The Singapore Free Press, 17 May 1947

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA fsdfsdfds SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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  • Article
    UK GREAT POWER: SAYS BEVIN
    588 1 LONDON, Friday. DKITAIN still regards herself as a great power and has no intention of withdrawing from the .Middle East declared Mr. Ernest Kevin, Britain's Foreign Secretary, winding up the two-day Mouse ol Commons debate on foreign affairs. There has been no change, he said,
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    REPLIES TO CRITICS
    6 1 REPLIES TO CRITICS \IH. ERNKST BF.VIN
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    LAHORE RIOTS, BLAZES
    17 1 LAHORE RIOTS, BLAZES lay. I the I oday rcer. temple and irom •d. 46 I red ■olios
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    ARMED MEN BEATEN UP IN ROBBERY
    18 1 ARMED MEN BEATEN UP IN ROBBERY The nouse woke ther i culhad vie to one oery. m a
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    TO SETTELE ACCOUNT
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    UK ARMY AID TO HOLLAND ENDS
    89 1 THE HAGUE, Fri. THE value of army equipment supplied to date by Britain to the Netherlands was estimated today at £30,000,000 by Brigadier Harold P. Gaxdham, Chief of the British Military Mission to the Netherlands which will cease to operate on July 1. Brig.
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    BANNED FILM IN SINGAPORE
    296 1 BANNED FILM IN SINGAPORE Free Preas Staff Reporter PON Kill 1 Singaporean win \k a] to „cc tor the first time 1 a film that w*ls banned uhen if WBS Brsl submit ted to the cenoot m Sepkmkr, L 94& It is "The Losl Weekeitd", and it WSfl deiideti that
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    WORLD FACING $ CRISIS
    343 1 WORLD FACING CRISIS LONDON, Friday. CANADIAN' Press reports that the blackest -iMe picture of approaching dollar crisis for the whole world has been painted m Ottawa m the last few days by officials of the British Treasury are not denied by officials m London today. Though the Ottawa talks were
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    SPRING HATS 'BLOOM'
    33 1 SPRING HATS 'BLOOM' EMPHASIS IS l aid on hmrj h..»it draping In the new Oprim djU numm m Londor Here ii a hat showing a lovt-ly Mower tiimmin? M't hi?h upon thfi crown.
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    SHIP DECLARED LOST
    42 1 It was officially announced m Rangoon yesterday that the British India Steam Navigation liner "Sir Harvey Adamson" which had been missing off the lower Burma coast since midApril "must now b 0 considered lost with all on board."- Reuter
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    India opposes debts cuts
    80 1 THK Indian Government has sent a protest note to the British (iovernment announcing its opposition to any scaling down of India's sterling balances of about hi 1. ?"50, 000, 000, Rf-uter anthoriiifively learned m New Delhi yesterday. The note, which arises out of the recent statement
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    NAAFI SELLS TO SINGAPORE
    300 1 NAAFI SELLS TO SINGAPORE $17,000,000 Deal Free Press Staff Reporter MORE than 517.000.000 of NAAF] surpiu> sundries stocks have been Bold to a Singapore bu>m<^ firm. \m NAAFI« biggest-ever disposals sale m the Far East, which halo wed months of cataloguing and preparation and the examination of a number of
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    CARRIER PLANES OVER SINGAPORE
    106 1 THE Free Press was given a "running commentary" of the arrival on Sembawang airfield of 10 Seafires arid Fireflies irom ihe aircraft Glory ut two minutes to ten this morning by telephone "The first machines have touched down and the others are circling the airfield," an
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    Britain guards uranium areas
    314 1 Britain guards uranium areas Free Pre» Staff Reporter KEEPING i watchful eye on atomic development and preparing fur th« future when. H is expected, that con ■»nd oil fuels will be superseded by atomic pjww, the Britfeh Government is introducing into some of its Colonies where mineral deposits which might
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    TO FORM GOVT.
    25 1 Francesco Saverio Nitti, 79--year-old former premier 01 Italy yesterday attempted to torm a government including seven or eight parties and elder statesmen.
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    RAF PILOT KILLED
    25 1 The pilot' wsls killed when ar RAF Boaufighter °n a routine flight crashed shortly after taking off from Katur.ayake aerodrome Ceylon, yesterday.
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    JESUIT APPOINTED
    39 1 The appointment has bee n announced of Rev. William F. Masters, for four years director of *h* Jesuit Philippines Bureau and Seminary- Fund m Itew York a< President of th e Jesuit L" rei of Manila.- A.P.
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    LEAVES £60,000,000
    29 1 The dowager Marchioness oi Bute, Scotland died yesterday three weeks alter the dealh of t>t: husband. Sh e left a fortune estimated at £60 ,009.. 000. A.P.
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    AID TO JAPS ALLEGED
    36 1 Frank Henry Johnson an Irish journalist, was committed for trial at Shanghai yesterday charged with aiding the enemy by broadcasting over Shanghai i German -controlled radio station during th c Japanese occupation.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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  • ENTERTAINMENT...
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      MUSIC COLLEGE IS NEEDED
      1179 2  - MUSIC COLLEGE IS NEEDED David Grant TREBLE CLEF fdsfsdf ET us take stock today of the position I Music m this island. Where do we stand today, and what is the outlook for the future? In the first place, let us admit quite frankly that Singapore— never very resplendent m
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      Two pairs of lovely 'dogs'
      32 2 Two pairs of lovely 'dogs' jvei 18-yrar-uld dancer. Joy RayiMT, «rith a couple of sbnk s Bor^u. cr RusM.ni Wolfhound. She cerUlnlj Mcd not N .ilraia ,f "Wi'lvfs 1 with th .;r«iund.
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      YOUR WEEK-END LISTENING
      962 2 SINGAPORE Him- Network English 12.00 2.00 p. it. —499 BaCttW m Urn uiediuii) w..\t tiind 72' megncydes per second m the 41 metrr i ..»t»«l 6.00—v oo ji m. 185 metres m Ui mcUiuni wave band A 1 828 megacjrctei j#ff second m the bl u-.etre h-ind
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      COLLECTING 'HOT'
      551 2 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT COLLECTING 'Hot' reL fers to the collecting of hot American jaz? recordings and how it all began nobody quite knows. However, it is fairly safe to assume that, m iL beginning, records were collect' d by the jazz musicians themtalves—who had various reasons for
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      COMING EVENTS
      100 2 rONIGHT, .it I.M p.m. at the I.itti. ttre" Armenian gtrc t: l'r i N 8 vv NKR Xi( BARD STKAI SS ii,_ m uding: Ha^nrr Preludes to Lo\u n-nn and i ristaa S effri< (l I i > 11. -i-trfricd's Journey to the i. ne. H STB M
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      14 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR I fr < tial m par have *i th 1 Bjcpful m
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      180 2 TODAYS BRIDGE PROBLEM SPADES are trumps, South leads. North and South are 4 o win six of the seven trick-: against any defence. NORTH South leads the quee q 10 3 to North's king. North r:?urns <^> 2 the three of hearts, and South 4 3 ruffs with the spaae
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  • CHINA NEWS...
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      STATE COUNCIL MAKES PEACE BID
      450 3 STATE COUNCIL MAKES PEACE BID pj-U r. for China's 150,000,000 long-suffering >nd -.r-Heary people has been made its prime objective a- China's first multi-party State CouncUVk nations new highesl poKey-making body-settles .ln yn popple wit h ft,. urgen( poi.tual. limitary and economic, confronting the though under no delusion as to
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      UNUSUAL CARGO
      41 3 ODD I ARGOES are to be seen at the river port of Hank -.w. iwt-Uvi-il sails of this sampan could barely give the vessel headway, but Yanstse mariners always have any amount of Vmv and patience. They arrive eventually.
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      NANKING 'WON'T BE DIVERTED'
      183 3 I UOLUNGTON K. TONG, Gov- I eminent Information Director, at a Press conference, commenting on "peace" reports, said the Government does not intend to be diverted from its course of unification and democratisation by a programme "with no substance." He said the Government has never shown
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      GANGS FIGHT IN JAIL
      85 3 ABOUT 800 Chinese prisoners rt were involved m a riot at Stanley Gaol recently during which warders were stoned. I It is understood that there has! been ill-feeling between two gangs of prisoners for some time and the rivalry developed into a, piched battle between the
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      600 HOMELESS IN SHANGHAI FIRE
      64 3 600 HOMELESS IN SHAN GHAI FIRE More than 600 peopl? wrtre rendered homeless m a bigj fire which gutted about 180 Chinese bungalows and mat- 1 sheds on Nanshing Road, Chapei, on the outskirts of Shanghai. The three-hour-long fire spread due to a strong wind and to 'the fact that
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      CHINESE NEWS
      60 3 Central News Agency will j eventually become a nri- vate enterprise owned by the newspapers of China like Reu-j ters, if the plan submitted to the National Government is approved. Director T. T. Hsiao told his staff members at a tea party i i m Nanking on the
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      UK SEES CHINESE CERAMICS
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      Korea 'adopts' Auld Long Syne
      23 3 Has been h> national h > the p: U NaNnrthern S riel d.Kumentarv a among the :hern ihp Americans
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      OFFICERS WEEP -'NEGLEGTED'
      103 3 he Central Tr front of Si 'government by tfc .out the r tired sacrin-j :nemory bons and! Ccars, including some 400 aining Corps for Retired Offiin Vat-sen's tomb m a cam's neglect of their welfare medals, the officers bowed three times to Sun Vat-sen's tomb and appealed
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      GOLDSMITHS CLOSE SHOP
      82 3 h! I large goldsmith shops m Nankin? have closed down alter paying their employees a two-month "disbandment fee" due to the strict Government restriction on tfold deals making further operation impossible. Since the enforcement of the emergency economic measures Government stopped supplying gold to these shops. Other
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      MARSHAL GETS C.B.E. FOR HELPING UK
      161 3 MARSHAL GETS C.B.E. FOR HELPIN G UK THE Governor of Hon,' Kong, Sir Mark Young, visited Canton last week and conferred Chang Fah-kuei the insignia of C.B.E. for his assistance to the Bri ish Army Aid Group at Kweilin during the war. The ceremony, held at Marshal Chang's residence m
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      CHINACADET EXECUTED
      73 3 CHINACADET EXECUTED A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD Chinese cadet was executed by the firing squad for theft of a revolver and subsequent armea robbery. Li Kia-yao, the first to face the firing squad since promulgation of general amnesty e&riici this year, was convicted by a Military Court of robbing a superior officer and
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      NANKING POLICE GO ON STRIKE
      69 3 NANKING'S policemen staged a seven-hour general strike m protest against gendarme interference with their functions. The walk-out followed a refusal by gendarmes to allow the Police to arrest a mili ary trucu driver which ran into a store. Angered by the incident, the policemen went
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      U.S. RELIEF TO CONTINUE
      333 3 U.S. RELIEF TO CONTINUE r TUK President o! the L.S. S 1 htru. lias disclosed that I requirements were estimated I Department and United Natk He said about two-thirds will be allotted to Italy, Aust Senate that the United States foreign relief bill would furni j total post-UNRRA. relief. He
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      FRENCH LOAN FOR CHINA RAILWAYS
      53 3 THE French Foreign Ministry has confirmed reports that France is at present negotiating a loan to China for the construction of a new railway linking Ohengtu with Chungking. The loan will be equivalent to U5520,000,000 and will be paid partly m dollars anri nartlv m
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      No openings in Civil Service
      71 3 No openings in Civil Service pHINA'S new Prime Minister, (hang Chun, has ad prospective applicants ther? were no openings m itiiGovernment posts, at the same time savins he w:i> not able to accept social < D ments due to the "present difficu tnd the responsibility he had t ward affairs/
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      TO STOP OPIUM SMUGGLING
      55 3 THE United States Embassy m Nanking has sent to the Chinese Government a proposal for international suppression off opium. i The proposal asks for a direct exchange of information m future regarding opium smuggling activities. The plan, it is learned, is at present being studio^ by
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      MILLIONS TREK BACK HOME
      271 3 MILLIONS TREK BACK HOME lo live or (lie ANE of the greatest migrations m the hisiorv of China is m progress, as, with the advent nf mild; i weather, millions of war displaced persons living m what was once "Free C'iina" seC out on their long trudge hack to their
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      THEY DON'T DEAL IN CENTS
      38 3 THEY DON'T DEAL IN CENTS •HOLLARS and ceni anarhronis:. Char war coppr: Ano her nail m its coffin v. add?d mnouncem hat CNSIOO b:: I draw ::on. follow. 0.000 b; mcd. Banknotes CNSSOO bills to I A. P.
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      RIVER TRAGEDY
      33 3 An undetermined nun. lives were lost wrhcn maboats and o her cralt loo.se fr lr moorings by I rapid currents of the flood swollen Fu river at southlin m Kwangsi province.
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      HE IS 'AWFULLY FOND OF ICE-CREAM'
      268 3 HE IS 'AWFULLY FOND OF ICE-CREAM' THINA'S new Prime Minister, is awfully fond of ice cream and choeola es, according to Mrs. .Daniel L w. 28-year-old daughter of Gen. Chang Chun, who lives |m Seattle with her parents-in-law, while her husband is m Shanghai wi the Institute of i 1
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      51 3 BILL BAILEY'S COCONUT GROVE 55 CUPPAGE ROAD' 1 XKE BEST DRINKS IN TOWN Dancing to 'John Weinman's Rhythm Makers" Open AH Day Telephone 7013 Drink Dance at CANTON MSGHT CLUB -:s-A. t avrnagh Kd. Oflf Orchard Rd. Charming Hostesses and a wide selection of Liquor Admission Free- An Excfawl^ Rend*
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947. Free Press
      452 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1947. Free Press where the pe< I :e day is resnd where Par! approval, ed neces n from in- iof tl. is m sod he with a nether, of the prasont vjUiring the Prc^ m B Britain s press vra. .press its opinions,
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      CHINESE PAID $80 A PIECE
      1134 4  - CHINESE PAID $80 A PIECE T. H. Tan h pROADLY speaking, the V Chirese m Singapore bought their lives for about $80 a piece when the Japs firs, occupied the colony. From an estimated number of 6C0.0C0 Chinese, the Japs extorted $50 mil' ion (m d Malayan currency, not N.p
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      PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE MAKE NEWS
      758 4 PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE MAKE NEWS ALTHOUGH the) know xt to nothing about mai quin work but are reputed by those that k to be able to wear their clothes better than n five well-known pore women are going to model I rs. BE RYL ONSTANTi N f.'S dress show Prii
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      53 4 Safety Fir si f\ I r~ Cp Just d little t.t too muf .^S QUIZ MEDICINE «I) What is a vaccine? What is gangrene? •3) Herbert Morrison has thrombosis; what is that? (4) Do children suffer from purely growing pains? <5) What happens m an icote attack of gout? Answers
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      SIAM SENT 5,000 TONS 'FREE' RICE
      222 5 SIAM SENT 5,000 TONS 'FREE' RICE Free Press Staff Reporter ]N the last six months since the three per cent. "free" net from Sian scheme came into operation, 5,000 tons wore imported into Singapore over and above regular GoYermest shipments. The rice was purchased by Chinese importers who were allowed
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      SHE HAS NO MORE AWFUL HEADACHES
      31 5 SHE HAS NO MORE AWFUL HEADACHES Ed Taking fcuschen Salts rcare" ablets aches hes," .ble. d could f hot u.t 1 beadbetter I poison alih7 >eUed d serene. con- 96 pei
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      POSTER CONTEST PRIZE WINNERS
      76 5 RESULTS of the "Safety First" poster Competition among children m Singapore have been announced. They are: r: Ist Ying Yoke Kwa; Chinese School; 2nd Tow Sians Swee. Chir.ese School. Kerb Drill: Ist Wor.n Nlxig F>--ok. Chinese Commercial School. 2nd Chou How Chieh. Sing Hua Sch I
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      2 5 APT. BRHISTOCK
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      CANTEEN SERVICE
      58 5 From Monday, May 19, a mobil: 'canteeh from the Social Welfare i Department will operate at th« nouse of Inche Fatimah at 16i ab Street. The cr.nteen will be < peratec i from 10 a.m. by a team of voluntary helpers formed by Inche Fatimah. Registrations will begir
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      FREE 'SMOKES' TO STOP
      142 5 FREE 'SMOKES' TO STOP W"TITH the exo I3urma »n and parts of Middle East. West Africa and Italy, I present free is* cigarettes (which is 50 in SEALF) to trcops an a:.d 1 v;ill with effect from May 31. remaining stocks of free RASC will be handed over D NAAFI
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      POEMS ON SAFETY FIRST
      276 5 THERE were 30 entries for the ;y First Po.m Canp ti- tion fci addi I es for tie Song writ:e^. by h Boudewyn >f Rado Malaya. I c were In Chinese r.nd a ,c awarded to h three. These i:i had the r rr rnythm-S€ fs
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      TO REPRESENT THE J.C.S.A.
      65 5 Tri* Second Police Magistrate, Mr L. C Goh, has been appointed by the Junior Civil Service Association to represent it on the joint tribunal for the Malayan Union and Str.gapore, which will examine and adjudicate on claims by officers who, by re^asor.s of pro-Alli-ed sympathy, were
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      SHE WILL SING TOMORROW
      37 5 SHE WILL SING TOMORROW BABETTE OT>EAL wlio is guest artiste at tS;e I'alm C^urt Concert ?A Kaftles Hotel tomorrow evening. Son.^s she will sing m elude "Falling In Love," "Villa" and "My Life ta Love S ►ng."
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      MARELLA DOCKS TOMORROW
      649 5 THE Mareila is txpjjted to dock m Singapore tomorrow with the following passengers on board from Australian por-s: Mr L S Asher; Mr. and Mrs. M. 'L Bernacchi and 2 children; Miss B. J Brown; Mrs. R. Chandler; Mrs. M. C Cairr.s and 2 children; Mrs. O.
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      TO CLOSE EXCHANGE LOOPHOLE
      322 5 TO CLOSE EXCHANGE LOOPHOLE /^t 7 7 I m Check on illegal imports THE Singapore Import and Fxport Department has ju-t 1 started a new drive to chcc's m p :rtvrs who are shipping m American tfoedLs from Hong Kmtg. F ere, controls the import csf American goods are not
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      22 5 MB L. (KESSON who baa been appointed a Singapore M inicipa] Commissioner m place of Mr D. K. Walters who has resigned.
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      TRAINING WING CLOSES DOWN
      299 5 Free Press Stall Reporter AFTER training scores of Indian Utops m South-Ea^t Asia m specialised motor transport, the Indian Training Wing of the RASC Training Cchool has just closed down m Singapore. The School was established to obviate the long turnaround that would have been entailed
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      'SAFETY' DISPALY AT HAPPY WORLD
      65 5 THE Safety-First Exhibition which has had a successful 1 four-day season at the Gieit World has been transf4*red to the Happy World Stadium and J J will continue to be oh display, together with the model exhibit, 1 till Monday evening, May 19. To meet
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      RAFFLES GUARDS TO DISCUSS SOCIAL SURVEY
      201 5 RAFFLES GUARDS TO DISCUSS SOCIAL SURVEY i HOW Singapore will conduct the social survey and the aims and purposes of the investigation will be the subject of a discussion led by Mr. Goh Keng Swee to the Stamford Club, an association of Raffles Graduates, on June 7 at 331 North
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      WE'RE LIVING IN A TURKISH BATH
      69 5 WE'RE LIVING IN A TURKISH BATH Free v. 5 Staff Reporter IN London I t f the first steam room r> i baths is 85 decrees and tunUtty is. of CM P p r <ent For some weeks nast. the day temperature m Singanore has seldom dropped below 88 degrees
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      RECORDED MESSAGES FOR HOME
      125 5 F: B Staff UAVAL men may get the chance tl of n messages 0:1 records for folk m England when HMS London arrives m Singapore .1 July on the way to jcin me F Fleet ahd li ye Belfast. "The Fleet replacement .ng aboard several lecaiding
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      RADIO PALY ON ROAD SAFETY
      89 5 PN RADIO Theatre at 945 p.m. on Sunday. Efc iya is presenting "To The Public Danger" a rrdio play by F Hamiitor.. who wrote '"Rope "Gaslight." It w:u broiv originally by the 8.8.C. Drama Department, and proved so popular that it has beer, repeated on
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      NEW O.C. FOR CHANGI
      43 5 Group Captain F. G. Cator, C.8.E., who arrived m Singapore by air on May 10, has tak^n over command or R.A.F. Station, Changi from Group Captain C Ryley. D.F.C.. who is return: England on completion ot his overseas tour.
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      ACTING CHAIRMAN
      24 5 Mr. P.A.J. Chrimes has beer appointed to act as Chairman oi the Singapore Harbour Boarc while Mr. H. Bast?n is on leave.
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      OVERSEAS SERVICE
      205 5 O VERSEAS SER VICE THE War Office announces that, starting with personnel placed under orders en or after May 15, 1947, all personnel drafted overseas excluding officers of the RAMC. RADC, RAVC and Nursing I Officers (who are dealt with uni der separate rules) will normally be selected from those
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      37 5 SHOVv S P.m. r IFTER COHFtNEMENT. n;ascre. jiSpcrTmalacca coaches limited. SEXVICI SISAPORE MALACCA lONS:— Beach Road. It-! 4153 :.ivj Malacca riMES DAILY I < P SI. RUAM THEATRE at T <& 9 15 p.m. THREE CABALLEROS" Tomi Midnkr: Tamil!
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      26 5 I TODAY fI«D TOMORROW K=s=====s^ri At II A.fl. ?H5Tr« «9~c?° =a a SPECIAL CHILDREN^ MATIN KE Cartoons And Shor l Bring Or Send The Kiddies Along.
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  • SPORT...
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      22 6 pic turf. lnrovshire Crickci .üb's new m, E- J (iuth.ird. sine's out to practice .it the not it Derby. Derby Evening Telegraph
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      ALL OUT FOR 12 RUNS
      189 6 iv KYIJNQ at St. George's Road ground on Wednesday 7 Motor Transport, Base Reserve Depot, defeated a combined 8 B. F U. B. H Q team by 48 xv:. The combined eleven were disced for a mere 12 runs, lai ly due to good bowling
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      WEMBLEY TAX FIGURES
      85 6 [N j at Wembley last year were watched by 4.400,000 people and of the €655.000 paid m taxation and local rai .5,000 wa s enter--x, stated Sir Arthur at the annual meeting of v Stadium Ltd. shareholders rnbley have offered to the organising committee of the Olympic
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      NS PREPARES FOR GAME v S'PORE
      951 6 NS PREPARES FOR GAME v S'PORE Weekly Cricket Notes i j\nxious to 7natze good impression ■•>> The Sports Editor NEGR] SEMBILAN are busily preparing for their two day state game against Singapore <>n the Singapore Crickd Club padang on July It and July 15 and, having alieach held one trial
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      FAVOURITE BEATEN IN IRISH 2,000 GUINEAS
      84 6 YK Kilpalrick's Grand Weather, starting 3-1, won the Irish 2.000 Guineas run over one mile at Curragh on Wednesday, reports R- uter frrm Dublin. Grand Weather, who is by Dastur out of Morning Dew. beat Sails Tarhe. 5-2 second favourite. by five lengths with
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      M.T. COY WIN R.A.F. BASE SOCCER LEAGUE
      271 6 M.T. COY WIN R.A.F. BASE SOCCER LEAGUE K.O. Competition To Follow BY defeating 59 ML T. Coy(l) on Monday, :.'.B.S. X.l', won the R.A.r. Bas« Inter-unit League without ooncediag a point. They have played eight games and have taken 16 points, with a goal average of 43 for two «gnifif
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      PETROL DEPOT SCORES 5-0 VICTORY
      167 6 j i friendly game of soccer I Han d« the Pet: RASC defeated the Royal AnnaI t HM .by five nil. The first hall saw SuJ four mm :d sco: h a well-placeii shot rwards i Ai »ld '2' and Roben A*. I lr away
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      84 6 A Third Division football match which has assumed aJI proportions of a cup-tie and which it is considered, would fill a ground twice the size of the one on which it will be played, is Queen's Pail: Rar.gens versus Cardiff City
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      SAPPERS BEAT RECS 5-1
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      POSTALS WIN THREE-NIL ON PADANG
      8 6 POSTALS WIN THREE-NIL ON PADANG goal the Pol>
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      BRITAIN AND U.S. LEVEL IN WALKER CUP
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      S. AFRICANS TOP HANTS' TOTALL
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      DONNELLY GETS 154 NOT OUT v LANCASHIRE
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      SWEDISH TENNIS STAR TO TOUR INDIA
      73 7 STOCKHOLM, Friday. THE Swedish Lawn Tennis As--1 iociation has accepted th? invitation from India to send Lennart Bergelin, the Swedish Davis Cup star for an exhibiti m tour of India m December. The tour is expected to last until the middle of February The
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      England Play At Zurich Tomorrow
      246 7 England Play At Zurich Tomorrow ZLKICH. Friday. PWISS soccer enthusiasts appear to have no doubt about ♦J (he result of Sunday's match with England at Hard turn Stadium, home of the famous Grasshoppers Club, ami an easy- England victorj is anticipated. The last time the two countries met m Switzerland
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      SEMBAWANG DEFEAT COSMOS 5-2
      565 7 SEMBAWANG DEFEAT COSMOS 5-2 R.N.A.S. Sembawang ,"i. Singapore Cosmos 2, J\ a friendly game of soccer played at Sembawang, 1 K.N.A.S. Sembawang beat Singapore Cosmos by five goals to two. The Cosmos played very clever football, but their poor finishing lost them main scoring chances. Kicking off the Cosmos were
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      WEEKEND SPORTS EVENTS
      153 7 TO-DAY Cricket: S.C.C. v Pt.lic r <»n the Padanp at 2 p m.; S X I SK t 2 p m I 5. i r R.A.P., Paya 1 ebu p.t McPherson Road 2 p.m Booser: C.T.M Juniors v St. Patricks S;ho.,i at Katonj lit 5 p m
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      S.R.G. CRICKET XI
      51 7 THE S.R.C. cricket team to meet Ist Queen's on tho padang at 2 p.m. fa. Dr. L. S. da Silva (Capt.), J. Anchant, A. Armstrong, G. Bogaars, J. j Duclos. E. Ebcrt, S. Hope. G. de I Silva. M. Swyny, M. Wilson V c. W °rhout. G.
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      BRITAIN LEADS POUND 2—l IN DAVIS CUP
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      IRELAND ELIMINATED
      41 7 DUBIJN, Fri. YUGOSLAVIA eliminaied Ireland from :he Davis Cup competi- today by winning the doubles he second round to notch a -nil lead. The Yugoslavians will now meet the winners of the tie between Belgium and E=r I U.P.
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      S.A. LEAD REDUCED
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      OLD BOYS BEAT PRESENT 3-2
      197 7 I-:. soccer played yesterday evening at phs I. ground, ■he Combined C rist an Brothers' Old Boys eleven had a narrow w.n r present school team by :he odd goal m five. Play was quite even throughout whole game. The boys were In he lead
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      NEW HOPE AT SUSSEX
      39 7 S. C Griffith (left), secretary of Sussex County Cricket Club and A. J. Holmes, the selector, talking to a new 16-year-old player. A. O.ikman, who is o n trial for Sussex and showing great promise.
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      1016 7 A BIG WEEK AHEAD Soccer Notes By Our Soccer Reporter KITHAT a grand week of football we have ahead of us. On ff Monday, m the second round of the league, the Arm> me«t the only team that hpfl be-en beaten them m the torn petition, the Malays, and on
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      31 8 It might be anywhere; \mi Geonbea will know jusi where it is. The tram und the trees maa r»ve the p>Mt- n away. It's Newcastle's Floral Mile m North Road.
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      301 8 CITY NEWS S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A Special Market correspondent gives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m today as follows: Cti r>er lb. per lb. No 1 X S >. Spot m !<^ No I X > > fob m b.,le> May 35 n i fob m bales May
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      890 8 WHY RUBBER HAS DROPPED Weekly Spore Market Report A FALL of 8' 2 cts. or say 20',. m the price t>l rubber during the fir>t 15 days of May a matter <>i serious concern to this country, re] is a Market Correspondent. Various reasons have been attributed fox tin- severe
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      10 per cent cut for US navy
      92 8 A CUT of ten per cent In the U.S. Navy budget for the year beginning on July I was recommended yesterday by the Hoose <>f Representatives Appropriations Committee m Washington as part of the drive for economy m Use armed forces. i>*s-pite warnings
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      GURKHAS RUSHED TO AKYAB REBELLION
      450 8 GURKHAS RUSHED TO AKYAB REBELLION RANGOON, Friday. FRESH contingents of Gurkha troops left Rangoon last night for Akyab to assist m the suppression of the "opea rebellion" reported m the Arakans m South-West Burma. The strength of the military contingent is not known but port authorities said that the Scindia
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      A-GERMANS WORK FOR BOTH SIDES
      333 8 A-GERMANS WORK FOR BOTH SIDES WASIMM, It>N. Friday. T^Hi: U.S. Navy Department told the House of Representa--1 lives Appropriations Sub-Committee, m a report just made public, that, according to Its informal ion.. KiiN>ia evacuated some 10,060 to 20,000 German scientists and technicians from Germany t<> work m Soviet industry. The
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      'ENDANGERED HEALTH.' COOLIE FINED
      122 8 'ENDANGERED HEALTH.' COOLIE FINED CHARGE R Ith tippj contents of a bucket of nightsoil into a public drain, a Chinese labourer, Ong Kong Kah, employed by the Municipal Commissioners m their Nightsoil Disposal Service, appeared before Mr. K. M, Byrne m the Third Police Court on Wednesday. The complainant, M.
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      3 ARRESTED FOR GOLD THEFT
      53 8 Two Dutch airport officers and a British Indian were arrested at Batavia yesterday for the theft of about 25 pounds weight of gold from Bandjermasin, South Borneo, which was meant for the Netherlands East Indies' Commercial Bank. Twenty pounds weight of the stolen gold has
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      ENVOY SEES VICTORY
      22 8 Lo Chia-lien, the flrst Chinese •\mbDs.>ador to India, yesterday presented his credentials to the Viceroy Viscount Mountbatten. I U.P.
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      Muslim League Split Reported
      353 8 LONDON, Thursday. QTBONG i< ports are circulating m Lomim Um4 the reasoi U i^r the flying I sH of Viscount Moantbstiaa, \\\e Viceroy (t India, to London is becaiiM 1 the I'r;ti>h plan itf transfei ol powef to India by BOOM t<»rm <*f r-rlition hM been
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      BEVIN TO REST
      35 8 Thf Foreign OfL ounc •^rday that Mr. Bevin begin his vacation today althou he will remain m touch Foreign Office. He will for the Labour Party's anni conference on May 26. UP.
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      105 8 Bright v showers Uffc ATIILR report for Ik om J h urv compiled by tfct f. ■i periods with local taH showen. m the weniar Fi- m ni^ht and 10-mono* Wind: South -sauti-f 10 knots during the da? C«* iichi variable at nu <t 635 p.m S»M»e 13 am Moonset
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