The Singapore Free Press, 19 August 1946

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA 16.^"» SINGAPORE. MONDAY AUGUST 19, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    1,000 DEAD, 4,000 IN HOSPITAL
    620 1 1,000 DEAD, 4,000 IN HOSPITAL I Tanks stand by m Calcutta CALCUTTA, Sun. THE police estimate casualties at 1,000 dead and 4,000 seriously, injured as the Hindu-Moslem rioting entered its fourth day m Calcutta. British troops and police fired frequently last night and early today to enforce the emergency curfew
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    COURT. OF HUMAN RIGHT PROPOSED
    213 1 PARIS, Sunday. fUS_E__LIA -ML. piupOMd an international "court of human ft rght "tot :< ree guarantees for human liberties m peace ;i former enemy states. The proposal advanced II V Effttt, Australian External Affairs Minister, will Iv be formally submitted to the Peace Conference on
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    New Chinese Exchange Rate
    51 1 SHANGHAI, Mon. *.••> l on; Pr sident of t I r.ecu >r YiM'i. today I ltd lb nrw B-J-B-HBgB •m fo thf < h ues* do!l_r» W BJSI ti. I J si. CMC »1 Bte "fc_f. This •*BH rliS the pr. vious o; f\( <•! .U)
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    BREAD RATION SAVES 33 p.c.
    53 1 BREAD RATION SAVES 33 p.c. DUNDEE. Sun. v Fjog. Mr John I 100.000 tons of saved In Britain during *hre? weeks ot bread M magnificent [fment o n the part of the Mi S.rachey said aething like 33 M -gainst the estim•in" of s^ven per cent. I d it was
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    FRANCE PAYS UP
    10 1 1.-ountry to tn.ution rw, Mr 5 ary-Oenetal,
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    'IKE' SERENADE
    45 1 Pol cc fired a dozen tear gas tombs to disperse a crowd of several thousand who had assembled to serenade Gen Dwight Eisenhower m typcal Mcx can sav s A. P. from Mcx co. The serenade was planned by the Mexican Democratic Party
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    YUGOSLAVS SHOOT DOWN DAK
    184 1 AN American Army transport plane was shot down on Aug. 9 by two Yugoslav fighters as it came out of a storm. Richard C. Patterson, U.S. Ambassador, announced m Belgrade yrsterday. says AP The pla.ie. a Dakota, was flying on the regular run from Vienna to
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    HE SPEAKS FOR S'PORE INDIANS
    31 1 P. Veerasineham, President of the Indian section of the S»n;apor e General Labour Un'on pictured addressing a tathrr'n- m S nsapore yesterday Report m page 5
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    Dutch fighting at Bali town
    130 1 JOGJAKARTA. Sunday. SERIOUS CLASHES'' on Bali between Indonesian and Dutch forces, particularly around the Dutch-occupied town of Tabanan. are reported by the Indonesian Ministry of Information. The Indonesian report said widespread Indonesian uprisings broke out m Dutch-held centres during July and that 'large Indonesian concentrations
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    PENCILLIN STOLEN
    31 1 Three people, alleged to have had m their possession 12 j capsules each containing 100,000 i units of penicillin, have been arrested by United States military police m Berlin
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    JEWS' SCUTTLING BID FAILS
    391 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. HUNDREDS of Jewish refugees who were herded aboard the Empire Heywood, with tear gas and fire hose, tried to scuttle the .ship and themselves at Haifa today by blasting a hole m the vessel. Minor explosions shook the ship just as she was sailing.
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    CALCUTTA RIOTS DELAY BOAC
    56 1 Free Press Reporter The Calcutta riots forced the BOAC flying boat wh'ch left U.. on Aug. 14 bound for Singapore, to make a detour, calling at Allahabad instead of Calcutta. The ar.ival of the plant at Singapore was delayed for 24 hours. The flying-boat is due
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    GORED TO DEATH
    32 1 Eduardo Leceaga, Mexican bull-fighter, died m Algeciras military hospital last night after being gored by a bull at San Rogue. near Gibraltar m the afternoon, says Reutec from Madrid.
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    WIVES MOVE HOUSE
    136 1 In Germany NEWLY decorated flats—the smallest of which has four rooms awaited the first of Brit sh wives who arrived m Berlin yesterday. The flats are comfortably finished and kitchens have full cook ne equipment. "Life for us m Berlin looks like be;ng much easier than m
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    'HALF THE WORLD IS HUNGRY'
    137 1 LONDON. Sun. IjALF the world's population sufuis from malnutrition and il times from hunger, said Director General Sir John Boyd Orr of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, m a report prepared for the FAO conference at Copenhagen on September 2. The report gave
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    KINGS TUTOR WEDS
    49 1 Capt. Julian Pitt-Rivers. Equerry and English tutor of the boy King of Iraq, has married Miss Pauline Tenant m London, daughter of actress Hermoine* Baddeley. Capt. Pitt-Rivers is the son cf Mary Hinton, actress, who is the daughter of the former Governor of Australia. Lord Forster.
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    3 NURSES TO DIE FOR MURDER
    44 1 Accused of being responsible tor the death of between 500 and 700 people a woman nurse and three male -nurses have been sentenced to death at Sc^ewrine. Meek enburg, for "crimes aga nst humanity," says Reuter from Hamburg.
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      UK CAR OUTPUT JUMPS
      201 2 UK CAR OUTPUT JUMPS THE output of motor vehicles In Britain m June reached 20.365 of which 9,637 were allocated to the export market. This compares with 508 last June of which exports were negligible md 6,319 m January .946, of which 2.514 were exported. In the first half of
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      STAINED GLASS MEMORIALS
      56 2 BRITAIN'S Royal Academy ot Music has erected three Mained glass w ndows to ark the build.ng. escape during the -.ir ra ds. It is planned, as a memorial to the late Sir Henry iVood. to reconstruct a part ot the bu lding tc house the orchestral library
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      PROPRIETY gone for evermore?
      954 2  - PROPRIETY gone for evermore? JOHN HOOD By "fUELL, I don't know/ moans my aunt, "they certainly would not have admitted such people when I was a girl." Nor, my dear aunt, when I was a boy. which was not quite so long ago. And why not? Because they would have
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      'PROP' PROBLEMS
      192 2 IMPROVEMENTS m aircraft engine performance during the ••^•t few years have presented *,3 pr3;?3ll?r disigner .with considerable problems The obvious method of aosorbIng the increased power would be to use a propeller of larger diameter, but this is ruled out because of limitation of ground clearance. An alt3rnative
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      The rising tide of Britain's industry
      219 2 The rising tide of Britain 's industry pURTHER confirmation of tne rising tide of British industry is provided by the Board ot Trade Journal which publishes the volume figures of Britain'exports and imports m the second auarter of 1946. Among exports of metal goods, machinery again takes pride of place,
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      £90 MILLION FOR MORE ELECTRICITY
      208 2 IN the course of the next few years, Britain is to see the greatest expansion m electrical power m her history. The programme, which will cost over £90 million, includes the extension of generating plant at 30 stations all over the country and the construction
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      your luck? STAR
      206 2 Fortune iorcc^t kt people born today IT is likely your Kfc 1 filled w.th activitj it citement, ior >ou w vigorously amb.tiuus wno wants to get the world. You arc *3 to be boss, even naS by nature, and mu_t against th__ D ad trsut Cultivate fraakM*
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      Post Office Vans On Parade
      70 2 DOST Office Vtni were the jubilee cafftfcftlrl motor veh cl< w?o George VI. m Re.-: London. Britain's t contingent cc ted oJ repr_sentati>. thc W ment's mote; They are m il* P«H with conph: and telephom hunaredwe.g; v green van seen «vei Britain on telegraph
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      76 2 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya 1 1 BELIEVE BOTH UNDERSTAND II I'M BUILDING A TUNNEL UNDER I I II WE MAY NEEQ IT -IF THE POLICE I "1 Tl THAT THEY ARE POWERLESS THE RIVER. FROMT^ SURPRISE US HWE, SOMEDAY rr=i (W0W"THEBI6 0NE'S| S 'r^^ 1
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      375 2 KADIO MALAX A 8.30 p.m News Headlines. 832 pm RED NETWORK from noon to Fool s Paradise 9.0- p.m. Radio 2 pm. and 6.30 to 11 pm. on 225 Orchestra. 9.30 p.m. News, 9.45 pm metres from noon to 2 pm. on 4 825 Tal c 100 P* m Henry
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      SUB ON SEA BED MINERAL SEARCH
      327 3 SUB ON SEA BED MINERAL SEARCH TUDOR, the British sub marine which during the iast 17 months of the sank 13 enemy transitu m the Pacific, lift Plymouth recently to tour the BWUiit-i-H and valleys of thr j ror a month sac will cruise ;r ♦:i?Bayo Biscay, the approaches the
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      LIKE OLD TIMES
      16 3 The Lambeth Conference will meet m 1948— the first time for li years.
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      THIS BABY IS CALLED WIDGET
      51 3 Marshal of th- R.A.t., Lord Tedder. Chief of Air Stiff, and Lady Tedder, with th.ir three month old son, pictured at home m Surrey. "His names are Richard Seton'* sail his father "but we have nicknamed him Widset." (In R_A.F. slang:. Widget is a baby
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      SHE WANTED CARRIAGE TO HERSELF
      157 3 TWO soldkrs, an RAF officer and a reporter had to stand m trie corridor of a train all the way from London to Plymouth— and all the time, they could see a woman sitting m tae compartment by hersel:. On the window of the compari'ment
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      MENDING THE ROOF
      29 3 Workmen are replacing every pane m the bombed roof at London's Victor a station using 300,000 square feet of glass. The work will take a year.
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      THEIR HONEYMOON
      198 3 A NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD girl who works m a sewing machine shop is to marry the year—"l am under fifty,' he says —who prepared her for confirmation. She wiU spend h-r honeymoon m the clerical college he left twenty-four y.a's ago The vicar is the Rev. R J. Col1 ns.
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      BLACKMARKET BREAD COSTS 2s 6d
      308 3 INVESTIGATIONS into black market activities by a secret 1 committee have revealed that white bread is being sold m East London at from 2s. to 2s. 6d. a loaf. The Committee, which consists of 10 men and women, none of whom are known to the
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      BUSINESS SALESMEN FLEECE DEMOBBED
      330 3 EX-SERVICEMEN are the chief victims of a growing racket m the sale of businesses m Britain, but only where they don't ask before they leap. The Ministry c. Labour Resettlement Advice Office has f team ot experts ready to check up on businesses ex-Seivicemen th nk
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      CLOCKWATCHERS
      25 3 German prisoners m Suffolk who want to go home now down tools ac 5 p.m. sharp, sometimes bringing urgent team work to a standstill.
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      800 FISHERMEN DIED
      30 3 Eight hundred fishermen from ports m the U.K. gave their lives during the war. Of fishing vessels requisitioned by the Navy 146 were lost through enemy action.
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      £1,650 DOCTORS
      19 3 Doctors m the forces are being offered salaries rising to £1.650 a year to become state servants.
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      CHIC FRAULEINS SURPRISE M.P.s
      178 3 THERE'S supposed to be a clothing shortage m Germany yet the women are most elegantly dressed. And there's a shortage of soap— yet the German peopb kee*3 themselves remarkably clean.' These are the first ob.ervations of a British Parliamentary Delegation studying "political development" m Germany Interviewed
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      £630 FOR A CUPBOARD
      17 3 A CTth cen ury oak hanging cupboard fetched £630 at a London sale.
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      BOY PRINCES AID BUTCHER
      53 3 IN the Aberdeenshire village of __allater near Balmoral Castle is an old butcher who has two part time assistants without parallel m Britain to help him make sausages. They are the Duke of Kent and Prinoe Michael. Sausage making for them is a regular event now
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      RED ADMIRAL
      32 3 Admiral Lord Fraser finds that Suvorov" Order, his Russian decoration, gives him free travel ln Russia, so he is straphanging "much the same as on London Underground." but not paying.
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      Brigadier's Son Gets 3 Months
      330 3 "I SUPPOSE I did these things for excitement,*' saia I Rodway Lemon, the 24-yeaf-old _on of a brigadier i" the Indian Army, who was, at Oxford, Sent to pri on fer three months on each of two charges of st^alin^ tron Somerville College, Oxford. The
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      Miss Lansbury Seeks Divorce
      43 3 MISS ANGELA LANSBURY m gra d-daughter of the late Mr. Geo: c I ansbury. onetme chi»f of t^e MUli. Labour I'a ty. las filed a suit for divorce .n Los An_ele_ a a inst her actor husband, Richard Cromwell.
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      130,000 JOBS IN WALES
      93 3 THE Government has decided to 1 extend its work for the Wales plan by building 40 more standard factories m the development area m advance of demand. They will thus provide another 10,000 jobs, and bring the total of new joos which have been or will
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      PRESS PRIVILEGE
      38 3 British magistrates hearn? cases against people who may be sent for trial are not compelled ♦o admit the Press, but th*v should do so save "m most exceptional cases," the Horn- 5 Secretary said m Parliament
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      Malaya to display goods in London
      173 5 Ma laya to display goods in London a Free Press Reporter MALAYA will have the opportunity of drawing the m attention of the British public to her products and manufactures, when a British Industries Fair opens m London m May next year. Singapore Chinese industrial concerns have been advised that
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      5,000 HOLD PROTEST MEETING
      121 5 AT a pretest meeting held \a Singapore yesterday by the Indian section of the Singapore General Labour Union, 5.000, labourers headed by their president, P. Veerasingham, strongly criticised the Malayan Government's immigration policy. The meeting passed a resolution condemning "the reactionary policy of the Malayan Government
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      YOUTH MEETING
      33 5 An Evangelical youth meeting, conducted by Mr. Daniel Smith of the China Inland Mission, will be held at Bethesda Kail _n Bras Basah Road tomorrow, at 7.30 p.m. All are invited.
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      POLICE SET UP NEW 'CRIME' RADIO STATIONS
      287 5 Free Press Reporter 0 new radio statiors go on the air m Singapore th week— to step up the efficiency of the wireless "r<v_tem 0 f the Police m the campaign against F These new stations have been found necessary me t he
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      CINESE TO CELEBRATE ON SEPT. 3
      144 5 CINESE TO CELEBRATE ON SEPT. 3 Rfc fnm_ U :x_rter }APOR£ Chinese are to ccEtr_:e vktorj again— -his tith a big tea party at the ipore Chuw ie Chamber of aerce on 8 pt. 3. Th s is the which hai oeen fixed by [•fcinese Gov^m.ni-nt as the Victory Dai.
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      BURMA CLAIMS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED
      89 5 BURMA CLAIMS COMMISSION ESTABLISHED THE Burma Office m London announced on Sunday that the Burma War Losses Claims Commission would be composed of H. A. Burden, an Englishman as chairman, and U Set. a Burmese Mr. Burden is a retired member of the C-ylon Civil Service, his a;*ooirtments having included
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      NO-SIAMESE ELATIONS PROVING
      89 5 NO-SIAMESE ELATIONS PROVING lIIONS between China and to were gradually imnf said Mr. Li Tl-cheng. Mnrst Ambassador to Siam fcterv.ew *.th the Chinese 1 to Shanghai. wh that cer-^tes would b_ esta*d :r. Siam to look after the e fs f :re 3.000.000 Chinese W roontrj expressed confer the Droblem
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      MALAYA SOLD 5,000,000 NORTH OF TIN
      63 5 MALAYA SOLD 5,000,000 NORTH OF TIN •n -J? P:l Re Porter W^oS* J* JUne MMalaa > a pliable figures ■i tons iv il ne P r «>duct.on •a included 21fi •209 tons from te washer?* tona frorr r I tons from ol mining. c n a steady m!- -r of
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      FAREWELL PARTY
      54 5 An enjoyable function was held recently at the Methodist Girls' School whe n the Guides of the Ist and 2nd Companies, Malacca, gave a farewell party to Miss Cox Johnston. Miss J Codlin, Miss B. Brown and Miss M. Ibraham, all of the Australian Red Cross, on their
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      MR. MACDONALD RETURNS
      40 5 Mr. Malcolm MacDonaid, the Governor-General, who proceeded on a tour of the Dyak districts m Sarawak recently, arrived back m Singapore last night. Accompanying Mr. MacDcnald were the act ng Governors of S3rawak and British North __orneo.
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      SEAMEN'S WIVES ARE STRANDED
      35 5 DRITISH wives of Chinese seau men who are stranded m Britain and living on public relief met m Liverpool tonight and formed an association to bring their plight before the public.
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      CHINESE TENOR ARRIVES
      186 5 Free Press Reporter TKE Wu brothers are together 1 aga.n. By that, we mean Dr Wu Paak-Shing, musically-mind-ed Chinese Consul-General for Malaya, and Mr. Wu Pak-Chiu. his tenor brother who has arrived th his wife m Sinsapore on his way through to Rome. Mr. Wu Pak-Chiu, a
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      RATEPAYERS TO CONTEST ARMY ACTION
      229 5 RATEPAYERS TO CONTEST ARMY ACTION THE Singapore Ratepayers 1 Association has deeded to contest the action of the military authorities .n making certain deductigns from the rents payable on derequisitioned premises. It proposes to sponsor a test case before the Board appointed by Government to hear disputes on such questions,
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      INDIAN JUTE FOR MALAYA
      48 5 INDIAN JUTE FOR MALAYA IN allocation of jute manufac- tures has been made to Malaya from Ind a. and supplies can now be obtained through normal f-ommercial channels. Import licences pf-opld be submli ted to the Registrar of Singapore. Imports and Exports, supported by firm offers from India.
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      Dutch enforce barter rules
      225 5 Free Press Reporter STRICTER Dutch measures to control exports from areas st Java and Sumatra under Indonesian control have been announced. These measures affect the barter trade whiclj is being carried on by Chinese merchants m Singapore with Java and Sumatra follow a public protest made
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      Kluang Trial Tomorrow
      36 5 Kluang Trial Tomorrow Free Press Reporter KLUANG, Sunday. THE court martial of the 262 paratroopers of the 13th Parachute Battalion, which was scheduled to continue at Kluang on Monday, w 11 naw resume on Tuesday morning.
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      CANTEENS SELL FRUIT
      148 5 FRUIT is now available _t the People s Canteens m S ngapore. Oranges are available at 15 cents each together with the 35 cents meal it present ava lable to the public. According to Mr. T. P F. McNeice of the Social Welfare Department, Singapore, Government will
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      LONDON SEES CHINESE-STYLE WEDDING
      175 5 LONDON SEES CHINESE-STYLE WEDDING £AST met West today when a Chinese wedding with full ritual of the Orient was performed :n the West End of London— at Shangnai restaurant Greek Street, Soho. Miss Francis Chang, managing director of her fathers restauran* wa_. married to Lieutenant Yu Chang-chu of the Chinese
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      LONDON'S GREAT POWER STATION
      38 6 One of London's outstanin* landmarks the two majestic toy ers of Batters«a Electricity Power Station. German bombs fell n car it but thc y never put it out of action throughout the London blitz.
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      U.K. COAL KING'S 'LUXURY' QUERIED
      266 6 CHELSEA Borough Council decided by a large majority recently to priest to the Ministry of Works about the fitting of extra washbasins m the bedrooms of the Chelsea Square hc*ne of Lord Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board, although the council had refused to
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      SWEETHEARTS WED AFTER FIFTY YEARS
      103 6 U/HEN 20-yea_-old Ernest Collins went to South Africa to make his fortune, his fiancee, Miss Rosa Beale. of Roys on. Hertford, shire, decided to stay at home. She was persuaded by her parents, whose only daughter she was. That was 50 years ag. Now Miss
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      PICKING UP PLUTO
      33 6 A Southampton firm has started salvage work on the Pluto pipeline under the ocean which carried millions of gallons of petrol across the channel to the allied armies m Normandy.
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      QUIZ Answers
      83 6 1. <a> Tommy Handley and Ronald Frarvkau, (b) Elsie and Doris Waters, (c) George and Kenneth Western, (d) Lesile Holmes and Leslie Sarony. (c) C. B. Hilliam and Malcolm McEachern. 2. (a) Capital £100,000. 3/sths from six large rad o manufacturers; revenue from set royalties and half 10s.
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      JAIL GLAMOUR
      22 6 Women m Britain's jails are to be allowed to use lipstick and powder. They may spend prison pay on cosmetics.
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      DEVIL'S ISLAND CLOSED
      179 6 TWO hundred ex-convicts from Devil's Island are returning to France m the French liner Athos 11. When t#-y step ashore it will be the first time some of them have seen ther country for 30 years Twice during that time France has been at war with Germany.
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      HAMMOND WILL SOS M.C.C. FOR BOWLER
      462 6  - HAMMOND WILL SOS M.C.C. FOR BOWLER ARCHIE QUICK By r-EE ex-servicemen, colonel, a squadron leader and a flight sergeant, knocked the middle out of Middlesex when Kent cricketers visited Lord's. They were Jack Davies, Leslie Ames and Leslie Todd, all of whom got centuries. More important, however, was the disturbing
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      Liberals open a political school
      93 6 A NEW approach to Liberalism will be put forward by ft prominent speakers before the Summer School which Liberals have opened m Britain. Over 350 Liberal supporters and sympathisers, many of them young people, have applied for members' tickets covering the six-day coursejofjectures, discussions and
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      RADIO RED CROSS
      30 6 A JTi radlo -«ontrolled St. John Ambulances wll b e operated by the Guernsey Division of the BriESLS S°° n as the necessary broadcasting licence is secured
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      SIMPLE SHOPPING
      34 6 Ration books and their orders are put m a box on Friday morning by girls working m a cottonspinning, mill at Pendlebury (Lanes), and the groceries are delivered later m the day
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      Jets fly for Stalin
      88 8 TJE'V So. iet aire. aft including jet and rocket propelled t>P.* were demonstrated m pubK. for the first time m tloj.o* vestrday— Ked Air ro.ee da? before Btaßa and rolt ral ami rn'litarv 1 ade^s and 3.0.G00 spectators. The Russans caused necks to a c with
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      CITY'S PETROL CUT OFF
      150 8 VIENNA, Sun. AUSTRIA, expect the' Sovietn held eastern provinces, was on he vergi of a complete motor tran>;po*-. breakdown yesterday as the Hu 3i?.ns withhel oil from the -?reat Zisterdorf fields from the western Allied armies and the Austria .s as v/ell. A.ut-.ar and American military
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      DARDANELLES: TURKEY TALKS ON TUESDAY
      53 8 DARDANELLES: TURKEY T ALKS ON TUESDAY Th e draft of Turkey's reply to Coviet note on revision of the Montreux Convention and govr ernin-f of the Dardanelles will be subm tted to the meeting of the People's Party parliamentary t >m mission m Turkey on Tuesaay. says Reutfr from London
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      HOME..
      64 8 rtl i?w of London taken Is onn an aircraft above Towe; Brid ,c. On the right is part of the Tow r of London. In th. distance m front or St. Paul's is the half shattered rcof of ranrou Street stat on. The ot'-er bridges are London Bridge, Cannon
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      THE MUFTI PLOTTED AGAINST THE ALLIES
      521 8 THE MUFTI PLOTTED AGAINST THE ALLIES FRANKFURT, Sunday. THE Mufti of Jerusalem, now sheltered by the Egyptian Government, participated for at least three years m Axis plans to sabotage the Allied war effort m the Near East, according to captured German records. The dreaded Abjeher, Germany's counter-intelligence service, had Mohammed
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      P & O SKIPPER PROMOTED
      67 8 P O SKIPPER PROMOTED When the 20,000-ton liner Strathaird docked at* Southampton yesterday on her last voyage as a troopship she was flying the flag of the Commodore of the P and O 1 ne. Her master. Captain D. M. Stuart Dae had been informed during the voyage of his
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      NAZI PoWs WALK OUT OF FRANCE"
      321 8 PARIS, Sunday. THE scandal caused m France by the disclosure of large scale escapes of German prisoners-of-war took a new turn with the publication m Part, of the experience of French newspapermen who '•escaped" to Germany with the greatest facility by the German prisoners
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      'BOMB ALLEY' BRICKS MAKE NEW HOMES
      87 8 TLEARING up the damage left v beMnd by the Luftwaffe tn Kent's "Bomb Alley" produced a million and a half second-hand bricks which, after cleanings .are being used to build new homes. Large quantitiss of slates, tiles. fcaths and household fittings have been salvaged
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      MECCA BY BOAC
      26 8 Twenty -seven South African Indians passed through Dar-es-Salaam on Saturday aboard a chartered BOAC flying boat on a pilgrmage ip Mecca via Khartoum.
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      POLICEMAN JAILED
      31 8 A German policeman has been sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment m Berlin for failing to take prompt action to prevent an exploson at Alexanderplatz barracks, says Reuter from Berlin.
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      ARMY RECRUITING 'HAS FAILED'
      155 8 LONDON. Sun. DRITISH Army plans for ree ruts has failed, according to the military correspondent of the Sunday Times today. He says Britan's foreign policy and hitherto satisfactory demobilisation programme are eer ously handicapped by the poor response to the Army recruiting I campaign which so
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, AUGUST 19.
      614 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, AUGUST 19. P. India, now on the very verge of freedom and independence, the Indians demonstrate the r ability to rule themselves by staffing a prelude to cMI war m Calcutta, where 1,000 have d cd. mostly stabbed m the back, and perhaps 2,000 have*
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      Good Morning...
      1447 4  -  Frank Owen By ANE year ago last week it happened. World War II blew to pieces with the biggest bang m history. In the Far East the long, savage struggle of soldiers m the jungle shadows and on the atolls of the Pacific ceased to be a battle,
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      476 4 MR. H. W LAIDLAW. wellknown north country auctioneer, ha^iscovered a collectors display of old silver, hidden m a pigsty. During one of Mr. La.'dlaws sales a quiet, ordinary-looking man wearing a shabby overcoat and a cloth cap started bidding silver. Afterwards he told the auctioneer that, if
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      The R.E's do a good job
      316 4 Our Good Neighbour. THE Royal Engineer, h-tve been the backbone of Singapore's rehabilitation. Among the good works they have performed for us the most outstanding was Changi Jail which has been completely rehabilitated for civil use. They also repaired 65 Government and 26 Municipal
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        102 4 WAR Crimes Investigators have found many photographs of groups of Japanese stuck up on the doors and walls of various houses particularly the coolie lines or many plantations m Malaya. These photographs are proving of great value m the! identification of Japanese war criminals. If any reader
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      QUIZ
      64 4 1. What are the Real nJJJ* ,a) Murgatroyd and vunwbottom, (b) Gert and ->* The Western Brothers, -c Tvo Leslies, <e> Fl Je-sam. :>. ia> What were h and revenue sources oi tne ginal BJ3.C? (b) When 8.8.C. directly ttnarufd licences, and why? 3. When dd the I er
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      FAITH
      20 4 -These things —t» Lord hate fal f Wm that speaketh H* that soaeth discord ons b^eth^e_».' IU Proverbs VI.
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      CEYLONESE BEAT S.C.C. BY 160 RUNS
      316 7 *_V{W HESM cricketers provec I \rc m the match on t L S_sl the Club's 66. Tl 5 and at lunch time were i a long way too strong for the he padang yesterday, scoring he Ceylon Sports Club batted 160 for three. Their
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      COLONIALS' BOW LERS TOO GOOD
      157 7 M-d Ratnayake. r._V_* to trounce the:, -earn yesterday. re of 25 runs with 'entiy turned m an ts for one run m voted four wickets r._ second place to, m pa--* ake vhos€ was m 99 r,in3 I VV \L BASE M reer b Colling
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      BRIGHT CRICKET AT THOMSON RD.
      204 7 i u.-.nesse. Road ground. the Air Ministry nl of Works Sports Cub. an secon. outing m Sinea- beat a strong Chief f «-ide from H M.S. v.. s nine (P.O's MESS Jenr.fr r R_bot b Woodword 12; IfcfHlri M F.ber b Woodward 0: b Rabot
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      ULSTER GRAND PRIX
      85 7 The Ulster Grand Prix motorcycle road race was won by Willoughby on a 350 c.c. Velocctte. He averaged ever 85 m.p.h. and did his last lap at over 86 m.p.h. WfUoughby aas the all out winner beating the 550 c.c. clafs. More than half of the big
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      ANOTHER SWIMMING RECORD BROKEN
      79 7 LONDON, Sat. ANOTHER British record was broken by a French swimmer when the four-day Br.'t.sh Amateur Sw mm me Association championships ended today. The young Toulouse star. Alex Jany, won the men's 100 yards free style titl? m the record time of 52 sees, which is
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      ATHLETES BEAT TPCA
      102 7 Prom Our Own Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. SINGAPORE Chinese Athletic Association defeated the T.P.C.A. by two goals to one m a soccer match at Kuala Lumpur this evening. The visitors displayed better team work. Through a goal scored by Boon Kwong early ln the first half, they
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      OVAL WICKET LIKE 'WET FEATHER BED'
      480 7 LONDON,, Sun. THE majority cf cricket writers m today's British Sunday parsers agree the odds are heavily against India wiping out England's lead m the Test series and drawing level In the two remaining days of the Final Test at the Oval, but at
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      CHINESE HELD
      34 7 Keng Hock's full-blooded drive for the Army goal is block d by a defencer m Saturdays soccer match at Jalan Besar stadium m which the S.CF.A. rfr-w with a Combined Army side.
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      HONOURS EVEN IN CHARITY SOCCER
      330 7 B.A.F. (Tengah) 1. THE Singapore Indian Associa I (Tengah) shared honours a charity football match at th< day, m aid of the Ramakrish Just before the kick-off, Air Vice-Marshal J. D. Breakley, C.8., D.F.C., and Mr. S. K. Chettur, representative ot the Government of India,
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      UMPIRES TO ASK FOR MORE PAY
      158 7 LONDON. Sat. THIRST clsas cricket umpires are find- ing it difficult to moke ends meet on their present allowances and are contemplating to approach the Marleybone Cricket Club. Pre-war rates of 10 guineas per weekend fixtures and £1 less for mid-week fixture were increased
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      FRENCH HORSE WINS BELGIAN CLASSIC
      61 7 BRUSSELS, Sat. rS French Darby winner Prince Chevelier starting odds on was beaten into second place m Grand Prix Dostsnde, chief race ln the Belgian cal_n<?ar, run over a mile and a half here by another French horse, Bouton Rose starting 18-1. The winner is
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      SWEDISH OLYMPIAD
      49 7 FTOCKHOLM, Sim. THE Swedish Gymnastic Association at a meeting her« today decided to organise an Olympiad Stockholm 1949 to which gymnastic organisations of all nations of the world will be invited. The Swedish Awc-htion has made tentative enquiries and ascertained their general interest for the Olympiad.- Reuter
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      SCOTTISH SOCCER RESULTS
      244 7 SCOTTISH SOCCER RESULTS LONDON, Sat. JHE visiting team* again did well m Scottish football today. In Division B, only one home team won, Raith Rovers, who emp^asied their recent good displays m convincing style. In Division A, followng their mid-week d-feat hy "Hbemian. Rangers scraped home aga'nst Kilmarnock. Best of
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      20,000 SEE YORKS FIGHT FOR RUNS
      199 7 20,000 SEE YORKS FIGHT FOR RUNS LONDON. .Sat. THE weather which restricted the Test match to m hour ana a half's play was more kind I t. County games. Yorkshire's early batting failed dismally on a good pitch at Sheffield m the vital match with Middlesex where the crowd approached
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      WOMAN BREAKS SWIM RECORD
      69 7 THE HAGUE, Sat. rE Netherlands woman swimmer Nei Van Vliet, broke the world' 200 metres breast stroke record during a gala at De Eilt cover ng the distance m 2 mm. 52.6 sec. The previous record was 2 mm 55 ssec. held by the G«r-| rsnA.
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