The Singapore Free Press, 15 November 1946

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    15 1 LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE fN MALAYA l i6.:w. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1946. PRICt 10 CENTS
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    INQUIRIES FOR RUBBER POUR IN
    319 1 INQUIRIES FOR RUBBER POUR IN Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE rubber dealers are making extensive preparations for the return of the free market on Monday, and already inquiries for forward dealings have been received from many parts of the world. But the price is not quite satisfactory to buyer and
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    LUNCH SCORK AT SYDNEY
    67 1 SYDNEY, Today. The M.C.C. won trre toss but put New South Wales in to bat in the four-day match' which started here to-day, and tlic lunch-time scores were: N.S.W.: 57 lor two wickets (Carmody c Ediich b Bedser 7 Barnes c Yardley b Edrich I Pettiford
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    World has large surplus of grain
    225 1 LONDON, Thursday. MplllJU of grain exist in the world to-day, '•umpelJ, Reuter's Financial Editor, from The world's wheat crop i s the biggest since 1940. ir.p i> the bicrsest ever known and of outstandThey make the much-publicised grain ti-h zone of Germany and the
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    U.K. POLICE HOLD STERN GAMG MAN
    59 1 Lb v L^NDo.\ Trims branch a n al'e R ed ian-» a* h e country *"T5 p x, Po:ish *m^ va todav Cunarmst: ..ber-a i'- was arrest--6*4 oti Or d ention m E^ «te r InvestipJ i? CaJ«° SaV hOW tne y KJ? groups
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    MAN HELD FEW MINUTES AFTER ROBBERY
    89 1 MAN HELD FEW MINUTES AFTER ROBBERY ONLY one robbery was reported in Singapore last night. Shortly after 9 p.m. three Chinese, one of whom was armed w th a pistol, entered a hous e in Race Course Road occupied by dance hostesses. A neighbour informed the police, and withn a
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    DUTCH CHANGE PLAN
    28 1 The Dutch Commission General which was to retur n to Holland tomorrow from Java, has postponed departure, says U.P. Dscussions with the Indonesians will continue.
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    95 KILLED BY GUERILLA BAND
    126 1 ATHENS, Thurs. FIFTY men. women and children and 45 soldiers have been killed by a guer lla band some 1.000 strong which attacked a v'ilage on th*» outskirts of Northern Greece Oreek military heads and 1«*4" €rs of the opposition political parties met the Prime
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    SO THIS IS LONDON
    30 1 SO THIS IS LONDON A restraining hand for a Kudu, which is taking its first look at London, on arrival with the first big consignment of animals for the Zoo.
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    Kluang men to protest again
    208 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. ALL London evening newspapers give a top front-page prominence to interviews with some of the Kluang para troopers who arrived at Southampton by the Otranto this afternoon. The men, who ironically cheered the Military Police standing on the quayside, complained
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    POLICE FIND CIGARETTES
    113 1 n Free p ress Staff Reporter Ever since the lighter containing a carco of 37^ ra*^ Yesterday morning Mr. A R MacEwan. A.S.P. attached to the u and Ins P 3ct °r Sanderson of t^e Singapore Harbour Board Police and a party of detectives proceeded to an
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    PRIVY COUNCIL MAY HEAR SARAWAK CASE
    141 1 PRIVY COUNCIL MAY HEAR SARAWAK CASE LONDON Thurs MR. ANTHONY BROOKE Has 111 issued the following statement on the announcement, publish^ by the Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. Arthur CreechJones, in Singapore on Nov. 13: "No one familiar with the facts could claim that the decision to annex Sarawak was
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    GOVERNOR AT WAR TRIAL
    61 1 The' Governor and Lady Gimson, accompanied by Colonel Lamb and Colonel Kerren of the War Crimes Department, attended a trial at the Victoria Memorial Hall this morning of ihe Japanese high-ups of the Burma Siam railway. .Colonel Yaiiag:ta. the fourth accused, was in the witness box,
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    FOOL STRIKES IN THE RUHR
    116 1 DUSSELDORF. Thurs JEVERAL minor strikes lasting only a few hours were repor: ed today as news reached th* Ruhr population that the bread ration is to b? cut bv half nexTve?k and the ration made up with an issue of biscuits and sugar A soual
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    PETROL RATION HOPE
    23 1 If Government hopes are realised, petrol rationing the Britain will end before next March says Peuter quoting the Daily Matf
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      267 1 Keep ABREAST of the TIMES ensure a regular supply of British and American periodicals With few exceptions any British or American periodical can be supplied on a subscription bab* British periodicals are despatched direct from this Office and supply will commence immediately American periodicals will be supplied direct from America
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      29 1 Latest Arrivals Furnishing Fabrics Inidih an >t t4M per yar« Damask Cloth (width iV't at $5 M 'per yard CHOTIRMALL'S 41 -«s. h g h mtm, SINGAPORE. TEL. 795?
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      SHIP RADIUM ON DEMAND
      373 3 LARGE supplies of radium are now available in Canada for shipment to any part of the world, Mr. Arthur Wilding, Canadian Government Commercial Agent in Singapore announces. Export contacts are being sought by Eldorado Mining and Refining, Ltd. of Toronto, he said, which is one of
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      ATLANTIC ISLE MAY SOON BE ABANDONED
      155 3 UAVING carried on all their lives the grim, unending battle with the Atlantic— a struggle fought by their forefathers for hundreds of years— bofore them, the inhabitants of Innismurray Island, of the north coast of Sligo. Ireland, have at last reached the stage when
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      CHARGED £17 FOR £1 WEEK HOUSE
      121 3 '^PPALLING' and a sordid story of exploitation 1 were the terms used by the chairman or the Westminster (London) Rent Tribunal when he announced the reduction of tour weekly rents lrom a total of £1 15s to £2 Cs. (d. "YOU have heara the
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      MORE TOURISTS FOR FRANCE
      49 3 Tourist trade between Britain and France is to be boosted under a joint commercial agrec--1 ment likely to be announce scon. Arrangements have also been made lor the maximum exchange of bookr: and films. More S-oves, stockings, jewellery and scent will go to Biiti::h shops.
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      CHELSEA WILL HELP ARTISTS
      120 3 A TENDENCY towards the "crowding out" of Chelsea artists and craftsmen from their studios, so that these might be let more profitably or used commercially is being fought by the Che'.sea Borough Council. Describing attempts to retain Chelsea as an "artists' borough" the Mayor said that
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      RUSSIA BUYS UK JET ENGINES
      62 3 Britain has just sold to Soviet Icu^sia some of its best-known makes of gas-tuibine engines The Russians have bought 20 Rolls-Royce Nenes and Derwents. T:e Nene jet engine is fitted to the new 600 m.p.h. Vickers Su per-marine fighter which was demonstrated recently. Derwents powered
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      CANASA READY TO
      72 3 CANASA REA DY TO Designed to hold 5,0G0,000 books, Oxford's new Bodleian Library will cope with the intake of the next two hundred years. The foundation stone of the new Library was laid by Queen Mary in 1937 and it was finished in 1940. but the formal opening was postponed
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      Heart massage Saved thousands
      126 3 Heart massage Sa ved thousands THOISANDS of Allied soldiers who otherwise would have btfn dead are today walking about, well and strong, as esult of heart massage. the treatment were given to the Interol Surgeons at Detroit by the London sur r Mr Hamilton Bailey, who soid he perfected the
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      Forgotten: 40 Tons Of Meat
      64 3 rORTY tons of tinned meat has lain three years in stables and outbuildings at Norton Conyers Hall, near Ripon. Yorks. The Government set up the dump in 1940. At one time 1.000 tons of food was there. Major R. H. Turton (C Thirsk and Malt
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      PENNIES ARE RATIONED
      85 3 liANK cashiers In Britain have bec n instructed to ration copper com supplies to their customers, because of an acute seasonal shortage of pennies and halfpennies A bank official said: "Trip shortage is caused chiefly by the weather. When a cold spell cimes along the coppers go
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      'KING' WAS TWICE 'CROWNED'
      196 3 'KING' WAS TWICE 'CROWNED' If ING" ol Ireland's tinkers. Martin Ward, who during his reign (which lasts his liietime> must never work or pay for a drink in the pr?s?nce of his "subjects" has been tw r*» "crowned The first crowning was at Bailinasloe, Co. Galway. last year, when the
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      HULDERS ON VISIT
      12 3 Dutch builders are visiting London to inspect housing sites.
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      OFFICERS LEAVE SHIPS
      40 3 OFFICERS LEAVE SHIPS the service of in the last 12 1 I during the -red mor.Captain W H. iual meeting ol jineer Oflim London recently conditions t>f would be •able s^r- r the payf >ncy to be I u tment
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      U.K. JETS FOR U.S.
      27 3 Plans to import British jet *n seines for experimental installat:on in US. commercial planes :ne announced by the American; hit Lines in Washington.
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      Bed-lights save the soldiers' eves
      323 3 Bed-lights save the soldiers eves THERE are twelve soldiers in Brighton who, are not on'■.--1 allowed to read in bed for as long as they like, bvt ai given bedside lamps to save straining their eyes. The men, attached to 122 Coy, RASC, in Preston Parades, are the first in
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      Toadstools In The Rain
      108 3 /CARRYING baskets and urnbrellas, sixty famous scientists scoured Windsor Great Park in heavy rain in the first post-war international toadstool hunt. They were celebrating the fiftieth year of the British Mycological Society a body of men and women who study fungi as a science. Among them
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      APPEAL TO THIEVES
      52 3 Appeal to thieves who stole <£ 10,000 worth of her jewellery »s made by Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington. for the return of a pair of cufT-links and a ?o!d tiepin of sentimental value. The links belonged to her husband, the pin ta her br:ther, bo h killed
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      NAVY FORGE AHEAD WITH HOUSING
      357 5 NAVY FORGE AHEAD WITH HOUSING Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE the Army await War Office decisions as to their future strength in Singapore, meanwhile repairing prewar barracks and building semi-perma-nent camps to ease the housing situation, and the RAF shelve ambitious construction plans pending financial provisions, the Navy in Singapore
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      MALAYA MAY BID AT AUSSIE SALE
      217 5 I rrc Pros Staff Reporter gilit Australian Army surplus engineering equip U mtnt i> hv.v: riTered for sale at Lae, New Guinea, and fobaul. !fci l.ritain. in a week's time, machinery ideal for 1 <,f part oi" Malaya's tin-mining industry re not being accepted,
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      NEW AIR SERVICE
      102 5 w 11 shortly through ■to. Ho:.? K .7 Bangkok. i md vice Commer- quoted UP. In tiie Supreme Court yesterday, members of the Singapore Bar gathered to say "Goodbye" to Mr. Justice N. A. Worley who is leaving on Saturday for British Guiana to take up office
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      CHINESE TO HANG IN ARMS CASE
      60 5 CHIN ESE TO HANG IN ARMS CASE YOUNG Chinese, Choa Teck Khun, was sentenced to death by hanging by Mr. Justice Jobling at the Singapore Assizes yesterday, when the common jury returned a verdict of guilty of "carrying arms" under the Public 'Order and Safety Proclamation against him. Mr. M.
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      Singapore road toll increases
      128 5 Singapore road toll increases Free Press Staff Reporter BUKIT Timah Road, North Bridge Road, Geylang Road and Serangoon Road continue to be the four "black spots'' of Singapore for road deaths. In spite of more rigid traffic control, more vehicles on the road are causing still increasing number of accidents.
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      LINSEED OIL
      62 5 Malaya's ailjcation of linseed oil from India for the year ending March 31, 1947, may be procured commercially. Singapore and Malayan Union importers, who have firm offers from established shippers and crushers In India, should submit their applications for import licences to: The Registrar of Imports and Exports.
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      'GASLIGHT' IN S'PORE
      226 5 Free Press StafT Reporter F CSE in Singapore who are fond of old-fashioned melodrama can have a gala week at the Vi" f oria Theatre where Patrick Hamilton's "Gasl :§ht. M orcduccd under tho auspices of CSE is taktnf th? place -rather unsuccessfully, I feel— of "Madame
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      BAR PAYS TRIBUTE
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      FORCES NOT HOLDING BACK ARTISTES
      242 5 Free Press Staff Reporter •THE head of the CSE organisation in South-East Asia yes--1 terday described as "completely untrue" a Hong Kong message stating that "provincial theatre in Britain are being robbed of some of their best Top o' the Bill' performers by air trooping
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      JAP DIES ON WAY TO TRIAL
      94 5 THE Empress of Australia sailed from Hong Kong for Singapore yesterday carrying 19 Japanese suspects from Kure for trial in SEAC in connection wiih "Death Railway'' war crimes. Ore of the Japanese committed ruicide and was buried at sea. Also abjard the Empress of
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      S'pore clears its mosquitoes
      197 5 Free Press Staff Reporter NOW that the Municipal Commissioners have approved an expenditure of mere than $180,000 for rehabilitation purposes for the anti-mosquito department, work is going ahead on a large scale to repair the damage caused by theJaps in malaria prevention, and the department is
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      TOURS MALAYA
      25 5 Mr. S. K. Chettur representative of the Indian Government in Malaya, left last night for a week's tour of central and northern Malaya.
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      LORRY CURFEW BEGINS TODAY
      122 5 CINGAPORE'S lorry curfew designed to end looting of godowns and warehouses begins today. Between the hours of 7p.m. and 5 a.m. no goods vehicles will t>3 allowed to travel along roa<is bounding Singapore's main civilian and military godown areas without a special permit The curfew will
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      SEVEN-A-SIDE HOCKEY FINAL AT SRC TODAY
      107 7 tfllß ka 01 the n in the ptaring ravnds the Singapt txreal Club seven-a--iment will end the final between i Onfce'l 'earn «No IV' Ross's U un 'No. V l So er?n do the prospects of be to-day <eiy to re- doub* un the
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      CHANGI SOCCEER
      8 7 Chang! yesChar. gi > drew U* Devonshire
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      All Blues Rugby To Start Soon
      294 7  -  Winger By THE Negri AU Blues Rugby Club, I note, have lost little time 1 in trying to start again the competition for the* trophy they presented for Asiatic inter-state rugby. The cup, I understand, is safe with its last winners, Perak. If no'
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      The Myra Cup
      89 7 The My ra Cup SILVER challenge cup, known as in "The Myra Cup'* has been returned to HQ Singapore Districtt by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in whose custody H has been sine; the fall of Singapore. The cup bears no other inscription save that of the Title
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      HOCKEY NOTICE
      42 7 A LI. cub: and associations which wer« affiliated to the Singapore Hockey Association before the war are requested to send th? names and addresses of their representatives to Mr. Raymond Mlnjoot. c/o the Singapore Recreatior Club, as roon as possible.
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      S.R.C. HOCKEY XI
      62 7 J\HE following have been selected 10 represent the Singapore Rec I -.itior Club at hockey against St. Andrew'. Old Boys on the padang on Monday bul'y-cff at 5 15 p.m.: R Rozario: C. Pansy, P. Kleinman D. Sawyer. F. Norohns. J Scheerder H. D'Rosario. R. Koenitz. Sandy
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      HOME FOOTBALL FIXTURES
      258 7 Home football fixtures for next Saturday, Nov. 23. are as follows: ENGLISH LEAGUE MRST DIVISION Bolton Wandrs v. Derby Co. Charlton Ath. v. Blackburn Chelsea v. Aston Villa Orlmsby Town v. Brentford Leeds Utd. Blackpool Liverpool v. Arsenal Manchester U. r. Huddersfield M "borough v. Portsmouth Preston
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      BEDSER'S FORM IS VITAL IN TODAY'S GAME
      1008 7 BEDSER' S FORM IS VITAL IN TODAY'S GAME From Bill Bowes SYDNEY, Friday. rE form of Alec Bedser will be the main point of interest for the English Test selectors in the game starting on this famous Sydney Cricket ground to-day between the M.C.C. and New South Wales. Wally Hammond
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      PLAN FOR BRITISH BOXING
      210 7 PLAN FOR BRITISH BOXING LONDON, Thurs. nOXING promoter Jack SoloE mons has launched a drive to strengthen Britain's challenge for the world heavyweight title held by Joe Louis of the United States. He has announced that he hopes to lurt worthy contenders with £1,000 as prizes in an open heavyweight
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      CONDA v SON OF KONG TOMORROW
      136 7 ONE year of Saturday night wrestling programmes will bj completed to-morrow at the Great World arena. Since the liberation, over 70 promotions have been put on in Singapore and over 120,000 fans have attended. The main attraction to-monow will be between the 200-lb Chinese
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      32 3 VICTORIA THEATRE TONIGHT AT 8.30 P.M. FOR 2 NIGHTS A Blanche Littler Company in "GASLIGHT" Patrick Hamilton's Famous Play Booking open now ROBINSON'S, Raffles Place Theatre Box Office 6 p.m.— B p.m.
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      67 3 JARZAN Tikar Wins By Edgar Rice Burroughs 1 /ac""^~" i m tm- i V./^ .^N^ED ON n.5 1 THE 3, r -^^o >.\OEkE: \rMS>^ A TA^ ON Tm£ PRAIRIE A> v 3^==^_o y^J^ rAND &EPORE He COULD 5R3 P cr ;C;N H -^"=^s Umlr *****N3 ths -oSsin& l AUSTIN T,^
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