The Singapore Free Press, 14 November 1946

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA u lt«» SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1946. price i« ci:n is.
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    JEWS SAIL 'COFFIN' SHIPS
    407 1 MPs demand immediate inquiry LONDON, Wed. MEMBERS of Parliament demanded in the House of Commons today to know who backed the sailing of illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. Several members pressed for information after an Admiralty spokesman warned in a statement that the ships in which
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    'NO COLOUR BAR IN MALAYA'
    270 1 'NO COLOUR BAR IN MALAYA' ItotlfeW > ui Keporler Si^apor? Uda mnur c „-ced sevt. colour oar r.er.i ?nt declaraol State for *is the purL«oftheC a discrimination the Gov:..\ie recomEfcbor. to the S oretary of I the admission o: the m deal ScrMaiayaa Mediial •n the same pHtT ororr.otion and
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    MR. JUSTICE WORLEY
    17 1 Bar supreme Court xxl-bye to tl y. whj is p -i -*ri>i Sn ouiana
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    Mid-ocean rescue
    44 1 Listing in the Atlantic swell was the Swedish steamer Kristina Thorden, in which a lire broke out in mid -ocean. A lifeboat from the Stavangerf jord which went to the rescue is seen pulling away with a casualty from the Swedish ship
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    22 mines swept in Corfu channel
    222 1 LONDON, Wednesday. MINESWEEPERS of the Royal Navy, operating in Corfu 1U Channel today, swept 22 moored mines, two of which have been recovered and are being examined, the British Admiralty stated tonight Other mines have been sunk by rifle fire but some may drift
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    STORE TAXI ROBBERY
    123 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ACCORDING to reports to the CJ.D. there were no robb3ries on Tuesday and only two yesterday. About 9 pm. yesterday, two Malays and a Chinese armed with a pistol, hired a taxi in town and told the driver to take tnem to Changi.
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    PLANE CIRCLES FOR 9 HOURS
    140 1 LONDON, Wednesday. A four-engined BOAC Liberator, its undercarriage damaged, circled for nine hours and 45 minutes today before making a perfect belly landing at Heathfield Aerodrome n e ar Pres^wick Airport. In charge oi the air liner was Capt. J. N. Wilson and sharing the
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    FIRST SNOW IM UK
    28 1 Britain's first snowfa.l of the winter was recorded last night on the Kentish- coast when laree flakes fell. Weather now is brilliant and clear.
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    GERMANS TAKE OVER
    25 1 Germans a re to take over the administ ration of th* govcriment in tl*e British ocevpfttkan zone of Germany by January 1
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    POPE BROADCASTS
    33 1 The Pope :s to address the first National Congress of the Icaiian FVdera-Uon of Farmor -Owners this evening a* the Vatican. His speech will be broadcast, says U.P. rotn Vatican City.
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    SPAIN WILL NOT COME INTO UNO
    277 1 MADRID, Thursday. PENERAJ JSSIMO Franco in answers to a series of questions U put to him by Associated Press in Madrid yesterday said the economic and political isolation of Spain would greatly increase the possibility of war through the disunion amon£ and within states,
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    NEI PACT TO BE SIGNED TOMORROW
    98 1 BATAVIA. Wed. IT was officially announced that the Butch Commission -General and the Indonesian delegation will sign the agreement reached late last night at Cheribon, at a plenary session in Batavia on Ncrv. 15 over which Lord Killearn will preside. The Commission-General plans to
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    3,050 TONS ARMY FOOD FOR S'PORE
    197 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ARMY Disposals chiefs, wno have already sold millions of dollars worth of surplus foodstuffs to Singapore rrer chants, have just put on the market another big cons'giiment of food, for which lenders will be accepted. Tho foodstuffs were shipped to
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    REME MAJOR FOUND SHOT
    106 1 REME MAJOR FOUND SHOT Free Press Staff Reporter MAJOR Harold Kerr, REME, was found dead in bed recently with a pistol by h s side. His release group was 46, and he was due to return to England for demobilisation this month. H e was 27 years old. unmarried, and
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    COUNCIL IS STORMED
    37 1 Angry ratepayers stormed into a meeting of Lanarkshire County Cjfjiv.ii in p:« \:t ac'iinst a «1H in raUs from 2s 9d to 7s 2 i. An emergency meeting will cJivsidoc the siiuation next Tuesday.
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      MINER SANK A SHAFT UN HIS ROOM
      95 3 a Shetol hours every he had bored the foundations he bored a ind down the t he testing: an ]phe has worked JSntv and whlch v the Ministry Oeone Hectoi Sheffield, believes revent a recurd of accident rost him his hZe of fifteen.
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      OUT OF HIS ELEMENT
      22 3 na:. seaman who could 2*«n was rescued from th? Lea at Broxfcourne by 17--i Miss Jean Spearman. Oi
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      YOUTH PUT FIRST
      28 3 Loddon (Norfolk* Rural District Council has decided to provide special bungalow homes for old people,but thfe housing of young couples is to have first priority.
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      Curtsey to Queen
      66 3 Margaret Lockwooj looks on as Joan Renotit curtsi.s to the Queen at the end of the Royal Command Film Show at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square, London. Many British and American film stars attended this great occasion, and their Majesties snent twenty minutes after the show talking
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      Atomics for all in London town
      214 3 SCIENTIFICALLY minded Londoners are getting to grips 0 with the mysteries of atomic energy with the aid of a compact exhibition now on view at the Science Museum in South Kensington. Here they are to be seen daily, poring over a series of exhibits
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      BATHING BELLES PROFIT TOWN
      78 3 BATHING beauty parades have brought Morecamba. Lanes, a profit of £3,562 in the year, Councillor J. Yates, chairman of the Bath Committee, said when he replied to critics of the parades. He said. "To those people who used strong arguments against them, I would say they
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      FAMOUS STREET TO BE 'CLEANED'
      133 3 •BOPKEIPERS in London s Ox- ford Street have joined to-:-.paign to clear the ts unwelcome element' -hi zrr::^ arcades, sideAm and carrowmen. *e in the move to restare the street to its former glory world's famous >aoppmg centrfs will be a mass .1 within the
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      TOWN IS BUYING FAMOUS GROUND
      51 3 tatridsc Ur.an Cojncii is nefor the purehas of the ■10 Cricket Ground nu;sny ol JSJF Kent and England cric- md has been derelict I it was given up by the War two y^ars ago. Purchase Mt vet been agreed. k iike.y to be betveen ind
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      BOWL WORTH £1,000
      22 3 Bowl in Ep#crih. Lines, Parish Church is being sold to tlie British Museum for ono, as a sixteenth-century specimen.
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      GOODS POURING FROM US. FACTORIES
      338 3 GOODS POURING FROM US. FACTORIES DWELLING quantities of goods are pouring from American J factories, but a general buyers' market still remains months away, writes Harold Fair, Reuter's correspondent m New York. Factory shipments of seven major types of consumer durable goods cooking appliances, electric irons, heatinrr stoves, laundry equipment,
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      ROYAL BOUQUET
      84 3 SPEED RECORD B\ ONE-LEGGED MAN OIX-FOOTER. one-leegea Lt.- Col. G3ldie Gardner, \*ho recently returned to his London motor ag nt's business jr:m th^ Army, has achieved hit, life's ambition to motor at over 150 ra.p.h. in a British "baby" car. On a 12-mile stretch of coacrete motor roaa
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      'Deserters help dope smugglers
      278 3 Hayley Catherine Rose Vivian, tour-month -old daughter ot Jo*.n Mills, British film star and actor, and his wife. Mary Hayley Bel:. the playwright, was christened at Denham after making gher first film appearance in her father's newest pictur\ "So Well Remembered/' In the picture are also
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      EX-NAVAL SHIPS JOIN SMUGGLERS
      189 3 AT RYE (Sussex), the scene in Napoleonic days of repeated clashes between smugglers and preventive men, the first of the new smugglers has been fined £250. On his demobilisation Alan Whately-Smith. 21 -year-old exRoyal Marine Commando officer, of Edgware-road, London, bought a 40ft., 12- ton craft
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      Colleen becomes top cigar seller
      185 3 JOAN O'Sullivan left her lather's farm in tiny Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, in 1922 and came to London. She was just 16. Now her earnings are £2,000 a year. She has achieved success by becoming a traveller in cigars probably the only cigar saleswoman on the
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      MINE HEROES ARE REMEBERED
      52 3 Memorial to be erected in Dmham Cathedral to the miners who died in Durham county pits will be inscribed"Remember beTore God that Durham miners who have given their lives in the pits and those of this county who are working in darkness and danger in those
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      BOYS TOUR A THEATRE
      122 3 TWELVE boys, with their travelling theatre, have started a six week tour of 36 towns, chiefly in Southern England. They have been chosen from boys' clubs all over the country and trained at the Arts Training Centre, Cranbrook, Kent, by Mr. Anthony Thomas, drama adviser, National
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      LABOIR IS SCARCE
      34 3 Shortage of clothing is due not to the export drive, but to lack of labour in clothing factories. Mr H. A. Marquand. Secretary fo; Overseas Trade, told Bristol Chamber of Commerce.
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      PAKADISE ENDS
      35 3 Income i&i »t »r> U*» a re■jaidless of the Hm of incocaa is proposed ir> ine Bermuda Finance Committees annual budget report Bermuda island paradise of the Western AUantictUM nrv^r known ir^n;* tax
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      COMPENSATION BOARD IN S'PORE
      330 5 COMPENSATION BOARD IN S'PORE Action by Govt. THE Singapore Government have set up a Compensation Board which will adjudicate in disputes arising out of land and property acquisition and requisition occurring between Government Departments and the public. The Board has been set up under the Singapore Essential Regulations (Compensation Board)
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      FILM TELLS STORY OF RADAR
      46 5 FILM TELLS STORY OF RADAR p- .film t sa than the gf£.\ it stop tj win unI c sence r :ht s. nes :r.ade l -je ration Pmf"- :hnical who t mmm iM4«or h effort r r Transp.^-1 S <p Njv /I ::.rriand tt ves .riud-
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      WOEKSHOP FIRE
      10 5 r re- Streer s quickpti r re Brigade.
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      King approves new RAF badges
      121 5 ■feigns ior the new rank badges which will be worn l» aircrew of the Kovai Air Force below officer rank, l*n* the re r?;ini>ation of aircrew into new categories, R bctt approved !>v the King. t mbroidered in gold on an improver 99 which is,
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      S.C.R.C. SOCIAL
      16 5 ■:;ds are that the S.CR.C. is Jiatea da^c- it the clubI Tom 4 to
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      H.K. HOTEL IS BOMBED
      92 5 nOUR people were seriously inT jured when a bomb exploded in the Lukhoitung Chinese hotel in Hong Kong on Tuesday night, following the owner's refusal to pay "protection money to a gane of extortionists who had been preying on hotels, restaurants and goldsmiths. It was the
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      Temple By Night
      64 5 This is a night photograph of the Mah Chor Keong temple in Telnk Ayer Street, Singapore, where a six -day "Victory Prayers" service has just ended. Thousands attended the service, which was the first of its kind to be held since the liberation. The temple occupies one
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      RUBBER OUTPUTS
      22 5 The following rubber crops are reported for October: Haytor 10.000 lb., Lunas 48.200 lb., Nyalas 49.210 lb., Tapah 88,315 lb.
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      UK HEROES WILL BE REMEMBERED
      250 5 rE Government of Hong Kong and its subjects have not forgotten those who died or suffered in the short but heroic defence of the Colony. An announcement has been made proposing the establishment of a Welfare Fund to aid dependants of members of all organisations
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      DRIVER JAILED FOR THEFT
      75 5 A 21 -year-old Chinese, Lim Boon Kon°\ driver of a three-ton lorry for° the General TransnorJ Cb., was sentenced to two months rigorous imprisonment by the Singapore Fourth Magistrate yesterday for stealing petrol from a G.T.C. lorry at Covent Gulden, Singanore, on Sept. 23. A CID.
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      MEMORIAL TO JAP VICTIMS
      213 5 AKota Tinggi (Johore) dis- patch to the Nangyang Siang Pau describes a visit to the almo-f. completed memorial] to the Chinese massacred by: the Japanese there. The memorial, standing on the hill behind the Govarnmont Hospital, two miles from Kota Tinggi town haj been erected in
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      NEW MOVE TO FIGHT CRIME
      96 5 AN elaborate network of 19 Police boxes, placed at various strategic points covering the whole of the town, is the latest step the Police are taking to combat crime in Penang The boxes will be manned day and night and will have telephone in them
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      1,444 due from China on Nov. 17
      177 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A SHIP carrying 1,444 Chinese ex Malayans evacuated to China during the war, will be arriving in Singapore or Nov. 17. The party comprises 1,294 adults and 150 children bound for Singapore and places in the Malayan Union, who
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      ADM. HARCOURT FOR MEDITERRANEAN
      39 5 Vice-Admiral Harcourt, who accepted the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong, has been appointed Second-in-Command Mediterranean Fleet from Jan. 7, announces the Admiralty. Vice-Adm. Harcourt. remained in Hong Kong as C.in-C. after the Jap surrender.— Reuter.
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      HUNDREDS MAY HAVE TO LEAVE SCHOOL
      331 5 Free Press Staff Reporter QEVERAL hundred Singapore schoolchildren lace <he |J prospect of being denied the opportunity of continuing their studies at Government schools should they fail in 'he final examinations to be held shortly. These pupils are over agers made <o by circumstances
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      N.E.I. SUGAR PRICES FALL
      74 5 THE present slump in N.E.I. rock sugar prices in Singapore is mainly due to the arrival of supplies from other sources, such as Australia, Indochina and Hong Kong. It, is reported that a large consignment of Formosan brown sugar has arrived in Hong Kong pending shipment
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      SALE OF ARMY SURPLUS FOODSTUFFS.
      127 5 1. Tenders are invited for the purchase of the following quantities ct Army Foodstuffs: Tinned Beef 550 Tons Tinned Mutton 1.000 Tens Tinned Luncheon Meat 100 Tans Tinned Variety Meat 350 T-ns Tinned Meat Vegetables 253 Tons Tinned Eacon 01 Tons Tinned Salmon and Pilchard?
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      PUBLIC LECTURE
      34 5 There will be n publK? lecture at the Singapore Theosophical Society. No. 8, Cairnhill Road. today at 8.30 p.m. The subject is "The Training of an Occultist." by Mrs. R. v*on Krusenstiema
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      ENGLAND BEAT WALES 3-0
      423 7 forwards Display Fine Understanding in it,* iw rll i M *N CIffi STER, Wednesday. I I *°F*l ln ternational to be played in England £?JL 1938 En^ nd b««t Wales three-nil before a crowd o 60,000 at .Manchester today and .so became alm^t sure of winning
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      Marcel Cerdan Tipped To Beat American
      98 7 Marcel Cerdan Tipped To Beat American Par k Wed. [am lerdan. H* EZ French m>" Hrweight <& Lit P*£ P-jS, York where he tffl %in rru--»n. (ieorfe 1 w, P^ensr*" J** predict that Ceroid th 5VL* mill hevtt Shrams Jjthc sli?hte>: difficulty. ■T^nchnun was per5 presented with his 5 cute
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      RUGBY RESULTS
      45 7 LONDON. fVcd. The following are the results of Rugby Union Piraes Dla.'e^l to-day Cambridge University 28. Guy's Hospital 5: Oxford University 10, Oxford Univ. Greyhounds 6; United Services Portsmouth) 26. Royal Naval College (Greenwich) 4. Rvfrfcy League Bramley 4. Wakefleld Trinity 18.— Reuter
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      Three-One Hockey Win For S.R.C.
      410 7 I:>\ Our Hockey Reporter STERDAVS pa dang hockey match proved to be a iast ::ame and, although the S.R.C. scored an irifturv over the C:ible Wireless by three goals to one, qpMffcffpsrih %:i\e an exceHent display of quick, rpa^n? mo\< a: Wireless forwards been given
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      S.C.R.C. RUGBY
      25 7  -  ..arfl^s Colround to- R r E. J.»g, Huat, On? Siii I n A l. I tat Mah Guaa Leorife. Low Kee Pow G.Lon
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      BROWN UNFIT
      10 7 BROWN UN FIT LB? Wed. v^nts man, for MCC. Reuter
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      HOCKEY MEETING
      30 7 by ;ne ft 50 H ..ition ar for the ..z ui s g* r itci to ItL 1: bw seconr i rw goals. PL ard C..:t-nmole il UJC.
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      COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
      36 7 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA I WORTH L ftf M\(m\,,.- L li Camit- by *Xi f surplus K I r Jin *>- and The equip- > and >^ mach.nc l*> fe 'ing equipfiJE*™-- and 1.800 ■Mi .v. lrJcn Si n? a-
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      QUANTITY SIRVEYOR
      11 7 S*?2 Technical inelud- marked Technical :o 177 a Read.
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      BRADMAN STILL A MASTER BATSMAN
      225 7 FROM NORMAN PRESTON MELBOURNE, Wed. DON BRADMAN tcxiay c;i<Ji nit-l tnc opinion formed at Adelaide that he lost none of his skill and wil] again be the biggest headache to the English bowlers. There is, however, no reason for depression over the mastery oi the
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      TENGAH WENT OUT LIKE DAMP SQUIB
      241 7 TENGAH WENT OUT LIKE DAMP SQUIB picture. Bv Our Soccer Reportr*|ENGAH Airmen sparkled In the middle s ages ol uhe.r Victory Cup tie at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday but then went- out like a damp squib and lost by three goals to one to the RMAJB. (Sembawang), who will meet
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      Australians Easily Took The Honours
      296 7 From Bill Bowes MELBOURNE. Wed. ARTHUR Morris, left-hand opening bat, and Don Bradman, enabled an Australian Eleven to take easy first innings honours against the M.C.C. at Melbourne. Morris batted for 258 minutes for his 115 and hit one four; Bradman batted 215 minutes and
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      Scoreboard
      303 7 M.C.C. IST INNS. 314 AUSTRALIAN XI IST INNS. Harvey c Ikin b Smith 22 Morris c Evans b Yardley 115 Bradman c Pol hard b Compton 106 Hassett e Hutton b Smith 28 Miller c Evans b Smith 5 Pettiford not out 27 McCool not oat It Extras 2
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      DRAUGHTS MATCH
      62 7 rB following lave been selected lo represent the Treasury Department r.^inst the Chinese Swimming Club in a returr, game of Draughts at Irr JCSA. Canteen rn Saturday a* 2.30 p.m. Lim Yew Boon. J. Klyne. Tan Chem Kim H. M. Ibrah m. Cheng Ah Chon? and M. A.
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      40 3 T ARZ AN Tikar Surprised By Edgar Rice Burroughs f '<^\7 ThE BUP-ALO 1 1 r=>=—^MßiflHBsT^l |his TIMIN3 UNEXPECTEDLY THROWN I 7T3P^^ 41 :a =^Q MiS HE^D, OFPTNE YOUNG UON SAILED r//^ TXIvS CHARGED SW.FT.Y Bull f^^i'lJl^m uuQnCQO,^ WORS^"tos^s",^ E
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      145 7 AVO 1 RADIO ELECTRICAL TESTING INSTRUMENTS SEOW KUAN COMPMY. Dfcety GkM. Situwre. Tel 7787. PIANO TUNERS NANC HENG dc CO.. ItJ- IM Tjrtmi m f Ksrmnws g mrnmumnm. TENDERS The Chief Engineer, Singapore Dittrict invites tenders for the removal of sawdust it wood shavings from the E 8.0. Workshops. Alexandra
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