The Singapore Free Press, 7 January 1947

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA 1 I SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947. PRICE 10 CE.\ I ft.
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    DEEP SNOW IN BRITAIN
    96 1 E was a h :aii oi sW* Bri:ain yesterday, parti•he M.dlancLs. ihe Lake Scotland, Sussex, Hertre and part* of Wai s. light covering of There have been a number of i a ata m Br Dd Birmingi where buse.s hav P skidded he dang rous condition
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    COLD HITS GERMANY
    32 1 .<: wave whidi has swept v i or the past ti»re€ weeks the American tone's m.- production by a quarter Gen. Clay. Deputy American governor, said yesterday UP from Berlin.
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    PIANISSIMO
    33 1 Two Europeans dress d n Army uniform and carrying md rope, entered an army MSa bo Holland Road I to r move to* grand The watchman- remoni w.th them, and they left.
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    JAPAN SILK FOR UK
    26 1 HQ. m Tokio announce rt of the mit al I.OCO bales l?- cases v "d grades! the United King- com says A.P.
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    46 1 1i >. Barracl -ugh o: 1 ord X lloarn s staff .is seen holding a ('lied fi>h on a fishing stake off i pore yesterday when tish»i.. delegates from eight i-oun-tr.es and the Pres> *.au the latfs: V:tla\an fishing methods. Report and more pictures on Page 5
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    FIGHTING FLARES UP IN SLMATRA
    260 1 BATAVIA, Monday. •THREE Dutch soldiers were killed and two wounded m 1 Padang, Sumatra, when Dutch convoy was fired on while going from Emmahavcn to the airfield, a Dutch military spokesman said today, reporting more clashes between Dutch and Indonesian forces. Dutch troops, supported by
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    FRENCH ARMY RELIEVE HANOI CITY
    399 1 FRENCH ARMY RELIEVE HANOI CITY Free Press Special Correspondent SAIGON, Monday UANOI, which has virtually been m a state of siege since Nov. 20 last year, has been relieved. Supplies of foodstuffs and ammunition can now be sent there by truck from Haiphong. Hitherto supplies had to bo dropped from
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    Was it Out ?
    89 1 Was it Out Th;-. pho'osr-pli was takrn a split sreend aft«r onvpton was gi%rn out hag-btttn to IVKkadl m KneUod'* Hr«>t .nr.«nn» m the Test matrh now m pr«ftWi at Molbjurne The umpirr s ftcision <a:u as a sbork to Comptn and has iri^en rise to much discussion This picture
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    TIN PRICE FIXED
    42 1 THE Free Presa understands that the Ministry of Sup-; ply m London has fixed the! price of tin at i'MO a ton unchanged as from Jan. 1. The news was received m a cable from London this after-' noon.
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    THE TEST WASHBROOK GETS 1st CENTURY
    268 1 THE TEST WASHBROOK GETS 1st CENTURY ALTHOUGH V.ashbrook ran to u;ie century. England lost the wicket Hu ton (40» at 138 and Edrich ill 163. m the last over before lunch final day of the third Test at Melbourne th'i morning England are now 387 runs m an tars with
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    CLOSED SHOP?
    31 1 Tokyo's geisha girhs have now I formed their own trade U •be known as 'Haku-Ali 'All». says Rouier The (irll hope to get the uinon on a nation-wide basis
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    INDUSTRY FOR STATE
    44 1 Mr Hynd, MniLsue r m charge of rjhe Bn'^'sh occupation zone of Germany, saw Mr. Bevin. the For ign Secretary yesterday, b Reuter from London, aboul arrangements tor the appoiirment of custodians for the mam German Uvtustrt I fl bo be
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    'JUSTICE FOR MARINE'
    38 1 The US. Marine accused of raping a Chinese girl "n land w.ii t>e given tatr trtai I declared Maj. Oen. Howara. m, i csumanas the American Mar 1 v. Ctvv.d. says AP from Shanghai. i
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    RADIO BOMB THREAT
    33 1 A letter threatening to blow up 1 the Egyptian state broadea.>un.; i building m Cairo was I j last night by the Arabic pro- gramme adviser says Reuter from Cairo
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    STONED SYNAGOGUE
    21 1 London police were yesterday searching tor two youths were disturbed while B :i London S5 Sunday night, says Reuter
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    WRECKDO'NEEDLES'
    33 1 Alter remaining aboard all night m fog. snow and rough seas, the crew Ol tfc freighter "Varvusu. aground en rocks off the 0, Wijht says Reuter iroui So u tha mp ton.
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    TROOPS MASS ON PALESTINE
    100 1 LONDON. Monday. VETERAN British soldiers are being moved into Palestine from Egypt today ai the British Army awaits the Cabinet's permission to launch a lull-scale offensive against Jewisn terrorists. There are already some 100.000 British troops m Palestine. Today, the Prime Minister. Mr. Attlee. presided over
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    10,000 LONDON LORRY DRIVERS OUT ON STRIKE
    150 1 LONDON Monday COME 10,000 ot London's lorryi 3 drivers went on strike today for a 44-:: our week halting deliveries ol food to the shops. Tbt. strike started this morning among a lew hundred drivers at the j docks and within a iew
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    MARSHALL RECALLED
    134 1 WASHINGTON. Monday. DRESIDENT TRUMAN hki directed his envoy. Gen. George Marshall, to return 'o Washington from China where he has been attempting to briny; about an understanding between the Chinese Central Government and the Communists, i White House statement said tonight. Tlie Presidential Press Secretary. Mr Charles G.
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    CHINESE CLOSE RUSSIAN RADIO
    103 1 SHANGHAI. Mon. THE RiusUn radio ftation In Shanghai 'Voioe ot th^ Soviet Union' was closed oy the Chin< police today under a regulation which now torbids the operation 01 foroisn rad o stations m China. The station first went on the air m IP4I shortly after
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    MONTY SALUTES THE RUSSIANS
    169 1 MOSCOW, Mon. Field marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of the Bri- 1 t'sh Imperial Stall, on arrival in] Moscow by plane from Berlin today, wjs met by Masrhal A. M. Vasilevsky. chief of the Soviet General Staff. Tile two men shook hand? wnn Vis:our»< Mont m ry
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    IN BRITAIN
    625 2 LONDON, (By air mail). POX-HUNTING, otter-hunting, hare-coursing, falconry and A all other kk blood sports may soon be outlawed ki Britain by a Parliamentary Bill if the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports has its way. The Society, by means of illustrated leaflets and other propaganda
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    27 2 lYhtrr Sru .o. the i> thing yet photo- hnitolor. is I m ■Stheheranuhl>. One •':!> .uiadian-born .'nhitiim to -ing I' IjrwoW thinks :h t pro.iJf the m: .rttrt>t.
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    Youth brought town to village
    159 2 ItfCt \cars a >outh council, whose motto might well be .ustnunt at hand stops the drift from the land." has I > un^ip (population 200), tucked away m the ret, \orkshire. from a dreary, lifeless hamlet ■m of Britain's happiest villages W*a no fun at
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    HUSBAND'S SUIT FOR APPEAL
    193 2 HUSBAND'S SUIT FOR APPEAL A NULLITY suit which the Mattel of the Rolls (Lord Greene) said m the London Hign Court raised a question of the gravest importance affecting the marriage status is to come before I the Court of Appeal shortly. The appellant's husband, who was refused a decree
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    'PRESTIGE LOST' AT WEDDING
    116 2 Asset ting that a substitution of "inferior cars" for a RollsRoyce and a* Buick at his daughter's wedding had caused him cmbarrjssment, annoyance and loss of prestige. J. W. Carroll.: i'sh trier. Manchester, sued Arthur Whittaker. car hire service owner. tor damages for beach of contract
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    TWO DETAINED IN BRITAIN
    73 2 IOHANN NITTZ is understood to J be the second of the two remaining Germans and Austrians detained m Britain. The other, announced m the House of Commons, is Karl Kuchenmeister. a Qerman engineer. The man is being detained pending the result of legal action he is
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    HUBBY FORBADE
    23 2 In Washington Mr Kmttierine Elliott sued ter husband for divorce because he would not let her play hill-billy gramophone I records
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    'WHODUNNIT?
    31 2 In New York nnstexy writer Margerie Bonner is being deluged with readers' requests for the solution of her latest '"whodunnit." which by f rro- was published without the lr.st chapter.
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    50 2 A general view of the \ianhatian site. New York (indicated oy arrow) offered by Mr. John D Rockefeller, as the permanent home of the I'ni'ed Nations. The offer has been accented. Tn 18-acre area extends south from 48th Street to 42nd Street, east of first Avenue to East R>ver Drive
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    VOLCANO ALARM
    26 2 The Mexican roicano Popocatapetl (17.400 ft.), v:hich last erupted 100 years aso. Is giving out so much smoke that prople living near are alarmed.
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    'RESTORE WEDDING TRAIN'
    118 2 NO woman wanU to be marred m a knee-length wedding gown, dcclarrd Sir Wavell W.ikefVeid (Cons.. Ifciylebone) In tho House of Commons Ye-t. he said, a new Board of Trade Order restricting wholesale prices for gowns will have that •effect Displaying an advertisement of a wedding gown
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    TWO MILLIONAIRES
    227 2 BECAUSE William Yapp, oi London, chanced to meet a Cos sack from America way back m 1903 the Treasury has benefited by V 2,827,703, the duty paid on Mr. Yapp's estate, following his death last January, leaving £4.501,537. In 1903, he was a small tobacconist m Knightsbrid^e. His
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    THREW FISH AT HUSBAND
    164 2 A WIFE who wa& said io nave a violent. uncontrollable temper, failed m her petition for divorce at LUerpool Assizes. She admitted to throwing a parcel of flsh at her husband and to dropping her wedding ring down a drain. Mrs. Edna Harwosd. Cambridge Road. Great
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    WORLD-WIDE SEARCH-ENDS
    46 2 A worldwide search lasting seven months for ancient documents missed lrom the home oi the Marquis oi Anglesey tt LlantairPG has ended with their discovery m Vre British Mil?! urn. The man who took them there has died. ♦The name il Llantairpwllgwyntiyllgogerychwyrndrobwll Llan*y siliogogogoch
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    THERE'S SOMETHING IN RENNIES'
    204 2 Says this Sufferer irom Indigestion and Palpitation 'There B evidently something m Rcr.nies that no other übiety N t-ayt, this woman, and how right 4m is. Read her letter: My age is 50. ana i nau ftM been pretty fit. except tar palpitation caused through indigestion
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    OVERSEAS CHINESE MAY BE CALLED UP
    170 3 Fre^ Prt^s Staff Reporter :.U a Reuter dispatch from* Shanghai states that ement the Chinese Conscription Law, Chinese and Consulates abroad have been asked to make ■I oversea* Chinese of military age, no official n< have been received by the Chinese Consulate-vn-;;pore. 11l b
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    CHINA REMITTANCE
    70 3 Family remittances to China 1 during December 1946 amounted to $1,891,584. l Prfwrnen and delegates to th- Ki. hfry Con/trrnc? (now m session ->re, wrnt on a fish in* trip la Singapore waters jester da 7. f fisheries. Sin-apare. Mr. W. de la Mare, (wearinr »»n <^n m
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    Most fishy story since Sept. 1945
    415 3 Free Press Staff Reporter MEMBERS of the Singapore Pre>s, the Far Kastern Broadcasting Service, Radio Malaya and the Government Public Relations had a big day-out yesterday at Lord Killearn's expense for one of the fishiest stories since the liberation. Fishing delegates from the NEI,
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    DENTISTS TO MEET
    37 3 The Malayan Dental Assoc a tion will hold ill clinical meetint at the Dental > i*. i Gener:'l Hospital oh Saturday at 10 am. at which papers «tC. be read m the morning sesm v.
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    COMMISSIONS FOR INDIANS
    148 3 JJUMBERS of applications for ■*V commissions m the Services have been received by Pandit Jawahurlal Nehru, VicePresident O f the Indian Interim Government, end by the S;\rclar Balder Singh, Deler.ce member, m answer to their recent appeal to the people of India to make the Armed Forces
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    NEW S'FORE TAXI RACKET
    131 3 Free Press S atT Reporu r ANEW and flourishes ra is bens opsrated by some uduloi*.s taxi drivers who J wait outside SiiiPjapore^B c nriTi^s an il the midnight show crovds ■re due to come out m the smiUl hours of the morn*n^, .\nd !h^n denland
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    UNCLAIMED CARGOES TO BE SOLD
    446 3 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Advisory Council is to be asked to change the law regarding the sale of unclaimed goods m Singapore Harbour Board godowns, so that an auction can take place m the near future to dispose of vast quantities of stores
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    BRIG. SHRINAGESH
    17 3 Brigadier Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh has been appointed to command 268 Indiian Infantry Brigade m Japan.
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    HIGH U.K. POST FOR S'PORE AIR OFFICER
    205 3 UETERAN flyer of World War I. Director ot Intelligence to Admiral Mountbatten until the disbandmrnt of SEAC and until recently temporary Senior &Jbr Staff Officer to Far Batt Ail Commander-in-chief. Air Marshal Sir George Pirie. Air ViceMarshal Lawrence Fleming; Pendred has been provisionally
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    INDIANS SHOULD HAVE ONLY ONE NATIONALITY'
    268 3 JUST returned from a ir.p to J India, Mr. John Thivj Chairman of the Malayan Indian Congress, has issued a statement m Kuala Lumpur remarking that Indians and other nonMalay sections of the Malayan people should give the Malay* an assurance that, m any
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    RAJPUTS RETURN TO INDIA
    33 3 RAJPUTS RETURN TO INDIA AFTER an arduous spell of Klliee overseas men ot 6th Rajputana Rifles were welcomed home at Delhi Cantonment, by Field Marshal Sir Clauae Auchinleck. Commander- in-Chief m Ind.a. recently.
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    LABOUR PAY AGREEMENT
    182 3 LABOUR circles m Singapore are gratified with the results of the negotiations between the Government and the Government and Munici :.il Labour Unions, under which Government and Municipal labourers wili get paid holidays and Sunday overtime. Details of the agreement reached are: Daily-paid employees of Government, other
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    LIDWALL, TALLON SMASHED ENGLAND'S HOPES
    877 4 From Bill Bowes MELBOURNE, Monday. lies <•! huwicane cricket, Australia added 243 •(ftiv. The LnsUsh bowling was flayed unmercifully the feast spread m Melbourne, thouMC ihe orgy. C'ndwall (100), Tallon (92) V*st hitting seen m Test matches for years, and it left 550 runs m
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    RrCJBY UNION
    22 4 Car aHi bm.: DttbUn 18 points to six m a Rugby Union game played yesterday, reports R» uter from London
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    Test 100
    36 4 Riv I indual', the Australian last bowler who, according to Bill tl*r.\ as, scored "a d?lUli*.ful, energetic century" yesterday. He is Ike sixth Australian to score a c?nturv against England m the present series.
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    MCC DRAFT NEW CRICKET RULES
    414 4 LONDON, Monday. THE Marylebone Cricket Club, m presenting the first complete revision of rules of cricket for 63 years, have made no drastic alterations. Rather have the MCC taken pains to remove present ambiguities and put the laws m logical sequence. Revision of rules, which
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    BASE WORKSHOPS WIN TWO-ONE
    164 4 REML met and defeated U:e rIASC Training Scnool on Saturday m a game of soccer on the Polo Ground. Thomson Road. REME kicked off and I poal up m the fourth mmute through Hanks. RASC rallied and equalised through Briggs m the seventh minute The game
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    ENGLAND'S TASK – 90 RUNS PER HOUR
    379 4 ENGLAND'S TASK 90 RUNS PER HOUR Prom Norman Preston MELBOURNE, Monday. UNLESS England can av^ra^e 90 rui. an hour for five hours tomorrow, the A.-hes will stay m Australia, and with Bradman's ability to close up his n>ld. Hammonds team cannot be expected to win. In one of the best
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    32 CUP GAMES ON SATURDAY
    292 4 LONDON, Monday. •THE Football Association Cup competition will swing into 1 its third round on Saturday with 32 matches as follows: Biackburn Rov2rs v Hull City; Bolfon Wanderers v Stockport County; Bournemouth v D-rby] County; Bradford v Manchester United; Brent lord v Cardiff City; Burnley
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