The Singapore Free Press, 22 February 1947

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    The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947. ZXCVZXC1 PKICL 10 CEM'S.
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    RELEASE MEN LEFT BEHIND
    14 1 RELEASE MEN LEFT BEHIND Fi E I Of B.d--i I i. the i I
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    NEHRU OFFENDS NANKING GOVT.
    13 1 NEHRU OFFENDS NANKING GOVT. I f I t I I I I A.P.
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    SAID TO CHINA TO BE IN FOOD
    34 1 I LONDON. Friday. >• a aim Europe will continue alter R and Rehabilitation Agency dQ iin.il 41. .1 I™ in i pr< gramme already kesman of UNRRA's Lon-
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    RADAR SPOTS 'ENEMY' SHIPS
    234 1  -  5 pore war exorcises Bv ALAN GARDNER Free Press Staff Reporter who Hew in the Sunderland Flying Boat which inlercept«a Ihe hsht fleet carrier Glor>. j esterday aficrnoon. in the first phase of the Singapore air-sea operation •Baptism.") SHAFTS of sunlight piercing gaps between thick rair.clouds
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    BANGKOK STRIKE OFF
    33 1 The strike of 300 lightermen of the East Asiatic Company at Bangkok, which was holding up loading of rice for Singapore, has been settled, and loading is going an normally.
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    Ceylon to process rubber
    92 1 'F.YLO.N las voted a sum of Rs 550,000 for lhe purchase of plant and thc emnlyment of two cxp rts to pivc ss rubber. The aim is to produ:e 10,000 tons of s^e crepe and 10,000 tons of (rumci latex a yar. Th? >ln"<Lr r.f Labour
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    SHORT -St. MOVES IN ON NEW STRIKE
    347 1 SHORT -St. MOVES IN ON NEW STRIKE Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore Federation of Trade Unions (the old General Labour Union organisation in ShortStreet) moved in on the latest strike in the Singapore Harbour Board today. Up bright and early this morning was Mr. Lim Boon Kim, an employee
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    Grain for UK may stop
    158 1 ALL Canadian grain shipm nts to liritain will be cut oflf in a few days if more railway wagons are not found, M.ntrcal grain officials said today. This news came as Britons were r ad ing the Government's call t3 work harder and t "hten
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    INDIA DEBATE IN A WEEK
    301 1 LONDON. Friday. IIHE BrilL-h (jiovernnunl is expected to allow time during the week alter next for a House of Commons debate on the Indian policy announcement. This debate will follow a Hou^e of Lords di -Hussion next week on a motion by Lord Templewood d.ssoii.i.ing
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    CENSURE FAILS
    38 1 A vote ot censure moved by Mr. Robert G. Menzies. ex-Premier and Opposition leader, in the Australian House of Representatives was defeated by 37 votes to 28 alter the Government had applied cl sure, says Reuter.
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    PRESSMEN PROTEST
    26 1 Foreign n^w_> agency represcnta .-.vps In Saigon, including United Press, yesterday protested to the Frencn authorities against censorship of non-miiit.arv relea*ei from Saigon U.P.
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    PARIS TO BE LESS GAY
    20 1 To save electricity, a" Paris clubs will be closed two nipnt-. a week reports UP
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    A RADIO EVERY 20 SECS.
    203 1 A RADIO EVERY 20 SECS. LONDON Fridav MASS production of radio sets sw by a rcbot process whicn turn,, oui one wireless iWCCivar every 20 seconds has been p fectcd after ten years' research bv j John Sargrovc. 40-year-old Loni don inventor This invention may .evolutionlse radio receiver production not
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    Fleet-RAF Exercises off Singapore
    92 1 Fleet-RAF Exercises off Singapore T'HESE Free Press pictures of V e «':*»lr t Contest 'on left) and the light Fleet carrier (•lory (below), were taken from I SunJcrland aircraft 300 miles prom Singapore yesterday after ••oon during the "Operation baptism" exercises. The plane i ame down to 200 feet to
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    SOVIET ARMY IN GERMANY CUT
    100 1 THE Soviet, by withdrawal of strong detachmen s of Red Army forces from Germany in the redeployment that continued through five months, has cut the strong h of its army ot occupation in Germany to less than 200.000. or approximately the same size of the
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    END OF PRUSSIA
    30 1 Prussia, the historical home of Germany's war lords, will be dissolved as a state under a new law which the Allied Contiol Authority in Germany has passed.
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    NAZIS PLOT IN PARIS JAIL
    219 1 PARIS. Fri. L'OURTEEN Frenchmen. who worked for Germs n mUitS intelligence. and five German j intelligence officem have neen j charged with implication i n a vast political forgery plot inside Fresnes prison in Paris— where they ar.d others awaiting trial' I for collaboration were
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    Worst blizzard vet hits Britain
    327 1 LONDON, Friday. TIIK wor^t blizzard of a winter which has already broken a century's records for severity hit the Strait* of Dover today and spread across *outh England, and Wales. North Sea ice floes drifting south have swept away buoys and navigation lights, and the
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  • ENTERAINMENT PAGE
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      168 2 recast U i jp.e fconi |>Ort\ today, your p kential lor greatn !9i is rutstanding. 11 vou w!1 «.nlv \.i\c pennell and your talents n" re *crious.\. there arc few heights io Which >•>•._ m;. .10 mmfsxfi. Vou itimiuj »i:ij ift».yritanding. that >ou spcni time and tneigy
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      LAST SUNDAY'S CON CERT
      894 2 LAST SUNDAY 'S CON CERT TREBLE CLEF by David Grant k W E L L -known writer, speaking on criticism, once said: The critic shot: id be a quick-change arist, an india rubber man, a serpent always tupping out ol its own skip into that of every oilier creature, so
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      TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
      130 2 PiWDEiS an Boutii leud> North end S uU. are to »m at! ux trick dt»f.'n_-.\ BRIIM.K PROBLEM SOM TION r iipdi I r ;r_ni|> r_ii.fr both hi-, 1. ,c V.' ti*i b?st discard is a heart bccau.< Beet can discard onlv his dlam 1f East throws a
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      115 2 AN ITALIAN FILM STAR WLV A L.S. AWARD: Anna Magnani is sehcted as the finest actress of 1946 The number of titles available to film stc.rv grewe every year The I' SA. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures voted Anna MagHßßi the best u-M ss oi la^t ft ar
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      BRITAIN'S WINDOW
      528 2 Film Battle— 3rd R O A Speech by The Rt. Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps. P.C, K.O, M.l\ AS the guardian of a rather difficult and precocious child who lias just about coma of age, I leel that I may be permitted to make a few remarks as to
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    QUIZ Answers
    84 2 ii i lrom the first .Y/.:quess of Buck- ineham and was extensively altered bv N- sh for George IV Queen Victoria was the first Sovereign to make it her official London residence. 2. In 1694. by Wil ham Pater- on 4 T he x bank was created to
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      32 2 STAY, WINE I 0 Windsor B RES I GOOD 145 S.NGAPORE T. 71J9£ riser*** m il**** fi m Z i ji r (or m' i'\ti*Zm pmtissai c jJrr r*> SINGAPORE Cecil aemSmmmt
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      950 2 Coming events TO-DAV. :i I -tbruary. at 1 .00 pm. \t the Little Theatre." Army Education Centre. Armenian Street; efterMMl re«ita| of music by •MOZAKT on rertrds. TO-MORROW »3 February. a t rt t»3 p.m. till II)It I) Hl/NTSMAX— Piaiuf.rle KeciUl Memorial Hall. WEDNESDAY. j<_ February, at 3 00 p.m.
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  • HINA NEWS PAGE
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      CHIANG WANTS LANDS RESTORED
      386 3 CHIANG WANTS LANDS RESTORED [Territorial claims against Fowers fHIANG KAI-SHEKS famous book 'China's I)es j: ny," withdrawn soon after its publication in 194;) and placed under rigig censorship, presumably because of its bitter anti-foreign passages, has made its English-language appearance in New York, says A.P. Up to now, the only
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      59 3 "(let Out" and "China No American Cclon>" were mitten on ban..c:s when students he.d ar.ti -American "Quti China" d- mors' rations in Shanghai in pro'e-t against the raping of a Chinese girl in Peipins by an American Marine who was tried bv a court martial, found «rui!ty a'«d sentenced to
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      YALTA PACT HITS CHINA
      125 3 YALTA PACT HITS CHINA I[\ ha- M'fftred greater material .«>_*_ and damage and her twpcs »i UWM-Mf recovery and industrial develop u ire mon l v affected in consequence of the Yalta t nu n!, which ned two years ago without Chinese kipstisa. than I>\ tight years of Japanese iff
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      LAND SALES VOIDER
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      KWANGTUNG LAW CLEAN-UP
      43 3 NINETY-SIX county magistrates la Kwangtung have been accused of corruption since Governor Lo Cho-ying assumed his tion as governor of Kwangtung. Fourteen magistrates were discharged ana 17 are arraigned nrfore the Kwangtung Law Court. i»ays the Cam on Daily Sun.
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      BID TO HALT INFLATION
      176 3 IRRANGEMENTS, it i> repor.td, are being made by lhe A ChJnrnr government to make ihe United State.-, and other iorei-n embassies and consulates to pay their personnel in Chinese dollars, beginning on March 1. The United States Embassy has indicated it would consider the request if
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      Order to stop co-education
      60 3 THE Shanghai Cltj Eduration Bureau lias received an order from the Ministry of Education segregating boy and girl high schocl students either by forming schools exclusively for on j stx or by d'ff rent classrooms. Bureau officials, however, say that immediate execution of the ruling is
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      SPLIT AMONG CHINESE COMMUNISTS
      122 3 SPLIT AMONG CHINESE COMMUNISTS A split has cccurrea among high love', communists in isoith-east China, resulting in ;he replacement of Lin Piao by Chang Ssueh shih, brother iof the Young Marshal. Chang Hsueh-iiang, as Commar.der-.n-Chief of the Commun st Forces in the North-east. This information is g^ven in a dispatch
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      COLONEL EXECUTES
      29 3 Lt.-C'ol. Tang Hwei-min. an Army Quartermaster, was exeeut.d at Tsinan. lor misappropriation of more than CN$lO.- 000,000 public funds, and requisition of Army provisions! under false pretences
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      Nanking ban on racing
      95 3 SHANGHAI— Ice that mj_t;e.- all Clwna-may not see horse racing again for a long baae. The Judicial Yuan in Nanking, which is thc nation's hfghcsl law enforcing body, hai rult.d that the sale of fatten tickets or "tickets of similar nature 9, nithcut Government mission is
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      'KIANGYIN TIGER'
      41 3 Wong Chia-tseng, better known as the Tiger of Kiangyin, former Chi?f of the Kiangyin Police under the Wang Ching-wei regime, was found guilty of collaboration with the Japanes? and sentenced to six years imprisonment by the Soochow High Court.
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      Nanking crime disclosures
      260 3 Nanking crime disclosures MORE than 1,000 peopie, including Dr. Wang Shih ch.eh. Foreign Minister, and Dr. Wang Chung nui, Secretary Gcneral of the Supreme National Defence Coureil, attended the trial in Nanking of Gen. Hs ao Tani charged with en gineering the "rtape of Nank.ng." The 65-year-old former Japanese Army
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      NEW NETWORK OF RAILROADS
      253 3 Funds to be raised QFN. WU TING-CHANG, Secretary-Genera! of thc u Chinese National Government and of the Central Planning Board, told the Associated Press that funds equivalent to over £18,000,000,000 would be needed to finance China's five-year economic plan which has been approved by the Generalissimo
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      CHINA HARBOURS
      18 3 The Chinese Ministry of Communications will reconstruct China's four leading harbours— Tangku, Tsingtao, Shanghai and Canton.
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      CHURCH SURVEY IN S. CHINA
      86 3 'ANON H.A. Wittenoacr. nsm left Hong Kong to visit churc.i Kwanftun< K Hunan. Yunan and West Ciim o n behc.lt of the Church Missionary Society of London to stadf ni is ol the Church in China He expects to finish his sui in September, when
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      HONG KONG PAY MAY BE REVISED
      214 3 HONG KONG PAY MAY BE RE VISED HONG KONG 'white Collar" cia scs .oo!. forwa d ..o^fuUy to the results of the survey n w un .er wav by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce to find out the image salaries European firms are paving to certain ca egories
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      RHEUMATIC PAINS ALL OVER HIS BODY
      186 3 Caused Him to LosTime off Work At times this mans rheumatic pa r.* Wen so bad that he was unable to 'go ta work But sine, he started on KrnsB. be has had no more time en •About 10 month ago.' ne r. fe
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      67 3 iaiiii^.'-.^^Bff M!GriTLY AT 8 5 j COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS OUT ABOUT"' A SNAPPY NEW MUSICAL WICPI6 MQN. 24T8 WW 6 NIGHTS MVANCE B00KINO:ROBIN S'jN'S A?Affi£S PLACE TO 5 I MM^ HHa^^M^a~a_H-Ha_aMHM__HH-B-Ha_-B.i-Haai THE LITTLE THEATRE imamm Catri, Armenian Street. >UTLCOK UNSETTLED i; <-n I'rrxluced bv Ronald Randall I N:«htl> at
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      86 3 T ARZ A N trtm to heln By Edgar Rice Burroughs *Z*=E WILL INSiST ON INOCULAT- iI HERE IS AN ANTIDOTE I HAVE I /T ,l QU'C</---LET ME GIVE IT \J Mf// /j J LI'IRHK fl NG TARZAN SAT PHIL IN SECRETLY PREPARED/ HE CON- /TO TARZAN CRtEP NIT *N.
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      Don Iddon's Diary
      1327 4 FROM NEW YORK— BY AIR MAW America, eyes on Britain, learns an old lesson again AMERICANS are following the new Battle of Britain with almost the same dreadful intensity with which they watched the R.A.F. dash with the Luftwaffe. London is the G.H.Q.; the communiques are the
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Feb. 22. 1947 The Sailor In New Delhi
      628 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. Feb. 22. 1947 The Sailor In New Delhi LESS than a y.ar after leaving Singapore to return to the Navy in a lower rank, 47-years-old ex-Supremo Viscount Mountbatten is leaving the Navy again and once more temporarily— to replace Lord Wavell as Viceroy, and. no^
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      Guess where?
      154 4 Dui.ng Inc void spell in England this is one of the forms of dress which has become most popular. The fur hood was seen in Bond Street, London. out of her own "favourable" balance of trade payments. •At the moment this balance of payments is unfavourable to India
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      QUIZ
      177 4 1. Why is Buckingham Palace so called? How long has it been the official London residence of the Sovereign? 2. When, by whom, and ior what purpose was the Bank of England founded? 3. (a» "At length they all to merry London came. To merry London, my most friendly
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      460 4 V P. S MENON who has been appointed India's ambassador in China, has had ft brilliant academic and official career. Fifty-year-old Menon obtained a first in Oxford and later in 1921 stood first in the I.C.S. competitive examination in London. After a period of service in Madras,
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      UK AIR POWER ON TEST
      253 4 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE first jet propelled airliner in the world, thc Nene Lancastrian, has Leen flying be: ween Brita.n and Pan's recently to gather Vita] experimental inform tion and, incidentally, to ga.n two i ew civil flying rtcords for Britain. But this pioneer
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      Letter To The Editor State Councils
      205 4 Letter To The Editor State Councils IN >n--1 titled 'Cc jnter-plan 2" there is a recurring m c t kc W**Jefe <*:'.! ..T-!e^d ere. As worded the Leader makes I: appear thai mittee °f the Singapore a>-a>-ciatio r has proposed lh Federal Council «ha?l he el *tel v b.- the
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      FAITH
      20 4 He p-uifih cont»mpt upon j Princes, and weaken th the I strength of the nn'rhtv. I Jch 12 21.
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      'GUIDE'
      19 4 0 ini: b feet t V. m I in a tl radar brou 1 tant e wah tions
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      20 4 Tho Great Story Of A Crcat^^J Today 5 Shows Jf^Sw^ 10.30 a.m. 1.30 M» t mW^^^^^ _^_L _8S __B aH
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      DALFORCE OFFICER DECORATED
      72 5 DALFORCE OFFICER DECORATED ""V M.p.tion in aptain .!..-te-Barr> Comiorce has been e-Barn took up n n tl rifjht of a m ■ca* he Kranji before the Inland, this nt under heavy arm; and t M Hart-Barry maks standard „f Btralc »ms*g ma men. !t (1 to hold ihiN t« rov.-r
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      N.E.I. MAY CLEAR SUGAR STOCK PILE
      426 5 N.E.I. MAY CLEAR SUGAR STOCK PILE Dutch' lndonesian Trade Agreement BATAVIA, Friday. JHE Indonesian Republic and the X.E.I. Government will probably set up a joint trading corporation to put Java s great rubber, sugar, cinchona and sisal stock piles on to the world's markets in spite of the political stalemate
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      Burma thanks Assamese
      129 5 FOR BEATING DACOITS REASONED Burma campaigners and stout defenders of be.d K- him i in March 1944, lhe officers and men of he M Battalion, the Assam Regiment, who, after the ms* saneadei have been engaged in stamping out I feroit mmate in central Burma, have been
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      REES-WILLIAMS FOR BURMA
      17 5 RE ES-WILLIAMS FOR BURMA to b n oi .:ng of B r.ew i ured •40 10 •he
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      DUTCH ARMY PARADE
      46 5 re is a parade of Dutch mihtary vehicles during the recent Singapore celebrations at Wilhemina (amp on the occasion cf the birth of a baby girl to Princess Juliana. At this parade, Major van Heyst j <>( I>utch Forces in Singapore, to.^k th« salute.
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      MERRILADS ASSN.
      29 5 With a view to reviving its activities, the Merrilrds Musical' >c.ation will hold a special general meeting at No. 25 STa Avenue, Katong. Singapore, o:i Feb. 28.
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      5 MORE MPS TO HANG
      82 5 JHE Eighth Army M.htaiy Tribunal in Japan yesterdav eneed rive Japanese war cr.mma.3 to death and two or ners f? We ""Prisonment. U.P. reports from Yokohama. Hukeo Nakajima, former captain m cnarge of the Mitsushima Prisoner oi Camp u, Nagano Prefecture and lour of his
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      DIES SEEING HIS FRIENDS OFF
      73 5 T^l-- snook of parting with nis comrades who were leaving on demobilisation to India proved too much for 50-year-old Subedar Noor Mohd, 1.G.5.C.. attached to r.o. 2 Indian Trans.t Camp. Bukit Timah. who suddenly collapsed and died of hear failure. Subedar Noor Mohd. ha s
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      S'PORE BISHOP IN RADIO PLAY
      103 5 RADIO Malaya will be broadcas'-HkJF-iH ada Ptation of T.S. o^i o Marc?9 der ta the <*«*draP Originally produced in Canterbury Cathedral, the play Sd a phenomenal success in London later touring ihe United States.' ine author has graciously consented to allow Radio Malaya to perform
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      DAYAKS MEET Ex-RAJA MUDA
      127 5 Dayak and Malay leaders from Sarawak have come to Singapore to see Mr. Anthony Broche, cxRaja Muda, to discuss questions connected with the cession controversy These Free Pi ess pictures taken at the Sea View Hotel show, the leaders from left to right: _Yloh*d Ma-amon bin
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      COCONUT OIL FROM CELEBES
      41 5 THERE are five coconut oil 1 factories in production in Celebes— two at Macassar, one at PJre-Pare and two at Menado. Menado as well as South Celebes can now export about 100 tons of coconut oil monthly.
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      CEYLON TOLD: 'GROW CASTOR'
      206 5 A SUGGESTION has been made to the Ceylonese Minister of Labour, Industry and Commerce, Mr. R^ja Hewaviti rne, by Mr. L. H. MandenUm, the British oil expert who arr.ved in Ceylon to report en the proposed oil project in Ceylon, tnat rubber areas •slaughtered by tapping,
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      SIX SENT TO BOYS' HOME DAILY
      367 5 r Free Press Staff Reporter miTII an average of six boys a day being sent to the Sal- vat ion Army Home at Thomson Road by the Juvenile Court, on remand or to serve terms of detention ranging from ene year lo three years,
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      IEPC COMMITTEE
      64 5 MALAYA for the first time was directly represented on th: I Rice Sub-Committee of the International Emergency Food Council 1 <lEFC) at its monthly meeting in Singapore yesterday. Mr. Heywood Waddington. Malayan Union representative for supplies in Singapore, Joined the Sub-Committee as the Malayan Representative after the Rice
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      HONG KONG BANK
      41 5 The annual general meeting of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, will be held in Hong Kong on March 28. 1947 and that Transfer Books will be; clcsed from March 10 to March 28. 1947, both days inclusive.
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      WORLEY REPORT
      42 5 All serving members 01 the Singapore Volunteer Corps are invited to ait nd a m ing at 10.30 a m tomorrow Feb. 23) in the H.Q., Drill Hall, Beach Road, at which the Worley Report v/ill be read and pointexplained.
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      Dayaks criticise ban on Brooke
      190 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THAT the decision of the British Government in banning the entry of Mr. Anthony Brooke, ex Raja Muda, into Sarawak was a retrogressive step, was the a-^ertion made by Dyak ar.d Malay leaders who have arrived in Hnjiapore to mttt Mr.
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      She wants a black market husttand
      101 5 She wants a black market husttand HI I SAL ol a husband to go into the black market business to earn more money caused his wife to file a petition for divorce, it was officially reported in Tokyo yesterday He earned 780 yen monthly but. even the selling of thc
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      TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS
      73 5 TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS THE Dobama -Burma for j Burmansi Party, led by ThaI l:in Ba Sein, former Minister of Transport and Communication* j has decided to boycott the forthj coming elections. A resolution to i this effect said the election* would I net be'lree and fair w.th pr. i armies
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      STEVENAGE TOWN PLAN IS DELAYED
      204 6 STEVENAGE TOWN PLAN IS DELAYED *7l British Government £fO,--1 M plan to relieve the conD cf the London population by taming the country township S wenag;. Hertfordshire, into ktsUttfl town of more than 50.C.0 Inhabitant! received a sei s rdav when the Court Justice, Kenn Collins. q;e-hed the order by
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      FISHING EXPERTS
      25 6 Thirty-two New Zealand fish- tag experts arrived in Shanghai thev will work fur UNRRA, teaching Chinese Usher- the latest developments in I I
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      Nations build up uranium stocks
      193 6 Nations build up uranium stocks lIS'l ELLIGENCE reports have convinced technical advisers to the Government that the chance of setting up a workable system for the international control of atomic energy mote unless UNO agreement is reached quickly. Britain, U.S. A., Russia. France, Canada and several of the smaller are
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      CURSED' SHIP ABANDONED
      270 6 THE 7,200-ton British freighter Samwater, the ship that has voyaged round the world dogged by a "China curse," according to the men who sailed in her, has ended her wand erings. And with her have died 16 of her crew and two off her passengers. The Samvvater.
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      GOVT. KEEPS SHIPS
      47 6 The United Statts Hou.se of Representatives yes'erday agreed to continue, until June 30. Government operation of some 500 Government owned merchant j vessels. This assure b— if the Senate agrees— continued maxiI mum flow of United States coal and grain to Europe, reports Reuter.
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      TUNG OIL EXPORTS
      31 6 China exported 3,209 tons of tone oil in January, says Router. jOf this. 1.G16 tor s were shipped i from Shanghai and 1.593 tons j from Ho::g Kong.
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      Independent man of Bath
      84 6 AN Independent Man of Bath has sent thc British Food Minister. Mr. Strachey a postal order for Is. 3d. He does not like foreign charity, he says. So he has returned the sd. meat Rift which the Argentine Government made *o him and his family. Tbe
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      LAND FREED
      27 6 A thousand ot the 18,0t>0 acres Of land requisitioned near Thetford (Norfolk) as a battle trainrig are,a are to be ploughed up for lcod production.
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      Giant U.S. air transport
      67 6 THE XC-99, now under con- struction at San Diego, California, as a transport ior the United States Army Air Force will be the largest landbased aircraft in the world. The picture show.* the 110-ton double-decker plane's vast fuselage as the wing extensions are b ing fitted.
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      New Recruit Not Sure
      109 6 ARMY recruits do not tare for ivei.ing classes in Catierick Camp. Yorkshire, wher? attendances in one year have dccl.n'd fnra 2,000 to 500. It is reported that \imy educational auth rities in Whitehall have no evidence that thi.s deiTne is prevalent thi iu hciit the Army.
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      MUSEUM THEFTS
      13 6 Four priceless gold bracelets have been stolen from Nicosia Museum. Cyprus.
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      BUY BRITISH
      30 6 Swi'zerland imported 11,433 -cars at a cost of approximately £3.500.000 during 1946 Of these 3,781 were Bri ish. costing £1,--165.000. Out of 1.941 motorcycles imported. 843 wer^ British.
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      'EXILED'TAX MEN MAKE A THREAT
      50 6 'EXILED' TAX MEN MAKE A THREAT The income-tax men at Llandudno, who were evacuated to that Welsh seaside town early In the war. have sent a message to the Chancellor of the Exchequer threatening a direct appeal to the King and Queen if they are not returned to London immediately.
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      ARMY RULES FOR SALE
      86 6 More than 5,000 Pattern 14 .303 Lee-Enfield rifles are offered for sale by tender by the British Ministry of Supply. This rifle was to have replaced lhe Short Lee-Enfield, the arm of the British Army, in 1914, but the firsl world-war intervened. In the second world
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      N.Z. SHEEP FOR CHINA
      32 6 One thousand brcedin? sheep have been presented by New Zealand to China Four hundred will be flown to Kansu by air for improving sheep breeding in that province
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      MARRIAGES ENDED OVER COUNTER
      436 6 BACKED by religious groups, legislators in New York are seeking a way to tighten New York marria&c laws against a continuing wave of "over-the-counter" annulments obtained on grounds considered flimsy by many legal experts. They seek to plug the loopholes through which thousands of couples have
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      CULTURAL RELATIONS
      48 6 With a view to promoting cultural relations between the two nations China and Italy have agreed to exchange two professor- each to lecture in both countries. Tie ltaha n dl Meli hup, d. s r na'4*^ is the pr .iti». I (hirf. jV? Dunn n I
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      LORDS TO TALK NEW CALENDAR
      155 6 MISS Elizabeth Achelis, an elderly New Yorker, who flew the Atlantic 1o London in the hope of convincing the British public of the value of a world-calendar which will always be the same, told a Press conference that Lord Merthyr had told her th;.t he
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      34 8 A view of Derwen twater. (Lake District), from KetWM-, looking southwards to the MQififc. 'Jans' of Barrow dale, with Glaramara. Great End, and Scafcll Pike (ten to eleven (.wmi.. wtßm distant) in the background
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      WAR EXERCISES OFF SINGAPORE
      1189 8 intinued trom Page 1 1 >tne an -sea planned I he end cf the war tn thifl area •Operation' —"Baptism" is Its n "official cirJ.es' i great for radar mec' •d how is war -win: -pot ships at sea any ml of treacherous, blanketing cloud .em.
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      SINGAPORE TIDES
      29 8 High I,ow T.djy 0001 87 ft o'>3.t J.7:ft l!2o 9« ft 1800 0.6 ft T«.mi.irov* 0^27 BX:ft oto3 31 i t HOI 98 ft 1828 OS ft
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      far achate falls 68 miles
      89 8 j. XPERIMENTER.S at the U.S. Army rocket testing grounds at \W>U- Sands, New Mexico, yesterday sure-ceded in lawmrimm by paruhutr. the war-h^* of a German V-_ rocket loaded with ajon of instrument, including cameras, from an altitude ol 68 UtWt-Gf. m. Turner who was i
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      Tea lures troops back to ship
      214 8 KIRE, Friday. FIE British Public Relations Officer today denied that 1.000 British troops staged a one-day sitdown strike against their transfer to Singapore but said a "hundred or m n had complained about conditions on the transport txi which they were to travel. The
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      262 8 I -CITY NEWS--! il Special Market tort „om imt gives the prices or rubber at 11 a.m today as follows. Buyers -.filers Cli t is iwr lb oft lb No I K,| Spot «oos« IV\ 4.»>, No I If S S fob in bales March 4.1
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      WAVELL URGED: 'LEAVE PARTS OF INDIA'
      625 8 LONDON, Friday. FIELD Marshal Viscount Wavell has been replaced as Viceroy of India because of a difference with the British Government on how to handle the deterioration in the India administrative machine that threatened a general collapse, it was stated by a reliable source
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      SEARCH FOR FUEL
      40 8 SEARCH FOR FUEL /-n ciacny iaay is seen searcning over a small nil of ashes in search of cinder fragment with ,vh.o h to h. ?hk!!!_ some little heating at her home in Walworth Sou; during the acute < oal sh.
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      STRIKE
      462 8 from Page 1> i i nised, and tnen ordered the meet--1 ing to disband so he could explain to me what was taking place. "Five men were wrongfully arrested jon the SHB premises," he said. "At 7 p.m. on Wednesday there was night work at godown Nos. 23 24
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      MOSLEY SUIT DISMISSED
      110 8 London, pridaj THI_ High Court here today dis- missed with costs an ac.:on Drought by Motley Publicatu as, s limited company run Dy Britain', former Fascist leader. S:: Oswald Mosl'w aga.ns. -three trade union officials :or alleged •conspiracy" to stop dissemination of the "Moslcy Newsletter Bamming up
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      WAR DEPT. TURNS DOWN A 'RED'
      78 8 The Bnti-sh Secretary of War. Mr Frederick J Bellcnger. stcod firm yesterday on his department's refusal to permit a Communist private to serve in the Army Educational Corps but, he said, he had no objection to employing him in a different capacity Mr. Bellenger
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      MORE TROOPS SENT TO FIC
      152 8 pOIR THOUSAND reinforcements for Indochina le*! Mar a seilles yesterday for Saigon aboard the 29.25.; ion French liner Pasteur, says Reuter. A high French political authority in Saigon last night expressed surprise at rumours emanating from Paris -hat the Vietnamese nationalists had surrendered to the
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      BOOM IN S'PORE INDUSTRIALS
      389 8 rIE high degree ol activ.tv reported ht>: salmi*, statement of business done on the Sir.;, tporc share mark continued unabated during the past week. utiles our nui correspondent. A large business was written mln j with quotations improving throughout. Rubber*, had an* week, prices rising with
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      TRAITORS TO DIE
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      NEW TUNIS CHIEF
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      ROYAL FAMILY MOVE ON
      40 8 ROYAL FAMILY MOVE ON The Royal family left Capetown yesterday on the first stage o! their twc months tour of South Africa. Crowds along the dockside street., cheered the Royal visitors who stood at an open t:ain window. »y. Router
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      UNO AIDS REFUGEES
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      120 6 FREE PRESS FIGWOHPS I To sclve tht puzzle put letters ;r stead of Hi may be read across and down. Wher the sam» once the same letter must of course, be used Best word with wh.eh to start mis week h bered 8658. taken In conjunction with the word a
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      SMITH STAKES TEST XI CLAIM
      118 7 From BiH Bowes SYDNEY, Friday. ma leghreak googly bowler, staked a »or his inclusion in the fifth Test by his 5.W. at Sydney today. Flighting the ball N.S.W. total of 336 for nine, eight wickets iU.I analysis was 24 overs 119 runs 8 oa account
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      RUSSIAN ATHLETES BEST-TRAINED
      96 7 MISS Stella Walsh, Polish- American rccofd-breaking athlete, expects the Sn i t Union to b^ represented at the 1948 Olympics. On her arrival in thc U.S. lrom a European tour, she said: Russian track athletci are the besttrained and equipped in Europe, and 2 have an ;dea
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      £20,000 FOR LINCOLN RACE TRACK
      9 7 £20,000 FOR LINCOLN RACE TRACK f t l t
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      CRICKET OFF
      19 7 I CRE F e L Ci R E. c. I -t ■i uilt e. A. Sanson a
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      BRADFORD SIGNING
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      ICE HOCKEY
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      Scoreboard
      104 7 NSW— IST INNS. 'Carmody Ibw b Smith 6. Morris st Evans b Smith 44 Barnes c Voce b Smith 44 Lukeman b Smith 70 Kissell c Voce b Pollard 22 Lindwall c Pollard b Smith 45 Pettiford c and b Smith 6 Lash c Ilardstaff b Smith 2 Sajrgers
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      RAN SO FAST, LOST WAY
      185 7 THIS ii ihe story of three Frenchmen who ran so fast in a crosscuntry race on the outskirts of L ndon that they took the wrong dng and got lost. The trio were Georges de Be:l--1 r.d, Jacques Ra.le, and Etenne thc.r captain, and all
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      Rest Of The Sport MALAYS v ARMY IN LEAGUE TODAY
      636 7 Rest Of The Sport MALAYS v ARMY IN LEAGUE TODAY THE Malay F 0 •ib.l! AaodaUna and 1 lhe Army, two of the s r_.ngesi mbinatlons in Singapore u>Ihe seoend same of the 3. A. FA. league competition at J. .lan Stadium This evening. The have picked strong team with
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      Punches That Win
      72 7 Tt*me pictures o« recikt fights in England show punches that won the day. Above, Johnny Kins is on the canvas, floored by one of lhe devastating punches rth which Jackie Paterson wrestcil tbe bantam title lrom him at Belle Vtie, Manchester Below, Bert (iilroy slips between the
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      TODAY'S RACE PROGRAMME AT KUALA LUMPUR
      270 7 RACE ONE Horses. Class 2. D«»- 1. 5 J Furs Diplomat 8.09 Star ttange 804 Helen the Fifth B.UBThe Elk 8 02 SCRATCHINGS Marfield 9.00 The Pathan 800 Double Scotch 8.10 RACE TWO Horses. Class 2. Div. 4, 5} Furs. Jacicpot 9 07 Courtesan
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      SUNDAY CRICKET MOVE BEATEN
      116 7 T3Y a large majority a proposal 1 Sunday ciickc; should be pe.m to fl lon ucc_s'on at L_.wkho.me was del cd at the annual meeting of EgetzhlS) Cricket Club, only two vttini io.- it. The acting president. Mr. W. A. Heaton. v. ho was re-elrctcJ, retr:t-cd
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      Deaf and dumb to play soccer
      353 7 From Archie Quick I LONDON, Wednesday. Ml t H admired by some, much maligned by others, the l"I Football Association is doing a grand job of work bekxi the surface, promoting all manner of competitions for people i not normally catered for. You expect
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      WEEKEND SPORTS DIARY
      140 7 TO-DAI SOCCEB: Malay hi.. (ball \mm. Arm>, x »FA |«_gM pr Kion. »alan Berar, 5 p.m.; Indoi. sian F.»ctLal! XI ri r.M 1. I'tpot. Irion. ..y. larrrr Park. 5.15 p m CIICUI S k ho:; .;nJ home. 8. 8.C. I p.m. labJp-U'nnis: C.Y.M A vs I'nitrd CM-MM
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      CRICKET FESTIVAL
      58 7 UUDDERSFIELD Cricket i executive c mmittce have granted permiss en *or a IJuddtrsfield Lt-jgue XI to meet a Central Lancashire League XI dur.n^ th.' Hudders&eld Cricket Pest J which is to be held at Fart ma during August, and also gave permission f:r a Lsagtie Junior team to
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      SNOW CUTS FOOTBALL
      341 7 P LONDON, Friday. R the fourth successive Saturday the British football programme has been hit by weather. Never before in the history of the game has such a prolonged hold-up occurred and the powers that be, having already extended lhe playing season to cope with the unexpected
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      CHAMPION SIRE
      65 7 IfAHIfOUD, tbe Aga D.rby winner ot if: i aed by Mr. C. V. White the all-time champ j46 Leg to the Amet can 8.0.ci "Ho_*< Magaz no." c ns daughter- of M ihmoud d)llars (£171,2 pas;in^ the prev: us re:--591.352 dcliais. i_t up in 1940 [J.e progeny ol
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      U.S. SOCCER
      46 7 Hi: trip by a Scottish i ntrad For thh summer, us offirtah are now 9r m t overtuw j Sparta Club (Pregu-). Aur eu^ens and teams from Yugo Italy. Thev hope, too. that the B Cn < r.d a team ln the neai i future
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      84 8 WEATHER— Showers, then lim* tonight \Y L.III-.K .rport «h it nourt. from noojo lodav compiled by thc I! AI- I entral l-orecasting ->• ion Air Command Kar-East: Sh ;wcrs this afternoon becoming f.-v- later t n'»ht. Fair to-morrow ntcming with bright periods. Wind ligbi to n.r.h casterlv th m-rning r»er
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