The Singapore Free Press, 11 October 1947

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    17 1 The Singapore Free Press The Singapore Free Press SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS M*.
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    ARMY READY FOR ARAB WAR THREAT
    480 1 ARMY READY FOR ARAB WAR THREAT Tension grows in Middle East LONDON, Friday. BRITISH troops throughout the Middle East have been "alerted" in the face of possible threat to Palestine by armies of the Arab States, reported yesterday to have concentrated near the Palestine border. British military quarters think the
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    French nearing Vietnam HQ.
    196 1 HANOI (lndo-China), Friday. HE-SCALE encircling operations launched on Tuesday i by the French in Tonking are feresißf very t vourably in all sectors with French according to semi-official French nssreport^ received in Hanoi tonight. .mand announced today the ad Tons Son Tay, about 50 miles i.
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    UNO ELECTS SOVIET & POLAND AS 'WATCHDOGS'
    23 1 UNO ELECTS SOVIET POLAND AS 'WATCHDOGS' York. Friday. ibly votJJ-' and J5 -ip on the J™ "*atPhdog .aee Er re Wlth Ru A.P.
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    NEW TARIFF TALKS WITH AMERICA
    194 1 LONDON, Friday. THE United States has made a new offer, to reopen the 1 deadlocked negotiations about the lowering of tariff preferences enjoyed by Britain in Commonwealth countries. A Board of Trade spokesman says that negotiations between Britain and the United States are "definitely under
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    CHOLERA IS SWEEPING INDIA CAMPS
    170 1 CHOLERA IS SWEEPING INDIA CAMPS NEW DELHI, Friday. /CHOLERA in the refugee camps \j of the Punjab and Delhi is now causing serious concern. A total of 3,000 cases was officially reported tonight. The Emergency Committee of the Indian Cabinet today sei Nov. 15 as the target date for completing
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    2 INDONESIAN OFFICIALS HELD
    111 1 MACASSAR. Friday. TWO East Indonesian Govern- ment oflioial.s were under arrest today on undisclosed charges as investigations continued into into the accusations of large-scale fraud which brought about the downfall of Premier Nadjimoeddin Daeng Malewa's cabinet last month. Oiher arrests are expected shortly, according to the
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    U.S. RATIONING MAY BE 'FLOP'
    42 1 United States officials yesterday expressed grav P fears that President Truman's voluntary rationing campaign will be an almost "total flop." Restaurants throughout th e country have failed to respond to declare meatless, poultryless- and eggless days.- Reuter
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    NEGROES DIE IN FIRE
    36 1 Ten Negroes, six children and four women, were kilted and more than a dozen others injured in a fire which swept through a crowded four-storey block of flats in Chicago yesterday.- A.P.
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    POLICE CLOSE ON KILLER: 10 NOW DEAD
    325 1 POLICE CLOSE ON KILLER: 10 NOW DEAD Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Saturday. A POLICE posse combing a rubber estate four miles from Sungei Tangka, near Kajang (Selangor) was closing in this morning on a man believed to be the amok who on Thursday stabbed and killed nine victims,
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    SHOTS FIRED AT EMBASSY
    56 1 TNIDENTIFIED assailants In U San Diego (Chile) fired ma-chine-gun bullets from a passing automobile into the Russian Embassy, shattering the windows. Ambassador Dmitrei Zhukov went to thl? Foreign Office and protested against the attack. The Chilean Foreign Minister. Senor Ver&ara, expressed regret and said that a
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    ITALY GETS GOLD
    42 1 Gold to the value of just over £6 000,000 uncovered by Allied military forces in northern Italy is to be returned immediately to the Italian Government following the signing of a protocol at the Foreier. Office in London.- Reuter
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    Rubber rise is 'one bright spot'
    268 1 Rubber rise is 'one bright spot' Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. THE rise in the price of rubber which closed in Singapore today at 34* cents might be described as the one bright spot in the City, which has been greatly depressed by Sir Stafford Cripps' (Minister for Economic
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    CAR IN DITCH
    43 1 A car ran off the road and landed in a ditch at the junction of Tiong Bahru Road and Outram Road yesterday at 4 p.m. The driver, a Chinese, was unconscious, and was taken to hospital suffering from head injuries.
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    CHINA MASS WEDDING
    18 1 picture At the Double Tenth mass wedding in Nanking yesterday, 255 couples were married.- A.P.
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    135 KILLED IN SWATOW STORM
    54 1 EYE-WITNESSES from typhoonstricken Swatow arriving in Hong Kong say that approximately 135 persons were killed and 10,000 made homeless when sixfoot high tidal wave hit the city last Tuesday. The mayor of Swatow has appealed to the people of Hong Kong for aid for the
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    RAF VISIT TO P.I.
    46 1 THE Australian Consulate in Nanking disclosed yesterday that R.A.F. Air Vice-Marshal F. M. Bladin is visiting Manila, but neither the Consulate nor the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs would discuss the object of his trip. He will return to Australia shortly.- A.P.
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    DUTCH AID EGYPT
    19 1 The Dutch Government is giving Egypt 100,000 units of cholera vaccine. Deliveries will begin this week.
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    KULAI ROBBERS KILL CHINESE
    32 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A gang of robbers swooped down on an estate near Kulai, 20 miles from Johore Bahru at 1.30 this morning, and killed one Chinese.^
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    AUSTIN DIVIDEND
    52 1 The Austin Motor Company declared dividends of 20 per cent on the preferred and 40 per cent on the common stocks yesterday, payable on Nov. 26, for the year ended on July 31. The same amount was paid last year. The net profit was £1.307,156, compared with £1,025.369
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    NOVEL'S SCOPE
    932 2 A Malayan Bookshelf F>y A Special Correspondent T wa^ able, last week, to mention only Graham Green from among the writers discussed at length in Mr. Henry Reed's booklet 'The Novel since 1989* The second writer with whom he deals is Miss Compton Burnett, who, since the publication
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    YOUR LUCKY STAR
    135 2 Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, you have an indomitable will. Although you have your full share of artistic temperament, you know how to keep it under control and make it work for you. Only a successful genius tan afford to be temperamental! There is
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    BRIDGE PROBLEM
    158 2 SPADES are trumps. South leads. North and South are to win fix >>r the seven tricks against any defence. South takes the tHO trumps, discarding low hearts from North. East dares not discard a tout, since that would set up North's heart nine nor a diamond, since then
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    Lt. Mountbatten— Duke of Edinburgh
    69 2 Lt. Mountbatten Duke of Edinburgh A REPORT from Edinburgh I ales fchat the King will almost certainly confer the title of Duke of Edinburgh on Lieu'. Mountbatten. The announcement of the title will not be made until three days before the wedding. The report goes on to say that ii
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    Art Class EAST GOES WEST
    391 2 A rt Class EAST GOES WEST by Pierre Jeannerat AN Indian statue of n a dancer with four arms is at first Bight disconcerting for the average European. "How monstrous!" exclaims. Yet the same European finds no difficulty in accepting the image of a win anjrel. Also, being culturally a
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    'RAFFLES REVELS'
    27 2 f>MORRo Wj T Ortat RubMWfc Oti) Ix-slie-Tips izi m 10." r. I I i l2' Jew u Away." 1 1 3 > John Schl (14 Finale.
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      139 2 £-x-v^L#k#^fc *Z^ *c^*' <•. r SINGAPORE Blue Network 12 oo— 2 00 p.m. 185 metres In the medium wave band 4 7.22 megacycles < per second in the 41 metre band. 6 60— 11 00 Dm 485 metres In the medium wave band 4.826 megacycles per second in the 61
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      392 2 Osraan Alunjul A- Coi. H.M.V. Orchestra; 6.45 Logu2 Kronchong; 7 pm. Time Sigr.a.l, 7.01 Sand i war a Radio; 7.30 News; 7.45 Personal Chotc<\ SUNDAY ENGLISH PROGRAMME: 1 p.m. j Juhen r v»rnwn A His Orchestra re- layed from Uie Sea View Hotel; 1.30 j News; 1.40 light Music; 5
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      311 2 Sack; 9.45 Australian Radio Reel 10 p.m. World News; 10.15 Everyman's Music; 10.30 Great Music— London Symphony Orchestra; 10.45 Australian News; 11 p.m. Australian Radio Reel.! 11.15 Australian on Record No«l j Mcwton-Wood, and Lauri Kennedy. SUNDAY 9.30 a.m. *Tuiv»s from the Operettas'; 9.45 "Swct music in duDM tempo" Vaughn
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      205 2 ;5 30 Conductors' GnJlery; 6 p.m. i Thirty to One; 6.30 News and Home News; 6.45 Connoiseur; 7 p.m. Mu>.c for Romance* 7.30 Musu-i] Cr .v--Iword; 8 p.m. World and Home News; J8.05 Yours for the Asking; 8.45 Folk 'Song; 8.56 Programme Announcemenu; 9 p.m. In Concert St>le; 9.30 The
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    AID CHINA NOW OR SHE WILL BE ENSLAVED'
    459 3 C all f or U Sloan MacA 's help NEW YORK, Friday. Jftß. William C. Bullitt, former United States Ambassador to Russia and France, writing in Life magazine, proposes a three-year U.5.51,350,000,000 programme of American aid to the Chinese Government to prevent
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    106 3 Sailors at the Chinese naval training centre in Tsinytao practise anti-aircraft gunnery an the deck of traininq ship off Tsingtao. L(>oking on at extreme ripht is the American instructor Robert D. Rifenburg. The other picture shows Admiral Y.C. Wuei (right/. Com-mander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, and Admiral Charles M. Conke,
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    CHINESE TRADE MISSION IN UK
    108 3 LONDON, Friday. fgi(ESE three-man mission arrived in London yesteri investigate the critical attitude of British manuto the import regulations imposed hinese Government at the close of the war with r-General of the Legislative Yuan, Mr. Khani-yinff. I<'' K S thv delegation. as of m ference,
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    OVERSEAS CHINESE
    29 3 Permits will be granted to overseas Chinese applying for permission to return to their dwelling places abroad, the Overseas Chinese AH airs Commission 111 Nanking announced. Reuter
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    3 DONT'S FOR MANCHURIA
    34 3 GENERAL Chen Chene, new Nationalist Commander-in-Chfef of Manchuria, has introduced his own austerity movement in Manchuria, inaugurating a three "dontV drive. They are: Don't give gifts: don't gamble; dance.- U.P.
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    U.S. FILMS WILL BE WITHDRAWN FROM N. CHINA
    168 3 PEIPING, Friday. MR. WALTER LAMBERT, reprc- tentative of the Film rrade Board in China, told the United 1 Press that Uie organization Lad decided to withdraw American and British films trom Peiping because "high-handed action on I the p»r t ot the
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    TRADE WITH KOREA
    27 3 Poreigj, Ministry is fcffidi the aUi '--ude of s*2* K nan l2*fc Umanii n opening C^ tons bel f| Chirl l£**> sources m Nanking
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    LIMBS SWOLLEN WITH RHEUMATISM
    26 3 I^U Neither Walk Sleep I 1 not I unds, I I nd I t' 1 'ne. ■»>■■,.. FW ■r '*<■ 'vhich 11 the v
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    TRAIN ATTACKED NEAR SHANGHAI
    65 3 Shanghai. Friday. NANKING-SHANGHAI railway police were conducting an attentive search in padi fields near Wusih following shooting at i Shanghai bound Victory Express on Oct. 1 by armed gangs near Taishiehyen. The train sped on through a fusillade of bullets until it reached Hwangling station. There,
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    RETURN LUXURY GOODS' URGED
    184 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. SUGGESTIONS that all shipments of luxury goods be sent back to their original ports and that essential raw materials be allotted directly to factories by the Government, are to be submitted to the National Government by the Shanghai authorities, Mayor K. C. Wu revealed
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    CNAC PLANE FOK SAN FRANCISCO
    55 3 THE first China National Aviation Corporation trans-Pacific piano will 1» avo for Snn Francisco on Monday. Guest pMfengen include newspaper edltort and the Rev. Paul Yu-pin. influential Catholic cler^ymay who controls a number of Chinese newspapers. Colonel C. Y. Liu. managing dir- octor of CNAC.
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    BARTER TRADE WITH INDIA
    34 3 A Chinese Press report from Nanking said the Ministry of Economic Affairs has tentatively decided to arrange for barter witji India, exchanging Chinese cotton varrs for Tndian raw cotton U.P.
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    WOMEN JURORS FOR HONG KONG
    281 3 rpHE registration of all women in Hong Kong for jury A service, who are "between the ages of 21 and GO, of sane mind and not afflicted with deafness, blindness or any other such innrmity," has ended at the Registrar's Office. All prospective women Jurors
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    CHIANG ORDERS N. CHINA ARMY, GOVT PURGE
    115 3 CHIANG ORDERS N. CHINA ARMY, GOVT PURGE PEIPING, Friday. A NUMBER of Army officers and Government omcials involved in the "purge" Gen. Chiang Kaishek carried out during his visit to North China victims are being dismissed on one or more of three grounds— corruption, inefficiency and disobedience to Nanking. The
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    JAP MACHINERY AS REPARATIONS
    55 3 SHANGHAI, Friday. THE National Resources Commission announced in Nanking today that China had been allocated 9.780 units of machinery as the first batch of reparations from Japan. China. Britain, the Netherlands and the Philippines are permitted by negotiation among themselves to exchange machines to suit their
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    NANKING PLAN TO'PARALYZE' UNO VETO
    228 3 NANKING PLAN TO 'PARALYZE' UNO VETO nuFMA LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. fHINA was reliably reported to have submtted to tfie United Nation's General Assembly a new comorom se proposal designed to meet objections to the United States plan for revision of the United Nations peace-keeping machinery. Those who have seen copies
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    BRITISH MPs IN NANKING
    112 3 NANKING. Friday. THE six-man British Parliamen--1 tary mission to China, headed by Lord Ammon, landed safely at Mingtomb airfield yesterday evening after a flight from Shanghai. The mission was met by the mayor of Nanking. Mr. Shen Yi, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. George
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    IMPORTS TO BE CONFISCATEO
    89 3 NANKING, Friday. I»HE National Economic Council last night resolved iru principle t£iat lioenceless imported valued at US$lOO.--000,000 now detained in Customs godowns in Shanghai, should be cccifue.itird, and that impprters should be heavily fined for infringment of thte import regulations. It was. also agreed that further
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    SOONG PASSPORTS CANCELLED
    97 3 NANKING, Friday. THe Central Daily News reports that the Chinese Foreign Office has cancelled T. A. Soong's passport on Sept. 4, as well as the passport of the 3hen Hung-nien, who is assistant manager of T. L. Soong's Fuchung Company on Aug. 18 The report said T.
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    SERIOUSLY ILL
    23 3 THE newspaper Ta Kang Pao published a military news agency report saying that t«he Communist leader Mao Tzetung was seriously ill.
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    The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1947. Why Not Plank and Attap?
    854 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1947. Why Not Plank and Attap? ME ol Singapore "s greatest and most wpCUI problems overcrowding, which has been growing steadily more acute for 30 years received one of its periodic mentions in the AdvLsory Council this week in a plea from Mr.
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    M.E. TROOPS FOR MALAYA?
    866 4  - M.E. TROOPS FOR MALAYA? Hall Romney LONDON LEITER by MALAYA may be a long way from Palestine and, happily, has no analogy to the embittered relationships between Arab and Jew. At the same time, it is thought in some quarters that effects of the British withdrawal from Palestine may be
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    FAITH
    20 4 Blessed i.s he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. —Psalm 41. 1.
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    Multiplying Zeros In Shanghai
    450 4  - Multiplying Zeros In Shanghai ROY ESSOYAN By A. P. Cor respondent lIALF a dozen taxidrivers in Shanghai thank you when you tip them. A Chinese drugstore offers a "scooter delivery service" at no extra charge. And one of the city's progressive foreign newspapers features a "piek-up-your-own-paper" service fur disgruntled subscribers
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    World Clock
    167 4 A NEW "WORLD CLOCK." n u4i"ch ho.s no ha ds but shows at a glance the time In as mi ny as 23 diiilerent cities aaround the world, wi i shoitly be available. Vhz n vv timepiece already In as b en ordeiv d Or thie pr ;jectcd
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    15 4 "ITS BEING SO GLOOMY AS KEEPS ME GOlteBy George Whitelaw in the Labour J>;u!\ HtrmM
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    FRANCE'S YOUNG GANGSTERS
    609 4  - FRANCE'S YOUNG GANGSTERS Walter Fa rr /^y Uic teen a TODAY'S Problem No. 1 for the French police (as for Singapore's police) is the teen-aged gangster. He Is the boy who was growing up when the Qeroverran France (similarly here when the ipa came) and whose mind was warped in
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    PASSPORT RULES ARE REVISED
    21 5 PASSPORT RULES ARE REVISED Man i :okmy i M I i r'i y t j tons i II I I bo
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    BOAC DOUBLES FLIGHTS TO UK
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    Six Jap suspects coming here
    10 5 Six Jap suspects coming here I I HI ■r I
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    TEACHERS' PAY
    41 5 Th< Malayan Teachers' Union parsed a* resolution deploring discriminations, among other 1 -lings, in salaries and leave that women teachers, particularly marrtcd women teachers, are subject•fJ to in the educatioii service of Malayan Uni< n ard Bli pore.'* picture
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    Muslim advisers: Putera protests
    177 5 Free Pres« StaiT Report i-r A PROTEST to the Sinjrapor e Government against the formation of the Muslim Advisory Board ;us a Govern-ment-spor..-r rod body will be made bv the Malay organisation Th iation, at a recent meeting, passed a number of lutions, one of which
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    S'pore port news
    97 5 S'pore port news -v Bju li the Bfewporc wharves yesterday (g^do-xns IB brackets* were: Main Wharf: Mount Rogers 34), Alpha Mooi (36-37), takab '39 Empire Colne Sih^ersandai <42-43>. West Wharf: Samos <l-2), I lr e P^lacp (3*. Korea '6-7), lawera -8-9), Straat Mnlakka ■12-13). Trev-ean fls-lC). East Wharf: Charon (44).
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    LONDON SEES CHINESE ART
    224 5 DR. F. T. Chung. Chinese Ambas>ador to London, ye&terday opened an exhibition organised bv Heals of Chinese naintines bv Chang Chien Ying and Mr Fei Chens Wu. Among those who attended Mrs. A. Lee. Lady Cnpps. Mr. 81 Hump author ol Ladv Precious Stream," Professor Chen
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    PROGRESSIVE PARTY DECLARED POLITICAL
    31 5 The F Party. Slngap re, has been officially declared a political association. A notltlcation to this effect is published In th^ supplement of toe GovernGazette issued today.
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    16 5 picture. New students of the College of Medicine photographed during a session on biology.- Free rress
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    CHINESE AMATEUR ORCHESTRA
    61 5 JT is -proposed to call a special meeting of old and prospective members of the Chinese Amateur Orchestra to discuss its future plans with a view to reviving the party. The meeting is to be held tomorrow, at 2 p.m., at the residence of Mr. Seow Yonqr,
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    'NO FACTORIES AT PRICE OF DISEASE'
    500 5 Govt assurance in TB fight AN official report of the final session of the Commonwealth Tuberculosis Conference in London, quotes the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, as having declared: Z a C J OVer T el t is *s«ennined
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    INEHRLS BIRTHDAY
    30 5 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday will be celebrated on Nov. 14. The women's section of th: Regional Indian Congress U forming a celebration committee in Singapore for this purpose.
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    63 PREFABS FOR GOVT
    128 5 Free Press Staff Reporter rHE Singapore Government is building <>3 prefab quarters in various parts of the island for its <tifT ricri^ be buiU in BeS R,,ad. U in Donham R^fd, 2ft j£2 Lcbar^ .sjx at J,k, Chiat and nine at Mount Faber y oonl^^ot Py
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    TIN STOCKS IN BRITAIN
    70 5 UNITED KINGDOM tfOCkl of l i n metal <aJI ln lo tons. on August 31 totalled 9.700 of fi 907 h f of Sunnlv'held b,JO7 and consumers 3.493 cornPared with the total of <J,U22 hckl on August 1. Deliveries to United Kingdom consumers totalled 1,232. with
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    AIR CONTROLS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
    236 5 MEGOTIATIONS are now in progress for air companies to share financially in a non-profit making British company which already takes care of air traffic control at major points 00 the. trunk route to th e Far East. The company. International Aeradio. was set up last
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    Co-op gets seven new members daily
    222 5 Co-op gets seven new members daily rE Co-op Society's stores are kept busy daily by purchasing members, and membership is steadily mounting at the rate of nearly seven a day or 200 a month. When the society held a stockclearance sale, which has just ended, many members were so impressed
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    STATEMENT ON MR. A. BROOKE
    104 5 STATEMENT ON MR. A. BROOKE The Governor-General Mr. Malcolm Macdonald. in a statement to the Press, says that his recent official communique concerning Mr. Anthony Brooke was not intended to suggest that Mr. Brooke was advocating a change of constitution in Sarawak by violence or other unlawful means or that
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    RUBBER CROPS
    22 5 The following rubber yields for September are reported: Henrietta Rubber Estate Ltd.. 168.800 lb. and Sungel Matang Rubber Estate Ltd.
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    SOVIET BLOCS FOOD IS MIGHTYWEAPON'
    499 6 ito/y m^ &g /irs^ Comintern target AS Communism intensifies its drive for world revolution, Russia holds the upper hand at the outset in the European struggle. The Soviet and its satellites possess the great bulk of the European continent's current food resources, while the democracies
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    PARATROOPS HURT
    41 6 Twenty-six paratroopers of the British Sixth Airborne Division were injured, none seriously, when a three-ton lorry in which they were travelling hit a protective" minefield blowing up at the bottom ©f a mountain road in Haifa yesterday. Reuter A.P.
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    'WAR' DECLARED ON LONG SKIRT
    59 6 A CONFERENCE of merchant tailors at Southport <U.K.) yesterday decided to oppose the long skirt fashion, saying that that style requiring more mater- ial and more coupons were inimical to national and trade interests. Mr. Albert Hayne, of Winchester, said merchant tailors were determined to
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    Small families 'wrong': Primate
    306 6 4 CHANGE in popular opinion on the size of families is what is most needed to send up the birth-rate, declared the Archbishop of York at Hull. "The falling birth-rate has had a serious effect on home life," he said. 'However great may be the devotion
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    SHE MUSTN'T HURRY TO SCHOOL
    60 6 SHE MUSTN'T HURRY TO SCHOOL ANNE JOHNSON, 13, must not hurry on her way to school In an* it would bring on an attack of asthma, says I>r. J K. >larkay. Prestwich (Lanes) medii al ofHcer. So he mommends that s»h€ have a taxi between her home at Hill Ton,
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    UK WITHDRAWAL 'MOST UNLIKELY'
    87 6 lIEUT-Gen. Horace Robertson. a Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth O:cupation Force in Japan, said that he thought it "me*-, unlikely" that all United Kinjrdom troops would bp withdrawn from Japan in th" immediate future. It was understood that Gen. Robertson's staff was preparing a list of
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    22 6 Mr. F. W. Delve, newly appointed Chief Officer of the London fire brigade, will pet €2 000 a year. He is 44.
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    SERVICES DEPRIVED OF REST CAMP
    217 6 THE Belle Viftta leave baste! lor Service personnel in the Portuguese colony of Macao, apuroximately 40 miles west of Hongkong, has been closed down. It is believed that *h e United Kingdom Government's ban on the provision of foreign exchange for leave purposes outside the
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    'GIRLS WANT GOOD TIME WHILE YOUNG'
    176 6 'GIRLS WANT GOOD TIME WHILE YOUNG GIRL wrongdoers in Britain fe*l that youth is extremely, short, and that, if they are to hav c a good time, they I must have it quickly, according to Mis.< M. Mellenby, a London prison commissioner. '•Cramming that gooci time intc the years between
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    GANDHI-TURNS DOWN STATUE TO HISMEMORY
    331 6 GANDHI -TURNS DOWN STATUE TO HISMEMORY YjAHATMA Gandhi has "dissent,* iTA proposal to erect a gigantic en Phati ca ii^ Writing in his weekly, H a ?n" SU > ufi&J Statue", Mr. Gandhi declared he h the h LN ly" critical letters as if he had been such extravagant proposal
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    SUBMARINE VOLCANOES CHARTED
    17 6 SUBMARINE VOLCANOES CHARTED 5?! 'he surface' o t J th h e ai^- at b A. P.
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    UNIONS ASSAIL P.I. GOVERNMENT
    108 6 THE Philippines Committ. Labour Organizations has asbailed the Government plan to ship 36.000 tons rice to Dutch-con-trolled Indonesia, and said the foodstuff should be sent In aid victims of last weeks typh They also said that carelessni ss and negligence on the part ol Government food
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    TWO MISTAKES MADE BY U.S.
    87 6 TWO MISTAKES MADE BY U.S. THE United Stafc, c Elker --JS mander o: a: -d chief of air 3 man addies, Calii n K %tre the .ollow Gen John persS, to go on to Berlin failure ai push Russia ba k 'ooundanes. he tec Angeles Harboui the Re^en-e Ofi n
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    69 6 A USTRALIAN Op; A debate onGoiaM estimates in the Fed ment. demanded the bunAfi th P Australian Con-.:. and an Immedl tralian public I Liberal and coyntiy d^rl;.rrd that :he Comintern constituted i to the British Commomw Government ip«*« :he Oppositions detfcj nt to ii.fluer.ee toJJ comin? elections for
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    IRAQ WITHDRAWAL
    45 6 British forces are being withdrawn from Iraq. By autumn, when the operate be complete, t.hcre will vexa only two small Royal Air F detachments at Habbaiuyan, the best known airport in 'rafli and Shaibah, it was aut: tively st-ated In London yesterday*- Reuter
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    EXPLORER MARRIES
    28 6 Freya Stark, the well-known woman explorer, was married on Tuesday to Mr. Stewart Henry Perowne. son of the Right Rev Arthur Perowne. former Bishop oi Worcester.
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    YUGOSLACIA SAYS 'NOT GUILTY'
    45 6 YUGOSLACIA SAYS 'NOT GUILTY' A SPOKESMAN :cr:h! 2 Foreign Ministry z *P has categorically demrtJJ that f >e YiJgoslav OJJJJ had creaud in u *^3 Communist .sabotage orgai -j organised by Ar. earlier f accused "a Russia" of helping jo Chilean coal w- es Reuter
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    POPULATION OF SOURABAYA ..
    5 6 POPULATION OF SOURABAYA« Sourabaj A.P.
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    Schubert Shines in SRC Trial
    24 7  - Schubert Shines in SRC Trial forward r.> f** ull ox I I r I'- 1 m hites Score i Me: G r l V
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    RECEIVED SCOTTISH SOCCER FIXTURES
    18 7 RECEIVED SCOTTISH SOCCER FI XTURES ROTnSB LE\< I I DIVISION L DIVISI >N Alloa f v. v Araf.
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    KASMIRI SONG TO DAYS NAP
    521 7 Darnok, Red Ted Strong Fancies From EPSOM JEEP was a heavy shower s^^**^ but J it does not seem to have affected the going, which should &&<£&£&. final °< th/se,angor fiS Cup race. Her prospects have been enhanced by the rSSf and she has only
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    MFA Favoured To Win Cup Game Today
    276 7 rßy Our Soccer Reporter E nrst semi-final in the S.A.F.A. Cup competition will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m. *oday when the Malay Ist XI meet the Seafonh Highlanders, the only remaining Army side In the competition. Both teams have
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    GOOD HOCKEY WIN BY 223 800
    134 7 Fa thrlllinc same of hockey the 223 8.0.D. Hockey eleven defeated the kroner Modir.nl C^lcer Union team by four goals to one nt Alexandra yesterday. Tho exchanges were fairly even in the first half. In which the «.O.D. opened accounts through Kelly. Hollinerbury and
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    TABLE TENNIS TEAM TO VISIT STORE
    157 7 A HONG KONG and Shanghai table tennis team will olav a series of matches in Singapore and the Malayan Union in the middle of November. This was announced at a council meeting of the Singapore Table Tennis Association held at the Y.M.C.A Tennis Pavilion
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    SCSA BADMINTON TIES
    97 7 THK following badminton ties to the Singapore Civil Service Association's tournament will be played this uvek-end at No. 470, Balestier Road, at 4 30 p.m. on each day. TODAY Handicap Singles.- Ng Liang Chuan v. L. A. Dakar (f8); E. J. Vass (-6) v. Tan Lye Sia
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    AMICABLE B.P.
    21 7 THE Amicable Badminton Party will hold its anniversary at the Or*ai World tomorrow. Members are requwtod to go direct.
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    21 7 Herod, the Stoke goalkeeper, dives in vain when attempting to stop Logxe from scoring for Arsenal who won three-nil at Highbury.
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    BADMINTON CUP IN MEMORY OF SPORTSMAN
    225 7  -  Courtcraft By TllE first annual badminton touma- ment for the Pamadasa Cup will be held at Malacca at the Malacca City Park frrrn Oct. 26 to Oct 28 Sponsored by the Malacca Badminton Association, it will be a quadrangular i tournament between Singapore. Johore
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    Punjab Regiment Win Return
    230 7 IN a return yume of hockey, which incidentally is their last in Singapore Wore they leavt for India on Oct. 15, the 7/lst Punjab Regiment XI dejfentedG.H Q. PARELF by two goals to nil yesterday at Changi. j Thf name was full of good hockey and
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    23 7 The Amicable Athletic Association celebrated the Double Tenth last night with a dinner and ronggeng party at their club premise*. New Bridge Road.
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    Fareif Beat Naval Hq 5-0
    242 7 O. H. Q. Farelf 5 Naval Hq 0 SCORING four goals in the first half before their opponents could settle down, the O.H.Q. Farelf beat the Naval Hq five-nil at Tanglin on Wednesday. In the first five minutes, Durham opened the scoring for Farelf. A
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    £56,000 WAGERED Oil CESAREWITCH RUNNER
    251 7 BIG MONEY was involved at the latest Autumn Double callover at the Victoria Club, London, at which Firemaster became the favourite for the Cesarewitch and Michty Maharatta retained his position as the Cambridgeshire favourite. Altogether candidates were backed to win nearly £200.000. More than a
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    Indian Cricketers 'Not Overawed'
    129 7 TpilE first Indian cricket team ever to visit Australia arrived In Darwin last nitrht. All the players are At and well. The team's mcuuyger. P. Gupta, said on arriving that the team benefited tremendously from the English tour last vcar and they were not overawed by
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    ACS OLD BOYS WERE SUPERIOR ALL ROUND
    413 7 A.C.S. (0.8.A.) 2, S.C.C 0. pROVING superior in all departments of the game, the X Anglo-Chinese Old Boys' Association beat the S.C.C. by two goals to nil at hockey on the Padang yesterday. Although th e Club's forwards failed to impress, their defence
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    Shanghai Made Win Look Easy
    626 7 Free Press Staff Correspondent i KUALA LUMPUR, Friday. AFTER getting used to the "do or die" variety of soccer served up in local big matches, today's clash between the Shanghai tourists and Selangor Chinese looked too easygoing to be really thrilling. It was like that,
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    Burma Reach AcCe Final
    77 7 WITH a soal scored eight minutes, before the end, R.A.F. Mingaladon) beat R.A.F. Katukurunda in the semi-final of the A.C.F.E, enp soccer competition at Changi yesterday. Kaeburn wm Uie scorer. Today at Seletar Mingaladon will meet the Singrap<*r e Signals Centre in the final. Yesterday's game
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    NELSON HOLD SHIP TEAM TO DRAW
    83 7 THE Nelson Sports Club did Well to hold the S.S. TTevean to a goalless draw in a fast and exciting game of soccer played at Kampong Bahru yesterday The sailors dominated play in the first half, and their forwards threatened on a number of
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      130 7 Weekend Sports Events TODAY. HOCKLY: Harlequins v*. Police, Thomson Road. 5.15 p.m., Singapore Hornets rs. Johore 0.C., Mi Johore Bahru. RUGBY: S.C.C. vs. Johore Rugby F.C., padang, Singapore Asiatic K.U. K. \.F. i hangi hangi 5.15 p.m.; Singapore Police vs. 223 8.0.D. XV, Thomson Road, 5.30 p.m. SOCCER: S.A.F.A. Semi-final.
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    OPIUM DUMPED IN SEA
    22 8 Custom^ officers yesterday dumped into Hong Kong Bay HK. 5500, 000 worth of opium seized recently— A P
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    'Colonies must be in ECAFE'
    291 8 SOVIET RUSSIA INSISTS LAKE SI CCfcSS, Friday. THE Soviet Tnion served notice today that she will demand that metropolitan powers be by-passed when invitations are issued to non-self-governing territories for consultations on the work of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East. The
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    26 8 piLture The renowned gardens of Lord Aberconway's Bodnant Hall, on the Conway river, with fine views across the conway vallev towards the Snowdon range. C.O.I.
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    CHINA'S 'CLOSED DOOR' POLICY
    99 8 EXPRESSING fremt concern over China's 'closed door policy," Lord Ammon, leader of th P British Parliamentary mission to F h xT ia> told a P ress conference in Nanking jresterdaj that "China d u° a great deal to "elp herself by opening up her ports to
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    BIG 4 DEPUTIES MAKE PROGRESS
    92 8 London. Friday. 'FHE special deputies of the Big I JL Four Foreign Minister! today k< th<* back ofl their work by reeing to s« nd oat only one in,vi stigating commiss.on to the I former Italian colonies in N«>rth Africa and to limit statements from
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    43 8 Sir Arthur Richards, former Malayan civil servant and Governor ol Nigeria, who has taken tho title of Baron Milvertoo of La■oB, Mivcrton and Clifton, the London Gazette announced ypsterday. He received peerage in this jrear'l Birthday Honours Lord Mllvorton is 62 A. P.
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    THE MAHATMA PRAYS
    230 8 LONDON. Friday A vivid description of a Gandhi prayer meeting, which he described as "a remarkable and, to Western eyes, bizarre performance." appeared in a prominently framed position today in the 4.000.000 circulation London Daily Mirror by its columnist 'Cassandra" who has just returned from a tour
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    DRUG RING BUSY IN FAR EAST
    239 8 VANCOUVER, Friday. CEIZURES of opium, worth £1,162,000, by the Canadian Mounted Police and th e U.S. Customs in recent months have led to the belief that a big Far East narcotic gang is using Vancouver as a distributing centre for the drug for Canada
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    SOVIET RUBBER
    28 8 rwMiE synthetic rubber factory L at Voronezh, Russia, destroyed during the war. has been reconstructed and will start production this month, savs a Mnsmw report.- A.P.
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    MALAYA BATTLE
    759 8 Officer: 1 8 Div. thrown to winds Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. CRITICISM of the way in which the 18th. (East Anglian) Division "was prodigally thrown to the winds" in the Singapore campaign in 1942 has been made in a letter to The Times, written by Mr.
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    DUTCH REGENCY KILL PASSED
    53 8 11HE bill for the temporary retirement of Queen Wilhelmin a of Holland and th e appointment of Princess Juliana as Regent was passed without division by a joint session of the Dutch States General at The Hagu^ yesterday. Prince^ Juliana will be sworn in as Rrirent
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    London Stock Exchange TAX FEARS HIT INDUSTRIALS
    444 8 London Stock Exchange TAX FEARS HIT INDUSTRIALS M) I > I. S. Malayan (5 8. Troooh m el Bed '5-i in b STOCK INDICES «us Ord. Km. Sects. lOJI lines <Ba>es 100: (a) 1 15 '10 2G; (a) and <bi «r.as 1 -Mcks contort ft Hi Mi Of 995 Intel
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    RUBBER PRICES
    111 8 A SPECIAL Market <un* r\ ent irires the prices d"I at 11 a.m. today as follow Buyer* a p«rlk. H So IK^S Spot limisi- nominal i 33'-. Nt l K.f.l. fob m haln o*t <: i R l.f. fob in bafci on No 3 R.S.S tat in hales
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    VANGUARD OF FASHION
    65 8 A prominent physiologist in Jacksonville (Illinois) has disclosed plans to confine 40 monkeys in tight corsets for two years in an experiment to determine whether a proposed new fashion for wo?nen —tightly corseted waists —would be injurious to health. Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, Vice-Pre-sident of the University
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    SIGNALS FROM MISSING SHIPS
    60 8 A RADIO bearing taken on the n. sixth of a serlet of weak messages sent out bv three reamon adrift on a of derelict minesweepers, for 16 days, was 115 oe-uos from Palmyra Atoll, but the distance was not determined. J epor J? wU p from
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    BURMA PACT SIGNING IN A FEW DAYS
    163 8 RANGOON Fridav THAKIN NU, Prime Ministerof the Burmese. Provisional Government hinted today that no Anglo-Burmese treaty to which he will be signatory on be- two days of his reaching London Thakin Nu. accompanied by Bo Let Ya, deputy Prime Minister and Burmese Defence
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    ARAB WAR THREAT
    324 8 Continued from Page 1 Giladi and Metula" after a reported hasty reorganization of the The more sensational reports of troop movements have been denied. Egyptian military quarters, for example, deny that any *£>ptian troops have been moved There are also denials that troops ft om Saudi Arabia
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    NEW GULD STRIKE
    42 8 A new gold strike has been made in virgin country half a mile from the Emu Mine at Agnew north of Leonora, it was reported in Perth (Western Australia) yesterday. Leonora is nnt.rlv Ann miles north of Perth.- Reuter
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    CARBIDE AS 'DANGEROUS CARGO'
    255 8 T^HE Singapore coroner, Mr. W. G. Porter, yesterday recommended that carbide should in future be regarded as dangerous cargo within the meaning: of th e rules for the Port of Singapore under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance. The coroner's recommendation followed the inquiry into the exPlosion of
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      48 8 WE A THER Sunny periods Wl VkliiU it- pott f«v the next 24 hours compiled by the R.A F Ctuudv, wrth sunny periods. Kt*k of hru\y squallv ahiwert ro»rly tomorrow morning. Wind: Simi.Mci 1> lirht. Moonri**: 4.44 am; moonsei 4 10 p tn T«-n»pcro.turr»: Max. 8*» d«-< min.
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      10 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today: 9.19am; 8.35pm Sunday: 9 55a m; 9.35p.m.
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