The Singapore Free Press, 15 March 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AhTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA L \OM- SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1947. PRICfc m CEMa
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    50 SERVICEMEN IN OUTRAM JAIL
    780 1 50 SERVICEMEN IN OUTRAM JAIL 4Belsen in S 'pore?— 'Nonsense' Free Press Staff Reporter THERE are about 50 British soldiers imprisoned m Outram Road- jail, Singapore, living m cells of various sizes, the biggest of which holds 17 beds, allowing a clear foot between the beds and space to hold
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    Food Goes By Row Boat
    66 1 LONDON m. R.iIEKS deliver* t™* *>y Steals otfich rains „-su pe.»ple were A* major rivers 2:2* banks hetueen the SicEnn^ and the Thames 52, «w)dn< hi§hways J,d inins lines -i f mmaiura- j E the m that th^ ire<t will be u th:n 1M hours.
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    BILL BOWES VISITS SINGAPORE
    110 1 BILL BOWES VISITS SINGAPORE *"SS. Yorkshire and inland cricirter who reMitt the recent Test Bee Ic&i Australia .:e Evening News c 2e Singapore Tree Press, wed j Stogapore by air yestoy ac his wa from tmßcg with B tafctanm. Brian Sellars, the CC. elector, vbo al^a wrote i Yorkshire We:
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    GERMAN BRIDES ARRIVE IN UK
    21 1 I HDOW, Fri. ■J^ steamer Hull :uded 46 bee me the .en. >hip nes :-:ed. ?ar-
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    UNKNOWN
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    POWERS GET PoW TOTALS
    222 1 MOSCOW, Fri. riGURES for the number of German prisoners of war held by Britain, the United States and France were tabled at today's meeting of the Council of Foreign Mm sters m Mcscow at the request of M. Molotoy, the Russian Foreign Minister. Russian figure* were
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    NEGROES TOGET A PARLIAMENT
    258 1 LONDON, Friday. NIdLKIA, biggesl of all British colonies m Africa, with a population of 22,000,000 is to have a parliament with African members forming the majority party. This is a major step towards granting responsible internal self-govern-ment to Africans m the colony. Nigeria thus becomes the
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    THREE KILLED IN CHINA PLANE CRASH
    30 1 Bodies of three victims were recovered from a plane, believed to be a Chinese Army aircraft, which crashed near Shanghai m fog yesterday.— Reuter
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    CRASH ON TEST
    40 1 News wa^ received m Singapore this morning that a BOAC aircraft on an experimental and development flight crashed at Hum. Midcl'vex, killing the chief pilot Capt. Black and two technical officers. There were no passengers on board.
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    DOGS ARE SENTRIES
    26 1 A consignment of 100 German shepherd dogs left Bremen yesterday for Korea, wher c they will be used on sentry duty.- A. P.
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    Portugal won't quit India
    65 1 rRTUGLESE India would not l> afTecied by the British withdrawal from India dccl ared Dr. Joao de Barrps Ferreira da Fonseca, the new Portuguese Minister to China m an interview at Shanghai yesterday. There was no similarity between the two Questions, h^ aid, and the Portly
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    SHB will sell liquor stocks
    166 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE is likely to be flooded with wines and spirits O of various brands particularly Australian gin m the next few days, and the black market price of liquor is expected to fall more steeply than at any time since the
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    THEY SEE IT DIFFERENTLY
    103 1 PRESIDENT Truman's inter- vcntion m Greece has brought widely different reactions m Athens and Moscow. IN Athens shops decorated with Greek and U.S. flags closed for two hours while tradesmen, workers and professional men drafted an "ad^rrss of thanks" to President Truman for his message to
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    AIR LINER IS MISSING
    66 1 GRENOBLE (France", Fri. Rescue parties are searching m the mountains fifty miles from Grenoble for an air liner reported missing with 23 passengers going Iron Nice to Paris. Inhabitants of four villages reported hearing an explosion about 20 minutes aft-er the plane had last reported its
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    DUTCH REPLY
    43 1 The Dutch Government replied yesterday to United States protests against the seizure off Java of the American freighter Martin Dehrman. The reply stated that regulations which led to this acti;n, were aimed at preventing illegal trade and protecting private property. Reuter
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    NEW STAMP ISSUE
    24 1 Special stamps will be issued by the Chinese Government to mark the opening of the China Asia a*r service, report* Reuter
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    PERAK RESCUE BID FAILS
    515 1 PERAK RESCUE BID FAILS Free Press Staff Reporter I AM writing this story on lie decks of U c tl^esi Straits Steamship Company vessel of the Fleet ths Ferak, whicu is stranded high and dry on a coral reef ten miles from Singapore, at three o'clock this morning. For the
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    31 1 A.i artist's impression of the new Hongkong and Shanghai Bank build ng whit!, is ue.ajf fcmtt n Orchard Road, Singapore. The architects are Palm-r and Turner. (Another drawing m Page 8)
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    CHINATOWN ROBBERIES
    61 1 TWO robberies were reporlea *n Singapore last night. In one case, the victim was a Chinese who was robbed of $1,000 by three armed Chinese; th 3 other victim was a Malay taxi driver who, after picking up four Chinese fares, was stopped and robbed of $10, his
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    BUS STRIKE INQUIRY
    31 1 Mr. Justice Jobling has accepted an invitation by the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, to make an investigation into the circumstances leading to the Singapore Traction Company workers' strike.
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    Criticism Is Not Understood?
    825 2  -  David Grant TREBLE CLEF by WE should like to add a footnote to the remark made recently by the critic m our contemporary. He wrote that judging by the dwindling attendance at Music for Everybody Concerts it would seem as though the object of the criticism
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    133 2 SPADES are trump. South leads North and South are to win six ©f the seven tricks against any •> fence. South takes the club ace and leads the eight of spades. If West plays low. North takes the Kpade ace and leads the queen and jack of
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    SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    262 2 TOE 1947 Shakespeare 1 Festival at the Memorial Theatre. Stratford-on-Avod, mecca c.f theatreioveis the 7-orld over, opens on April sth. ani continues until September. Sir Barry Jackson, f orl d-renowned Director of the Theatre, will present nine play-. First performance, m the order of pre-er.tn" 'on, wJJI be
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    THE GUY NAMED JOE...
    511 2 Review of films showing m London BY OUR FILM REPORTER A RUSSIAN picture called THE VOW describes the life and times of Generalissimo Stalin with a veneration that might be accorded to nothing less than a fifth Gospel. It is true he doesn't walk on the
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      221 2 1 qnz a-.~| l Revolution btolf osj i Sou &nd Yiv3 Pres.Qer^ a 4 tou public Chins rat tsft tM estc unity, Ss U C'ai ,2. A G OnffiscJ on J 0. Hannar c gy •John H Ar; k id :x 3. h ■>::; from d! sigr^s b) E Tnd'^r
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      128 2 COMING EVENTS TO-NIGHT, at 8 00 p.m.— At the "little Theatre," Armenian Street; A recorded Kecital of "Music from Russia," including: Tschaikosky Romeo and Juliet Borodun: Prince If or Dances Rachmaninoff: Pianoforte Concerto No. 2. TO-MORROW, 16 March; at 800 pm A recorded Recital at the Union Jack Club, including:
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      215 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forcast for people born today T>OKN today, you may not tuna to period for you and the stars will be unusually generous in bestowing their gifts. What you make of them is entirely up to you, for you can become master of your own destiny. For
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      853 2 nty r\if-\ rv/l A I AY A Mtmories of :>. Musician (R>. s j.n c.iv p.m. News; 6.45 p.m. 'Sweet *1/\J-JIU iyll\L»P+i Pi Sweet and Lorely <LTS». 51j OMM- and Lovely"; 1.00 p.m. c ren's Ccrner. 5.30 Chappells Queen* News" 7.15 p.m "This wbk News"; OingapOTf Hall Light Orchestra (LTS
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    COMMUNISTS TO MOVE YENAN HQ
    139 3 apital ot Communist China today is wonhow much longer it can survive. Reduced ,lation of 50,000 a short time ago to 5,000 esult of evacuation under the threat of N'iJi .tticks. this city is full of reports that the ation tl S ill be removed.
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    101 3 Sis hundred young Ciinese olTiccrs and ratings-to-be are now m Britain learning the way of the Royal Navy. Training •heard >' c famoot old battleship, 11.M.5. Renown, m Devonport Harbour, they are learning English and living under the same conditions as ordinaryBritish trameos. eating English food cooked m the Englrsh
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    COMMUNISTS CHARGE U.S.
    99 3 I "THE Chinese communists' I 1 diplomatic spok esman, ICIMMI En-lai, has complained that the United States was continuing heavy financial aid to the Chiang Kai-shek Government, while pretending to withdraw this aid. Chou alleged that American advances to Chiang's Government of large cotton and railroad loans,
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    TO BE LARGEST
    30 3 DLANS are being mapped out for the construction m Shanghai of the largest dockyard m China, which wiM b> capable ofcontoin:ng vessels of up to 30,000 tons.
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    NEW SPIRIT IS CHINA'S NEED
    185 3 PE United States Ambassador Dr. J. Leighton Stuart, said m Shanghai that the hope of China "lies m the awakening of a new form of national consciousness which m the spirit of the great Chinese socially minded sage Mencius puts the welfare of the vast
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    Smugglers do well here
    57 3 THE Customs Inspcctur-Geneial m Shanghai has announced that CN5181.569.000 worth of smuggled goods were confiscated by Cust ims stations m China last year. This hugr figure, the statement said, was an indication of the great extent of illegal traffic that had been going m m the
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    WOLVES AT LARGE
    46 3 The vernacular Press has reported that three hungry grey wolves were running wild inside the walls of the east city of Peiping. According to one paper, one Russian woman was bitten by a wolf while milking a cow m a I yard.- U.P
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    4 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE
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    BIRTH CONTROL IS THE ANSWER
    80 3 BIRTH CONTROL IS THE ANSWER om:c aid to vtion C "L> stanimni A.T.C- aarujer ol eventual drives for "living room." He said that a continued 15 per ia v> by a decade m China 1 population would increase the total from 400 to 700 million by ICBO. Ho predicted that
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    TAIWANESE TO GET RIGHTS
    184 3 GENERALISSIMO Chiang Rai Shek m a speech at the weekly memorial service this week promised the Taiwanese constitutional rights at an early date. He said that peace would shortly be restored with the arrival of central troops who are now m Keelung. Chiang revealed that the
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    U.S. LEGION IN Sth CHINA
    88 3 the < American fiffkm nao> established a South China branch m Cannon under tiie command of Lieut. Commander George B. Chen. U.S.N.R. <ret red>. a graduate of the United States Naval Academy. "The purpose of the Soutn China branch is to look after the weliare
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    PRO-JAP SHOT
    55 3 PRO- JAP SHOT CHANG Yu-ching, who headed the first Japanese-inspired Shanghai Assassination Corps that murdered newspapermen and bombed newspaper offices during 1938 shortly pftcr the Shanghai battle, was 6hot by a firing squad m S a £>a! Di Wednesday. Kncwn as "Twa-ion Chang" because of his siz-. Charg started labour
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    TIDYING UP NANKING
    139 3 TIDYING UP NANKING THINA'S national capital, left m a terrible state of dilapidation by the Japanese and their puppets at the end of the war, is being tidied up under the supervision of Mayor Shen Vi who has received personal orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to make Nanking "appear like
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    GIRL GUIDE HONOURED
    131 3 MISS Dorothy Lee, who has been connected with the Girl Guide Movement m Hong Kong since she was a student at the Diocesan Girls' School, and was formerly Captain of the Heep Yun School Guide Company, has received the Bronze Medal, the highest award tor gallantry given
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    NEW NAVY H.Q.
    41 3 TEN. Kwei Yung-ching, Acting Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, is now m Tsungyeng, north-cast of Takao. to supervise the establishment of a Naval Headquarters there. Before leaving Taipei, Gen. Kwei made an appeal to the youth Central News
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    MASS ARRESTS 'WERE ROUTINE'
    196 3 GEN. TANG YUNG-HSUEH, chief of the Peiping municipal police, m a statement to the Press, said that the present mass arrests were a "routine spring census and check-up which is necessary for the sake of social order and the pro tection of citizens' lives and property.
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    ACTOR JAILED
    47 3 TPHE High Court m Shanghai recently sentenced Feng i Chieh to six years' imprisonment collaboration with Japanese i propaganda mavie producers m Shanghai during the occupation Feng was assistant producer of the propaganda film, "Opium War," which was released m .Hongkong. Macao and Manila. U.P.
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    CHINA'S BIG ORDER
    23 3 China has placed an order for equipment valued at nearly £300,000 wLh the Marconi Wireless TeiegTaph Company of i Chelmsford.
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    1,800-mile new railway planned
    330 3 A PLAN has been announced for tiie construction of a 1,300--mile railway linking Lanchow, provincial capital of Kansu m north-west China, with Kwangchowan of southern Kwangtung m south-west China. The line is to go through Tienshui m Kansu, Kwangyuan m Szechwan, Kweiyang m Kweichow, and Luichow
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      134 3 Another Outstandinj* Picture And It's At The Today Five Sho^%B 10.30 a.m. I.JO 4.00 ti. 30 9. 30 p. n. Three prize performances that pack w thrills, laughs IV action into p jjjfißgy c season s EDWARD G. -^ROBINSCH fffiMk MARGARET f*% O'BRIEN K^\e^ JAMES CRA!G '-MteL^ FRANCES 6IFFORO AEHES
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 15, 1947. He Doesn't Want Singapore
    487 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Mar. 15, 1947. He Doesn't Want Singapore rMr. W. G. C. Blunn, member of the Advisory Council, m Kuala Lumpur, expects Singapore to rise m anger to denounce his attack on Singapore and the proposals to link the colony with the Federation of Malaya, he
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1499 4 FROM NEW YORK BY' AIR MAIL CROWN OF WORLD LEADERSHIP IS CHAFING AMERICA'S FOREHEAD' TH E pall-bearers and morticians, masquerading as foreign correspondents m London, are making American flesh creep. Bewildered citizens here are being told (1) that the British Empire has collapsed, and (2) that the
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    CABOT FOUND U.S.?
    183 4 CABOT FOUND U.S. r!E 450 th anniversary of the discovery of America by Cabot is to be celebrated m Bristol on June 24th. Although Columbus is usually accredited with this discovery, Bristolians claim that he did not reacth the mainland until at least a year later than Cabot. The legendary,
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    PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
    526 4 JOHN MARTIN, of Weiiing- borough. Northanta, celebrated his 70th birthday oy walking 38 miles m the snow to Bedford and bark As he does not wear a hat, the snow froze m his hair. "I had trouble with Icicle* They hung from my eyelashes and blinded me
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    Tales from Tanglin- II
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      THE THREE CHARMS...
      247 4 LATELY vve na-.e noticed the tendency on part of the bUBOMICI&CJ the Singapore Association to insulate themselves public opinion by wea: three charms arour.d their necks ijrnorance of public; the irn of the public; ana miasma of susplc It was argued fc 1 upcountry bureau -t complair.ts
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      WASTED?
      108 4 WASTED I FEEL that the prominence given to Mr. Samy's denial of an "assertion" m the Free Press thxit the striking- busmen were "samsengs Ltnd hooligans" is a mere waste of valu&blo space. Surely any public -spin .«d man will not deny that threatening ar.d exhorting payment fr:m a member
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      APPEAL
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      UNKNOWN
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      73 4 19PPI |sTshotam6Cql I RADIO AMD SOU rfOENCINEEIS I 12 ORCHARD RD. PHONE 6*22 QUIZ 1. When did China become a Republic? Who was its first President? 2. Whose pseudonyms are ■hese? (a) Alpha of the Plough (b» George A. Birmingham (c) Iv\ Hay (d) "Q" "YY" Who buil t St.
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      23 4 i FAITH 1 i ;n.«k»-il» :i cheerful cvun^nane; but by sorrow of the heart me NP r«£ I is broken. Proverbs. 15. 13.
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    S'PORE CAN'T FIND MARKET FOR WOOD
    165 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ollt of the markets m Chi*a, Hong Kong and K rt > by lower-selling rivals like Siam, Singapore's Si are now looking to the United Kingdom rade which wiH resuscitate an industry ■th a slump, but these merchants cannot m
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    GETS AWARD
    76 5 Several members from all the battalions of 16 Punjab Regiment and pensioners were present when a re-onion was celebrated recently at their regimental centre, Sialkot. To mark this occasi, n, inter-batta-lion sports, boys boxing and P. T. displays were held, at which Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinlark. Commander
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    BUSMEN APPEAL TO GOVERNOR
    157 5 BUS MEN APPEA L TO GOVERNOR Pfeec Pres» Staff Reporter IXaWuer to the Governor, Sir Franklin Gims*>n, ihe Snl japore Trac :i pa ny Employees' Union exures;es mctm at a Free Press report that the Government may •n nT( buses and run them m an effort to break ke deadlock
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    EGYPTIAN MISSION
    24 5 The Indonesian news agency Antara, reported that Mohammad Abdul Munim, Egyptian Consul m Bombay, has arrived m Jogjakarta to establish official contac
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    Free schooling: progress made
    387 5 Free Press Staff Reporter 1 LTHOUGH specific approval has not as yet been given by A Government to go ahead with the plan for free primary creation for 100.000 children m Singapore, the Director of Education, Mr. J. B. Neilson, feels that the first steps along
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    5 conditions to end strike
    103 5 EMPLOYEES of the Singapore t Traction Company have informed the Governor that they are willing to return to work if these five demands are accepted by the company: 1. Reinstatement off three inspectors and one driver. 2. An apology from Mr. McNeish: 3. Fifty per
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    TOURS N. MALAYA
    21 5 IPOH, Thursday.— Lt. Gen. A. Galloway, G.0.C.-in-C, Malaya Command, is now m Ipoh staying I at the Residency.
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    14 5 vot addition to the prenuscs ol ths S.ngapaie Swimming Club is this concrete sh.d.
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    H.K. BUDGET
    23 5 Hong Kong S -set for the 5S r teg a S^'PlU3 Of of ha «»d of Mtfefc •".a:ed at $180,751,665 Reuter
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    WELFARE TALK
    10 5 II I V Busineu n Club 19. at
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    NEW TREATMENT HELPS CRIPPLES TO WALK
    1036 5 NEW TREATMENT HELPS CRIPPLES TO WALK Miracles m S pore Hospital Free Press Staff Reporter TREATMENTS developed during the war years, which helped RAF aircrews fly again after they had broken bones and severely injured themselves, are being employed with great success at Singapore General Hospital under the direction of
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    PLANES USED TO RUN BLOCKADE
    99 5 PLANES USED TO RUN BLOCKADE USING c artered Dakotae to hurdle Du^cn N?w patrols, the Indonesian Rrnubl c Fas bopun exportir.fr c^rc'-c"^ and vanilla to S'rgp.oorr. An official annour^ ment m; first two-ton rargo expo'ted last week by a Philip Dines Commercial Airline plr.ne brought SW.ono "Sir.jzapore currency) t**TBe t.mrs
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    VOLUNTEERS PLAN MESS
    107 5 A JOINT Headquarters Mess at which volunteers, past and present and other ex-Seivicemen might meet is being cpened m Singapore. It is hoped that occasional lectures and demonstrations may take place as well as unit reunions. It has also been decided that a memorial plaque b 2
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    GEN. COWAN
    58 5 Major-Gen. D. T. Cowan, commander of the British and Indian Division of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force, embarked on the Ranchi on March 11 en route to India and England on leave. The Ranchi will call at Hcng Kong, Singapore, Calcutta and Colombo to embark personnel lor leave
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    Y.M.C.A. MEETINGS
    67 5 Members of the Forces and the j V.M.C.A. Singapore are united lo attend ?my of these meetings m which they may be interested: 'March 17 at 8 pjn. Music Club; March 18 at 8 p.m. Art Club (flist S meeting) March 19 at 8 p.m. Literary and Debating
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    25 DIED Of PNEUMONIA
    95 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AN increase m the number of deaths from pneumonia (25 compared with 16 m the previous week) is a feature of the Singapore health report for the week ended March 8. TB accounted for 17 deaths a decrease of seven from the
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    INDIANS SEEK STRONGER TIES WITH MALAYA
    106 5 J7FFORTS are being made m lie v Delhi to establish closer cultural relations between Matey and India. Some non-oflicia cics prcpoie to requcs -h Government cf Irdia to cs'abUsh an Indian Cultural Council m the Far East which would "not mereh promote friendiy relations'
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    THEY WON'T BE PAID YET
    114 5 JAPANESE reparations to Aus- tralian ex-prisoners of war could not be allocated until dks- cussions had taktn place between Australia, Great Britain and Allied countries, according to the j Minister for Ex-ornal Affairs. Dr. Evatt said that claims by ex-Servicemen's organisations tor reparations were being
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    UNIVERSITY COMMISSION APPOINTED
    160 5 UNIVERSITY COMMISSION APPOINTED MEMBERS of the Commission on Higher Educa'nn, under the chairmanship of Sir Alexander Carr-6aunders, Director of London School of Economics and Political Science, to make recommendation*; on the development of university education m Malays. have been named. They are: Prof. W. J. Pugh, Deputy Vice Chancellor and
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    ROTARY ADDRESS
    24 5 Professor T. H. Silcoak w*ll speak on "Universities m the Community" at the Singapore Rotary Club luncheon meeting on Wednesday, March 19.
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    SHOW EXHIBIT MAY BE LATE
    235 6 TTiE Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales may 1 have difficulty m completing the United Kingdom section of the British Empire Exhibition, which is to be a special feature of the 1947 Royal Agricultural show m Sydney. The motor vessel Karamea, which is carrying
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    PARISH PARSIMONY
    17 6 Ten guineas a year is otTered j by Caenvys. Flintshire, for a Parish council clerk.
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    BOY ,3, CONVICTS MOTHER OF MURDER
    144 6 BOY ,3, CONVICTS MOTHER OF MURDER boy aged three, who chat- tered that "Mummy shoot Daddy." has helped to convict his rao'her of murder at Fairfield, Illinois, U. S. A. When Leon Wilson was found sh.;t dead m bed last NovemDer, his wife. Lo s. 24, said her son. Linden,
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    GENIUS MARS MORALS
    81 6 GENIUS MARS MORALS HOLLYWOOD has answered religious leaders' criticisms ot Ita morals by explaining th i many of its members are "touched with geniu •V. hen you've go. genius on your bands, anything can happen.' said a Hollywood spokesman. "You c^n't force, or expect, them to follow normal lives." This
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    MONKS RESCUE MAN
    25 6 Monks rescued Mr. Malcolm Moss. Loughborough solid or, when his car stuck m a snowdrift near Mount St. Bernard Abtrv. Charnwood Forest.
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    TRAPPED IN LIFTS
    27 6 Or.o hundred people were trapped for an hour be ween floors m the Royal Liver Building. Liverpool, when a cable .fault stopped he lifts.
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    Explosive plant sale hits U.K.
    243 6 AMYSTERIOI S sale to a I.S. firm oi a I'anauian Government factory, which has a monopoly of a new flashless explosive, ha* shocked British Service chiefs. The factory was built during the war at Welland. On- tario, to make picrite— a shell propellent which does
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    Death took dream child
    75 6 JVIR. and Mrs. \V Hammond, of Beaumont-road, Luton, had thre e daughters, but wanted a son, so nineteen months a«?T they adopted baby Peter William. Now when he was just short of two, Peter has been choked by swallowing a peanut. Mr. Hammond told the coroner
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    'Wed me' plea in legislature
    112 6 MISS ALENE WORD, only uom3n member of Arkansas (1 T S.) Legislature, was niak v% sj -i ,>.i ik\c ;i«».i of the House vrben there was an interruption from fellow member Dan Stephens. "Mr Speaker, is a proposal of matrimony fram the floor m order
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    COURT ACQUITS INDIAN
    52 6 Nuik Alia Bux, the second accused of seven Indian s idler* charged with mutiny en Chris:mas Island o n March 10. 1942. w.s acquitted by a General Court Martial m Singapore last Thursday. Findings and sent n.oj oi the Court en the six other accused will be
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    'LAUGHTER' DEATH
    31 6 Joshua Stanley, aged 30, of Upon, Pontefract. Yorkshire, was found dead near a broken gasflre pipe m a Scarborough amusement arcade. "The Hall of Laughter" Inquest verdict: Accidental dea.h.
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    LONDON POLICE READY FOR GANG WAR
    314 6 LONDON POLICE READY FOR GANG WAR Racketeers getting bolder •THERE is a reetless shifting among small-time racketeers 1 m London's bright-light district the West End and Scotland Yard is preparing for an outbreak of gang warfa c on a far larger and grimmer scale than the pre-war razi>r slashings and
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    FROM WAR TO PEACE
    27 6 FROM WAR TO PEACE fits cai uckeTpJi ret "t, m 0^ P. tiu T nowadays it k Z produ ed f. r commcrcul^ oft the tfl rhone
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    Ice helps one, spoils other
    126 6 ICE on the waters has very different effects on sports In j Europe. Her e on the left are hundreds of skaters enjoying great fun, all the more welcome because it does not come every year, on the Stadt Park skaiing rink m Vienna, which
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    SHE IS TIRED OF BEING ROBBED
    92 6 gECAUSE Mrs. Kettei, a widow of seven y. living alone m Langley < Bucks* was tired or being robbed, me. gathered up her valuables and wrnt to siay Wl h her sister m Slaines The same night, a bur robbed her nous? aga:n— ior
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    UK TRADE SHOW IN MAY
    175 6 UK TRADE SHOW IN MAY SPACE aiiocaiioiii lor this first post-war British Industries Fa r :;ua: ?V>.' Thousands or overseas buyers are expected to place orders lor the goods which will be on show from May 5 to May 16 Some 1.287 manufacturers will exhibit at Olympia and 86 more
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    OFFERS OF HELP TO LEGLESS MAN
    199 6 I EGLESS ex soldier, Albert Abrahall. of College-cross, L Islington, London, whose wife was Said to have told him, "I'm tired of being your legs," has received many letters of sympathy one from a widow saving she would 'love to be his legs." Ma
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    MILLIONS FAY TAX
    15 6 In the United Kingdom 13.000.--*3O now pay income tax against ,000.000 pre-war.
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    IMPORTANT LEAGUE GAMES NEXT WEEK
    858 7 IMPORTANT LEAGUE GAMES NEXT WEEK Weekly Soccer Notes By Our Soccer Reporter I PART from the very sound defeat inflicted by the Chinese A second selection on the Singapore Recreation Club, this week's league soccer games have worked out according to form, with the Army and Navy each taking full
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    Sailing Over Ice
    42 7 Sailing Over Ice if vrfolk BnudN uro frozen over, like Britain's other inland but saiLnx on on the ice. While winter sports tafe co on ail ever the country, these sportsmen board their it* yW N and whis across the froz?n Broads.
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    Amateur Fights Thrills Again
    581 7 Free Press Reporter INGAPORE amateur boxers put up game and scientific Ifcfes last ni^ht at the Happy World Stadium m the Bi-onais of the 9JLB.A. s first post-war tournament. .All c boxers who [ought last night were keen and fit and did kwe themselves or their
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    S.C.C. SOCCER XI
    71 7 following wQ represent the SinjPore Oicket Oh* agafcvt the &»don««*a Football XI at aoocer at ■la p.m. on Monday. March 17, on tf* SCC. Pa«ang:_ J- C. Beeves; D. Breaoan, A. GBanille: A. J. d? Pranck: J. C. Benjrook; V. R. Burton: A. H. W. KaW. C.
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    CRICKET TEAMS FOR WEEKEND
    394 7 CEYLON Sports Club cricket elevens for the week-end will be "A" team against Police today starting at 2.00 p.m. at P.T.S. ground Thomson Read: K. Muthucumaru (rapt.); C Senivaretne, Phillips, P. Van Rooyen! Emerson, S. Nagiah, 8. Kulasingam. E. Doraisamv. G. K. Narendra. V. N. PiHai
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    ARGENTINE SOCCER
    36 7 Argentine soccer champions, San Lorenzo de Almagro, from Buenos Aires, want to play English clubs. Th-y have 40.000 members, a stadium with seating capacity of several thousands, and special halls for fencing and basketball.
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    Tunney Punches For Greek War Relief Association
    87 7 Tunney Punches For Greek War Relief Association Gen? Tuuney, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world and chairman of the sports committee of the Greek War Relief Association, presented a pair of boxing gloves en br half of Fred A. Travalena, President of the Metropolitan Association or A.A.U., to 7-year-old
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    MILLS SAYS; CAN BEAT GUS LESNEVICH
    432 7 From Ardiie Quick LONDON, Fri. j |jRI! DDIE MilU now ha^ liii eyes set on one ambition to meet and beat Ous LoM^vich. There is mere than a likelihood the boat for world cruiserweight championship will take place -n open air at the Whit^
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    HUTTON MAY RETURN TO AUSTRALIA
    157 7 IEN HUTTON, Yorkshire and England opening bat, is likely to return to Australia after the cricket tour to represent his firm down under. When asked to comment on the report Hutton was non-committal, saying: "There may be something m it, but I do not know
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    Soviet Athletes Fall In Line
    420 7 Rest Of The Sport LORD BURGHLEY, the chairman of the Olympic Organizing Committee, said yesterday that Russia has applied for membership m the International Amateur Athletic Association and has indicated that the Soviet authorities will conform with the international amateur laws to compete m the
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    OLD BOYS ASSN
    79 7 THE Sure and bteadlast Club tan Oil Boys Association of The Boys* Brigade) win hold an annual general meeting on Mot day at 7.i0 p.m. sharp, at the Prlrcep St. Straits Chinese Church Social Hail, Prlnsep Street. The general meeting is convened for the election of office
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    TITLE FIGHT AT STADIUM TOMORROW
    329 7 •TOMORROW nignt at the Happy World Arena, Nal Som Pong, welterweight champion of Singapore will stake his title aga-nsfc the colourful Filip.no contender. Battling Sima. The bout, whiofa will be over 15 three-minute rounds, is expected to be a gon*-to-gcng afiar In their last encounter
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    ENGLISH TABLE TENNIS
    42 7 LONDON, Thurs. Results of the Engli**, table* tennis championship, third rourd of trie men* singles: T. F.isi>erg. Sweden, beat V. 81 va Raman. India, 21-11 23-21 21-9. Ernest Budley. England, beat U Chandarana, India 21-9 21-11 21-23 21-9 Reuter
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      174 7 WEEKEND SPORTS EVENTS TO-DAY SOCCE&: SAFA League— Malays vs. RAF, Jalan Besar 5 p.m. BOXING: Amatear Championship Finals, Happy World 9 p.m. CRICKET: SCC vs. S&C, Padang 2 p.m.; Ceylon S.C. vs. Police Thomson Road, t p.m. Ceylon S.C. "A" vs. Jarong CC. Jar one 2. 1S p.m.; Indians vs.
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    29 8 I A majestic scene Iron, the Lake District Showing Green Gable, smaller brother of n J:fJL. Great Gable, wl.ich aff rJ the climber such a fine view down Ennerdale.
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      SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
      63 8 TUX Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubb-r Association rubber prices at noon yesterday were: Buyers Sellers Cta. Cts. per Ib per Ib JUo 1 R.S.S. Spot \oo4 42 42*4 No I R.S.S. fob m bales March 43k, 4JS No .'R.S.S fob m bates March 42 4? No
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      70 8 S 'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market corre <nun dent <ives tht prices ot rubbei at 1) am toda> as follows: Tone of Market: Qcu Buyers Sellers Cte Cta. !>er 1b per Ib So I S S S. Spot \->o v .42 UK Ho I RSS. fob m biles
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      S'pore shares
      69 8 THE Singapore share market opened very dull this mornkig with very little business passing. Wearnes are offered at $23. Straits Traders at $17. Fraser and Neaves at $3.35, Malayan Breweries $22.75, Steamships at $23 Collieries are wanted at $2 324 and Hammers at $43. There was not much
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      London stocks
      163 8 ON the London Stock Exchange I yesterday, while there was no j material setback m prices with the possible exception of Brazil Rails and South African gold shares the markets closed the week with a dull undertone. I T\:> apprehension was attributed to! fears of international complications folio..
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      New York stocks
      67 8 ON the New York Stock Exchange yesterday many issues reached new low levels for 1947 during early trading as the market eased quietly ing widespread losoes up to two Pont 1 or more. Encouragement from continued light pressure brought better interest to leading groups later enabling them
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      Cotton output falls
      216 8 MORE of the industrial casualt es oi 1" Britain's crisis are n. w betfir-uinfr sUi k is,. cally to be counted. Lancashire s yi-Mi output (mainly cotton yarn* MM 10.200.000 pounds v.-eisht m the iast Veek November and 13.300.000 m the las. week of January. In the
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    Profit-taking causes drop
    859 8 WEEKLY SPORE SHARE REPORT A LTHOUGH reduced from the scale of recent business the x\ week's turnover m Malayan markets must be regarded as highly satisfactory, reports the Free Press market corre>pondent. Profit taking which was fairly general m Indusirials caused a number of quotations to recede.
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    5-day week for miners
    83 8 5 -day week for miners AGREEMENT has been r ached between the National Union of 11 Minework?rs and the National Coal Beard m Britain for coal miners to work a five-day week without loss of ear -ings from the first Monday m May. Under the a^reem-nt no excuse will be
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    U.S. GETS BASES IN PHILIPPINES
    261 8 MANILA, Friday. AFTER weeks of negotiation a 99-year agreement giving military bases m the Philippine Islands to the United States, with the proviso that any of the bases might be made available to the U.N.O. Security Council, was signed m Manila today. Mr. Paul McNutt,
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    UK VOTES £19,000,000 TO HELP GREECE
    400 8 LONDON, Friday. THE House of Commons today agreed to a grant of 1 £19,000,000 to help Greece— £lB,ooo,ooo towards the cost of maintaining the Greek armed forces from last January to the end of March of this year, and a £1,000,000 gift of civilian
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    NEW BUILDING FOR S'PORE
    28 8 NEW BUILDING FOR S'PORE This is another artist's impress on of the ti» beinp built m Orchard Road. Singapore, for th^SfiLS 1 Shanghai Bank (See Pagf U( ***<u
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    PENSIONS TC BE BIGGER
    63 8 Free Press Correspondent MR. Douglas Marshall, (Cons. Bodmin) is asking the Secretary of State for the Colonies m the Commons on March 19 it he 's aware that Government officers retired m Malaya are to have th>:r pensions increased to meet the high cost of living,
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    EASTERN BANK REPORT
    114 8 THE London Office of the Eastern Bank reports: Net profit for 194G 110.<UG-i6-l making a total with the amount brought forward £180.834-13-9. The annual meeting will be«held on 261h March at which the Directors will reconunend the payment of a final dividend at the rate of threo
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    NEW VICEROY SEES PREMIER
    184 8 IjONDON. Saturday. f\SE of the main tasks of the new Viceroy, Admiral Viscount Mount bat ten, when he takes over from Lord Wavell m India this month will be to endeavour to secure the consolida tion of the interim government's position through close understanding between Uie
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    BIG DRUG FIND
    56 8 An electrician rewiring an old San Francisco house discovered a cache of opium and nrrp-ine valued at $337,900 UJS. dollars said a customs official yesttrdm The present owner of the hous--was exonerated, when it was found that the building had lormeriy belonged to the twin brothers. Judah
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