The Singapore Free Press, 29 September 1947

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    22 1 The Singapore Free Press kkjjls i At I LjRNOON SALE IN MALA YA ITitf* SINGAPORE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    INDIA REJECTS UNO SCHEME
    429 1 INDIA REJECTS UNO SCHEME Widening gap with Pakistan T HE Donjinion of h £gfii the oh™^™ SLi^Jf" that Unit <* Nations' h<d f^ VTv^ V n6la Com^nt on Pakistan's appeal for lintish Commonwealth helo is more caucus The Union of India has 3 sent an appreciation of the situation to
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    Oil pact: Persian premier flayed
    197 1 TEHERAN, Sunday. ILMILK (>iu\aiii-« Suli.uich today stalked out of the Mailiv (Pirtiament) under a stinging attack who assailed (|uavam's X oil ifreema .the Russians as. the worst iwwniin the past IN jrean of Persian history. m declared the Persian Soviet exploitation of the "evea if
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    POLICE RAID ON ASCIST MEETING
    20 1 I I I B H I m boos fr I my si lmps I I
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    NATIONALISM IN S.E. ASIA IS 'NOT ANTI-WEST'
    167 1 NATIONALISM IN S.E. ASIA IS 'NOT ANTI-WEST' LONDON. Sunday. THE view that the destiny of India and Pakistan was to give "moral leadership to Asian colonial peoples fighting for independence" was contained m a report on the two new Dominions presented to the London Conference on Asia which ended here
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    TO SIGN TREATY
    29 1 The Burmese Prim e Minister Thakin Nu, and th P Defence Counsellor, will leav P for London on Oct. 12 to sitrn th c An^loBurmese Treaty.
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    PLANES RUSH DRUGS TO CHOLERA CITIES
    214 1 Pt ax™ LONDON, Sunday. LANES of the British Overseas Airways Corporation were this week-end flying two-and-a-half tons of drugs and vaccine to Cairo and 1,400 kilogrammes of drugs to Karachi to I help m the fight against the cholera epidemics m these cities ja
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    GENT EXPECTS IN RICE CROP
    338 1 GENT EXPECTS IN RICE CROP Free Press Staff Correspondent r r .v f .m get 40 ,00 0 uJ^S %ZZ£^ ta ,of twtntf nlT r in? id in h M e f lm led the re Would b e increase aso Tb t Malay 3' S OWn nee cr °P
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    ARMED MEN TAKE TWO TAXIS
    84 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ■npHREE taxi robberies were reA ported to the police yesterday. In two. the drivers were robbed by armed men of both cash and their cabs which have not yet been recovered. The lost cars bear numbers S 3203 and J 4425.
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    VICTIMS OF DELHI RIOTING
    70 1 VICTIMS OF DELHI RIOTING This picture taken m Chelmsford Road. Neiv Delhi, shows Muslims uith a litter trudging down the street past the bodies of refugees and their personal belongings. The group of dead on the left includes a woman and child, while, behind them, a dying person is seen
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    Vital talks on U.S. aid plan
    376 1 WASHINGTON, Sunday. THE eyes erf the world will be on the White House tomorrow A when President Truman meet« leaders of both Congressional parties to win their support for immediate proj grammes to aid Europe and for plans for the double battle against high
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    SEPTUPLETS AND QUINS
    122 1 11/1/2. Chang Shu-ping, direcIfl tor of the Tax Bureau at Ishing, 120 miles from Shanghai has announced that his niece, Mrs. Chan<] Ping-nei, gave birth to eight bops on July 5. One died shortly after birth, but the others are well and the mother ts sound and
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    GUARD HELD UP, MOTORS STOLEN
    49 1 Free Press Staff Reporter JTKDUR Chinese one armed M: landed m a sampan opposite a store off the 14th mile Changi at 1.15 this morning, and broke open the store after holding up the Marine Police guard. They made away with six outboard motors.
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    SIX TEXTS BURNT IN CAMP FIRE
    38 1 A I S hich broke out noon y':f e «iay m the Nee Soon S*£*i c am P- Singapore, burnt jur*2 X tonts No one was cjaren^r^^o^erir^o'on^n b S thC flr Under
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    HOUSE COLLAPSES
    13 1 M ®s pers °ns were killed and gSgSSS the occupants.- U.P.
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  • FEATURES.
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      EIGHTH MOON FESTIVAL
      497 2 EIGHTH MOON FESTIVAL TUIK 4*0,000,000 suffering people of warstricken China, with little to be thankful for, celebrate their Moon Festival today. r ihe festival is China's way of propitiating tne goas for favours coiiierred. If, M m the cas^ of this year, the gods seemeJ to have frowned instead of
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      TODAY'S BRIDGE PROBLEM
      384 2 COUTH certainly had to take 0 some action on his hand, and While there is considerable differanea o4 < p ny n as bo v.i\at he should lia\e eh ne, his actual choice rt.vulted sadly f. r Ins side. Ho opened the singleton club and rufTed a
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      UNO's snappy film shorts
      465 2 SOME evening before long, you may slide into your movie seat and see something new films produced by the United Nations Organisation. They will be snappy 20-minute shorts some dealing with world problems which may pinch you now like a tight shoe and they will be
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      'Patriots of humanity
      364 2  -  Lan Cox By CURGEONS, I v virtue of their calling, are v all patriots of humanity and a^ such know no frontiers." That was the keynote of Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson's welcome to nearly 500 surgeons from o\ forty countries whe they visited London for the twelfth conference
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      SHABBY No.
      209 2 NO. 10 Downing Sti th c modes! official residence of Britain's Pnme Ministers situated only a stone's throw from the Houses of Parliament, will remain dingy at leas; f° r the time being. In spite ol many letter! ticising its outward shabbm* >.-, which m recent weeks have
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      29 2 Vivad >iv Diana Dors (above), coming young British actress, lost no time m getting acQitainted icith. the merry-go-round at the Film Garden Party held at Morden Hall Park, Surrey.
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    • Miscellaneous
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      1063 2 SINGAPORE I AUSTRALIA \\J> |j Blue Network Natzkt- 7. 15 K:\m<ni, conductors; 7.30 Australian Pianists: 745 Canberra 12 00— 2 00 p m 185 metres m the P m !1 p m VMi 19 4 report; T.M Australian ringers; Hp m. medium wave band 7.22 megacycle, 15 2 mt l
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      223 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune ioreeast tor people born today DORN today, you have tre. mcndous strength of will; are assertive; and positive m your opinions. You either love or hate you don't remain neutral on any subject. This tendency to swing from one extieni- to the other can become a
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  • NEWS...
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      ARABS WILL RESIST UNITED NATIONS
      209 3 ARABS WILL RESIST UNITED NATIONS Mixea reception for Holy Land statement cT H b yMV' m A nt C^ic h h e V l^ Natlons General Assembly s s^-i,s Sr'Sr^'W. ■Station. The Arabs, howevlr re"terateS JE^T? 1 mination to oppose partition reUerated their detersaiAhaf^e ho^^uiP^ts^ar^it^n W announced her intention to
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      Jogjakarta Street Scene
      55 3 Despite the threat of Dutch forces to Jogjakarta, Indonesian Republican capital, life goes on very much as usual. But as a precaution against "invasion," public conveyances are "armoured" with bamboo spears. These slender weapons can be seen on the horse-drawn vehicle m this picture, which shows the
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      BRITISH DEAL WITH ARGENTINE
      53 3 SIR REX Leeper, Britain's 59--year-old Australian barn Ambassador tP the Argentine. nas just pulled off an £11,250,000 deal with President Perons economic henchman, Senor Miguel Miranda. For that price he has sold the British owned Anglo-Argentine Trams' sharetaolding m Buenos Aires Transport Corporation which took over
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      Musicians protest at Covent Garden
      96 3 LIEMBERS or the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra NarriWne at C ?enl Garden to rehearse for the of th- ana State season, found nearly M) London musician- demonstrating against them pntslde the Royal Op* ra House. Thirty of the demonstrators Mr trumpet*, trombones, and Irtcs to back
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      PI TIGHTENS UP ON SMUGGLING
      117 3 IK) improve the present policy of the Philippines Bureau of Immigration m guardine against Mn '< of contraband and Chinese aliens m different poinrs tile Philippines, the Commist of Immigration, Mr. En?racio Fabre. has anni>unot-d that immigration personnel will bf. assigned to minor pors Mr
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      THE CARPENTER DINED ON NAILS
      45 3 pstf MAYS. 25, a Cape-town r^pfnier who swnil>wed JC4 'm<l> :s '"feeitnß fln^ l |uys wir.o luml Lho aaiis "ex•il. said he ate te i vater. rtion he mto his doctor complaining i: ;:»«tion. HSCwiCu: 'rived CjErtrr;;^, ■< the I rode.
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      U.S. AID FOR CHINA
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      PLEDGE TO SPIRIT OF AUNG SAN
      93 3 A personal report" to the spirits 01 Gen. Aung San and other 1-ad Burmese leaders was mad.' <>n Friday by members of the Burmese Constituent Assembly who marched to Jubiloe Hall, where remaim of the murdered ministers are lying m state. The members announced
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      NEWLY WEDS AT TOP
      36 3 i><ewly married couples who never had a home of their own are moved to the top of the new housing waiting lists under a r.ew scheme adopted by the Wivenhoe •Ec>sex) Council.
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      China may give up Soviet 'friendship'
      282 3 China may give up Soviet 'f riendship' OUSSIA'S attitude toward Dairen might overtax the patience of the Chinese and possibly force Nanking eventually to renounce the Sino-Soviet friendship treaty, Gen. LI Tsung-jen, director of Chiang Kaishek's headquarters indicated m an interview with the Associated Press The celebrated Kwangsze general, who
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      WON'T SERVE TWO MASTERS
      102 3 DEC MSE the town h o rse °t O Clones (County Mona^han), Eire, will only work for one master it is to be sold by order of the county manager When its master goes on annual or siok leave the horse goes on strike and has
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      N.Z. GESTURE TO CHINA
      81 3 THE suggestion that Japan should recognise China's sovereignty over Manchuria m j the forthcoming Japanese peace I treaty is contained m a report made by the New Zealand Premier. Mr. Peter Fraser, to Parliamont, semi-official sources revealed m Nanking. Premier Fraser is also reported to have
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      FORGOTTEN LAW
      38 3 A forgotten paragraph m the U.S. Army Manual sanctioning the killing of hostages m certain circumstances may floor a case avrainst 11 high German officers. It was quoted by counsel for Field -Marshal Last.- A. P.
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      GUTS FORBIDDEN
      28 3 Gen Hsuan Ti-wu, Garrison, Commander of Shanghai, m a circulari3ed< order, has strictly iorbitiden the exchange of p»rescn*^ at lie mid- Autumn festival on today.- U.P.
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      JUDGE QUOTES HAMLET TO ELDERLY DIVORCEE
      131 3 JTXD a 54-year-old co-respondent who associated with a 24--year-old wife. Judge Forbes at Birmingham Divorce Court quoted Hamlet. "At your age," says Hamlet "tthe hey-day m the blood Is tame; it's humble and waits up- on the Judgment." The Judge said: "A man of
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      MOSCOW HAS 'NON-SWAYING' SKYSCRAPERS
      117 3 MOSCOW'S two new skycraper buildings will stand like rocks to the elements and -will not, like American ones, "sway with the wind," a structural engineer, Nasamov, wrote with pride La the Literary Mag&zixve. Discussing plans for the two buildings one of 32 and one or ?<>
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      UK CINEMAS GO OVER TO STAGE
      88 3 ALL 23 British cinemas ir.- the Buxton circuit are to switch I over to stage productions as soon as their current film commitments run out. This way of meeting American film cuts was decided on by Mr. Kenry Buxton ar.d his manager. The Pilot
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      GREECE IS 'DYNAMITE'
      28 3 The Yugoslav delegate Ales Bebler, opening the United Nations Political Committee debate on Greece, warned that the situation held "the dynamite of a new war."
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      GERMANS SAY 'GIVE RUHR PITS TO US'
      288 3 GERMANS SAY 'GIVE RUHR PITS TO US ANGLO-AMERICAN control of the Ruhr coalmines 2* n™ X™ I ln Was j» n *t°n statement guaranteeing 25 000,000 dollars immediately to set mines m order, will suit neither the German miners nor the trade unions nor the Ruhr provincial government What they
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      DOGBROUGHT 'DEAD' MAN BACK TO WIFE
      113 3 DOG BROUGHT 'DEAD' MAN BACK TO WIFE WHEN a pomeranian dog dashed f yapping round Sydney Lyons m Sacramento, California, he recognised tfhe dog as Judy, whom he last saw before he was drafted overseas m 1942. Judy Jed Sydney to Mary his wi^e, for whom he had been searching
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      U.K. LEADS IN ROBOT PLANES
      126 3 BRITAIN could have made an Atlantic flight with an au-tomatically-controlled plane ten years ago if they thought such a night was needed, declared Mr R. F. WagstafTe, a British Ministry of Supply aeronautical expert, at a press conference m London. Mr. T. Jones, a director
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      VOLUNTEER TO HANG JAPS
      106 3 A Welshman wrote to the Philip- pine Army Judge AdvocateGeneral offering to solve his problem how to find a hangman lor Japanese war criminals who may be condemned to death by the Philippine military commission. Mr. F. Derrlngton, former army captain now living at 142 Bute
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      WORLD AFFAIRS MADE HER ANGRY
      50 3 mks. STELLA LEWIS, aged 47, lis worried over world affairs They made her so angry that she hanged herself with a dog lead at her home m Mailing place Lewes, Sussex. This was tlie evidience her brother, Dr. Francis Farr, gave to the Lewes coroner.
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      HELP FOR FARMERS
      32 3 Farmers m Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Essex and Lincolnshire are being helped with the harvest for six weeks by 210 German students from Hamburg who arrived m Harwich at the week-end.
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      ARRESTED FOR FORGERY
      47 3 DR. Rudolf Goeker, a German and his wife, were arrested m rel Aviv for possessing a printing press for forging Palestine £5 notes and U.S. dollar bills They ar e reported to have said that official^ of the Palestine Government wer c their accomplices.
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      CRASHED TO SAVE RIVAL RIDER
      40 3 Motor cyclist Harold Dante li of Forest Hill, S.E., crashed to sav<> an Italian rider who fell m front of him m th c Grand Pruc des Nations. Then Darnell remounted and won third prize
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      GAIETY OFF AIR
      16 3 All India Radio has banned "^ay and frivolous music" while community strife lasts.
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1947. Timely Warning For Malaya
      842 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY, SEPT. 29, 1947. Timely Warning For Malaya S PICKING at last weeks extra genera) meeting oi the Smga.pore Chamber of Commerce, Mr. E. M. F. Fcrgasson, the chairman, sounded a timely warning about economic conditions In Malaya, strewing that the high level of the trade
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      GOOD MORNING
      803 4  -  FRANK OWEN by fyHE elements of Bri- tain's peril are plain, Without enough coal she is done. The tardy and sullen return of the Grimethorpe miners merely means that no more immediate harm will be caused m a situation already desperate. For the storm is still rising Anybody
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      92 4 When Lieut. Philip \tountbattcn tlim tK> rtna on to tin ''-irct f at°wJLi£tZ* S A£ izabeth Z leii h<i >(/ ]fl VoleZn moment UttS 2iw S«S ?n7 222: "fa fc <» w probable that the thi rfl»S B^ c fa umed from British quid mined at m Picture \hn thn
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      No cupboard love—when it's bare
      1112 4  - No cupboard love when it's bare ALEXANDER CLIFFORD By r rom The Italian Riviera JHKRE has been ?loom m our piazza for days now. The sun still shines as brightly. They still serve the mixed fry of small fish (the local speciality) at the check-clothed tables under the arcades, and
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      14 4 The partially-completed bandstand built m Hyde Park London i Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee.
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      Longest tow on record
      150 4 Longest tow on record THE r W h Jacksonville, FiJ? l-New York look up a SrW tow mg job c ■*<» SK »PPer of the "X Watch H, that a, 'n one of th 7*N» m mar itk The Watch p v 200-foot one fife Indies, a f ea: rd
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      'HITCH OVER DOUBLE 10' MESSAGE
      157 5 'HITCH OVER DOUBLE 10' MESSAGE 1 Chinese Leftists won't agree s Special Correspondent I post-war political trends m China, I umapore are divided on the guesi Biding i message of felicitations to GeneralisI h i a ng Kai-shek on the occasion of the Double I he -%th anniversary of the
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      50 5 picture. Lieut. Col. fluci Mrs. W. Maiiland Ivimey after their wedding on Saturday. The bride was formerly Mrs. Joyce Bernuu. Matron of honour was Mrs. Anne Woods and Mr. Peter Carmichael gave the bride awaw. The reception was held at Prince's, aurf was attended by a large aathrrinn Free Press
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      MOON FESTIVAL TONIGHT
      147 5 O7HKN the moon rises toJ* night, half a million Chinese m Singapore will observe the festival of the 15th Day of the Eighth Moon During the past few weeks, they have spent nearly $500,000 on mooncakes— small round cakes made of flour, bean jam ccc i, chopped
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      SINGAPORE CMO ENTERTAINED
      45 5 rhe Singapore Chief Medical Officer. Dr H. Scnmgeour. w s entertained to a farewell dinner by members of the Singap >re :ital Assistants Union m College Road on Saturday evening, prior to his departure on leave. His successor, Dr. Strang, was present.
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      UNKNOWN
      17 5 I >n of nth 01 ***** picuis ns ol protn union ion was proequi- nnxlucuig •Mian
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      FORCE 136 MEN TO REPORT
      5 5 FORCE 136 MEN TO REPORT
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      30 5 Daily, crowds gather round this counter m the office of Lablr and Wireless m Robinson I. Increased demand for cabivyram services made the provision of this snecial U-shap-'"i counter necessary.
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      Vaccine to stop poultry disease
      111 5 1 poiiTPv ma Press Staif Reporter ""Department. The vaccine has been tested out In the Mnlayan Union and experiments have proved its cmcacy m c^.mbattinK Ranikhet wie Cniof Veterinary Officer Singapore, told the Free Press." He added that although orders irom India hnd already been
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      38 COUPLES IN MASS WEDDING
      92 5 AT a two hour ceremony at the n Victoria Memorial Hall yostcr. duv. at which the Chinese Consul General. Dr. Wu Paak-shin? offl. ciated, 38 Chinese couples were married m the biggest mass wedding since September, 1945. The couples were identically dressed, the brides m
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      More UK cloth for export
      189 5 TWO hundred million yards ol .r^"? 1 1 0 fabric ar e to be produced lor o\vr<*ea s customer diirrn^ third quarter this year T m m ord rxport Programme Tor cloth woven m Britain ra< aSrd**" announced S V Cotton A similar »!itme is
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      Decorations On Nov. 2O
      19 5 PUBLIC buildings around Singapore's padang will be decorated on Nov. 20. Princess Elisabeth*! wedding day.
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      BIG FLOW OF CABLES DAILY
      293 5 Free Pres* StalT Reporter CO many peopLe are sending tele- grams from Smgapore at trie moment that tiie Cable ana Wireless office In Robinson Roaa recently liad to extend its counter to cope wit m increased cable trailie. The new counter, which 13 m tihe
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      23 5 picture. George* GarrZ^ctiriFtoTZillir***" 0 fl s'thc B rlsi7pnJ Va i\?, gL E M rton REME an <* tat residence of the general.— Free Press
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      Indonesian Govt. 'democratic'
      573 5 Indonesian Govt. 'democratic A™^fi[ p'*™ m nlhs Harris Jackson, Jackson thinks future negotiations between thp TnH^_ SSstowiM: 555r£ sin to, and what the Dutch will concede g 8 Jackson told Antara:— "I was surprised at the ex- treme peacefulness of conditions m the interior and amazed at the creditable way
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      FULL MOON DAY
      29 5 Full moon tonight will be cele3rated at the Sinhalese Buddhist IVmple m Outram Road, by Mr. 3. N. De S. Gunawardhane m nomory of his father.
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      3000 Chinese mechanics are jobless
      207 5 3000 Chinese mechanics are jobless Free Pres s Chinese Correspondent "ABOUT 3,000 Chinese me- chamcs and engineering workers are jobless, while some 5,000 Chines c mocha! nics and machineshop worKers are working on alternate days— on a rotation basis —as a result of the depression m the engineering- field," f?
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      'SAPPERS' FOR PUBLIC WORKS
      133 5 AUSTRALJAN ARMY engire-rs will be employed on big public works m peacetime if. proposals now being considered by Army Headquarters are adopted. The Er.gineer-in-Chief of tho Australian Army, Brigadier v C. Secombe recently returned to Australia after 2' 2 months' toue Of England. Germany and the
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      11 5 W£) f% *H A T'S (NAME PANJANG ROAD, ""S out, swimming.
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      129 5 your SPORTS/ REQUIREMENTS OF QUAUTY Visit Our Sports Goods Department I We have m Stork the following items for Hf j your Interest. Badminton Racket*, each from $7 to $12.50 |j "Spalding" Shuttlecocks. ..per doz. $12.50 j| Scotts "Keepdrye" Dart j! j Boards (18" x 1") Double Sided each 8.50
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  • NEWS..
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      AGA KHAN IS WELL AGAIN
      50 6 THE Aga Khan, who has had an attack of internal haemorrhage, has completely recovered after undergoing treatment at Lausanne. Switzerland, and Is expected m Paris shortly. Hr will then go to the Riviera Ahere he is expected to stay lor one or two months.- Reuter
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      91 6 picture. Young Maifrenn Gbenga, son of a chief of the Mende (West African) tribe, thinks a forest of Lancashire mill, chimneys are "beautiful" after the monotonous jungle of Sierra Leone. Maifrenn is staying with the Rev. Arthur Kew to learn how to overcome the fears and superstitions taught by his
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      He called her a 'has been'
      82 6 MOYIK a< trfcss Career Larson, dabbing s>or»cvU'uliy at Uar.fiiled m eyes, severed her marriage ties with actor Kir hard Ney because, she sobbed, he had called her a "has been/ This brought the red-headed beauty a fast divorce m the Hollywood Superior Court on
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      US BUSINESS MEN PROTEST TO PHILIPPINES
      123 6 THE American Chamber of Commerce has protested against "unfair and unwise discrimination." against American business I men m the Philippine caused by the Philippine Government's exclusion of Americans from list of delegates from the new Republic to Japan last month. The organization's Journal said
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      BLUE BABY HAS HEART REBUILT
      419 6 U.S. surgeon's 'new life' operation IN Guy's Hospital m London a boy lay sick, with the certainty of death within seven years hanging over him. But Dr. Alfred Blalock, an American surgeon, removed the boy's heart, rebuilt it, and now the youngster lives with the
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      THE RUSSIAN VERSION OF UNO
      204 6 NEWSPAPER readers m the Soviet Union were given a report that Deputy Foreign Minister Vyshinsky had upset the plans of forces m the United States which were pictured as seeking war with Russia, writes Eddy Gilmore, A. P. correspondent. Two Soviet correspondents sent messages from
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      GANDHI'S BIRTHDAY
      30 6 The West Bentcul Government has announced that Mahatma j-iirihi s birthday on Oct. 2 would be i public holiday. He will be 79 n thai date. A. P.
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      BRITAIN DEVELOPS 'STOOGE' ROCKET
      213 6 SIX Richard F&irey, m hi.s alinual rrepotr t to the shareholders of the Fairly Aviation Company, said :hat the new activity which ho referred to as being "m germ" m his last year's report could now be made public. It was a new flying missile known
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      CUT IN FRENCH PETROL RATION
      52 6 rpHE French Cabinet has decld--1 ed to cut out entirely the ordinary monthly rxtrol ration. The Cabinet decided tha: motor cyclists could have five litres of rxtrol a morrh but ordinary non-priority car drivers would get nothing. Priority petrol allocations v ill b° sVlfbtd 40
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      FAILED IN DUTY, KILLS HIMSELF
      67 6 TORU shimizu. former I ddent of the Privy Coun who was purged because of pre-war activities as a men highest advisory organ to E peror Hirohito, has comnv. 1 suicide by drowning hims:i Atami. a seaside resort 55 ml oouth west of Tokyo. Shimizu left
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      CATHOLIC WAR' ON BANK ISSUE
      252 6 CATHOLIC WAR ON BANK ISSUE CHIFLEY UNDER FI3E AN open letter to Mr. J. B. Chifley, Australian Premier, from Sydney's authoritative Catholic Weekly has started a new political war which may split the Australian Labour Party. The war is between Catholics and those who favour the Labour Party > proposals
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      UNKNOWN
      39 6 Few pictures have been taken m Britain, for publication, of a surgical operation m progress. Here, Dr. Blalock (facing camera beneath arc lamp) is seen operating on the eight-year-old boy. born a "blue baby," at Guy's Hospital. London.
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      Britain's new military base
      119 6 4 FLKTHEK step m the Eas\ Africa into a vast the decision, to bouse at millions of pounds worth from Egypt and India. The site is a sparsely from the port of Mombas to Nairobi. Already 300 ci 900 more are due next m transformation of
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      FLIERS RESCUED BY SUBMARINE
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      WILHELMINA ORDER AUSTERITY JUBLEE
      10 6 WILHELMINA ORDER AUSTERITY JUBLEE AUEEN wnJB biiiti jubilee <4 A.P.
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      'SADIST' SENTENCES
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      COAL TO NEWCASTLE
      23 6 American tinned oysters i a>. a tin) have arrived at Weat Mf r sea, Essex, home of the Colchester "native."
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      129 6 LAST DAY! Phone CATHAY 3400 11— 1.4*— 4.15— 8 45 9.30 JHE MOST DARING ASSASSINATION EVER DEPICTED ON ANY SCREEN CLEOPATRA I Claudrtte Henry Warren Colbert Wilcoxon Williams OPENING TOMORROW LUCILLK'S GREAT STRIP-TEASE 3eSTK>OT TIUS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR A WARNING to LADIES TO -MORROW AT THE CAPITOL MILLAftO STANWYCK-
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      34 6 LAST DA V TO-DAY CAPITOL 1.30 4 6.30 9.30 p.m. MERLE OREROH FRARGHOT TOIE THOMAS MITCHELL TOMORROW DcboraJ) KERR f k David FARRAR FIoroROBSON > X fit TtCMNICOIO* KN I GMT.--, SIMMONS -BYRON C(t> ii^Nwi.u.iiSiitti
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      104 6 Jj\NE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya [/WHAT ABOUT y>K>T WITH YdU, ERJC!-\ fSOO SEE^TMEOIRLSN THANKS FOR P^ I 1 A BATHE, I BETTER NOT BE SEEM WON'T TALK, SO THE COMPLIMENT A >cS\ *ON THE GIRLS/ JANE? A AROUND TOGETHER MUST GET To KNOW DARLING BUT I'D
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      INDIAN CRICKET TOUR TO AUSTRALIA
      563 7 High Traditions To Maintain oy J\ special Correspondent VEXT month for the first time m the annals of cricket, an All-Indian cricket team will visit Australia, and their 'our- month tour of Bradman's country will be followed with the closest interest by cricketers all over
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      Programme of matches
      84 7 Programme of matches l'-° ilVrthi. gtatti Nustraha V, \.lH.ini.- 4 Victoria 0,, V M.lhoiirneK v, iaey». v !>i«-yi. c IBrtoI r.itiei (U (BBISBANI pa*" !lJ :in>rx I" SETOMI n<l 0 l -M»\J F|. w.-t Dhlrlrti of J^hU,.- !'..th..rsti f v,utiw-n Districti of south U"' nbi niiRD rESi Ji"- I i
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      JACK KRAMER, SCHROEDER IN FINAL AGAIN
      158 7 JACK KRAMER, SCHROEDER IN FINAL AGAIN LOS ANGELES, Sunday. DICHARD GONZALES. oi Los Angeles, who jumped into promint nee m the Pacific South- West tournament here when he reached the semi-finals by <U*i' ating •kie Parker, one of Am rica'A leading players by 2-6, G-l. 1-6, 6-1, 6-2 was defeated
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      NELSON SPORTS DEFEATED 4-Nil
      123 7 IN a friendly soccer match played at the Victoria School ground yesterday the Supply Reserve Depot defeated th c Nelson Sports Club by four goals to nil. The Supply Reserve Depot, playin c well together, soon took command and scored the first yoal through Osborne a
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      U.S. WIN WEIGHT LIFTS
      47 7 The Uiiil-ed Sia'-os weiglit Ufttng team, aided by \Jn<e record periormanccs of middlcweit^nt fcJtan Stanczyk and heavy weight John Davis, won its second successive world's championship yesterday by completing a sweep of all even Us m the international compe Union at Philadelphia.— U.P.
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      Keng Chuan In Men's Singles Final
      60 7 I R\ oiirt I I Bad- t and I I I Yam I nd- de« I I I H Hnold i'-ad I I n th< II I and II terI I I I I .is): I B 1 M 1 I I 11. Di.ubles
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      SPURS ASSETS ARE OVER £100,000
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      CROSSES NORTH SEA IN EIGT-TON YACHT
      12 7 CROSSES NORTH SEA IN EIG T-TON YACHT I« m his n the
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      KING'S JOCKEY
      48 7 W H Carr will again ride His Majesty tiie King's Newmarkettrained horses next season. He has also been retained as firs'* Jockey i Captain Boyd- Roc h fort's powerful Freemason Lodge > tables. Onrr has been m fine form this season and has ridden TO winners.— Reuter.
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      JANY'S NEW RECORD
      30 7 Alex Jany. French swimminc champion, broke another world record at Casablanca on Sunday. Ho swam the one hundred metres froe style m three minutes one >nd.- A.P.
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      ANNIE GET YOUR GUN' STAR GETS HORSE
      83 7 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN STAR GETS HORSE Doloras Grey, star of the London show "Annie Get Your Gun," has become part owner of a race-horse called Annie Got Your Gun, a two-year-old illy which is entered for next year's Oaks. Miss Grey said .*he saw the name m a racing
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      GHQ Farelf Win Thrilling Game
      483 7 Free Press Staff Reporter 0.11. Q. Farelf 3 Seaforth Highlanders 2 p>VO of the strongest service teams m the S.A.F.A. Cup tournament met m a friendly game at Tanglin last e\en- j ing and delighted the croud with a thrilling exhibition of_ good football. Possessing
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      S'HAI TENNIS TIE
      49 7 Play.rig In sweltering heat veteran T. T. Wang tied at two WCts each witfi Q C. qhow m the semi-finals of the Shanglia. 1 open Tennis championships on Saturday. Oificials permitted tiie r ;.«me to be held ever till Sunday because of the hea^ wave.- U.P.
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      KL TRACK WORK
      44 7 The Free Press racing correspondent wire* from Kuala Lumpur that track preparation for the opening day of the Selangor meeting on Saturday was confined to slow work this morning. Most of Saturday's entries were exercised Out there were no outstanding performances.
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      SCHEMELING'S BIRTHDAY COME-BACK
      189 7 SCHEMELING'S BIRTHDAY COME-BACK FRANKFURT, Sunday. MAX Schmeling, former world heavyweight champion ana the only boxer to knock out Joe Louis a-s a proKssional, celebrated hi 5 42nd birthday today by making a suecrs.sfui come-back to the ring after an eight years" absence. Watched by about 40,000 people Schmeling. known as
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      Johnny Ryan Is Fit Again
      136 7 BRITAIN S most outstanding amateur boxer m the last two years, C. S. M. I. Johnny Ryan, who was also Britain's only winner m the European championships m Dublin, says his injured ri^ht hand which handicapped him m important events at the end of the
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      S.T.C. UNION LOSE
      30 7 The recently-formed S.T.C. Employees' Union football team lost to the Singapore Rangers m a friendly soccer match played at Telok Kurau yesterday by five goals to one
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      Blakan Mati XV
      27 7 )iclure. The R.A. (Blakan Mali) rugger team which met the Singapore Cricket Club on the padang on Saturday. The S.C.C. icon 16—3 Free Press
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      Programme For SRC Sports Meeting On Saturday
      189 7 THE Singapore Recreation Club will hold its first post-war annual athletic sports on Satur- I day. The programme of events is < as follows.— 3 p.m: 100 yards Flat Race; Throwing the Cricket Ball; 220 yards Handicap; Putting the Shot; Sack Race. 75
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      Odd Goal Win For Penang
      587 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Sunday. A FINE second half rally failed to save Perak from defen t ati *1 the hands of Penang when the teams met m the first inter-State game to be played here this season on the West, lands School Ground
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      18 MALAYAN CHINESE FOR SOCCER TOUR
      235 7 IMGHTEEN footballers from the J Malayan Union and Singa\i° r i C h:iV^S een in .vited to form a Malayan Chinese touring: team to be known* as the Lien Hwa. which will play matches m Bangkok Manila. Hour Kon* and Shanenai. m The 1
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      CABLE AND WIRELESS HOCKEY FIXTURES
      54 7 ALL hockey clubs or teams having fixtures with the Cable and Wireless XI are requested to communicate with Mr. T. Pereira. Cable Wireless Limited or phone 5177 as soon as possible. The fixture list as compiled at the recent convenors' meetiner of the Singapore Hockey
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      234 7 Free Press Crossword Ho. 200 1 T fi p r Tp rs [7 rj 9 »o 11 CLLES ACROSS 1, River flood (5). 5. Unit of electrical power (4). 9. One-time German kingdom whose rulers were kings of Great Britain from 1714-1837 (7) 11, Strong napless cloth for men's wear
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      HOME..
      72 8 HOME Famed Clovelly, m Devon, occupies a rift on steep cliff slopes, at the foot of which is a small "Wf picturesque harbour which affords a paradise for fishermen and artists. The main street wanders down a cobOlea slope which is like a ziazaa stairway. On either side of the
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      Kig Ked reverse in North China
      334 8 SHANGHAI, Sunday. piSIIING rapidly northward from Hwangshankwan under cover of a squadron of bombers and strafing airNationalist troops have captured Lungkou, important Communist port 40 miles west of Chefoo m Shantung Province, North China, semi-otlicial dispatches reported. The Communist garrison, it is claimed suffered
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      'EUROPE MUST UNITE OR DIE'- RAMADIER
      159 8 'EUROPE MUST UNITE OR DIE'- RAMADIER MULJiOUSE. (France), Sunday. THE French Premier, M. Paul Ramadicr. said today that France harbours no desire for vengeance against Germany but ieeLs that German recovery should be subordinated to the reconstruction of European countries that were victims of the Nazis. M. Ramadicr, spe-king at
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      CUSTOMS SEIZE CIGARETTES
      65 8 Free Press Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU, Monday. U/HEN Custom officers carried out ff ihoir routine search of the train which arrived from Kuala 2-uinpur this morning, they discovered two gunny sacks full of Cigarettes and another four cartons m the reserved saloon m v,hieh the acting Manager of
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      WOULD FLYERS
      59 8 THE two tiny Piper Cub planes bcinK flown by George Truman an( ClllTord Evans around the world, took off from Bangkok yesterday for Hanoi. Indo-Chtna They tentatively plan to stop at Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokio before making their long dimcuit .dash up the Aleutian island chain to
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      Angry British motorists' bid to oust Attlee
      160 8 LONDON, Sunday. k PLAN to collect a million signa- j tures to petition Kinp George to dissolve th c British PariiaYnent i,o that Mr. Clement Attlee's Labour Government may be "replaced by business men' was announced |o a meeting of British motorists 1
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      TREAT HARTAL WITH CONTEMPT'
      217 8 Free Fress Staff Correspondent /IAMINr- th KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. fALLINO the hartal "an undesirable immigrant," the Governor of the Malayan Union Sir Edwirri He s>aid the hartal was of great i. significance m this country, be. cause it showed "that there are 6ome whose capacity for
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      CLIPPER SERVICE TO H.K. RESUMED
      58 8 *T»HE first Pan -American Clipper since Jap bombs plastered the Hong Kong Clipper on Doc. 8, 1941, arrived In Hong Kong yesterday] marking resumption of direct San Francisco-Hong Kong service After refuelling, the Douglas Skymaster left on first return flight to San Francisco via Manila.
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      DEATH OF PRINCESS
      47 8 Prinoess El^a of Liecht#irLsUoin —small principality between Austria and Switzerland— died from a heart attack at Lake Vil'znau near Luoerne yesterd n The Princess, who was 72, was c he widow of Prince Franz, former reigning Prince of Liechtenstein who died m 1938- Reuter
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      P.O.W. ALLOWED TO MARRY THE GIRL
      199 8 LOVETT. (England). Sun. THE love story of a German 1 prisoner of war and an English girl who bore him a child out of wedlock, which had stirred nationwide interest m Britain ended today the way millions of British women wanted it to endin
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      ELEMENTS
      715 8 Promises Police full support Free Press Staff Correspondent T KUALA LUMPUR, Monday. TN a broadcast from Radio Malaya last night, the x Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, warned: "Dangerous criminals can expect justice and can expect no more or less." He stressed that the necessary factors
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      'STRIKE WILL HIT WORKERS'
      171 8 STRIKE Would so seriously disorcjanise industry and interrupt production that "it can only make it less possible for as many people to be given employment at level of present pay and terras." said the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, m a bnxidcaxt last
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      ATTLEE HIT AT CHURCHILL
      239 8 ATTLEE HIT A T CHURCHILL OPHE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Aftu? 1 SuniU 1 charged Mr. Winston (I ',r ili "iV"'^ every difficulty that ■ri Ms f,. r JJtJjS added: "tt is very different tj m 1 ;the war, who exhorted tin- J,'X 1 J b rtl < the inevitable
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      SPORE RUBBER PRICES TODAY
      61 8 SrECIAI Market cor*** -1 »nt (fog the prices o! nhhe it 11 a.m. today as foilon Bujfrj ylq per It wk Vo 1 l; v < Npol nuir.inaJ M\ I 8 I fob m baio ()<t N" t 1.8.8 fob m b\\rs v. :i No 3
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      PEIPING POLICE BAN DANCING
      76 8 AHMED Chinese police m Petpftng lust night broke up dancing at a private all-for ien party of which half of the guests were British. French and Americans of diplomatic status. The police also broke up dancing at the wedding of a Chinese General, fresh from the
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      AFGHAN RECOGNITION
      20 8 Th e Afghanistan Government has recognised the Indonesian Republican Government. Moscow! I Radio reported on Sunday.- A. P.
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      DEATH SENTENCE ON ALBANIANS
      96 8 aiP^ Supreme Court m Tirana Albanian capital, passed sentence °L d a i h f b y hancm? on the three tnief defendants m the trial of 24 Albanians accused of spying treachery and sabotage, who were i said to have prepared for Anglo- I American
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      GIRL HIDES EN WOODS 22 DAYS
      85 8 A 22-day search lor Ilisi Yvonne Gascoigne, 28. daughter ol Britain's political renrest m Tokio, who has been mi. from a private sanatorium Beacon (New York* since Sept 4. ended when she was found wandering m a woodland near the sanatorium. When lound. Miss
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      JAPAN EXPANDS EXPORT TRADE
      199 8 tokio. Sunda) IN spite of severe handicaps, numerous Industries made gains m production which attained now post-war peaks, and export markets for Japanese products \rere expanded, states a rrepotr t by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, for the first half of this year. The report was prepared
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      MASS WEDDING IN SINGAPORE
      54 8 MASS WEDDING IN SINGAPORE Free Press picture. Seen putting their signatures to marriage certificates are these three of the 38 brides who tooh? part m the mass wedding at the Singapore Memorial Hall yesterday. The Chinese Consul -General, Dr. Wu Paak-shing. officiated m a two-hour ceremony. The mass wedding was
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      25 PASSES IN MATRIC EXAMS
      42 8 TWENTY -FIVE London Matrlcula T l'.i-^d Kirst Division Kirn Yew Paul Pretia s:.i *R Srtond Divisiofl Chou Sm K»rt Ci>ai L= -jj ij Ra: D:. J Boot Ttm ThavadM JJ* HPd One ption quaJiti"^ tiM One SubjWl
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      79 8 I WE A THER Bright periods W FATHER report for the next 24 hours compiled by the R A K Bright periods uith scattered showtn during the afternoon and eveninc. Wind sou'.h-* .u»trrly. 5 u> 15 m.p h. Sunset: 6 17. sunrise X 17 Moonrisf: S 57 p m ntoomrt:
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      7 8 SPORE HIGH TIDE? High: 10.40 am; 10.21pm
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