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1947-09-20
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Title Section19 1947-09-20 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA \o^ SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 194 V PRICE 10 CENTS19 words
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Article364 1947-09-20 1 SHOOT TO KILL ORDERS IN INDIA Death for all 1 7 7 law breakers NEW DELHI, Friday. AN ordinance issued today by the Governor-General of India, Lord Mountbatten, empowers any commissioned orj non-commissioned officer! of the army and air force to shoot or otherwise kill any person acting m contravention364 words
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Article, Illustration44 1947-09-20 1 On Thursday afternoon, Mr. C.H. Abu, President of the Malabar Muslim Jumaat. at a meet' ing of representatives of six Indian Muslim associations, handed over 1,000 completed registration forms to Mr. G. Hawkins, Supervisor of Elections (pictured here receiving the forms from Mr. Abu.)44 words
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Article30 1947-09-20 1 Charles Jenkins, 23, and Christopher Geraghty; 20, convicted of murdering Alec de Antiquis, a passerby who tried to halt them after a London hold-up, were hanged yesterday.— U.P.U.P. - 30 words
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Article125 1947-09-20 1 EUROPE RACES TO CRISIS PARIS, Friday. :!L r c representatives of 16 nations of western Europe > agred on thcr Marshall proposals report, many m n v predicted that American aid would not me 1:1 tec 1 > prevent economic collapse m some parts of mto :.::u much mure seriousA.P.; Reuter - 125 words
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Article30 1947-09-20 1 N R aci which is week for E Rt np. waa re- n ling, j I -d to 1 ISIDW speed although! g jet been com- j30 words
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Article122 1947-09-20 1 LONDON. Friday. AUTHORITATIVE White hall sources said today that South Africa may place her entire gold put at Britain's disposal to help relieve the Empire's dollar shoitage. South Africa's annual gold output exceeds 12,000,000 tuncea equivalent to £105,000,000. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. HughA.P.; Reuter - 122 words
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Article34 1947-09-20 1 The C.I.D. yesterday arrested an Indian who had 23 British-type hand grenades at the 12th Mile, Sembawang Road at 7.45. Another Indian was also arrested dn connection with the same offence later.34 words
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104 1947-09-20 1 LONDON, Friday. THE value of British -exerts dur- ing August was £93,^00,000— 16,700,000 less than m July. The visible adverse balance of trade increased from £64,700,000 m July to £76,800,000 m August. A Board of Trade announcement today said the fall wasReuter - 104 words
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Article86 1947-09-20 1 AN appeal, particularly to Singa- pore shopkeepers, to cut out lighting of such places as windows and five-foot ways, was made this morning by the Deputy Electrical Engineer, Mr. RA. Waddle He said that with more co-op-eration tonight, the experience of Friday night when the86 words
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Article26 1947-09-20 1 President Truman arrived at Norfolk (Virginia) on Friday aboard the battleship Missouri after a 12 day cruise from Rio de Janeiro. A.P.A.P. - 26 words
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Article247 1947-09-20 1 RANGOON, Friday. BURMA has already completed shipment of her export quota of three quarters of a million tons of rice set for the season ending Sept. 30. Burma will have exported 800,000 tons by the end of the month. An official of the Agriculture DepartmentReuter; A.P. - 247 words
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Article422 1947-09-20 1 NEW YORK, Friday. rPHE Soviet Byek>-Russian delegate, Mr. Kuzma Kiselev, speaking m the United Nations General Assembly today, repeated the main points of M, Vyshinsky's attacks yesterday on American "war-mongers.** Referring to what he called American wrecking of the Atomic Energy Commission's work, he declared:Reuter; A.P.; U.P. - 422 words
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Article52 1947-09-20 1 AN article m the Armoured Cavalry Journal, unofficial American military pufilication, declared that reliable authorities estimate that "Russia could probably invade and occupy the whole of Western Europe against the resistance of present American and British troops m Europe m a matter of 48Reuter - 52 words
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Article37 1947-09-20 1 A howling tropical hurricane, with winds up to 90 miles per hour, smashed through hstoric New Orleans yesterday battering down frame buildings and leaving a heavy trail of damage ia its wake. A.P.A.P. - 37 words
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276 1947-09-20 1 JOHORE SITE LIKELY FOR UNIVERSITY Free Press S4»# Correspondent LONDON, Friday npHE Commission on Higher Education, m its report now x with the printers, will recommend a full university for Malaya omitting the stage of a university college, I learn from informed sources today. These quarters expect that the site276 words
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Article30 1947-09-20 1 Tbe State Council of China yesterday confirmed th e appointment of Mr. T. V. Soong as Governor of Kwangtung province. Canton is the principal city of Kwangtung. U.P.U.P. - 30 words
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Article117 1947-09-20 1 SULTANA 'PROUD AND HAPPY' Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. IN her suite at Grosvenor House, the newly-proclaimed Sultana of Johore, Lady Ibrahim, told a representative of the newspaper Star that she was very proud and happy at receiving from her husband, the Sultan, intimation of the official conferment of117 words
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Article93 1947-09-20 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Singapore C.I.D. last night arrested three men who were caught m the act of attempting to extort money from two Chinese brothers m a house m Teluk Ayer Street. The two brothers were listeningin to the radio when the three93 words
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Article52 1947-09-20 1 FOUR Chinese robbers, three of whom were armed with pistols, made a haul of $2,000 m cash and jewellery from a flat above a shop m North Bridge Road at 6.30 p.m. yesterday. The robbers also took away 200 Dutch guilders. They had surprised their victims who were52 words
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Article453 1947-09-20 2 GORDON van HIEN - BOOK NOW FOR FESTIVAL GORDON van HIEN By "THIS other Salzburg demi Paradise," Shakespeare might have written had he attended this first Edinburgh Festival. Pen can hardly put to paper all the good things there are to be said for this magnificent enterprise. Malayans likely to be on leave next453 words
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Article224 1947-09-20 2 FIGHTING THE NEXT WAR By A Special Correspondent /CANADA'S Sons of Freedom believe that World War m is just around the corner. To prevent it, they started a tiny civil war of their own a few weeks ago. Fanatical offshoots of the Doukhoboxs, Russian religious sect which settled m Western224 words
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Article, Illustration384 1947-09-20 2 lONEL TERTIS is one of the world's greatest virtuosi, a man to put beside Kreisler, Heifetz or Casals. He is a modest and inconspicuous man, playing an instrument which is still too little regarded the viola. And he plays it better than anyone else alive. Fifty years ago,384 words
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Article286 1947-09-20 2 SEARCH FOR FILM 'REDS' UOLLYWOOD has never had v "coming attraction" like the show to be put m the United States Congress soon when the House of Representative* starts its public investigation of M subv< i sive elements'' m *h< film industry. The "all star cast includes Adolphe Menjo; Robert286 words
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Article, Illustration97 1947-09-20 2 SPADES are trumps, llmttl lei North and South ife tc win six tricks against any defence South makes the spado ku*- heart jack. West discardiing a and North a diamond South lead the club ten West covers and North «!:-.> ntt the kinp North leads the I<^trump.97 words
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Miscellaneous1153 1947-09-20 2 _^H P^B_______k. ___P^_fl_____ _-_-F fl-_r1 -t-l _t _mwW___*^* :^^^'i-^'iip "'■'■^_j^___^-^'^ _r *7__ __^__p ±^^r^- m^l^mfA^^BSmmmmmmi Un-Aiwriwi7 playing the Hungarian Rhapsody m Wall 2>t. SINGAPORE This Week"; 8 30 Radio Orchestra— and their Songs Emmy Bettetidorf, SATURDAY Conductor: David Apel;' 9 p.m. Marcel Wittrisch; 9.45 Australian Afternoon HM€ N€tWOrk 'Relax Enjoy1,153 words
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Miscellaneous198 1947-09-20 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today holiday with my wife and BORN today, you have a strong and independent nature. You care little what others think about what you do or say. Your alert, quick mind is always dreaimng up some new activity. You are original m198 words
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CHINA NEWS...
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437 1947-09-20 3 PEIPING, Friday. WHETHER the Nationalists will produce a surprise f f in the coming crucial battle for Manchuria is a question which only events can answer. An uneasy Nationalist feeling of strain is apparent and a local Nationalist drive has begun, aimed obviously atA.P. - 437 words
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Article254 1947-09-20 3 rv >neiKtT Moosa, A.P. Correspondent B> F PEIPING, Friday. r have to travel just about 20 miles out of Peiping to "h communist held territory; yet this old-time ,ai capital of China is today one of the most tranquil m m i troubled country. •5,™ t a surface indications254 words
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Article35 1947-09-20 3 A drifting mine which struck a Chinese fishing junk about two miles off Wong Ma Kok killed all aboard. Investigators found only a waterlogged junk and no signs oi any survivors.- A.P.A.P. - 35 words
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Article, Illustration535 1947-09-20 3 SINKIANG ILI GROUP SEEKS FREEDOM By P. Parker, A.P. Correspondent KULJA, SINKIANG, Friday. rpHREE-QUARTERS of a million people living m the ILI zone m China's vast north-west frontier demand a free and independent Turkestan, and are willing to fight for what they want. These people told me that unless they535 words
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Article11 1947-09-20 3 ■>.': r r t>e trans-Pacific -V;V ai «rorati > on v-"v:*: Shanghai11 words
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Article82 1947-09-20 3 ENRAGED over an article ivhich they considered a slur against their religion a mob of Chinese Muslims wrecked the plant of the privately-owned Pciping newspaper Hsin Pao after overpowering 30 policemen guarding the premises on Friday. The attack was made despite an apology to the MuslimA.P. - 82 words
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Article255 1947-09-20 3 FE development of agriculture to "combat China's adverse trade balance" was urged by Chinese and foreign leaders at the Foreign Trade Convention which ended its three-day session m Shanghai on Wednesday. Premier Chung Chun, m his message to the delegates, said that th c Government255 words
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Article65 1947-09-20 3 EVEN Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is hit by the inflation m China. A report said that the President recently strolled into an antique shop m Kuling, where an ancient parchment scroll caught his eye and inquired for its price. When the shopowner answered. 'CN54, 000,000 the65 words
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Article56 1947-09-20 3 DEVIEWING the war situation. Dr. Hollington Tong, Chinese Information Director, said that events m the next few weeks "will show clearly it is the government and not the Communists who have the initiative." Asked to specify the "events." Dr. Tong asserted the Communists would suffer "serious56 words
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267 1947-09-20 3 CHINA IS 'STILL SO GREAT' SAYS MP jLIR. Vernon Bartlett, M.P., and eminent writer on inter--IT national affairs, \vtio recently toured the Far East, m an article m the "News Chronicle/ stresses China's cultural inheritance as compared with Japan's veneer of modernism He also points the way the West should267 words
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Article, Illustration70 1947-09-20 3 picture. picture. Members of the Tartar Women's Army who served as nurses and light infantry troopers during the 1944 Turkestan revolution are photographed during the interview (published below) with the A.P. correspondent. A.P. Gen. Sung Hsi-lien, who fought m Burma during the war against Japs and distinguished himselfA.P. - 70 words
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Article79 1947-09-20 3 i^HINESE sources m Nanking \j say that former Premier T. V. Soong's shares In the China Finance Development Corporation which he is reported to have donated for relicf were worth 200,000,000,000 Chinese dollars (about US$5,000,000). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently told the Kuomintang Central Executive CommitteeA.P. - 79 words
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Article122 1947-09-20 3 RECALL OF ASSETS WILL NOT WORK NANKING, Friday. rpHE Chinese Government's plan J. to call home foreign exchange assets held abroad by Chinese nationals, variously estimated between U. 5.5300.000.000 and U.S. $1,000,000,000 will produce little, if any, results, according to financial experts,. The measure, now awaiting promulgation by the ExecutiveU.P. - 122 words
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Article61 1947-09-20 3 VfEMBERS of the Legislative lfl Yuan have proposed that the Government adopt a system of loans to government officials and public school teachers as a means of enhancing efficiency. The proposal said four national banks should be entrusted with the administration of a loan programme, whichA.P. - 61 words
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Miscellaneous34 1947-09-20 3 TARZAN A* or one Ed&wßte Burroughs w r ~^^^F~rrfld L lamll ecu/ GUTTEKAL WORDS PROM TAC- l^^^^^ t^^^^S^^X^^^' p^ ANf FObND THAT SCONDER'S SUU- Y^T L^^U^ysjfck/^^TP LAXEP ANP ALLOWEP RANPY TO PASS. f -Zy'sl-34 words
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677 1947-09-20 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. SEPT 20, 1947. After Two Years IT is regrettable that it has taken two years to secure adequate recognition of the rights of those members of the Malayan Volunteer Forces who were not made prisoners of war by the Japanese, but this week's approval by677 words
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Article, Illustration824 1947-09-20 4 m Germany's British Zone A NEW crop of war- mongering rumours is being passed from mouth to mouth throughout the British Zone. British officials who have compiled lists of current rumours are of the opinion that among a proportion oi the Zones 24 million Germans, the war rumoursTravel Associatione - 824 words
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Article, Illustration573 1947-09-20 4 QNE of the oldest v religious controversies m Christendom has flared up again as to what was the exact manner of Christ's crucifixion and death? Reopening the question, James Lyle Cameron, a Catholic surgeon, pointed out m the R.C. weekly Universe that crucifixion would not result573 words
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Article425 1947-09-20 4 BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CO many events have left their mark on St. Albans and the surrounding district that a study of its history provides an almost complete story of the growth of British civilisation. Even before the Romans drove their great Watling Street across425 words
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Article640 1947-09-20 4 T.H. TAN - T.H. TAN By ANE of the most sta v ing statements least to me pvei come out of China attributed to Dr. v Fo, who is second u>r authority to Genei smio Chiang Kui-sh, United Press quo ed Dr. Sun Fo as saj China would have study whether ii640 words
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Article135 1947-09-20 4 THE ..ji.i.: ptt,l [oj [Qditi M r i dedi Sated o? M: Lv o Lo, the Cninese iai 3 i n India, vi wn g ibdwil] froai ChU OB tnr:r l^dependencf D? India t* te* w »1 ttm be Hjaudayn trm fantttt H r .-.t).-.ur; H it rhj :pw135 words
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Article329 1947-09-20 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. rE\ he home!** will be counted during the Singapore census next Tuesday night. For this purpose, police nurds have beta arranged, and they will go round the streets, with tf without civilian enumerators, to count all the genuine homeless, says an329 words
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Article185 1947-09-20 5 YMCA GETS $22,000 DONATION TK£ ttm Sc:.., sii^apore m tota| mn *****8.71 to :c vmca" nexl Tueday. mobc] represents the :<u:.:r 31 jonaii r.s made by secbers J; Sir^ap* re 5 business :r :.-4 1 to found an a.. Seniees club whi< h would be t. :v wo.T.Hn inie rs.185 words
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Article234 1947-09-20 5 RESTRICTIONS upon entry and stay of Chinese nationals m Australia have been modified following protracted negotiations between China and Australia. Modifications as negotiated between Dr. Cheng Kang-chi Chinese charge d'affaires and the Austrian Minister of External Affairs. Dr. Herbert Evatt, and Minister of Immigration, Mr. Arthur234 words
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Article155 1947-09-20 5 CHINA KEEN ON MALA YA TRADE SHANGHAI, Friday. National, Trade Convention erupted into fiery debate today, at its closing session. While split on the issue whether China should participate m trade with Japan, the delegates, obviously aiming at the markets m Malaya and the East Indies, unanimously petitioned the Central155 words
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Article210 1947-09-20 5 THE meeting of the Asian Region. al Conference of the International Labour Organisation m New Delhi between Oct. 27 and Nov. 8, will mark the fruition of India's long endeavour to see that the special social and economic problems of Asian countries are adequately210 words
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Article559 1947-09-20 5 Big extra grant for education Free Press Staff Reporter WITH supplementary votes approved to date amount- ing to $3!4 million— after deletions of over $500,000 the total provision for Singapore's expenditure this year has risen from $64,781,307 to $67,999,964. Supplementary provisions have been approved559 words
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Article, Illustration23 1947-09-20 5 Egyptian doctors— Mahmoud Hamdi Abdel Gani and Mohamed Galal Eddine—icho are m Singapore on their way to Indonesia to help m relief work.23 words
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Article, Illustration25 1947-09-20 5 pictures. > Power Station with the installan generator. These pictures were men at work. Until the generator r must co-operate m reducing the conMdtj/. Free PressFree Press - 25 words
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Article61 1947-09-20 5 A decree nisi to be made absolute m six weeks, was granted David Nigel Evans, a marine engineer, by Mr. Justice Brown at the Singapore High court yesterday when he petitioned for a dissolution of his marriage with Cissy Evans, nee Yeo, on the grounds of61 words
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Article352 1947-09-20 5 Free Press Staff Reporter. THE Egyptian Government is not only helping Indonesia by 1 sending doctors and medical supplies to Republican territories but is also helping famine-stricken areas m North Africa and m Europe where the starving are receiving food parcels. This work is being don352 words
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Article63 1947-09-20 5 AIR Vice-Marshal Sir Hugh P. Lloyd, has been appointed Air Commander- in-Chief, Far Ea«t, with the acting rank of Air Marshal. He will succeed Air Marshai Sir George Pirie, who has served m the Far East for the past two-and-a-haif years, and who will return63 words
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Article116 1947-09-20 5 SINGAPORE which has been receiving 40 per cent, of its sports gear from Sialkot city, India, is affected by the division of India. Only the shipment of sports supplies is suffering from the communal rioting, general trade is not affected. Sialkot city, famous fo r116 words
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Advertisement61 1947-09-20 5 SUBSCRIBE $5.00 towards building Singapore's First Tuberculosis Clinic Buy a Ticket to ROTARY CLUB Entertainment Games for Valuable Prizes at Great World Cabaret Wednesday October Ist GIVE Not for Charity but to Share m Health Building Admission tickets obtainable at' Robinson's, Littles, G. H. Cafe, Great World Cabaret, Raffles Hotel61 words
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Article315 1947-09-20 6 Mrs. Pandit warns General Assembly A WARNING that unless the Indian-South African dispute A. on the treatment of Indians m the South African Union is settled by the General Assembly "the conflict may spread to a wider sphere" was made by Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit,Reuter - 315 words
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Article, Illustration48 1947-09-20 6 picture. During a special audience at the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gondolfo, His Holiness received a group of American sailors from the United States fleet anchored at Naples. This picture shoios an American Negro sailor kissing the Pope's hand while other sailors watch with great interest- PlanetPlanet - 48 words
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Article64 1947-09-20 6 AXBXDRD magistrates released from a "life sentence" eight wild birds who santr m their cages m court Colonel Leonard Meek. Indian Army (retired), who has a bird shop m Oxford, sold the birds, and was summoned. He said he had accepted a guarantee they were64 words
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Article84 1947-09-20 6 THE freak death of an airplane 1 mechanic who was sucked into the air intake of a jet plane disclosed the existence of the P-86 —a new jet fighter craft. A mechanic, Maurice Bricka. an employee of the North American Aviation Corporation, was standingU.P. - 84 words
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Article45 1947-09-20 6 Three hundred ohiidren were evacuated from the London County Council school, Waterloo Road. London, on Thursday when an unexploded bomb was suspected to be buried under the school floor. The school will not reopen until a full investigation is com- pleted.— ReuterReuter - 45 words
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140 1947-09-20 6 HUKBALAHAPS CLASH WITH P.I. POLICE A CLASH between military police units and Hukbalahap armed peasants m two towns of northeastern Nueva Ecija, at the head of the central Luzon plain, resulted m the death of 30 dissidents, Manila police reported yesterday. The skirmish was fought after an unidentified Huk squadronA.P. - 140 words
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Article140 1947-09-20 6 pREJTJDICE against Negroes !.as provoked a bitter controversy i m the city of Gary. Indiana. When a small number of Negro children were admitted to one municipal school three-quarters of the \v v nte. children stayed away. Gary is a steelmaking centre. and the parents of140 words
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Article68 1947-09-20 6 lOHN binvsun, Negro American J Colonel m the Ethiopian Air Force, was found guilty m Addis Ababa- on Thursday on charges of assault and battery against the Ethiopian Air Force Commander, the Swedish Count Gustaf Von Rosen. The Court sentenced him to three momihs imprisonmentA.P. - 68 words
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Article81 1947-09-20 6 PRIME Minister J. B. Chifley's Labour Government won a 40 to 26 vote of confidence m the Australian House of Representatives at Canberra on Thursday night. It defeated a "no confidence" motion submitted by the Opposition leader, Mr. R. G. Menzies Mr. Menzies introduced the resolutionA.P. - 81 words
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Article35 1947-09-20 6 Egypt's first steel plant is to be built with United States financial backing m the Nile Valley province of Aswan. The plant will be erected within 18 months at a cost of $80,000,000.35 words
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Article105 1947-09-20 6 IN spite of a passionate appeal by his mother, 23 -year-old James Lawrence Fhilipson will spend his tenth consecutive Christmas m detention. Philipson, who lives m Caledonian Road, -Holloway, was senten- ced at Clerkenwell to six months for stealing a hand microphone from the Rev.105 words
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Article188 1947-09-20 6 Family united in rescue bid FAMILY tics were strong with the five Walshaw brothers. Laughing and joking, two of them were among i the thirty- four maintenance men who went down Ingham's Thornhill Colliery, Dewsbury, on a fateful night. Later, after the flame of a great explosion had seared through188 words
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Article76 1947-09-20 6 WHILE Russia and the U.S. exchange hard words about each other m UNO over the Veto, the Balkans and The Bomb, the U.S-Soviet trade exchange quietly booms. United States non-Govern-ment exports to Russia are up nearly £4,000,000 m the first half of 1947, compared with the76 words
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100 1947-09-20 6 'Mad' motor cyclists terrorise town PSYCHOLOGISTS m New York are studying reports on a hysteria 1 which overcame 6,000 motor-cyclists who visited Riverside, California, to watch motor-cycle races. Soon thousands of machines were rushing around the town, running on and off pavements, ignoring traffic lights and terrorising pedestrians. Scores of100 words
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Article27 1947-09-20 6 Q :r Eva Meredith jenkiiß.* til re i atjy, Owen* jj 3 Punjab has accepted i^< :J the Board of the- Easter, asT (I27 words
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Article29 1947-09-20 6 Radio Uatam 'g* on Thursday that SovtfT tato vets *'ho raise a -^v the acre wiU be decors« granted t,v 2 rule _E« Socialist Labour." U.P.U.P. - 29 words
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291 1947-09-20 6 ROYAL GIFTS ADD GLAMOUR TO WEDDING QILVER and gold and fine feathers ir* ■3 Elizabeth on her wedding day \n nstor^orp^ Commonwealth, which she will \m™£'V***kS millions of people are clanking Umt L uleas Qi^^ crowns into collection boxes £> buT22? y pressions of congratulations. weddl ng g^^ King GeorgeA.P. - 291 words
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102 1947-09-20 6 MAYOR WlUiAa (fefe M York, o^cea 5? 1 t;) ;> tttnueii V 00 Ol his U)u2h? JJ? 10 na lt an un^. war: vc -«jr.; Figlituig stf---ec Uffredo mob began roZi chants affiliaio Un Sicilone teciJ Sl( r organisaSi^ Jnioneb secret cour/^ and dea-h102 words
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140 1947-09-20 6 AN attempt by an ex-G.L. Pierce Simpson. totfauetf English wife on grounds of wilful desertion faikdl Atlanta, Georgia, this week. H* applied last Ma;ch for t divorce from his wife, Doreen, whom he met m tee- mouth (Hants). But the Judge was sceptical. a^nd140 words
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Article79 1947-09-20 6 ITS r.:- y lNtt| nurifa per. 1 Ah pai&ifroin an alleged c> a:^.e:; sj' J0:... Dtllon 23. Iruh ix^:. Krai a: Bristol as Brist ttxj differ m Edward O Robey praseottl br Bi lined the iteofaii Will m Delong m '^sck seal his ivn taxied He a:79 words
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Article78 1947-09-20 6 AMERICANS have taken to Britain's M.C Midget such a biff way that the Nuffield Fxport section iwjij. cable saying: "Please reserve total export aUwa r w j, Midget sports cars for American market I can send across. id ft i 0 The Nuffield organisation hope78 words
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Miscellaneous97 1947-09-20 6 Jj^ Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya /T.YES, I 'OPE TO SEE A "Nl NICeV I "1 [L^§^>'YOU THINK LORoiP 1 I^T OF YOU, MISS OF YOU, I ALWAYS f M [s^^{ LOVACE SE^T HIM X LYOIA, MOREO I AND, OF COURSE, MR HACE-. MALTRAVERS// ASSOCIATE yfcC To97 words
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323 1947-09-20 7 foe-to-toe Battle for 15 Rounds Britain, continued one of the greatest rT^ K>:R L the boxing ring when he took the >ni^ uk ilt title from Theo Medina, the op±n0 p±n liU Beiic \ue Stadium, Manchester, last en n ilinr; rll fight over 15Reuter - 323 words
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Article64 1947-09-20 7 Derby Offer £15,500 For Lawton .riEl McMillan T.anager of Tl -intv K->f..UI Club. r^SS'hr Ld offered J^Lthan 1-500" for f^nrd, Tomni> La* ton. "^irt England t-am y tSt Bru^U !O the ?l tran.f.r f<* of 5n BilK SltH !relr inslde I, u«ton- request to be 3Vi thr transfer M AnnouncedA.P. - 64 words
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Article84 1947-09-20 7 Arsenal Should Win Today SEN-1 b* mm i! i;* ton Pw& i v r F whc (*'ri -".'5 :'vrr -.rr.I wi.:. tall M m H today. tlief t i- u-.-..--m de- tln km hoaw t tat 5 v und i ■.v- rri hM n v En?flftide tbi Brassed tel i."A.P. - 84 words
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Article37 1947-09-20 7 p: ir v* ..t.t C:^ I T' PqqJ T V Eng Lim Fook! t,?! 3 Wee Hock Gan! B-.H or Ho Loo IK r a j t*J r < Kirn Chun Ch lan. I Lob F ttm37 words
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Article124 1947-09-20 7 ERIC GREEN, of Hurst Park, and Arthur Lets, of Dore and Totley, were today chosen to fill tvx> of the three remaining vacancies m the British Ryder Cup golf team to meet the United States at Portland, Oregon, on NovC 1 and 2. The lastReuter - 124 words
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53 1947-09-20 7 CON Balasis, the 220 lb Greek-born Australian wrestler, will meet Hardir Singh— a 2201 b. Indian bearded challenger, at the Great World tonight. The flght is scheduled for 15 rounds. Other bouts are: Jack Winspear v. Jose Ferrante; Banta Singh v Roughouse Peters; Tiger Amat53 words
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Article475 1947-09-20 7 By Our Soccer Reporter R.A.F. (Changi) 3 S.C.F.A, Juniors 1 A FrER the S.C.FJ\. Juniors had dominated play m the first -i quarter and missed four chances of scoring through beautifully-placed corner-kicks by Gan Ke e Siang, the R.A.F. Changi came into their own and gained475 words
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Article, Illustration34 1947-09-20 7 Referee Moss Deyong directs Freddie Mills to his corner after the Belgian Paul Goffaux goes down for the last time before he retired m the fourth round at Harringay Stadium, London.34 words
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853 1947-09-20 7 By Our Soccer Reporter THE performances of local sides m the recent games against 1 South China must certainly have swept aside any complacency Singapore soccer players and enthusiasts may have been encouraged to feel about our soccer standards following the fairly satisfactory performances853 words
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110 1947-09-20 7 A LETTER, suggesting a scocer j match between the Rovers Sports Club and the Chinese Athletes, has J. been sent m by a reader who signsT himself as "Ma* m La." The letter says: I "In view of what appeared m thr Free Preas110 words
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Article104 1947-09-20 7 ra thrilling match, m which there were long rallies m many of the games, the United Family BP. defeated the Marigold B.P. by four gomes to one on Wednesday. Results (United Family first): Singles: Low Seah Chuan beat Seah Yeah Khern 15-12; 5-1; Chou Siu104 words
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Article177 1947-09-20 7 FOR the first time m its history, the Singapore Hockey Association will run a league this season. Eight teams will participate. They are the Army, Navy, S.C.C., Indian Association, S.C.R.C., Ceylon Sports Club, Police and S.R.C. At a committee meeting of the S.H.A. held at the177 words
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Article527 1947-09-20 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOII, Today. MARDI Gras, favourite for the Perak Turf Club's Victory Cup race today, will be auctioned after the races. Mr. J. Dobie, however, has put up a huge reserve price of $10,000, I understand, for his horse. Mr. Dobie has527 words
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Article74 1947-09-20 7 The first team of the Endeavour Badminton Party will meet the first team of the Lucky Strike Badminton Party m a friendly game at the Endeavour Badminton Party court. No. 26. Rambai Road to morrow at 2 p.m. Parties or clubs desiring friendly matches with the* Endeavour Badminton74 words
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389 1947-09-20 7 A high standard and good clean fighting were the features of last night's boxing at the Happy World stadium, sponsored by the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association m aid of the Good Shepherd Convent Building Fund. The fairly good crowd present thoroughly enjoyed the programme. Though389 words
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Advertisement102 1947-09-20 7 KSTUNG w-i. ffs, TONIGHT 2<nh Century Presents muter Super World Class Attraction— Far Eastern Eliminations 6th Round jjL CON BALASIS jV^fikl? i World Lt Heavy-wt. Champion) wSEs4r% 15x5 HP HARDIR SINGH 110 Lbs. Indian Bearded Cballeaffer) P..._.. sj*Y«opi*d Jose (errante 10x5 Jack Winspear K» i >r: v R house Peters102 words
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Miscellaneous213 1947-09-20 7 Today's Sports Events Soccer: SAFA League. Malays vs. Chinese Seniors, at Jalan Besar Stadiumr FANvs Dockyard Recreation Club, Naval Base. Rugger: Newcomers vs. the Best, S.C.C. 5.15 p.m. Water-Polo: Chinese Swimming Club 2nd and 3rd. teams vs. GHQ FAREI.F, TangUn Barracks, 4 p.m. Badminton: SB A Junior Championships, at Clerical213 words
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Article, Illustration25 1947-09-20 8 piczure.j The cone-shaped Thorpe Cloud is seen from the beautiful Dove Valley at Ham in one^ of Britain s National Parks in Derbyshire. C.O.I.C.O.I. - 25 words
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252 1947-09-20 8 COLOMBO, Frl-kty. I^EYLON will enjoy full freedom by February next like any other dominion of the British Commonwealth, having •full option to secede from the Empire if she chose to do so, declared Mr. D. S. Senanayake, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Ministers, mReuter - 252 words
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Article20 1947-09-20 8 A new powe r station is to be built at Bedford, England, cost- ing: nearly £5,000,000.—: ReuterReuter - 20 words
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156 1947-09-20 8 BURMESE AFFIRM FRIENDSHIP FOR BRITAIN RANGOON. Friday. ALL Burma today acclaimed with satisfaction the declaration m London last night by the Secretary of State for Burma. Lord Listowel. that Burma would assume full sovereign independence outside the British Commonwealth m January. Burmese Cabinet Ministers and high-ranking antl-Fascist Peoples Freedom League156 words
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Article35 1947-09-20 8 The Burmese Government is to export 4,750 tons of rice to Chittagong m the eastern strip of Pakistan on "humanitarian grounds. Famine confronts over 100.000 people m the flooded areas there.— ReuterReuter - 35 words
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609 1947-09-20 8 M.U. GOVT STAFF TO HOLD STRIKE BALLOT Wage increment offer rejected Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. MEMBER unions m the Pan-Malayan Council of Government Workers will hold a strike ballot today, following a decision taken last night rejecting the Government's offer of wage increases according to the interim609 words
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Article, Illustration86 1947-09-20 8 Some of the 4J500 "Exodus?' Jews, who had tried illegally to migrate from Europe to Palestine but were intercepted off the Holy Land and sent back to Germany, after they had refused to land m France, are here seen as they peer through the wiremeshed window of a train86 words
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Article479 1947-09-20 8 London Stock ExckiJ A FIER soiae initial hesitancy foS^ L A outburst at the INC) contnnT*?&* I Exchange turned firmer following a bout of^T 1 which was strengthened when it was kn«l?S Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Hugh DaiST J 1 eji to make an important statement later tattS?479 words
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85 1947-09-20 8 THE Government of India have referred the Christmas Island mutiny case, involving death sentences on five out of six Pakistan accused soldiers, to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, London, requesting "certain clarifications." This was announced yesterday by the representative of the Government85 words
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Article73 1947-09-20 8 PRETORIA, (Africa), Friday.— Oswald Pirow, South African former Minister of Defence, was fined £40 or two months' imprisonment today for publishing incendiary articles m his weekly .newspaper. The court ruled that the articles kindled feeling against non-Europeans by urging Europeans to take the law into73 words
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Article87 1947-09-20 8 ITRWIN Oliver Jones who was sen--1 tenrcd to death at the Singapore Assize Court on Thursday, for the murder of Maurice Fox, is to appeal before the Court of Criminal Appeal which is likely to oit m Singapore m December. It will be Jones' second87 words
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Article48 1947-09-20 8 FORELLO La Guardia, three times Mayor of New York and former director-general of the UNRRA, remained "m a deep sleep from which he cannot be aroused," Dr. George Baehr. his physician, said. He collapsed on Tuesday and is gravely ill of a pancreas condi- tion.— A.P.A.P. - 48 words
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Article189 1947-09-20 8 Free Press Staff Reporter rrHE Singapore Clerical and Administrative Workers Union has decided to support the elections and to ask their members to register as prospective voters. This decision was reached at a meeting of the executive council of the Union on Thursday. i The Union189 words
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197 1947-09-20 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. TOVERNMENT servants m the Malayan Union who absent themselves from work m order to "bring pressure to bear on the government on a political issue' will forfeit pay and be d^alt with under Government disciplinary regulations. A197 words
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Article89 1947-09-20 8 Amass meeting will be held at Farrer Park tomorrow under the auspices of Putera and the All-Malaya Council of joint Action to pass resolutions rejecting the White Paper on the constitutional proposals lor Malaya. The meeting will propose acceptance of the "people's constitutional proposals" drafted89 words
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Article106 1947-09-20 8 Free Press Staff Reporter MEMBERS of the Singapore Swimming Club will probably have to help themselves again tonight if talks between Club officials and the boys who went on strike on Thursday, fail. The men, it is reported, are to meet the Secretary this morning. Last106 words
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Article31 1947-09-20 8 THE Bolivian Tin Miners Union called its 3,000 members out on strike last night after foe Government had decreed a state of siege to thwart "agitators and31 words
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Article56 1947-09-20 8 0 New York s* mg stocks sjppksl3 and irregular znfZ 1 tiled 750.0 M tea rhe drastic s!xT.p rf r futures ir.arkett'pnJJ ing to sorr.f W a StrtßaJ b> »r eventual rewmpoicT m advances persisWßti to nee closed averag ak ex slight R* DM Hrn 4eme 7356 words
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Article34 1947-09-20 8 MEW YORK crude rife i "w! I r. Bate tattled R ta C r, were Decatiie ::Si 1 March 15 8( Hi x I >d sn;o*:ed siieHt 1! jf -a. A. P.A.P. - 34 words
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Article80 1947-09-20 8 a SPEOAL Market efl r\ eives the prices rf at 11 am today asfdim per Ik I So l KS.S Sp«i \<>o±e nominal m balpv Oct. No 2 RSS fot m halp* Oct. Hi 3 R S.S foe m halo On T..nf of market ou* SINGAPORE fflj^ THE Singapw*80 words
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Miscellaneous50 1947-09-20 8 WEATHER Bright periods rATHEB report for the next 24 hoars compiled by the E.A.F.: Bright periods with occasional showers during daylight hoars. Wind south to south-east, 5 to 10 m.p.h., rusty m showers. Sunset 6.31; Sanrise 6.24. Moonrisc 11.38 a.m.; moon—t 11.05 p.m. Temperatures: Mm. tt deg; Ratyfall: .3 to.50 words
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