The Singapore Free Press, 4 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA new SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1946. PRICE. 111 CENTS.
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    S'PORE DOCK STRIKE IS BREAKING
    370 1 l-'ree Press Staff Reporter a N the eleventh day of the Singapore Harbour Hoard v strike, a communique issued by Mr. Henry &a>ten. tht hairman, gives the news that some of the men returned to work on Saturday, and are today ,lill workinu. On Sunday
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    TRIESTE FLARES UP AGAIN
    81 1 TRIESTE FLARES UP AGAIN TRIESTE. Sunday. BORDERS teftiac three hours Trieste on ofay as 10.000 Italians cele- :v?rsary of city from wh:rh kSbv-- rtdei to be th? sprang of their "enslavement." d gathered Brie the head n of the nt tor demonstration. dispersed 24 mounted testa G men led -jfT.cer.
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    UK MOTHERS MAY GET PRAM-POOLS
    20 1 IBM in Brii?'- (>n-ernment-he Sunterday. :dent of ill. be ask■•^rrow. to set every avs U.P.
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    LUNCH SCORES AT MELBOURNE
    35 1 Victoria asamst the o-day. the Va T a tch. are: SttdK 1 u° r fOUr <Miller S5" w Hd:vc > {> d =->.-, not out 47). tS?» ]E2 are: Wri^t it!a ne for 14>
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    WAR BRIDE GUILLTY
    13 1 •^.d^ murdering J^i 'r*\ evicted at mf veiter dav of
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    U.K. 'PREPARING FOR FOOD CRISIS'
    244 1 LONDON, Sunday. THE Sunday newspaper M The Observer reported that the British Government was M now preparing to meet a very serious food situation which arise in the New Year/' resulting from the United States' abolition of controls and her hostility to the proposed World
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    $5,000 STOLEN OVER WEEK-END
    90 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. ABOUT $5,000 in cash and jewellery and a motor-Car were stolen in eight robberies reported in Singapore over the week-end. Of these the biggest was in a flat in Tiong Bahr« on Saturday night, when two Chinese airn-^1 with pistols got away
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    GRAIN SUBSIDISED
    33 1 The Indian Government announced yesterday that it thad subsidisec 1 the sale of imported fcod grains to the extent of 155.--00C.000 rupees, to protect the cons' mer against a price rise
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    MPs GET PROTEST ON SARAWAK
    199 1 LONDON, Sunday. A* LookJot, rntit.ed "The Facts S^out Sarawak,' has been published h r L by William Charles Crocker acting as solteitor for Mr Bertram Brooke, Tuan Muda of Sarawak, ind Ivlr. Anthony Brooke Raja Muda ci Sarawak. Antl ony Brooke proposes to stek a
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    DESTROYER MINED
    23 1 British destroyer Saumarez is seen with her bows blown off after she struck a mine in the Corfu Channel last week.
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    UNO costs 'far too much'
    108 1 NEW YORK, Sun FEODEO T Gusev and Kenneth younger, United Nations delegates from the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom respectively, yesterday joined the attack on United Nations finances which were begun on Friday by Senator Arthur Vendenberg of the United Siates. Gusev demanded before
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    SOVIET SEES 'NO OBSTACLE BETWEEN US'
    130 1 MOSCOW, Monday. "THERE are absolutely no obstacles unless they are created by other Soviet parties/' Pravda declared yesterday "to the most lively trade, financial, scientific and cultural bonds between our countries, based on the firm foundation of mutual respect and equal rights." This was
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    PENNY TEA
    24 1 Canteen tea at Standard Telephones, N. Woolwich-, has been reduced to Id a cup after workers refused to Day V/ 2 d.
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    PEACE PLEA BY NEHRU
    405 1 CALCUTTA, Sunday. A JOINT appeal for u the restoration of peace throughout India" was made by the head of the Interim Government, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and three other Government members in Calcutta today. The four Government members came to Calcutta to make a first-hand study of
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    BRITAIN, U.S. INTERVENE IN GREECE
    230 1 ATHENS, Monday DOTH, the British and America t governments are reported to have intervened in tae GreeK political deadlock by advising the Royalist Prime Minister. Constan. tin Tsaldaris. that a coali'*government was a virtuaj ne<e^S'ty The King took a new nand :n the muddled situation
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    INDIAN ASKED TO END DEATH FAST
    79 1 INDIAN ASKED TO END DEATH FAST Krishna Kumar Chatterjee, Bengali Brahmin who began a "death fast" at midnight on Thursday, yesterday received appeals from British Members of Parliament and from Lord Sinha. the only Indian peer, requesting him to stop. Lord Sinha 's message said; Gandhi. Nehru. Vallabhai Patel and
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    JAP CONFESSES, HANGS HIMSELF
    49 1 Major Ki.jt:a. JapMKM war criminal detained at Saigon, hanged himself yesterday in his cell after mating a confession to a French officer. Kodera was chacged with participating in the massacre o! the French garrison at Langson in Tonkin in Nfarch IMI. says Reuter from Parts
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  • PICTURE PAGE
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      KING AND QUEEN ATTEND A WEDDING
      258 3 KING AND QUEEN ATTEND A WEDDING IvaarM i*rincessfcs a.e bridesmaids fttp.Ur above *ho*> the King and Queen drinking a tca,t to the bride and groom at the pt -i r.eid for the Moun tbatten tenants at Cvosncld Ha'l. Romsey Adm Viscount Mountbatten appear, on th? extreme left. In the background
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • The Singapore Free Press
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        Road Sense
        315 4 U7HILE the numbtr of cars on the roads of Singapore is increasing every day, though not as quickly as many would- oe motorists would like, little is beins: done to reinstitute the 'Parking' and "No Parking" signs which kept the roads clear in the days b:fore the .war.
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        Where Were We?
        188 4 ¥N Cecil Street, where we pro- duce the Free Press usually to the strains of Chinese school children somewhere off-stage to the left singing a lusty if not one mndred-per-cent tuneful version of the Chinese National Anthem and where on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's birthday w- worked to
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      Good Morning ....
      1055 4  - Good Morning Frank Owen By 'The Fine old British Army feels the draught of peace... 9 A WORD is on everyone's lips Man-power. Britain is desperately short of it. On the land, in 'the textile factories, in the mines, in the Armed Forces. Angry men write to me and demand:
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      FAITH
      23 4 Wilt thou not from time to time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of niy youth? Jeremiah: 3. 4.
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      QUIZ
      84 4 SOMETHING TO GO ON Do you ever picic up crossword puzzles which other people have started? If you do you will know how much fun it is just to finish them off. Here are a few words in which every alternate letter has been provided. All you have to
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      445 4 TWENTY minutes after Lonaon s 'Britain Can Make It' exhibi tion opened JOHN NUNN, a 30--year old school-teacher of Dubcroft Road. Sheffield, pushed his way through the turnstile, followed by his fiancee, MISS MARGARET ADHERN a dancing teacher of Eleshall Road, Sheffield. Officials pounced on them and
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      The Presidential Race
      515 4 Tomorrow America carries out her congressional ("off-year") elections and this article explains what it is all about, its significance and its possibilities. Tomorrow th» Democratic party faces its sternest test of strength in American congressional elections since the Democrats swept into overwhelming power in 1932 with the
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      86 4 ivml V I v j# I'll I* v J j I 1.1. PHILLIP ST.. S PORE ncirnr 4i> f l <^WjW Xr 5r j PATERSON SIMOKS COMPANY IMP Genera/ Agents for THE ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COMPANY L« Have Pleasure In Announcing The Reopening Of Their Insurance Depart"** At Ho. 1/2 Prince
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      WILL NEVER LEAVE STOKEMATTHEWS
      1024 6 All In The Game from George Chisholm LONDON, By Air Mail. WERE it not for bickerings off the field, sport would be rather dead at this period. The early bloom of football has diminished, amateur clubs are entangled in a never-end-ing stream of cup matches of
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      UNKNOWN
      40 6 This picture taken during the innings of Australia's Combined XI against England on the W.A.C.A. oval at Perth shows Robinson setting a single with a shot past on. pi i, n (left) and Ikin when he had scored eight.
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      F.A. SUPPORT FOR SUBSTITUTES
      223 6 Archie Quicks S ports Parti I ONDOV SUBSTITUTES in football, -o long irov.ned upon fc J Football Association, has Hie >upport nou of ihc U^ all people after the Reading match between an FA XL which in effect was England's »had<>\\ «-lfven ins the R.A.F. F.A.
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      225 6 ENTER TA IN ME NT EXCITEMENT ABLAZE IN THE TOUGHEST SPOT IN THE WORLD! AND THE WAR WAS THEN ON! i TO*DAY (Tel. 5281) Y I^ %^|3%V^^'^CLAyD[ RAINS l\|^W >x^^ CONRAD VEIDT 4 mil Ri?n<? jto it HAI Rv senSat/oivj btutPlolKiU Wi 1 10^^^ MICHAEL CURI| Z PtIER LORfiE Sc^en
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      74 6 QUIZ Answers SOMETHING TO GO ON 1. Libert arianism. 2. Thesaurus. 3. Peripatetic. 4. TintinncbulatiOn. 5. Philoprogenitiver.ess. JAlNfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya ARE YOU SURE y^ OF COURSE, MY I MUST SEE HOW^ I l—^^Z^^ <*£^ /^77k^\^Z you're fit enough/ love -Thanks To You people have
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      JEWS SET OFF MORE MINES: 13 INJURED
      425 8 JERUSALEM, Sunday. THIRTEEN British soldiers were injured on Saturday night, three of them seriously, in a series of attacks on British vehicles on Palestine's coastal plain, according to military reports on Sunday. One military truck was blown up and ten soldiers were injured
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      HOME..
      40 8 Northern Ireland's capital city of Belfast has an impressive city hall. The building laces down Belfast's Piccadilly—Donegall Place Bv the city hall Ls the cardan of ,-emembrance' whxh was dedicated to those who fell during th« first world war.
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      SECRETS SOLD TO SWEDEN
      75 8 STOCKHOLM Sun SWEDISH pap-:rs today displayed a disclosure by the Finnish polit cal DOiic? mat when the deieat of Finland by the Russians seemed inevitable. Finnish Arrrr Intelligence sold its archives to Swedish interests for $(>3.000 (U.S.». The Finnish communique stated that 400 Finnish intelligence personnel
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      3 LITTLE SISTERS BILL THE POLICE
      226 8 EDINBURGH, Sunday. THREE sisters, the eldest eighty years old and the youngest sixty-five, known to thousands of people in Edinburgh for their gentle manners, old-fashioned clothes and air of Victorian ism left over into a later age, were detained in Edinburgh prison yesterday on
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      Mme. CHIANG IS HOPEFUL OF PEACE IN CHINA
      222 8 Mme. CHIANG IS HOPEFUL OF PEACE IN CHINA NANKING. (By Ai r Mail) MADAME Chiang Kai-shek, sharing the hopes, anxiet es and prayers of the Generalissimo in the pres:nt period -of polit cal and economic crisis, foresees the time when all parties will b? working together "for the common good
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      MAYORS PLAN STRIKE
      50 8 The issue of ration cards, tax collection and civil vedding.s will be -mpossible in 150 towns m the wine-crowing r.gion of .southern France, from today if the mayors carry out a declared intention to strike in protest againr.t the Government policy towards winegrowers, says Router from Paris
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      KLM TAKE RAF PILOTS
      38 8 Forty pilots have been chosen out of 200 cx-members of the RAF who applied for work with th? Royal Netherlands Airline^ <KLM>. Ihev wffl appear before a commission of experts, says from Amsterdam* U.P.
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      CROWN IS NOW JAVA PROBLEM
      106 8 BATAVIA. Sun. THE task of finding a formula to express the position of tne Dutch Crown in the constitutional settlement of the Nethtrlands Indies is among the problems facing the Dutch CommissionGeneral when it resumes talks with the Indonesians in .Batavia tomorrow. When the Commission-Gentral
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      PASSION PLAY OFF
      38 8 Tli? villp.gers oi Obsrramergau have abandoned plans to revive the P?ssion Play next year, because the man i*ast for the role o. Christ, is held a prisoner in bo7iet-ocri.£led O imany. says fro.n Frankfurt. A.P.
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      GRAIN OUTPUT UP
      23 8 Grain shipments through Canada's winter ports this season are expected to reach almost a record mark, says Reutcr from Halifax.
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      HOME FLEET ENDS EXERCISES
      211 8 Weymouth, DORSET, Sun. j THE British Home Fleet steamed into Portland naval bas? today after four days of mock battles with lurking "enemy" submarines, destroyers and war planes and a convoy "raid" in which defence methods were used which would have been employed f the war
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      39 8 SINGAPORE BELLES COMING-OUT at TC-MORROWS •MONTEREY NIGHT' G4EAT WORLD CABARET sriec.ion By JUDGES OF THE CITY'S most Beautiful GIRLS To IM Followed By Presentation of PRIZES A MONTEREY GIFT WIIX BE PRESENTED TO THE LADIES PRESENT DURING THE EVENING
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      110 8 WEATHER Showers This Afternoon WEATHER forecast for 24 hours from neon today compiled by the RAF Central Forecasting Station. Air Command. South East Asia: Gene-ally fair with isolated thundery showers this afternoon and evening. Vine tonight and tomorrow morning with slight haxe around dawn. Light south-easterly surface wind becoming calm
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