The Singapore Free Press, 12 November 1946
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Title Section19 1946-11-12 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA yitf* SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946. PRICE 111 CRN IS.19 words
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Article, Illustration52 1946-11-12 1 Its ii a street scene m hipi the day ift>r the DouL Tealh thU year, when (a. Chiang Kai->brk s forces Lrrkri into the < mmunist Mtfft tot thfn. the Nationalist xc» hi. msheti their way a* uutj other 1 om munis tMl key towns m North52 words
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Article124 1946-11-12 1 COMMUNIST LEAD IN FRANCE PARIS Mm isp eleavag? d? i wee r» 1 v t ■1 ri|fct appeared likely m ur.nn? Commun st ar»d P^wlns pii?d .o a: the W»3! M Lm Blums .-SOJJad !h# MRP Progressive Party c M G:or?2 Jktke Prime \Ln;sv r 'ites: figures for 592 seatsReuter - 124 words
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Article12 1946-11-12 1 3 JAPS HANGED IN RANGOON iging of Sql Kale X part of12 words
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Article30 1946-11-12 1 An amnesty ls to be grant ?d 10 t tie Tsourtain rebels m Greece if they >o port within a monL'i ol" promu garion ot the amnesty30 words
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Article211 1946-11-12 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE has been no further development m the Singapore 1 Harbour Board strike, and strikers and employers alike are waiting for the next Government move, now that the strikers, have refused to accede to arbitration. At the last meeting of the strikers211 words
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Article69 1946-11-12 1 ON Saturday night, the Police arrested a n Indian m possession of a revolver m Henderson Road Singapore. On searching the man's house, the Police found 2.400 rounds of revolver ammunition m a trunk. Early this morning, the Ponce recovered one Japanese rifle, four hand-grenades and69 words
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Article40 1946-11-12 1 President Truman told a press conference yesterday that he did not think there was any foundaton for a rumour that Gen. Eisenhower is shortly to resign his post as U.S. Ch -ef-of-S aff, «ays Router from Washington.40 words
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Article404 1946-11-12 1 Malaya pays most in 'free' market Free Press Staff Reporter THE Government of Slam's "free rice" scheme, which ended yesterday, cannot be extended any longer because the price of rice m Bangkok has risen so considerably m the last month that dealers would not sell404 words
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Article95 1946-11-12 1 THE search for x the tongkang containing a cargo of cigarettes valued at $186,000 is still continuing. The Malayan Tobacco Distributors who imported the cigarettes are offering a reward of $10,000 for the recovery of the cigarettes. The cigarettes, contained m 375 cases, were loaded into a lighter95 words
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Article19 1946-11-12 1 THERE was no play, owing to 1 rain, at Melbourne to-day m the M.C.C. vs. Australian XI match.19 words
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Article248 1946-11-12 1 Lake Success. NEW YORK. Mon. EUROPEAN relief is "the most practica! and urgent problem facing the United Nations" Fiorello LaGuaruia, UNRRA Director told the United .Nations Economic Committee today. He said: "At this moment when there are such serious differences between east and west surely statesmenReuter - 248 words
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Article85 1946-11-12 1 NEW YORK. Mon APENING the discussion on the v Greek-Bulgarian frontier the Big Four Foreign Ministers, at; their resumed session, had before them the new Greek memc- j randum. presented a fow days' ago. asking for about one- tenth j of the original Greek demandsReuter - 85 words
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Article, Illustration39 1946-11-12 1 Illegal Jewish immif rants, intercepted before entry into Palestine, are sent to Famagusta Camp m Cyprus pending a decision on their future. Seen m this picture are a few immigrant peeling potatoes m the Cyprus sunshine.39 words
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Article218 1946-11-12 1 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. AFTER a new outbreak of communal rioting when a mob burned the Muslim quarter of Harson. a village of about 500 population, only 15 miles from New Delhi, the District Magistrate, Mr. Shanker Prasad, gave official figures of the fatalities as218 words
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Article110 1946-11-12 1 Capt. Colin Rodney Park, 29--year old son of Air Chief Marshal Sir K3lth Park, and Lieut. John Armstrong, who recently pleaded guilty at a court martial a* Iserlohn, Prussia, to charges of gross negligence Hading to the manslaughter of a ten-year-old German boy, have been dismissed from110 words
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Article261 1946-11-12 1 Terrorist guard on King LONDON. Monday. SPECIAL precautions again- 4 possible terrorist disorders will be taken tomorrow when the King opei^ ihe new parliamentary session and the traditional search of the vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament is likely to b*» less of a formality than usual. Armed men ofReuter; U.P. - 261 words
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Article51 1946-11-12 1 BATAVIA Mon FIGHTING has ceased on most fronts m Indonesia following last week's "cease-fir order. wh (h resulted from the three weeks' truce talks between Uie British. Dutch and Indonesian* Dr. Hubert u s Van Mook Gover nor-General of the DuU*h Easi Indies said m a51 words
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Article44 1946-11-12 1 Mr C B. Jerram, British Minister to Sweden, yesterday handed a message from Mr Be vin. Brit sh Foreign Secretary to \i? Sw?djsh Foreign Minister, Mr. O. Unden. welcoming flwede v to the United Nations says A P. I from Sockho'm44 words
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Advertisement8 1946-11-12 1 W^~ Qt^ W_F_t_______t_f_9 _j»2/ _H_l_-__U_BU_MM_-_ Am.Ta'l la" lAfrWT^Ty^m8 words
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Article, Illustration44 1946-11-12 3 j^-aj Donlan derided U«at ur'iad fur coat was thf onlj' n, v kef? warm m England ntn she arrived m London >m \r* York to star m i^fife Olivers new rUy 1n Testeriav which opens i fJ»?«» on November !♦>.44 words
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Article93 1946-11-12 3 RONNIE RAN AWAY TO SEE NELSON ace he can remember, tame White, now eight. I tafcd to >c- Nelson's (Btt. ic L:r.d>r. i Tra.alsarlinoe OB i d oad, •n. to visit Neteon ix or s?ven m»le> ay.ay. tBBe sora n polic^ir.a 4 iu.ceed?o \fo hs par*:: nad 1» locking for93 words
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Article58 1946-11-12 3 WIDOW WINS HER APPEAL |:'y John L Long. 38 ,S.C\ driver. 0 had H itept at Bel--1945. and fi^er he c. *i >« was caus ?d by iou£f *Wotl disease, which g* an overjrrowth of the 6«L athe blGod tortrer Mrs Lsng remarn-.ti'", who Tootlns. S.W.: was >ns:on m Js£^58 words
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Article20 1946-11-12 3 ..mUtee's boa* that parcels of WE ?:i 0I Hurtwood children he hoped iut the *nd publi." "*don area20 words
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Article76 1946-11-12 3 Love locked in..... FROS. the favourite statue of Londoners and visitors, has now been seven years absent from his Piccadilly Circus pedestal— he is locked m a room at London County Hall till the day he ran once more aim his bow at the passin* millions. \n official said the76 words
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Article15 1946-11-12 3 Six million seedlings are being planted m Norfolk under Britain's re-arlorestation scheme.15 words
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Article341 1946-11-12 3 nRITAIN'S first national recreation centre for the training v of young men m leadership and practice of all kinds of sport and physical recreation has been made available to the National Council of Physical Recreation through the generosity of Mrs. Vansittart Neale m lending341 words
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Article, Illustration64 1946-11-12 3 Osterley Park, Middlesex, where it is proposed to hold Britain's 1951 Exhibition instead of m the centre of London. The Park is m the centre of a network of road, rail, air and wa.er transport facilities. Another 1,000 acres are available next to the 600 acres of the Park, the64 words
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Article241 1946-11-12 3 'POPSKI'S PRIVATE ARMY' WITHOUr fus s or comment Li£ut.-Col. Vladimi r Peniakov, 49-year-old leader of famous "Popski's Private Army," whose work behind the German lines m th* Western Desert was the talk of two continents, has (slipped into London. He has arrived to be demobilised, and then wants to become241 words
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Article93 1946-11-12 3 AIR traffic was transferred to Prestwick and over 2ou workers were evacuated from Renfrew airport, near Glasgow when ticking was heard from a 2,0001 b. bomb dropped m March, 1941. R AF. bomb disposal men, after months of digging, found the bomb buried 25ft down. They93 words
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Article30 1946-11-12 3 Bombs buried 20 feet from the Southern railway line between Catford and Crofton Park was removed by R.Es m 75 minutes under time allowed for the job.30 words
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Article, Illustration61 1946-11-12 3 KM, Ni h 1 von went to Buckingham Palace with her son to receive from the King the D.F.C. conferred on her husband, the late Wins Commander James Nicholson, V.C., who was the first fl?htrr pilot m win th«» V.C. In Though twice wounded he rcn U to jump if.61 words
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Article47 1946-11-12 3 One day aft^r leavir^ Farritorough Hants, on a "get as tar as *ou can" Army exercise, two soldiers turned up at the home of Lord Provost Sir Hector McNeJll. j:i a Glasgow suburb, where they had breakfast. Part of the 400-mile hitch-hike was by plane.47 words
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Article55 1946-11-12 3 Ever, m death the ill-fated liner Normandie finds no peace. The U.S. Navy has had to defer the towing of her hulk from Brooklyn across Now York harbour to Newark. New Jersey, for dismantling. Newark's mayor. Vincent Murphy, objects thai *t will make a junkyard of his55 words
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Article260 1946-11-12 3 OCOTLAND YARD C.I.D. men have discovered that the v operations of the gangs of daring jewel thieves, who have made so many daring and spectacular raids during recent weeks, are controlled by a ring of receivers, who remain hidden m the background. The suspected gangs260 words
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Article113 1946-11-12 3 AN American student-scientist at Cornell University v.-^t'-hed a row at pasture for 24 hours just to see the order of its life. This is what the cow did Took 60-70 bites a minute, sometimes 90. Preferred herbage 4-sin. high. Ate 150 Ib. of113 words
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Article355 1946-11-12 3 THE -£168,000 fortune oi a New Zealand bachelor recluse is t o go to an Englishwoman. Margare Kirkwood. his first cous:n. and tr.;-* trustees of three other cousir. now dead. The New Zealand Suprenv Court had ruled that this fortune amassed by Robert Green, a355 words
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Article43 1946-11-12 3 Within an hour of launching a £300.000 appeal. Bristol Un vereity received £136,432 m promises and donatipns. The fund, which is known a* the "Churchill Appeal,' is to provide two new halls of residence and two research fellowships43 words
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Article206 1946-11-12 3 P)R 17 years Miss Winifred Pollard looked after Mr. and Mrs. John White m a drab-fronted house m Canonburv Road, N. One day. she hoped, she would be able to leave the streets of North London for a country home with a garden Mr. White206 words
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Article17 1946-11-12 3 B;gg~st cargo oi bananas--165,000 stems— to be loaded Kingston has left Jamaica for Britain.17 words
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Article57 1946-11-12 3 Mrs. J. V. Ranis, ol Lowndessquare. S.W., found that a .€14.000 diamond ring which sfc > told Scotland Yard had b?en stolen by a burglar was safe The burglar entered her Hat and forced a dressing-tabi* drawer "But I found out later that Hi? ring57 words
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Miscellaneous7 1946-11-12 3 TARZAN Tikar Returns By Edgar Rice Burroughs7 words
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395 1946-11-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ALTHOUGH within three months of Government's t«X n Un Cem< lt freein s" th e Private imports of textiles, prices m Singapore have dropped by half, they are still three times higher than what they were m 1941. Imports are395 words
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Article56 1946-11-12 5 -mparative ■|ff prices per v ..-ore has July Oct. 1946 1946 ao re 6.0° *2.50 »«ff 5 40 tl9o m os 4n s4 oo $2.00 e» Pepun $5 0Q v Kong 50cts 400 $2.00 S 6.00 $4.00 12 KM Cto 300 $1 40 $3 50 $1.75 S 8 0056 words
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58 1946-11-12 5 IRAQI ARMY OFFICERS TO VISIT INDIA f the Comin India. ?e* Marshal S r Claude Auchlnftcea I 'he Iraq Army India shortly as Indian Army. Dur- officers will ma at various :es. the party wll v.: RIN "...r.e establish2nd Indian Airborne he RAF. R.I. repair and officers wi'.l I where58 words
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Article98 1946-11-12 5 NEW ELECTRIC SUPPLY PLAN I Dt-partmen: •b$ embarked on a supplying al- tm buildings of Raffle* S re. y other parts of yww, the Japanese dismaii- of the electrical equip;ncludin<r DC. r.ded to re- creasing load W hr.d also to allo* 1 mak us} of modern mces a^ soon a?98 words
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Article40 1946-11-12 5 HK CHINESE HELD IN HONOLULU I si hy Ch:nese brothers toJi aonom.u pending ap- r a jade which they of Customs Kong Yue-tu and -n r/lsh subjects, a- S2L? the United Unada o n a comis^f i.^"*,* have A .P.A.P. - 40 words
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Article12 1946-11-12 5 > Ua^S" Henrietta Rubber •Vft B b: SUlXgel Ma > 155.000 lbs.12 words
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Article63 1946-11-12 5 A KUALA Lumpur dispatch to the Nangyang Siang Pau, states that the black market prices of textiles have continued to drop, following the announcement of the textile price control. Prices mi n October show an average drop of 60 per cent, compared with September and a drop of63 words
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Article107 1946-11-12 5 TWO British naval officers, Lieut.-Cmdr. E. Bingham of 1 Tunbridge Wells, and Lieut.-Cmdr. W. E. Reid of Heston are training 600 Chinese naval officers and men who will form the nucleus of China's new Navy. Bingham and Reid went to China to meet their trainees, most107 words
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Article54 1946-11-12 5 AS a result of the arrival of 12,000 cases of Australian oranges during the week-end, Singapore prices show a big drop On Saturday morning, it was quoted $31 per case, but was reduced $24 by noon. Late m the afternoon, the price was again reduced54 words
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Article114 1946-11-12 5 BRISTLES continued to lead North China's exports to the United States during September, accounting lor 69 per cent, of the declared exports to America m terms of value as against only 52 per cent, m August. The abolition of Chinese Customs export duties, announced on Sept. 9.Reuter - 114 words
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Article263 1946-11-12 5 MORE than one million men and women of the three Armed Services were released up to the end or September this year, according to Army HQ, India. In that month, 335 were released from the Royal Indian Navy, 80,700 by the Indan Army and 2,014 by263 words
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Article, Illustration36 1946-11-12 5 These special Free Press pictures show the Remembrance Day service m Kuala Lumpur on Su nday. In the lower picture, the Sultan of Selangor is seen layi ng a Wreath at the Cenotaph.36 words
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Article, Illustration290 1946-11-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter NO Government or Municipal official is able to tell the Free Press anything about plans, publicised soon after the reoccupcvtion, for building prefabricated houses for Singapore as a measure to relieve the housing shortage caused by war damage and the increaseReuter - 290 words
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Article111 1946-11-12 5 TiHE sword surrendered to Acm. Mountbatten by Count; Terauchi, Jan C-in-C Southern Reeions, at the time of the Jan collapse, Goering's bullet-prcof car and Hitler's "will" will be on view at a bomb site m Oxford Street from Dec. 2 at sn exhibition which will b111 words
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Article25 1946-11-12 5 Gen. Sir Montagu Stop ford, Acting Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, who went to Batavia recently, returned to Singapore by plane last night.25 words
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Article199 1946-11-12 5 S 'PORE PORT NEWS SHIPS' positions m Singapore yesterday were: MAIN WHARF Godown 34: Port Pitt. Godown 38-39: Dilwara. Godown 40-41: Van Heut*i. Godown \l-43: Staffordshire. EMPIRE DOCK Godown 23-24: Fort Nashwaafc. Godown 27-28: Port Kilmar. COAL PLANT Baron Cawdor. MAIN ANCHORAGfc Ra jula personnel Malika, For Senneville, discharging coa199 words
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Article164 1946-11-12 5 BALI WILL SHIP MEAT Free Press Staff Reporter r! NEI Government havff now allowed the export of livestock from the island of Bali, off Java, but Singapore's demands are not likely to b* met before the end of thu year. Present exports are connned mainly to the demands of the164 words
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Advertisement186 1946-11-12 5 EVERYTHING SHE ATE TURNED TO ACID Now Food No Longer Up*«u Her As with many another sto.nar?! sufferer, it was excess acid that lav at the root of this woman's complaint. Once she had found out how to neutralise this acid her* troubles were over. In her letter she tells186 words
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Article, Illustration41 1946-11-12 7 t aii cut this ball i""om Tribe m the England v Victoria j, at Melbourne but no run rosuUed. Johnson, fielding ft the iaugh t it on the bounce. HardstafT did not s*t he went l.b.w. when he had scored 15.41 words
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Article269 1946-11-12 7 LONDON, Monday. jiO English Fir<t Division soccer sides met continental I teams m games to-day, Wolverhampton being held to a gii by the visiting Swedish champions, Norrkoeping, and tonal' losing their annual match with the Racing Club de Pircby the <>dd ?oal m three. I the269 words
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Article135 1946-11-12 7 N« Ov Own Correspondent K7ALA LUMPUR. Monday. FEBTS fcr :he S^ ond Day of the 3taa«or Turf (".■>> Golden Jubit fcr^-.j on E trc: GOLDEN JI'BII.KI IROPHY Hass 1. Dir 1. T furs. G** C irtntj 9.09 j^P"-' BttUfMH 8.06! «»IW. Distin^ 7 12. Zar- HarU- D135 words
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Article36 1946-11-12 7 "■i v five years, Jfcl^Hr V" scratc h XI aetnam on pround m H XI totalled Retnan, 15 v^ 3 v' were all out Thomazll r were the •ze R.N.s. Un shared -atch XI36 words
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Article237 1946-11-12 7 A COMBINED team of Engineers trom the Ayer Rajah camp scored an easy victory by sever goals to nil aver the 30 E.S.B.D. m a football match played at Tanglin Barracks on Friday. Within two minutes from the kick-off the Engineers gained the lead, Oughton scoring237 words
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Article793 1946-11-12 7 Bill Bowes - BR ADMAN MAKES LIGHT OF BOWLING Bill Bowes From MELBOURNE, Monday. THE later English batsmen fared badly against the legbreak 1 bowling of McCool at Melbourne today, the last seven wickets falling for 143 runs. In reply to the England total of 314, an Australian eleven scored 90 for the793 words
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Article153 1946-11-12 7 M.C.C. IST INNINGS Hutton c Freer b Me Cool 71 Wash brook b McCool 57 Edriuh lbw b McCool 4 Compton st. Sagger-, b McCool 24 Hammond c Miller b McCool 51 Yardley b McCool n Ikin b Puckett 15 Evans c Ellis b Freer 18 Smith b Ellis153 words
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Article, Illustration37 1946-11-12 7 Australian Test match selectors, R A. Dwyer, (N.S.W.). left, and Jack Ryder (Victoria) closely watching the England Victoria match from the member's stand at Melbourne. Don Bradman is the third member of the selection committee.37 words
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366 1946-11-12 7 WITH an improved team to that which won two nil at R.N.A.S. Sembawang's expense on Monday last, Kranji W/T. Football Team paid a visit to R.EJVI.E. Base Workshops on Saturday and were again successful with a comfortable win by three goals to nil. The Navy366 words
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Article51 1946-11-12 7 The following will represent the S.R.C. m a hockey match against the Cable and Wireless Ltd. at the Padaiv tomorrow O. Campbell; D. Scherder. M Modder; G. Ross, W. De Cruz. G. Ncrohna; D. Ross. J. Stanley. Capi. L. Proudfoot, A. Clarke and O. Fernandez Umpire F. A.51 words
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Article210 1946-11-12 7 WALKS 2,562 MILES IN 1 ,000 HOURS ROMPORD, Essex, Mon. AT an early hour today Bert Couxens, 47-year-old professional walker, completed his selfimposed task of walking for 1,000 consecutive hours. Originally he set out to keep circling the Romford Stadium m a bid to beat the record of 1,000 milesReuter - 210 words
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Article172 1946-11-12 7 Tllr following uiil represent the Co: Dined Singapore Non -Europe against the S.C.C. at rugger on tl.c Paoang. to-day: J. Sanderson (Police. St. Andrew Loc Kee Pow <S.CR.C>, Hu Wai Hsirr. (Medical Col), N. Ngon (Police). Leo Kit Soon <St. Andrew's); Eu Ch**:^ Chye (S.CJI.C), G.172 words
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Advertisement50 1946-11-12 7 anuamn Ist SENSATIONAL EXPOSURE of JAPAN'S INFAMOUS, TERRORIST BLACK DRAGON Headed by TO YAM A— Chief ASSASSIN! WHO BOMBED TOKYO* M WF WE PMPIE HEART 'jf Directed by LEWIS MILESTONE W? U.S. FLIERS CONVICTED OF MURDER: THEIR CRIME BOMBING TOKYO! These are the heroes who were awarded the Purple Heart!50 words
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