The Singapore Free Press, 24 August 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA 16,630. SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    NOTING BREAKS OUT IN ALLAHABAD
    379 1 NOTING BREAKS OUT IN ALLAHABAD Calcutta counts 2,020 dead AS 2,020 bodies of the victims of the Hindu-Moslem riots m Calcutta were counted by the Government of Bengal yesterday one estimate puts the casualties at 5,000 killed and 15,000 wounded,— reports were received of disturbances m Allahabad m which three
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    15 1 Al.a.'abad iv the tinted Pror.nce> of A.r a and Oudh has v dence Hindu population.
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  • Article
    SINGAPORE GETS BIGGER CARS
    274 1 IFree Press Reporter ■PORTS oi cars into Singapore are steadily increa ing, and an average of over 200 cars a month has bee.: received since June. First Canadian cars are reaching Singapore, and they are mostly 20 to 30 h.p. models. Since the re-occupation of Singapore,
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    Bread Is Again Short In S'pore
    146 1 Free Press Reporter. HESPITE the fact that the Food Control department has been able to keep upto. date supplies for bakers, a bread shortage is being ex. perienced and this is being investigated, the Free Press understands. The black market price of bread today
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    Wooderson Wins 5,000 Metres
    52 1 )V1 v OSLO. Rri IUNLI VVooderson gained the first gold medai m the «ropean Championships for PJI Frita-n hv winning the 000 metres m 14 mm 8.6 sec. ,c second fastest time ever I'Wded for thi* distance -eater 9f° d l>*v For Br t sh Athletes
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    DOGS, PLANES AID SEARCH FOR JEWS
    71 1 rmv JERUSALEM. Fri. il IX aiegal Jewish kfS?* esca P<* t ni»ht K nee cam P near Haif^ rt*d t y Crawlins under the rune^ n r rjundin S the camp B 'so fa? V ne has bee ;^Po with the aid of :---esea^
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    EX-SOLDIERS -SQUAT' IN ARMY CAMP
    27 1 Several camps near Londonderry formerly occupied by U.S. and British troops, were ta&sn ovsr b> ex-service "squatters" yesterday, says A.P. from Belfast.
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  • Article
    YOUR SMOKES
    18 1 Singaoore's rationed cigarettes for next week will be al. "Double Are" Malayan Tobacco Distribu. tors state.
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  • Article
    FILM TAX IS POSTPONED
    71 1 Singapore's Increased entertainment tax affecting chiefly cinemas, will come into effect on Sept. 15 instead of Sept. The Free Press understands that the postponement has been made as a result of representations to the Financial Secretary made by cinema owners and film exhibitors who want more
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    After Rice-Bread
    43 1 After RiceBread Sin&*pore citizen's looking *t Thursday's Frc? Press po ter drawing attention to th* leading art'cle on Lord Killearn 's fa lure to get rice for the propl c of Malaya. See today's leader m Page 4 -'L ord Killearn's Chicken Feed."
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  • Article
    DOCK ADRIFT THREATENS SHIPPING
    153 1 DOCK ADRIFT THREATENS SHIPPING NEW YORK, Fri. ANE of the most intensive v searches m the Atlantic since the end of the war is being made for sections of a partially submerged, derelict floating dry docs, capable of sinking a ship the size of the Queen Mary. U.S. coastguard authorities
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    CHU MIN-YI IS EXECUTED
    41 1 SHANGHAI, Fri. DR. Chu Min-yi, Foreign Minister of Wang Ching-wei puppet government, was executed at Soochow by a gun bullet through his mouth. His daughter, vainly attempted to see General'ssimo Chiang Kai-shek to plead for clemency.- A.P.
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  • Article
    ITALIANS'UNDERTOOK' THE WAR
    160 1 ITALIANS 'UNDERTOOK' THE WAR PARIS, Fri. FOR two hours tonight 20 dele, gates to the Paris conferenc? debated whether Italy "under, took," "unleashed" or "declared war. Finally the Italian Political and Territorial Committee decided by 11 votes v to nine that Itriv "undertook" war. Holland had first moved thr amendment
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    66 1 A rocket is b i.ig pla td o^nea n the seat of Mr. Bernard L''n«-h, after wh'ch Mr. Lynch will h shot to the top of the pylon at Denham (Rur'ts) m a fifth af a second. But this is only training -the rr?l job Ss to hsvo himself shot
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  • Article
    'Fighters shot us down'
    656 1 —SAY AIRME\ LONDON, Friday. WHILE diplomatic circles are puzzled as to whether or not Marshal Tito has rejected the 48-hours U.S. ultimatum over shooting down of American aircraft over Yugoslav territory, as reported by Belgrade Radio, the nine sun Ivors of the plane shot down have
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    CRUISE LINER S'PORE BOUND
    70 1 SAN FRANCISCO Fll BRIGHTLY painted m grey, bio* and white colours, the houbcolours of American Pieside^'c Lines, the "President Polk" sailr: today for the east m the tit"' around the world .luxury cruise from this poit m nearly .t*e years The trim. 16,715-ton vessel which served
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    CHURCHILL TAKES A SWISS HOLIDAY
    23 1 Winston Churchill, his wife aad youngest daughter, Mary, left by air for Switzerland yesterday says Reuter from London.
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • Article
      Silk would hold up womens' morale
      480 2 Silk would hold up womens mora le THE morale of every i woman with rationing blues m the British Isles would be boosted 50 per cpnt. could she possess one ftoVn of luscious, warm Macclesfield silk. But although Mr. Dalton bas reduced the purchase tax on real silk from 100
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      Heathrow's Irish Colony
      198 2 ANLY* a few miles down the U Bath road, London has its cwn "Little Emerald Isle." It ia not that on those low-lying fields, flat to the horizon, there is anything that can compare with the misty blue hills of Connemara or with the charm of the
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      AFTER 55 YEARS: FAILS
      162 2 AFTER fifty-five years of work m the African mission field, a man of 82/ blue-eyed, wihitebearded, landed at Plymouth recently and said: "I am a failure." Those flfty-^e years of work m Africa cost John Whitehead his family life, h-s sight, and his wife's companionship m
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      900 Study Air Problems
      96 2 900 Study Air Problems MINE HUNDRED scientists and *v engineers are, at present, employed at Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment, the country's chief centre for research and development m aeronautics, out of a total staff of about 4.300. Teams are engaged on theoretical and experimental work both m the laboratory and
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      Today's Pin-Up Girl Andrea King
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      yourlucky-STAR
      114 2 yourluckySTAR Fortune forecast for people born today Born on the first day of Virgo, the incoming sign, jcur ruler is Mercury,- god of knowledge, and your Wgh critical powers can be used constructively for the betterment of mankind. You are just and levelheaded as a rule and should follow „'our
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    • Article
      They swin in an old reservoir
      279 2 They swin in an old reservoir IF on any hot day you were to walk through Hyae Park— one oi the lovely parks of London, you would see many people bathing m the beautifUil iake called the Serpentine. For a complete Lido was constructed on one bank several years ago,
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    • Article
      WED ALIENS BUT STAYS BRITISH
      85 2 BRITISH women who marry foreigners will not lose their British nationality, unless they wish to, under changes m the law planned by the Government. Foreign women who take British husbands will not automatically get British nationality. They will have the right to apply, but the
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      YOUNG SQUIRRELS
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      UNKNOWN
      50 2 War is on between tbeNtiflj Farmers' Union and ft M squirrel. I Following discussions wife Ministry of Agriculture c|j best methods o: combauj pest on a national scale, i: J been decided to organise by clubs. j Already thtrc ure 2tt "Jl squirrel shooting clubs"-^H supplied with Clef ammuiaeß
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      P.O. HAS 25.000 BICYCLES
      50 2 BRITAIN'S Post Office has today over 25,000 bicycles m its service. It is a hundred years since the pedal bicycle was Invented, but lt was not till 1896, after the introduction of the low frame and pneumatic tyre, that the Post Office purchased its own machines.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      200 2 vuimmiw^mtmmi^ut^^l RADIO MALAYA RED NETWORK from noon to 2 pjn. and 6.30 to 11 pm on 225 metres from noon to 2 p.m. on 4.825 mcs/sec. tn 61 metre band and from 7.45 to 9.39 p.m. on 4.78 mcs/sec m 61 metre band. CHINES 3 noon to 1.15 pjn. (news
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    • Miscellaneous
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      99 2 to 10.30 pjn. (news ln TamU 9.16 pjn.) 6.30 to 7 pjn. Indian Force Programmes. BLUE NETWORK from noon to 2 pjn. and 6 pja. to 11 pjn. on 366 metres; From noon to 2 p.ln. on 7.2 n-es/sec m 41 metre band, 6 pm. to 7.45 p. a. ano
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    • Miscellaneous
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      192 2 Club; 9.30 p.m. News m English; 9.45 p.m. Radio Gaaette; 10.00 p.m. Songs fruti the shows; 10.30 p.m. Rhythm on records; 11.30 p.m. News headlines and close down. D. D* C 4.30 pjn. to 10.45 p.m. GSV 16.84 and 13.93 metres; 10.45 pjn. to 11.00 pjn. GSV 16.84 metres; 11.00
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      CANADIANS MAKE A GIFT TO CHINA
      285 3 CANADIANS MAKE A GIFT TO CHINA Saturday Home Page for our 'Chinese readers THE distribution has begun to Chinese medical institutions of a shipment of medical and relief supplies received m Shanghai from the Canadian Red Cross. Totalling 158 tons, the "mercy cargo included a supply of radium and large
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      16 3 Part of the famous Peak of Hong Kong, with British Commandos on parade m the foreground.
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      U K SENDING TRADE MISSION TO CHINA
      184 3 SIR LESLIE BOYCE. industrialist and former Member of Parliament, is to lead a British trade mission to China. Sir Leslie Boyce will also be responsible for the transport question. The other members of ths mission will be. Mr. F. A. Bristow Foodstuffs >,
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      JAPS BURNT CHOLERA VICTIMS
      129 3 JAPS BURNT CHOLERA VICTIMS rM anti-cnclc.ra measures r.ave Deen started m Mana to th ck a threatened country-wide epidemic. One of the problems, th* C.sHRA is facing is the recn of the people, whoj Earned to fear d.astc Japarese methods of stamping out t.-uciem ca Tie Japanese author ties bum(c
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      100 U.S. FIRMS OPEN IN SHANGHAI
      153 3 QVH o. c huiur.a American firms have ctablsned t:-n -hes or representations m! htf aunrg the past severe months, accord rg to an by Arthur B. Foye, rresident of tire China- Amexica Council rf Conlmerce and InC:st*y. JJys sa-d that a questionra re ed
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      COMMUNISTS SET UP UNIVERSITY
      125 3 CHINESE Commun sts are founding a university to which students preferring capital sm will be welcome provided they release their ov^n capital and pay the r own expenses. Students and professors who advocate Communism will oractise it by living under "a communal sysVm, but the cap
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      NEW UNRRA CHIEF IN CHINA
      35 3 MAJOR General Glen E. Eigerton, newly-appointed UN RRA director for China, has lef* the west coast of the Un Yd States and "should arrive m Shanghai any day now."— U.P.
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      Soldier shot for smoking opium
      40 3 VUO Kung Tung, a 2_)-y ar- oid rr vate of the llth regiment of the Chinese Sup?l es S'ervJce Cirps fac c d a firm? squad on Wedne day for onium-smoking, says U.P from Shan«ha
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      HK LINKED WITH MANILA BY AIR
      69 3 HONG Kong is now linked with N'anila by air. The newly-formed Commercial Airlines, incorporated, has begun a service between the two ports. Carrying about 14 passengers and limited cargo, the fl ght takes just over four hours. The company ls under the presidency of
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      Campaign to clear Hainan of bandits
      63 3 Campaign to clear Hainan of bandits I large-scale campaign to eradicate banr'iitry m Hainan island. wh> h is delaying rehabilitation work, b rerardrd as imminent. It ia realized, howe.e-. tbat the ta k of cleaning ap Hainan w'll not be easy, as the maiori*v o' l*wl ars '!«»»»ie»»ts »»hW?h include
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      MOVE TO CHEOK PRICE FLUCTUATIONS
      84 3 THE Chinese ML* ster of Inform- ation, Peng Hsueh-pei, told the Chinese Press >n Nanking that f he Government has or ered local admin strations to take drastic effective measures against violent fluctuat, ons m commodity prices. He disclosed that the central executive committee of
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      CHINESE HUNT FOR BRITISH DOCTOR
      451 3 A HONG KONG Chinese resdent is seeking to upa\ a cood deed by an unknown Sii tish Army medical officer *n Waichow m December 1942, by making a donation to the British Red Cross. The resident, who desires to remain anonymous, has forwarded his contribution
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      HONG KONG JAPS APOLOGISE
      223 3 IMPRISONMENT for 10 years was ordered Warrant Officer Yabuki Rikie, who was found guilty by the War Crimes Court of torturing Hong Kong civilians during the occupation. Former residents of the Colony, Ohtsuka Sekitara and Takemoto Otojiro were employed at the Jap gendarmerie as temporary interpreters,
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      RE-EDUCATING THE JAPEDUCATED
      127 3 THREE thousand dest.tute college students from all parts of Manchuria are today being fed. clothed and taught at a temporary home and collese established by CNRRA m Mukden. The university was established by the local government as part of a programme of educational reorientation away from Japanese
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      SPINDLE PLANT RESUMES
      82 3 THE United Iron and Foundry Works, m Shanghai, the only concern m China today manufacturing textile spindles and machinery has resumed operations. The plant is equipped. with the 1 most modern machinery. It has ten 20-foot planers, 24 shaping machines, 20 grinding machines. 12 moulding machines, 241
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      U.S. TO HELP REBUILD CHINA
      314 3 U.S. TO HELP REBUILD CHINA AIDED by some 20 Amer car. technical and engineerina experts, the Chinese Government is at present conducting a thorough survey of the nation i mineral industry preparatory tc embarking on a va«t |*J<ii«lH»l sation programme mapped out b: the National Keso» ree- <_. i sior»
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      RELIEF RUSHED TO KWEILIN
      133 3 UOBILIZING a record nurr.oer of 420 trucks m one month, CNRRA emptied its godowr.s throughout Kwangsi province, m South China, and shipped \irtually all its stocks of relief flour and rice, nutritional food anc used clothing to the famine area north of Kweil n. telegrams from
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      PRICES GO UP
      48 3 REPORTS from Peip ng say prices there have risen 5,700 times above prices of the year 1937 with cloth ng prces now 6.900 times as hig'i as la 1937. Pood prices are report ec to be approximated 4.400 t'me^ as hifh as 1937 prices.- A.P.
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • The Singapore Free Press
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        Killearn Chicken-feed
        991 4 The office of the Special Commissioner announces that "thanks to a prompt response by the French authorities In French Indo-China to tiie pronosals made by Lord Killearn. 5,000 tons of rice have been secured for immediate shipment to Malaya. -Of this total. 2.500 ton* will be shipped from
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      POWDER MONKEY COMES ABOARD
      614 4  -  Edward Bishop Jjy THE Jaunty's lips puckered. They parted slightly revealing to the jaundiced request man the faintest perception of a smile Able Seaman Shortcake at attention before the' Commanders table, sghed inwardly. For he knew, through he was only HO., that JaunUcs never sm le
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      515 4 MR. RUN RUN SHAW. Malaya's m "film magnate," Is due to return from his trip to America, Australia, Britain and France, before the middle of September. His travels were made for a twofold Durpose. business and pleasure. He I^-out to get films for Malaya m jhe shortest
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      White ship stirs London
      230 4 AT eight o'clock one morning recently the gayest, brightest, most "post-war" of all the ships m London river slipped away from her berth alongside London Bridge. When she sailed Londoners lost one of their most intense interests of the past few days. All day fascinated crowds
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    • Letters to the Editor
      • Letter
        'Can We Have A UNO Club?'
        521 4 I SHOULD iike to express my entire agreement with your leading article of the 16th August, and to say that if a U.N.O. Club is launched,* it will receive my wholehearted support. As a service man recently out from the U.K. it distresses me
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      Aid Civil Planes
      106 4 OUR GOOD NEIGHBOURS EVERY day m WMWO of four evil a: r land at S.ngajxwv. Civ craft use the other airfield? craft use all the other airfields m Malaya. These a reran rely entirely on the R.A.F. for all wettfer information. The 19 spe^ aids to navigation
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      FAITH
      17 4 I Charity Miffereth J*J and Is kind: charity eg*not th nketh mfc j 1 Corinth :ans.l-J^
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      23 4 REGULAR SHIPMENTS ARRIVING FROM AUSTRALIA U. KINGDOM ot PROVISIONS FRESH VEGETABLES FRUITS CORDIALS JAMS ETC P. H. YEE CO., 9, SEAH STREET. SINGAPORE.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      64 4 QUIZ 1. You know whats a Jf] smith. What's a whitesmith 2. Black's our moumint, &*> Where is white the moun» dress? Pearl WhiU\ whose i# being enacted i i mov.es DyjJJ Hutton. won her 'sme IV 4. What "Black E* ath 25,000,000 persons m Europe one plague? J 5
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  • UNKNOWN
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      ADIO PHONE LINKS U.K. WITH SINGAPORE
      233 5 ADIO PHONE LINKS U.K. WITH SINGAPORE r Singapore today is a scientist, Mr. G. S. Garfitt, who wears the RAF "official duties" brevet on his shoulder and has come to Malaya to study problems connected with the development of safer flying. Mr. Garfitt has made it possible for a small
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      13 5 i iti op ratir" liis L vhch Inks Sinsath I K. radio phone.
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      Policeman fires in Indian mob
      227 5 I Indian labourers were hit by a single bullet fired a Malay policeman on duty m a godown m the >re Harbour Board yesterday morning, following his g by between 30 and 50 Indian workers. c policeman had detained an Indian on suspicion of g
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      World-Wide Reports
      81 5 Mr. Garfitt explains that his set is not remarkable m design, although it incorporates several new features, but he explains that he has made "an intelligent use of existing aerial systems." No relay system is used, and the radio contact is a direct link. Reports have reached Mr.
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      Untitled
      58 5 P. otj show- L. A. C. S. K. Fowl?r. of Plums! cad, London, em-oloye-1 on H*'son work at Paya Lebar as draughtsman. holding up a norn ber of QX (-'amateur reception cards") received from stations all over the world, from men who are amazed at the strength of the Singapore
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      FLY COURT KOTA BAHRU
      138 5 F:?ss Correspond nt. A Ll MPI X, I riday. c ftrst time m Malayan icial pr.>ceedings, three and appellate counsel lown b> an R.A.F. plane to Kota Bharu he first sitting of the i Union Court of was held. mt, left Kuala Lumpur a: 7a m.
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      DEATH RAILWAY GUARD TO HANG
      99 5 Fthe shortest trial m the history of War Crimes cases m Malaya and the first to be held hi the Victoria Memorial Hall, a young Korean guard, Fumimoto Tetsuichi. was sentenced to death by hanging yesterday for his maltreatment of PoWs working on the "Death
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      PUPS ARRIVE BY AIR
      54 5 Six six-week old pups— four Alsatians and two Cocker Spaniels—arrived m Singapore yesterday by Qantas flying boat from Sydney for a Singapore importer. The pups whl£h arrived m a wooden crate were flt and well. They were watered soon after their arrival and were also given
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      MASKED MEN ROB JEWELLER
      70 5 AFTER forcing a Chinese jeweln kr m Jalan Besar to hand o-.er $1,500 m cash and a c uantity of jewellery valued at $4,000 yesterday morning, four masked Chinese handed the victim $30 In cash from their own pocket hree gold bangles and a ring. Armed
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      ROBBER GETS JAIL & 'CAT'
      103 5 ROBBER GETS JAIL 'CAT' A young, well-built Chinese who partcipated m two armed robberies within a few days of eacC* other, ls to und.rgo 14 years' r gorous imprisonment and suffer 12 strokes of the "cat." The man, Lav Choon Hoe, was found guilty by a common jury m the
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      SINGAPORE HOUSE DAMAGED BY STORM
      58 5 SINGAPORE HOUSE DAMAGED BY STORM In yesterday morning's storm, this house off Orchard Road m Singapore was damaged by an uprooted tree. In another part of the town an elderly Chinese was killed when the storm caused a tree to crash on to his hut. There was also a dislocation
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      MP REFUSED PASSAGE TO MALAYA
      173 5 THE War Office m London cannot furnish air passage to Malaya for Mr. John Lewis, Jr., MP for Bolton, Lancashire, who wanted to make an on-the-spot investigation into the court martial at Kluang of 262 members of the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion, Mr. Lewis told
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      7 killed in Jap gun site: warning
      203 5 AN accident recently occurred m which seven civilians were killed as a result of tampering with ammunition m a former Japanese gun site which had not been reported to the military authorities m Singapore. It is always dangerous to tamper with any explosive,
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      Stranded Hajis Return To S'pore
      176 5 Stranded Hajis Return To S 'pore Free Press Reporter rREE hundred and fifty Muslims from Malaya and the Rhio Archipelago, stranded for more than six years m Jeddah as a result of the war, are back m Singapore. These pilgrims, almost one third of the total number that left Singapore
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      SIAM GETS 20 LOCOMOTIVES
      91 5 THE first Mac Arthur locomotive to be made available from Malaya for the rehabilitation of the Siuir Railways was formally hanied over to the Siamese on Aug. 20. This is one of the 20 unassembled locomotives which have been declared surplus to Malaya and are being
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      CONTROL STILL APPLIES TO BOOK ORDERS
      119 5 CONTROL STILL APPLIES TO BOOK ORDERS 'THERE is no change m the foreign exchange situation relating to either bulk or single subscriptions to American or other foreign newspapers, magazines, and books, stated an official of the Foreign Exchange office yesterday. Permits must still be obtains d from that office, he
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      SPECIAL PCs ARREST REGULARS
      247 5 SPECIAL PCs ARREST REGULARS Rice Case A_jTr: IV*. o constables of the Singapore Police were yestercay charged with having been m wrongful possess on of 4,20^ katis of rice and to have moved the rice without a pe.mit. They had been arrested by a special ..instable. Instructed to patrol tne
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      39 5 VICTORIA THEATRE THE STACK CLUB PRESENTS FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS FINAL PERFORMANCE TONIGHT. AT 8.30 P. M* TICKETS SI.OO, SI.OO SO eta. OBTAINABLE AT THEATRE BOX OFFICE OPEN 10a.m. -Ip.m. 2p.m. 4.30 p. ra. DAILY
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  • NEWS
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      Liberty Men 'Queue' For Short Leave
      39 6 _tager to get ashore alter their voyage home from the Far East, ll M.S. Anson s crew crowd the &angwaj to reach wives, sweethearts and families waiting on the quayside. Kemsley Newspaper* picture.
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      BLIND MEN LEAVE WAR TIME HOME
      239 6 ANY side from which you enter the quiet town of Church Stetton, Salop, you will see signposts; "Blind Service men. Please drive with care." The notices were put up m the war. Soon the blind men of St. Duns tan's are returning to Ovingdean,
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      PARATROOP NGO DISLIKED RSM'S TACTICS
      203 6 Free Press Reop* ter KLUANG, Fri. pRIVATE Davis of H.Q. Com--1 pany, giv ng evidence at the trial of the 262 men of the 13 Parachute Battalion today, told the Court why he reverted from a corporal to a private He said tha* he did
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      RAIN SPOILED GREAT GAME AT THE OVAL
      494 6 RAIN SPOILED GREAT GAME AT THE OVAL Archie Quick s Sports Parade LONDON, Thurs. T THE onus for bringing the ill-fated final Test to a con 1 elusion was passed by the captains, Walter Hammond and the Nawab of Pataudi, to the senior umpire, Frank Chester. It had rained all
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      S'PORE YMCA FUND TOTALS $11,294
      104 6 'THE V.M.C.A. fund now totals $11,294.45. New donations are acknowledged from. H.P. Bryson, $100; G.G. Thompson, R. E. Holtum, Watt and Akkermans. the National Employees' Mutual General Insurance Assn. Ltd., $50 tach. N.S. Wise. $25; Tay Tuan Siang, E.S.M. Khatena, M.E. Isaac. M.E. More'ra, the
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      382,898 ARE JOBLESS IN BRITAIN
      140 6 ALTHOUGH the working population is declining; the Ministry of Laoour Gazette shows that there are 382,898 people unemployed. These include 27,598 transport workers, 24,426 building and civil engineering workers, and 14.578 from the coal industry. Some of the reasons why these people are out of
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      FOOD PARCEL PLAN BANNED
      97 6 THE Ministry of Food and the Board of Trade have stopped the "Parcels from Abroad" scheme planned by Councillor William Penfold, of Lewes and Mr. Herbert Green, of Plumoton. The idea was to import food parcels. Main centre of dispatch was to be Cairo A buying
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      MEMORIAL TO CAESAR
      28 6 The 2.000 th anniversary on Aug. 25 of Julius Caesar's landing at Deal will be commemorated with the unveiling of a tablet ir the town.
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      Mountbatten Rd. Undergoes Repair
      75 6 Mountbatten Rd. Undergoes Repair ROAO gangs from the Public Works Department are busily engaged m repairing Mountbatten Road < former Grove Road) m order to have it m good condition when the road is reopened to the public of Singapore. It is understood that an agreement has been reached between
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      39 6 QUIZ Answers 1. A worker m" wh.te metals silver, tin, etc. 2. China, 3. In queen, 4. Typhus. 5; Britain's— government ofiices are m Whitemovies, as the original serial hall, London, 6. S am- it's m ,the r^se flag.
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      GOOD DAY FOR BRITISH ATHLETES
      266 7 GOOD DAY FOR BRITISH ATHLETES OSLO, Friday. I >er> s<od day for Great Britain's athletes m the reiin \th!etits Championships which were continued [w stadium here today. In addition to Sydney Woodwinning the 5.000 metres and John Archer the 100 BriTain also filled two second and third positions.. tmmm] winners
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      AT THE STADIUM
      32 7 Chin Yin Kee, S.C.FA right-inside, shoots straight for the goalkeeper on Wednesday's soccer match at Jalan Besar stadium In wh'ch the Chinese bent the It. N. A. S. three-one.
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      UNKNONW
      73 7 |ONI>ON. Fri. \S Sellers, Yorkshire capin since IM3 and W. E. s the famous fast bo.\ler. f rlv Test player are to Australia with the md tourists— but not as rs. tj have been enraged to t tr»e Test matches for ihire newspapers, Sellers i member of the committee
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      AST SCORING IN PADANG CRICKET
      250 7 ■fen frame of cricket played 1 the S C C. padang. B. A. O. repeated a previous victory over Bgah Cncket Club, beating their ca by seven wickets m a X Sr.ish. |ah. batting first, scored 120 nc >;♦ 3 A O C C. with
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      VON NIDA'S GREAT WEN
      167 7 BRIGHTON, FrL JJORMAN VON NIDA, 31-year-old diminutive Australian RfiX 1 U3 P kJ won th News Chronicle £1,500 tournament with an aggregate of 283 for 72 holes at Hollingbury Park here. His rounds were 69, 71, 70 and 73, phenomenal scoring over a hilly and tricky
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      LANCASHIRE AND MIDDLESEX WIN
      168 7 LONDON, Friday. WITH Lancashire and Middlesex winning to-day and Yorkshire yesterday, the positions among the leaders m the County .championship remain identical with the addition of 12 points to each County. Other counties winning to-day were Glamorgan and Hampshire. Results were: At Cardiff, Glamorganshire SOS and
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      FILIPINO BOXER BEATS NEGRO
      82 7 NEW YORK, Fri. BERNARD Docusen, colorful Filipino welterweight from New Orleans, made a good debut m Brooklyn's Ebbet's Field by scoring an easy 10-round decision over Henry Jordan of Brooklyn. Nlnteen -year-old Docusen landed h's best punch of the light ln the first round when he
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      Free Press Correspondent.
      46 7 Malacca. Wed. To revive the activities of the Malacca Badm'nton Association and to elect oClce-bearers far the year, a general meeting wfll be held at the premises or the Meng Seng Charitable Association on Aug. 24. It Is hoped all members will attend.
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      ST. LEGER CALLOVER
      158 7 LONDON. Fri. £T tonight's Victoria Club callover on the St. Leger, Airborne, after his failure to win outright at Newmarket, went out to 7—2, being backed to win. £2,000. Fast and Fair who deadheated with Airborne was offered. at 9—l but there were no takers. Gulf Stream
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      ARSENAL BACK AT HIGHBURY
      349 7 ARSENAL have gone back to their own ground at Highbury after seven years. Many familiar faces are to be' seen; the players go out on their training runs, as usual; the ground has hardly changed. But to the Arsenal staff a new era, one of the
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      COMBINEDRAFTO MEETS.C.F.A
      623 7 Tomorrow's Soccer nURING the past two weeks the Singapore Chinese Football V Association have had to fight hard to keep intact their unbeaten record for games at Jalan Besar Stadium, and tomorrow they will face another hard task when they take on the Combined R.A.F. m a game
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      U.S. GOLF FINAL '
      81 7 U.S. GOLF FINAL LINCOLN. NEBRASKA, Thurs. rLAFFOON of Joplin, Missouri, won the annual Midwest open golf tournament by rounding an 18-hole course two strokes ahead of Skip Alexander of Lexngton, North Carolina. Tlie two professionals were tied at 207 at the end of the scheduled 54 holes of the competition
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      PETRA WINS IN U.S.
      205 7 PETRA WINS IN U.S. BROOKUNE, Massachusetts, Friday. ANLT France and Argentina cony tinued ag threats m the U.S. men's national double tennis tournament at Longwood. Two Philippine teams as well as those of England. Australia, Belgium came to grief m the third round. Defending champions Talbert and Mulloy were almost
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      Seremban Hockey
      38 7 FVee Press Correspondent. Seremban, Wed. The P.W.D. Hockey Team drew with c Scratch XI consisting of schoolbos players drawn from various schools, to an exciting game of hockey played at Seremban yesterday. No goals were scored.
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      HOME...BRITAIN, U.S. EASE GERMAN HARDSHIPS
      244 8 HOME... BRITAIN, U.S. EASE GERMAN HARDSHIPS BERLIN, Friday. THE United States Military Government announced today that the United States and British authorities m Germany have ratified an agreement to relax restrictions on civilian travel between their respective cones. The agreement provides for free travel by Germans and non-German civilians except
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      16 8 Procession passes th.ou.h High -street, Exeter, to the 'Salute the Cathedral* drumhead service. Kemsley Newspapers picture.
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      The Oklahoma Is For Sale
      92 8 rX veteran U.S. battleship Oklahoma, sunk by the Japs m Pearl Harbour, w 11 be offerei for sale for s rap soon, says U.P. from Pearl Harbour. The old 29.000 ton battle wagon, launched m Mar h, 1914. lay on tbe muddy bottom of P
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      KIND WORDS BY Dr. EV ATT
      128 8 PARIS. Friday. WARM tribute to the excellent relations between the Australian labour government and the British labour government was paid by Dr. Herbert Evatt, Australian foreign mm ster today Despite differences necessarily arising from time to time there was agreement about fundamentals and there
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      ARIES BEATS LONDON FLYING RECORD
      59 8 The Lancaster, Aries, has set up a new record of 42 hours and 26 minutes for the flight from London to Darwin. Cixtyfive m nutes after arriving „t Darwin the Aries left for New Zealand m an attempt to brea*. the England-New Zealand record of
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      LIMITED SEATS TO PENANG
      73 8 THE RAF state that air passages W from Singapore to North Malaya, via Penang, for civilians are likely to be very limited. The gradual reduction m strength of the RAF m South-East Asia and a number of other factors have made it necessary tr> curtail this
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      U.S. COLONEL CITED IN CHINA GOLD THEFT
      236 8 SHANGHAI, Friday. rE theft of £30,000 worth of Formosan gold by a former American lieutenant-colonel who is now a civilian m the United States, was brought to light when Formosan officials started proceedings to recover all the funds involved m a series of
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      GESTAPO: 'FULL OF JUST MEN'
      175 8 NUREMBERG, Fri. A PLEA that a verdict against the Gestapo would be unjust to thousands of guiltless men was made to the war crimes tribunal today by Dr. Ruaolp Merkel, defence counsel for the Nazi secret police organization. Dr. Merkel said, "God woula not have
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      'REBEL' POLICE TAKE TO HILLS
      101 8 MILAN, Fri. THIRTY "rebel" police of the 1 town of Asti were still beng hunted today by a force of armed police, troops with field and machine-guns and armoured cars who have cordoned off Monferrate Hills, about 60 m'les south-west of Milan, where the "rebels,"
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      RICE SMUGGLED
      75 8 WHEN revenu- dicers on Aug 23 boarded a sampan, lying at anchor at a kelong near Jurong, they found on board 18 bagj? t Siamese white rice. Yesterday m the Second District Court, Tan Cheng You. who claimed to be the owner of the rice, was fined $1,000
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      HIT-AND-RUN MILITARY TRUCK MISSING
      209 8 1 TEN-TON military truck which n was carrying Bailex Bridge panels, that got loose and fell on the road killing five men and a woman on July 12 at Kampong Bahru Road, Singapore has not been traced by the police yet. This was revealed at a
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      4,000 G.I. FAMILIES BOOKED FOR JAPAN
      37 8 US. War Department- records that 4 W 196 dependents cX American servicemen have left the United States for Japan and other occup'ed areas ln the Pacific, says A.P. from Washington. m
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      INDIAN FACES ARMS CHARGE
      88 8 IN Indian, Fakir, was arraigned m the First Mag' strate Court before Mr. Paul Storr yesterday on a charge of being m wrongful possession of a .45 revover. In connection with this case, Tej a Singh, a Punjabi, was also charged before Mr. Storr for be
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      COMMUNISTS FEAR GAS WAR
      94 8 NANKING, Fri. WEAPONS such as mustard sa? which were not used m the second world war may yet be used ln China's civil war, according to the Communist spokesman Li^ Cheng-chi. who stated it *as likely thf Communist leader, Gen. Chou En-lai. would protest to the
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