The Singapore Free Press, 26 August 1947

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    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALA YA K**l, SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947 PRICE It CENTO.
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    UN ACTION ON INDIES VETOED
    470 1 UN ACTION ON INDIES VETOED Mediation will be voluntary NEW YORK, Monday. CRANCE today vetoed a Soviet amendment which would have created a Security Council Commission to supervise the Indonesian cease-fire order which the Council issued on Aug. 1. Instead, the Council has offered its good offices," leaving it to
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    INDIANS DEMAND 'FAIR WAGES' IN MALAYA
    106 1 INDIANS DEMAND 'FAIR WAGES' IN MALAYA t 1 1 ban G wm d Vt Hi* h ir t tntil the r^nd was isred Mr S K tett ir 'rmer repr -sentar\n Madras s:er n( wa I Malayan i. wages i 5...:. hi. rs on Malajan L sea tised I'o per
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    27 PERISH IN BLAZING TRAIN
    19 1 N Russian fatal to aght the operate or. regulatl ma H fUm engen A.P.
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    U.S. JET DOES 650 mph
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    U.S. COAL FOR BRITAIN
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    Britain wants Japan stripped
    257 1 UArMKEKiiii, Monday. BRITAIN wants Japan stripped of her overseas empire and restricted to her home islands, but she does not want a pauperised Japan which would be a constant drain on other peoples through her inability to maintain herself economically, said Lord Addison, British Secretary of
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    INQUEST ON'RED' CHIEF UNLIKELY
    116 1 INQUEST ON 'RED' CHIEF UNLIKELY Free Press Staff Reporter FE death of the Singapore Communist Party leader, Lim Ah Liang, at the Singapore General Hospital yesterday, was "due to natural causes," and as such, it was most unlikely that any in. quest would be held said a Police spokesman this
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    CLAIM FOR $50 MILLION ON JAPS
    55 1 A CLAIM against the Japanese Government by the Singapore Chinese Massacre Appeal Committee for the refund of $50 million, which was forcibly extracted from Malayan Chinese by Gen. Yamashita after the fall of Singapore has been officially recognised, said Mr. Tay Koh Yat, chairman
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    DRIVER DIES FROM BURNS
    53 1 AN Indian driver, Nadasen, employed by Raffles Hotel, was burnt to death in a lire which broke out In the servants' quarters of the hotel at 6 a.m. on Sunday. The Police state that they have detained another Indian em* ployee of the hotel in connection
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    MINISTER'S WIFE FINED
    24 1 The Bromley (Kent) police court yesterday fined Lady Shawcross, wife of Britain's Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, £2 for speeding. U.P.
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    BOUND FOR JOGJA
    54 1 BOUND FOR JOGJA DR. B. C. SEN. an Indian civil meaical officer who is one of a party of three Indian doctors who left Singapore this morning jn a Dakota aircraft carrying Indian medical relief to the Republic of Indo7iesia. The three doctors will report to India on Indonesia's medical
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    STATE OF WAR' IN PUNJAB
    240 1 NEW DELHI, Monday. TOE Punjab is in a virtual state of war, with the Muslims, 1 Sikhs and Hindus continuing their bloody clashes. Aimed aands are roaming the country, leaving more dead and wounded in their trail. Casualties in th* lAf*** rintinir ,v»uM not yet
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    ALL LABOUR BACK AT BOCKS TODAY
    93 1 Free Press Staff Reporter EVERYTHING was reported normal in the Singapore Harbour Board area this morning, when 3,000 men representing stevedores, dock and road labourers went back to work, following their decision last night to call off their strike in protest at the shooting
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    New Singapore political party
    256 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ANEW Singapore political organization, the Progressive Party, was formed yesterday. It plans to put up candidates for election to the Legislative Council and the Municipal C TSnSuKural meeting yesterday, the party, of which iMr. C X! Tan an Advisory Councillor is president,
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    CABINET MEET, SLICE MORE OFF RATION
    502 1 LONDON, Monday. THE Cabinet held an emergency meeting today to discuss A 1 possible 50 to 75 per cent, cut in food imports from the United States and consequent cuts in Britain's already meagre rations. The Prime Minister interrupted his vacation for a second
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    The Two Cathie Gibsons
    458 2 The Two Cathie Gibsons •THERE are two Cathie 1 OiteoM. One is a little girl in a slate-colouved sports jacket, yellow silk blouse, and parted skirt, blushing as she signs autographs for kerotne worshippen older than herself. The other Is a slim waternymph, streaking through the water at an incredible
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    MANDRAKE-WHERE & HOW HE WAS BORN
    1191 2 MANDRAKE -WHERE HOW HE WAS BORN BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MANDRAKE, whose OT adventures have thrilled readers of the Free Press since its postwar resurrection, is created by two young men who look remarkably like him. They ar e 35-year-old writer Lee Falfc and 40-year-old artist Phil Davis. Both are
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    PREFERS MULES TO CARS
    192 2 RAS NAILU is one of Ethiopia's greatest chiefs. He owns three Rolls Royces and several other cars. He is one of the country's richest men. But he prefers to jog along the walks of the city on his faithful black mule. A giant of a man,
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    DISAPPOINTING
    58 2 MOTOR vehicle m tion in the Un Slates in July estimatf^ 234.396 automobiles anc Kl trucks by the trade paper to motive News. Th« pubka termed this a "diappom total" and said the "prapa for August are do: *z better." The Industry huts held -up by shortage* of k
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    TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
    233 2 RECENTLY tills column re-told the story of this deal, as published in an amusing article by A. Moyse, Jr. Playing at six spades, doubled, the declarer stumbled into the rare "smother play" in this fashion. West led the heart king. Dummy's ace won and a heart was
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      342 2 Mt§fldr3l(6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya I I SEGWO- I I AH, NAADA IS I I STOP TEASING. I>A J| r AYE, HE I VTkOUBLE WITH THE BLACK DUKE •TnAiA«Ain M rfTnovcWr MARRIED AL- SHOCKED. STILL DELIGHTED. 1 JUST MAWUEO WHO WANTED SE6RIO 70 WED 1 sS^oVu^^y/^E'
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    JAPAN MAY SIGN WITHOUT RUSSIA
    614 3 Hopes of early peace settlement TO&IO, Monday. v huoved by prospects of an eariy formal peace, Japan "red to iccept a treaty without Russia's signature, I P nF L^ heavy financial cost and continual acute "SJLtetffe an Associated Press observer. ■rfHkal le r nt has
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    BURMA'S ROLE IN S.E. ASIA DEFENCE
    152 3 BURMA'S ROLE IN S.E. ASIA DEFENCE .rw r Burma should fSTSS^Tat any joint de--1 s utheast Asia t&t* J been issued rS; 'Burmese I rm, influenu: S^vriung n i r. vent article hCManch^ Guardian sug- alliance be?ro;:r Tr.j.a 3-..r:r.a. Pakistan. v T\^- e fllturo Sjiiy oi th Ocean re- i:
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    JAPANESE DEFY DOLUR BAN
    30 3 1" wi I i be n I ff g \x\zns\ ecu- .:t.v the J me» in with 5■ I rtheless, waj Inl I str as A.P.
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    18,000 APPLAUD MISS TRUMAN
    25 3 daughter, a yes. Imerica'sl g mtdoor :ed sss F M rrij F. -a -La wied bj the' i Orchestra I --:.iar.dy.—
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    N.Z. WELCOMES NEW SETTLERS
    79 3 NEARLY all the 800 passengers who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in the Rangltata on Saturday are people from Britain intending to settle in New Zealand. They included the first draft of 118 Government -assisted immigrants, all single men and women under 35. "Britain wants you,
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    LIN YU-TANG MAKES TYPEWRITER
    15 3 LIN YU-TANG MAKES TYPEWRITER ft Kg derr.o.l- s&i fcr Mn«€ copyist CffSR i: three U.P.
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    'IMMOBILISED' SHIP SAVED
    53 3 PE 9,811-ton British tanker Southern Opal is being towed to Southampton after having been "completely immobilised" in the Channel southwest of Dungeness. The ship which put lines aboard the Southern Opal was the 6,261--t^n Saluta en route from Norway. Both vessels are owned by the South Georgia
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    New deal ahead for US farmers
    293 3 |\R. SliLK.vi/LX E. JoJLISSON, un outstanding farm econoaiU Ist, says the day rapidly is approaching when most of the work on American farms will be done by machinery that is easy to use and care for, writes an Associated Press correspondent from Washington. Then,
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    TWO NEW GEIVERALS
    36 3 Two new Generals appointed in the British Army are Lieut.-Gen. Sir Philip Christison, G.0.C.-in-C. of the Scottish Command, and Lieut.-Gen. Sir Sidney Kirkman, Quarter-Master General to the Forces, announces the War Office. Reuter
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    POSTWAR SLUMP FOR MANILA SPIES
    155 3 MANILA, Monday. A DISPLACED person problem of no small proportions has arisen in the Philippines with the complete lack of rehabilitation for the flourishing ore-war ?t?v industry Dealers in secret information and vendors of restricted military matters have found that Manila no longer offers facilities
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    Last of the braves
    67 3 A RED INDIAN, lons -haired Charlie Longboat, who believed the land still belonged to Redskins, shot it out with twelve "paleteees" when they tried to evict him from his shack at Lyndhurst, New Jersey. i When the police armed with riot runs and tear ns finally
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    MOTHER CAGED AND SHACKLED HER CHILDREN
    201 3 TWO middle-aged brothers, Mar- tin and Clarence Anderson, and their sister Violet had ravenous appetites after they were .reed last week from the shakies and cages in which their 72,yearole mother had held them prisciicrs lor many years. The brothers and sister, who are
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    TRUMAN WANTS MORE MIGRANTS
    40 3 PRESIDENT Truman may ask Congress again for the admission of additional immigrants into the United States. He said he was making every effort to set concrete action on the problem of displaced persons from Europe U.P.
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    NO GRAVE FOR HIM
    36 3 Sexton and verger at Ambleside, (Westmorland) William Robinson, aged 72, dug 600 graves and often said: "Nobody wir ever sweat to dig a grave for me His body was cremated at Blackpool.
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    AMERICA TO SEIZE FUNDS FOR NANKING?
    217 3 AMERICA TO SEIZE FUNDS FOR NANKING? Chinese fortunes in U.S. NANKING, Monday. INFLUENTIAL Chinese express the view that Hifrif help 1 for requisitioning the private fortunes of Chinese matioatf.la deposited in the United States would mean mor e than a substantial loan from the U.S. Government. This belief was voiced
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    HE WILL FISH OVER TWO MILES UNDER
    222 3 HE WILL FISH OVER TWO MILES UNDER pROFESSOR Auguste Piccard, who 6 years ago made a ten-mile stratosphere ascent in a balloon, will decide whether he will take volunteers with him on a new expedition two and a haltmiles below the sea. British volunteers include an exparatrooper from Hammersmith, w.,
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    BULGARS CHEER BRITISH M.P.
    48 3 THE Bulgarian Grand National Assembly in Sofia, in a brief formal session on Saturday, adopted the agenda providing for ratification of the peace treaty. The Communist-dominated Assembly cheered and applauded when the President introduced a visiting left-wing British Parliament member, Mr. John Mack. U.P.
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    The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947. The Sword Arm of India
    638 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947. The Sword Arm of India rE flames of fo"""""* 1 passion are searing the Punjab. Riots which were renewed In Lahore and Amritsar a few days before India attained independence have spread until practically the whole of tils partitioned province is gripped
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    Don Iddon's Diary
    1185 4 1 DON'T THINK THERES ONfc CHANCE IN FIFTY OP MORE AMERICAN AID TO BRITAIN THIS YEAR' DRITAIN'S austerity avalanche has shaken the U.S., but not enough to pry loose any more dollars for many months. To some American ears the new voice of Britain, as expressed through
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    30 NATIONS AT CAUX
    1213 4  -  PETER HOWARD by TIJILTY or innocent u man? This article will at least make me a man on trial. I shall be accused of pushing the barrow for Frank Buchman, of the Oxford Group. So be it. I push that barrow with all my weight and
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    QUIZ
    70 4 These questions are taken from Testerda^t Free Prew and readers should be able to answer them without back: reference. 1. How many nations attended the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation Conference at Geneva yesterday? 2. How did the Royal Label Factory gets its name and when? 3. What
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    Merry-Go-Round
    467 4  -  IAN COSTER by gLACK eyes, bust noses, broken heads are the nightly rule at Harringay Arena. The fault is the public's; they take a completely phoney show too The show is Roller Speedway, in which 12 tough American boys and 12 even tougher girls race around a banked track
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    FAITH
    24 4 Lo UK winter is P>* tiro? of the «nj|! flowers appear oo »T the Ume of «K birds is come. Soni Of Solow*^
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    DUTCH READY FOR MALAYAN TRADE
    602 5 Free tress Staff Reporter pACILJTIES now exist for Singapore importers to resume trading; with ports in Java and Sumatra as the mult of the recent opening of the central sales organisation for agricultural estate products, with head office in Batavia. The organisation, called the "CVO'\
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    BIG BROKEN RICE CARGO
    48 5 Free Press Waterfront Reporter. A SHIPMENT of 1,160 tons of Indo-China broken rice arrived in Singapore yesterday from Saigon by the Messageries Maritimes ship Saraya. The rice is being unloaded in the Singapore Roads. The Saraya is leaving Singapore today for Marseilles via Penang.
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    INDIAN CONGRESS BADGE CONTEST
    147 5 THE Malayan Indian Congress is holding a competition open to all Indians in Malaya to devise a 1 suitable membership badge for the MIC. It is understood that at the first j session of the Malayan Indian Con-' gross, it was decided that all Congress members
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    FROM HOSPITAL TO PRISON
    95 5 Hoh Fook Chuen, who left hospital on Saturday after treatmenX for a broken ankle received when he fell down a ship's hatch in fleeing from arrest, was yesterday sentenced by the Third Magistrate to three months' ri. and six months' police supervision for theft of five
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    132 5 Snapped at the Pakistan buffet party held at the SVC mess last Saturday and given by officers of the Pakistan Army in Singapore, are the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Murray Aynsley (second from right facing camera), and Mrs. Murray Aynsley, Mr. J. A. Thivy. representative in Singapore of the Union
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    PARTY FOR TEACHERS
    28 5 fPHE Mayfalr Musical and J. Dramatic Association has invited all teachers In local Chinese schools to a dinner at their premises at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow.
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    July rubber output ***** tons
    152 5 July rubber output ***** tons i Mala S ESS* m 33^ :cs JSJand 20.407 tons by gfe£ S&w °< j,-j »ns Kingdom and IK JETo! America were ss£*&sr of Malayan i J i l ?,S'tottrth or. the list are jSrtaM*"" and Belgium I |*j,|| however, were f^ihen over-all exports total-
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    EXHIBITION OF NEWSPAPERS
    94 5 AS exhibition ol newspapers *im d parts of the world is H hi heid by the Singapore Ckaese Journalists' Association the Great Wori<i from Sept. 1 to Sept. 3 !r. commemoration of j li JtanriMi Dftj which fall' E fc?: l. Hm chir.ese Journalists 1 A&so- his
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    INDIANS ALARMED' BY SHB SHOOTING
    323 5 R R Jamaahoy. speaking in i tt< Advisory Council yestera.v Trfde a request that the -wrnoient cl.ouid Institute a Jjuc inquiry into the recent i Jjwng aicideni at the Slnga- Harbour Board, in which ladian labourer lost his Ufe was seriously tnEJr*? 0 ld »*t
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    CHARGED WITH CHEATING
    85 5 Alleged to have abetted an attempt to send a forged draft for $10,000 to Hong Kong, a 41 year old Hokklen Ooh Seek Hoe appeared in the Second Police Court, yesterday. He was charged with abetting Man Song Ylt, in the attempted cheating of Messrs Hoe Seng
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    KILLED BY BALE
    45 5 The Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. O. Porter, yesterday returned a finding of misadventure at an inquiry into the death on Aug. 16 of a labourer, TVw Ah Bwee, who was hit by a bale of goods which slipped off a ship's sling.
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    'FLYING KENNEL' LOST $6,000
    302 5 Free Press Correfipofwient MELBOURNE, (By Air Mail). rS Ai»l«rfMw ex-Serviceniea's syndicate whleh took a cano of waich-dogß to Singapore in the converted Halifax bomber "Waltzing Matilda" lost £900 (Australian) or about $6,000 (Malayan) on the trip, ike New Sooth Wales Equity Ooiifi hb told. The main
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    Colony balance sheet promised
    621 5 REPORTING progress made with accounting for expenditure for 1941, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, acting Financial Secretary, Singapore, said in the Advisory Council yesterday that the Malayan unallocated account had been fully worked out on an apportionment basis as at March 31, 1946. "In that state,
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    FOUND FATHER'S RIDDLED BODY
    94 5 A China* youth, Loh Ah Hock, tame acrotf the bullet-ridden body of tail dying father to front of a tempieln Ah Hood, Road while returning home with a friend from a wayang (stage show) Just after midnight on Aug. 16. Inquiring into the death of the
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    PLAN FOR NON-BRITISH TO GET VOTE IN STORE
    237 5 PLAN FOR NON-BRITISH TO GET VOTE IN STORE NR. P. A, B. McKerron, Officer Administering the Government, announced in the Advisory Council yesterday that, to enable non-British subjects to qualify as voters in the forthcoming Singapore elections, he would be prepared to grant a certificate of local naturalisation to any
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    BOOKS CASE
    42 5 Tan Tian Wah was charged in the Second Police Court yesterday with cheating Mr. Oh Thian Siong of $2,200 by failing to deliver 22,000 exercise books. He was allowed bail in $500 and the jase was postponed for two weeks.
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    TRISHA STRIKE LIKELY
    167 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent CINGAPORE trisha pedallers might resort to strike on Sept. 1 as a protest against the Municipal order requiring them to use arm bands. The decision to call this protest' strike was reached at a meetIng of the Trisha Pedallers' Union. The meeting also
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    No rose for his love
    67 6 A DEAD G.l.'s sister has appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court to set aside his last wish to send a perfect rose each week to the ehrl who spurned him. In his will he asked that a rose be delivered every Saturday, and paid for
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    PRICES IN CHINA MAY GO HIGHER
    334 6 Wedemeyer speech revives fears SHANGHAI, Monday. /CHINESE and foreign businessmen express the fear that the L frank "farewell" statement by Lieut-Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, President Truman's special envoy to China and Korea, countering the Nanking Government's hopes for a large American loan, will send
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    PHILIPPINES HEADED FOR SLUMP
    264 6 PHILIPPINES HEADED FOR SLUMP THE Philippine Republic, for more than two years #»n Eldorado for American exporters and local speculators, today faces the problem of a glutted market in consumer goods, including foodstuffs and clothing. After Manila's liberation in Feb. 1945, fortunes were made overnight by Filipinos, Chinese and Americans
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    CROYDON OUSTED
    34 6 Croydon aerodrome ceases to exist as a London airport on Sept. 1 when Royal Dutch airliners the last regular airline left at Croydon transfer operation to the London airport at Heathrow. Reuter
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    Empire cowboy films
    76 6 MR. ARTHUR RANK, the British film chief, will go to Australia next year to find out how Australian film production can be boosted to help beat the U.S. ban. Wild Western movies, in which the cowboys would have English instead of American accents, are likely to be
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    Above the Sacred Mountain
    67 6 Above the Sacred Mountain Six United States B-29's flying over Mount Fujiyama, Japan's famous volcano, during recent training exercises. Jewish extremists in Palestine have called on Jeios the ivorld over to "wage war on the British." Here passers-by in Jerusalem are seen waiting to be "screened" by British troops following
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    'FORCING POOR PEOPLE TO DRINK WATER
    162 6 THE Library of Congress In Washington has acquired a booklet nearly 200 years old that argues against the taxing of alcoholic beverages on the ground that it would force poor people to drink water. Printed in Massachusetts in 1754, and entitled "A plea for
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    NEW AIDE TO KING
    26 6 Air Commodore A. S. Ellerton has become air Aide-de-Camp to the King, in succession to Air j Commodore W. E. Staton. Reuter
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    GANG WARS FLARE UP IN AMERICA
    555 6 GANG WARS FLARE UP IN AMERICA TNTER-GANG warfare and bitter g Un Cash* J eminent agents and dope smueni-r "tifer war levels in the United States. VL? ****•*> nation, after Tirtoal isolation during t eu^7 and coins manufactured in Europe ****<* 3 These two sidelights on th e nation's recom
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    BILLITON TWO OUTPUT HIT BY STRIKE
    143 6 BILLITON TWO OUTPUT HIT BY STRIKE Con r^f«* with ia t irewTji l >:■ nited K£?S an. 463 tO Qj' rf "ll Vu u '>- NlV'-i 1 O:.. the B-lrr. ation nt v pj Ir 'edatSS piUd re, M 1 SJV5 JV to BWfe( C J iabouren i j 4945^,-^
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    COUNTERFEIT TRAIL LEADS G-MEN TO U.K.
    62 6 COUNTERFEIT TRAIL LEADS G-MEN TO U.K. PEOPLE tn Wat 1 1 *efr tn i HR 2 -j G-me:; Fecii r I I^vesigs L,:.c:: invest i< circuiax til ?unt6r'e2 I B R •ts Ya C I.D cie^ afterw: rdU> thej tsltec t)et< head n* > a:cf squad. ni S ii.Qi;!: -*:Jt
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      138 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya THE BLOKE WHO RUMS^^SPILL IT,^i APPEARS THAT a\| f A/UV TV\uV TMF^ Kor THE SIMPLE THE COCICLCBAY HOLIDAY MAF^TRo' Fl /^amfu/uat cuinv tvoc 1 I WHY DOfTT THEYI Hfe simple Vr HM.-ILL OWI "v* l IMfIWIKO. /I l oOMcWHAT SHADY TYPE
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    KASHMIRI SONG A GOOD PROSPECT
    576 7 Distinction For Stayers' Race 1^ Press Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Today. h er maiden win at Ipoh over the live straight, jliree-year^ m|d j^ tomorrow, the second day of 2 nd I think r S Turf Club's August meeting, the lang< L t a nd
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    Rovers To Play in Muar to Sunday
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    EGRO IN BIG LEAGUE
    9 7 ft**? ft**!* 1 otthe A.P.
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    TRAINING FOR OLYMPICS
    10 7 l'**z*&*:™* ln London *A«**i! dered the Reuter
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    DOUBTFUL STARTER
    36 7 Newmarket trainer Marcus Marsh said yesterday that the Maharaja of Rajpipla's Boy Blue, winner of his last three races, has had a temporary setback which may prevent him from contesting the St. Leeer Reuter
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    Blackpool Does Good Gallop
    315 7 Free Press Racing Reporter A_._ KUALA LUMPUR, Today. HEAVY rainstorm broke over Kuala Lumpur this morning and the racetracks were ringing wet and soft when candidates for tomorrow's races were brought out for training. Although it was a day for the final gallops, only a few
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    WEIGHTS FOR TOMORROW
    547 7 BELOW is the card of events, subject to scratching^ and the order of running, for tomorrow, the second day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting. The first race starts at 3 p.m. Bones Claas 1, Div. t— B Furs. |4 4 0 RUN RABBIT RUN a
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    USEFUL B.P.
    129 7 Useful Badminton Party beat Merridale Badminton Party by five games to tnree at the Singapore Clerical Union on Sunday. Results (Useful players mentioned first): Men's Singles: Goh Tian Chye beat Bob Quek 15-4, 15-11; Raymond Prois beat Chan Swee Lam 15-5, 15-7; Teo Boon Eng beat Lau Ming
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    STOKE CITY WIN AGAIN
    223 7 VHE Stoke City team which missed 1 the English Football League first division championship last season after looking assured winners uppeared to be setting the pace in the present campaign. They won at Boston on Saturday and followed this success with an odd goal in three
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    SRO SOCCER RESULTS
    107 7 IN a soccer mach at Fort Canning on Friday Supply Reserve Depot RASC beat H/Q Singapore District by two goals to nil. All the goals were scored in the first half and scorers for the S.R.D. were Dale and Lord. In and their game at the Polo
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    WEIGHTS FOR SATURDAY
    176 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. W SIGHTS for five races on the third and last day, next Saturday, of the Selangor races are as follows: Horse*. Class 1, Dtv. 1, 9 Fan. ROSBWELL*6 BOY 9.07 COURTENAY 8.10 GRAND PRIX H 8.06 WZMOS S.M KPfO6FORD 8.01 MARDi ora)b in Hones.
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    Cricket At Lord's
    29 7 Cdr. R. J. L. Hammond (Navy) snicks a ball through the slips in the match between Royal Navy and the R.A.F. at Lord's. G. O. ALLEN.
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    Malays v Chinese Juniors Today
    214 7 THE Malays will return to the S.A. P.A. league soccer competition today after a six-week break following their fasting month when they meet the Chinese Juniors at the Stadium. Including today's fixture, the Malays have three more games to complete their league engagements against the
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    SIM SNOOT RESULTS
    89 7 nORTY members of the S.R.A. met r on Sunday morning at Seletar Rifle Range for a competition shoot Opportunity was taken to practice for the Colonial Postal Match combined with the fortnightly shoot Results:— 300 500 600 Total (E) Capt Greenfield, R.M. 27 26 SS 86 (T)
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    RACE CALLED OFF
    48 7 The match race between Assault and Armed scheduled for next Saturday in Chicago was called off when Assault pulled up lame ifter a workout on Sunday. Assault is second and Armed third behind Stymie as the world's ill time money winners in horse racing. A.P.
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    MIDDLESEX WITHIN SIGHT GF VICTORY
    312 7 Hants Lead Gloucester rIDLESEX are well on the road to victory against Surrey at Lord's but Gloucestershire, their rivals at lop of the County Cricket championship table, are not dote* so well against Hampshire at Bournemouth. lan Bedford, 17-year-old schoolboy who made his debut for
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    CHANNEL SWIM ATTEMPT
    74 7 Swimmer Daniel Carpio, a Peruvian, has resumed training for a cross channel attempt, and ploughed strongly through Dover Harbour for more than two hours. Carpio, who returned to Dover from Ireland on Sunday night, apparently has benefitted from his rest. After the swim, he said "although I
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    M.C.C. IKVITES TEAM FOR W. INDIAN TOUR
    274 7 THE M.C.C. are inviting the following cricket team to tour 1 West Indies next winter: G. O. Allen of Middlesex (captain) K. Cranston, Lancashire, W. J. Edrich, Middlesex, S. C. Griffith, Sussex, T. E. Bailey, Essex, J. Robertson, Middlesex, T. G. Evans, Kent,
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    BEGBIE SCORE HIS Ist CENTURY FOR TOURISTS
    334 7 DENIS Begbte, scoring his first century of the tour, enabled th< South Africans to gained a firsi innings lead of 30 runs against Essej at Southend yesterday. In reply to the Essex first innings total of 380, the South Africans scored 400 and
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    TITLE FIGHT FIXEP
    27 7 Dado Marino (Philippines), has signed to meet Rinty Monaghan (Ireland) for the world flyweight championship at Harringay Arena in London on Oct. 20.- Reuter
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      210 7 Free Press Crossword No. 176 CLUES ACROSS 1, Black spotted hound (9). 7, Metal used to harden other metak (8). 9, Fashion (3). 11, Wooden tub (3). 12, Study of vocal sounds I £JR > *Tk £>. <*>• lf Wortd Principal source off pyrethrcm (5). 20, Nationality of Amundsen (9).
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    HOME..
    34 8 HOME Modern Pilgrims setting out from Cathedral Close, Winchester, on the start of their pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. These three Franciscan friars are going to tread the old Pilgrim's Way made famous by Chaucer.
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    Lawyer s apology in High Court
    816 8 A SINGAPORE lawyer, Mr. S. C. Goho, made an apology to the President of the Rent Assessment Board, Mr. H E. Kingdon, in the Singapore High Court yesterday, at the resumed hearing of a case in whieh Mr. Kingdon is applying lor leave to
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    'A SHABBY DEAL FOR MALAYA'
    359 8 Free Press Staff Correapouuent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. "COMPARED with other rice-eating countries in Asia, Malaya v is getting a very shabby deal from the International Emergency Food Council and I challenge Mr. Ivor Thomas (Under-Secret&ry of State for the Colonies) to assert th e contrary
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    UNION REJECTS INCOME TAX COMMITTEE
    938 8 Govt studying next move m Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tucscay. CPEAKING after the Advisory Council had defeated yesterday a Government resolution for the formation, in conjunction with Singapore, of a joint committee to consider the Heasman income tax report and recommendations, the Governor
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    52 8 picture. Five baby elephants, recently purchased in Siam for Bullen Brothers Circus in Fremantle, were yesterday hauled on board the Blue Funnel ship Asphalion which left for Fremantle. Picture shows Mr. S. E. Bullen leading the animals to Telok Ayer Basin where they were placed in lighters and taken to
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    TIN SHARES MOVE UP
    544 8 London Stock Exchao* 1 ON'DON M a TTIE majority of today's activitv on th e London 2. 1 change was conducted in British Funds. TW steady improvement in this section, with gains bet» quarter and one point. This wa> bUfety respond!! lieving the dullness of other
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    Races: Order Of Running, Scratchings
    127 8 ORL>iuH of running and scratching* for to-morrow's races at Kuala Lumpur are: Rale 1: Horses; Class 4 Div. 2 6 furs: Snow Goose, Craigmount. Race 2: Horses; Class 4 Div. I—6 fan: No scratch Ings. Rac« S: Hones; Claw S Div. 4 C furs: Equine
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    SIAM WANTS TO CONVERT POUNDS
    48 8 SIAM, which has £16.000,000 In London, is awaiting the end of the British suspension of convertibility to resume negotiations for the conversion of all or part of that amount into United States dollars, a Bank of Siam spok\ man told A.P. in Bangkok.
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    SIAM WON'T HAVE CHINESE ELECTIONS
    173 8 BANGKOK Monday. SIAM will protest against the plans of the Chinese Government to have overseas Chinese vote in the first national elections next October, the Siamese Cabinet decided today. Siam has not yet been approached on the subject, but when an Associated Press report of
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