The Singapore Free Press, 27 February 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1947. PRICfc m CENfo.
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    45 1 b- i.o\ i i nine vcars •M and Inl live actor ever signed on by Walt HMMf, refigured m ii-urt for apfrttal ef am »ptiop of hi MBit »iil r <400 »eeklv and- tracj but must pci cfnt .of this l Mi m Government Sondv
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    WORST BLIZZARD HITS ENGLAND
    531 1 WORST BLIZZARD HITS ENGLAND £S?i?ain to work by night LON DON, Wednesday. that Britain would introduce night shift next week and double Summer Time came today just as the north of England was hit by the worst-eve blizzard, which paralysed transport completely and marooned very large areas. The night shift
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    UK-Russia split on Nip islands
    265 1 Austin, the United States delegate, put the I'nitd Nations Securiiy Council, hs loun\nuricj be designated sole administrator •■>e>e- mandated Pacific Islands Andrei the Russian de'e^ate submitted three minor but generally approved of the proposal. Britain, Sir Alexander ("adogan said he CUOthe mandate question 'legal rather
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    UK to quit Nile by March 31
    56 1 LONDON, Wtd. T Mt Minister, Mr v announced m the 1 onimon* ioda> thai planning to com'u military equation of eha ar, 3 of E *y* b> thai toMfai mm takmm too In v.t-.v Z the *»^r,,f tr=..,ps wh hu^e had i and
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    ARMED ROBBER GETS 60CENTS
    38 1 ARMED ROBBER GETS 60 CENTS er. re 8 n3 a pore t a Chin»l, robbed nts m a pistol j a house In Road last and small woman. four armed s T A-orth $25 •inese m a R
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    SHB WILL CATCH UP IN 10 DAYS
    113 1 Fre c f vi r h rlcr I i* Jl {he Singapore Harbour j Board cieiki who have been on kc r^pc-rted back I'Or work this [aiorntat. and pork w?^ resumed -as noraaaJ Mr. Kenry H^s' :i Chairman Sol i^e 5H3" jAiri ihis
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    SERIOUSLY ILL
    35 1 Capt. Chris opher Soam s, who on honeymoon m Switzerland is seriously ill. Mr. Winston Churchill's secretary said today when Mrs. Churchill left Londo n for Switzerland to be with her daughter. Ruter.
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    DRUNK. HE KILLED INDIAN IN CRASH
    33 1 DRUNK. HE KILLED INDIAN IN CRASH O'Connor. 22--fngineer of r Doncaster. "ne manI an Indian, "act ice at was a' i^y sent *o ;n thdriving d for three (knitted he me, drove Neuter
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    Surgery cures loquacity
    88 1 A NEW brain surgery curing imbecility, insanity and other men- tal illness has been discovered t*y Dr. Masao Kitaoka, Presid nt of Kumamoto MunYipal H spital, the Tokyo newspaper Asahi reported yesterday. His methods proved successful m eleven out of twelve operations for mental diseases. Or. Kitaoka,
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    India finds uranium
    94 1 NEW DELHI, Wed. URANIUM bearing mineral specimens have been found m south and central India, including: two native states, it was disci sed m the Central As*embly m New Delhi today. The Secretary of Works and Mines said the finds v re made m Bihar, Madras, United
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    LORDS CUT VOTE ON 'QUIT INDIA'
    316 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE reversal of the British Conservative peers' decision 1 earlier today to defeat the Government on its "Quit India" policy m the House of Lords India debate was decided at a specially summoned meeting of Opposition front bench Peers at five o'clock
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    JAP MEMORIAL GOES
    27 1 The British authorities m Hong Kong yesterday blew u^ a 100 foot 2h Japanese war memorial at i the top of MouHt Cameron. A.P.
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    NEW U.S. BOMBER READY FOR TAKE-OFF
    62 1 Here is virw of Ue to.S. Army's Northrop Hying Win* (B-J5) which is fitted with contra -rotating propellers The capabilities of this plane are still a secret, although It is rumoured that It can achieve greater speeds than many existing fighters and at the
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    RADIO AND RAF SEEK DAKOTA
    337 1 Free Press Stall' Reporter AFTER Radio Malaya's normal programmes closed down at 11 p.m. last night, several member? of the staff ran an emergency programme through the night so that the Dakota which is missing on its trip from Changi to Saigon couid, if lost
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    6 DIE IN CRASH
    41 1 Six people were killed when a Dutch East Indies tt: Force Dakota aircraft crashed yesterday into the sea m flames oft Stradbroke Island, neai Brisbane. It is believed the victims were three Australians and three Dutch.— Reuter.
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    USSR SHIP WILL LOAD RUBBER
    277 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Komiles, a 4.000 ton Russian ship from Vladivostok, 1 has arrived m Singapore from Hcng Kong .o load rtibl er for the Soviet Union. She reached the Road> on Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock, and will be moved to a
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    BEVIN: U.S. CALLS IT MISLEADING
    161 1 BEVIN: U.S. CALLS IT MISLEADING WASHINGTON. Wed. A STATEMENT issued Irom ue Whit e House today described as "most unfortunate and misleading" the implication of the debate on Palestine m the British H^use of Commons yesterday that United States interest In Palestine and settlement of J.ws .here is motivated by
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    RAF SPRAYS S'PORE IN FLY WAR
    154 1 RAF SPRAYS S'PORE IN FLY WAR THE war on flies has storied m Singapore At sunrise ana sunset each day. Dakotas take ofl rrom Changl on 'raiding mlssioiis' m the town areas, spraying the city *'ith DDT The opera i .ns are arranged oy the Anti-Malarial Precauticrus section o! the
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  • FEATURE PAGE
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      'BUSHMAN' THE GREAT APE
      419 2 'BUSHMAN' THE GREAT APE THE celebrated Day. on trial m the '20's, when the great William Jennings Bryan attacked Darwinian theories ou the origin of man. will not be forgotten m America m this century. A ;ew years laier. wiien feeling m the Middle West still ran h gh and
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      DOES MEAT HAVE NO TASTE?
      763 2 DOES MEAT HAVE NO TASTE? BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT BRITAIN with its small, highly indusiralised area is more sensitive to food problems ilian most countries thus m one of its most elaborate laboratories scientisis are working constantly on such diverse problems as: why do?s meat have no taste when you
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      THE 'OLD LADY'
      160 2 HOME ol tho Bank of England rind situat2d right m the heart of the City of London is Threadneedle Street. The Eank it.self is familiarly known as the "Old Lady of Thre;idr,ecdk' St, i because tradition says that some time towards the end of the 18th century
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      'LEGEND' OF THE BRITISH STAGE
      402 2 'LEGEND OF THE BRITISH STAGE IN ihe of the British stage, February 27, 1947. will stand out as the day on which was commemorated the centenary of Ellen Terry. Plans for the day included a commemoration service m the Church of St. Paul's Covent Garden, known to Londoners and to
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      348 2 TODAYS BRIDCE PROBLEM rIE bidding rtQures some explan:n2- Sou'h didn't want NORTH to bid threa notr.mp bcavse IS A 8 4 was sorn? what oi an underbid: X 7 3 he didn't want to bid 0 A X 6 5 tour notnimp become it X xvDu'd eveke a t:tally unwan'ed
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      483 2 ftAHin IWfAI AY A fi.B C. British Industries Fair; 9.00 I'll play nrtL/1U WAL/lIA to you: 9.30 BBC. Welsh orchestra; 4. t0 p.m. u» 10.45 p.m. GSV 16.84 10.00 Sky Rockets dance orchestra Singapore JS W-'Jtt *ft ti 1 RADIO SEAC RED NETWORK (Chinese Indian) 12 30 a.m. GSF 19
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      164 2 L KY V ■'"•a! lEafi. 1 >.iuld bentk me atisfr li< i < ■Ml r«I bat and dclifbtU lhr< f \m vkfl of ar tere^i record I You art otwieatioL tl :r> i n H >ou v ifftak fi i haw- thf ab'Jh to make fi I Ml them i!;
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      Press shifted to save electricity
      33 3 Press shifted to save electricity 3 mm:nf tvJ strictest U'-' t in f P *er l ti a B m nnbam i p iwei thf centra of the >r.i n wher-->f electric. li?ht
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      SHE PICKED ON P.C. CARELESS
      12 3 SHE PICKED ON P.C. CARELESS E. I r?c: it burs: V him
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      LONDON FUR SALE
      31 3 Between 400 and 500 buyers from all over the world attended the opening of the Hudson Bay Co.'s first general fur auction of 1947 at Beaver House, London.
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      BRITAIN NEEDS FOREIGN LABOUR
      267 3 'Let fraus join German PoWs' A SUGGESTION that German prisoners-of-war might be allowed to call out their wives to Britain if the men agreed to stay and work was made by the Earl of Perth m the House of Lords He pointed out that m the
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      BLIND, DEFIED WEDDING BAN
      160 3 4 YOUNG Fife couple, 23 -year-old Alex Craig, of Leven, and 22-year-old Jessie Connelly, of Oakleigh— both employed at the Royal Blind Asylum and School, Edinburghrejected the advice of Fife Social Welfare Committee and decided to go ahead with their marriage plans. Dr. G. M. Fyfe,
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      Housekeeper to go to university
      182 3 HTHIS is a day m the tile of 18-ytai-olci Irene Siunus, gram--1 mar school girl, of North-Eastern Road, Thome: Up at 6 a.m. to get her uncle's breakfast; does the housework; goes to school; leaves school to do the shopping; goes home, prepares tea; does
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      LEAKED OUT SLOWLY
      128 3 A LITTLE Now York plumber, whose rame •is denied to history, has won a notable vie tory over the jargon of bureaucracy The plumber wrote to a Washington department reporting he had found hydrochloric acid good for clearing out clogged drains. From the department came this reply:
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      MADE BOY PLAY,
      46 3 MUST PAY £500 Damages of £500 were awarded m the London High Court to Roland Daniel Ralph, aged 14, against the London County Council for an injury to his lelt hand while playing an organised game of 'touch" at Mina-road Central School. London.
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      BATTLE OF BRITAIN
      15 3 New licensed premises at Northfleet will be named 'he Battle of Britain.
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      78 3 The Great WesLm +0&* have opened a new technical school at Bristol where trainees mostly s. .-.v rviev men are receiving tuition m the installation and upkeep of mechanical and electrical signalling apparatus, block triegraph, track circuits and telephones, to qualify them for such posts as signal and telegraph linemen
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      74 3 Two brave- fighters of the war Odelte Sansam. t». L. ana txCapt. Peter Churchill, D.S.O. w?re married at a London Regist r Office. "Married life" together is no new experience to th?m, for it was by pos.ng as Capt. Churchill's wife that Odette was able to save both their lives.
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      MUSEUM TURNED INTO STATION
      46 3 As a protest again:.: "tar -aunt I like appearance of Oxford University Museum," undergraduates staged a large-scale rag there. The main hall, a lofty glass- 1 roofed structure, was turned into an imitation railway terminus by the exhibition of notices and placards.
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      JAMAICA RESEARCH
      19 3 The London Rois In.stiru c or Tropical Hygiene is to set up a research Nation ir Jamaica
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      1.822 DIVORCES
      18 3 In the London Divorce Court Mr. Justice Byrne made absolute 1,822 decrees nisi m matrimonial causes
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      Shelters 'moral danger'
      103 3 rOLE (Dorset) Borough Council is to be advised to seal all air raid shelters m the town until they can be demolished. At present the shelters are "a potential source of danger" to morals of the young people of Poole, Dorset County Council was told by its
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      HAUNTED FOR THIRTY YEARS
      260 3 BECAUSE they are convinced that their six-rcom, red brick D cottage m Stansted, Essex, is haunted, 60 year-old George Thurston and his wife Kate left the place where they have lived for 30 years. The Saffron Walden Council, however, does not believe m ghosts, and it
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      'R.A.F. saved New York'
      43 3 "k|EW YORK undoubtedly would have been bombed i had »t the British success- full.? iiombed scientists who a were developing German roci ket bombs," said ex-Lieut.--r Tolonel V A. Stace, of the Research and Engineering oi vision of U.S.A.A.F.
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      HE PRINTED MILLIONS
      29 3 A lolal of 703,000,000 ticke s wa<j printed by Mr. A. Irwin who has re ired after 52 years with the GWR printing department. Padding on.
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      CROWDS SEE GUN BATTLE
      193 3 CROWDS SEE GUN BATTLE WATCHED Dy an immense ciovvd. 70 Chicago policemen, armed wiih guns and tear-gas bombs, foueht a 60-minu c bafle with gangsters It was the most sped a. u:ar incident m a new wave of cr me m the city soon af er Al Capone's death Police
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      BOY'S LETTERS BRING LEGACY
      162 3 A PUPIL at Barnard CastJe Grammar School has been left .250 by a former schoolmaster "m recognition 01 the pleasure ne j?*ive me for so many years by his letters." Robeit P Hyiners, of Woking. Surrey wrote to Mr. Thomas D. Ktnicn. of Hcumfield. Darlington Koad
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      CHURCH TO HAVE CINEMA SHOWS
      40 3 To combat a majority decision of townspeople to open cinemas on Sunday. Taunton. Somerset, Methodists are to give Sunday cinema performances 01 their own after church hours, showing films provided by the Religious Film Society.
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      THE RUBBER RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MALAYA
      197 3 Oidium Disease (or Mildew) of Rubber Trees. Notice to the Proprietors and Managers of Rubber Estates. Before the war n was tne custom tor Proprietors and Managers of estates to report to the Rubber Research Institute any suspected cases of Oidium disease (mildew* of
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      124 3 OR QUALITY SOUND PROJECTION. '1W- tf^^W OPENS TO DAY ,»fil» tTjlj II JYZjA Action as you want it! ADVENTURE.. .with a VENGEANCE! He'd fight their way n0w...n0 quarter! Sure, he'd hated them b<?!ore...but when he saw what they did to Dan—! Yesterday he'd promised a girl he'd take A| j
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      6 3 We'll do your PRINTING STRAITS TIMES
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      82 3 TA H Z A N 'A'O the corral* Edgar Hire burroughs GLOATING OVER THE PROSPEC- Ull ~^Mi^j(^^^^^^ H I DISTURBED BY THEIR "^\j H' I_l L TiV£ HELP OF HiS FANCIED NEW WTHT7IT l^ PPRoACH ThE CAVEMAN J X^lV^t ±3>/s£^^ AND POWERFUL FRIEND, ZEE HUR- M^Jf^v //WA^ f[ 5 lln
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  • LEADER PAGE
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      48 4 **lIEADMASTER M of the Imperial Defence College, General S r "Bill SI m« i Burma 11 two of his "pupils," Bri*. K. M. Cariappa, 0.8. E., and Bri*. J N. < haudhun oR f 12 month course, they are two of India's leading soldiers; one may br India's nrxi
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      The Sinapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 1947. Black Milk
      743 4 The Sinapore Free Press THURSDAY, Feb. 27, 1947. Black Milk THE disappearance of sweetened condensed milk into the Black Market yet again after everybody had thought that this particular Singapore black market had been defeated months ago is a reminder that the racketeers ar e always with us and are
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      JOHNNY SEPOY GETS A NEW MASTER
      1306 4  - JOHNNY SEPOY GETS A NEW MASTER Ralph Izzard When Britain finally quits India she will lose control of probably the finest military machine m the world By "rpHIS may seem X strange to you/ said the young Indian Army captain with the grey-streaked fair hair, ''but after I had spent
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      FAITH
      39 4 Be ye not as the horse, o r as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth most be held is with bit and briddle. lest they come near unti thee. Psalms. 32. 9.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      546 4 AFTER 14 years with murderers and thieves, Salvation Army Brigad er CHARLES PEAN has left Devil's Island. Thanks chiefly to hi s efforts this French penal settlement off French Guiana is being closeJ down. Of 70,000 prisoners sent there between 1851 and 1933, only 1,000 gut back
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      THE ATOMIC BOMB
      355 4 a pile of uraniuni, where gas is heated. In the other is the steam boiler, heated by the t&s from the pile adjoining. The walls of the room containing the uranium pile are about three times thicker than those housing the steam boiler, because the gamma rays
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      CITY
      140 4  -  Howard W. Blakeslee. THE first atomic power 1 plant, under construct ior. at Oak Ridge, Tenner, nee, ihe ?tomic bomb city Luiit during the war, is a huge box, :i:ace of concrete. Walls, roof and fl cor arc of concrete, of great -h^-kness. The massive walls are necessary to
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      QUIZ
      41 4 i 1. Whi the rineyai s? fia produr* pagnc ie> Per* 2 Who v the T ill close o: W the UJS ent 3. The v Ho Lii not wi somecire ls< (a> Wh- mean? -b ot Homei about 9
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      SINCERITY IS REQUIRED
      279 4 Letter To The Editor MAY I ask why the Municipal strike was allowed to last sj long? Il is my firm belief that if employers are sincere and approach their employees' demands In the light of understanding and goodwill, amicable settlements could be eilected m less time
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      29 4 cJJte cJhavcrsJini Choke LAUREL GOOD TEMPERED BLADE RAZOR i^\ iJ^ olh*-Bf ll surrrto motcmco tocu etr* any wazo* MADE IN SHEFFIELD BY CEO. H LAWRENCE LTD. Sole Importw Papineau
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      32 4 Hu^BSdyH n|ghtly t B* s rM COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS 'OUT ABOUT A SNAPPY NEW MISH AL NOW PLAYING A P VANCE BOOKING:- a A/ff KOBM SON'S. RAfFLiS Ci 9* m TO
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      MILK HOARDING: ARRESTS MADE
      120 5 Pers > Stafl Reporter S^Xortfe struck J S/against the newly blackmarket m con 2&< when they raidri gJJrs m ?e venil areaS j Xf d urin\the p* 48 hours rr.onses were a Sir pkeepers JXdtbsS milk, ardin agTu-i- mil!:, 2^3 were arrested. "iV H-istic acion is
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      SMALLPOX IS STILL RIFE IN UNION
      58 5 SMALLPOX IS STILL RIFE IN UNION rr ..uon ..nder the c :uon| ses o abate- I issued the, nd- j i 2 cases, f s, compared s in iing the highf :rom small- ..-.der re-, if infection, rCT.d with 14 deaths II five deaths m of C Fever (two m
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      GEN. RITCHIE ON BURMA TOUR
      37 5 Rttcfafe, :a Land n on tnme and social v m will is and t a" 3 v lv v d Maymy "ludj? t ,u p t a. meet 0 man of Council.-
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      AUSTRALIA WILL MAKE MORE ZINC
      13 5 m I ort that r :o:is ;^ore yearly.
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      CASH FOR RADIO SHORT STORIES
      27 5 CASH FOR RADIO SHORT STORIES H 1 f 10U-I I stories, 1 I their period. TY»™°* alier--4 *oS i^f .^^-een 1,500 i Wanuto slight' adapt I S.rga-
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      MACHINES FOR FARMS IN MALAYA
      61 5 MACHINES FOR FARMS IN MALAYA Mechanical farming will soon be m full swing m Malaya, as caterpillar tractors and bulldozers, bought from U.S. Army Surpluf dumps m the Philippines, arrive from Leyte. The machines are being used to open un areas which will be sown with short-term food crops. This
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      Another mobile food canteen
      191 5 STORE FEEDS THE KIDS Free Press Staff Reporter A NOTHER mobile canteen, carrying free meals to children S\ between the ases of two and six years under Singapore's $35,000 a-month feeding plan, will be put into commission tomorrow. This time if will call at Clyde Terrace
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      KOREA GETS RICE FROM SIAM
      123 5 CIAM is to send 25,000 tons of i glutinous rice to Korea m compliance with a request by the International Emergency Food Council, it was stated m Bangkok yesterday. It is understood that this amount will be deducted from the amounts which Siam had undertaken
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      MALAYA STARTS PADI HARVEST
      242 5 HARVESTING of padi unhusked 11 rice) has started m Malaya. Latest observations m Kedah, ut most important padi pro- 1 during area of Malaya, indicate a very good average crop. On Pencir.g Island, same yields of 400 to 450 gantangs (six katies per gantang) per acre
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      GENERAL MEETING
      34 5 The ordinary general meeting of the Malaya Branch of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors will be held at the Adelphi Hotel, Coleman Street, Singapore on Friday, Feb. 28 at 5.15 p.m.
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      WAR DAMAGE CLAIMS DEPT OPENS
      209 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TLAIMS for war damage and losses sustained through rev quisitioning may now be made hi Singapore. Forms are are available for issue, and application should be made to the Claims Commission's Office m Fullerton Building. It is stressed, however, that consideration
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      INDIAN V.C. IS IN JAPAN
      44 5 CUBEDAR Gaje Ghale, 2/ sth Royal Gurkha Rifles, Victoria Cross winner m the Burma campaign, is now m Japan with the British Occupation Forces. He arrived recently with 376 other Indian reinforcements for 268 th. Indian Brigade m Japan.
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      DUTCH REPLY TO MAYROVER SKIPPER
      132 5 The Netherlands East Indies Government m Batavla late last night issued a 300-word commu- nique replying to statements j which, it said, Captain Gilbert j Kent of the Empire May rover i made m an interview published m Singapore papers on Wednesday. The communique said
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      FLOUR HEADS S'PORE IMPORTS
      99 5 IN the six months ended Decem--1 ber 1946, flour was the main item of Australian exports to Malaya, the quantity being 228,795,200 lb. valued at Aust. £3,144,000. Next was frozen beef (3,664,400 lb. valued at Aust. £102,000) and butter (510,500 lb. valued at Aust. £35,000). Imports
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      WANT A TYPIST?
      36 5 Mr. S. V. Raman of Madras gained first place with a net speed of 88.6 words per minute m the All-India Typewrilng contest, conducted by the All-India Institute of Stenographers, Calcutta, says Reuter.
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      HOW THE AUSTINS GOT TO CHERIBON
      583 5 HOW THE AUSTINS GOT TO CHERIBON Empire May rover Skipper Explains Free Press Staff Reporter an open-necked blue check shirt and a felt hat with the brim turned down at the front, Captain Gilbert Kent, master of the British cargo vessel, the 394-ton Empire Mp.yrover, which has just arrived m
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      CLERKS ASK FOR BETTER CONDITIONS
      359 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN appeal to employers to promote the welfare of clerical workers" has been made by the Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union. A Union circular to Singapore firms states that the position of clerks generally before the war was far from
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      REPLY WANTED TO DEMANDS
      69 5 A GENERAL meeting of labour- ers employed by the R.A.F at Seletar, Singapore, was held last. Saturday, presided over by Mr V. K. Periasamy. Te n demands sent to the RAF authorities by the RAF Base Employees' Union, which 6till remain unanswered, were 1 discussed. It
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      80 5 -THE MOST TRUE TO-LIFE PICTURE OF THE YEAR" TIME AND ITS at THE^.WiUON^ To-day 4 Shows 1.30-4-6.30-9.30 p.m. From the heart of one woman event woman's story Sag a guilts 11 r o 1 c >x> w i\nirio \l n D 1 U s *"^K* 9 CARL ESMOND SUE f
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      42 5 RADIO TALK Mr. Colin Dant, Assistant Secretary Social Welfare <Food Section) will give a talk on thej Singapore Child Feeding Scheme at 10.10 o'clock, tonight on the 19, 25 and 44 metre bands from the Far Eastern Broadcasting Service Studio m Singapore.
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  • NEWS PAGE
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      BBC ALTERED PHRASES AND PLANS CAME
      300 6 BBC ALTERED PHRASES AND PLANS CAME German War Secrets BRITAIN learned a number of vital German war secrets, including plans for developing the flying bomb, as early as 1939 simply by altering a phrase m a news broadcast. This served as a signal to informants on the Continent. This was
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      2 CARS HAD ONE NUMBER
      133 6 TWO cars pulled up m a Loi&on traffic block- <and they both had identical registration letters and numbers. The driver of car No. 2 blinked and tooted again «t the number of ear So. 1 as it drove off. There wm no mistake the letters
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      TO CLEAN—£6,500
      15 6 TO CLEAN— £6,500 De-oamouttaging St. Helier County Hospital, Morden. will cost Surrey County Council £6,500.
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      Hand worker carried on
      50 6 In sp,i v i c.eciric power being c.t off m Britain's Midlands c*uiing the worst of the fuel c r.s s, this workman at Aston, Birmingham, *\as able to carry on bfeaose his trade is all juianual sk ll. not usin? machinery at all A P
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      NUT OIL MEN FOB AFRICA
      136 6 A small party 01 agr-cu.'.ar.sis. v-i -r.tists and technician! haa V t London by air Tor Tanganyika, fcv.ere they will do preparatory Irork m connection with the Goi oment scheme for cultivating I. >und nuts m parts of South fc:nca. Arrangem.nts for the suppiv o'
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      THOUGHT FIRE WAS BURGLARS
      58 6 THOUGHT FIRE WAS BURGLARS N beneath r.is bedroom j v landlord Turtle, of the Black! Horse. King's Lynn, Norfolk.' rr eoing downstairs m search of' .ars early one morning. found that bottles of whisky ai beer were being exploded by a 0 c m his lounge bar. The ti 1
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      FIRST SNOW IN 30 YEARS
      53 6 FIRST SNOW IN 30 YEARS da America's Riviera, has b havtnf enough trouble with it mow J n 30 fours, with oea:hes desented, its fruit cr;:- endangered and its locai i.*nts pay*iig «up to £10 for el c*rte r'ea'crs. But now v hu.s r nme wave. The value of one
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      'Appendix or job' choice for man
      185 6 'Appendix or job' choice for man MR. JAMES G. GREEN may lose his job with Hayes Council, Middlesex, if he does not agree to have his appendix out. The Council have decided that unless 23-year-old Mr. Green undergoes the operation, the council will not be able to find him suitable
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      SUGAR BEET RECORD
      47 6 A ixew record has been set up by the Brisg. Lincolnshire, sugur factory, which has deal', with 215,000 tons of sugar beet m the campa gn whi^h has jus: ended. About 12.000 tons of beet came to the factory for processing from other areas.
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      LONDON POLICE TO HAVE 'HONOUR' BADGE
      120 6 LONDON POLICE TO HAVE 'HONOUR' BADGE I ONDONERS may soon see young policemen on duty with a distinctive badge on the right arm of their tunics. It will be "the Badge of Honour." For a suggestion is being considered that m a drive to bring the Metropolitan Police up to
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      PIGS RULED TO BE CATTLE
      83 6 THE Bible was quoted by Mr. Justice Atkinson during I the hearing of a case m the; King's Bench Division when he decided that pigs are cattle. "When the present translation of the Bible was made," he said, "cattle included all kinds of i animals.
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      £1,000 passport to gaol
      82 6 UELENE FUCHSOVA, called a lady of international repute" by the prosecutor, was mauled for thirty days and recommended for deportation at Glasgow after shr bought a passport for £1,000 to enter Britain. ''I understand «he has been described as countes*," said the prosecutor. "But it has
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      WALLABY CAPTURED
      14 6 A wallaby *.r. rom Whipsnade was vao ured only eight miles away.
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      LUXURY TRAVEL MUST WAIT
      63 6 To speed British emigrant travel. General Smuts, South African Premier, r-as appealed to Mr. Attlee to postpone reconversion to luxury irpde of tbc I n«i Winchester Castle. Carmarthen Castle and Arundel Castle. These liners are now Government transports, and General Smuts wants them to carry emigrants.
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      TROUBLE OVER CHURCH CLOCK
      246 6 A CONTROVERSY is raging around the 10. er of anc.ent Bosham Church, near Chichester. The vicar (tiie Rev. jA. L. Chatfield), with the approval of the Parochial Council, proposes to erect an electric clock m the tower on a bed of Portland stone as a war
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      House tappings baffle experts
      249 6 RAMSGATE officials are trying to find the cau&e of mysterious noises which have brought two women so n«*ar :o nervous collapse that at the special request of their doctor they must remain anonymous. The noises, which have defied all investigation so far, include tapping, hammering and
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      PHONE IN DARK
      26 6 Phosphorescent ink is to 00 used m the printing of Austra- lian telephone directories, to; enable them to be read m the, dark.
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      PONIES RESCUED FROM FLOOD
      29 6 PONIES RESCUED FROM FLOOD F0 ..m flof/d-sui round* c ..^1 River Avon j I work n\ offic:.. '"2m stru^'d t\ Tbf b DN by the P.L >|l m out-boarc
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      96 6 J Exclusive to the Sint*at> ore Free Press m Ma lava SO MADEMOISELLE y<TH\S MECHAMT WHo/U ALLEZ-VOUS-EW BH T'-WHOM I HAv/p nancorr^ ?2£S Swio^p'p" NOT CONTENT WiTH \\f MA CHErJe.' —HE )1 T^N HOT£ HIMT< E a^ vIJKiffA^TJJS?^ STEALIWG OURTIUDIMARKjJ CANMOT COPY THAT cr-RUSH HIM I ,kf A SL V
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      PERAK CENTURY
      79 7 PERA K CENTURY WELL-KNOWN Perak and Selacgor eter S. Nalliah scored the century In Perak cricket for wetea when at Ipoh en Sunday he rlt 110 for a team led by Dr. Id QBt Blelloch's XI. It was a game of tidy scores, iota Ibf Earn Hook <3n, E. Yong
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      DONCASTER HOPES
      23 7 \CASTER h< yes to have four U d timpi Bruce x: g), Doncaster iTliird I- ague North wrest- 1 f SllCl
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      MALAYAS MEET SCC TODAY IN LEAGUE
      104 7 MALAYA S MEET SCC TODAY IN LEAGUE Mice Needed To f Control Crowd i\. Our S<ccer Reporter fUi niidence alter their good perform- n .i the \rmv whom they beat by three soals I Maium on Saturday, should not fail al tiio expense of the Singapore Cricket M today. I
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      ENGLAND SET ON WENNING TEST
      519 7  -  Bill Bowes From SYDNEY, Wednesday. UpLIKR HAMMOND has been selected m England's twelve f<H the fifth and final Test match beginning at Sydney on Friday. In a last desperate effort to rid himself of his Abtositis, Wally has taken strenuous exercise, suffered little detrimental after
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      TEST RELAYS BY RADIO MALAYA
      13 7 TEST RELAYS BY RADIO MALAYA m I try on the ::om B 'he
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      EPWORTH LEAGUE
      196 7 THE Straits Ciilncsc Lp worth LMgtM defeated the TcloU Ayer Methodic Youth Fellowship m friendly games >.■: Badminton and table tennis played at the farmer court by 4-2 and 4-3 re«pectivcly. Scorti: fS.C.E.L. menuoned first) Badminton: Tan Ruat Keng U-ai Harry frang 8-15, 15-7, 15-6; Neo Seug Kco
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      Two padang cricket games on Sunday
      609 7 Rest Of The Sport THE S.C.C. will open their cricket Seletar ou Sunday Mar. 9 starting at season with a home -and-home ,8.30 a.m. match on the padang on Sunday at 11 a.m. The following are invited to play for the 1941 Side and
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      BOXING'S BIG 3
      75 7 BOXING'S BIG 3 Fiom left to riffht. JOE LOUIS, world heavy-weight champion, aw.i.is the u inner of the liylit c:n BRUCE WOODIOCK, Brit.sh c ntencifr and European heavyweight champion, and American contend** .It Baksi. The lipnt takes piacc nt H.irrinsay < n M lit h J»ut first Woodcock Bfhtl Stephanc
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      SELANGOR EURASIANS BEAT SCRC
      287 7 SELANGOR EURASIANS BEAT SCRC Cricket In Peninsula VETERAN Seiangor cricket, hoc-! f key and soccer representative ]Lawrt-:ce uc Suva showed he still had some cf the old cricket sparkle when he Knocked, up a breezy 46 piayiag tor the Eura- j sians against the Seiangor Chinese at Koala Lumpur on
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      GORBEX SINGH IN FORM
      286 7 THE Selangor lodi^ns won Dy an ptff 102-run margin when they met int Postal Union cricket team en the Kampon? Attap ground at Kuala Lumpur over the week-end. Highest gcoreoi lor the Indians were Sukndev Singh 46 Gorbex Singh 35, O. Vias 43 and W. Vias
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      KANE READY FOR PATERSON
      730 7 All In The Game From George Chisholm LONDON, By Air Mail. IN the Belle Vue ring, on the same night Jackie Paterson knocked out Johnny King, two former champions showed that they retain their skill. One of them, Peter Kane, the former world flyweight champion, is
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      SPLIT OVER GOLF RULES
      255 7 SPLIT OVER GOLF RULES LONDON, Wed THE uneballSGflMl au.hority of the 1 and Ancient Golf Club oi St Andrews as the world's rulers of goli seems to have ended with the Roya) and Ancient announcement on Tueedav nipht that the United States Golf Association has decided to adept its I
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      ATHLETIC RECORD
      42 7 Th? International Amateur Athletk Federation h*s rresniced as world recores. Miss Olive Hall's (Eirmingh»m> total. 19.75e-\ BRoyds ?t Mitcham m 1938. anl the sft. s>in. high jumr> by Dorothy Odam (now Mrs. Tyler cf Mi; cham. at Brontwood m 1539.
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      CITY NEWS LONDON RUBBER SHARES STRONG
      440 8 CITY NEWS LONDON RUBBER SHARES STRONG Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Wed. pI'BBER shares are still one of the SUck Exchanged few rnaikcts almost the general ■*eakr. v DC well-known expert told tm U a he considered the three main H for t.:is .strength were: Recent indications that tjti ufacturero all
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      141 8 I Special Market corr^jmnjent' Jves the prices of ruhbet at II i.m today as follows SINGAPORF HAMBEK Of COM MERC I *TII'. S.ngapore Chamber of Com-' 1 merce Rubber Association's uler prices at noon yesterday y\ r Buyer* Sellers Cts. Cts. per lb per lb. He
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      Canteen fight led to mutiny
      418 8 RANGOON, Wednesday. 'FHE Burma Command Headquarters, Sou lh East Asia 1 and 1 Forces, today announced that "conditions are now normal" at the Fifth Burma Rifles Lines, Pe^u, 40 niiJes north of Rangoon, where mutiny of M>ine 1,000 Burmese troops were reported last week. The
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      MEDAN IS SHORT OF SUGAR, MEAT
      53 8 Margarine and tobacco supph s m tbe ncrth-w?st Sumatran town of Medan are completely exhausted and the sugar distribution to the population has been cut off for th~ time being. Meat is available only m the black market and then only occasionally and pric3s
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      217 SACKED
      39 8 The Chancellor of the Ducny of Lancaster, Mr. John Hynd, told the HHoves c of Commons that 217 members of the British Contr 1 Commission had been dismissed for misbehaviour generally involving off-encrs against the rules -up.
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      U.S. ENVOY TO UK
      20 8 President Truman yesterday appointed Mr. Lewis W. Douglas as United States ambassador to London -A. P.
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      Croydon Air Crash
      50 8 A twin-engined British Avra "Anson" aircr ft m London, on Feb. 12 undershot the airno* t h*/* at Cro > don airport building and finished by crashing thr -ueh a t^nl^°^ trees, then a stone senders and radio operator were jnhurt This' aZ J J? S if*/
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      HALIFAX SUPPORTS Govt POLICY ON INDIA
      2154 8 LONDON, Wednesday. A FTER a strong speech by Lord Halif ax, former Viceroy of A India, m favour of the Government's decision to hand over power m India by June, 1948, the second day of the House of Lords debate on India ended witho-t
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      125,000 CHEER ROYAL FAMILY
      270 8 PORT ELIZABETH, Wednesday. PROWDS estimated by the military and Hie civil police at V/, about 125,000 roared an hour and a half's greeting to the Royal Family m Port Elizabeth today m the mo^t enthusiastic single demonstration so far. In cloudy and sticky weather, the Royal
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      SAIGON CHIEFS BACK IN PARK
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