The Singapore Free Press, 18 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • Article
      DSO's SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY
      731 2 By A Special Correspondent THE Thin Red Line* made its last appearance on a battlefield on 30th December, 1885, at Ginnis. a Sudanese village where a combined AngloEgyptian force defeated the Dervishes. The Royal Berkshires, the Queen's Own Royal West Rents and I*3 Green Howards were dressed
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      4 2 NO RESPECiriR OF PERSON
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    • Article
      POISON GAS IS 'BETTER'
      319 2  -  THOMAS R. HENRY AIR-CARRIED poisons 1,000 times more deadly than the phosgene gas of the first world war now are m the hands of the U.S. army's chemical warfare service. They are the basis lor rumours of a "biological weapon worse than the atomic bomb." The
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      2-way stretch
      415 2  -  Robert Lewis An open Letter from"] America to England's Minister of Education. irOU, Miss Wilkinson, 1 and all British women, are thirsting or bursting for a "two-way stretch/ How fortunate, then, are these British teachers m America, where the "two-way stretch" available. Yes, it's available, but the only
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      61 2 LOCALLY TO W£? M REMbIUTA approve^by tue mcAton mi :^^Uc^^ 2bO SWAM THE TRADE MARK OP PRODUCTIONS rlM |n J At lafct— Malaya > v■ I .Fittings— Basin. W.C. Close:- by skilled craftsmen of many years I proved by the Singapore Municipal I offering these quahtv products to t j
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      418 2 RADIO MALAYA and 1593 metres: 1045 pjn. to HCd pm. CSV 16.84 metres; 11.00 pjn. to Singapore I?Jt am GSF 19 82 and 1684 meti^s. L'LO NLTWORK (Chinese Indian* Mn g 225 metres; also 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. 4.32 j mepacyrles per second (61 metre band) 7.30 p.m Sporting
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      280 2 Crossword Puzzle No. 70 DOWN f^l F" 5 h^^j* h I F 5 |i~" 1 Emblem or contrivance. ,I Vv> -rr 2 Counsellor. £g fe. "j Hj 3 Convincing. S 4 Throat ailment g^ g ~T^ "MZ §1 fej 6 Beard. "iT" !^?1 -i j^ 7 Breakiast dish 8 Accredited
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      66 2 your lucky star' h-rtunt forecast to j v opit- Oorn today BORN today your mount** art- governed by h^h and interr:tj. which pw* the ahili:\ to le»d otto edutation and siatfsnuiM'P You ha\e a 6e*-> wsiMt mankind and its P** 0 and you an- quick, intiiiw and hrlliantlj corrrctiiw* drrMonv
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1946. Men Wanted
      461 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1946. Men Wanted One of the more trying problems awaiting settlement m South East Asia is the question of defence, its organisation, who is to pay for it and how, and, perhaps even more difficult, where to find the manpower to provide it.
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      Good Morning ....
      1399 4  - Good Morning Frank Owen By THE most sensible thing done m Britain has been done by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee. He had the guts to tell the Labour Party, the bosses of the T.U.C. (and also the whole country) two plain and painful truths. They hurt, but they've
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      273 4 EX-SERGEANT JOHN FOSTKR, who toured Germany recently with the Army F.im Unit, is now manager-operator of a pioneer mobile cinema m England, which has given its first shows at West Hoathly mi n Sussex and Liphoo'; m Hampshira. Eleve n other ex-servicemen, most of whom toured the
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    • Letter To The Editor
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        MASSEY EXPLAINS
        634 4 PERMIT me to take space m your valued paper to clarify certain statements which were made m your editorial columns on Thursday, November 7, concerning Australian trade. While the correctness of some of those statements is admitted. I would suggest that m quoting from the particular to the
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  • SPORTS PAGE
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      BAKSI PUNCHED MY BREATH AWAY
      1147 6  -  Freddie Mills All In The Game In George Chisholm LONDON, By Air Mail. THE question sporting Britain is asking today is: "Why was Freddie Mills sent m to the slaughter against Joe Baksi?" Some of the newspapers: are attempting to answer it by quoting promoter
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      Bruce Woodcock Watches The 'Slaughter'
      29 6 picture. I British heavyweight cham- pion, Bruce Woodcock, has a ringside seat at the Harringay fight between Freddie Mills and Joe Baksi Kemsley newspapers'
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      N. S. TAMILS BEAT POLICE FOUR-ONE
      110 6 SEREMBAN, Fri THE Ceylon Tamil Association scored a convincing win at hockey today at the N.S. padang they defeated the Police XI by 4 goals to 1. The play was toe one-sided to bp interesting. The Police opened the scoring early m the first
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      SNOOKER PROSPECTS ARE OPEN
      342 6 SNOOKER PROSPECTS ARE OPEN 1 '«m Archi,. lor 20 years ouu* so far as champioSfcV matches a: c conS professionals are S to the fcime'sSJ^fiS maestro quelled v tw, decades ago. Ppcfc rin th. eoing to plump for L* a hju.v ,o sett] Also arrived Cfaft narhy :i. N v
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      68 6 JAINt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya /BEFORE I START ASKfNcN /AND I'VE FOUND HIM/^N /CZ^T AOI ...ZN Kit's GOT MORE GOM^JON QUESTIONS, GEORGIE, I'VE 1 f "CLUES (UNLIMITED I Hjj M |^T RESS/ JANE.'-/ GOT A CASE FOR YOU !-> I COULD TRACE THE LOST I uT
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      77 6 SPITFIRE B.P. 1N i M ed i B-f:if! the Muhibb h B P th« BP by m e*JJ thrae. 1 Spi*^re B V Sinplr- 'JJ H.mr J«TJ Manar. 3.*,{Z ton I w, i J Si ir- 7: r '4n« 6—15: ]M beat Adnan X 45—3. R Wei EM Omar CHa
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      WORLD GRAIN HOLD-UP IS NEAREND
      384 8 LONDON, Sunday. OYDNEY GAMPELL who scooped the British press today O with the assertion that the world grain holdup is on the point of collapse, tonight backed his claim with a detailed analysis of the grain position m the United States, Canada and Argentina. Mr.
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      HOME...
      37 8 'Chich-ster is a typical English cathedral city. It had its origin m Roman times when it was called Regnum, its name bein~ changed to "Cissaceaster" after the Saxon invasion. The market cross was built m 1500
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      S'PORE STOCK PRICES TODAY
      62 8 /''ENLRAL Monday morning tfaofcness, and no markets have developed so far. Buying orders for industrials left over from last week wid: Fraser Neave $27i, Malayan Bremri&i $13.50, Gammons $3,974, Rallies Hotels $2.60, Malayan Collieries further weakened to sellers at $2.65. Rubbers were quiet with no noteworthy
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      ARMOIRED CARS USED TO BREAK CAIRO MOB
      47 8 Egyptian police and troops yesterday used armoured cars to break up an attempt by 200 students to march to th e Abd n Palac says A. P. from Cairo The students wanted to demand the removal or Sidky Pasha's government.
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      THE LAST HOURS OF EVA BRAUN
      121 8 THE LAST HOURS OF EVA BRAUN WASHINGTON, Sun. EVA Braun. Hitler's mistress, spent ail her time .n the Chancellery bunker during the last nours of Berlin, m curs ng Hitlers enemies, poiish.ng her nai's and changing her clothes, acccrd ng to an .eye -witness account by Hannas Reitsch. German woman
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      U.S. HAS PILOTLESS A-BOMB ROCKETS
      274 8 WASHINGTON, Sunday. rlE Navy has warned that if there is a third World War, it will have pilot less rockets whizzing through the air thousands of miles an hour to sniff out n targets with atomic bombs. Captain Steadman Teller, chief of the Navy's Guided
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      ESCAPE BID FAILS
      21 8 Two of the five convicts who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs last Thursday night have been recaptured m London.
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      57 8 Dr. E Laidlaw Thompson, Mr. B. W. F. Goodrch, Dr. M C. Bain a -.aia- i» i match'_as they approached the 16th green m the first port- war mat hatth r l w ll Golf Club yesterday Three of the four nlayers m the ma?ch na?ed to fin/ fh' their
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      GOLF CLUB HOLDS 1st POST-WAR MATCH
      436 8 rree Press Staff Reporter MEMBERS of the Royal Singapore Golf Club at Sime Road were fortunate m having perfect weather yesterday tor 1 their first post-war golf match, m which the Captain's team beat the President's by six matches to four. The golf was
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      Eire's turkeys are indignant
      100 8 DUBLIN Sun A LARGESCALE smuggling drive m iurkeys is expected by Eire breeders to follow, the British Ministry of Food decision to classify Eire birds as "foreign," thus giving them a lower price than British and Northern Ireland birds. How turkeys will be kept silent on
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      LABOUR MEETS ATTACK ON ITS FOREIGN POLICY
      112 8 R LONDON a*»l EBELUOUS UxarTJ members' chafe h J Labour G kjj with Riis-ia polry 4 come to d?bate ta the Hoot! Commons tomon Government p:ae\ i fidence Th>; Pr.ir.. M:r.^-/ M: Alt let. hopes by torcir.g t i*i r bel ameadmcn: te
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      ROYAL TRAIN READY
      22 8 The tndi ifck Roya: f: mi ly across Son* Jjj U nady. and the K:r.ea::^ ire zoinc U) B^minffcj***!
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      F.D.R. & CHURCHILL MEMORIALS
      185 8 F.D.R. CHURCHILL MEMORIALS DRITAIN is to erect memorials to two great wartime leaders the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mr. Winston Church 11. The memorial to Roosevelt will take th e form of a statue and garden m Grosvenor Square; that to Churchill, to be erected o n the
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      10 8 S E AS ON N? 57, NORTH BRIDGE RO. SPORE
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      101 8 WEATHER Cloudy With Sea-Breeze WEATHER forecast for 24 hours from noon today, compiled by thr RAF en.ral Forecasting Station. Air Command, South-Fast Asia: C loudy becoming fine tonight. Tomorrow morning fair. Wind generally I ght south-westerly but southeasterly sea bre-ttes tjH set m this afternoon. Sunset C 23 p.m. Sunrise
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