The Singapore Free Press, 22 July 1947

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA I,- ni No. Ist'**' SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947. price lt Cents.
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    MALAYA'S 57,000- TON RICE CUT
    420 1 Brazil qutts world pool Free' Press Staff Reporter BRAZIL'S decision to withdraw from the Interna; u! Emergency Food Council will cost Singapm and Malaya 57,000 tons of rice— one third of the for the second half of this year. House of Commons yesterday Mr. John
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    'Rashtrapati' will head Indian Union
    120 1 'Rashtrapati' will head Indian Union •t in lia w;ii pr< sident at i the report of V:. a Constitution introd ict v! today n isembTj by Pan- Nehru, who will be' II eternal affairs in the ien1 Presid at who will be Rashtrapati" (head! i and w.ll hold office tnd
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    MALAYA WHITE PAPER HOLD-UP
    39 1 MALAYA WHITE PAPER HOLD-UP i 1 il Office said yester--1 -V: Ite Paper pre- Malayan Const-to-ri lei ijed." rKned to elaborate, iderstood, however, that Papei was prepared for sterdaj and this was I last minute for Ireas ns U.P.
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    FIVE DIE IN TRAIN SMASH
    89 1 LONDON, Monday. FIVE people were killed and 30 injured when the London to Liverpool express was derailed today in a cutting in Warwickshire. Rescue workers used linen and tablecloths fr:m the kitchens of the restaurant car on the train to bandage the injured. Tnt locomotive
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    'Aid to Europe vital to peace'
    383 1 >_t_uuN G I'ONi >ii>iiU.fy THE United States must contribute its fcull '..hare to the Marshall "Aid-to-Kurone" plan, even thou^fc this effort might mean some inflationary pressure a shortages ahome, President Truman told the United Stales Congress today, presenting his mid-year economic report. He described
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    78 1 Mr. Jinnah (left>. President of the All-India Muslim League and Governor-General-designate of Pakistan, is the centre of attention at a party given by the Viceroy of India and his wife in N u Delhi recently. Left to rizht are: Jinnah; Mrs, Henry F. Grady, wife of the American Ambassador to
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    30 KILLED IN AIR CRASH
    50 1 AN Argentine military transport plane crashed yesterday morning at Palcmar ah* base, and it was believed ti a more than 30 were killed. An Aviation Department communique said that part of the crew and pass, ngers and some bystanders re killed in the accident U.P.
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    KILLEARNS ON A VISIT TO INDIA
    51 1 NEW DELHI, Tuesday. LORD Killearn, Special Commissioner in South-East Asia, and Lady Killearn. arrived in New Delhi yesterday afternoon from Singapore. A Press note from the Viceroy's House, home of Rear-Admiral Lord Mountbatten. where they will stay, said they were "on a private visit."-
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    £60 million racket
    90 1 OViIR i:G0,0u^,i/«.. been lost by the British Treasury as a result of black market deais by British troaps in Germany, the Secretary for War, Mr. F. J. iSe.lcnjer, raid in the House of Commons yeslerday. Mr. Belienjsr added that officers and men have been warned that they
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    LORD LEE IS DEAD
    35 1 Lord Lee oi Fareham, veteran British statesman and chairman of the Rovai Commission on i Public Services ln India in 1923, I died at his home in Gloucester- shire today, aged
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    MUFTI SEES KRIM
    30 1 THE Grand Mufti of Jerusalem paid a courtesy call on SunI day on the Morose n rebel leader. Abd^l Krim. in n A" *-*rd n hospital. U.P.
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    300 HELD IN BIG BURMA ROUND-UP
    222 1 RANGOON, iUuin.ii.,. MOKE than 300 people have now been arrested in the Rangoon area following the assassination of the Burmese Cabinet Ministers tlree days ago, it Is learned. Meanwhile the headquarters of the A F.P.F.L. (Ami-Fascist People's Freedom League, of which the murdered U
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    FIERCE FIGHT RAGING SAYS JOGJA RADIO
    340 1 JOGJAKARTA Radio today says that fierce fighting is raging this morning on the roads leading from Bandoeng and Buitenzorg toward Sukabumi, West Java, where large quantities of rubber and other estate products have been set ablaze Radio Surakarta says that Puwokerto, between Bandoeng and
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    $6,000 armed robbery in S'pore street
    183 1 $6,000 armed robbery in S'pore street Free Press Staff Reporter A YOUNG shop assistant of a Singapore Chinese firm in Cecil Street, at 3.15 p.m. yesterdaywas robbed by four Chinese, two armed with pistols, of $5,000 cash and a $1,000 cheque, at the junction of North Bridge Road and Rochore
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    JAPAN FLOOD
    32 1 FIFTEEN persons are reported dead and 50 houses washed away by torrential rains in Wakayama Prefecture. Japan. Trains telephone and telegraph lines have been washed away by continuing rains. A.P.
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    FLYING A 'KITE'
    666 2 FLYING A 'KITE' By A Special Correspondent I IN the sailplane com- petitions recently ended in Britain ten pilots made flights of more than 100 miles. On the best day seven of them would probably have flown twice as far if England had not been so small a country. These
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    TODAY'S BRIDCE PROBLEM
    367 2 THSP.E lire some hs nds of medium strength, with a suit of your own, where it does not pay you either to redouble or to bid wh'in partner*! cp-ning suit has be* n doubled for a takeout. North's hard in this case is an example. A redouble
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    LONDON LETTER
    407 2  -  Hall Romney By MORE trouble is building up for the Food Minister. Not from the housewives this time, but from some fellow Socialist MPs, who are becoming curious about the millions of pounds that are being paid out by the Government to food wholesalers who do not do
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    24 2 Daphne Walker, Britain's champion amateur skater has turned professional and given up her Olympic hopes. Here she is practising ballet to keep her poise.
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    Wants to make film of China
    506 2 Wants to make film of China JAMES Wong Howe, probably the most famous cinema photographer in Hollywood, has spent 30 years filming motion pictures for other people. Now he wants to make one, and possibly more, for himself. This Chinese-born cameraman, who has photographed nearly every beautiful woman in the
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    QUIZ Answers
    76 2 1. (a) Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell: (b) Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson appeared in 1791, some seven years after Johnson's death; (c) Johnson's works, in addition to his famous Dictionary, include: London (a satire). The Vanity erf Human Wishes. Rasselas. Irene (a tragedy). Journey to the
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    SUNBATHERS: TEN DON'TS
    330 2 rN "don'ts" for sunbathers have been issued by Dr. Charles Pabst, a Brooklyn dermatologist, who declares that sunourn ruins millions of beautiful complexions every year. He also says that sunstroke may follow only a short exposure to the sun, if alcoholic drinks have been indulged in too
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      195 2 SINGAPORE Blue Network 12.09— 2.00 pan —485 metres la the nedium wave hand m I.ZZ megacycles 9cr second In the 41 metre band 6.00—11 00 p.m. 185 metres in the ncdiuro nave band 1.825 megacycles !_wr second tn the 61 metre band, except •rom 7 45—9.30 pjn when the transTUESDAY
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      702 2 YOUR LUCKY o I AR Fortune forecast tor people bum todtf BORN toda> ma have i ralmne&s and itfCMjft character which can be pi: to excellent u^ V u a* highly emotional and Mi learn to curb your liighh oi imagination. These two characteristic may appear ai first, to Ik
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    CHINA'S CURRENCY NEAR COLLAPSE
    489 3 Runaway inflation held imminent THE spectre of the gravest cKmb in prices yet experienced in inflation-plagued China now confronts wave. Sww^WE* the c r try They fear that they are about to witness, as unwilling but powerless spectators, the death throes of' a dying cuVreney Utility
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    RECRUITMENT IN BRITAIN
    61 3 IN April and May there were respectively about 3,600 and 3.400 voluntary recruits for the British Army. The monthly rate of wastage of men on regular engagements during the first six months of 1947 was about 600. The total number of men on normal regular engagements on
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    66 3 Nearly 150 Communists, armed with rubber truncheons, knuc-kle-dusters and hatchet-like 1 Hungarian **fokos," broke ud a mee.ing. in Bze_red. Hungary, recently. The meeting had been called expressly to determine whether there was freedom of speech and assembly in Soviet- > dominated Hungary. Freedom I Party members fought back with J
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    INTER-EMPIRE PREFERENCES
    84 3 IMPERIAL preferences ar<.- to remain as the ba^is of inter'jmmor.wralth and inter-Empire rade. This information was given oy Mr. Sidney F. w'aierson. bouui \frican Minister of Economic Development and Mines, in London vhen he was qu:stioned at i press conference en the f a *e of he Imperial
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    NEW EXPERIMENT TO MAKE RAIN
    89 3 ARAIN-MAKIiNCi experim nt will be made shortly by the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, in association with the R.A.A.F Instead of dry ice, which was used in an experiment in February between Katoomba and Bath- urst, New South Wales, a s] e- 1
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    BALKANS FACING GRAVE CHARGES
    226 3 STKUNGfcK charges aimed at the three ISalkan satellites of Russia may be presented to the United Nations Security Council if Russia ki.is the pic^ent Greek complaint with a veto, an authoritative U.N.O. source says. This source says the United States will refuse to be ,/ayed by
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    And the PoWs cheered
    62 3 And the Po Ws cheered TT r A', London, councillors 11 were told that Nazi prisoners of war had applauded "vociferously" anti-semitic siateme.iis at mee inss in the borough. A Irades Council deputation complained of "the revival of fascist activities'* and of organised provocation of Jews. The borough council is
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    NEW ELECTIONS IN HUNGARY
    81 3 n w vv H-Jiiarian elee_.o__s 1 will be held on Aug.. 31, the Hungarian Minister of Communi- cations, Mr. Erno Gero. anno'.mcea on Sunday. Mr. G^ro s?'d. "We .> 11 now ask the people whether thev are for the conspirators who f.'ed abroad recently or for
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    BIOG CANATON FIRE
    20 3 F.r. u _._c^ed n:ore th_\n 100 wooden -.h'c's in Can'on, leaving o- er 500 persons homeles-i. U.P.
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    THE WITNESS SHOT MAN IN THE DOCK
    118 3 THE WITNESS SHOT MAN IN THE DOCK YOU criminal! \ou rascal! Here is my justice shouted a witness at a treason trial, firing several revolver shots at the man in the dork. The trial, at Orleans, was of a man named Andre Lacoste, accused of having been an agent of
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    WHAT THE POLES COST BRITAIN
    50 3 THERE are about 5,000 Poles still in the Polish land forces in England who have refused either to be repatriated or to join the Polish Resettlement Corps, the War Minister stated in Parliament. The Polish land iorces cost the British Government about £270,000 a month.
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    U.S. CASE FOR JAP TREATY
    429 3 treaty with the Allied powers to keep Japan disarmed a counterpart of the treaty we have offered in the case of Germany. This should arrest any nervousnes' about the comeback of Japan's militarism among the lesser Allies. "The new Japan already haf been stripped of
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    BRITAIN TO SELL SHARE IN P.I. LINE
    93 3 PURCHASE of the entire British interest in the Manila Railroad Company, now controlled by the Philippine Government, is the first item in the line's U.S. $62,000,000 reconstruction programme, says a Manila report. The line was built in 1887 by British capitalists at the
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    CONSCRIPTION IN U.S.
    35 3 Compulsory military training of all American males upon reaching the age of 18 or after their graduation from high schools, has been recommended by the House of Representatives ArmckH Qurvi^oc C,iK_Committee. A.P.
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      87 3 TARJ^AN Faf>-rea£^ r sm^ aetiom Dy Edgar Rice Burroughs ,BY THE TIME TARZAN AND JANE f "XJH HT *VVHEN WU RECOVER, I WILL I REACHED THE HUT, THE YOUNG ~=m IM GUIDE YOU ON YOUR WAY HOME, II I HUNTER WAS DELIRIOUS ~jf^ S^A^K 31 s¥ TH *^£E" A1AN PROMISED.
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947. The Indonesian
    695 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947. The Indonesian NEWS from Indonesia's war front is meagre. There appears so far to have been little lighting, but then the Dutch have yet to reach any important Indonesian centre in their breakout from the bridgeheads. IThe Dutch objectives have still not
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    Don Iddon's Dairy
    1271 4 Dollars For Europe Won't Be Arriving In A Rush THE mutiny on the Bounty is subsiding. The rude refusal of the Russians to be passengers and the eagerness of Britain and France to climb aboard the American ship, coupled with Morrison's grim SOS., have quietened the crew.
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    QUIZ
    76 4 1. Man of discrimination. Have observed with approbation. That the Great Lexicographer, Had a highly gifted biographer, (a) Who were the two gentlemen in question? (b) When did the biography appear? (c) Can you name, say, three of the Lexicographer's other works? 2. Can you name the authors of
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    WORLD OIL SHORTAGE FORESEEN
    742 4  -  A SPECIAL BY CORRESPONDENT PVENTS in the oil industry are moving fast. The possibility of a world-wide shortage of petroleum products, which appeared as a dim spectre not so long a&o> is assuming increasingly sharp contours with every day that parses. What seemed a mere possibility
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    FAITH
    24 4 Thou shalt Ift up thy face unto God. Thoa shalt make thy prayer unto Him, and He shaft hear thee. Job. 22. 26-27.
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    WHITE MANI GRAVE
    792 4  - WHITE MANI GRA VE GRAHAM STAMFORD Your Common wealth By I ESS than 20 years ago they called it the White Man's Grave. Today it's the housewife's hope the new back garden on the sunscorched West African coast. For years the weeds and the weather have had much their own
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    $11,000 FOR CHINA RELIEF
    291 5 $11,000 FOR CHINA RELIEF press Chinese espoodent flood Relief Fund luring the last two *_r lonation of $3,000 1 Overseas Chinese K." rporation and a P $M°° s^o! 1 Women'* Sec- rham Hwa Kang t Dra c Society. for funds is being rarioos Chinese guilds a a ••:U; on r
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    BURNT IN BOAT
    9 5 II b ab at I Sunday,
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    All disused houses must be blocked
    209 5 All disused houses must be blocked Free Press Staff Reporter ACCESS to all bombed-out buildings in Singapore must be i blocked. The Municipality ts inj sisting on this in the cases of I bombed premises, which have been left in a state of disrepair and have been in some cases
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    117 5 There was a large attendance at the Singapore Victoria Memorial Hail last Sunday when two Chinese musicians save a recital under the patronage of the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, and the Chinese ConsulGeneral, Dr. Wu Paak-shing. Those who took part in the concert (from left
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    AUSSIES WILL EXPORT MORE
    115 5 AUSTRALIA will soon have 30 trade commissioners In 18 Important overseas market areas. compared with nine representatives in eight markets in 1939. This evidence of the growing strength of Australia's trade position was given by the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture. Mr. Pollard, who said that
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    COLONIES GET £7 1/2 MILLION FROM UK
    259 5 DURING the 12 months ended March 31 this year, the Bri- I tish Government spent £7,590.57G on its colonies. A report has been published on tiie work done under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945. It opens with a broad division of
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    EGYPT RICE ARRIVES
    33 5 The first 8.24G tons of Egyptian ilea due to Malaya unc'er intcr-j national Emergency Food Cornell' j 947 allocations arrivad from Alexandria by the s.s. Dim ritfS on July 14.
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    Firearms Law SERVICEMEN MUST BE WARNED
    349 5 Firearms Law SERVICEMEN MUST BE WARNED Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. WHILE passing sentence of 12 months' rigorous imprisonm~nt on a Gurkha soldier, Babbadhur, on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, Mr. Justice Spenser Wilkinson, at the Selangor Assizes today, remarked that the military authorities should
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    SPARE PARTS DEALERS CLOSELY WATCHED
    503 5 SPARE PARTS DEALERS CLOSELY WATCHED m m\ AT mm fl Am Mt Tt m Move to check car stripping Free Press Staff Reporter WITH the high incidence of car thefts in Singapore, 11 the police have now put a tighter clamp on the activities of car strippers by stricter supervision
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    SALVAGED
    48 5 Salvaged from the sea bed off Clifford Pier, where it was scuttled just before the fall of Singapore, this tug has now been beached off the Esplanade in front of the Shackle Club. A claim is awaited from the owners, the Royal Netherlands Navy. Free Press picture.
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    WAR CRIMES MEN SEEK PoWs HELP
    163 5 WAR CRIMES MEN SEEK PoWs HELP INeO-tMAI.ON Is beinj sought by war crimes investigators in Singapore, which will help in bringing to trial more Jap.me.se Oillcers and NCOs, who were responsible) for ill-treatiir; prisoners of war in camps in Singapore during the occupation. If there are any ex -prisoners of
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    TUG SAL VAGED OFF PIER
    315 5 Free Press Staff Reporter PAR ELY 200 yards from Singapore's Cenotaph and surrounded by scores of "spice" boats from the Celebes, four Javanese have made their home on a 150-ton rusty, barnacle-covered tug. These Javanese are caretakers of the tug a craft which belonged to
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    STORE TEACHERS TO STAGE PLAYS
    76 5 THE Repertory Company of the Singapore Teachers' Union will present two one-act plays at St. Joseph's Institution, the Convent and St. Andrews School on Aug. 6. j The plays will be staged at the j schools during school hours and will be open to pupils
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    Indian Army Gets Civil Pay Rates
    245 5 INSTRUCTIONS authorizing new rates of pay for the Indian armed forces have already reached, or will shortly reach, all formations and units, says a communique fro.n Armed Forces H.Q., in New Delhi. The new rates of pay, which apply to officers and men in
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      205 5 Free Prass Waterfront Reporter NO details arc i available in sin- a number of Singapore Ouse Trinity vtotorT 5* M icapore of how the Singapore nessmen and then- tamilies are (as-ie! u L ship Hung Khrng ran aground Off union r the 75 passengers wn;> will I roai pi ant
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    GANGS OF CHILDREN IN MASS RAIDS
    312 6 London crooks net £3,500,000 loot CHILDREN roaming the streets of London in gangs of three and four planned and carried out one of every eight crimes tracked down by the police in a year. And when they were caught, many of the children, all
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    LAND GIRLS TAKE TIME OFF FOR TEA
    47 6 LAND GIRLS TAKE TIME OFF FOR TEA Haymaking and stacking are strenuous jobs but this job also has its lighter moments. Here we have a Land Girl at North Park, Surrey, having her torn shirt mended while a comrade pours out a cup of tea for her.
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    WINS DIVORCE AT 70, HEIL MARRY AGAIN
    100 6 A RTHUR William Bailey, aged l\ 70, of Crouch End-hill Hornsey, London was granted a decree nisi for desertion against his wife, Annie Elizabeth, whom he married in 1900 and who left him in 1937. Asked by the Judge why he had delayed
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    MONKEY BUSINESS
    29 6 Mr. lan Higginbottom, of the Imperial College of Science, London, has left for Central Africa to help search for the remains of 20,000,000-year-old apes "with near-human charact?ristics."
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    MAKING £ USE WORLDWIDE
    429 6 MAKING USE WORLDWIDE LONDON Mo_ ITNDER the new sterfing convertibility system. efierTU last Tuesday, overseas sterling payments h^ three main groups, the sterling area, the dollar art* rest of the world, it is authoritatively explained in i J*ts ports Reuter. Exchange arrangements in the sterling a _v tinue as previously,
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    Sovereign in his soap
    94 6 WHILE washing his hands Mr. Edward J. (rocker, of bm View-road, Maidstone, Kent, felt something hard come ft* the soap, looked at it and got one of the biggest shocks of hub J he was holding: a golden sovereign. It was an Australian mr. j eign
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      40 6 JANE i l j n ii i -111-111 yoo are normAm 70? course Ndr/N OF STAYING THE NJ<jJ^ 1 SHAL1->LOCK A HERE, SENORITA?— A THE DOOR? ME, NO? f CrV l -K7ztri r l <^s5 PBr~— flnHK] a jfi* 1 '<*&*-
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      41 6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya j' J, k Mil. I 1 iiUL.Bi _.ji.. /AH. 1 f $EE NOW WHY\ 1 YOU YOUNG ENGLISH J LADIES HAVE NO NEED OF-A DUENNA.'- YOU ARE COLD— YOU I >sJAVE NO FEELINGS—/
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      26 6 f— BUT WE SPANIARDS AReN different! we either LOVE OR HATE, WITH THE FIERY PASSION OF THE VOLCANO, WHICH BATHES AROUND IT VlN BURNING LAVA. 1 >/
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      16 6 (WELL, OF ALL THE^ f NERVE-f-THAT'sJ oS EXACTLY what j < CARLOTrA J /f> r> vA SAID
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    TRIANGULAR SPORTS MEET ARRANGED
    967 7 TRIANGULAR SPORTS MEET ARRANGED Regular Contests^ Are Needed mRR B Thc s Wts Editor I^LSBST I^^ Ration Chamss _a_, 8 _S s S' j5 SU^ws^H_f^ Which our standards have 2?* "5 a tet ste P toward a reiruto^md of athletic contests, they are arranging a trianS meeting to be held
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    THREE MORE GAMES FOR SING TAO
    119 7 THREE MORE GAMES FOR SING TAO HKN Sine Tao Football U pih ,i Hons Rons return FstoßßPM* month f ,,r their tour of Rangoon, C 3 Malaya, they will .habb l hree n*** o***0 m f. > aP' ore thCy le VC OF R e B rmte i tvingdom by
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    R.A.F. v NAVY IN LEAGUE TODAY
    131 7 By Out v> rei Reporter EtH Ar:... secoicif placed at •r. the league soccer Um result f today's game (nen :r. R jsl Air Force and I N.w v..;: ban no bearing on I jsanpi nd-ip garni i m>• r, should be m i
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    SOCCER MAY RETURN TO ANSON ROAD
    403 7 I By Our Soccer Reporter HE rt urn of Singapore soccer to its old home at Anson Read v. a. visualised at a council meeting of the S.A.F.A. ■al the S.R.C. yesterday when it was announced that t S A.F. hai applied to the
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    Home Of Soccer
    67 7 Home Of Soccer This picture, taken before the war at a Malaya Cup game between lingaZe and^T f 7° Wd Road Stadium. The return of StoS_lS2^__f f a Anson and th- revival of the Malaya cS_^SS__LK? cer i* 8 old homc moment with soccer fans, and l thi, TJF* t,
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    HUTTON SCORES 117 NOT OUT v TOURISTS
    168 7 HUTTON SCORES 1 1 7 NOT OUT v TOURISTS After his century, which is thp sn?h n?iS. career and the iifth this season Hr.ft™ selectors he will be fit to pia^fn the Test lnformed •j Hutton and W. G. Keighiey, young Oxford blue, who scored 51 i scored 169 in
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    SELANGOR GOLF TROPHIES ARE AWARDED
    188 7 SELANGOR GOLF TROPHIES ARE AWARDED Free Press Staff Correspondent T»™>wt£ UALA LUMPUR. Monday. KOPHIES won by members of the SHangor Golf Club in competitions from January up UU yesterday were j presented at the Golf Club on Friday night. j The winners were: j Medals: January. Class A. A. T
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    PATRICIA TODD WINS
    36 7 MRS. Patricia Todd defeated m Miss Doris Hart 6— 3, 3 6, 6—4 in an ail-American final of the woman's singles in the j French lawn tenmis championI ships in Paris yesterday Reuter
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    MIDDLESEX GET 270 IN 130 MINUTE.
    283 7 MIDDLESEX GET 270 IN 1 30 MINUTE. liP v, n Moil. jack Robertson, Middlesex open- bag batsman who has been on the verge of gaining Test honours since last season, scored a centurv ui i minutes and figured in a A'hirlwmd opening partnersnip cf ioy with Brown against Essex Robertson's
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    S.D.S.C. MEETING
    51 7 T-EII. nexL gencr-il meeting ;f the Sinaa::ore Giympic and Soor.s Council will be held at ihY.M.C.A., S amford Road, on Monday, July 28, at 5.15 p.m. The agenda includes the discussion and adoption of th? rules, and all delegates of Association j and affiliated clubs are invitrd to
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    PENANG CHINESE DRAW 2-2 WITH KEDAH XI
    163 7 Fie 2 Press Ccrre:porulent PENANG, Monday TRAVELLING dow n to Alor Star, the Penang League I Champions, the Penang Chine so Football Association, lad a narrow es:ap? f;om de i feat en Saturday whe.i they! met the Kedah State team in; a charity
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    MALAYA CUP SOCCER AGAIN
    1053 7 History Of Competition mm? y .P" Soe Reporter T^r^Jce^ t°hi'~ HM S MaU^ C °P competition ves£rd^^L thlS 7 Car camc a stc P near «r realisation yesterday when, at a council meetinjr of theSinia pore Amateur Football Association M at tte I R*C~ set competiU
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    RECORD ROUND ON IPON GOLF COURSE
    75 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent. IPOH, Mon. R. B. Lauriston created a course record when he returned a gross score of 60 in yesterday's Perak Turf [Club Oolf CSub Tapp Cup Competition. The standard score for this course Is 74. M Ali Piah was runner-up
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    MP. BUMES THE TORIES m EMM CRIMES
    200 8 MP. BUMES THE TORIES m EMM CRIMES LONDON, Monday. JiN assurance was given n the j House of Commons today by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, that the assassinations of U Aung San and other Burmese leaders "would in no way deflect the British Government from their settled policy."
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    New Malaya plan again attacked
    255 8 Free Press Staff Reporter /CRITICISM of the Malayan Union Governor, Sir Edward V Gent, for allegedly ignoring the constitution plan drawn up by the Pan-Malayan Council of Joint Action and Pu.eia. was made by the Secretaries of the two associations and the Malayan Democratic Union,
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    VIETNAMESE SAY FRENCH KILLING 'WAR PRISONERS'
    168 8 SAIGON. Monday. THE Vietnamese (nationalist Annamite language) newspapers editorially criticise the executions of Vietnamese terrorists whom they describe as "war prisoners." Stating that at least 14 persons have been executed during the week ending July 19, and not four as announced in a French
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    30 8 NOME S me fine horses were seen at the R oyal Windsor Horse Show in the Home Park wnere a complete view of Windsor Castle itself is to be had.
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    RUBBER MEN IN U.S. ASK FOR MORE PAY
    101 8 RUBBER MEN IN U.S. ASK FOR MORE PAY CLEVELAND, Monday. OFFICIAL:' 0 f the rubber industry's "Big Four," who signed the first wage contract anion;-; the nation's major producers this year, -were told that their 100.000 workers needed more money. Chiefly blaming rising living costs, the Congress of Industrial Organisations
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    AFGHAN CLAIM MAY GO TO UNO
    222 8 AFGHAN CLAIM MA Y GO TO UNO NEW DELHI. Mondav. rjEN. Ghazi Mahmoud Khan. Premier of Afghanistan, who is travelling through India en route to the United States, may place before the United Nations general assembly his country's claim to self-determination for Afghanistan and the people of India's north-west frontier
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    SENORA PERON NOT V SITING UK
    84 8 CfENORA Eva Peron, film star wife of the Argentine Pre ident. will complete her Furopean tour and return home without vsiting Britain This was orlicially announced by the British Foreign Office on receipt of advice from the Argentine Ministry 01 Foreign Affairs. So far
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    BOMBAY DOCK STRIKE
    36 8 More than 8,000 Bombay dockyard workers staged a stay-in-strike yesterday in protest against the laying-off by I,COO worker: and the failure of the authorities to appoint a tribuval to investigate their grievance? r.
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    SINKIANG: WAR NOT NECESSARY
    177 8 SHANGHAI, Monday. GEN. CHANG CHI-CHUNG, director of President Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters in the north-east, in an intervi-ew with the official Central News Agency correspondent in Tihwa, capital of Sinkiang Province, said although the Sinkiang situation is critical, there was no absolut? necessity to resort to war
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    JEW GANGS INTENSIFY ATTACKS
    580 8 Dawn raids on radar stations JERUSALEM, Monday. tfwi^h terrorists, using machine-guns, today launched J^Saw^S on radar stations near Haifa and were blown up a number of radar masts used nlt .„i,.j *he signals sections of the Sixtn Airoorne _»ivi lion's T_ailquarters. A dusk-to-dawn curfew is being
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    67 8 His bleached hair (blonde for the part of "Samlet" he isfcJ in the forthcoming; film) contrasting with bis mornnc saB,| silk hat. Sir Laurence Olivier, knighted m the Birthday gj list, was one of the 3t» m w Knights who w to BuckaJ Palace to receive his investiture from ih^
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    ITS NO POSITION TO COMMENT
    58 8 TETSU XATAYAMA, Japanese Prime Minister, stated at a Press conference yesterday .that I no representations would be made j at the Peace Conference. He did not think Japan was in a position to malie any comment on the peace treaty, nor did he believe in
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    140 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent gives the prices of robber ot i il a.m today as follows: Buyers SelierCts. Cts. per Ib per tb No. 1 R S.S Spot Loom M* 3 No 1 it. S.S too in bales August 32 :i 33 iNo 2 RSS fob
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    Fresii protest to Russian
    141 8 LONDON, Monday. THE British Government last night reaffirmed its protest against politic il arrests in Rumania in a n:te expressing astonishment at apparent attempts by the Rumanian Government "to repudiate In advance certain Obligations under which they will be plac d" when the peace treaty 'joes
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    MALAYAN RUBBER EXPORTS DOWN
    283 8 _ee Press Stan Ca_.i'ie_*pG_idfc-it KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. npHE fall in ihe price of rubber during May and June is reflected in exoort figures for the Malayan Union for June, which fell sharply from 64,808 tons in May to 52.498 tons last month. The June total o_
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    INDIAN MMY IN MALAYA DIVIDED
    113 8 Free Press Staff Reporter INDIAN UNITS serving in Malaya have now been told which of the two Dominions armies they will join— the 2nd Royal Lancers, for instance, are to go to the Indian Union. A scheme has been operating for some months to send
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    £8,000 JEWEL THEFT
    38 8 Thieves broke into the May lair mansion of Earl and Countess Howe yesterday, says A. P. from London, and stole £8,000 worth of jewellery. The earl and countess were not at home at the time
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    GILT-EDGEDS SHOW LOSSE
    352 8 GILT-EDGEDS SHOW LOSSE London Stock Er_.«_tfttj „VJ.\i>' X. .<lui._." d TODAY was an unsatisfactory day in 5....i..iz j generally, vCrites Reuters finaiu.al ci ;.raen:| havieur ol the section lor British Ci s- ;nr.v.-nt skkj which at the ciose showed losses un t five-r.k.le- ajj t depressing infiuence c'^v here althou
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      12 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Hick Low S.14 p.m. S.8 ft 7.39 p.m. 4 ft.
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      63 8 WEATHER Fair, sunny today WEATHEH report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Fair and sunny. Wind: Liph". south -eastnly Sunset 6.42 p.m., sunrise C 35 a.m. Moanrise 11.00 a.m., moon«et 11.30 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 90 dog. F.,1 min. .SO dc?. F. Humidities: Yesterday* 7 '10 a.m..! 89:
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