The Singapore Free Press, 24 January 1947

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  • 1895 2 by Alan Gardner Free Press Staff Reporter I HAVE just returned to Changi Airfield, Singapore, from an air trip with four Lancaster aircraft which oeiong to Britain s Bomber Command and are fully fitted with all the apparatus necessary to make an operational bomJDing night up to
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  • 75 2 Fortune forecast for people born tod#y HORN today, the stars have given you many talent*, but too much of the time you are wasteful of these gifts. You jump without looking into a project, regret ing your derision later. Avoid such a crisis by being more careful
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    • 352 2 Free Press Crossword O%2 1 CLUES ACROSS 1, Laree drinking-g asres (9). 7. the legal one te- rj j p "Tj— -r» fere 1752 ccmmenced on I j T*\ March 25th <4>. 8. hmmi mm mm g m m f Contains the throne of a JGQ tm Tfr bishop (9>.
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    • 368 2 nnntri f\JT A?n V A play to you: 930 P m Music m March; 8.30 p.m. News; 8. 40 p.m. Lont\t\Ui\J l v lr\Lir\ I H miniature; 10.00 p.m. All Hale; 10.30 don calling; 8.45 p.m. Radio newsrcel SincrnnorP pm- K^ 1 0 wmrnunA; 10.45 p.m. 9. 00 p.m. Tip-top
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    • 416 4 awakening m i and the rr. from Thomas, .ry tor the i us to lend oidai c to the p?o- ol Asia to spar.- tryem the fees we made m Europe Oder ck t-o «.xamir.e the problems m Singapore mand more urgent ntion at the moment than politics. These
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  • 2088 4 SINGAPORE PEOPLE MAKE NEWS PORTRAIT studies oi local residents m the Colony ol Singapore torm the objects of an exhibition ot work by MRS. PATRICIA MORLEY, an English artist, who is displaying 24 paintings at the Victoria Memorial Theativ next month. A private view of the paintings has been arranged
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  • 48 4 )wne] 1. Of wha- v ifc -Oh w ifter at arms, Alone ar.d I The 2 -t r w.t a?d h«i masU r to I whernn I lav writes tho »v i Who t I Jones 3 The for uh tire butt and of whom' 1 li
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  • 22 4 And though I my roods t<» i and though I gftvi to br burned i L charity. I am I C
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  • 260 6 MUSLIM MASS MOVE TO 'PAKISTAN' INDIA'S Interim Government is to open a full inquiry as i 1 soon as possible into the massacre of Muslims by the Hindu majority m Bihar Province two months ago. lnis decision has been taken following a visit by Pandit Nehru, Vice-President m the Interim
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  • 191 6 ADMITTING an "oversight," Judge Kobert J. Wheeler, ol Birmingham Alabama) set aside a divorce be had granted to the husband ol a British war-bride, i The bride. Mrs. Minn.e Burrows! Vincent ii reported to have com- plained «1» that she stepp:d^ ashore m New
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  • 153 6 NEW YORKERS ALARMED NOT AN ATOM NEW YORKERS were earned all day recently r.ot to be- i lieve any rumours about their city being atom-bombed The warning was given because everyone still remembers the great panic of 1938 when people ran screaming into the? streets because a broadcast of a
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  • 27 6 In 3^2 days 31.000 saw the Welsh industries Fair at Westminster—l,ooo more than the target fixed for the six days it was open.
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  • 136 6 HUSBANDS have not changed since Victorian days, Mr. Reginald Pestell, secretary of the Marriage Guidance Council, complained at a London conference of health visitors and school nurses. "In Queen Victoria's time, a woman's husband was her managing director," Mr. Pesteli said. "He regarded her as a chattel,
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  • 33 6 In Miami, where black marketeers were gambling with rotes worth £250 last wi:;or, croupiers report that only n<j r .es worth £5 are being used this season
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  • 23 6 In Salem, Oregon, the State Liquor Commission, which sells all spirits, is seeking £25,000 to set up a clinic for alcholics
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  • 23 6 Th" Governmert White Papei on the Cui*\rd Insurance Fund shears that the agreed value of the lir.er Queen Elizabeth 14 6,003,000.
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  • 46 6 I'TALISS BURY THE HATCHET Fa m a syj a Biov <M m R spirit o: ;'-^B Monai and w by tl By© with toug] attend c i carr;. olive ument the oi i Tbme the ha, over I eager l will if. a guard v airr.
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  • 17 6 THIS ANGER THE GIRLS DRTTISh b Bald bctwe are m Br:; The G ed" tica sup r
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  • 148 6 Lafdsf df FOR the first time In th blfltOO of th^ British cinema, a completely naked girl has be^n allowed to appear on the scree:, by accident The ?irl took pavi ii: a ao- jio-iu ut the Chelsea Arts Baa a;. i the Albert Hall on
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    • 107 6 J/VINt Exclusive to the Singapore Frw f ERICS EITHER IN TmE BLACK /THAT WAS LORD LOVACE Mt\/WMAT DID I TeLL \J L& MARKET AND IS COMPILING J /SAYS HIS DAUGHTERS BROKEN V YOU, JANE?- WHAT UHPI^ < LISTS OF WOMEN WHO MIGHT j I W«Th, ERk' AND HE WANTS YOU
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  • 347 8 Continued from Page One ieturned to Paris from Indo-China said today. Oriental arms smugglers from Siam and China were said to have provided i art of the arms supplies for Yietiui.n iorces. When conditions became tense m Kanoi on the eve of the Dec. 19 revolt, the
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  • 66 8 Tv. og a synd!- of 11 members who will sh?r the proceeds of the rich gold find View M ne. Dayda»n Western Australia, it is learned. The g.lcf return so lai was d by the Australian M nes artment to be* worth, refore d
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  • 20 8 a r coal output record fcxiu m one day was iced m E pro-wp.r da lv output
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  • 349 8 RANGOON, Thursday. IN the clash with the police during the storming of the Gov- eminent Secretariat on Tuesday night, 264 "Red Flag" communists were injured, 20 seriously. The commanding officer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade said that 120 were sent to the General
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  • 196 8 NEW YORK, Thursday. A BRITISH *p<ikeMiian said today that Brtiain will ask the United Nations Security Council to rule that Albania must pay compensation for the Corfu Channel mining disaster, m which British destroyers lost 44 stamen killed. Britain is charging Albania with "criminal disregard" for
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  • 207 8 A RABS INTEND TO BE TOUGH LONDON, Tnurs. "DE tough" is the keynote of the i Pakstine Arabs point of view In discussions with other Arab; delegations now taking place] prior to the reopening next week j of thp London Palestine confer- i -nee, according to well-informed; Arab circles m
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  • 478 8 CHIANG KEPT ARMS TO FIGHT THE REDS L O Lard L S i^nis^^d^L?^. t^e^^^c.^ SS |evi^n U £hl the best armies away from the Japanese to keep watch on the Communists. They had concentration camps and secret police and used them freely. Up to the end of 1944. no fewer
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  • 363 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib ocr Ib. No 1 It S B. Spot loose 42 42% No 1 R.S.S. fob m bale: Feb IHi No 2 R.S S fob m
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  • 102 8 GOVERNMENT stocks of natural ruDber m Britain were 1G4.048 tons lon Dec 27 with an average c.l.f co*t |of Is. 3-S.d. a pound. Sir Stafford Cripps. President of the Board of I Trade, told Parliament yatWrttof. Asked what was the loss to the taxpayer and would he
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  • 57 8 Dutch troops seized arm.-; and ammunition when they intervened to stop "'subversive" action against ths Dutch on the Nether- j lands Indies island of Sumbawa. Renter reports from Batavia. The anti-Du'ch movement wa>> said to be led by Java officials of j an autonomous movement,
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  • 33 8 The Post- Master General announced m London yesterday thai insured letter, box and parcel services to Malaya and insured parcel services to Sarawak have now been restored, says Reuter
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  • 87 8 STALIN SAYS WAR iS IMPOSSIBLE NO sli its Go. to do so. <x 2B large am power Dec a use a possibly pie ar. fight T. So said M interview Roo&eveiT. i Preside: I York n. is quoted bj Agenry Ta.--Contin.. I said "B i dcrstandabl j a new war
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  • 301 8 BOMBAY, limrxia;. ACiKOIT tf student* today marched to the Fmdi mtrnkk m Bombay, which was heavily £ii;«i\!< and shouted slogans saying: 'Down irith French Imperil ism," "Vietnam struggle is our 6tm md Withdrai I'rtnch troops from Vietnam". Tv <> m the dem nitration which la>tt»il
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  • 83 8 WE A THER A few bright intervals TV EATHLB report tor 24 b*urs from noon today compiled by the RAF Central Forecast m« Station, Air (onunmd, Far-Fast Generally cloudy with isolated showrrs and a few bright interval*. I.irht to moderate Northerly wind falling light tonitht. Sunset 6.50 p.m.. sunrise 6.43
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