The Singapore Free Press, 29 August 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Freee Post LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA FGFG SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTK.
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    GUNS TO PROTECT TRAINS
    53 1 Railway travel m central Macedonia is no easy matter m these troubled days m Greece. Here is a passenger train, haul:ru; an armoured car mounted om a wagon at the rear, at Kilkis station on the SalonlkaAlexandropoiis "escape route for refugees from the districts bordering Yugoslavia.—
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    MAN JURY AT SHB SHOOTING INQUEST
    88 1 MAN JURY AT SHB SHOOTING INQUEST 1 pnaa S ««i 1 i into th« i 1 br Board a tg. 2 The i i strik SKB i i tided by i r SHB La r i it Wdt S t: Mr A *■> n nquire I* a vhat ■oa bla
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    JAP GENERAL TO DIE
    30 1 A Japanese major-general was sentenced to death and seven other Japanese received jail sentences ranging from three to 30 years m Yokohama yesterday for war crimes.
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    MILLION FLEE FROM PUNJAB
    454 1 MILLION FLEE FROM PUNJAB Mountbatten off to Lahore A MILLION people have been torn from their homes m the Punjab m two weeks of ferocious rioting. Casualties may total a quarter of a million, many of the victims being children only a few weeks or months old. Agency reports from
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    RUBBER CHIEFS ATTACK GOVT
    185 1 tree Press Stall Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. STATEMENTS by the chairmen of two Malayan companies m reports issued today both make the point that, as i potent ially large dollar earner, the rubber industry shoulc receive greater official recognition. Sir Francis Voules, m the Gordon Maiaya Rubber
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    M.D.U. DEFENDS BOYCOTT OF ELECTIONS
    122 1 M.D.U. DEFENDS BOYCOTT OF ELECTIONS THE decision of the All-Malaya j Council of Joint Action and Putera to boycott the Singapore elections was "democratic and proved so by its overwhelmine: success.* 1 declared the Secretary of the Malayan Democratic Union. Mr. Eu Chooi Yip, yesterday. He was replying to the
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    ONLY RAIN CAN SAVE EUROPE'S CROPS
    243 1 LONDON, Thursday. BRITISH officials say that unless rain falls soon, near-famine conditions will exist over wide areas of Europe again this Winter. The worse drought m 50 years has damaged all crops m Germany, with potatoes specially hard hit, while the harvest wheat crop
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    COMMANDS ARMY OF PAKISTAN
    35 1 COMMANDS ARMY OF PAKISTAN Gen. Sir Frank Messervy, commander -in- chief of the Pakistan Army, who is taking part m the defence talks now proceeding at Lahore, centre of riie icorst communal rioting m India.
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    WANTED MAN HANGS HIMSELF
    116 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A YOUNG Chinese detainee, Tan Ah Koay, hanged himself this morning m a Singapore C.LD. cell, following his arrest last nignt A police spokesman said that Tan Ah Koay was arrested m connection with about 20 cases, including two murders and a
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    Dutch accept U.N. mediation
    237 1 THE HAGUE, Thursday. THE lmuU ca&nei ha^ utcided to accept the good offices of 1 the United Nations m Holland's dispute with the Indonesian Republic, tin? Netherlands Press Agency stated tonight. A Labour source said that two Cabinet sessions had been needed because the Catholics had
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    STOP PRESS
    149 1 The Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, intimated this morning that the Government would like the Advisory Council's last word on income tax by the middle of October. A special meeting of the Council will be called then "at which the policy of income tax will
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    ATTLEE TOLD HE MUST BE MORE DRASTIC
    641 1 ATTLEE TOLD HE MUST BE MORE DRASTIC LONDON, Thursday. •THE powerful Federation of British Industries tonight urged I the Labour Government to "cut deeper and remove the cancer". The Government, it said, should make still further cuts m imports, and impose higher taxation if necessary to curb inflation. This advice
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    TWO KILLED IN R.AF. CRASH
    50 1 BOTH occupants— pilot and navigator—of a Royal Air Force Dakota were killed yesterday when their plane circling to land at Mansion R.A.F. station crashed m a field at nearby Woodchurch Kent. Eyewitnesses said the aircraft fuel tanks appeared to explode on impact with the ground.
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  • FOR WOMEN...
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      SOFT SHOULDERS SMALL WAISTS
      878 2 From Barbara Stevenson TRISTIAN Dior, one of the rising younger Paris dress designers who created a sensation with his "line" silhouette last Spring, has done precisely the same thing m his current Autumn and Winter collection. His new collection adheres basically to this siihouette soit shoulders,
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      Rare Plumes
      55 2 Women have utilised many things to wear on their heads and no amount of harsh words will dismay them about their choice of headvvear. The expensive plumes of a rare bird have been assembled by Laddie Northbridse, one of New York's top-flight milliners, and used as a frothy
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      THE USE OF LIPSTICK
      295 2 By PENELOPE WILLIAMS QXCE it was the vogue for women to appear painted. Today, the exact opposite is true. Make-up of the mouth and cheeks, both employing red should be applied sparingly. It is bt' r to use little thag too much. loi lac gaol is
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      Costumes Banned
      81 2 BEAUTY m clothes has won what might be called a Curves vs. Clothes preliminary conu-st for the title of Miss TeignmoHth. The town's publicity tommittee first asked candidates to send m photographs of themselves m bathing costumes. Hot only «rere entries very few but the question of modesty
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      97 2 fortune tow* i peu; ft-:- BOIJN t.tdav JJJ ihmi* and succeed luweKjJ ..i' ntalio and ll! done m record tin*. mm being D<>;'i and *«U cess and mone? at til" 1 possible moment H wealth v»u wiii uin;^; It Inirn m humDi- stanfp^ w' l?: >1,,f) v«.u from rca^ 2««,al
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      34 2 Left: Navy and white striped dross with a draped hiptine irorn with a navy straw pill-box hat and, riffbt, a white crcDe dinner dress with wide tucks. Both dresses are designed by Norman Hartuell.
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      294 2 WHAT do you lead with West s cards? It is usually bad policy tx> load an ace against a slam bid particularly m a suit which has boon bid and rebid by the dummy. Even if declarer does not rufl the opening lead, you will be setting
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      GERMAN GIRLS FOR BRITAIN
      268 2 pERMAN bride-to-be ll will be going to Britain m greater numbers after this month. Extra staffs are to speed up the granting of visas and a welter of documents will be scrapped. New branches of Berlin's passport control office are to open m Hanover, Dusseldorf, and
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      723 2 9fMPAPni<F News ii Pro- in Music Prankie Carle Guy Lom-ji-Mom unr gramme Summary; 8.2.) Friday bardo; 10.45 Australian News; iiT.uk; Blue Network m:— "Scheherazade" by Rimsky- U.05 Australian Singer oi the Day— 12. 00 -2. uo p.m -485 metres la the Korsakov; 9.30 News; 9.45 Talk: oy John Brownlee; 11
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      22 2 I QUIZ Answers 1. 13-year-old King Faisal oi Iraq. 2. Prof. J. D. Cockcroft. 3. More than 20: ori Guam, Western Pacific.
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  • NEWS ...
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      U.S. air arm in Europe weak
      231 3 rt1 r military air support of its land occupacomposed of a minor number of fighter s -weary B-17 bombers (now used only for and liaison) and some transports. hat the overseas deployment plans S War Department last winter to have i Eur t t
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      JAP PRODUCTION LAGS DUE TO COAL SHORTAGE
      88 3 JAP PRODUCTION LAGS DUE TO COAL SHORTAGE JAPAN has reached an industrial production level only one-third of the maximum permitted by the Far Eastern Commission, SCAP economic officials report iri Tokio. This output is only 15 to 20 percent of the country's peak wartime production m 1943. Shortage of coal
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      25 MARKETS IN TOKIO GUTTED
      60 3 MARKET areas m Tokio have been placed under heavy ?>iani at nights by police and insurance company representatives pending cancellation of all existing fire insurance contracts between markets and firms, a move caused by the Increasing number of fires m Tokio's markets. Eight fires m
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      Across Pacific on raft
      75 3 A VOYAGE across the Pacific on a 50ft. raft haa been made by Cmdr. Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, and five companions. They left Peru on April 28 and have landed safely on Raroia reef m the French Tutmosn group of Pacific Islands, having drifted nearly 4,000
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      43 3 The ruins of an Arab house at Petah-Tigva, Palestine, which was blown up by Jewish terrorists. After killing four Arabs, who were sleeping outside the house, the terrorists placed explosives inside the house, kiliing another seven Arabs, including a woman and four childre?i.
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      CHINA NOT TOLD OF U.S. PROTEST OVER DAIREN
      136 3 CHINA NOT TOLD OF U.S. PROTEST OVER DAIREN THE Chinese Government has no official knowledge of the United States second protest to the Soviet Union over the continued delay in reopening Dairen, Dr. George Yeh, administrative V ce-Minister of Foreign Affairs, t<r!d a press conference in Nanking. In accordance with
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      ESCAPE CLUB' IN DARTMOOR
      159 3 AN escape club has been discovered among 150 long-term convicts who were transferred t 0 Dartmoor three months ago. It was established that they have been planning escape on a rota system. Whoever gets out is told to make for London and set up hidden dumps
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      NATIVE UNREST IN SOLOMONS
      69 3 npHERE are signs of open disA turbance among the native population on Malaita Island m the British Solomon protectorate by a movement popularly known as the "Marching Rule." The Acting High Commissioner Is flying from Suva (Fiji) to investigate. The "Marching Rule" is a jungle organisation
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      PEER LOSES MEMORY
      34 3 Twenty-four hours after he had disappeared from Victoria Station, London, Lord Strathspey, one of the oldest Scottish chieftains, was found and is now m Acton Hospital suffering from loss of memory.
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      WARNING OF NEW TREND IN BURMA
      382 3 Bureaucratic racket and monopolies' COMMENTING on the organisation of a rice monopoly by l> the Burmese Government and th c rumoured plan for other monopolies m the trade m principal commodities, the Manchester Guardian m a leading article sounds a warninthat Burma is apparently
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      47 3 Lenin and Stalin look down from the facade of the Russian c\,mmendatura m Gorlich (Silesia), on the ''other side of Germany's iron curtain:' This picture was taken by one of the few foreigners who have been allowed to travel m the Soviet zone of East Germe ny.
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      SCIENTISTS WANT END TO SECRECY
      179 3 BRITAIN'S leading scientists have been warned by the presii dent of the British Association for J the Advancement of Science, Sir I Henry Dale, to watch resolutely l for any encroachment by official I secrecy on peaceful activities. Sir Henry told the organisation's annual conference
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      MACMAHON BALL SUCCESSOR
      47 3 MR. Patrick Shaw, an Australian 111 Department of External Affairs official, has been appointed to head the Australian Mission m Tokio m succession to Mr. MacMahon Ball, who resigned last week. Mr. Shaw, who recently returnod here from Nanking, leaves for Japan today.— Reuter
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      CZECH PREFABS FOR BRITAIN
      40 3 THE first of 500 prefabricated permanent houses made m Czechoslovakia will arrive m Britain next week to be erected m the London area by Czech workers who will teach the process to Bri- workmen.—R tish Reuter
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      SOCIAL WELFARE
      30 3 Princess Achraf Pahlevi, twin sister of the Shah of Persia, has arrived m New York by air from London for a month's study of the Uni system. Reuter
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      TOJO OPENS HIS DEFENCE
      233 3 IN the face of increasing economic and military pressure from Britain, the United States and Holland, the movement of Japanese troops into southern French Indo-China was "an appropriate measure of national defence," Premier Hideki Tojo said m an interrogation read to the International Military Tribunal for
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      Work 'scandal' at the palace
      69 3 THE Ministry of Works, replying to a Drotest from the London Trades Council on work at Buckingham Palace, said it was being done because the Palace was an administrative centre. The secretary of the C ouncii has been instructed to tell the Ministry of its
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      BRASS BAND VICAR
      26 3 Rev. J. W. Court. 85. vicar of Widdingtor. < Essex i for 61 years, is retiring. He has been conductor of the village brass-band
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      108 3 keepT/omo in* Mftk is frequently scarce and more often still, unsafe. What a Comfort it is and what a Convenience then to have a tin of DOMO on hand Here Is a really safe milk of unquestioned purity, always standardised without any of the seasonal variations to which liquid milk
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947. The End Of Wait & See
      681 4 The Singapore Free Press FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947. The End Of Wait See a NNOUNCEMENT yesterday of A cuts in British rations, the banning of private motoring and the suspension of holidays abroad ends three weeks of -wait and see" which followed Mr. Attlee's crisis statement in the Commons. Bad
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      PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS
      1464 4 PEOPLE IN S'PORE MAKE NEWS IN Singapore, where she will open a gymnasium and dancing school for women next week, is Mrs. WILLY BLOK HANSON, onetime student at the Hil-lerau-Laxenburg school m Vienna where she studied the art of movement. Mrs. Hanson, who was born m Java, took lessons mi
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      What A Raffles Student Saw
      445 4 What A Raffles Student Saw By Gwee Kirn Guan, Senior B, mi n the Rafflesian, the magazine of Raffles Institution. THE other day, we were given a chance to witness the monthly meeting of the Singapore Municipal Commissioners m the Municipal Building. This was the first time the public was
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      GENERALS AND POLITICS
      611 4 GENERALS AND POLITICS THE impending resignation of General Eisenhower as U.S. Chief of Staff and the possibility of General Mac Arthur making his long delayed triumphal return from the wars has touched off renewed speculation m America over the possibility of one or other of these military men running for
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      27 4 Mr. Robert Tan and his lovely young wife i jij; an H well-known for his love and sponsors/iip „j lr T^ dass ltal MRS. WILLY BLOK HANSON
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      83 4 QUIZ These question* are taken from yesterday's Free Press*. See if you can answer them without bads reference. 1. What boy-King is going to school in O.K.? 2. What is the name of the chiel of the British atom station a* Didcot. in Berkshire? 3. U.S. Army officials say that
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  • LOCAL NEWS..
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      65 PER CENT OF PINE PACK IS EXPORTED
      318 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent +m Governments have increased, by gradual p, L Ma». v ex tab j e q U( >ta of canned pineapples to 65 I staged t k rhe f^ q UO ta granted for free export rl ent l
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      MALAYANS DO WELL INBRITAIN
      20 5 MALAYANS DO WELL INBRITAIN a passed k Brst tudentl I Bst tad star bin Sal oga- crei t the recent
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      86 5 f n:s rninatlon bjainea md v College r. r m I Oxfcni Dd kindred t Ho Guan Hai, wlM> get -.v v.: London das tssed sab- c j t■- repreT Ueg€ and D Iminton. j vaci tioo U at m I 'ftm c T V. 51 Who r 1 during
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      TRADERS TURN TO AUSTRALIA
      42 5 TRADERS TURN TO AUSTRALIA i per- United T' *nada mtii appeal n S gapore their < mc e E T rt( ire I of j t les fe [JJ rol ited r -a sterda; onl WBttteSS -V-' lye. tthere^S i mi Australiar nth
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      87 5 uut r, :ne Japanese occupat: several loyal Burmese assisted British and Allied prisoners of iter with food and shelter, One of these loyal Burmese helped six Allied PoWs to escape fin m the Japs, doing so at great risk to himself and his family, l >r the Japanese wav of
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      CHANGI RED CROSS WORKER HONOURED
      69 5 CHANGI RED CROSS WORKER HONOURED f ••>• the i 1> r V ,ix -5 aißecl t 4n she I was attached to Second A.G.H. mKantara (Suez>. Her husband, Captain Boyd Moriarty was killed m Greece. She was later appointed Ausral£ n representative m the Middle East, where she met reP
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      96 5 Full of smiles and charm were these Chinese air hostesses of the China National Aviation Corporation Skymaster which touched doion at Kallang yesterday from Bangkok m the course of a Shanghai- Batavia survey flight. On the le4t is Miss Elizabeth Lan (21) tf*e other is Miss Alice Dung (22-). Both
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      FILL MOON PRAYERS
      44 5 Full moon day which falls on Saturday. Aug. 30, will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple, 96, Outram Road, by the staff of B. P. Do Silva. Ltd. A sermon will be given by the Italian Buddhist priest. Yen. Lr>knrsatha.
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      MALACCA MALAY IS JAILED
      91 5 MALACCA. Thursday. "It was nothing but a reward for services rendered to this woman's husband," said a former Malay gaol warder, Momoor, who was charged today before the Jassin District Judge, Mr. E. A. Burton, with obtainihg three sums of money ($lO, $20 and $15) from
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      STOLE PENS
      58 5 Two 30-year-old Indians, S. Gopal and S. Sinnasamy, who pleaded guilty to stealing two fountain pens each valued at $3, from the Kelso Victory on Wednesday night, were defendants m the TJiird Police Court, yesterday. Gopal was fined $25 or a week m prison and Sinnasamy a week's
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      CURRENCY INQUIRY IN MALAYA
      306 5 CURRENCY INQUIRY IN MALAYA Free Press Staff Reporter TO study baniung and currency I conditions m Far Eastern countries, two representatives of uhe Commonwealth Bank of Australia passed through Singapore on their way to Hong Kong. They were Mr. F. R. Wood and Mr. R. H. Star, Central Bank officials
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      WOMAN FREED
      93 5 The Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. H. W. Nightingale, yesterday, released a 22-year-otd Tamil woman Uthiri who was charged with the theft of jewellery, valued at $60, the property of Chinatihanrbiy, at Johore Bahru, on July 3. Mr. Nightingale said he would make no order under the Fugitive
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      AUSSIE COURT TO TRY JAP GENERAL
      222 5 Free Press Correspondent HONG KONG, (By Air Matt). MAJOR-GENERAL Shoji Toshishige, one of the three Japanese unit commanders who led the assault on Hong Kong Island m late December, 1941, has been flown to Singapore to stand trial before an Australian War Crimes Court.
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      NEW MUNICIPALITY PLAN 'RETROGRADE'
      253 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. THAT the Singapore Municipal Commissioners had taken a retrograde step m recommending only a one-third elected constitution was reiterated by Mr. N. A. Mallal, a member of the Laycock Committee, yesterday. Mr. Mallal, commenting on the Commissioners' recommendations, said that the Laycocfc
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      MALAYA CHINESE POLLING IN OCT.
      283 5 Free Press Staff Reporter (JHINESE in Singapore and the Malayan Union will shortly go to the polls to elect nine delegates to represent them at the Chinese National Assembly at Nanking. They will also elect two members for the Chinese Legislative Yuan to represent the
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      CHINESE JAILED FOR THREAT TO ABORIGINE
      148 5 CHINESE JAILED FOR THREAT TO ABORIGINE SEREMBAN, Wednesday. Yong Fook was sentenced yesterday m the Negrl Sembilan Assizes to three months' rigorous Imprisonment lor criminal intimidation of an aborigine (nbal chief. It was stated before Mr. JusticePretheroe that Yong had suspected his hill woman wife of misbehaving with a hillman.
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      URGENT PRIVATE CABLE SERVICE
      90 5 THE Singapore omce of Cable and Wireless announces that urI gent private telegram service will be re-introduced m Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Colonies Bank, who told the Free Press m The majority of other countries already admit urgent private telegrams, but a notable exception
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      RAF RECRUITS
      48 5 Malay youths m Singapore are coming forward m large numbers to join the RAF Regiment, and it is expected that the colony's quota will soon be filled. Photo shows recruits signing up with the assistance of an interpreter. Recruiting is progressing throughout Malaya. Free Press picture.
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      5 FINED FOR OPIUM PIPES
      65 5 Five Chinese, i rotan and chick shop employee, a hospital labourer, a squatter and two vegetable gardeners, who all pk-aded guilty In the First District Court yesterday to the possession of opium— smoking apparatus, <>n Wednesday, said they needed the opium to relieve ailments. The
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      88 5 MALAYA'S FINEST 5 VALVE SET MODEL W^M 461 A.C. 5 Valve-Plastic Cabinet Walnut Shade for A.C. Mains Short Medium Wave We have stocks of new COSSOR models arriving shortly and we are clearing our small remaining stock of the above model at a a-i r/"V# (SINGAPORE) special price of t)>l_^U/-
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  • NEWS...
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      Britain's recovery is menaced T.U.C URGES HIGHER COAL il OUTPUT
      397 6 Britain's recovery is menaced T.U.C URGES HIGHER COAL il OUTPUT HTIIE British Government's coal production target of 20,, 1 million tons for 1947 as laid down m the Government's Economic Survey is sufficient to meet only minimum r» quirements, states the report of the General Council of lite Trades Union
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      U.K. AVIATION STORM CENTRE
      313 6 U.K. A VIA TION STORM CENTRE nrtlE crash m Britain last weekend of the Avro Tudor II a*r--1 liner while taking off on a test flight has renewed the controversy over these Tudor aircraft, which have been the storm centre for criticism m British aviation for the past two years.
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      Death sent fair's takings up
      61 6 A FUN FAIR owner, Mr. Stanley Thurston, said at a I. ii ton inquest that business increased on "The Atomic Thriller" the day after a man had stood up m one of the car* while it was whirling round and had fallen out. A verdict
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      UNP LEADS IN CEYLON POLLING
      130 6 THE Ceylon United Nation Party, which includes all the Ministers and most of the members of the former Ceylon State Council, are leading their nearest rivals, the left-wing Sama Samaj Party, m the Ceylon general election, according to the latest results declared m Colombo. They
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      DEATH FOR 138 JAP WAR CRIMINALS
      49 6 A total of 756 war crime suspects were tried under Australian jurisdiction up to Aug. 5 and 524 were convicted and sentenced 138 to die, reports Reuter from Tokio. Crimes included murder, cruelty and torture and starvation of Allied personnel and native civilians.
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      Britain's largest so far
      41 6 Britain's largest so far Britain's largest airliner so far completed, the Avro Tudor VII. is seen here taking off on her trials. Fitted with four Bristol Hercules engines, the plane will fiy above the iveather at 300 m.p.h. carrying 40 passengers.
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      LADY BARRAN DEAD
      31 6 Lady Barran. wife of Sir Rowland Barr-an. former M.P. for North Leeds and Vice-President of the Federation of British Industries, has died m the Bournemouth nursing home.— Reuter
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      HUGE CLAIM FOR WARTIME INVENTION
      134 6 /COASTGUARD Joseph Sampson \j (52). of Port Isaac (Cornwall) is claiming £500.000 for "Mulberry Harbour" inventions. Giving evidence at Somerset House, London, before an investigation committee of the Royal Commission on Awards, he told the chairman that he invented the flexible roadway of Mulberry Harbour
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      Czechs repel 'invaders'
      195 6 Czechs repel 'invaders' /CZECHOSLOVAK Government troops have killed 22 Benv derovici, a disciplined group of about 20,000 anti-Ku^sian Poles and escaped German SS prisoners, vho were terrorizing the "no-man's-land" between Poland and Czechoslavakia, the Prague Radio reported. The Czech Government had ordered the troops into action against a group of
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      THEFTS INQUIRY IN BURMA
      65 6 The Burma Government set up a committee to Inquire into 'large-scale thefts r. Q ernment departments, esr* the Civil Supplies Departm- Qt An armed "striking force" ol tb Burma police had been detailed I take immediate action on i:. committee's findings, and an peal has been
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      CLAIMS DESCEN FROM MIDAS
      261 6 IN an eight-room sixth floor Rome, lives His Imp-rial 1 Byzantium, pretender to a thn also be, as he says, the heil I wealthy ancient kings. His family tree dates back to King Tevero of Phrygia m the 15th century, B.C., and indu I such ancestors
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      EDINBURGH AS CULTURE CENTRE
      86 6 CHINA, France, Belgium. Hoi land, Norway, Rumania, Uruguay and Sweden were among the nations represented at the inauguration of the first international festival of music and drama to be held m Edinburgh which is making a bid to becom* the cultural centre of Europe. Crowds lined
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      CAIRO THREATS TO FOREIGNERS
      60 6 Threatening letters, many ot them signed "The Black Hand have been sent to Cairo representatives of countries which did not give unqualified support to the Egyptian case m the Security Council. Owners, agents and managers of many Brazilian, Belgian and Chinese companies have received letters threatening
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      Nazi legion franco Spain
      35 6 Nazi legion franco Spain r MTI U STATES Am, J I rankiuri EtlM ins partkriad] :q Genut; feii P- itl K. U rep-.n ien;^ to j fi.rm^r fj^ pi I hat b.f Hoaic struct Uen.-4I
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      PISTOL THREAT TO SKIPPER OF CHINA SHIP
      50 6 AiEsi m I jkippcr km Z fft H| 1 S CfcasSE anchor- :--r.:.'i •I Shanghai 4B Sirr.'Xi: S! r r--- D?:^ 2 40! i ted westSigß river rt^ rs a nd vm*i failed t budpJJ war 1 tests— aJ lor nose > S"
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      ELECTIONS VIOLATION
      28 6 ELECTIONS VIOLATION THE Prime Igji wernii i P^f V S S$3 act vi a t0 £*r^ TtlS^i N ftcial r^w.^ had b. ci KW! vCj an siam reserf/
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      RECORD ATTEMPT POSTPONED
      21 6 RECORD ATTEMPT POSTPONED motorisi r world todflprfjjl mile: perjioiff 11 tro I es >n iU fHS tIXBC hour R' l ??L-^^i
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      66 6 SEA VIEW HOfl Dinner and Dance nightly 8 p m E *nf« Moraine: Musical Pahit* 11 am tvery n 8 p.m. and as a si** < lT \l\E GALA SOIREE KAPOLtTANjJ Concert Dinner and Dane* ru«**»- InunorUl Masfcr dl^ n a VEBDI Wi^ lD<rf t# pvccini v >^; v^ g;
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      122 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya GOODNESsN/T CAN SOON FItN f\ SAID YOU W€R6 A "\^y WELL, SO You CAN-FROM^V^ YOU ANtT\ YOU APPEARED, I YOU OUT WITH A I MANNE^UIN^ SO YOU'O \^T f n<E «NSIOE!— MOST OF MY V GEORGIE HAVE eric. I—They've1 They've k
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      SOUTH CHINA TO PLAY 3 GAMES HERE
      471 7 SOUTH CHINA TO PLAY 3 G AMES HERE y e Wai Tong Son In Team By Our Soccer Reporter 1 1 Athletic A^ociation Football team, capM 0 ?w china's m*»>t famous footballer, Le c Wai Tong, a p re early next week and will play three g, Sept. 10 and
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      In Bangkok Stadium
      40 7 Picture above shoics the South China team photographed with a Bangkok side before the start of a game m Bangkok's splendid Stadium— an example fur Singapore. Below are Lee Wai Tonq and his son, Lee Yuk Tack.
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      KENT SAVE FOLLOW-ON
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      HAROLD DADE BEATEN
      21 7 THE SiX-tO-one un :> r.; S.rr. >r. rgera I Panama, w c a splil from WOT] H it Lo=
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      SUNDAY'S FIGHTS MAY SETTLE 2 DISPUTES
      485 7 i>\ Our Boxing Reporter Ol M).\Y S boxing card at the New World arena, in which >^ Filipino welterweight Baby Baltazar will meet Australian tvelterweighj Leo Heaney, and flyweights Khoon and Little Abayan clash in the semi-final, may* settle two arguments. Ilie first argument
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      HOME FOOOTBALL RESULTS
      70 7 HOME FOOOTBALL RESULTS FOLLOWING are the results ol i and cup i tball matches B ye m lay THIRD DIVISION (Southern) N C .<,...'. I-...C.. N Hrtiiaui; i. Torquay Utd. Notts C unty 1 Bou] uth 8v T n 3 Watford Wi i ton Orient 1 I EIIRD \>l\ ISION
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      AUSTRALIAN DAVIS CUP TEAM IN TOP FORM
      80 7 THE Australian Davis C\.p team I a: top form and will have no excuses if It loses to the "United States In the final r :r.d of ihe Dav:.s Cup matches bf-^'ir.r.inc tomorrow, captain Roy Cowring said. He Is confident the Australians will
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      K.L. RACE CARD
      595 7 BELOW are the fields, subject to 00 0 HELEN THE FIFTH 5 8.05 scratching?, for the third and 00 0 GOLD CHAIN 4 8.05 last day's races of the Selangor Turf 0 0 0 FAVOURITE a B.oi Club August meeting tomorrow. 0 0 3 EL ALAMEIN 5
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      WINGS, INVEST AND SOME, CLASS BEST
      743 7 WINGS, INVEST AND SOME, CLASS BEST Tomorrow's K.L. Races Free Press Racing Reporter KUALA LUMPUR, Today. TOMORROW'S card at Kuala Lumpur for the la^t day of the Selangor Turf Club's August meeting i s exceptional]} interesting with three nine furlong races. The handicapping has been very well done and, with
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      SING TAO GO DOWN 5-1
      294 7 AFTER holding the Athenian League to a one-ail score if half-time, the Sing Tao Spores Club of Hong Kong laded out m the second half and were beiten by five goals to rat on a bone-hard ground at Barnet yesterday. As m the first game
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      YACHTING VICTORY
      29 7 Two Americans, Ted Weils and his wife, won the international i championship for Snipe class yachts at Geneva, with 8.000 points. Twelve nations were re- presented U.P.
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      CHRISTMAS LOOKS CERTAINTY
      80 7 tree Press K.mnji Reporter. KUALA LUMPUR. Fri I TRAINER van Breukefen gave his 3 horses useful pace work on a heavy track at Kuala Lumpur this morning. I Invest, Christinas and Blackpool j were particularly impressive and I should be forward runners tomorrow, Christmas looked every inch
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      MIDDLESEX CHAMPIONS
      304 7 dy defeating Nor hampion.-hire at Lord's yesterday and currying off the county cricket championship, Middlesex regained the honour for the South of England after a lapse of 26 years Middlesex wepe the last southern c unty to hold the champi oship. Alter the firs' great war Yorkshire won
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      86 7 NEW WORLD ARENA ■*•>. SUN. 31st AUG. AT S3O PM. jL KOH KIM LIN nUESENTS RETURN Hk un.TFKWEir.HT CONTEST UCI BALTAZAR I )E F E ATED LEO HEAN EV I JBf LEO HEANEY J| v DEFEATED SIMA SOMPON'Oi dßfa- 10 3 1 Rounds £f MOK KAI KHOON \Ai LITTLE ABAYAN
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      127 7 j MUNICIPAL ENGINEERS < BADMINTON TEAM A TEAM oi five singles and two doubles will bo selected from the following players to represent the Engineers 1 Dept.. Branch of the Singapore Municipal Services Union against the Raffles Institution in ai return friendly badminton match on, I Saturday at 2 p.m.
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      224 7 Free Press Crossword No- 1 79 I II I I (r CLILS ACROSS l. Mankey-bread tree >6>. 5, See 1 dcwn 7. Aquai;c tottOfiM (6). 9, Civated by the Czech author Kard Capek <b>. n. Swiss rivet flowing to Rhine (3), 33, English queen of Danish birth >9>. 14, Scotch
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    ASTAIRE & BING IN GOOD FILM
    102 8 ASTAIRE BING IN GOOD FILM LAST nighc Paramount Distri- butors in Singapore screened a press show of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," which is coming on at the Cathay next Tuesday. Musically-minded low-brows, fans of Astaire. Bing Crosby and Berlin, should be well satisfied with this film. There are songs aplenty,
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    10 MILLION BRITONS 'MUST EMIGRATE'
    111 8 10 MILLION BRITONS 'MUST EMIGRATE' OTTAWA, Thursday. AUSTRALIA'S Immigration and Information Minister, Mr. A. Calwell, said m Ottawa today that Britain must part with 10,000.000 surplus people to prevent "starvation and suflocation." "Britain never can starve herself back to security and prosperity since her economy can only support 35,000,000," he
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    GOVERNMENT EVENING CLASSES RAFFLES INSTITUTION
    120 8 The third term witi start on Moday. Sept. 15th. New classes will be started In Bookkeeping and Typewriting only. A few vacancies for students already possessing some knowledge of the subject eidst m the following classes:— Bookkeeping. Shorthand, Typewriting, Electrical Installation, Plumbing, English Language Radio
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    SINGAPORE TURF CLUB.
    26 8 As from Ist. September. 1947. the Singapore Turf dub Town Office will be situated at SINPAGORE CRICKET OLUB BUILDING. Entrance: St. Andrews Road.
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    21 8 UftU Canberra, Capital of Australia, where delegates from the British Commonwealth are Hllmb m discussing policy on the Japanese Peace Treaty.
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    Ban on Japan arming urged
    352 8 t CANBERRA, Thursday. r.EGATES to the British Commonwealth conference on the Japanese peace treaty today urged the banning of [til Japanese arms construction, including the building of aircraft and warships, and atomic research. An official communique issued from Parliament House ufter the talks said that
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    TOJO BLAMES HIROHITO
    69 8 ORDERS for the attacks on Pearl Harbour, Singapore Hong Kong and the Philippines were issued directly by Emperor Hirohito as "Commander-in-Chiel of the Army and Navy, on the advice of Army and Navy chiefs of staff," ex-Premier Hideki Tojo said in an affidavit at the Tokic War
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    DOUBLING GERMAN STEEL
    182 8 LONDON, Thursday. THE United States and Britain have won France's conditional agreement not to oppose the Anglo-American plan to raise the German industrial level, in their two zones, a tripartite communique disclosed tonight. The communique, summarising the results of the six-day Anglo-American-French conference in London, said the
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    33 DEAD IN NORWEGIAN AIR CRASH
    109 8 OSLO. Thursday. A NORWEGIAN Airlines flying- boat, with 27 passengers and six crew men aboard, crashed south of Harstad. near Ajellsund in mountainous northern Norway. A spokesman of the Airlines said that all the passengers and the crew were killed. The spokesman said that
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    INDIAN FORCES LEAVING JAPAN
    49 8 Oslo. IN the second phase of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Japan, the 5th Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment will sail from Kure aboard the Strathaven tomorrow, and the 1st Battalion and 5th Mahratta Infantry will sail on the Devonshire on Sunday. A.P.
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    ARAB BUS BLOWN UP
    24 8 Seven persons were injured. two seriously, when a grenade under an Arab bus at he Damascus Gate, Jerusalem. /esterrrav Reuter
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    Arabs hint at action against Jews
    211 8 Arabs hint at action against Jews LONDON, Thursday. A WARNING to the British GovrL ernment that Arabs m Palestine may not hesitate much longer to go into action for the protection of their lives and property was given today m the editorial of the Arab news bulletin, Issued by the
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    'USSR MENACES CHINA-SUN FO
    326 8 I THE Soviet Union menaced Cr Japan did at the time of 1931, Dr. Sun Fo, Vice-Presiden iernment, stated at Canton in s I ment-controlled Central News He said that Japan's Manchurian Incident was fanned inside China only by a small number of "willing pro-Japanese collaborators"
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    RSYC CLUBHOUSE RE-OPENED
    129 8 ABOUT three hundred members and guests attended the reopening of the clubhouse of the Royal Singapore Yacht Club last night, the ceremony being performed by the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, who Is also Commodore of the club. The restored clubhouse was decorated
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    .U.K.- EGYPT TALKS PLAN IS REJECTED
    388 8 UNO deadlock: New proposal NEW YORK, Thursday. rHE Security Council today rejected, by a margin of one vote, the Brazilian resolution to send the Anglo-Egyptian lispute back to private negotiations. Egypt is dema diag he nullification of the 1936 Angio Egjpaan treaty and the
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    20 8 Te'su TercdQ, chairman of v participating m the ffround-brea b iy ])lantcd memorial tr^cs m G r. the atom bombing
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    London Stock Exchange VERY QUIET AND STEADY
    454 8 London Stock Exchange VERY QUIET AND STEADY AFTER Ihe early marking do Government action to com markets settled down today U other days this week, nameh eralry steady. Motors. Oils and Restaurant shares were a little difficult to deal m following the announcement, but little actual Rllins transpired and the
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    S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
    73 8 S'PORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY A.sf! LAI Market furred givi* the price? o\ 1& II a.n. tadtf as folio* Bo«n 0 ptt f loo**? ominal m r,.t- W N« 2 M j n, itei v No 2 Lfefi M 1,,,,.. f Dull SINGAPORE (Sl*" 1 (OMMtRCE tion> i ai noon W*
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    PARTITION PLAN FOR PALESTINE
    23 8 PARTITION PLAN FOR PALESTINE yuMrrrff Pa. 'fX&s^ reported uii'fl the G y ,i:> transiaon peri^,^^ tionin* >- Pf^fbert^ and U ita* 81 ou* U.P.
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