The Singapore Free Press, 22 October 1946
1946-10-22
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Title Section20 1946-10-22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA r SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946. EIGHI PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS.20 words
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Article, Illustration25 1946-10-22 1 ut of the Burmese general strike "'0 000 strikers paraded through r ;\Yf Rangoon <as shown in this press picture), carrying banners25 words
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Article119 1946-10-22 1 MPs BEHIND WITH THE NEWS Free P:^ Reporter mm a little be[^■d in now] from lou»> ol Commons. Mr. ~s. Miiiister of TransiWi likec i f vVliat ■v.th the useless -e coal-dust ships, I and ca:.i Trent I :p. Singapore '■->. nunths." and Aould De *to cu t *oss?6 ov119 words
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Article14 1946-10-22 1 IhC Government is of Pea- Bee consider r?* SrtkS pr iu dice tht14 words
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Article137 1946-10-22 1 PESHAWAR, Mon. PANDIT Nehru and thiee members of his party touring the North-west frontier area, were injured today when Muslims stoned them just outside the Malakand Fort. Pandit Nehru was cut on his left ear and his chin. Abdul Ghafar Khan, was cut on the nose137 words
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Article211 1946-10-22 1 BENGAL RIOT DEAD EXAGERRATED LONDON, Monday. THE Governor of Bengal, Sir Frederick Burrows, in a report read to the House of Commons today, said he expected the number of dead from the rioting "in Bengal to be in the low in the three-figure category." The evidence available supports the conclusion211 words
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Article121 1946-10-22 1 Nanking, Mon. DIRECT talks, aimed at ending the civil war which has ravaged China with only slight pauses since the Japanese surrender, axe going on in Nanking tonight, spurred by the personal wishes for success from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Talks were resumed on "top level" after121 words
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39 1946-10-22 1 The India Office announced in London last night that India ana China are to exchange ambassadors. The two governments have been represented in each other capitals by diplomatic missions says A.P. from London.39 words
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Article106 1946-10-22 1 THE death took place in the office of William Jacks and Co., Malaya) Ltd., this morning of Mr. Robert Campbell BttWftlt, n director and the secretary of the firm. Mr. Stewart was sitting at his desk at 8.45, having just arrived, when ho collapsed and died.106 words
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Article174 1946-10-22 1 LONDON, Mon. THE Secretary of State for the 1 Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones said in the House of Commons today he would ask the Governor of Singapore to consider whether it would be desirable or possible to lift the man moratorium in cases where no174 words
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419 1946-10-22 1 IMPORTS TO COST MORE But black market willbe wiped out Free Press Staff Reporter A LMOST without exception every Singapore importer is finding that prices of goods bought in the United Kingdom are rising instead of falling, and there will be an all-round price increase in the New Year. Direct419 words
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63 1946-10-22 1 Mr Bevin. the Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons yesterday that the imprisonment of the Roman Catholic Archbishop Stepinac m Yugoslavia is no concern of Britain's, since it is a matter of Yugoslav internal politics, sa^,Reuter from London. The Archbishop was recent jy sentenced63 words
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Article100 1946-10-22 1 A CHINESE attached to the Special Constabulary was last night stopped in Nail Road and robbed of $1,000. Seven men, all Chinese, were the robbers one .)f whom was armed. The Special Constable was offduty and in plain clothes. Two other robberies were reported last night,100 words
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Article26 1946-10-22 1 Driving licences renewed in the East Riding. Yorks, are being sent to motorists with the latest road accident bulletin issued by the Chief Constable.26 words
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Article84 1946-10-22 1 Deepavali No Free Press Tomorrow TOMORROW, on the occasion 1 of Deepavali— the most important of Hindu festivals —the Free Press will not be published. Next issue will be on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 24. Deepavali means "rows of lights"; and tomorrow, Hindu temples and homes will be specially lighted. On84 words
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Article131 1946-10-22 1 LONDON, Mon. THE list of casualties which oc--1 curred when a York aireran of the RAF Transport Command crashed yesterday shortly aftd taking off from Dum Dum, Calcutta, was issued by the Air Ministry tonight. The passengers killed: Group Captain G. H. Foss. Squadro.'. Leader Rev.131 words
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Advertisement107 1946-10-22 1 ■0 New Stock Items at ROBINSONS FOR THE LADIES:— Nylon Elastic Swim Suits assorted colours $32.50 Navy Blue Nylon Swim Suits $12.50 Gor Ray Skirts sizes $25.50— 541.50 Shopping Bags from $6.50 $14.50 Leather Handbags good so" v FOR THE CHILDREN:— Children's warm coats sizes 20' to 36*' from $27.50107 words
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Article331 1946-10-22 3 SIAM GOLD SMUGGLED INTO MALAYA Free Press Staff Reporter BANGKOK, Monday. CO much gold is being smuggled from Siam into u Malaya more particularly into Penang that the price of gold in Bangkok has risen ten per cent, in less than a month. The traffic in gold has developed because331 words
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Article, Illustration80 1946-10-22 3 ftuh -n of Wind- or set 10 >t on the soil of Britain for the time sin e lf»3t» when she landed at Dover with the D«ike ivin? crossed from France in the Southern Railway itimi-r (ante. bur > Fhoto shows the Duke and Duchess en it Dover.80 words
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Article217 1946-10-22 3 "HIRE xere sharp exchanges at the Buckinghamshire ng Joint Committee's meeting, when Col. T. R. P. Chief Constable, replied to allegations made by I I I Bryant at the la<t county council meeting regard- fli management of the county police force. Referring to a statement217 words
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Article96 1946-10-22 3 200 CHILDREN POISONED ings. Sussex ttakhildren have been •ood poisoning. M to be due to banana I" served :rcm the central *>n of the school mcaLs ser- F Hi^sey. chairman Committee, told ::m^ at cases of Im been reported «4 :^±fr S and sc hoci ■WBot connected with the o96 words
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Article89 1946-10-22 3 THE British and Australian Governments may be involved In an expenditure of between £12,000,000 and £14,000,--000 in the construction of rocketbomb workshops and testing ranges In Australia. The annual maintenance cost is expected to be about £3,000,000. It is understood the Australian Government has89 words
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Article21 1946-10-22 3 In recognition of the war-time work of Clyd° shipyards, the Home Fleet will visit the river next July.21 words
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Article11 1946-10-22 3 Norfolk turkey breeders are taking steps to foil thieves11 words
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Article189 1946-10-22 3 TIMBER SHIPS CANNOT REACH PORT SHIPOWNERS think that the 75,000 tons of timber which Britain is buying from Russia may not get out of the White Sea ports before they are closed oy ioe early next month. The Ministry of Transport have chartered ships of up to 9.000 tons to189 words
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Article106 1946-10-22 3 TWO of the four doctors in Wirksworth, Derbyshire (pop. 4,822), hav e refused to send patients to the cottage hospital becaus e of a dispute with the matron. The doctors, A. E. Broster and Leslie Fletcher, allege that the matron, 43-year-old Miss C. Arnison, showed reluctance in106 words
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Article, Illustration252 1946-10-22 3 £20,000 FOR IRISH MEMORIAL DOMBARDIER Tommy Forde, just 22 and Irish, is on a visit from Germany to the Eire Government in Dublin -en a £20,000 mission. Back in 1942 Tommy had a great friend. Although Eire was neutral, they both joined up. Tommy's friend went down with a ship.252 words
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Article27 1946-10-22 3 A revised constitution for Ja;:an, outlawing armd forces and curtailing the Emperor's powers, was accepted by Japan's House of Representatives by 342 votes to five.27 words
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Article, Illustration83 1946-10-22 3 Queen Elizabeth and her daughters, Princess Eliza oei.j aid Princess Margaret, made a tnot ou? h exploration of th-» 'Q.e.n Elizabeth* as she underwent sp?ed trials off th coa t of Arrau in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. As the worlds I iggest -hi > steamed at 30 knots, the83 words
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Article252 1946-10-22 3 SIR Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, i> packing his bag, and the signs are that it will be twice a.> full as it was last Christmas. This good news for the nursery is coyly tucked away at the bottom of an252 words
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Article76 1946-10-22 3 MR. CEDRIC OWEN was married at the Welsh Cmlvinistic Methodist Church. Ll&ndilo. Carmarthenshire, without knowing that his father had died in the vestry. The father, Mr. Henry Owen, aged 65, of St. Alban\ roa-1 Swansea, collapsed while the fc-room and IHO people were waiting for the76 words
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Article53 1946-10-22 3 Wage increases amounting iu £f,349.000 a week were awarded to 6,697,000 workers in Britavi between January and August of ttrs year. The biggest rises were gained by the engineering and shipbuilding workers < £634.000 a week), the building trades workers (£475.000), the farm workers < £316.100*. transport53 words
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Advertisement26 1946-10-22 3 OPENING TODAY AT Tilt -fl L% 1U 1 1 f tlj lfr 4 SHOWS 1.30-4-6,30-9.30 P.M. ANOTHER EAGLE-LION PRODUCTION. WITH YOUR FAVOURITE STARS! A MAICII WtiUOiL26 words
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Miscellaneous54 1946-10-22 3 '*MfZAM Momentary Safety By Edgar Rice Burrough v .M:v">"" =::-5 spec- —^v_ \> '^S L\ tme ape-man heard her s^* -"^"-,z i E:> TO SCREAMS AND LEAPED UP the 7^LvJti^l B^ :r 0M T^ E CioCK aei-ow v -~^3^^ strugolso "o rs^in her J~ SAVED >€R momentarily PROM \\V«Bk G*54 words
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Article323 1946-10-22 5 S'PORE LAW PROTECTS CHILDREN Free Press Staff Reporter JHE dangers of child slavery, prostitution and cruelty in Singapore will be reduced to a minimum when the Children's Ordinance comes into operation in a short time. This enactment will control the transference of children to adopted parents. Discussing the Ordinance, Mr.323 words
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Article, Illustration38 1946-10-22 5 An official of the Singapore Food Control Department testing bread baked in Singapore in an effort to ensure that only the best -quality loaves will reach the public when Vt*€ rationing scheme starts in a few days' time.38 words
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Article92 1946-10-22 5 JAIL FOR CARRYING PISTOL Tan Ah d to seven J^OTOus ::r.?rison:n-ent oy good at the LZtM*a rrday when char e CV.ih of live 2im2d Yaha.- a Malay porjonstabie 3 am Mr 24 ner :lv irM return saw three 1* in Park R of their aents and ca another HBttC. Yahasi92 words
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Article275 1946-10-22 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TODAY, I made a survey of the number of new radio sets 1 which are reui-hin<* Singapore from Britain, rnd although Ik volume s gradually increasing, imports are still 70 per tnt. bebw the pre-war figure. due in Singapore are mostly275 words
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Article90 1946-10-22 5 S'PORE-SIAM RAILWAY EXPRESS SOON Reporter te Bangkok, Monday. engineers W they will soon be ■■I the international between Bangko* engineers LT; way back to L^T Hf< :nng with F**A Wagener Chief Engiin Railways at t aief visited Cf ago to ■•■ese ran problems. f»2*jnoment. plans are held >f locomoB^; <tock.90 words
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Article24 1946-10-22 5 inquiry into unknown Pat Braddell h Coroner re*W. G v,s>erday. u V^tedthatit i a Das*? he Indi an was was dmmii ou t.24 words
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Article101 1946-10-22 5 T*HE Field General Court Mar- tial, In Singapore, of Capt. G. R. Wadsworth, R.A.M.C, on charges of using insubordinate language to his superior officer, and also causing bodily harm to Indian Other Ranks, was d ssolved yesterday, on the instructions of the G.0.C.. Singapore District. During the101 words
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Article41 1946-10-22 5 The fortnightly social meeting of the Singapore Stamp Club will be held at the Palm Court, Capitol Restaurant, at 5.30 p.m. today. An auction of stamps and a talk on the value of B.M.A. issues will be given.41 words
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Article30 1946-10-22 5 A canteen for students, selling meals at 13 cents to boys and at 30 cents to teachers, was opened at the Government English Preparatory School. Muar. last Sunday.30 words
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Article, Illustration15 1946-10-22 5 A Dakota taking; off from Bangkok airfield, whose terminal building is pictured above.15 words
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Article55 1946-10-22 5 A 54-year-old Chinese, Gch Song Yan, \*lio attempted to commit suicide by cutting his head with a knife was ordered to be bound over in the sum of $100 for a period of six months by Mr. L. C. Goh, the second magistrate yesterday. The incident occurred at55 words
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Article175 1946-10-22 5 POSTING times for letters from the General Post Office, Singapore, are as follows: Australia and New Zealand 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; Burma 4 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday, Fr.day and Saturday; Ceylon 6 p.m. every week day except Wednesday; China, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan and175 words
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Article174 1946-10-22 5 2 TROOPERS LEAVE S' PORE TODAY Free Press Shipping Reporter THE departure of two troop-laden vessels today the 22,500--1 ton U.K.-bound Queen of Bermuda and the P and O liner Ranchi, destined for Batavia will in no way free the Singapore Harbour Board wharves of troopers. Singapore will see the174 words
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Article55 1946-10-22 5 Seventeen Chinese were arraigned before the Fourth Police Magistrate, Inche Ahmad bin Ibrahim, yesterday on charges of committing gang robbery oi several barber instruments valued at $50, in Sembawang Road on Oct 20 After the criarjre was explained to the accused, the case was adjourned till Oct.55 words
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Article16 1946-10-22 5 Sand£at? Sea Angling Society held an all-night competition Id a 60 m.p.h. gale16 words
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Article248 1946-10-22 5 Free Press Staff Reporter BANGKOK, Monda*. THE Siamese Government has decided to make Don Muang airfield, which is situated 14 miles outside the capital, one of the finest and most up-to-date airfields in the Far East, and work is already in hand to build new248 words
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Article132 1946-10-22 5 THE Singapore sub-committee of the International Emergency Food Council started their first meeting since formation today. The meeting may be a two-day one. Those sitting were Messrs. A. C. T. Kwong, Chinese Consul, acting for the Consul -General who is at present in Malaya; Dumitrascu, economic132 words
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Article14 1946-10-22 5 Nine hundred Ro.W.s are to assist with the potato harvest in Britain.14 words
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Article74 1946-10-22 5 ALFRED Thomas U^zwin. s Paratrooper of the 7th Parachute Battalion, was acquitted and discharged by Mr. Justice Tliorogood at the Singapore Assizes yesterday when the common jury returned a v?rdict of not guilty against him on a charge of voluntarily causing hurt In committing: a robbery Goodwin74 words
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Article47 1946-10-22 5 THEFT OF TENT AGE Sentence of two years rigorous imprisonment u as imposed by Mr. Paul Storr, the District Judge, yesterday on a Chinese, Fong Lcong, on a charge of breaking Intc a shed of the Base Ordnance Depot at Kranji and stealing a bale of tentajre.47 words
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Advertisement159 1946-10-22 5 LYON PHOTO CO. Aeoowneo tor Superior and Quick Service 'Developing Printing and 'Enlarging PUm sent in today— ready the next day at 6 urn. Also Gndertakr to repair Camera*. (9 North Rrtdc* R"ad *inra|»ra. SITUATION VACANT WANTED Temporary Clerks ana Typist. Salary according to Government rates. Apply to Secretary, General159 words
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Miscellaneous127 1946-10-22 5 Weather Report Showers Late In The Day KATHKR forecast for 24 hours from noon today, compiled by the R.A.F. Central Forecasting Station. Air Command, So«th-F.ast Asia: Today: Mainly fair at first. Isolated thunder showers later. Ton'ght and tomorrow morning, fair, hase about dawn. Wind light-southerly, becoming fusty south-easterly during showers,127 words
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Article99 1946-10-22 7 jbaaon tin** Kire. Mon. >f pi^i \t. u; hcav>irifht lx»\er. arrived at ikm tniri i l^te on eta on Ml I ondon, hi »ill Ji -ht Freddie !i was ac■jani'd Ij hi- IMfCt and IB la pi thi* Hrst of here at mm" htA.P. - 99 words
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Article49 1946-10-22 7 u: Commubeat 56 WTU cricket C^::mrg on J Pbtlbps *c Edmonds b Cc t tj kC« > U\ 5 COX 2 Eu I Tial ••uxg. r!ll K lme Phillips > did '^as nnt for Mav WT V n tnr 'I: Brit. '**ftrV nt nOB< Io49 words
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158 1946-10-22 7 CLARO HEADS BETTING IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE OH, Mon. c ridden by jockey II Wayward at Cam- *o win ward Belle amounts at elaadc winner! Khan, in W week. ked to win Si* £«*i bbot £8 -°°o i L ?on W e re both! \***U? m The only 1 onsiderable I amountReuter - 158 words
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Article, Illustration26 1946-10-22 7 Paul Gibb swit»es a baU to lee during the one-day match a. a nst the W. A. Colts at Fremantle. Gibb scored 51 in 90 minutes.26 words
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412 1946-10-22 7 THE British Services in Medan, Sumatra, beat the Chinese 1 Football Club three-nil in the final of the Chinese Challenge Cup competition played recently. From the starting whistle fast and clever football was played by both sides and in the second minute Agutter was412 words
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Article991 1946-10-22 7 Weekly Hockey League By "Sticks" AS I was saying nearly five years ago when these notes were interrupted by falling Japanese bombs, there is no reason why a hockey league shoould not be organised in Singapore. And the need is even greater991 words
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Article51 1946-10-22 7 S.C.C. rugby team vs. Command Pay Office today is: F. Hutchinson; S. Johnson, J. Luff, G. S. Taylor, D. Redmond; C. Milton, R. jaird, E. C. Tokeley, S. L. Morris,.! 1 M. Goring, M. 5. J. Lee, J. L. McCarter, W. J. Todd, D. A. B. Hopkin, W.51 words
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Article73 1946-10-22 7 TTICKS' invites all secre- taries or convenors of service and civilian hockey teams to send him details of teams, fixtures, players of note, results and any outstanding performances. In this way he hopes to foster enthusiasm which may eventually lead to the establishment of a league,73 words
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Article194 1946-10-22 7 UNBEATEN TEAMS IN DRAWN GAME UEAVY rain which delayed play 11 after lunch prevented a decision In the challenge match played at Nee Soon on Sunday between No. 1 BTC and CRE 162 Works. The engineers batted first and were all out for 70, but good bcwling subdued the BTC194 words
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Article33 1946-10-22 7 In a friendly badminton match xslxyed last week before a large gathering, the United Family B.P. again defeated the Steadfast B.P. by five games tc one at the former's court.33 words
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Miscellaneous268 1946-10-22 7 Tomorrow's Soccer THE Free Press Is on holiday to-morrow, so here are the holiday soccer fixtures: Victory Cup tie, R.A.F. (Changri) v Royal Scots, Jalan Besar Stadium. 5.15 p.m. S.C.F.A. Veterans v SRC 4 A/ S.R.C. padang, 515 p.m. RACE WEIGHTS FOR IPOH Free Press Correspondent IPOH, Mon. THERE will268 words
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