The Singapore Free Press, 5 May 1947

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    The Singapore Free Press
    19 1 LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA h SINGAPORE, MONDAY, MAY 5, 1947. pkice 10 ck.n rs«
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    GUNMWN BOMB JAIL: 251 FREED
    75 1 RUSALEM, Sunday. titty-one Jewish and Arab priroin Acre Prison, in Northern Jewish terrorists had Hasted the prison and engaged the guards The Palestine Government >tates that escaped are still at large. n ras made by terrorists, ho drove into Acre in two been strewn on
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    GUERILLAS KILL GREEK VILLAGERS
    32 1 GUERILLAS KILL GREEK VILLAGERS oreeK newspaper reports from Salonika yesterday stated tha t an d band attacked the village Cast Noussa. near Yugoslav frontier, and killed 15 Greeks and •vounded 20.- Reuter
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    INDIANS FORM FRONT
    22 1 African Indian s is forming a ?d front with Africans against ment's plan foi idminLstration of East Af- Reuter
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    ARMIES TRAIN OFF ALASKA
    178 1 rrur ck < LONDON, Sunday. THE Soviet Army has begun Spring- manoeuvres on the po^Ue Alaska, according to reports broadcast from an unnam«*t ss Nation, T^e re r v 250.000 troons were akm F part and that unit, of the Soviet fleet noufd later join m.
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    WHY GARRETT RESIGNED
    60 1 Mlc s P. GARRETT, who has resigned from the post of Trade L'nioti Adviser, Singapore. The reasons for his resignation are given m the editorial on page 4 today. Mr. (larrett is returning to U.K. and he propo <• n. submit a report to the Colonial Office
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    STAFF OFFICERS MEET IN SECRET
    259 1 LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN'S top Arm}, Navy and Air Forte officers from all over the world, gathered at the Staff College m Camberley, under wartime precautions today, to discuss the effect the atom bomb and other new scientific weapons on nit tm> warfare. Field Marshal Viscount
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    ROBBERS SHOOT SPORE PC
    85 1 ROBBERS SHOOT SPORE PC A CONSTABLE and his wife were robbed by two Chinese m Tiong Bahru at 8.30 o'clock on Saturday j night. The robbers fired at but missed the constable. A Chinese girl who j was around the vicinity was I wounded by a stray bullet.' Two extortioners
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    ENVOY REACHES INDIA
    17 1 The Chinese Ambasspdordesignate to India Mr. Lo Chia Luen, arrived In Calcutta yesterday- Reuter
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    France sack Communists
    66 1 fOMMUNIST Ministers who voted against the French Government ma vote <>' no confidence m the National Assembly yosterdav have been dropped from the Government announced the Premier >T. Paul Rainadier. This is the first time since the Liberation that there have been no Communists m the Government.
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    LABORU WINS IN AUSTRALIA
    68 1 LABORU WINS IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY. Sun. I ABOUR Governments In Queens- land and nth Wales were returned to power m two Statp elections yesterday. The Labour Party mi n New South Wulei losf a certain six and a probable eight s< The Sydney Morning Herald commented that closer cooperation by
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    Gandhi confers with Viceroy
    411 1 Gimuii SEW I>UHI Sunday. A\J)HI, m a 90-minute interview today with Viceroy Lord Mountbatten ,ay, him it is believed, an appraisal of the attitude o the Congress High Command to the general :.yr, of the division o| India and the issue of the NorthI Frontier Province
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    CAMPS FOR 'DEAD END' KIDS
    485 1 CAMPS FOR 'DEAD END' KIDS 'Most Serious 9 Problem Free Preys Stuff R<?nortp KUALA LUMPUR, Monday OTRESSING that the problem of juvenile defiaqaency m »J the Malayan Union has become "most serious," a special committee, appointed last November, whose report was tabled at this morning's meeting of the Advisory Council,
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    BRITAIN 'SEEKS NO TERRITORIES'
    51 1 The British Defence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander, said yesterday that Britain is "seeking no territories out of the last war." He added that he could not say the same for other powers. Observers think that Mr. Alexander was refering t.n thp TTiito^ c+^nand Russia.- A
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    PEACE FEELERS IN INDOCHAN
    72 1 SAIGON, Sunday THE Frencli High Cominis--1 si oner for Indochina, M. Emiie Bollaert, and the Vietnam Republic President. Ho Chi Mnh today made simultaneous statements iavouring conciliation m the Indochina fight. In Saigon, M Bollaert s: "I am resolved to attempt an efTort of reconciliation m
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    Tarzan Moves to Page 5
    21 1 The Tarzan strip will be found m Pa^e 5 today, and every Mom- j day henceforth
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  • FOR WOMEN
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      A PROBLEM OF DRESSES
      741 2 In And Out Of Spore Shops YOU may be looking for a good imported after- or cocktail dross, reapriced. You know from time to time but you never seem to be m t- it place at the -not until all the h gone anyrive nd there
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      NEW COLOURS FOR PRINTS
      457 2 NEW COLOURS FOR PRINTS A SPECIAL ORKI SPONDFM DOMINATING th c 8.1. F. m London today is an immense spectrum, 120 ft. high and 80 ft. wide, springing like a rainbow from the graceful facade of the pavilion housing the Court of Colour. Its purpose is tn demonstrate the effect
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      CROWDS IN THE SALONS
      5 2 CROWDS IN THE SALONS ADAda
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    LEISURE-HOUR FARMING IN SINGAPORE
    219 3 LEISURE-HOUR FARMING IN SINGAPORE K'ST beyond the Geylang mi-< terminus m Singapore. 1.000 [alays till 100 acres ol land— all daring their leisure hours. I \fter office hours till sundown and during holidays. th Malays Wi rk on the r farms these pictures, whi h show: A farmer tenting to
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, MAY 5, 1917 Mr. Garrett I.
      465 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, MAY 5, 1917 Mr. Garrett I. WHY did P. Gar:, Singapore ;he Si: pore G ipcr^ nentaJ dive] with rh> rds the Short S*r- p of TVa Office m London, to advise ai I cjlo:iy mselves into labour unions run on democrat 1 lines. What
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      Good Morning .... By Frank Owen
      1284 4 Good Morning By Frank Owen fi N X night, ml night, I sat up reading a book. It had to be a pretty g-ood book. This one is. It is called The Struggle for the World." Afterwards, I had a rough sleep for a couple of hours. So will you,
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      FAITH
      30 4 FAI TH Remit i thei f to ii] theii due. tribute to whom iri b t c i* <«ii<- hon 'm to w bom Is- n iir. »< riuum, 13 7.
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      Careers for wonen
      32 4 Careers for wo nen Hilary Hmjhes, BJSc, Civil Se rvant who knows mhm an apple m UfM .-d form or not. Here she b Studying the fruiting bads of an apple tree.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      267 4 ONE-TIME Prince, MICHAEL GALATZEN ol Russia killed himself recently m a gas explosion which wrecked his Manhattan apartment while he awaited a trial on £1.,500 theft charges. The pyjama-clad prince was found dead amid fallen plaster. The gas burners *vere turned DIl He was 52, and claimed
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      ROAD HINTS FOR SINGAPORE
      8 4 ROAD HINTS FOR SING APORE Always keep j
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      CHINA'S TRAGEDY INFLATION
      594 4  - CHINA'S TRAGEDY INFLA TION W.S. Tsu H\ INFLATION is the most 1 riotis economic problem m China today. Because of inflation commodity prices have been continuously rising, production costs mounting, and as a re suit foreign trade gr handicapped. The main reason for this unhappy economic situation is political instability.
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      QUIZ
      51 4 1. How did Madame Dv Barry die? 2. Is a 'know-no thir.g'' an ignoramus or an agnostic? .3 Wxiat cioes the toad do with I his skin after shcddir.g it? 4. What are a "newspaper's ears?" 5. C mplete: "Even your best tSF/.-.y- and Thp pause Answers on page
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      GURKHAS MAY GARRISON S'PORE
      415 5 GURKH A S MA Y GARRISON S'PORE piEKK is a possibility that Gurkha riflemen may garrison Singapore, Bone Kon^, p ac jfi c lan posts and the oil ports m the Persian (Julf writes I military observer. This could be one of the ■SCB to which the British murhi put
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      SETU AGAIN TRIES TO REGISTER
      53 5 SETU AGAIN TRIES TO REGISTER of ReI for told after a annot trade I arc I i Staff /n. 25 on AdJalan EmCnum r.jor.g n. 17-19 iP.O.; 331 North I rbour arbour. Cigar Course w i H Rivei TransMSB Norti Farrr I re Golc hanio n, 2: "•vedoies 1 1
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      STORE SAFETY WEEK PLANS
      141 5 n RING the coining week., pedal demonstration on Safety First are being given to school teach e rs and Setter pupils m the on Cin e ma as a preparation for the Singapore Safety First k which runs from May 12 to May The audi e
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      LETTERS TO MPs:WRITERS PROTECTED
      142 5 LETTERS TO MPs:WRITERS PROTECTED THE British War Minister. Mr. 1 Frederick Bellenger, was asked m the Hoase af Commons whether, as Secretary for War, he treated a<s confidential any letters from serving soldieis written to MPs and forwarded to him. In reply Mr. B?llengt r s?,id: When a letter from
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      QUININE SALTS
      32 5 FE Government of Madras and Bengrl produced 85,029 lb. of quinine salts as against 98,577 lb. m th c previous year, cccordir.g to the report of the ipal Quinine Officer.
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      BACK TO SCHOOL
      27 5 Thiny thousand school-children m Singapore went back to school this morning after a fortnight's holiday to begin the second school term of the year.
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      EX-GUERILLA HELPS TO MAKE A FILM
      138 5 EX-GUERILLA HELPS TO MAKE A FILM I ex- guerilla from NegnSembilaji, who fought with members cf Force 136 against the Japanese, is supervising certain film shots m the Malay c "Seraan Merdeka" <Vcic:' reedem) which is aboui to be completed. He is Mohamad KBus who was recently awarded the M.B.E
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      TAMPIN HAS 'NIP INN'
      134 5 TAMPIN HAS 'NIP INN' Free Pr«6s Corr L spo*idtnt TAMPIN, S MOW that Chinese s', know that the Army intends to maintain a garrison cf be 4 wee:i 800 and 1,000 men m thfe area for between three end five yeaiv. preparations to provide th e m witn amusement arc
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      U.S. AWARDS
      35 5 Tw e nty-four Un*';cd States decorations were conferred on thirty-sev£;i British military and; civilian subjects by Major- j G e neral Clayton L. Bissel at the American Ambassador's residence m London last week.
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      TALKS ON HINDI ISM
      39 5 Vhe President of the Ram.. Krishna Mission, Singapore,! Swami Vamadevananda, will I lecture on Hinduism cv c ry Saturday evenirg at 6.30 at the Mission premises. All interested aa c I cordially invited to attend.
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      WEDDING PARTY AT C.S.C.
      110 5 WEDDING PARTY AT C.S.C. i Press Staff Reporter MORE than 150 guests were entertained to a dinner at me Singapore Chinese Swimming Club on Saturday night on the occasion of the marriage cf Mr. Ong Bong Soon, lecturer m Geography at the Raffles College, and Miss Khoo Beng Neo of
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      JAPS RETURN LOOT
      85 5 TBII-. tu>t -hiprm-m oi Uk i'hrlippin 5- OWneJ i .n»tt-'i rtv, fuurici m Japu:i, arrived m Manila en S.itur.!,Rfcosrd the steamer Turkish* atl fcOfCthfi with 1.800,000 yards ol Japanese textil s bought h ttlf FhiMppmes Gtmmifnl Th<- ifMtt includes a variety of mtmatmm speiim-ns and book w-hich
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      ASIAN WOMEN WANT EQUALITY
      126 5 ASIAN WOMEN WANT EQUALITY p. MENDEZ. delegate id the Irter- Asian Conference at New Delhi, said m Manila ihat the soal Gf Asian women is ''legal equality wi:h men." Mendez outlined the objectives rhich Asian women must strive for 1 1 i legal equalit y between the sexes; (2) joint
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      SOCIETY WANTS RETRIBUTION
      160 5 Frtn Press Statt Correspondent tPHINESE citizens m Malacca have formed a society to w s< cure retribution against collaborators with the .1. nese who caused brutality to Malacca people during t.:e war. The society Ls called *Th« Malacca Chinese AntiJavanese Atrocity Victim?' Retribution Society."' Since July last
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      ARMY SAYS GOOD-BYE IN BIG WAY
      304 5 ARMY SAYS GOOD-BYE IN BIG WAY Free Press Stuff Reporter MOBILE canteens, opt ra led by the Army Welfare Service. Headquarters. Singapore District, wire at the wharves on Saturday to give troop- who were embarking on the troopship "Netasa" free tea, lemonade and snacks. TTie troops, the majorilv of them
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      LABOUR EXCHANGE IN HOHORE BAHRU
      62 5 A Labour 1 ed m Johcre for the first tjm? since the liberation on May 1 to pJ surplus labourers on various est^te^ and g:r.r rally find for the unemployed It will operate on much the s"me lines as the labour change m Sing^p^re. a^ci
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      EMPIRE DAY
      48 5 Empire Day will be eel bra ted m Si Schools en Thu! das% Maj' 22, and no; on Saturday, May 24, the normal date h r this celebration. The change i: ».a made because Saturday m .ral hold^v for school th c hrliday for Malay 9IS.
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      288 5 SITUATION VAC ANT WANTED Shorthand Typist (Male preferably vrilh knowledge of Dllne. hf European firm of Im.V Exporters. Apply with full md salary required No. 45, FT. EMBARKATION NOTICE «.v. -ORANJE" for Colombo, Southampton. A Wednesday 7th May from Singapore rs are requested to e.nbar* their cabin luggage at 9.00
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      36 5 MelueKS IS SJiicuuiea i"i ww-v.- t TARZAN Molat Ssvec? By Edgar Rice Burroughs tNSTANiLY TARZAN LEAPED AFTER BURNING CHEMICALS, FLDNG «'3H jjjM Hfll' > -s HIM AND BROUGHT HIM DOWN WITH IN THE AIR, BURST LIKE BOMBS.
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      JOANNA NEEDED COMPANY: SHE GOT A SCHOOL
      63 6 JOANNA NEEDED COMPANY: SHE GOT A SCHOOL lITTLI JOANNA YENNING, 4. -year-old daughter of an R.A.F. officer killed m action, has n.» brothers or si-" but Mummy provides her with twenty-five playmates at home. Be- <us- Mummy— Mrs. Annabel V ennui- was anxious that Joanna up amongst other children sin
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      NEW JET LINER IS SUCCESS
      259 6 DRITAIX has scored an important kail :n world :i\iali^ by the successful test of a Lincoln bomber fitted with two revolutionary types of ga s turbine motors. Te<t pilot Richard Northway, 39, flew the 30 ton Lincoln with turbine power at 200 miles r*>r hour.
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      POLICEMNA HAS ANOTHER BOSS
      54 6 "I: you are I efficient police force there must be considera ion for the police's wife." declared Mr. Chuter Ede. Home See re ary, when he ned Durham police training ■ol at Ha. ;;ear ngham. "She probably has more conadded, 'than the stand and the comnas
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      LEY TO HANG ON MAY 8
      99 6 LEY TO HANG ON MAY 8 utions of 'i Ley, uth Wales Mi er of Justice, and Lawr John Smilh, Jo r the murder of John M Mudie, the r-old bar m a n whose body was found m a tth a rope round his Woidingham, Surrey have been for
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      GOOD ALIBI
      44 6 A good alibi i>r children s .supplied by Dr. Gene Weltfish of New York's Columbia University, who says it may be a i mical called m e lanin and not dirt tha ■> child's neck a it dark< r than hi s fee?.
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      COW'S HUGE YIELD
      23 6 A Fnesian cow owned by Mr. C Corry, of Fakenham Norfolk. England, has given 20,872 pounds lilk m 365 days
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      STUDENT FAILED: KILLED HIMSELF
      214 6 STUDENT FAILED: KILLED H IMSELF A i OXF °RD un( :,hu failed for the third time n m part of his arts degree hanged himself m the I* seSSJI ?y£* ley l? Use at th€ l ;lv The stu^ent wa^ Robert William Hine, 23 caretaker at the Univer- e!ieve thai
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      Missing link No. 2 found
      88 6 J)K ROBERI BROOM, 80-ycai aid Soottiah-born s uth African anthropologisi tits found a .second skull of the "Sterkfontein Mtn u!i. lived 20.000.G00 years ago. Asked if this is th» "misX link," Ih I.i m replied: "It no nirer mLssins: Ihir- r The .skull was I
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      INDIA AIMS TO ABOLISH POLYGAMY
      484 6 INDIA AIMS TO ABOLISH POLYGAMY Law Reform Committee reports MEASURES to abolish polygamy and generally improve the Status of women arc proposed m I n< w code to reform ancient Hindu !;n« which h s a good prospect of beir»£ adon led when it j^ introduced soon to the Indian
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      FRENCH SEE DISMAL SIDE OF UK LIFE
      138 6 FRENCH SEE DISMAL SIDE OF UK LIFE THE French weekly newspaper, Samedi Bolt, makes these comments upon conditions for foreign tourists m Britain: "There are no towels m hotels, and you must clean your own shoe:? and at times make your own bed. "Don't try to buy a packet of
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      BLONDE GERMAN GAVE SECRETS
      79 6 IV COROLA BRAUN, a German woman d i flew from Berlin 'o England and back on a n. Dr. Braun had a 23-year-old V. A.F. as an escort. British had invited her demonstrate seen German surgical methods. Her passage to Bri.ain was 1 by the Field
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      RATS RUIN ROAD
      16 6 RAT S RU IN R OAD Burrowing rats caved m a road at Bebington Cheshire, England.
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      HOW KONG PIN GIVE PARTY
      185 6 TWO HUNDRED old people of Bearsted, Kent haw been i invited to a party because 3 little Chinese boy m Honiy Kong stuck a pin m a map of Great Britain last September. The party is the third to be held m the vi laA_th
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      CHILDREN FIND HOARD
      23 6 While collecting reeds from a pond near St. Saviour, Jersey, children found a tin containing £80 m hall-crowns and shillings.
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      RACE BANON ITALIANS
      72 6 RACE BANON ITAL IANS ITALIAN speed-king^ a: welcome In Jer.s< Authorities m Un which sufferer great, hands of the enemy war. are r v of r ior E Grand Prix the i the of St held I v 8. The Italian team Tazio Nuvolari, only man I 'wo British TT.
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      TWO OLD SISTERS DIED TOGETER
      18 6 TW O OLD SIS TERS DIED TOGE TER I sis*ei I of me O! 82. c: aged TV.-
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      'GREAT FEELING'
      30 6 'GRE AT FEELING' Flood relief cheque for £375- 000 from the Canadian Red Cross shows "a great surge of feeling" and "sentimental responsibility" owards Britain, m Canada, the givers say.
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      AIR ENGINE HAS 24 CYLINDERS
      7 6 AI R ENGINE HAS 24 CYLINDERS aasd
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    • Miscellaneous
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      92 6 J AlNfc Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Walava 'NOW LISTeW^v3/| KHOW MORE ABOMtN I XIOOK HFRP^N /^m hln-rt I V7^ ~^~7 D'YOU V H'M THAN «DO OF You G l -ORGIE-vShW Vvnn fi££ n.\ f EXCUSE.'- I CAWNOT KEEP K^OW WHO.AND I ERIC— AND IT SEEMS wn moop
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      110 6 Free Press Crossword Itetj B J In l. Hoop-handle of a kettle (4), i aninaal and vegetebie matter <8h 7. 1; 8. One speaking with affected uic*' Blue colouring -matter- that is tunu.: son (6), 15. Makes calculations for bmm overcoat (6), 20. Corn for grinding in^ winds near Equator
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  • SPORT
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      HUTTON BOWLED NOUGHT
      417 7 HUTTON BOWLED NOUGHT w Fast BoviHing LONDON, Sunday. found a new fast bewkr to tackle the i this season's cricket Test match.-. t amateur, who was tried m a few reast season but broke down with an inrday m their match against I's by taking g X o f the
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      EGYPT BEATS SPAIN IN DAVIS CUP
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      SWITZERLAND WIN 4-1
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      3-2 WIN FOR CZECHS
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      AUSTRALIANS WIN 5-0 AT PARIS
      9 7 AUSTRALIANS WIN 5-0 AT PARIS Garros 'a ere Davis
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      FRENCH TEAM
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      DUTCH BEAT BELGIANS
      13 7 :ea:ed Belgium two-one International soc Ha. 'ore was one ea
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      G.B. SOCCER XI CRITICISED
      483 7 G.B. SOCCER XI CRITICISED LONDON, Sunday. GREAT BRITAIN'S team to meet the Rest of Europe at Hampden Park, imb May 10 has not received universal satisfaction, but selection of a such combination from tour nations was not expected to please everyone. Despite criticisms, the selectors have done a creditable job,
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      AFRICANS ARRIVING IN ENGLAND
      41 7 AFRICANS ARRIVING IN ENGLAND Alan Melville captain of the South African cricket team, and his Tice- captain I;udJey Naurse, wave a cheery greeting on arrival m England Melville was 71 not out on Saturday m the match being played against Leicester.
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      BAKSI TO TOUR U.K. COLLIERIES
      109 7 BAKSI TO TOUR U.K. COLLIERIES IAj.iLXJX sun THE American Bak r ,i. who was a Pennsylvai miner at the a.^e of 11. will tour lar.d collieri* 1 and Tuesday on a goodwill nr.d "prp talk" tcur suggested by M Lewis, the Socialist member nt from Boltor.. B:iksi will begin h
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      424 RUNS SCORED AT BUKIT TIMAH
      752 7 424 RUNS SCORED AT BUKIT TIMAH UpifLE the hig padang cricket fixture between the S.R.C. y and S.C.C. had to be abandoned yesterday, the second (lay of the match, with the S.it.C. leading by 49 runs the Ceyioncse and Chinese scored good victory over Raffles Co! lege and R.A.F. (P.L.)
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      THERE SERVICE MEN IN U.K. AMATEUR BOXING TEAM
      139 7 THERE SERVICE MEN IN U.K. AMATEUR BOXING TEAM LONDON, Sun. rriIREE ser ppear m the Br. tish team to compete m the Eurc- pean amateur boxing champonships 1 m Dublin from May 12 to May IT. They are C S.M.I. Johnny Ryan. ABA. and Army well ;ht champion: Stoker R.
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      GHQ SIGNAL REGT. BEAT WORKSHOPS
      34 7 A HAT-TRICK by Sa the GHQ Singa] Regiment to beat rho HEME Base Workshops five-one m round > I Stoddart air r goal by the Signals up four-one f time
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      COSMOS XI FOR TADAY
      35 7 I ed fi the SeaJ ::i at the Jalan R Rahii.. Toh Chin Geok, Halim, H. Oi Appavoo, Tahar. Hvji Grahai A'odu lah (Capt.), Mahmcod, Huss Silim Pep, I M D.n
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      TENNIS POSTPONED
      30 7 Trie tennis m^tch between the [jra and ur.der-irraduates of tb Sineapcr^ Medlr al CoKeg^, which w; to have been rmtinued yesterday, wa pastpjned I Lug to tt weather.
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      U.K. FOOTBALL RESULTS AND TABLES
      1274 7 Saturday's U.K. football league and tacies up-to-date are: 0 Blackburn 3 1 Sheffield U. 4 Jo. 1 Huldersfield 0 Grin-. 4 Middlesboro 0 Leeds 1 Stofc e City 2 pool 4 Manchester U. 0 smooth Wolves 1 Sundcrland 1 Charlton 1 Goals P W D
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      British Side For Europe Tour Named
      77 7 LONDON, Ih Tl/F Football Association da\ HHMSBeai the namfs of U p!a>rv the Con tinent this memth playint m Switzerland at Zurich on May 18 and Portugal at Lisbon on May 25 They are Swift, Man< Hester City, Scott, Arsenal, Harr'uU'k, Middlesbrough. Wright, v?rhamt:m,
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      PORTUGAL BEATS IRELAND 2-0
      108 7 DL m. tcdajr. A cre ;i2.00u paid £3..j3 t_> ftse t ..yi~g against waid m half, the Ponusuese scored v minute*. Ireland fcught hard for sup. en. but v.ere outrun for me ba.. xailed to pesetnrtc the Po.iu^ deience. When they got with.: Iriiand Corvard^ m^^,ed
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      HURT IN ESCAPING FROM CROWD
      48 7 HURT IN ESCAPING FROM CROWD LONDO-V oof Lhat fame ha-s d GoSe, Wimbledon's 1 is unrsmg a bone m the wr After he had won a mat; crowd of Local supporters ?ur fe when h? appeared at t dressing rooms. In I ard.s '.he club c. Losun Reuter
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      193 8 I CITY NEWS-h A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. D*r lb. per Ib. No 1 X S S. Spot loosfl 42 U i? No I B.S.S. fob m hxlcs May 43 43 >
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      Refined tin rises £2
      37 8 LONDON. V Tof Supply said la<t hat the premium c\ refined tin of 99 9 per cent ould advance E5 10s. a a >rate extra ten shilling he omIT rnnfiniio A.P. U.P. ■V
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      CAR INSURANCE! JUMPS IN U.K.
      146 8 THI war-Ume discount or 20 per allowed off insurance premiums for private i(j motor-cycles m Britain »c discon inuod July ear. At he same time. agen"s' be lowered and the money ihus saved will >scd on to motorists, -ons for the ending of f he
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      DEATH DECREE FOR SPAIN
      29 8 kiS^r^i Peualties lor bombings. tS?d S 7 a n nd terrorism are ImObservers hold the decree prelude to a new dr've agalnatjueriUa bands m Sp^U
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      BRITHAINNEEDS FATS FROM NEI
      208 8 BRITHAINNEEDS FATS FROM NEI i iiMmi.n, Sunday.. BKITAIN is looking i<> the Dutch East Indies to supply her with oils and fats which are strict lj rationed to consumers m the country said Mr. John Strachey, Minister <>i Food, m a speech at Dundee today. The Dutch East Indies, were
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      MATCH LABEL IS WORTH £100
      136 8 WHEN holds its m Southampton boxes discarded a huncino. yea will be displayed. Some collections are worth hundreds of pounds. One picture I use and buggy— that decorated boxes bougtht To years by ploi the Wild vis now wor h £100. It is owned by
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      HOSPTIAL BOARD TO MEET
      57 8 The annual general meeting of St. Andrew's Mission Hospital will be held on Wednesday May 14. at the YM.CA, Stan:, i Road. Singapore. Tho Lord Bishop, President of the Hospitals, will address the meeting. The meeting will rereive eight nominations to the Board of Management, and
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      PASSION PLAY FOR GERMANS
      136 8 PASSION PLAY FOR GERMANS FRENCH authorities ii cupation z n< of Germany will p s ion Pay next July. The play I tinue for six hours and will depici the 1 tst 15 years of Christ's lij O: nch may be as impres ■he famous prewar Qern ion p. by
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      Man stripped in street
      81 8 fjUNMEN stopped a Londoner <>n bis way home near Victoria y station last night and made him strip off all his clothes m the dark street. They went off with his shoes, shirt suit null over and overcoat as well as money, watch and cigarettes' \»tt
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      LABOUR CHIEF ATTACKS TORY 'SABOTAGE'
      433 8 LABOUR CHIEF ATTACKS TORY 'SABOTAGE' LONDON. Sunday. LABOI'K leader. Lord Latham, speaking at a May I);«v rally m London today, bitterly attacked the Conservatives for launching the "whispering campaign*', both at home and abroad designed to sabotage and destroy thr Labour Government. He referred to the Conservatives as 'our reactionaries"
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      43 8 H r *y C v «»t!ietime« the sun shines m the Spring* m Britain and when it does you may, if you wrnt. look m the rii?ht pUices. see h< :> of rolden daffodils. The riffht place this time is the Si illy Isles.
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      BURMESE MISSION TO AUSTRALIA
      295 8 RANGOON, Sunday. Alii K.YSKSM political mission may visit Australia fora first hand study "Dominion status m practice," Kt'uter learned today from reliable sources. Tho mission, a was reported, will comprise leading members <>f Ihe Burma <>n^t it vent Assembly. The proposal to send a political mission
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      EGYPT 'HARMED BY INCIDENTS'
      87 8 EGYPT 'HARMED BY INCIDENTS' CAIRO, SlUl. THE Premier of Egypt. Nokra^hj Pasha. tonight made a nationwide appeal to Egyptians to cease causing "incidents" which ether nati< rd as "ultra-nationalism."' Nokrashy Pasha added: "I cannot conceal from you the l^rreaching harm which will be done to Egypt's caus o through th
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      20 MEN FORCE 9,000 OTHERS TO BE IDLE
      131 8 20 MEN FORCE 9,000 OTHERS TO BE IDLE LONDON. Sun. NINE thousand miners m the county of Durham reporting for their first shift under the fiveday week last night were sent i home because 20 winding enginemen had gone on strike alter clafn that ;der the system they will lose
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      Trebilsch Lincoln Pops up again
      206 8 Trebilsch Lincoln Pops up again OLOMBO, Sund^ TOEBITS4 H I INTOI.V, former British Member of I merit, who was suspected of being a German spy <;r the 1914-18 war and whose death m Shanghai \va s r«poi by the Japanese m 1943, is still alive, according to a m the
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      WOMEN SQUAT ON LINE
      45 8 Women Muslim League demonstrator squatting on the railway line at Peshawar yesterday held up the Bombay express to Lahore for two hours. The wooden sleepers were set on fire n an unsuccessful attempt to interfere with another stretch of line Reuter
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      EGGS FOR BRITAIN
      21 8 The cargo liner Beavcrburn has eft Montreal. Canada, for B I srith 3, G00. 000 e?gs —A P
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      DANCIG ON THE AIR
      25 8 DANCIG ON THE AIR Faul,- rd fleft and tH.visK.n Klrl.s, are I forthcoming television sho.v b\ Uindm,! ri^hti who must have bwn pictures than an\(nir>
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      WEATHER Considerable bright speils
      11 8 WEATHER Considerable bright speils WLATBI It te<«eM im ti n* ~9tm
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      SOVIET RAISES LOAN
      6 8 000 000. l
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      US GENERAL HITS USSR DICTATION
      158 8 US GENERAL HITS USSR DICTATION pENERAL MARK CLARK, uh vl gat ion at the Foreign today m Vienna accused the Ri tee treaty "dictated h,\ AuMrTa's political sovereignty Addr< wd to the full letter of Austria, he *aid. uaopposed "1 Russia. The thre, ement w "The S lation made m
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      NUN HONOURED
      20 8 Tne venerable Fr >oci to The H Altars m a b at Si ppinr'c R-Kilici P IV A.P.
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