The Singapore Free Press, 24 July 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE r:>. SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    SINGAPORE WILL INVESTIGATE CIGARETTE RAMP
    396 1 SINGAPORE WILL INVESTIGATE CIGARETTE RAMP Free Press Reporter DATIONINCJ officers have begun an investigation into Singapore's cigarette distribution system, with a request to importers for assistance m listing dealers. This action follows several complaints regarding the frequency of distribution and the quality of cigarettes distributed so far. In a number
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    9 1 King David Hotel, Jemsal.ra headquarters of the British Army.
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    MAXTON IS DEAD
    129 1 1 \MKS Maxton. 61 year old leader of the Independent Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the Bndgeton division of Glasgow since 191*2. died yesterday. Jimmy Maxton. son of a (ilasjow schoolmaster. became a school teacher when he finished his edu'-at'on at Glasgow univr r*il>. Jimmy
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    PILFERING IN S'PORE
    101 1 PILFERING IN S'PORE ion By MP LONDON Tues. p ;\j .try food I C •.> oy Sir en C mserrmtl/e n Rent, *ho assthai stores b laUltd bf t?n--i '*..y rrul.larv beir.t: sen! exipss Of requirett was the differ- w T ar.uary 1946 bttwtta -:v.l:tary stores sh!p- tpon and t.ie
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    ARABS TO SEE POPE
    22 1 .'.mo mi sion by All In Rome to Vab case QOt t Vr: mm ror PC r.\ Rone.
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    Lawson tells of Malaya mutiny
    160 1 Lawson tells of Malaya mutiny LONDON. Tues. TWmi M.:.. t. i. Mr. Jack Lawson. was questioned In the la A < i.mmt'iis today about members of the 13th Battalion, Sixth Airborne D. vision, who have St since May 14 after a strike at a rest camp I Lumpur. Maiaya. Wyatt.
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    FIVE STRIKES IN S'PORE NOW
    50 1 The 31 mechanics employed m Tanjong Rhu shipyards of Thornycroft 'Singapore. IM n J l to?*w!«*ol United Engineers In ihis area stopped some time a?o when mechanics and unskilled labourers went on St Tnere are now five strike^in P ;r H C Aou L dßoard-^k-vard
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    S'PORE GUNMEN ROB OFFICER
    88 1 THREE armed Chinese robbed m j ,I,^oo were siolcn irom the, CK-cupiers of a house m Upper I Hokkien Street yesterday by three Chinese, two o: whom were armed with pistols. Om man wore a Bins* A Crii >£ vyori&n was the victim of lour armed
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    CARPET BOOM
    24 1 There is a boom m the carpet i export trade m Karachi and the j exports go mainly to the U. K.
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    MONSTROUS CRIME, SAYS ATTLEE
    146 1 MONSTROUS CRIME, SAYS ATTLEE LONDON. Tues. WHEN Prime Minister Clement A* tie told the Hous e ot Commons today that 93 people were known to be dead or missing lin the King David hotel bomb tragedy, he said that of all the outrages m Palestine- many and horrible m the
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    Troops still dig for buried bomb victims
    368 1 S*. JERUSALEM, lues. vy|Fl P° llce counter-measures today followed the worst terrorist outrage m the history of Palestine m which the British military lIQ and Government offices m the Kins David Hotel were blown up at midday yesterday with nearly 100 people killed
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    Arabs Want A New Palestine
    95 1 NEW YORK. Tues THF Tnited Nations Se t rrtariat announced toni ht that f-?ypt has requested that the lnit:d Nations (ieneral .\ssenitdv should ronsider the demand by F-. ypt and other Arab countries calling on Britain to end the present Palestine situation and install a
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    L.K. BUILDS MOST SHIPS
    99 1 CHIPBUILDINCi returns issued r Lloyds of London yesterdu showed that 3.255.781 tons of merchant shipping is und>r construction m the world a n... shipbuilding nations.- more Vbmii half of it m Great Britain R'turns are not available for P;. Abo-.it 10 per cent, of th P
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    TRUMAN CONDEMNS BOMB OUTRAGE
    34 1 DRESIDENT TRUMAN :n a statement last evening rnndemned the "wanton slaying of huma" rings'" m the bomb outrage a. :hc British mil tary HQ m Falestine, says Reuter trom Washington
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    NAVAL BASE CLERKS STAY AT WORK
    51 1 NAVAL BASE CLERKS STAY AT WORK Singapore Na\ai Baand draughtsmen, numbering 40 are all at work and tre "r.afT-^' ed by the strike of W\ a eflttl latwur force m the Ba^ Negotiations with re'ziewrJitves of th? stri^rs sta r trd ve^terday and are exp rt<d to > res'jm' rk
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      5 1 PHOTO6MPNS > Ihf!BK»U -.V REX :«.;t»o
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      Reorganisation of the Foreign Office
      1037 2  -  SIR GODFREY FISHER By A DIPLOMATS functions are fairly well kn >wn keeping the peace oi Europe was once said to be the principal one but a consul's are usually shrouded ia mystery. The identity of the Consular Service is being merged into that of
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      7 2 Hasel Court is our Pin-t'p Girt today
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      AUSTRALIAN SUGAR
      25 2 THE Austral an sugar crop ior 1946 is estimated at 660.000 tons, compared with 640.000 tons m 1945 and 645,003 tons m 1944
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      Britain has new day to remember
      226 2 DURING the years after World War I, thousands of Britain j wives and mothers made pil~ grimage to Whitehall, m the heart of London, with flowers and these they laid at the base of the Cenotaph, Britain's national war memorial, m memory of those
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      Carnival Season In Huddersfield
      112 2 HUDD&RSFIELD is now enUTinj the season oi village carnivals, garden parties and horse shows. In the immediate past years it has been the usual practice to organise these social events m the intereis of Forces Comforts Funds, but this year marks a change m th? objectives.
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      LEGION HELP AT THE DOUBLE
      100 2 THE British Legion came to th? ad of a 70-year-old crippled Kent ex-Service man. who was left with no one to care for him when his wife had to go into hospital for an urgent eye operation. In response to an urgent appeal from the
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      LOCATING THE THUNDERSTORM
      200 2 KNOWLEDGE o: the location and paths of thunderstorms is of obvious meteorological value It was of particular importance during the war m connection with balloon barrages, which aa c vulnerable to lightning. One method m use by Britain's National Physical Laboratory of getting this informotion over a
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      4 2 One mud one bittrr"
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      U.S. Tax On Beer Imports
      76 2 lEGISLATIia nj r impend b?er aicoholir .-es su:;:---to VS. cxc sf taxes is bein; died by a corn Congress Imported o>-* -b;tariff duty now .s propord also to lew against irr.portt Ibt domest c excise tax of US U x' 31 -gallon barr. which do*
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      31 2 I. B. T. (LONDON) LTD. 4. Drapers' Gardens, London E. C. 2. Cables: Ibetexport London Manufacturers. Distribu tors Exporters, Solicit enquiries for MEDICAL. SURGICAL O OPTICAL SUPPLIES CHEMISTS' SUNDRIES GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
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      63 2 THE LAW MEETS THE OUTLAW -ERROL FLYNK as the TOWN Marshal who succeeded uit'm :1 NM what others failed for 24>rar^ m thr quelling of lerroTisjn created by tho«e who had i o rieht to t•? eun I.MLV 5 SHOWS 11 «.w pm-4.15-6.M-9 15 p.ra f Jft |j i R
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      385 2 RADIO MALAYA r ittU 275. h D e ra d 2 *i TI ?SK iT"" Jc TONIGHT S HIGHLIGHTS < p.m ami «.M to 1.1 p m on ttb ao metres from roon to 2p m on 41*5 832p m Ho->p:»al half -hour. 9.03 mcs/sec id «1 metre band and
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      THE NAVY STOKES UP AT A S'PORE POWER STATION
      138 3 .ii .\avy is helping to keep things going at the harbour power In Singapore. Picture shows Petty Officer Stokers m the I rnc^otir^ iwm. OTOKERS SMITH, Franklin and Keatley screen the coal to eliminate J large lumps (left) while (centre) a
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    The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946.
    600 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1946. Jhe bomb which Jewish terrorists f-xploaed m the Kaig David Hotel, the Jerusalem headquarters of the British Army and of the Palestine Secretariat, destroyed more than just the lives of a hundred or more innocent ATS girls, soldiers and •Government officials 'British,
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    We Can Pay The Interest On U.S. Loan
    1628 4 MALAYAN ROUNDUP By A Special Correspondent MALAYA, left flat or her back by the Japanese occupation, has now struggled to her knees This revival, however, has not bee n achieved without much creaking m the joints, and no little anguish. But to
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    LEADER PAGE
    34 4 j*W cars lined up before the Mauretania. But ..-If pp r cent of all ÜBrllf Singapore are for the Services the Servicrs are responsible for the n Sinrapore harboar." l rhlos m
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    361 4 HHO PEOPLE.— President Truman v announcing that Senator Warren R. Austin would be nominated as principal member of the U. S. delegation to the United Nations Assembly m Now York said other delegates will bs Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and Senator
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    Letter BRITISH FILMS ARE IMPROVING
    116 4 Letter BRITISH FILMS ARE IMPROVING I HAY* of paper v for British fi m* express n.\ giving It i ih:s is not be the ideas fcr I British ftln fc think that j portanc\ when our fi hat prom.: si uid In B: public produc; ser rmr.. < war period
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    FAITH
    7 4 Say urn« tl^ni P art m
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      33 4 THE PEKING CO. CM and Inspect our wide range of: CURIOS JEWELLERY •PEKING CARPETS JADE «ft IVORY CARVINGS. Ixirze Selection of: 9 CAMPHOR CHESTS <c BOXES •embroidered LINENS No. 81. HIGH ST. STORE.
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      RICE SELLING GOES BACK TO PRE-WAR SYSTEM
      205 5 RICE SELLING GOES BACK TO PRE-WAR SYSTEM Cause Of Ration Delay §LKIR hitches following theThange-over from Gov- I ih/T.T 1 l r con ?mercial handling of rice stocks is Hie explanation given by the Food Control Department tor the delays m distribution of the rice rations days CCUrred m Sin
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      51 5 Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, visited to the Malayans who took part m the Victory parad?. He met them m Kensington Garden, and cave the men an informal talk, thank them for the part they had played W the success of the Far Eastern
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      UK BUYS SYNTHETIC RUBBER
      73 5 UK BUYS SYNTHETIC RUBBER C" respondent I CM DON. Tueo. House of Coma question by i Cons Sutton Warwi-ksh re>, as Uiht 1.917 tens ntttetftc rubber m r when 11.970 I and Ceylonese it sold to the S r Stafford Cripps. Board of Trade. rubber. be:r«^ is under inter•icn :ral
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      THRIFT MEETING
      25 5 t.nual general meetLpoiY Vercantil? Fhrlft and Loan a..', taie cace to--90 p m at the CoDr r artment. '.-mr. Building a b? served.
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      MEDICAL COLLEGE GETS $150,000
      272 5 I i.li 1 of $150,000 to enable a graduate of the Kinir Edward VII College of Medicine, Singapore, to do postgraduate studies m medicine m Europe, has been off red to the college by a wealthy Kuala Lum pur hinese, Mr. Liew Kwong Hon, m order
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      Pensions To Be Increased
      116 5 fi^ Press Reporter T k F i>uin- notification r«- .n: D?rsions has been ifd bi th» Singapore Gov- 'rm-orarv m Tease m pen'..jii* un notiied by t*ie Gov'"riTfnt «»r |-dia m May. 1945. v«-a of this, the Colonial m- nt ha\e also agreed further increase over
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      NOISE MOVES S'PORE WAR CRIMES COURT
      186 5 NOISE MOVES S'PORE WAR CRIMES COURT The Singapore War Crimes court, which adjourned m the Old Traffic court building at the corner of Outram-road and Kampong Bahru-road yesterday because the President Lt.-Col. E. N. Blacklock and his two colleagues on the Bench considered the noise of passing traffic was not
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      Rs 100 FOR A MOTTO
      112 5 DESIGNS for a crest and ideas for a motto are invited for the National War Academy, which is to be set up at Lake Kharakvasla, near Poona. A prize of Rs.loo is offered for the best entry. Entries should be sent to the National War
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      7 FIRES REPORTED
      37 5 The Municipal Fire Brigade had a busy day yesterda., having been called out to deal with seven outbreaks, six of which were grass fires. The Army Fire Service was also summoned on thr?e occasions.
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      S'PORE 'GRAND' AFTER AUSTERITY UK
      136 5 > wet« m Brita n a and >ust He idouarters. Air oath East Asia, at m voya?e j n ne think that life m -frand" after the Britain tcday. find prices hi??h :i Britain." said one ■an," ths luxury goods are certa nlv here 1*
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      COMMITTED TO ASSIZES
      79 5 riVE Chinese, Ong Teng Lin <19\ Kok Yak Chuan <22), Chu Swee Lan (22 1, Kok Bah (20), and Teo Tai Chu (25), at the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry, into charges of armed robbery m the Third Court yesterday, were committed to stand trial at the
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      ABSENT FROM DUTY: JAILED
      43 5 F. R. Akins, a British seaman of the 'Empire Brutus', was produced before Mr. R. C. Hoffman, the Fourth Police Magistrate, yesterday on charges of being absent from duty for five hours, and assaulting the ship's master, Captain Cornwall.
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      Dutch Inter-Island Shipping Resumes
      149 5 Free Press Reporter THE arrival of newly-built vessels m increasing num- bers has made it possible for the K. P. M. Line, operating under the management of the Netherlands Indies Shipping Organization, to resume its network of regular services between the N.E.I, ports and Singapore. A
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      PoW CAMP JAPANESE TO HANG
      158 5 CAPT. Suzuki, the commandant of Lieng Khan PoW camp m French Indo-China, Medical Sgt. Yamamoto and a Korean guard, Chiba, who were charged with committing atrocities on PoWs, some of whom died as a result, were yesterday sentenced to death by hanging at the Australian
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      Strike holds up flour unloading
      292 5 FIVE ships loaded with flour and other essential goods are lying off Port Swettenham with their unloading held up by a strike of dock labourers, cables the Free Press correspondent at Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The labourers knew there was an acute shortage of flour m
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      JAP SPIES ON TRIAL
      91 5 A Eurasian woman, May Hoeden, will be an important witness at the trial which opened m Singapore yesterday of five Japanese, a naval petty officer and four civilians attached to the Japanese Navy, who are charged with killing two Malay pol cemen on the island of
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      Malaya has jungle warfare school
      314 5 1 n EMEMBER SINGAPORE* A was once a cry m the first battle-schocls of Britain m 1943. Today, at Do>un lua, Malaya Command has a battle-school. There, m the thick secondary jungle and rubber plantations, relays of British troops are learning the art which the
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      EX-S'PORE POW ON TRIAL
      108 5 SYDNEY, Tues.— Major Charles Cousens of thi Australian Imperial Force's Bth Division, who was captured m Singapore and later allegedly broadcast on the Tokio Radio, appeared m a police court today charged with "traitorously adhering to and aiding and comforting the King enemies. 1 He was
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      AIR PASSENGERS
      30 5 THERE were only two passengers on board the Qantas plane which kfi Singapore for Australia on Monday. They were Mr C. W. Goyder and Mr. M. R Gregory
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      SENTRY CHARGED
      81 5 IAMNA Das. a 21-year-oid Indian J sentry at the Base Ordnance Depot, Mohamed Sulta n Road, who was alleged to have robbed a Chinese named Lee Kirn Seng of a wrist watch worth $150 and $240 cash on the night June 1, was committed to stand his trial
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      ROUND-THE-WORLD SHIP ARRIVING
      38 5 CCOTT E. LAND, one of the first ships to sail under the charter of American President Lines, :s expected to arrive m Singapore on Friday m the course of her maiden voyage round th? world.
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      RADIO TALK TONIGHT
      20 5 At 9.45 p.m. today, Sir Edward Gent will broadcast a talk from Kuala Lumpur over Radio Malaya
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      MARRIAGE
      25 5 NISBET— SLATER. On 13th June 1946 at Southampton, John Dick Peddle Nisbot of Singapore to <Jsan) Hubv Jean I'rodie Slater MB.. Ch.B.. D.PH. (Edin.)
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      £50,000 A YR WIFE SUES NAVAL PEER
      1130 6 A PEEK uiih an income of £10,000 a year faced m the High Cm\r\ m London his wife, who was said to have £50.000 a year, m an action over £3,600, which she alleges she lent him. The husband. Lord Stanley of Alderl?y,
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      30 6 n«d h tin? camera vMch will never lie dt\>pite what !hc' •bookits" may say. It will record finishes at all Britain's big race meetings, and provide guidance for the Judge.
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      NEW TOWN FOR THREE BRIDGES
      289 6 BRITAIN'S second "new town"— Stevenage was the first is to be m the Crawly-Three Bridges area of Sussex, a Centre of railway, road and air communications. General Sir Desmond Anderson, chairman of the Crawley Parish Council, says Crawley has had its day as a rural
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      SOLDIER WAS WED IN HANDCUFFS
      146 6 SOLDIER WAS WED IN HANDCUFFS THE handcuffs that 24 year-o!.' Private George Former wore at his wedding m Leeds Register office left him just enough freedom to put a rin-T on his brides finger. A few minutes alter l"is marriage he was on the way bacl: to the detention barracks
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      TORIES PLAN TO UNSCRAMBLE INDUSTRIES
      155 6 TORIES PLAN TO UNSCRAMBLE INDUSTRIES DLANS looking beyond nationali- sation to denationalisation are to be considered by the council of the London Conservative Union, covering 61 constituencies, say.s a Daily Express reporter. Sir Herbert Williams, chairman of the executive committee of the union, said at a meeting at Westminster: "We
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      DAMAGES WILL GO TO ORPHANS
      80 6 DAMAGES W ILL GO TO ORPHANS A settlement of the case In which Miss Odette Marie Therese Gueble claimed damages for breach of promise from Captain Graham Wynne Paton mis announced m the Hi~h Court Mr. Granville Sharp, dorendin^ ?aid that reports rrade to him were not well founded. He
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      TAKES AN EARLY DIP AT SIXTY
      40 6 TAKES AN EARLY DIP AT SIXTY Life is really just beginning tor grandmother Mrs. Eliza Brunker of Gautrey-road. Feckham At sixty she takes a morning dip nr\t S2J lrnm \"Z the first time m her life when she as oi
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      HOME....
      11 8 Aii.ient C oekin*ton Church m Devonshire, dating back to 1070.
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      U.S. To Get Tough In Trieste
      64 8 U.S. To Get Tough In Trieste /*Ol. Alfred ltov.man. \iner ia» Civil Affairs officer for Venr?ia <;iul a. hinted yester(hy that the Allied military v> ernment nould be toujh m iuture rather than try to pleas'* ♦•vrrybodv as it has m the past. Ho said the j-0.--.ul ilion should de.ute
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      FILM EXTRA MURDERED: MAN HELD
      243 8 LONDON. Tu*»> fAPr Neville Geofge Heath, South African Air Force pilot. MM remanded today on a charge o: murdering a film extra. Mrs. Margery Gardner, whose nude arid mutilated body was round m a Lorn 1 m hotel room on June 21 In another London
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      GEMS LURED OFFICERS TO BANNED ZONE
      237 8 GEMS LURED OFFICERS TO BANNED ZONE BERLIN, Tues. THE lure of diamonds on clandestine sale by Russian 1 soldiers is believed to have caused the disappearance of two American army officers behind the "iron curtain" of the Russian zone. Two French Military government officers who knew the Americans well said
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      PRESS INQUIRY PLEA GOES TO ATTLEE
      165 8 LONDON. Tues. MR. HERBERT MORRISON, Lord President of the Council, today promised he would confer with Prime Minister Clement Alt It e and the Cabinet on the petition of lilt National Inion of Journalists for appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the Kritish
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      THREAT TO NANKING
      130 8 NANKING. Tm-s. CHINESE Government forces began a furioua counterattack Against Communist troops threatening Nanking and Shanghai area and plunged northward for 28 miles belore being checked by the Communists. Government sources said the Nationalists had begun a counterattack along a 130-mile front Government troops pushed back the
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      MALAY TO HANG
      94 8 IPOH. Tuesday UAMZAH bin Mat Ajar, formerly a Sergeant In the Malay Regi- tnent and later a Sub-Inspector o! Police under the Japs, hid sentence o: death passed on him today on a charge of murdering three unknown Chinese political prisoners a^Kampat shortly after i the Japanese
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      DOG STADIUM WRECKED BY ANGRY CROWD
      225 8 LONDON. Tues. ANGERED by the disqualification of a do_' which finished second, a section of the 30.000 crowd wrecked Harringay Greyhound Stadium la-t night The crowd Invaded the track, assaulted the flic ai> and police, overturned the Starting traps. i pulled up the woodwork,
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      'EAST HAS MET WEST'—BEVIN
      148 8 'EAST HAS MET WEST'— BEVIN Netherlands Society m London Jh TT ie e>fett Urn East of what happened m '•ThP r^ h*Z £L West who hfthPrtn UOminant Peoples hitherto must appreciate the re,o Kl,ise wl.at il^p^, ing' They m"St g0 t0 »leet and' no! wait for it to come upon
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      'IMPROVEMENT' IN N.E.I. SAYS DUTCH QUEEN
      239 8 THE HAGUE. Tues. QUEEN Wiihclmina. In her speech from the Throne to the Dutch Parliament today said: 'There is Improvement In the development of events m the East Indies. "In important parts of th" outer territories a beginning has been made with the establlsh-
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      Mme SUN HITS FRONT PAGE
      119 8 NFW YORK. Tues THE American PfCM today frontpaged Madame Sun Vat Sen i statement, all stressing her contention tnat Chinese reactionaries are really try me* to embroil Russia and the United States m a new world war tnrou^h the Chirese civil wrr. The Scnpps-Hovard chain
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      REVOLVER IS HANDED IN
      62 8 A 38 revolver was handed In! to Singapore police at the Central Police Station late yesterday evening by a Eurasian This was one of the rare cases m which arms have been voluntarily surrendered followmg the warning to p?ople ih Possession of unlicensed arms to ha
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      LAST INDIAN PAIR FOIL ENGLAND
      716 7 LAST INDIAN PAIR FOIL ENGLAND MANCHESTER, Tues. B y Learie Constantine I £rt C SeC nd TCSt match with England, battling odSs and th 3 ntly < SpectaCular fashi °n agatot ti^endous "t t h Ov !fVC *2 fight ut the third ame of the series at the Oval for
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      13 7 l>tni> (omp'on. whe scored •1 n ot out m England s second mnia;s
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      SCOREBOARD
      248 7 England: Ist Inns. 294. INDIA— Ist INNS. Merchant r Bedser b Pollard T8 Mushtaq AU b Pollard 46 Hafeex c and b Pollard 1 Mankad b Pollard liazare b Voce 3 Modi c Ikin b Bedser 2 Amarnath b Bedser 8 Pataudi b Pollard 11 Sohoni c and b
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      SINGAPORE NAVY BEAT K.L. AIRMEN
      174 7 I -sgESfe SaSSSSsSfB A F. settled down late. The k .a.* j jj ln the i They gave away two g trl<?d .first half. Although c y idnOt h ard towards the end *»ey goal iXn^thTwere^arreU dow. three-nil. The Navy, on the other hand, maintained
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      35 7 Stokes, Northamptonshire Regiment's centre forward, about to dribble past Soon San, Chinese Athletic fallback, -m Sunday s charity soccer match at Jalan Besar Stadium which the Northamptons won by four goals to one.
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      BATSMEN STAKE TEST CLAIMS
      491 7 LONDON, Tues. QEVERAL "possible" Test batsmen for inclusion m the team v to tour Australian substantiated their claims during the latest series of County championship matches. The selectors are expected to choose at least another batsman possibly, an opener— and the performances of Charles Barnett of
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      SINGAPORE ROVERS WIN ONE-NIL AT SEREMBAN
      97 7 SINGAPORE ROVERS WIN ONE-NIL AT SEREMBAN (From Our O *n Correspondent) SEREMBAN, Mon. rpilE Singapore Rovers. playing J- with on change from the team which defeated the Chineoe yesterday, were lucky to beat a Negri XI composed of Service and Civilian players by ih; only f ou\ of the match
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      LAST FOUR IN FRENCH TENNIS
      197 7 LAST FOUR IN FRENCH TENNIS PARIS. Tues. AS a result of to-day's play m the French championships it Roland Garros stadium here today Yvon Petra of France, Wimbledon winner, his fellow countryman Marcel Bernard, Tom Brown o! America and Yaroslav Dorbny of Czechoslovakia have readfied the last four of the
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      Y.M.C.A. TABLE TENNIS TIES
      193 7 T'HE following ties In the Singapore V.M.C.A. table tennis tournament will be played today at 5 15 p.m. at the Tennis Pavilion:— OPEN SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP TIES: Sim Soo Juay v. Koh Chit Meng; Loh Swee Kee Lim Thye Hock; D. E. Sanders v Koh Chiap Mong;
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      57 7 NEWMARKET Mon EDGAR Britt, the Maharaja Ga«kwer of Baroda's jockey, had a narrow escape from injury when at exercise with Fred Armstrong's team here today. Britt was riding a two-year-old when the girth broke throwing him to the ground, but he managed to hold on to the
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      MAYFLOWER B.P.
      32 7 A GENERAL meeting of the members of the Mayflower B.P. will be held at Mr. Chan Chim Bock's residence, 47, Shrewsbury Road, off Moulmein Road on Saturday, at 2.30 p.m.
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      58 7 rpHEr following will represent the 1 V.M.C.A. at volleyball against the 140 Coy R.I.A.S.C. on the tennis ground at 5 1 5 p.m. on Saturday A.S. Durai. Chla Kok Leong, Tow Wah Sung, Toh Shung Chee, Wee Boon Hai (Capt.), Robert Chan. Au Tat Chu, Au Kow Chu, Lee
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      RECS' HOCKEY
      48 7 'THE following will represent the Recs A at hockey against the Police on the Police ground tomorrow at 5. 1S p.m. R. Minjoot; R.K. Barth. P. Neubronner; H. Hoeden, O. Clarke. M. Toledo; B. Scheerder. K. I^embruggen, R. Barker, A. Clarke E. Ebert. Umpire: F. Milne.
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      31 7 HQ ACBEA wiU hold an athletic meeting on Saturday at the ACSEA sporta ground, Changi, m preparation for the Singapore A. A. A. j meeting on Aug. 5.
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