The Singapore Free Press, 18 April 1947

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    13 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA I OlliM. j 111—
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    BEVIN FIRM IN CABINET CHANGE
    50 1 BEVIN FIRM IN CABINET CHANGE I w Ihursday. British Cabinet have put a stop that Mr. Ernest cretary, was to take up the task of I amittee of experts at I Britain's economy. I led the only comes resGermany resigned and I ion GovernGreenwood •.it PortI I I I 1
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    DID A TRIP TO MECCA
    10 1 DID A TRIP TO MECCA >lr G. T. M. Mat-Bryan
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    PANAMA SHIP DISAPPEARS
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    S'PORE MAKES 'WAR' ON GANGSTERS
    30 1 S'PORE MAKES 'WAR' ON GANGSTERS I Reporter Ordinance will con- ht the gangsters, said Mr. nese Affairs, this morning. will apply for registra- rganisationa, and the Police I 1 i
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    GIRL ROBBED OF $2,000
    43 1 GIRL ROBBED OF $2,000 A CABARET girl was rubbed yesterday at noon of $2,000 1500 (H.K. currency*, watch and a necklace, '.n her house m Hamilton Road, Singapore. The Police have arrested 16 B, following a gang fight laude Road on Tuesday night
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    MALAY BEAUTY SETS SAIL FOR UK
    862 1 MALAY BEAUTY SETS SAIL FOR UK Lma Story From Sarawak Free Press Stati importer WHEN the 23,000-ton P O liner Strathmore sailed from her berth m Singapore yesterday, for Southampton she carried some of Singapore's wellknown people who are leaving the Colony to spend a few months' leave m England,
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    US RECOGNISES INDONESIA
    171 1 US RECOGNISES INDONESIA WASHINGTI > N Thmsday. HTHE United States has decided to extent! a de facto recogI nit ion" to the Ind<>iu>ian Republic m Java, Sumatra and Madura. Government officials .said that the I'm led States has asked the Dutch Government authorities at Tb€ Ha<nie to notify Indonesian officials
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    Q.E: ONLY PAINT IS SCRATCHED
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    His woollies tickle Germans
    82 1 T<> thousands of new German admirers, Krrul Flynn bally hooec by Hollywood as the man with most sex appeal «^th, funn.es man alive-"the man m the long a lin, because the art seeing him m an old film, (.entu -inan Jim. Gales of laughter greet him
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    YACHT HILLS SOLD
    27 1 Private buyers yesterday paid 6.000 for the hull of the British racing yacht Endeavour I, and £7.000 for the hull of Endeavour II Reuter
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    INDIA WANTS THE KOH-I-NOOR BACK
    219 1 .ON DON, Thursday. THE Koh-i-Xoor diamond, the centrepiece of the Queen of i England's crown is being claimed by the Government of India as its property. Claims have also been entered for 10,000 arts treasures, books, manusenn** ppa~ a «*oHcal recor As the Koh-i-Noor diamond
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    EXPLOSION DEAD TOTAL 714
    120 1 TEXAS CITY, Wed. RED Cross authorities report that 714 are known to have been killed m the series of explosions which almost obliterated Texas City after the ammunition ship Grand Camp blew up yesterday, and that more than 3.000 were injured. It is possible, says the
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    Baby bites girl on S'pore flight
    358 1 Free Press Staff Reporter INTO Singapore yesterday came a ork aircraft which was 1 m Europe three days ago. carrying to the oil island of Morotai which lies m the Northern tip of the Celebes, women and children to join their husbands who are
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    TROOPS SENT TO FRONTIER KIOTS
    55 1 Re uforcement tr ops have I reached Derna Ismail Khan, an Indian Northwest Frontier town where c mmunal rioting has been going on since Tuesday. Troops have imp* sed a curfew. P^res started by r'.oter.s are now under c :ntrol. There are fires m six
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    'LEAK IN BUDGET'
    245 1 'LEAK IN BUDGET' 47 > negation In House LONDON, Thursday. A LEAKAGE o n Budget information leading o a sharp ri- c m the prices of certain shares on the London Stock Exchange was alleged m the Hoj-e of Commons toby L'eui. Com. J. G. Braithwaite, (Con,-.. Ho;< ne.s), who
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    TANGLIN CLUB
    20 1 Tanidin Club memDcr minded ti^at the annual genera: meeting Is taking place I clubhouse this evening &l o'clock.
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    MEN'S DESIRE FOR COLOUR
    821 2 MEN'S DESIRE FOR COLOUR fv Roland Sour |T was that great 13ih I century English arbiter of fashion Beau Brumm^l who said o n one occaslon: "If John Bull tv lound to lcok at you, you are rot well-dressed but either too stiff, too tight or too lashicncibW Under these
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    180 2 Fortune forecast for people born today D<»K\ today, j nr ambitions v t in md I hai riven you talents with which to gratifj your desfres 1 i' JS. If you wish. you may con cn traic un business and me a patr.)n ol the ar^ which
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    321 2 "f\OES a rebiddable suit have to be U .-:s J.M of "Or is th^ question of rrbiucl:: tvbiddable suit up fco the judgm> /layer who holds -rr.e we hear this km n we think of a hand almost induced a fit of apoplexy m a very good
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    CUNNING MOTHS
    262 2 MOKE, ci lentless and destructive than a gang of thievi an army of moth grubwhen ti. ttle m your wardrobe. Unfortunately, Singap part cularly pi his peat. At last, after ma: alarms. Science claims to have •ercd the problem lirded the old time method of trying to kill
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    SIGNALMAN GOES OFF THE RAILS
    375 2 SIGNALMAN GOES OFF THE RAILS Films Showing mi n L ■BY <»l X LOSlh FILM REPORTER A COMMON criticism ol films m goner. that they are seldom a anything, and th*ir charac ters are even m<Te seldom the ordinary figures of <- day lir\ Neither of these ot be mv.de
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    MARLENE'S JEEP OK
    27 2 Marlene Dietrich's jeep, stolen m Paris, was found hidden m a forest near Versailles. Miss Dietrich had said the jeep i "a sentimental thing."
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    THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER'S OF SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY
    12 2 THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER'S OF SINGAPORE MUNICIPALITY iu*c{ and be. Wm H I
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    PLANE SOWS 20 ACRES IN 2 HOURS
    306 3 PLANE SOWS 20 ACRES IN 2 HOURS r lying fciTTnev tviuttiiyhs Viniculture expert.- watched fanning ade at Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, on of Mr. T. \V. Tomkins, when twenty -re Mmn with wheat from a plane fly y because even the most modern ated m the conditoins which have editions were unfavourable.
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    NEW IDEA IN FARMING
    118 3 NEW IDEA IN FARMING AIRBORNE sou in g of Rra in m Fn-luid has been successfully tried by Mr. T W. Tomkins. a Northamptonshire Fanner. The British Ministry ol Agriculture this wet k announced that it uould try Mr. Tomkin's method to secure quick sowing of grain-growing areas devastated m
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    SUNDAY DANCE UPROAR
    9 3 SUNDAY DANCE UPROAR en on roused omen was such
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    ISLANDS LACK THE LAW
    15 3 ISLANDS LACK THE LAW I I of I and I I I I I I
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    GERMAN VESSEL IN ROYAL NAVY
    61 3 The former giant destroyer Z3B, now wearing the White Ensign as 4JS. Nonsuch, is to be refitted nth Dockyard before a.s a "follow aircraftN :.such has a high speed nots and a large displace--546 tons (full load). changes to be made are ment of the
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    CHOIR CRASHED AT CONTEST
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    PIANO FOR TROPICS
    27 3 Teak wood forms the case of a new British piano designed for j use on the decks of ships. The piano is tropic -proofed.
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    SO FARMER TOM PAYS GEORGE £1
    169 3 I*ie little county court at Chesham, Buckinghamshire Farmer George Brown, and Farmer Tom Bradshaw met for the big pay-off. For 20 years each had dealt with the other, seldom paying m cash, but setting their deals on an exchange basis. r or instance, Farmer
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    NO MUSIC FOR HER MOMORIES
    392 3 NO MUSIC FOR HER MOMORIES rVKN at four o clock m the morning the strains of "Moonk light Mid Roses" from an old gramophone took Mrs. Frances Harper, 57. bark to the golden days with her first husband, lather of her fourteen children but it took her second husband to
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    Plough turns up relics
    84 3 THK I ,'NEAKTHLM; ot i quantity of broken pottery by a farmer ploughing up heath land at Mildenhall, Suffolk, has led to another important archaeological find. Experts from Cambridge University have excavated between 30 and 40 An^lo-Saxon burial urns m good preservation. Foundations oj vthat app<-ured
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    VICAR TO SUE VICARAGE SQUATTERS
    127 3 VICAR TO SUE VICARAGE SQUATTERS THE Vicar of Anciover 1 duals), the Rev. A. C. Fletcher, is suing five squatters and their families who have been living m the Old Vicarage, Newbury Street, Andover, since September and refuse to quit. The vicarage was offered for sale with vacant possession a
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    £4,000,000 ON WALL
    23 3 £4,000, 000 ON WALL Tapestries worth £4,000.000, such as London has not seen before, are on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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    MORE CLOTHES ON THE WAY
    76 3 Jl VAST British Government programme to increase ihe output, of clothes and peg their prices Is disclosed m Board of Trade estimates for next. year. The subsidy on clothing will jump from €14.500.000 last year to £24,625,000 m 1947-48. Biggest rise is m the subsidy
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    TURKISH BACK IN SMOKES
    45 3 BriUsh cigarettes and tobacco mixtures are to include two per cent, of Turkish tobacco again— as during the war. Brilish makers' decision to restore this war-time arrangement was announced m the House of Commons by Mr. Wilson, Secretary for Overseas Trade.
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    BISHOP WRITES ABOUT LOVE
    244 3 MOST young courting couple.' cide whether or not they film stars have told them, say don. "And a less sure guide i imagine," comments the bisho that love is "an overwhelming reason which must, at all costs,ii be obeyed." Dr. Wand writing m the I Practitioner-
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    OXFORD VISIT
    24 3 Members of the Supreme Soviet who visited Oxford were more interested m how undergraduates lived than m the history of the University
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    £200,000,000 fortune HALF-CROWNS IN THE HAT
    277 3 £200,000,000 fortune HALF-CROWNS IN THE HAT THE Edwards family not forgetting their cousins, neap and distant, the Thomases, the Needs and the Evansesmet m the lounge bar of the Grand Hot!. IN»rt JaJbot. They came from all over South Wales, with a handful from England, and there were nearly 250
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    SPACE SHIP DESIGNED IN BRITAIN
    253 3 SPACE SHIP DESIGNED IN BRITAIN TWO rocket designers m I Buckinghamshire. England, need £400,000 to develop a rocket designed *«o shoot a man into space and test his reactions. If the British Government or private backers fail to provide the finance, the designers may offer their plans to the United
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    JOANOVICI SUIT
    23 3 Madame Joanovici, wife of the mining millionaire rag-and-bone mail, has filed a divorce petition m Paris on the ground of deser:ion.
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      42 3 '^RZAN Nita m peril By Edgar Rice Burroughs *£^m WEAK.. YOU MUST MAKE fl 3C>R WAS PRAGGiNG THE kl PUZ2LEPAT THE FAILURE OF H!S WU Y^^ jj ?>ELiEVING I *M^^m SEKJM,ZEE RUSHSP TD £H!L'5 CELL. sJ^f HS AT NiT4 WAS SAFE M
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    The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, APRIL, 18, 1947. Labour Wanted
    556 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, APRIL, 18, 1947. Labour Wanted A CHINESE reader. Mr Poh j <** Soo-Jin, is siurg by a Free P-- rt of the seizure of number of stowaways on >rd a ship searched at Singapore to ask why. when we are so short of labour m
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    PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS
    1711 4 PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS ALTHOUGH she harm dies hundreds of cards every day Mrs. M. AINGER cannot teD your fortune. She is not the fortune telling kind, nor are the cards, for they are used to produce Malaya's statistical records of imports and exports by the many girls who
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    QUIZ
    77 4 1. When British quit India. Afghanistan will maintain full independence, despite pressure by USSR? 2. Mardi Gras is a French rural festival? 3. Prosperity of Honduras is dependent on oil? 4. Comparatively small quantity of greenish-yellow gas fluorine ca n injure human beings? 1 Yes. 2. No. It means
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    The British Industries fair LONDON: THE RIGHT PLACE
    383 4 The British Industries fair LONDON: THE RIGHT PLACE By Sir Raymond Stn Ma: being provided the benefit I ers who are visiting the fi-post-war British Indu Fa> which opens m Loud .<] Birmingham d which will contin til May 16. Amor^ them I special trains which w from London direct
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    MILK SHORTAGE PROVES BLESSING
    434 5 MILK SHORTAGE PROVES BLESSING Free ness Staff Reporter PHE temporary shortage of sweetened condensed milk m Singapore has proved a Messing m disguise Because this type of milk is now not readily obtainable without haying to resort to the black market, the eyesight of children is being saved. Eye specialists
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    PEST EXPERTS IN BORNEO
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    NAVAL MEDAL FOR S.E. ASIA MINESWEEPING
    132 5 IN .ti:n of services rendered m South-East h Naval General Service Medal arded tor mineswceping and for mine clearance, according to an Admiralty Fleet Qualifying areas and dates are: Java and Sumatra from Sept. 3. 1945 to Nov. 30, 1915: French Indo-China Sept. 3,
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    JUNK BURNT OUT
    47 5 A junk caught fire early tins ning while it was moored off Singapore Esplanade. It was completely burnt out m about an hour, being too far off re for the Fire Brigade to i cier a tee. Cause of the fi^e is not known.
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    CONCERT IN MEMORIAL HALL ON SUNDAY
    208 5 [HE Singapore Children's Orchestra wifl make its s?gg*»t jppearance since the war m a concert m the April 20. The orchestra now has lid clarinet players. 3 and the more difficult I to remedy the<e deny orchestra, ader of the orchestra is r old
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    WIDE APPEAL
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    GEN. STOPFORD TAKES OVER UK COMMAND
    163 5 GEN. STOPFORD TAKES OVER UK COMMAND THE name of General Sir Mon- tagu Stopford has now been r-dded to the lone; list of distinguished soldiers who have held the post of Commander m Chief, Northern Command. Sir Montagu took over Command of the Headquarters m Fishesgate at the end of
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    'FRIENDS OF S'PORE' REVIVAL APPEAL
    295 5 cc Press Statf Reporter. A SUGGESTION that men and! n women of all nationalities! rested m cultural development and the preservation of Singapore records should get together and revive the 'Friends of Singapore' is made by Mr. T. j H. Store, former Vice-President of the
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    S'PORE TO HAVE INDIA CLUB
    184 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A 1 INDIA Club, open to all members of the Indian community In Sir.qapore, will be i formed within a month's time, j said Mr. R. Jumabhoy, President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. Mr. Jumabhoy revealed that more than
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    S'PORE GREETS PRINCESS
    74 5 S'PORE GREETS PRINCESS The following cable has been sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by Sir Franklin Gimson, Governor of Singapore: 'Grateful if you will submit Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth the greetings and wishes of the people ol pore on the occasion of the twenty-first Birthday
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    146 Singapores get awards
    688 5 146 Singapores get awards DOCTORS, teachers, magistrates and nurses are among the 146 Singaporeans who will be presented with Certificates of Commendation for their services to the community during tiie Malayan campaign, during the Japanese occupation and m the IJ.M.A. period after the liberation. It is expected that the presentation
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    'PADI SPIRIT' APPEASED
    89 5 QARAWAK Dayaks blame tlie Japanese fir their poor rice harvesi and their p~st-r;dden crops. Their one-time masters they claimed kept the 'padi spirit' confined In the District Office. They recently held a procession with gongs and drums and bearing food and drinks, around and inside th? District
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    COMPETING WITH THE WORLD
    120 5 COMPETING WITH THE WORLD A GROUP of Indian shipping companies and M. A. Master, President of the Federation ot Indian Chambers of Commerce, ar e demanding that the Government of India relax controls on shipping and allow Indian vessels to compete with shipping concerns of Western countries for a share
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    SEALF SPORTS
    37 5 GHQ SEALF is holding a sports meeting tomorrow, starting from 2 p.m. The venue will be Tanglin Barracks. After the sports, the combined pipe bands of the Camerons and Seaforth Highlanders will beat the retreat.
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    MALAY NAVY PAYMENTS APPROVED
    253 5 Free Pres* Staff Reporter AT a meeting between Oth* man Haji Omar, Chairman of the demobilised personne the Royal Malay Navy, and* Commander E. H. Nichols, ths sai'ors' former Commanding Officer, on Wednesday, it wag agreed to pay benefits of dependants of personnel kil'ed m action
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    S'PORE POLICE COMMENDED
    115 5 S'PORE POLICE COMMENDED THE proprietor of Kwong Cx-eo^g 1 Loong, a goldsmith shop m High Street. Singapore, which was robbed of $74,000 m March, told the Free Press yesterday: "We a:e very satisfied with the efforts of the Pol;c P which have resulted m the arrest of su^p c;s and
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    TO WATCH THE COMMISSIONERS
    77 5 ARRANGEMENTS yev c beer, completed by the fc cipality. the Education Offic i the Public Relations Offic c for the visit of 20 seru'or pupils 8 Singapore Schools to "1: m" at the meeting of the Municipal Commissioners on F April 25. There will be six
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    82 5 Picture M mb ra «f the Higher Education Commissioii yestercLi\ visited the Telok Ayer street People a Restaurant and sampled the 30-cent lunch, \v}i:<h Is being supplied daily to Singapore office worker! and labourers alike. This picture taken during their visit shOM (from left) sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, heal oi m
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      21 5 1 Quick Sale? I ACHED DUCK I lEKV F 0 B luthZy I RACKEN •*t -*J J It 1 I -Rao\T
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    NEW STAMP FOR NEWFOUNDLAND
    116 6 T I new stamps are to be issued N indland m the near iuture one to commemorate Princess Elizabeth's 21st oirth day. and the other to mark r -he 450 th anniversary of the discovery of Newfoundland by John Cabot, on June 24. The n< w
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    BEAVER BREAKS OUT
    35 6 BE AVER BREAKS OUT A Canadian beaver escaped from its enclosure at London Zoo by climbing a 4ft. fence, and was i last seen swimming up the Re- j gent's Canal towards St. John's Wood.
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    Rector blesses silkworms
    372 6 4Ki :of a church m Kent. England, ha> blessed milft us of silkworms m 5 ullim'>t< ne Castle, Britain's only sSkm rm farm of its kmJ. Breeder <>f the silkworms owner. Lad) M.ilii-ent Hart Dyke. Lftdj Mini ~ked the Rector, the Reverend BL A. L. Jeffer^ n,
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    40-STONE FAT BCA HUNGERS
    133 6 40-STONE FAT BCA HUNGERS •TINETEEN-YEAR-OLD ChubH by White. 40-stone fat boy at the Sydney Royal Show, is on the verge* of ion, so he to his '-raiiier. Les n, Chubby eats 70 pounds a w can*!; get enough meat coupons Sydney and has eaten only 401 b Sharman has sent
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    SUSPECT GOLD
    35 6 Gold ingots bearing the hammer and sickle and what may be the Bank of England mark were confiscated on the Italo-Swiss frontier from a man trying to enter Italy on a Swiss passport.
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    TRAINING THE TURKS
    29 6 88 Ninette de Valois, founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Com- pany, has left for Istanbul to advise an the formation of a Turk National Ballet.
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    Britain seeks horsemen
    79 6 CEARCH is being made for the best three horsonion and the best three jumping horses In Britain to represent the country m the competition Tor the Nations' Cup at the Olympic Gam»« .it Wemhlej next feai In the past, teams have been chosen by the Army, but
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    ATOM SECRET BY POST
    187 6 DKITAIN has started giving awaj atom secrets m London D —secrets which may, m Lhc end, put Britain ahead In Uae race for the commercial m <>f the new energy. None of the 73 "top secret" atomic report sed by the Ministry of Supply will help
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    All from one cat
    80 6 All from one cat Osk nig] n the blitz, a cat followed Viet t W. hom< to Word. it prodw •■<! four k u> iii i urse, more kittens until there are now 17 eati Yi< tor's home. They have their own two rooms and th cost E2 I we«i
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    RICHES AND TROUBLE
    25 6 F. iiah Overall, aged 17, charged with her sweetheart at Santa Ana, California, with murdering her parents, is sole heiress to £125,000
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    PENNIES PAID BILL
    25 6 A cohesion of 37,526 Queen Victoria •bun" pennies at Sou'liend, England, has paid for clothes, furniture and a holiday for poor children
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    FRENCH INDUSTRY HAS RECOVERED
    555 6 FRENCH INDUSTRY HAS RECOVERED Reconstruction goes ahead AIL France's day -to day economic troubles that bulk large m the public ejC cannot hide the pFOgtUM towards recovery that baa been made since the liberation of Pantwo and a half years igo. Rm instruction has been a b slow, difficult job,
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    Most loveable
    79 6 HAPPY breeding ground for Australia's most lovcable animal, the Koala bear, is the Lone Pine Sanctuary, near Brisbane, where Mr. C. A. Keid cares for what is left of this unfortunately rapidly-dying: tribe. Above Mr. Keid tries to tempt mother away from her perch by showing Junior, kvt
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    PATIENTS MADE A COMPLAINT
    66 6 COMPLAINTS from patients at Brighton Borough natorium one of them was I they could see funerals e\ day m an adjoining < were discussed by Bri^ Council. Dr* Stanley Firth, the superintendent, denied tions that several patierv discharged because they a petition complaining at the staff's
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    CHEERED LAST TRAM
    22 6 Thousands of cheer lined streets m B when a br: for the last time along tl remaining tramway roi
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    PILSEN RESUMES
    27 6 The Pilsen brewery m Bohemia, which was heavily damaged by Allied air attacks m the war. is soon to resume the export of bottled beer.
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    POLICE SEIZED A CONVICT'S CASH
    193 6 DETECTIVES who scooped on the home of Harold Hodgson, Bradford wool merchant sentenced to ten years' penal servitude seized about £5,000 he had given to his wife. Hodgson was gaoled at Leeds Assizes for conspiracy, stealing wool and disposing of wool illegally. He told his
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      54 6 J AiSt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malawi fHELP.'-l'M HEADING j3 JTi l ,i-i r*-i~LI P^ Wv J ft" STRAIGHT FOR THE "^1 i/.3ACS Ve/OClty CSA^/eS Aef <*■ \^v^^"^ V C^Si-S (curling rink-amd v w 5k !i c/azn t/uouah Me ci/He/^s :sfr.OAl \k^«p I'VE FORGOTTEN HOW j J
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      154 6 Free Press Crossword No* X II I pp 3 famous Roman general Division of an army forming a tat -iis white wine flavoured with worniv, formerly part of Austria-Hungary, B gunpowder (7), 12. The longest the Mediterranean region bearing ed ibi< city and capital of former Moorish k Metropolitan area
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