The Singapore Free Press, 17 January 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA 14x752. SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1947. PRICF 10 CENTS.
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    SUICIDE MEN MOPPED UP
    382 1 HANOI, Thursday. Mil infantry, grappling with "suicide squads" of Vietnam -c (Indochinese nationalist forces), made substan- h m tlve past 20 hours and are slowly bringing peace uhble >trewn streets cf Hanoi. French military quarmtwts, believe it will be a long time before the last un
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    SEPARATE AIR FORCE FOR U.S.
    88 1 WASHINGTON. T.nurs. A PLAN for unification of the United States armed services has been agreed upon by the War and Navy Departments, president Truman announced to night. This scheme still requires Congressional approval. In essentials this scheme differs Little from the Britisn plan for unification
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    KILLEARN HOUSE BUILDERS STRIKE
    33 1 Ptmm Start Reporter drrd and fitty work--:ed Q n building "barrack hoiiM 5 m Thomson Road. foi Lord Kiliearn's lod_9 for a increase m wages m the cost of
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    INDONESIAN HQ RAIDED
    251 1 INDONESIAN HQ RAIDED MINE members of the Indonesian Republican People s Army H were killed and one wounded m eastern Medan when a Dutch patrol found a well-armed gang inside the demarcation zone, a Dutch military spokesman m Batavia reported yesterday, reports Reuter. Ten prisoners were taken and documents and
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    U.K.-Malaya air mail rates cut
    96 1 U.K. -Malaya air mail rates cut LONDON. Thurs. IMMEDIATE reduction of air mail postage rates from Britain to Malaya, India, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq is announced today by the General Post Office. Instead of a flat air mail rate of Is. 3d. for half an ounce and
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    BLUM HANDS IN RESIGNATION
    158 1 PARIS, Thurs. THE French Prime Minister, M. Leon Blum and his Cabinet handed m their formal resignations to the new President of the French Republic, M. Vincent Auriol. tonight, a few minutes after he had been installed m ih" Elysee Palace. Blum and Auriol are close
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    4 Jealousy at 66' murder charge
    337 1 LONDON, Thursday. INSANE jealousy of a 66-year old former State Minuter of Justice m Australia for a woman of the same age who was not his wife led to the death of an innocent Army Corpora) after a plot to kidnap him and extort
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    TRANSPORT STRIKE ENDS IN UK
    352 1 LONDON, Friday. THE great British transport strike is over. Deie- gates of the strikers, meeting this afternoon, agreed with only three dissentients to return to work on Saturday. No official disclosure of the terms have been made, but it is understood the employers offered to
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    33 1 kit. &0 J'il NaaCiXMiaH'l »t rPchildren, Bill and Jsuie Rowle.v. arrived m Singapore by the Dutch liner Oranje yesterday. This Free Press picture shows them with Mr. and Mrs. Mar. Donald disembark mc
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    NEWLY WEDS
    19 1 Hr. and Mrs. </. T. Kwong who were married m Singapore yesterday Mr. Kwong is the Chinese Consul.
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    CHINA REDS TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS
    44 1 CHINA REDS TAKE 5,000 PRISONERS The Chinese Communist radio claims the capture of Gen. Ma Li-wu, Commander of Government forces m Shantung Province, and of Gen. Li Pu-chtag Commander of the Hth Brigade, together with "about 5,000 Kuomintang officers and men," say; A. P.
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    NAVY BAN CIVILIANS
    30 1 The United States Navy has j barred civilians from travelling i on American naval vessels calling at Soviet-controlled ports m the Far-East, says Reuter from! Washington. I
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    POLES FOR UK PITS
    87 1 LONDON. Thurs. T3RITLSH coal miners National D Trade Union today agreed that Polish miners may be employed m British pits provided the local trade unions agree that the Poles are members of the Ur.ion and that they will be the first to go if the men
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    SOVIETS HANG 'WHITE' GENS.
    73 1 LONDON, Thursday ANE former Lt.-Oen. and three \**v r rme;- Major-Gens, leaders iof the *'Wniu Russian" movement, iof the twenties have been con|demnec to death and hanped report ed M<*oow Rad«<They were Lt.-Oen. A P. SiiKuro Major-Gen. Prince Sultan Girel Major-Gen. S N. Krasn< vand Major-Gen
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    68 MEN DIED IN EXPLOSION
    82 1 The explosion at Burton-on-Trent, of November 1944 when an RAF underground dump blew-up kiilin? 68 peop c and devas at ng the countryside Is deasribea m an official report published yesterday as the "biggest ever to have occurred m these islands." says Router from London
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    SOLDIER ROBBED
    51 1 Shortly after eleven o'clock last night a soldier. BL. Beof Nee Soon. was held up at the junction of BarTalo Road and Kampong Java Road Singapore by three Chinese and robbed of SJO In rash, a wristlet watch and a fountain pen. One of the m«n carried a
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    GUNMEN CAUGHT
    22 1 At eleven o'clock last night two Chinese were arrested In possesion of two full-loaded revolvers m Upper Serangoon Road, Smgapore.
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    5,000 CABLE SENTENCE PROTEST
    158 2 5,000 CABLE SENTENCE PROTEST RELEASED on bail, pending, an appeal against six weeks' hard labour. pa r -sed by M' c s Sybil Campbell, at Tower Bridge for the theft oi worth is. 2d Arthur Percy Whiffen (34) fetched his wife and baby lro t n hospital to their Hat
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    BARONESS ON POISON CHARGE
    342 2 FASCINATING, wealthy Baroness Margaret d'Andurain, 51 -year-old heroine of daring Middle East adventures and a friend of Lawrence of Arabia, was charged m Paris with the murder, by poisoning, of her young cousin, Raymond Clerisse, and remanded. Her enemies declare that the trial will be the
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    29 2 To bf< the headquarters ship oi Hie Solent Division, R.N.V.R.: The Blankney type, 1025-ton de stroyer H.M.S. Zetland seen lyin* at Southampton, where she rec ently arrived from Portsmouth.
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    WORKERS WIFE GETS $85,000
    97 2 Wiie oi a gas-works employee. Mrs. Mary Reed <26>. of Castle Street. Saffron Walden. learned that she has been left 10.000 by her uncle, a New Zealand farmer. "I had not seen my uncle tor almo.t 20 years, but I remember he made quite a fuss
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    16,000 JOBS WAIT IN AUSTRALIA
    31 2 Australia could give jebs to 44,620 immigrants m 1947. which with families, would mear. th: absorption oi about 120.000 people, it was said offieiallv m Canberra.
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    £500,000 FOR BUSES
    16 2 Nottingham's transport dc partment proposes to spend G 500.000 on 153 new buocs.
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    DOES NOT MEAN A THING THERE
    124 2 OBSCENE language m Hollywood means no more than "Tut-tut, Old Boy" and anyone working there ought to know it. a Judge there has ruled. Charles Vidor. film director wanted to break his €500-a-week contract with Columbia Studio.*, because the president. Harry Cohn. had used
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    £3,000,000 WINDFALL
    34 2 Cheques totalling more than £3 *****0 m payment lor this season's record deliveries of sugarbeet t? Norlolk. Suffolk and Essex I factor es were a New Yeari "windfall' lor East Anglian! f3imers.
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    SHE KEPT MAN ALIVE BY PRETENDING LOVE
    251 2 NORMA WAUGH, 20, visited John Richie, 21, m hospital after he tried to kill himself because of her, and pretended she still loved him so that he might want to live. She brought him grapes and other gifts till he was out of
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    WOMAN IS STABBED 17 TIMES
    101 2 A WOMAN was found lying m a Lichfield. Staffs, street one night bleeding from 17 stab wounds. The woman. Miss Mary Russell. 38, a bank clerk, of Galalane Lichfield, was walking home from the cinema when a man's arm was flung round her throat from
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    UNION GRATEFUL TO WAR FRIENDS
    40 2 Part of the pleasant town or Oudtshoorn. ir. the heart of th? Cape farming area, has b:en reserved for ex-soldiers, and any friendly European ex-volunt^er of any war can buy a bunding m the town
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    BLOWING UP WRECKS
    25 2 Big explosions will shake East Coast towns during the next few weeks as Nortli Sea wrecks are blown up by the Navy.
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      311 2 The FLYING TIGERS Many members ol the American Volunteer Group better known as the Plying Tigers, originally mined the Burma .Road patrol as "sold "era of fortune," eag^r for aavenrun and nut aver to receiving the large salary and bonus which Generalissimo Chiant Kai-Shek paid them for ba^ein^ Jap 'nlanes
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      64 2 TARZAN Ta?xatl attacks By Edgar Rice Burroughs I&is k'ller was charging r^aW^-J&__/^l____r^ <\ at the awesome sound '^S.V^ //'Ma _4 JANE AND TlKAR, TARTAR '^MTtTKW _F __V____f HESITATED iiiM fV Jw//MrW4H 1 ■^s'tPPPD w P_iP_D£n n Al\_7 ______r i _k ii >i "wt_ y' r/'fJA y h_ w >t /_r>
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    ,000 'DEAD END' KIDS
    308 5 Delinquency is under control Free Press Staff Reporter IN 10 months from March to December 1946 more than 1,000 children have been brought before the Singapore magistrates for various offences including robbery, housebreaking and theft. Of this number, 653 children were convicted; 188 cases have been
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    56 5 lilt MacDON'.LUS LAND AT tI*A.«GI: In tkis Iree Preae picture are Been If rem' right to left) Rear Adm. H. i. Ejer^n, Flag Officer, Malaya, GenStr Montagu Stopford, C-In-C, SEAL F, Sir Ralph Hone, Lady KLUearn. Sir Franklin Ghw»«>n. Mr*. Mac Donald. f crJ liillr iru, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald,
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    MARRIAGE REGISTRAR KEPT BUSY
    102 5 MARRIAGE REGISTRAR KEPT BUSY IBta-fl Reporter ES are on tne m- j Singapore. Ini .is t-e last motlhl ires have been com- registrar of Births, d D atrs m Fuller-: nearly five times as ,-oupies t?ok tbc •hen m the montn i ation— September j s 'ures. compiled far's department,
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    SINGAPORE FIRMS MUST REGISTER
    204 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FIVE clerks are m the Supreme Court building, ready to register every business m Singapore once new legislation, now under consideration, is passed by th^ Advisory Council. The new legislation will supersede pre-war laws requiring businesses to register, and even firms which
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    DRIVE TO OUST QUACKS
    127 5 Free Press Staff Reporter IN a full-scale drive to oust quack' doctors m Singapore and the Malayan Union who have been practising since the liberation, Dr. W J. Vickers, Singapore Registrar for the Medical Council, has circularised doctors all over Malaya and asked them to complete
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    CHINESE CONSUL WEDS
    62 5 The Chinese C—ial, b.ngapore, Mr. A. C. T. Kwong, was married yesterday to Miss Kav Tan Yeow Rim, at the Chinese Consulate-General yesterday. Picture shows Mr. Kwong putting the ring on his bride's finger. After the uedu*iig. a reception was held at the Victoria Memorial Hall. It
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    15,000 INDIANS FOR BURMA
    50 5 More than 15,000 Indian evacuees from Burma are hoping to return to that country from India as soon as their identity certificates are ready. They are mostly small traders who trekked their way towards India on the wake of the Japanese invas'on m 1942. A. P.
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    'STRIKE'TROOPS DUE
    165 5 'STRIKE' TROOPS DUE Free Press Staff Reporter THE Eastern Prince, the liner, which 500 troops refused at first to board m King George Fifth Dock, Glasgow, just before Christmas, was due to arrive m j Singapore today, but latest re- ports show that the ship is about 18 hours behind
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    KILLEARN GIVES HEALTH NEWS
    435 5 Free Press Staff Reporter LORD Killcarn's latest weekly health intelligence a booklet which shows the state of epidemics m all parts of the Far East reveals that there were six cases, with two deaths, of smallpox m Singapore between Jan. 1, and Jan. 8 while there
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    AUTHOR IN SPORE
    33 5 Sydney-born author FranK Clune, author of 20 books, mainly of history and travel, arrived m Singapore yesterday after a 14--days tour of J*va where he met Dutch and Indonesian leaders.
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    MORE CHINESE ARE ARRIVING
    175 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SEVEN-HUNDRED UNRR-* repatriates will be arriving m Singapore frojri Amoy on Jan. 30. They* will come by the "Hai Lee" together with 300 others who are returning to homes m the Malayan Union. This is the largest single batch of repatriates to
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    BROADCAST ON RICK
    38 5 This evening after the Nevs, at 945 p.m.. Dr. E. H. G Dcbby head of the Geography Department of Raffles College, will be speaking from Radio Malaya about the geographical background to the rice problem
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    APPEAL AGAINST JAIL FOR OPIUM
    74 5 •pwo Shanghai Chinese, Liew Wee San and Woo Liang j Sang, applied for an appeal against their sentence of three years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine, of $5,000 each for the importation of 156 pounds of opium valued at $i;»,0O0 at the ,S.n:aoore First District
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    SLUES BATTLE FOR CUP ON SUNDAY
    466 7  -  'Winger' By Singapore meet Perak on Sunday on the Padang at Vi KuaU Lumpur h> decide who will be AU Blues cham- „i- vMalava this season, they wilj be repeating a set of nsl antes "identical to one which occurred seven years If sinsrapore
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    LINDWALL GETS LEFT OUT
    51 7 Australian fast bowler, Ray Lindwall, (nearest to umpire m this picture) bowled the last ball of the drawn third Test and then rushed back for a souvenir. Rut he was too late, and here is seen expressing his chagrir. much to the amusement of his team-
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    Singapore XV For Sunday
    64 7 Singapore XV For Sunday Ir<\\ trCMtl *-h mmmt fVrak m _> U B!u« Cup Hnal on X Lumpur with ■t- wn: >•»«• L»ar 'Cap*-) I < Or I'haaa. V! I im I I 1 Hj Ibbb TaaiT a T><k Kirn 1 ullp gjur^tMaaa MU Bre Bubbm Wii:iam Fung. Hah f
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    REME BEAT S'PORE DISTRICT 6-1
    108 7 REME BEAT S'PORE DISTRICT 6-1 Q. Sin^pore ne m a game of i rt Canning ground. lute with District 1 RE.ME domljie of the first bait. I oring m the th Dmmtmt scoring r .rth minute. Disne eighth :iutes OFryur BTtte to bring tne i --it remained at second hail
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    S.R.C. CRICKET
    38 7 Stmrapore Recreation Club memm* rs desires ,t playing cricket this B BMBn we am the circu■ar on -the club notice board. Practice W^ start r r *t month and the fir*t be played early m March
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    SINGAPORE A.S.U.
    39 7 j THE annual genera! meeting of I th° Singapore Amateur Sports Union will be held on Sunday a* 11 a.m. at the resiI dence of the hon. secretary, Mr. Chun Yeow Kwee, 35. Lorung M Telok Kurau.
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    78 7 The hai:d-«»jn« silver tropby present* d for competition among State teams of Asiatic players by the Negri Sembuan All Blue*. It was first played for m 1935 and won by Singapore and since then has been wan twice by Singapore, once by Penang and twice by Perak. The last holders
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    HAMMOND MAY NOT PLAY IN 4TH TEST
    279 7 LAUNCESTON, Tasmania, Thursday. ALREADY efforts are being made to forecast England's team for the fourth Test at the end of the month and some I critics suggest that Hammond may stand down but as far i as the batsmen are concerned, the form
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    SCOREBOARD
    82 7 ENGLAND— I ST INNS Mutton c Ronald Thomas b KUbey 51 Fishlock c Ronald Thomas b Richardson 20 Gibb st. Gardiner b Clark 22 HanlsUfr b Clarke ISS Compton c Rirhardson b Clark 163 Edrich not eat So Ikin not out 15 Extras <b~es, 10. leg-bye. 1) 11 Total
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    SEALF WIN
    55 7 PLAYING m mua and puddles of water all over the field. HQ SEALP beat the Singapore Hornets by one goal to nil In a hockey match at St. George's Road, yesterday. SEALF scored their goal early m the game through Proudfoot. and although both sides made several attempts,
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    HOME SOCCER FIXTURES
    219 7 LONDON, Wed. ENGLISH League football fixtures for January 25 are:— Reuter Aston Villa v Blackpool Bolton Wdrs. v *-«<* United Chelsea v Grimsby Town Derby Co. v. Arsenal Everton v Liverpool Huddersfield Portsmouth Manchester O. Stoke City Preston N.B. v. Middlesborough Sheffield Utd. v. Charlton Ath. Sunder
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    Singapore offer to Ronnie James
    540 7 By Our Boxing Reporter ANOTHER effort is being made by Singapore promoter Kow Kirn Lin to persuade a world-ranking boxer to fight m Singapore. This time the target is Ronnie James. British Empire lightweight champion, who is now m Antra lia and who on Monday
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    Blackburn win Cup replay
    50 7 LONDON, Thurs DLACKBI'RN Rovers, playing D away, beat Hull City threenil m their F. A. Cv« third round renlay today. Blackburn will now meet Tort Vale at Blackburn m the fourth round In a third division (southern* league fixture Port Vale beat Leyton Orient two-one. —Renter.
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