The Singapore Free Press, 11 December 1946

Microfilm: NL3654
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      ALL THE BEST POSSIBLE FOR THE TROOPS
      969 2 ALL THE BEST POSSIBLE FOR THE TROOPS at Christmas this Year GOOD cheer, good will and good times should be available m generous quantities for the troops m Singapore and Malaya this year. With a chance to make this •econd peace Christmas better than the last, Service Chiefs have planned
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      your lucky STAR
      196 2 Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, you have a good business head and. should do well m any enterprise m which you become interested. This latter is important for the acUvity must be something m which you are vitally int rested, other wise you cannot
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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      89 2 HORLICKS Price Announcement Owing to the heavy iner.. costs, m raw material^ bottles and packing ma:, i and m labour, it has been bnpoisMt to avoid increase m the price of H<>r. irkAs from the date of this MM NttON* therek*, the Retail price of Horlieks throughout Singapore, ir accordance
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      733 2 Crossword Puxxle No. 90 DOWN 1* V |M I*l 1* 1 V IM ""F" 1 Western B Hon. Li IB XI 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 American g rl-f rier:d T I 3 One of Bluebeard wives g -ffi- «~U™ 4 Keep on a chain (4. I). TT
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      The Singapore Free Press. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1946.
      950 4 The Singapore Free Press. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 11, 1946. How To Get The Money? TOMORROW is D Day ior Mr I Nelson Jones' Income Tax Budget. The Singapore Ad-\.s->ry Council will debate— in public, not m secret, we tr^s^ the proposal to introduce tome Tax as frcm the beginning >f January
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      Good Morning —
      1293 4  - Good Morning By Frank Owen For the first time since 1' 23. a hen Mussolini e>ta»).ivnH headquarters there, the I'alazzo Yenezia m Home is to betpied to the public. Picture sho* s a corridor once restrvfd the private use of Mussolini, as i, IH irom his offices t« the seat
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      410 4 IN 1926 two brothers, keen on flying, applied for short ser vice commissions m the R.A.F. The younger S 11. C. GRAY. was accepted; he is now an Air Commodore. The elder. ERIC GRAY failed his medical; he is now a London taxi-driver. Eric, former chairman of
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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      24 4 A Gift with a Million Memories— A DIAMOND SET PLATINUM WRIST WATCH. Only a Small Selection Received. RATNE CO., Jewellers 55, Stamford Road, Singapore.
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      36 4 f <^ (w te \ZjM You get White, Sparkling TEETH when you use I PANA TOOTH PASTE ___^^B^_ V _jy_^^ 77 Sold by oil loading distributor and rrwWo<<.'' Co Ptv Ltd, 223 Poofic Ml«h_av. North .ydoor NS*
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      61 4 QUIZ NOT SO EASY 1. What is the sub-title o! Punch? 2. What is the bird on the "tail" side of a farthing? 3. Who were the heroes of the burning, fiery furnace? 4. Who was the chap who saw he writing on the wall? 5. Who was first murder:T
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      25 4 FAITH Now there are diversities of rifts, but the same Spirit And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 1 Corinthians. 12 4-5.
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  • CITY PAGE
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      LINGUIS REPORT PROFIT OF $46,454
      778 6 IN a report issued by the Directors of Lingui Tin, Ltd., it is stated that the profit for the period from Sept. 1, 1941, to Aug. 31, 1946, was $46,454.85. To this is added the balance brought forward from the previous account of $237,261.81, making
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      UK Settlers For Australia
      60 6 UK Settlers For Australia Marking the resumption of Government sponsored migration from V. Uin to ly.tr.ii during the war. 200 single Ml fuiin building tradesmen reccntl> l ft f,r M •boiL'^* 4 bhows a smiling group of settlers at St. Pancras Station. London ua.iing f„ r th, tr.,? ,h™* them
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      SINGAPORE MID-WEEK SHARE PRICES
      4 6 SINGAPORE MID-WEEK SHARE PRICES
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      262 6 I LAST OAY At The (^U^^^^ 4 Shows 1.30 t 6. 30— 9.30 p.m. Don't Miss This Picture! th (Hat Great Cnrlish Actor who took the U.S.A. by Storm J ""'*^^l N«vil Shut*'* mighty f f_%jL^ > 7 i v nov#l of ,9doy i§Wffi!l_!f_ PIED PIPER Jl ~H_g C_r*E»IKO TOMORROW
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      32 6 QUIZ Answers NOT SO EASY.-l The London Ohari vari. 2. Wren. 3. ShaJrach. Meshacri and Abednego. 4. Belshazzar. 5. Crlppen J A INE 7 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      HOME...
      26 8 Feeding the ducKs m London's parks Ls a populai pastime with young and old alias This photograph was taken at the Serpentine m Hyde Park.
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      U.K. Relaxes PoW Rules
      82 8 LONDON, Tues. GERMAN prisoners -of -war In Britain will be allowed during Christmas and afterwards to accept invitations to private homes. Ine War Minister. Mr. Bel 1 nger, stated this m the House of Commons today when announcing relaxation of the ban on fraternisation. He added
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      GIRL ALLOWED CLAIM FOR AID TO PoW FIANCE
      209 8 CHICAGO Wed i CLAIM Cat $4,655 (U.S. O-T- rency by a former Manila t-tl against the estate of ncr Army officer fiance, based on the i d furnished to him m a Japanese? prison camp, was granted m the Probate Court m
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      SOVIET 'SHY' OF WEAPON TALKS
      85 8 The Frime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee was questioned m -he Commons yesterday wheiher ta view of Br tain's 24 -year trea'y w.th Russia, the British Government wa s having parallel conversations with the Russians to I :iose Britain was having with tiie American general staffs
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      ARMED JEWS RAID ARAB 'DEFENCE H.Q.'
      251 8 JERUSALEM, Tuesday. PVR Jews, armed with automatic weapons, raided the headquarters of the Najjada Arab defence organ isa tion m Jaffa last night. After searching the premises, the I raiders carried off a number of leaflets, a Police bulletin said j today. Hiis raid
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      GERMANY CAN ONLY PAY HALF
      104 8 GERMANY CAN ONLY PAY HALF NEW YORK. Tuesday. AS a result of war exertions Br.- tain owes the rest of ihe world upwards ot £5.000.000,000. Ambassador Lord Inverrhapel !>jid m a speech at the English Speaking Union dinner m New York tonight. 4 Few have suggested the G_iman people could
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      RUBBER IS WASHED UP OFF. CORNWALL
      64 8 RUBBER IS WASHED UP OFF. CORNWALL Free Pr'ss Correspondent LONDON. Tues. Yesterdays g\\c. bfea__lZ-J up the wreck of a ship torpedoed m 1943, wash:d up hundreds of tons of rubber on the sou f h Cornish coast. The res dents there are hauling the rubber up the cliffs, ihey will
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      UK EXPORTS HOUSES
      27 8 Lord Manton 01 the British Bloodstock Ag:ncy is en route to Buenos Aires to sell British racehorses to South America, says from London. U.P.
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      AFTER 700 YEARS
      35 8 Creek Mill. St Osyth. Essex built by monks 700 years ago, has been condemned by the Society for the Preservation of An«ient Buildings because of the large sum needed to repair it
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      MPs CRITICIZE FOREIGN OFFICE
      184 8 LONDON Tuesday. THE British Government* ls facing another revolt by a sect on of the parliamentary party who are dissatisfied with many aspe. is of British foreign policy and witn the handling cf British diplomatic affairs by permanent officials of the Foreign Office. The group had
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      INCOME TAX HINT IN UNION COUNCIL
      371 8 INCOME TAX HINT IN UNION COUNCIL Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wednesday. UNLIKE Singapore, the Malayan Union makes no provision m its 1947 estimates for revenue to be derived from Income Tax. Only a passing reference was made by the Union Financial Secretary, Mr. W. D. Godsall, to Income .Tax
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      CITY NEWS TODAY'S STORE RUBBER PRICES
      294 8 CITY NEWS TODAY'S STORE RUBBER PRICES THE Singapore Chamber of Com 1 merce Rubber Association s daily rubber prices at noon today were: Burer- Seller. CU. CU. pet lb. per lb. No. 1 RSS Spot Loom 41«_ 41*4 Na. 1 R.S.S Ub In bales December 4S 43t£ Nn. R.S.S. fob
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      EX-LORD MAYOR CLIMBS DOWN
      80 8 Tne Allies solved the Berhn City Council stalemate yesterday, says U.P. when the four Allied Commandants accepted the resigna tions of the Soviet-appointed I -ord Mayor. Arthur Werner and h's City Council. Today the new Lrrd Mayor Dr. Ostrowski and his departmental heads, chosen by the
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      THEY REACHED ROME
      25 8 Badly smashed but still running, a bus loaded with Swedist tourists has arrived m Rom?, after a six-day run from Stockreports U.P.
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      MPs TOLD ABOUT MALAYAN PLAN
      114 8 THE Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Arthur CreechJones, asked m the House o! Commons yesterday for Information about the new ten-year plan of education for peoples of Malaya, replied that a programme of educational development was being drawn up m Malaya which would
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      Commons debate SCOTSWOMEN CAN COOK
      111 8 Commons debate SCOTSWOMEN CAN COOK 1°^^^, lONDo *w A the H OUA brou-ht sharp 2 B: <*» E-*l«t. cooking t:i UK provisio M 0 J a» j_?._* would alio,- the i^^ to establish restaurant? IK? toC. Edinburgh, gj* who said Scotland 5 a :r: mirable domestic ejtgblafcJJl wmm housewives didST^
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      OFF TO JEWS' AID
      39 8 A tank iana.r.g craft. WW* with drugs and a faL meia. team. 1 ft Malta jresterdaj •to the aid 0| 800 "jew.* minnet on Syrina Island of! the Trfcc I coast says Reuter from VateU.
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      PM VOTE POSTPONED
      32 8 The tnird attempt to vote fcr the premier of France was postponed by the National Assembly until today or possibly tomorrow _fter_a srss'on jresterH v v--1 from P Reuter
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      NURSES' HOURS CUT
      17 8 The East Suffolk Hospital. Ipswich, is to introduce a 48-hour-maximum working week fcr nurses
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      LINER SANK CRUISER
      187 8 LONDON, Tues rE Admiralty Commissioners today resumed the.r c.aim for damages from the Cunard Wh.t*» Sar. Limited, arising from a collision m 1942 wh n the 80.000--ton Queen Mary struck the British cruiser. Curacoa. am ds hips almost cutting her m two and sinking her :n five
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      9 8 How to get tiif Money— See Ifad'i Pare 4)
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      92 8 I TIMELY! EXCITING' <2 lh*mbr r 2j v 2 415 mi\ PMONC 6 909 y ol HAYEBFINHAFW TO-DAY, your most immedia te th: Blackmarkets! To Blackmarket* t< rou CoMtit«< j Potential Buyer, the Victim, th Sil Se-? Exciting Picture IT' P SMISH IIIHSF S(TM Of swim V* *'r*' +*Mom< 1
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      108 8 WEATHER Thunder In The Night WEATHER forecast for 24 hours •v from boob today compiled by the RAF (entral Forecasting Station. Air Command. South-F,a*t Asia: Mainly fair bat isolated thaadery showers expected late this ereninc and during the Bight. Wind mainly calm bat a light sootherly sea broose this afternoon
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