The Singapore Free Press, 3 February 1947

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    23 1 The Singapore Free Press he Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA SINGAPORE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1947. PRICE 10 CEN fS.
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    -The Test— AUSSIES ON DEFENSIVE
    64 1 -The Test— AUSSIES ON DEFENSIVE T were on j Foui d this as were I oy t i ■dit not wicket, from the .•ai aint vai or i he wag the! 15 runs \n the result times! ling down "V r a six :<-r >>.wled' 0] Itokl the looked ack
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    10 1 In ending *uarc :omf ot the and Mrs. tfac Donald.
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    Lunch Score
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    SEAMEN STAGE LOCKIN STRIKE
    32 1 SEAMEN STAGE LOCK IN STRIKE p '^SEA. Sun. lockea I cabin S^avros steamr.. Baj, on j a a hunger' been dU-j They are ight ashore J vessel cau 1 ie its jour-
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    WEATHER TURNS BACK PLANE
    11 1 WEATHER TURNS BACK PLANE lairyH«u and Don -£d rrom London P
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    LONDON STANDS GUARD HIGHLAND DANCING
    268 1 LONDON STANDS GUARD HIGHLAND DANCING Jew-Fascist riots feared m the East End LONDON, Sunday. FEARS of possible clashes between Jewish groups and new political organisations led by former members of the British Union of Fascists brought large police reinforcements today into London's East End, where a great number of Jews
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    FAMILIES QUIT PALESTINE
    518 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. FIRST party of British women and children 40 m ail— to be evacuated from Palestine will leave by air from Lyddu airport at midnight to-night. Meanwhile preparations for o>ncent rat m? "essential" British subjects are going on at high speed. Troops are criss-crossing Jerusalem, Haifa
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    POLICE IN STORE GUN DUEL
    104 1 1 GUN duel between a suspected robber and police m a radio cax took place m Carlisle Road. Singapore, early this morning. Nobody was hurt, and the suspect was arrested. Just before the duel occurred. Oh 3 police received a telephone message that a robbery
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    TROOPSHIP DEATH
    47 1 An inquiry m the troopship Queen 01 Bermuda Into the death of Serst. A. F. Tilnsell, who while on his way home from Singapore, was found on the mes 3 deck with head injuries, established that he was sutfocated from an bronchial obstruction o.'ter falling
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    MALAYAN AIRWAYS STARTING
    296 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. 'THE first of six new air--1 craft which are being manufactured m Britain for Malayan Airways Limited has been completed and will leave for Malaya on Thursday, Feb. 6 the anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The others will follow m the
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    Snow GETS GRIP ON UK
    70 1 ORITAIN is st'i ol snow. A partial thaw has been 13 followed by <-r most of the country, and m Northern Ireland fast becoming impassable again a& the snow drifts %mv deep. In Devonshire a iw cngined snow plough that went out to dear the
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    'ALLIES REVIVING GERMANY' CHARGE
    71 1 The Soviet magazine New TkJrtj yasterdaj r:«ewed charges that war plants were still m operation m itir. British zone of Germany m an editorial broadcast by the Moscow Radio. 'There still are German military formations m existence/ the broadcast added, continuing "Certain circle* m Britain and
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    MARSHALL LEAVING
    17 1 US Secretary of State Gen. George C. Marshall may visit Germany and Austria next month
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    WAVES DAMAGE HMS VANGUARD
    195 1 ON BOARD H.M.S. VANGUARD, Moil THE King and Queen, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret spent most of yesterday quietly m the Royal apartments m H.M.S. Vanguard while heavy seas smashed gratings on the deck and broke adrift a piano m the ship's schoolroom as she pitched
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    G.Is. TO RUN 'GAUNTLET'
    87 1 PEIPING, Sun. NEARLY 2,000 Americans m Peiping are prepared to make i a hazardous 115-mile railway trip Ito the sea. Since the American decision to Quit China, the Cooi- munists had been attacking the I Peiping-Tientsin Railway and bit;ter fighting is reported along the route. Unless
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    52 1 iNprrs of the StafoiUi *ii<h!ancleis iust r.»snt e«ive::uiiu'd gues'.s of tii«-C.-iu-C, SEAM. Gen.. Sir Muntacn Mcpford, t* hi*hlm4 music and iw#ra dancftijr Sir Montagu mho cave a h^uw-wtnßing party at Flax staff House, Singapore, is leaving Singapore m thr middle of this month take over the Narthtrn ominand m U.K.
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    Bride killed In plane crash
    267 1 Bride killed In plane crash LISBON, Sunday. SEVEN musicians and a bride on her honeymoon were among 15 people killed m the Air France Dakota which hurtled into mountainside of Cintra Range near Lisbon m thick fog last night. The sole survivor of the crash, Eugene Leonard, who was thrown
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    DROP POWER BILL'
    32 1 A call to Governm-ent to abandon nationalization of electricity m Britain is made by the London Oarcber of Commerce, which has p.'nccacbid Premier descent Ai-tlee and other Cabinet mini6ter*.
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    STORE STRIKES: NO CHANGE
    140 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THERE was no change In the .stnJce situation m Singapore over the we?k-end, although Mr R P. Bingham, Commissionei for Labour, and representatives of the MDU had a four- hour discossion with the Municipal strike leaders yesterday morning. Thenext meeting will probably
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  • WOMANS PAGE
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      STORE'S CHILDREN GET FED
      881 2 FREE PRESS WOMAN CORRESPONDENT CINGAPORE'S children have yet another Restaurant of their own this one opened la^t Monday m Princep Street and about 120 small children are eating there every day. The meas are enfrely free and are served to pre-school age children by the Social
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      NO-FIGHT TWINS
      194 2 TEORGE and lan Fraser, ll 21-year-old sft, 6in. twins from Fort William, battled their separate ways to the finals of the lightweight competition of the Scottish inter-varsity boxing championships at Glasgow—and then refused to fijfht on. They had to fight each othtr and George and lan don't approve
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      WOMEN RETURN
      65 2 MANY of the women who left British industry at the ci d of the war are returning to the new light industr'es m the development areas. Ministry of Labour returns for November show that fourteen thousand more womer were employed during that monih, bringing their total throughout industry
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      BETTER OFF WITH LESS
      161 2 A COMPANY director wa.s ieelir g ill so he went to a mental institution where, by a delicate operation, a surgeon "eliminated" one-fifth of his brain, and, upon his recovery, the man was made chairman of the board. "He could mak^ decisions faster than any of
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      FIRST TIME AT SCHOOL
      810 2  -  Rhona Churchill by AUK son, now lour and U a half, toddled off to school m England for the first time m his life, dressed a new scariet cap, a new scarlet tie, grey corded shorts, a navy mackintosh, and a pair of Wellington. He has
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      26 2 Children queuing outside the Prlncep Street Child-feedinf Centre at 9M a.m Som« oi t h* oiftes are bringing their brothers and sisters ie their free meal
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      131 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortum Jurrcast tor people bom today J^ORN today hakim] riisconu-nt onf your most outstanding characteristics. If you us* thj dislike thinrs as the > are. as a9a to urje you on to correct nm takes ?nd for?#> ahead \o%tti bigcPr s•^cce*^ then it is m( a handirap.
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      64 2 MOTfrp or REMOVAL wn: ♦he < ■OBHI SAWD. LANDS M mil k COMPASS LIM79 arf Ml ROOM 4 \\K I H"O| KP!IO> He \\j\t of »<>u c drr*w ii r *\p*rt l»rrv««ilB» i i,.t i^h f\ #>lkni STERLING 6c DCLl 4p E>:< be-" mai ket rriu m» for shipT"- ft
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      270 2 Free Press Crossword No. SI 3 Loop of iron, etc for JBBlß^^ I wa r f on woo<Jland deity j 1 I 1 _^|QH more than 300 species <«• flH— J^B TO Rule of action maxn hv |^BMB^ (7>. 12 Stone f ru t 's'. pg[ H| HBBL_l__L__L__L»—^H tS Enclosure
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      92 2 I YOTTR RADTO T TSTFNTNr 1 1 RADIO MALAYA Singapore Hi v stiHOKfc (Chinese A lad M v ?25 metres; ab« II p m to 2 p m 4.12.--mefaeyclei per <on d (61 metre Hand) ■nd 7.15 p.m co 930 p.m. 4.78 nire* -yle- per -«<-ot,d 61 metre twnti BLUE
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      183 2 p.m. News; 1.40 p.m. Musical memories; 2.00 p.m. Close down. 5.15 p.m. News headlines; 8.18 p.m Accent on rhythm; 8.32 p.m. Variety highlights: 9.00 p.m. Harry Martinez and his Royal Hawaiian*; 9 30 p.m News; 9,-45 p.m. Commentary: 10.00 p.m. Test match relay; 10.10 pm. In a musical mood: 10.30
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      132 2 RADIO SEAC RADIO SEAC Broadcasting from Colombo Oylon on the foi lowing wnvo bands Bto 11 .M) am 19 84 meters and 49 Jb meters. 11 30-12 am 19 84 meters. 12 noon-5 p m 16 88 meters. 19 84 meters and 49 S3 meters. 5-5 30 p m 19
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      Daring car gangs raid warehouses MAJOR OFFERED £1,000 TO JOIN BANDITS
      238 3 Daring car gangs raid warehouses MAJOR OFFERED £1,000 TO JOIN BANDITS EX-COMMANDO officers are being offered £1,000 a L year with bonuses to join the new London car bandit gang who have been responsible for recent raids on jewellers' shops and warehouses. One such offer was made to an ex-officer
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      48 3 I «rtoo is L, drf ssed I i *oman ar and rhauffeur to tun in murder I i !i>n m uhuh 06-J 1 'linisterj \ustrali», lhoma> r>e;i», tried on a A r.iurdtr/ ao Ariny^ .1 Th i irtH fromj I over a Id w iin.m. the proseon allecfd
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      WOMAN MAGISTRATE'S SENTENCES QUASHED
      189 3 Sr \r peopl? appeaJed against sentences passed on them by Miv- Sybil Campbell. Tower Bridge magistrate, at the London Scions Appeals Committee. Two of these sentence* were qua>hed by the Committee and one reduced. The rest Here dismissed. Lambeth Trades Council have decided huter Ede. the
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      BRITISH ACTION IN PALESTINE RIGHT'
      57 3 Arthur Sul*erger, owner ot the New York Times, who described himself as an American of Jewish faith, told a New Orleans audience: •It is mor t Tmportant for the U.S. and Britain to get along well than to set up a new State for iyrs.
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      PAPER DRAPERIES
      36 3 Paper 'draperies" just as at,tractive, stroag and soft tcx tiles, but half ttie price, are now on salp m the United States. So is a deodorant that takes the smell out of fresh paint.
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      HOUSE HIDES JET SECRET
      112 3 nOR two years people living near i an old unkempt countryhouse m Buckinghamshire have been unaware trial i L had been occupied and that every morning thirty- six people entered it. Its secrets were revealed at a public Inquiry at which the cccupiers appealed against the
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      MARRIED WRONG GROOMS
      192 3 MARRIED WRONG GROOMS TWO Chinese brides have found themselves married to the i wrong men hi Canton as the result of a free-for-all. It the two girls, a Miss Wang and a Miss Hsieh, were going to their respective nuptial places travelling by sedan-chair. Going m opposite directions, botn j
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      SIX HOURS UNDER RUINS -GETS G.M.
      173 3 SIX HOURS UNDER RUINS -GETS G.M. WHEN the King Darid Hotel m w Jerusalem was wrecked by Jewish terrorists last July, a Palestine Police Force sergeant stayed six hours under the debris, choked with dust and explosive fumes, to rescue three seriously injured soldiers Now the London Gazettp annour.ces that
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      PRAMS GO WITH THE TROOPS
      53 3 Babies m arms, older children and wives accompanied troops on board the liner Carthage at Southampton recently for the first time since 1939. Khaki-clad lathers of the 2nd Glouc esters with their wives and children travelled to Southampton m a special express from Waterloo. The
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      23 3 French polk-ec officers examining some of tile 3.000,OO« frames m forged 100- franc netes which were seized following a raid m Montmartre Paris.
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      YOUTH TREK TO PRAGUE
      182 3 A QUARTER of a on I lion yoimg people of all nations will join m a trek to Pragve this summer for the first World Youth Festival. They will travel to the Cxech capital m fleets of planes, trains and ships, seme specially chartered. Ttey will
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      £1,425,000 DEAL BY LORD ASTOR
      60 3 UISCOUNT ASTQR will Decomc £1.425.000 richer by selling the Astor Hotel, one ojf New York's "most famous buildings, to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the film company, who will eveaWialiy I p»U it down and build a ctoema th«re. J|_ Lard Aator retains the title to the
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      SURPLUS STORES
      19 3 Sales of surplus stores m Great Britain organised by the Ministry of SuppiT have already realised £150.000.000.
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      £20,000,000 for tobacco shares
      210 3 IN a back street m Paisley (Scotland) a hundred and thirtjreigiit years ago, old William Dotrie opened his first little tobacco shop. Soon it became Dobie and Sons, but it was only m the nineties of last century that under the direction of George Dobie, William
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      State takes over coal
      77 3 A CEREMONY at the Ministry of Fuel and Power marked the nationalisation of more than 1,500 collieries and 400 smail mines m Britain, when the Government became employer of 690,000 miners. Picture shows Lord Hyndley (left), the new chairman of the National Coal Board, receiving a
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      £1,000 BUYS OLD NOTES
      145 3 £1,000 BUYS OLD NOTES rE secret sale for £1,000 of more thun 40,000 banknotes with a face ralue of ten thousand million pounds sterling and representing the history of paper money from its earliest beginnings has been disclosed by the death of Mr. Frederick Catlig, a process engraver. Many of
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      THEFT OF £500 IN NEW COINS
      92 3 RAILWAY detectives between London and Newcastle-on-Tyne are searching for the master- mind" behind the theft of a box containing £500 ot the new cHpro-nickel half-crowns from an express. The coins were stolen from a consignment of 40 boxes, each containing £600. consigned from the
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      MIDGET ROSES
      23 3 In Philadelphia, rose-lancier Mrs. Robert Pyle airmaifrd a bouqwet -of roses with blooms no larger than a sixpence to Mrs. Churchill.
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      'ROSE OF LORRAINE'
      21 3 Keelan Shaw, Wimbledon. London, schoolmaster, has written an operetta about the FYancoPrussian war called "The Rose of Lorraine."
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      REPTILE EGGS FOR NANKING
      245 3 REPTILE EGGS FOR NANKING AMID many traces ot the kmg Japanese oeoapetion, the National Geological Survey Society one of the leading scientific institutions m China has resumed work m its old quarters m Nanking after an interruption of eight years due to the war. As one of Its first postwar
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      BLARNEY STONE NOT FOR SALE
      81 3 OFFERS hare &ee n made by an American millionaire to buy the famous Blarney Stone to which Irishmen made pilgrimages from all over the world Slt George Ooltiurret, the owner of Castie Blanker, into the outer wall of which the Stone is built, win not
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      91 3 i' f I j all TO-DAT 1 15. 3 W, CM *Bd f te Concluding Chap. 7 to 13 (14 reel*) TERRIFIC Jturte THRILLS! I f Jm^MFUSSELI HAYDfM Wi JUDWEIATWIU I >OHN MIU AN |-jHH| iOBKUMIftCi KEXT Change: "•larval of Gunsmofce" classfied advertisements p cU. oer ttne. Mm Chance c
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      77 3 TARZAN 4 Tnnnel of Trees' By Edgar Rir* Burroughs FOLLOWING TM£ DIRECTION OP THE j Bji h^l IjH| Ibil Hl^jf K^Bfe^uf^^^^nl saw ~>-iat twe small, river IP9E BPShI HR^B^S^^yUHjl BK3nV^I J -PROM &STWEEN MU3E T^EES, !^^^^r^^^^^^^^pB^^^^H^^^|fiC^^^^^^^^^^ Tr^ e^ l^'^'^Si PORME? X UE ENTRANCE TO PEARPULLY THE 6UIOE STEERED k-5 teßalraßflWmiH^^^
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      COLONIAL SEC. AT WORK
      892 4 The Rt. Hon. Arthur Creech Jones Secretary of State for the Colonies broadcast recently m the BBC's Overseas Service and told us about the. MY room m Downing Street has seen many deputations, through four-score years, urging sound policies of development and observance of the rights
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        Peace Casualties of the air
        614 4 AIR crashes, from China to M xico and from North America to Europe are beginning to take a toll on passengers reminiscent of war time casualty lists Jn the past f w days more than a hundred people have been lost m aircraft and the
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      GOOD MORNING... by Frank Owen
      412 4 GOOD MORNING... by Frank Owen PCMETHING quite sur ♦3 pr. sing is already happen ng under the noses of the Party Managers. I wrote last week that Üb»raH oad Tories of the rank-and-hle are alraady leading their leaders. Two separate movements towards the goal of union wore named. Some scores
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      506 4 )S< ak I) ABBS, and BERT, DABB£. of O-terville, U, S,A, can decide whether they are first cousins, second cousins, stepbrothers or all three. Their mothers were sisters, making Oscar and Bert first cousins. Their fathers were first cousins. That should make the two Dabbses second cousins.
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      PUTTING BRITAIN ON THE MAP
      617 4 Swr rriL the Travel Association was formed m Britain some 17 years ago, although much good work was done by individual steamship companies. British railways and travel agencies, nothing had b-°en done to publicise, m a national manner, Britain's attractions abroad. Until 20 years ago
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      STRIKERS REPLY TO Mr. RAYMAN
      75 5 > r Press Staff Reporter -aju. secretary nU Executive the striking J aur Unions, m a renlnnc to Mr. nt'of the Sin- Mr. Rayman .till doubt; om rppresenta•re reason' the oe.av m Comxniss'oners P rfseaUuve he Unices' leaders. -ft tne eir identity o£j£*\ m the
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      AIRPORTS SURVEY IN EAST
      68 5 AIRPORTS SURVEY IN EAST rt sites m j ..ean. the Technical survey R Dg and, recently rti on thej r. air services b a lia and the Far British Civil which also B Dragon uld t>? <yo. I spokesman of ihe BOAC ige of pilots B Of ltS BKMFC than
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      AUSSIE BRIDES ARE UNHAPPY IN N.E.I.
      131 5 married to Dutch soldiers living m were m a terrible plight physically, and some r than moving skeletons because of food i Mrs. P. J. van Nus, on her arrival at Eagle Brisbane, from Batavia. She explained M r nine-month-eld baby, Marin, looked well
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      STRIKERS WANT TO BE UNDER S.M.C.
      34 5 s>tafT Reporter T'crtion CcmKmpioyees' Union. 1400 str'Wai an 'ADpoal to ts,' asking t^e to taxc lM modem cities the appeal. ;s controlled by *s why is it not
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      FULL MOON DAY
      19 5 Day whtch falls M>. 41 wUI bs >*+ Bud»'*ram Road. L A D)fcug am r I DDL
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      Chamber attacks Federation critics
      534 5 rILE supporting the Malayan Federation proposals, the F.M.S. Chamber of Commerce, m a letter to the Secretary of the Consultative Committee, deprecates the behaviour of those who, by their irresponsible action, condemned the proposals before they had been published. The Chamber further states that m boycotting
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      PALEMBANG TRADE DWINDLES
      119 5 I\R. Mohammed Isa, Re- publican Rodent, at Pulembang, told a news conference at Batavia that suppliers m the interior of Sujratr.i wcr:> unwilling to send lubber and other products to Palembang now that Dutch tror.ps garrison the entire town Indonesian exports from Palemhang "have fallen off sharply"
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      SERVICES ART EXHIBITION
      44 5 MAJ. Gen. P. A. Ullman is opening the All-Services Art Exhibit.m at the Union Jack Club today at 6 p.m. Both civilians and Servicemen are invited. The exhib ti .n will open for a we?k between 2.30 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.
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      City Of Smells
      55 5 Due to the strik* of Municipal labourers, garbage is accumulating m Singapore, wh ch is fast becoming a city of drt and smel.s. The public is a^k-M to burn kite h?n refuse, or to bury it, as a precaution against disease. Here is a picture of garbage
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      $363,100 SAVED
      16 5 The sales of Victory savings certificates up to Jan. 28, 1947 amounted to $363,138.
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      BLOCKADE-RUNNER KANE TOWS CORVETTE
      1291 5 BLOCKADE-RUNNER KANE TOWS CORVETTE Old-time Sea Dog likes to fly Free Press Staff Reporter J HAVE just drunk a noggin of brandy with Master Mariner A. W. Kane, one of the few old-time seadogs still plying between Britain and the Far East, the wildest Irishman ever to sail the Seven
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      Flew To London
      175 5 ';>A i cfelidni i-cc-p a*vv fion th° hcaulir-e?. No sooner than my ship had reached England sailLng without me it ran into a gale m the English Channel and the Master deputising for me was washed overboard and never ?eer again. That should have been me. "The
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      RUBBER BOOM UNLIKELY
      128 5 RUBBER BOOM UNLIKELY THE Rubber Trade Association of New York baa denied that the return of crude rubber buying to private trade would lead tf> a boom as has been ck'.imed by tyre manufacturers. The Association holds the view that the continuation of Government ccritrul over uses after March 31
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      109 DISHES FROM COCONUTS
      109 5 "pOCONUT Recipes,' 1 the third v edition of which has Just been published by the Malayan; Agri Horticultural Association, gives 109 recipes m whi^h the coconut is used. One section is devoted to the coconut palm as a source of food and another gives instructions en
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      EAST-WEST TALK
      44 5 Dr. T Balasingham. Patholo- i pist attached to the Medical Col- I lege m Singapore, will address! the East-West Society on "Crime j and its Medical Aspect m Singapore" on Feb. 6 at 8.30 p.m. at i the V.M.C.A. m Stamford Road.
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      TROOPS GOTO SCHOOL
      105 5 EDUCATIONAL classes are being given to Australian troops m the BCOF area of Japan. For six hours a weak, the men are taught mathematics, English, and social studies coverlr^ an outline of British and Aust^j an history, .'•••♦ralian geography, art and ??l appreciation. InHructOfl are being 4
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      U.S. ANXIOUS TO AID IMDIA WITH FOOD
      127 5 U.S. ANXIOUS TO AID IMDIA WITH FOOD THE India j EmDa >:y <<>od acr Dr V X R V. Rao i .*avrs Nrw York loday for London to jo;n S-ir Robert Hutc> iii Anglo-Ifitfte) food .ales, told R. utr»r m Washington tna: -'there i^cute consc ousncss among politician! ofl all
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      29 5 Su VWI ii war of". 194?, thi« steamer iwi i» onlj it* funnel above water) is be^ng sal, a? d to make Singap re harbour waters safe for shippng.
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      DEVONS IN H.K.
      162 5 THE first Battalion of the Devor. shire Regiment hus arrived Hong Kong Their arrival w.. complete, together with the pr< vious arrival of the 27th Field Regiment R.A.. and the 2nd Bn The Buffs, the replacement o. 150 Indian Infantry Brigade. The Devons, a unit of the
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      MOVE TO END PILFERING AT DOCKS
      140 6 THE need for an organisation to supervise the loading and discharge of cargoes and check thefts was urged by Mr. H. H. Mummery, chairman of the Institute of London Underwriters, speaking at the annual meeting of -he Institute. T heft and pilfera&e are the
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      FISH FLOUR NEW DIET
      110 6 FISH flour claimed to be one ot the richest sources of protein and calcium yet discovered is being investigated by the herring industry m Britain as a possible human food. Successful experiments have been made m making biscuits and soup powders. The biscuits are said to
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      ENGLISH BOY FOR NEW US FILM
      83 6 Producer Inring Allen, wfco recently completed filming the picture "Hi*h Conquest" at Monogram Studios. has announced that he will go to England next year to make a screen versic n of 'Oliver Twist." m colour. H»^ said Anna Lee, who had the leading role
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      CHINESE DEPORTED FROM PHILIPPINES
      61 6 Immigration 4 r Manila say that La Tsok, Kirn Wat. Chong Hui and uo four leaders of an immigrant smuggling ring, have been arrested m the Philippines and will be deported to Amoy, South China, m addition 125 Chinese who entered the Philippines from Borneo and
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      GEN. CHIANG'S BOOK
      47 6 Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek's book, "China's Destiny," aroused so much interest m the United States that two New York firms will publish 'it m February under the same title. The Roy Press issue win appear on Feb 10 along with Chiang Kai-shek's "Chinese Economic Theory."
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      THESE WOMEN CATCH KATS
      81 6 Fifty -six rats and two mice was the score of four young membe.s jof the British Women's Land I Army by the time they had com pleted a day's hunt over the 70 000 acres of London Airport at Heathrow. Iheir job is nest destruction, and
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      COLUMNIST STARTS A CAMPAIGN
      25 6 Walter Winchell, the columnist, has started a campaign to stop music-hall jokes about Jews, the Irisn and Italians— even the English.
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      MOVIES BORE SPANIELS
      22 6 Dr. John Fuller, a Maine scientist, has established that fox terriers are thrilled, spaniels are bored by watching movie*.
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      SECRET WEDDING VOID
      393 6 Man was not of 'sound mind when he married AFTER eight days of "conflicting" evidence, as he called it, Mr. Justice Willmer decided yesterday that a 61-year-old merchant was not of sound mind when he married a widow who had been his mistress. The marriage, was, therefore,
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      63 6 FIGHTING is still bitter between the French and Vietnamese m Indochina. Long days of savage strugg le preceded French success ftn driving Vietnam forces out of Hanoi, capital of Tonkin. Below is a French road block m a suburb of Hanoi, and on left Gen. Leclerc,
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      DOG DRUGS IN BURGLAR KIT
      245 6 QCOTLAND YARD investigators have found a clue which *3 may lead to the early identification of several men, believed to be trained mechanics, who are specialising m the manufacture of new types of burglars' tools. These tools axe being sold to men who have become
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      Young envoys to America
      104 6 THREE Chinese musical prodigies have arrived m New Turk from Shanghai for a goodwill concert tour of the United States sponsored by the National Child Welfare Association of China, of which Dr. H. H Kung is Chairman. Born of a Chinese mother and Greek father, t
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      TALKING, MAN'S LOWEST GIFT
      48 6 Mr. Harold NicoLson. 60-year-old author and broadcaster, and former BJ3.C. governor, suld m London: "I should put the gift of languages low not much higher than the gift of broadcasting, which is without question the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
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      Jib just missed hitting star
      95 6 UA I ERIE HOBSON, the British film star escaped serious injury by inches when a heavy film camera fell from the "jib" of a mobile trolley at Pmewood studios. Her husband, Anthony Have lock Allan, producer of the film on which they were working, rushed
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      A NEW GEM
      29 6 At the Gemmological Association's two-day exhibition m the Goldsmiths' Hall, London, Brazilianite, a new mineral of gem quality, wu shown for the first time m Europe.
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      GIRL GAVE UP GOLD FOR HLMBLE LOVER
      291 6 A 21-YEAR-OLD waitress wwhino m her counsel's words chose to leave the mansions of Midas with all the gold glittering around to be faithful to her humble lover," a ships waiter, was acquitted at Dorset Assizes m England of demanding £350 with menaces
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      Good Conduct Saves Monkey
      86 6 Nemo, a monkey who has twice been torpedoed when at sea with his master during the war, has finished a week's probation and has qualified for a good report. He had been m disgrace for a week since he bit his new owner. Mr. Kenneth Russell,
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      TOURISTS FLOCK TO BRITAIN
      151 6 TOURISTS FLOCK TO BRITAIN TRAVEL between Brituin and the Dominions is not to be all one way this year. Already Australian shipping companies have booked 7,000 passages from Australia to Britain. A quarter of a million tourists, the majority from the United States, are expected by travel experts to visit
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      FAWCETT SLAYER DIES OF 'WITCHCRAFT'
      64 6 loarari, notorious Indian chief of the Kalapakw tribe In the Amazon region of Brazil, who according to nis own statement was the man who killed the British explorer Col. Fawcett, died of an epidemic disease recently. Tribesmen <*ut up his body and thrrw It into
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      91 6 JA\INC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ma lava YOtIR BEAUTIFUL DRESS Vf WAS fN^ST THAT'S VERY NICE*OF You! A f KpAOlS 1 WMAf^6AYE*YbtJ TH^T^ IS RUINED, MY DEAR— I SUCH A V JANE i BUT (T S Too BAD L— I IDEA?— NO IT'S JUST* A I AMD
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      DIFIES BLINDNESS FOR SPEED BID
      931 7 DIFIES BLINDNESS FOR SPEED BID U? ine ame rom George Cinssholm LONDON, Jan. 2o FACING blindness on the eve of his final bid to improve the world water speed record, Sir Malcolm Campbell, now 61, is pleading to defer an operation until after his attempt on Lake Coniston. He has
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      KHO SIN KIE DIES IN U.K.
      77 7 Ih^ X* Chine*- Davis Cop U*n tennis player and winner of the British hardcourt singles thampi >nshp 1938 A :id 1339. dLd m the Rjyal North -n Hospital, i jndon. H* iiv*d m London a number of and mm Ukrn ill last PruU) and
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      CERDAN KO'S FOUQUET
      49 7 IrAhiS. dU f iua>. lARCEL CERDAN, French ir-ddirw-ight boxing pion, knocked out Leon eouquet. Belgian title- holder. b the firs: of a fiiteen-round he European title m i ut 19 EuroRob« main -own c R de:an was d.d land Is. the with a jy a Reuter
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      ENGLAND LACKS GOOD BOWLERS
      145 7 r LONDON, Saturday. I a England cricket was made by Sir resident of the Yorkshire County Club, cted to that position at the annual meeting Manley was ui:aole to be present owing Sl> a lKttr to Of meeting that this i ;ptain wrote of the deterioration
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      S.C.C. SOCCER
      11 7 IC ram will >nee the mert the Q the
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      PLATYPUS MAY GO TO U.S.
      146 7 LONDON, Sun. THE Grand National horse Platypus, by Trhndon out of Bcmbay Duck, may be American- j owned by th? time the race is run a.i Liverpool on Mar. 28 as American actress Claire Luce has cabled an offer to buy him today. The horse
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      CZECHS BEAT U.S. IN ICE HOCKEY
      74 7 PRAGUE, tsuu. THE LIC team of Prague defeated 1 :ne United States ice hockey' team, ten to seven, before 9,000 shivering fans at the Winter! Stadium today. The period scores were 5-1, 3-3 and 2-3. Bob Vtrric scored the hat trick fof tru four
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      CAR CRASH KILLS TURF FAVOURITE
      49 7 CAPETOWN, Sat. Durban's famous racehorse Piedmont by Plate Glass out ft Lombardiy, which is a heavLy backed favourite tor the £2,50u I Suburban Handicap, was fatal- j ly injured when involved m a collision with a motor-car near Kenilworth racecourse this after- noon. Reuter
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      HOME SOCCER: WOLVES LEADDIV. 1
      1168 7 HOME SOCCER: WOLVES LEAD DIV. 1 DESULXS oi Home iootball and league tables up-to-date are as follows:— Reuter ENGLISH LEAGUE FIRST DIVISION Arsenai 0 Manchester U. 2 B acitbiun H. i SunderlanJ 2 Blackpool 2 Derby C. 1 I Brentford 0 Aston Villa 2 j Charlton 2 Chelsea 3 Everton
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      ONE MORE GOAL FOR LAWTON
      56 7 ONE MORE GOAL FOR LAWTON i .1 international centre, Tommy Lawton, was quicker than Arsenal's 'keeper, Swindin, m this cup tie picture taken at Tottenham recently, but a left winger, Brcome, deputising m goal, beat Tommy when Chelsea playted Derby County m another cup te a week later. Archie Quick
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      BROOME SAVES DERBY COUNTY
      377 7 Front Archie Quick rE man to whom the King handed the F.A. Cup at Wembley last May stood beside me and watched the most remarkable Cup tie I have seen for years. Incapacitated Jack Nicholas, Derby County captain, right from the start of his team's replayed
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      NEW WORLD MILE RECORD
      58 7 ANEW world indoor mile record of 4 inirLs 9.4 sees, was created by Gil Dodds. America's outstand mile runner, when winning the Wanaker mile race at Madison Square Garder. m New York last night. The world indoor record for 6u yards high hurdles was equalled by
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      RACE HORSE FLIES
      38 7 Birmingham Intends putting on a £1,000 weight- for -age sprir... horse-race In May with a view to attracting the South African champion Gambut who is expected to be fl wn to England any moment now.
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      WELCH, PANCHO THRILL CROWD
      455 7 Free Press Staff Reporter AFTER ten round* of furious fighting^ which kept a big crowd on its toes and shouting. Jimmy Welch and Kid Pancho, at the Happy World Stadium last night, fought to a draw what was intended to be an eliminating match for the
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      12 wickets for 23 runs
      45 7 MELBOURNE, Sat. U7. Godev, 3 20-year-old suburban jun'or cri'keter, hit up 74 in 18 minutes during a game at Melbourne today, his score including seven sixes and seven fours Then he proceeded to take 12 wickets four 23 runs.— Reuter
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      Extend to NZ IN 59 hOURS
      96 8 All KI.ANI). Ne.v Zealand. Sun. A\ ORiv aircraft of Hrn British Sonth American Airways ha> broken the England to Nimv Zealand- air record by rr axing the joarney m 59 hours thus reducing the record established by the famous Lancaster "Aries" by 50 mino.
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      ITALY WILL SUBMIT TO PEACE PACT
      406 8 LONDON, Sunday. FERRUCCIO PARRI, former Prime Minister and partisan leader, said m Milan yesterday that Italy would "submit" to the Peace Treaty, but would prepare the ground for a revision of "those clauses which are still susceptible of modification," reports U.P. Prospects tor the
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      —WEATHER— Fair, bright periods
      112 8 WEATHER— Fair, bright periods YY'EATHER report for 24 tevt from noon today compiled by the RAF. Ontral or eras tin R Station. Air Command, Par-Bast Fair, witfc hri K ht periods and a few scattered showers this afternoon. Fine loaixht. Fair and sunny tomorrow morning Wind: Lijhl to modera u-
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      French start all-out attack
      462 8 SAIGON, Sunday. FRENCH troops m Hanoi have launched what they describe as a new all-out offensive to enlarge their occupied zone surrounding the town. The drive is being supported by heavy artillery barrages and strafing Spitfires. The French liner lie De France, has docked at Cap
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      SPANISH FLU CASE IN SWEDEN
      65 8 The first case of Spanish influenza diagnosed m Sweden since the epidemic of 1918. was reported yesterday by doctors at Malmo?. Other forms of influenza are spreading throughout Sweden, forcing the closing of many schools and offices. In Stockholm, bua and tram iraffir* has be-en
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      RUMANIA, RUSSIA TO BE FRIENDS
      73 8 Vi(!e-Prem;er rp<* Mirii»ter o* Foreign Affairs George. Tatarescu tokl the Rumanian Foreign Affairs Commi».tee that Rumania would sten a treaty of friendship ami mutual assistance with RiLvi..«. as soon as the peace treaty was m force, and also enter into similar pacts witn other principal
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      HIDDEN TREASURE
      48 8 Leghorn, m Italy, has been sxeited over stories of hidden treasure m chests m Leghorn Bey said to contain secret Fascist documents and rare jewels. Now the police have arrested Antonio Marchesi, who, they say, first spread the stories, on charges of swindling and collaboration.— U.P.
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      TODAY'S TIDES
      17 8 Hichwater Trtd.'v 807 a.m. 10 31 p.m Tonmrrww f) 1 7 ».i. 11. If j».«
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      BRITAIN WARNED OF SUICIDE
      181 8 SITTINGBOURNE, Sun. DRITONS were wanted last nigtn by Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury., to remain on guard last Socialisation lead to "national suicide and totalitarianism. Preaching m Sittingbounae, he said: "We are getting throughly used to planned society In this congested world, we simply
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      UK TOLD: WORK HARDER OR LESS FOR ALL
      608 8 CTILL short of food and houses after seren years of austerity U living, Britons were warned to-day that they must work harder and produce more if there was *ot to be greater economic distress. A Speaknig at the Newcastle Club of the
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      POLICE HQ BLOW UP
      43 8 POLICE HQ BLOW UP j Foui i j mm< tha:- Jr p<i *b*wi I t«Trn: m,^ 3 lU> la. Tern 3 i 9rm jTjj a tnif .^J the mo-. of the Sho-tl> ftfti trii tb« J •H (i the tru. I \rr.;> PR
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      PEACE PACTS SIGNING
      38 8 British Foreign Minister, Mr. Brnes* Bevir., will sign the five satellite peace treaties m his office bmmnvw. Th* BriMsh Amba&sa dor for Britain at a formal signing ceremony tn ftttH w Fib 10, sa-i^s UP
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      CAIRO YOUTHS CLASH
      35 8 Fow persons were injured m the centre of Cairo yesterday, when 100 Wafdfet youth members shouting Down with the Government" clashed with youths representing the party of Premier Nokrashy Pasha, says UJ?.
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      EGYPT STOCK MARKET IDLE
      207 8 CAIRO, Sunday. THE New Year liaa brought no relief to the Cairo Itafc Exchange which, like its feilow m Alexandria, is still m the depths of a depression. Brokers and jobbers alike spend their mornings drinking coffee and speculating upon when business will revive. The war
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      DEATH CAMP NEWS TODAY!
      43 8 where f .000 wanes ar? t:g have b ber*>. v. pron •our Captain S6ar§ ctiarget: v b atuM ber i T»jßajß died c I :n\es- the Cam ***y Suhr^i. wh'.le s« Witness ti^ natio:.. a. Pc at Raver. Reuter
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      NEGRO G. Is. IN JAPAN
      46 8 .The first 700 men of the 24th United States Infantry Regiment the only Negro combat team m Japan— have arrived m Kobe, says A.P. The 24th Regiment will be part of the 25th U.S. Division and will be stationed at Gifu.
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      K.C. PADRES KILLED
      27 8 •Two Franciscan missionaries a German and a Dane were "murdered by Chinese Communists" iri Kian&su, China on New Year's Day, says the Vatican R?dio.
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      RUSSIANS RAP SOVIET RADIO
      86 8 MOSCOW. Sun A COMPLETE overhaul of the Soviet broadcasting system is foreshadowed following criticisms, including that of bad transmit sion. against the Soviet radio net work. M. A. Puzin. chairman at the Government Radio Committee has Dromised improvements. Criticisms m spite of ideological differences sound remarkably
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      CITY NEWS STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      226 8 CITY NEWS STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market correspondent fives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m today as follows: Bayers Setter* it cv. IX* lb net Ib No. 1 S.S. SpM loose 41-,. 42t>. No 1 R S.S f*b m teles F*fc 43 «3S No. 2 It. S.S
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      HISTORIAN DIES
      23 8 Professor Giovanni Mocteleone. 67, historian, who sought to prove Christopher Columbus was born In Genoa, has ditxi m Genoa. 1 U.P.
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      ITALIANS QUIT POLA
      34 8 Thirty thousand Italians are evacuating the Pola Rs^ion, 55 miles south-east of Trieste, before rh e city is turned over to Yugoslavia und*r the terms of the Peace Treaty, says U.P.
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      COCONUT OIL SLUMP HINT
      149 8 MANILA, Sun. PRESIDENT Roxas yesterday warned Philippines coconut planters that the present record price of over (US) $206 per! ton of copra might not continue beyond the present year and ad- vised them to prepare imme-; diately for intensive domestic use of coconut byproducts m industry.
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      VILLAGES BURMED
      30 8 Rep from Sk Vugodi» *J doma. say thai 60 rcfora reached hi .^rrt" s doma b>- Greek Th. worn; n villas s bu; sand Lubarri. v horn Reuter
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      Anti-foreign feeling
      123 8 The psyrholofical reasons are probably even more important. Stocks and shares m Egypt are not widely held by Egyptians, who prefer to invest m land and buildings, but are held by the European and Levantine communities. Anti-foreign feeling, which fias manifested itself during tbe ptust year, has caused
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      GI GENTLEMEN
      39 8 IrxidenU involving Ql's and civilians m the European theatre dropped to a post-war low ol 344, m December, United States Arniy officials announce. The record compares favourably with similarly populated areas m the United St-ates. says U.P.
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      AUNG SAN RETURNS
      30 8 U Aun§ San the Burmese nationalist l?oder. and two of hi* colleagues Thakin My a and U Tin Tvt returned to Rangoon yesterday from London, says Reuter
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