The Singapore Free Press, 28 July 1947

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    20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA E it SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JWi «8, 1947. PRICE 10 CENTS.
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    MATRA OIL FIELDS ON FIRE
    855 1 MATRA OIL FIELDS ON FIRE Dutch admit Java setbacks A PALL of black smoke hung over the SoconyVacuum oil fields m Sumatra this morning, less than 24 hours after new Indonesian warnings that the earth would be scorched. The fires appear to be confined to the storage tanks m "the
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    RMEDGANG TAKES $6,000 FROM SHOP
    101 1 RMEDGANG TAKES $6,000 FROM SHOP I M fttas Slafl Reporter ixmed sberies sccurred I dkrab S".r-c'. at 4 wk. two Chinese, m. fa Uan, with two V oau] ne-ariy Wfr ad tn cbcqnea from vA jj prof :-.r ol w -i reaistied B c i eti rn:ered tofr m. and
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    30-TON FLYINGBOAT FOR ORIENT
    50 1 BRITAIN'S newest double-deck liyingboat. the Portsea, one of the Plymouth class now coming into service on the BOAC India and Far Estern routes, was on display m London yesterday. It weighs nearly 30 tons, has accomodation for 22 passengers and cruises at 170 miles an hour.—
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    MAISKY FOR INDIA
    14 1 X-- is gandtdate lot Lndia :s Mr. Ivan Ambassador to U.P.
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    ACTRESS COLLAPSES
    31 1 Actress Jean Kent, who has 'played leading roles m several British pictures, collapsed on Saturday while working on thp film "Good Time Girl.' App n dicitis is suspected.— A.P.
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    DUTCH AIM'TO END REPUBLIC
    250 1 DUTCH AIM 'TO END REPUBLIC LONDON. Sunday. fPBE Dutch Government's aim m taking military 1 action m Indonesia is "to eliminate the Indone- sian Republic* Sutan Shahrir, the former Premier, told the 8.8.C. correspondent m India. was clear from Dr. van Mook s recent statement, Mr. Shahrir said. The Republic
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    SIKHS DEFY GOVT BAN ON TALKS
    131 1 AMRITSAR, Sunday. ¥>OLICE arrested 108 Sikhs under i the Punjab Public Safety Act today as they came out of the Sikh Golden Temple here on their way to the banned Punjab Sikh conference at Nankana Sahib. o0 miles west of Lahore. Five people were
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    UNESCO EXPENDITURE
    16 1 UNESCO's 1948 budget will total OS. $9,000,000. or $3,000,000 more than 1947.— 1 Reuter
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    TWO FINED 53,000 FOR CIGARETTES
    189 1 A2O-year-oiu British Army sergeant, Roy Oliver, who was stated to have been the driver of a weapon carrier which was slopped by revenue officers alter a motor-cycle chase and was found to contain 60,600 cigarettes, was fined $1,500 or nine I months' rigorous imprisonment m
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    SHANGHAI SHOOTING
    30 1 Ay least four were killed, nine wounded and several seriously injured m a clash between Shanghai police and gendarmes over an admission ticket at a Shanghai cinema yesterday.
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    HELD FOR MURDERS IN DURMA
    58 1 picture. U SAW, fromer Prime Minister of Burma, who has been arrested following: the recent assassination of IT Aims San and six of his Cabinet colleagues. Police reports state that the men who were alleged to have killed Aung San and the six ministers reported
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    Royal wedding—Oct. 18?
    51 1 Royal wedding— Oct. 18? rfIHE date for Princess Elizabeth's marriage to Lieut. Philip A Mountbatten has been fixed for Oct. 1S this year, said the Sunday Pictorial yesterday. The paper added that m order Ti*i l-« disappoint the neonle the marriage would take place wiUi lull ceremony at 'Osiminsier Abbey.—
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    Expert demands rice inquiry
    279 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Technical Adviser to the Malayan Union Government on Rice Mills, Mr. N. M. Clark, who has resigned m protest against the Government's rice policy, yesterday repeated his demand for a public inquiry. Mr. Clark said that not only was the Paui
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    BRITIAN LOSES MILLION TONS SOVIET WHEAT
    310 1 MOSCOW, Sunday. THE Anglo-Soviet trade talks broke down because Britain refused to undertake definite commitments for deliveries of equipment for the Russian timber and oil industries for the next three years, the official Soviet news agency, Tass, said tonight. One result of this is
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    10 DIE IN SWISS RAIL CRASH
    89 1 ZURICH, Sunday. SAMARITANS from the Einsie-dc-ln Benedictine Monastery, Switzerland's most famous pilgrimage resort, helped police and firemen to rescue passengers from the wreckage of two trains which collided yesterday, killing 10 people and injuring 30. One of the trains a special carrying Catholic worshippers
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    SIR SHOLTO DOUGLAS
    29 1 Marshal of the Air Force. Sir Shoito Dovglas may relinquish his posts as military governor and C.-in-C. of the British zone m Germany m October— Reuter
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    JEW TERRORISTS RAID REUTERS
    97 1 JERUSALEM, Sunday. TWO members of the stall of I Reuter's Tel Aviv office were. I tonight held up and bound and I gagged with their own shirts by three armed men, making the second Jewish terrorist pttack on the office m six weeks. The terrorists then
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    CONGRESS CHIEF ARRESTED
    79 1 THE President 01 the Travancore State Congress. Pattom Thanu Pillai. and two ether leading members of the State Congress were arresied at Trivandrum yesterday. Pillai threatened, over a month ago. that there would be "direct action*' by the State Congress Party if Travancore did not join the
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    177 U.K. INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASES
    54 1 THE number cf reported infantile paralysis cases m Britain fcr the week ending July 19 reached 177, this being 66 more than m the previous week and the highest number ever recorded m Britain. There is still no evidence of a country-wide epidemic as the
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  • FEATURES...
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      WHITE MAN'S NEW BURDEN
      1049 2 WHITE MAN'S NEW BURDEN London Letter "ITN SE TTL EU MENT m Malaya: The White Man's New Burden/ Thus the heading above a letter ir. one of the London papers intended, as the writer indicates, to ensure that those who are bearing the white man's burden, often m isolation, m
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      19 2 There are plenty of pleats m this Spanish moss green cocktail frock seen at a New York fashion display.
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      35 2 Miss Christine Norton feeding "Flag/* the two-year-old deer at the Children's Zoo, London. "Flag" played m the film "The Yearling" and is a gift from the children of New York to the Children of London.
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      386 2 THERE is an old adage: "The long way round is the short way home.' It applies particularly to many bad three no-trump contracts Because no-trump is the frequer.t but usually improper resting place Oj. misfit hands and because making three-no-trump requires making two less tricks than five
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      THE REDGRAVES
      279 2 RACHEL Kempson, the actress-wife of British star Michael Redgrave, will make an entry into American films with a leading part opposite Charles Boyer m the screen adaptation of Aldous Auxley's story, "The Giaconda Smile." This development, on the eve of the couple's intended return to London, will change
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      QUIZ Answers
      40 2 1. 1842; Martin Chuzzlewit. 2. (i) Our Mutual Friend; (ii) The Pickwick Papers; (iii) The Cricket on the Hearth; (iv) Nicholas Nickleby; (v) The Old Curosity Shop. 3. Fagin, m Oliver Twist. 4. Mrs. Guxnmidge, m David Copperneld.
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      Fun & Fang Fret
      241 2 Fun Fang Fret WITH the delivery of his newly completed feature, FUN AND FANCY FREE, to the Technicolor laboratories, Walt Disney is going ahead full speed on his forthcoming five-year programme of full-length productions. Tentative release dates for FUN AND FANCY FREE have already been pencilled m by RKO Radio
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      667 2 cmrSDncr I— with Ivor Moret on Dave Kay; 30 > 5-5.30 pan. 19.84 metres and 49.58 O4«Vj«JrUs\fc The Forces' Requests'; 6.00 p.m. Com- t ft mS a OA M pser of the Week-Ludwig Van Bee- metres 5.30-ni^bt 19 84 metres and ■Sine NetWork thoven; 6.30 Australian News; 6.45 49-38 metres.
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      177 2 i'OUR LUCK] I All Porturif forecast^ peopk born today BOR.N hUU m lempestuoos, u&k nature- !,;k to quick to ((M off iot, others lo forjive yOUv OU u% and ure dsvippoiiited k, cover tit *t th,v do not v, consider v ur fits O f teg» ment th^- m ii-k
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      SMALL COST OF PEACE
      342 3 11 nntui huduet of the United Nations about U.5.527,000,--;,oO—would pay for only two or three minutes of World r il \et 9M*c nations are reluctant to spend for peace even tiog oi war < fantastic cost, says Mr. Benjamin A. Cohen, m Jiplwinil mi assistant secretary-general
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      HE POSTMAN OF 3,000 B.C.
      69 3 i- i\i me ptataaa had to Vope with 5,000 >ears ago— terN and envelopes made of v— ls one ol the exhibits at I Philatelic Exhibition to be >id it Folkestone between to- mi next Satartoj. The loilection ol" postal hisr ,>f ZM'M BC. is
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      DIVISION OF IHE INDIAN IRMEO FORCES
      146 3 [VISION the Indian armed J I reel beivcui the two new 0r..:.. :.i is QkiaUy announced *s Anq India Pakistan kotrj regts IS 8 r. ired c rps mlts U .6 Btj regta IB| 8i i :r..-s ft] 3-1 Navy 1 4.2 t .2.2
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      CEYLON TO HAVE STEEL PLANT
      77 3 A STEEL plant is to be established m Ceylon by the Ceylon Government at an estimated capital outlay of 11.500,000 rupees, capable of producing 25 per cent, of the Island's requirements of steel items. The Ceylon State Council has passed a vote of 1,000.000 rupees
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      NEW DRUG MADE HIM TALLER
      148 3 NEW DRUG MADE HIM TALLER I COTS miner, Jack Gardner, 18, has grown four inches m .'l L jr ;tils aflor injections of a new "growth drug" »-n works on the pituitary glands. He grew one inch one an unusually heavy injection m the legs. Gardener, who lives at the
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      BIG AMNESTY ON DOMINION DAY
      54 3 BIG AMNESTY ON DOMINION DAY k £g?g to! political prisonra-; hi; v p JUt India, comtlSf death s^tences m tr.~7 l s an d large-scale irk Indian 1 senten ces will a- ln^penaence celei J«a«R 15 it is authoriC «ied kn Madras. i -rnment. it was r airected prison fee
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      Camobell not going all out
      64 3 L wa^l'^S Cam «> bel l makes his new attempt to beat his Wi n effert record at Coniston, probably next month, he K n n that with th€ b *akes on. So powerful is the jet W*-** .down. l SovernOr h as been fitted
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      NATIONAL PARKS FOR BRITAIN
      176 3 NA TIONAL PARKS FOR BRITAIN THE establishment of 12 national parks covering 5,682 square miles over three-quarters of the area of Wales is recommended m the report of the National Parks Committee. A coastal path around the whole of England is also advocated. It is proposed that parks should be
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      NEW SPECIES OF 'JUTE' FOUND
      68 3 A RANGOON businessman believes that he has discovered a new kind of "jute". It is a species of plant from which he claims to have obtained fibres for the manufacture of fabrics. The plant is grown m abundance m ail parts of Burma. Experiments on
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      RATIONING ENDS
      21 3 Austalia has ended sugar ra--1 tioning because rationing m Australia was of little help to Bri- I tain.— A.P.
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      POLICE DOG ARRESTS THIEF
      128 3 a LABRADOR police— dog leaped on a suspected bag-snatcher m London's Hyde Park. It was the first arrest m the Park by Scotland Yard's "Flying Dog" Squad— a team of six policemen and six dogs. One of the team. Police Con- stable Shelton, patrolling with his
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      100 JAP WIVES FOR Gls.
      106 3 MORE than 100 American soldiers m Tokio have filed applications either to marry Japanese girls or to take their Japanese wives to the United States, Mr. Hito Okada, president of the Japanese-American Citizens League at Salt Lake City, U.S.A., told A.P. Mr. Okada said the
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      EXILE REGIME NOW BEING FORMED
      381 3 Jewish 'Govt. for Palestine TpHE formation of a provisional. Jewish "Government-in-A Exile" for Palestine is almost complete, Reuter learns from well-informed Jewish circles m close touch with the Resistance movement m Italy. In an interview with the editor of the Jewish resistance newspaper La Risposta,
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      RAF CLAIMS SEA SALVAGE
      97 3 rpHE first claim In the English X courts by airmen for an award for salvage services at sea will come before the High Court, London. It concerns salvage of the cargo of the 8,258-ton American Farmer, found abandoned hundreds of miles out m the Atlantic lasr
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      TRAIN BLOWN U.P
      56 3 CHINESE press report said a passenger and freight train going south from Tangshan was damaged by a land mine, resulting m the death of a student and injuries of seven other persons. Five third-class coaches overturned. A south-bound express was delayed overnight at Tangshan as repair crews
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      MASS GRAVE OF 70,000 IN POLAND
      149 3 SOVIET war prisoners died at the rate 1,000 a day m a terrible German extermination camp remails of which have just been unearthed at Ostrowe Mazowecka. 100 kilometres east of Warsaw. On a large and deserted plain, two mass graves have been opened and
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      Ashes kept in Nazi safe
      410 3 Ashes kept in Nazi safe MASSACRE OF ALLIED AIRMEN TTRNS with the ashes of British and Allied Air Force officers shot after their mass escape from Stalag Luf t 3, Silesia, were kept m a safe by Max Weilen, head of the Breslau Criminal Police three years ago. That statement
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      180 3 Tfte comjort and security scientific glare protection sunglasses are known throughout Me iror/d. ORIENTAL OPTICAL C 0. v (QUALIFIED OPTICIANS) a.O Box 387) (Phone:— 3232 8085?) Dead Office:— l 62, South Krid S e Road. Branch —348, North Bridge Road. Singapore. If You Like Your Prints To Last Longer GIVB
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      71 3 TARZAN Jung*© hospitality By Edgar Rice Burroughs UHHBm I I STANWNGOVER HAVNES' BODY, &\G I I j I —WHILE BACK AT THE TREE «UT THE M louiE GLOATED. *NOW >OU ARE A.&* M YOUNG HUNTER GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED ■PP^W SCONDER AND I AM CHARLES HAVNES, WT" A DIFFERENT HOSPITALITY. "TO*Hn fi'//r
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  • LEADER
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      21 4 Russian athletes nave been officially caMed upon to break world record* and increase the renown of (he Soviet Union.— A P
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JULY 28, 1947. Lets Have All The Facts
      679 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, JULY 28, 1947. Lets Have All The Facts A STRONG case for a commission of inquiry to go into the whole I question of the Colony's finances m public is made m the report of the special committee of the Singapore Association which has been
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      GOOD MORNING .... By Frank Owen
      1000 4 GOOD MORNING By Frank Owen there be War? Not tomorrow, nor even this year; but maybe within live years? War between whom? Why, between Soviet Russia and the United States of America or Russia and the Western world, led by the United States. If you read the more sensational American
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      FAITH
      26 4 Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are calied endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit m the bond of Deace. Ephesians. 4. 1-3.
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      QUIZ
      170 4 1. Where do we find the following?: (i) Mr. Meagles; ilij Peggotty; ciii) Mr. Wemmick; (ivt Mr. Grimwig; iv) Sidney Carton. 2. "This book is a series of faint reflections— mere shadows m the water of places to which the imaginations of most people are attracted m a greater
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      SHAW: OUR AGE'S SAGE
      1048 4 By Russell Landstoi 111, Associated Press Correspondent TEORGE Bernard v Shaw, who was 91 years old last Saturday, believes that his chances of survival as a great man are pretty got:d, but he says that he would like another 100 years or so to make sure
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      78 4 Lady- make sure... fi^> t dont you guess '1. M UseLISTERINE' m\^ 1 ...it's the best/ i listerine Tooth Paste u compounded of more than 1 4 carefully selected mi n HLjMl' gredients, precisely balanced to give C 8 |U you maximum polishing and cleansing Ik qualities without danger to
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      SFTU QUITTING SHORT ST. HQ
      182 5 Itoc Press Staff Reporter rr ;.dquarters of the ingap c Federation of m will remove from t Str, p! to River Valley re for the time w.il be sharing the uilding as members of the Trade Union out at the end f t -h. the
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      FAIR 'STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF SINGAPORE'
      183 5 FAIR 'STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF SINGAPORE' H>l IKING I"■ pening of &&> it the Great World »fore a lars;e j ring turdaj evening. Dr. I a c nsuhGeneral j that Singa- i pdßrtant, trade placed or. the j ta -.re l> known the, rid i centre of inter- national ti .-this
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      GOLD PRICES
      61 5 /VnciAL price of gold for y raven tat Singapore, pubnsned m the Government Gazette, are fineness and above wy 40 pej tine oun.ee; Gold of btlow 900 fineness •W w pel ffi e ounce: Er :s n Sovereign^ $17. 08 each; s** l«* Sovereigns $8.54 IMB J£g*** Sraus
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      LEAVES FOR KUCHING
      108 5 LEAVES FOR KUCHING picture. Group photograph taken on board the S.S. Darvel on Saturday, when Mrs. Anthony Brooke, fifth from ri*ht, left for Kuching, Sarawak. She was accompanied by several Sarawak nationalist leaders.- Free Press C*. lsland .it performance on the pianoforte by a young Malayan Chinese girl, Florence Wong,
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      Registrar warns taxi drivers
      328 5 Registrar warns taxi drivers Free Press Staff Reporter THE Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore, Mr. W. A. M. Watts, 1 m an interview with the Free Press, gave a new warning to taxi-drivers that they must not over-charge, and that those found charging increased fares would be prosecuted immediately. Mr. Watts
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      313 training to join S'pore police
      271 5 313 training to join S'pore police Free Press Staff Reporter THREE hundred and thirteen recruits are now undergoing training at the Singapore Polio-.* Training School. The Commandant of the School, i Mr. W. J. Parks, said 250 or the trainees constituted the police normal annual quota to replace casualties, retirements
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      Aussies learn Jap pearling
      78 5 THE development of the pearl and oyster culture industry m Australia, alone the lines perfected m Japan, is recommended m a report to the Australian Governmen t by Mr. L. T. Crai* of the Australian Fisheries Department. Mr. Craig has Just returned to Australia after elf
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      AUSTRALIAN CAR FOR
      361 5 Good news for motorists Free Press Staff Reporter MALAYA is likely to see a newly-designed motor car, as yet unnamed, when a General Motors Corporation factory begins production of a completely Australian car m Australia next year. The Singapore branch manager of General Motors Overseas Corporation, Mr.
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      INDIAN WOMEN FOR WORLD TALKS
      74 5 MRS. Sri Nagesh of Madras and Dr. Miss Girad of Bombay have been selected as India's delegates to the Ir |?rnational Council of Women to be held ax Philadelphia. These are m addition to Miss A. J. Cama, advocate, Nagpur, who has already been selected
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      8th ANNIVERSARY
      29 5 The eighth anniversary celebrations of the Chinese club Lian Bin Sia was held at Onan Road on Satuday night. More thar= 200 guests and friends were present.
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      R.A.F. REGIMENT: PAY DETAILS
      279 5 PR the benefit of its Malay readers, the Free Press publishes a full list of the rates of pay which the RAF is offering to recruits for the regiment which the Air Force is raising m Malaya. Shortly, an RAF officer, accompanied by a civilian interpreter
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      NEW MILK PRICES
      104 5 NEW prices for evaporated milk m Singapore have beer gazetted. They are: Milk Evaporated 16 oz. tin "Cow and Gate" brand $22 per case (48 tins) 50 cents per tin; Milk Evaporated 14 V 2 oz. tin "Purity" brand $20 per case (48 tins), 45 cents per
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      REST HOUSES TO BE RENOVATED
      61 5 TCVERNMENT, it is understood, haa provided lor the purchase of furniture, cutlery and crockery for re-equipping the rest houses m the State of Johore. At present the only rest house fully equipped is the one at Muar. Those at Segamat and Kluang are partly functioning.
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      BOAC CHANGES FLYING TABLE
      74 5 PROM August 7, the fly nig boat service which at present leaves Singapore for Bangkok and Hong Kong every Wednesday. morning will, as from that date, leave every Thursday morning, states a British Overseas Air Ways Corporation release. 4s from August 14 the flying beat service
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      UNQUALIFIED CHINESE TEACHERS MUST QUIT
      163 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent /CHINESE school teacners m Sin\j gapore, who have failed to obtain registration from the education authorities, may not be allowed to remain at their jobs next year. This step, it is pointed out by the education authorities, is aimed at weeding
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      FAIR PRIZE WINNER
      28 5 FAIR PRIZE WINNER MISS LILY TONG who won in* second prize m the "Miss Trade Fair 1947" Exhibition at the Great World on Friday night.-* Free Press picture.
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  • NEWS....
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      BIKINI BOMB NOT TO BE ENLARGED?
      476 6 Scientist's forecast on atomic war THE first Bikini bomb, exploded on July 1 last year, may be the size that will be used mostly to fight atomic wars of the future, instead of the greater bombs which scientists have been predicting. New tests are
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      67 6 The second prize m the u**.«.ci Nations "Poster ot" the Year" competition was won by Mr. Jans Bons (Dutch), whose poster (above) shows half the globe m sunlight and the other half as a skull m shadow. The third prize was awarded to Mr. Rowan Prins (South African) whose poster
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      SMUGGLING HITS CHINA REVENUE
      243 6 fHIISA'S imports during the first live months of 1947 exceedv ed exports by 50 per cent., the Finance Minister, Dr. O. K. Yui, reported to the Peoples' Political Council Resident Committee m Nanking, reports Reuter. Smuggling along the China coast around Canton, Hong Kong and Macao
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      YUGOSLAVIA'S ROCKET-BOMB PREPARATIONS
      82 6 YUGOSLAVIA is reported by the Rome press to be building V-2 and V-3 rocket-launching sites near the Italo-Yugaslav border and along the YugoslavAdriatic Coast, reports U.P. It is alkig-ed that equipment, including redar, were stolen from Allied dumps m Italy and smuggled into Yugoslavia m final UNRRA
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      GLIDER RECORD
      42 6 CAPTAIN CHARLES WINGFIELD, pilot of Viscount Kemsely's glider entered m the Soaring Tournament at Wichita Falls, Texas, claims to have broken the British distance record by landing near Canyon. Texas— 2s miles and seven hours' flight from his starting point.
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      New policy of Colonial Office
      226 6 A frTER an eight-year pause m its annual reports, the Colonial Office has much to tell of the extent to which the energetic post-war policy is exploiting opportunities which had to be neglected between 1939 and 1945, says the Daily Telegraph. Seven years' leeway m
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      FRENCH LEGION BANS SOVIET
      57 6 FRENCH LEGION BANS SOVIET COME 350 Germans, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Poles and other rationalities enlisted m Germany and Austria this month for service m the French Foreign Legion. Soviet citizens are not accepted and Germans, who make up 20 per cent, of the total enlistments, were screened to keep out former
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      A-BOMB SITE
      45 6 THE Japanese representatives of the three denomination Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist are pressing the Military Government team at Hiroshima to sell them land right at the epicentre of the atomic bomb blast so that they can erect churches on the historic site.- U.P.
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      Hyper-civilised islanders
      97 6 Hyper -civilised islanders AN anthropologist who has just returned to Chicago from from a four-month study of the people of th« Marshall Islands said they are more civilized than Americans or Europeans "m generosity, friendliness and kindness to strangers/ reports A.P. Moreover, hyper-tension, ulcers and nervous disorders are virtually absent
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      BREAK-UP OF CHINA SEEN
      320 6 r3 break-up oC China into various warlord domain Ull year as a result of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek inability 1 1M tain control over large sections of the country i* regarded possibility by certain high American circles iii Shantf^' Nanking, who are to be interviewed by Lieut.
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      WAX-FACED CHILDREN ARE FEWER
      124 6 WAX-FACED CHILDREN ARE FEWER BECAUSE of better food today, the wax-faced children seen m 1 pre-war years are disappearing. I said Dr. J. M. Watt, Medical Officer of Health to the Rotherham j (Yorks) Rural District Council. "The pale, wax-faced child brought up on bread and margar- me, potatoes and
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      UNO's STAFF HITS OUT AT COLOUR BAR
      147 6 UNO's STAFF HITS OUT AT COLOUR BAR MORE than l.uoo empkfMfl the United Nations Organ:zation Secretariat have demanded m a resolution adopted at a mas meeting that the Secretary* General, Dr. Trygve Lie. sr.cuM cancel the housing agreement wa two insurance companies bccwK of threatened racial c:s<Tin:JS' tion. The resolution
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      'HE MULCTED MILLIONS'
      82 6 r EGISLATION askug ftr Ld creation of a sive;u! coning tee of five member.- I the w* of Representatives to invest^ '♦all the facts' m th< w international financier, <#* Rubinstein, now serving a f»* sentence for evasioi c^pc tion. was introduced m tf*j g House of
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      STUDENTS HAVE THEIR FLYING
      45 6 STUDENTS HAVE THEIR FLYING A COURSE m Highland ca. is being taken by siu from 15 countries who an Saint Andrews Ur ;s Scotland under the Bra cn"s holiday course Among the countries r.I are British West Africa China. Egypt, India Per»» and the Sudan.
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      BRITISH 'FLYING SAUCER
      132 6 A MODEL flying saucer to prove recent reports are not all groundless has been built by Mr. A. Lovell, member of Margate Town Council who for eleven years was attached to the experimental branch of the Ministry of Supply. Rubber propelled and measuring 14 inches m diameter
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      ANDRES TAKES 10-43 IN PENANG "TEST"
      348 7 Frt»e Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. THE Rest ta^ily defeated The Europeans by 101 rar> n the annual local 'Test' which concluded ktn ttia :rternoon. The Europeans fared badly m rth tarings, being out for 61 and 79. Outstan ling features of the match
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      BLUE TRAIN TO MISS ST. LEGER
      61 7 LONDON* Sue. rJv maoon ed yrst^r-K.r-'s eoH Blue -c RIB :r. 0M St. L«r«r MntdMd at 10.15 m v T-:_-. .1: -i-r. drawn on the Pied his trainer la fail a.moc." said i r iMd Ok Kin« to v been tiUcaM to :-:'.d xrA
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      GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WIN TO GOODRICH
      18 7 < Li Bra Thrompson M G y*:?teh Boyi] S.r.^pore Mfl laapi astlp rtirnmlMit xht
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      SANEY TO MEET WELTER CHAMPION
      927 7 SANEY TO MEET WELTER CHAMPION Forces Sima To Retire Early By Our Boxing Reporter yOUTHFUL Australian boxer, Leo Heaney, who technical A ly knocked oat Battling Sima at the New World arena last night, the referee, Capt. Eric Dunsford stopping the fight at the end of the fifth round, will
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      M.C.C. Asked To Discuss Cricket Ruling
      165 7 M.C.C. Asked To Discuss Cricket Ruling LEEDS, Sunday. ON the initiative of South African captain Alan Melville the ruling by Test match umpires Frank Chester and J. Hills which prevented the use of pace bowlers by both England and South Africa at different stages of the came at Headingley yesterday
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      THRILLING FINISH IN PADANG CRICKET
      650 7 Schubert Gets 100 th Wicket, Yogarajah Passes 1,000 TWO Singapore State players passed cricketing milestones 1 yesterday. One was Cart Schubert, S.R.C. bowler, who captured his 100 th wicket of the season playing against the S.C.C., and the other was Yogarajah, who completed his 1,000
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      MEETING TODAY
      17 7 The Singapore Olympic and Sports Council will meet at 5.15 p.m. at the YMCA today.
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      ROBERTSON SCORES 118 BEFORE LUNCH FOR M'SEX
      324 7 IjONDON, Sunuay. J. D. Robertson, who would have p-ayed m the Tesi match against South Africa today had Hutton been unfit, showed brilliant form m scoring 113 for Middlesex against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. His form did much to compensate for the absence
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      S.R.C. OPENERS TAKE FIELD
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      PENANG OUTPLAY SOCCER TOURISTS
      749 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent r PENANG, Sunday. THE Sing Tao touring soccer team of Hong Kong x took, a sound beating at the hands of the Penang State team, going down by three goals to nil m a thrill- packed match before a record crowd on
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      TO RIDE MIGOLI
      41 7 LONDON,, Sun. CHAMPION jockey Gordon Richards v is to ride Migoli m Uie ot Leger. England's last classic of the season at Doncaster on Sept. 13. The Ag3. Khtn's colt is at present favourite lor the race. -Rtuter.
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      CHINESE PAIR WIN PERAK TITLE
      145 7 Free Pre* Staff Cm i ipwii IPQH, Sunday. TAN CHENG PHOR and Khoag Kit I Thong beat Lope Abdul Aziz aix* N. Caleb 6 o. 4 6, 6 l m the final of the Perak Doubles tennis champion* ship today on the Perak Chinese Recreation
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      48 7 SINGAPORE AMATEUR j FOOTIAU ASSOCIATION. On oreser.t r'' about nid- ended to run a -i- u; Coain« »a iQHated to D C jrr.ee ti- >- KBk to Uie 1 on Auspost HI o*r team S LIANG ■--V S A F A. Ip«J Ofsce, PiT OL GENERAL SCREENINGS FROM TOMORROW
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      229 7 Free Press Crossword No. 156 fIHHH Mi^l ULGKS ACKo^o 6. Believer m chance and natural causes (10). 9 A demig d among the ancient Greeks (4), 10. A treaty port of China (7), 11. Valuable fibre obtained from a tropical American plan* (5), 12. One of a body of French
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      Chiang is sure of quick victory
      324 8 NANKING, Sunday. GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK said today that there U was no possibility of further negotiation with the Chinese Communists, and predicted that the Nationalists would win the civil war and "would not take very long" at it. Talking to a group of eight
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      MONTY MEETS RELATIVES OF VC WINNER
      134 8 MONTY MEETS RELATIVES OF VC WINNER GISBORNE, Sunday. jTUELD Marshal Lord MontIT gomery. despite a crowded programme, talked for 45 minutes at Gisborne on Sunday with the (father and three other relatives of the late Second Lieutenant ffemoana Norimu. only Moari winner of the Victoria Cross. At the express invitation
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      HOME...
      26 8 HOME The Suffolk village of Kersey with its narrow streets and timbered cottages stands to the west of Ipsworth before Suffolk country flattens into the Broads.
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      POPE'S GIFT TO PoWs
      34 8 Monsignor Antonino Drapier Apostolic Delegate to Indo-China presented the French Red Cross at Hanoi with 1,100,000 francs from the Pope fo r Vietnamese prisoners, war victims and needy children. Reuter
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      RED FLEET DAY
      40 8 Guns of the Red Fleet yesterday thundered out artillery salutes of 20 salvoes from 13 major Russian ports m a tribute to "Red Fleet Day." The salvoe s were the climax to a week of celebrations. Reuter
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      DE GAULLE ATTACKS SOVIET EXPANSION
      477 8 Unity plea to French nation PARIS Sunday. TEN. Charles de Gaulle, head of the non-party Rally of the French people, now claiming more than 1,500,000 registered members, carried a stage further his campaign for a strong democratic Government cooperating whole-heartedly with the United States with
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      92 8 This is the n<»w Standard Vanguard ill mlv a n u produced by the Standard Muto r Company m Britain as a<2 lenge to America's luxury modeK. To be sld for about ti (Straits $3 400) overseas and X:>OH 'Straits SIM, j n i nsh^! this luxury car has a
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      SUCCESSFUL CONCERT
      127 8 A SUCCESSFUL .classical concert was given by Aga Lahoska i and Goh Soon Tioe last night at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Singapore. Aga Lahoska (Mrs. Mundell) made an effective selection of her songs, ranging from Moniuszko and Donizetti, Gluck, Debussy and a French bergerette arranged by Weckerlin to
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      GIRLS FIND BOY SHOT IN WOOD
      56 8 Guildford police are searching for a man who shot and killed a nine-year-old boy who was found m a wood by a party of Girl Guides. The killer had also injured the boy's sister who was found near her brother m a serious state.
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      RANK STUDIOS FOR SEVEN COUNTRIES
      130 8 LONDON. Sunday. MR. Arthur Rank, the British film magnate, is taking over studios m seven foreign countries immediately to step up film output and increase Britain's dollar revenue from American cinemas, the Sunday Empire News said today. Mr. Rank will offer this news to Sir
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      21 STUDENTS DIE
      38 8 Twenty -one pi; nils were killed and 40 injured whe n the roof of a primary school m a village near Sharanpur. United Provinces, collapsed suddenly yesterday. The victims were all under 12 years. Reuter
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      STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      68 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent fives the prices of rabber at 11 aan. today as follows: Buyers Sellers Cts. Cts. per Ib per tt> No. 1 R.S.S Spot loosa 29^» 2**4 No 1 It.S.S. fob m bales August 30', 30'<> No 2 R.SS. fob m bales August
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      90 warships for British bomb tests
      116 8 90 warships for British bomb tests LONDON, Sunday. THE naval correspondent of the Sunday Times said today that the Royal Navy will sacrifice 90 warships this year and next m tests designed to determine the effects of various types of bombing against individual and massed ships. All but 12 of
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      NEW BURMA MINISTER
      57 8 U Tin Tut, former Burmese High Commissioner mi n London wh 0 was recalled to Burma to take up his post as Minister without Portfolio after the recent assassination of seven Burmese Cabinet Ministers. arrived m Rangoon yesterday. He wa s accompanied by two member of the
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      72-year-old on world flight
      101 8 *|RS. Esther Dower, aged 72, of Los Angeles has bought a roundXi a rhi' W r* X Un S tlc Ft 7 111 ake her to London S£l h r Calc tta Bangkok, Manila, Guam, Wake and Honolulu. She believes she is the first ?»?*u '«renarian
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      GREEK REDS DECIMATED
      126 8 ATHExNS. Sunday. REPORTS from the Greek second army corps today said the third mountain brigade had trapped and decimated a Communist force near Verdicousi on Mount Hassia on Thessaly. Thus far, the bodies of 40 guerrillas have been court r-d and 22 prisoners taken. Sporadic fishtin^ between
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      BULGAR HINT OF BALKAN UNION
      191 8 T BELGRADE, Sunday. HE Bulgarian Prime Minister, Mr. Georgi Dhnitroff, who arrived m Yugoslavia today for talks with the Yugoslav Prime Minister, Marshal Tito, hinted broadly at a future unification of the two Balkan countries, m a speech at the border town of Tsaribrod. The
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      VICHY MINISTER DIES
      30 8 Pierre Cathala. former Vichy Finance and Agriculture Minist ?r arrested last June on chaws of collaboration, died m Paris yesterday at the home of his brother. U.P.
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      'GET COAL OR COLLAPSE'
      425 8 1 LONDON, Muidav THE British Foreign Secretary Mr. Frm-t lii-vin. m Satir I day, warned British labour that it musi produce more* risk the fall of the Labour Government and a weakening 4 Britain's position m uorld affairs. "My God. working meitari women, this is the
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      86 8 TO WATER CONSUMERS WHO NORMALLY NEED A CONTINUOUS SUPPLY A memorandum Is available at the office of the Municipal Water Engineer Singapore, giving advice to Owners Proprietors. Managers and those responsible for the operation and maintenance of factories, shipping supplies institutions, hotels and other places where continuous supplies of water
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      119 8 WEATHER Long bright periods WEATHER report for tbe next 21 hours compiled by the R.A.F: Long, bright peri with isolated showers late m the afternoon. Fine to-night and to-morrow morning. Wind: Southeasterly, S to 10 knots Sunset 6.43 p.m. Sunrise 6.35 a.m. Moonrise 3 p.m. Moonset 3 IS a.m. Temperatures
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