The Singapore Free Press, 24 March 1947

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    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ii»w SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS
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    U.S. SECRET PAPERS ACCUSE USSR
    352 1 U.S. SECRET PAPERS ACCUSE USSR FASDFASD WASHINGTON, Sun. AFFK lAL United States documents, accusing Russia of waging a "war of nerves" against Turkey and •f having a "master plan" to bring Greece under Communist domination, were laid, their "secret" label removed under pressure from Congress, before the House Committee on
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    JAP REP AT IS TOP SECRET
    453 1 JAP REP AT IS TOP SECRET BttUM he was "worried about his homework." and didn't want to go tto school, Derek Kerrison. 11, walketl out of his homp m Tavistock Road, IPaddinßton. London and disappeared Ik fne days He slfpi on park benches and m bombed houses and lived fur
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    Landslide in UK misses express
    226 1 fcoUi, p»tknt X of St Thomas's aupWil London, is swung off fti jreand jad left m mid-air t I tißtsbffore dinner And he lik r«r this b the skilled treatment proeribftl by the doctors of EM <H(B3s's to care him of piralysis :aased by a
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    JSIL OREAK INQUIRY IS LIKELY
    48 1 JSIL OREAK INQUIRY IS LIKELY Reporter f to be employed m l scapins* t came as a "-~Qse concerned of the that an r one of the three cd. He was comaa few had cli sol awa ial conon adminisno quest en >c say t aMlhori- m I
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    CABINET SWORN IN
    22 1 Omandoi Ramaswami Redd ar, was elected leader of the Ifadiaa Congress Legislature Party last PMday waa sworn In yesterday
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    BBC EMPLOYEE RECEIVED GIFTS
    250 1 BBC EMPLOYEE RECEIVED GIFTS LONDON, Sunday. CiX VALENTINE 11ULMLS reported today that BBC offi iia!> have accepted ttiousands of pounds m gifts, ranging from gold cigarette cases to fur neckpieces, from the nUrtuinmertt world, but he said m n<> case was the bribery. corruption or partiality involved. Sir Valenii!.. 1
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    NEW PARTY FORMS
    36 1 Grnoml de Gaulle's wartime deputy, General Francois Dasticr De La Vigorie, will lead a new French political party. Its proj gramme includes free trade nd amnesties for milder collaborators with the Germans.— Reuter.
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    WAR TRIAL OISHI CAN'T RECALL
    421 1 WAR TRIAL OISHI CAN'T RECALL 1 DON'T remember,' was the monotonous rejfiy given by Lt. Col. Oishi Masayuki to five categorical questions put to him m connection with the Chinese massacre m February 1942 at the continued trial this ißuining m the Victoria Memorial Hall, Singapore. The tenth duy ol
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    'RITUAL'KILLERS DIE TODAY
    69 1 'RITUAL' KILLERS DIE TODAY ACCRA, Sunday. THE five negroes condemned to death for the ritual murder of a village chieftain knelt m prayer at James Fort. Accra (G::ld Coast) today, awaiting their execution, timed lor eight o'clock on Monday morning, It is the seventh time since November, 1945, that the
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    Malaya trade with UK
    92 1 MALAYA took £20,000,000 out of Britain's total exports of X 48,000,000 to the Far East during 19 1t.;. Burma took £8,500,* uOO and China 'C 8,000.000. The last qu?rtcr"s export to China exceeded those of Lhe previous nin° months put together. Experts J> thf^ Far East
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    15-hr CURFEW IN DELHI
    407 1 15-hr CURFEW IN DELHI NEW DELHI, Sunday. TWO people were killed and six injured following a fight 1 today between some Sikhs and Moslems m front of Jumma Mosque. A jeep near the mosque was set on f:re. Some people were reported to have been injured and one killed m
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    DALFORCE ASKS BACK PAY
    54 1 Free Press Staff Reporter More than 400 members of Dalforce gathered m the Volunteer Headquarters, B?acfc Road, Singapore this miming to demand three-and-a-half years tull pr.y and allowances during the Japanese occupation, insteud of the War Department's offer of seven and a half months salary, which
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    DREDGE SAILS FOR N.E.I.
    60 1 The largest tin dredge ever to cross an ocean yesterday arrived m tow at Panama on its 13,000 mile journey frcrn Florida <U.S..> to Bank a Island, south of Singapore The dredge is the Stuyiesant, 246 feet In length. I r cost U.S. $2,000,000. a second
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    'Settle Britons In Malaya'
    43 1 'Settle Britons In Malaya' i tKDON, Snn*j i A SUGGESTION that 100,000 British families should be settled m Malaya auring the Hfijrt few years is marie by a correspondent of the London Sunday Xx press who has just returned from Malaya to London.
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    EXILES GEL VISAS
    28 1 Fifty homeless exiles m Shanjhai. have received DfiSSports with British visas permitting them to rejoin their wives, children ana grandchildren In the United Kingci m
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    ANNAMITES PROTEST
    54 1 More than 3,000 Amtamite v, '"kers m Pari? v s* rdaj BUtf ed m a protest demonstration ano denir.nded the release of D Bach Ma:, deputy Chief of ;hI Vietnam nati Ils 4 i del gjti n to Pans who ill arrested by th e French nuthorit es
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    PROFESSORS STRIKE
    22 1 Four hundred Indian pr fe&sors ard Leetureri of 16 non-govern mert colleges m Bihar province work yes I ere ay
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      S'PORE FEELS UK's DRAFT
      766 2 S'PORE FEELS UK's DRAFT In Out Of The Shops BY FREE PRESS WOMAN CORRESPONDENT TTHE effects of Britain's 1 cold winter will be feit Singapore during the < v ks. the t* nes closed l was b oo nplete stop- g f all f [ports and the la] ?e sfc
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      TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM
      222 2 AS deoC.iced a B World Iflgft" zinc. West let the Spade jack. S:uth wan and went after the clv finessing dummy's jac >ok the queen and shifted to a heart. ul had anrther club stepp sc d:clarer couldn't mak-j rs^ne withcot a. diamond trick, but the defence
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      RADIO KEEPS FOOD
      339 2 RADIO KEEPS FOOD TWO t 1 vn -king to tivi y into th< kitchen. I ombarding foods with elect c rye '".-m. ays, i .uding X-raj sterilize enre, but they have damaging effects upon material?. Doctors Arao Crasch ia I Wolfgang Berber t 1 thsearch staff of Ktectroniied Obemicals c
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      PRESENT FOR JAP GIRLS
      216 2 PRESENT FOR JAP GIRLS from Mac Arthur JAPANESE girls unable to marry became of difficulty m prej:. ieir truus>eaux may forever be thankful tn Mac Arthur. Boch girls w<re told trjday that SCAP (Supreme Command. Allies, Pacific) silk found unsuitable for export. may help them. It irai revealed li.at SCAP
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      AN INTERESTING WOMAN
      167 2 Mn, Boston^ I :ir> ONE of the mo.- 1 tiful women m India, M y; mji Paridnnji was a distinguished Parsi figure -w h India and la E;K-'^nri. ia the early dewith the band of Red Cress workers I I the leader of a regiment later when
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      521 2 YOUR j LUCKY o 1 AX Fur' une forte;.-! for people born today D pUKN today, \ui are always I•* th t hampion of fail play* having a li'ir .vpiis 1 of justice and right. Although yon .ir^ ambiUonSi you would never do anylhinq: underhanded to win an advantage over
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      600 2 fadfads NeW3 m En lish: 1.40 Combined Ser- (iJ<l )\i P^' U (Ll< 2°^ 12 30 psi- Band or the Wee*. 1.00 SEJ 1 7 ,5 *JSS2f it »oi The Asking; 2.85 Piaggin' Tune. NVI MW" '4^ 'Bfheve -It Or contrast; 3.30 News Prom Not ir. Malay; 115 Newi Headlines
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      TAXIMAN DIED IN THE SNOW
      12 3 -owner who had i vrifp upoociy r
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      UNKNOWN
      14 3 madd •*iuire, Rano- Norescind€d Gazette, -it iction of O^icial Re- m. debt! m
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      SWEEPERS SOLD
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      ARMY PLANS EDUCATION FOR ALLTROOPS
      456 3 ARMY PLANS EDUCATION FOR ALLTROOPS Soldiers to study citizenship ARMY Education plans to give Britain's peacetime soldiers the fullest opportunities for general and special study The Secretary of State for War, Mr. Bellinger, announced details of the scheme m the House of Commons when !>rethe Army estimates. Aim of the
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      PAID DEBTS BY MAKING HA TS
      260 3 PAID DEBTS BY MAKING HA TS THIRTY-FIVE- YEAR OLD Lady Denisa Newborough had s p'arss to fa !.r creditors m the London Is.tnkrupiey Court, instead sht- >at bark m her flat, m Upper reet, I liled, writes ;i reporter. A^oi-nd Iwr was an array of new hats. Lady Newborougfi looked
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      RESEARCH SHIP TO SEEK FISH
      66 3 Britain will suid a specially built research ship to the Arctic to explore the possibilities of catching large quantities of high lity fish there. The research si. i Dp named Ernest Holt. It will be 200 ieet lor,;, and will have a sp^ed of 12
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      ROCKET EXPERTS
      20 3 The 11 British rocket and aircraft experts who are to mak^ testa m Australia havo now all arriTed
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      Germ killer from sewage
      103 3 WORKING on the theory that if active antagonists of tuberculosis germa exist 'they arc likely to be found mi n the >ewage tank of a sanatorium", (i. C. Hughes and R A. Kiernan. of Waterfall Sanatorium, New South Wales, isolated an organism that is "antagonist ic'
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      Warsaw has grim look
      127 3 PEEATEST task lacing the n?w!y -elected Polish Government n the reconstruction of haltered Wawiv. the capital city Warsaw has a population oi over a mllH.ii, T'. t pea: bare to live m th? remnants of the capital which has b; shockingly stma^l m the fighting both
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      African 'magic' caused murder
      495 3 African 'magic' caused murder LONDON cables published m the Free Pres.> on Maivh 1 and 5, told the story of the British Parliamentary mm concerning the six postponements of the execution of five Gold Coast natives sentenced to death for ritualistic murder Mr. Churchill said that the leading of men
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      U.S. DRUG CURES GRAVE ILLNFSS
      75 3 U .S. DRUG CURES GRAVE ILLNFSS TWO American reported the drug s'reptomycin has proved effective m treating pylrphlebitis described as a usually fatal inflammation on the inside of the principal vein of the liver, often a complicate >n of a gangrenous appendix. In one case, where pc Licillin treatments h"d
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      THEY BUY HOUSES AT SHOP
      162 3 THEY BUY HOUSES AT SHOP A retail store m Melbourne is reported nearly ready to start selling factory-built, pitfabricated "packaged" houses, as built by the Australian Commonwealth" Aircraft Corporation at Fisherman's Bend, Victoria. Cost of the houses Is expected to range from 1,350 to £1.500 each. The iactory expec's to
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      PLASTIC LENS BEATS GLASS
      163 3 PLASTIC LENS BEATS GLASS pHEAI plastic lenses of toe' i jhest quality ever knc. are soon to bo mass produced m Britain ctacles, binoculars, 'searchlight 1 railway signals, film projectors "lia television se:s. The television lens is ot a type which would cost several i thousand pounds m glass. In
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      OCEAN TERMINAL FOR TOURISTS
      190 3 OCEAN TERMINAL FOR TOURISTS I'HE worlds finest passenger terminal, costing £500,000, is now being built at Southampton Docks m the fight to rebuild Britain's dollar-winning tourist traffic. The 1.200 -I el building will give comfort .aid speed to the reception of transatlantic passengers from the ocean giants of Britain and
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      FOR GERMAN STUDY
      18 3 About 30 British students are to study al German universities this summer, announce^ AUied Control,
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      1,600 PLANES SOLD
      29 3 Planes sold by the British Ministry of Supply up to the end of 1946 numbered 1.600, of which almost 1,000 were light aircraft, suitable for clubs.
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      LITERARY PRIZE
      18 3 Ex-Service undergraduates at Oxford may now cc«npete for the Newdigate prize, the University's premier literary award.
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      45 3 Foiled by Z^e ZJ.v Edgar Rice Burroueh --ANO PER£k.IA7EP T-IEM TO WA!T I ~f L^^. H R EP h£ DOCTOR, WiTh AN C:L N -pr^ i 111 mL ipji if* \WM SMILE, AND LEP THE UNSUSPECT-I^-rss^a^^s^uriS .nen-\ 7 -4yg ing ape -man pown the hall.
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 24, 1947. Johnny Gurkha
      623 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, Mar. 24, 1947. Johnny Gurkha Jr la opportune that Visv\ M ten uld arrive 111 I Delhi as Viceroy as talks are b?ing initiated between th c British and Indian Governments and the Government of Nepal on the futur P of the Gurkhas. These gallant
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      GOOD MORNING.... BY FRANK OWN
      1529 4 WHERE IS THE MAN WITH THE PLAN? DOES Britain need a Man with a Plan 9 She certainly needs a Plan. You cant's run a business or a war without one; and most Intelligent citizens now agree that present affairs have become a serious business,
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      Road hints for Singapore-1
      24 4 In less driving wm« anphibio us ma< hinf i.f\H or too clo^e U) t I.p p«vemcnt on a rtiw i.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      284 4 y INE-yea --old NM tkuL •-> n PLAYNI pictured recently after it had been announced that his great-uncle. Sir GEORGE WHICHCOTE of Aswarby Park. Lincolnshire, left him n 100,000. Ni-cholas— now m hospilil at Dragon School, Oxford, with measles Will have to wait until h o 30
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      SHE DIED IN HARNESS
      489 4  - SHE DIED IN HARNESS Viscountess Astor by who was the flr-4 vsotnan to take her se:it m Britain's Parliament,, and who represented the Sut ton Division ol Plymouth. Ilngland, from 1919 unt 1 1945. Author of M\ Two C un tries." THE Ifcsi u,..e 1 I I Ellen Wilkinson war
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      26 4 For Prompt Service Reliability He at ways gfat you Sa f is fa ctio n i n al l ways iti handling your CARGO cr BAGGAGE
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      24 4 FAITH— fkvv nuu-h briter is it to set wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to he chasm than silver. Proverbs 16. 16.
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      43 4 11 145, 4.15./^ A |«|i ROBERT TAYLOR LANA TUR JOHNNY SAOP f *RTMI R IUMi- I ISTIVAL >' TO-MORROW SCi^NCE OB SUPERS*"^; WITCHCRAFT OB W^" y 1 i^PHYLLIS CALVEST EEIC POSTMAN A I'jWWW ftp MfaN Ul a^\" ROBEBT AJAKORLANDO MARTIW'^ fj^WV ARNOLD MAR! V
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      62 4 Qvm 1. The besettißi sm o'. thr Manatee Is Vanatee We call ours CleopatraJust to f!.atra Ignoring this nonsense, i a Manatee? 2. How do* s the liae of the moon compare with that of the earth? 3. What animal pest can be so formidable that whole armies of men,
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      UNIONS MUST REGISTER OR ELSE...
      48 5 Ed to. jj-\ R of iraa. m Kua a aned to -.nances iuus hroughihe giswr see for no tara- legal ating i to :tion drive to aya and :d to lonerj itcdj gaand! noa of ugh else! be- 1 zood r labour >sisKedah,
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      SMALLPOX STILL RIFE IN UNION
      33 5 h 15. prosame *ere s?s ol ™^P«. nor were there deaths J*~ crjs y in fW° re s in spared with 13 deaths i among apore-132 out of
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      35 MAHARATTA INEANTRYMEN JOIN POLICE
      421 5 35 MAHARATTA INEANTRYMEN JOIN POLICE THIRTY-FIVE Mahrattas of all ranks have enlisted m the Singapore Police Force. The Mahrattas were due for release from their battaJion, the 6th Mahratta Light Infantry, which is returning to India shortly for disbandment. Small, wiry hillmen from the Western Ghats of India and the
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      S.F.T.U. WAITS REGISRATION SPEEDED UP
      277 5 S.F.T.U. WAITS REGISRATION SPEEDED UP THE newly-a Rvg:^ 1 .ids Union.-, Mr. W. Ac ing the t 5 of the Pan-Maiuyan Federation of Trade Unions and its Singapore Bra: the question 01 their con.crimty with I Trade Unions Ordinance has sent the following letter by the President of the S.F.T.U.,
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      MINESWEEPER SURVEY WORK
      54 5 erted fleet minesweeper Sharpshooter, h baa carried out p. consicera ?mount of survey work for mapping purooses along Malayan Coasts m the past -tw months, will br -he Road^ on April 3, and after remairtng here over the week-end Wll for North Borneo —ten to carry out
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      KEDAH REPORTS POOR HARVEST
      49 5 jonditions have been responsible for being harvested m Kedah and Perlis. lowever, the high price Offered by Governfeet generaDf among farm- hus able to get a better price for a smaller Perlis m 00 acres beader but .elds to slate :op will ropwill pest. padi
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      COMBINED OPS AT TANGLIN
      133 5 COMBINED OPS AT TANGLIN l^Lsi v .*ei;, Service chiefs m Malaya ait' nded Operation Dvacala at lang&i i ihe umcteaj based oa tk aiuji-iibii.us operations for the capteic c»f Ranseeß, ipctc held j m a ih- u ci swiauM^m peal, ihe pi.'.: was >nvericd into a mi i re araphKheatee,
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      INDIANS 'MADE TO SUFFER'
      217 5 rE Indo-Ceylon problem was discussed at a reception accorded to Jarvab Abdul Hamid Khan, at the premises of the Ind mn Ifci antlle Chamber. Ccbo Jarab Khan is President of the Muslim Chamber of Comrirrcc, Madras, and a member ol tbe Madras Legislative Council MrT C.
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      ANOTHER CINEMA
      45 5 Yet urotiiL-r cio ma to operate m Singapore soon. Wen* ol reconstruction La proeding at the former Alexandra Hall In North Bridge Road which Ls beinc^ converted into a first clan theatre for Indian films. The proprietor is Mr K. M Oli Mohamed
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      YMCA ART CLUB
      36 5 Members of the Farces and the YMCA Tho are interested m art are asked to attend a meeting tomorrow (March 25) m the Quiet Re m. YMCA. Orchard Road, Singapore, at 5.30 p.m.
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      Ruys back to pre-war run
      216 5 Ruys back to pre-war run APTER a most t time careez as a trooper, the I 1,509-ton KJPJM. liner Titiys, ppeU known m Sin«fa!x:re during pre-war years, has been put into service again and i> expected at this p&rt to* da the end (jf this month. Built m 1938. tie
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      TRADE REGISTER
      51 5 The registration of tmporttn and exporters m Malaya for the register which wi'l be kept m the Malaya Stand of the British Industries Fair is being done m Department of Trade and Industry, Kuala Lumpur. Information on tiiis can be obtained rrcm the Departm of Economic Affairs m
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      DOGS NOT ALLOWED
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      STRIKERS IN 'OUTSIDE' JOBS
      126 5 deferring to Ihe tetter from the Singapore Ratepayers 3 Association go the Colonial Secrc'ary on the collection of funds from taxis or tho public by the Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union, the Umuns President, Mr. r. k. Snmy writes: 'My Union is not forcing anybody to
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      ONE-CENT COINS FOR MALAYA
      43 5 It is officially stated that this is not correct to say that the five-cent coin will be the smallest cupro-nickel coin to be issued for circulation m Malaya shortly. There will be a copper one- cent coin as well.
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      IT IS SAFER IN JUNGLE THAN S'PORE
      308 5 Frer Press Staff Reporter IN a broadcast from Hadio Malaya, Mr. E. O, Bhebbeare, chief game warden, Malaya, referring to the King George V National Park .scheme, said "It is not enough to s. n y it is up to Govemmer* to open
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      Governorto tour in sub depot ship
      133 5 Governor to tour in sub depot ship Free Press Staff Re per THE 12,500-ton submarine depot >h;p. Adamant, is leaving Sir.! ga pore naval base tomo> for Jesselton to pick up the Governor ol British North Borneo, Mi E. F. Twining, and take him on a tour of the territory
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      MORE GASES OF EXTORTION
      108 5 MORE GASES OF EXTORTION DLSx J iTE pel., i of prot?cticn to victims of <rtioners m fcirgapore, the racket of extracting money from well-to-do people continues, and the Roi-hor Read area is among the ia districts to become affected. ~'iiiy whose incomes avdase thousands of dollars a moatb cide that,
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      HELLO GIRLS IN THE MAKING
      116 6 TJ Pfl Mil i;irls at the Birmingham GtMul v >>t OtttC attend "school" for training m voice production m drd sr t achieve the "golden jfe«fl ulu'n they take m ißeil fetal ;it tlie >wi'<!i h v I t- b :'.iw preal oanand In i
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      DEADLY 10 TONS WENT ASHORE
      71 6 rN tons of 40 tons of a high explosive so new that us potentialities are not yet fully known have been brought ashor? Irom the stern half of the Helena ■eska, which went ashore Goodwins Sands, Eng September The deadly cargo, unloaded by s. handful
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      U.S. GIFTS TO GERMANS
      27 6 re than 5.000.000 silt parcels from the United Sta es have been received by German reports U. S. Army Headquar ers. A. P.
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      TEST CITY
      16 6 Manchester ha-s been 1 Experimental C whooping-cough vaccine tests by the Medical Resfiarch Council.
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      D.S.C. SCRUBS LINER FLOORS
      259 6 D.S.C. SCRUBS LINER FLOORS ON< F there were tiirec yulti biaii rings around the wrist which n i -enibs a Hner's dining saloog at 6 sum. The bra J belonged to Com kder Sidney Nevi le ith, D.S.C 1 who retired from the v »> m 1945. Now al sdxtj
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      MYSTERY RANI LEADS JUNGLE RISING
      425 6 MYSTERY RANI LEADS JUNGLE RISING Police can't find hide out ABORIGINAL tribesmen of a wild Indian jungle area that A sprawls to within 70 miles of Bombay have named a veteran sari clad Indian woman Communist as their Rani, or queen, m an uprising against landlords and employers whom they
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      WOLVES WILD IN TOWN
      189 6 WOLVES WILD IN TOWN THE entire start of Dudley Zoo Worcestershire, were called out when seven WOlvei bit their way from tr.cir .sr.ow-covered paddock and threatened to mak their way into the town. Ttie hunt through fog In places -ended after two hours. Five of tlie animals were shot "to
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      UK LEADS WITH SPEAKERS PHONE
      79 6 UK LEADS WITH SPEAKERS PHONE DRTTAIM ha* beaten the world by Inventing and producing a new telephone cabinet-loild-speaker with which a business chiet can confer simultaneously with executives all over the country. Tins development has been revealed British by Dr. L. E. Ryall, the G.P.O.s Scottish Regional Engineer, at the
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      £410 BACK PAY IS MAN'S WINDFALL
      190 6 BECAUSE, during his six years m the army, he did not realise he was entitled to claim for his pay to be m.. up by Wimbledon Council, Charles Page,' 29-year-old groundsman, of Wimbledon Park, London, is to get a "wind- tail" of £410. "It
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      Monty is not satisfied
      96 6 I/IELI) Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Stan, said at tilt? end of a two-day tour of army pnits m the British Southern Command that he was far from satisfied with the conditions under which men of the home army were living m barracks
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      HOT STIFF
      24 6 R.A.I" planes were started immediately af.er a 24 hours" exposun test m Canada's subzero north. American planes took f*o minutes to stnr'
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      SPIRIT EXPORT DROPS
      28 6 The Quantity of spirits exported from the Uni.ed Kingdom m January was the lowest on record, being two-fil*hs of the average monthly export m 1933
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      WALKING-OUT DRESS
      45 6 Although most regiments will cvear blue for their walking-out I dress, Highland regiments will i wear piper green and rifle and 1 light infantry regiments rifle green. Mr. Bellenger, Secretary j lor War, announced this In a ritten reply to a Parliamer question.
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      SMOKING HITS BIRTHRATE
      223 6 SMOKING HITS BIRTHRATE EXPERIMENTS on a young man sb adversely affected by smoking, ac m the "British Medical Jour. Tin stated, found that the more he smoked the ies~ me, and the Journal describes as "an important addition I ii g from being a harmless hat t:>::, jn rats gave
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      287 6 Frees Press Crossword Ko. &'j 7 1 JS "3vPl 9 J j CLUES ACROSS One of tue moat notable or Flemish painters, kn^hted by Charles I <T6). 6. Pickled tljwer-bud of a Sicilian plant used m sauces, etc. (5). 7 and 20 Down. N. American singing bird remaricabli for its
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      69 6 Ao That's TmfVves, and when\ /V' AM '_T N^ 1 I H L^VnTi TrTN^ WHOLE STORY D.SCOVERED ThAt\ 015 7 LHOMME -^/sAY^ A^rPllT^ MY BEAUTIFUL THE REDOUBTABLE HERE H^ W' A L. A I SliP i»Si SA }I! NG MY^ KI^ LIC VI M BERNARD HAD ''O ALMOST VbßuWre'/ i^V
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      BOWLERS' DAY ON PADANG
      394 7 Wickets rail for 279 Runs ciut^ Singapore Ciicktt Club and m l^ c J^Tp^re Recreation Club, scored good victories the Ceykmesc and the Combined Changi U* l^ ive 'j v m Uieil BUMS yesterday. Both games h nm asthewkketa Wttt not fit for play at the
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      MP TO CONTEST COLOUR BAR IN UK. BOXING
      136 7 LONDON, Son TARRY Allighan, Labour member of Parl ament, will aj?k Home Secretary Chuter Ede m the Commons on Thursday, to attains: the colour bar m pr.Tessional b xing. jred fighters a r e inilgible I sh National titles, but ca n
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      CAMBRIDGE WIN 20-16
      24 7 THE Cambridge Univers ty Rugby team defeated a Paris team trdav at Clermont Ferraad a rb of Paris, by 20—16 points.
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      Sports Quiz
      100 7 1. If Bruc^ Woodcock, Brt«>h li':i'. y weight thampi n, beaU •I"* 1 lUksi, he will bee me the tiith Brinsii boxer m 58 years to be eKgible for a world "title fight. Vho were the other four" Who \\o^> the youngest bovtr ta win the world heavweitrhi
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      UK RUGBY RESULTS
      265 7 UK RUGBY RESULTS .0 THh die full results of 1 1 igger muLik's playe.i i^..u :i i ny LEAGUE c I J' SECOND BODNU Barley 2, C i 13; Halifax 3. Workiußcon Town lv; HuddersflSld Brad: ra Northern 8; Leeds 5, Hutk-slet 0; Liverpool Stanley 10. Hull 5; Was- Warringtcn
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      28 7 LOCKE BEATS SNEAD JOHANNESBURG, Sun THE S .tii African golfer, Robbv Locke, defeated Sam Sneed f the United Sta^s 4 and 2 over 18 hol:s en Sunday. A.P.
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      BRICETT GEST PRESS VOTE FOR NATIONAL
      128 7 BRICETT GEST PRESS VOTE FOR NATIONAL LONDON, Sua... HACING experts ol four Lon- Lon newspapers today tipp 'd Bricett. 22 to 1 outsider m the latest betting to win the Grand Katie, .v Steeplechase Saturday at Aintree repcrts A. p. The 10-year-old, which ran well m the National last year
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      FLOODS CREATE NEW LINCOLN PROBLEMS
      650 7 FLOODS CREATE NEW LINCOLN PROBLEMS Prom Vernon Morgan LONDON, Sunday. HTHK i'oul weather which has caused the National Hunt sea--1 son t<? Ix 1 one of the leanest on record has caused the pot^tpopement of the opening of the 1947 flatracing season due to begin on Monday at Lincoln. When
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      FOTBALL RESULTS AND TABLES
      1106 7 F I B i_# i I w 1 I I ft m •^1 16 43 3 West Ham 0 2 Plymouth A. 1 1 er C. 1 as;le 3 3 Chesterfield o I Notts Forest x Bradford x I^ampron i Millwall 1 Bury 0 'Tottenham 2
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      F.A. Cup Thrills
      50 7 Picture by This pictur shovv> the Middlrsbrough-Burnley F.A. Cup gam; ;iu progress. Fenton (left) ducking white m mid-air to avoid obstructing the ball during the game at Ayresoms Park. On the right are Broun (Burnley) and Spuhler troine for the bil h ith their lirnd-.- Northern Echo
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      558 7 j From George Chisholm IX)NDON, By Airmail. WHILST com para lively new sports such as ice hockey and TV speedway racing are bcoming, a r,uhtl e change Is taking place m some of the old established sports m England to ptp them up to meet
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      Selangor To Hold Staic Cricket Trial
      484 7 Selangor To Hold Staic Cricket Trial The talfcnring i«am, fear* be;n Sieclcd t> play m a S atcricfcH ir.al al Kuala Lumpu on Saturday and Sunda> ,<> nl rt tie t ar. to play r» -«*t S.n, ap:rc turinz t Easter w k H.A.S. Kro^es Xi: i-i.o ki\ Le^ Soon
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    CITY NEWS STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    294 8 CITY NEWS STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY k Special .Market DOfff t^onilnH fives the prices of rubber at 11 am today a> liffaiH* ■V D C C n .i torn* 43^ m feallß Aprii 44 14 > X S s fob >n bales April I 43 No I 8,9tfl Ni m
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    LARGE WHISKY DEAL
    30 8 A public hadse m t±e centre W I -a-:t was sold by auction £36.000. The sale included ">cO gallons of whisky 4 900 bot Ws) m bond.
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    LINER TAKES 7000 MEN TO F.I.C
    173 8 LINER TAKES 7000 MEN TO F.I.C Fr- e Pres^ Btafl Repoi > IE larges. F. QCh ship ailoat, the 43.450 -tor. lie cie France, sailed tram Singapore at iix o'clock this morning carrying 7.000 French reinforcements to EM Jacqn 8 on Bbc Coast of Cochin China ThoiLsancLS of peopie sa>w
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    504 8 $16millionfrom HK income tax HONG KONG, Sunday A BALANCED budget with a small surplus of $351,317, the floating of a loan m the near future to mtt! develop ment and rehabifilation costs, and the fart that the colony will cease to bo dependent on the home Government prere the features
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    THEIR VIEWS OF RUSSIA DIFFER
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    138 8 I lEUT -GEN. Sir GifTard Martel, m a book published yesterday, said Russian "goodwill" gestures should never be taken at their face value. In his experience they were "pur? non- sense'" except as a facade for i world propaganda A: tor the Gjj:> breakthrough m the Caucasus m 1043. he
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    REDS DISCHARGED FROM UK CIVIL SERVICE
    392 8 REDS DISCHARGED FROM UK CIVIL SERVICE LONDON, Sunday. PROTESTS against the discharge of British civil servants, i because they have been declared by the War Office Intelligence Branch— -M.I. 5 to be Communists, are being made to the Treasury by the Civil Service Clerical Association, representing 150,000 government clerical employees,
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    UK AIR MISSION REACHES JAPAN
    123 8 UK AIR MISSION REACHES JAPAN TOKYO, Sunday. Ar-'IER being detained by the Chinese military I ;tks In Canton, the British aerodn survey part)- ~r:i\ed v: Klißl In southern k nshu, Japan thii afternoon aboard an RAF Bnnderland fly,. from Hong Kong. When pn pa to take fro© -Canton airlield m
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    ICE BROKE BRIDGES
    21 8 Emf nrcncy fool bridges over the r River at Bremen, Germany, I na ye b the traffic flow
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    ANOTHER U.S. SHIP FORM VA
    322 8 JAMLS F. legal representative fin Batavia of the 1 J I Company of Ken x wncm <»f Lac Martin Behrman, whose earjio was seized hy the Dutch authorities, unced toi that the companj would continue to igc the N.EX export ref^datioas. 5 a nding. according
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    PALESTINE EVACUEES
    100 8 PALESTINE EVACUEES 1 < i-i ed to land at Orly Aerodrome, mm IVi, by bad «e:Ustr ttl part| MMMttl from Palestine under the Falestt&e f nir mm; 1 ation scheme foj f. cfffltoM had to speni a sec«od mk m Iran.-* !h'\ had previously landed at MtrseilH— toi tks plred
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    WEATHER Long bright periods
    70 8 WEATHER Long bright periods r\ I HUE taecas: Ie X i tram noon todi' :mjm It A I- CriM: ;ina n Air Cor- u< 'i i •nwrai mi tfci noon mv mnaf.l to-ni: Md t44 prr Safe a m Moonrise 8 >'. it 1 Up fr !k rr IS Iftf
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    BRITAIN NEED MORES MINERS
    10 8 of c probable i 50.000.00 C
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    14 8 Or, J lasted :or 3: 1 terday T betw on 80 c rike.
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    STRIKE DELAYS RUBBER
    102 8 p >ductio.\ or ment made from aluminium I I I rehabilitation of robber estates and other business c throughout Malaya is being held up by a strike at Dtethelm I C mpany, s.i r Ibe has I a monl i when concessions dbj the mam< nt were
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    U.S. MISSION TO VISIT NEPAL
    39 8 A special U.S. diplomatic mission will shortly go to the Indian Kingdom of Nepal to conclude an agreement of commerce and friendship and to make arrangements for exchange of diplomatic and consular renresenta- Reuter
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    SPINSTER, 48, LOSES 'BREACH'
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    27 8 Mr. Paul Henri Spaak. Belgian Frime Minister, was injured when hit car hit a tree near Brussels, on Saturday. He will attend Parliament tomorrow.- Reuter
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    Reds plunder Burma rice
    108 8 DURMA rice exports are bound to fall to less than M pet cent oi the estimates because oi 1 the extensive looting of rice and padi by armed bands of Burmese Communists, V K.nu Cfyeln Home IMember m the Burmese Interim Government, said m Kanjoon yesterday.
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