The Singapore Free Press, 31 July 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN SINGAPORE K SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY JULY 31. 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    U.S. GIVES 'NO ISOLATION' PLEDGE
    377 1 U.S. GIVE S 'N O ISOLA TION' PLEDGE Harmony in Paris PARIS, Tues. A FTER the heated arguments of the rt opening day, there was peace in the second day's session of the Peace Conference in Paris today. The atmosphere was all harmony there was no heated debate; the sentiments
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    U.S. asks Siam to drop UNO claim
    214 1 U.S. asks Siam to drop UNO claim WASHINGTON, Tues. THE United States has asked Siam to withdraw her case the United Nations against France over the Indoborder dispute, says United Press while the reason the request is not officially known, some diplomats said United States feels the necessity of French
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    MacDONALD WILL TOUR SARAWAK
    81 1 Talks with Dyak chiefs in their long huts upriver and in kampongs will be the feature of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald s forthcoming visit to Sarawak. The Governor-General leaves Singapore on Aug. 6 and will spend ten days touring Sarawak comprehensively an intention he had the first
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    ROCKET TO THE MOON IN '48
    162 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. THE U.S. Army and Airforce experts on guided missiles pre-dic-ed today that they will be able to shoot remote controlled rockets to :he l oon within 18 months and foresaw* interplanetary travel Witlm 30 year.. Major P. C Ci.l 1 "oun. head
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    MASKED GUNMEN RAID HOUSE
    133 1 IJJIVE masked men, all armed with pistols, robbed the mi mates of a h^use in Moulmein Road, Singapore, last night of $280 cash, Rs. 121 (Indian), and $1,448 worth of jewellery and clothing. The man who was robbed, an Indian Muslim, said the thieves were two
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    S'PORE HAS 2 NEW STRIKES
    102 1 Free Press Reporter TWO new strikes are on in Sin- gapore today. One involves about 30 mechanics employed oy the Singapore Cold Storage, the other affects approximately 300 Chinese assistants of drug stores. Mechan.es of the Singapore Cold Storage are demanding a 150 per cent,
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    GALE WRECKS CHILDREN'S CAMPS
    92 1 GALE WRECKS CHILDREN'S CAMPS LONDON, Tues. PHILDREN from all over Europe were sent scurrying for their belo ;..igs whe.i nearly 800 tents at the international children's camp at Rottingdean. Sussex, were jlo* away in a fierce gale ias f .light. A .r.rkeshift camp was erected at a ooys' school nearby
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    BRITISH TROOPS HUNT JEW GANGS
    316 1 TEL AVIV, Tues. TWENTY thousand British troops today began a msiss comb-out of the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv in an attempt to track down killers of the Jewish illegal army, lrgun Zvai Leumi, who hud caused the death of over 100 persons at Kinu
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    GENERAL'S LETTER FOR CABINET
    152 1 GENERAL'S LETTER FOR CABINET LONDON. TIMS. THE reported action ol the 3;I--tish commander in Palestine. Lieut-Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker. forbidding British troops »o iraternise with .Tews, is bfirij "considered at Cabinet level. ?> a. cording to informed sources. The letter, by Gen. Barker d on British trooos to shun the
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      BRITAIN LEADS IN TOWN-PLANNING
      580 2 U.S. EXPERT SAYS WORLD-FAMOUS for his writings on city and regional planning, Mr. Lewis Mumford, American writer, Ls at present in England. At the invitation of the British Institute o! Sociology he is touring England to study her national planning. Already I am tremendously impressed by
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      Foreign Legion Helps An Ex-Soldier
      215 2 THIS is the tale of a soldier's KJ cat;;. iv book, and hew the British Legion was ;«b> to help the soldier h h.-d c< ,1 hia demobill- j in >^vf. and became he rIUi for lh« result ot his upd! cat:?n i >r railway
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      ELECTRICITY HELPS TO PRODUCE TOMATOES
      305 2 A SIMPLE method of providing hot bods by using electric toil heating rabies in conjunction with small glass horticulture suitable for use by the smal! amateur gardener has been in use In Britain for some time, and manufacturers are producing electric soil heating equipment to
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      A SAILING HOLIDAY
      181 2 IN the part of England Known sls East Angha that livers form what arc known as the "Broads' or small lakes which aie splendid I lor sa.Lng boati. Recently a party of English bOJi and gins who are still at school spent a communal holiday on three
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      KHAKI CAVEMEN of EGYPT
      366 2 KHAKI CAVEMEN of EGYPT XREADING in the footsteps of tho Pharaohs, British soldiers have been living for three years inside the hills from wruch the great blocks of limestone used to build the Pyramids were quarried. Daily, as the work of excavating the caves went on, perfectly preserved rel cs.
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      313 2 IiJIADIO LISTEIV^GI RAI>AO MALAYA ■SB NETWUMI fr.nn noon u» p.::j. anj »i M tu II m. on 'j t.r'm from nucn In r. n\ on l.s:."> i NC i*i bi ir-t-c b»r«! an'! fro-n t'» to 20 p.ii. un 1 TS MM (t in 1 r.elre bund I noon to
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      179 2 .11 I 31 T.JO pm M?rry-go-rcund. 8 :JO p.m. News, 8 js p m. Interlude, 8 43 p m. Homeward Bound. 900 pm. rune In With Edna 9 30 p.m. Swing Club. 10 00 ;».m. London Calling. 0j p Interlude. It. 15 p.m. CJelodj M:\lurc. 10.20 p.m. Radio reel lI.
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      DUNKIRK MAYOR KISSES 'QUEEN' OF RAMSGATE
      112 3 DUNKIRK MAYOR KISSES 'QUEEN OF RAMSGATE '.I'. i*... "la\ur of i'Uiikirk pail a visit to the holchv rr oH nt Rams?at he met hg V. auty Queen Jean Tunsatt. M'Ur tra'.vnins; the 'ilu^en th; ayor ki*scd h» r. >lavors frori I! r. x*mm&^m. \J^^B^BB lonlonuher- t'ify «i-.e o?:ned a season
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      The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1946
      473 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1946 yESU'.KDAY we p:o:nis€d to report progress on the talks between the Governor-General. Mr. MacDona'd. the Governor. S.r Edward Gent, and the Sultans and representatives of the United Malays' National Organisation in Kuala Lumpur on the future of the Malayan Union. Hie Malayan
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      Rebuilding S'pore's Airfields
      1396 4  - Rebuilding S'pore' s Airfields Flt/O. H. Gwennap-Moore By RESTORATION of Singapore's airfields to a state of efficiency, the reconditioning of buildings for R.A.F. use and the organisation of water and electricity supplies from the Japanese legacy of chaos has been a formidable task, particularly on tho permanent R.A.F Stations, where
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      Japs at work at Changi
      16 4 Japanese POYVs laying jiirr-efl strcl planks to form runwa, f««f air-strin.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      367 4 HOLLYWOOD'S dictator Of Mm morals, manners, and 'unguage, 50-yeor old Joseph B r ?en, has just visited London. Mr Breen U Vice-President of the Motion Picture Association ot America (known as the Hays office) and Director of Hollywood's Production Code Administration. Went to I ondon to advise
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      Symptoms of a patient in love
      484 4  -  BRIAN MrCORMAC Hv MARRIAGE is the convalescent stage of a pathological condition. The mental disease preceding the condition if what We read and see on the films Ki true is love. Love is a nervous condition akin to anxiety neurosis, affecting people intermittently between
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      QUIZ
      60 4 Spot the Malapropism n each sentence and correct. 1. Poor old Smith's relic outlived him by only a lew montr* 2. Jones has become a regular polypamist since he went to the school of languages. 3. The old miser saved up u\\ his lifp so that he cx>uld bp
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      Letter 'WHY DO WE HAVE TO WALK?
      94 4 Letter 'WHY DO WE HAVE TO WALK? I BRITISH the S Swimm Fi iday this b don do me i.a no din v there w truck* ring Hou B tood :.'v v,: m;:v.. \aca: meai *ol! walk I knov,for Serv. i percent I with th 1 tetikteff that i In
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      ANADA WILL HELP TO REBUILD MALAYA
      249 5 Free Press Reporter fl| A LAVA'S damaged mines and factories will be reconstructed largely with Canadian heavy machin u ry 'i j 1 e are now on order and first shipments should be starting out from Canadian ports next month. ivlr. Arthur Wilding. Canadian
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      Lord Killearn's Daughter Marries
      40 5 Gcottftj John Eustace M9M, only son of i.t.-Col. i Mrv K. Eustace Jameson Heritage House. Warley recently marrii.fi the Margaret Miranda lampMUin?er daughter of Lord KiH"jrn. and of the late Lady ;>-'in. at St. Lake's. hels?a.
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      TENANCIES BILL IS AMENDED
      147 5 TENANCIES BILL IS AMENDED Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. MENDMENTS have been nade to the Leases and Tenancies War Absentees > Bill, said Mr K. K. O'Connor, the AttorneyGeneral, at the Mahvau Union Advisory Council meeting tor*;;-.-One amendment was that the words fdeaLiie with baric renti "subject to the
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      East And West Society
      41 5 The next meeting of the East and West Soc ety will take place tomorrow, at the Y.M.C.A. Bras Basah Road < opposite Cathay Building* at 8 p.m. Mr. Lim Hong Bee will speak on Malaya Yesterday and Today.
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      DRIVER JAILED
      51 5 A lorry driver who knocked down and killed a pedestrian while ariving his vehicle at the junction of Tanglin road and Napier roid and who failed to stop aTter the accident, was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Ahmad bin Ibrahim in the Fifth Police Court,
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      H.K. traders oppose textiles rationing
      242 5 THE recnt Hon^ Kon<> (Government's order freezing" all cotton piece-goods held by private importers and dealers as the first step to requisition- and rationing has met with strong opposition from Ceneral Chamber of Commerce and the Piece ituxis Dealers* Association, says a Reutet cable from
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      CHINA-STORE AIR SERVICE
      78 5 CHINA-STORE AIR SERVICE THE China National Aviation Company is planning air lines linking Shanghai with 81*1gapore and Manila Representatives of the company are expected to leave shortly for Manila to conduct negotiations with the Philippines authorities. The CNAC hopes to begin a re-ular air service to Singapore early next year.-Reuter.
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      BRITISH RED CROSS ENDS CHINA WORK
      190 5 A N outstanding record of volun- tarv service, under trying ind often dangerous cond tions. SSs been brought to a close bv the termination of th? Cn J™ Commission of the Br.tish Red, Cross tv.p China Commission *as fcJmed in May, 1942, when a
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      Swim Champs Of Tomorrow?
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      BRITISH OFFICER'S SUICIDE
      117 5 BRITISH OFFICER'S SUICIDE Free Press Correspo'.dent Penant; Tues. AFTER recording eviduee that the deceased had «onfessed to a friend that he had domestic worries, th? Penans Corotier, Mr. W. Foulsham today returned a verdict of suicide on Lieai. Commander E. H Oatwcod officer-in-charge of Sea Transport, who was found shot
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      SIME ROAD CAMP CLOSING DOWN
      139 5 ENGAGING the immediate at- tcntion if the Singapore Welfare Council are the temporary camps still i n existe.ict. Sime Road Camp, prim reminder of things best forgotten, will soon be closed. It was pointrd out that Nantina Hotel >n Queen Street and the Queen'3 Hotel
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      KIDNAPPING ALLEGED
      88 5 Free Press Correspondent PENANG, Men. THE alleged kidnapping ol a pro..* lent Penang doctor had a court sequel today when a Chinese. Kwek L m Chuan. was produced before the police magistrate, Mr. W. Foulsham on two counts of kidnapping Dr. Ooi Kee Wan from his dispensary on
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      1942 Massare: Jap colonel held
      167 5 1942 Massare: Jap colonel held Free Pre-s Reporter BROUGHT back from Japan and at present lodged in Changi jail is a Japanese colonel, Oishi Masayuki, who is being: questioned by ti;c War Crimes Investigation Team in connection with the raarsacro of Singapore civilians in the early days of the Jap
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      GOVERNOR SAYS: 'HELP Y.M.C.A.'
      73 5 GOVERN OR SAYS: 'HELP Y.M.C. A.' THE S n-?ap^ro O'lftHlW, Sir FramiJin Gnnson. has i .nrd l personal appeal to the nublic tr» suDtiort the jfjfl C.A. in its cllorts to rc-e?tabl sh lt« It Tre removal of the hcrror of the Japanese cells and the rencva. t on of
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      Milk Centres For Infants
      123 5 THE belief that swmu ened condensed milk i«s essential to infa- t fffdins is fallacy, according* to I)r fl". J. Virkcrs, Rlrec-tor of Medical Services. Singapore. Any parent who cannot afford to obtain irilk for a baby, states [>r Vi"kers. siioul i visit the nearest Infant
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      FRAUD CHARGE
      40 5 CHPnF.°F prir ten noldi'. f hr^ds rf prr-vr In h?r Kt st«od by the side <>1 a M?lnv the doc. in tbc *****4 K Court y.°stcrdav on a chc: 1 havin T dei-civcd a man Int her $300
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      PEACE TREATY DETAILS REVEALED
      1828 6 Italy's Army, Navy Cut Down PARIS, Tuesday. RETAILS of the draft treaties with the five Axis satellite countries, which are being discussed by the delegates to the 21-nation Peace Conference, were made public here toniuht. The following are the L'hief provisions of the draft peace treaties:
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      CAMERON MASCOT WAS GERMAN BOY
      61 6 CAMERON MASCOT WA S GERMAN BOY A Qennan boy aged u. who was a mascot of the Cameron Highlanders in Germany has landed in England after hitch hiking from Berlin. He is Man' d Denia who claims that his family is dc;id and his only real friends tre I ,j
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      CHEAPER SAILING
      18 6 Sailing vessels, but not row m boats, are now exempt from purchase tax in i.rita n.
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      179 5 ALHAMBRA ZfZZZNOTHING LIKE IT EVER: LAST 5 SHOWS: HIS SECRET MEANT DEATH Paramount s Master -Thriller is Masterpicv* of Sus'n-n>-c. Shock, and Sock-p-" n rr''i H^b i^^ns)n^n^np^B"^n^^n^H n^K^Sk JBP^^^^v- jj^ L Preceded by Atom l :ast Put uifs SENSATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT WE 7re" OPENING SERGEANT YORK TO-MORROW! REMEMBER THESE POINTS ABOUT
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      8 6 QUIZ Answers 1. Keliet. 2. PoU\Tlot, 3. Sarcophagus.
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      141 6 l*z LOUai+ZZ. 6 50 9jo GRAND HOLIDAY PROGRAM: SHOWING TODAY.' ACTION THRILLS !>(> f 7 PIRATES SWASHBUCKLERS. A Thrilling Adventure Picture CmUminm An Exciting Ending Where A Jealous Stabbed By A Beautiful Worn i M IkT iiio HflfeS^r 1 lliT tTa^^ii i EleMchmats^ wnii JOAN FONTAINE ARTURO DE CCiUOVA. 7TH
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      90 6 JANj t Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya /iVE GOT A \J /WHY THE >J /-SUB'S ONLY GOJNS ToX PROMISED Tb^V DATE IN THE TOWHA LONG LINGERING j MEET HER BOY FRIEND.'- GEORGIE HOW I I CAPTAIN.'— I'LL BE/ V LOOK. JOSH?-/ BUT YOUR VIOLET^ STILL WAS GETTING
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      GREAT INNINGS BY COX OF SUSSEX
      634 7 I_ u BRIGHTON, Tues. l.!I the lr.aian cricket tourists beat Sussex by nine >. the greatest individual performance of the "match •nd inning- unbeaten effort of Sussex batsman Li.red 231 net out. and was chiefly responsible for the Indians of the innings victory which
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      Schoolboy's Big Feat
      124 7 LONDON, Mon. TNMAN and OaPtj i-iket rs h.\d M)mr thrir thun.l-T oien b\ a >uun? <sr^oolhov nlavin; in I C int«r->chools .it h. Inion ifRB l.>-»b:idse hi-t«»'i 1 mtJn H.' via* .el C oiin < I wdrtv hen the T->nbrilrr u ckets -e failin dr^\ who tix>k
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      COMMISSAR WINS STEWARDS' CUP
      18 7 the Btewa i Y d il at -1 WT ju. Art* iad Re uter
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      SWIM RECORD
      45 7 SWIM RECO RD A* Ral^t a Dutch swimmer. Nel Uan Vliet. oroke the wonds •••oirer'- 100 metres breast-stroke •c-ord when she covered the di>nce in 79. 4 seconds. The previous best was 79 3 seconds by a German woman, Gisc.a Grass, :r: t «v%i _*Reuter
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      BISLEY CHAMP
      31 7 S'^d-Idr C. C. Willott. R.A.F., from Pl> mouth, the winner or the King: s Pri/e at the N.R.A. 17th annual meeting at I» sley, chaired carried tnroush Pi>l?y Camp.
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      SINGAPORE A.A.A. HEATS TODAY
      498 7 THE eliminating heats in ten events in the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association meeting will be run at Jalan Besar Stadium this afternoon. The first events, the 440 yards, throwing the discus and the javelin, will start simultaneously at 4 p.m. All preparations have been made to
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      Woman Trains On Beer To Keep Fit
      290 7 Woman Trains On Beer To Keep Fit Johannesburg o* Air Mail MRS Mary Mulkr. South African women's singles and doubles lawn tennis champion, lists beer as one of the factors contributing her success. "I find a couple of :.im^ of hard singles two or tnvte times a week sufficient to
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      HARD HIT CENTURY BY VOCE
      400 7 HARD HIT CENTURY BY VOCE LONDON, Mon. ANE of the features ot the County v cricket matches ending today was the accomplishment of Cyril Washbrook. Lancashire batsman, who is amone the chosen for the Australian trip. With 162 against Northamptonshire he passed the 2.000 total for the seasen and made
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      N. S. CRICKET
      68 7 N. ire* Press Correspondent SEREMBAN. Mon 4 STEADY taalnfl of 38 not out by [A Bulks and oome aggressive bati El. Ponniah who scared 35 were 're features of a cricket match play!ed in Ser:mban on Saturday, when the Por: Dicicson CricKet XI drew S--emban Hill Rangers.
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      MALACCA OLD BOYS XI
      219 7 \TEAM composed of old boys in Singapore cf cO English Schcols of Malacca is travelling to the home I i town this weekend to plav a game in aid of the memorial for the late Mr. P.G. Pamadasa. who vas executed by the Japs on Mar
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  • NEWS AND LATE SPORT
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      COMMUNIST THREAT TO NANKING RLY
      365 8 COMMUNIST THREAT TO NANKING RLY NANKING, Tuesday. VETERAN Communist troops, bypassing the heavy fighting in north Kiangsu and sweeping down the Grand Canal, reached the Yangtze River and deployed today directly across from the strategic Nationalist naval base of Kiangyen, midway between Nanking and Shanghai, thus again threatening railway communications
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      HOME...
      34 8 \m old custom was re. ived at l.*h€stff Assves when Mr. Justice Charles became Comma i cUr ■I the Castl' for a day. Pictur,. shows the Jud^r ln^noctin« mtn of the Cheshire Reer-ment.
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      Costliest country in Europe
      141 8 Co stliest country in Europe BUDAri si. twm MINCAIJY will bj one oi the most expensive <-ountrie> :n !'.:roo? to live in when new currency is brought in'o cirt'ula ion on Au?. 1. s from th s date the much iuil.ttcd pen n 1 Will disappear the socalled nenpoc uill
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      HARMONY IN PARIS
      190 8 ront.nued from page 1) Axis to know what peace and rre-dom mean. We must try to understand one another, even When we cannot agree with one another." Dr Wu Nan-jou, director of European Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and adviser to the Chinese delegation, told United
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      £75,000,000 FOR PALESTINE ARABS
      280 8 WASHINGTON, Tues. AN outright gn»t by the United States of £12.500,000 for the benefit of Arabs in Palestine is recommended in the full report of the AnuJo-American conference in London which drew up the plan for partitioning Palestine. President Truman, who has now received the full
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      CHINA TAKES OVER 647 FACTORIES
      109 8 CHINA TAKES OVER 647 FACTORIES CHINA has taken over 647 enemy-owned factories In Shanghai alone. Of these, 283 were machine works, 178 chemical plants. 115 cotton and weaving milLs and 30 tobacco factories. The Ministry of Economic All airs has handed over so far 54 cotton and woollen mills to
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      PLANES TIGHT UNION WAR
      52 8 Two planes which had been chartered by the Steel Workers Union were involved In a peacetime "dogfight" jvith three Stelco Company planes over the Stelco Company's Hamilton plant yesterday when the Unions planes dropped 10,000 leaflets to 2.000 steel workers inside the plant, reports Reuter from
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      NEGROES PICKET WHITE HOUSE
      32 8 NEGROES from Americas 4S states picketed the White House yesterday in a demonstration against the Georgia slaying of two coloured men and^,tneir wives, reports Reuter from W^«. shington.
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      NEHRU SEES WAVELL
      33 8 Pandit Nehru, President of the National Congress, who returned from Kashmir to New Delhi last night, had a 90 minute interview with Viceroy Lord Wavell yesterday reports Reuter from Delhi.
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      INVASION AT 5 DAYS' NOTICE
      172 8 LONDON, Tues. ALLIED invasion of Southern A France in August 1944. was decided upon only five days before the actual landings, General Maitland Wilson, then supreme commander of the Mediterranean, said in his official report to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Maitland Wilson revealed in
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      WILHELMINA CHEERED IN LONDON
      187 8 WILHELMINA CHEERED IN LONDON LONDON. Tue.s. DUTCH cheers greeted Queen Wilhclmma of the Nether- I lands when she arrived at Bode- Ingham Palace shortly after 4 15 i p.m. today on a visit to the Kin of Fn^land. Some 150 men, women ard| children of the Dutch colony to I
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      GERMANS STAY IN SHANGHAI
      51 8 Th?ro will be no second ma^s repatriation ot Germans Iru'.i China, following the sailing of an American ship carrying 1.100 Nazis and other Germans bad: to their homeland early in July, says Reuter from Shanghai. Oi 1,600 Germans still in Shanghai, the majority are expected to
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      EINSTEIN'S SOCIETY IS BROKEN UP
      39 8 EINSTEIN'S SOCIETY IS BROKEN UP The Kaiser W:;iiclm Society.' 1 one Oi th* worlds most famou. scie.uiftc research organisations Is U te dissolved. Einstein waj the Society's president before ne migrated to the United States, says UP. from Berlin.
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      STAGE CUB STAGES 'SHINING HOUR'
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