The Singapore Free Press, 3 March 1947

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA no SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1947. PRICE 10 CEN I ft.
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    SOLDIER SHOT IN TROOPER 61 Nips arrive
    375 1 SOLDIER SHOT IN TROOPER 61 Nips arrive Free Press Staff Reporter A SENTRY guarding Japanese prisoners who were being brought to Singapore from Kure, Japan, in the trooper Dilwara to answer war atrocity charges here, was shot when a British private stumbled down a companionway and accidentally discharged his Sten
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    U.S. NOT TO MEDDLE
    97 1 Will 1/1 A PLEDGE IMI JTV. Sundav. MHIf s Truman, who is on a Mexico Citv. pledged itrtnl: '<\ s tes Mdl "be faithful to i iad lw t of r.on-interven-Lii rthfr n n, hut declared I annot mean indifference." may have a proi Mr. Tr
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    SCOREBOARD
    22 1 I JmiTfrJ gft-* I? b L i«*»ail j ,s^^.nda,„ 'i ■aw id 17 Total Ir.ns, I!" W 83 7 J! »OH,
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    HUTTON OUT OF TEST
    290 1 SYDNEY, Today. LEN HUTTON, who wa_> 122 not out in England's total of SSI for six against Australia in the final Test at Sydney, was not able to continue his innings this morning, as he has developed laryngitis and is in hospital. Evans and Peter Smith
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    UK car output will be cut
    73 1 BRITAIN'S planned output of motor cars will be cut in half, because of the coal shortage, says the London Sunday Times motoring correspondent. The effect on exports, he says, will be that delivery dates will be put back about eight weeks. "Equally alarming is
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    STOOD ALONE
    21 1 After 153 years, the London Morning Advertiser (founded ta 1794) has decided to print news on its front page.
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    NO BACK PAY FOK EMPEROR
    241 1 TOKIO, Sunday. JAPAN'S tax paying Imperial family placed on public payroll for the first time will have to manage this year on probably a third of its normal incoma. The Government's final budget provides 23,000,000 yen for "expenses of the Imperial family," an additional fifteen
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    STRIKE THREAT AT RADIO MALAYA
    59 1 (Free Press Staff Reporter) All the non-European staff of Radio Malaya threaten to stop work on Saturday if the Pyke allowance is not oaid to them by then. Dissatisfaction with the existing wage scales has existed for some time. A meeting of all the Asiatic
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    FLYING HIGH
    36 1 Major Ernest Cassell, Indianapolis (U.S.) pilot, recently established an unofficial helicopter altitude n urd af 18.500 feet. The previous record was 11.243 feet made in Germany just before the outbreak of the last war.
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    Killed in black market fight
    166 1 Free Press Reporter A CHINESE was shot dead in Ophir Read, Singapore, yesterday morning during a fight in which about twenty Chinese took part over an argument about some cigarettes which had been sold on the black market. Later the police arrested four Chinese in
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    PUNJAB CABINET RESIGNS
    193 1 PUNJAB CABINET RESIGNS LAHORE. Sun. SIR Khizar Hyat Khan Tlwana, Prime Minister of the Punjao, tonight submitted the resignation of his cabinet to Sir Evan Jenkins, Governor of Punjab. Announcing the resignation of the Government which is a coalition of Unionist and Congress Parties, Sir Khizar said: "His Majesty's Government
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    ROTTERDAM FIRE GUTS WAREHOUSE
    36 1 Goods worth thousands of pounds were destroyed in a firo that razed a Rotterdam dockside warehouse yesterday. The fire, which lasted seven hours, destroyed two ships, motors, paper. tobacco and tyres.— Reuter
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    150 REBELS KILLED
    81 1 ATHENS, Sun. ANE hundred and fifty Greek w guerillas were killed, many wounded and 50 taken prisoner during recent mopping-up operations extending from Mount Vermion near the Albanian and Yugoslav frontier to Mount Xedrillia, east o: Salonika, tie Athens news agency said tonight Evidence that 300 Greek
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    ANTARCTIC 'OASIS'
    29 1 A Western task group plane of the Byrd Antarctic expedition is reported to have sighted another oasis in the Westfolri Mountains inland from the MacKenzie Sea. U.P.
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    ARMY SHOOT AT SIGHT
    372 1 Curfew on 280,000 Jews JERUSAI7:M, Sunday. r NIGHT approximately 280,000 people— roughly two fifths' of Palestine's estimated Jewish population of 650,000— have been cut off, to quote the Palestine Govrnment's com-, muni que. "from normal facilities of civil tf<»vernment." For three hours daily, however, from 10
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    GOVT NOT TAKING OVER STC BUSES
    72 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Government now has power to requisition any vehicle registered in the Colony und*r the Essential Regulations (Requisitioning of Vehicles) Order 1947, This step, explained the Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A B. McKerron would prevent any wholesale curtailment of the city's
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      ARE YOU FURNISHING YOUR HOUSE?
      945 2 Singapore at present it's easier but more expensive FRZE IkiESS WOMAN CORRESPONDS*? BURNISHING a home in Singapore has become considerably easier, if not cheaper, during the last six months. Furni ue pi.ces are tive t'mea hig- er thai they were in .9 9. ca se;
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      TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
      248 2 A ERIDGE cr me li commit r ed in today's hard. See ii you ran discover the crime ur.ct the criminal st opened the jack cl hearts, a.d South won with the king. Declarer then finessed tne jack of spades, losing to E st's queeu A heart
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      A BETTER VARIETY OF BREAD
      463 2 Around Singapore's Shops FEES PRESS WOMAN REPORTER THERE is welcome news about bread. The Cold Storage have an extra allocation of flour to manufacture a greater variety of bread. They are selling 1 lb. Rye loaves at 20 cents and long French loaves at 20
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      SWOONERS
      52 2 'WHEN Sinatra sings at Paramour.;, the bobbysoxers come in to buy him flowers. They look gj "though they needed a san. .vich, but they buy 30 to 40 dollars worth, collected from the other kids in the audience, and hand them over the sta^e." (A Broad u-av flo:ist. quoted
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      LOOK AT THE COLOUR OF YOUR LOAF
      175 2 DREAD bM beon in tne u forefront of our id I was particularly interested to talk to a m; baker about his job Is He told me :hat the thin? he looks for in tes: loaf is colour. Some are dark, or grey
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      922 2 RADIO MALAYA 730 News in Mala > 745 B u,v lt >.< nday Or Nt;" 8.05 Nee. Bsadlines in EngSinQaDOrt li>h PlB lLston er's Post; 9.00 U.S.A. 4.00 p m Light Music; 430 pm Concert Music Senes; 9.15 Tunes News; 4 .45 p.m. Tommy Handley Show; BED NETWORK (Chinese A
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    • Miscellaneous
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      72 2 QUIZ r\n$wen 1 (ft) By opinion*' ia meant thai Press: -b» by *H irh v Bti opinion" that of the medical i fusion: tc) hv opinion" that current in fRcial circlet. n 2 iai Dam e Commai dfa h~ Order of th c British Empire bi Doctor of C i
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      36 2 YOLK LUCK! STitf BOKN «'|J pO_SJ v. hish (,ra J |S *•>!! 'JJ I am t«. need <*1 casual s rt* reptih! I <>ti one d inc enior j t™ 52_i*1 mi 9\ w+K and .rrf< _^m*+^
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  • NEWS...
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      Bevin opens Palestine Conference
      68 3 N M I I B:vn, (in centr? of d legates to the Pales tin* Confer- n a. On h rifM hand i, Mr. n > e'uy, and on his left is Sir „n R v. f< (thrv. rue Jewish A- i <•> 1 but Ui Arabs,
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      AFRICA FINDS A LAKE OF GOLD
      42 3 [p«ion applied by gcioFive State goldfield after the ntly. Competent opinion begold in a few years than the 90 years. i "Hi* proves: i "ne tor Mously rk .eas r before lt ran in-: h of
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      POPULATION PROBLEM FOR UNO
      454 3 POPULATION PROBLEM FOR UNO Millions seeking new homelands EUROPE'S 2,000,000 displaced persons and millions of other homeless refugees looking for a new homeland in wbich to re-establish their lives are looking to the first meeting of the United Nations Population Commission, which has just started its work in New York,
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      YELLOW MONSTERS
      17 3 Yellow monsters 20ft. Ion?, have been spot ted by U. S. Navy explorers in Antarcic.
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      Lipstick clue betrayed wife
      291 3 AMAN who became suspicious when he noticed that lipstick was missing from his wife's lips and that her hair was disarranged when she returned from an evening walk was jjranted a decree nisi in Manchester divorce court. The husband, Mr. Thomas Leslie Leather, a radio dealer,
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      BOYS BURIED GIN AND WHISKY
      51 3 Six bottles of whisky. 11 bottles of sherry and other liquors were dug up in a Ash by de-la-Zouch garden. They had been hidden there by two 15-year-old boys who had stolen them from a golf club, it was stated at the local Juvenile Court
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      DINING ROOM FIRE
      16 3 The sixteenth-century diningroom of the Bull Hotel, Royston (Herts) was destroyed by fire.
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      SUN EXPLOSIONS AFFECT RADIO
      43 3 An outbreak cf more than 100 new sunspots, and a great hydrogen eruption on the sun, have been recorded by a Wellington, New Zealand, observatory. They are believed to be the cause of magnetic storms and widespread radio interruptions.
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      U.S. lipsticks for .U.K stop
      88 3 THE U.S Commerce I>e- partment has cut off Britain's supply of American lipsticks, nail polish and 150 other items because of fraud They have been arriving; in the UK. since August under a scheme aUowing U.S. firms who had a market in Britain before the
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      GAS FOR FOXES
      17 3 Gas was used against foxes in Cornwall, where farms are losing scores of lambs.
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      SACKED COL. IS BACK AS MAJOR
      169 3 LIEUT.-COLONEL P.eter John Johnson, 32-year-old son of Maior-General D. G. Johnson, V.C., who was sentenced to be dismissed the Service ifter pleading guilty to assisting a German girl to enter W>< i ha* beer- re- instated. The War Office admitting th. say they do
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      MAYOR GETS RAISE
      20 3 Peterborough City Council have given the Mayor a rise in salary from £270 to €400 a year.
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      IN AT LAST
      152 3 VIRGINIA ViGCERA, 18-year- 1 iid Spanish girl, who was] sent back to Madrid wiih'n an hour .»f her arrival by air in Britain last September, is to return by perroi s!on of the Hnm<* Secretary. The girl was sent back because she had iv.j mor*r* or papers
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      PRAYER IS NOT SUFFICIENT
      280 3 4 CHRISTIAN Science practitioner was criticised by the ia coroner at a Durham inquest on Edgar Locket t, 63-year-old advertising manager, a widower, who lived alone. "No person is going to make me believe that in a case where a serious operation is necessary praying wiil
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      CLAY DISCOVERY
      51 3 While Bentley Common, in Darlaston. Staffs, was being levelled, between 50,000 and 100.000 of pottery clay were discovered similar to that being exported from other parts of the country at £2 per ton, About 1.000,000 tons of the clay are believed to exist on other parts of the
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      PETER, 15 TRAILED ROBBERS
      163 3 PETER, 15 TRAILED ROBBERS A BOY. whose pluck led to the conviction of four men, was praised in court in London. The boy. 15-year-old Peter Dart, saw three men leaving his home in Templar's-avenuc. Golders Green, London. One had his father's suitcase. Peter followed them, snatched the suitcase away and
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      SONJA HENIE HAS UNIQUE MINK
      83 3 SONJA HENIE, the skater aiid film star, has arrived in England with two mink coats. A special car rushed her fr.un London Airport. where she arrived from New York, to Croydon. There a plane was held to fake her to Zurich. Sonja wore a P&le
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      91 3 I WTY SOUND PROJEaiON ■^Ml^^- OPE,,S TODAY! lil QSS29|tt/> 11— 3— *-15— 6.30— 9.15 ■j* »>:»»»». fcl m I y |ji fl£*S% oul I _st. E* FONDA BALL In OAMON lUNTONS ML THE BIG STREET iAtTON WckUNE EUCENE PALtETTt H AGNES MOOKEHEAD SAW UVENf "AT COIUNS MAKION MAITIN aa WIUIAM
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      172 3 TO-DAY FOUR SHOWS 1 39 4 6 20 9 30 p.m. FBAN^tiqMg rrocUxfo-s. Use puimH ntaauitOE nkii DMVBS m noon _M____s NsfßiMiioyo ot\ljmii£ji£ AiMumi aim aura $fT JfJ*jF 4 batata* may* '«^JC__P Otttmot mumm P'«y Prt*. «rt«t Jo**. tot, Do«©tfcy Park«i A UNIVERSAL fICTURI NEXT CHANGK— WEDNESDAY SINGAPORE Is Going
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      89 3 TARZAN The human skull #y £d£tfr ft ic^ Burroughs AMID THE SKELETONS OP FORMER B Las n» ■f]IT IN DISGUST, TARZAN fTTT^^X^^^^ Htlxl FEASTS, THE HYENA-MONSTER i a|li| I Ifj THREW THE BE^ST INTO f K IT— #X<Wa— fl ittfohP vS^nfe-"^ W A N Gr£ ANP DREW tils T~^L '^Y^v'T
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Mar. 3, 1947. The Other Eden 1
      653 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. Mar. 3, 1947. The Other Eden 1 WE asked a Malayan just back from leave in England the other day— he had had his ear close to the ground in Whitehall, as well as listening to what was said in thp buses and trams.— if
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      Good Morning ....
      1136 4  - Good Morning Frank Owen By WHAT are the real problems which face Britain now? We have been discussirg them in this column for a long time; but let us go over th?m again. 1. OUTPUT. Roughly, Britain, a great investing and trading nation now has no investments overseas, not enough
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      453 4 M^V/S comes of "JIMMY" 1" EDE, who had to carry the British Legion banner to an E-cm parade because the official standard bearer w 0 missing. Epcom Br.tish Legian take a poor view of this. They say it is not fair to '-Jimmy," because h e has
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      TALES FROM TANGLIN – 7
      5 4 TALES FROM TANGLIN 7 just
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      PHOTO-CELL BUEFLAR ALARM
      335 4 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT rERE are five principal branches of scientific instrument making in Bii tain. A broad classification would put in the first group microscopes, binoculars and telescopes, optical elements and glass, cameras and lenses, cinema apparaiu>, projection and allied optical apparatus. The second group covers
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      155 DAYS IN A POUCH
      314 4 GERALDINE, a threeyear old koala, and her tiny daughter Booboop are the centre of interest in the Australian section of Melbourne's Zoological Gardens. In the past there has been considerable controversy among naturalists as to the length of time the young koala remains in the
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      FAITH
      20 4 Evil shall slay the wicked: I and they that hate the J righteous shall be desolate. Psalms 34. 21.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      52 4 QUIZ 1. What is implied when one refers to opinion in: ca) Fleet Street; <b) Harley street- (c) Whitehall? 2. Fo r what do these letters stand?: <a) D.B.E.;<b) D.C.L <c) D.C.LI.; rd) D SO (e) D.V. 3. What was the shortest yea r in British History Answers o n
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      NEW S'PORE RADIO ON THE AIR SOON
      555 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FHE fk^fit of the new medium-wave transmitting sets which will replace Jap-built equipment at the Jurong broadcasting station is nearing completion, and when power supplies have been arranged and installation tests completed, it will be possible for Radio Malaya
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      Legal business hit in Union
      347 5 Kree P*e>s Staff Reporter t"IKM> ol „i\tfu;(' ar.d solicitors in Singapore are being MMSt) hampered in their up country bWJMH because* ■t sjarhinerv flirts at the moment for >***** lawy^is. admined leiral prt fur iw in Si^ a;»o_e since the literati* to ..am registration t«»
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      GENT TO VISAT KEDAH
      8 5 GENT TO VISAT KEDAH :or a 11 U.P.
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      STUDENTS TO CALL OFF STRIKE
      13 5 STUDENTS TO CALL OFF STRIKE j? srbo B A adul Ra?ak demands <e
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      BEES HELPED THE POLICE
      53 5 CWARMS of bees 'helped" the police in Amritsar (Punjab) to disperse an urn uiy crowd, taking part in the Muslim League's campaign for the "restoration of civil liberties." "Two shots were fired at •swarms of bees with whose active help the crowd was dispersed," an official
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      GOING HOME
      36 5 One of Victoria's most notorious gunmen will be deported to Ireland shortly. He is Hugh Martin, sentenced f o 20 years' j ja.il in 1932 for armed ho'.d-up and the wounding of Constable Derham.
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      Mr. REES-WILLIAMS
      29 5 Mr. D. R. Rees-Williams, Labour Member of Parliament f-T South Croydon, has arrived in Rangoon to be chairman of the constitution c mm >t tee, says Reuter
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      BOYS CLUB PICINIC
      182 5 Free Press Stall' Reporter EARLY yesterday morning, 20 boys all members of the Queen Street Boys Club, left Singapore in small craft o n a picnic to the neighbouring islands. The boys were shown around by members of the Singapore Marine Police who made all arrangements for
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      65 5 The transmitting set and tht a nali of Singapore's new mcd'um-wave station are ready. As soon as power supply is laid on and preliminary tests are completed, the new station v II go on the air, enabling Ra io Malaya to expand its programme. The engineers exp-ct that listeners as
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      SEALF SIGNALS WIN M'CYCLE TRIALS
      255 5 SEALF SIGNALS WIN M'CYCLE TRIALS Free Press Staff Reporter SEA-LF Signals won both events in the inter-unit motorcycle reliability trials helu at Ehm Camp, oiT Changi, yesterday. The first evem was the team race, and a second one for indii vidual performance. Best rider iof the day was Signalman R.
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      COPRA EXPORT TO STOP
      68 5 TEYLON proposes to manula--ture margarine. glycerine and other processed produc's from copra and coconut oil Instead of exporting the raw materials. Hitherto Ceylon bas exported between 50.000 and 70.000 tons of copra yearly, and it is proposed to utilise the entire amount for lr^al processing i
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      WORLEY REPORT IS CRITICISED
      250 5 Free Press Staff Reporter fHE failure of the Worley Report, dealing with back pay for volunteers and members of the Civil Defences, to make any reference to the question of civil liability is criticised by the Straits Chinese British Association. The Association says: "This omission has
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      1 KILLED, 27 HURT IN H.K. BOMBING
      41 5 1 KILLED, 27 HURT IN H.K. BOMBING MANY suspec s were arrested following an explosion in a Chinese theatre on Saturday night, in which a Chinese eirl died of injuries and about 27 o her men. women and children sustained injuries.
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      BIRMA REPORTS EPIDEMICS
      35 5 BIRM A REPORTS EPIDEMICS PLAGUE, smallpox and cholera in the epidemic stage are prcveiling in many districts in central and upper Burma. Districts worst affected by the epidemics are Sagaing, Meiktila, Pyawbwe and Yamethin.- Reuter
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      A.C.S. PLANS BIGGER BUILDING
      197 5 A.C.S. PLANS BIGGER BUILDING Free Press Staff Report r fc^R. P. A. B McKerr m, bt Co'on'al Secc .-jrv, .1 d Mr. T. W. Hinch. hondmasier of the Anolo Chine e School, spoke at the first postwar Singapore A.C.S. Old Boys' A^ eiut'mi Founder's Day dinner nt the Atomic Club
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      PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE
      80 5 ELEVEN Hundred convict* n Mandalay 'the second largest city in Burma> prison have been on hunger strike since last Sunday demanding immediate .release, it is authoritatively rep ed from Rangoon. The convicts, many of them serving lfie sentence and M Jf I terms, argued that if
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      53 5 D I \T _n 0 nam KINGS CIGARETTE CASES U *S. de SILVA LY °N PHOTO CO d fO! i r mt and >Ptifs at a T prices. .>q STAND IT? *m r ,sJF i an© 7 th y \s oJ ings I x'l-.xng ijLj lief, make Un JjAßftV 'NTHi
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      121 5 IT PAYS TO GET OUR LATEST PRICE LIST NOW JUST ARRIVED FORMIC ACID METROLAC GALVANISED PLAIN WIRE WIRE NAILS SODIUM SULPHITE COAL TAR GREASE PACKING BLACK PUTTY RUBBER INSERTION ASBESTOS CORD TAN SIN PENG COMPANY, 11, PHILLIP STREET, SINGAPORE. PHONE Nos. 3114 4373. THE LONDON PRESS (Labour, Conservative, Liberal What
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  • NEWS...
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      UK IS READY TO SWOOP ON EV ADERS
      271 6 UK IS READY TO SW OOP ON EV ADERS £750,000-a-week tax racket SPECIAL Inland Revenue investigators in Britain have begun inquiries into a £750,000-a-week income tax evasion racket by certain firms in the clothing and cabinet making trades. Preliminary checks have disclosed that firms in Leeds, Manchester and the East
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      84 6 tUCOPTERS will soon be used by prospectors in their search 1 »nto the worlds mineral wealth. Mr. Hans T. Lundberg, vice-president of the Lundbers-Ryan Air Explorations Inc., ls seen ascending from Buffalo Aerodrome, New York State, in ihe Model 17 helicopter in which his firm is planning to search for
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      Tarzan children see first snow
      271 6 rVO children who were born and reared in the heart of the j Brazilian jungle as members of a modern "Tarzan" family recently saw their first snow and squealed with delight. "This is much better 1 n hunting wild animals with spears, bows and arrows,"
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      DISABLED MAN MOVES COUNCIL
      77 6 A TEMPORARY garage for a mechanical invalid chair is to be built by Ba.tersea Council in the garden oi a ore- lab because Mr. Robert House comned that leaving it in ihe open ail nigh; was ruining it. The Ministry of Pensions is to supply the
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      ST. PAUL'S REPAIRS
      36 6 I. will take thr^e or four years to complete the repairs in ;he ransept of St. Paul's and many more for the whole of the work, stated the Dean. Dr. W. It. Matthews
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      EVICTED INTO A BALLROOM
      191 6 WITHIN an hour of learning that a family of six, turned out of a house at Wimbledon on a possession order had nowhere to go, the Mayor, Councillor C. W. Black, took them to a mansion where they have a ballroom and another room to themselves.
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      'MEANEST CITY IN BRITAIN'
      150 6 THE cathedral city of Truro, Cornwall, has been criticised by its ex-mayor. Councillor A. A.l Behenna. as *'the meanest city in Britain, to which I am ashamed > to belong.'' That was his description of the 1 city of his birth to a reporter when he
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      NOW THEY KWE ACCIDENTS
      61 6 NOW THEY K WE ACCIDENTS Since the introduction oi pri-, vate cars into Bermuda a year, ago. there have been 62 accident*,] I cne fatal. It is also reported .hat air traffic has almost trebled since Kindley Field was. made available to commercial j lines a year ago. Nearly 1.500"
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      SEVEN MORE SAINTS
      25 6 Seven saints will be canonized in the Vatican between May 13 and July 20 under a programme just approved by the Pope.
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      HOME IS BABBED TO HEB
      166 6 DRIFFIELD 'East Yorks) Council will not allow a widow of 67 to live in a six-roomed bungalow she has had built for herself. The widow. Mrs. Ada Spencer. I as been told the site is needed for a playing field scheme Nearly finished Mil Spencer
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      CELLARS FIND
      46 6 Excavations at the palace ol the Emperor Diocletian at Split have revealed enormous cellars of great archaeological interest. These, which have now been cleared of the rubbish of centuries, include the largest hall in Dalmatia. whi-eh will be used for exhibitions and other events.
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      Police said 'we quit'
      84 6 A PLAN to take a lar«e number of London Metropolitan policemen from clerical and administrative jobs and put them back on the beat oil loit has had to be scrapped. Sixty police inspectors concerned many of them former Hen don Police College pupils protested. Many threatened
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      U.S. will have nearer whisky
      128 6 U.S. will have nearer whisky AMERICAN distillers of 7 "Scotch Type" whisky are promising "nearer whisky" for those Americans who cannot afford genuine imported Scotch at £2 10s a bottle. An announcement from an American trade journal reads: 'Scotch type' whisky should taste more like the real thing in future.
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      JOY BELLS BAN
      36 6 Weddings in Fleetwood Parish Church, Lanes, must be without organ or bells during Lent because the Vicar, the Rev. S. G. S i anton, considers thoughts should be about other things than marrying
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      COUNCIL THREW FURNITURE OUT
      210 6 POR taking away and destroying clothes and furniture in 1 a newly requisitioned house. Harrow Urban Council was to pay Mr. George Braid, a civil servant, £60 damages at Willesden County Court. Mr. Braid, of Lowlands-road. Harrow, said he and his wife moved from a requisitioned
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      WIVES SIGN ON AT HOSPITALS
      341 6 MORE than 100 women, many of them retired nurses and midwives, have responded at ence to the Ministry of Health's appeal for part time work in Lomion h<k,pit;.K There were many housewives who offered to do domestic work. The youngest ohm leer was a ffirl
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      POTATO HOMEWORK
      39 6 Five hundred girls, attend a Woodford. Essex, school, take two potatoes home every day and bring them back peeled next day. This has saved the electric peeler at the school being run for three hours a day.
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      CANADA TELLS U.S.
      34 6 Canada is asking for new air routes into and through "he United Stales. The Canadians have a case, because there are more American services into Can i than Canadian into America.
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      88 6 J A-Nfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya /^ILL CHANGE INTO I/Tf THAT RECEPTION I/aNiTthEnTc^^ M. BERNARDS EVENING J /CLERK MENTIONS 'WARN HIM NOT TO kl THc Mrv^ onnu* GOWN BEFORE I SHOW J "LYDIA'S ARRIVAL < LEAVE THE HOTEL- HOW SWFPT nt= MYSELF BELOW,^ fF T ER
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      WESTON DISPUTE CHARLTON VICTORY
      541 7 LONDON, Sunday. enunt of the Cup returned to football yesier--1 ti -ixth round (quarter final) ties put r;l s It ;;nd Liverpool in the semi-final, while ah ani Burnley live to fight a replay on TuesMiddK in th eir tie. nds mm difficult, owing to the
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      CHINA SOCCER XI TO PASS THROUGH SINGAPORE
      38 7 CHINA SOCCER XI TO PASS THROUGH SINGAPORE *V *£V. mZ „,atnaacri for ..•aii-pon-T K to t r i M -d ,n < orinthians. 10 years «n r.form"W nunh ketPWB |he tSm H 7"": thiaa. be p!a>''d at lis n
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      SPRING DOUBLE MAY PRODUCE SURPRISES
      27 7  - SPRING DOUBLE MAY PRODUCE SURPRISES Vernon Morgan by |n> j to be.-n but fcrw* To Bickers i Brand fJationai d no bo k--3 :o;p 0 :c Reuter
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      NAVAL BASE SOCCER
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      FOOTBALL RESULTS AND TABLES
      869 7 SATURDAY I I 1 C. 1 B^B^p^_____^fci2ill^ r t 2 l r> L T. r U c. o I I] p 1 8 61 42 37 f 41 S6 1 il 56 Jd 1 62 41 33 t M 45 M 6 141 4 I 13
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      45,000 SEE IRISH WIN THREE-TWO
      206 7 45,000 SEE IRISH WIN THREE-TWO DUBLIN. Sun. la.nd bt-a: Spain three-two in an international soccer match at Dalyaacunt Park todav. before an tstimaed crowd i f 45.000 spectators, who p?ca_ed the ground before the nates vera closed. C- wds encroaching on the pilch deved the s'art. many refusing to heed
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      40 7 Above, the players who took par In the S.R.C. honie-an:_- u ome cricket match on Saturday and, h .low, the R.A.F. soccer team which was beaten by five goals lo thrse in an S.A.F.A. lea gut' fix- ture on Saturday
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      OLYMPICS VOTED A 'GOOD THING'
      342 7  - OLYMPICS V OTED A 'GOOD THING' Vernon Morgan Prom LONDON, Sunday. i 4 hOSE vsho approve ot international and the Olympic Games will unquestionably learn with interest that lhe people in Britain who think >ports promote friendly relations and that Britain, despite all difficulties, should go ahead and stage the
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      Army Win By oad Goal Against R.E.
      117 7 Army Win By oad Goal Against R.E. ri.L-.IJ a beU_r all-i.mnd aisu play the Army team beat the R.K. by the odd goal in three at Thomson R.iad ycs.erdaj. F ature of th e game was the exec lent goal-keeping on lioih sid< and the good combination of the Army
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      GOLF AT BUKIT TIMAH
      105 7 S. A. Beavis won the February Bcg2y competit on of the R.yal Singapore Golf Club, played aL Bukit Timhh on Saturday and i yesterday, with a score of .hre* down The ball sween run in con<unction wito uns eompetit on was won by G. T. MofTett
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      COLLEGIANS TRIED NINE BOWLERS
      307 7 RAi iH£3 Col.e^e tried <>ut nine bo«;as unj gut only ti.r^e wicketa a nen Uie./ met Combined Cnai.gi yesleraay, and arcra v.eil teuton. Ttoere v.cie two iiair-ceniuries by tne Changi batsmen an.t one t,ooJ score by a Kaffirs man in tni.-; big scoring game Raffles oaued
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      LESS CRICKET FOR WALLY HAMMOND
      78 7 VV alier Hammond, England's! cricket captain, will play little nu re county cricket. In a letter to the Gloucester- j shire County Club, Hamm nd has sad that he does not expect to be available for more than cne or two games Ln the coming
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      HAFFLES B.P. WIN
      93 7 RAFFLES College B. P. beat Lucky Strike B. P. three two in a ma eh nlayed a' Lloyd Ro d yesterday. Seores. Rr.ffies memtioned first, were: Tan Ah Fee beat Koh B^ng Swee 15-10. 15-3: D. R. Daniel lot' to Hadu bin Habi 13-13 (l-s>. 10-15: James
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      TURKISH ARSENAL
      14 7 A Turkish aacood division fr.otba'i team has changed its name to Arsenal
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      SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUT
      29 7 (Quarter Finals) Alredrieoniani 4 Hilxrians 4 Dundee 0 Aberdeen 1 Hearts 0 East Fife 1 Rangers 2 Dundee Un. 1 All Scottish league matches w postponed.
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      FRIENDLY MATCHES
      21 7 Aston Villa 1. Celtic 2. Millwall 2. Everton 0. Morton 2. Huddersfield 2. Ayr United 3. Leither Athletic 3
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      IRISH REGIONAL LEAGUE
      24 7 Linfield 2. Glentoran 3. Cliftonville vs. Coleraine X. Derrv City vs. Belfast Celtic X. Distillery vs. Ballymena United X X Postponed.
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      Ceylonese And Recs Win
      828 7 Ceylonese And Recs Win Rest Of The Spat THE Ceylon Sports Club and the S.R.C, the strongest civl--1 lian cricket teams in Singap re last wm, both won their matches yesterday. The C.S.C. met the RE. at Victoria School and won by 32 runs, while the Recs had an easy
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      PROTEST OVER EXTENSION OF SOCCER S^SON
      154 7 I. IGHT nundred clujs belon;-. ig r to the Yorkshire Cricket Federation have sent a telegram to the Football Association protesting I rgainst tbe x ens. of the Soc er season from M:-y 3 to May 10 Hard words w» re spoken bv their
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      RAFFLES SOCCER XI v MEDICOS
      74 7 THE it llowing will rt piesent Raffle_' C^lle-ge in the annual Inter-College sorter match against the Medical College at Raffles' grcund on T day: Yap Hona Gain; Lim Ah Yew. a. K&rim; Won^ Teng Seng. A. Samad. S. D. Wlllla EShariff, T. Abdullah. E W
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      S. AFRICA..
      56 8 Today we go to Ssuth Africa and see the City of Capetown floodlit when it welcomed the vbifing Royal Family. The photograph was taken from a roof top in St. George s Street and shows the new wing of St. George's Cathedral in the foreground surmounted by the
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      CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      386 8 CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market corrj<»pondent srives the prices of rubbe? at 11 a.m. today as follows: SING APORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THK Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's rubber prices at noon yesterday Average highest price for No RSS. Spot Loose fat Kebmary is 41.88
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      STRIKE THREAT BY DOCTORS
      63 8 French doctors staged protest demonstrations in a number of towns throughout France over the week-end demanding a larger quota of cars for professional use and threatening to strike. Since June 1945, only 715 cars hav j been distributed to 35,000 doctors in France. Seven thousand doctors
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      ROME 'VARSITY MAY CLOSE
      54 8 Rome University, the largest in Italy, will close its doors in two months and send horn. its 40,000 students if the Government does not giv? it the money, Professor Giuseppe Caronia, President of the un.veisi'.y said in Rome The university's outlays have increaed over 30 times
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      Reds say unite all Malaya
      347 8 LONDON, Sunday. RESOLUTIONS condemning the "scandalous persecution of Malaya's guerilla fighters and the Government's failure to recognise the Pan Malayan Federation of Trade Unions, and calling on the Government to withdraw the White Paper on Malaya were passed at the British Empire Communist conference today.
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      SOVIET SUSPECTS NEW IRAN 'ARMY'
      97 8 Radio Moscow yesterday quoted a Pravda article charging the U.S. military advisers ln Iran with having formed "an independent armed force" under the guise of organising an Iranian gendarmerie The article said the American chief of the Iranian gendarmerie, Gen. Schwarzkopr, had asked for a
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      Moscow is painting hard
      76 8 £IGHT days before the opening of the Foreign Ministers' con- teT *P* e m Moscow, nobody has yet been told where it will take place, though painters and carpenters are hard at work on the SuSS""' ClUb WhiCh In tSe C2ar S daXS Was arL^ratic Moscow
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      2 SISTERS BECOME BROTHERS
      163 8 2 SISTERS BECOME BROTHERS ROME. Sun. TWO sisters, Lina and Luigia 1. Chabert. aged 30 and 38 respectively, have been transformed frcm women to men by surgical operations in Turin. Although they were Doth legally registered as females at birth, says a leading newspaper, their bodily characteristics became unmistakably masculine
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      ALLIGATORS IN FLOODED TOWNS
      291 8 BUENOS AIRES. Sunday. DESCUE planes of four nations are sl riving to aid the stricken zone of Trinidad, northern Bolivia, where floods are reported to have driven 3,000 people from their homes, besides marooning 12,000 inhabitants of other areas. The flyers who answered a dramatic S.O.S.
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      CHINA AIMS AT WORLD SHIPPING POWER
      386 8 NANKING, Sunday. TN an effort to take over the role played by Japan in Far 1 Eastern shipping before the war, China was embarked on a two-year shipping plan, beginning with the purchase of 32 Liberty ships of 10,400 tons each, 16 Victory ships
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      FRENCH ATTACK WEST OF HANOI
      152 8 HANOI, Sun. L/RENCH troop at dawn today began fresh operations wesi of Hanoi. They are engaged in mopping up Vietnam pockets of resistance in all important localities in this zone, including the town of Hadong. ten kilometres from Hanoi. It is understood the composition of
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      HEAD-HUNTERS ARE WARNED
      68 8 r PHE Burma Frontier Administration has addressed a strong warning to the Naga tribesmen who have been roiding Assamese villages across the Indo-Burma frontier and to have collected a few hundred human heads in the last few months. The warning followed the return to Rangoon of the
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      EXPLOSION IN U.S. KILLS 2
      179 8 CHICAGO, Sunday. PO people were known to be killed and an unknown number still remain in the wreckage when a Chicago street corner building was destroyed by a terrific explosion inside it today. Twenty-five people have already been admitted to hospital. Several people waiting for
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      U.S. back in the Empire?
      104 8 ATLANTA (U.S.A.), San. L MiLANK. Scotland, lireland and Wales should be admitted as member states of the l'nited States said Senator Richard Russell, (Democrat) t,< in an _t.«rview published by the Atlanta "Constitution". The newspaper quoted 8 nat'^r Russell as saying that his proposal was
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      6000 BALTIC GIRLS FOR BRITAIN
      214 8 6000 BALTIC GIRLS FOR BRITAIN HERFORD, British Occupation Zone, March 2. GOVERNMENT delegations from all parts of Europe and the United States are arriving in the British zone of Germany to tap skilled labour lying idle in displaced persons camps. Nearly two years after the end of the European war,
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      MANN HONOURED
      43 8 Bonn University in Hamburg has renewed the award of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy to Thomas Mann, German essayist and Nobel literature prize winner, thus rescinding the acticn of the University authorities in withdrawing the honour in 1937 under Nazi ordrrs.— Reuter
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      INDIA PRINCES MAKE TERMS
      87 8 Talks between the Spates Negotiating Committee of the Chamber oi Princes and the States Constituent Assembly, which ended in New Delhi yesterday, resulted in an agreement that not less than half of the total representatives cf states in the Constituent Assembly should be elected members of
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      FRENCH PURGE NEARS END
      162 8 FRANCE'S great collaborationist pui going on since the liberation, is coming to *n<*n fewer than 400 cases mainly aVfofrinf remaining to be tried. The right wing minority is agita: this demand is meeting with strong Lsts and Communists. Since the purge began, more than ISO people
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      THE POPE IS 71
      12 8 The Pope celebrated hi> 71st birthday yesterday Reuter
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      NO FUEL AND NO WORK
      42 8 NO FUEL AND NO WORK Two women on their way to rollcrt taj "-h iaa_„ 281b. of coke pause tt read a lac of cwj?j the fuel crisis in Britain. Al one sta:;. ita Z« J* switch-on of electricity la-^t \> thcmse!v<> |afc|
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      LAVA ENGULFS ETNA VILLAGE
      64 8 ONE t th' n Mount Etna Rome Rad:. to have bee al feulfer. lava fckud aacj st:aci.. -I wide bom A secer.c rJlaff m now u ~.ent dar: *l ing wipe The Room Radic I nicrl I village.^ din .'oA\ flown, day The dii ,J, J
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      102 8 WA'4 7'_/»«. Cloudx. brisk intervals from noon tada; cat^ma m the RAI (mtral FmtLfe Ma.ijr. Command lirU loud> with bright .nterrafc «J iMilaa-d im under thwm immk mrmpsmp Ihe^e vifl iaptnt laa midnight lo_<iv %ltt intervals i«i-mr,rr«n manm Wind Moderate smtt-atam during afte noon, (allm: _f_7g nigh: Su: p ou
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