The Singapore Free Press, 3 April 1947
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Title Section24 1947-04-03 1 The Singapore Free Press L RGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA hdjkfgk fg gf jkhgjk SINGAPORE, THI RSDAY, APRIL 3, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTft24 words
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Article, Illustration37 1947-04-03 1 liucn Press rrow, ipers I ground: Wreckage lying i r an Unlit sar street after Sikhs and Hindus Muslim opponents: more than 1.000 Indians were killed m a d the disturbance has spread throughout theprovince.37 words
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Article18 1947-04-03 1 fjgh fgkhjgk jgklhjk ghjgk gjkjhk fhj f fjghjkg fgkhkjfgh fjghkjgkhjkghdkjfhjkghjkfgh k fhjghk hg fjgh jkfg jkgfkdh U.P.U.P. - 18 words
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Article211 1947-04-03 1 USSR ENVOYS QUIT GREECE ATHENS. Wednesday. •THE Soviet Ambassador m Athens, Rear Admiral Alexander 1 Rodianov, is leaving Greece on Friday with ill the Em- afT. i? i> r. ;*>rted m Athens tonight. The Embassy refused to say whether he was having Greece for good. Admiral Rodianov had earlier complainedReuter - 211 words
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Article110 1947-04-03 1 WARSAW. Wed. DUDOLF Hoess, former com- mandant of the death camp at Auschwitz, was sentenced m <aw today to death by hanging for exterminating four million Nazi slaves at the camp. In the waiting room, before he, heard the sentence, was asked by a correspondent:U.P. - 110 words
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Article89 1947-04-03 1 BENONI. (South Ainea> Thais. THE frenzied native who yester- day rushed at the Royal car j at Be:i .ni, East Rand, clutched ten shillings which he wished to to the Kng. He shouted: "I want to see my King." and grasped an umbrella which theU.P. - 89 words
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Article42 1947-04-03 1 The Government of Burma today announced the extension until April 10 of the amnesty offered to bandits and "rebels" m various districts who surrender to the :.orities. The announcement added the offer would not be extended any further.- ReuterReuter - 42 words
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Article44 1947-04-03 1 The Government of India has rcided to prohibit import from ad of silver manufactured is, jewellery and ornaments made of silver. This Ls to check possible evasion of the Reserve Bank of India's ban on imDorts of r into India.- ReuterReuter - 44 words
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Article67 1947-04-03 1 DKiTAIN lias started bu Idn a streamlined atomic energy plant, with a fuhy equipped hospital near at hand, the Ministry of Supply announced last night. It is exported thnt it will b* ready to go into production by autumn. The plant, which will manufacture urar'um,U.P. - 67 words
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Article318 1947-04-03 1 CHINESE WANT TO HANG JAPS Free Press Staff Reporter TOWARDS the closing stages of the Singapore Chinese massacre trial yesterday, a request was made by a section of the Chinese community that such Japanese as were condemned be handed to the Chinese for public execution. This request, it is understood,318 words
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Article, Illustration21 1947-04-03 1 LOVED HER 30 YEARS LADY DIANA DUFF CO pictured m Sin^apoie m IOSI, when she was here with her husband. "5«21 words
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Article24 1947-04-03 1 Last of more than 100 Indoch:r.ese servicemen who barricaded themselves m the French Army barracks at Agen, m France, have surrendered.- A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article45 1947-04-03 1 Co&stbound trains from London stations left yesterday packed to tihe corridors as the great Easter exodus to the seaside began. Twelve thousand tickets had been issued for journeys to the I Continent and today there were long queues at the booking offices. ReuterReuter - 45 words
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Article370 1947-04-03 1 CAMBRIDGE EX AM SUCCESSES Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. 1 FURTHER list of Cambridge School Certificate parses H was issued today by the Cambridge University Local Examinations Syndicate. This, it is pointed out, is an ad vance pass list for Singapore No. 1 Centre. While the scripts m religious knowledge,370 words
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Article423 1947-04-03 1 Lett fortune by stranger lover LONDON. Wed.K^dav. f ADV DIANA DUFF COOPER, wife „f the British AmhasL >ad<»r m Paris, has been left over £25,000 m his will by a panish count who met her only once but eontnued to war ship her from afar since he first saw herU.P. - 423 words
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Article121 1947-04-03 1 London. We a. SUGGESTIONS that Ernest Bevin would leave the Foreign Office to take over the job of supreme planner of British economy were again widely circulated m London today. Similar suggestions were made before Mr. B?vin w Moscow. Today's reports were thar Mr. Bcvin would be givenReuter - 121 words
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Article77 1947-04-03 1 The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creeoh Jones, m the House of Commons yesterday announced the effects of changes recently made m the constitution of Fiji. The power of the Governor to disallow any vote or resolution of the legislative council had been removed: the77 words
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Article145 1947-04-03 1 UNRRA SHIP BOMBED SHANGHAI. Wednesday WILLIAM LEE, British captain Tf of the LST Wanshen, u:.loading UNRRA relief suppiieChinese Communists at Sh: chiuo, was soriously injured when Nationalist planes bomtec machine-gunned the ship morning. Lee was describee bleeding profusely from leg tnJ uries He was trans: erred with utner injured to145 words
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Advertisement114 1947-04-03 1 P IT M A N ncmnCAi books <ptf> *> jm .roXTi PllA, UANS. Par St. Lod A lflegrams: London li\i y/toA 1- VtAius AGO. :n i i |f c Dominions and Colonies were 1 -til t( /^('>'v^'%''' ready beginning to send order* i'Tgf'ifcM VA/lM LlOUls Rothman's exclusive little «^7 J^a-'114 words
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ENTERTAINMENT
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Article352 1947-04-03 2 THE point of this hand lies 1 bidding, tut the play an item or two of intor st. \Y opened the king cf hearts, and East dropped the queen to signal for a nation with a *ow heart West tently led uh-- deuct of hearts next, and352 words
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Article170 1947-04-03 2 AN example of the cartBritish producers are taking over the screening of films is illustrated by the trouble they took m shooting an important scene m the Two Cities film "The Octob r Man". In the film the scene runs four minutes and forty live170 words
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Article, Illustration752 1947-04-03 2 THE DICKENS IT ISN'! Films showing m London m <>IK Fh.Vl REPORTER COMPARISONS are v odious, but inevitable. The recent highly sueI ful Great Expectations" brought to the screen the full flavour End spirit of D'ckens. X I il <> I s KICKLEBY, though it condenses the story with accuracy752 words
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Article, Illustration29 1947-04-03 2 Jean Kent breaks th- ejg, >> to Ep ik, m hrr first starring ruic m the new Sydn«y Bex production "Good Time Girl," s be *-een m Singapore.29 words
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Article93 1947-04-03 2 A DEAL to produce Somerset Maugham's best seller "Then and Now" has just been concluded between Arnold Pressburger and Filippo Del Guidicc, Managing Director of Two Cities Film, Ltd. :ge Sanric Bollywood to go to England to play the leading role of Niccolo Machiavelli. The script is93 words
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Article295 1947-04-03 2 Compton [ackenzfr, BY A SPECIAL CORRESPOND! v CARNIVAL," a Twc v» Cities produc tells :he tragic tale of J< Pearl, promising young baldancer of Edwardian times. The story is based on one of Compton Mackenzie's iest novels, and is the book upon which his fame as295 words
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Advertisement32 1947-04-03 2 Made specially to prevent sore throats 50 's Air-tight tins 10's Packets with Fasy-Access inner foil M and 4t Cellophane "'^Tappinii Imported from LondQft f England «0g CABRERAS 1 50 YEARS' REPUTATiggJi:32 words
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Miscellaneous618 1947-04-03 2 ghsdkjfh jdfh dhg dkfj df dhf ghjkfdhg hfdjkhgj k dfjhg d dfhjghj SINGAPORr KtD NETWORK (Chines* Indian) nutr.s: also 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. yt-les per second (61 metre and 7.45 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. l 825 megacycles per second (Cl metre I band) BLUI NETWO&B (Maiaj fcng(ish 485 metres;618 words
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Miscellaneous393 1947-04-03 2 -3 lowing wave bands. 8 I 19.84 metres and res. 11.30-12 a.m. 19.84 metres. 12 noon-5 p.m. 16.83 metres. 19.84 metres and 49.38 trcs. 5-5.30 p m 19.84 tres and 49.38 metres. 0.30- -> rught 19 84 met] d 49.38 res rHI RSDAY On tin ■and From Jo-Da; s Papers;393 words
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Article75 1947-04-03 3 DIAMONDS worth more than £400.000 were seized by Customs men when TOO refugees m Europe reached Aus'ralia. llie Cois'oms were warned m advance that the refugees Germans. Poles and Hungarians, ing m the 10,000- ton Dv eh n de W carried .nes m jewels and furs.75 words
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Article22 1947-04-03 3 Hues for £4,000 have been the R.A.F. Benevolent Danei wishing to ex::tud P for the R.A.F. ng the war.22 words
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Article29 1947-04-03 3 -is to be reborn. From ed riverside wharves, of conI ngs, will emerge parks, 1 the West End. I ail I I I I29 words
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Article398 1947-04-03 3 I HffOTHKK oi ihret. (he voui iU, Dorothy Crowfoot Ilodg of the Royal Society, one of Unctions. This is a recognition of first person m the world to d Unknowns pay bill 'j'VVO women unknown to each other or to a mother Appearing an a398 words
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Article28 1947-04-03 3 The Egyptian Government has awarded BraUhwaite and Co. (Engineers), of London, a £694,--000 contract for a 60in. s eel water pi! 25 miles from Cairo.28 words
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Article24 1947-04-03 3 The Pilgrim Trust has gtiven £1,000 to the church at Great Ashfield, Suffolk, where there was an American airfield during the war24 words
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Article77 1947-04-03 3 tlse funds for hb churcli, Canon F. B (a nip ion, Rector of Tillinston, (Sussex), has offered to paint a picture of any farm, coUa^e or garden— at 10s. a time Orders are coming m. "I hope there won't be too hi? a rush he's such77 words
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Article, Illustration467 1947-04-03 3 CINEMAS BETTER BATHS FOR NAVY M.P. exblains wav to Loaf lI IPPY days are coming for men on the lower deck of the U Royal Navy. Their big ships are to have cinemas and reading rooms, laundries and better bathing and washing facilities. Officers' quarters are to be cut down467 words
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Article, Illustration197 1947-04-03 3 uden- gjcltshire, being rescued ,ht rt d on the Oneol Brita a. aa c n m•- be eva< be^an I md U nd •>itii by milk i nn: \< B IRGES uck laid against loca! fisherman who bearded the grounded üban sailing ship V mcente," I197 words
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Article31 1947-04-03 3 German prisoners attended the final deba*e of term at the Oxford as guests of the treasurer and president-elect. Mr. A. N. Wedgwood Ben, son of Lord Stansga r31 words
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Article13 1947-04-03 3 City of London police establishment is to be reduced by 186.13 words
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Article180 1947-04-03 3 HER BANK TRICK IS A SECRET wary SCOTT, 29-year-old ex- probationer nurse, laundry worker and clerk, has a way of getting money out of the British Post Savings Bank. Her system was described at the London Old Bailey as an "extremely dangerous type of fraud, de ails of which it180 words
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Article278 1947-04-03 3 rHE man and girl Known as ing side by side m the Old sergeant tell the Recorder, Sii wife contemplated divorce pi The couple gained notoric disappeared from an hotel at moors, during a blizzard. It search parties went out to looj i»Af. uiid Airss. Gresham, standBailey278 words
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Article71 1947-04-03 3 NEW UK STUDIO NEAR OPENING THE CxJld -vyp studios at Elstree, England, built before the war but never opened, are now almost ready, j and produciion there will start m the spring. They will be the larg st m the country, except a f Denham. "Films with British back--1 grounds71 words
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Article90 1947-04-03 3 ONE of the ratings at the ship party given by an R.N.V.R. lieutenant at Rosyth was seen. I intoxicaed soon after and has disappeared. Mr. Edwards. Civil Lord oi the Admiral y. told Parliament this, adding that he may have fallen overboard and lost his life. He90 words
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Article, Illustration249 1947-04-03 6 HE GIVES CHILDREN £1,000,000 MR BILLY BUTLIN, the holiday camp millionaire, has given more than a million shares m Butlin's Ltd to form a trust fund for his children and dependans. The shares are worth more than £1.000,000. Last May a prospectus issued by Butlin's Properties showed that Mr. Butlin249 words
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Article19 1947-04-03 6 O.d Hall, Gainsb-rougn. Lines, one r.as been o the by Sir Edmund B .000 for repairs19 words
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Article29 1947-04-03 6 den. V Queens'—pop. 2.000— without dc serv res for six months, is aw •h e arrival of thf ish dentists urder contract to the Australian Government.29 words
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Article53 1947-04-03 6 TIH ROYAI \lisr and Wool- oti i..«l ar- rjdueing OJO.OOO <n t last uur DLstribution may not take place ior some months Stars of all theatres of war ar aiike m Tiny arr i of copperline alloy Defence and war medals will be circular and rrade53 words
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Article197 1947-04-03 6 ORDERS FLOOD EX-WAR WORKS ORDERS for more than I are now m hand at 20 of retained by the Government, m. These facts were given at Charles McLaren, Director-Gei 300,000 worth of civilian work the Royal Ordnance factoi and more orders are pouring Swynnerton, Cheshire, by Sir of Ordnance Factor197 words
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Article361 1947-04-03 6 Charge against l\,ix, I l/J lists F AN K.A.F. officer accused at an Uxbridge court martial was alleged to have ?old a Fido equipment (for dispersing fog from an airfield) to a French contracting and scrap metal firm. The original cost was given as approximately £30,000.361 words
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Article268 1947-04-03 6 KISS KILLER GETS 7 Yrs PERCY THOMAS BROWNSEA, 27, <>i Sixpennj Handley, Dorset, who shot his ex-lover's fiance as the man and were kissing good night, \s,<- found not of murder, but guilty o! laughter, and was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude v Winchester Lssiies, Mr. Justice Mar: n268 words
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Article118 1947-04-03 6 FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY gave 'hese mI teresting war facts In a spI ;o London engineers: No fewer than 12.000.000 tons! of ammunition were stored and j issued by the RA.OC. during j the war. The British Army In 1939 had, some 4.000 fighting vehicles,118 words
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Article22 1947-04-03 6 Isle of Ely s yield of sugarI beet lost 3.000 tons to frost— but still beat record by 500.000 tons.22 words
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Article, Illustration407 1947-04-03 6 Dl FORE Douglas Charles Baber, farm worker, wa*s sen O jail for a year at Winchester Assizes for taking Pamela beresford-Webb atofty from her mothei Mr. Justice Macnaghtcfl told the jury: Since the days when Adam pui the biame on Ev< don't suppose there407 words
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Article77 1947-04-03 6 lI KN headkceper Stimpson. of London's Zoo, finds a bird suffering from the cold he just pops it into an oven. Recently, he found six blackbirds tot-ether— all dyin? of cold He popped them all into the oven at once, closed the door waited until he heard77 words
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Article24 1947-04-03 6 Americans teaching m British schools under an interchange me can attend a Shakespeare course at S rat ford-on- Avon m Anr 1.24 words
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Article16 1947-04-03 6 Fourteen players named Moore, none related, made up a darts, team at Framincham (Suffolk).16 words
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Article61 1947-04-03 6 Lying on a s re'cher In Manchester Assize Court, Charles Hamcr, 44-year-old salesman, of Reamsgrove road. Blackburn, heard the judge award him £10.240 agreed damages with costs. His neck was broken In a car accident m Manches er on May 1, 1946. He is now61 words
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Advertisement66 1947-04-03 3 Last r'our Shows 1.30 4 6.30 9.30 p. mIt's A British Eagle-Lion OPENING TOMGR^OW "GOOD FRIDAY" Especially Chosen tor The Easier Holiday*! "One Of The rah!" Picture* Tiice" c obVrk r jj G). A fSi 1 r *Vv 11 am 1.45, 4 .15, 6.45 &9 3« DRAWING GREAT Cf»^DS IIC66 words
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Miscellaneous7 1947-04-03 3 T^R2/^^P Molat disi'ffMSs:£«il By Edgar Rice Burroughs7 words
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628 1947-04-03 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1947. Escaping Gold S-APORE, v non with I lining up and tak c notice of British films, which is a better japore than might first glance. >d has long r:-irarded ,-land as a prlnc pal recruitt r act starred so long m as628 words
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Article1355 1947-04-03 4 THEY DRAND TO AUSTRALIA In Tre Year 1788 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN the year 1788, on the afternoon of January 26, the British flag was hoisted on a sapling on the shore of Sydney Cove. Gathering round the makeshift flagstaff, Governor Arthur Phillip and his officers drank the King's1,355 words
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Article, Illustration71 1947-04-03 4 Frank Oprzandek, 2t>, ex-.Vlr'k.i Korps soldier (hat less and ucarfaces the Military Court at South Littleton Worcs, at which hr was charged with "improperly i hit*' wfth h married woman. Th; woman, Mis. ,i U Oskc Thompson, 28, t>\ <t, l'< r^i rr, Worcs., wrote to the71 words
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Article468 1947-04-03 4 NU OLD CUKISTOPHER WAISON of Murray field-gardens, Bdinburgh. was ill m b<vl when he heard that Tii.s mother was ent* Scottish souvenir i competition. He sent m a drawing, explaining "This is the design of a cat sitting on its haunches. It should be m white china468 words
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Article299 1947-04-03 4 PLANES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING [it i dehberafely BEFORE the coming rimer is over, a group of otherwise rational vuung Americans are go.ng to tr^ r deliberately to get their airplanes by lightning. This is the nc and up to now secret phase of the UJS. Army\- Ai: Forces' All-weather fiy299 words
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Article18 1947-04-03 4 The beart of the prudent cetteth icTi'Hlediro: and til* oar <ii tli<» th knowledj Provorhs IS. I.V18 words
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Advertisement25 1947-04-03 4 ROSE CO, LTD B NORTH BRIDGE ROAD, SINGAPORE. Stockists of All Kinds of Sporting Gorki s. Specialists m kestringing TENNIS RACKETS, CHARGES MODERATE TELE: 639625 words
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Advertisement103 1947-04-03 4 OUR STORE WILL BE CLOStD GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 4* EASTER MONDAY APRIL 7^l OPEA (>\ > ITURDAI U'Hl» (WHITE AWAY.* LAIOLAW V CO- l&l Icis. 6907 6c 6908— SJnsapo Ex-Service Association of* 1 1 RE-UN I O J* A SIPP» I WILL BE HELD FOR ALL r A RIH H103 words
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Article90 1947-04-03 5 RAF RESCUE EXERCISE OFF PENANG Staff Reporter marnmg off the coast of Penang to M>ta which has supposedly crash--e crew have taken to a dinghy. The se is to test the efficiency of crews m give the volunteer members of the xperience of survival, and the make use of emergency90 words
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Article66 1947-04-03 5 TO EXCHANGE AMBASSADORS gEING desirous of maintaining and further strength* the friendly relations existing between India n:i d France Government of India and the Government of France have ded to exchange diplon. missions of Embassy level. dian Embassies have p lrt established m the Ur :Aii and China The question66 words
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237 1947-04-03 5 RESIGNATIONS REFLECT ON KUCHING GOVT. Frp e Press Staff Reporter ASKED lor his comment on the recent resignation of 338 ment servants m SaraMr. Anthony Brooke, exRaja Muda, said that he had received confirmation of the report and understands that schools and shops m Kuching were closed on April 1.237 words
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Article68 1947-04-03 5 TAXI DRIVERS LEARN ENGLISH An English class for drivers j of the Yellow F<>n taxis is now j m session In Olctham Lane, Sin- gapore. The teacher is Mr. j man. Malay einoloyees of the Yellow Top taxis are members of Malay Union and form a branch of that body.68 words
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Article, Illustration95 1947-04-03 5 Admin Chief \:r Vice-Marshal A. C. Sanderson, C.8.E., A.F.C., ttntil recently Air Officer Commanding-, Burma, hns assumed the appointment ot Air Officer m Charge of Administration, Air ommand, Far Fast. ice Air Vice-Marshal .i.i) I. Hardman, C.X.. OJM! D.l uint is returning to the l'nit-"d Kingdom to tak*> up anRAFPRO - 95 words
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Article32 1947-04-03 5 The full moon day which falls on Friday, April 4, will be celebrated a: The Sinhalese Buddhist Temple Ou ram Road, Singapore, by Mr. WMliam Sena, All are invited.32 words
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Article240 1947-04-03 5 April First And All Fools' Day Free Press Staff Kqwrui pLU'HONKS ran- j n Malay, European and Chine** news- paper offices on Tuesday morning:, and I man. who said he represented a big Singamre ship chandlers said he had a very pt*d itory, and invited Pre^s representatives to a niercno-240 words
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479 1947-04-03 5 NEW CHARTER FOR S'PORE DEAD END' KIDS Free Press Staff Reporter gINGAPORE is to make a new approach to the problem of juvenile delinquency. In this the emphasis will I* more on correction than punishment, and a new ordinance on these line* v beinsubmitted to the Government. The latest methodused479 words
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169 1947-04-03 5 NEW SOUTH-EAST ASIAMEDAL FORFORCES A GENERAL medal has just been sanctioned for the Army and the Aa Foice In recognition of services rendered since the end of the war. i Armed Forces H.Q. New Delhi. The tfaneral service medal is that instituted m 1918 with clasps for "Iraq," "S. Persia"'169 words
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Article24 1947-04-03 5 With a donation of $5,000 (Hong Kong currency", the South China Morning Post yesterday inaugurated a "British Flood Relief Fund."— Reuter.24 words
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Article, Illustration139 1947-04-03 5 CHINATOWIS SAYS IT WITH FLOWERS Free Press Staff Reporter QINGAPGRE'S Chinatown now says it with flowers O From roadside stalls, shops and 'wheeled shops' tricycles and bicycles with soap boxes filled with flowers m j rases flowers are boinc sold throughout the day. Practically all varieties of flowers can be139 words
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Article89 1947-04-03 5 THE annual general meeting of the Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association of Singap and the Malayan Union was held on March 29 at the Pavilion Restaurant, Singapore. The following were elected office-bearers for the ensuing year: G. H. Kiat, President; J. Dalton (Pavilion), V ice-Presi-dent; J. A. M.89 words
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Article125 1947-04-03 5 MELTINGPOT OF RACES I DURMA'S plight as a melting H Pot of races, with an intric minority problem added to it, is now m the forefront m connecttion with the controversy over the forthcoming elections to the Contituent Assembly. H?re are some interesting populatiostatirtlcs: Karens, who demand a separate state,Reuter - 125 words
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Article39 1947-04-03 5 THE public is reminded that the em?r^ency Police phone number is 9W. The normal Police exchange 5221 is not for emergency calls. A notice to this effect are on the front cf every telephone book.39 words
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Article, Illustration129 1947-04-03 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH POR the murder of Maurtef Fox, a 23-year-old Eurasian and a former prisoner of war, m j Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore, on the night of Oct. 31 last, Irwin Oliver Jones, 38-year-old Singapore contractor was yesterday sentenced to death m the Assize Court. The Court sat till129 words
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Article109 1947-04-03 5 THE Indonesian oranch of the Netherlands Red Cross is applying to the United Nations and liquidating UNRRA for help for half of Indonesia's 70. 000j00G population. Mrs. E. M. Rammer, the Bran-ch's President, said today ;hat the 2,031 tons of boots and hing so far receivedReuter - 109 words
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Advertisement32 1947-04-03 5 SELLING SIM M o One of the ALEXANDER KORDA'S Best! The DRHM" lI W MilUlTl Technicolor SLY. Valeric HOBSON and 'Ragev a gigantic cast of 5.000 lf 7 ALEXANDER KORDA'S WORTH SEEING32 words
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Advertisement41 1947-04-03 5 A MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE OF THE ALHA^dRm ROMAN EMPIRE FROM TOMORROW VESUVIUS IS RAGING! j Z-i-J' .^mZ^^^H rii^i --^^^^L^^^L H^Bfl^H^Hf s 5^ i i 1 L JLjT~VO 1 R^ Vv Mr 'vVj bum m IJr I-i T X L t Y^ BIRCH41 words
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Advertisement73 1947-04-03 6 SULTAN THEATRE i 4l!l\i; 7.00 p.m. 9.15 pm mo SPANISH M UN" In Technicolf>r < starring PaaJ Henreid. Maureen O'Hara "H others to it i ng n 12 iSrassican* JlflHE classifi <■ d adverasements Classified Snuills 60 cts per line. Mm Charge $:>/- -column inch Personal comprise one Line Xdvertisements73 words
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Advertisement24 1947-04-03 6 k, s A nr^ ft I didn't think I'd be true man again a> long HmvORTH I//T/7 GLENS I FORD m REX U TO-DALIj24 words
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Miscellaneous9 1947-04-03 6 J/XiNt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya9 words
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Miscellaneous157 1947-04-03 6 Free Press Crossword No. 1 1 BBL~ J^s_______r_________J___l s ______h— A I A I'm- in I— i mm^—^^^^^^^*"" I^^^^^ ■____^B H m£XS E I fc. I «i.-r 3^ I IHB___S_l_____l i. K» ti. I (10), 9 Ht owner (4), 10. I 11. and 1C Djw:i, Sufl I rogen occurring m157 words
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Article7 1947-04-03 7 TWO HAT-TRICKS IN GILMAN CRICKET .2 37 words
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Article28 1947-04-03 7 Th represent the SX'.C SunJ.B.H. Lee-: r. Ha J.C. Reevei H V Tl D.E nan. -'.ebar a Sclakhar. Ein^h: Ojt1. Sit- D.l M c v28 words
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Article43 1947-04-03 7 c-apore Criefcel flub url provide a critke^ net for raemof the Singapore side play aijai; 5< The net wSI be able from 4 o'clock this i and all those selected are ask*»d to make every endeavour to be presort.43 words
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Article163 1947-04-03 7 HOLIDAY SPORTS EVENTS v<". \h»RE (ricket: Saturday and Sunday. 11 ajn. each S.C.C. Padang. S.nga;: re v Selangor: B4aj, II i.m.. S. I laai -.< .i a-Bend rs. Changi RAF. v CSC, Changi. Sunua\ and Monday at 11 a.m.: (\S.( 2iui B I Ceyloncse Youths, Police ground, 11 a.m. M163 words
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Article, Illustration31 1947-04-03 7 Fr st Army et ntreturward, he.idv the h.t!! fat the \iw poal, m Tut- igu Q match at the stadmm which ended m a scoreless dra a31 words
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294 1947-04-03 7 BEST OF THE LITTLE MEN IN SUNDAY'S FIGHTS pROMOTER Kom Kirn Lin> Easter Sumlav boxinj proI gramme al the New World Arena will feature fights between some of (he bcsl among the lighter clashes m Singapore and the Malayan Union. Topping the card will be a flyweight elimination contest for294 words
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Article78 1947-04-03 7 SYDNEY CUP ACCEPTORS SYDNEY. Wed. *PHE following are accepters with weights for the Sydney Cup running here on April 7 over two miles: Russ'a 9 .12, Golden Souvenir 9.12. Cordale 9.3, Columnist 9.U, Flare 8.7. Spam 8.7, Rainmird 85. Concerto S3, Carey 8.2, Courier 7.12, Ship Bomber 7 12, Inv.etiisReuter - 78 words
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Article71 1947-04-03 7 CHINESE I MEET SCC TODAY TODAY'S S.A.FJi. league ;>- -ponenu at re the se fir si selection and :he Singapre Cnc- both a; the bof.om o! c with one point ft the S. C. C. with no: uld bo a oaf. x..h the o<ius ur strongly with the Chinese who71 words
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Article32 1947-04-03 7 fl F r to Honp Athenian. On Football 47-48. due to begin on August 2 hardly likely that og <^!-ib wfl] come here for A.P.A.P. - 32 words
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Article187 1947-04-03 7 LONDON, Wed. nOOTBALL fixtures for Good Friday, Apr. 4 are: i nun i> i vision. ArscnaJ v HuJdc-rs field Town; BolLon W. v Sheffield Utd; Brentford v Portsh; Charlton v Middlesborough; Chelsea v Blackburn Rovers; Evv Blackpool; Grknbsby Town v Stoke N.E. v Liverpool; Eurxierland v187 words
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Article827 1947-04-03 7 BUT BRADMAN WAS UNMOVED Target o£ Every Critic «H^l II ll— I, It— Kunui ne regamea iorm) and Johnson. ..in Bradman. who has a powerful voice on the selection committee, was unmoved. Hassett helped Morris to put on 189 runs when Australia was chasing 460. Johnson helped the dashing Miller827 words
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Article93 1947-04-03 7 LONDON, April 1. Britain lost two m^jor hopes of Olympic success today with an announcement that coloured West Indian sprinters Arthur Wint and E. 1 McDonald Bailey will not run for Great Britain m the 1948 games. The decision of Trinidad and Jamaica to enter teamsU.P. - 93 words
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Article68 1947-04-03 7 GLASGOW, Wed. DLAYERS from English clubs are in- eluded m the Scotland side to r. nd m a soccer International at Wembley on April 12. The team is: g II -'-K> fullbacks. Young Rangers > and J. Shaw (Rangers. Captaim Halibacts. Macaulay (Brentfoia) Woodburn (1 and F IReuter - 68 words
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Article, Illustration87 1947-04-03 7 KANSAS CITY, TONY ZALE, world mddleu champion, scored a technical knockout over lanky Al Timmo: Cleveland m 1 mm 5 sec. of the fifth round cf a scneduled 10-round nontitle ficht here last night. The referee stepped the fight after Zale opened a deep cut87 words
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69 1947-04-03 7 RAFFLES INST GLO BOYS TO REVIVE ASSOCIATOIN At a ccmmittee meet-ng of tna Old Raffiesians' Association I Raffles Institution ye it was decided to reorganise the association, and all old boys are to send their names and addresses to the honorary OR. A.. < Ail re< orda I d b69 words
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Article161 1947-04-03 7 ffigest Weekend hncc Liberation Spocta Editor ri spori m Nalayi h:i> tfanost w will be provided rh Easier week-end lln will enjoy its b%gU| carnival of I •n. ccer match at Jalan Besar Selangor-Negri Sembilan side week-end for us m Singal between Singapore :yed or. adang-161 words
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Advertisement120 1947-04-03 7 THE HALL FOR QUALITY SOUND PROJECTION 4.i5 6.a0 v.15 r 1 1 LAST DAY! T£SR NEW! EXCITING! ,JfflH^ Bullet-paved to W^,— '^^fTJld^ MID-NIGH i 10NIGH1 AS TOUGH AS EVER j I TOMORROW! I ft A DREAM OF SPLENDOR I T^-.«fc BARBARIC CRMHTYi I (-ladiators iought Deilh m the 111 BW^tJb120 words
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347 1947-04-03 8 CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market eorr^ponjent fives the price*- o| rubber at 1 i i m today as follows: Buyers Sellers, ta Cts o*r lb t>er lb No i X I 43^ t M V R S > fob b-^les Ap It 17 s R sReuter - 347 words
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Article96 1947-04-03 8 0: I lls rails and utiliti"S Joined the selected issues receiving !v Improved interest, and the r t, eaMly maintained the limited F in the quietest trading. me financial quarters declare the current phase is one of accumulation preparing the foundation for a substantial upswing Minor attention was focussedReuter - 96 words
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Article18 1947-04-03 8 High Low To -day o:.>© 7.4 ft. 0241 S.t ft 2151 7,7 ft. 1505 0.8 ft.18 words
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Article25 1947-04-03 8 Reconstruction Finance Curporation m Washington has announced plans for the sale of 155.000 long tons of natural rubber to domestlr users ReuterReuter - 25 words
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Article, Illustration237 1947-04-03 8 pil ture) Moscow. Wednesday. llfiiJ the present movement ol I nited States troops trom Vf China is completed about June 1 approximate!} <;.180 United States military and nai il personnel ml] remain m China at the request of th( Chinese National Government, the I'nitedReuter; Derby Evening Telegraph - 237 words
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Article99 1947-04-03 8 PARIS, Wedn*sdaj THE French Government to- lay denied reports that it nad attempted t-» open negotiations witih the present Vietnam regime through the former Aniam Emperor, Bao Dai. now m m Hongkong. If the French Government received a Vietnam request for an official armistice it wouldReuter - 99 words
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Article71 1947-04-03 8 Sir Harold Hartley, chairman >f British European Airways, has >een appointed chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation m succession to Lord incllys. Announcing the appointment m 3ho Commons. Mr. G. S. Lind?ren, Parliamentary Secretary to tiie Ministry of Civil Aviation, said Lord Knollys was retiringReuter - 71 words
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Article27 1947-04-03 8 S x Hindus and Sikhs were killed by shots m an attack en a train at Gorzai m the tforth-West Frontier Province yesterday.— A.P.A.P. - 27 words
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Article156 1947-04-03 8 NEW YORK, Wed. SIX Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the United Nations, today handed Britain's formal request to the United Nations Secretariat to place the question of Palestine on the .da J the next U;.i ed Nations Cit-neral Assembly. The message said: "The Britsh Government request156 words
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Article25 1947-04-03 8 The Chinese Minister of Information, Peng Lisueh-Pei, last night m Nanking confirmed reports that Governor Chen Y\ of Formosa had resicnod.- A.P.A.P. - 25 words
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Article78 1947-04-03 8 QBSOLETE British wurships and captured German submarines are to be bombed and shelled oil the Isle of Wight to test the effectiveness of shells and bombs developed m Britain too late for general use m the war. Afterwards the ships will be salvaged The testU.P. - 78 words
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Article49 1947-04-03 8 An appeal for a theatre where Indian films, dance recitals and other features could be presented was made today by the Indian Society of America. These presentations constitute I the major part of the Society's programme to promote inter- change of cultures between America and India.49 words
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Article335 1947-04-03 8 I.OMKI.N. UetiiH'Miay. iHOAi. prod lift ion m (it cat Britain last week was the best L for years. It \v;us more than 4,000,000 t0n5—3,913.200 tons of deep-mined coal and us, too tons open-cast coal. The output of deep-mined coal is the richest since theReuter; U.P. - 335 words
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412 1947-04-03 8 ASIAN INSTITUTE WILL INCLUDE MALAYA NEW DELHI, Wednesday. DI'ANS were being completed today for the formation <>i I I permanent Inter-Asian Institute to co-ordma c the cultural and academic aims of more than one billion Far Eastern peoples The new organization, to be announced later today, will not attempt toA.P.; U.P.; Reuter - 412 words
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Article141 1947-04-03 8 STORMS RATIONS LONDON, Wed. CTORMS and floods have cost v Britain a month's bread supply and a week's meat ration, said Mr. T. Williams, Minister of Agriculture m a broadcast tonight. He was telling the "tragic story" of the losses to British agiiculture since last autumn, when per- j sistent141 words
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Article304 1947-04-03 8 RANGOON, Wednesday THAKIN Ml Finance Member of the Burma In Governs* iay exprefi d Burma's "deep gratitude to the Indian (.nvernmrn! for the goodwill and genera m accepting the sterling equivalent of Burma rujxvs 2-60,000,000, accumulated by the Reserve Bank of India up to MarchReuter - 304 words
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Article73 1947-04-03 8 LOKDO! THE Hen. ight 'o end thi petual" pension for th< of Admiral Lord Nelson greatest sea n" The pensio i h £705,000 m the last HI yt M.Ps. argued gratuity was wanted at all— that he had^, the State to suo-.ort Lady H ton andA.P. - 73 words
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Article58 1947-04-03 8 An Ail Asia Button was held at New Delhi Tuesday. Buddhist d the Asian Cu>. China, Burma. N°*3al, Tib Ceylon were present. The Oonvc ition d form a perm called the U.nr d Asia Bu Congress for -:1 aril, social economic regt Asian countries, and asked forA.P. - 58 words
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Article, Illustration32 1947-04-03 8 RACE HORSES EXERCISE children of the Duke and Dad against the nip m the air. r father's sain racehot at t-x in <i> at Bora* bg M, during training phi air Sarah.32 words
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Article103 1947-04-03 8 NEW YORK, Wed. THE United Nations Security I Council today unanimously approved the introductory section of the American request for a strategic area administration of the former Japanese mandated islands m the Marianas, MarshalLs and Carolines m the Pacific. The Council argued for nearly three hoursA.P. - 103 words
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Miscellaneous33 1947-04-03 8 WEATfiatOccasioiiai IW .i M j tT f rons dood mxu> c«B|iH I Commtod fvto a Bin ihe P* de« F ■-J honufity ?«•<• veff *t M J re 6S. »t an d f.« awrtitr*33 words
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