The Singapore Free Press, 19 July 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE NO Singapore, Friday; ju^y 19, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    CHURCHILL SUPPORTS BREAD REVOLT
    380 1 CHURCHILL SUPPORTS BREAD REVOLT break 1™ Jl 7* SSible and let the oreak down of its own inherent defects n Meantime Food Minister John Strachey rejected demands for the postponement of bread rationing and again warned that sanctions, fines or imprisonment would be imposed on bakers refusing to co-operate a
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    Churchill opposes 'free India' plan
    571 1 OPP'MiION to the action of the Labour Government m going beyond the 1.94' i offer of dominion status to India, made m Ihe Commons today by Mr. Winston Churchill, >ppo-iti«m leader, who said the 1942 offer was conditional an agreement being reached by the leading
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    NO NEWS IS STRIKE NEWS
    52 1 ROME, TOUTS. about 100.000 workers bhut Ol Italy's 200 M hours tonight, private printing nie.s and reined ihe printDt, called m an vwmployers to s throughout th* he*t level pre- Uin and other r.r as Premier dan alarmed •p.biy that spreadthreatened to < I at
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    NO LOAN FOR RUSSIA
    14 1 «fc 'nan WtCfdWrj nit any pcjsiblx: lo Russia this- A.P.
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    MCC Invites 12 Players
    79 1 LONDON. Thurx THE M.CC. has sent invita- lions to 1! players to accompany the MjC.C. team to Australia. Those invited are: W. R. Hammond, (.loucestfr«hire. N \V. Yardley, 1* <.ibb and I Hiitton. Yorkshire, Wash brook J Ikin. Lancashire, J. ll.i*<Ut t;?. W. Voce, Notti^ghamvhirr. I).
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    Murdered Wren's Picture
    30 1 Uot-ecn Marshall, pretty 23 year old ex-\Vr;n. who had been demobbed 10 days when she was found murdered m Branksome Dene Chine. Brighton after a police search.
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    T.U.C. SAYS BREAK WITH SPAIN
    171 1 LONDON. Than. THE Trade Union Congress, m a manifesto issued on the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of The Spanish civil war. today called on the government to break off diplomatic relations with Franco The manifesto said the TUC aiil make representations 'to i'NO to
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    Gang war moves in on Free Press
    243 1 Free Press Reporter OINGAPORES gang war moved to within a few yards of U the Free Press office last ni^ht when a fight broke out m Cecil Street between two rival gangs the 36 gang and the 08 gang— in which bottles, briek
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    FINDING WORK FOR HAWKERS
    58 1 Free Press Reporter TFFORTS are being made by the Employment Officer. Singapore, to get the thousands of unlicensed hawkers, who are belli;* cleared from streets, absorbed m other emrjloyment The Employment Officer has circularized firms m Singapore, sounding them on their requirements of labour, both skilled
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    BRITAIN PROTESTS TO RUSSIA
    149 1 LONDON, Thurs. DRITAIN has sent a protest V to Moscow, complaining of extreme, unwarranted Russian interference m the internal affairs of Hungary, the Foreign Office announced today. A spokesman said the protest followed Russian demands lor dismissal of Hungary's vice-Minister of Justice and for withdrawal M
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    ZHUKOV IS REPORTED DISMISSED
    80 1 NEW YORK. Thurs. lOSEF Stalin has taken up the J R(-d army high command and relegated Marshal Gcorgi Zhukov. the Soviet Unions top war hero, to an obscure provincial post. Zhukov has been appointed to command the Odessa military district. This report comes just over three
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    MALAYA DEBATE
    36 1 LONDON, Thurs. THERE will be a debate on the future of the Malay States next Thursday, it was announced m the House of Commons today. The debate is scheduled to last four hours. Reuter
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    TYPHOON WRECKS 6 SHIPS IN HK
    340 1 HONG KONG, Thurs. COR three hours today, a typhoon, accompanied by winds which reached a velocity of 102 miles per hour, lashed Hong Kong, and moved south-west after wrecking six ships, destroying communications and sending water sprays two-storeys high over the road fronting the
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    NEW ENVOY IS DUE IN S'PORE TODAY
    72 1 NEW EN VOY IS DUE IN S'PORE TODAY S:r Ralph Clarmo: t Skrirt* Stevenson, the trw Bri 1 Ambassador to China, is due at Singapore aboard H.M.S Ranee. tli s evening. He will be accompanied by Lady Stwncx n d:r Ralph is scheduled to h'avSingapore on Monday for Hon^ Kon?
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    JAP RECAPTURED
    24 1 The Japanese susnerted %v i criminal. Cant. Risuke. a»ed who made a iail break r*m Changi. ha.s been recasmn t m Singapore.
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      A POWER IN A WORLD OF EVIL
      999 2  -  Paul Stevens By •JHLRE is no uccupa io.i I at ractive, or so healthy, as looking forward. This it especially true today, when a who'e generation is emerging from the shock and th? chaos cf a world war. Even where people are sighing
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      9 2 kVAAP Fin-l'p: C'pl. Barbara su nbathing at Chang i.
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      CHEMICAL EXPORTS EXPAND
      191 2 CHEMICAL EXPORTS EXPAND AMONG Britain's steadily expanding exports, chemicals, drugs, and colours occupy a prominent place, and dunng the first four months of this year their export values were £20,000.--000 as against £7.400.000 during: the comparable p?riod of 1938. The volume WM also larger Heavy chemicals account for more than
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      Speed Tests In The Laboratory
      320 2 THE speed of sound <760 miles per hour at sea level' has so far proved an insuperable limit to the speed of piloted aircraft, but there is reason to believe that once thU barrier a passed, conditions will m some respects become easier The high
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      FORCES TO USE PLASTIC MONEY
      212 2 FIFTY tons ot new money are on their way to BAOR This represents 50.000.--000 pieces of paper— the new official Bnti£h Armed Forces Special Vouchers (BAFSV 1 From Aug. 1. 1946. these vouchers will be BAOR's new money. You will be paid with them. In
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      WOOL FROM GROUNDNUT
      19 2 \RDIL. rt< Fcotlanci c I tion w v.\ v fabrirs fulr.f ct*asr-r r It is. r
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      96 2 A I HAMRRA ii-i 1 LAST S TFJ<KOK-riLLi:i> SHOWS' >1 li tt»M lON CHANKf »s THE SON OF WtM I LOUSK ALLBRIION— IJe-.iutiful M a YAMt'IKK— s<» that shf a»uM KILL FOREVER 1 \M TiI Ml >l( 41 SfIORI A LAIM UmtWl M OPENING TOMORROW- A PEESQWAU V LAVISH EXTRAVAGANZA
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      82 2 l_ "It's been the same ever since he saw the acrobats a1 that ENSA show." M?3^dr2kG Exclusiw to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya I I Narda suddenly springs I I But he's quicker-his grip is I I you will see my face m due I TOWARD THE OOME.REACMN6 LIKE
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      420 2 SINGAPORE StSTJt j Rtl) MIMOBK from noon to ENGLISH pm to 2cm <neus' 2 p.m and t>3o to II pin on US 6t 130 p.m > end 81 5 O rr. X M p m j metre* from rooa to 2 pin on 4.8*5 fxropt on S'tr-oavs «t.'n >4W afternoon
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      RANGOON PORT IS LOSING ITS SCARS
      122 3 Pictures. n po-t. Burma, is be<i nin- to lose Us scars. I main wharf cleared, but not yet merd^i'. iimissi "Ts. worc-hops arc working at full pr nave. Channels were blocked by wrecks or silt. Dredging: continues. Pictured above a rrab dredger dears another
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1946.
      591 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1946. ICOVHER of Bniam s enemies «-»nt down to political 'defeat £ste:xlay. ator Anton K. Wherter, the, jtapllf American I oiationist 2 cn,'° told a Singapore J lmcheon audience that the! I aitcd fctates had *iot very Koell business m th? Orient" roaecded
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      When Nature Beat The A-Bomb
      1451 4 By A Sprrial C.orrespomlcnt NATURE still holds tho r.cord for the world's mightiest blast, despite the awe-inspiring a'om bomb explosions at Hiroshima. Nagasaki and Bikini. Wren the Dutch East Indies island of Krakatoa blew up on August 27. 1383. tlw noils wa s heard 3.000
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      377 4 TOME DOWN.— Thirty-ftve-year. old Walter Purcell S< utt, who went to war m 1939 as a Territorial private and came home a brigadier and Chindit commander, wonders if must go bac»< to his £5 a week job or stay m the Army. At a War Office interview
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        American Tin Statement 'Incorrect'
        70 4 American Tin Statement 'Incorrect' THL Si! I feted a staterrv allege^ i Prr. ;c< th<» U.S. Cow Mr. D; say ii carriea then bro States. He tithe Qnti trad^ din :tead ol The Mr of Trad<- a Peninsula q; te r.^a: ment 1.1 prohibitr.r < export DC t nil de.sti:
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        A Comparison
        45 4 Ipf a r I OrGei' your issu° of the cot alleged lend flogginy of tn that the that he oecau.s 0 doned fc» allowed. au But. cases I P' Ol ordered to offence by not accented It se^rr. be any d case Singap
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      23 4 H*^CZ LABOUR SAW K i^T Iff ELECTRICAL lifl JJ APPLIANCES «b^« Latest Range IVp6t^>^1 Vp6 t^>^ > f'l I** Hi* L I Hi i
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      34 4 FAITH iW I Gillette BLADES >uy The keener, harder ed^cs of Blue Gillette Blades provi<n smoother and cleaner shaves, Their long life prondes the c.rrra shaves that save your money. MADE IN ENGLAND J
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      92 4 QUIZ 1. What do these words rnfan •a* Caoal. <b» Caaba. a «<• Caballero 2. Today is the annver.sa.ry o! the birth of John Flaxman in 1755. Who was Flaxman' Why is his name associated w th that of Josiah Wedg^vood 1 3. Murder in the Hou.se of Commons! Can
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      S'PORE WON'T HELP TO FIGHT RACKETEERS
      250 5 S 'PORE WON'T HELP TO FIGHT RACKETEERS Free Press Reporter f ,/l to anonymous letters alleging black market m toocistuiTs have so far reached the Food Singapore, since he appealed to the public rward with information nearly a fortnight c same time, no one has yet reported to F, Mr,
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      GOING ON TOUR
      34 5 p -e Consul. Singapore. Kwone: will repre-Paak-Shing. Chinese nl, m a tour of Uuar and Malacca, tomorrow. Mr. Kwont, xeet Malay leaders to and means of tur--mlcable relationship Chincw and Malays.
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      TONIGHT'S TALK
      27 5 Mr. Nelson Jones, the Financial, Singapore will give a radio tali on The United States Loan and Malaya" over Raio' Ma.ayu at 9.15 o'clock lOtttgbi
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      43 men do the work of 160
      332 5 43 men do the work of 1 60 Free Press Reporter pOirn -THREE MEN are doing the work of 160 to keep Singapore supplied with electricity. To do this they art* working night and day, eating and sleeping m strikebound St. James Power Station, always on call and, m some
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      S'PORE CIVIL DEFENDERS TO BE PAID
      160 5 S'PORE CIVIL DEFENDERS TO BE PAID instead uf applying to (he Malayan Government Accountant m London, members of the ClYil Defence Servjces and temporary government servants S nsapore who were interned who con^id^r themselves, entitled to ex-gratia payments of accrued pay for the pericxl or internment, may now apply to
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      FLOUR SHIP
      36 5 THE STEAMER BERWYN VICI TORY which it was announced yeVerday had been verted by U.VRRA from ghanghal to S nsapore with 8.500 tons of flour aboard b exn^ctcd to arrive m Singapore on July *>-__
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      MALAYAN RAIL FARES RAISED
      145 5 BEGINNING from Aug. 1, railway tariff charges" for i Singapore and the Malayan! Union will be increased. Fares for first class passengers will be eight cents per mile, an Increase of 1 3 4 cents; second class fares four cents a mile, an increase of a
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      11 V-PARADERS INJURED
      89 5 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. ELEVEN members of the Malayan Victory Parade contingent met with a serious accident while returning to Kuala Lumpur last night from Port Dcfcson where; they had previously been encamped It appears that the lorry :n which ttiey were travelling ran off
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      SAILOR 'INSANE' AFTER S'PORE BATTLE
      262 5 By a Special Correspondent, i A3l-YEAR-OLD ex-Merchant Navy seaman, sentenced to ceath for murdering the propretress of a manicure saloon m Liverpool, pleaded I^"^** a result of his experiences m Singapore when the Japs reached the iS The" seaman. Thomas Hendren, tried to commit sui
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      AGAIN IN BUSINESS
      67 5 T is tfeivit rapti was taken by a Ine Press cameraman hardly 24 hours after the Poli c and Food Control Department swooped do An on the hawkers linin? Merchant Road m Singapore's Chinatown., It shows clearly that l>« hawkers ha\e lost r.o time i i returning:
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      Chinese Press Runs 10-Cent Canteen
      173 5 Free Press Reporter AN addition was made this afternoon to the chain of canteens m Singapore. The iatcst -people's restaurant is the cheapest yet: a meal costs 10 cents compared with prices elsewhere ranging from 25 to 35 cenis. This 10-cent cantetn has bern Parted
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      INDIAN DOCTOR PRAISES MALAYA
      109 5 DR. B. N. Basu, deputy director of the Congress Medical Mission to Malaya, believes the medical arrangement m Malaya is far better than m any part of India." In a letter to Dr. B. C. Roy, organiser of the Congress medical mission. Dr. Basu wrote: "In
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      CLOSING DOWN
      20 5 The Indian Congress Medical Mission is closing its Singapore centre at 331 North Bridge Road lon July 25.
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      Cheaper fruit for Singapore
      245 5 Free Press Reporter FE Government is preparing a scheme for iirporting fresh fruit from Australia under uhi h the Government will give every ussfstance m obtaining shipping: space on the condition that importers, m return, agree to sell according to Government direction. By this means, it
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      JAP SAYS 'SORRY'
      39 5 JAP SAYS 'SORR Y' CAPT. Suzuki Soriei. commandant of the Lieng Khan camp m French Indo-China. expressed Ms sorrow at the Australian Wif Crimes Court yesterday that an Australan PoW had been suoierted to the water-torture m July, 1945.
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      306 ALLIED Po Ws DIED IN HELL SHIP
      133 5 306 ALLIED Po Ws DIED IN HELL SHIP A STATEMENT denying that tfttj majority of 306 British and Dutch PoWs died of thirst on a single voyage from Ambon to; Java m September. 1944 »as made by Lieut. Kurashima. the j officer m charge of the "hell shin*" Haruyoshi Maru
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      DETECTIVE JAILED
      52 5 A SINGAPORE detective, K. NarayansL&amy, who b at up a detainee and int midated him by threatening to have his wile and children thrashed if he dd not confess to a murder, was senj tenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice N jA. Worley at the
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      WIFE GIVEN 2 SUITS IN 4 YRS
      106 5 A Chinese, who was describe! by hLs wife from the witness bo\ as a husband who had given her only two suiU of clothes during the four years of their married life, was ordered to pay $50 <\ month for the maintenance of
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      SEAMAN SHOT OFF KARIMON
      96 5 THE recoro of the Coroner findings m the inquiry nt<> th«» death cf a Chinese seama:. £oon Ah Kwane. v.ho died or a. gunshot wound, on July 5. m a motor vessel :n waters oft Tanjon** Bali. Karimon, N.E.I <vhen the vessel wvs fired upo'i tv
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      £40.000 TREASURE FOUND DUMPED IN A ROAD
      283 6 £40.000 TREASURE FOUND DUMPED IN A ROAD rE famous Cartier art treasures, worth £40,000, stolen six months ago from a secret garage hiding-place m remote Ingmire Hall, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, have been found by a policeman dumped alongside a road at Hyde. Cheshire, nearly 70 miles away. The treasures, comprising valuable
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      Air freighters beat sound
      272 6 7 Ji.^iic i. L. t »-...:.g h;.^. r than sound commercial m Brit&ln ""<.! their c d performance ;u-e tel \y guarded i c EiS. F^itos have buen put rigid s cii i>: b ns, an !no statement can <:■ n "T T cf Supply which
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      REICH NAVY PARADES IN FULL DRESS
      134 6 REICH NAVY PARADES IN FULL DRESS THOUSANDS of interned Service men of the former German \y still re, lain m service, m c British zone according to a tter m the Berlin Neves Deutschland. The writer of the letter. Will: Luedtke. a sailor, states that on Pehmarn Island, officers of
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      FORCES WAR EXPERIENCE COUNTS NOW
      81 6 FORCES WAR EXPERIENCE COUNTS NOW i r: vtio:; ursing that i> mm trained In the Forces p.s cd to jo:n the I neering Union. i; l > have to be d te their entry. U i I votes to 20 at I. eU: react m Black- "wilut°P3"— me:: and women
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      SAYING IT WITH GOLD
      41 6 SAYING IT WITH GOLD THE High Commissioner m Lon- don, Mr. G. Heaton Nicholls, ;s expected shortly to present to the Briton Government a gold certificate representing total contributions to the Thank You. Britan!' Fund, which had a larget of £2,C00,000.
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      BOMB KILLER TESTS JETS
      82 6 A wartime tfa.nuu.ster and flying bomb killer is now senior experimental pilot for the Gloster a rcraft eompanv. H P is Wing Commander R. P. Deamont who has flown the Meteor tw fn-engin-t".i jet plane faster than 606 m.p.h, the present world record. This was disclosed
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      700 'PASS OUT' FOR BUSINESS CAREERS
      39 6 About 700 ex-seryicemcn are entering business this month from government training centres. They include two majors, a Provost Marshal, a member of a saboteur unit and a man who worked with Greek partisans.
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      ANTS IN THEIR PANTS
      32 6 People really have ants m their pants at Alamein-gardens, prefab housing estate near Dartford, Kent, where ants over-run pantries at night ruining rations and climb into the beds.
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      LANDLADIES QUEUE
      28 6 he longest queue at Blackpool L his week was not of visitors seeking rooms but landladies placing cla ms for the cornonition's vacant rooms were registering.
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      TOSCANNINI'S VISIT
      24 6 Toscannini who recently cancelled a July visit to London's Covent Garden will conduct a British orchestra m London during November and December.
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      GENERAL SAYS 'END FATIGUES'
      120 6 BRITISH iOiaiers should me hard m the field, but like gentlemen m peacetime. General Sir Bernard Pasct. out-goin£ British C.-in-C. Middle East, tola his headquarters staff m a farewell address L Cairo Army catering should be lm- provea; NaaL should take it over. I and trn
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      JUST THEIR CUP OF TEA
      74 6 JUST THEIR CUP OF TEA A YOUNG ~oici.iT on manoeuvres at the beginning ot the war walked into the wayside cotta?e uf Mrs. Bax*er. North Willington. Lanes, and ruked for a cup of tra from her 12 y ar old dau^nter who told her mother 'I am go'n^ .to marry
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      SGT. SENT WEDDING COMMENTARY HOME
      37 6 Mrs J. Smith of Lou<_rhborough was unable to travel 7.000 miles to her WAAF daughter's wedding In Colombo but her son-in-law Fit Stit Duncan Gibbons made a gramephene commentary of the ceremony
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      More Work, Yet Not Enough To Do
      140 6 THERE has been such a falling-off of work m some royal 1 dockyards since the war that many workers cannot he fully employed, yet there is so much warship repatr wor£ that i t is being given to private shipyards m Britain Portsmouth
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      RAF REGT STAYS
      50 6 Th e R A.F. Regiment raised during the war is to remain an integral part of the services. One of the Regiment's main responsibilities will be the provision of combat training for other units The Regiment will provide NCOs for nat.ve levies maintained by the R.A.F. overseas.
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      53 5 KEDERLANDERS TE SINGAPORE A Ie NEDERLANDERS op het Singapore eiiand. die wtrkzaam zijn bij part icul lore b dr m hun cigen telang. verzecht, zich ie n bij tie COX LIQUIDATIE ORGANISATIE (S.Li,O.) BuikHß, (2Ce verdieping) Finlayson Green schiiftolijke opjrave worrit men vei i» U vermeiden, waar men **^£jta£i teleiconnummer
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      156 6 *t,LOU(f^Z _c 50 93C.J j OWliiO TO lEMUPIC SUCCESS Kft». DEMAND. SEASON HELD OVER. Ml ACTION! THRILLS! ADVENTURE* murder-intrigue! PUELK HA A Woman 's Treachery Sads A Man T n ttol o r She Kills For Pleasure. The Year's Most Excititmti fm—m—m— A GAINSBOROUGH P|CT c J*M f S *****
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      96 6 JANfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya JANE'S FIRST NIGHT f pj\ /^THAT'S THE BUNKUM ."VaNO ONE BREAcA I /vf 7XERE WAS AWYTHING^ II OH THE L0T..., i Uhd/f<*f< f F|LE FOR LA^" SEASON-] OF PROMISE/— /IN AUNT SOPHUL'S RACKET V T=7 v--.-- f&>^l V FIVE ACCIDENTS /N
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      79 6 QUIZ Answers i- <a> small body of miim_i .ntrimipn: <^~ r P°"tical -uLri^uers, especially the Hvp of Charles II \cbttSS Arlington Buckingham aS Lauderdale.,; (b) stettcaido?<e) A (Spanish*, Ben uetor- im A^ ist desi Bner. sculptor. (b> Flaxman was for is years chief designer to Wedgwood s pottery firm g
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      Finalists
      30 7 i de-i-ritei ms the Rifftl Tower of French tennis, I Vi-'r-ilun C»f off Brown photographed after Petra's vie- n lhP Umbbdon final. Petra won 6-2, 6-4, 7-9, 5-7, 6-4.
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      PLAYERS WIN BY AN INNINGS
      184 7 PL AYERS WIN BY AN INNINGS LONDON. Thurs. fiEtlAßlV* at 399 for five, the total they had scored at m at the end of the first day's play yesterday, the t :< brut the Cientlemen by m innings to-day, dismissing rp^rtnt, for 114 and 115. ci Hammond, with 70 In
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      TABLE TENNIS ENTRIES
      23 7 F"KTRIES tor th<? Singapore table t«nnls rhtiinpionships do* pm. to-morro». No Ivirther i. i will be received after thii date.
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      FOOTBALL LIKE 'GOOD OLD DAYS' AGAIN
      933 7 FOOTBALL LIKE 'GOOD OLD DAYS' AGAIN In_ The Game From George Chisholm LONDON, July 5. MY dear old friends the pools' promoters remind me by means of much literature that League football as we knew it m the "good old days" will start up next month. During the last seven
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      ECLIPSE STAKES
      44 7 LONDON Thurs -The Eclipse Stakes probables, running over a mile and a quarter at Ascot tomorrow, are: Alchslamn 'Cliff Richards*. Al Daknil <Douo Smith. Edward Tiidor < Gordon Richards*. Gulf Stream 'Harry Wrage*. Khaled <Bobby Jones t and Scarlet Emperor (Pft( Evans > Reuter
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      'DULEEP' COMMENTS ON INDIAN CRICKET
      117 7 BOMBAY, Bj Air. r PIIE veteran Indian batsman, 1 Prince Dnleepsinhji. pleaded here for an improvement in^crkket m India. He said ne was glad Indian bowlers had given a rood account of themselves during their British tour, and referred admiringly to Vijay Merchant as "the
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      INDIANS & DURHAM IN DRAW
      237 7 INDIANS DURHAM IN DRAW By Learie Constantine. SUNDERLAND, Thurs. pHIEF interest m the two-day match at Sunderland between the Indian tourists and Durham County centred on whether the Indians could get the County out m one hour and a hall. That was all the time available as the day's play
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      BIG UPSET IN U.S. TENNIS
      38 7 WISCONSIN. Thurs. IpAESAR Carmona i Philippines today defeated thp top-seeded favourite Bob Ptlfcenhwrn »Los Angeles > 6 0. 6-4, m the greatest unset m the second round of the Western Hardcourt tennis championships. U.P.
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      F. DALY WINS IRISH OPEN GOLF
      168 7 PORTMARNOCK, Thurs. THE Irish open golf championship, which since its institution m 1927 has always been won by a challenger lrom outside, was at last won by home talent today when Fred Daly, 33-year-old Beiiast professional returned an aggregate of 288 H2. 73, 69,
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      29 8 \dn;ir.i Lord I.oi»is \JountlMtt en. Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, receiving the Freedom of the City of London from Sir Charles Davis. Lord Mayor, m London's Guildhall.
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      Mihailovitch Execution Secrecy
      146 8 BF.LCKADF. Thar* At TI'AL details of ihe exccu- tion of the hctnik teatiei, t>ei\. Draja Mihailoviti h, re-r-lined a imstery toda> and an official of the Ministry of th« Int?rior told I nitetl Pf-is t at the aut.'toitios v anted the fx-cntion tv r^ma^n as The official
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      SOLDIERS, LOOK AFTER WOMEN
      146 8 NEW DELHI. Thurs. THR British Army Command m 1 India today called en all British troops to help m ensuring Thf> safety of Service women t raft D| by train m India. The special order said. 'Regard > a matter not onlj of good s and
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      WEIZMANN ARRIVES IN LONDON BY AIR
      26 8 Dr Chaim Weismann. president of the World Zionist Federation, arrived in London hv gr vesterday afternoon fro-fal-\stine. reoorts A P
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      COMMUNISTS 50 MILES OFF SHANGHAI
      303 8 COMMUNISTS 50 MILES OFF SHANGHAI LONDON, Thursday. i ACCORDING to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from j l\ Shanghai today, civil war m China is spreading, and Communist forces are reported to have occupied Haimen, 50 miles north-west of Shanghai. Government forces are alleged to have re- taken nearly the whole
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      FLASH BOMB REHEARSAL
      128 8 OFF BIKINI ATOLL. Thur*. TODAY a full-dress rehearsal of 1 the next underwater atom bomb test began, and will oe climaxed tomorrow with an ex- plosion of b photo flashbonib among the target ships. The main role tomorrow v. ill be played by the massive floating concrete
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      GERMANS TAKING OVER OWN GOVT
      246 8 FRANKFURT, Thurs. AMERICAN occupation authorities m Germany have begun ft to evolve a form of centralised administration and are allowing Germans progressively to take over aspects of their own government, officials here declared today. Greater advances have been made politicly than commercially, mainly because of
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      U.S. PLANE BUILDING SLUMPS
      92 8 II S military aircraft production U Is lagging far below th<> annual minimum of 3.000 mil.tary planes which government officials consider necessary for adequate national defence. The Aircraft Industries Association and Manufacturers Organization reports that in the first half of the year, the services received 637
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      GURKHAS TO TAKE OVER TOKYO GUARD
      73 8 Companies of the 2nd Battalion Ol the Fifth Royal Gurkha Rifles will take over ceremonial guard duties m Tokio, from the Dorsets. on July 22. reports Router. The Battalion was among the first Indian troops to check the > westward drive of the Japanese
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      DANISH NAVY PAYS NEW YORK VISIT
      27 8 The Holger Danske. fy\st Danish naval vessel to visit New York since 1935. arrived there yesterday from Copenhagen. A P. reports.
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      OIL STRIKE ENDS
      25 8 The 15 day old geneial strike of workers of the Iraq Petroleum CorPDany ended yesterday after foment intervention, reports r rom Teheran.
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      U.S. RUBBER NEEDS
      184 8 -utr LONDON, Thurs. JHE recent American inter- agency jeport K ave an Indi- i cation what th e world rubber surplus might become. The U.S., which uses 70 per cent, or the world's rubber is expected to need 415.000 long tons of all types of rubber m
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      BRAZIL OFFERS HOME TO 100,000 PEOPLE
      44 8 The Brazilian immigrant director. Joao A L. Bu rot said yesterday that loo.ooo g splaced peraooi m Eurouf* might find a home in Bra/1 if the United Nations will furnish transport reports A P from R.o do Janeiro
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      ROOSEVELT'S SON IN CAR CRASH
      37 8 ROOSEVELT'S SON IN CAR CRASH Colonel James Roosevxlt clcKst son of the late U. S. President was badly shaken when his automobile was itrvck by another i ar. in Los Angeles, says u P from Los Angeles.
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      BUSINESS MEN TO VISIT GERMANY
      27 8 A limited number of allied businessmen are to visit their properties in the British zone of Germany, says A. P. from London
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      IN BAD COMPANY
      45 8 The war crimes tribunal heard a plea yesterday that Col. Gen uIT vi? dI a l J P ear «l hi a wrong light because of the company with which he was surrounded In the prisoners' box. says A. P from Nuremberg
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