The Singapore Free Press, 12 August 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I— SINGAPORE, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1946. IK. III PAtiKS PRICE 10 CENTS
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    PARATROOPS OBJECT TO MUTINY COURT
    439 1 PARATROOPS OBJECT TO MUTINY COURT Free Press Reporter KLUANG, Mon. THE court martial of the 263 men of the 13th (Lancashire) Battalion of the Sixth Airbourne Regiment on charges of mutiny, opened here this morning Vith an objection by the principal defending officer to the inclusion of a certain junior
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    The Queen hurt walks 5 miles
    70 1 BALLATER. Sun. -IN blizabftil dipped and fell, bruising her left a hen enming a brook in (Jlen Cairn yeeterShj was walking with the King and Princess and Princeeß Margaret at the time of the »p Um Qu. c I can wa.K aid of the
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    'SHAWCROSS MUST GO'
    143 1 LONDON, Sun. THE Sunday P ctorial demanded the immediate resignation of the British Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross. today because of "gross indiscretions.'' The newspaper went on to name "lour major blunders.' These were— Sir Hartleys attack on the News of the World; his attack on what
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    U.S. MARINES TO QUIT PHINA
    60 1 T v AN KING Sun (-overnnnpn re port thai -nart or th" Marines" would soon na, while Americans at Kiqvarten in Pnp:ng nqpec^ ng orders I to o'Kt and awa-ted a statcr Wedn&sdav bv Chiang Kai-sbck ended en wh* her new concessions nrh hour aettleirm
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    Planes may fly at 1,650 mph
    100 1 TWO speed targets were discussed yesterday. In Britain. the People" newspaper reported plans lor a plane capable of 1.650 mp.h. which would need l"»r I only for take-ofTs and land ngs. However, a Ministry of Supply spokesman said: "We ar.\ of ourse. trving to
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    COMMUNIST HEADS SLOYAK GOVT
    12 1 iniint l Com munis* bef -:i formed. Prague.
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    S.C.C. Defeated On The Padang
    114 1 In a bright day's cricket on Singapore's padang yesterday the Singapore Recreation Club defeated the Singapore Cricket Club by six wickets. Tiie S C.C. took first innings. Picture shows the club s opening batsmen J. Luif and G. K Stein leaving the pavilion. Stein scored
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    TROOPS, TANKS ENTER HAIFA
    163 1 JERUSALEM, Sun. MORE British troops and tanks poured through Haifa tonight toward the eastern part of the j harbour, which is surrounded by j oarbed wire entanglements and guarded by mach negun. Additional landing boats surrounded the Jewish refuge ships. The BrUah pa -sender ship Fmpire
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    CONGRESS ACCEPTS FREE INDIA PLAN
    193 1 T uc NEW DELHI, Sun. HE Congress Working Committee passed a resolution late Saturday night giving general acceptance to the British cabinet plan for Indian independence announced last May 16. The resolution made clear trjat the committee did not approve of all of the British
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    WHEAT CARGO SAVED
    19 1 The car?o of wheat on the crippled American Farmer has been saved, says UP. frcm Falmouth.
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    Forces to live like civilians
    484 1 AS soon as materials are available, it is the intention I n to improve the standard of living of all ranks, both married and single, in the Services in South-East Asia by providing better housing and an increased scale ol* I furniture of up-to-date and
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    U.S. PLANE FORCED DOWN BY FIGHTERS
    103 1 U.S. PLANE FORCED DOWN BY FIGHTERS Belgrade. Yugoslavia Sun. YUGOSLAV fighter pfeotl forced down an American Army Dakota transport plan^ flying across northern Yugoslavia, says UP. quoting the Tanyun^ agency. The plane was made to land because it •violated Yugoslavia s sovereign rights' by flving over Yugoslav territory It was
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    U.S. OIL MAN SEEKS SUMATRA CONCESSION
    39 1 A representative of an American oil company visited Dr. A K Gani, Republican Vice-Governor ot Sumatra with a view to obtaining oil concessions in Sumatra, says Reuter from Mcdan quoting the republican newspaper.
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    12 U.S. NAVY SHIPS SHOW THE FLAG
    38 1 12 U.S. NAVY SHIPS SHOW THE FLAG Government officials said yesterday that the U S Naw now has a carrier, four cruisers and seven destroyers in European waters un^er the policy of "showine Uv flag,' says A.P. from
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    10 2 Exclusivp to the Singapore Free Press i n Malaya
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    Distrust reigns in this young Republic
    1320 2  -  HARRIS JACKSON, By jTN HANOI, north IndoI China capital of the young Republic of Viet Nam, barbed wire and armed youngsters guard the bu Idings occupied by the government symbolic of the distrust with which the Annamite Free State eyes the French, against whom
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    Don't be angry with the servicemen
    178 2 Don't let's be angry with the Servicemen They are a sort of human, don't forget Admittedly they spoil our cafes, swimming-pools and joys And clutter up the place a bit, and make a lot of noise And take away the local girls from all
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    120 MILES BY GLIDER
    71 2 A new British gliding record for a two-seater sailplane was set up recently in Britain by L eut Com. j.s. Sproule and Lieut Sothers, both of the Royal Navy when they flew from the naval air station at Hinstock, in Cheshire to Prince Risborough, in Buckinghamshire—a
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    £20 Million For Speed Researc
    75 2 £20 Million For Speed Researc THE Air Re.. D-.-^.J Britain's Ifj is busily en the consequences i above the speed miles per hour" In sub son r ahead of the one is prepared In i arrivpl by wessun vavp< 'signals'' whirl approximately the sound, thus cau>.: r.eair^J to flow above
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    FASHIONS IN PLASTIC
    155 2 ANY n mble-fingered woman one freshen up a war-weary wardrobe with plastic materials. These fabrics have enormous possibilit es so long as they are used with care for they have such brilliant surfaces that it is easy for them to look garish. But for the theatrical producer
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      429 2 RADIO MALAYA RED NETWORK from noon to t pjn. and 6.30 to 11 dm. on Z? 3 metres from noon to 2 pm. on 4.825 rars sec. In 61 metre band and from 7.45 to 9.30 p.m. on 4.78 msc sec In 61 metre band CHINESE noon to lib pm
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    THE LORD OF THREE MANORS GETS FOUR YEARS
    453 3 THE LORD OF THREE MANORS GETS FOUR YEARS A WEALTHY Briton, Peter Stalner, aged 44, stated to be lord of three manors, was sentenced at Hanover to tour years' penal servitude and fined £1,000 for Black Market operations while he was a member of the British Military Government in Germany.
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    BEDOUIN HUNT FOR "TARZAN'
    188 3 !7*PZAN •>> believed to be living among a herd of s be ing sought across 200 square miles of desert Tran -Jordan by Bedouin tribesmen and Iraq mn i ompany employees. The boy, according to i tribesmen, was captured by them, but after being back to
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    CORNISH HILL GIVEN TO THE NATION
    83 3 -i^'S? 1 9, iffard L Tvr ngham. irevethce House. Leiant, Cornwall, has given Trencrom Hill r t Stv£ ves t0 tne National i rust The property comprises f °^n 64, acres- Risin S t0 ahe ghi of 500 ieet, it is a well-known landmark.
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    In Germany This Month
    48 3 t f t» Mot i *m at pclsen It was taken in tne •iv -1 »m» of C.erm arv recently, ft brinrs home r a'iK of ho v Cl mi-»ni is paying for a few years wi ,-)>1 li ii,; iff j mqucred io.mtr.es
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    WOMAN SEES AFTER 42 DARK YEARS
    45 3 WOMAN SEES AFTER 42 DARK YEARS I oi forty-lwo, who blind s nee )irth i and now she 3 iaughing. :annv t( her She *ed they looked likr > thev re the-. tafs. riven j ner b- an :ch tissue from i-^ad person was hei »*i
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    SCOUTS HOLD WORLD JAMBOREE IN FRANCE
    25 3 SCOUTS HOLD WORLD JAMBOREE IN FRANCE 1 u MoUaon Parts, U oe •"'■■> Brian anci all oetv.ccn i4Va i *3 Lord Rowau;, oi Uie Common- 9
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    Admiral Fraser Celebrates Red Navy Day
    77 3 Admiral Fraser Celebrates Red Navy Day ADMIRAL Lord Fraser, former Commander of the British Pacific Fleet, took part in Red Navy Day celebrations in Moscow. He is in command of the British air-craft carrier Triumph, which. with the destroyer Rapid, is on a visit to Russia. Generalissimo Stalin in an
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    Tube train driver killed in tunnel
    191 3 THE driver of an Underground train was killed and a number of passengers injured when the motor coach over-ran the buffers at Edgware Tube Station, London, recently. It crashed into a bank of sand and the retaining wall beyond. The train was full of
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    Gl BRIDE ON STABBING CHARGE
    255 3 Gl BRIDE ON STABBING CHARGE A 20-YEAR-OLD G.I. bride, Mrs. i-atncia Pollard, who has been released at Louuvine, KentucKy, on a <£5u bona on a cnarj. 01 j staboing her hiLsoand, is tne aaugntci' ot Mr. and Mrs. riarr> uuniop, ot Belgrave-road, Baisai neain. B-rmingnam. f ine husbana, uiyde o.iara,
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    PURE RUBBER TYRES
    24 3 Most Tyres will be 100 per cent, natural rubber by the year end. says the president of the Tyre Manufacturers' conference.
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    52 3 Ten year-old Collin Mann of Batley. Yorks. carri d ashote at Bridln-.ton after rescue by an R.A.F. launch. He had driflrd two mils out to s. n a on an inflated motor car inner tube Two men w «o went ti h's r scue in a canoe had also to
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    64 3 The^e two cars are Britain s Ut si model in «poris cars. Ihr car, railed the A Hard, is a 30 h.p.. 8 cylinder job *itb a hi»h performance and capable of well over 100 m.p.h. Picture was taken wh?n fie Kin; and Quern «aw an all-Britsh Motor Show with
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    Chefs complain to Mr Strachey
    190 3 WEST End hotel and restaurant chefs, waiters and wail--11 resses who "live in" alleged recently that their own ratons were among food they cooked and served to cash customers. A deputation of six members of the London Catering Workers branch of the Municipal and General
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    ARNHEM MEN GO BACK
    24 3 Arnhem men are go ng to Arnhem, Holland, in September, with relatives of men who died there two years ago.
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    FIREWORK SCARRED GIRL
    69 3 FIREWORK SCARRED GIRL Though bearing scar.s on her i j face which an Assize fudge *aid j would go through 1 fe with h r jJoan Knapton. 21. of Lockwuoa jHuddersfield. Yorks. staru lift !»new with >: 1.561 and a oov Iriend The money it the amount ot damages awarded
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    PLYMOUTH SHOWS THE WORLD
    56 3 Plymouth's film of her po&t-wai problems and plans. The Wav We Live. is to be shown through- out the country despite rumoius that exhibitors wanted it "shrived. 1 Mr. J. Arthur Ranks persona: representative stated that there was no intention if putting the film on one
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    YOUNG BRITONS MEET POLIS YOUTH
    19 3 A British youth delegation ha.s gone to Warsaw to attend Poli-i: vouth conforence I
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    DROVE HORSE MAIL
    31 3 Mr. Stanley Cave, The Cottage E^ebarrow. Crowthorne Berks who drove one of the last four- j horse night mails from l^ndon to Brighton, has died at 81. 1
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    JAIL BREAK JACKSON GOES 'BACK'
    186 3 JAIL BREAK JACKSON GOES 'BACK' pEORGE Jackson, ag->o 25 who escaped from Parkhurst Pr son. Isle of Wipht. and remained a large for 11' 2 days, was ;enten< ed to five years' oena) at Winchester Assizes bv M: Justice Morr.s. This senterv^ will follow the five years Jackson is already
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    TELEVISION BLOOMER
    85 3 lONDONS theatreland nrac<> guesses when it heara in*: Evelyn Call's song. Iw ni <o Get Married. oanned r>\ tut8.8.C. a^s "tco racy.' had ceu broadcast n a television programme on Sunday <a- leli sion had taken a world Jv vie* it such sophisticated songs or <b» it had
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    NFS GO TO SEA
    37 3 ETait Dover 6 N.FJS. m-n. with tnree trailer purms. put to *?e recently. The coal caieo oi tne United States liberty sh n Francis B Ogden. anchored oft the Boutii Goodwins, was alight.
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    THE LAST 300 POWS
    22 3 Only 300 German and Italian prisoners, remain in the US A our of *****8 there during the war.
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      ONE YEAR OF VICTORY
      438 4 |T happened a year ago :hat the first news began to flash around the world that Japan had had enough of the war she started and that she was willing to surrender. Atom bomb or no atom ocmb, it was obvious that Japan was near th
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    Good Morning...
    1377 4  -  Frank Owen By THERE is a battle going On inside the Tory Party. As yet, the public know very little about it, for the row is not taking place in the street- it is still confined to the parlour. We journalists only know about it because we observe
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    170 4 DR. BKMRI VAN Dfcii BIJL, th2 South African physicist, iS bein;; mentioned as the possible chairman of the Iron and Steel Board. Dr. Van der Bijl. who Jias been connected w.'h tne steel"*industry for many years, was director of war supplies in South Africa during the war.
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    FAITH
    20 4 The law of Thy moath is bett~f unto m» than thousands of gold and s lver. Psalms, 119, 72.
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    Owen writing 'Whitewash'
    646 4 LETTER TO THE EDITOU^ I MUST be an unreasonable man! Frank Owen's bit of whitewash in last Monday's Free Press, which was written "to show any reasonable man" that the British Press is not a monopoly, has failed to convince Hie that such is the case. It
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    Our Good Neighbours presented us with transport
    381 4 Our Good Neighbours presented us with transport THE ARMY has to date provided tha Civil Governments with a total of 4,415 vehicles made up as follows: Motor Cycles 721 Cars. 4 str, 4x2 fO Jeeps 63 Cars, 6 str, 4x4 Utility 224 Cars, 6 str, 4x2 1 Ambulances Trucks. 15
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    QUIZ
    82 4 Jive men. all nan d Jonr Brown, were living lOu rs age each of whom, in h^ came famous. Can who they were? 2. O/ wh ch epi England are the officio members of the i. Lords? 'The piaycrs in Hi tra are dispo: sd! in sentry semi-circles; bu:
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      50 4 Be sure pour Eyes are functioning normally nave them examined hert •omorrow Gl&sst*s will oe recommended only u* necessary. DAH SIN OPTICAL HOUSE 325 North Rndre Road. Spore. Pruprietori-P S DZING. O.D. Former General Manager of NAN SIN OPTICAL HOUSE Singapore and Kuala LumpurFormer Supplier lo THOMPSON OPTICAL CO.. etc.
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    HONG KONG TACKLES 'KEY MONEY' PROBLEM
    262 5 HONG KONG TACKLES 'KEY MONEY' PROBLEM ,^^MM»TI THE Hong Kong Government has appointed a committee to consider the practical working of the Landlord and Tenant Act. Under the act, which was re-enforced as soon as the British Military Government functioned, landlords may not charge more than the rent charged in
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    MALAYANS TO ATTEND CONGRESS
    119 5 MALAYANS TO ATTEND CONGRESS H attend a conference ,e<s.on of the All mmding to the >s Committee. Allahabad. the Committee Hattonai C ingress, ipied *ith the Indian Independence, -.indful of our coun. i(i. It always eviiic- :n their affairs protests, from time t any ill-treatment them on racial cr ind
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    ARMY TRUCKS START NEW S'PORE ROUTE
    62 5 ARMY TRUCKS START NEW S 'PORE ROUTE Reporter. blcJei in S ngahave to follow a *hic& keeps them centre of the city and CBc congestion. trucks will not area unless on a b. lex circle track for heavy *n -hides fohows AnsonI agar-road. KeppeL ment-raad, Kim road Irwt'.l-bank-rcad Wtton-r a<j
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    420 RESIDENTS RETURN TO HK
    51 5 420 RESIDENTS RETURN TO HK bmbm arrived from '."irry.ng 420 Hong tents, most of them uared from the bad been :n Austialia d that Australia lilted to the Hon>' to make a ship nt; 285 stranded h refuge* to AusAu.stral an govern--ly promised them the Duntroon twd the ship to
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    90 CHINESE COIRTS IN CEDED AREAS
    28 5 90 CHINESE COIRTS IN CEDED AREAS I M Ch nese courts British terri ory, le«d, sa id y a j-e Hon K on 3 Tne denial was i
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    BACK TO INDIA
    13 5 Lop.cioa for ft n Reuter. L^t I Chrtat died xn
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    S'PORE POLICE COURT CHANGES
    86 5 As from today, Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, the fifth police magistrate, will take over duties as the fourth magistrate in pla<;e of Mr. R. C. Hoffman, who goes on transfer to the Land Office. Mr. Ahmad 's place will be taken by Mr. Eu Cheow Chye,
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    Town Hall insured for $580,000
    92 5 Town Hall insured for $580,000 THE Victoria Memorial Hall has been reinsured to" 5550.000 by the Singapore Municipal ommissijners OtheT tit-bits about Singapore's Town Hall: The Theatre is not to be ?«t out for use as a cinema; The Municipal Commissioners were unable to consider a suggestion that they purcl:ase
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    H.K. & S. R. A. DISBANDED
    134 5 H.K. S. R. A. DISBANDED THE famous Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, with a re. ,rd and tradition reaching to the early days of the British Empire in the Far East, has been disbanded at a ceremonial parade held at Visapur Camp near I Ahmcdnagar, reports Reuter from Bombay.
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    FIRST JAVA RICE SHIP FOR INDIA
    99 5 THE first cargo of Indonesian rice for India will be loaded in two days' time at Probolinggo lin East Java, aboard the 9,000- ton steamship Empire Favour. I Mr. K. L. Punjabi, Food Secie- tary to the Government of India, said in Singapore on
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    ARMY DRIVER GETS EIGHT MONTHS
    85 5 Free Press Correspondent SEREMBAN, Sat. IN Indian Army driver, Muba- rak Khan, was sentenced to eight months* rigorous imprisonment in the Seremban District I Court by Mr. D. M. K. Grant, D strict Judge, on a charge of causing the death of a Chinese, Lim
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    S'PORE YWCA REOPENS
    36 5 S'PORE YWCA REOPENS Mrs. I,oh Poon Lip speaking at there-opening, last Saturday, of the Sinsapore Y.WC A. Seated on her left in the foreground is lady Killearn, and on their right, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson.
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    China awaits next peace move
    283 5 NANKING, Sun. ALL China waited expectantly yesterday for the next move in the crisis precipitated by the admission of Gen. George Marshall and Mr. Leigh ton Stuart that apparently irreconci liable differences between the Government and Communists make general peace in China impossible. Nanking has
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    37 5 This picture was taken by the Free Press last Saturday when the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, visited the General Hospital to see how the doctors and nurses were carrying on following: the strike of the menial workers.
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    BLACK AND GREEN TEA FOR U.S.
    50 5 CHINA has just made one of her largest shipments of tea this season 25.000 pounds of her in-ternationally-famous black and green tea to the United States. Although the price is not known it is said to be below presrnt quotations in ihe United States
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    SINGAPORE ON NEW MAP
    146 5 ANEW chart of the world Issued by the hydro^raphic dspartnent of the British Admiralty, is [he first of its kind and is denned to meet the needs of radio Engineers, meteorologists and air lavigators. The chart shows accurately for tie first time the exact bearing and
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    Malayan veteran back to entertain troops
    457 5 Free Press Reporter AN OFFICER, who made a dramatic escape from Singapore a day after the island fortress fell to the Japanese, is back in a different role. He is Stanley Lemin, a former Lieut-Colonel with the Intelligence Corps of the 18 Division, who
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    HK pirates sentenced to death
    100 5 HK pirates sentenced to death THE Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Supreme Court, Sir Henry Blackall. on Saturday sentenced to death two men for piracy on the hi?a seas, the first of such case since 1930 The men were found guilty of pirating a junk on May 29, in
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    GAIETY PLAYERS AT THE THEATRE
    91 5 THE Gaiety Players, another new repertory company formed in Singapore, have booked th e Victoria Theatre for three even ngs commencing tonight '.or presentation of John Drinkwaters three-act play, "Bird in Hand. This new company has derived its name from its present home The Gaiety
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    JANE
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    Sgt.-Major Goes A-Milking
    108 6 Sgt.-Major Goes A-Milking t^r.t sh >oldi.rs |i (.-rmany a e iMtnifif to farm on Naii agricultural rxperimental stations. Pi lure sho > s Lance 1 orro.rl Kathleen Din an of th* ATS. going a- milking with Ast a th* co v and Serjeant Major Keith Pope. Miss Symonds. a witness
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    BRITAIN KEEPS 26,000 FIREMEN
    168 6 ABOUT 2G.000 men will form Britain's new fire force which from April next will fight the nation's annual £12,000,000 Tire Damage Bill. Early in the next session of Parliament, Mr. Chuter He, the Home Secretary, is expected to mtroanee the new Bill transferring: the N.F.S. back
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    GOAL KINGS ATTEND MINING SCHOOL
    23 6 Members of the National Coal Board "ill attend a school on mining problems at Bingl?y. Yorkshire, this month.
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    JOINS OLDEST BODY
    24 6 Major D P J Collas ha^ bran appointed to the Military Knhhts oi Windsor, the oldest military body In th? raid.
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    EARL'S DAUGHTER ACCUSED OF ASSAULT
    428 6 EARL'S DAUGHTER ACCUSED OF ASSAULT LADY ELIZABETH MOTION, of Serge Hill, Bedmond, near St. Albans, daughter of the third Earl of Verulam, told St. Albans County Sessions recently she fetched her hunting crop to "overawe" a man who had come to Serge Hill to meet a land girl. She denied
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    JUDGES RUSH DIVORCES
    97 6 JUDGES sitting in the British provincial cities of Birmingham. Leeds. and Manchester have been dissolving marriages at the rate of one every three to seven minutes. In all places the procession was the same business men. clerks. plumbers, farmers, tailor?, and their w ves. It «m usually
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    BROTHER KNIGHTS
    17 6 Judge Hu°h Holmes. from Egvpt. and Sir Valentine Holmes. K.C.. barrister brothers. were knighted recently.
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    HEN LIVED 20 YRS
    26 6 Bat am Hen fiat died at InveriKie. Aberdeen, was reported by ik owher. Mr. J^rres Shear?r, to b? t venty years old.
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    MOTHER HANDS SON TO THE POLICE
    25 6 A boy who escaped from an approved school at Harrietsham. Kent, was taken to the police by his mother.
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    BEER FOR BRITAIN
    15 6 British Food Minister Gtrachey has announced two m'llion more barrels of beer.
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    311,300 WILL BE RELEASED BY DEC. 31
    344 6 311,300 WILL BE RELEASED BY DEC. 31 LONDON, Sat. THE Ministry of Labour has announced the release programme for the rest of th.s year. From Oct. 1 to the end of December 311.300 men and women will be released bringing the total from June 1945 to 4.292.000. These are the
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    Judge Criticises Pensions Scheme
    186 6 REPEATED attempts by the Ministry of Pensions to avoid liability by pleading ''disposition" or "inherent constitutionale tendency" towards an illM3s were criticised by Lord Justice Clerk Cooper in Edinburgh recently. He ruled that: "Unless the Ministry can prove beyond reasonable doubt that Service conditions played no
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      202 6 ALHAMBRA book now *> TODAY YOU JpßllßpfrfpWp^f^iE mist ski: L^iliMiu4m^^^ FIRST YANK into rOKYI Tom Neal Barbara Hale Marv (ram SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: ion Ni^ht At 9.15 p.m. "FANTASIA" will haft in Mt Malayan Premiere! This is tfct pidMK \»>i SO much a Sou: AT OUR REGUUI PIKES! /tji 'mM^^^ The
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    FINAL THREE FOR AUSTRALIA SELECTED
    294 7 (LONDON, Sun. ISHLOCK, Bill Edrich and James Langridge have en t«» complete the England Test cricket team \ustrala during the forthcoming winter. been included in the final Test against the jins at the Kennington Oval next Saturday. team was announced today as follows: W. R.
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    Mills Fights Tomorrow
    43 7 Mills Fights Tomorrow I LONDON Sat. IJS shm Swedish heavy(inchi boxer who meets eddie Mills. Britain, over 10 Us i.-xt Tuesday arrived I lalwil] by plane at ompanied by tne nr \.h «.-:tern eight Yrjoe who will tight hr»n% ittcrs on the same
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    RECS WIN PADANG CRICKET
    269 7 RECS WIN PA DANG CRICKET Ic .*lion Club rerjt m to padang cricket utory over their I Singapore Cricket t yesterday, i :*.er bctveen ,x 1941. H wiccess must p F Chopard. D. Ross. H fCiCIHI Theo. lg ert and Leijssius K f C.C Chopard :\r.d m to set the
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    RAIN HITS COUNTY CRICKET
    71 7 LONDON. Sat. THE weather hit cricket harder 1 than ever before this year today ..nd in the programme of ten first-class matches play was possible in only the following three: At the Oval Surrey 233 (E. A. Bedser 67. Edrich 5 for 74). Middlesex 56 for
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    Inventor Of The 'Googly' Dead
    107 7 Maritzburg. South Africa. Sat. THE death occurred here today of the South Afrkan Test bowler, Ernie Vogler, the man who invented googly. Vogler, who was in his 70th year, played for' South Africa against England in 1907 and Aurtralia in 1911. One of the greatest
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    INTERESTING DAY PROMISED AT CHELTENHAM
    80 7 CHFLTENHAM, Sun. From Lcarie Constantine> IN striking contrast to yester- day's fierce storm the weather today is hot and the wicket drying rap:dly, giving promise of a full day's play tomorrow between Gloucestershire and the Indian tourists. The continuation of good weather promises interesting cricket.
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    SCFA WIN STADIUM THRILLER
    578 7 SC.F.A. 2 Northamptons 1 they had been sco'Pd against 15 minutes from tbe enc* and all seemed lost, the' j Singapore Chinese Football Asso- 1 j cintion snatched a great victory j over the Northamptons by two goals to one in a game of soccer played
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    TALENT NEEDED FOR RYDER CUP
    495 7 Archie Quic k's Sports Parade BRITAIN'S GOLF task of the moment is t o find talent to build a n*w Ryder Cup team, and if the current tournament at lovely Stoke Poges for £1,500 prize money is any criterion, we are doing very nicely, thank
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    NAVY XI
    22 7 The cricket team of the H.M.S. Simbang, Semlawartg, which beat the S.C.C. by seven wickets in the padang on Saturday.
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    BOXING OFF
    26 7 THE junior boxing programme scheduled to have taken place at thc Happy World stadium last night was postponed to next Sunday owing io tain.
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    RANGERS IN GREAT FORM
    354 7 RANGERS IN GREAT FORM Home Soccer Again MAJOR league football for tttie season started today with the Scotch League and while there were many away wins, the results generally followed expectations. Among the "home winners was Hibernian, the surprise of this game being the size of the Hibernian score nine
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    WHITCOMBE WINS GOLF
    94 7 SLOLGK. Buckinghamshire. Sat. REGINALD WKITCOMBE, Bri- i,'sh open golf champion in 1938. tuday scored the first maior victory of the season when, with an aggregate of 280, he took the first prize of £350 in the "Lotus" tournament on Stoke Poges course. He had been a model
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    11 8 .An aeiial vi*w of Folkestone, Kent, the "garden of England/'
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    Silent Through The Kentish Night.....
    110 8 Silent Th rough The Kentish Night..... MAIDSTONE Kent. DH AIM they think the village policeman would stand a better chance of detecting crooks. Eynsford.* Kent. pa«ish council wants him to do his night beat on a pedal cycle instead of on a motorcycle. At a recent meeting m^mb'r^ agreed that
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    WALRUSES TO HUNT WHALES
    104 8 LONDON Sun CEAPLANES will spearhead British whale-hunting expedition in the antarctic when the season opens in September. Ttree converted Walrus seaplanes, earmarked for whale patrol, were launched at Foe works at Cowes. Isle of Wight last week. The British expedition will consist of a factory ship,
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    PRISONERS BAN NIEMOELLER
    60 8 Pastor Martin Nierr.oeller will not be invited to the Internat;onal Congress o: former political prisoners at Znsched Holland. next month. Reason given v.as that L tigress did not regard Dr. N:e~ioeMer as being principally ani'-Nat'onal Socialist.' Pas f or I-JjemcKller was a German subMarine commander during tne
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    SUBMARINE A-BOMB SANK 95,200 TONS
    282 8 SUBMARINE A-BOMB SANK 95,200 TONS NEW YORK, Sundry. THE atom tomb, exploded under water in Bikini Lagoon on July 21, sank 95,200 tons of shipping— four times the amount sunk in the previous test in which the bomb exploded in the air, Vice Admiral Biandy, commander of the atom bomb
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    POINTS OF VIEW 'SMART' WIVES WRECK U.S. MARRIAGES
    190 8 POINTS OF VIEW 'SMART' WIVES WRECK U.S. MARRIAGES MARRIAGE in America is head n^ i i, J Or troublou s times and it's all because women are getting too smart says Dr. Cliford R. Adams D^ychologist and marriage counsellor at Pennsylvania State College. i He told the Massachusetts So?niXni2f S
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    GERMANS WILL TRY NAZIS
    235 8 GERM ANS WILL TRY NAZIS STUTTGART, Sunday. HUNDREDS of /.peri a I courts, in the U.S. xone, organised II and staffed by the Germans themselves, will soon start i judging their countrymen who actively or passively supported the Nazi regime. The decision to leave to Germans the task of judging
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    FOOD PARCELS CONFISCATED
    122 8 Auckland. New Zealand. Sun. THE reported confiscation by the Br.tish Board ot Trade of New Zealand food parcels for Britons was described today as an 'unwarrantable interference" by the Mayor of Auckland. Reports of the Boards action were said ta have 'created dismay among New Zealanders who
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    DUTCH ASSENT TO FOOD DEAL
    43 8 BATAVIA. Sun -Dr. van Mook. L eut.-Gov -Gen. of the Netherland Indies, has assented to the arrangement between the Sutan Sjahrir. 'Premier of the Indonesian Republic." and Government of India Food Department. to export unhusked rice to India.
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    GREECE WANTS TO BUY U.S. SHIPS
    41 8 Gr tk Minister of Co-ordina-tion. Stephen Steranopoulos announced yesterday that a Greek Economic delegation was negotiating to buy 10 Liberty jTnd Victory ships and one liner from the United States, says A. P. from Athens.
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    RUSSIA ACCUSES TURKEY
    181 8 DUSSIA has reques'ed revision of the Montreux Convention i governing both war and peacetime troffic through the Dardanelles, says A. P. from Istanbul, i The Moscow newspaper Pravda alleges flirtations betw^n Germany and Turkey and Hungary dur n^ the war. ine newspaper mibllebed a cable sent by
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    Love Life Of A-bombed Mice
    114 8 Love Life Of A-bombed Mice WASHINGTON Sun. THE atom bomb has so far failed to disturb tne love If e of mice which servi;ed the first blast at Bikini, although a sufficient dos? of radiation can produce st«rilit> in mice or humans. Seven moth r mice already produced normal litters
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    New cores for MALARIA
    83 8 New cores for MALARIA |)R LOUIS F. FIESER ot Haru ward University has 'evealed th e discovery of new compound that may prov e mor? beneficial than quinine or stabrlne in the prevention and cure of malaria says U.P. from Detroit He said one variety was 15 times as potent
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    DENGUE
    45 8 ARMY medical officers Have ren ported discovery of an affective vaccine against dangue fever UP. reports from Washington. The immunizing dose the doctor said, is very small An extract from the brain of a single mouse contains at least 10.000 doses of the vaccine.
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    MUTINY COURT MARTIAL
    122 8 Contir aed from page One biggest court martial in British military history. They were escorted by a guard trom the Cameronians who inarched with fixed bayonets at the high port. Two large Union Jacks arc draped behind the platfoim on Which <he court sits. The accused are
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    BRITAIN TAKES OVER
    31 8 The b^-est German armament-, cartel in Europe, Vereinigt? Staiilwerke (United Steelworks. Hunr. is, to be takeji over by Bri- '.m au tnor ties. say s Reutor from j
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