The Singapore Free Press, 12 August 1947
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Title Section18 1947-08-12 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA SmGAPOKE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1947. PRICE 10 CENIS.18 words
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Article516 1947-08-12 1 LABOUR REBELS URGE ATTLEE ON New Russian talks pledge TROWING revolt m Labour's ranks may force Mr. U Attlee's Cabinet further to the left. At least onethird of Labour members of Parliament are dissatisfied with the Government's plans to fight the economic crisis, and will insist on stronger action. Yesterday'sReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 516 words
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Article, Illustration167 1947-08-12 1 JOGJA'S RADIO APPEAL TO TAN KAH KEE ry, G. H. < r 1 i. G. 3 Be r raters, .>. P.R. BATAVIA, Monday. AN appeal to Mr. Tan Kan Kee, of Singapore, to rally Chinese organisations in South East Asia to the support of the Indonesian Republic was made byU.P.; A.P.; P.R. - 167 words
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33 1947-08-12 1 INTERIM WAGES REPORT IS BEFORE GOVT. IHn Tr n- Stall X p i lei I Joint ssion Governl and I its ready Pi s yes thai txn r not r light not i33 words
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Article21 1947-08-12 1 I' -i has he] by the a directive Kwer- le li 3 I of as A.P.A.P. - 21 words
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Article27 1947-08-12 1 Thiny-iour passengers and nine employees were killed m train accidents m Britain last year one m every 1.000,000,000 d iles of travel.— ReuterReuter - 27 words
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Article228 1947-08-12 1 Free Press Staff Reporter \s an economy measure, the Army m Singapore m the very near future is to begin to cut down unskilled casual labour m its employ to the barest essentials. The latest figure issued by the Department of Labour, Singapore, of the number228 words
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Article22 1947-08-12 1 Britain's first meteorogical observer ship is being positioned for three weeks, operating only experimentally, 300 miles west of Ireland ReuterReuter - 22 words
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Article190 1947-08-12 1 BANGKOK, Monday. SIX hundred railway workers demonstrated before Parliament House regarding the non-availability of enough ric? m the consumer market. They demanded that Bangkok Members of Parliament come out of the assembly, then m session, to hear their grievances and tried to gain admittance TheReuter; A.P. - 190 words
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Article, Illustration77 1947-08-12 1 CEYLON MAM AT 'THE YARD Attached to Scotland Yard m London for training is Jnsp. Thalayasingham ("Tally" to his new colleagues), of the Colombo C.I.D. He is now engaged on his first case m London that of a woman, with her head battered, whose body had been dumped m a77 words
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Article234 1947-08-12 1 NEW DELHI, Monday. rTH Independence Day only four days away, there is no sign of communal rioting m India subsiding. In Calcutta today, seven persons wer c killed and 25 injured m a renewtd outbreak of Hindu-Muslim rioting, and m the Punjab 11 Sikhs andReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 234 words
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Article104 1947-08-12 1 Free Press Staff Eeoorter IN Sims Avenue last night, a Malay opened fire on a Police patrol which had gone there to prevent a scheduled gang fight between two Singapore secret societies— the "Chap Sar Yeo" and the 108 Gang. A detective was about to tackle104 words
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Article46 1947-08-12 1 POLICE AMBUSH GUNMEN Free Press Staff Reporter A Police party, led by Inspectors Rajaratnam and Pennefather, at 11 last night at the IV 2 mile Tempenis Road, ambushed eight Chinese travelling m two taxis. They were found m possession of a hand grenade and two pistols.46 words
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Article15 1947-08-12 1 The American freighter, Marshall Elliott, caught fire m Lisbon Harbour yesterday U.P.U.P. - 15 words
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305 1947-08-12 1 S.H.B. LABOUR TO BOYCOTT DUTCH SHIPS Free Frees Staff Reporter A COMPLETE boycott of all Dutch vessels carrying goods to Netherlands East Indies ports has been decided upon by the Singapore Harbour Board Labour Union to show their sympathy with the Indonesians. The ban takes effect from noon today and305 words
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111 1947-08-12 1 LONDON, Monday. AMERICAN scientists have disj\ covered a new way of making atomic explosives, which increases the atom bomb output from the present rate of six per month to ten per week, says the Daily Express. Meanwhile, at UNO in New York, theU.P. - 111 words
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Article35 1947-08-12 1 Three Chinese robbers, one armed with a pistol, made a haul of $1,200 from a Chinese family living at the 7 x /2 Mile, East Coast Road, last night at half past nine.35 words
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Advertisement52 1947-08-12 1 fy Sport* rOP s Shields LP V N Siltef r tr PI W Arrive*: Just Arrived!! A !i l<« RANGE OF T D rs r% i a Citings *»sh linens 'AMERICAN j "TUTTER f a j| n L °vely Colours us far your next Suits Sm store y ROAD t:52 words
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Advertisement50 1947-08-12 1 ICKTANG I All Kinds of I easterii mm I All CRAFTS 1 MLRinrValtfßJ, I ffat: 4t2S. Star of London's Jil^f J'heatreland mKhM "7YID /^%C TUT? 13 Wt W\ J^SB&^+^lrw m '*m'M DILL \i 4 D TP I \T Q t TOP VIRGINIA *9 *^f^f Mil \0 4.9* |JnU \J 6ME/1450 words
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Article, Illustration321 1947-08-12 2 FLICE dogs for R.A.F. have just arrived in Singapore. These pictures show a dog V.C. turned actor, Thorn star performer of the Film Dogs Training School is a veteran of the London blitzes, when he bd a team of rescue dogs. At this training school all kinds of321 words
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Article304 1947-08-12 2 EAST-WEST would have been better advised to save at five diamonds, at which contract they oould have been set cnly one trick. But East thought he had defense against four hearts, and so he did. However, West failed to come up with the essential play. West opened304 words
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Article339 1947-08-12 2 THE man who made the 1 world conscious of actress Ann Sheridan and Lauren Bacall is working toward the creation of what he hopes will be another star and he is willing to pay "anything up to a million dollars" for the privilege. This time it is HazelA.P. - 339 words
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Article, Illustration871 1947-08-12 2 HITCHING A FLIGHT TO BERMUDA By COURTENAY EDWARDS IT. would- be a good thing if someone from Whitehall could thumb a lift to Bermuda, as I have just done, in one of British South American Airways' flight-refuelling planes. In this island paradise, only 18 hours after leaving London, 3,355 miles871 words
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Article110 1947-08-12 2 A SPECIAL substance call d t-aminvXitne. VFitb W LI lona ribbons of paper are saturated, is now being produced In Scotland a s a weapon against the locust plagues •rhieh periodically devastate tar arra. of the world. First tried out during ttie great locust plague inN.A.N.A. - 110 words
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Article34 1947-08-12 2 1. (a) Rio de Janeiro. Sao Paulo. Recife; <b) Santiago. Valparaiso. Concepcion: (c) Buenos Aires. Rosaro, Cordoba. 2. According to Hesiod they were the daughters of Zeus and the Titaness Mnemosyne (Memory).34 words
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Advertisement98 1947-08-12 2 #Tk Start his f\ > fof T Ma TheQi4grWXT 1 I > r: *-r— "1 i PEP AND ENERGY J I ilj ARE VITAL I In FOR SUCCESS J There is no better way to S I I supply extra stamina than I by a healthful breakfast of H nature's98 words
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Miscellaneous203 1947-08-12 2 JMB|lß| WpHiffl^^HpL Bffl k i^"'y'"'WF^^)ilP*^^^^F^V^^''^ 'y? SINGAPORE Blue Network 12.00— 2.M p.m —485 metres In the nedium wave band 6 7.22 mefacycles ler second In the 41 metre band. 6.00—11.00 pjn.— 4Bs metres is tne nedJum wave band A 4.825 megacycles per second In the 61 metre band, except "rom203 words
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Miscellaneous191 1947-08-12 2 AUSTRALIA 4 00 o-m. to 11.15 p.m VLA6 19.74 metres 15.20 megacycle; 1.00 p.m. to *.15 p.m VLUIt 13.89 metres 21.60 megacycles; 600 pjn. to 11.15 pjn VLGIO 25.51 metres 11.76 megacycles: 7.30 !t.m. to 8.15 pjn VLC4 19.59 metre* 15.32 megacycles; 10.00 p.m. to 11.15 p.m VI C9 16.8?191 words
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Miscellaneous280 1947-08-12 2 Hymen Leaser and Manul Kirby (Harpsochord>; 9.45 Talk; Background to Australia; 10 p.m. World News; 10.15 Composer of the Week Rimsky Korsakov; 10.30 Light Music Albert Fisher and New Octet with Sefton Daly (Piano); 10.45 Australian News; 11.00 Talk, "Canberra Report 1 11.05 Todays Ballad Singer Heddle Mash (Tenor); 11.30280 words
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Miscellaneous129 1947-08-12 2 portuai torecifl peop c Hfifi f. rt n atld Mieni! t V/ u v S 01 KT> 111 (M p Ot j p r-ao i ■find P-is a i und I 3 h' x i !< v, i{ U V lif > tetnp r (i ai l'«u mi> i rej129 words
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530 1947-08-12 3 PEACE SETTLEMENT HOPES ARE FADING Soviet- Allied political differences grow JHE date su ggested for the Washington talks on Japan, not ift f iL l^fhl l'l 9 WlU a y e liUl e «me for th* Common, wealth talks on the same subject, which start m Canberra on Aug. 26,Reuter - 530 words
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Article, Illustration89 1947-08-12 3 This streamlined, low-slung luxury car is the new 1948 model rear-engine Tucker automobile. Picture shows Mr. Preston 44-year-old race car designer, placing a piece of luggage m the under-bonnet compartment as he demonstrates his new car at the company's plant at Chicago, U.S.A. Sgt. Mervyn Paice (above) and Sgt. Clifford89 words
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Article221 1947-08-12 3 sia and the West. Mr. Lie says s just aa practical to say the iatl n Is potentially very pro>tng and we can if we all strive II move quickly and steadily twards a new era of peace, prosperity and civilisation" as to talk Impending disaster.U.P. - 221 words
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Article59 1947-08-12 3 RECORD Qiunbex of 448 new caj es of infantile paralysis rere r- ported In Great Britain luring the week ended Aug. 2. iis was an increase of 148 over c previous week's figures. epidemic has distressed r r > thousands of children se parents refuse toReuter - 59 words
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Article39 1947-08-12 3 AWALSALL (Staffs) bus driver. John William Dickinson, was awarded £1,500 damages for injuries at Birmingham after police had said they found two threads of material like that of his overcoat on a lorry that knocked him down.39 words
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Article148 1947-08-12 3 DHTTISH cars worth £1,000,000; made for export by the J Numeld Organisation, have had to be switched to the Empire because of a currency jam. The cars were ordered by I European ard South American countries, which then suddenly 'ut down -r restricted imports because148 words
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Article29 1947-08-12 3 Batons, which were released al Chislehurst, England, with messages in five languages asking for their return, have been sent back from France, Germany and Holland.- ReuterReuter - 29 words
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113 1947-08-12 3 TH E three leading American aviation companies flying 'overseas routes report a piofit, while the lti leading d:me3tic airlines report a composite net rating deficit of UJ5.518.035 000 m the first five months of 1947. Trans-World Airlines said its international division be^an making a profitA.P. - 113 words
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Article297 1947-08-12 3 Masses showing little interest CHINA GENERAL ELECTIONS THE Nanking Minister of Uie Interior, Mr. Chang Li-sheng, 1 chairman of the National Electoral Council, in an inter view stated that China's general election to be held in the midst of civil war will "test the democratic spirit of th e massesReuter - 297 words
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Article126 1947-08-12 3 RAN FROM HAPPY COUPLES BRIAN Herbert Orpen-Palmer 35, independent, was so unhappy at the death of his wife that he could not bear to see anyone else happy. He left his luxury flat in London. He roamed the country staying at hotels until Uv? sight of a happy married couple126 words
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109 1947-08-12 3 TELEVISION IN CINEMAS BY END OF 1947 COME half-dozen in London's West End cinemas will be showing occasional television programmes by the end of I'm year. Thi s was announced by Mr J. Arthur Rank at a Press conference after his return from the United States. Not only will short109 words
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Article83 1947-08-12 3 VIENNA, Mon. THE Soviet-managed Zistersdorf oilfields in Austria are now working a new oilfield which monthly produces 85.000 tons of crude oil, according to an Austrian Government official. The Soviet management have refused a request by the Austrian Government to make the 55.000 cubic metresU.P. - 83 words
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Article, Illustration26 1947-08-12 3 The Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and Lady Mountbatten, are here seen inspecting extensive property damage caused during large-scale communal rioting m the Pa-par Mandi area of Lahore26 words
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Article168 1947-08-12 3 SOVIET WAR BASE NEAR MANCHURIA A GREAT military and industrial bastion or springboard is being built on Soviet Russia's south-eastern bonier, writes a Sunday Tomes correspondent. "Outstanding priority in the five. year plan is given to the denselywooded expanse between Lake Baikal and the Pacific. Thirty-sixth in the population of168 words
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Article72 1947-08-12 3 MR. Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, said in New York: "When a nation forbids free exchange of news we must ask if it can claim membership of UNO. "It is doubtful we can hope for peace unless the freedom of r.ews is permitted." He wasReuter - 72 words
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Article26 1947-08-12 3 The India Office announces that Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne, I.C.S., has been appointed Governor of East Bengal temporarily, with effect from Aug. ReuterReuter - 26 words
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Article67 1947-08-12 3 PHOPS and steaks are being flo wn across the Atlantic to hungr? v Britons m glass- lined, insulated zipper bags filled with dry ice. A typical package sent by a New York store consists of two 51b. steaks and 12 loin lamb chops. It costs67 words
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Advertisement16 1947-08-12 3 ritj i r '■■-p« i co., 1 >oath h ore. 4 P> V* A r 116 words
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Advertisement93 1947-08-12 3 THE MAJOR ARTISTIC AND ENTERTAINMENT EVENT OF THIS YEAR OR ANY YEAR! Never Before K«ver Again So Magnificent An Array a of Artists Together On One Screen! II m^MkMAmkO^^A^^AmAmAWAmw A^A^Am MAm A^A^Aw a^AwF A^Aw f^AW A^^m A^A\. k^Am t^^Av^Aw*^*^M^&A^k\^_ S^^frU^ "CARNEGIE HALL" LILY POMe »—^>«~/7^*"*"* W MARSHA HUNT WiOIAM PRWCE93 words
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Miscellaneous51 1947-08-12 3 rARZAN Anothef observa^ 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs r >*^)L*^^^W SOMtOSE ELSE HAD -FIRED TME fROM A THICKET OTHER. EVES v J >^ "~^T i SHOT ANP STARTED ON SCONDER^S ALSO HAD DISCOVERED THE PAIR. X C^^^,^ I 1 Ti;AIL ■oLu*;-\-ui^ f^^;^ J pW/T^jSv v j9^ ANO A TAWNY FORM51 words
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795 1947-08-12 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. AUGUST 12, 1947. World Crisis A BRUPTLY, Britain's economic i\ crisis has become a world crisis. When the American loan to Britain is exhausted, probably by the end of October, every nation which sells to Britain and buys from America will feel the pinch. Jhat795 words
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Article1204 1947-08-12 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY A DELAYED-action hang-over has enveloped high citizens ii? New York and the.headache is prodigious. Quite suddenly a lush story of champagne parties, dizzy blondes, red-heads, and brunettes, hired at £25 per evening, night-club excursions, and cocktail excesses, all tied up with Government contracts, has spread across the1,204 words
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Article449 1947-08-12 4 ANE hundred years v ago last month a boat-load of singing, praying slaves from America landed on the steamy, tropical const of West Africa, and the world's first Negro Republic of Liberals was born. So on the Centenary Day the drums of every village along the449 words
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Article27 1947-08-12 4 Be renewed m the spirit of your mind put on the new man, which after God is created m righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4. 23-24.27 words
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Article35 1947-08-12 4 1. Can you name the three largest cities of: (a) Brazil; (b) Chile; (c) the Argentine Republic? 2. Who. according to Greek mythology, were the parents of the nine Muses? ANSWERS IN PAGE Z35 words
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Article940 1947-08-12 4 by Walter Farr AN announcement of grim importance to the greater part of the world, and especially to Britain, has just been given out to delegates of 39 nations at the Paris Cereals Conference. It says in effect: During the year 1947-43 there may be less bread940 words
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Advertisement188 1947-08-12 4 tJjec&u&e they d****** 1 m the nioufJi $Bgk ate EASY^ tcAe <**ul QUICK I^ M^DV breaking up at once on the tongue-o m ;;;>ei:* 'Alasil' tablets possess advantages to nu Sv ro ugt '"5 profession attach the greatest Important v c ,-ve» rapid and complete disintegration Alasil isqu i»- cr188 words
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Article188 1947-08-12 5 r^LlE B, MOSS, DiiecD~ Church Wo/id 'i--i!enomma-n O f throe agencies of hes, considers 3 35 a v struetiTC fo.ce l on lesd ll •w sense of l res- r :^iiitv which will tie its h a.three- Philippine Is- wjj/u Singapore s t ;.i reportersA.P. - 188 words
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Article56 1947-08-12 5 MUSLIM AID FOR INDONESIA k iT Z Prrv> i\ uff KfDorter A Muslim organisa- •as .^t oecn' s :hc Rod ..to bold m Aid Week m SmI re between Aug i 5 t o 22 ct rf collecting rC~ r md esian Red /l^'" be on sale ™J Wet there56 words
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Article, Illustration74 1947-08-12 5 SHELLS ARE DUG UP This picture was taken "by a Free Press reporter icho came across a Dig ammunition dump somewhere on Singapore island, luhich being looted. The shells have been stripped of valuable metal; :;;•-> are lying around for anyone icho cares to pick them. These pictures ivere take.i74 words
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Article534 1947-08-12 5 Chinese wedding declared void AT ihc Singapore Arizes yesteiday, a marriage, according to Chinese rites, between a Christian and a non-Christian, which took place m Kuala Lumpur m 1937, was ruled void. This ruling was given by Mr. Justice Brown, m a case m which Ten Kirn Choon was charged534 words
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Article182 1947-08-12 5 IN" yesterday's Free Preso, certain comment m the report "Still Too Much Delay At Docks" were inadvertently attributed to the chairman of the Port Emergency Committee. These remarks were actually \hose of a leading importer m reply to the chairman's comment that there was sill too182 words
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Article31 1947-08-12 5 |POH, Monday.— Tnree thousand rounds of British and Japanese rifle ammunition and 30 hand grenades of British and Japanese manufacture were recovered yesterday by Ipoh police at Kramat Palal31 words
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Article50 1947-08-12 5 Boxes of stout were stacked on zhe floor of the Third Police Court yesterday when Sim Bock Sim, 29, a Teochew, the licensee of a stall m the Happy World, was fined $355, or three months imprisonment for storing 358 pints of dutiable stout on Aug. 3.50 words
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Article337 1947-08-12 5 LOOTERS RAID BIG AMMO DUMP urenades for the taking ciiii7TTo Free Press S taff Reporter j^HbLLb of all descriptions, mortar bombs and grenades potential weapons for the gangster —are lying around for the taking somewhere on Singapore Island. The place was discovered by a Free Press reported who happened to337 words
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Article59 1947-08-12 5 TMPORTS of rubber into Sin1 gapore during July amounted to 19,104 tons; into the Malayan Union 2.889 tons, making a total of 21,993 tons. Chief source of supply was Sumatra, from which Singapore received 14,562 tons, and the Malayan Union 2,025 tons. Sarawak supplied Singapore with59 words
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175 1947-08-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TAKING advantage of the Army's offer, hundreds turned up 1 yesterday at Bales tier Plain m a scramble for scrap. Two armed policemen looked on while men, women and children collected old wheels, lorry tyres, gears, bearings, steel ropes and shackles,175 words
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Article120 1947-08-12 5 ON Friday, ttie Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. will open the British Books Exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall at 4.30 p.m. The exhibition will remain open till 7 p.m. that day, and on each subsequent day, till it closes on Aug.120 words
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Article70 1947-08-12 5 MEMBERS of the Sing Tao football team, bringing their own rice with them, arrived in England last week-end for a series of matches with British sides. Wong Ka Thun, their adviser, said that there would be no food difficulties in tightly rationed BritainA.P. - 70 words
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Article117 1947-08-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter YOU may shortly be able to send and receive roods by air on a "cash on delivery" basis. BO AC has just introduced this COD system for air freight for business houses and private shippers. The service is available from the United Kingdom117 words
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Article225 1947-08-12 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent 'rtiHE increasingly brisk demand A by Chinese merchants trading with the N.E.I., coupled with a spate of speculative activity recently, has sent the exchange ra:e of Nica notes (legal tender in N.E.I.) to a new high record in. I Singapore. Last Saturday,225 words
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Advertisement21 1947-08-12 5 We have just received Iff 111 nC Ll SO" 11 111 *kAL" <fc^ *%i\ ID HI *0%9 wide per yd. IB21 words
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Miscellaneous94 1947-08-12 5 Ships alongside the Singapore Marquette Victory (19-20), Treswharves yesterday (godowfcs m sillan (23-24) Noon Day (25-26). brackets) were: Eras-mus (27-28), Derwenthall MAIN WHARF: City of Chester (2^- 30) -(31-32), Cape Catocße (33-34), EAST WHARF: Rajula (44). Empire Colne (36-37), NoTden SHEERS WHARF: Van der (38-39), Empire Palace (41), Hagen. Celebes94 words
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Article, Illustration271 1947-08-12 6 Aiding Britain's export drive LONDON, Monday. A BRITISH motor show is now practically certain for 1948. Despite order lists which stretch over two years or more, British motor makers are to meet in London soon to decide on an exhibition at Earl's Court as271 words
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145 1947-08-12 6 CIGARETTES caused a minor crisis in the heart of Georgia, U.SA.. British buyers just stood by and smoked while the largest tobacco crop in America's history was auctioned off. So the prices for the lower grades they usually snapped up for gaspers slumped 4s.145 words
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190 1947-08-12 6 DYING OFFICER MADE WILL ON BATTLEFIELD I\YING on the battlefield or u Ypres, in 1940. Lieut. Maynard Bob Sin ton (Roya: Scots Fusiliers took a pencil and wrote his will on a piece of paper. leaving his estate of £21,778 to his sister. He gave the paper to L Cp!190 words
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Article24 1947-08-12 6 Sweden has asked Russia to recall her military attache and a legation member who ctycled through Swedish defence zones while on holiday.24 words
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Article23 1947-08-12 6 Betty Grable's salary m 19*6 was £74,883 ss. Her boss, Spyros Skouras, president of 20th Cen-tury-Fox, earned £63,980 10s.23 words
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Article81 1947-08-12 6 RONALD RIDGWELL. 26, of Stanwell-way, Wellingborough. Northants. spent his demob leave walking. He covered 1.254 miles before he stopped. He walked for five weeks, averaging over 35 miles per day, through England, Scotland and North Wales. He wore out nine pairs of rubber heels in the81 words
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Article257 1947-08-12 6 WHILE top-ranking Chinese Nationalist leaders are still discussing implementation of the recently-promulgated anti-Communist national mobilisation order, Communists m Manchuria have countered with a general mobilization decree of their own. The entire area north of the Sungari River has been d> clared a military zone where all able-bodied257 words
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Article81 1947-08-12 6 A shortwave radio system, believed the first of its kind, has been introduced by Mrs. A. M. Stevenson, a Cambridge car hire proprietor. Her 12 cars have been fltted with high frequency equipment and when a customer phenes, the head office controller picks out on81 words
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Article30 1947-08-12 6 Twenty armed Arabs on Sunday attacked a cafe on the banks of Yarken River m Tel-Aviv. Two Jews were killed and seven were brought to hospital.— U.P.30 words
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Article32 1947-08-12 6 The Australian Embassy in Washington has announced that Australia and New Zealand consider that the time Is not yet ripe to permit the Japanese to travel freely abroad. U.P.U.P. - 32 words
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Article35 1947-08-12 6 T WEENIE TROUBLE Members of Hampstead Council have objected to the word "tweenies" (meaning little children) appearing m a committee report dealing with a day nursery and have suggested that the "odious word"' be banned.35 words
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Article120 1947-08-12 6 IN her Fort Walton, Florida, cell, British war bride Margaret Poland paid: "The English would not be ashamed of me if they knew the way my husband had treated me." Margaret 21, from Douglas, Isle ol Man, was detained after the death of her husband,120 words
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Article440 1947-08-12 6 SLOVAKS TURN OVER TO INDUSTRY r%T is cooking m Slovakia is an w..m m seem outlandish to orthodox mirk \<* I^*% Moscow. As a basic recipe, the Slovnl J Ir «*t -1 nationalization of coal. They add m piacj o f technique from Soviet Comissariats. y\ lvy v j' m^en^'A.P. - 440 words
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Article46 1947-08-12 6 Mr. Malcolm Hancock, Clerk cl the Course at Lincoln races, said of the photo-finish: "If the human eye cannot distinguish between two horses, the race should be regarded as a deadheat. The camera imparts too much mechanisation and Americanisation to British racing.'"46 words
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Article95 1947-08-12 6 CROS doon contr fr is once m subjec s pros an >-:; Evtr i back to Pi •.:_<* ings wei bet-n :l> holiday--,. i the world families r r v r into convei c s f clutchir^ sns ard < bronzed cousir. f rC:r seas.95 words
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Article61 1947-08-12 6 IJALF \V.-.\ nine e _i; m X.L M five-; XX bl snak I T.:> k U Icel c k in i Stfl] :.-i camv,ay ffl dam Most I the i i/. ir.or vvr.er. 'I boy'.s scuffl t in i as the reptile. Th sna! hms\61 words
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Article39 1947-08-12 6 THE Mr oi tin Clii fork ii k ftSSUP ci Walsl aw se< the Chicago He set Which of the 88 cago Tin oner v: 60,000 had said it us soUdation Times will plant on39 words
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Article15 1947-08-12 6 The B (lormor'.y Bcharnh rsi Sunday I than 1 000 Ras A. P.A.P. - 15 words
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Advertisement77 1947-08-12 6 UNO home ready m 4 ye#l THE United Nations Secretary-Orm ral Mf announced the preliminary p!an>> for til scraper home m Manhattan, New Yo;k U estimated cost of l\S $4,831,450 and lake a complete. No decision has been reached on who-* I General Assembly will debate Mr. Lie "s pi77 words
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Miscellaneous83 1947-08-12 6 J/\ N t Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Ma lava U Y f?EAR R LY r^i ANXIOUS ABolfr-^ F^ AND THIS LOOKS fWHAT/— AT THIS SENORITA'7 V OHf LETTERS J LIKE OML FOR ERIG HOUR?— WE MUST SToP RME L^ U^^^J^iT^ 1 I^au^«^am 1 HIM BEFORE THERE J83 words
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Article480 1947-08-12 7 M' SEX ENFORCE FOLLOW-ON Yorkshire Top Qloster Total LONDON, Monday. r> m today's County cricket games centred fo* ""S^dleses and Gloucester, contenders for the I >' uiul n .i while Middlesex forced Surrey to follow ri r 1 r a Yorkshire gained a first innings lead over ['^■oter at BReuter - 480 words
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Article77 1947-08-12 7 SCC Meet Chinese Juniors Today r lection (tin m the Sii m SAFA. game n struggle it league's bead of the ame tC lay, '--c SC ChiXV -v Xt Malays di f< at rtu ■Em th it n-spoonists. am b ame is not ice >i v-:r; high f soccer, it77 words
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Article24 1947-08-12 7 aw ting th«> S rtins As tti will a Sun lay at 3 pan at •r- rv Mr JwKeowßock. n Blair Road.24 words
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Article, Illustration48 1947-08-12 7 At Sports Meeting Mr. P. A. B. McKerron. the Officer Administering the Government of Singapore, takes time off with his daughter Jane (seated next to him) and tico of her friends to enjoy Saturday's inter-team athletic meeting on the Police ground which the R.A.F. won. Free Press picture.48 words
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88 1947-08-12 7 SCFA To Meet All-Johore Chinese XI rpHE Singapore Chinese FootJL ball Association have accepted an invitation by the Johore Chinese Football committee to play a game against an A!l-Johore Chinese team at Muar on Sunday Proceeds from the game will donated to the China Flood Relief Fund. The S.C.F.A. will88 words
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268 1947-08-12 7 U.K. SOCCER PROSPECTS ROSY-BUT... LONDON, Mon IN less than a fortnight the 1.000.000 odd fans who religiously follow English league football will be roaring themselves hoarse, with food cuts and housing worries forgotten in the huriy burly of the opening of what is expected to be the greatest momy spinning268 words
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Article351 1947-08-12 7 LONDON, MON. FOLLOWING are the opening fixtures 1 m the English League to be played on Aug. 23. Arsenal v. Sunderland Blackburn v. Everton Blackpool v. Chelsea Bolton v. Stoke City Charlton v. Sheffield U. Derby Co. Huddersfield Grimsby v. Aston Villa Liverpool v. Preston N.E. Manchester351 words
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809 1947-08-12 7 They Don't Talk Cricket In Yorkshire Now THIS summer a king has died on (he cricket fields of Yorkshire. Eleven bothered young Yorkshire lads, slow of speech and not quite quick enough of limb, have marred the jealous cricket tradition of England's widest county; allowed he chalice of 50 years809 words
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Article590 1947-08-12 7 rILE Singapore and Malaya remain undecided on whether or not to send representatives to the Olympic Games, which are to be held in London exactly a year hence, ir»<»re than 40 countries big and small, have already accented the invitation to the Games. In all these590 words
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Article, Illustration366 1947-08-12 7 MANCHESTER, Monday. QCCUP¥ING the wicket for all but 40 minutes of today s play, South Africa ran up a total ol 338 m reply to Lancashire's 218 at Old Traffard to lead by 120 on ilie first innings. For the most part ItReuter - 366 words
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Miscellaneous247 1947-08-12 7 Free Press Crossword No. 167 HHHB [2 I [3 ri 14 CLUES ACROSS 1, Immense fresh-water lake Central Sudan, Africa (4). 6, Elklike animal of North America (5). 8 Wading birds with very long, slender bills and legs (7). 10, Historical records (6). 11, Iron baskets used m raising coal247 words
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Article, Illustration24 1947-08-12 8 People will recognise Tower Bridge in the background but not the team of Windmill Theatre girls taking a launch- trip on the Thames.24 words
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Article510 1947-08-12 8 Missing Crown Jewels BERLIN, Monday. WITH the announcement tonight by the U.S. Army C.I.D. chief, that 29 pieces of Crown jewellery belonging to Princess Hermine, the ex-Kaiser's widow who died under suspicious circumstances m the Russian zone last week, had been recovered, there has emerged anotherU.P. - 510 words
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746 1947-08-12 8 Crisis Bill Is Debated LONDON, Monday. tjiTTER Opposition attacks on the Services and Supplies Bill, particularly by Mr. Churchill, are not interrupting the Government's timetable for this emergency legislation. It was obvious in today's proceedings in the House of Commons that Mr. Morrison is determinedReuter; U.P. - 746 words
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Article147 1947-08-12 8 PARIS, Monday. U EMILE Bollaert. the Frencn High Commissioner in Indochina, who returned there only recently after consultations in Paris, is being recalled immediately to report on the situation. When M. Bollaert arrived in Paris irom Saigon in June, he told Press representatives he felt optimisticReuter - 147 words
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Article47 1947-08-12 8 FRANCE-UK BY -CANOE Two Frenchmen, Marcel Deflenne, 27, a sailor, and Michel Debnay, 26, an estate agent, crossed the Channel from Calais to Dover m a canvas and rubber canoe m six hours 20 minutes. They have been allowed to stay m England a few days. ReuterReuter - 47 words
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Article44 1947-08-12 8 RIOTING on Sunday near Government buildings m Karikal, one of the five "establishments" of French India, resulted m five policemen and four civilians being injured. Preliminary unofficial investigations indicate the rioting started with demonstrations for French India's complete independence.— U.P.U.P. - 44 words
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Article175 1947-08-12 8 BUENOS AIRES, Monday. THE sudden flight into Argentine territory of most diplomatic m.ss ons from Asuncion, Paraguayan capital besieged for a weefe by insurgent troops, is regarded here today as confirming the impression that if the rebels break intc the capital Paraguay's five-month -old revolution willReuter - 175 words
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Article219 1947-08-12 8 JERUSALEM, Monday. TERRORISTS tonight blew up the Palestine-Egypt railway line, a mile south of Gaza. A short section of the track was damaged but repairs are expectec to be completed m time for the passage of the Cairo-Haifa express due to reach Palestine tomorrow. Of theReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 219 words
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Article101 1947-08-12 8 MR. Frank K. White, a civilian employee m SCAP's Reparations Section, is marrying Teruko "Pia" Kurusu. daughter of Mr. Saburo Kurusu, special Jap envoy to U.S. during the talks before the Pearl Harbour attack, at the American Consulate m Yokohama on Thursday. Mr. White said.U.P. - 101 words
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Article37 1947-08-12 8 A dredge, clearing sand from Liverpool harbour bed between two large merchant ships, yesterday brought up a 500-pound German time bomb. Four hundred sailors and dock workers took the rest of the day off.- U.P.U.P. - 37 words
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Article234 1947-08-12 8 NEW YORK, Monday. SIR Alexander Cadogan, chief British delegate, today m the United Nations Security Council answered complaints against British action m Egypt and the Sudan made by Nokrashy Pasha, the Egyptian Premier. Denying thai British policy arjse out of imperialist motives. Sir AlexanderReuter; U.P. - 234 words
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Article471 1947-08-12 8 LONDON. M.hhU niSAPPOINTMENT was expressed on Uh Stock EskJ 1/ today that the Prime Minister m h:s speed had i« little more than was already known and eilmi i Ik ab^a of any detail contained m the statement mmi after \mn Parliamentary Labour meeting, says RtMiur Immmlwi471 words
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Article79 1947-08-12 8 ASI'M i\\ >i.i.m-i rorrespuaii gives, the pfffflCf of rubfcH 11 a.m t<xla\ a.< follows: Buym S* No 1 R.S No I B.S.SS i m batoi No 2 K> I R So" I *-R. 6 m lil-v \i. T<in<» of Nl k War* SINGAPORI M\MBEROf Mnn >'79 words
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Article22 1947-08-12 8 ON HM [ground *A latlvely ligi I 'r^nne 1 I at AC H fractior. minuted near cotton futu A.P.A.P. - 22 words
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Article23 1947-08-12 8 Twclv, nIJJ S of the 20.500 lispwcey > brought r tair< October und n]L^i^ schemes ha- v It is prop ReuterReuter - 23 words
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Miscellaneous67 1947-08-12 8 I WEATHER Some thundery showers W KAHILI, report for the next 24 hours compiled by the tt.A.F: Scattered thundery showers with some bright periods. Wind: South-east, 4to 8 m ph. Sunset 6.43, sunrise 6.35. Mojmrise 3.03 a.m., raoonset 2.35 p.m. Temperatures: Max 88 F., mm. 75 drg. F. Relative humidity67 words
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Miscellaneous13 1947-08-12 8 SINGAPORE TIDES High Low High 6.30 am and 5.50 pm Low 11.26 am13 words
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