial visit to mfet leading Sovie, siate^jnen. Dr. Lie said h? hal ns yt received the final decision about the date of the United
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    SIKHS BOYCOTT PLAN
    48 1 The 4,000,000 strong Sikh community decided unanimously at a representative meeting at Lahore yer.erday to boycott the the Constituent Assembly to determine India's future constitution which was proposed by the British Cabinet mission and accented by the Hindus and the Moslems says Reuter from India.
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    WHAT PENICILLIN CANNOT CURE
    703 2 CIR Alexander Fleming, discoverer of Penicillin, winner of the Nobel prize for medicine and Irequently hailed as the greatest medical scientist since Louis Pasteur, today is busily working in his London laboratory "trying 10 discover something better nan Penicillin." The small, white-haired blue-eyed scientist is trying
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    COLOUR AS AID TO OUTPUT
    216 2 COLOUR AS AID TO OUTPUT RAPID progress has been made :n Britain since the end of World War II in artificial lighting research and design. Certain materials, h therto employed only to a very limited extent or not t all. have responded well ♦*> their tests as to usefulness as
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    TOWN HALL NOW A RESIDENCE
    45 2 HANDS WORTH Old Tov;n Hall. which dates from the 16t- 1 century and is one of Hirmin oham's oldest buildings, has been repaired ard converted int-j rrrtdfnce It has been used for may purposes during its histor;-. including a jail.
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    44 2 Cur Pi..-i!> z ri tctlay is Njiicey Saundtrs, whos* ambition .as to crash i.ito the movies :ad from her delighted expression she did for Wxnccy has be«n even a part in RKO Radio's ••Wh*»t Ifftneef Wanted," in which Larraine Day plays the title role.
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    BRITISH SHIPS FOR NORWAY
    96 2 BRITISH SHIPS FOR NORWAY TCANUIN AVIAN orders received v by British shipping industry include two 1,500 ton oil- tankers for Norway, and one 800 ton cargo vessel for Sweden. Big strides in rebuilding (Jit. merchant shipping strength was revealed in statistics published in Lloyds list recently. gures show that despite
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    CSE replaces ENSA in troops' en tertainment
    706 2 CSE replaces ENSA in troops en tertainment rEN Mr. Glenvil Hall, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, announced that Service Departments were to become responsible for their own entertainment after the closing down of ENSA in August, troops overseas became worried, lest they should become fair game for the "artistes" whose
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    CABLE STORED IN WATER
    103 2 I\EEP-SEA cable has to be kept u in seawater in order to preserve it. A new Post Office submarine cable depot has been constructed on the shorts of Faslane Bay, Gareloch, Scotland, to store cable to be laid by Britain's new Pest Office cable sh.p "Monarch
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      494 2 SINGAPORE B. B. C. RED NETWORK from noon to «> o „„,_s•- o m (it 1 p.m and 6.30 to 11 pm on SU s ri° l£ m li d metres Cross roon to pm on 4.825 13^93 metre* from 5^21 p.m mes/sec. In fl metre band and from —10.35
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    MAURETANIA COMES TO S'PORE
    65 3 Pictures. The.e pictures woe UkcQ when the Mauretania arrived at Singapore with r turning Malayans, Senk-e people and the Malayan V- Pageant contir.-ent back from Ix>ndon. A ovc. Governor < Bison, barked by Servi-e chiefs, welcomes "''alayans home. Below General Stopford, aHvs for *hr rf-fmon*. -rz
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    St\ofpsmsntsttS&
    495 4 TUESDAY. JULY 16, 1946. MR. T.P.F. McNeice. Singapore Social Welfare Officer, is correct when he says that the 35 cent meals sold at the People's Restaurants have had no effect yet in reducing prices of food in eating shops and ordinary restaurants in Singapore, but the Peoples Restaurants have
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    'A Great Street Paved With Water'
    1065 4  -  SCOT HUGHES By Commander COWES, on the north coast of the ls!e of Wight in the English Channel, is the home of the Royal Yacht Squadron, peril ap s the most famous yachting club in the world. There in the first week in August
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    QUIZ
    49 4 1. What animal has a 54--gallon head? 2. What precedes goat and grace? 3. How manv s des has a lexicon? 4. What is the dodo taken as a standard of? 5. Wculd you be more likely to mistake vodka for whisky or pin? Answers on page 6
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    337 4 MASTER PLAN.— Allied investigators have uncovered German secret records describing war criminal Hermann Goering's strategy to seize Gibraltar by the heaviest artillery siege ever laid, using the largest gun ever built. The guns were prepared and mussed on the Spanish border together with shock infantry and Daratroop
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    G.B.S. Influences Human Thought
    600 4 BERNARD SHAW'S influence may be felt, directly or indirectly, in every branch of human thought. An active member of the Fabian Society, he, with Sydney and Beatrice Webb, put socialism on the pailical map of Great Britain. His plays and their prefaces reached an even wider
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    FAITH
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    Lewers 'PINING FOR THE SIGHT OF A HORSE'
    122 4 Lewers 'PINING FOR THE SIGHT OF A HORSE' IT gavv DM 1 lo tmd your newspap. entitled ~Du'c for Whitehai Guard" the durato: i I Melton Mo* Depot was I women under of Vet Corpemployed the; .•^2 years. We "had Cavalry ho:. at one time Wt olacks to Some of
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    Square-Pegged
    83 4 AS a resuii c.\. Hous? of officers have b their blrssinc caUonal and V Scheme. This does not coming, for M I teacher and I possessing a H::her J cate in Eitfl French. I vrl.i with EV.T. dM The Education Ofl r at mv o^er. tmt short 1 ved
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    ACADEMY FOR FILM STARS
    113 4 TINEMA KtOT I v Rob nson Ml America's Acadcii.v Picture Arts an.i which each y< highly coveted pi aciing and iectti mances in the b wood films, h« academy for the prof >s "It should tunctio comedie franra. cow art theatre in acting as well if
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    SIME ROAD JAPS FOR TRIAL NEXT MONTH
    513 5 SIME ROAD JAPS FOR TRIAL NEXT MONTH Free Press Reporter £IME Road internment camp conditions and circumi stances surrounding the death of a former Government official interned there, Mr. Harold Parker, who was the manager of the Government Rice Mill at Knan, will be the subject of war crimes charges
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    Medical Aid
    37 5 To thf» kamnonss of .Malava, the British R^d Cross ser\iee for civilian rHief has pene-t-ated. Thl<; picture shows a Kr tish Red Cross doctor att'ndin^ to a sii«k child in a villa?? rear Kuala Kan^sar.
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    SINGAPORE MAJOR GETS 5 yrs' JAIL
    66 5 METHERALL, i Ulcer commanbase worke, is sentenced Prom the Serv- term of I for five years Guilty of five tu'ent cjnv:r- i .iv?Us and! partmeot pro- his care. .r' -martial nth, Major ;ed to have -actor. V. \p motor without ar-\u--d 3.^57 rims, the
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    Malacca Chinese In Favour Of Union
    174 5 Se asaodatloai and "Huay Kuans" ..acca at a recent meeting decided in favhmeni of the Malayan Union (inclusive of i common citizenship fcr tho.-e domiciled in •vho intend to make Malaya their permanent :op directed towards the ultimate goal self-government for a nited Malaya
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    JUNE RUBBER CROPS
    23 5 Crons for the mon^s of May and June from Ayer Molek Rubber Co., Ltd.. were 19.599 and 13.882 lbs. respectively.
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    CHINESE RESENT 'SLANDER'
    99 5 to whe active as ar.i. -Chinese oa to the interV of the Malad r -od in the rtain ex-Mula-und other Great Britain I .m piemen tin? Mu:hiavelian and rule' by i wah the I aking them Malayan Union addressed to leaders in the d Slngaoorf ied by
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    TANGLIN PESTS SENT TO JAIL
    33 5 IKhoo Ah Lens D Sang (21). 17 > and Iff Loi "d as "pests n district coi.hopkeepers trouble trom were each nths' rigorous Mr, Paul Storr e Court ye^ter-
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    2 MALAYS KILLED IN EXPLOSION
    34 5 Two Malays were killed when an explosion occurred on an estate off the 13* ««e, sembawans Road The men were dig*in* and stack a solid object which ex uloded.
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    H.K. TRADE IS IMPROVING
    80 5 TRADE figures for the first half of 1946 released by the Hong Kong Government shows that imports in Hongkong dollars were $345,000,000 and exports 5245.000,000. The June import figures were 371. 7 millions and below that of May which was 77.5 millions, although April figures were
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    HUNDREDS WANT TO BE AIR SCOUTS
    285 5 Bv Flight Officer Heather Gwennap-Moore. THE school-boys oi Singapore. 1 like most of their generation throughout the world, arc > airminded. When the news spread that an Air Scout Group had been formed last January at Kal lans airfield, Scoutmaster R.A.r. Sergeant Geldard received
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    Few surrender arms in S'pore
    208 5 Few surrender arms in S'pore RESPONSE to the appeal that all unlicensed arms must b« surrendered to the Police before July 31, has not been satisfactory, according to a senior police official. He stressed the danger of unlicensed arms in possession of civilians falling into the hand* of undesirables. Persons
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    SURVEY FLIGHT TO HONG KONG
    101 5 WITH a view to extending the present BOA C. United Kingdom-Singapore service to Hong Kong in the very near future, British Overseas Airways officials left Pooie yesterday by "Hythe" riving boat on a survey flight to Hong Kong. On the outward trip, stops will be
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    GOVT. EMPLOYEES AGAINST STRIKE
    247 5 AFTER discussing the question of whether or not to strike for a higher rate of allowance, a Combined Committee of Government employees in Singapore decided overwhelmingly against striking at a secret meeting on Saturday. Most emphatic against going en strike were doctors representing the King Edward
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    AVOIDING CONGESTION
    45 5 To avoid congestion at the Immigration Office, Havelock Rd., all persons leav.ng lor overseas should first produce their ration cards at their local rat.oning office for the necessary cancellation, states an official release. Failure to do so may prevent the issue of tickets,
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    AID FOR 'DEATH RAILWAY' ORPHANS
    58 5 THE Government of India is de- ciding on two possibilities for caring for orphan children from Kamburi Camp, in Siam. uhere their parents had died is the result of forced labour on the railways under the Japanese. The Government of the Malayan Union has offered
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    N. BORNEO BECOMES A COLONY
    138 5 N. BORNEO BECOMES A COLONY JESSELTON, Mon. BRITISH North Borneo, with Labuan added, became a British Colony this morning at a ceremony in Jesselton's bulletriddled wooden Survey Hall. Seventy per cent of Jesselton's buildings were destroyed during last year's fighting and the town now consists of little more than two
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      97 5 ERROL FLYNN (Who is to Visit Singapore in September Next) IN THE GREATEST ACTION-FUL ADVENTURE OF THE CENTURY! WARNER BROTHERS' "SAN ANTONIO" (IN TECHNICOLOR) co stars with ALEXIS SMITH S. Z. Sakali, Florence Bates, John Litel, Paul Kelly. Monte Blue, Tom Tyler VIC iOR FRANCEN CHRIS-PIN MARTIN are included in
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    CHINDIT MAJOR 'NOT TO BLAME' FOR CANING
    540 6 CHINDIT MAJOR 'NOT TO BLAME' FOR CANING INTO the crisp routine of an Army court-martial in London came the laws of jungle warfare and a Major who was facing trial in the 'Chindit flogging' case, (of which the Free Press has now received fuller report) took second place to the
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    Coffee City Queues For Its Coffee
    93 6 THIKSIY Brazilians in Rat de Janero, who normally drink from 10 to 3ft cups of co.Tee a dav, have been queuing up for corTee! Thfir country supplies half the uoild coffee, hut the citv's .stocks were dw mil n-j b/ niirht.all lit- National <
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    SEEING THE SECRETS
    42 6 Many of Britain's leading industrialists will learn top secrets of the war when they attend a dsplay of British and German vehicles a^ Chert^py. Surrey, on July 15. They will d?cid? what vehicles can be adapted for civilian use
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    FLOGGED PTE SAYS 'JUNGLE WAS HELL'
    136 6 FLOGGED PTE SAYS 'JUNGLE WAS HELL' ERNEST Dexter, the private who was flogged in Burma bill. S.M. Hemming said: "I was found guilty of sleepinon sentry duty, and took the punishment which was offered by the officer as an option." he said We were in a clearing in the Mri
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    QUIZ Answers
    19 6 1. Hog, 2. Scape. 3. Six- it is a dictonary, 4. Deadnc&s 5 Gin —it is colourless
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    DUTCH BANK TO BE NATIONAL
    61 6 pLANS for nationalising the Netherlands Bank have been announced by Dr. Beel. Prime Minster and Catholic Party leader. The new Government, he said, would also prepare plans for the rationalisation of other branches of the nation's economy. Nea:otiat cns with the Indonesian Nationalists in Java
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    DISMISSED HIS SHIP
    50 6 DISMISSED HIS SHIP LIEUT. -COMMANDER Brinley Singleton, R.N.V.R.. who pleaded guilty to beins: drunk while on duty at a Chatham barracks was sentenced to be dismissed his ship and severely reprimanded by a Chatham courtmartial. It was stated that when a senior officer telephoned him. Singleton sounded 'inarticulate and incoherent.''
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    LUXURY FLATS FOR THE POOR
    222 6 LONDON has something new in poor man's flats. In Bowroad, Bethnal Green there are new, three-bedroomed, self-contained flats with constant hot water at from 25>. 6d. to 295. a week. But before becoming a tenant three unusual conditions must be fulfilled. i The tenant must
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    WILHELMINA TO VISIT LONDON
    24 6 WILHELMINA TO VISIT LONDON Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is to make her first post-war visit to London at the end of this month.
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    CIVIL COURT ORDERS CAT FOR CPL
    105 6 CIVIL COURT ORDERS CAT FOR CPL 1 21-year-old drummer. Lance- Corporal William Philip John Dennis, collapsed at Stafford Assizes when he was sentenced ta <ix strokes of the "cat" and 12 months' jail for robbing a married woman with violence. His two companions. William Gordon Jones, aged 17, and Stanley
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    TORIES RECRUIT
    65 6 Tlie British conservative party .s launching a nation wide campaign to recruit new members. One feature is likely to be thp adoption of a system o! street "wardens" to talk to no ehbours. SWKKT SYMPATHY To protect ex-servicemen anxious to s nk their gratuities in confectionery businesses the
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    Army Challenge In Civil Court
    235 6 THE Army's right to arrest, couri-rn; I 19-year-old soldier— while he MM I at Paignton a two-year period of p:.,; civil court was challenged at Devon I Exeter. Sir Leonard Costei:o, the chairman called the cas- one ol -reat constitutional importance." b Mr Chuter £de.
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    CHEAPER TO FLY ATLANTIC
    134 6 11 PROPOSAL to redu ■.-<■> the a.. fare from London U> New York :rom £93 15s. to £81 ss. ma\ mean that it will be rfrfnur U> fly the Atlantic thai: t*j .s^ liner. Sir Percy Bates, ch:. rman c Cunard White Star, .said rec that
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    Pub Raiders Drying Up Yorkshire
    81 6 of tw m Nonh \or.hrT ban > and it( uU on motor-bike, to f IN S puhs havn supplies l*i« I l« ]w. a c^ intend n1 Mart, ot t n /\S Riding I'..', r n rf J7 the BMcirtrsl i main n^ons tor tV
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    WRENS AND A.T.S. WANT GIRLS BACK
    49 6 WRENS AND A.T.S. WANT GIRLS BACK THE A±t. there i x J clerical a: oraM of the W RJ?. S«i vohintei r T: enga W*l 001 -res J artru t b hundn tanks who 'bJ»w ana ar< poraty the p» beer F. T:. on a "dui ui.til i ndei
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    BITTER OR CORNER
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    INDIANS STAGE GREAT RECOVERY
    245 7 INDIANS STAGE GREAT RECOVERY SHEFFIELD, Mon. In n cricket tourists, continuing their first here today against Yorkshire, staged a viovcry, scoring 490 for five wickets and !arinu r after they had lost three wickets for only 70 lose of play on the first day, Saturday. .:> owed their success to
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    Golfer Kills Fish, Gets 'Birdie'
    33 7 Golfer Kills Fish, Gets 'Birdie' L.M«rc'^ tru<> .vji^iana. cursed as he ..!!> as he days) fl\in« the fair- lt .ho ball near-,-r!aee on surface. and neatly had b?en ■-•uhe. The The golfer cot Reuter
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    HAMMOND & AVERY GET CENTURIES
    141 7 HAMMOND AVERY GET CENTURIES N'DON. Mon. od, England's I > ored yet anmaklnf il3 linst L?i'esA\ ery. the ed to find a ci -jam to meet I Old Tra^ord, Warwickshire. :ch P. Smith, d team <1 1 brated ::ve wickets rytliinf pcin's me, wiiich v.ili n ran of vicnton. where
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    SCOREBOARD
    115 7 Vorks lit Inns.— 39« for 6 wickets dec I. INDIA— Ist INNINGS Merchant Ibv (oxon 7 Modi b Aspit aft 5 Mushl»q AJi c Vardlrv H Booth 27 Mankad c Coxon b Aspinall 132 Amarnath lbw Coxon I'ararr not out Pa:*udi not out 51 Kxtras 17 Tct*l (for 5
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    ECLIPSE STAKES PROBABLES
    45 7 LONDON, Mon. Probable runners for the Ellipse Stakes to be run at Ascot on Friday over a m leana a quarter: AJdis Lamp <Clitf Richards) Aldakhil (no Jockey Edward Tudor Gordon Richards Gulf Stream (Ham Wra?g> Khaled < Jones) Midas <Epn. Smith). Reuter
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    VOLLEYBALL
    61 7 rpHE following will represent the 1 yM C A at volleyball against St Andrew's School M the tennis ground at 5.1!= p.m. on Thursday: Low Kee Choon. Chia Kolc Wai. Tang Seek Wai: Au T* Chu. Chee Su Puan. Llm Chen?? Slcng <Capt.): Cheng Kan. Cheong Pak Ix>. Lee
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    Dog Derby
    32 7 The Greyhound Derby winner, Monday's News, after the race with his owner Mr. D. J. Btowart with large cu*> and trainer Mr **«*y, small cup. Lord Den'iam presented the cup.
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    HENLEY PRODUCED GREAT SCULLER
    323 7  -  Vernon Morgan By LONDON, Sunday. PPORTS meetings are usually well run in Britain but pride J of place for organisation goes, I think, to the Henley Regatta Committee. Nothing could be better than the way this is run for competitors, spectators and pressmen alike. Racing starts
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    CROSSBATS WIN AT SEGAMAT
    220 7 THE Crossbats of Singapore travelled to Segamat and beat the Segamat Cricket Club on Sunday by 43 runs in a keen game. The scores were: CROSSBAT.* S Yo^arajah b Lockhart 21; E. Doralsarny c Othman Kadir b Nagesu 42- K Muthucumaru b Nagesu 12: A Vijiaretnam
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    M.C.C. Frown On 'Freak' Declarations
    187 7 M.C.C. Frown On 'Freak Declarations LONDON. Sun. 'T'HE M.C.C. do not view with faJL vonr the freak declarations by enthusiastic cricket captains who strive to fain a decision one way or another even though the weather substantially restricts play. These "freak" declarations started whem Glamorgan and Somerset "arranged" to dose
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    AID FOR RACEHORSE OWNERS URGED
    435 7 LONDON, Sun. DACEHORSE owners are grumbling ft. that they cannot make racing pay. They do not grumble without cause for owning racehorses, which always was expensive, today has become a pasttime for the really rich only. As Sir Malcolmn MacAlpie, a prominent owner pointed out
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    SOVIET UNION & BIG SPORT
    542 7  - SOVIET UNION BIG SPORT Vernon Morgan By CONDON, Sun. THE Soviet Union's plans for the future in sport remain 1 almost as much an enigma as in politics. Inasmuch as sport in the Soviet Union is government-sponsored and controlled the same "iron curtain" exists. Will the Soviet join in international
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    BRITAIN RETAINS KOLAPORE CUP
    107 7 Bisley Mon. ENGLAND, who are the holders, retained the Kolapore Cop at Bisley today with a total of 1,088 points followed by India with 1,461 and Jersey third with 1.039. For the mother country Squadron -Leader WiUott, the King's prize winner, and Major Maxwell who tied
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    81 7 here" 1 was a*ked at Wimbledon. The answer will ccme when possibly In a few years the Soviets run away with Wimblecon titles. And not onl> at lawn tennis but for all sports there Is a huge army of sportsmen and sportswomen training dilf*ently behind that iron curtain waiting lor
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    AUSTRALIANS WIN TENNIS MEET
    118 7 PARIS. Mor AUSTRALIA was declared the winner of a three-nation tennis tournament here Monday right on the basis o f sets and games won. after they tied five -all with France and Czechoslovakia. The Australians won 12 sets and 110 games, the Czechs were second with
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    EAST AND WEST SOCIETY
    40 7 WEDNESDAY 17th July at 8 p.m at Toc-H fStamford Road). Dr. Chelliah acting principal of St J Andrews School, will speak on "Education in a Multi-racial Community.' Members please note the changed date of this meeting.
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    75 8 EGYPT TREATY TERMS REPEATED THE L^jptan draft of the new treaty with Britain provides that in case o f aggression against Egypt or in certa n circumstances against Britain the two countries will co-ordinate the necessary defence measures, Re'iter learns. A joint defence body w.li be established to study the
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    CAUSING DEATH CHARGE
    54 8 Before Mr. Ahmad bin Ibrahim m the Fifth Court yesterday, 25-year-old Paul Frans WalaJington, of W.lhelmina Camp, had a charge of causing the «J r th of a Chinese, Tan Soo Bar., at Sime Road, on March 8 txpiained to him. The case was V tnoned a
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    STRIKES ALL OVER THE WORLD
    272 8 LONDON, Monday. CTRIKES are reported from all parts of the world. A v Teheran message states that the whole of Khuzistan Province was placed under martiij law and a curfew imposed v.hen about 100,000 workers went on strike today. Persian military forces have occupied the
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    YEAR'S JAIL FOR INSPECTOR
    93 8 YEAR'S JAIL FOR INSPECTOR IBRAHIM bin Omar, an Asiatic inspector with more than 20 years' service with S. S. Police Force prior to the war, was sentenced to 12 months' rigorous imprisonment in the Singapore Assizes yesterday. The sentence is to date from Jan. 15, the day the accused was
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    1943 TANKS: 'NOT WORTHY OF BATTLE'
    401 8 1943 TANKS: 'NOT WORTHY OF BATTLE' LONDON, Mon. CRITICISM of British wartime tank production is contained V in secret reports to Mr. Winston ChurchiU in 1942 and 1944 by a Select Committee on National expenditure which were published as a Government White Paper today. Reviewing results achieved in 1943 the
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    ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE
    87 8 ALLEGED to have committed robbery of $132 and one fountain pen worth $25 belonging to Lim Yong Kee at Hill Street on July 12, 25-year-old Chiang Ah Sai had the charge, which stated that he used a pistol at the time, explained to him before Mr. Paul
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    R.A.F. DROP FOOD
    25 8 Unprecedented floods have created grave conditions in the Chittagong area of Eastern Bensal. RAF. planes are parachuting food supplies into the area.
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    Moscow Sees a 'Velvet Curtain'
    101 8 LONDON, Mon. THE Moscow newspaper, Pravda, charged today that Western democracies have cordoned off their lands with a •'velvet curtain." "Lying phrases about the so-called iron curtain' in eastern Europe are gradually slipping from newspaper articlss into public pronouncements of British officials/' the article wri.ten
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    FIGHTING IN CHINA
    109 8 NANKING, Mon. FIGHTING flared up in Manchuria and North China today, while peace negotiations remained at a standstill. Tom Masterson, A. P. correspondent, reported from Peiping that Communist troops struck at the railway station south of Tientsin and launched new attacks in the vicinity of Tslngtao and
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    CZECHS WOULD JOIN USSR
    176 8 PRAGUE. Monday. THE President of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Eduard Benes. declared today at Kromeriz. Moravia, he did" not believe in the possibility of a conflict between the East and West tut in the event of a conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia would join with
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    276 8 (Continued from Page 1) powers which include not only ourselves but members of the Commonwealth.' He added that Britain had no desire to delay the international trade conierence unduly. The daie would be lor discussion between the British. United States and other Governments. Mr. Crossthwaite. Conservative,
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    160 8 REVOLVER DRAWN IN COURTROOM WHEN the Singapore third Man gistrate, Mr. K. M. Byrne was on the bench yesterday morning, listening to a Revenue Officer prosecuting in a rase and everything was going on as usual, an Indian, sitting on a bench by the bar, gave a yell and Jumped
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    19 8 Jungle and lallang fire men and Rjv.F. Servicemen, in's was one of p*— n ,°'-<,~ v *>«-
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