The Singapore Free Press, 22 November 1946

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    LONDON FEARS FOR ROYALTY
    1076 2 Hall Romneys London Letter LONDON (By Air Mail) THE emphasis ii very much on pageantry and csremonal ths wefk, for London has seen once a^ain a Lord Mayor's Show which was a cavalcade of nat onal activity with the fairyland siided coach th c central piece,
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    Royal Family at Variety Show
    75 2 Royal Family at Variety Show Ibe audience stands as the orchestra plays the National Anthem at the Royal Command Variety Show at the Palladium,* London. Seen m the Royal box are left to right Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth, the King and Queen Elizabeth. The police took additional precautions to control
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    TOO LONG A TALE
    399 2 TOO LONG A TALE BY OUR CINEMA REPORTER rE latest collection of old songs m search of an idea is the Jolson Story one of the best example? I have encountered of not cutting a long story short. It is less good than the Cole Porte r omnibus and the
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      31 2 /MGillete V BLADE W The keener, harder edgr> of Blue Gillette Blades provide smoother and cleaner shaves. Their long life provides the turra shaves that save your money. MADE IN ENGLAND
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      392 2 Crossword Puzzle No. 74 DOWN P~l v I 1 1 I I I 4 tad* I |i rri 1 Money drawer* -J hJ^^ g| 3g Wg 1 2 Speedy beans P Stj MLyial 1^) «> 3 Lizards. $i 4 Formal writings prr; —^s =sf fea* r^n —=H 5 Where to
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      49 2 RADIO MALAYA Singapore It ED NETWORK (Chinese lnoian< 225 metres; also 12 p.m. lo 2 p.m. 4.325 megacycles per second (61 metre baml) and 7.45 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. 4.73 mejacycler, per second (61 metre band). BI.UK NETWORK: (Malay A English 485 metres; also 12 p.m. to 2 pra
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      59 2 7.22 megacycles per second (41 m?i-c band), and 9.30 p.m. to close down band) TODAY'S ENGLISH LISTENING. 1.00 p.m. Band call with Phil Green and his orchestera; 1.30 pjn. News; 1.40 p.m. Lunch time music; 2.00 p.m. Close down: 8.15 pjn. Programme summary; 8.18 p.m. Interlude; 830 p.m. News headlines;
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      258 2 -your luckySTAR Fortune forecast tor people born rj»dav* YOU have natural cleverness, considerable will power and a magnetic personality which draws others into your personal orbit. If yon make the best possible use of these talents, you will be successful. Yon know how to persuade others to follow you an*j
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOV. 22. 1946. OK, Out!
    433 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, NOV. 22. 1946. OK, Out! THE closing down of South East Asia Command Headquarters and the abolition of the rol? of Supreme Allied Commander, coinciding with the withdrawal of British troops from the Nederlands East Indies. :s a signal that at long last, fifteen months
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    THESE SINGAPORE PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    2156 4 rIS week we wish you to conjure up m your minds the vision of a tense crowd, a tobacco-smoke haze, a glaring arc lamp shedding the only light onto a roped m square: listen hard and you hear the squirl and squeak of leather hitting
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      112 4 QUIZ A. B. OR C 1. Is a colporteur (a) a composer of popular songs; (b) one who distributes religious literature; or (c) a fuel merchant? 2 Is shoddy: <a) a hot drink of spirits and writer; (b) inferior cloth; or (c) shoe leather? 3. If you were parachuted Into
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    WAR OFFICE WENT IN FOR FORGERY
    296 6 BRITAIN'S War Office went m for wholesale forgery m order to conceal the German nationality of the men of Troop X of the Commandos, it is now revealed. Troop X belonged to No. 3 Commando and was made up of men who hated the
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    MYSTERY V1s WERE TOY BALLOONS
    111 6 CHILDREN'S toy Galloons sold at many ftxed-pnce stores fas Germany are believed to be the cause" of the recvrrinjr Vi scares m the British zone. Jhese balloons, about 4it. m circumference, are lifted on the Montgolfier balloon system of hot air. provided by a lire
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    TOWNS STILL AWAIT ANSWER
    81 6 PORTSMOUTH and Southamp- ton. waiting for years to know which will be chosen as Britain's permanent civil flying boat base, must wait a little longer. It was announced m Parliament that the report of the Pakenham Committee on this question is still being examined by Government
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    German PoW s to walk out alone
    261 6 GERMAN PoWs m Britain can nou j»u tor une*orte<l >\m U m town or country subject to certain conditions. Some camp commandants fear the privilege* i irease the high number of escapes. Said m PoWs. are now at liberty. This privilege will give
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    'GUINEA PIG' MAN DIES
    52 6 I bacterioJ Immaa guinea pig" I injection^ m four.d dv.'omar! Soor< laboratory it Dti He vai Sl-year Bma ham to become chief ba gist a i the Dartford laboaiwt 'of Bun Compar.y. mar.ufacturir.. i tnree monthi ago. On b vm was a a«J hv; the tab.-
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    FARMERS GET COAT-OF-ARMS
    50 6 Till t I printed tlio British JJJ Farmer* 1 Uni^n an impnjj coat deaprf has been long discus St W ralro?Jl?d--hitfban the and B 4 shfeld" i?^ o^^ -nrf a ran to ll> eS; Th. Laboro g r,,ola,'H« _-By the toil v I Wj; man" max tJ
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    EAST OF SUEZ —BY TUNNEL
    61 6 Train travellers between tgypt and Palestine, who once had to cross the Suez Canal by ferry boat and now cross by a bridg i built during the war for the Allied armies, may m future go under the canal. The Suez Canal Company is urging
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    THEY FOUND GOLD
    24 6 Four gold sovereigns and two gold half-sovereigns, found by workmen demolishing a nous:? at Brandon. Suffolk, have been declared treasure trove.
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    George, 11, Is Bell Expert
    77 6 Eleven -years-old <« c o r X c Pipe, of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, is an expert bellringer probably the youngest m Britain. Ho was among a party of ringers from the Eastern Counties who took nart m a festival at Bury St. Tdmunds. George has been
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    CHURCH FILM MAG
    136 6 MEWS of a monthly film maga- zinc to be run by the Church of England and a plan for reiig i o v s "commandos' is announced. The magazine to be on bo-k stalls next year. price sixpence Will critics films wh c me Church thinks good
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    THEY GUARDED NELSON'S BODY
    94 6 GREENWICH Council are to buy lor £4 from a local man the original 'orderly book' of the Loyal Greenwich Volunteers which covers the years from 1803 to 1818. The Volunteers were raised m 1803 when Napoleon was assem- bling his invasion troops at Bou- j logne.
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    THEY FOUND PEARLS IN GIFT OYSTERS
    16 6 THEY FOUND PEARLS IN GIFT OYSTERS ■tverti :amilies Hagen,'. area pleMntly rl t, Epencd p wetc
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    ARAB C-IN-C
    65 6 ARAB C-IN-C Underlining the danger of open warfare m Palestine is the existence of thp illegal Futuwa well-trained and highly disciplined Arab Army which has sworn loyalty to Haj Amin El Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem. Commander-in-chief of this secret Arab army is Kirn Areikat. who is seen above m riding
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      190 6 GREAT CROWDS! GREAT LAUGHS 1 AT THE 11a.m.2.4.15 fIATUAV 1>h c 6.30.9.30. tAIIIAI 3400 RALPH RICHARDSON S TREMENDOUS ACTING STEALS THE THUNDER IN THE FILM THAT REVEALS THE WAR S TOP SECRET ACTION, HUMOUR, TRUTH! SCHOOL FOR SECRETS rv;lK-MON FILM DISTRIBUTORS TOMORROW MIDNIGHT SEE NATURE AT ITS MOST SAVAGE IN
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      12 6 ABOK C i o. Bious includes S; n fjfj the A son?
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      104 6 JAMt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m \iala\a /SO YOU WON'T COMe\/ I'M AFRAID EVEN\ /I FEARED AS MUCH/N <O* COURSE, DARLING, I HAVE^allj^Ihfib PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT INDUCEMENT JANE, SO I'VE ALREADY) >*" NO MEDICAL FRIEND LIKE The J|te ME IH MY DETECTIVE WOULDN'T TfeMPT ADVERTISED FOR AN fv^tmr
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    HOME...
    24 8 The railway bridge built over the River (onway by Robert Stevenson m 1848. In the background is Telford's suspension bridge, built m 1827.
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    BEVIN AND MOLOTOV DIFFER
    344 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. SPEAKING at today's meeting of the UNO Political Committee m New York, Mr. Ernest Bey.:.. Britain's Foreign Minister, said he could not accept Mr. Molotov's proposal, for Russia, for report* to UNO on the disposition of troops on foreign soil unless it (Tver?
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    FREE VOTE IN IRAQ
    34 8 FREE VOTE IN IR AQ it q n w cabine t of Gen. Nuri Es Said last night dismissed the Im:? Darliam-nt and there are to be free elections. n n Rente* from Baghdad
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    U.K. SATISFIED WITH S.W. AFRICAN VOTING
    323 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE British Prime Minister. Mr. Clement Attlee, reiterated m the House of Commons today that the British Government was satisfied about the steps taken by the South African Government to ascertain the wishes of the people of South-West Africa for incorporation m
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    NCOs PLOT TO OVERTHROW SIAM GOVT
    97 8 BANGKOK. Nov. 21. CIAMESE Press reports said today chat a plot to overthrow the government of Luang Dhamrong Nawasawat had been ioil-3d by political investigation police who arrested 20 non-commission-ed officers of the Siamese Army and Air Force Reports said triat the plot, timed
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    THREE YEAR MEN OUT IN 1947'
    111 8 Asked In the Commons by Mr. Collins (Labour) if he would s^ate the approximate date of demobilisation for men and womer who nad already served three years but who w?re In release g r oups 51 to 58 Mr. Bellenger, the War Minister, said
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    CITY NEWS LEVERS PAY 5 PER CENT
    382 8 CITY NEWS LEVERS PAY 5 PER CENT LONDON, Thursday. LEVER Brothers today reported their consolidated net profit for 1945 as $10,330,090 (US). Ihe boards of Unilever Ltd., the English company, and the Unilever NY, the Dutch company, have recommended common stock dividends of five per cent for the year. The
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    FRENCH SUSPEND 4 NEWSPAPERS
    64 8 Three Annamite daily papers and one Frenoh w-eeklv have been suspended by the French authorities, says A P. from Saigon, lor allegedly insulting articles about Admiral D'Argenlieu, ana far printing an interview with the Nambo Committee. The Executive Committee vice president, Pham Ngoc Thuan, said no
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    CAMP Drs. DENY TORTURES
    186 8 TWENTY-THREE poker-faced Nazi doctors pLeaded not guilty at Nuremberg yesterday to charges of murdering hundreds of thousands of victims mi n medical experiments when indicted m the second series of the Nuremberg war crimes trial Herta Oberhauser, aged 35, the only worn among the prisoners W
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    INDIA STOPS U.S. ATOM MINERAL SUPPLY
    262 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. THE Indian state of Travancore has cut off its supply of I thorium— a rare mineral earth used m work on ato m bombs and the production of atomic energy to the United States, alleges Marquis Childs m his daily column
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    UK WANT REVEAL PETROL STOCKS
    63 8 The Minister of Fuel asked ;h° Commons yesterday why p:tro! rationing is being continued when m wartime Britain held only one month's supply m reserve, and now had a stock which would last four months. He replied it was not the policy of the Government
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    LABOUR HOLD N. PADDINGTON
    88 8 LONDON Thurs. DRITAIN'S Labour Government v held tti? North Padding-ton (London* se«at when the result of the by^lection declared today showed Captain W. J. Field suco?ss'ul with a majority of 2,917 ever b<i Conservative opponent. Mr. H. L. Turner. Capt. Field polled 13.082; Mr. Turner 10,165;
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    S'PORE SHARE PRICES TODAY
    84 8 J^ HIS mornings business m the share market was dull and flat again. The omly thing of interest m rubbers was the parcel of Now Scudai which sold for 65 cents. Malayan Collieries were a shade better than yesterday and came out as buyers at $2.46
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    'UNFAIR' RUMANIAN POLLS ALLEGED
    43 8 Reports alleging "serious irregularities" m Tuesday's Rumanian general selections, when the left-wing government was returned with a large majority, have reached the British Foreign Office, says Reuter. It is alleged that the opposition was not given a lair chance.
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    LUNCHED WITH KING
    22 8 Col. Sir John Colville, Governor of Bombay, lunched with the King and Queen at Biifkir.gham Palace yesterday, says A.P
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      132 8 CAPITOL- *S? 3 SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS WALT DISNEY'S MUSICAL FEATIRETTF IN GORGEOUS TE< HNKOLOrR ja-A Pan -American Pandemomuml the nt* rhrthm tholl' V y S' YOULL FEEL THANKFI I THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN SINGAPORE "ORDERS FROM TOKYO' IN TECHNICOIjOR SHOWING THE WANTON DESTRUCTION OF IE BEAUTIFUL .CITY OF MANILA NO
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