The Singapore Free Press, 16 August 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA %> 16,6:3 SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    85 1 sdsdfsdb sdfdfgdfgdf Pruii- MinisWr and Mrs Attle* went to Portsmouth i entlv to **e the British aircraft carrier olossus handed ovrr to the French Na-y Colossus is bein» lent bv the Admiralty for not owe than fiv e years Picture >hows some of the French crew »r Colossus marching from
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    SHANGHAI STANDS BY FOR TROUBLE
    103 1 SHANGHAI STANDS BY FOR TROUBLE run-on SHAN °HAI. Thurs And American army and naval force, were suddenly 1 to thur barracks and mtm afternoon and placed on JirJ #n M a P rec aut onary mea. >i i aUowi n? nersi«tent report* SSJJJ, 105^ Cl^e dis-' bed heavily-guarded: S*J^ T
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    GANDHI DEFIES ATOM BOMB
    27 1 GANDHI DEFIES AT OM BOMB uSS 4^ pubUcl y 4r a n n hw n?w spaper "We noJ^ n grouo wniCn HC..I to: rn tne atom bomb."
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    'Let's clear decks for peace'
    297 1  -  A. V. Alexander says: PARIS, Thurs. THE First I^>rd of the Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexander, speaking at the Peace Conference today, on Finland's request for territorial and economic alleviations in the armistice agreement with Russia, declared: "So let us clear the decks for peace.
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    S'pORE BUS FIRE
    56 1 /^BOUT 20 occupants of a bus plying on the Thomson Road route escaped yesterday when the bus suddenly caught fire near the junction of Thomson and Moulmein Roads. The passengers. Including several children, were just able to rush out of the bus before fire enveloped the whole
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    50 MOSLEMS MARCH IN LONDON
    173 1 T /DNDON, Thurs. IT was "direct action day" in 1 London today, the day especially set aside for Moslem demonstration by Mr. Jinnah— but only about 50 supporters of Mohammed Abbas All, President %A the London branch of the AllTndian Moslem League, turned up for
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    20 1 This much travelled Belisha beacon borrowed by soldiers goin; overseas from Margate in 1942— has been placed in Margate museum.
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    'BLACK' RICE SOARING
    368 1 Flour ship unloads in Singapore Free Press Reporter THE first effect of the reduction in rice rations in Singapore, announced yesterday, takes the form of a jump in the black market price of rice from $1.20 per kati at the beginning of the weeV to $1.80 this
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    STRIKE HALTS FOOD CARGOES
    53 1 CLEVELAND. OHIO. Thurs. GRAIN cargoes for overseas relief were threatened with a standstill today as 1,100 members of the National Maritime Union went on strike, seriously impeding Great Lakes shipping and threatening to tie up over vessels, many carrying grain from the rich U.S. and Canadian
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    SIAM BARS BORDER
    19 1 Slam ordered her frontiers with I Indo-China to be closed yesterI day, says U.P. from Bangkok.
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    JEWS CLASH WITH TROOPS IN CYPRUS
    95 1 FAMA GUSTA. Cyprus. Thurs. JEWISH immigrants disembarking from two ships which brought them from Palestine, clashed with British troops today and reinforcements were rushed to the scene. Some of the immigrants were wounded. Twenty of the J:ws were reported admitted to military hospitals in
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    Mass trial to last 2 more weeks
    555 1 Free Press Reporter KLUANU, Friday. THE court martial of 262 Paratroopers on charges of mutiny, which started at Kluang on Monday and continued today, is likely to last at least until the end of the month. The prosecution, who expect to complete their
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    S'PORE JAP POLICEMAN, 5 OTHERS HANGED
    104 1 Fiee Press Reporer SIX Japanese war criminals sentenced for brutalities on Allied pilsoners-of-war and Singapore civilians, were hanged at Changi jail this morning. There were: Major Nakamura Kinji, Capt. Hlsakawa Shigehiro, Private Noguchi Hideji, Chiet Pe ty Officer Matsvoka Isamu. Sut. Maj. Toyoda Akiichi,
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    Truman sails on cruise
    373 1 1 PALESTINE FERMENTS r^ AS— WASHINGTON, Thurs. THE White House Press Secretary, Mr. Charles G. Roan, refused to comment on London reports, quoting the British Foreign Office, that President Truman had "rejected the plan for the partition of Palestine, advising Britain to go ahead with any
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    S'PORE STRIKES: NO CHANGE
    57 1 Theie is no change in t>he strike situation in Singapore. Strikes are still on at Singapore Harbour Board dockyard < 1.000 Cfhinese labourers out) at the three hospitals—the General Hospital, Kar.dang Kerbau and Tan Tock Sen 4. 500 Chinese and Indian attendants out> and at several
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    SEPTEMBER VERDICT
    24 1 The Nuremberg war crimes trial yesterday drew to a close. A verdict is possible by early September says A. P. from Nuremberg.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      UK TO AUSTRALIA IN 6 MINUTES
      1164 2  - UK TO AUSTRALIA IN 6 MINUTES MicHael Marney Wireless Photography -by IUST after the all-clear J had gone in London one night in 1941, a curious noise sounded through the corridors of the Thames Embankment headquarters of Cable and Wireless, one of the world's great communications centres. It was rot
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      New 'Make-Up' For The Thames
      607 2 r)ER plans now being prepared for the Government, the South Bank of the Thames will at last be reconstructed. Detailed projects for new Government offices in the centre of London include early resumption of work on the large building designed before the war for the
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      403 2 RADIO MALAYA RED NETWORK from ooon Co t pjn. and 6.30 to 11 om. oa »5 metres from noon to S p.m. oa 4.82* mes/sec in SI metre band and from 1.45 to 9.30 pjn. oa 4.78 msc sec In SI metre band CHINESE noon to 1.15 pjn. (news In
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      141 2 -your luckySTAR Fortune foi\c:^t for people born today rU tend towarc sconced engineering lou fart a keen and ptnttntii methodical and t::a its demands upen you: ai ents. Factf ecu t I and you detcs giNM along pny l'ne of endciNK Detail work holdi dolmh for you and you l-e
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      135 3 EVERYBODY LOVES_:F&NTASIV bISNEY^DAZZLED CASCADES OF MULTIPLANE COLOUR WHICH DRENCH THE SCREEN WITH BEAUTY! ALnAlflDllA BOOK NOW TEL: SM9 MAGIC MUSIC that floods the Theatre with a Thrill Gorgeousness I'nmatclied: NOTHING LIKE IT IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH! B^b^bßb^bTT 1^ v W*J j- JP»' y« r jM Bb^b«b^^^b&- -^^bl bßt^ ThrUl
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      MP ASKS ABOUT Mrs GERALDO
      60 3 MP ASKS ABOUT Mrs GERALDO f kaijx). band leader, is alleged u have taken his wife with i to Germany, and a Commons on by Mr. Douglas Marshall Bodmin- asked why, since BAOR officers and rn?n have been tor mootas tor permits lo their wives. raldo reprasentative said Mri. Geraldo
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      MORE XMAS PUDS
      29 3 t Jr nt nunl^ um oil and fat conCar stmas puddings in u reduced trom«10 per o nine per cent, to enable "acturer* to increase pro-
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      COLLEEN RETURNS WITH A FORTUNE
      209 3 BACK to the humble farmstead home at Ballyhooly, County Cork, which she left as a penniless colleen to seek her fortune thirty-two years ago, has come Catherine O'Connell millionairess. The fairy story of Catherine O'Connell began when, after leaving schcol, she set off to America
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      27 3 Jack's the boy for a seaside holiday. He cant keep away. And he will sec that his young friends don t remain «andljbbcrs either In they go.
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      R.A.F. CLOSE DEPOT
      19 3 The RAF Deoot and Maintenance Unit at KidbrooJ;e near Green w ch, is to be closed
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      BRITAIN HAS GOOD CROP THIS YEAR
      347 3 BRITAIN HAS GOOD CROP THIS YEAR PRMAIN'S three most vital food crops will be good. They b are wheat for bread; potatoes, the insurance-against-lars'ne crop; and sugar beet for the sugar ration and for the winter feeding of the cows. Harvest prospects are row beginning to take shape v where,
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      BSPCA Say Unity Is Unhappy
      115 3 BSPCA Say Unity Is Unhappy Ir.MIV the LonJo:i Zoos new I panda and its rhi:f attr tt.n has bcrome the sub|tH »>f a sharp dispute between tfe Zoological Society and the f i| Soeirty for the Prevention ruelty to Animals The R S.P.C.A. maintains that the importation of the pa
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      DIPHTHERIA INJECTON KILLS GIRL
      163 3 ■ÜBCHOH afaM diphtheria HMSd the death of Tessa Btaaqp, aged 14. daughter •>! lady O rnmore and Browne and rier former hu band, the Hon. lip Kindersley son ol Lord tlie *ncu?st at Claremorr s. Mayo. I when the verdict was .ailure through shock*. Dr. B
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      'SHORT LEAVES CAUSE DIVORCE'
      216 3 OKRVICEMEN and their wives who live together only while 0 the husband is on short leaves "don't really live together at all," said Mr. Justice Oliver at Manchester Assizes recently. The Judge was dealing with a number of divorce cases in which the petitioning husbcnds had
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      STONE COLD
      20 3 Overcome by refrigerator fmres while loading a lorry at a Willesden (London) dairy depot. Charles Foale, 25, died.
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      THE TINY TOT
      21 3 A baby girl wieghins 2 1 ilb. was 'corn to Mrs. Ceinwen Connely. 25. of Cwmdn-street, Maesceb. Glamorgan
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      WEDS HIS NURSE
      60 3 Son of a Viscount and his bride, a labourer s daughter, leaving the church at Mansfield. Notts. Bridegroom, the Hon John Dudley Ryder, younger son of Viscount and Viscountess Sandon, met his bride, Miss Dorothy Ethel Swallow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Swallow, of Mansfield, when
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      PRISNERS ESCAPE AT CRICKET
      85 3 PRISN ERS ESCAPE AT CRICKET WHILE watching a cricket match .n the grounds of Princetown Detention Centre, Devon, two military prisoners took advantage of a heavy moorland mst which came down and escaped. The two men. Thomas Terence Rankin. 23, of Ashton-under-Lyne, and Ralph Pierce, 22. of Beckerton, Cheshire, who
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      THEY KNOW FACTS
      19 3 Sex lectures to school-leavers are being discontinued by the Holland, Lines, Education Committee, as being unnecessary.
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      BORDER TROUBLE
      23 3 Visa? for British visitors may be waived by Sweden if Britain vyill grant a similar concession, says the Swadish Aliens' Commission.
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      RUSSIAN SGT SHOT AT WILD PARTY
      294 3 RUSSIAN SGT SHOT A T WILD PARTY A BRITISH airman was accused in a Berlin cour I -martial of shooting a Russian Red Guard sergeant, found dead in a bath at a Berlin hotel where they had been dancing on the table at a party. Pale and trembling, the airman
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      27 3 Miss Marion Lvnde 21 year-oi 1 Chelsea girl, winner of fh> "Modern Venus' contest at W*s-ton-san r-Mare, t kes a v "*ory dip after the judges *er£ict.
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      ROTHERMERE SELLS HIS OLD MASTERS
      18 3 ROTHERMERE SELLS HIS OLD MASTERS Vficount Rothcimeie has ..e 44 nictures to Chri£t:e\s i Merewoit«i< Cattle. Ken foi
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      TAX POOLS PEER IS A 1-2-X MAN
      198 3 TAX POOLS PEER IS A 1 -2- X MAN LORD MORRISON, the peer who is campagning 1 1 tax and control football pools, has half-a-crown's worth of I—2—X1 2— X every w«*fk during the playing season. He confessed recentlv that he has had several little turn-ups— but his wife yets
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      £23,000 FOR DISABLED
      21 3 R.A.F. Benevolent Fund has given £25.000 to build 12 houses at Morden. Surrey, for widows and disabled officers.
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      COLLEGE GOES HOME
      24 3 Dartmouth Royal Naval College, evacuated to the Duke of Westminster's house. Eaton Hall Chester. H be ng moved back to Dartmouth
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      BOOSTING BRITAIN
      23 3 The Travel Association of Great Br tain is opening information bureaux in twenty European capitals to boost Britain to tour sts.
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      POLICE OFFER MOTOR LESSON
      65 3 UOTORISTS are invited to sit in the back seat of Plymoutn police cars and watch police driv ers handle their vehicles in heavy traffic. Mr. J. F. Skittery, Chief Constable, told the city's joint road safety committee he was prepared to make arrangements for this. He
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      RECTOR READS OWN MARRIAGE BANNS
      41 3 Rev. Bir Pag€t Bowman, 72. rector of Shere, Surrey, surprised parishioners by reading hs own marriage banns This was the first news to reach them of "is plans to marry Lady Evelyn Florence fewart aged 67.
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      MARKING THE SPOT
      32 3 A plaque and wall map were unveiled on Wednesday in th» room at the R.N. Navigation School, Fareham. Hampshire, where General Eisenhower watched as the D-Day assault was launched.
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      FIRST BUS RIDE
      19 3 Princess Elizabeth and r*.' royal sister enioyed a bi'> rk. i for the first fme recently.
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      DUTCH SEIZE S'PORE SHIPS; 'HAD ARMS'
      275 5 DUTCH SEIZE S'PORE SHIPS; 'HAD ARMS' Free Press Reporter i fv !I authorities in Singapore, referring to reports f ,iizure of Chinese vessels sailing tc /from the N.K.I, and their cargoes, told the Fret f s that these seizures have been made because tefcaKk w«re carrying either "arms or illegal
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      Royal Navy Rescues China Gun Boat
      127 5 Royal Navy Rescues China Gun Boat dfgdfgdf ghtrhrgdf !K British Navv has rushed Ltbf rr*u- of a Chinese nbost «r.un ran aground on rM f n ir Pratas island. h!v Iffl niilrs M.uth-east of K( tf x Keuter. »b* >,' r(c»ipt of signals a •»f 1 near the t| lt
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      UNKNOWN
      113 5 I Stagapore Y M c A. build. ng :r. Orchard Read will be deoed in a few days time ie, tli c work of id re-equ pping "'k ■Iw will start, for \hich •rpeal for Funds is nglUft. ine latest list o' gives the total as he story cf
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      JUNK PIRATED
      32 5 ee Pre^ Correspondent PENANG Tnurs. tot anchored off Street Ghaut was V; -our armed Chinese in I thfc momins. *bo came in a samKno loot held *a relieved him of
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      CEYLON AGENT RETURNS
      12 5 nghamfceylon I R f '-tentative i R Government, evening.—
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      SUBSTITUTE FOR RICE 'IS WHOLESOME'
      185 5 Free Press Reporter ABOUT 20 representatives of large employers of labour had lunch at a Singapore restaurant yesterday to sample a new substitute for rice which had betn lmoorted from Australia. Made from wholesome wheat by a special milling process which makes the grains exactly
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      S'PORE ROBBERY
      17 5 d a "ie scene of -ery yester*our armed f to have enrelieved the i valuables
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      SPORTS CLUBS IN MALAYA GET WINDFALL
      163 5 SPORTS CLUBS IN MALAYA GET WINDFALL Free Press Reporter MORE than $5,000 worth of SDOrts goods sent to Malaya in late 1941 by the Australian Comforts Fund for use of the Australian Eighth Division, has survived the Japanese occupation and -is now being sold to clubs and schools in Malaya
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      VICTORY SHOW DONATIONS
      56 5 €ATE receipts at the King's Birthday Victory Exhibition at the Happy World amounting to $3,413.95. have been donated to the following: King George V Fund for Sailors $500, Army Welfare, Singapore District, $500, R.A.F. Welfare, Singapore District, $500, Singapore Volunteer Forces for those not in receipt of
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      BISCUITS FOR THE PUBLIC
      197 5 nURING the past few days, v Jacob's Cream Cracker biscuits and confectionery were distributed in Singapore bv Messrs. Henry Waugh Co. Ltd., Boustead Co. Ltd., and Guthrie Co. Ltd. acting as Government agents, and the dealers have undertaken to sell to the public at $2.20 per
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      Japs grow ragi and rice
      126 5 JAPANESE prisoners of war J are today engaged in growing more food for the people of Malaya. In the Stmgei Buloh area of Selangor in the Malayan Union, hundreds of these prisoners a#e engaged in growing padi, as shown in the picture below. In the
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      Johore Bahru may be blacked-out
      206 5 CINGAPORE is to supply Johore Bahru with an ad ditional 200 kilowatts of electricity to save half the town from the prospect of being suddenly plunged into darkness for lack of supply. A power cable now feeding Johore Bahru belongs to the naval authorities who
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      JAP-LOOTED BORNEO CROWN IS RETURNED
      149 5 rE handing to the Netherlands representative of the $35,000 diamond-sludded gold crown by Brigadier General Patrick Tausy, an officer of the Supreme Allied Command in ths Pacific yesterday marked the first Allied restoration of property looted by t-€ Japanese during the war. The ceremony was
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      ALLEGED ROBBERY
      55 5 Alleged to have committed armed robbery on July 9, two Malays, Ali bin Abdullah and' Yusop bin Osman, had the charge explained to them in the Fourth Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that they used a rifle at the time. The case will bewailed in the sixth
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      17,000 Indian troops missing
      168 5 17, 000 Indian troops missing ONE year alter the end ot hostilities the battlefields 'of World War II are still being searched for does to the fate of 18,000 officers and men of the Indian Army, who were posted among: the missing. More than 17,000 are still missing in the
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      CHINESE MINISTER TO TOUR MALAYA
      53 5 THE Vice-Mlnister of the Chinese 1 Overseas Affairs Department Mr. Tai Kwei-shen, who was stranded in Manila and evaded arrest throughout the Japanese occuDation of the Philippines, is leaving Shanghai late this month for a tour of Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies. Sam French Indo-OMna
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      GOVT GIVES 3-YR PADI PRICE GUARANTEE
      100 5 IS a practical encouragement to planters to bring the widest possible area under padl cultivation, the Government of the Malayan Union has undertaken to pay a price of $6 a a plcul for grain delivered to Government mills and $5.20 a picul for padi
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      'IT WAS A RECORD BANK HOLIDAY'
      1006 6 George Chisholm Writes A Letter LONDON, By Air Mail. Dear Friends Overseas, This is the Bank Holiday, and I thought you would like to read all about the greatest day in our sports calender. Particularly as it is the first war-free Bank Holiday for
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      Football Managers Are Pessimistic
      360 6 Archie QuickC Sports Parad LONDON, tted AUGUST is the Springtime of professional footb. I andc nesis are a-fluttering and a-t wittering like Cocknevj rows on a May morning but, unlike young Spring birskt ball managers, with their feathers considerably ruffled i pessimistically forward to a hard
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      Britain Meets France At White City
      52 6 Britain Meets France At White City C. T. White of Great Britain (No. 2) winning the 880 yards in 1 m'n. 55.9 s°c. from A. S. Wint (No. 1) in the athletic contest between Great Britain and France at the White City stadium vhich Br tain won by 72 points
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      HOME..
      23 8 Th.m« u Mil London^* x o I .tt»elton. P opl, h-r« re Q»euein e for ,iver Uiw W Richmond, Kingsion and Tilbury.
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      'Uncivil', He Loses A Job
      71 8 A BRISTOL shop mana.fr, n alleged to I ave used bad lan uare and to hav? been un-«»-il to customer-, has been refused a s cond chance of reinstatement in his civ Han job. He is Arthur E r n?st Francis of Manipton Park Redlind.
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      ARMY WON PERSIA FOR LOSS OFF 22
      236 8 ARMY WON PERSIA FOR LOSS OFF 22 a* ,k LON DON. Thursday J^l the end o: October 1941. plans *ere put in hand to receive in Iraq British forces for dispatch to the Caucasus to stem German advance through Russia towards the Persian Gulf. By early December, the British 50th
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      DARDANELLES: U.S. SENDS NEW CARRIER
      270 8 DARDANELLES: U.S. SENDS NEW CARRIER WASHINGTON, Thursday. THE U.S. Navy's new 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Franklin 1 Roosevelt is due in Lisbon tomorrow (Friday) bound for a Mediterranean cruise as tension rises in the Near East, says Associated Press. American diplomatic officials are reported to be taking a serious view of
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      MPs GET 8 YEARS FOR ROBBERY
      230 8 I FIVE men, three of whom wer e Military policemen, were sentenced to eight years' rigor- ous imprisonment yesterday at i the Singapore Assizes by Mr. Justice Worley when the common jury unanimously found all of I them guilty of armed fe-ng robbery involving
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      DUTCH CAPTURE NIP GUERILLAS
      300 8 BATAVIA. Thurs. IN a patrol action in the Celebes, east of Macassar, Dutch troops captured the Japanese leader of a band of terrorists, says a Netherlands Indies Army communique. Operations against robber gangs, the communique added, are being continued. One patrol encountered about 150 armed horsemen,
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      SIAM MISSION GOING TO INDIA
      124 8 SIAM MISSION GOING TO INDIA A Siamese Purchasing M ss'on i* is expected to arrive in New Delhi shortly for negotiations i with the Finance and Commerce I Deoartments of the Government !of India. The Siamese Mission intends to make arrangements to utilise the Rs. 50, 000,000 loan recently acquired
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      WHY RUSSIA FOUGHT FINLAND
      158 8 COVDET Foreign Minister. Mou lotov, told the Paris peace conference last nigtat that the 1930 war between Finland and Russia res'Jtcd from Finland's refusal to yield some of her territory north of Leningrad to the Soviet Union <*ays U.P. from Paris. s Addressing tne plenary session
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUG. 16.
      490 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUG. 16 Tanglin Club has gone back into mufti this week, the I .".apore Swimming Club has M released by the Sarvices ur S3me wzeks. the Asiatics rave n.cst of tl:eir clubs back •«mm were never requlLitionea >' ad Service people are now eai^onuj memoirs
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      First fill their bellies —then teach
      937 4 DURING tne war we used to talk a good deal about the re-education of the German nation. At the end of the war, many plans for that vast undertaking were t already in being. And today? Before we attempt any assessment of the' progress
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        The Only One
        130 4 THE immediate reaction of many Servicemen to the poem "Don't Be Angry With The Servicemen" (Free Press Aug. 12), was that of complete and utter disgust. It would appear that many of them jumped to the obv.'ous conclusion, which happened to be quite wrong. As a satire,
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      FAITH
      13 4 Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience meekness. 1 Timothy, 6, 11.
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      AROUND MALAYA
      272 4 1 OUR COOP 1 NEIGHBOURS PENANG •PHE Port at Penang has 1 received 1,575 tons of Japanese stores for general rehabilitation. Altogether 22 lighters have bee* deltvered out of a total of 50 requested by the H**J°JJ* Board. The remainder win be delivered shortly. Four "Z" craft have
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      302 4 I ADY BADEN-POWELL. th e u world Chef Guide, has just returned to England after a four months' tour of America. During the tour she inspected Boy Scout and Girl Guide units :n places ranging from lonely settlements on the edge of the Arctic, in Canada, to
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      Want your car?
      519 4 then read this... By an Ex-Police Officer o CORES of motorcars J are stolen every day. Sometimes the owners get them back. Sometimes they do not. During the war, when the immobilisation of motor vehicles order was in force, the number of cars stolen dropped very sharply.
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      Are you a jay-walker?
      162 4 By the Rev. W. H. Elliott AS you value your life and his beware of the jay-walker. For he wili not beware of you. Tftat, of course, is the trouble He dart* across a busy r ad !a: from a pedestrian crossing, without so much as
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      77 4 QUIZ 1. Complete these words to make the names of well-konwn plants (a) Cow (b) Ox Daisy, (c) Horse (d) Sheep's (e) Cat (f> Dog's Violet, (g) Dog (h) Sow (i) Hog (J> Colts (k) Hen 2. Would you eat the fruits of these trees or plants, or shun them
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      108 5 6jo e 9jo "OW I A PALMY, BALMY ISLE ITS 1n... S MUSIC TO YOUR EARS! SULTRY 2 M H DOROTHY LAMOUR AND A 4.15 BEVY OF BEAUTIES! TORRID <30pm 7 ROMANCING AND TROPICAL s d N DANCING- A THRILL TO EVERY ph«^ __C SCENE! 3400 o-^^Mp 9 Set offrcgfis/f^
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      73 5 SHIP MOVEMENTS IN THE SINGAPORE ROADS E. SANG, British, 2,001 tons; from Hongkong Aug. 14, to Penang, date uncertain. BRITISH SOLDIER, British 3.503 tons; from Abadan Aug. 14. to Abadan tomorrow LEVENPOOL, British. 4,909 tons; from Melbourne Aug. 14. destination and date of departure unknown. ATJEH. Dutch, 269 tons: from
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      ATHLETES BEATEN IN FINAL GAME
      434 7 (Free Press Correspondent) PENANG, Thurs, NT 1; CJL 0 k n\\ goal scored three minutes from the end by right A enabled Penang State team to defeat Tlrl hineSe Athletic Association in the last match of TXr in Penang on the Victoria Green today. The
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      S.C.F.A. TO MEET COMBINED ARMY
      464 7 THE NEXT few days will provide soccer fans in Singapore with a rare treat. Three interesting games are to be played, the first to-morrow between a combined Army XI and the Singapore Chinese Football Assn., the second on Sunday between the Tengah Airmen and the
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      TABLE TENNIS
      33 7 a nev,*ly formed Ufa team, defealack Club 7-0 in team are willing nnes a?a nst any side v contacted through I n s tn r or Cpl Wllsorii J Provost Marshall
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      S.C.C. TEAMS FOR PADANG GAMES
      188 7 S.C.C. TEAMS FOR PADANG GAMES THE S.C.C. and Ceylon Sports 1 Club will play cricket on the padang this week-end Prewar the Ceylonese had the strongest team of th e local Clubs and whatever the result of the fame, good cricket should be provided. With only one of the major
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      ARRIVES FOR TITLE DEFENCE
      45 7 LONDON. Thurs. IKE Will ams, 23-year-old Ame- rican National Boxing Associaton lightweight champion of the world, arrived at London airport from, the United States today. He defends his title aga.'nst the British champion. Ronnie James,, at "fcaidiflf on Sept. 4. Reuter
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      BRITAIN'S TEAM FOR OSLO GAMES
      343 7 LONDON, By Air Mail. SYDNEY WOODERSON, once the world's fastest miler and now making a comeback at the longer distances, is the best known of 18 athletes chosen to represent Britain in the European championships at Oslo on Aug. 22 and Aug. 25. Two of
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      Injured
      45 7 D V P Wright, the Kent and England bowler, who ha* had a recurrence l of lee troib'e which will keep him out of the anal KSTwinn thLtadȣ which starts at the Oval to-morrow. Wriihts pUce is being tak en by Pollard of Lancashire.
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      YORKSHIRE WIN BOWLING DUEL
      373 7 LONDON, Thurs. SPIN bowlers completely dominated the feat throughout the day in the match between Yorkshire and Hampshire, 34 wickets falling for just over 300 runs. Hampshire in reply to Yorkshire's first innings total of 160 could reach only 97 in two hours. Yorkshire fared even
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      Smith Recovers From Chill
      76 7 LONDON. Than. DETER Smith, Essex nghiarm spin bowler, who nin the England team against India on Saturday, has made a rood recovery from a chill which confined him to bed. Smith, who had to drop out of the Second Test team owing to a strained back.
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      BADMINTON
      128 7 The Mayfalr B.P. "B" Team defeated the Maxffl B.P. "B" Team at the. borne court by 5 games to nil recently. Results were (Playfair players mentioned first ">: Men's singles: Chan Swee Lam beat Tay Swee Hock. 15—5. IS— l. Lim Lian Sene beat Tay Swee Kiat. 15— 2.
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      CHARITY TABLE TENNIS MATCH TOMORROW
      145 7 CHARITY TABLE TENNIS MATCH TOMORROW The China Famine Fund will benefit from a game of table tennis to be played between the August Association, pre-war interclub l^aiue »*m»»>»ari for six successive years, and a team known as "The Rest." The match, organised by the Singapore Table Tennis Association and to
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      NEW ALFSEA CRICKET LEAGUE FIXTURES
      311 7 rFrom S. Sgt. O. Blackburn) Below are the fixtures lor the new AlfSa cricket league starUng tomorrow. All games are being pteyed on the Tanglin Ground, and every alternate Sunday Is reserved for an Alfsea XI match. AUGUST. 17 2 p.m. Q. Mov v Cent
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