The Singapore Free Press, 14 December 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 14. 1946 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    THE QUEEN LOST IN FOG
    409 1 THE QUEEN LOST IN FOG LONDON, Fri. piE densest log in years shrouded Britain for more than 18 hours today, disrupting transportation, and even the Queen was lost in the fog a hundred yards from Buckingham Palace last night. The Royal Car encountered difficulties while Queen Elizabeth was returning from
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    Govt hedging on loss claims
    196 1 Govt hedging on loss claims v ,-f>*e Press Correspondent LONDON, Friday. I .RI ITimnfTfT of the Claims Commission in Malaya did m4 mean that the Governments concerned had comIflflßlilwi finally to paying compensation in respect •rrain specified kinds of loss or that they had disclaimed ties in respect of all
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    'RESTRAIN VETO'
    40 1 A resolution calling for the veto to be used with restraint was passed by 36 votes to seven, witn 11 abstentions, at a meeting cf the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation in New York yesterday. 4
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    Auchinleck presents flag
    35 1 Mrxi.aJ Sir Claude AuchinJeck, Commander-in-Chief in ntljr visited the Rajputana Rifles regimental centre re h* pre~?ntcd a fla-; to tbe boys* company. Shah Mohd Is se»?n receiving the flag from the C-in-C.
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    CHINESE SHIP IS SINKING
    89 1 SAN DIEGO, CAL Fri. THE San Diego Coastguard re- ported that the Chinese merchant ship Hwatung. 480 miles at sea. was taking wa f er in the number or. n hold and asked for kmm?diafce assistance Pumps were unable to lower a 20ft. water level. The
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    $1355 CHEQUE LOR MRS WEE
    93 1 Free Press Staff Reporter An interim presentation of $1,355 is to be made to Mrs Wee, mother of five children, whose husband was killed by the Japs for helping the Singapore internees. She was fined recently for selling a bottle of orange crush at 5
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    SWISS OFFER
    16 1 Switzerland has offered free accommodation and treatment to 100 British ex-Servicemen suffering from tubarculcsis
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    COLD STORAGE: NO DIVIDEND
    210 1 Free Press Special Reporter Shareholders in Singapore Cold Sioraae Co. Ltd. will not receive a dividend in respect of ttoe year ended Aug. 31 last The company earned a profit of $2rr--79* -or the ysar and the estimated orofit for P?rl(>d Jutt 1941 to August 1945
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    G.O.C. IN TROUBLE SPOT
    22 1 G.O.C. IN TROUBLE SPOT Major-Gen. G. H. A. Mac M ilia n who is successor to Lieut. Gen. Barker as G.0.C.-in-C. Palestine.
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    Bad light stops play in Test
    296 1 SYDNEY, Today. AUSTRALIA, having dismissed England for 255 runs in their first innings of the second Test at Sydney, had battaed for only five minutes today and scored seven runs without loss when play was stopped owing to bad light. The sky is very
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    Challenge On Indian Army
    307 1 LONDON, Friday. THE Governments motion at the close of the two-day debate 1 on India "That the House takes note of the statement on India made on Dec. 11, by the Prime Minister and ex presses its hope that a settlement of the present difficulties between
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    HORSE VISITS VICAR
    30 1 A horse entered the Vicarage at Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, munched flowers on the hall table and climbed the stairs nearly to h- Rev. G. F. Greenup's bed room
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    DOCK MAY BE SAVED
    96 1 *Tee Pr«>s£ Stall Reporter niVERS who hav? examined th* u £1,200,000 sunken dock at Singapore naval base after the Jap cruiser Shlreloko. sunk insid*? it, was floated out, find that iu state is much better than was expected, and there is now a very good chance
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    EXPORTS ARE VITAL TO CHINA
    356 3 British Advice restoration of export trade was stressed as one I j China's first needs for continued developments I sir Leslie Boyce, leader of the British Trade \joma to (hina, in a broadcast to the Chinese people •AM Shanghai Radio. Without exports China can have
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    SCHEME TO DAM YANGTZE
    60 3 M I^£_oe River LJam. _.*_>.» 1 bu a b.ueprir.' stage, will 13.500.000 kilopower which e total capa--3i j lder Dam. Grand TV A project. acpb. -o Wtmrn r.s of hard r.nt of the drawn up. :t' i3««: p .cd cm. :".zs'.:oy.. for >: land suki Yaagtse
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    KOREA WANTS TO BARTER
    40 3 ary gove_t._r.v ta meed U_?t four Jjgjs and one U.S. offic are in the lel^a- Ko ean .race. ".i.:u10.i7 j_>* inH_M a-S J r*" nng apy!.- _»*.d I r Chinese >«r. »per r.i'hinerv. n.cd': ne U.P.
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    H. K. SHORT OF NURSES
    172 3 THERE is a serious shortage A qualified nurses, miuwi rta and dressers in Government hospitals and welfare centres. aaiK .s no longer possible to giv- pdfrquate attention to the -i^k a:.fi injured. This was disclosed oy fie r-ctor of Medical Services c' U* Hong Kong
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    BRITISH AID POLICY WILL CONTINUE
    130 3 THERE will be no char.ge m the policy of the British Lnitca Aid to China Fund and f ull authority for allocations of the BuACF funds remains vestea in the Ad visory Committee in Nanking, Ladv Isolbel Cripps, President of the "BUACF declared at a
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    SIAM THREAT TO CHINESE REPORT
    73 3 A CHINESE Embassy spokesman stated in Bangkok that :he Embassy received an anon.mJiS Utter threatening to use extralegal measures to try aggressive Chinese in Bangkok. The snokesman said the Chirese Ambassador also received severa: letters in Siamese threatening that Siamese would take the i^v n
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    DOG KILLS BABY
    144 3 THE same day as a Govu.iment spokesman issued K warning against rabies in Hong Kong, giving a detailed Outline of the effects of the disease and precautions needed, an example of the importance of the warning was given when a 14-month-old Chinese baby was carried off by
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    ROAD TO KWEILM
    41 3 ROAD TO KWEILM These pictures come from the vast hinterland of China. On left is a view taken on the road to Kweilin a name so often mentioned during the war, and below is a "travelling haystack" picture aim Tungting Lake.
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    SILK INDUSTRY MAY BE IDLE
    197 3 SILK INDUSTRY MA Y BE IDLE FACED with a lack of raw materials. 90 silk filatures in Kiangsu and Chekiang China's greatest silk producing provinces are threatened with an early suspension of operations. The plight of these factories, which employ mure than 20,000 men and women, is said to he
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    CHINA WILL BUY BRITISH
    230 3 BEFORE the war Britain was one of China's chief suppliers and I see no reason why he should not regain that position". This was stated at an interview by Mr. C. C. Wang, director of Chinese Government Purchasing Commission in London. Mr. Wang attributed Chinese wish
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    $400,000 FOR A GENERAL
    90 3 $400,000 FOR A GENERAL THE National oerenct Mi :.su\, orders authorising pay increases for the Chinese Aiuij ranging from 100 to 200 oer cent have reached Shanghai bui in view of the critical local financial situation the Woosung Garrison Command is unable to meet -'-C* increased costs ar»d instead wUJ
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    U.S. CO-OPERATION
    31 3 A War Department source said in Washington that Pres;d.nt Truman would recommend mat the new Congress provide icr In ternational military co-op ;ra,.o.i with China and the Ar-.iO^can I.epuolici.
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    UNRRA HELPS TO BUILD SHIPS
    126 3 THE building Oi 10,000 (U&UUf junks for Chinese nsh«°'-nen out of UNRRA materials is w ai under way under the Fisher' Administration organised oy v ne Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and CNRRA report Central News. The Administration at present possesses 34 American flatting boai.s
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    MEDICINES FOR SOUTH SEAS
    89 3 CERIOUSLY hit b\ the riooc*. a. importied pharmaceutical products, the Chines medicinal herb trade is planning a large-scale inva^on of the South Seas to make up for their loss of business tn China The export. 01 native medfcin**. one of Szechuen's major industries has fallen off
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    4,000 CHINESE VISIT U.S.A.
    63 3 4,000 CHINESE VISIT U.S.A. UT least 4,000 Chinese students have gone to tn^ United States on passports issued for 'industrial investigators. purchasing agents economic surveyers" during July and Augus r according to a survey* by the Ministry of Education in Nanking. During that period, only 300 student passports were issued
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    NEW MUNICIPALITIES
    40 3 It is learned that Ningp. anu Wenchow, two important }.orL3 in Cheklang Province, will shortly b. raised to the status of muni<*i 4 lity. It is said that this liur. been approved by the iilxecut Yuan. Central News
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    NOTHING RELIEVED HER RHEUMATISM
    192 3 Until She Started a Course of Kruschen Sue tnougnt we would uke to fcaow what Kruschen Had done lor her. Ana we think that other rheumatic suffereii. would like to knew ii too, .so her icuefr u publiihaed be.ow;— "I thought you would like to aiaox
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    UNION DENIES TRADE BARRIERS
    632 5 UNION DENIES TRADE BARRIERS official statement by the Malayan Union Government dealing with alleged artificial barriers, particularly in the economic field, being raised between the Malayan Union and Singapore since the reoccupation, says that steps have been taken, in fact, to facilitate necessary trade between the Union and Singapore by
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    APPLES – 3 FOR 20 CTS
    81 5 APPLES 3 FOR 20 CTS ippit^ three for 20 cents. with a maximum of a th are now beini: >«_tf to each customer at F*h>jjleV p. taurants in Singapore. I n: from the Telok Aver hmcr.t, the mobile sales unit of the Social Welfare De-jurtrm-nt will distribute these other restaurants
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    Tailor lost son — and shop
    274 5 Tailor lost son and shop Free Press Staff Reporter A CHINESE tailor who left her Singapore business in the care of her son while she was away in China, returned to Singapore last August to find that her son was missing, believed beheaded by the Japanese, and that her business
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    8-CENT MEALS
    48 5 Singapore is to have eightcent meals from next week Tnese meals will be served at a Family Restaurant the first of a chain of such restaurants, which will oe opened by the Singapore Social Welfare Department, at Maxwell Road Market on Dec. 18 at 11 a.m.
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    WAR RISK CLAIMS
    37 5 Claims arising under the Malayan War Risks (Gooas) Insurance Scheme will now be accepted by the Malayan War Damage Claims Commission if lodged with the Commission at any tim? up to March 31, 1947.
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    Y.W.C.A. XMAS PARTY
    32 5 Members of the Y.W.C.A. are Invited to a Christmas party to be held a t the Y.W.C.A. Bras Basah Road (Rex Hotel) on Thursday, Dec. 19 at 5.15 p.m.
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    RADIOS ARE IN BIG DEMAND
    213 5 A LAST minute round-up .shows that there will be few radio sets on sale in Singapore's shops for Christmas this year Those that do arrive around Christmas time will g 0 to people on "waiting lists." Cheapest of the sets on sa..*: in Singapore today
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    Jews to settle in Australia
    217 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE first shipload of Jewish immigrants to Australia, a group of 248 displaced men, women and children who have suffered the tortures and indignities of Nazi rule in occupied Europe, arrived in Singapore oh Thursday by the Messageries Maritimes liner Monkay
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    TO RE-OPEN
    44 5 The crud«. rubber purchasing office of the B. F. Goodrich company is being reopened in Singapore with Mr. George N. Naylor as managing director, the company announced in Akron on Thursday. The office was closed after the Japanese overran the Malay Peninsula.
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    2,300 are waiting for cars
    206 5 2, 300 are waiting for cars .Free Press Staff Reporter ip to the end of December, it is u exrvcted that 2,321 motor cars will have been received in Malaya, and the figure for .December import will be 272 cars Approximately two- thirds of these cars have been allocated to
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    JAP OCCUPATION RIDERS BARRED
    56 5 lOC KEYS who continued racing J during the Japanese occupation will be baned. from the track until their qualifications are re-examined, the Hong Kong Jockey Club decided at a recent meeting. Only four Chinese toekers are listed as riders in the forthcoming meet which opens around
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    INGLORIOUS STRUGGLE BY ENGLAND
    1071 7 INGLORIOUS STRUGGLE BY ENGLAND With the Sydney wicket's reputation for taking spin and, •in view of the weather forecast predicting storms, Wally played Smith for Voce in his tinai team. He .smiled broadly when he woi the toss. too. but the good start. so much to be desired, was denied
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    SCOREBOARD
    47 7 sQ] Nl ,_isT INNS. _El_*rtOa. D .■jJ^J* D MCiOaal 1 \a\mW*-A T b McCool 1 aßj^ntJlon b Johnson 25 ■J I j»_iason 8"^ saat ©lit I t#l «j ri*ht wickets) 213 M W. 9 2 31 j <a 11 31 4 If S H s —Renter.
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    ACS OLD BOYS BEAT RECS
    83 7 ACS OLD BOYS BEAT RECS I weak side I key yesterday .-oals to nil, by I School Old I in a match I 'ally one-sided I vv.tr centrefcer: ::.cd a beau* if u 1 I ob a ajghatcJ I e bv his wingers. I Ebert. I *he Recs' I 'h.y
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    KIM LIN BACK WITH BOXERS
    43 7 PORE pcomotc* Kow Kim inted by two :ralla. Mick lieA .an bantam Mo:*, a le*dbam.axnwelg.ht, .pore on the Blue ron yes' er day. li ji-.d Khoon! I K:._. L are due Happy World 20. McKay and Mot: K
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    CAREFREE B.P.
    68 7 east on SunBP. lost to the I H team in a frienoUy Results (Carefree 1 first) >:N,,LI Ick Yean beat Poh Kim o Mohd. 3—15. Hock lc«t to Quek I 11— 7. e— ls: A B. Aljaru 8 15 9; Ang Tinr i 15—13. 15— m\ Ka^im AAA
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    SEGAMAT HOCKEY
    21 7 respondeat :.\T. Thur. the very first towards the j _*ame. Fox*s XI \I a __.>-> three-nil at padanj. pamAk Tduy
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    INDIAN ARMY XI HELD TO DRAW
    100 7 THE Indian Army Hockey team, who will be leaving for a tour up-country next week, drew with 223 8.0.D. three goals all at St. George's Road yesterday. The game was maintained at a fast pace, and although the BOX), were the first to take
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    TANGLIN SOCCER
    72 7 IN one of the last games to De pi«*_/«^ on the Tanglin Barracks ground before it undergoes re-turflng. the combined team of 69 and 11 E afc M Platoons defeated the SEALF 'Q' Services team two nil. Williamson, the 'Q' Services goalkeeper, was In fine form and handled
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    STRONG TEAM TO MEET ATHLETES
    117 7 A STRONG looiball team, representing the Catholic Young Men's Association, wiil play a charity m?.tch against the Chung Wah Football Club (C.A.) at Jalan Be.sar Stadium on Wednesday, Dec. 18, kick-off at 5.15 p.m. The proceeds will be donated to Convents ind Caaiholic Chamable Institutions,
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    UNITED FAMILY B.P
    154 7 nLAYING against the Pulau Brani I B.P. on Sunday at Pulao Brani. the United Family B.P. "B" won by 5 4. Results, United Family B.P. players mention first: Singles. Heng Siak Thiang beat Yeo Ah Hot IS— O. 7—15, 15—9; Wllgie Heng beat Chow Ah Chwee 15
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    C.S.C. WIN WELL
    47 7 The Ceylon Sports Club scored a runaway victory over the 8.0.D. last evening at Alexandra when they scored eight goals without reply. The scorers were Wilfred Ponniah 3. Vijiaretnam 2, Thillagaretnam 2. and Kulasingam 1. Yogarajah playing at goal for the Ceylonese was outstanding.
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    Accounted For Three
    15 7 Col'n McCool who got the wickets of Ediich, Compton and Hammond yesterday
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    Indian Army Hockey Tour Dates
    203 7 Free P* ?ss Hockey Reporter THE Indian Army hockey team from Singapore will go on a six-day tour to Kuaia Lumpur. Tpnh and Penang where flxturei; between service and civilian teams has been arranged. The team will depart from Singapore on Tuesday. Dec. 17, and
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    TIME TO START BUILDING A STATE TEAM
    684 7 Soccer Notes By Our Soccer Reporter NOW that the Victory Cup competition is over, thoughts are turning to tne league competition which lt Is hoped to start in February next year. Pians for this competition will take some definite shape at a meeting
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    SINGAPORE INDIANS
    80 7 A team to represent the Singapore Indians at Socoer against the Seletar Airmen to be played at Seletar today will be selected from the following: Osman Angulliah; Gupta: Abdul Rahim; P. Ramoo; S. Williams: P. Appavoo; N. K. Sabul; K. R. Muthiah: Krishhasamy; A. C. Sh<igaran; A. Vijeretnam;
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