The Singapore Free Press, 24 December 1946

Microfilm: NL3656
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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA v, 16.733. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1946. PIUCE 10 CENTS.
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    'KING' OF POLAND CLAIM
    38 1 'KING' OF POLAND CLAIM TV nan who claim* f oe timg, of tapr and I'oUnd: "Count Gr*R m WadysUw Varle PoUcki of Ml ttftta' se«n m his crown and purple at hs rooms m St. Feter Ntrprt. Mtn^toß.
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    TAX ON FOREIGN CARS RESTORED
    201 1 TAX ON FOREIGN CARS RESTORED Free Press Stall Reporter roREKi.N cars, brought into Singapore m future will c«>i f buyers >0 per cent, more unless over half their makeup h British. This restoration of the pre-war fee charged tor bringing a foreign motor rar into Singapore operates from that unless
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    XMAS ISLANDERS CELEBRATE
    162 1 Free Press SU'.fl Reporter The small community of Singaporeans living on Christmw island, one of the raosr isolated soots m the world ai.ri a pan of Singapore Co ony wl l pro-b-biy have a far less au-.ter.ty Christmas than people living m Singapore and Malaya To Conserve
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    FRENCH RUSH TROOPS TO INDOCHINA
    364 1 PARIS, Mon. EVENING newspapers m Paris today published a dispatch from Toulon, stating that the French 10,000-ton cruiser, Dequesne, had weighed anchor for Indochina with a colonial detachment on board as reinforcements for the French forces m Northern Indochina. Several hundred of the troops are
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    Swimming Club Xmas Party
    21 1 This picture was taken at the Children's Christmas Party held at the Singapore Swim ming Club yesterday.
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    TITO HOLDS UK TROOPS
    83 1 BELGRADE. Mon. IT wuo revealed tonight that the four Br.tish soldiers held by the Yugoslav authorities since August and September for alleged infringements of the frontier ,ame fr m the Brit sh occupation troops iri Austria. Despite constant and energetic representations by the Brit.sh Embassy here,
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    GANG RAIDS WEDDING
    61 1 Free Press Start Reporter WHILE a Chinese wedding cwemony was m progress m a house m OeylaiiS Road Singapore at about eight o'clock last nmht three masKed men armed wuh pistols suddenly appeared ana held up the guess H They robbed the guest* Oi cash totalling $4^41
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    Christmas food ships reach U.K.
    261 1 LONDON, Monday THREE hundred dockers started at 8 a.m. today on a rush job of unloading the Highland Monarch which arrived on Friday with 250,000 turkeys from South America. Fifty vehicles stood by to rush poultry from the docks. Apples, oranges, butter, eggs, meat and
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    EGYPT TALKS NOT TO RE-OPEN SHORTLY
    48 1 There were talks m Cairo yesterday between the Egyptian Prime Minister, Nokrashy Pa^ha and the British Ambassador to Egypt, Sir lan Campbell, but they were merely an excrrang? of views, reports Reuter, and thre is no question of negotiations l^.n? resumed shortly.
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    GUNFIGHT IN S'PORE
    28 1 A Chinese receiv:d a gunshot wound m the hip m a gang fight m Ciwnmings Street nnc r Boat Quay, Singapore, at 5.30 am. today
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    NO BRITISH VICTIMS
    22 1 Apart from the odd cut no British Commonwealth fore's were hurt m the Japan earthquake, says Rmter from Tokyo.
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    FEDERATION PROVIDES Big powers for Legislature
    407 1 FEDERATION PROVIDES Big powers for Legislature Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday. THE essential differences between the proposed Federation of Malaya and the pre-war Federation and the existing Union were explained at a Press conference today by Ihe Union Chief Secretary, Mr. A. T. Newboult, and the Attornej General, Mr.
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    800 S.H.B. STRIKERS STAY OUT
    146 1 800 S.H.B. STRIKERS STAY OUT Free Press Staff Repot Ut NO settlement was reached yfs terday m talks between 800 Chinese and Indian ariisans employed by the Singapore Harbour Board who are out on stride, and Mr. R. H. Oakley. Singapore Commissioner for Labour. Another mcc.ing is to be held
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    BROOKE TO SAIL HERE
    150 1 Free Press Staff Reporier. MR. Anthony Brooke, ex-Rajah Muda ot Sarawak, yesterday who was given unconditional per mission to enter Singapore and Malaya— but not Sarawak— had his passport endorsed m Hong Kong yesterday for Singapore and the Malayan Union and row plaiv to sail for
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    MINE EXPLOSION KILLS TWO, INJURES THREE
    51 1 An explosion yesterday :he Rarnshaw No. 1 pit at We.«t Auckland. Co. Durham, killed two men while another three tire m the hospital suffering trom burns. The dead are Arthur LI .cigson aged 51 and married jnd Christopher Pirby, a wido»w a Ramshaw, says
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    HAPPY XMAS IN STORE FOR BRITAIN
    470 3 HAPPY XMAS IN STORE FOR BRITAIN AS m the rest of the world, Christmas comes but once a year to Britain, and this year the British are better prepared for it than m any year since 1939. The "what-to-give" problem has been far from easy m this land of austerity,
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    55 3 H. v A. r~r**ttg. Dit-eiloi of the Royal Aeroiiaiiiicil EstaMshmtiU at Farnborough, is seen above discussing a workidcl of a supersonic tunn 1 m which aircraft will be tested a? speeds greatly m excess of ihat of sound, with two German Mrnti>ts who have been engaged m research work m
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    MAY TAKE CARS TO UK FROM GERMANY
    31 3 British occupation iroops and Control Commission staffs buying the German People's Cars for £160 will be permitted to take them home, it was announced.
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    £13,000 REMBRANDT
    13 3 A self-portrait of Rembrandt was sold for 12,500 guineas at Christie's.
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    46 3 This is the ultra-shori-wave therapy device known as the "Theratherin." It is designed for the deen heating of tissues the treatment bein*; *-»pl fd ritK-r by cable or rabb?r-pad eleetrodPs. Control of output is by a single knob after th- oat.cnib circuit is "iuncxl m. M
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    2,000 Britons are lost in Berlin
    118 3 THERF are 2,000 British ex soldiers and deserters nv«ng m I Berlin without proper The cards This estimate was given by Det.-Sgt. Whatlcy of me Rectal Branch. New Scotland Yard, when giving evidence at Thorpe leSoken, Essex. i Before the court was a formrr
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    63 3 Iff II C A. rcrring was t.nt rnej w ;h research war- wc German V-J rocket, and was able to nuke a remarkably accura-e recons tuctun of this weapon and assess its potentialities from LTme two tons of fra^ents found after rue of these w*aiK,,> had eroded over Sweden bef
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    KENDALL CAR BID
    56 3 ur B J Ai^xa.ider Kamer, o-c? 'I I of the Scottish isle unced m London ild make an offer tor the Kendall People's' I have hall a million thiet princii number o! snail r peo: •j pay 20s. la the E -odu~!:cn within j offer Mr. Kendall
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    STOMACH SUFFERER NOW EATS ANYTHING
    139 3 BL*s.s the Day She iried Kennies i-.oaia C«*fc reaJ »c...*: at last. vii.h H.'n^ies UW :h m to her lrie.:d. I uHerer lot ■■■ter cf > .1: out since I started :n:iis ago 10 take Rennlt •*ok'-3 I ftave found relief 1 caxs eat ..cut
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    ROBBERY!
    8 3 Sir^n 13 soundxl "pared. .there's r neighborhood!
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    'MOST EXCITING MAN'
    5 3 m America
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    HOPPED TRAIN IN TUNNEL
    62 3 A RAILWAYMAN and a poUce- man searched the halfmile long Stowe tunnel near Weedon. Northants, recently for a Royal Artiiicry gunner who jumped off the 8.40 a.m. train from Birmingham to Euston to escape escort. The soldier, who jumped off the train while it was travelling
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    Penniless, they wilt get £3,500
    222 3 'TWO young Welsh sisters, who have exhausted their sav--1 ings m their fight against ill-luck, were told recently that they are to get £3,500. They are Sylvia May Stratton, 20, and her sister, Alice Margaret, 27, of Violet Place, Whit church, Cardiff. They share small
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    BARELEGGED GIRL HAD 90 STOCKINGS
    171 3 INTO the Holyhead Magi>. rates Court walked a bare-legged girl, architectural student Miss Janie Ma let- Warden, to plead guilty to smuggling 90 pairs ot bilk stocking*, from Eire. Mr. J. E. B. Finlay, prosecutin?,. said that when she landed from Dublin she said she
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    THEY WANT MORE
    30 3 At a Romford inquest it was stated people would not give evidence because they could not afford to loose a day's pay for the 2s. witness fee.
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    US ENGAGES 1,000 GERMAN EXPERTS
    49 3 The number of German and Austrian scientists m America to continue research on war weapons is to be 'ncreased from 275 to 1.000 It is estimated that this will save the United States £50,000,--000 m aero nautical research and 200,000 .000 m rocket research
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    HONDURAS GOVERNOR
    35 3 Mr. Eaward Gerald Hawktsworth, 49. Chief Comm ssicner ol Ashanti, m the Gold Coast, has been appointed Governor of British Honduras m success on to Sir John Hunter, who will shortly be retiring.
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      37 3 T ARZ AN SP* loll^ Wounds Tikar By Edgar Rice Burroughs I M* sSs\ THROUGH ONE SHOULDER fgpm**m^^ -—TIKAR SUDDENLY ROLLED OVER r W K > lL M>l .Str^r^-M^;^^"^ 2 q <&^ST I AND sp^^ng, to hs feet.
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    S'PORE WILL VOTE FOR LIONS AND TREES
    424 5 S'PORE WILL VOTE FOR LIONS AND TREES Free Press Staff Reporter TANDIDATES m the elections m Singapore for the new *r!? ls atlve Co" 11^ will have symbols allotted them as ft Ceylon— for the benefit of illiterate voters, Mr. G. tiawkins, the Electoral Supervisor, who is now drawing up
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    HAD DIAMOND WITH HIS TEA
    106 5 I FIRM oi j?we;lers m Bombay n has lodged a complaint with the police, alleging that a customer had swallowed a diamond valued at R5.4.350 <Just over £300) and the customer was promptly hauled away to hospital for an X-ray examination. It was stated that
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    MONEY ORDERS FOR EUROPE
    45 5 ARDINARY money orders tor Czechoslovakia. Prance and certain French Colonies and Yugoslavia will be now accepted an<i advised through London. The maximum amoun: allcwpd for a single money order is CIC sterling. Further details may be obtained from any Post o^oe.
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    PERSEVERED—AND GOT DEGREE
    140 5 PERSEVERED— AND GOT DEGREE n. Kirn Cheng (above* 1/ -iriduatfd from UiC Medicine. Singapore the feat of sit me for 3 f essional examinalio: -r r months, taking the z ether last we^k and j at with flying colours. Dr Khoo'i success culminau^ a penod of perseverance beset by difficulties
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    MAILS FOR FORMOSA
    15 5 Letters and non- illustrated oostcards only may now be sent to Formosa
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    'SIGN BEFORE YOU EAT'!
    11 5 'SIGN BEFORE YOU EAT'! A Commando interrupts Mountbatten for his autograph.
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    Commandos 'hold up' Mountbatten
    226 5 IDMIRAL VISCOUNT MOUNTBAITEN, former Supreme A Allied Commander, South-East Asia, planner of Cominancio raids, was himself the victim of a combined operation m London recently. Immediately he had ceased speaking to more than 600 Commandos from all over Britain at a first reunion dinner of the
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    INDIA DEMOBS 5,000 CAMELS
    92 5 P\ i thousand camels and 10.000 bullocks, used during the war to carry essential supplies m areas inaccessible to motor transport, have been released from service m the Indian army, it is reported from New Delhi The camels uere used mainly m northern India, where a
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    MAJOR FACES THEFT CHARGE
    79 5 k 29-year-old British major arid two British other ranks appeared before the Second Police Magistrate. Mr. L. C. Goi,, yes[lerday on a charge of s.eaiiug a I taxi, valued at 52.5C0. at Albert Street. Singapore, at 1 am on Dec. 22. The accused. Major G. V\
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    JINNAH'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
    37 5 A mass meeting of Singapore Muslims will be held at 3.30 p.m. tomorrow, at the Jalan Besar Stadium to celebrate the 71s, birthday of Mr. Mohamed All Jinnah. head of the All-India Muslim League.
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    INDIAN ARMY OFFICERS RE-SHUFFLE
    259 5 IN order that the minimum dislocation shall take place m battalions on tfie withdrawal of Britisii .officers from the Indian Army a re-distribution of Indian officer^ l>etween regiments is being carried out. Transfers to effect this policy are being kept to a minimum and at present
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    S 'pore Ushers In Christmas Tonight
    382 5 Free Press Staff Reporter II7IIILE hundreds of Singapore shop assistants worked m themselves off their feet yesterday tending to the inev'* able last-minute Christmas customers, as many shop-hands worked frantically m the store rooms and back rooms un» packing a last -inirute delivery of
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    full Draw For Davis Cup
    236 7 MELBOURNE, Monday jOH\ BROMWICH, Australia's No. 1 player, meets Ted J roeder, unranked m America this year because of tune, m the first singles m the Davis Cup ChaUtnge round tie between Australia and the United States im m Kooyong courts here on Boxing Day
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    GOLF CHAMPION IN THE MAKING
    164 7 Sydney, By Atr Mail. DRIAX Martin Smith began playing golf at the age of three. Now, aged six, he can hit a ball 80 yards, has the eye, swing and style of a champion. Authority for that is his father, Martin Smith, Victorian professional and
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    Compton Scores 75 Not Out
    245 7 From Norman Preston NEWCASTLE, N.S.W., Monday. DENIS COMPTON, m an hour's display of bewildering strokes, redeemed what would otherwise have been a most depressing day for the M.C.C. m a drawn match against New South Wales Country Eleven today. When Hammond joined him, six wickets
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    SCOREBOARD
    197 7 M.C.C.— IST INNS. 395 NSW. COUNTRY XI— IST INNS. Hinman b Pollard 46 Johnson b Vocc 1 Mayes c Gibb b Langridfe 22 Camps b Pollard 12 Deeoureey c Hammond b Vocc 30 Hill c Compton b Voce 14 Pickles c Hammond b Lan^ ridge 5 Mannix c Washbrook
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    GOLF PROBLEM
    142 7 V *&> i *-KD AY o v- i po6rr was Mashie and Divot a*e playing together m a stroke competition and the clouds open, rain pours dcv.n, visibility drops and there are vivid flashes of 1 ghtning. They decide that discretion is the better part of valour, and
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    I.A. RUGBY
    85 7 The Indian Association rugger team to play against the S.C.R.C. on the padang at Ml on Thursday Dec. 26 will be selected from the following who are requested to turn up even if it rains. Colours will be issued at the field. Mansur Khan. Retna Singhan. Satul Singh.
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    BERNBOROUGH SOLD TO AMERICAN
    110 7 MELBOURNE, Mon. JHE sal© of the Australian "wonder horse" Bernborough to the American magnate, Louis B. Mayer, did not greatly surprise Victorian racing men m view of the visii of the owner A. O. Romano, to America but the reported price oi 03,000 Australian pounds did.
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    CHANGI 'A' BEATEN IN RETURN GAME
    306 7 /*HANGI 'A' XI suffered their v first defeat of the season when they played a return match with Y.W. Bates XI at Changi en Saturday. The wicket was very wet due to heavy rainfall, but Bates XI made good use of it when they
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