The Singapore Free Press, 3 May 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, May 3, 1947. I PRK't m i l\ I&.
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    GARRETT RESIGNS
    203 1 WORE COMPLAINTS rO LONDON ess Staff Reporter LriwPrt^ understands (hat Mr. S. P. (iarreti. Adviser to tru- Smgapore Govern- has tendered his resignation from the post and c to Singapore under the nment's scheme to appoint le unionists to the colonies to the formation of trades ught the
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    UNO WILL LEARN JEWS' CASE
    7 1 UNO WILL LEARN JEWS' CASE I I
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    UNKNOWN
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    SFTU BLAMES S'PORE GOVT
    72 1 A fence yesterday, n .gapore Federation of the Gov>ng delay v.hich "ed m the rejection Jf plication for registration ro support thi -President of the SPTfJ. Ed reporters a thick nlc of c that passed beShort S.rcet and Empr nine months. Doth Mr. John Brazier and
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    CALCUTTA STRIKE OFF
    15 1 Calcutta's 87-day-old strike ol about 22,000 port workers was called off yesterday.
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    CZECH SHOE KING GETS 15 YEARS
    185 1 CZECH SHOE KING GETS 15 YEARS JAN BAT A, Czech "Shoe King,' was sentenced m h's absence by the Czech Court today to 15 years' hard labour, loss ie rights for the same period and confiscation of his entire property. The Prague National Court found him guilty of haying "damaged
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    CHINA TO PAY UP
    17 1 U.S. will negotiate for the settlement of the Chinese Government's outstanding accounts soon.
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    Mil Rip Van Winkle
    68 1 A [TRACTIVE 19-year-old Mademoiselle ReUande >iillct. a subjx;s;mistress at Nernier near Grenoble m the South of France. weal to bed as usual on returning from a cinema last Sunday and has not awakened since. When she did not awake as usual it v.n nought she had
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    WARSHPITE AGROUND
    77 1 •GRAND OLD LADY" of the Brill h Fleet, the Warspitc, made her last defiant gesture, wh n she ran aground on her way to the breakers' \.ird The Penlee lileboat had to battle her way to the Warspitc eight times before the m i rew of eight were
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    $5,000 hold-up in Singapore
    204 1 Free Press Staff Report* r AKRK. employed by a building contractor m Singapore, is waylaid by five Chinese outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at 11.45 o'clock yesterday morning and rob bed of $5,000 which he had a few minutes earlier drawn from the bank. The
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    12 HURT IN U.S. EXPLOSION
    47 1 TWELVE persons were injured m a tremendous explosion at the Deemer Steel Casting Company works m New Castle, Delaware, yesterday. The situation was brought under control ar.d the lire which followed th« explosion extinguished. Newcastle is about 30 miles south-west of Philadelphia.—
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    LIFE SENTENCE
    89 1 Julien Chausson, the one-eyed, a hunch-backed dwarf wh:s e hat- f r,-d for all tall normal peoplo l e d to murdrr, was condemned to c death m P?.ris yesterday for his d part m th e murder of a farmer f with whom h e lived. a
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    MARELLA SAILS FOR SINGAPORE
    60 1 THE British ship Marella sailed from Melbourne yesterday for Singapore after being delayed for four days by a Custom inquiry. The Captain and three Chinese members of the crew appeared before the Controller of Customs on charges that they tried to export prohibited goods. Results of
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    TWO GERMANS HANGED
    25 1 Two Germans were hanged at Landsberg prison yesterday for killing a surrendered American flier near Kuechne, Germany, on Mnvpmhrr 3D 1944- U.P.
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    VOCEROY REPORTS TO CABINET
    352 1 VOCEROY REPORTS TO CABINET Talks On N.W. Frontier NEW DELHI. Friday. I OHD ISMAY, senior member of the icem% s MafT today L left by plane for London to report to the British < „bir>i on the progress made m transferring the n India to responsible Indiana leaving the Vicitov
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    NAVY MANS THE TOWER BRIDGE
    108 1 NAVY MANS THE TOWER BRIDGE IJWAI. engineers and stokers are today taking over Uw operation of London's Tower Bridge across the River i I tames. Losed to ;i!l traffic since Mond.i> because of an unauthorised bj City of London municipal workers. The drawbridge has had to remain raised ever since
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    DUCE'S SON FLEES IN DISGUISE
    116 1 DUCE'S SON FLEES IN DISGUISE BuENOS AIRES. Fri. UITI'ORIO Mussolini, son of the late Duce, whose presence In Argentina was rumoured for several days, will be permitted to take up residence m Buer.os Aires; after paying an unspecified fi^e for entering the country illegally. j His presence m Argentina was
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    250 SICK JAPS GO ON MONDAY
    53 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. Two hundred and fifty six Japanese surrendered personnel tvill embark on the British hospital ship Oxfordshire for Japan tomorrow, and will sail for Kure on Monday afternoon. Another 1,000 Japanese surrendered personnel will leave Singapore by the Dilwara for Japan
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    CHARLES 1 WILL GET NEW SWORD
    47 1 The statue of Charles I, remov- ed for safekeeping during the war. will be returned to its Whitehall pedestal on Monday complete with a new sword and Order of the Garter to replace originals stolen by vandals m 1844 tt p
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    1000 ARE DEAD IN REVOLT
    121 1 1000 ARE DEAD IN REVOLT BUENOS AIRES Friday MORE than I.COO people 111 ing women and children, ha.been killed m house -to-] bLttlas m the revolt on Su against the- Paraguayan Govern ment or the marine garrison a Asuncion, stats unconfirmed reports from Paraguay. The total is expectod to ot
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    TO BE IN HINDUSTANI
    29 1 maia s new constitution is r < be drawn up m Hindustani ins tr-'.d of English, it was annoiracec m the Constituent Assembly m Delhi FeSterd
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    GANGSTERS GIVE UP
    149 1 A.N'GOON, Fri. npvVO men suspected of having held up the Hone: Kong and Shanghai Eank m Rangoon on Monday surrendered yesterday alter police armed with Bren guns surrounded the apaitment house m which they had hidden. The men were o i a. Vrsalovlch and N D? ooa.a
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  • ENTERTANINMENT
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      TWO MEN IN
      903 2  -  DAVID GRANT TREBLE CLEF By VF.HIDI MKMHIN V¥TTB ills -i- IKK. HEPHZIBAH, reheanini together for their sonata recital at the Albert Ball, When Fehndl Menuhin yave his last concert m New York, he was wearing a beard and locking (accenting to his sister* "like an Old Te*itair?nt
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      SAME DAY
      714 2 MALCOLM SARGENT, ;i very difiVivnt typ of man from Sir Thomas, but possessing the same magnetic personality, rose to his present eminence by «/leaps and bounds. His career can truthfully be described as meteoric. Bnrn st. rnfard, Lincolnshire, m 1895, he soon rib what remarkable musical gifts 1,:
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      A TRAGEDY WITH TRIMMINGS
      204 2 A TRAGEDY WITH TRIMMINGS Review of new films showing 7 I VEMA REPO. DIVINE intervention becomes increasingly popular with film-makers reeding new bottles for their old wine. Frank Capra, one of the sprightliest directors the war. has gone to h< for his first post-war film. IT'S A WONDERI i t
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      COMING EVENTS
      88 2 TO-NIGHT, at 8.00 p.n, the "Little Thfalr Stn of "Ml ITALY," tncludii g musi Palestrina, \ivai V nil, Rossini IX) MORROW, at B.<M Classical Gramophi ne H at the Union Jut k !üb. WEDNESDAY, 7.h ftb 8.00 p.m. at the "Little 1 tre", Armenian St., I6th Ke H
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    • Miscellaneous
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      1071 2 QIVPuPHSr "30 p.m. From today's papers. Ormston; 8,55 Austalian Wewsreel; 910 Leopold and His Pla., •MriLj.Hr W!\^ 740 interlude; 7.45 Montmartre Play Overaea s Mail Bag; 9.30 Singers and 4.30 Sho 5 p.m. Radio SEAC Blue Network Engli-h ers; 8.00 Radio Jlhythm Club; 8.30 Th :s— Richard Tauber (Tenor) Show;
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      69 2 TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM CPADES leaas North I to win six TH against any defer A I This prob:by W. B Orr and incorporu a ver idea, leads the heart ace, North d carding the d. en South then leads a low TH West mv lV nd wi m he leads.
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      FIRMER RUSSIA POLICY
      317 3 FI RM ER RUSSIA POLICY Its time to give vent to pent-up distrust' DOLITICAL observers m Nanking discern a stiffening of the Chinese Government's attitude toward Russia under the veneer of diplomatic politeness which China's foreign representatives have maintained almost painstakingly m their dealings with the Soviet Union. This change
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      AVIATION TALKS
      22 3 AVI AT ION TAL KS SEVENTEEN Chinese aviation officials are now m Mon- j treal to at end the International Organization Conference.
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      SECOND CRISIS IN 4 MONTHS
      81 3 init m the last four month-, China is now thr«x> of what appeal ■<> be the r :he end of the wai Business and the crisis this time is marked by the md confu> <>n much greater and that the new crisis will subject G
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      LOAN REPORT IS DENIED
      72 3 THE Prime Minister ot China. Chang Chun, has emphatically denied that the Ch:. Governmer. seeking a loan abroad Qnc deplored the concept that China's economic chaos could not be remedied wi hou* foreign aid. Speaking at a Press reception, Chang said China known for resources should
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      TO HEAD TOKIO MISSION
      74 3 TO HEAD TOKIO MISSION pr.N Chang Chi. delegate to the United Nations r Committee, it is reported, will succeed Gen. Chu Ming as the head of the Chinese Mission to Tokio. Chu. at present m hospital m Shanghai, has been there ever return frcm Tok o last month. Chang recently
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      PHILIPPINES PACT TAR-SIGHTED'
      86 3 THE Fukien Times m an editorial, praised "far-sigfhted" President Roxas of the Philippines m signing the amity treaty with China. It said that the President recognized that among he near neighbours, China was important country "he Philippines. The Times said the treaty was a new page m
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      NEW CABINET MEETING
      4 3 NEW CABINET MEETING U.P.
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      IMPORT OUOTAS
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      Wherepoppies bloom again
      55 3 THf biggest opium-grown..; area m South China is the district of Kityang, near Swatow, the Kwangtung Provincial news service disclosed m reporting the results of a survey < arried out by the Provincial Commission on Affairs. Ihe survey showed that more than 30,000,000 poppy plants are being
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      BIG BUSINESS IS SHORT OF CASH
      202 3 BUSINESS on a big scale m Canton is hampered by a shortage of cash m the financial market, with the result that the rate of interest has gone to extreme heights, ao cording to the proprietor of a Canton bank. The banker said that
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      Lootaatg orgy In S. Chista
      56 3 MORE than 1.000 band:t«, al- legedly supported by 100 Japanese troops, are reported to have repelled an attack by provincial guards m the Lienkang county of south -western Kwangtnng, and to be entjafjed m an orgy <>f looting ,md plunder. The bandits allegedly are fquipped
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      BACK PAY FOR BRITONS
      125 3 THE Chinese Government has j decided to pay, up ro the. end of September 1945, superannuation and gratuity funds and re irement pensions of former employees of the Shanghai Municipal Council— a Government body of the now defunct Interna-ional Settlement who were interned by the Japanese
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      JAP REPARATIONS FOR 14 PORTS
      79 3 JAP REPARATIONS FOR 14 PORTS A SHANGHAI report says that the Chinese government has assigned 14 ports to receive 482.218 tons of Japanese reparations including machine tools, shipbuilding iron and sterl. chemicals, elec ric generators, and light industries. Shanghai, having the largest harbour storage facilities, will receive the largest share
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      Off To The Frontline
      21 3 National troops loading: motor transport and supplies on to rail wagons going to the frontlines m China.
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      'Stop smuggling China antiques'
      394 3 'Stop smuggling China antiques' AN appeal has bven made by Chinese cultural societies and art connoisseurs for more stringent Customs mea sures to stop the outflow of valuable antiques and curiobeing smuggled out of China lo foreign countries by ''unscrupulous" curio dealers. The National Museum m Peiping reports the recovery
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      NANKING TO BE REBUILT
      338 3 NANKING TO BE REBUILT i* has often told reporters that he has no big ideas. "I'm an engineer from head to and I have only an engineer's ideas, which I hope are practical, but net big." Last week, however, Mayor Shen called on President Chiang; Kai-Shek with the blueprint of
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      GOVT. IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
      200 3 League issues statement THE reorganised government of Nanking was strongly criticised by the Democratic League m a writen statement which said the new regime was "not j calculated to bring aboui democracy m China" and appealed o Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sh< k to halt the civil war
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      SOLDIERS HELD BY BRITISH
      102 3 A CHINESE Foreign Office source m Nanking denied that any protest had been for- warded by the Kwangtung provincial authorities Jo "he Hong Kong Government m respect of the de ention by the British of two Chinese soldiers, alleged to have been kidnapped by smugglers and
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      GEN. EDGEHTON
      46 3 Major General Glen E. fcdtj..rton, director of UNRRA Chi- a office, is returning to Washington shortly, and will be succeeded by Harlan Cleveland, until recently, the deputy chief of the UNRF/\ [talian Mission. Edg< i aded the China nffiro sin^n \oc i August.- U.P.
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1947. Are We Intolerant?
      770 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1947. Are We Intolerant? IRE we l more or 'ess tolerant m Singapore? The Lswer is botih. Every day now it is possible to see Japanese prisoners wandering about the city m twos and th d even singly, quite confident they can move
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      DON IDDONS DIARY
      1047 4 lllhljv i, \Y?'- NEW VQRK •rjL By AIR HAIL f A CITY DIES AND AMERICA'S ARMCHAIR ATOM-BOMBERS THINK AGAIN-HARD THE siuiden death ut Texas City by explosion and fire has provoked the scientists and politicians m America to bring out the atom bomb again for inspection and
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      498 4 Tl V say the law if UIBI X iHAW. Amer most eccentric millionaire, was a madman, and to prove it they point to his will. leaves money to people he met for only five minutes or so ten 15 or 20 years ago. And they are ni^ht-club
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      Careers for women
      17 4 I trst w man technk iau scttlcal eiisin-erine wLstle seen h re m tY.f
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      WASTE GAS GIVE MORE M. P. H.
      350 4 M OR E than half of the l" energy m an airp ael tank goes out the exhatut pipes. Aircraft engine designers, trying to turn some of that wasted r back into the pro: let shaft, now are able experimentally to recover as
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      QUIZ
      56 4 1. What is a salaam? 2. Complete the following: (a) "My wild Irish (b) "1 11 take y U home again (c) "She was poor but she was. 3 What is an auk? 4 Is an Ora-ngxnan Catholic or Protestant? 5. Wh.-> rebuked Damocles by suspending a sword over
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      FAITH
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      Roadhints For Singapore
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      4,000 FOOD SHIPS IN THERE MONTHS
      323 5 4,000 FOOD SHIPS IN THERE MONTHS Free Press Staff Reporter IN increasingly large number of ships bring foodstuds and produce into Singapore from the neighbooring islands. The average is 1,300 ships a month or 10-odd a day. Shipping Office statistics give a figure of just more than 4,000 ships during
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      Chinese Gets High Postal Appointment
      41 5 Chinese Gets High Postal Appointment FrK Ft,.- S rter hold a raent m g Mr. 10 has rank of i Post, lea an ■0 per Si Xa Wong Officp, Super.rded last irtag nd for I ar-d motion, and Kong, is a
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      SIR GEORGE PIRIE
      8 5 I George I rport I
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      NEW RACKET IN SING A PORE
      181 5 Free Press Staff Reporter Mr URIAH ndia art faced with a new racket— i>i Bfei illegal money to persons who kels i'-r them. the Singapore Regional Indian Conates that many verbal ide by victims who experienced g passages to India. We took up the
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      EVEN BIRDS GET MALARIA
      74 5 \MI'!N hni ly. DIRDS and anirnn!< Jn "Malaya's jungles and mangrove swamps get malaria, and many of them die (ram it. That is one interest inc fact which has been discu\cn'd by doctors who are, at present, working on malarial research. The birds do not get
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      IN MIDDLE-AGE HER HELATH WAS POOR
      40 5 many age, to This is 1 how *%y to overcome she I WBi fes how I I have bs. I They anyI did. 1 I had aschen for > and hot mulate thus 'which, lower
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      45 TRADE UNIONS IN SINGAPORE
      96 5 THERE are now 45 registered trade nnlooi fan Singapore, the following h.i ne now registered ur.cVr the Trades Union Ordinance: Singapore Cigar Workers' Uuion, Singapore Cinema Workers' Union, Nava. Ea.^ Labour Union, Singapore United W^flOMnf labour Union. Singapore Rice TrarLspjrt Workers' Union, Singapore Dairy Farm
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      GREETINGS SENT
      43 5 The Governor of Singapore nas re ceived the following message from Buckingham Palace: "The Lady- in Waiting writes to acknowledge the OMBBfC of birthday greetings to Princess Elizabeth from the people of Singapore, which has been forwarded to Her Royal Highness."
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      BUDDHA'S BIRHTDAY
      96 5 Fret Pfecn 9*»M Wtiymttl THE anniversary of Lord Buddha V birth will be celebrated by the Singapore Buddhist Association at the Ramakrishna Mission tomorrow. The S-B.A. programme opens at 6 ajn. tomorrow and ends with a sermon at 7.30 p.m. on Monday. Ttie programme at Ramakrishna; \iis^ioii tom>-r-
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      SEAMANSHIP CLASS
      57 5 Boys who applied to Mr. J. W. Chilton, o-f the Marine Police, for pennissioo to join the Seamanship Class at the Queen Street Boys' Club should call at the Club at 545 p.m. on Monday. May 5 to enrol. The class will be held every Monday for three
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      It wasn't all speeches
      91 5 It wasn't all speeches At thr May Daj rally m Sim;ap:re. it wasn't all speec h making and slogan-shouting btche fiiatib of th? Singapore Traction Company Employees' Union was presented with a souvenir by the Pan -Malayan Federation of Trade Unions by Tuan Dj. Sjahruzah (with bath to camera) of
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      SURPRISE FOR BURNETT
      648 5 'Pre-historic 'friend sends a letter Free Press Staff Reporter A WOMAN, 91 years old, who read of the trial ol Major John Burnett m Singapore m the newspapers m Eng kind has sent a letter to the Free Press addressed to Major Burnett, with a covering letter
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      MALACCA PLANS WELFARE DRIVES
      265 5 Free Press Stall Reporter TN an effort to raise money to provide certain badly netxl 1 ed social services, Malacca is to hold a welfare dri* 7 beginning <>n Monday, May 5, and hustinj» until .May 17. The purpose of this drive is to make the
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      Mystery story from Ceylon
      59 5 A WRECKED boat and a hu*e dead shark hitched to it VCfC lound afloat far out m the sea by some fishermen who recently went en a deep-sea fisfrns expedition from Kalutara, some 25 miles south of Colombo. No trace of the owner of Ihe wrecked
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      10.000 CHINESE MAY ENTER SIAM
      60 5 SIAM'S new immigration Quotas, effective May 1, 1947, onwards, fixes Chinese immigration at 10,000 and oth e r foreign countries 200 annually. The Chinese Embassy In Bangkok, is at present, negotiating for raising th<- quota to 18,000 allowing 10,000 at present In China ports awaiting
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      UMNO MEETING ON MAY 11
      94 5 Th c sixth general assembly of the United Malays National Organization will b e held at Kota Bharu for three days beginning from May 11. which is tb c first anniversary of the foundation of the Organization. Elaborate preparations aacr c being made for the
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      FOOD PRICKS FALLING IN IN MALACCA
      195 5 FOOD PRICKS FALLING IN IN MALACCA ALTHOUGH Malacca's food prices have shown no remarkable drop during th c past three months, there hag been a steady reduction m th c price of staple commodities like rice, pork and most varieties of fish, except at festival periods when increases have been
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      SEARCH FOR PERAK GEMS
      492 5 SEARCH FOR PERAK GEMS TAiPING, Friday. A LARGE-SCALE public inquiry is to open at Taiping soon into the disappearance from the Treasury of jewellery which was confiscated by the Japanese during the occupa tion, handed over intact to the B.M.A. and was discovered missing just after the return of the
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  • NEWS
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      SHOT SIKH USED CAR ILLGALLY
      813 6 SHOT SIKH USED CAR ILLGALLY Major Burnett trial: fifth day i ret- Press stail Reporter Ti!K cai which was shot at by military sentries guarding a sub-depot of 223 Base Ordnance Depot, Singapore, Jobs < hua (hu Kang Road had been illegally used as a xi to take two servicemen
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      UNCLAIMED
      36 6 About £13.000 In Civil l> 'uitie.s and pos'— war cre>: due to 3,700 former members o: the warUme London Auxiliary Fire S. London Auxiliary ulance nd London He.v/y Re.se ur Service, has not b>*>n claimed.
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      LONDON CHANGES WORKING HOIKS
      186 6 SO tar Central Loncion firms with stalls totalling •>:">. o;iii have accepted itaggered hours to ease travel condi tions, announces the London Passenger Transport Hoard. The-se firm^ have already begun, or will begin soon, to ad just their working hours so thai all their employees due
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      THEY INVENTED TIME KILLES
      90 6 LIEUT -C-luiu: F. C. By< rs Chief Liberal Party Whip, recommended at a meeting a* Luton. England, ;hat the British Civil Service be completely overhaul He rtad to the meeting thLs letter about Civil Servants. written by a former Civil Servant. "Men, some of them earning
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      RUSSIANS SEEK WINE MARKET
      182 6 RUSSIANS SEEK WINE MARKET FRENCH reports state that Russia is shortly to campaign F for markets for her wines m several western count: including Britain. Samples of Burgundy-type table Wi rom lie Crimea and Georgia are said m Paris trade eir their way Uj m. An official of the Russian
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      HATS TELL JOB
      66 6 HATS TELL JOB UAPPI m their new m irk ire Henn Moas, 15 (left) and Petet raylor, IT. two of tho \*oo secon v- schoolboys wh are kmi t> kcom < b N uid iiv n H '>n their two ani three rear cou it \ht Botel School ol th<-
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      PUZZLE DUCKS
      56 6 Two d icls which normally on the ground by a river have built their nest this year i:< a tr at Salisbury. The puzzle is how the birds managed to build the nest, and this will be followed by the problem of how the ducklings, when ha chfd.
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      Houses as war memorial
      78 6 A HOI M will be built m every town and rural district m Dors't li H> to < <»• m :<■ the v. ar d?ad of the county. The houses will be allotted to widows <vwth children) of men who j died m action, d'sablc I
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      RADIO PLEA FOR OLD FOLK
      65 6 WOMEN branch* tne British Legion war.; oldners and the disa to have wireless licences at the old rate of 10s. Failing that, v want pensi< > be al- lowed to pay the €1 licence m instalments. Other branches will ask women's conference next for pensions
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      IRELAND TOO
      20 6 arettes are scarce In Eire. Reason: Irishmen expect an increase m their tobacco >ax m next month's Bud.
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      WORLS'S YOUTH TO MEET
      369 6 WORLS'S YOUTH TO MEET Festival for peace THOUSANDS of young people from most countries m the world are preparing to visit Pragr?. the capital "zechoslovakia. for the VVurki tfouth Festival io be held there from Jul> 20 to August 17. ih< theme of the festiva! is: "Through international friendship and
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      QUEEN SENDS A GIFT TREE
      51 6 Queen Wil: ot th. r lands will send a you: to the village Dorch< dan Oak, torn down m eal p s. oak Jvas planted 72 ago on the side of the Ri ne by Queen Sophia Ne herlands to commem? Sheridan family christen. L
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      Mutiny verdiel lifted: 6 freed
      88 6 Mutiny verdiel lifted: 6 freed SENTENi ES on six British soldier I ebruary at Quassa»in m i have been quashed o- ad. have becfl freed, and a tcs: "The Judge -Ad v that confessions obt trial should not have b evidence being c re obtained. "It is not possible to
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      126 6 J/\ l^l fc" Exclusive to ike Singattore Free Press m Malawi (lo THIS is /may i ask \/\oo may— if you'li \KlYdia and i are yes-yes-zey\ j WHAT BRINGS V TeLL ME WHAT YOU'RE {ON HOLIDAY AT //VE-RY GALLANTLY N/^TmE FfLLOW You vfc\ /-THE" BUSINESS" \V^ YOU HE-RE WiTh DOING
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      ENGLAND MEET FRANCE TODAY.
      181 7 XnC Goal keeping Rul: To Apply t meet for the first time since the war itch at Highbury. London, to matches, France won m Paris by sear and drew two-two at Wembky H f gland are favourites for to- edy Frenchmen may upset Eng- lat Wembley
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      S. Africans Beaten By 39 Runs
      7 7 S. Africans Beaten By 39 Runs j»i-
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      DAVIS CUP TENNIS STARTS
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      223 BOD TEAMS
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      TODAY'S U.K. FIXTURES
      123 7 TODAY'S U.K. FIXTURES today are: ENGLISH LEAGUE FIR^T DIVISION ea *y State ool v. Manchester v. Wolves iad OND DIVISION 3arr_: v Fuiharn am v. Bra_: v. Tottenham Southampton C Newcastle Swansea T Bromwieh v. Coventry d. v. Sheffield THIRD DIVISON SOUTHERN v. Exeter v. Crvstal P. v Nol v
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      DAVIS CUP DATES
      40 7 PARIS I QC€ versus India Davis Cup -x played at the Roland .m m Paris, starting May :;ng to an announcement by rencta Ta tkm. The a Denmark tie will prob- d off ac Monaco duperiod. Reuter
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      MISRA, HARPER BEATEN IN U.K. TENNIS
      171 7 BOURNEMOUTH, Fri. SUMANT MISRA. Indian lawn ter.als champion, was beaten m the semi-final of ihe men's singles iii the .sh hard -court championships here lay by LAgnzcy Tloczynski. Polish Davis cup player, who won 6 l, 6 o. 6— 3 an unexpectedly easy -,ver
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      SCHOOL CRICKET
      102 7 Victorians wni meet the St Joseph's Institution Cricket XI m a game today. The match will be played on the St. Georges Road Ground, starting from 2 pm. The following are requested to turn up puncUii.ly Victorians: Gurnam Sin^h, Wee Kirn Hui. Fred N. Campos. Thamby. Tan Soon
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      73rd KENTUCKY DERBY TODAY
      205 7 LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Frt. FURTEEN colts will u\ce the .starter ror the 73rd. running of the Kentucky Derby tomorrow Phalanx, by Pilate out of Jacola, owned by Mr. C. V. Whitney continues firm favourite with Calumet Farm's Faultless, by Bull Lea out of Unerring, second choice and
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      S.C.C. CRICKET TEAMS
      180 7 S.C. C. CRICKET TEAMS S.CC. Vs. S.R.C. today, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, at 11 a.m. on S.R.C. Padang. The followiiig have been selected to .-ent th<> Club. A. C. Growder i J B. H. Leckie, W. K. I Jaeger, J. P. Pearson. J. W. Euart, H. M. NewtOD, C.
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      S.C.R.C. CRICKET XI
      60 7 S.C.R.C. team to meet R.A.F. at jPaya Lebar on Sunday at 11 a.m. is: Scan K<*ang Si?w. Chua Boon Unn. Wee Chong Ghee. Koo Ong Lee. Low Kee Pow, Sv.-ee Lim Swong. Chong Pow Thye. Ong Chew Bee, Ong Tong Bee, HoTeng Bin, Cheong Thain Siew. Players
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      WIN FOR OFFICERS
      34 7 The 223 8.0.D. Officers 11 beat the 223 8.0.D. Warrant Officers and Sergeants XI by four goals to two m a pme of hockey played at Alexandra I Road sports ground.
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      FRECH FILLY WINS GUINEAS
      330 7 From Vernon Margan Neunarke.l Friday PRANCE won tier first major success be British turf this season when vac Pierra Corbiere's fiily Imprust&rting 4 l favourite, won a for the 1.000 Guineas by -up Rose O Lynn also trained m France. is 1 by Mrs. L. Lawrence,
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      International Rugger
      24 7 International Rugger England well m the fort' m a tin eout during the International Ru-r by match again>t France at Twickenham, which England won.
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      BIG ARMY, R.A.F. EVENTS TODAY
      359 7 BIG ARMY, R.A.F. EVENTS TODAY THERE la an unusually interesting and varied bill of sports 1 fare for thus week end with cricket, swimming, athletics, soccer and wrestling providing the major events. The game of cricket between the first teams of the padang clubs at the S.R.C. today and tomorrow
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      MERRIDALE YOUTHS
      99 7 The following will represent the Merridale Youtii B.P. against the Sporilight B.P. m a return friendly badminton match consisting of 4 singles, 3 doubles and 2 mixed doubles. t» be played at their Court at No. 11. Sirat Road at 4.00 p.m. sharp today. Poh Kirn Van, Chan
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      ARMY CERTAIN OF 1st ROUND LEAD
      586 7 ARMY CERTAIN OF 1st ROUND LEAD Soccer Notes By Our Soccer Reporter HOW close is the struggle now m the S.A-F.A. league competition is well demonstrated by the fact that Chinese second selection who. before they met the Navy, were lying third from the bottom m the tables \v;?h mx
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      R.S.G.C WEEKEND COMPETITION
      57 7 The Royal Singapore Golf Club May Medal Competition (Stabieford Handicapping System) will be played at Bukit Timar- this afternoon and tomorrow morning, 18 hfles, maximum handicap allowed 18. A Ball Sweep will be run in conjunction with the Medal at $2/_ per head. Time Sheets hav e
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      CUTSCHOORN NOT IN WORCESTER XI
      111 7 L. OUTSCHOORN, the former S.. pore Recreation Club and C cricketer, is showing promis^ with the Worcestershire County Cricket Club as a pofessional. However, the Cour...y did not justified m giving him a piac c against the South Africans m the present game at the
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      163 7 WEEXE.YD SPOUTS DIARY TOD AT CRICKFT SRC v S*C C. SRC. 1 pm; S,C,C, "A" v S.R:C: v S.CC. Z p.m Seaforth Hi h landers v CSC. Gillman. 2 15 pm.; Poli< c v St. Andrew's Old Boys, Thomson -toad. 2 pm SWIMMING: Army inter-unit championship finals, Gillman Barracks. 3
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      59 8 lelier to the fcdi tor: Maj I express ;i wish. li wi», wi uld it I p ssril 1c to yivc a study tttHß the North, preferably Jcsmond Dene? J swiknkv. Kditor: lesßit I Dene ire have not; but here's .1 place Geordiea should nov. cß— Barr.vs Bridge St f
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      Cloud, local showers
      82 8 Cloud, local showers WEATHER njtvniHi feterm« for 24 door* 'mm noar toda« compiled b* I- Ontr-ai Vm*f*Um* n \v Command Far Eaal: with |r>oa' showers mainly -th of island. Fine to-nifht w morninc. V- liohf southerly 8.38 p. a. Saarfe« 8.23 Dii c 5 17 p.W >I(>on*-et m. T«»-r.T>er.itur ;v
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      FINED £3,200 FOR SPENDING £1,900
      48 8 FINED £3,200 FOR SPENDING £1,900 C totalling £3,200 wer c im I posed rday a L ompany director, E i Ezrr ::y to eight cur •ency orTenc- 1,900. I' :"our chr totalling £900 drawn b; &m. found their v. Dank t of Max Intratoi French financier, now ay
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      MP FEARS 'HOLLYWOOD EMPIRE' IN EAST
      822 8 MP FEARS 'HOLLYWOOD EMPIRE' IN EAST Mr Driberg .said there had been a suggestion that Aung San might introduce some torm of totalitarian government into Burma, but M.P.s who had talked to members of the Interim Government m London had found them very keen to uphold public liberties, fn edom
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      TINS AT BEST FOR MONTHS
      658 8 TINS AT BEST FOR MONTHS S'i?ore Market Report 41 Hold ll tone of ;h».' l»n.al >iiarc market has ii been more subdued during the past week the volume oi business reported especiall} as regards Industrials has m no waj diminished, stales our Market < orrespondent, Tin shares h::\e ai^> enj<»\ri!
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      HARDER WORK IN British wnes
      71 8 HARDER WORK IN British wnes LONDON. Pn. ABSENTEEISM m ln e B cool nil nations r, 1 16.32 p- i luring the lour months ol 1047 c )m] with 17.69 ding period last year th c Board -i Trad^ President, Sir Cripps, told n Press c toe. Shoi than a
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      They try to look pretty in jail
      130 8 They try to look pretty in jail J.MFH^* 1^ kifENT doesn't kill a w^man s d Officials at Hoi km a} I that some ol the girls imprisoned there are breakfast porridge to makt face p. ruing the fat off t heir n nail lotion. Both th« 3 m their
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      E.AFRICA MEETS INDIAN PROTEST
      45 8 The E has introduced nei control p: me; t obje I Indian Gov ginal Bill publ: The new B;II s for p sonal capit would be to start their o. lays down thai assured employment mu tinue in it for Reuter
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY.
      342 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY. k Special Market corr -.unlciit fives the prices of rubber at II :i.m todaj i-- Follows: I "livers Sellers Cts. Cts. oer Ib t>f-r Ih No 1 K.S S. Spot loose 43 No 1 K.S S. fob m bales May 43 :l 14 No 2 tl
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      7,000-mile trek to see King
      108 8 7, 000-mile trek to see King A' hi f lr lUeS UUhin < Of London a famiU .w I HJ7v rt I! iV IiHUI Uri(a as imniiiraiits to the Inion, h>m, hi! n B °J al amilv iOr thc ftr^ "me, 7.000 miles iron. ThVv il!Sl ly Southern Hhodesia. A.P.
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      23 PCs JAILED FOR THEFT
      61 8 23 PCs JAILED FOR THEFT THE British Control Commission Court at Luneburg yesterday sentenced 23 German auxiliary policemen to periods of imprisonment, ranging from six months to three years, for thefts cf groceries and cigarettes. The prosecution said the policemen's attitude was that sabotage of this kind was something laudable
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      CABOT ANNIVERSARY
      25 8 A citywide celebration m Bristol yesterday marked the 450 th anniversary of John Cabot's embarkation for the dlsCOVCrv Of NewfonndlnnH In 1Q47 U.P.
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      PYTON VISIT A HOSPITAL
      46 8 PYTON VISIT A HOSPITAL A PYTHON, TWO MONKEYS, two ra U)rt^ ing parrots from Belle Vue Zoo, Mai taxi trip to a crippled children s h M flr| M* (seen here) was regarded with horror and onh tm touch it. Five-year -old Peter Mnvj?. xOT V^
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      U.S. LOANS WILL LEAD TO WAR
      7 8 U.S. LOANS WILL LEAD TO WAR r
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