The Singapore Free Press, 15 August 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOQN SALE IN MALAYA 1 SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 1§ CENTS.
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    NIPA SHOT 3,000 CHINESE
    322 1 NIPA SHOT 3,000 CHINESE ;]ozaki on S'pore massacre Plree Press Reporter jhinwuH. Welfare Officer in Singapore (iuri^ tiu* Japanese occupation and one whose erfc u-s us much the talk of the town as his i the Kempeitai, of which many held him -If~t idiwiti the massacre of the Chinese in
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    MP MAKES SECRET SPAIN TRIP
    116 1 MP MAKES SECRET SPAIN TRIP PARIS. W»d r .IN J 31 ':n >er of Francis British ■:\p No:l rn Pyreiftei a ::iderol Spain*! Rerent. Mi Noel Bak°r.> visited I -i BUbtoand San lain Bnl hand o i, >rreng r ,n > ;esis*■M DWBt This was In Noel Baker i tekpfc
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    U.S. SACKS 40 GOVT 'SUSPECTS'
    22 1 U.S. SACKS 40 GOVT 'SUSPECTS' 40 BUt« De- I for -close r inminami wito nwienf wa^ disla letter written oy Iroot WAohing-
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    SHE URGES SEAT FOR WOMEN AT PARIS
    25 1 United StaUs J^g I -Vorld Women's fEquaißigUi^ arrived in >e,t.raay to demand a >■ 'he Pans peace BMtai Xrom
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    CHOOSES CREMATION
    7 1 R: U t!^ 3 "■"■mated,
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    NEW FORMILAS FOR EGYPT TREATY
    41 1 The Egyptian Premier. Sidky Pasha, said yesterday after a riveting of the Egyptian delegaTon to treaty revision negotia- ens that Amr Pasha, the Egyptian Ambassador to London, brought "new formulas from London." says Reuter irom Alexandria
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    R.N. PLANSMANOEUVRE WITH U.S. NAVY
    27 1 R.N. PLANSMANOEUVRE WITH U.S. NAVY Plans are being considered for carrying out jo nt British-Ameri-can naval manoeuvres in European waters next autumn, says A. P. from London.
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    SUB LEAVES ON RESEARCH TRIP
    22 1 Scientist* left Portland In the submarine Tudor (1.090 tons) to carry out under-water research in the Atlantic
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    Record jet plane flies at 620 mph
    132 1 TANCiMERE, Sussex, Wed. 1 British Gloster meteor jet plane flashed above the little town of Tangmere at 626 miles per hour this afternoon 20 miles per hour above the world air speed record during tests for an official attempt on the record. Announcing
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    ONE YEAR AGO
    26 1 JAPAN surrendered to the Allies at 0630 hours on* year ago today —on 15 August, 1946. Japan ce!e- brates the anniversary of defeat
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    JAP SPY: 'WE KILLED CHINESE'
    20 1 JAP SPY: 'WE KILLED CHINESE' Miinoiaki as he looked during the Jap occupation of Singapore, when he was Welfare Officer.
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    INDIANS IN U.K. RAMP FINED
    124 1 NOTTINGHAM. Wed. UOTTINGHAM and other places were flooded with forged clothing coupons and the London police had found some of the people who had been printing them by hundreds of thousands, stated Mr. S. B. feccleston, prosecuting for die Board of Trade at Nottingham today,
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    PALESTINE: U.S. AGREES
    381 1 LONDON, Wed. PRESIDENT TRUMAN's observations on the Anglo-American experts' plan for Palestine has been received by the British Premier, Mr. Clement Altiee, it was officially confirmed here tonight. A special Britisn Cabinet meeting to examine President Truman's reply may be summoned shortly. No details of President Truman's
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    CHURCHILL IS CINQUE PORT 'ADMIRAL'
    111 1 CHURCHILL IS CINQUE PORT 'ADMIRAL' rmiRCH \jells rang out welcome, guns fired the salute and dignitaries of morp than a dosen south coast ports and towns took part in the centuries o! pageantry at Dover yesterday when Winston Church. 11 was installed as Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque
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    BOYD TOURS IN H.M.S. BELFAST
    64 1 Vice -Admiral Sir Dennis Boyd. Commander in -Chief Brit sh Pacific Fleet, is due to arrive at Yokohama on Aug. 20 in the cruiser Belfast for six days stay in the Tokyo-Yokohama area, says Reuter from Tokyo. Belfast, which came to Singapore for attentions, was
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    WAGNER DIES WITH A HEIL FOR HITLER
    39 1 Robert Wagner, former gaulelter of ALsace and Baden shouted "Long live Adolf Hitler" when he was executed yesterday, says Reuter from Paris. Wagner was accused of the massacre of 30,000 anti -Nazis.
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    SEMARANG FLARE UP
    26 1 Conditions in the last few days in Semarane have been "somewhat unruly' apain. according to a British official spokesman, says Renter from Batavia.
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    'CHIANG WANTS WAR'
    96 1 'CHIANG WANTS WAR' NANKING, Wed. COMMUNIST reports of V fierce fighting in Nurtii China were coupled today with an authorised Communist statement that Oeneral'ssimo Chiang Kai-shek's programme to unify China mean^ the Government "wants war". This Communist reaction 'a Chiang Kai-shek's six-point programme came from Wang Pii\; Nan. Communist spokesman
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    4 NEW S'PORE COUNCILLORS
    114 1 THE basis o! representation of th^ Sinsapore Advisory CoWKtl was broadened this morning mtth the wearing in of four additional members. They are Mr Lee Korw; Chiang, Mr. C C. Tan. Mr. V Pafci-isamy and Mr. G A Mb Mr. Tan and Mr Pakirisamv are ne*
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    CHINA GETS CRUISER 'YAT SEN' BACK
    50 1 TF-e Chinese light cruiser "Y*" Sen.' manned by a Japanese crew. is returning to the Chinese government. The sh p was sunk w r,he Yangtze- river in 1937 but wa.s raised by the Japanese and lu^i during the war. says A P from Tokyo
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    'RUSSIA LIES' SAYS TURKISH GOVT
    38 1 'RUSSIA LIES' SAYS TURKISH GOVT V^e Turkish governmen 1 yesterday described as false ieceiH, Moscow radio broadcasts asserting Ibat captured evidence ind ca 1 Turkey conspired with Germany against Russia during the war, says A. P. from Istanbul.
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    23LB TRIPLETS
    51 1 Triplets, whose combined weig'Tn: of 23 pounds 1 ounce is believed to be a world record, hav* been bci n to Mrs. B rthisel of Yarrawonga. Vic'oria. The babies, all boys, weighed 7 pounds 13 ounre>, 7 pounds 12 ounces and 7 pou??da 8 ounces, says Router from
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    STRIKING GASMEN
    39 1 The striking London gas wonrers decided by an overwhelming majority to return to work today at a meeting called by their Union yesterday. They will receive a small all round wage increaan says Reuter from t /mdon
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      6 2 Pin -Up Girl Today DOROTHY MORRIS
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      Experimental town exhibition
      188 2 CUELWYN GARDEN CITY, Bri- tain s greatest communal experiment in the creation of completely new towns with homes, industries and amenities ■evenly balanced, is holding an exhibition at which Welwyn's 80 industries are being represented. The exhibition is appropriately named "Welwyn Garden City Can Make It.' 1
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      Model Soldiers On Parade
      224 2 Model Soldiers On Parade IN one of London's most famous toy shops recently there was to be seen a big exhibition of model soldiers. There were the regiments of the British Army and of Britain's Allies, and of the Indian Annv. There were soldiers of a hundred years ago. There
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      IN QUEST OF BEER
      866 2  -  IAN COSTER 'and I found nothing By Former Editor of Phoenix, Forces picture magazine of South-East Asia, now back with the London Evening Standard. THE challenge of Mr. John Parker, Socialist M.P. for Dagenham, that the Sta.te should take over the whole liquor business and give
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      Film job few hear about
      567 2 FILM producers aren't all like "Beachcomber's" Sol Hogwasch. whose idea of a good war film would be one with a platinum blonde in every tank, to hand peanuts to the crew. Invariably a film company which decides to produce a war film engages a Military
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      606 2 -your luckySTAR Fortune forecast for people born today you have great talents which should be developed to their highest efficiency. Your determination to get your way despite opposition win bring you, eventually, to the goal toward which you are striving. Just what the goal is will depend to a high
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      Miss Pat and her fiancee
      29 3 Miss Pat and her fiancee it 1 "*>• ;i U'jttrn. 11, fidr c'au ht^r of Lord and i l«ws Mwaltattea p'.turrd with (apt. Lord Brabournr. whom slip is to marry.
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      'GHOST ROCKETS' HIT SWEDEN
      282 3 Swedish paper asks 'are we a Soviet artillery map? 9 TWO "ghost rockets" were observed in Sweden yesterday. They almost caused casualties, says A.P. from Stockholm, quoting the newspaper Aftonbladet. A couple boating on a central Sweden lake were nearly hit by a falling rocket, which
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      P.C.'s 'VULGAR BODY' BUMPED ME-POET
      251 3 I MAN wht ay; he k a singer, composer and poet toiii at h Sussex Assiiea bow much he resented being bump< a bv the vulgar body" of a policeman. But Mr. S." i m,who listened to his case at Sussex Assizes. r Ihc singer-composer-poet
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      NAZI 'SLAVES' TO SCRUB UK HOSPITALS
      92 3 NAZI 'SLAVES' TO SCRUB UK HOSPITALS 3ai coun- the rtr; >f 1.000 ito d? adaUttcd to! r->ni the British r I Oriaimj Ken a;r>! MT6i by a d pjLvs^d a medical i <InT 3. hospi- •> -o: Ufttif trans: -r was given Ma.or-General S D FanI'NRRA Dir»riiir :n iht "^h
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      HUNGER DEFEATS ESCAPED NAZIS
      39 3 HUNGER DEFEATS ESCAPED NAZIS a tire Itaftan -!i AUieds »rfang, Britain, walked Hanti W ho -soaped with German prisoner tr m a D*rt»s, Wife He was Q «ry to go on. the clay his <*ompa*as cau^,hi lym* in Hyd.^
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      'V.C,' FRAUD IS JAILED
      95 3 COR unlawfully wearing a ribbon resembling that of the V-c--toria Cross and a ribbon of the Military Medal, and for falselv representing himself to be entitled to wear them I^esiip Rogers. 24, of Noble street. Wem. Salop. Kds at Neweastle-on-Tyne sen tenced to three months imprisonment.
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      POLISH NURSES IN UK
      30 3 Troopship Duchess of Bediord brought to Liverpool Madam Anders, wile of the Commander of Polish Army in Italy. 3.000 Polish tr^ps, 100 Polish ATS and nurses.
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      CRIERS COMPETE
      25 3 Reply U> a writ of Charles II will be the test piece at a town criers' contest at Fowey (Cornwall on August 14.
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      FRENCH HOLIDAY
      17 3 h Railways are who have gone to a two-month *tay o- them are children of
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      C.O. BANS VILLAGE TO HIS MEN
      120 3 SEEKING to prove that ATS and troops under his control are not responsible for ofter-dark rowdyism in Charminstei, Dorset, the Commanding Officer of a REME unit has put the village out of bounds. People in ihe village had eomDlained that 'h-eir rest was dsturbed
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      'THIS CURSED DOG RACING'
      58 3 To .a temporary postman he sentenced lor stealing, the Readiiior Recorder 'Mr. St. J. G. Mickl?tliwait. K.C> said: 'You have been robbing the public tor eighteen months through this cursed dog racing." 1 slUi thief la Guardia pictured at Home airoort on his European tour. The
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      AIRFIELD BECOMES HOUSING ESTATE
      229 3 A CAMPAIGN to convert scores of vacated R.A.F. aerodromes into temporary housing estates if to be started following a decision by the Air Ministry and the Min stry of Health to allow 150 families to move into Boreham aerodrome, Essex. This airfield— huts are brand new
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      Cooks To The Galley In Private Homes
      86 3 Cooks To The Galley In Private Homes DEITY Officer Robin (napman, Apsle.v Cottage. Park-road, Banstead, recently demobbed after cooking for officers in WR.N.S. for three years, has found a novel way of using her culinary skill. She has set u0 business as mobile cook with the slogan "Luncheons, dinners, cooked
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      LABOUR OF LOVE BUILDS CLUB
      45 3 Members of a working men's club at Fareham. Hants, are plan, ning to pay their annual subscriptions in hours of bricklaying or carpentering. They propose to build the club room themselves. Members will be credited wiiJa b^e work they contribute.
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      Navy Holds Fire Show At Lee
      44 3 Navy Holds Fire Show At Lee Jo- increase anti lh> -ffleimcy in Britain. Royal Na%*l air stations recently held inter station fire fighting competitor. Picture shows members of the winning Worthvdown crew in action on a burning Corsair lighter during the finals at Lee-on-solent.
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      330,000 NEW U.K. HOMES
      374 3 IT the end of one year's building pro- gramme i n Britain accommodation for 330.000 families is complete or is being built. Mr. Charles Key, Parliamentary Secretary. Ministry of Health, gave these figures in the Commons in reply to the Tory attack on the Government's housing
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      14 year old boy can fly plane
      189 3 TEDDY BAKER, of RingI wood (Hants), 14, and still too young to join the ATC., climbed into a little blue and red two-seater exService Auster at High Posfc Aerodrome, near Salisbury (W ilts). recently and roared into the c'ouds. Teddy, alter eight hours
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      LEAVING WIFE COST MAN £1
      102 3 HUSBAND, finw* 1 at HuH recently for leaving trtr» country without a pr^ssport. 'o seek work, was said by Po!ir«Inspector Huxley to have b^»n unable to get a passport beeaus; ho did not have h^ *ifes peimission to go abroad. The husband. John Carter Cannon.
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      PRINCESSES TRAIN IN AN M.T.B.
      89 3 ARMED with a tref -pound r gun. a Royal Navy cutlet s cruised night and day aroutid tiv» Sea Rangers' > raining ship M i 630 in the R.ver Dart. Devon. i> ensure privacy for Princess Rki beth and Pr ncess Margaret Res**. who have
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      PARK BECOMES A HOUSING ESTATE
      28 3 Park, bequeathed to the peopiw of North Whlsham. Norfolk, ft be used by the ur'oan council a.s a sits ior a hundred houses.
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      CROSS CHANNEL GUNS FIRE
      14 3 CROSS CHANNEL GUNS FIRE The South Foreland battery of cross-Channel guns have be*u practising
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      OPEN AIR DRAUGHTS
      20 3 Walthamstow, E., council Is to lay dowr an open-air large -mz* draughtboard in Queen's -road recreation ground.
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      BURMA KEMPEIS ARRESTED
      246 5 800 await trial in Rangoon THE majority of Kempeitai (Jap Military Police) personnel who served in Burma have been rounded up in Siam and elsewhere, and more than 800 now languish in Rangoon jail states Colonel J. D. Clague, 0.8.E., M.C., the War Crimes Liaison Officer for
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      Union Gets £35,000
      51 5 x p t iIS.OOO (about wiis made lo the Mrfi/H I during June tnni th iolonial Develop- nt ;r lun 1 tor the purchase (1 Mjthwerj tor a^iculiur;l rffUitpwift. (irjn:- i«ntl loans made In (he olunial Empire during Jnr.i 1 tor development, welfare and research lied SI
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      SKYMASTERS USED IN S'POREHOLLAND TRIPS
      102 5 vices between T Batavia and :...ecting link H I now bein^ K I. M Royal Dutch he leading air war. Giant n capable of j rs. in addikght, are being coniract carriers fa N .-.ar.ds Government K.L.M. y Biter, last year, :ce from Bit a
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      TENTAGE FOUND IN A ROOM
      38 5 TENTAGE FOUND IN A ROOM fENTAGE IO th? lIMBI $29,000 nas :a a house at be house was e on the n'ght I a« re Secord District Court Abdul Hadad and Koh charged w^th poss?ssion of postponed to
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      SHIP MOVEMENTS
      47 5 •N i lit KOXDS T4 tons; from Ulu Dta B?rr.am today. aENDENNis British. 4.155 tons: *u? 9. to Saigon, 2->l ton- from IX fnm Uli and T**» -■•partur? unknown. »CKIOR TKEUft Dutch. 1.670 fta* U. destination rarture unknown. ;H SILVERLIGHT. Ncrwefrom £an Francisco date uncertain.
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      SWEETS FOR SINGAPORE SCHOOLS
      254 5 SWEETS FOR SINGAPORE SCHOOLS FACILITIES for schools and j accreditel canteens to obtain supplies of boiled sweets at conJ trolled pr ce has now been made possible by the distribution of 160 cases, eacn containing- ten flve-lb tins, to certain dealers in Singapore. Guthrie Co.. Ltd., acting is Government agents,
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      Malaya Has Untouchables
      129 5 A CONFERENCE of Malayan Indian "untouchiblcs"— named the Harijans by Mabatma Gandhi and the "de- pressed or "scheduled' classes by the Indian Government will be held in the first week of September. The conference w.'ll be convened by the AH -Malayan Adi Dravida committee which has its
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      PURSER FINED $2,000
      105 5 I ITOH JOON SEAH, described as a purser, was fine j $2,000 or in d2fault six monins i;n s*i in the Third Police Cturi yesterday for importing tobacco. The amount of tobacco involved *as 6,240 lb. The prosecution alleged that !on July 30, a party of Revenue
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      FINED $1,500 FOR AMMUNITION
      71 5 ABDUL Rashid bin Haji Latif, formerly employed in the H S.C.. was fined $1,500 or six ir mths' rigorous imprisonment for possession of 1.927 rounds ol ammunition in Alexandra Road en July 15, by Mr. Paul Storr, the District Judge, yesterday. 'Having possession of that amount
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      AUSTRALIA -MALAYA TRADE TALKS SOON
      249 5 THE shipment of food, the political future of Malaya, •the export of more machinery to this country, and question of immigration of non-EUropeans will be discussed with Australian officials when the Australian Commissioner, Mr. Claude Massey, returns to his country'. He leaves Singapore today by
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      PALEMBANG PoW GUARDS CHARGED
      208 5 PALEMBANG PoW GUARDS CHARGED TAPT. Hachisuka, commandant of the PoW camps in the Palembang area, in the course of his defence yesterday on charges of illtreating PoWs and causing the death of some of them, said that he had given the PoWs advice "not to become weak and exhausted and
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      CHURCH TALK
      32 5 Rev. R. L. Archer will preach at the S raits Chinese Methodist Church, Kampone Kapor, on Sunday at 5 p.m. He will speak on "The Church at Work in Africa.''
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      EGG POWDER FOR PUBLIC
      365 5 SOAP, candLs and egg powder, imported on Government account, are now available in Singapore. A list of the dealers and the prces follows: SOAP Boustead Co., Ltd., acting. as agents for the Government on Aug. 8, made a second allocation of soap at $8.80 per case
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      Malaya, sends food SOS
      232 5 lORD Killearn, Special Commissioner, South-East Asia, has sent a telegram to the* International Emergency Food Committee in Washington, emphasising the acute food crisis with which the deficit areas, particularly the Malayan Union and Singapore, are faced. Lord Killearn proposed to Washington that ship* should be switched
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      S.S. KEDAH 'NOT A DERELICT'
      149 5 THE crew of the 2.500-tons teamship Kedah. formerly owned by he Straits Steamship Company Ltd., who were taken of! by Padstow lifeboat during Monday's gale, denied tcday that tkeir vessel was a derelict. They declared that the salvage ug Salvonia from Falmouth too* her in
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      CHINA HAS QUINS
      42 5 AUINTUPLETS have b#n born to the wife of a Chinese fanner in Chaohsien. about 50 kilometres south-east of-Shihchiachuang, in western Hopei province. The mother and the babies— four boys and a girl are said to be doing well. Reuter
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      HURT CHARGE
      52 5 An 18-year-old Chinese, Tiu Ah Gong, appeared in the- Third Police Court yesterday, and had two charges explained t^ him. of causng hurt to Hutaigan on August 1?. at a Godown in the Singapore Harbour Board, with a bayonet, «*nd of being in possession of a bayonet without
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      S'PORE YMGA FUND
      12 5 S'PORE YMGA F UND The Singapore Y.MC.A. Fund now totals $7,566.50. I
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      SIAM TAKES OVER RICE STOCKS
      61 5 THE Siamese Government ha* ordered the authorities of 26 provinces to begin requisition of all rice stocks to prevent breakdown of thr de|ivtr> programme Siam must export 550.4rt>G tons before the end of the year, but July exports were around 50,0()« tons and An rust
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      STOWAWAYS TO GO BACK TO H.K.
      119 5 STOWAWAYS TO GO BACK TO H.K. *THERE were lour Chinese s f o«-~ aways on board the Dutch liner Van Heutz which arrived Singapore lrom Hong Kong on Tuesday The men, it appear.*., sneaked on beard at Hong Kon* and were discovered dur ng tht vovage 'o Singacore The stowaways
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      SIX JAPS HANG TOMORROW AT CHANGI
      112 5 SIX Japanese are to be liar. <* at Changi jail tomorrcw morning. They are Major Nak.imura Kinj Capt. Hisakawa Sh:_ gehiro. Pte. Noguchi Hidei; G.P.O Matsuoka Isamu, Hapan< Kihyoharu <a v -n) and Set. Maj. Toyoda Akiichi. Major Nakamura and Capt Hisakawa were convicted
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      These Men Boss Nazis Today
      42 6 These Men Boss Nazis Today rrilitarv "ov^rnors of Germany pose for a picture, l.cft to ri^ht are: Air Marshal > r hoiio Dowlas, (.rrat Rrili^p. G c n Joseph T. McNarney. U.S.A. Gen, Pierr^ Koenig, France, and Marshal of the Soviet I'nion vSokolovsky.
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      Gaw Another Woman Out In Her Dress
      105 6 V V l nol »da» ai Jt Yarmouth < Norfolk* Mrs. ruMll Thurlo-.v. of Ketterin^ 'Northants>. returned to her hnUl bedroom and found that most of her clothing ha 1 dis-ip-nared. few hours liter, walking n the sea-front' she saw some s.iiijrs with
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      SATURDAY IS CIVVIES DAY FOR R.A.F.
      114 6 SATURDAY ij, 'civvi^; day" for all ranks of the RAF and WAAF who work at the Air Mtadmjr, i ntw order allows all ranks oa duly on Saturday mornings to I'irn up in the "civvies t;hey have c\\ >s?n for their week-end's relax. a*ion.
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      MULBERRY BLOWN UP
      15 6 A wrecked section or 'Mulberry' harbour was blown up off Dymchurch, Kent.
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      MORE AUSSIE BOOKS
      27 6 First passenger boat to leave Montreal for Australia iince the *ar took 5,000 tons ot newsprint a» a present to Australian pub.i«s h ers.
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      FOUR DRAWN TESTS CERTAIN IN AUSTRALIA
      580 6 FOUR DRAWN TESTS CERTAIN IN AUSTRALIA Archie Quick's Sports Parade LONDON, Tuesday. NOW that the M.OC have completed their party for Australia taking 17 players instead of 16, we can look dispassion ately at the list of names and weigh up the Test chances. Firstly, I think it is a
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      'PARATROOPERS: YOU'RE A DISGRACE'
      571 6 J 7 By Our Special Correspondent KLUANG, Wednesday. TOLL) them that they were a disgrace to the Parachute Battalion, a disgrace to the Army, and, in particular, to the men who had fought for the Battalion," said Lt. Col. Roy Leyland, Battalion Commander, 13 Parachute Battalion,
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1946. They're Knocking It Off The Rent
      381 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 1946. They're Knocking It Off The Rent REPORTING progress on the boarding house *ront. A few days ago we advised people in Singapore who had had to pay tea-money 10 get accommodation or were being called upo n to pay exorbitant rents for
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      FAITH
      14 4 The people that do know their God shall be strong. Daniel, 11, 32.
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      REVOLUTION IS NEEDED
      1102 4  -  DOUGLAS WARTH In Industrial Britain By AN alarming state of muddle in British workshops and coalmines has just been .brought to light by a report comparing the industrial efficiency of Britain and America. This report, based on the findings of official missions from this country, reveals the
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      244 4 ROBERT KIRK DICKSON, silent tight-lipped Scot and an Admirality baefc-room boy, was the most surprised man in the Navy when, as a captain, he succeeded a full admiral as Chief of Naval Information. He had hoped to command an aircraft-carrier i Japan Instead of giving battle orders
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    • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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        The Nips? 'Kick Them Out!'
        107 4 I BEING a serving soldier in H.M.* service, have a true grouse. We, the British, American and not forgetting our brave Malays and Chinese, have been fighting for peace— some, or rather thousands have paid the pi ice in blood and life. So, before anyone
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        Why They Resist
        183 4 I WAS horrified to read a letter, 1 in the Free Press on Aug. 3, from a fellow-servicemen, W/O Hewitt, headed 'Job for Streicher.' It goes to show to what depthcome people will stoop in order to express their views. During the war, such irresponsible persons as
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        Tax 'Brainstorm'
        306 4 Tax 'Brainstorm IT was with positive amaze--1 ment, that I read your socalled "Bank Holiday Brainwave." Indeed it seemed to me more like a "Bank Holiday Brainstorm." It may, or may not be, within your knowledge, that the vast majority of the Services pay income tax. This includes Non-Commissioned-Ranks. On
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        CLEAN UP S'pORE
        419 4 CLEAN UP S'pORE GENERALLY 11 of Singapore area and installations t2 in wero, On th- reocrW tion of Malayu, i n dilapidated fete, dfc* bombing and neglect The Army u iderta* work ot clearing up J lushing unsafe buildings carried out repairs to rotfcH dock area, and to godJ totalling
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      77 4 QUIZ Eight fish are indicated by tne following clues. Can you name them? 1. A kind of sky. 2. In Hollywood he could command a high price. 3. Mixed with linseed oil this fish makes putty. 4. Bottled, or on draught? 5. A Home Guard weapon. 6. Surely this should
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      ATHLETES HOLD PENANG CHINESE
      581 7 Free Press Correspondent afd fggfhgfhgf fhgfhcgfgf PENANG, Wednesday. i\(. in i be second of their three Charity matches here aid "i the China Relief Fund, Singapore Chinese hi" tic Ijmt ie W the Penan* Chinese Football AssoPenang 19 1H league and Cup champions to a three
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      Leyland To Retire
      80 7 LONDON Wed. UKI I o!md, Yorkshire, i a ni Eat*** left-hand bat "•lifted the Yorkshire Club MM] "<* Ls retiring from fclass criiket at thr end of P re>ent season LrJla.nl »bo is 46 bepn with or^hirein I*2o and has playin num.mu* Tests versus istralu South Africa
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      S'pore Yachts Race For Chinta Cup
      323 7 THERE was a very poor turn out of members at the Royal 1 Singapore Yacht Club on Sunday to take over the yachts available for the two races advertised for the day. The 'A' Class were sailing the second race for the Chinta Challenge
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      SCOTTISH SOCCER RESULTS
      100 7 SCOTTISH SOCCER RESULTS LONDON, We*. f»-d.»» n Scottish football results DTIISH LL\<. IE -DIVISION (A) kbrrtWn 1 Kilmer nock I [>*e 2 t>!tu- 2 liirn i n 1. Jilkirk 4 leartr 1. Partick 4. Morton Mothr-well 1. hctn* Park "5 H Mirrcn 2. Dutt-n of South 4. Third Lanark I.
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      SCOTLAND TEAM v ENGLAND
      42 7 SCOTLAND TEAM v ENGLAND LONDON. Wed. a 'tarn to meet Eng-■*--d :n a soccer representa- a- Manchester Au* 24 ra: Celtic; v 'Hibernian) J t%) Captain; halves Iorton»; Brennan United.; Husband (01 wards Wad- Dvjgall on .Rangers-: touton -A^rdeen) and Liddel! Reuter
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      Charity Soccer For 'Death Railway' Orphans
      144 7 Charity Soccer For 'Death Railway' Orphans ARPHANS of the Siam-Burma v "Death Railway' will benefit from a same of soccer to be played in aid of the Ramakrishna Mission Orphanage at Jalan Besar Stadium on Sunday. The opponents will be the Singapore Indian Association and the Royal Air Force (Ten*ah).
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      GERMAM ATHLETES TO COMPETE
      88 7 BERLIN, Wed. of 14 nations will compete in an inter-Allied track and field meet at Berlin's Olympic stadium on Sept. 8 and Sept. 9, under the auspices of the Allied forces here. Elaborate plans will be completed to make it a sort of post-war Olympics. American
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      W. INDIANS TO TOUR INDIA
      24 7 MADRAS, (By Mail) A WEST Indies cricket team will arrive in India in November on a three-months tour. Reutcr
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      WRIGHT TO MISS OVAL TEST
      83 7 LONDON. Wed. rwas announced by the Marylefcone Cricket Club today that, owing to a recurrence of leg trouble, D.V.P. W«Bht, Kent legbreak bowler, will be unable to play in the final Test against India, starting on Saturday at Kennington Oval. His place will be taken
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      COWES REGATTA AGAIN
      68 7 The Royal Southampton Yacht Club held its Regatta at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on An*. 3 after a lapse of seven years. There were 89 entries for the eleven races on the card. Picture shows Yachts of the Yarmouth One Design class passing holidaymakers on the beach
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      BIG KENT SCORE AT LORD'S
      470 7 BIG KENT SCORE AT LORD'S LONDON, Wed. THE weather seriously curtailed play in most County cricket matches.. Only two and a half hours' play was possible in the match between Hampshire and the present championship leaders, Yorkshire. Yorkshire fought hard for runs on a pitch which gave a great help
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      SRA WEEKLY SHOOT
      353 7 rpHE president of the Singapore Rifle A Association, Ma j. -Gen. L. H. Cox, 0.0.C., Singapore district, was an interested spectator at the S.R. A. shoot on Sunday morning. Over 40 members turned up. but scores were en the whole marred by sudden rainstorms. Class winners were:
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    48 8 0..e of London's favourite August Bank Holiday attractions returned from its wartime retirement whrn the suth parade organised by the London Cart Horse Parade Society took ?>lace at l.rgcnfs Pa k. Picture sho.>s Lt.-Col. Sir Hugh Turnbull, City of London Police Commissioner (in black hat) judging entries.
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    Smuts Wants Immigrants
    98 8 PRETORIA Wed. THE South African Government have df-cidrd on a very active immigration policy. Premier Ii Id Marshal Jan Christian Snrauts. told a conference of his party in Pretoria. 'migration is the call, he Mid, **We> want men and women. We want our population to increase by
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    STRIKERS MAKE RICE DEMAND
    63 8 Singapore's 5.000 striking rubber workers have made one deTrar.d which their employers state th-y will not be able to meet ffhe .strkers are asking for an increased ricfe ration. In the case oi rh"» wemen workers they want this increae to make up a total monthly
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    MONTY LECTURES TO NAVY AND R.A.F
    61 8 Srtrg in a triple tirr at the Stall College, Oambertey. nearly 200 sen or ifficers of the At my with i .>re3cntatives of the RAF and Nv.y and exp:rt s in chemical v. -::are li&< cned yesterday to F-Md Marshal Viscount Mom. *om°ry discussing
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    P.M. WITH BRASS HATS
    20 8 Prime Minister Attlee. yesterday nt three hours at the Service rMfii conference, says Reuter ma Camberley.
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    QUESTIONS ABOUT WOMEN AT KLUANG TRIAL
    376 8 QUESTIONS ABOUT WOMEN AT KLUANG TRIAL Free Press Reporter KLUANG, Thurs. WHEN the court martial of 2f3 Paratroopers on mutiny If charges resumed today the defending officer asked Regimental Sergeant Major Railton if he was aware that ai Semaranfr men who had served in the sergeants' mess were in theiiabit
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    FOUR DIED IN GOLD STRIKE
    77 8 Official figures Issued last night listed four Africans dead and 446 injured after clashes between strikers and police at three mines in the Rand, says Reuter from Johannesburg. Fifty thousand African mine workers had stopped work demanding a minimum ten shillings a day wage and
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    G.I.s ON MANOEUVRES
    25 8 The U.S. Sixth Army Headquarters announced yesterday that advance units for the winter combat manoeuvres in Alaska were leaving San Francisco A.P.
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    DR. WANG LEADS PEACE TALKS
    280 8 PARIS, Wednesday. |\R. WANG SHIH-CHIEH, 54-year head of the Chinese dele- gation will assume the presidency of the Paris Peace Conference plenary session for the first time tomorrow. The agile Dr. Wang is said to be the man who converted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to a
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    WREN MURDER: HEATH SENT FOR TRIAL
    160 8 LONDON, Wed. ONLY 12 people out of a crowd of over 100 who hid queued for over three hours were allowed to enter the tiny West London Police Court today to see Neville George Clevely Heath, air force pilot committed for trial at the
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    ARMED ROBBERY CHARGED WITH SERVICEMEN
    173 8 rwas denied yesterday by Ignatius Undasan, Stanley Almonte and Lance-Cpl. James Marshall Hall at the Second Singapore Assizes that a pistol had been used during an alleged armed robbery in which they were connected. Undasan, Almone and Hall were three of five men who were
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    'PRINCES TO KEEP THRONES'
    195 8 NEW DELHI, Wed. THE Indian pr-nce s are deter- mined to retain their thrones as constitutional monarchs. if the country achieves Independence, says Walt Mason, A. P. correspondent. The princes will confederate for resistance, by force, if necessary, against any attempt to depose them or interfere
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    TOKYO CELEBRATES DEFEAT
    191 8 U-J DAY passed quietly in Japan, which one year ago today learned from Emperor Hirohito that the Pacific war was over, says A.P. from Tokyo. There was a parade, a counterpart of those which probably were staged in some American towns, but there was no show of
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      164 8 HE DOES IT AGAII ...WHO SO IMMORTALLY PORTRAYED "PASTEUR" J •ZOLA- ON THE SCREEN... NOW TOPS ALL HIS TRIUIkJ IN THE FIRST GREAT DRAMA OF THE COMMANDOS' 1 f COMMANDOS J I STRIKE AT DAWN I COLUMBIA INTRODUCES I A NEW THEME, the commando raids that I HAD BROUGHT MANY
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