The Singapore Free Press, 21 December 1946

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA N SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1»46. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    WAR RAGING IN HANOI
    170 1 fiiRLS SAVED IT SEA 4ANOI, Friday. confirmed that Vietnam troops last night laid artillery and mortar barrage against Frencn :hed off general fighting in Hanoi. Meanwhile m government headed by President Ho Chi Minn :er Vo Nguyen Giap is reliably reported^ left the city yesterday n
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    GOVT FEAR VIOLENCE IN SARAWAK
    429 1 GOVT FEAR VIOLENCE IN SARAWAK jyjß. Arthur Creech-Jones, the Secretary oi State for the Colonies, during: today's debate in the House of Commons on the ban on the entry of Mr. Anthony Brooke into Sarawak, asserted that violence would inevitably follow any agitation in Sarawak desi^ied to restore the Brooke
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    PATROL CAR DRIVER KILLED
    90 1 Free Press S:arT Reporter. yHE Malay driver of a radio patrol car was killed in a collision with a Police lorry at; the junction of North Bridge, Road and Arab Street, Singapore, at two o'clock this morning. T*o others were injure^ After the collison, the Police
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    EARTHQUAKE IN JAPAN
    22 1 There has been a neav;< quake in Japan accompanied oy tidal wave in which many flsh;ni boats were lost.
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    PLANES COLLIDE: ALL 86 SAVED
    57 1 inTs* P^rsSis collided iA^mid- air ir dartoesj on Thursday night over AbTr^en, Maryland but both landed safely and nobody waa kurt scys UP. from Washington. One was a four-engined DC4 and the other a twin-engined Charter P'anp. The small plane's roVkoit windshield cave in above
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    ASSEMBLY PUTS OFF VOTE ON REPUBLIC
    60 1 ASSEMBLY PUTS OFF VOTE ON REPUBLIC NEW DELHI, Fri. AGREEMENT was reached among members of the Indian Constituent \&semoiy today to deter till January the vote on Pandit Nehru's resolution declaring India an independent republic. Meanwhile, Congress turned .heir attention to further c >noideration of the ques r '<jii of
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    BRITAIN SHOPS AND SHIVERS
    113 1 LONDON. Friday. TO*: winter's nrst severe cold has 1 ca used Londoners to shiver Iw ss srs. special Christmas ration bonuses as well as permitting increased imports of unration«d fresh fruits, and wines. Shops are crowded. Snow covers London's suburbs and the South England countryside resembling
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    U.K. EXPORTS UP
    40 1 United Kingdom exports for November valued £92,100,000, the Board of Trade announced last night, says A. P. from London, an increase of £200,000 over the previous record figure of July. Leading exports were machinery anc 1 vehicles.
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    GIs OUST GERMANS
    43 1 Germans have been thrown out of the'r houses to make way for the wives and children of American soldiers in such numbers that the American GOC, Gen. MacNarney has ordered a review of the entire arrangement, says AP from Munich.
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    BBC HYPNOTISES BY TELEVISION
    244 1 Children's Xmas Treat LONDON, Friday. THE British Broadcasting Corporation announced today 1 that it had so successfully experimented with hypnotism by television that it was inadvisable to try the feat on a general broadcast. The general experiment was carried out on a closed circuit this week
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    MALAYA HAS OWN NAVY
    295 1 MALA YA HAS OWN NAVY tree Press Staff Reporter FR the first time in the history of Malaya, the country is to have its own Royal Navy. A sum of $677,000 was approved for the formation of a Royal Malay Navy the 1947 Estimates, and an officer of the Royal
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    U.K. FASCISTS 'NO MENACE'
    119 1 LONDON, Friday IT may be that there are British Fascists who have firearms and •n certain circumstances may resort to tfrieir use. said Mr. G H. Oliver, Under-Secrctary to the Home Office, in the Commons tod°A when replying to a debate initialed by a Labour member
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    JINNAH LEAVES CAIRO
    18 1 Mr. Jir.nah. leader of the Ind an Mus'.im Leasue. left Cairo b\ for India yesterday.
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    30,000 OVERSEAS CHIMESE RETURNING
    351 3 ASDFSDFASDF DFA F F months of negotiations with various hMn perinsTenTS UN RA>S *»**>*<« placed ™lt riatlOn J s 1 c c h e un <ter which some 30,000 Ss te^iSZm 15^°° E?«>P«in Jewish refugees itoallv™*? back totheir pre war horned has anally got under way.
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    U.S. BUYS CHINA SILK
    59 3 AN order for 200.000 pieces of Chinese s'lk products has been received in Shanghai from th° United States through the Sino-American Company, recently organized by Gen Cla re Cnennault. head of the famous "Fiying Tigers" air squadron during the war, according to U.C.I 3 < United
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    VARSITY PRESIDENT
    22 3 The ceremony markin? thj assumpti-n of office of Dr. Tu Yu-rhing as President of St. John's University was held recently.
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    CONSCRIPTS SHORT OF QUOTA
    20 3 (B Kai-shek > ..peiII nhiy HIM! anthe conscription r the Chinese NaLd fallen at least the quota.
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    CHINESE HUNT HIDDEN GOLD
    188 3 rE treasure hunt is still an although as much a mystery to-day as several months ago when feverish efforts were made to discover gold said to have been buried on Point Island valued at U5520,000,000. The Chinese authorities in Shanghai have made a fresh attempt to
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    SUPER AIRFIELD FOR SHANGHAI
    303 3 PEACE TIME WORK CHANGHAI is to have one of the largest and most modern airports in this part of the world under a development programme aimed primarily at coping with the heavy international traffic expected to pass through this city in the near future. Following the
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    CNRRA CHIEF CHARGED
    40 3 Charged with embezzlement of $20,000,001 worth of CNR P. A equipment. Hubery Heath Australian Deputy Director of CNRRA'6 machinery works at Chenju in Kangsu, has been transferred to the Shanghai District Court for trial —Central j News
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    S'HAI POPULATION
    25 3 The Shanghai city government have announced that the Shanghai population now is 4,027,674. including 1.620.840 women and 65.610 foreigners representing 38 nationalities U.P.
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    MILLION FACE FAMEVE
    220 3 MILLION FACE FAMEVE ]^EARLY 1,000,000 persons in north Anhwei normally one of China's most fertile agricultural provinces— are factng starvation following serious damage to crops by excessive rains, floods and locusts, according to UNRRA reports. Parts of the province are still under water following the bursting of the dykes of
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    CHINA BANS WOOLLENS
    65 3 The Chinese authorities nave banned the importation of foreign woo'len piecegoods in an effort to develop the domestic woollen textile industry. Certain dealers in skins* and feathers are meanwhile, reported to have suggested that restrictions should also be placed on the Importation of foreign wool, so that
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    COLD KILLS 50 IN SHANGHAI
    62 3 CIFTY persons died in Shangnai city streets in the cold wave which struck the city at the end of last month. The toll was believed to be a record. The authorities are taking steps to give shelter and food to Shanghai's large number of indigents
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    CHINA PROTESTS TO MACAO
    37 3 THE Chinese Government has made repeated representations to the Portuguese Government against the illegal issuance cf exit passports to Chinese citiztns in Macao by the Macao authorities aocording to diplomatic circles in Nanking.
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    CYCLES TEN MILES FOR HER KRUSCHEN
    201 3 It Keeps Her Free from Splitting Headaches Anyone who suners from frequent headaches, would do well to read how Miss Slowey overcome hers This la her tetter: Iwas always suffering from a pain in the head, and nothing seemed to do me any good.
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      218 3 GOVERNMENT OF THE COLON V OF SINGAPORF AND SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY The Public is hereby notified that the private streets i between the Supreme Court and the Municipal OOe (off St Andrew's Road). (Ml at the rear of the Supreme Court and the Municipal Office (from High Street to Coleman Street*
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    CENSUS QUIZ IS BEING PREPARED
    311 5 Fret? Press Staff Reporter INFORMATION which will assist in the estimation both of 1 the total population of Malaya and the numbers of perns who will be entitled to vote in the new constitution planned for Malaya will be sought in the country-wide census due
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    KRA RAILWAY ATROCITIES
    322 5 Ute nee wan ted E1944 a: the 50 Kilo Camp, along the Kra Railway, a Japanese struck the labourer Srikandan wi,h a Iftai the second blow, :n fell unconscious. The nese kept on beating and bti prostrated body. lan was left on the spot be MX the
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    HUNT FOR MAILS IN SHIPS
    178 5 HUNT FOR MAILS IN SHIPS Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE postal officials are I complaining to various post*} centres in London. South Africa and Australia" that sea mails j destined for Singapore are often I inextricably mixed with geneml j cargo, and in many cases malls ere being delayed as
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    S'PORE IS BUSY SHOPPING FOR XMAS
    561 5 S'PORE IS BUSY SHOPPING FOR XMAS VCIfiS HI SPORE Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE prices are high and conditions still far from normal, Christmas this year in Singapore will noi go down in history as an "austerity Christmas/' There is plenty of food, plenty of wines and plenty ef goods
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    NEW RADIO SERVICE BEGINS
    147 5 NEW RADIO SERVICE BEGINS ANEW broadcast service from the British Far Eastern Broadcasting Station, Singapore, has started. The Health Intelligence section of the office of the Special Commissioner in SouthEast Asia is providing the material for a Press weekly report on the five major diseases: small pox. yellow fever, cholera,
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    CHINESE ART EXHIBITION
    76 5 DOR the first time since the liberation, The Society of Chinese Artists, Singapore, is holding an exhibition of paintIngs of bo tn the Western and the Chinese schools at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Dec 24. 25 and 26 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m daily.
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    RICE RUMOUR
    39 5 In cm Lam isj.ated casrs, it .^a 1 been found necessary to replace broken rce in Smgap-re Merchants stcck by better quality rice. The rumour that has been or will be a general exchange If quit* misleading.
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    TRACING LOOT IN JAPAN
    104 5 CFFORTS ar t being made to c trace in Japan property which has been removed by the Japanese and transferred by thorn. Owners of important or valuable machinery, equipment or other objects believed to have been removed by Japanese orders and which is reported to have
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    XMAS ISLAND MUTINY TRIAL ON DEC. 27
    125 5 THE Christmas Island mutiny 1 trial by a Field General Court Mr.rlal will assemble at No. 2 Indian Transit Camp. Race Course, Bukit Timah, Singapore at 9.30 hours on Friday, Dec. 27. The accused are Nk. Ghular.i Qadir, Nk. Aiiah Bur. Nk. Knar
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    JAPS FOR TRIAL IN BATAVIA
    63 5 JAPS FOR TRIAL IN B ATA VI A A group of 287 Japanese war criminal suspects including a number of high naval oflicsrs, left S.i;gapcre yesterday on board the K P M. l'.ner Merak tir Batavia A number of Japanese n the group will stand trial for offences against Dutch
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    SHOT WAT CHMAN: FUND RAISED
    251 5 Free Press Staff Reporter EXHAUSTIVE inquiries in all E parts of India for the dependants of Chanan Singh, R^ffie* Hotel "ja<?a" who was shot ov a burglar in the iiotel on Sept. 9 and died in hospital two day? later, have been successful. A family
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    CHINA IMPRESSES U.K. TRADE MISSION
    76 5 "Everywhere we went we found that the warm feeling which we in Britain have for China was reciprocated, says Sir Leslie Boyce, head of the U.K. trade mission to China on his return to London. "The Chinese Government in particular did everything in their power
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    UNBEATEN RUGBY SIDES MEET TODAY
    421 7  -  'Winger' afdsa f fds f f f By ■niEKE ha\e been lew surprises in the ksulU ot notches played far in the Singapore Rugby tournament and |he bl o^<t surprise will be if this evening's match between RAF. and the S.C.C. turns out to be
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    GOOD FIGHT PROMISED TOMORROW
    134 7 GOOD FIGHT PROMISED TOMORROW pv our Boxin; Reporter. m to be easily the best Singapore far the iue to take place open arena tcmor- the Siamese. Sam Welch of the Ronl scheduled lor 13 mds is for tt»e welterj of Singapore with the winner. .cfeat l&st week at cae hands
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    HOCKEY OFF
    18 7 J rr.a:ch between me S J* 1 I-vJ Batt D.L.1.. which plaved 00 the pad«ng ance'led.
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    HOCKEY TRAIL OFF
    11 7 bockev trial Km the has been cancel! :d
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    Twelve Teams To Compete In League
    398 7  -  Our Soccer Reporter Oavis Cup By THERE is good news to-day for all of us of the football fraternity. Firstly, there is the decision taken at the meeting of the Singapore Amateur Football Association yesterday to run a league competition next February in which
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    SECOND DIV OUTPAY ROYALNAVY
    199 7 SECOND DIV OUTPAY ROYALNAVY By Our Soever Reporter SECOND Div (Crosskeys) concluded tlieir tour of Singapore with a third victory in three games at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday, and this time their victims were the strong combined Royal Navy side whom they beat by four goals to one. A* hard
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    HOME SOCCER FIXTURES
    257 7 HOME SOCCER FIXTURES HOME football fixtures for Mtfl Saturday are: ENGLISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION Arsenal Wolres Blackburn t. Portsmouth Blackpool H udder sfield Bolton Wandrs. v. Chelsea Brentford v. Everton Char It on Stoke Derby Wm Sunder land Orimsby Manchester U. Leeds T. Preston N.E. Liverpool V. Sheffield Utd. Middlesborough
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    SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET MATCH
    56 7 ADELAIDE: Thurs: South Australia scored 353 for the loss of four wickets on the first day of the Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales here today. Ron Hammence scored a chanceless 132 in three hours 37 minutes hitting 16 fours. With R. James, who made
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    S.S.C. WATER POLO
    29 7 There will be a water polo match j between the Singapore Swimming Club land the Chinese S*lmm'ng Club on Sunday morning at the Singapore Swimming Club.
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    Penang Race Weights
    282 7 Free Press Correspondent PENANG, Fri. r MHE following are the weights for the first day of the Penang Turf Club Christmas and New Year meeting to be run on Thursday, Dec. 26: Horses, Class 1, Div 1, 5} Furs. Goat's Skin 10.04, Courtenay 9.13 I Jesanne 8.05,
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