The Singapore Free Press, 10 September 1946

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  • 533 2 WHEN men learn to kill they sometimes come cae,\ from war and turn into rebe's against their own socie«X Like-wise, the Chinesee have learned that when yen enlist a liver to fight the enemy it a on fighting friend and foe dike. This actually happened in
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  • 117 2 AN Page I, Aug. 24, we showed a rehearsal of this bale-out on a device rigged up at Denham, portraying the manner in which Bernard Lynch was to be shot out of an aircraft at high speed. These pictures were taken of the actual test in flight
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  • 343 2  -  EDWARD BISHOP WHEN the GovernorGeneral, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald's spanking new, glistening, Miles Gemini, four-seater aircraft de luxe, arrives next month, Malaya will have started its first step towards the return of civil aviation. The GovernorGeneral's plane will be one of two Miles aircraft ordered for the
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  • 114 2 DOCTOR B. C. Saunders, co-worker of Doctor j Hamilton McCombie, research leader at Cambridge UnAvr-' sity Chemical Laboratory, was delighted when he btga to go blind because he know that the research t jam's attempt to prepare a super efficient poison gas had su ceeded. This
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 129 2 GOOD NEWS! i You are invited to m i LONDON VICTORY PARADE IN THE HAPPY WORLD STADIUr--10, 11 12 Sept at SCO p FREE OF CHARGE j VICTORIA THkVpT: E ROYAL AIR FOi:: i \*tr\ III! \TKV < frits***" HANOI PRESENTS REBBCCA A PLAY IN THREE %< I Bv DAPHNE
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 383 2 -your lucky STAR Fortune forecast for people born today Your energy and activity are tremendous, but you must guard ajainst being too impulsive. j Things will not always bo. easy for you and during the carlv part of your life you may have quit? a struggle to gain your objectives.
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    • 446 2 RADIO MALAYA m HTsT 7 2 i 1000 pm Richard Taub r «*«i» RED NETUOKK from noon SS u p n InO 938 II 1 2 22 C r rge Mplachri^ Shi p.m and «.30 to 11 pm on 225 on 478 mcs/S in V sLtil ii-rf orchestr a brings
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  • 486 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. SEPT. 10. 1946. Don't Spare The Cents THE Singapore Advisory Council is scarcely notable for the cut and thrust of keen debate these days. It is either something of a rubber stamp organisation or else it does its real work behind closed doors, which makes
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  • 899 4  -  Frank Owen By Continuing his article on the purchase by the Labour Government of the British coal mines for £167,000,000, Frank Owen tells us today what more has to be done for the industry. QO everybody now can «J live happily ever after? Jumping Jiminy, no! We have
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  • 99 4 JUST FOR FUN 1. On what day was Solomon Grundy born? 2. "They fought the and killed the and b'.t the in the Full ki the missing words and say who did all this. 3. What had been lost by (a) the dame and (b) the master? 4. A
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  • 329 4 ONE of the people who made a last minute escape from Singapore was BBC Overseas Service announcer GERALD SCOTT. It was revealed that when the Japs invaded he was among those civilians who volunteered to stay to the end. He and a few more escaped to Colombo
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  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
    • 235 4 SO Major X has once more put his pen to pap' r to pursue again the endless argument of conditions in England today, chiefly as seen by the returning Serviceman. Whtn will Major X realise that getting heme means far more to the majority
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    • 85 4 F' would try a kindness to your readers, if you would exclude from your columns the half-witted vapourings of the obnoxious Major X. His exuberant outburst on Saturday was quite inexcusable. Meanwhile the people of Bri. tain, the farm-workers, the factory workers, the miners, find the women who^e
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    • 247 4 ON many a cherished moment has my heart over-flowed on seeing the striking beauty and brilliant colouring of the sometimes wild, untamed, and sometimes pastoral coun-try-side of Malaya. I have seen th? palm-tree silhouetted against a tropical moon; I have seen the morning mists clinging to th? jungle
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  • 178 4 We G From Cairo 'T Hh r. of !r --Em. a sla > mtsm trating R tt< as an I vjj which guard the eommu' ..*:<, n <; ft< Middl- E Mo, :r r I Egypt itaclj .< this par or the o rii i front dooi to the MeftfeJ
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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    • 175 4 FAITH Cast thy bread upon ihe iters: for thou shall find it ifter many davs. ECCL: 11. 1. \jr VICTORY I f COMMEMORATIONS CELEBRATIONS at the G. K. vYORU GREAT WORLD TO NIGHT— TO-MORROW NIGHT-TIM K*BAl LANTERN PROCESSION. DECORATED VEHIdE* *M» f PROCESSION OF THE GRAND WEDDING Ol IWO EUl^
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  • 1168 6 All In The Game... From George Chisholm London, By Air Mail. NEARLY one million supporters gave English football its greatest-ever kick-off. I ran into the first 51,000 outside Manor House Underground Railway Station, and Tottenham people know that to be a long way from
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  • 27 6 Part of the vast crowd that gathered outside Stamford Bridge on Aug. 31 to see Chels ea meet Bolton. Chelsea won four-three.
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  • Archie Quick
    • 224 6 LONDafc UANAGEK kT. that P winners in 1939 an tish Cup v. son are lo pity heme w* matcru Portsmouth. Clvde's pr- retract I French R sides are to re land th many y art Inter*...-, resumed 1~ time since ovf-r ten early (twice and
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    • 22 6 A reuni< i of th,- M. will be h« Kim Ei. bers ore r»<r.. r Mr. Ho d c°change -j
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 66 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya ]A\\j{ /has everyone goneN f X'ii £ackt«f\l H^^^^^N "1 n y^ I/! In CRA2Y ROUND HERE nJuTwYsJ— 1 H'M.'-SOUNDS J Sj> /LOOK HERE, '/i r\ I WHY DID THAT HIGH BOY) J AUMT SOPHIE 'ASIF A JOB N Pj J\ I
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 8 HOME -tc village of Ho ford in Somerset is near the *qual'/ >eautiful village of Selworthy bv the road between Porlock and .Ylinehead. Both villages are well-known for their picturesque old thatched cottages.
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  • 103 8 DU. Cluye Snavely of Washingtan, Executive Director of the Association of American Colleges, stated that one of the atom bombs dropped in the Pacific weighed only G."> pounds and killed 200,000 people. Dr. Snavely did not say where he obtained his information. Officials in Washington said
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  • 68 8 NEW ATTEMPT TO SWIM CHANNEL OFF DOVER. Mon. SHOPPY s as and a stiff wind (D- day attain forced George Eer. i to postpone his s?cnd attemnt to swim the Chann?l Berroeta plan^ to leave nboard a launch for the French coast at 4 a.m. on Tuesday, if tlis imnrov
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  • 39 8 -S'-PAROE.V h expe-ted to fioni A-n.-terdam. Genoa and Po Bs*d on or about S^nti?mber. 19th. 1 nc rrquestP-' to applv to. (l --iviv orden to NetheriandsI W>*i>nii»- OvanisaUon K P.M E Idin^. Telephone 5975 E\t. 7.
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  • 96 8 LONDON. Mon. DECAUSE Government considers that stoppage of Saturday afternoon football would affect public morale and Ls therefore a National issue, the Ministry of j Labour Is intervening in the threatened strike of League foot- bailers and trying to arrange a i conference
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  • 206 8 BRITAIN FORGIVES ITALY DAMAGES PARIS, Monday. BRITAIN told the Paris conference tonight that she does not intend to demand cash or commodity payments from Italy as reparations. Britain had put in a formal claim for £2,800,000,000 reparations on behalf of herself and the colonies. Mr. Glenvil Hall said: "The British
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  • 206 8 KLUANG COURT MARTIAL NEARS END Free Press Reporter KLUANG, Tues. pRIVATE W. Smith, the para- trooper who was ariested with others in the 13th Varachute Battalion tor alleged mutiny anr*. who was later released, gave r vidence for the defence in the court martial this morning. He said he was
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  • 39 8 Group Captain E. M. Donaldson. Malayan. RAF jet flyer who broke the world air speed record on Saturday, decided yesterday to attempt to beat his figure of 616 mph. this evening, says Reuter from London.
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  • 230 8 SHANGHAI, Mon. CHANGHAI has consolidated its pre-war position as China's 0 leading port. The latest returns of the Chinese Maritime Customs show that from January to July, Shanghai received 71.6 percent of China's imports and shipped 60.7 percent, of the exports. Total imports into China in
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  • 35 8 Eric W. Kemp. 47-year-old British telephone- engineer employed by UNRRA, was killed north of Larissa, eastern Greece, on Sunday when his jeep struck a mine on the road, says Reuter from Athens.
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  • 319 8 Continued from Page 1 British Sixth Airborne Division were tonight moving into the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv after the imposition of a curfew there. Palestine continued today in a virtual state of siege A strict curfew was maintained all night, with only military vehicles on the road and
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  • 48 8 All Italian naval commanders have been give n sealed secret orders to sink all their ships when the time comes for the vessels to be transferred to the Allies as reparations under the peace treaty terms, a Rome dispatch to Pravda said on Monday.- A.P.
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  • 231 8 CAIRO, Tuesday. IfING FAROUK Ail Egypt sailed for home on Monday night after paying so sudden and unexpected a visit to Turkey that all officialdom was caught by surprise. His yacht sailed into the harbour at the southern port of Mersin on Sunday and the King
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 69 8 THE SIGNAL STAFF OF FLAG OFFICER, MALAYA will hold A CHARITY BALL el 7.30 P.M. on MONDAY, SEPT. 16. in the VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL (BY KIND PERMISSION OF REAR ADMIRAL H. J. EGERTON f.B. R.N.) IN AID OF THE NORE COMMAND ORPHANAGE PANTOMIME FLNI>. MWr.M— WISHING TO ATTEND SHOULD APPLY
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