The Singapore Free Press, 2 May 1947

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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA y. 1«# SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947. PRKL 10 Ci;N Lv
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    7 1 X.iv bi the Cluo ad. Spore Cnrne
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    LOOTERS SHOOT GUARDS
    6 1 LOOTERS SHOOT GUARDS boarded irith $130
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    TURKS FETE YANKS
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    DOCK STRIKERS CHANGE MINDS
    38 1 LONDON, Thursday. I London dockers who are striking m •ck strikers m Glasgow decided by a to return to work, but after objections it was announced another meeting aer-2 half ot ■T6 t Reuter
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    SHORT STREET TO CARRY ON
    789 1 SHORT STREET TO CARRY ON Free Press Staff Reporter OIXGAPORE Federation of Trade Unions is likely to hold a mass meeting shortly of the legal and illegal unions m Singapore to decide through a plebiscite whether the Short Street control of labour organisation In the Colony shall continue or not.
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    STEEL WORKERS STRIKE IN US
    70 1 NEW YORK, Thurs. CTEEL WORKERS at two large United States Companies works struck at midnight last night. Companies affected aa c the Inland Steel Company at Indiana Harbour, Indiana, the seventh largest steel works m th G United States, and the John A. Roebling fact
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    INCOME TAX
    252 1 'inevitable In Spore unless..' Free Frees Stall Reporter OINGAPORE Ratepayers A-^ociation has decided to ap*3 proach the Singapore Association to -c*> what progress they have made into their investigations into income tax m the Colony, and to invite them to appoint a sab-con mittee to work with a
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    PISTOL SHOWN IN COURT
    105 1 PISTOL SHOWN IN COURT ffree Press Staff Reporter I REVOLVER and two envelopes containing ammunition were exhibits produced m court m Singapore this morning at the resumed hearing of the trial of -Major John Burnett, D.5.0., M.C.. who is charged with a rash act m connection with the death of
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    RAF wins air record twice
    107 1 THE England-to-the-Cape air record .roken twice by British planes yesterday. First Ml R A.F. Mosquito covered the 6,717 miles m °1 hours 29 minutes, and then a R-A.F. Lincoln bomber, the Aries 11, made the trip m 2 6 hours 57 minutes. The Mosquito's time
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    GEN. RITCHIE
    19 1 Sir Neil M. Ritchie, Com-mander-in-Chief, South-East Asia Land Forces, has been promoted to the rank of General.
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    N.Z. JAPAN FORCE CUT
    38 1 The New Zealand Defence Minister. Mr. Frederick Jones, announced yest e rday that New Zealand would reduce its component of the British Occupation Force m Japan from 4,200 to 2,400 m e n.- Reuter
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    SUCHINLECK ARRIVES
    30 1 The Commander- in-Chief, India, Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, arrived m London by air last night for talks with Field Marshal Lord Montgomery and the India office.- Reuter
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    MORE COAL FOR UK INDUSTRIES
    303 1 LONDON, Thursday. S~I'PPLIES of coal to each British industry are to be m creased between June 1 and October 31 to a level equal to the consumption during last summer announced S»r Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trad*\ m the Commons today. In
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    DOWN WITH FRANCO.
    34 1 DOWN WITH FR ANCO A crowd of sev e ral hundred young men and wom e n m Stockholm, Swed e n, yesterday demonstrated outside the Spanish legation and sliouted: "Down with Franco."— Reuter
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    LEAVES SAIGON
    48 1 The British Consul General m Indochina, Mr. Ernest William Meiklereid, left Saigon for England by air yesterday. He will not return. He first came to Saigon II years ago, and served after his internment by the Japanese as political adviser to the Twentieth Indian Division.— Reuter
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    BATAVIA RUBBER
    168 1 BATAVIA RUBBER BAT A VIA, I hurt. FLAMES swept Tandj-ng PrioU, the harbour of Batavia, tonight when a rubber warehouse caught fire causii.g damage unofficially estimated at over one million N.E.I, guilders. Sab tage Is suspected as the cause of fire which is still raging. Rotterdam-Lloyd's larg st liner, the
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    HE LEADS THE INDIANS
    6 1 HE LEADS THE INDIANS MAHATMA GANDHI
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    Congress sends for Gandhi
    321 1 G AMMi NEW DELHI, Thursday. ANDHI came to New Delhi today m answer to an urgent summons to meet the Working Committee of the All India National Congress m what are probably the most decisive deliberations m the Gl year history- of the Congress For five
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    TO DEATH
    42 1 TWENTY-THREE peopi 1 burnt to death hard 900 ho were destroyed when a spark, carried by a high wind, set the whole village of Nararfoyer m Darbhanga. Bihar, ablaze, says a .sage received m New DelM ye.sterday from Darbhanca. Reuter
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    PALESTINE: MOVE BY UK APPROVED
    99 1 PALESTINE: MOVE BY UK APPROVED NEW YORK. Thurs WHEN the plenary session ot the special United Nations ral Assembly on the Palestine question opened today the British request -for establ: of fact- finding committees l immediately opposed by delegates from Syria and Iraq, but flnaHy the request was approvec Sir
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  • FOR WOMEN
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      CROWNING GLORY BY MAGIC
      995 2 LOOKING PRFATY: BY LUCY BELL I HE kind of hair people describe a woman's crowning glory does not come magic. It needs constant daily care from childhood to old age. Women mi n Singapore have An their share of hazards to contend with hair. r l
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      UK TALILORS BEST
      115 2 THERE'S nothing tc 1 shake Saville row m the ment's Working Pa:ty rep n the h indust i around the w rk> of thank tailors, tht man is still the sm m the world when h? has the tlsh men still lead the world. Suits c;. 4
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      SCRAP BOOK
      2 2 SCRAP BOOK
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      Films give wrong idea
      5 2 Films give wrong idea asaSDAsdaDAsd
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      Fashions In Hair Stylet
      24 2 Fashions In Hair Stylet Madonna Cool VV.tv proving very p tr m Fnsland and Crawf rd, star of ,i pr .1 B pt thp
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      274 2 TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM TtHERE u> a classic bridge joke abou. \oKl 11 I the problem hand taat was sub- A j 4 dto a great psucdo-expert. The A X Q 1 0 6 arer was supposed to make a grand j .>-lam and after casual study the JL J 8
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      404 2 > -.v. .-.,.y. —y, c 1 Air j pnar R liluc Network Knglish MALAY PROGRAMMI 12.00 pn 1 art •> nr .0- pm -IS. metre* In to m 1 band 1.22 llay per second m the 11 metre hand 6 00—11 00 p.m.— 485 metre* m turn dinm wave band
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      284 2 All and Talk— "Review of I 9.28 Interlude— Orch 5 for 9 45 Talk; 10 ilms— nd his O and Bing lc"; 10.45 Austral. a: v 11.00 k 11.05 Sin he Day Peter I Ba^-P. 11.15 Talk— n i 4 Ri N 11 30 c Down RAD'G iEiiC RADIO SEAC
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  • NEWS
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      GERMAN SOCIALISTS GO INTERNATIONAL
      512 3 GERMAN SOCIALISTS GO INTERNATIONAL nited States of Europe aim tie expectation that the break m ites and Russia would be hvaied at temncnt" leaders of the Soda] many (SPD) have bton privatm ishment of a United States of Europe. which is reputet'lv the largest m <>wn by 34-year-oid Kurfl Schmidt,
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      RUSSIA WILL BUILD HUGE LINERS
      6 3 RUSSIA WILL BUILD HUGE LINERS I
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      LONDON ZOO RECORD
      13 3 LONDON ZOO RECORD 5 wa a so I Q9P I 333. I I
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      COUNCILS DON'T LIKE HORROR
      4 3 COUNCILS DON'T LIKE HORROR
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      BIG BELLL CRASHES
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      LUCKY DIP WILL SWAP HOLDAYS
      40 3 LUCKY DIP WILL SWAP HOLDAYS I p Association ha^ announced plans f O.OOO people between Britain and Director General of the AssociaI this description of the idea: Switzerland, we try to fix I and so on." I I d m
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      NEW IDEAS IN TYNE TUNNEL
      228 3 NEW IDEAS IN TYNE TUNNEL MX ALFRED BARNES, Minister of Transport fe expected to cut the first BOd and BO work on the Tyne tunnel scheme which will conned Northumberland and Durham. The ceremon) will take place late m May or early m June. The ceremony will probably be a
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      Boys had smashing time
      73 3 TWO boys, aged nine and eleven, it was said at Salford, Lanes, hrokr^ into hous-e, smashed crockery on th<e floor, broke bottles of sailed and jam and threw the contents on the walls and ceilings of nearly every room, ransacked riiawers and cupboards and broke two
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      STUDENTS MAY TAKE ODD.IONS
      111 3 STUDENTS MAY TAKE ODD. IONS UNIVERSITY studerts In BriJ tain who take a job, which doesn't interfere wUh their studies, will not m future have iheir grants reduced because of the extra earnings. And k> encouraer the wives of married students to take jobs the first £80 of their earnings
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      GOODWILL MISSION
      18 3 Goodwill mission from Cherbourg visit Plymouth on May 17; they will travel m a British destroyer.
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      LUXURY FRUIT
      17 3 Strawberries, two tons or them, I have arrived m London by air i from Madrid.
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      ARSENAL IS MAKING NOVEL TOYS
      73 3 ARSENAL IS MAKING NOVEL TOYS u X I fS^V 11 th€ war b nnw Producing- the toy-making outfit wmcß tbe happy yonng fellow m these pictures is using rhe making outfit consists of a miniature mould into which the boyis pimring: a metal which melts at a temperature only slightly
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      Rush to join UK Territorials
      318 3 Rush to join UK Territorials DECRUI'fING for Britain's new Territorial Army began recently utd selection boards m all parts of the coun try are dealing with thousands of applicants for commis -ioned rank. Most of the men who have made applicatioi are ex officers <rf the wartime armies, some of
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      WORK BY WOMEN IS WRONG
      168 3 WORK BY WOMEN IS WRONG I A D V RHYS WILLIAMS, L daughter of Elinor Glyn.j the novelist, and mother of four children, has spoken out agains* (1) back- to-work propaganda! among mothers and <2) home i shortages. To the Church of England Men's Society at Manchester she said: I
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      SURPLUS PLANES HELP EXPORTS
      172 3 IN 17 months Britain has made £10,000,000 from the sale of wartime aircraft she does not need. After the first world war thousands of planes were broken up or allowed to rot m dumps. This time the Ministry of Supply decided to make money out 01
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      HUNCH TOOK
      369 3 f\R PATRICK MURNANE, Clapton, London, is coming U that his wife Lilian was psychic. So are the neighbour ing Stoke NewingtoH police. The way she solved the mystery of the stolen car convinced them. It began when the doctor, while having supper, recei i an urgent call to
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      100 VOLUNTEER HOSTESSES
      99 3 100 VOLUNTEER HOSTESSES THE entertainments committee formed at Tamwor-h. Staffordshire, at the sugges ion of the Army Welfare authorities has over a hundred pretty girls who act as volunteer hostesses at dances for young soldiers. These? girls are chaperoned by local residents who willingly pay 2s. 6d. a dance for
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      BRITAIN TO MAKE ELGAR FILM
      46 3 BRITAIN TO MAKE ELGAR FILM The musical life of Sir Edward Elgar is to be made in r o a British film. Mr. B. Charles-Dean, film and stage producer, has secured the screen rights, and is negotiators; for an English-born star Hollywood to play the lead.
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      155 3 Bark again m full supply, a« goni as ever and how good that is t What else ha? just this tang anrf flavour The mustard you wfl? remember Co I mans MustardLYON PHOTO CO Renowned lot Superior ana Quick Service 'Developing *Ptinting and Lnlaxgiag Film sent tn today ready the
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MAY, 2, 1917. Intolerant
      855 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, MAY, 2, 1917. Intolerant ARE v. ng mJre i n tole- r. likone before it, was fought m the name of democracy, freedom of speech and thought and the right of s termination for small nations. The signs art? t anything but an ir.cn ase
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      PEOPLE IN SOPORE MAKE NEWS
      2122 4 PEOPLE IN SOPORE MAKE NEWS THE year was 1921, A the place Singapore, when two intrepid adventurers started walking all the way home from here to Blighty. Aft.T nine months of arduous treks through jungleswamps, mud roads and mountain trails they finally reached Rangoon, exhausted a. id seriously ill. Rangoon
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      FAITH
      16 4 Examine yours Iveswhether ye be m the faith: prow yonr own 9elvss. 2 Corin 13, ">.
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      QUIZ
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  • LOCAL NEWS.
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      PIRATES' LAIR IS NOW DESOLATE
      698 5  -  ALAN GARDNER b ree Fress Visits Kuala Kurau By Free Press SI ail Re|x>rter nvv** v i TAIPING, Thursday. I uuw I visited a lonely, desolate stretch of the Krian coa< 1 w r/ c the isolated fishing village of Kuala Kurau is st amidst
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      USSR WOMAN SPEAKS AT S'PORE RALLY
      23 5 USSR WOMAN SPEAKS AT S'PORE RALLY r e r the p cf F\?.rr>r M Olsa era5. at re- PMFTU the Ch!- the nies
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      AIRWAYS ALTER SCHEDULES
      5 5 NNIAL MEETIN<
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      NATIVES BUILD 30,000 HOUSES
      167 5 NATIVES BUILD 30,000 HOUSES 1 built themselves 30,000 homes he Administrator, Colonel J. 1 m Sydney from Port m i "This intense industry m the villages explains why there has been a shortage of labour for the he addrehabilitate<j trvmsc. jre turning to the plantations. They have clea I a
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      NAWAB IN ENGLAND
      64 5 Th 0 Nawab of Bhawalpur arrived m Dois r t ytsYrday by air from India. He will spend a three months' health v sit to England. Reuter Ipper picture shows (hotebokina. a Russian woman and one of the three representatives of the World Federation of Democratic louth
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      MALAYANS FOR OSLO MEETING
      176 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE V.M.C.A and ihe Methodist Youth Fellowship m Sin gapore are planning to have Malaya represented m the World Conference of Christian Youth to tx held m Oslo m July this year. Two Malayans now m England— Mr. Scan un Khong studying
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      2,300 JAPS TO QUIT N.E.I.
      59 5 COME 2,300 Japanese surrender--0 ed Personni'l_tho last remnants of 200.000 invaders which swept across the N e therland Easi Indies m 1942— wi1l be repatriated from Batavia to Japan on Saturday. In recent weeks, several groups of Japan* is<. attempted to esrapr rather than l
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      FOR WAR TRIAL
      31 5 Major-Geri. Minami, nead of the notorious "Minami Kihan" which organised the wartime! Japanese espionage activity m; Burma, was brought to Rangoon I yesterday to stand war crimes trial.
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      BIG OPIUM HAUL IN RANGOON
      41 5 Burma Customs authorities I oized a large quantity j of opium worth 160.000 rupees from the ship Shahzada, now m j The opium was discovered specially-nfade containers dumped m a wat^r tank m the engine-room.— Reuter.
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      'ASIA WONT BE EXPLOITED AGAIN'
      243 5 "THE main hope of the Asian 1 Conference is that the peoples of Asia will b e com e united m such a manner as not to allow the Western pow e rs to exploit them any more," declared Mr. C. i W. W. Kannangara?
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      I'LL Walk and She did
      5 5 I'LL Walk and She did
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      EXS-S'PORE WREN MARRIES IN U.K.
      276 5 EXS-S' POR E WREN MARRIES IN U.K. TWENTY -FOUR- YEAR-OLD Miss Philippa ("Pips") Cary. 1 who five months ago was unable to walk because of irrfantile paralysis, walked up the aisle at St. Paul's Church. Knightsbridge, S.W., to be married. It seemed like any other society wedding. Three hundred guests
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      RADIOS MUST BE LICENSED
      444 5 RADIOS MUST BE LICENSED Free Press Staff Reporter AWNERS of wireless sets m Singapore must now apply yj for licences which will cost them Sl2 each per year. This pre-war licensing has been re en f< reed under regulations gazetted yesterday. Other annual radio licence fees now payable are: land
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      Snakes Cross Causeway
      60 5 Snakes Cross Causeway Free Pre^s Staff Repor.er THE mornin? tra n to eapcre carried a surpii Customs c.T'ial- m I'p^ru yesterda\ When the train shopped a< station, the v v 1 exair.; took rlare. and Customs ofH found a passer.rer wi h »n unosu^l rarg:o ei.?ht one of which was
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      M.C.S. OFFICERS PROMOTED
      154 5 M.C.S. OFFICERS PROMOTED PROMOTIONS 1 the M; C v.l S have befn gaz, follows ff: Mr. E. E. F Pr, .Resident Comnvssione Mr. O. E VenabUs to bo R sid C smmissioner, Kedah. Mr Ward, M.C. to b 0 Rrsident C^n.,r. Selargor, Mr. A. s:, be Resident Comm: P har.g.
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      ARMY ATTACHE
      51 5 The British nriitary m e nt m Siam closed l when Calonel H^slop, Con: turned the mli'artacheship of th c Brit sh En: m Bargl Piv e remaining officers will r>e absorbed m t>> attache's hlishmer.t. and se\' P n NCOS are due to c ave for Britain
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  • NEWS.
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      YARD TRACK COUPON FORGERS
      143 6 YARD TRACK COUPON FORGERS m rt London, Scotland Yard believe "hat they are on the track of a highly-organised gang which for months has been forging quantities of clothing: cou--3 and selling them through Dlack market. me of the forgeries are the .skilled operat is using paper almost identical Ud
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      56 6 VyiiKN these Nubian soaU es- iped from the Children's i m r at London Zto !h made for the sai n the restaurant and. naturally made for the "Fellows Only piirt. v irch party found them uni 'h"in back to their ci sure, but not before a kind Fellow had
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      STAMPS BRING £5, 780
      14 6 I throe -day sale of s-'amps m London realised ,£5.780.
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      VICAR ATTACKS MORALS IN U.S.
      134 6 VICAR ATTACKS MORALS IN U.S. MORALS among American high-schoo] and university students are deplorable, the Rev. Brian Green, vicar of Holy Trinity, Brompton-road, London, declared when he was addressing his parishioners on what he saw during a lecture tour of the U.S. schools and universities. The American system of co-
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      CATERER WARNS TOURISTS
      230 6 CATERER WARNS TOURISTS ADVICE to the tbouMUkdl of Americans. Canadians, and AnatniUanf queueing on to book pMMgei >r Britain lltti moon: Stay home until 1948. pleme iho ;>'are isn't ready for you At any rat-e, that is how leaden of Britain's catering Industry look at after their tour of U.
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      'STONE' WAS ART
      36 6 An article describe*} as "a! piece of stone" wfaen stored, at j Surrey Commercial Docks, E,ng- i land, has bren identified as a valuable Indian statue. It is now m the British Museum.
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      HE IS TOO LIKE HITLER
      492 6 But he still keeps his moustache ANYONE meeting Carlo Bertone m the street m Rome might feel it his duty to seize him and call the police. If any one did. Carlo would understand. He would produce his identity papers, sigh, and recite an explanation
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      Deserted wife wins claim
      230 6 A WIFE deoertcd by hef husband twenty-two years ago h;ts u«in her claim to share m hi> mystery t'38,000 estate, she »> Mrs. Mark Bickerstaffe, of Randolph avenue, lon (1 n. who applied m fh<* Chaacery Division for an order thai she WMS entitled to maintenance
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      HE DUMPED HIS BROTHER .
      71 6 HE DUMPED HIS BROTHER An angry householder m Bristol. England, wheeled a barrowload of broken bricks, tiles and glass from his home and emptied it on.o the pavement outside the Bristol Council House. The householder is Mr. William My. rs. He told police who in«ned that he was protesting the
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      ARMY MAKESMENOF'EM
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      COL. CUMMING IS CASHIERED
      65 6 COL. CUMMING IS CASHIERED Lieut. -Colonel W. J. dimming, 50-year-old Indian Army "regular." has been cashiered and is to be shipped home from India to England for desertion. At his trial the prosecu'ion said he did not report for duty at Impal during the 1944 batUe for Burma, and Mrs.
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      AMERICAN MENFALLFOREVA
      330 6 EVA VON BLOMBERG, attnetfo blonde *ido* of German Kit' ld Marshal Werner \on Blomberg, sa\- Hat h^- received a number of marriage proposals Iroin romantic American men who hatvt seen her photograph m Bailed States newspaper- she will n^-t my whether >he accept any of the prop<^t!>. hut
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      BADGE FOR WIDOWS
      13 6 Lapel badges are beine; given I to French war-bereaved women.
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      DELEYED SHOCK
      21 6 DELEYED SH OCK William Buckley, 55, died an English factory o: failure resulting from a: shock received m 1926 Iverdict: Misadventure
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      They will stitch history
      88 6 jyjKHMs of ihc specimen saaijtai nan being submitted by boasswivei from ever) county m England and Walrs wi!i decide the team of skilled not rllew amrn t<> h** «ritrusted pritfe (he txsk of making Britain's modern covnterpsrl of the Bayeux tapestry, deputing; every phase of ironcn'a
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      APPEAL FOR LIMBLESS
      3 6 APPEAL FOR LIMBLESS
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      80 6 V-M g ri A T i A ki c phone 3400 J AA I it Exclusive to the Singafrorr Free Press it) Malaya 11 a. H.. 1.41 I l 6 45 9.30 A ,I A H I T SE H A f, CH r eUas%£t IGEORG.E/X. LYDIAf) f «S«<sfa^ s
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      23 6 SH fZW& W "I/A —^^JSMEBL^ PACK EL SINCEOPENING! I IK MAGIC TECHNICOLOR SJUUNG COXRAD VEfOT SASU JIK lif^ com£ £>4/?iy ro disappok I
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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      133 6 Free Press Crossword Ho. e I I 5- I j I I I I f V^/ 1 1 f ..u gP r. FajsUicious individual right fat (5); 10 Find a further w I assemble here would be more s (6). 15 Not bound, to be at J oblivion here (5).
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  • SPORT
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      GINESH WORTHS MORE THAN 4 GOALS
      471 7 j rsavy (Jut played In league Game T IVT l! y <>ur Soccer Reporter TAKING every advantage of a dry field, the Chinese election (the seniors) outplayed Navy m evert department of the a m e to win their league fix Je L, nr
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      PATEY OUT OF AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
      10 7 PA TEY OUT OF AMAT EUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP f j
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      ABDUL HAFEEZ PLAYING FOR OXFORD TOMORROW
      7 7 aSASDAdaSD
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      HALIFAX WIN 14-12
      15 7 HALIFAX, playing at horr.R,,^ 1V f P 01 Stan!cy 14 12 a
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      MISRA BEATS WALTON IN FIVE-SET DUEL.
      514 7 MIS RA BEAT S WA LTON IN FIVE-SET DUEL. j/-K» tL£^^2MLL Ull e l n t BOURNEMOUTH, Thursd IHE British hardcourts lawn tennis championships are heading towards international finals with overseas plavring likely to dominate matters. The men's sirre m final row will find no home player m action as
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      S. Africans All Out 167
      80 7 S. Africans All Out 167 Worcester, Thurs. COUTH .Africa scored Ki7 m reply to Worcester's first innings total oi when the season's first first class cricket match was continued today Perks, Worcester fast bowler, took five wickets for 65 runs and Jackson four for 63. Worcester were 83 for seven
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      Unwelcome Guest
      2 7 Unwelcome Guest
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      SUSSEX PREPARE FOR CRICKET
      30 7 sex County cricketers are busy preparing for the opening of the season. Watching them are England player Patsy Hemlren and H P. Chaplin, official Sussex coach.
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      GOOD BOWLING AT BIDADARI
      159 7 IN a low scoring match at BHadari. 1 GHQ 2nd Echelon SEALF beat 61 Coy R.A.S.C. by three wickets. Scores Gl COY It A v Mullins b Kilner 18; Stubley c Gag: b Kl'nsr 2; Baines Ibw b kilner 1; -d b Thompson 10; Wincile b
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      1,000 GUINEAS PROBABLES
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      WEEKEND CRICKET TEAR!
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    FAROUK MEETS GOV.
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    TO SERVE 18 YEARS FOR EXTORTION
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    Loch Ness moster again
    93 8 m -FICIAL testimonj about the Loth Ness Monster, who retired from the news during the war. came yesterday from Mr. J. \Y. Mi Killop, Clerk to the Inverness- shire County Council, who toM the r iimn he ha I seen it w Y e motoring along
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    JAPS BARRED
    40 8 Th dian Prime Mini. Mr. MacKenzie King, announced m the House of Commons at Ottawa yesterdoy that Canada would not allow large numbers of le from Asia to enter Canada, and would not allow any Japanese immigration.— Reuter
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    338 8 LONDON. Thur->da> "Till British people are convinced that Americans are 1 illy attractive, mentally immature, adolescent and very pleasant adoi* sts at that, according t<i lervation, a public opinion leaflet. "Most people, when \\w\ think of American- Imm- m mind certain rather clearh fini-d character traits," it
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