The Singapore Free Press, 8 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      STORM IN ICELAND ?
      696 2 STORM IN ICELAND NO power on earth except the military migrn of the Anglo Saxon peoples can protect Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Swedsn from the fate of the Baltic States (Soviet Dominance) during the coming war b?tween Eastern despotism ana Western democracy. In one night the Russians can .1 they
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      GHOST NAVY?
      140 2 GHOST NAVY? RELIABLE information reports that the arctic squadron of the Soviet navy In several Instances has app-^ar-id off the north of Iceland and made at least one excursion intc the Denmark straits, which divide Iceland from Greenland. Crews of Icelandic Ashing craft based at Akureyrl, on tho northern coast
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      A 'GOLD-DIGGER'
      515 2 A HELD, bald-headed little man walked into the magnificent entrance of South Africa House* wearing horn-rim spectacles, a green rough coat, and whiskery brown trousers. He was carrying a battered attache case and blinked as he picked his way across the marble floors. «Tm a Rand Pioneer— l
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      your lucky STAR
      204 2 Fortune forecast for people born today YOU have exceptional talents and with the proper training might become one of the outstanding individuals of your age. There is a certain genius within you which needs expression, and repression will make yoo unhappy and discontented. Parents of children born
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
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      42 2 /Bhiet Gillette I BLADES 4^^f J dedf-' IMI the k^ Gdlcne Blade last W CATHERINE wishes to remind her client '^en**' makes it necessary that they r the month, dresses required to I and New Year. CATHERINE, Paris Models. q^ Phone Mlt.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      370 2 Crossword Puzzle No. 62 HOWN: HM ll' I) 4 1 J \y Itf Malicious s.at.m--;rit. SSI 2 Eating hous*' makes a wry 1 p SI"" a~ IT^T" 3 AUied countTy. TtP 53 T^ I2R 4 Favourite naiaf of pierroU. J fi-J 5 Weed cut shcn? i? ¥l' r fv^ aRT
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      288 2 RlirVTfN MAT flVi band) and 9.36 p.m. to close down pm Th^ written word; 11.00 p.m w Mrinisri n 4.78 megacycles per second (61 metre Ne*s headlines and close down. Singapore today's English listening 8.8.C. RED NETWORK (Chinese Indian) 1 .00 p.m. Band call with Phil Green m n «v
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1946. Nowhere To Live?
      479 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1946. Nowhere To Live? f>EOPLE coming oack from Britain where the housing shortage is acute, to Singapore, where the housing shortage Ls even worse, will be interested, if not surprised, to know that a good deaJ of building is going on m Singapore,
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      THESE SINGAPORE PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      1820 4 rINGS are looking-up a little for the student m .Singapore; something definite is being said and done about education. Mr. J. B. NEILSON, Director of Education, told me that General Science will form part of the curriculum of all high schools m Singapore as soon
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      QUIZ
      42 4 NOT SC EASY 1 If Oid Harry isfe* what is Oic Toe--2 What is filibuaer' 3. Name the film S .ance to Br to Briuicw* ec upon by "t" 4 whit "does CIM \A tor and who k* CIGS.' ANSWERS PaP«
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      FAITH
      12 4 a man < annot rf be: and what rum. w*« CMt £2V
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
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      23 4 a RjU VINO SOON M ORPB V— RICHARDS AUTO-CONTROL SAFETY ELECTRIC IRON HAM KWANG 6c CO., 324. North Bridge Road. J»HONE 2315 SINGAPORE.
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    • Advertisement
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      90 4 tonight uipt n r I T H E ATRH tomorrow 1 1 b I un I M i" 1 1 NIGHT ONLY. TOWICHT AT S.SO P'*; COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAIN^* JL PRESENTS BLANCHE LITTLERS COM**** -WORM S EYE VIEW BY R. F. DOJN W'i bl D< A GREAT NEW COMEDY HIT
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      FLUKE-GOAL GAVE CHELSEA 2-1 VICTORY
      1022 6 All In The Game From George Chisholm LONDON, By Air Mail. ON successive Saturdays we have seen Chelsea lose 5 2 at home to Stoke City, Arsenal beat Stoke I—o at Highbury, and Chelsea beat Arsenal 2 l at Stamford Bridge. That is an example
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      WIDER SHOOTING FACILITIES SOON
      514 6 IT is planned that m the near future the KappajH Association will include m its activities clay pi«e shooting, 22 miniature rifle and pistol shooting. Prefer costs and lack of gear generally have to be overcome lin The Singapore Rifle AttOCiatf n wa< originally ta m
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      QUIZ Answers
      15 6 NOT SO EASY 1. Cordial gin. 2. Political obstructionist. 3. Farthingale. 4. Cloven.
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      Hutton At The Wicket
      33 6 Hutton At The Wicket Len Hutton. Er.gl&nd's opening batsman, squarecuts Ridings m the game between the M. C. C. and South Australia. Today the M. C. C meet an Australian XI at Melbourne.
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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      235 6 I 4 Shows 1.30 -4 6.30 9.30 p.m. The Picture All Singapore Will Want To See! Directed By Sam Wood Who Made "Goodby* Mr. Chips" and "Kitty Foyle" !&e# '***$&.^'ife^ Hl 4)^ REAGAN F^L&*^^ VlZ^——^—. nakmg every trvrd, every scene Itvi on the screen, m T/i* Toim They Ta/* <>f
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      75 6 J AN t Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya JrSSf^ S lli T^^-nn. J WVEDERClf-V^^LDEATHA f /YES VEND^ITa's^ mwT^L lft v -> W>45^ BE TRUE TO ME I Y °U BIG HAM.'- r GOODNESS!- /GOT AN ENGAGE/WENT W\ >> Mm. n Dtij^X y CARO SP SA J and
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      GERMAN FOOD RIOTS FEARE
      370 8 Occupationofficials may be armed HERFORD (Germany), Thursday. WITH general food supplies m the Ruhr expected to run out to-morrow, the position has become so acute that British officials are talking about the possibility of large-scale riots by Germans breaking out. Civilian Control Commission em j ployees
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      HOME...
      51 8 very st-ady.—P ii*» muvit.n ratMiefcv.*! oi fjuro. 'irure, long tne chief commercial town of Cornwall and centre of its mining industry, became a city m 1876 when the diocese was founded. The cathedral, consecrated m 1887. and finally completed m 1903, is designed m the 13th Century Eavly English
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    • CITY NEWS
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        PRICES GO DOWN
        87 8 \IARKETS m London were un--111 settled throughout the day following the overnight setback on Wall Street and towards the close there was a tendency lo await further developments from that centre. Although there was a Ion? list of declines at the end dealings m these resuted ir.
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        Steel Attractive
        66 8 -u> finished somewhat under best m New York with predominant of gains mostly up to one point. Stee!< received better attention. wi»h tl^cirranting of price increase for few product of one company expected to be j Jollov d by others and to spread over ih« whole industry. Rails
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        S'pore Food Market
        178 8 S' pore Food Market Co..icant arrivals of Hong Kong sh; have brought down China prodj^eo further mor» m prices. Yesterdays local prod.cc market was quoted a£ follows: Pepper.—Lambong black $100. Mun- to*, white $110. Sarawak white $10* Sar. «ak black $89 per picul C'jff.'e seeds.—Bali $80. Bali new *70. Su.sbaya
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      Bombay will whip hooligans
      223 8 BOMBAY, Thursday. THE Bombay Government tonight announced it would make good its earlier threat by issuing immediately an ordinance imposing collective fines on erring localities as one step to curb the communal disturbances m the city. Another ordinance is being prepared and will be enforced very
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      MORE FORCES RELEASES ANNOUNCED
      242 8 MORE FORCES RELEASES ANNOUNCED LONDON, Thur«. AN estimated 94,150 nun and wo- men are to be released and -Uscharged from the Forces during the first quarter of 1947, making thp cumulative total from June, 1945, to March 31. 1947. approximately 4,387,000 Th s was announced m the House of Commons
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      RELIEF CAMPAIGN
      27 8 The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce starts a campaign today, for raising subscriptions m aid of refugees from Bagan Si Api Api and Karimoen Island
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      MALAY 4 TODDY SALE QUERIED
      78 8 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Thurs. MR. R. W. Sorensen (Lab., Leyton, W.) asked m the House of Commons today what steps were being taken to limit or prohibit th e sale or manufacture of toddy mi n Malaya, and whether improved water fac litie s
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      WARSHIPS TO SYRIA
      40 8 The U.S. Embassy yesterday told the Syrian Foreign Ministry tnat the American aircraft carrier Randolph, the cruiser Margot and the destroyer Perry would visit Beirut o n Dec. 1 for four days, says A. P. from Beirut
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      BANK CLERKS STRIKE
      23 8 cm e bank employees have called for a national strike starting today. They demand higher wages says Reuter from Rome.
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      U.S.—CHINA TREATY ATTACKED
      196 8 U.S.— CHINA TREATY ATTACKED SHANGHAI, Fri ALTHOUGH tihe new pact ben tween Chin a and the United States is nominally on c of equality, th« fact is that it is another "unequal treaty," declares the Chinese paper, Ta Kung Pao, m an editorial published m Shanghai yesterday. The paper took
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      FREEDOM IN THE EMPIRE
      270 8 New Britain Aims At NEW YORK, Thursday. BRITAIN m 15 months has extended freedom to wide areas of the world where it never existed before and 400.000.00<i m India will soon be completely independent and selfgoverning," the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said tonight. Mr.
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      'Lost Legion' Comes Home
      64 8 The KPM liner totwm docked a- Sinpi(*rf voMfej with 26<> f\-MaUjrut(tkttt Le K iun —the rewuib i 1.400 men sent by tht J*l Holla ndu Dutch Sn MM All the 269 mtc hanii home> invarioiK twn I Malayan Inion tm M from Siniftporei Hk M Press
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      99 8 mmmv the r^ni n«Q a i TECHNICOIiI MOST CULUiJJAL FJLTRAVAGAKZA. "Pin-Up Girl" has clicked wuh Singapore (iw* LAVISHLY PRODUCED IN OK Of Hollywood's Most Cienerous Moo* IT'S THE BIGGEST OPENING JO t BK < GETHER WITH MARTHA HO«> ST SKATING VANITIES^ SKATING DIZZILY TO RHAPSODIC H tlGHT^^ SPORT REVIEW with
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      32 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today: Uufh Water: 9.46 am ft. Bin if. ii p.m. 9 n m. Tomorrow: Hiffh Water: It 15 a.m. 9 ft. 2 m.; 1t. 58 p m ft. 5 m
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      82 8 WEATHER Cloudy With Showers WEATHER forecast for 24 hours H from noon today compiled by the RAF. Central Forecasting Sta- I tion, Air fcmmand. South-East Asia: Cloudy with scattered thunder; showers during the afternoon and early evening becoming fair during th L lUcht Fair tomorrow morning. Wind during: the afternoon
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