The Singapore Free Press, 27 September 1947

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press GEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    DUTCH KEEP 'FREE HAND' IN INDIES
    560 1 DUTCH KEEP 'FREE HAND' IN INDIES 'Constructive work begun THE HAGUE, Friday. THE Dutch Premier, Dr. Louis Beel, today bluntly rejected the Security Council's authority m the Indonesian dispute. Addressing the Second Chamber, he said the Government would never, relinquish its right and duty to act against terror and arbitrariness."
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    26 1 picture. The Assistant Inspector-Gene-ral of the Palestine Police MR. GILES BAY. iv ho is taking a leading part m fighting terrorism m the Holy Land.— A.P.
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    JOHORE BUS MEN STRIKE FOR $10 A DAY
    103 1 JOHORE BUS MEN STRIKE FOR $10 A DAY DRIVERS and conductors of the South Johorr Omnibus Co., Ltd.. went on a lightning strike yesterday mornine:. their chief demands beine: daily wage rates of $10 and $8 a day. The company has offered to pay the drivers $3 a day and
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    FOUR AREAS BLACKED-OUT
    82 1 Free Press Staff Reporter I^ANJONG KATONG. Upper L Serangoon, Paya Lebar and Yio Chu Kant; areas were blacked-out for 40 minutes from 7 o'clock last nisht. Some consumers usinc small power motors have been found, on a check-up, to have violated agreements they had signed with the
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    Tories call lor new election
    200 1 Tories call lor new election LONDON, Friday. PONeSRVATIVE Party Headquarters called today for yj a general election. The executive will present an emergency resolution to the annual Conservative Party Conference at Brighton on Thursday, demanding a new Parliament as the first step towards national recovery. Lord Woolton, Party Chairman, told
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    NEW SURVEY OF BORNEO COAL RESOURCES
    10 1 NEW SURVEY OF BORNEO COAL RESOURCES I into B Reuter
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    ***** REGISTER FOR THE VOTE
    60 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE total number of prospective voters m the Singapore Legislative Council elections stood at 20,500 this morning. It is officially stated that 20,500 is mot the final figure. Completed forms handed m at thP three amusement parks and at registra- tion
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    Vyshinsky attack on 'warmongers'
    197 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. ANDHEI Vyshinsky, thief Soviet debate to the M nited Nations, at what was probably the largest conference ever held m the Inited States 600 people attended called Mr. John Foster Dulles, Republican foreign affairs expert, Mr. Cieor^e Earle and other Vrnerican representatives m
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    'BRITAIN WILL NOT LEAVE MIDDLE EAST'
    395 1 'BRITAIN WILL NOT LEAVE MIDDLE EAST' B^tfA I S aS n mi n^ entlon clearing out of the Middle East, stated a Foreign Office spokesman commenting tonight on the speech of the Secr^arv of State for Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones VoiTVL 16 Uni^ d Nation s General Assembly m
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    MILLION TONS MORE RICE
    139 1 WASHINGTON. Friday. j A N increase of a million tuns -M m the world's rice supplies I next year is estimated m a new j food survey included In the report i of President Truman's emergency Cabinet committee. American-grown rice, which will be roughly equal to
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    JEWS WON'T MOVE
    28 1 None oi the Exodus Jewish refugees held m camps near Lucbeclchas < Germany* havo yet to acorpt the French Government oiler of a haven m France
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    QUAKES RECORDED
    33 1 Two earthquakes of ma >oi Intensity, G.luo miles northwest or Pa.sader.a were recorded a- iv li> OUT and 16. 25 GMT on Friday at the California Tnatittrf* r>r Techno A. P.
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    HUM FOR £45,000 BANK ROBBERS
    236 1 t^itt™ A JERUSALEM, Friday. j>OLICE and Army detachments closed all roads m and out of Tel Aviv today, and announced the arrest of three men suspected of complicity m the £45 000 robbery of an armoured car, m which four British policemen were killed, outside
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      4 1 J For Smokers i
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      48 1 M- FLINTER 6. GRINBERG. Wholesale A Retail Dealers IB DIAMONDS JEWELLERY Now available Go!d Cigarette Cases oi 18 9 caratsTelephone 7923 67. Stamford Road. t-.n Coart Bids. Singapore Creech Jones Speech— Page Eight. SDptSr *v v^Sb DMijn\v. < r y/ J^^B /J-^ A few Wi X^KJ* f^ TIGER BALM
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  • FEATURES..
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      A GOOD BATCH OF FILMS
      673 2 A GOOD BATCH OF FILMS by ffsf jT is not merely benevolence that moves me to pronounce the new batch of pictures the best we have had for sevmo time. The films— E ngli s h, French, and Americandiffer widely m subject and style. But each is entertaining m its
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      The Treasures of El Dorado
      563 2  - The Treasures of El Dorado Pierre Jeanne rat by fI>EFORE the New World annexed nearly all the gold above ground on our planet, vast quantities of the precious metal crossed the Atlantic from west to east. El Dorado, "The Gilded," may have been a figment of Conquistadors' day-dreams, a labulous
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      79 2 The script of the American comedy "Separate Rooms," ichich h 'now runnin(j at the Strand Theatre m London, callta for Chihuahua (minute hairless dog from Mexico), Chihuahua could not be obtained m time for the opening, and so the star of the show, Frances Day has had to make do
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      UNKNOWN
      28 2 HAVING tali "Living m a Big Wu G I Is a witless tale of eominx home his nun. So the action of the is> is ml I
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      Birth of U.K. 's "milk-bank'
      284 2 Birth of U.K. 's "milk- bank' Mrs. Do, Miles save birth to the St. Neots quads m November 28, 1935, p.«e also helped give birth maternal experiment new to Britain, reports News Review. Because Mrs. Miles could not breast-feed her quad Edith Graham Dare,' Matron of London's Queen Charlotte Hospital,
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      139 2 CLUBS axe trump?. South leads. N rth and South are t<> 'In eiuht tricks against any def. S.'Uth kads spado seven which North fufls Ncrth kads a true East cannot discard a spado. South will cross to his heart ace, ruIT a spade and return to hi
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      66 2 iV WHOLE-GRAIN OATS ARE J NATURE'S IDEAL FOOD FOR SA3Y NAi I Whole-grain oats -Quaker C, tts-jj W0" D the best natural cereal sow fO oi iron, protein, food energy, ami Bi, elements that provide Btteo growth, help guard baby's In lV( f yourb^iby the noarithinghelpofQu3 lier Oats feedings every
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      1217 2 YOUR LUCKY Fortune forecast tor people oorn today QOKN i«day, you have the per- sonal courage to meet a triiifl with considerable calm and fcrtitud?, but you are m. 1 1 ned to worry yourself into temporary contusion over tri- oiiQuer this habit or you v\iil find voutm Ii thwarted
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  • CHINA NEWS...
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      THREAT TO MANCHURIA SUPPLY LINE
      221 3 THREAT TO MANCHURIA SUPPLY LINE PEIPING, Friday. A R x I i U IRED1 RED train Patrols are keeping the PeipingMukden railway open o traffic m the face of Communist threats to the Manchurian supply The Chinese Press reported that the "sixth Communist offensive has started, and alleged the loss
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      34 3 picture. I was held m captivity by the Complane cui<h-landed on a beach north Ilunald L. Bruce (centre) i who crashed on the same day Marine Air Squadron 221 headquarters m recently.- A. P.
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      AMERICAN ANSWERS NINA QUIZ
      24 3 ..lay. rtT n? China \nd i > >nd > .list >hek How h v;d»- will i sion r< iched tv is U.P.
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      VOTE AGAINST JAP TRADE
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      NO RICE WINE
      41 3 kDDITIONAL austerity jneai\ sures m China include a ban against the use of grains for the manufacture of alcoholic drinks and the sale of the fi?iest polished rice. The city authorities arc still considering other austerity measures.- U.P.
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      CHINA IS BUYING U.S. SHIPS
      53 3 MR PAO YUNG-CHIN. O i the lv Ministry of Communications m Nanking Ls now ho the United States to purrhr.se "a number oi trans," Central News amenev r. i> rted. T\\~ newa agency said the purchases would n'~'\>cc losses sui talned by privately-owned Bhlpping firms
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      CHIANG STRENGTHENS SOUTH CHINA 'BASE'
      289 3 CHIANG STRENGTHENS SOUTH CHINA 'BASE' JHE re-entry of T. V. Soon* into active political ife as the governor of K\vaii^tun ff was noted by nont eS in°K C;aIS Na ki significant developmem In Kuommlang strategy son^rh'L S rT ted lhat S? 01^ appointment repre- the first major step m a
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      'RENTS' WIFE WITH RICE
      79 3 JVl^u Yu-puig three years ago ifl "rented a icife" for 10 years for 75 kattie* of rice plus 10 tattiei monthly for spending mmey, Ting Hsiu-ling, the "rented wife," alleged m the Shanghai District Court. In return. Mao had "free and unhindered" access, but he tired
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      PUBLIC LOTTERY IN CHINA
      77 3 DLANS arc nearly completed by 1 the government-operated Central Trust to conduct 12 monthly lotteries ofTering diamonds, p:arls, rubks and other gems confiscated from convicted pro- Japanese collaborationists as prizrs. Five million tickets will be issued m each lottery at $10,000 a chance which will be
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      CHINA BANK IN SIAM
      26 3 CHINA BANK IN SI AM The Siamesp Finance Mim.stry I has approved the application of th<- Bank of China to set up a branch In Bangkok.
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      SOUTH CHINA REFORMS URGED
      87 3 A CHINESE Press report said that durinK his brief stay m Carbon and Hong Kong recently, the Vice-President of the National Government, Dr. Sun i Fo, received mor c than 2,000 letters from Chinese making com--f plaints or suedes' in^ reforms for South China. On P
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      'MONSTER' NOW IN NANKING
      48 3 'MONSTER NOW IN NANKING RUMOURS of an eye-gouging monster. which recently caused near-panic m Shanghai, have reached the Nanking waterfront with one variation. Boatmen claimed the eyegouging monster In Nanking also cut tongues. As a precaution, the boatman 1 havp. organised vigilant*? who 1 nightly patrol the anchorage.
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      New Pacific air service planned
      191 3 next month start to and across the Pacific. These "trampships of the air" will be taking part m one of Britain's greatest dollar-earning ventures, and will be manned by real merchant adventurers whose job it will b e t o seek out their cargoes wherever
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      120 3 A Free Press picture of the Chinese military mission to Indonesia, and the crew of their Liberator Bomber: (from left to right) Lieut. Z. T. Ma (Chinese Air Force signal officer), Capt. Chang Ying (navigator), Capt. T. Mi. Liang (co-pilot), Lieut. Col. Chang Chin Kang (chief Pilot), the Singapore Chinese
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      Foreigners treated better than Chinese
      165 3 pOUR Control Yuan mem- ben, sent to Shanghai to Imrestigate fore'gn exchange conditions, said they found no evidence of ofli"ial discrimination against foreign businessmen, reports the Central Daily News of Nanking. The paper said that, on the contrary, foreign busineasmen ivcrc granted more foreign exchange
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      ASIA INSTITUTE ENLARGES PLAN
      120 3 THE Asia Institute has announced the expansion ol an already vast programme of Asian studies to include a new Fa r East section with courses on the history, culture and economics of Japan and Korea The Institute already ha s the largest faculty on Chinese subjects
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      CHINA BUYS BRITISH
      150 3 XTINETY-EIGHT per cent or li China's telecommunication equipment will be British, when the present restoration programmes have been completed Telephones, morse, transmitters S?mn*? ro ?i d i astin Nations will almost all have come from UK Ihe morse and broadcasting transmitters will vary from equipment able to
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      APPEAL FAILS
      40 3 Generalissimo cttiiang Kai-shelc lias rejected the appeal and conformed tihe life sentence on the Japanese genrral Isoge Ren.suke, wartime Governor of Hong Kong, who was convicted of war crimes by a Chinese court two montr-a ago.- A. P.
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1947. Tin and Dollars
      777 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1947. Tin and Dollars IN spite of the grim necessity for obtaining more American dollars, rep*, rts from London m the past week have indicated that the British Government is s ill not prepared to grant the highest priority to the requirements of
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      NEW TARGET FOR RUBBER INDUSTRY
      1226 4 Hall Romney's London Letter THERE is a notice- able v nip," which with the falling leaves, War n s us that the autumnal advance has begun towards the winter whose arrival most of us await with some apprehension, fearful of renewal, and maybe, an intensification,
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      As a Chinese sees it
      797 4  -  T. H. TAN By FOR the first time m the history of Singapore, a Chinese Air Force plane a B-24 Liberator touched down at Chang] airfield this week. It was a great day for the Chinese: it indicated China's progress m the field of aviation
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      39 4 fgdfdf JKRSEX& TAKE TO TilE AIR: Three Dakota Aircraft fitted down on a 70 acre field at Snclston, n >ar Axhbournc, Deri direct from Eire to Britain. They were 23 cows and heifers c I Derby Evening TeU graph
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      ULSTER TO BECOME DOMINION
      565 4  - ULSTER TO BECOME DOMINION GUY RAMSEY by A NATIONALIST leaven is working m yet another part of the United Kingdom besides Scotland and Wales. It is Northern Ireland the six counties which used to go by the name of Ulster; the land to defend which Carson and "Galloper" F. E.
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  • LOCAL NEWS>..
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      MALAYA MUST EXPORT MORE OR STARVE'
      433 5 MALAYA MUST EXPORT MORE OR STARVE' Free PreM Staff Reporter he country's principal sources of being profitably produced, and i es Malaya is "either we export i our imports or we starve or at ower standard of living." l^t^Pj waa made yesterday at the Ol the Singapore Chamber of .F.
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      'CRIMINALS GETTING AWAY TOO LIGHTLY'
      149 5 II j -j r. i not Robertson said that he had visited by robbers tv%:ce Lin the last ten days. On the lon, they nearly made with his wardrobe, but on the second he was ready lor n. r had come to a stage where
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      PASSAGES TO CEYLON
      9 5 PASSAGES TO CEYLON P no Im-I nt s pictures.
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      58 5 Recruits at the RAF Training Centre m Kuala Lumpur are seen study nig tiro posters m English and Malay which call to Malays to join, and (below) Snuadron Leader D.G. Roberts, senior training officer of the Regiment, is pictured talking with another recruit, Company Sergeant Major Abdul Han, ex-Force 136
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      SHB HAS IMPROVED CARGO HANDLING
      260 5 THE rehabilitation of facilities m the Singapore Harbour Board has proceeded satisfactorily anil attention has now been directed to development plans of a long term nature. Plans for improved cargo handling facilities are well advanced, and lai extensions to Latex-handling installations are now proceeding. v
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      POPLIN THEFT: $100 FINE
      140 5 A PEW minutrs after he had inspected poplin m a High Street store and decided not to b-iy it. a Chinese. Sen: Kok Kam. ran into the street with the Doplin under his arm. lit 1 was caught by the owner of the textile shop and
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      PENSIONS FOR SPECIAL COUPS
      55 5 171X-MEMBERS and dependant*. J of ex-members of the Special Technical Corps, Royai Air Force, who consider that they are entitled to claim either disability or dependant pensions are invited to send applications m writing; stating full particulars, to the Base Accounts Office, Air Command, Far East,
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      Navy selling $1000,000
      119 5 PURCHASED m 1940 for more than $1,000,000 by the Admiralty for the reconstruction of a naval air station, a rubber and coconut estate m MorW, Selangor, is being offered for sale by tender. The estate is 2,223 acres m area 1,332 acres planted with rubber, 436 acres
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      NATURALISED
      24 5 Certificat-es of naturalisation have been granted by the Singapore Government to Mr. Yap Phenpr Geek; Mr. Soosainathan Lourdenadi n and Chong Thutt Pitt.
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      MALAYAN PLANE FLIES TO SYDNEY
      112 5 Free Press Staff Reporter ■"pHE iirst Malayan Airways plane Jl to lly to Australia took on lor Sycuiey yesterday with is immigrants on beard. The immigrants consisted ol five Poles, five Italians, tvvo Danes, two Greeks and an Ei g lish woman. The plane "Murai"
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      SEYLANG-OUTRAM RD. BUS SERVICE
      40 5 BEGINNING tomorrow, the Singapore Traction Company will operate an additional omnibus service between Geylang and Outram Road at the General Hospital. The route is: Geylang Road. Kallang Road, Victoria Street, Hill Street and New Bridge Road.
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      BOYS' BRIGADE
      36 5 THE Fifth Singapore Company of the Boys Brigade will hold a service of dedication and presentation of its Dugle band and colours tomorrow at 4 p.m. at Katong Presbyterian Church, 41, Koon Seng Road.
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      FOUND DEAD
      39 5 A young European private was lound dead, wiUh a gunshot wound m his left chest, at a 223 BOD. sub-depot m Alexandra Road yesterday morning. H\s body was removed to the Britiflti Military Hospital m Alexandra Road.
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      S'pore port news
      166 5 S'pore port news Shaft Is Flown To Disabled Ship Free Press WaterXront Reporter A PLANE is flying a new propellor tail shaft from London to Singapore for the disabled Canadian freighter Lake Chilco. The ship arrived m Singapore yesterday morning after a 500-mile tow by the S.H.B. tug Griper from
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      TEXTILE TRADE FULLY REVIVED
      365 5 TEXTILE TRADE FULLY REVIVED Re-export is necessary Free Press Staff Reporter j^LL branches of the textile trade m Singapore have now been fully revived, and the position is that the flow of supplies has been such as to cause an unhealthy accumulation of qualities both unsuitable and surplus to local
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      2 HUGE BUILDINGS DELAYED
      271 5 Free Press Staff Reporter THE construction of the $3] million, 18-s'orey building at the junction of Finlayson Qresn and Raffles Quay for the A?ia Insurance Co., Ltd.. and a sixstorey building for a Chinese bank at the junction oi Market and Chulia Streets has been delayed
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      OBSERVER CORPS
      45 5 MEMBERS of the Air Obbcrver Corps arc requested to get m touch with their representative, Mr. Charlie Lee, at 1-A, Telufc lAyer Strec;, before Wednesday. 'Mr. Le e has bee n requested to ir:t particulars regarding the lcn^ h of service of members.
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      PAYMENTS TO ARP STAFF
      78 5 PAYMENTS of ex-gratia grants to mombcrs of Singapore A.R.P. will be made at Volunteer Records Office, Beach Road, between hours of 9.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the following dates: Monday. Sept. 29: "G" Division A.R.P.; Tuesday, Sept. 30 and
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  • NEWS...
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      "FORGET EMPIRE" CALL TO BRITAIN
      317 6 "FORGET EMPIRE" CALL TO BRITAIN t7. aS. professor on shift of power r)R. Pitirim Sorokin, a Harvard University sociologist, m Cambridge (Mass) that the centre of history has shifted to the Pacific and thus any conception of the British Isles as the continuing centre of history was foolish, reports United
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      41 6 Zik, known as the "Nigerian Gandhi," has returned to the great African colony pledged to lead a boycott campaign against U.K. goods after a trip to London m which he unsuccessfully tried to gain a greater jneasure of independence for Nigeria.
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      COMMUNISTS SEEK ITALY SHOWDOWN
      164 6 ITALIAN leftists are again demanding the formation of a new Italian Government including the Communists, a.id have proposed a further postponement for the scheduled National Assembly debate and the vote of confidence Labour troubles spread as the Communists and left wing Bocialiste continued consultations with other
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      PHILIPPINES INCOME UP
      97 6 MR. EDWARD M. POOLEY, editor of the El Paso (Texas), Herald-Post, writing for the Scrips- Howard newspaper m Manila, quoted President Roxas as saying that the Filipino national income was running between $1000,000.000 to $1,500,--000.000 this year— twice the prewar figure. He said Pros id nt Roxaj
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      65 6 During a police hunt for the notorious Sicilian bandit leader, Guiliano who has a price on his head of £2,soo— his cousin, Giacomo Lombardo, also a bandit, was discovered m a hide-out which had been used as an ammunition dump and a prison for kidnapped persons held to ransom. Lombardo
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      U.S. GUARANTEES RICE PRICE
      79 6 U.S. GUARANTEES RICE PRICE iTUIE U.S. Agriculture DepartA men! hai initiated a government loan programme to asture rice trcmei», at least, 90 per c«nt o| the parity price for 1947. The Dpartment said congestion of drying plants and cautious buying by millers have caused price declines In recent weeks for
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      PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA BANNED
      74 6 PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA BANNED i^u\it has banned further ij pilgrima* to M- cca 'his year cause oi a cholera outbn tk About 6,500 Muslims h id already left lor tho shrine. Tlie opening of schools, tone, duled for next month, was postponed. Egyptian troops have cordoned oir cholera areas, isolating
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      ANOTHER LABOUR BY-ELECTION WIN
      56 6 r VUE Briti>h Labour GovernA mcnt retained the West Islington, London, scat and the record of being undefeated m any by-election since they came 4 -.to p met nn>re than two jrean a^o. Tbt Labour candidate, Mi Albert Evans, polled 3.760 votes, a minority of 4,676
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      POLITICS ARE OUT
      36 6 Genera] Dwlgh* D. Eisenhower leader ol Hiio Allied conquest oi Nazi Europe, told newsmen In liorgantowti iWe^ Virginia) "l want nothing to do wi'fl politics and I want no political office."- A. P.
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      'RUSSIANS USING FORCED LABOUR IN SAKHALIN'
      114 6 'RUSSIANS USING FORCED LABOUR IN SAKHALIN' A 21 -YEAR-OLD Korean who said he had posed as a Japanese and escaped from Sakhalin, asserted tiiat the Russians were refusing to repatriate 40, C00 Korean^ from that island to tho north of Japan because "Korea has no government yet Th o youth
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      THE REAL STUFF
      39 6 Actress Loretta Young was a limping at Eugene, Oregon, with a fractured right toe In a splint because she ;;ave too vigorous a kick aimed at the posterior of another actor m a production film. U.P.
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      'FOOD AND MACARTHIIR WILL DEFEAT THE REDS'
      129 6 MORE than 600.000 tons of American food are scheduled to b<.shipped into Japan during Sep--1 mber and Oc'ober, said Mr. Jo^n B. D. Pennink, until re- (•< ntly political and economic advisor to the Dutch military mission m Japan. In San Francisco on
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      'Insult to the white women of America'
      181 6 OEPRESENTATIVE John. E. Rankin said that a magazine article by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on race relations was "the most insulting Communist propaganda ever thrown m the face of the white women of America. Mi*. Rar.kin's reference was to a section of Mrs. Roosevelt*
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      SOIL ENRICHED BY A-BOMB
      219 6 SO IL ENRICHED BY A-BOMB Report frosai HagasaicT A radioactive soil at Nagasaki h£ Z2J*\ slons of surprise and some scepticism from \m- eipr mfiSxr*" an Associatert ftftSSBB Increases of from 50 to 30^ per cerv normal yield were reported to the Agency by Takeo Fimino, a JaoanL expert, who
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      RATTLESNAKE WHISKY
      64 6 A ™mE of >- nllks Whisky" va, cnHra»donN>wV,,rk s fh,, town by the iv^i Burn B < Narcotics. Mr. Jam« ting district snpen Bureau, said the popular wilh v.pst co>ichia*. wao bclifvp it j itrensth. pt- ior :he mb- I live ratUfsna m :i large jar: ad i
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      PRISON BETTER THAN THE ARMY
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      SHOT FOR CORRUPTION
      19 6 Lieut. -Col Hu officer of th- tf»s war dead compensation 2 conviction a tl A .P.
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      Fred Daly And Belgian In Golf Final
      358 7 FRED Daly, the British open golf champion, and Flory Van Donck. the t^ll Belgian, will content the 36 holeg final of the "News of The World" £2.500 match play championship ovor the !rtoyal Lytham and Saint Anius golf course today. Tru-y won their
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      CHARLEQUINS BEAT SCC TWO NIL
      22 7 Btrt Scares Hj I I H V H B ■lies Piars Well Br» I he I' I
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      N.Z. Rugby Tourists Win First Game
      63 7 THE New Zealand Rugby League team opened their British lour on Thursday with a convicing win over St. Helens, Lancashire. They won by one goal and three tnes <11 points) to one goal one try > 5 points Tii\ lourLsU' handling showed that, when
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      CHANGES MAKE SAFA XI STRONGER
      408 7 Seven New Men In The Team By Our Soccer Reporter irr n and five Civilians hav c been selected to ingapore Amateur Football Association insl the Shanghai Chines* fcotballers at Jalan Besar .dium on Oct. 8. The selection was made at a meeting of nmitfee.
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      S.H.A. MEETING
      26 7 THERE will be a moetmg of the Singapore Hockey Assn. League sub-committee at the Singapore Re real ion Ciub at 5 p.m. on Monday.
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      PENANG TO MEET PERAK AT SOCCER TODAY
      233 7 PENANG TO MEET PERAK AT SOCCER TODAY Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANO. Friday. DESPITE four changes m the team which beat the Sing Tao tourists thr^e-nil recently, Periang an* expected to do against Perak on Sunday m the first inter-State sooetf natch to b. played here since the (•occupation. B
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      TWO HAWAIIANS IN HARRINGAY FIGHTS
      55 7 DROMOTER Jack Salomons an. nounced yesterday that Hawaiian bantamweight Maruo Tsuneshi has been matched against Stan Rowan of Liverpool, m a preliminary bou: at Harriiu'ay ax^na on Oct. 20. In the same programme. Dado Marino and Irishman Rinty Mona. Eh an will fight for the
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      CLUBS WERE TOO SCARED TO 810 FOR LAWTON
      486 7 CLUBS WERE TOO SCARED TO 810 FOR LAWTON From Archie Quick TOMMY Lawton's transfer Is 1 something more than a movement of a plnver fr »m one club j to another. The roots go much deeper. In the first case Lawton publicly expre t he was willing to v where
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      Champ's Brother Wins On TKO
      42 7 7/i his first fight m Melbourne. George Sands, brother of the dual Australian champion, Dave, won by a t.k.o. over Bill Burns m the ninth round. Picture shows Sands sending Burns down for a count of eight.
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      LUCKY GOALS HELPED OUT MALAY SENIORS
      415 7 15y Our Soccer Reporter 'TAKING the game far more easily than was justified, the Malay Seniors had m the end to be thankful for two lucky goals to beat the Malay Juniors by four goals to three m a S.A.F.A. Cup game at Jalan
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      PERAK STATE HOCKEY TRIAL
      111 7 Fre« Press Staff Correspondent PARIT BUNTAR. Friday. r£ official hockey seasun m I Perak will open tomorrow with a trial match between north and south Perak. The match will be played on the Ipoh Club padang. Following the trial, there will be a meeting of the
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      Polio Claims Kent County Cricketer
      49 7 NORMAN Walter Harding. Kent's 31 -year-old fast bowler, has died of infantile paralysis. He became ill last Friday at the King's Head public house he ran at Thatchanx During the past season he took 68 wickets for an averaee of 25 64 runs.— Reuter
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      Boxing Board Answers 2 Questions
      293 7 By Our Boxing Reporter THE Singapore Boxing Board of Control, at a private meeting held on Thursday, discussed the letter sent by the lawyers of Filipino boxer, ?<zby Baltazar, following the dressing-room incident at the Happy World last Sunday be!ore the fight m which, Som
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      TRIANGULAR GOLF
      41 7 England retained the quadrangular three-day Amateur International Golf Championship on the Royal Liverpool cours° at Hoylake yesterday when they beat Scotland by eight games to seven m the deciding match. Scotland finished second. Ireland third and Wales fourth.- Reuter
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      S.C.C. RUGBY TEAM vs. R.A. TODAY
      110 7 THE following have been selected to represent the Singapore j Cricket Club against the Royal Artillery Blakan Mati on the I Paclang" today at 5.30 p.m.: J. A. <Bu.<bridge; R. M. NeLson, R. F. Droogrleever (capt.), F. T. Homer; C M. Quaylo; J Frame;
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      RETURN WATER POLO
      29 7 •THE Tig. 3 r Swimming Club will play a I return water -polo match with the I combined strvices at R.A.F.. S.lotar, tomorrow at 11 a.m.
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      67 7 WRESTLING 3PSS7L. n m T 'I rVLJI LlH\] G RE\T WORLD I IvR EASTERN HEAVY WT. I LIMINATIONS 7TH ROUND (&BAL A S I S World LI -He.ny-Wt. Champion) JAGINDAR hampion of Ipohl r A \l\ FNCiE CONTFST DA 10x5 J- FERRAMTE HARDIT SINGH 10x5 HIGHLAND LADDIE TF.ftS 10x5 THE
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      66 7 Weekend Sports Events TODAY RUGBY: S. C. 0. yv R. a. BUkan Mali, patLuig, 5.34) p.m. BADMINTON: Singapore cli mp-Lm-hips, Clerical lni> n, 2 13 p m. SOCCER: S. A. F. A Tup. S. B. C. vs. GHQ Sirnab, JuUn iitsar Stadium. WRESTLING: Ron* vs CaUon. Happy World. 8 45
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      171 7 FREE PRESS FIGWORDS ■4- |6 16 |3 MBj| B H^ I Sjj&gf I B^^^^B 1 I I L 1 t I baKuflvj HI 1 fc^ Hi -i\ t^StL > »|*O solve the puzzle put letters instead of the figures so that words may be 1 read across and down. Where
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      HOME..
      34 8 HOME rhe uvper reaches of the Thames are a favourite holiday haunt at week-ends for Ljndoners, especially school-children, who throng the river hanks above Hampton Court Bridge to enjoy sivijnming, fishing and river trips.
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      61 QUISLINGS ESCAPE FROM FRENCH PRISON
      157 8 61 QUISLINGS ESCAPE FROM FRENCH PRISON Pi EIIB Friday ipii T "-z thousand men oi the Jl i d n. libs, todi bJ i leading h PyreIn a st arch f r 61 f i risonerj v broke out 1 from a can Cari r a m s -ii hern
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      SIR CLIFFORD FIGG DIES
      103 8 CIR LL.IFFOR H..G. lonncr tu. mess Adviser to the Bcxor the oi as, an expert on i-cnomic pr A au m 'he Far Eas, ditd a >i Sir CiifTord was D -outv Chair- man of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce between 1028 and 1930 and DeDuty
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      WEDS PRINCE
      46 8 (CATHERINE, 16 year old h^ daughter of a £0 -a- week railway worker of Marville Road, pulham. yesterday married an Indian prince. Major Abbasi. the son of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, who is descended from Haroun-fil-Raseirt. Caliph of Baghdad at Caxton Hall. Westminster London.
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      LONDON STOCK ISSUE
      36 8 lh e i&siip next Wednesday ol .£1.000.000 Corpora i ion of London thrcp p^r cent stock is announced In connection with the extinguishment o i tithes m the city <ls from Oct 1
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      IMPORT OF BEER
      15 8 Britain imported 30.000 gallons of Czech beer during the past two months.
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      Workers' council urges strike
      374 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent KIALA LIMPUR, Friday. FALLOWING a warning by the Government of the Malayan Union of disciplinary action m the event of a strike the Pan-MaUyan Council of Government Workers, at a meeting this evening, decided to recommend the use of the strike weapon
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      CEYLON'S FIRST CABINET IS SWORN IN
      166 8 CEYLON'S FIRST CABINET IS SWORN IN COLOMBO. Friday. rpHE Qrst cabinet und.r CeyX lon's 'near Dominion" staius Was suorn In today by the Governor. Sir Henry Monck Mason Moore, with Mr. D S. Senanavake. leader of the United National Party— returned strongest at the recent elections— as Prime Minister Four
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      NO BRITISH BABES FOR EXPORT'
      68 8 NO BRITISH BABES FOR EXPORT' MRS. Molly Mass. a G. I. bride, IU wrolr from America to Alderman S. Wilson of Essex County Council Children's Homes Committee, asking him to .send her a baby, a.s there was a great shortage of babies m the United States Mr. Wilson replied: "Sorry,
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      'NO JAP PEACE WITHOUT RUSSIA'
      201 8 PEIPING, Friday. OREMIER cnang Chun reaffirmed China's determination not to participate m discussions of the Japanese peace settlement without Russia m a speech m Yenching University yesterday. He said without Russia any Japanese peace conference would mean great difficulty m solving many problems, as Russia
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      NO REDUCTION OF BCOF
      33 8 LT.-QSN. V. H. Slurdee. Chief Of the Australian General StafT, said m Tokio on Friday that a further reduction m British occupation forces m JaDan is not contemplated.- A.P.
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      VICTIMS IDENTIFY JOHORE BANDITS
      191 8 A NUMBER oi people from KlUftni and other parts of Johore came forward yesterday to identify seven bandits whom police arrested after a gun battle on Thursday m the bandits' hideout at Niyor, (live miles from Khiang). Four of the seven bandits under arrest were wounded
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      BRITAIN READY TO QUIT PALESTINE
      527 8 BRITAIN READY TO QUIT PALESTINE 'UNO must find the solution NEW YORK, Friday. DRITAIN informed the 55-State United Nations General Assembly today that she would end her 25-year-old rule of Palestine if the United Nations Assembly failed to find a solution during the present session that would bring peace to
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      46 8 Two young Americans, Clifford Era- turn m M With one of the two Pmer C/ib &> a leisurely round-the-norld fligl ■r "va/25 liO/it planes. Leaviiio New j, e n th c 'eUta touc/iecf dou;n m Croyrfo/z, 4 W < l a month c. Baghdad, Karachi, 'maki •■«S, Sfe
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      Soviet wants all troops out of Korea
      150 8 Soviet wants all troops out of Korea bhOUL. Friday. /GENERAL T. F. Shiikov, ehlef \J Russian delegate to the Joint Commission on Korea, has proposed simultaneous withdrawal of American and Russian occupa forces lrom Korea at the beginning of 1948. Gen. Shtikov said at a Commission meeting that "the Soviet
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      INQUIRY FOR RUBBERS
      446 8 London Stock Eschan^ T«HE only bright section m an fcj"^ x market on tlie London Stock S2 was provided by British Government so Si recorded gains up to three-quarters o a t^ Reuter s financial correspondent Thk im I however, did not benefit the Industrial JSE*S prices
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      New York stocks
      10 8 0.. tailed I ■■^J U.P. gsdfsf U.P.
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      New China $ slump
      13 8 New China slump T'HE i I 15.500 buv:r: a:.: C .V. «J Reuter
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      STORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      111 8 ASPK !\l Market corwprf 1 enl t;ives the prices of rab* .it 11 a m todiv as follows. mm;iporf cfliMBU"- -< -oMMfRCE The Singapore Chambtfjg mercc Rubber Usomtwns*" :it noon Ncstrrday wf«- j^ Buyers Cts. per Ib I" 1 v., I 8.8.8 5, I noniin.il' X
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      97 8 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Anthony Frances »wi Hoopc ol Singapore is to the Governor for ..aturaI n and that aiy person who v reason why naturalization nted should -.end a Vll I sllOied .statement of the i f io the Colonial BeereUn E I IoSSriSrSSLb!-^ srot h Whlsky
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      12 8 •i s i YOU CAM RBLT YO.R EYESIGHT MANUFACTUR»y 14.. SOUTH SINGAPORE.
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      60 8 WEATHER Sun; ly Wl VTIIER report I r the next 24 hours compiled r t l ip II A r. :v today and IOOMX9W, Fair I Wind li^'ht south -m ulh-east to s-uu'h- ith-H. B t: 6.28; Stir i v 6 IS. M "r s?: 4.30 1:1 moonset I It
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      21 8 S POKE HIGH TIDES Today: 9. 18 a.m. and 9. 0.> p.m. i Sunday: 10. 16 am. and 9. 18 p.m.
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