The Singapore Free Press, 14 July 1947

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    21 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA {ft IK. 903. SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JOLT 14, IM7 PRICE li CENTO.
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    INCOME TAX: GOVT. WARNED
    451 1 INCOME TAX: GOVT. WARNED 'Burden cannot be shouldered' mm Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. P[ an attack on income tax, Mr. S. B. Palmer, President of the United Planters Association, asserted in the Malayan Union Advisory Council this morning that the Union Government appeared to be contemplating a
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    AUSTRALIAN'S BAIL MUSED TO $15,000
    332 1 Free Fress Staff Reporter THE oail of George Stanford alias Thomas John Stanley HamNHMt the 25-year-old Australian w-; a charged under the Fugitive OCer.ders Ac:, was increase in Hm Singapore second police court Mi rr. .ming Trom $10,000 to HS.QOQ and the case was set
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    PARIS TALKS GO WELL
    279 1 PARIS TALKS GO WELL PARIS, Monday. THE sixteen nation conferenee on the 1 plan, making record progress, has set Septemter 1 as the deadline for the submission of a final report to the United States. The conference's progress has come up to the best exoectattons of tbe sponsor powers, Britain
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    ROBBERS TAKE TAXI-CAB
    73 1 Two Chinese, one arm*d, robbed a taxi-driver of $8 and then took his cab last night in Ayer Rajah Road. The robbers are reported to have engaged the taxi in Jalan Sultan. When reaching the Great World Park, one man produced a revolver and forced the driver
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    ARRESTED HOUR AFTER ROBBERY
    46 1 rE Singapore Police made an arrest last night within an hour of an armed robbery in a house m Changi Road at 9.15 pm. It was reported that two Chinese, one armed, took $150 cash and a gold ring from the house.
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    GAMBLING ARRESTS
    20 1 The Anti-Gambling Suppression Branch of the Singapore CXD. arrested l# persons in raids on gambling dens last night.
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    INDIES PREMIER SEES VAN MOOK
    151 1 I BATAVIA, Monday. fInHE Indonesian Premier, Dr. Sjarif uddin, is expected here 1 this morning for a conference with Dr. van Mook, the Dutch Lieutenant-Govemqr-General, which it is hoped may end the crisis. He is bringing new proposals for overcoming the differences on future responsibility
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    28 1 rUR Chinese, one armed, broke into a house in Sembawang Road. Singapore, at 3 ajn. yesterday, and robbed the occupants of $35 cash and jewellery. Reuter
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    SENORA PERON TO VISIT U.K.
    83 1 MEMBERS of Senora Eva Durate de peron's suite said on Sunday, in Genoa that the wife of the Argentine President had changed her plans and would visit London. She was expected to leave on Wednesday. A British Embassy spokesman in Rome said the Bnbessy transmitted
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    MALAYA ATTENDS MEDICAL TALKS
    66 1 MALAYA, India, China and Slam are represented with 50 nations at the fifth international Congress of Pediatrics (care of children) which opens in New York for four days. Russia has three official delegates and every European country, except Albania, is on the official In addition, non-official
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    The modern Pegasus
    79 1 •PHE Gaekwar of Baroda's four-year-old colt Diesel by Lohondo out of Dynamite was flown by special Skymaster plane from London yesterday te New York to compete la the big race at Bel. mont Park towards the end of the week. It is expected that the Indian Jockey
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    Police make big rice seizures
    186 1 Police make big rice seizures Free Press Stall Reporter (XNE of the biggest rice seisnres for sometime was made by the Marine Police yesterday morning when a junk was intercepted in Singapore harbour. The rice seized is believed to be upwards of 50 piculs. Men found aboard the junk are
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    RIOTERS SET LAHORE ON FIRE
    141 1 LAHORE. Sunday. ALL available fire engines were rushed to widespread fires inside the walled city of Lahore tonight after a fresh outburst of communal violence. The police fired to disperse Muslim. Hindu and Sikh crowds threatening one another amid biasing houses inside the Mochi gate
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    BIGGER RICE RATION—'IT CAN BE DONE'
    320 1 BIGGER RICE RATION— 'IT CAN BE DONE' Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. NO country, which produces enough rice to give her pops* lation eight ounces a day, should receive an allocation trom the International Emergency Food Council until the ration of all rice-eating populations has been made np
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    MINERS TRAPPED
    73 1 GANGS of miners tunnelled for more than 40 hours to reach the body of the third victim of the pit disaster at Binley colliery near Coventry. The bodies of the two others who perished in a roof fall that extended over 30 yards, two miles from the pit
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    JAP ARMY PLANT FOR MALAYA
    45 1 WASHINGTON. Sunday. THE announcement from Tokio that payment of Japanese reparations will oegin at once may prove more imaginary than real. Proposed payments to China, the Netherlands East Indies, the Phihopines. Malaya and Burma are limited to military plants.— A.P.
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    POLICE BAN MRS. BROOKE PARADE
    68 1 Free Fress Staff Reporter Residents of Sarawak who have planned a special welcome at Kallang airport this afternoon for Mrs. Anthony Brooke have been refused permission for a parade through the streets of Singapore. Mrs. Brooke, who is joining her husband here, intends visiting Sarawak.
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  • FEATURES...
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      17 2 The Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park with the audience watching a performance of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
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      EROS WAS A PUN
      565 2 EROS is poised in Piccadilly-circus once again returning from a war-time exile that has lasted since October 1939. He has Just celebrated his 54th birthday. He made his first appearance on a small island site, a little nearer Piccadilly than he is today, on June 29,
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      WHERE IS SINGAPORE
      1626 2 Hall Rdtnney's Letter From London THERE is appalling ignorance in Britain about the Empire. This is not the opinion of one who, having spent more than a score of years in Malaya, comes home to find that quite a large number of friend* would find it an
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      200 2 WEST opened a low spade. Declarer ff won Easts ten with the king and played four rounds of shRUL having to surrender a trick to Bast (West, meanwhile, discarded two hearts and a diamond). ■aat returned a apade and declare; neid up dummy's ace for one round
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      57 2 THE STAGE CLUB will be holding a formal Dinner Pa** la I mm V C mW On Wednesday 16th July, at 8.30 f*> it Tie Mm Raataaraat will te elesed to fieaeral PaMfe aa thia day. ft Tickets for this Function can be obtained at Prince's or from the Hon.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      700 2 a. a. 'm_ T V_ t___L __T ~^r t___T '▼fOwVWS. vfv SINGAPORE J*?* 0 L ia.to At. Yoar_ Rem.. A a> 1 -a. S? 8 1 i 1 Ntews Analyato. Booka. S.£JV C. Blue Network Plays Films; 12.00 Welsh Half- 2.00 mam. 48S mettew te thw Ho^- RADIO SEAC broadcasting
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    • Miscellaneous
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      55 2 QUIZ Answera 1. (a) Genoa: (b) The Chimes and many of his Christmas Stories 2. John Porster (1812-1876). He was literary critic, and subsequently editor, of the Examiner. Hisi books include: Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth: Lifeß and Times of Oliver Goldsmith u M_to H!ot: a n*™**'- "4
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      177 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune iorecast for people bom today DORN today, yoor syaipath D tamA kindliness toward d tbsac who are less fortaiau than yourself will always yomr main motivation in life Taa will not be corner either, unless yow can something constrictive shut their betterment If a man, yon
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  • NEWS...
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      SOVIET CALL UP YOUTH
      189 3 L 5 m i e Soviet youths and girls are made ■".-up for training for th? engineering, r il a id metallurgical industries, under a -_>:_mm ot the Supreme Soviet of the f the de*. ree is to train 4,500.000 new trade m rkera by the
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      JAP HOUSING AND FOOD CRITICISED
      46 3 JAP HOUSING AND FOOD CRITICISED rai fee a a at the saj ihat I --ther I housi rts UJ elievii oal i c fns&i- the Latin 03 11 refche held I od." Ud mo- ith Bimon tt po iesc Hi*j I f m fc tastes tine.
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      JET-PROPELLED LINERS NEXT?
      69 3 JET-PROPELLED LINERS NEXT K v a tn*; pas- s Wren by jet al 100 miles attending the Na- Laboratory at expressed latimmena chfnculrconc before -hips can be t .vere proved the Laboratory l bj a wealthy to test' a ■-propelled finer. pot atialities th re is no im- >: providing
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      TERRORISM PRICE IN PALESTINE
      24 3 1' *Um ia to go up 1 3d gallon lo pay t nage caused wnen the Shell Com- station last
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      20 3 *n who took part in the country dancing Middlesbor MUgh Corporation. Children in Ihc rational dances of many European countries.
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      Italy's new infant prodigy
      121 3 v m i i ca.ru— and acefeuincd— ltaly s third infant prothe beginning of this century. He is the eight- f >tral director. Ferructio Burco. He is the son of a a »•> mother has often sung under his direction. The di-_es wrre Willy Ferrer a.
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      25 3 Princess Mahaweche Toussoun, cousin of King I-aruuk of Egypt, wearing a treasured antique pendant containing a 45 carat pear-shaped rose diamond at tbe Paris Opera.
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      GERMANS RETURN LOOTED GLOBE
      278 3 ipHE Gottorp Globe, une of the most extraordinary and spectacular pieces of loot acquired by the Germans in A.rid War 11, soon will be returned to its Soviet owners. Tne 11-foot wide, 17th century relic, formerly owned by Peter the Great, will go to Russia via
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      VITAL 60 DAYS FOR JAPANESE
      98 3 TOKIO, Sunday. JAPAN will know during the next two months whether she can reach economic stabilisation or whether "a final collapse is inI evitable," Mr. Shiro Nagano, an official of tiie Economic Stabilisation Board, told leading Osaka in- dustriadists. Mr. Nagano said Japan was not
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      WORLD MILK RECORD
      33 3 A cow owned by the Victoria Department of Agriculture producI ed 16,103 pounds of milk and 77 pounds of butterfat in 273 days a world record, its owners claim. A.P.
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      HE RAN AWAY TO JOIN CIRCUS
      246 3 BILLY Merson, one of the last of the old London Music Hall comedians, has died in Charing Cross hospital, aged 66. He had been ill for some time. Merson, whose real name was William Henry Thompson, was born in Nottingham and started life as
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      Returing to Atlantic run
      306 3 THE QUEEN MARY REFITTED AWELKLY express British liner service from Southampton to New York has been brought a stage nearer by the news that the 81, 000- ton Cunard liner Queen Mary will be back in the North Atlantic passenger service at the end of July.
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      WHY AUSTRALIA OBJECTED
      51 3 AUSTRALIA objected to the permission for a second Japanese I whaling expedition to the Antarctic, granted by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Allied Com- mander in Japan, only because of I the manner in which the decisions were taken, it was hinted in the London Times, reports
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      ARTIFICIAL RAIN
      28 3 Artificial showers from a stream by means of petrol pumps and j rotary distributors is being provided for sugar beet crops in East Reuter Wretham, Norfolk-
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      The Pope praises Britons
      56 3 THK British ha*ve not done with suffering, said the Pope, when he received Mr. John Victor Pef>wne, new British Minister to the Holy See. "The post-war period," he said, "has indeed found them with mounting burdens and problems, which are equalled only by their fixed determination
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      WORLD MEMORIAL PLAN FOR 'F.D.R.'
      341 3 WORLD MEMORIAL PLAN FOR 'F.D.R.' Great peace tower atop mountain THE 'Lilti? White House", at Warm Springs 'Foundation, A Georgia, in which Trident Franklin D. Roosevelt iu>d on April 12, 1945, has become one of America's national shrines, and plans have been made to erect a great Roosevelt peace tower
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      59 3 A leaf of bread in lew Ulan 15# minutes froin growing grain to taking the leal from the oven is thc aim of bakery students at Black Technical College. Brian Sfaerroclo, 18, and Betty j Swindelehorst, 18, arc among tbe students who bone lo esta!)lish this record in August whci
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      P.I. BANS RETURN OF CHINESE
      50 3 THE Philippines Government has made known its opposition to the proposed rerentry into PX of 7,600 Chinese whom UNRRA have certified to be bona fide prewar residents. These Chinese had been returned to China by UNRRA as displaced persons in 1945 and last year.- Reuter
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      GIRL SETS UP 3 RECORDS IN GLIDER FLIGHT
      108 3 BETTY McMILLEN, a 19-year-old glider pilot from Bishop. California. established three United States glider records during a single llight. Released at slightly over 8,500 feet ever the Bishop Airport, she j climbed her craft. 4.900 feet above I the point of release,
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      BRIDE SAID 'NO' AT THE ALTAR
      154 3 BRIDE SAID 'NO' AT THE ALTAR A BRIDE baid "Nu" when asked by the minister in church: "Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?" Then she burst into tears and wailed: "I can't go through with it, I'm home- sick." When the uproar in St. Francis
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      'CRAZY' TRIP IN HILER'S LUXURY SKIP
      183 3 HITLER'S luxury yacht. The Grille, took 40 days to reacn Lisbon from Hartlepool, on her way to new owners in the Middle East. The log of the yacht's quartermaster, Mr. Joseph Coper. Southfield Road, Middlesbrough, gives lhe impression that before the Germans left the
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      SECRET TERROR GANGS BROKEN UP
      434 6 SECRET TERROR GANGS BROKEN UP Problem 0f 300,000 Ms in Brazil TMtAZIL is confronted with ihe troublesome problem of assimilating its large, sullen and sometimes unruly Japanese population, says Associated Press. Since the war, terrorist outbreaks anions the Japanese colony of nearly 300,000, have resulted in bloody conflicts with several
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      Mechanic's feat
      93 6 Tommy Campobasso, 23-year-old chief mechanic of Americaft Overseas Airlines at Shannon Airpert, being greeted after a 2.300-mile flight from Berlin to Shannon in a small 65 h.p. Piper Cub. bought at an U.S. Army surplus sale ior US. S3OO. Making stops at Brussels, London, Carlisle and Belfast. Tommy
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      ZOO ELEPHANT SAVES GIRL
      60 6 SUSANNE PLOG. aged BfcH?. climbed over the fence round the elephant enclosure at Hamburg Zoo and fell into the pond in which the elephants were bathing. Terrified, she screanu d for help. The elephant keeper ordered one of the elephants to do its duty. It twined
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      DUSTMAN'S BROADCAST
      26 6 o E^ A Branton a Felixstowe! 'butiolk) dustman who made the town "salvage-minded." wm broadcast his experiences in a 3.8.C. programme tomorrow. R euter
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      Cops make 'sky arrest'
      83 6 TIIOL SANDS cheered and wave d as New York police chased a loud-speaker plane to make their first "aerial arrest.'' The loud-speaker plane had been swooping over 150,000 trippers on Coney Inland beaches, bl&ring to them about a brand of sunburn curt'. Trippers went to a
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      EXODUS FROM CHUNGKING
      574 6 UOR several years the meeca of leading world politicians and diplomats, Chungking, China's war-time capital and symbol of her indomitable resistance against the Japanese, is today engaged in an uphill struggle to keep itself on the map as one of the nation's major cities, reports Reuter. Ever
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      'Private war' on Jew Terrorists
      125 6 A G cc?mLn^ B litish i rniy officers n,an y of the Commandos, have been running their own "column" i„ Palestine in a war on Jewish terrorises, Their operations are to lead to a major puree of th^ police administration in Palestine, the SencV^SL A
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      60 6 M s Annette Belan poses on he r Chrysler af.«.r ii P i m a d judged lhe most elegant ear at the I'arLs Automobile" Elegance Competition— the first held since IS». Miss HeW v. ho u.;s an artists model, was among 40 beautiful women drivers who took part m
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      RUSSIANS BLEEDING HUNGARY
      365 6 RUSSIANS BLEEDING HUNGARY COMMUNIST as well as other officials Coalition Government tacitly admifl i victim of continual financial bleeding /Mi piers, reports Associated Press. Bui the the United States for Russia's economic i_. They say it is a counter-move to the Tr doctrine and would have been modified If tl
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      DOCKETS LOSE £30,000,000 FOR AUSTRALIA
      57 6 DOCKETS LOSE £30,000,000 FOR AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA £30.000,000 through the refu side workers' I Roods on Dutch vess dent of the Vict Manufactures, Mr C N said in Sydney. The union stand defiance of the Aral of Trade Vvc^ January ad\i^d lift Goods were now the Dutch in Am* Australia, and
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      PRINCES AT PALACE
      26 6 Four India:: Pi ceivcd bv thc Kn. Palace last sreek the Maharajah Nawab of Bahaval] rajah of Dhranc Nawab of Palan; m Reuter
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      188 3 ■*m\ mL The comfort and security scientific glare protection sunglasses are known throughout the rcorld. ORIENTAL OPTICAL CO., (QUALIFIED OPTICIANS) (I .O Box 387) (Phone:— 3232 *****) Head Office:— l62, South Bridge Road, Branch:— 34B, North Bridge Road, Singapore. ff You Like Your Prints To Last Longer GIVE US A
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      48 3 TARZAN Man*eh tumbles By Edgar Rice Burroughs HP" rHE S" O7 WENT AMD AN I /^k\W^fßßr^f CLUTCHING WILDLY AT THE EMPTY //WP*: INSTANT LATER TARZAN LANDEP I j /jgKS? '/7W V AIR, MANZEN TUMBLED EARTHWARD. U a&BaU_£& 180 WiW 1 gAT-UKE ON THE LIMP. |< f Wfh/"'W g££imgt|^^g -2V74-
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947. Paying for the New Schools
      694 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947. Paying for the New Schools A SELECT Committee of the Advisory Council, headed by Sir Han Hoe Lim and composed of Chinese, Malay and Indian Unofficial members, has now given its endorsement to the Director of Education's ten-year-plan for the development of
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      Good Mornin
      1025 4  -  Frank Owen g THE ANNIVERSARIES OF 'MIGHTY' MOMENTS: THE week-end that Messrs. Bevin, Molotov and Bidault sat down to discuss and perhaps finaUy to divide Europe was a mighty moment in the history of mankind. It was the anniversary of another mighty moment, too. That week-end six years
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      18 4 entertained by tbe Hon. Sardar BaMev ***** who ta seen in the »betograpfe with F. M. Msntgosner j.
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      PEOPLE MAKE NEWS
      529 4 TOR half an hour the two with the loudest voices in Great Britain and tbe United States shouted themselves hoarse in a vain attempt to .aik to each other. Along the main street oc the Cornish assize town of Bodmio. and for a mile around, echoed the
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      QUIZ
      88 4 1. In 1844 Dickens went to live abroad and was out of England for about a year. Where did he settle down, and what books did he write during his self-imposed exile? 2. Who was Charles Dickens' great friend, literary executor, and biographer? What did he write besides the
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      33 4 The Faps. an Mn portable ttnsae. flint* I by nobk guasis enters St. Peter's Room f in- th* u» ■nitlis Mt ttwee Dalnti Fssi 4e Britte, Portuguese, Gsi— jipr Cafaasa and Bernardino R*|*
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      FAITH
      21 4 Date you that fear my name shall the sun af righteousness arise with healing in his wings. Malachi 4. Z.
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      THE TORIES CAN TAKE IT
      610 4  -  E.D.O'Brien -h Director ot information Central Office mllca Bbte reply to Frank Owen's recent attacks on tbe Tory's Trust the People" Exhibition in England. 'TVERY knock's a boost," said the late Mr. Phineas T. Barnuni, adding: "Say what you like about me, but get the
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      OKINAWA FOR TOURISTS NOV
      292 4 fkKINAWA, scene of v some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific area, may soon become famous once again as a tourists hunting ground besides being an American military bastion. Major General A.G. Hegenberger commanding the first air division in Okinawa foresees the possibility of the
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      OPIUM SMOKING STILL BIG PROBLEM IN S'PORE
      302 5 Free Pt ess Staff Repoiter SINGAPORE opramaddicts ure being supplied with 5 ttoe drag bmbWBWI priftcipaly fnm lntfm -emil pt-rsisu &*>d Dr. Cfcen Sa Ij^, weß4aurwß 2on_ti-fqiu_ua v^t€r, m Mwtenftwr wiftjatefhec P«s&. Dr. dm K^i'id tIW IWWIW€C *W *€^pMBM BIMVKjCS W'Sjg najuy jbpsmc
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      783 NEW CARS IN A MONTH
      57 5 O*L fcjindra* «tohtr-tto«ee j ladrviduafc *si firms te m m tmmm jarchsseJ new aga j tbroimgh the Vehicles *£<**£ goard during the period may sa H jmw Jfb« yw.' s<-vt*n inlaws aWlft'U* WBW parc&Md MAMttn '-cycles. Tberr 15 uou»d Hmtfc Surcsg the same piiLmii
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      CHINA GETS $13 MILLION IN 6 MONTHS
      256 5 Irtt rres* Chinese Coin mnmtaed olmtttances k> China hy Chinese :n Iliac apaa. and the Mfcjb> a: Uniai Jor She first half Si Ml t>talied ovter fttJOQJMQ, according to ftfftrial stattatJos. O! :as Mttai, Waaaaaei aecaaaceg 5i>.557.782 sad Jhe Mat^r** VTA***- **ZJ*-m*mJ*-*LI. The
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      TO DISCUSS T.B.STAMPS
      121 5 TO DISCUSS T.B. STAMPS W _mm*** TM. mwmwS r*mm. l Sl_ i _uni|_ <fThrt> '4UhSBe '"*»^"> L^it JlJltl l«|m^l *Pm***lm*mK. EMHB SC _E_B_^_T~ ed to help comhat the TB. scourge lnffladlty. OBhSMQy. ft is under staed sat ■dtaflag is heina; done tfy •Qnwere-I Tw^wtt. Snr tine printing wsd tasse \fl
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      21 5 picture. Mmmm mml M ,niili JM-. OwlH IIHMMb Www Oh yBB 9ia> forttah sosrk, whteh. tt me «i. tion.- Free Press
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      BURMA INQUIRES INTO RICE LOOT
      47 5 *tm\ 3fc*-P*»^__^_^_>____(v r*|i ■nd i**r> n insc-aeaie loatng off tioe tag gangs said to hc Communists and dacoaia. Frefcirttd aver tar Mr. Justice Bo •Qyi, jßteCTMßtttae will estimate taw aaßtaaed by Hae Govern* yrtfate ape aifljeea and rtaaien lent since January.- Reuter
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      TRAINING HEALTH OFFICERS,
      248 5 TRAINING HEALTH OFFICERS, ■METtfOMSTRATKBIS Ch how to; lest Coed, the varioas methods af inspecting flalrifg. markets,! daughter-houses, bakeries, and a; working knowledge of chemistry form part of the syllabus for pro-; hationary Health and Sanitary Inspectors who will undergo a she months' course of instruction in Singapore next Janxary. Tweirty
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      39 5 Gea. Hssnr Chi-hwanj:, head of the OMaaaa Milttary SDs&ion to Baaaaaaj ia 1945 snd farmer deputy Osaasassdar of the Chiuejt forces la Bsrma during the war acstaml Jssasw passed ttanmgh sta— Ptaw on his way as Europe ss Friday.
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      THIRD S'PORE MASS WEDDINGS PLANNED
      204 5 JFkcc. A*esa StanT n^Btasr '11 Diiqapiai TlliijTbli Tdariral wflßaa s > tagSßriyPsin I is organising the third mass sasMpc itth win probably tike iflace art the Viciaria Memorial Hall. Sept. 21 (4th day nf the eighth moon ky the tanaer amfesiftar) has i— s%— ms
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      Plan to help wage-earners
      350 5 Jft_.ee Am Staff Hepwiter omyssi X ana tahasrn afflosntal ant ad .Mngaatore's aT oaay taaaea, tatateffaa^r yet ctaeasfty lianfrtoed, far tbe TJte Stftane jcdtay of the compaAy envisages a im ia jtm ua almaa Details are being enakefl out, Md tat stiß aoH te tass *eta»
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      32 5 m is the new mascot of ihe Skgtal Welch Fusiliers. The goat arrived by As ■mpire Trooper fkm Saturday, laaWteg come all the way from the Koyal Stud at Wimd»r Park tastatae.
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      CLERICAL UNION LOTTERY
      63 5 A $150,000 pan-Jtfalay&n lottery, is to he sponsored shortly by ■five clerical unions in Jtfal&ya. Tfeffaote far tfhe first sweep Are expected to be on sale next week sued sdll he <draam an itae iSelan- SOT mmmVBM-*-. •m mpiiitai the swaaasa Joint dr3lnf_B__ES___fl 'XlfliiHD imoona 4n_n^____vfffHtAP taaa
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      REV. HANDY
      17 5 The Ber. J. T. ft Handy has taaan aajgaented partly Secretary for Beehfl 'MOtta, Sftaaapore.
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      MALAY PROTEST
      38 5 leas Pram Staff GsOTespondent JaTOANG, Sunday. ym Wmm-mg Itolay Association a ta calling a special meeting soon to consider sending a protest to Government agairjjt the proposed recruitment of 10 000 Ceylonese for service hi Malaya.
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      More S'pore-China Ships
      44 5 More S' pore-China Ships sm ItartMT MMm i iiaailh wm tae tfce TnA's Bend, Coastal Jlacll—una., Mmmm- ahm*, Oaatatal Champion, Studding Sail sssl Taa m fla aaaaata ■■aiiii la Singapore this iisstath from Smt ml UmmwM Koag Tespmttoely, with 500 tans af Chin Bat
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      DRILLING FOR OIL IN PHILIPPINES
      305 5 Swam T__H__U__m &m4 maifflMis _^___Ba^_m»«_*#»^^^ Ijmi ma ai_d 1 A jS [mlw JDnC law J_ssT^s% flgjlsfl c wralS 3LC9C BC In 1941 when, at a flcpth aT slightly over 8,000 feet. Hie laiaijiHiij i nniaaita 1 1 al wibii oil indications which convinced Tlals time
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      FIREMAN FINED
      52 5 ajrUAfi, Sunday.— A fireman iH Cheong Thim fram R-R »mj*P May Pert was fined $150 *y th* Ufetriot JBdge, Che flemtd bin Martapha for having possession of ate complete Ghatsfts smoking outfit. The outfit eras fosad in a aaJatai on board the ship which was at the Muar
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      SHOTGUNS WAITING TO BE CLAIMED
      142 5 TOE fcgygl 101 personaHy heluie ttae aeparty Commissioner of Pohee sMta ttie next six months. After Umt ttaaa.aaßaai— d sons Oiwuumunt, and may he sold aader order of couft. rata-* are 40 Sai tail fc— dstal gsna. M dsgta hantafcd guns, 17 point 22 rifles,
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      SPORE STUDENT'S BODY FOUND
      48 5 BRIDGSPOBT, CaUfonda, Sunday—lhe hody af Singapore student atastflej Weng and ads companion. C. Allen Nesblt. waae recorerad fram Mono Latae. the sheriffs sflloer reported sn Saturday. Ihe two Dnivwstty of Calilamla etaamaja sssa itauwnad ataaa £hf ii small boat capsized last "Wednes dfdfdfdfdf A.P.
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      102 5 SINCAPOBE WORLDWIDE n A nait ation Afparatnt in Vie MIWHMT *J*° Sll,i a sam iWMia sad Lraiai si many amsi T ma Dance Cssaret ~Tiadb Fas" Attractioas Jmmml W y Rquisite Pyam, Sports sad Fancy Gas* SATJMdMY V R sTaeeawaa m Speiianiw Array Ij Al Glimpse al Fature Faraltare ~mhmm
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      253 6 fc"'-^iTt^T(n'^fTi i rv^'T'' ,^*r' T i _p_f_tn ff- ig.i MaalSl I KJ I w t _-_ImJ -4 *-*> mr* ami ll— B— 1 19 c.r.iy 9J5 •__L_i_air.ternoltonrl Pictures Presents ii i*i li! i_(fV liI(tIHl r F^"' 1--.\ 1 .?]Z£JJB[2R"\ I.» T^ rl n' -o!or Lm b WAV i I] am
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      26 6 TO-MORROW 1 CHOPIN REVIVED FOP 1 DAY Columbia Presents CORNEL WILDE, PAUL MUNI J MERLE OBERON IN ong toJmemw In Technicolor PUBLICISED BY THE PUBLIC J
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      57 6 JANt Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava y^^\ 0 Outside Me y /stop/ A /to my villa-N /but- good grief 'A (this V P/aza de loto, I where y they would f just look atme' 1 I A*L&k M 'J matador t RE w A tear you to
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      YOUNG TRAINER GETS BIG POST
      597 7  - YOUNG TRAINER GETS BIG POST VERNON MORGAN Will Train For King, J. Dewar By r^^ LONDON; Sunday. THE biggest turf news of the week was the announcement that the 34-year-old North Country trainer Alex Murless had been appointed the new sports master of Beckham p ton, which post Fred Darling
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      SCORED 235, BUT DROPPED EARLY
      323 7 SCORED 235, BUT DROPPED EARLY I.ONDON, Sunday. r rY D iY Ls, Northamptonshire, ZLiiT.i bat who had the t nour raking the highest K™ yei^r.iay-W not out— fi al* c onakter himself the HLJbatsman of the day for he If Sopped m the slins in the Kune over before a
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      KING SEES OWN COLT BEATEN
      171 7 iONDGN .Sunday. Tiie King lecompanieti by the t *o Pnncesss utf LtUc&am Phiiip Mountfa.::, spent UM afternoon at ■nN ncss yesterday when they M *ot Kings colt Howdah ttftin*- a Lo. ravouriie at 7-4 on lsi beaten ki the Royal Lodge fcakt* for iwo-year-oids run
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      DUKE AS PRESIDENT
      17 7 r ur has con- I '-ul ii" new Resident LZ! 55 ***ball Association. I
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      FASTEST HORSE IR WORLD?
      50 7 Five-year -old Scatb African racehorse Gambnt, which Ss claimed by South African experts to be tke fastest in tbe world, is seen ia action on Newmarket Heath, Suffolk. The horse, owned by millionaire mining magnate Mr. Norbert Erleigh, is being trained by Mr. H. B. Leach.
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      INTERNATIONAL WANTS TENNIS "CLINIC"
      223 7 INTERNATIONAL WANTS TENNIS "CLINIC" LONDON, Sunday. SUSAN Noel, English International, discusses England's lost supremacy and the probable cure in her book "Tennis Without She' writes: "To suffer iefeat once or twice may be reasonable, hot a continuity of defeat ceases, in time, to be merely the luck of the game.
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      CZECHS WIN FIRST MATCH OF FIIALS
      57 7 BELGRADE. Sunday.—Czechoslovakia won the first match in the Davis Cap European zone finals this afternoon, when the Czech No. 2, Vladmir Cernik, defeated Yugoslavia's Dragutin Mitic, 3— 0. I—2. I—6. 5—2. Jarolsav Drobny gave the Czechs a 2—o lead, beating the Yugoslavian second stringer
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      BEMBEMEER PLAYERS
      55 7 The following have been selected to play for the Bendemeer Athletic Club in the forthcoming Singapore Table Tennis Championship at the Great World table tennis arena. Junior Inter-dab Leacae Championship: Lee Ah Chlo. Ho Wens Kong, Leong Kok Khuen. Foong Weng Kee, Tan Fook Seng. Chow Wah Seng
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      PATTY BOOKED FARE HOME THREE TIMES
      651 7  -  GEORGE CHISHOLM BY LONDON, Sunday. I 23-YEAR-OLD, 6ft. Ainerican ex-airman plays sport the right way. We hand it t" Budge Patty, Wimbledon lawn tennis championship semiflnalist, for being the most j modest top-class sportsman we have met for a long-time. He came to Wimbledon
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      BIG SELANGOR MATCH ENDS IN DRAW
      389 7 BIG SELANGOR MATCH ENDS IN DRAW KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. SELAfcGOR'S ninth Europeans versus the Rest fixture ended in a draw this evening. The Rest side needed 36 runs for a win at clo e of play. The Rest were set the almost impossible task of mairtng 72 runs in the
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      WINS THREE EVENTS AT CHINESE MEET
      431 7 KOH Kim Cheng won the three freestyle events the 100 metres, 400 metres and I,5P# metres at yesterday's Singapore Chinese aquatic meet at the Chinese Swiinmntsr Club pool. Kah Kim Cheng met with little opposition in all the events, but his times were not
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      Former Test Captain Dead
      64 7 SYDNEY, Sunday. Warwick Armstrong, one of Australia's greatest cricketers and former Test captain, died today, aged 68. Armstrong took part in 42 games against England and was one of the few Australian batsmen who scored more than 2,oft runs in Test matches. He retired from first
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      SCRC BEATEN BY 10 RUNS
      262 7 Tha Special Commissioners beat tbe Singapore Chinese Re-! creation Club by 10 runs in a cricket match played at Hong Lim Green, yesterday. Bunker hit a bright 44 and Hounsell 43 for the Special Commissior.ers while Clough returned the best bowling average for the side
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      JARDINE WANTS CHANGE IN LAWS OF CRICKET
      491 7  - JARDINE WANTS CHANGE IN LAWS OF CRICKET VERNON MORGAN From LONDON, Sunday. TNDIA-born England cricketer Douglas Jardine, most 1 -famous of all English cricket of the present generation, wants the laws of cricket changed. That is news with a very big "N" and must have caused the ghosts in the
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      89 7 •acific Wverseas Airlines (Siam) ltd. I have commenced schedule amr charter sehyices ao under LOXUEY DAKOTA ARR SKYMASTSR SERVICES CVNGEOE AUSTRALIA U.K.? BOOKINGS yOE AUSTRALIA AND U.K. ACCEPTED ON A WAITING LIST BASIS ONLT AT PKESENI IEEI DEPASTURE FOE BANGKOK 97M -IBS. »0h mm THURSDAY 17TN JULY *IL DETAILS ARMY
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      261 7 Free Press Crossword No. 144 I I kafl lMa__UMan__l _Lh__LmUmmL_mLhm umjb» -\ikom 1. Merit im? county of Leinster. Eire, ncrth of Dublin county (5), 4. Step la dancing (9). 7. Name of tao Greek heroes at Troy <4), 9. Republic of the Levant; French mandated tetißoty until Jan. 1. 1944
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      HOME....
      31 8 For Londoners and "home" st last for Bros who wm uncovered at the beginning of this month and once again dominates London's Piccadilly Circus from his plinth in the centre.
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      Gratuities will cost $1,500,000
      392 8 Gratuities will cost $1,500,000 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. nnHE payment of gratuities to non-interned members of the Passive Defence Services will cost the Malayan Union $1,500,000. This is disclosed in a paper dealing with the findings of the joint committee which reviewed that section of the Worley
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      Constituent Assembly meets today
      156 8 Constituent Assembly meets today NEW QELHL Sun. •THE Constituent Assembly re- convenes tomorrow for the first time with an undisputed mandate to draft the constitution and function a* an interim law-making body for the pre-; dominantly Hindu Dominion of India, scheduled to come into existence on Aug. 15. Mr. Mohammed
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      24 DIE IN ACCIDENT
      28 8 Twenty-four were killed and aver 70 were Injured ln a collision of two crowded streets ears in suburban Bukov, Czecho-Slovakla. 1 on Sunday. U.P.
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      21 KILLED, 12 INJURED IN U.S. AIR CRASH
      119 8 21 KILLED, 12 INJURED IN U.S. AIR CRASH MELBOURNE, Florida, Sunday. THE Florida State Patrol reported 21 people were killed and 12 Injured, some critically, when a DC-3 passenger airliner crashed In marshy area five miles west of Melbourne, Florida. Melbourne is on the east coast of Florida, about 150
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      U.S. NCOs CHARGE
      41 8 The United States Department of Justice has announced that two ex-Army sergeants had been ar«rested and formally charged in connection with the disappearance of atomic bomb documents from Los Alamos atom testing station in New Mexico State. Reuter.
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      PRE-FAB HOUSES FOR $1,000 EACH
      205 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPtTO, Sunday. DROM experience gained in the construction of the 200 houses on the government's housing estate in Sungei Best Road, building officers of the Kuala Lumpur Town Board have designed a new type of "pre-fab" which will coat $1,000
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      21 DROWNED
      41 8 Floods drowned 21 people and injured several scores after torrential rains and hail in ten villages near Ankara on Sunday. More than 100 houses were swamped and crops entirely destroyed. Loss of cattle is reported to be grave.- Reuter
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      BLUEBIRD DOES 150 mph
      126 8 BLUEBIRD DOES 1 50 mph POOLE (DORSET). Sunday. SIR Malcolm Campbell drove his Jet-propelled 26-foot-long speedboat Bluebird today at a wed estimatitl by engineers at 150 miles an hour in a trial preparatory to an attempt to break nis own speedboat record of 141.78 miles per hour. Sir Malcolm said
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      GREEK TOWN TAKEN BY INVADERS
      427 8 Reds push in from Albania CONTINGENTS of an "Inte rnational V merilias, today cr<*sed «^^.^f l^ f £S2? Mi?«Se pied the Greek township of Konitsa, in *P«^J27^ w inain operations against the Greek rebels w place It is learned that the Greek Government has invited
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      38 8 Parents, wives and children mere at the Singapore CID vt* day to bid farewell to 17 Chinese who were being deported Free Press picture shows women saying farewell to depone* i thejr were leaving in a police van.
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      GUIDES GREET PRINCESS
      82 8 LONDON. Sunday. THIS afternoon, Princess Elza- beth left the quiet of Windsor and journeyed to London where she took the salute at the march past of 2.000 guides from all over Europe and the United States in a ceremony at the Pall Mall. Leaders of delegations from
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      ELECTION RIOTS
      58 8 Many people are reported to have been killed and wounded in Damascus, the capital, and other parts of Syria following tension arising out of the elections held last Monday. In the Djebel Druze frontier area, where elections are due to take place on Thursday, a "grave situation" is
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      GUERILLA GANG COSTS $23,000
      429 8 Free Press Staff Corresspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Today. rpHE disbandment of a small band of guerillas somewhere -L in the Malayan Union is to cost the Government $23,957. This is disclosed in the estimates of supplementary expenditure which were laid before the Advisory Council this morning for
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      WOMEN IN MINES
      41 8 The Soviet-cuii trolled Berlin j newspaper Nacht Express said on Sunday that the Russians were putting hundreds of German women to work in the uranium mines In southern Saxony, nearthe Czech border, to soeed ud Dro- duction. A.P.
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      S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      60 8 A SPECIAL Market corropa gives the »rfce* of nkh 11 ajn today ss follows: Mr 1 ill No 1 S.S S Spot loose H No 1 K. SS. foe ia bales July U I No 8 B.S.S fofc io halm Jult 2l\ y'r No 3 RSS
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      STRIKE TROUBLE IN SUDAN
      60 8 STRIKE TROUBLE IN SUDAN KHARTOUM Sudan. Sua* EMERGENCY precaifl* measures were taker w Sudan Government todav t mechanical workers hae tools and a disturbance ns curred at Atbara railway quarters. Atbara is a stronghold :c j Ashlgga party, which sw Egypt's case, just pre* o the United Nations for üb^
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      161 8 SINGAPORE AMATEUR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION It is desirable that the policy of the Singapore Amateur Football Association regarding Charity matches should bo announced. During the season the S.A.F.A. Propose to organise certain games to bo played for charitable objects. The nett proceeds from such games will be paid Into the S.A.F.A.
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      88 8 B- WEA THER oudy this pm, fair tonight WEATHBB report fer tho next 84 hoon compiled by tho RJLF: Cloudy this afternoon, besoming fair to-night and to-metorw morning. Wind: Light south -easterly becoming calm ta-nhjht. Sunset 6.41 p.m., sanrtoe S.S4 a.m. Moonrtse 3.17 a.m., moomiet 8.51 p.m. Temperatures: Mm. 89
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