The Singapore Free Press, 18 September 1947
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Title Section17 1947-09-18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947 PRICE 10 CENT?17 words
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Article697 1947-09-18 1 GOVT. STOPS MDU-PRO DEBATE Decision after Council protest Free Press Staff Reporter J[HE proposed debate between Mr. George G. Thomson, Public Relations Officer, and Mr. John Kber, vice-president of the Malayan Democratic Union, on the motion "that the Singapore elections should be boycotted" will not be held, as the Government697 words
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Article, Illustration70 1947-09-18 1 The Sultan of Johore is seen pinning the insignia of the second class of the Johore Family Order to the breast of Dato Onn bin J a' afar. Prime Minister of Johore. Dato Onn is one of the four state officials who we honoured, with 46 others, on the occasionFree Press - 70 words
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Article186 1947-09-18 1 NEW DELHI, Wednesday. m lndian Information Ministry said tonight that "consi Table killing and looting by Pakistan troops is reportifromacr(*s the border m West Punjab." It was the first iwm* official accusation of its kind. Pakistan troops also have killed and looted while moving through India186 words
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Article46 1947-09-18 1 M-A---- A ne I* m •-I>':- rv:. true -I-'--a— port cc C S ddled RK the States "i.c p sue- u--;-, lilt to L'^V winds i :ies i- atch- auth :vf E -CI merc^ strewn ZJn the i. one ra I A.P.A.P. - 46 words
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Article112 1947-09-18 1 CHINESE ACCEPT WORLEY PLAN llm htm Stai ietortei [OLCNTBBRS t asking j pound sfc and. is tori i il hav< ac|M the mmenda■ib the r.i.r flhiy I ad thai j Ud not be |N m nis ca I :'m- Wt.lt Vi; G toMI IflSw ?:rss this d ming II fai112 words
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Article42 1947-09-18 1 Jame* Forrestal became the United States first Secretary of Defence or. Wednesday, responsible for the Army, Navy and Air fcrces He took the oath of his rew office from Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States.- A.P.A.P. - 42 words
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139 1947-09-18 1 MORE LIGHTS OFF UNLESS PUBLIC HELPS Free Press SUIT Reporter SIX more areas m Singapore may have to go without electricity between six and 10 o'clock tonight, if the 19,000-kilowatt peak load is exceeded. The areas are Jalan Besar, United Engineers, Nassim Road, Killiney Road, Orchard Road, and Dhoby Ghaut-Bras139 words
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Article32 1947-09-18 1 Three Chinese, all armed with pistols, at 8.15 o'clock last night broke into a house m East Coast Road, and robbed the Chinese occupants of $800 In cash and valuables.32 words
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239 1947-09-18 1 LONDON, Wednesday. THE Evening Standard reported today that the British Empire service chiefs have drawn up a plan to defend the entire Empire by "push-button" warfare conducted by an enlarged air force working under a small army of scientists. The War Office has made noU.P. - 239 words
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Article299 1947-09-18 1 Empire tariff breach with U.S. LONDON, Wednesday. A COMMONWEALTH and Empire customs union is now part of the British Government's trade policy, Keutei was told by authoritative sources tonight. Meanwhile, nc attempt is being made to conceal the impression that trade talks with America have broken down completely. Mr. William299 words
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Article99 1947-09-18 1 THE HAGUE, Wednesday. ON his return to The Hague from New York today, Dr. Hubertus van Mook, Lieut. Governor-Gener-al of the NEI, said he hoped shortly for United States financial aid to Indonesia m the form of credits for reconstruction work. He said his talks withReuter - 99 words
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423 1947-09-18 1 WAR CLAIMS SETTLEMENT IS 'URGENT' Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. TN his presidential address to the Association of British' 1 Malaya at its annual meeting today, Mr. C. E. Wurtzburg, formerly of Mansfield Co. Ltd., Singapore, said it would pay the Governments of Singapore and the Malayan Union toFree Press - 423 words
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Article83 1947-09-18 1 -3GMBAY, Wednesday. —An estimated one million persons j have be_en driven from their homes as the flood waters of the Ganges and the Jumna ras:ed 1 across five thickly populated dis--1 tricts. About 950 villages m the northern districts of Allahabad Benare»r Ballia, Jaunpur and BandaU.P. - 83 words
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Article63 1947-09-18 1 I ice Fiess Stan* Reporter I LOYD Valberg, well-known Singapore athbte and champion high jumper, was yesterday, injured m a Jeep accident m Tanjong Pagar and was taken to the General Hospital with facial injuries. Valberg, who Is an officer attached to the Tan'Jong Pagar63 words
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Article1005 1947-09-18 2 MORE BOOKS ON CHINA A Malayan Bookshelf BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE University of California Press are now engaged upon the production of a series of books," under the general editorship of Mr. Robert J. Kerner, to be known as The United Nations Series. The idea of this series is1,005 words
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Article463 1947-09-18 2 Pierre Jeannerat - Pierre Jeannerat by A FREQUENT accusation levelled at living artists working m what has been called an advanced idiom is that they are out of touch with the common man. Yet when the sincere, advanced artist and the common man get together they discover many points463 words
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Article, Illustration35 1947-09-18 2 Broadway singer, Monica Moor?, formerly Nancye Cocking, of Adelaide, photographe/ at her sister's home at Els tern wick, Melbourne. She is there on a visit to relatives after 12 years m London and New York.35 words
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Article, Illustration336 1947-09-18 2 THE contract and declarer's play wer c both over-optimistic. West opened the diamond ace and continued. South winning the second trick. Declarer unwisely took the first two trump leads with dummy's high spades, then had to come back to the spade ace to take the club finesse.336 words
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Article, Illustration400 1947-09-18 2 A PIN-HEAD speck of A dust 75 miles up m the sky can be tracked by radar-astronomers. Tins was described by Dr. A. C B. Lovell, a war-time "Boffin."' at the 'swords into ploughshares" conference of the British Association reports the Science Editor of the News400 words
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Advertisement63 1947-09-18 2 A C C O M M 0 DA TlO^ rr, The TAVERN .lAROPEAN KKSIHIVHAL HOTEL SPACIOUS ROOMS COURTEOUS SEP COOL QUIET LOCALITY. LATEST API)nH)N (oiffevr de Da/nrs American Trained pIJfJJJLfc, I* _J Specialised m lerms. PMWfc >^ n Rl* 7/17. Tanglin Road Opp. Cable TAVERN" U^^L THE ORCHARD DRESS Newly63 words
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Miscellaneous702 1947-09-18 2 vrur>XOAßr Today's Spotlight Bana Eddie Du-dl-NVj/UrUKr. chin; 11 p.m. Talk; 11.10 Celebrity Violinist Jeanne Gautler; 11.15 Blue Network Waltz Time 12 Oft— 2.00 p.m.— 185 metres m the S.E.A.C. medium wave band A 7.22 megacycles RADIO SEAC broadcasting from per second m the 41 metre band. ftA Q Colombo; Ceylon,702 words
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Miscellaneous194 1947-09-18 2 YOUR LUCKY STJ Fortune foRCNt k people born tab? pOK.V today on th* c*H v the M?n. foi aim born during this pemc at likely to have eonflcunr dendes the (haracfnssei Virgo and Libra beins m mixed. V<»u .ire intlintd U ims? m daydr'-anis and m urn hiipinc for the194 words
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Advertisement156 1947-09-18 3 mil Ho iMsSiFir \^l v^^^w x V H^^es^ ift WW Z 4ft SK 1 Kf x^om.-^/ J UIHITERUIRVS EWLY IMPORTED GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES Wardrobe Trunks $175.00 ji Ladies Hurnm Hair Inaoxa Beauty Cases 35.W V s rf~« j 1 JL«aciies v^owon Aiwrtc Cutlery Canteens (^jfa t 14AAA WjUV»o X«TD156 words
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Miscellaneous32 1947-09-18 3 lARZAN Death struggle By Edgar Rice Bturroughs WH L^y T N^ IG AF A TE T R R HI«°"' P^ V Pff^SfLme WENT -A^Srf Z, j, JJk ON BEFORE HIS STARTLEP EYES.32 words
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NEWS
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Article184 1947-09-18 3 CHINA FACES WINTER FUEL SHORTAGE CHINESE Government officials m Nanking: predict an acute fuel shortage m the coming winter, which will further aggravate the harsh living conditions of the people, already made appalling by civil war and inflation, writes Martin Chen, Associated Press correspondent. Transport operators—road and rail— will beA.P. - 184 words
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Article103 1947-09-18 3 PENICILLIN PLANT SOLD BY GOVT PENICILLIN is to be denationalised. The Government has sold its 12-acre factory at Speke, Liverpool, to the Distillers Company. Ltd. From Dec. 1 the plant, with 400 workers, will operate as a free enterprise. It was built during the war at a cost of £1,250,000.103 words
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Article68 1947-09-18 3 WITH the Battle of Britain anniversary fly past still fresh m the minds of an audience at the Chiswick Empire cinema m London had another reminder of air raids when a large panel of plaster from the ceiling crashed into the balcony and stalls and injured 1568 words
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Article, Illustration444 1947-09-18 3 'AID EUROPE' MENACED BY INFLATION Ill -W T .4 Marshall plan may be debated by Assembly NEW YORK Wednesday JHE Truman Administration's two chief measures for checking Communism and rebuilding Europe— the Truman doctrine and the Marshall plan— are due for an airing m the United Nations General Assembly nowA.P. - 444 words
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Article80 1947-09-18 3 THREE men and three women 1 magistrates failed to agree when two doctors differed at Hatfield (Herts; and a fresh hearing was ordered for Lt. Col. Ernest Marshall, 36, of Cove, Parnborough, holder of the 0.8. E. and five times mentioned m dispatches, who denied driving underReuter - 80 words
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Article31 1947-09-18 3 The red ensign flown by the Mauritania during the war is being placed m the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral m memory of 35,000 merchant seamen who lost their lives.31 words
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109 1947-09-18 3 AUSTRALIAN CUTS U.S. FILM PROFITS 30% F) m fellas*. Uistratia baa "^gesicd US. film t«i xiJ -i :ii- s: fr a; m Australian •>: cii ion r *'as said ie Canberra Qfeistft netted oy which cc Pmne Minister. Mr. Chifley, kin h ctf bf per cent, the iij$ v< sterhug109 words
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Article59 1947-09-18 3 'THOlj.^'.Lio >i Kasukabe cowns--1 pecp^ m erecuns temporary dyjes :r. n eflon lc aten HoodMnl atom nortr. ol Tosio as toe aofflda] 101 l ol doad and BLis.ni; ::r,rd 2 230. MeaavhUe. storm damage has mnqwrtedtrom 15 prefectures. ■Wni'mnuij ISO.OOC homes have ten inundated ar damaged, lar:fcigA.P. - 59 words
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Article22 1947-09-18 3 iraaips who arriv< .r. ShrewsE f-^f fter the last r b r sent 10 the ea Wellinirton ReuterReuter - 22 words
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209 1947-09-18 3 MANILA police were reported on m Tueadiy to have opened a strong new attaok on Hukbalahap dtvoßghokls m the Candaba swamp, 25 miles northwest of Manila, m an effort to break up the peasant concentrations now reforming after their reverses earlier m the year. SevenA.P. - 209 words
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Article62 1947-09-18 3 ANEW type ot motor ricksha never before used m the Far East is scheduled to replace the present hand-drawn conveyances on Hongkong streets. A sample vehicle is due to arrive shortly from the United Kingdom and will be tested by the Police Department. Ricksha fanners have expressed their62 words
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Article84 1947-09-18 3 SOVIETS SLOW TO DESTROY WARSHIPS WORD is awaUed from Moscow about the German warships m Russia's possession which were to be sunk or broken up under the Three-Power agreement. During the Moscow Conference Mr. Molotov was reminded that some of them, notably the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the heavy cruiser84 words
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Article143 1947-09-18 3 BRITONS will get 20 new clothing coupons, not quite enough for a suit of clothes, on Oct. 1 for the next five months, the Board of Trade announced yesterday. It takes 26 coupons for a man's suit, seven for shoes or a shirt, seven toA.P. - 143 words
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Article54 1947-09-18 3 Ten thousand gallons of milk are being flown daily from Northern Ireland to Liverpool and sent to milk shortage areas m South and East England. Milk is being sent m answer to an appeal by the Ministry of Food to alleviate shortages following the scorching of pastures54 words
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Article59 1947-09-18 3 FREDERICK Mysbergh, Dutch .T manager of an American brokerage firm who was sentenced m Shanghai to nine years' imprisonment last May for having violated the currency regulations, has appealed to the High Court. His petition alleges that the High Court received and "sceretly considered" a statement59 words
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Article39 1947-09-18 3 Mr. L. M. Macßride, a former foreign editor of the "Daily Herald," succeeds Air Chief Marsha. Sir Philip Jcubert de la Ferte as chief information officer at the Air Ministry at the end of the month39 words
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315 1947-09-18 3 IT has taken six year* almost to the day for the story of the courage of Richard Bernard Pape, former Warrant Oftw of the R.A.F.V.R. whose home is a* Leeds (Yorkshire), to become known. The London Gazette, announcing the award of the military315 words
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Article47 1947-09-18 3 RUDOLF Costello, 21, spent 6s. on a ticket to the observation tower of the Empire State building m New York. Guards stopped him when he threatened to jump off and forced him to return to the ground. Then he demanded his ticket money back.47 words
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Article84 1947-09-18 3 ALLIED headquarters officials m Tokio announced that four nations will receive a total of 19,561 items of machine tools and secondary metal equipment m the first allocation of Japanese reparations. The machinery, from 17 GovernI ment-owned arsenals, will represent about 28 per cent, of the arsenal84 words
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Article73 1947-09-18 3 NOKRASHY PASHA. Egypt's Premier and chief delegate to the United Nations Security Council, has left New York by air for Cairo. Meanwhile, Egypt's demands for the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt and the Sudan, and for the ending of the present joint rule mReuter - 73 words
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Article26 1947-09-18 3 Over a hundred people are suffering from poison believed to be due to eating cream buns at Crieff. Perthshire. One man has died. ReuterReuter - 26 words
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Article67 1947-09-18 3 AMERICAN servicemen stationed m the Philippines during the war sired and abandoned at least 1,100 illegitimate children, according to James E. McCall, manager of the Philippines War Relief Society. Mr. Mac Call said the total may be more than 2,000. He said the Society hopes to raise $50,000A.P. - 67 words
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677 1947-09-18 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. SEPT. 18, 1947. Indian Tragedy THE ugly tragedy of events m the Punjab is being put on a new and still more distressing plane. Gandhi's warning that there may be war, and the accusing message which Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan has sent to Pandit Nehru,677 words
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Article, Illustration1084 1947-09-18 4 RALPH IZZARD - RALPH IZZARD by THE Calcutta Miracle will have a chapter to itself when the history of Mahatma Gandhi's life comes to be written. It is undoubtedly one of Gandhi's greatest achievements, and for many years to come I can picture the young disciples now gathered round1,084 words
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Article1189 1947-09-18 4 POLITICO - POLITICO By rILE ffiec c experts are agreed that the rice eating population of Asia will remain on short commons for at least another three years, Singapore and Malaya have turned down a scheme that would guarantee this country all the rice it needs. Th c1,189 words
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Article, Illustration43 1947-09-18 4 Bagshot Park, Surrey, one. home of the Duke of Connaught hat b.un home for Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten aftn n S' s c 'te >• ber, following the disastrous fire which all but destroyed Sunning!* I p 7'• ai? n -ttj. j43 words
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Article600 1947-09-18 4 CHINAS FIRST ELECTION AFTER months of pains-taking preparations China is ready to hold the first general election m her history. A total of 36 provincial and municipal electoral offices m the country have been set up, the Government has appropriated 97,000 million Chinese dollars (approximately £800,000 at the official open600 words
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Article57 1947-09-18 4 A;, nnCIAL rs-awj indripm 10 th Um:ed S ta:s som< pail f th< dry Z I ineth i stiii peer \;i tn \> .suffl ier/h s rK Whou i vi ds c "L ver Cr. s h.'in; .■-3 tin a aght Bu a li k€ IS mues lor57 words
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Article, Illustration394 1947-09-18 5 DISPLACED JAVANESE BEING ROUNDED UP DISPLACED JAVANESE BEING ROUNDED UP A menace, says S'pore CID chief Free Press Staff Reporter THE Police are now rounding up Javanese displaced persons in Singapore, and have drafted an initial batch of SS able-bodied Javanese into the Municipality as grass-cutting and drainage labourers, theFree Press - 394 words
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Article, Illustration19 1947-09-18 5 SAW I. PnL-. Sultan of U;- ir i m Sultan cv: hIS :r a-s raised n r Royal Famili19 words
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Article55 1947-09-18 5 Rubber outputs during August are reported as follows: Alor Gajah Rubber Estate 22,000 lb, Ayer Panas Rubber Estate 81.000 Ib, Gleanealy Plantations 59,000 lb, Kluang Rubber Company 59,000 lb, Pa jam Limited 179.000 lb. Tambalak Rubber ■sUtefl 28 069 lb. Teluk Anson Rubber BBUtc 80,155 lb, Ulu Benut55 words
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Article194 1947-09-18 5 S£?.EMi S HDSAL m Singa- Ban ns is storti hon the r. Sen vn ::e: m X I M trea niag a survey rrime In iSeobilac Dublishc i la the.:'. v. townliocui i- r:.~-.s from Serem- Aei Hrn east suod west >: aHma lines m< I riave i: oy194 words
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Article61 1947-09-18 5 A petition by Constance Alice Hale for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband, Cyril Clement Hale, on the grounds of his adultery with Betty Lawrence, wa« dismissed by Mr. Justice Brawn m the Singapore High Court yesterday. After hearing the evidence m support of the petition,61 words
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Article203 1947-09-18 5 Free Press Staff Reporter FOLK hundred Dutch men m Singapore are looking for land m Tanglin to build their own clvb the 'Hollandsche Club." Failing Tanglin area, they are prepared to have their clubhouse by the sea, if premises and land are available. Mr. N. Bessem,203 words
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453 1947-09-18 5 NON-INTERNED VOLUNTEERS AN the advice of the Governor-General, the Secretary of v State for the Colonies has directed that the Singapore and the Malayan Union Governments accept the recommendations of the Worley Commission on back-pay for volunteers and gratuities for the Passive Defence Services. Special453 words
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112 1947-09-18 5 THE RAF Red Cross plane which was due to hop off from Jogjakarta to Singapore on Tuesday, had to postpone its flight till the arrival of a rew tyre from Singapore. A flat tyre, the lack of a spare and compressor were the cause112 words
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Article226 1947-09-18 5 THREE hundred and eighty-six Chinese repatriates from Hong Kong, Amoy and Swatow have arrived m Singapore by the Norwegian ship Hiram, and are now m quarantine. The repatriates were m charge of Dr. Ho Chun Chang and two nurses, Miss Tse Pek Lim and Miss Susie Lee,226 words
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289 1947-09-18 5 JAP MACHINE TOOLS FOR STORE FIRMS Free Press Staff Reporter CINGAPORE, with other territories m South-East J Asia, will receive machine tools from Japan as part of Japanese reparations. The Singapore Government has submitted a claim through the U.K. reparations team m Japan for 270 machine tools, and will know289 words
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149 1947-09-18 5 GRADUATES TO CHANGE NAME OF ASSOCIATION INSTEAD of the name of Stam--1 ford Club, graduates of Raffles College m Singapore prefer that the association should be called Raffles College Alumni Association. The club will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Oct. 18 at 5 p.m. to approve the change of149 words
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Article151 1947-09-18 5 k 74-YEAR-OLD Chinese woman, A Lian Tham, pleaded not guilty m the Fourth Police Court yesterday to housebreaking at a shed at the 223 8.0.D. on Sept. 15 m order to steal five cases of soap and 126 ground sheets. Lian, who had bound feet,151 words
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Article94 1947-09-18 5 THERE will be three delegates 1 from Malaya to the council meeting of the World's YWCA to be held at Hangchow, China, from Oct. 15 to Oct. 27. The three delegates are: Mrs. George Blunn, President of YWCA Malaya, Miss Mabel Robertson, Secretary of YWCA,94 words
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Article537 1947-09-18 6 CHINA MAY BOYCOTT JAPAN TALKS U.S. worried over Nanking's motives TOTTED -States Administration officials m Washington U are showing increasing concern over Indications that China may join the Soviet Union m the boycott of the 11--nation preliminary Japanese peace conference suggested by the United States, reports United Press. Such indicationsU.P.; A.P. - 537 words
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Article24 1947-09-18 6 British actor Frank Lawton. ex-Major of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, has been awarded the American Legion of. Merit.— ReuterReuter - 24 words
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137 1947-09-18 6 'Hero suspected of D-Day betrayals A MYSTERIOUS Frenchman, alleged to De implicated m betrayals of British and Allied intelligence agents that probably deferred the D-Day Normandy landing, is to be questioned by a French military judge. He is Commandant Pierre Cu--lioli, former member of the French Section of M.1.5 at137 words
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Article, Illustration38 1947-09-18 6 More than 120 cars of all types and ages were seen when tne tv yul Automobile Clttb held its Cpncours d' Elegance at London's Regents Park. Here, two charming competitors are seen m an ancient 1911 model Swift.38 words
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Article95 1947-09-18 6 rE Key. E. G. Falconer, 90--year-old vicar of Old Newton, near Ipswich, who declared he was the oldest clergyman m the Church of England and was entitled to reverence and respect, was ordered to nay 15 guineas rales and costs at Stowmarket (Suffolk). The Rev. Falconer, who* wasReuter - 95 words
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208 1947-09-18 6 MR. CHARLES F. THOMAS, manager of the Shanghai branch of the National City Bank of New York, told the National Foreign Trade Convention that the enthusiasm of American industrialists during the war for trade with China had been "chilled" by what they have seen sinceA.P. - 208 words
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Article80 1947-09-18 6 The Tokio Diet reconvened on Monday after a two weeks' recess for what is expected to be a n argumentative and politically important session. Forty bills aacr c still pending before legislators and another 30 are expected to be introduced during the remaining 35 days of theA.P. - 80 words
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Article34 1947-09-18 6 While Tom Pike, a diver, was working m Portland (Dorset) harbour, a large fish kept snapping at his hands. He surfaced, baited a hook and caught an 18 lbs. conger eel.34 words
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Article, Illustration70 1947-09-18 6 Seven fegt six inches. 25\ stones Ernest Evans, of Ashford (Middlesex), goes out shopping with his mother with the 100 extra coupons he gets each year from the Board of Trade. Ernest can't get socks, shirts or underwear to fit him. His shoes and suits are specialty made and cost70 words
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247 1947-09-18 6 4 LANCASTRIAN airliner, converted from a war- time bomber, which roared off de Havilland's aerodrome at Hat field (Herts) on Monday cast a racing shadow on the future. The former bomber was powered by two de Havilland Ghost jet motors on which Britain bases247 words
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Article64 1947-09-18 6 Britain's largest trade union, the Tracspor. and General Workers Union, with a million and a quarter members, endorsed Sir Stafford Cripps' export programme on Tuesday. The Union's Executive Council adopted a resolution pledging the full support of the ir.embers of the Union m the all-o.it productionA.P. - 64 words
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Article187 1947-09-18 6 SIR Kenneth Brand Harper, aged 56, has been appointed chairman of the £49,000,000 Burmah Oil group to replacv the 69-year-old retiring chairman, Mr. Robert I. Watson Sir Kenneth has been prominent m Burmese affairs since he was chosen to put the European^ point of view187 words
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311 1947-09-18 6 WATCH ON PORT FOR GIRLS WITH 'PAID' HUSBANDS rpHE British Home Secretary Mr ru WH A a special watch to be kept' at all b. brought into Britain for a nlarr Ji 1 > to obtain British nationality r The Aliens Branch of t ne Horr, a* Scotland Yard, are311 words
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Article64 1947-09-18 6 A Pan-American Clipper woo I trans-Atlantic race against I i airliners of two ether com; < yesterday with a packet of I acid for critically ill two-and-a-half-year old John O'Brien, m a radio offioer at the airport 1 1 packets were given to three fcirJ n captains64 words
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Article58 1947-09-18 6 F*VE Gem* 1 -■>' taaefN tiooch tJj as sk y •r > 'i Customs gften m the st;^.s* at Teni^^rS*! Prisoner* li 5 iithin'JS ne district S^ 1 rs w to taSfl i:> smugS camp. tubes fromof 2 a condenser wj The ingredieoti m blackberries which JJ ;r ;158 words
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Article101 1947-09-18 6 THE 2>r.. ra. >w. vm HAr tindstafi fc| I N vemt -r till with tw< trades reachajflj A:r Ministry oiaa 3 tn< :r^v rehaaa Si r j Grwg Silt] less and fitterMl i h Gn -p h ases I Viif.fi m the same peri>: r.L Gl ip 62. Officers101 words
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Article38 1947-09-18 6 U'ITKIN 14 IMB tm W of Canadian pricew prta ffl urroficWpßj wires stenw .v- ;t nr.c buy vi vhat foodttifj id prices. G»* [ling ws* e jLl ■nment to ■■i s r bretfl ~-f 1 rj ReuterReuter - 38 words
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Miscellaneous111 1947-09-18 6 Jy\^|£ Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya i aujmwii'f j i, »-y~|— 1 y M |i LI /"-^*7* f i A^v^c |d ntKc f AoK rflm TO 1 -*«<o 1 VniA W' «»Cn W**ii A r Vt< I I CCT ljiaj CACC V ■r**-!^ a. .gfl < M!S<111 words
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991 1947-09-18 7 ifyo Goals Shared With S. China i» N Our Soccer Reporter 1: South China 1. fi p IU been football of the highest r played at Jalan Besar Stadium ,r |L| South China, scoring in the third iru N u: h a one-all draw by991 words
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208 1947-09-18 7 Sing Tao Lose After Scoring First Goal THE Sing Tao Sports Club of Hongkong were beaten by Bromley by three goals to one m a soccer match played m London yesterday. At half-time the teamed were level, each having scored once. Sing Tao cpened the scoring after 10 minutes, aReuter - 208 words
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417 1947-09-18 7 Archie Quick - Archie Quick From A MID a welter of record golf scores and Compton cricketing records, it was good to relax the other day m the carefree atmosphere of the theatrical garden party and watch England Test stars of yesteryear attempting to revive their glorious417 words
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Article134 1947-09-18 7 MIDDLESEX wound up a great Reason by becoming the second county m history to defeat the Best. Only Yorkshire (twice) had previously been victorious m such a match. A handful of spectators watched the last day of the 1917 cricket season, which lasted only 50 minutes.134 words
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Article40 1947-09-18 7 DULIP Bose, Indian Davis Cup player, returned to England from Switzerland on Monday and, accompanied by another member of the Davis Cup squad, Ghaus Mohammed, will leave for home m the liner Strathxnore on Sept. 25. I ReuterReuter - 40 words
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Article187 1947-09-18 7 Free Press Racing Reporter Ipoh, Today. HEAVY rain which fell last night and early this morning made the going very heavy and only the sand track was used for fast gallops. A few of Saturday's runners were given their winding-up gallops, while the majority had187 words
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Article, Illustration45 1947-09-18 7 pictures. Pictures taken at yesterday's soccer shoxo (above) Hove, the Singapore half, getting the ball back to Aitken just ahead of Tin Kee and (below) South China goalkeeper Kioan Hon and Ah Yik after their collision ten minutes before the end.- Free PressFree Press - 45 words
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Article455 1947-09-18 7 Free Press Racing Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. JOCKEY Flannery rode superbly to bring home two rank outsiders Golden News ($105) and Missouri ($7O) at Ipoh today, the second day of the Perak Turf Club's September meeting. Riding honours, however, went to Wiilly Bagby, who rode three winners,455 words
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Article55 1947-09-18 7 THE Scottish team to meet Ireland m an international soccer match at Belfast on Oct. 4 is: Miller (Celtic); Young (Rangers), Shaw (Rangers); Macaulay (Arsenal), Woodburn (Rangers), Forbes (Sheffield Utd.); Waddell (Rangers), Thornton (Rangers), Delaney (Manchester Utd.), Steel (Derby County), Liddell (Liverpool). The side willReuter - 55 words
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Article329 1947-09-18 7 ITNBEATEN since the opening day of the English football season, with six wins and a draw to their credit, Preston North End, two-one victors over luckless Stoke City at Deepdale yesterday, join Arsenal as leaders of the first division table! The London club take prideReuter - 329 words
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248 1947-09-18 7 TWO HAT-TRICKS IN SELETAR CRICKET COMBINED Changi and Seleter met at V Seletar over the weekend m what was intended to be a two innings match, but owin* to rain on Sunday morning only a first innings decision was possible, Seletar claiming the honours by 41 runs. A feature of248 words
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Article130 1947-09-18 7 CPLENDID combination by the d forwards enabled the 59 Coy RAP. to defeat the Jollilads by three goals to two In a game rf soccer played at the SRC ground on Tuesday. Flory opened accounts for the airmen off a penalty ten minutes after the start. A130 words
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Miscellaneous316 1947-09-18 7 Free Press Crossword No. 193 1 VTI |s~~] i|* 5 I 6 I I CLUES ACROSS 1, Jester's wand (6). 5 and 8 Down, U.S. area east of Rockies where practically nothing will grow (3, 5). 7, Lowest deck of ship with three or more decks (5). 10, White ecclesiastical316 words
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Article, Illustration13 1947-09-18 8 St. Albert's Abbey with the river m the foreground (Travel Association picture.)13 words
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Article111 1947-09-18 8 THE Soviet repatriation vessel Ilyich has been denied entry into Shanghai and will be "detained" if she forces her way into port, it was officially announced m Shanghai yesterday. A special detachment of Chinese military police has been despatched to Woosung (entrance to Shanghai), whereReuter - 111 words
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Article315 1947-09-18 8 Free Press Staff Reporter A S a result of intervention by the Representative of the A Dominion of India, Mr. John A. Thivy, the hanging, scheduled for this morning m Outram Road prison of the five Indian soldiers convicted of mutiny on Christmas Island m 1942,315 words
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Article202 1947-09-18 8 REPRESENTATIVES of nine unions, meeting yesterday at the MDU premises, Singapore, decided to form a Fedewttton of Government and Municipal Servants' Unions. The meeting was initiated by the Singapore Teachers' Un4on. Those i present represented about 3,500 workers. Unanimous approval was given to a resolution202 words
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Article68 1947-09-18 8 MAHATMA Gandhis doctor during his visit to London for the Indian Round Table Conference 14 years ago, Dr. C. L. Katial has been appointed factory surgeon for the City of London— the first Indian to hold this post. Dr. Katial, a former Mayor of the London borough ofReuter - 68 words
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Article43 1947-09-18 8 AN outbreak of polio (infantile paralysis) of record proportions m some localities is indicated latest European statistics. Britain, Germany. Austria. Belalum arid Sweden seem hardest hit. France. Italy. Czechoslovakia the Netherlands and Denmark have also reported cases of the disease.— A.P.A.P. - 43 words
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Article160 1947-09-18 8 DONNEVILLE Salt Flats (Utah), Wednesday. Though he achieved his ambition to become the first man to exceed 400 m.p.h. on land, British racing motorist John Cobb said that his Raiiton car did not reach its top speed m its record-breaking dash yesterday. After the requisite160 words
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Article277 1947-09-18 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Wednesday. IN the Astana Besar today, His Highness the Sultan of 1 Johore, Sir Ibrahim, approved the creation and title of Sultana for his consort, Lady Ibrahim after the Mental Besar Dato Onn bin Ja'afar, had asked the Sultan277 words
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Article61 1947-09-18 8 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. ■THE Jewish ufKtefgiouttd nght- ers of Haganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi have come to grips m earnest m Palestine m recant weeks, the latest dash causing two general alarms m Jerusalem on Monday night. Polite sources unofficially corroborate the theory that civil strife betweenA.P. - 61 words
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Article705 1947-09-18 8 Plan to limit use of veto NEW YORK, Wednesday. MARKING the opening of an American diplomatic offensive against Russia m the United Nations, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, addressing the second day of the General Assembly, m a speech bristling with censure of Russia and herA.P.; U.P. - 705 words
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Article, Illustration34 1947-09-18 8 The Treaty of Alliance bett r kirk (France) earlier this v rcr^. ;isuBritish Foreign Office m I a reign* Secretary. Mr. Errv > «ci thfS} bassador, M. Rene Ma^ U* tion or m. C tk^34 words
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Article127 1947-09-18 8 CEYLON MAY CUT RUBBER SUBSIDIES COLOMBO, Wednesday. THE Ceylon Government is contemplating the withdrawing of subsidies to rubber producers because of the drain on revenue from rubber exports. The Government has been buying rubber at 65 Ceylon cents per pound for top grades, with corresponding adjustments for lower grades whenU.P. - 127 words
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Article431 1947-09-18 8 London Stock Exehaij A PROMISING start »as made ft!*? A London Stock Exchange bul lh *2«Jl again disappointed, says i fi nancia] 7^ Tuesday's decline m British 1 urn!* w d s follow*?? 11 all-round improvement amounfing to thro* point for Consol and freasurj 2 wReuter - 431 words
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Article245 1947-09-18 8 U.S. FORCES MENACED AT TRIESTE TRIESTE, Wednesday. YUGOSLAVS and Americans were still disputing the boundary of the new free territory of Trieste early today, after Allied troops had completed their withdrawal yesterday from the new ItaloYugoslav frontier provisionally established by the Italian peace treaty. Under the treaty, Trieste and theReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 245 words
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Article86 1947-09-18 8 LONDON, Wednesday. mHE Government and coal union 1 officials failed to reach an agreement today on a solution to the long drawn-out issue of overtime m Britain's mines. However, a joint announcement on the meeting .between the National Union of Coalminers said: "Considerable progress towardU.P. - 86 words
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Article218 1947-09-18 8 ATHENS, Wednesday. ¥X>LLOWING a two-hour session of the Greek Supreme Defence Council, attended by the chiefs of the American and British Military Missions, it was officially announced tonight that the strength of the Greek Army would be increased pending approval of the United States as furtherA.P. - 218 words
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Article35 1947-09-18 8 mi |f*cfttel£* per* No J K>> Jf H I Mm I* n R>S f<* i, t hata Oft M B^S --I ■Vns prices at^ peri S'< J B S S *H I kW n.»mil^35 words
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Miscellaneous12 1947-09-18 8 STORE HIGH TIDE£ High: 12 51pm. Lo W 6.50 am.; 654 p.m.12 words
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