The Singapore Free Press, 1 October 1946
1946-10-01
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Title Section20 1946-10-01 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA *****I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946. EIGHT PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS20 words
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Article444 1946-10-01 1 MILK THUGS THREATEN S'PORE SHOPS Free Press Staff Reporter nd Mack market riggers are breaking > queues for condensed milk and intimidating ■tjjlen in Singapore. This state of affairs has arisen n the cktf-fC in ihe system of distribution from tfnbutlo* through big firms and large employers of Aggfs the444 words
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Article121 1946-10-01 1 !roes Nips Sec^ r.ai -AdbonnM as_ig on a judgment War -ich real six l Bogor ißuitzenj who had pleade. r orders" ii being .ling WW. a.. a Dutcn ten. n Code Court. R I. Jennints. I a had superior At JO-IT was *o the Austraeour: eon- of ■rs.121 words
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Article91 1946-10-01 1 LONDON, Mon. IT is understood an announce- ment on a new Anglo-Ameri-can rubber agreement involving additional purchr \*sk by America from British Far East areas may be made simultaneously in Washington and London tomorrow night. Thc British rubber delegation, which has been negotiating with the StateReuter - 91 words
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Article90 1946-10-01 1 GUNMEN RAID CUSTOMS, STEAL OPIUM Free* Press Staff Reporter. ARMED robbers walked into the Customs station in Clifford Pier Singapore early yesterday morning, held up Customs officers in charge and then escaped with 33 lb. of opium, valued at $52,000. The robbery occurred shortly after 4.30 a.m. Two of the90 words
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Article138 1946-10-01 1 LONDON, Mon. DUSSIA has sent a note to Turkey re-iterating thc Soviet view that the management of the Black Sea Straits should be shared between the two countries. Turkey r*s sent a copy to London. The note did not go beyond procedure agreed at Potsdam toyReuter - 138 words
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Article, Illustration34 1946-10-01 1 This Free Press picture shows th e rush and resultant confusion when a Singapore milk retailer started selling: milk yesterday. In the left foreground may be seen, two sacks full of milk.34 words
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Article234 1946-10-01 1 Free Press London Correspondent THE Labour Party's Services Committee, consisting of members of the House of Commons who have served with the Forces, is considering calling a special meeting this week to discuss the position of the paratroopers of the Muar Mutiny upon whom .sentence234 words
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Article102 1946-10-01 1 HONG KONG. Mon. 4 LL 12 men aboard the five American torpedo-boats lost off Luzon Island, Philippines, are safe, the American naval authori- ties here stated today. Six men were rescued and brought to Hong Kong by the Bri. tish hospital ship Pairae which sighted themReuter - 102 words
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Article38 1946-10-01 1 It was announced from the World Bank yesterday that the bank is ready to receive formal loan requests from countries needing help in the reconstruction of war-ravaged industries says A.P. from Washington.38 words
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Article371 1946-10-01 1 NUREMBERG, Monday. IN the dark, panelled courtroom, sitting motionless and intent, the 21 Nazi leaders today heard the Allied judges strip from them one by one the main pillars of their defence. At first they appeared to strain their ears to catch any clues as to371 words
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Article97 1946-10-01 1 FINANCIER IS FOUND DEAD CHICHESTER, Mon. MAJOR Norman Edward Holden, aged 66, the wUI-known stockbroker and financier, has been found shot in the grounds of his estate at Norton Priory, Selsey, near Chichester. His wife died just over two months ago. During the war Major and Mrs. Hollen entertained RoyalReuter - 97 words
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Article40 1946-10-01 1 Early this morning a oarge loaded with oil drums caught alight in the Telok Ayer basin eff Prince -Eaward Road. There were explosions and it took the Fire Brigade three hours to put the fire out.40 words
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Article25 1946-10-01 1 The British aircraft-carrier Implacable sailed trom the Firth of Forth yesterday for a 12-day cruise in Norwegian waters says A.P. from London.25 words
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Article29 1946-10-01 1 Singapore Chinese plan a mass rally on the Padang on thci: National Day. October 10. A procession through the main streets of Singapore may be held.29 words
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Article26 1946-10-01 1 A strong earthquake was felt in Peru r.t b p.m. on Sunday night but no casualties were reported says U P. from Lima.26 words
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Article402 1946-10-01 3 ALLIES CLEARING GERMAN WATERWAYS THE development of inter-zonal trade negotiations between the four occupying powers has focussed attention on the importance of Germany's network of inland waterways, which before the war carried one-fourth of all cargoes transported in Germany. Allied engineers with German labour are now clearing the few remaining402 words
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Article78 1946-10-01 3 ■a-TEEN bund' l b f s in th. of -awaagri, m Z iuna jJJJJi int., relief 1 K.'inf I'tr.oloved on IW- .blisb •thm m* tons of hive been •j^J^sand .»rphjn> and TL ekil J rcn an* a^O beln? SRRA Pj/t fcrMitution in I mi-how. shed inReuter - 78 words
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Article118 1946-10-01 3 PETITIONS TO KING FOR PARDON IDO N b-JXtrter Mr. fohn Thomas Per»--d from hear from nfldent that King for a has -granted. .1 riou are to be House of Commons ie Judge Adbrancb of the IF. x idraa <otti was martial in improperly inserta court-martial rert. d men! h* Kt118 words
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Article46 1946-10-01 3 ALLIED OFFICERS HELD IN ITALY iniatton d.sr-osal of rial in to li ht stisations thaa s.x the Allied dleged tc -einisation. are he'd In Naples, Many n have been trices ar :ved is made ricanofflcei United quanti- and carol ln Italians to release of from dis-46 words
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Article18 1946-10-01 3 I rector of I been ap- t ChichesKL -r n* d" t h Mor-KSte'-t- be18 words
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Article153 1946-10-01 3 _^NY cut in Imperial prefercnees would be disastrous to Empire tobacco and canned fruit and would damage the sugar, wines and spirits, dried fruit and coffeje industries, declares the Empire Producers' Organisetion. In a memorandum to be submitted to the Government before the forthcoming International153 words
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Article31 1946-10-01 3 Two wives who were granted divorce decrees ni.i early this year had the decree rescinded in the Divorce Court, their counsel saying they had become reconciled with their husband*.31 words
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Article, Illustration51 1946-10-01 3 The s re-ets ai*J kM*'<k oi ugK on the Hr'h of horlh near Eiinburgh, Scotland, wer? *iven over to tradi-ional jollifications when the Fishermen's Walk was rcvivel after its warlime suspension. Here are wives of fisheimen carrying a symbol of the nsherfolk *n lhe Fi Walk through the streets of51 words
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Article, Illustration98 1946-10-01 3 After 45 years in the Japanese Army. Lieut.-general Ritsuhei Ogeisu, commander of the force which stormed into Nanking in December 1937, is now the proprietor of a shop near the Shibuya Station in Tokyo. He spends most of his time serving- customers who come to buy toilet articles,98 words
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370 1946-10-01 3 Free Press Staff Reporter MEN from all communities in Singapore are to be invited to join a special constabulary to assist the Singapore Police in combatting crime in the Colony. Armed with suitable weapons, the Volunteer Constabulary will accompany the regular police on mobile patrols,370 words
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95 1946-10-01 3 PARIS. Fri. IOHN D. McClennan' aged 23. of J Whitaker, Pennsylvania, who was sentenced to death for rape a Paris court martial last July and subsequently escaped, was recaptured here this afternoon. Unarmed, McClennan was surprised in a privute house in the suburbs by militaryUP - 95 words
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346 1946-10-01 3 29 will tour S. Africa with the King TEN members of the Royal Household and 19 other.make up the staff who will ac company the King and Queer and the Princesses on the.r vi*it to South Africa next year. Three Ladies in Waiting. Ladv Harlech and Lady Delia Peel. In346 words
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Article73 1946-10-01 3 ALLEGED to have misappropriated, billions of dollars by converting enemy aliens property to their own personal use, the former Mayor of Yingkow, Fang Ying-chih, and Liu Tehfu and Ho Ta-chu, ex-Police Commissioner and fcrmer City Councillor, respectively, of Yingkow, have been ordered to oe arrested by theCentral News - 73 words
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Article31 1946-10-01 3 Two thousand copies of Lewis Broad's book ••Winston Churchill" have been received by the Allied Control Commission from Switzerland, and are shortly to be distributed among the German population.31 words
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395 1946-10-01 5 DACOIT BANDS TERRORISING BURMA VILLAGERS Free Press Staff Reporter RANGOON, Monday. DURMA'S equivalent of Malaya's bandits are the D dacoits who do not hesitate to kill to get what they want. In the area approximately 100 miles north-west of Rangoon, they are terrorising whole communities, who are living in fear395 words
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Article30 1946-10-01 5 Emergency police Call: Dial 3777 nP ;\h,uM n ad p < J,l th Ckmtmi mt ■•> h;\- _f*4r- -J conUrt w****!^* me roiict PlZ* lh K__*a £kMP«M PSmmTmmmema of fa fxifijn.r -herea^ui-30 words
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65 1946-10-01 5 AUSTRALIA MAY EXPORT CARS NEXT YEAR e from tering i-nv.ne Dub.isiied nation motor mates g total number of cars ,r? the be between 01 and 15 000 ;ust t Federal ■port L- rr.axi- re than bated. te il parly ir <■ ei for; ms. Imported, Austra- o*at** irs may tai65 words
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Article29 1946-10-01 5 DUTCH LOSSES IN N.E.I. Ne- Kill- ll M'Os and Ii P nds Army: L B ::?rlands SJ^ N S2 5 a --i nien and i. <e NCOs and ReuterReuter - 29 words
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Article75 1946-10-01 5 Sufferer s Tribute t0 R«nnie Tablet! < an b, C V J 1 tfJr^ dicers serious. kfe J' anc r N -hes f_»v< ed*cai treat-' A xnend ■-> tablets fl> and I -em ven ome m my j W done the I (MM I75 words
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Article67 1946-10-01 5 'LOST LEGION' RETURNING TH^HE hundred and cwenty-five Malayans who were taken lo Dutch New Guinea as forced labourers by th* Japanese and stranded there after the surrender are en route home at last, states Associated Press Irom Batavia. A D^tch spokesman, in Batavia, confirming the departure of the group from67 words
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Article26 1946-10-01 5 The Board of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited have declared an interim dividend of three per cent on the ordinary stock payable on Dec. 2.26 words
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Article93 1946-10-01 5 269 JAPANESE ARRIVE FROM SIAM Free Press Staff Reporter TWO hundred and sixty-nine Japanese v.ar criminal suspects believed lfl be concernea with atrocities to Allied PoW's working on the B'nma-Siam Death Railway have arrived in Singapore by the P. and O. liner Corlu from Bangkok. Believed to be the largest93 words
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Article177 1946-10-01 5 HENRY Waugh Co. Ltd.. act•ing as Government a*jents.| have distributed 1.300 dozen cotton singlets to the 14 Singa- j pore dealers. The singlets should be available to the public at a maximum retail price of $105 each. A lot of 16,848 cotton blankets have also177 words
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Article44 1946-10-01 5 There were four. Chinese stowaways on board £Re Anhui which arrived in Singapore on Sunday with 600 Chinese emigrants from Hong Kong, Swatow and Amoy. The stowaways, who sneaked on board ac Swatow, were discovered after the vessel had sailed.44 words
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Article215 1946-10-01 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE rehabilitation of Singapore and Malaya, so far as the installation of the machinery is concerned, will not be a matter of months— it will take years. This is the opinion of Mr. G. H. Jolley, who arrived in Singapore a fortnight215 words
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Article, Illustration70 1946-10-01 5 ON WORLD CRUISE Aoove: Mr. E. L. Matteson. general agent of American President Lines, Singapore. and Capt. O. A. Pierson, master of the President Polk which resumed the company s round-the-world cruise ser?ice on Saturday, and on left (top) Mrs. C. S. Travis, and Mrs. Dorothy Tate Gray, uives of70 words
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170 1946-10-01 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PROPRIETOR of a chain of pawnshops in Malaya 23 in Singapore alone, 75-year-old Mr. Lam Sem Thong, has received a letter of appointment as an adviser to Gen. Loh Cheuk-kuan, the Governor-General of Kwangtung Province in South China. I Mr. Lam170 words
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Article242 1946-10-01 5 T'HE wedding took place yesterday at St. Andrew's Cathedral Of Capt. Benjamin E. Massey to Miss Mary Elvina Part- ington, attended by a large gathering. The bridegroom, who is the son of the late Mr. Ernest M. Massey, of Derbyshire and Mrs. Massey, lis of the Middlesex242 words
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Article32 1946-10-01 5 A decree absolute was granted in London on Sept. 24, to Mr. H. A.J. Woodiatl, of the Manufacturers' Life Insurance Compan* Singapore, against Mrs. I. H. Woodfall. now ln Edinburgh.32 words
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267 1946-10-01 5 'Kerosene flows into black market Free Press Staff Reporter KEROSENE oil for the lamps of electricless and gasless Singapore is proving another useful source of profitable lubrication of the pockets of Singapore black marketeers. They are charging $10 per four-gailon tin or 60 cenw a bottle— about four times the267 words
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44 1946-10-01 5 A United Kingdom Trade Mission to China is expected to pass through Singapore on Oct. 4. Members of the mission are all experts in a particular branch of industry but they are not official representatives of their respective industries.44 words
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134 1946-10-01 5 THE iollowing officii.] announcement was made by Headquarters, South-East Asia Command, last night: •A recent broadcast over Tokio Radio declared that Britain and Ameiica had decided f o repatriate immediately over 100,000 Japanese surrender personnel now held in South-East Asia. "The broadcast134 words
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Article, Illustration45 1946-10-01 5 Valuable cargo was destroyed and a mot©- tongkang very badly damaged when a fire broke out on the tongkang in a rongested area in Boat Quay yesterday afternoon. It took the Sin-anore Fire Brier*-,-? more tha»i an hour to pot out45 words
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Article109 1946-10-01 5 NEGOTIATIONS are at pres-en* taking place between Th.. Maritime Navigation Co. ar.«* the United States Governmei.' for the purchase by the company of about 30 ships of approximately 1000 tons each. If t'.e negotiations are successful, the '.'0 ships should do mucn to re-establish109 words
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Advertisement28 1946-10-01 3 CHANGE OF NAME As from 2nd September 1946 the firm of Harrisons, Barker Co. Ltd., (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE) will trade under the name of HARRISONS CROSFIELD (Malaya) LIMITED28 words
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Miscellaneous32 1946-10-01 5 TODAY'S TIDE TODAY: High water 1.57 arn 8 ft. 4 in.; 1.39 p.m. 8 ft. 9 in. TOMORROW: High water 2.37 a.m. 7 ft. 7 ins.; 208 p.m. 8 ft 6 in.32 words
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SPORT PAGE
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Article330 1946-10-01 7 I DUBLIN, Monday. N_i ,r neni even n a^ter a scoreless M___i ihe IN soccer international to be played K^fiao countries in Dublin sinc-e 1912. England. IS!!! the mmst which trounced Ireland last Smmxeni a msUmm double. v 40.000 packed the Dalymount e Ki!*s and theReuter - 330 words
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Article32 1946-10-01 7 Speech Soccer XI In England lOMmv Mon. < i nutche> SJcWb this has a rT n London Tke -miton fxtan* i- J,n 1 Xh J Thei f B"I^MBaDam l'- hv (oun Reu terReuter - 32 words
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Article28 1946-10-01 7 TADIUM RELEASED TODAY imca a s*turi the \T A m the I coni r a led has been ptu :a a Army our m >r>\eral •he i *ne28 words
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Article36 1946-10-01 7 !easj bann] C* C. :u a •j d on Um Mclfilf aaa] the ntlffll CC. C C. passed atri fer 4 w wssmi en w.ckets. hit all I I i wicK a long36 words
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Article, Illustration28 1946-10-01 7 "E* Division (On-hard Road Police), winners of the tu?-of-war event in action at the recent Po lice sports meet held at the Depot grounds on Saturday.28 words
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Article347 1946-10-01 7 From CPL. CIRKETT R.A.F. (Seletar) 3; Kranji R.N. Wireless Stn 3. AFTER a very poor start in the first half the Seletar Airmen pulled up to a draw with the Kranji team in a soccer match played at Seletar on Saturday. Something may be said347 words
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Article31 1946-10-01 7 In a fr. ndly game of draughts he'd last Saturday afternoon at the Chinese Swimming Club. Amber Road, the Treasury team beat the Club Players by 14 points to 10.31 words
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Article72 1946-10-01 7 THE Singacore Malay football team will travel to Seremban this week to play two matches In aid of charity. The team, which will meet the Seremban Malays and the Sino-Malays on Saturday and Sunday, will leave Singapore on Friday. The following have been invvted to72 words
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Article56 1946-10-01 7 LONDON Mon. qX)- DAY'S football results were: A SECOND DIVISION Burnley 2 Barns'.ey 2 RUGBY LEAGUE (YORKSHIRE CUP) (second round) Huddersfleld 10 Hull K'ston *R. 15 GLASGOW CUP FINAL Clyde 2 Third Lanark 1 SCOTTISH LEAGUE (A Division, Patr.ck Thistle 3 Rangers 2 RUGBY UNION Coventry 21 ArmyReuter - 56 words
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Article43 1946-10-01 7 TULSA. Sun. Mrs. Babe Dedrickson Zaharias, of Denver, added the nation- 1 uW-f-li amateur golf championship to her long list of victories by defeating Mrs. Clara Sherman of Pasadena 11 and nine. This was Mrs. Zaharias' fourth major championship of the year. A.P.A.P. - 43 words
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300 1946-10-01 7 LONDON. Mon. ON the eve of the Indian cricket team's return home a fine tribute to their team both on and off the field was paid by the former England captain. Sir Pelham Warner. in a letter to the teams manager. Mr. Pankaj Gupta.Reuter - 300 words
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Article284 1946-10-01 7 MCC XI FOR TOMORROW SELECTED From Bill Bowes PERTH, Mon. THE M.C.C. team to play against Northam in the opening match of the tour against Northam on Wednesday and Thursday has been announced. It will be Hammond, Edrich, Compton, Hutton.. Washbrook, Fishlock, Smith, Langridge, Voce, Ikin and Evans, with Hardstaff284 words
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Article124 1946-10-01 7 rE team to play for the Food Control Inspectorate against the Police Training School Ist. XI in a friendly game of soccer at the Police ground at Thomson Road on Friday its.lop.ru. will be selected from the following: Soh Teow Seng. Sayadi bin Hassan, Wee Bin Chye. Lim124 words
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Article20 1946-10-01 7 Singapore Cricket Cluo will hold another rugby trial on the padang this evening and all players are asked to attend.20 words
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Article112 1946-10-01 7 SRC Batsman In English League f ADDIE Outschoon,. the 1* S.R.C. and Singapore cricketer, is now in England playing for Kidderminster in Birmingham League. In a recent match against Dudley, in the second division, he scored 75. not out, helping his s'dc to win by eight wickets. His batting in112 words
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Article96 1946-10-01 7 IAMES Harper, 21-year old American professional boxer, has arrived in Singapoie from New York. Subject to the approval of the Boxing Board of Control, he will make his debut at the New World Arena nexr Sunday. Oct. 6, against popular Jimmy Welch of the R.A.F.96 words
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Article56 1946-10-01 7 Th e Sergeants' Mess. R A F. Base. Seletar, have accepted ".he challenge of the unbeaten W. Os and Sergeants' Mess Soccer team cf 218 Army Troops. RE., who last week sought fixtures through our sports columns. A game with Seletar could be arranged by telephoning F56 words
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Advertisement133 1946-10-01 7 AWOUMJEMENT FF IS HEREBY ANNOUNCED THAT THE NETHERLANDS INDIES SHIPPING ORGANISATION CH. I. S. O.) nu, 0e di >o«\ed on the 3«th September. I'M*. -"open their pre-war offices as from P-nUSuI 1 iNf. ROYAI M KH MAIL s Road Telephone 7128 *"*CHl\*- UMV ||NE uU-auaJg Crediet-en reenigini •Rotterdam* c n133 words
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Advertisement400 1946-10-01 7 BOUSTEAD Co., ltd. TEL NaM LLC YDS AGENTS' GLEN LINE Denbighshire fiom I .K. Dae Oct. I* Glenaffaric for Ik End O't. Glenstrae for IK Nov Pasoeagers aad cargo accepted ta L.K Hongkong and Shanghai as opportunities offer BURNS fll 11 r LINE sailing* for Sydney Carrying passenger* and cargo400 words
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