The Singapore Free Press, 19 November 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
Total Pages: 8
1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
    • Article, Illustration
      THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DRIVE
      1129 2  -  W. A. McKENZIE By THOUSANDS of 1 motorists whose names figure on dealers' books will never take delivery of the car they have ordered. By the time their turn comes the car will have undergone so many changes that it will not be the
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      Police Borrow To Buy Cars
      90 2 FIVE-YEAR loans, free of interest, are being made by local authorities to police officers m (East Yorkshire, to buy cars for their duties. An official at the East Riding police headquarters explained: "These loans are being made to seme of the higher ranks who have
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    • Article
      Justice In U.K.
      699 2 COUNTY Courts as they are known today m England and Wales were tir^t established 100 years ago, and they represented a revolution m legal procedure. Eve n before the Norman conquest of Britain m the 11th century there were local courts whose jurisdiction extended over counties. These
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
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      27 2 Use .Cuticura Ointment lor any stubborn itching sk\n troub]e It stops the itching instantly and qmcklv restores the skin to a clear healthy condition. GIVES COOL RELIEF
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      516 2 -your luckySTAR Fortune forecast for people Dorn today YOU have a multitude of talents and your adaptability to all kinds of varying situations can become an asset or a liability. It is up to you which it will become, for if you scatter your interests too widely, your efforts and
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    • Miscellaneous
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      159 2 Crossword Puzzle Ho.jl^ down p I* 5 fTH JL-J^ir 1 Emblem or contrivance "1 >±~ 2 Counsellor. isisa p5 Convincing f 4 Throat ailment. _£_*4— 6 Beard. pf 7 Breakfast d'sh. H X^^*^ 8 Accredited represenwove s?^ V*^ 13 Severity. Ttfr rt L 15 Dwellers m old Spain *H _J—
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  • LEADER PAGE
    • The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, NOV. 19, 1946.
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        Rice Ship Slips By
        372 4 IF is more titan six years since Britain gave up eating rice pudding—the import of the staple food of Asia into Britain is forbidden for the duration of the world rice shortage—yet a ship from U.K. unich put m at Singapore last weekend appeared to carry
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      • Article
        Monty Is Coming
        82 4 SINGAPORE is expected to be 1 on its best behaviour nexw month when Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery-. Chief ol the Imperial General Staff and hero o! the campaigns m th? desert and m Western Europe, arrives to visit the troops. .Montgomery, who has a genius for austerity
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      France is still Nervous
      1498 4  -  Alexander Clifford A Documentary Review by THERE is a famous 1 French scent called "Scandal," and the Paris wits are saying it is the only., fashionable wear just now. Scandals are all the rage. We started a few weeks ago with a slap-up Wine Scandal. This
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    • Letters To The Editor
      • Letter
        Forces Dances
        111 4 THE British Army of the Rhine have opened up dance clubs for its troops, the best known being Berlin and Brussels. Couldn't the author. tie s do the same m Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Public dances arp few and the private sold er ennnot afford to patronise cabarets
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      • Letter
        Club Wanted
        133 4 TY/E should like to add a footnote to your article entitled "Merchant Navy Protest, published m your paper. We are serving on board the "Fort Edmonton" at present lying, together %ith smilar ancillary vessels m the Fleet Train, m His Majesty's Dockyard. Apart from a three week voyage
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    • Article
      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      620 4 MOW playing Becky Sharp m London, m yet another attempt to translate Thackeray's novel 'Vanity Fair' into terms of the stage. the American actress CLAIRE LUCE is also learning to paint and is planning new stage productions. She has just finished an impressionistic portrait of ncr colleague,
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  • SPORTS PAGE
    • Article
      JOCK McAVOY CHALLENGES HAWKINS
      978 6  -  George Chisholm All In The Game From LONDON, By Air Mail. JOCK McAVOY, now 38, has challenged the new middleweight champion, Vince Hawkins, of Eastleigh, for the title. Though m retirement, McAvoy has noted that the new champion is one of the lightest punchers the weight
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    • Article, Illustration
      Brilliant Swedish Goalkeeper
      40 6 Brilliant Swedish Goalkeeper picture loisun LiiidbvT,;, brilliant goalkeeper m the Ncrrkoppin? football team. champion Swedish XI who have just completed a successful tour of Britain. Lindberg is her? seen making a spectacular save m practice at Charlton's ground. Keimley Newspapers'
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    • Article
      More Ball Control Needed In Soccer
      273 6 Archie Quicks Sports hto:t BILLY MEKKDITH, prince if mtett abiS appearances for Wales th<» lasi when hr«n I me at the England-Wa!e> inUrn;;ti nal at MMdMrij 1 with all this physical culture l;:nd i m:!e. Lr m haven i ball control. I made my
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • Advertisement
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      156 6 ft TU A V 1 la.m., 2, 4.15 Phone LAST 5 yA I nAT 6.30, 9.30. 3400 SHOWS THE OUTSTANDING SUCCESS WALTER WALTER ANNS BRBNNAN HUSTON BAXTER PLAYING TO CAPACITY HOUSES! 7oNDON TOMORROW SINGAPORE* opening ALL-MALAYAN opening nov. 7th PREMIERE NOV 20th RALPH RICHARDSON SCHOOL FOR SECRETS with RAYMOND HUNTLEY
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      128 6 vJUI/ Answers JUST F(iR FUN.- 1 White. 2 Sw-??t music. 3. Shaven raveil. 4. Snobby bjbby. 5 Good rid herring J AINt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya <C YES, I HAD A SLIGHT >v I '-AS "CLUES (un)LIMITeD* KIT" BUT HOW THRILLING MWELL, NOT QUITE ?^Pnnr F
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  • NEWS PAGE
    • Article, Illustration
      HOME
      40 8 l>acre Castle has »hp distinction of being built on one of the most romantic sites m Britain On .his spot the Saxon King Athelstan formally took under h»s proiand of the kings Qf Scotland and Cumberland to prevent feuding.
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    • Article
      ATTLEEGETS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
      1160 8 ATTLEE GETS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Continued from Page 1> I i Communists if they opposed tiii3 p policy, but it was really the j V rvAnz problem throughout IbC L >ur mo\ement. We view with alarm tliio deparvuie fj th- central thesis en wh'ch vej this clcion." said Mr. Cross-
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      TRUMAN DEFIES MINES THREAT
      169 8 NEW YORK. Monday. IN an attempt to avert the threatened strike of 400,000 coal miners, the UJS. Government has posted up notices m all the mines saying "This mine is m Government possession and will remain open. Your contract with the Government remains effective." The strike
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      5,946 DIED IN INDIA RIOTS
      138 8 rE Prime Minister, Mr. Clem:nt Attlee, told the House of Commons yesterday m reply to a question that 5,946 people were killed and 14,550 injured m British India since June 29— nearly ail m communal dsturbances. These figures excluld? those In Bihar during November and
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      U.S.I.- DUTCH WILL NOT DECIDE QUICKLY
      458 8 U.S.I.- DUTCH WILL NOT DECIDE QUICKLY BATAVIA, Monday. rTIL the Dutch delegation which has initialled the disagreement for a settlement of the Dutch Indonesian dispute returns to Holland, no decision will be reached by tin Netherlands Government, it is believed here to-day. The draft agreement, reached after two months of
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    • CITY NEWS
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        RUBBER TRADE STAYS CALM
        129 8 THE London Rubber Exchange was opened for free trading j yesterday after being controlled j by Government since 1941, reports Reuter. The trade took the matter calmly, only 20 members being present. Mr. Eric Miller, chairman of Harrisons and Crosfleld and a prominent member of the
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        London Stocks
        83 8 INTEREST m the London stock ex- change wa; almost entirely confined to gold minings yesterday, reportfl Reuter. Hopes of some taxation relief for South African mines encouraged Cape and the lead was soon taken up b** London Some principal [raMs were recorded on the day. Oilt-edged securities lost
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        New York Stocks
        21 8 Prices on the New York S<o k Exchange continued to show losses mostly up to two points Reuter.
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        Egyptian Cotton
        89 8 ALEXANDRIA'S cotton MctliUlge closed since 1940. will ropen m Ja'HKiry or February, it was announcj yr* crday by the Egyp**'*n JovernflttOt. It was added that Ec '.)t was scarchl:iT for cargo shipj n Opart coiton. One Egyptian firm is l'a'.iiiT two ships built m Italy and rhe Egyptian
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      S'PORE STOCK PRISES TODAY
      81 8 THE share markets had anolhe* quiet morning with little actual business taking place. There were enquiries for Straits Streamships, Fraser and Neaves. and United Engineers. A few Wearnes changed blinds at $13 and Malayan Collieries at around $2.60. There were small uuying enquiries for Lunas, Meniaka'os,
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      YENAN STRIPPED FOR ACTION
      62 8 The Chinese Communist capital of Yenan is being stripped for action m expectation of an assault by Central Government forces reports A.P. from the city. Intensified Nationalist air activity over Yenan has made it ri?<vssary for the Communist Gen Chou En-lai to apply for American protection
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      UK JET AIRLINER FLIES TO PARIS
      79 8 LONDON, Tuesc:*)BRITAIN'S jet airliner, a Mfcverted Lancaster bcmbL powered with two Nene jet engines and two Merlin piftca engines operating propeliors. was flown from London airpo:\, v. P;.r*s m 59 minutes yesterday the Ministry of Supply annoaav:^. The average speed, the M;r-s--try said, was
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      BUSMEN MAKE CITY WALK
      79 8 MANCHESTER, Monday. PACING lashing rain and biting winds thousands of worktri had to walk up to eight miles to their offices factories and cotton mills m Manchester today because of a strike by 5,000 Corporation bus, tram and trolley-bus men. They had all stopped work after
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      UK RATIONING TO CONTINUE IN 1948
      27 8 UK RATIONING TO CONTINUE IN 1948 A BMBfaff o: the C^ Mked ster of Pooti^ i for the period July isr is| i 1942.' a: ..ed -jffed
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      78 8 /3||l I /2| OPENS TODAT I PHONE 6 909 I lUM SOIND IS TOf> ACKNOWLEDGED m the COLDEST KILLER! ALAN LADF) as Ruthless PHILIP RAVENKILLING with a Sne?r. a Smile! U thm unvtbina WRONG with our MODERN SOCIAL SYSTEM that turns out such KILLERS' .^jfAiA- tr^i if. VIWbMkMMIMi^^HK. At mA^
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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      30 8 Afternoj, fr »«n noon w,. N •nr fine tonifht t^^ N m- fur "Ww^ va-iabl.' v> Nam c a«v Moonr«« 3<| pw ri isf»i J SINGAPORE TBB mi,.,; To-morr^t H^
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