The Singapore Free Press, 4 September 1946
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Title Section21 1946-09-04 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v. I SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 111 CENTS.21 words
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Article, Illustration271 1946-09-04 1 i IKI!> iktvc is a tank coining ashore from a landing k Madras If the Japanese had not surrendered H?hi m Malaya, you would have seen this tank hummd> m>re like it landing on the beaches of SingaM < and Malawi. jum a year271 words
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GOC FLIES TO BANGKOK
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Article15 1946-09-04 1 rigl t. act. nmanding: 1 :r.and. :en Bt V.lil com- biam. M.15 words
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Article19 1946-09-04 1 I- avu's d Pft by he Comma. to|^lie« The < made o-. W? to i?av^ thrn* toobUia Indo-19 words
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20 1946-09-04 1 100,000 US SEAMEN TO STRIKE TOMORROW |*nd mem- :ia: Sea on 1 and the o Ul < 3ej* 5. m York20 words
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Article36 1946-09-04 1 The aircraft-carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and other units of the US. naval task force, which have been manoeuvring m the Mcdi- j ter;an an. lnt Naples yesterday) for Greece says A. P. from Naples36 words
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Article398 1946-09-04 1 BOMBAY, Tues. pOMMUNAI disorders spread into new areas of Bombay tonight, and the death toll of the three days* rioting has increased to IC9, and the number of injured is now 393. With the arrival of reinforcements thi< afternoon, the total number of British and398 words
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Article, Illustration34 1946-09-04 1 French malelots take a look s»t t^e Br"tish-built aircraft rarr > r olossus wn ich has been lent to the French Navy for fl\e years. P-'cture shows her lyin; m Cherbourg roacU34 words
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Article110 1946-09-04 1 LONDON Tues CECURJTY precautions to proJ tect Kir.R George of the Hel-iene-j trom uninvited visitors alter his return to London today have transformed the fashionable (\aridges Hotel into a building more closely resembling :he Supreme Allied Headquarters two years ago It is understood that th>» precautionsReuter - 110 words
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Article67 1946-09-04 1 Free Press Reporter ONF of the b?g§est shipments o; flour_4 5 0 tons— arrived m Singapore last night by the Sheaf Crown from Melbourne. Sime^ Darby Co., have mult nuk'- i the unloading: and xpect to unload at the rate of about ."oo tons of67 words
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Article33 1946-09-04 1 Two ships laden with UNRRA supplies for Yugoslavia had their sailing orders cancelled yesterday a few minutes before they wer c I to sail, say: A P forr. New York33 words
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Article232 1946-09-04 1 PARIS. Tues. DEGINNING on Thursday. 12 countries claiming reparations from Italy will state their cases to the Italian economic committee of the Paris conference. As t'he result of a ballot the countries will be heard m th? following order: Greece, Alban a Poland. Yugoslavia. Belgium,Reuter; U.P. - 232 words
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199 1946-09-04 1 THE Singapore Traction Company strike enters its ninth day today with the position still described as "deadI locked' by Trade Union Adviser. Mr. S. P. Garrett, who held discussions with the busmen yesterday. Further discussions take place to-day. Both Traction Company busmen's union officials199 words
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Article41 1946-09-04 1 KLIEST HANDED OVER TO YUGOSLAVIA Field Marshal von Kleist. former commander of a German army groun on the east m front, will be delivered to Yugoslav a for trial, it was reportec on Tues. day night, says A.P trom Lon. don.41 words
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Article93 1946-09-04 1 U.S. rejects Yugoslav Note WASHINGTON Tuev THE I mt d States Government today rejected Yugoslav protests against alleged viola, tion of Yugoslavian sky by Unit?d States planes Acting United Slates Secre. ary of stair. William I. Clayton, m a formal note delivered to the Yugoslav (haree IVAflfaire. reviewd mi n93 words
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Article19 1946-09-04 1 The strength borrowed from tfivast powei of atomic energy !ail?1 to keep alive thr?e-year-old Janice Mosrhella19 words
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Advertisement8 1946-09-04 1 J PHOTOGRAPHS irtHW XE w rex photo Studio8 words
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Advertisement36 1946-09-04 1 NEW CHINA Mm OPTICAL CO ROBINSONS art' continually rcrcivi iJ, shipments of NEW GOODS from ENGLAND A visit to our Premises m Raffle; Square is well worthwhile. All goods are plainly marked. REASONABLE PRICES COURTEOUS SERVICE36 words
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Article230 1946-09-04 3 THE Board of Trade ir. London reported last week the biggest upward movement of wholesale prices m two consecutive months for six years. Over the whole rang."* of pro. ducts covered practically everything except food— they were 18 per cent higher m July than m June230 words
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Article70 1946-09-04 3 PIVE civilians were k'i'ed and the crews of two U P Army bombers are believed to nay nerished when three aircraft flying m ti<?ht formation at an air show collided over iht Stat^* Fair grandstand at Montana. US A On rt plane fell into t»^70 words
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Article52 1946-09-04 3 Soven thousand J onroncrs l?rt eatly this week for Kent and. Suss x hop gardens. A I n orni ig platforms 8 and 9 at I ondo.i Bridge w?re ciammed vi h luggage, furniture, prawns, dogs, to s. children, mothers, fathers, uncl s aunts and grandparents, says Reut.r52 words
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Article22 1946-09-04 3 CUFFOLK and Cambr dges'iire! are to fight before (he* Boundary Commission for nossession of Newmatket and its wealthy racing community.22 words
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Article, Illustration28 1946-09-04 3 Jean Bostock <Jean Ni<*oll) and Kay Mm/it's (Kay Stammers) who left London recently for the I mted States to compete m the I.S. I awn Tennis (ham. pionship.28 words
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Article272 1946-09-04 3 GOVT IS URGED TO JAIL RACKETEERS a housewife ana an ordinary man were among the hundreds of "good citizens" who spoke m one voice m London m favour of a resolution urging the Government to take drastic action to end the black market. They gathered m the Central Hall and272 words
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Article, Illustration45 1946-09-04 3 With a huge gash m her port side the Tnited States steamer, American Farmer, is sa led into Falmouth by a boarding party from her sister shii. American Pan-rer who took over from the British steamer. Elizabeth A dispute now rares over this 1.000.000 pri?e.45 words
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Article, Illustration98 1946-09-04 3 GUTTERIDGE TWIN DIES IN BUS linn Tales CHARLES JI d*». one of ns boxing so anke that higii Install t^em. died d on a No 31 bus as '.lly.rirrus W •o hospital Jaok-son.s Gur-Tid^e. the Cljb serond |fc< 1914-13 v r wounded on or: th-^ Somm?. ;r. ihe 57th nships98 words
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Article75 1946-09-04 3 GUEPNSEY 'Channel Inlands-, j w i s toe v.l i s9Darmt*<i the d^ 23 yea-< Get. d^ided, wouli a.rrf rt< n dr Purton Ba-'~ar* b Gall* >treotk) i S manefe Goern p d 'on K'--^v VI fo'ir m i Ireland. Gu-riw v when -^.larshins differeri schools 175 words
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Article28 1946-09-04 3 HE WANTS TO BE AN EARLY BIRD h bus* ssman has for nart-tm^ th« hours' m •v to get from fish- j ard one mt wantiM r'.bbons, earoi28 words
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Article16 1946-09-04 3 Pri Stranger ays I ie ster. on Monday P ill-treatmenr Jmn Elliott. wd\ be16 words
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Article162 1946-09-04 3 THE pretUoen of a iiM'e girl of two. terrioly Dvr r »ed oe saved because he: si>te. a«ed ei?ht. has givet: ieven nieces of skin for her and her brother, aged ten. is OiMy wailing his tuvn to give more The children are [sob^l162 words
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Article54 1946-09-04 3 CANADIAN.BORN Sir Charles S Wright, director of scientific research at the Admire 'ty since 1934. has been appoirted first chief ot the Nav&l oci r>ti;j- &ervi n^'v oorr r i n ic a*'"'v Research work m all branches of raval affairs is to be r'evrioped on54 words
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Article151 1946-09-04 3 NEW TYPE OF PENICILLIN ARRIVES HOSES of p°nici!ii n twelve times larger titan thos? usually given are prodding remarkable results m the cure of boils, carbuncles, inflammation and various infections of th? Mood stream At Kings College Hospital. London. S.E hundreds of out. rati°nts have heen treated with these bigeer151 words
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Article25 1946-09-04 3 Cambridgeshire claims that Newmarket makes an awkward "foreign island" m its county West Suffolk County Council claims that the pres?nt arrangement is efficient25 words
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Article224 1946-09-04 3 ALLEGED agricultural inacc^'a. t&et m some of Canada's new stamns have cause- 1 amu^. ment m the Canadian House of Commons. The Post Office Department e?tim:' tr> s were under oiscussion when Mr Gordon Gravc'on <P v o. aressive Conservative > as ted who was responsible224 words
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Article54 1946-09-04 3 SCOTLAND YARD were trying to trace stocks of children's suflm^r frocks and other clothing valued at £5.000 stolen from the premises of Ladybird. Ltd manufacturers of UxbrHge. Middlesex. The clothing. much of it parcelled and waiting delivery, bears the firms trad^ m?rk. A r^wa^d of £500 is54 words
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Article74 1946-09-04 3 MORE attention must be pa <d to the education of traie union members if they are to take their rightful place m the development of society, said Mr. Stanley Rees. organiser of the National Council of Latour Colleges, m North-East England, at the Scottish Summer School.74 words
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Article28 1946-09-04 3 Cl'm^in* 400 fc^t*up a cliff at -oniHo to tak° a snap. "Seter n re^frrd. of Vinrent-avenue Chorlton-T-T^rdv. Manchester t-"k and had 4 be rescued 'y oolice28 words
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Article232 1946-09-04 3 FATE and time have played their queerest trick on the Iron Duke, for thirty-four years the pride of the Navy. The oldest British capital ship still afloat was towed a few days ago from Scapa Flow to the Clyde— and with he.* went her232 words
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Article51 1946-09-04 3 V.C. Passes Gift To His School THE Isle of Man's only VC, Major Robert H. Cain, has g-'iven 1,500 to hi, old school m the Isle of Man. King William's Cclle-e (famou* for its (-xtremcly difficult general knowledge' papers) to found a scholarship. He won his V.C. at Arnhem. m51 words
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Article117 1946-09-04 3 SI X THOUSAND American troops are to be stationed permanently m wartiire camps m Wiltshire, ana as the\ become fully trained are to be drafted to Germany as part of the Anglo. American Army of Occupation They will do their training on Salisbury Plain near117 words
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Article54 1946-09-04 3 A GERMAN prisoner of wa: who escaped mcc than three months aao from Ton kawa Camp. Oklahoma US was captured near Forbach. on the Franco-German frontier. He said ho ]\\d travelled to Lisbon as a stowaway aboard a Portuguese ship, and crossed Rrmtn and54 words
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Article21 1946-09-04 3 Beer lorry, running away m Derby-road, Croydon, was "recaptured" after a sprint by the driver. No beer was spilled21 words
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Article349 1946-09-04 3 DOCTORS and wC*ntt tfl investigated condition* *<f lile affecting the very old and the very youn? This is wh'3' they report Members of the Clue lor Re. s arch on Ageing, with d-le?a e> lrom Euro*van branches and others interested m the work of combating349 words
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Article65 1946-09-04 3 A CROW wh eh fed on a lied^J hog. kill?d by fjot-and mouth disease m Norfolk. i> thought to hay* carried tfee i'ltection to a farm three m las avvay. Hedgehogs diad from Mm r-uease are still being found M Bruehton. md at Candecot^ Farm, Oxborou^h seen?65 words
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Article49 1946-09-04 3 JET-PROPELLED LANCASTERS JET engines nave be^ir, nued f> Britain's famous tourengined Lancasters. it wa^ revealed by the designri Mr Roy Chadwick The jets have been successfully tested m flight, the normal engines being shut oft !oi shoit periods Mr Chadw.ek says that Lancaster* will soor. fly solely on jets49 words
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Article57 1946-09-04 3 SOUTH AFRICA ii» to cieat men and women from the British Army and ATS who contracted tuberculosis m the w\: altei passing Al at medical tions On the Rand— 4.000 I' up— special sanatoria wil receive them The constant sunshine and cool air accordin2 to57 words
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350 1946-09-04 5 COAL HOLDS UP MALAYA'S FLOUR SHIP Free Press Reporter TWO food ships are held up m Australian ports be- cause of the difficulty of obtaining coal, according to the News Letter issued by the Singapore office of ihe Special Commissioner, South East-Asia. One of the ships is bound for South350 words
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Article37 1946-09-04 5 lll*** 1 L En W r-di.-tuii (I WZur-t thai u..«>.nm^itors M*< -ilrady I *rs«ns *h*> I MaboKth ti>e rnt>niv luring Ka^ation m »han«ha« Kr- pat* <»' CM** d** X,. ?fJd et th- people, X to pr*»minen: quar-37 words
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Article51 1946-09-04 5 •NINE jryhar.s. a ;*ose ft lied wh:ie working ftir. >.f: Ha.. way* Hr? r. w housed m the Krphanage. near Batu Kith Malaya. Mr S. Tv. I erst alive or :he ft :r.i;.t .'a.aya, ft: 10 -he orBm Indian. 13 Chinese ft- the ft r. has accommoftr another 5051 words
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Article, Illustration82 1946-09-04 5 Lantern-toys appear in S'pore shops This month, *he Chinese crlcbrate the Moon Cake Festival. In Singapore, the first sign of the approach of the festival is the appearance m shops of lantern- toys, such as you see m this picture taken by a Free Press camfranmn. On the 15th day82 words
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Article85 1946-09-04 5 rE Malaya Command m order to relieve the s^iortase of accommodation m Kuala Lumpur and enable the restoration of normal scholastic course at the capital's man school have started to move out of Victoria Institution to a new site which is being prepared on »th~ north85 words
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Article292 1946-09-04 5 tht Japanese surrendered on Aug. 15 last year, some R.A.F. pt- rv<»nnel. with stores and equipment, were their wa> i«, Okinawa. The first convoy of Tiger uprising veteran pilots, air and ground crews from itpean batik-front, ar.d the skies over the Western wr* diverted from292 words
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Article109 1946-09-04 5 SIAMESE TERRORIST ARRESTED ALOR STAR, Wed. THE leader of a gang of 16 Siam. ese robbers who have been operating: for ths past 10 years m Kedah's rural areas such as Gumn, SU and Kota Star, and have accounted for more than 20 gang robberies has been arrested by the109 words
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Article120 1946-09-04 5 CIX hundred and five cases, each 3 cace containing 30 dozen e<*vs, have be«n dis f riout?d to eta 11 holders In Municipal Markets. These stall holders t' 1 m turn distribute the eggs to other stall holders m their particular markets and the eggs will120 words
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Article40 1946-09-04 5 EAST -WEST SOCIETY The next meeting of the i^ast and West Society will take place on Thursday at the V.M.C.A., Bras Basah Road, at 8 p.m. Major T A. Ratcliffe will speak on The Relation of Psychiatry to .veryday life."40 words
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Article24 1946-09-04 5 Inche Yaacob bin La tiff has arriyjed m Seremban from Kuala Lumpur and taken over the duties of State Public Relations Officer, Negri Sembilan.24 words
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Article, Illustration33 1946-09-04 5 Mr lien Yin^-chow, r r sident of the S n^Mill Chinese Chamber of Commerce, is seen addressing the gathering at a t ea party held at the Chamber yesterday to celebrate Victory Day.33 words
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233 1946-09-04 5 THE 43,000-ton French liner, lie de France, was fired on by a concealed coastal batten m Sumatra on Aug. 9 while bound to Saigon from Europe. lie de France is now m Colombo on the homeward voyage carrying 2,000 French women and children and233 words
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Article28 1946-09-04 5 THE Department of Trade and Industry, has been taken over by the Secretariat for Economic Affairs, whose office us on the Third Floor, Fullerton Building, Singapore.28 words
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173 1946-09-04 5 DUTCH AIRLINERS TO CALL AT SINGAPORE LONDON Tues. rE terms of the agreement reached m London between the British and the Netherlands Governments for air services oetween Great Britain and Holland and m r?spect of longdistance routes traversing territories of both countries were published yesterday m London as a WhiteReuter - 173 words
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Article46 1946-09-04 5 Stocks broke more than 1,000.--000,000 today m one of th? sharpest declines since before the outbreak of the second world war. Trading quickened on the break and the tickor repeatedly ran be_ Mnd the market, says UP. from New York.46 words
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Article59 1946-09-04 5 No progress has been made m the Anglo-Russian trade talks now proceeding m London since they opened m JJuly, authoritative sources here stated today, i On not one of the many separate Items involved has agreement been reached and there is no likelihood of any settlement being59 words
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Article127 1946-09-04 5 UNION TO RAISE $10 MILLION A BLLL about to be introduces into the Malayan Unioa Advisory Council will give the Financial Secretary the power to borrow $10,000,000 against the issue to individuals of Victory Savings Certificates. Certificates will be issued with a unit value of $15 ani wi> be redeemable127 words
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176 1946-09-04 5 'It's a great shame,' says Chinese Consul "IT canuot be d-i i d ll.a. sum Chinese m Malayan society are btcoinin; exnervs m hlacnmarketing and can even convert members of other rommun ties and m vme cases, Europeans," said the Chinese Consul M lisa Men- hsiung at a dinner m176 words
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Article128 1946-09-04 5 BATAVIA, Tues. THE door has been opened lor the return of American movies to the Netherlands Indies The Netherlands East Indies Department of Economic Affairs announced that a contract was signed on Aug. 24 with Leon Britton, representative of a combination of eight major film companies,A.P. - 128 words
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Article49 1946-09-04 5 Land m Bukit Brown Chinese Cemetery, Singapore, will be marked out for new grave plots, and that the choice of such plots be allocated with priority to applicants m substitution for those reservations m that Cemetery which were utilised for pauper burials during the Japanese 1 occupation49 words
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Article236 1946-09-04 7 War Her Defeat By RJV..-4.& Avenged Sultun R.N.A.S 0. A(i N( a tourone defeat at Sembawang three weeks n>IS Sultaa beat RNAS by seven goals to nil m a a "W m*u !>k ved at Blakang Mati. :>.es, who was playing his first game for I the236 words
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Article30 1946-09-04 7 I 81 lp r? st the X Ca Dtt C i. SupV B Thoma-. Mr**- X '-or. 5 R-»ad C Sin we H >' irdiy. ft A W I30 words
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Article112 1946-09-04 7 LAUSANNT Tues. AT the international Olympic committee meeting held here today it- was announced the next Olympic games will take place at Wembley from the end of July to August over a period of 18 days. No events will take place on Sunday. It was112 words
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Article135 1946-09-04 7 Sikhs Play Inter-State Matches Fre? Press Correspondent SEREMBAN, Mon. THE Selangor Sikh Union visited Seremban on Saturday and Sunday and played the Negri Sikh Union at cricket, soccer and hockey. The soccer match was played Saturday on tha N.S. Ciub oadans and Negri Sikhs won by four goals to one.135 words
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84 1946-09-04 7 TONIGHT'S CARDIFF FIGHT FOR WORLD TITLE LONDON. Tues. THE British Boxing Board of V Control has been notified by the National Boxing Association of America that NBA wouH recognise the title fight on Sept. 4 between The Williams and Ronnie James of Wales as a world's championshio lightweight boat TheA.P. - 84 words
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Article334 1946-09-04 7 THE Ist Devons beat the Non. descripts by three wickets on Sunday m a game of cricket which had a thrilling finish. Scores were: Nondescripts. Ist Inns: Claude Da Silva b Pates 0, J. Bird c Lang b Pates 5. De Rozario b334 words
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Article, Illustration34 1946-09-04 7 S4okes heads the ball off Millington's corner Kick, hut this efi'art did not bring; a goal m Sunday's soccer at Jalan Besar Stadium m which the Chinese beat the Northamptons two. one.34 words
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Article225 1946-09-04 7 LONDON, Tues. RAIN seriously interfered with many of the last County championship matches and may have been the cause of Middlesex finishing runner-up to the champions Yorkshire instead of Lancashire who had to be satisfied with third place. Lancashire were well placed when rain brought their225 words
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Article64 1946-09-04 7 U.S. DAVIS CUP TEAM NEW YORK, Tues.— Franklt Parker, Jack Kramer, Gardner Mulloy and Billy Talbert were today named to the United States Davis cup tennis team, to meet Sweden m the inter-zone finals at Forest Hills Now York, on Sept. 13, 14 and 15. Walter .Pate, was named theU.P. - 64 words
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Article408 1946-09-04 7 HATTRICK IN CHANGI CRICKET From Sgt. F. A. GidCins IN a game oi cricKet played at AodEA »Jvorts Field on Sunday, tne B. A. O. C. c. beat the KockUtes by 69 runs. B. A. O. batttd first and Riley and bymoncs put on before Symonds was lbw v Galistan408 words
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Article74 1946-09-04 7 OSLO, Tues. NINA Dumbadse, Soviet winner of the women's discus m the European athletic champion, ships is claimed to hav c established a world record discus throw of 50.50 metres (165 feet SV* inches) m a sports meet. Try official world record is 48.31 metres (about 159 ft.Reuter - 74 words
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Article38 1946-09-04 7 LONDON. Tues. r -DAY'S football results were: FIRST DIVISION Grimsby Town 0. Wolves 0. THIRD DIVISION (Northern) Rochdale 0. Wrexham 1. Soulbnor*-. I. Tranniere Rnverr *> IRISH GOLD Cl'P Ifirt ro-ndi Belfast Celtic 3, Colera.nc P ReuterReuter - 38 words
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