The Singapore Free Press, 13 October 1947
1947-10-13
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Title Section14 1947-10-13 1 LARGEST AB-TERNOON SALE IN MALAYA er5y SINGAPORE, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS14 words
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Article452 1947-10-13 1 ARAB BOMBS IN HOLY LAND Guards on all consulates JERUSALEM, Sunday. pVO bomb expk*ions threw Jerusalem into panic tonight, outrages which are believed to have been the work of the Arab underground. One of the attacks was directed at the Polish Consulate-General, the exterior of which was extensively damaged. ThereU.P.; Reuter; A.P. - 452 words
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Article38 1947-10-13 1 SAIGON. Sunday. Mr. Ir.do-China to fepBto&c, has re<] atij "immediate lntert end R< Besf I Gff.- tanmese q-: ■ft N India's Pi mediately of out>i condi- JjP*; to Prime Mr -Chinese So: French and open. 1 I38 words
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Article, Illustration40 1947-10-13 1 picture. Four soldiers of the Hampshire Regiment are seen returning from a stroll in Jerusalem and passing a military sign warning them that they must move in fours in the city. This picture was taken in Julian's Wav. Jerusalem. A.P.A.P. - 40 words
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Article20 1947-10-13 1 «*)o with a lorry a fclW rads yc,;tprday SSjgfc'carism--B£*rS ion lr t. took Kjl .^notion20 words
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Article, Illustration55 1947-10-13 1 picture. Dr. Frank Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, who has been appointed by President Truman to represent the United States in the UNO effort to solve the dispute over Indonesia. With Dr. Graham on the UNO three-nation commission will be Mr. Richard Kirby (Australia) and M PaulA.P. - 55 words
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106 1947-10-13 1 WASHINGTON. Sunday. THE United States Government is to investigate the possibility of reconvening the 16-nation European conference on the Marshall plan, 4t Is learned authoritatively. Talks with Sir Oliver Franks (Britain) and other members of the Paris Conference Executive CommitteeReuter - 106 words
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Article95 1947-10-13 1 Free Press Staff Reporter ONE civilian victim of the 21 people injured in an explosion of shells at the R.A.F. Base, Seletar, on Saturday, was reported to be in a serious condition in the General Hospital this morning. He is Leong Ann, 28, a Chinese civilian95 words
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Article58 1947-10-13 1 Free Preas Staff Reported A YOUNG Indian woman was stabbed to death in a house in Pontian Kechl, Johorc at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. She had 21 stab wounds. The woman's husband, a clerk attached to an Army unit in Singapore, was arrested and has been charged58 words
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Article31 1947-10-13 1 The British Home Secretary, Mr. J i -lies Chuter Ede. 65, is to be •c new deputy leader of the House of Commons in succession .0 Mr- Arthur Greenwood.31 words
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Article240 1947-10-13 1 U.K. must fight for export trade LONDON, Sunday. BRITAIN S Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, 'pledged the Government on Sunday to a "great campaign of negotiation to lift foreign tariff barriers, which he said were threatening Britain's crisis-wracked economy DLseussing the nations "export or die" programme, at a LabourA.P.; U.P. - 240 words
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249 1947-10-13 1 TtTip ibm LONDON, Sunday. HE limes military correspondent, reviewing the position of the Dutch forces in Java since the "cease fire" on r^t LtPS^T^J?* n desultor y fighting which has t C HPS d r S bl s e^ T loss than eitner side249 words
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Article290 1947-10-13 1 Free Press Staff Reporter WHILE business in landed property in Singapore is not as brisk as it was six months ago, the value of houses remains high, according to figures from the monthly official survey. One indication of this was the sale recently of two shophouses290 words
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452 1947-10-13 1 'WEHAVE NOW TURNED THE CORNER '-Nehru NEW DELHI, Sunday. OANDIT Nehru, Prime Minister of India, said today, "I x think we may definitely say we have turned the corner." He was referring to the Punjab riots, and the evacuation programme which the two Dominion Governments have begun. Deaths in theReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 452 words
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Article66 1947-10-13 1 Free Press Staff Reporter WHITE-ants penetrated electric wiring caused a small fire in the First District Co«rt at 9.30 this morning. Flames and sparks shot out from the wiring in a celling, corner of the court room. The Judge, Mr. E. P. Shanks, called for66 words
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92 1947-10-13 1 Cut Winston's cigars, says Labour peer LORD CHORLEY. a Labour peer, has proposed that Mr. Winston Churchill's cigars, trade mark of the chain-smok-ing war-time Prime Minister, be taken away in punishment for his criticism of the Government. "Mr. Churchill should be ashamed of himself for the things he has beenA.P. - 92 words
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Article17 1947-10-13 1 Earthquakes were reported in three areas of Iran on Saturday. There were no casualties.- U.P.U.P. - 17 words
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Advertisement78 1947-10-13 1 L flflS ii^ 8 hest-Room Luxury l*d in your house with KQUOT PERCALE" BED SHEETS I "*y-«mooth it* 4 P «ibin Pequot P^^te »he*t comes *w cotton with a delicate toothed h\ maiT c ombs out" the short bumpy r^hing ary Pe^es so rough and fuzay toe, straight, long— staple78 words
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Advertisement38 1947-10-13 1 NEW CHINA '"""OPIIGALCO I THE MARCH OF LIGHT, I ft I I ii&j/ to Sid ty AOtAPmuCT the wonderful lamp r ADVT OP THE GENIAL EUBOTRIO 00., LfD.. OF BH OL^ Agent»~The Klnt» Bectrlol Dtotribuiton Co. Lid. l£3?38 words
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Article, Illustration791 1947-10-13 2 FEELING THE BREEZE Hall Romney's London Letter THOUGH it will mean knees being exposed to the cold, most women seem opposed to the longer skirt. "I think the long skirt is iust plain daft", says Mr. Wilson, new President of the Board of Trade and. next to Pitt, probably theF.P. - 791 words
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Article, Illustration268 1947-10-13 2 r' is important, in ruining an opening two no-trump bid, to show the full value of the responding hand. North would be entitled to raise with just the cards he held in the majors. His minor suit values amply justified the two additional raises, and with such powerful268 words
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Article120 1947-10-13 2 Frequencies**"™ KAS^ StRVICE 15.14 mc/, I~Quenc.es Wavelength, 21 47 K'S 17 70 »«.»5 17 8? S'2 21 M 1781 16 17 73 1_ 92 AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTIIVG RADIO S.E.A.C. COMMISSION Frequencies Wavelengths is.aioo me/i 19.74 m 6.075 aq t« "320 19.59 9.52 Jf S H__H "770 254 8120 words
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Article401 1947-10-13 2 Asian Students Go To Australia l ARGE numbers of Australians have regularly gone to other countries for study and research, but mostly for post-graduate study there is no lack of facilities for education in Australia itself. But, despite this fact, there will always be a strong incentive to study abroad.401 words
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Article, Illustration44 1947-10-13 2 Twenty-two-year-old Isabella Beck, of London, and her mother have made a collection of fiitu 10-inch high models illustrating men's and women's fashions from the eleventh century to the present day. The collection is on show at the Women's Fair Exhibition at London's Dorland Hall44 words
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Article112 1947-10-13 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast tofc people born totiaj ft BOKX today, you iff willed about iM Wl want. The serious thin?BJß« you to want som'thim *J3 tant: You are a conl!) "Jmr of a pleasure-lovins in*" 1 and a hard worker. You have good ability but are holes in112 words
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Article206 1947-10-13 2 £2,500 A DAY TRIAL llv other >i Japanese 8r lle 8« J ail y. ana t hl ,*"J mi r £^3 dollars yearly um;..? jl oan Civil Sm{« which to, tt^jSl Their average nT^ 5,000 dollars^ Prosecutor. Mr. iJJi* n an. is receivin fffi! salary of 10.000 doll^ A ll206 words
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Miscellaneous62 1947-10-13 2 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya I""; Jfflß33S»| 1 1 COULoSgY T UNA- T SHkj I ggrfenii 'L°f T N G^Z3 I yAWDBAKE.I Shh TIME* I THERE'S THE ORGAN.' WHERE'S 11 BE MY RULER "QUEEM r WILUYOU DO IT? r— IwHERE-f I SHORT/ BOTH MANDRAKE? HE KNOWS62 words
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Miscellaneous74 1947-10-13 2 RADIO PROGRAMME SINGAPORE Blue Network 2. Of p.m. 485 metres in the medium ware band 7.22 megacycles per second In th« 41 metre band. 6 11 00 Dm 185 metres in the medium wave band A 4*826 megacycles per second In the 61 metre band except from 7.45—9.30 p.m. when74 words
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Miscellaneous370 1947-10-13 2 lines A Programme Summary; 8.20 Listeners' Post: 9 p.m. Hawaiian Music: 9.30 News; 9.45 Talk. "World Affairs' by Allington Kennard; 9.55 Interlude; 10 p.m. Picture Parade--10.30 Ntfehts at the Ballet; 11 p.m. News Summary; MALAY PROGRAMME: 12 (noon) Programme Summary; 12.05 Malay song*; 12.45 News; 6 p.m. Programme Summary; 605370 words
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Miscellaneous262 1947-10-13 2 S.E.A.C. H.AOIO SEAC broadcasting from Colombo: Ceylon, on the follow in* wave bands: 8 to 11.30 a.m. 19 84 metres and 19.38 metres. 11 30-12 atn 19.84 metres. 12 noon-5 p.m. 16 88 metre* 19.84 metres and 49.38 metres 5-5.30 p.m. 19.84 metres and 49. HS metres. 5. 30 -night262 words
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Article443 1947-10-13 3 uitain switching Middle East bases IfINAL plans have now been completed in London for the establishment of alternative bases in the Middle East should Britain quit Palestine at an early date These plans! which have been maturing for over a year, have been made in443 words
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Article, Illustration33 1947-10-13 3 Sir Cto* Liddell. zLftf the Royal Hospital, Unseen handing over the the Zkti'ihe Royal 1 V. R. .fept m the Royal I (cxTij c" ipture, in nial k UK trophies rdwned to llec-33 words
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Article110 1947-10-13 3 OONG KONG, farthest east colony of the British Empire, which has been worried even since the Japanese war ended as to whether it would remain an outpost of Empire, turned an eager ear toward Nanking last week when its Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, made110 words
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Article62 1947-10-13 3 SENATOR William P. Ashley, Australian Minister of Shipping, has announced that legislation to give effect to the principle of a Commonwealth shipping line and the establishment of an Australian shipping board was well advanced The question of overseas trading by Australian Government ships, he said, was being62 words
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Article26 1947-10-13 3 Britain's latest shortage is full grown frogs. Bristol University is offering fourpence apiece for laboratory specimens made scarce by the summer's severe drought.- A.P.A.P. - 26 words
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Article62 1947-10-13 3 NATIONS TO CEYLON LOWER HOUSE Ifcaembenol thi Ceylon fox of R- noSir Q M r.rk-Mason ire: I N Gratien KC Mr. F. t! W A. ■tt'.ar.i Mr Qc rgc R«>n.ild T1 will be four vnacd two burgher nomintare. inc i re amon? th< mbers ot the incil. Mr. Pakeais- :d--"wtheSoult.62 words
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146 1947-10-13 3 A spray gun that shoots insulin, morphine and other drugs painlessly into the human body, was demonstrated at the District of Columbia Medical Society's annual assembly by Dr. Edward B. Tuohy of Georgetown University Medical School. The instrument, known as a "hyprospray," blastsU.P. - 146 words
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Article118 1947-10-13 3 I nETWEEN 1,500 and 2,000 people in Britain die annually from vuberculosLs conveyed by infected milk, Britain's war time Food Minister. Lord Woolton, said in a London speech. Lord Woolton, who was addressing a conference of over 1,000 health representatives from all over the country, demandedReuter - 118 words
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Article72 1947-10-13 3 I^HOUOHT at first to be stillJL born, a 20 oz. baby girl has died after living for five days in an oxygen tent at Roth^rham municipal hospital. The chances of a baby weighing only 20 oz living more than two hours are about one in72 words
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Article75 1947-10-13 3 WOMEN HID GOLD INb SKIN PL ASTER I men returning from Dublin were ito smuggle gold cigarette cases to n uoid cases and hid them under t adhesive plaster which they stuck to their a John-, tnd hrS? 1 26 h r n »Jth piea payMo Jtopriaotunent, brunette, bit her75 words
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148 1947-10-13 3 THE seizure of 1,600 vials ol streptomycin consigned to Manila was announced in San Francisco by the Customs Collector, Mr. Paul Leake, who obtained a Federal Court order keeping thej drug an custody during an investigation of possible violations of export control laws. Mr. Leake saidA.P. - 148 words
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Article328 1947-10-13 3 MRS. Katherine Hermann, a Czech, sewed jewels worth €8.000 in the lining of her silver fox fur, forgot about them, sold the fur then searched for it for four years. Now she has traced it to Vienna ar»d f^und the gems. Sir Alexander's declarations inA.P. - 328 words
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Article, Illustration98 1947-10-13 3 German PoW marries English girl Mm Lucy Tuppet. of Camberley (Surrey), was married at St. Giles Registry Office, Edinburgh, to Ludwig Maier, a German PoW —at the third attempt. Maier. who has been in Britain for three years, tried to marry Lucy at Camberley, but he was posted to Gloucester.98 words
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108 1947-10-13 3 k FORMER coalminer, turned 11 doctor. Dr. J. G. Griffith Jones, is to organise a Rhondda (South Wales) campaign to alleviate rheumatism among miners. An up-to-date clinic is being officially opened at Trt-.il.iu. Rhondda. It is the first of its kind to be established108 words
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184 1947-10-13 3 AUSTRALIAN Government experts ar e preparing estimates of the cost of developing Manus Island as an Australian naval bas e after the Dominion takes over the island from the United States Navy, probably in December. Australia plans to keep Manus as a strategic pointA.P. - 184 words
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Article62 1947-10-13 3 PRESIDENT ROXAS told the 1 Philippines Chinese community on the occasion of the Double Tenth celebrations "the Philippines feel intensely a strong kinship with the great people of China.'.' '•We believe in the ideals and principles that have sustained and spurred the Chinese Republic dnA.P. - 62 words
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Article31 1947-10-13 3 Office boys ao<i college professors, physicians and carpenters are joining Calcutta's new 40,000 strong Peace Brigade, a HinduMuslim organisation of men and women formed to maintain eorrrmunal peace.— ReuterReuter - 31 words
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Article45 1947-10-13 3 The co6t of Australia's foreign service is growing at art astronomi- j cW rate. The Budgeit recently presented provides. £1,845,800 lor the I External Affairs Deparlmeh£, compared with £1,431,000 last year. .K 600,500 the year before and £257,202 in 1944-45. J45 words
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543 1947-10-13 3 USDISCOVERS NAZI 'SOCIAL REGISTER IMERICAN war crimes investigators in Nuremberg have discovered what amounts to a "social regis*er" of the Nazi Party. The document, an invitation to a dinner given on Sept. 27, 1937 by Hitler for Benito Mussolini in Berlin, reveals just how high each "big shot" rated inA.P. - 543 words
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Article133 1947-10-13 3 P.I. TIMBER INDUSTRY PARALYSED PHILIPPINE timber Interests 1 have disclosed that in spite of strong world demand for logs and cut lumber, the Philippine timber industry is virtually paralysed by a Government ban on the export of over 20 per cent of cuttings. Until mid-July, the Government permitted no exportA.P. - 133 words
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120 1947-10-13 3 k SPOKESMAN of Gen. Mac- Arthur's headquarters declared in Tokio that there was a. "Kuromaku" (black curtain) in, Japan behind which groups ol gangsters, black marketeers, ex, soldkrs, and politicians have menaced the democratic constitution The spokesman said he would not make an attempt toReuter - 120 words
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Article65 1947-10-13 3 DARTMOOR prison is again to become a convict establishment. The 200 military prisoners there will be dispersed gradually. The present convict strength of 160 is expected to reach 500. Excluding the Governor, medical officer, chief warder and steward, the staff numbers about 60. There are65 words
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Article56 1947-10-13 3 IDLEWILD, New York's great 1 airport, will go into operation next spring. It has been held up by strikes and operational problems for two years, and will be used by international services. But it will not be called Idlewild, which is not dignified enough. Its new56 words
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Article24 1947-10-13 3 Canadian newsprint production this year will reach an all-time record of about 4,396,000 tons, the Newsprint Association of Canada has reported.- A.P.A.P. - 24 words
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Article37 1947-10-13 3 The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheer reports that the former German pocket battleship Leutzow and the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin sank in the Baltic Sea. while efforts were being made to tow them to Russian ports.37 words
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Article86 1947-10-13 3 k SOUTH African detective has been in England investigating the Mystery of a British business man who was shot, burned, a ?£i un^ 1 1 n i* pct TOl drum at Vr yburr, in the Tmnsvaal, last raorttn. The detective will return to South Africa86 words
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Miscellaneous29 1947-10-13 3 Louie's move By Edgar Rice PnrrnuShs CAUTIONING' &fe-LOU!E TD STAV W6U I KgMv^/ 1 JEtal T^A^HOKrnES IN LEOPOtDVILLE HiPPEN, CRI^P SJEPPBP FORTH ,Mj i^ ftiß9 WANTEP HIM PO<2 MuCPEZ.29 words
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820 1947-10-13 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1947. Crime the Duty of the Citizen CINGAPORE last week deported Nit largest batch of undesirable aliens since the liberation. The uinlamentcd departure from these shores o! 5! Chinese, th? bulk of whom had been concerned in offences involving the us? of arms,820 words
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Article1137 1947-10-13 4 John Hall - John Hall by THE occasion will be the royal wedding. While the'national leaders of the British Commonwealth are in London in November for Princess Elizabeth's wedding they are to discuss something of vital import to the 540,000,000 people who inhabit the Commonwealth, especially those1,137 words
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Article115 1947-10-13 4 PPKOXIMATELY 60 kilon grams of Italian silkworm era arrived recently at Yr» n^Lr^l eiTO The foment, transported via the American Air force transport service, was received in perfect condition. H was immediately transferred to a laboratory at Sao Paulo It is hoped that bv crossbreeding the Italian115 words
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Article1116 1947-10-13 4 Frank Owen - Frank Owen by Jl YOUNG fellow n writes to me. He served in the Army of the Desert, who commemorate the glory of Ei Alamein this month. He says: "Do people realise that w e only just won th^ war? Have they forgotten how long we were wobbling1,116 words
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Article, Illustration17 1947-10-13 4 Thick mud spurted through the air when the Ministry of Suddlv tojclear Tham.s mud from the ml^^^^^^^^17 words
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Article25 1947-10-13 4 Study to shew thyself approved unto God. workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rirhtly dividing the word of truth. —2 Timothy 2, 15.25 words
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Article472 1947-10-13 4 Correspondent - PROFITEERS IN HONG KONG Correspondent By A Special T"HE fight against in--1 flation in the Empire outpost °f Hongkong on th e door step of China, successful when compared to China proper, appears less successful when compared to conditions a year ago. The salary and wage earner, foreign and Chinese,472 words
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Article235 1947-10-13 4 Stamp- tax helps ONE of the big attractions of living in the tropic paradise of Norfolk Island is that its inhabitant^ don't have to pay taxes. These carefree descendants of th e mutineers of the "Bounty," oiler a very small portion of their time to the carryinp-out of necessary public235 words
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Article30 1947-10-13 4 be^n found in l^* Hn. a renter o. m the vaulb ofj jj of rubble a^PS^ other jeweuw the black ma^ 1 fantastic ;sij^ ber. rum^. interesM figure.30 words
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200 1947-10-13 5 'pirates' use dynamite for fishing PrfS < sum W""" ffL stakes! around £5 of Singapore are *.Sd at OX increasing pf.l" 1 of "pirates who jjy^Uie -as for *L e -piraU-- fishermen 'reported to b t active Is S around Ptoir Pan d north of Bedok. J**, owners told me200 words
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Article115 1947-10-13 5 T price of rice in I iippore. attributed to the n»ra; of restrictions on Iti illy in the J«y. Has been accompanied by price in the southern W* o! the Malayan Union. 1 south Johore. the price per JJjy risen by 13 cents, in jurra by115 words
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Article45 1947-10-13 5 *M e w to lowing Svr p r< s Record Office *lfc^n the hours of 0^ 'ana 1400-lcco daily HooL ha English fc JLRP J£ l 14 >E Dl *in apo W-M: "B" rfEui Si ARP Head*SnJ^ SeraR S°on Evacua-45 words
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Article30 1947-10-13 5 CUT ELECTRICITY CAMPAIGN I £ft« vans of the *6t vji latlon s DeoartC^ t °i Uptown Jo "urtn i V* rei ™<i trie £S. coni? 6 .10 to Sas^^'-'xplain the30 words
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Article, Illustration81 1947-10-13 5 Refuelling the Royal Singapore Flying Club Auster with high octane gasolene (upper picture on the left) is ground crew member Victor Kruzeman, while looking on is Mr. A.P. Corke who learnt flying with the Fairoaks Flying Club, Surrey. Above: One of the Club's instructors, Mr. J.A.81 words
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Article689 1947-10-13 5 SrdAuster coming Free Press Staff Reporter THE Royal Singapore Flying Club, which has been 1 revived, uses two twin-seater Austers at the moment, with a third on its way, proposes to get a few Tiger Moths from Australia if there is sufficient demand and689 words
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Article82 1947-10-13 5 THE next social meeting of the Singapore Stamp Club wll be held at the Capitol Restaur. ant tomorrow at 5.15. Ihere will be a special auction organised by the club when gloss proceeds will be presented to the Rotary Clubs T.B. fund. Donations of stamps for82 words
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Article124 1947-10-13 5 THE Singapore Stamp Club has awarded prizes to schoolchildren for designs for the antiT.B. health stamp and for the cover to the club's "Guide to Japanese Occupation Stamps of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei.' The awards are as follows: Anti-T.B. health stamp: 1. Chia ChUn124 words
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Article63 1947-10-13 5 A Malabari Muslan shop-keeper living at the 4th mile, at Bukit Blair, Pasir Panjang Road, was robbed of $120. a ring ($4O), a water-proof watch ($9O) and a box of coins, on Saturday at 9.30 p.m. The robbery* was carried out by two Chinese and two Indians. One63 words
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Article403 1947-10-13 5 SEA SOUNDED FOR NEW WHARVES Survey ship off Port Swettenham By A Special Correspondent MOW engaged on her last job is the HMS Sbarp- shooter which is sounding certain areas off Port Swettenham preparatory to the construction of new wharves. This survey ship returned recently from Borneo and Sarawak where403 words
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Article327 1947-10-13 5 PFree Press Chinese Correspondent LANS have been drawn up by the Chinese Trade Commissioner. Mr. C. F. Lee, to hold a big.scale Chinese g«>cds exhibibition in Singapore, Kuala Lum- i pur, Ipoh and Penamc The purpose of the exhibition is to acquaint Malayans with CMnese327 words
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Article20 1947-10-13 5 The new moon day today will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple in Outram Road. Singapore.20 words
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Article159 1947-10-13 5 iPtIE Ceylon Government is to 1. explore the possibility of procuring supplies from Japan of tinned foods and. textiles. Mr, H. Jinadasa, assistant textiles controller, will be leaving for Japan shortly in thw connection It is stated that before the war, Oeylon was an159 words
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156 1947-10-13 5 Free Press Staff Reporter CPEAKING at the first congress d of AW AS (Malay Women's Engligttitenmen f Corps) held at Kajang, Selangor. a few days ago, the chairman, Che snamsiah Pakeh, urged the abolition of past customs especially the custom of torced marriages, ana stressed156 words
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Advertisement23 1947-10-13 5 You /e Missing A Lot 'fyou haven't been to the lido W'k, Pa,ir Paajang Road, Sisfapore. 1 Swimming Food "m if Tfiiu Bar23 words
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Advertisement112 1947-10-13 5 II HTITTCTT frW^T /4\V I! BKLJhiI 15^) I Sterling Silver j|| Engine Turned... .Latest Designs ill 3-Piece Sets from $125 00 to $150.00 ||j comprising Mirror. Comb, and Hair Brush. 4-Piece Sets $140.00 IS I comprising Mirror. Hair Brush. Comb and Ck>the6 II I ft.pippp £o a*% fin II O*l112 words
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Article, Illustration462 1947-10-13 6 Ch ina warns against rebuilding Japan WHILE four of Ja pan's top diplomats were meeting secretly in Tokio in what is believed to be an important session to select delegates and prepare a programme for the peace conference, Gen. Shang Chen, Chief of the ChineseU.P. - 462 words
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Article73 1947-10-13 6 TOBACCO stocks now in Britain are enough to ensure 18 months' supplies for smokers at the present rate of consumption, which Is now stabilised at about 75 per cent, of the pre-Budget figures Sir Alexander Maxwell, adviser on tobacco supplies to the Board of Trade, now73 words
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Article49 1947-10-13 6 The Russian Military Administration in Berlin, fined and suspended for one day the Sovietlicensed paper Am Mittag for referring to Lieut. -Gon. Sir Brian Robertson. British Military Governor in Germany, as a "rubber man" and "rubber general." The General was once an executive of Dun lops.49 words
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Article21 1947-10-13 6 Airborne Territorials made a oarachute jump from a balloon in Hyde Park as the finale to London's savings week.21 words
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Article69 1947-10-13 6 SEATTLE, Sunday. YOSHEO KOSACE. a 23-year-old Japanese stowaway, who is now in custody at the immigration station, told the Immigration Director, Mr. K. B. Bondara, that he had heard America was a fine place and wanted to come here. Kosage, woo was found at seaA.P. - 69 words
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113 1947-10-13 6 MacA approves creation of Jap police force f°«ENERAL MacArthur has apVI proved the creation of a national rural police force of 30,--000 men for Japan but ordered immedfate decentralization of police control and two changes in Government organization, in a letter which the Japanese Government has just released. The creationA.P. - 113 words
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260 1947-10-13 6 A-bomb may make 'dwarts' freaks' THE genetic effects of the atomic bombs on the people of 1 Nagasaki and Hiroshima may be far greater than reports so far i ndicate, a committee of scientists has stated in Washington, reports Associated Press. Writing in the magazin e The Scientist, the U.S.A.P. - 260 words
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Article62 1947-10-13 6 AFTER conducting a harvest n festival service in the bar of i\t- Leather Bottle Inn near hig church the Rev. L. H. Gun. ner. Vicar of Northfleet, Kent, still wearing his caasock, sat in the saloon bar. With a glass of beer in his hand and62 words
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Article36 1947-10-13 6 SOVIET VACCINE FOR EGY P T The Egyptian Health Ministry has announced that the Soviet Charge d'affaires has notified the Ministry that 1.000.000 units of rholera vaccine are en routo from Russia aboard a special plane.36 words
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Article26 1947-10-13 6 Britain's third lot of Japanese warships, a minesweeper, transport and submarine chaser are expected to reach Hongkong today <n route to Sinear>ore A.PA.P. - 26 words
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Article72 1947-10-13 6 CIR Staflord Cripps, Britain's u new Economics Minister, speaking at a directors' conference at Buxton. Derbyshire, called for greater production efficiency |r British industry as a means < increasing production. He said that Britain's older industries did not possess "tViat spirit of scientific inquiry andU.P. - 72 words
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159 1947-10-13 6 SOUND too high-pitched to be heard has laundered clothes by shaking the dirt away In other tests. it<s vibriMons have mixed paint compounds with oil, and oil with waf«r, killed germs, and spatted flaws in iron castings 'oo r i-'< for Xrays. Housewives in the159 words
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134 1947-10-13 6 A? n^ in f0 K r A Week as a mill B irl at Preston. Lanes, xm Barbara Castle, M.P., said in London- "The industry has sat down too lon* under its own drabness and ?f you^can aorlae the mills you can at least glamorise134 words
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Article41 1947-10-13 6 Amonj? the candidates aspiring to return as representatives in the Chinese* National Assembly or the Legislative Yuan are Dr Sun Fo vice-president of the National Government, and Madame Sun Ya -sen The elections will h* held in November.- A.P.A.P. - 41 words
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Article, Illustration268 1947-10-13 6 LONDONER SHOUT DOWN PRO-FASCISTS j HRfcE men were arrested at l) a i < i Oct. 5, when large for, U meeting of the pro-Fascist Brifis le^ S and Women. led £Ue of Exi, N On a converted army lorrv u tu speakers, theatrically floodlit, p, k \f u b^rv268 words
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Article134 1947-10-13 6 A "PANDEMONIUM" meeting of 5,000 people in East London, at which Fascist salutes were given amid cries of "We want Mosley" (former leader of the British Union of Fascists!, was described in a London court 1 when Edward Jeffrey Hamm 32-year-old leader of the British LeagueReuter - 134 words
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Article92 1947-10-13 6 QOME 200 British miners' leaders meeting in London on Friday unanimously agreed to work longer hours to help boost falline coal production, but decided also to submit demands for an increase in basic wages of £1 weekly. Proposals submitted by the National Clal Board, controller ofReuter - 92 words
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Article33 1947-10-13 6 Charles Dalby, a Folkestone fisherman, killed a fox by setting a line with a hook and bait at low water off a tract of wild country between. Folkestone and Dover.33 words
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Article28 1947-10-13 6 Britain has called on each of the 57 United Nations members to ad mit a "fair share" of Europe's displaced Wrfcoiib as soon a* i*>i>sible.28 words
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107 1947-10-13 6 LEFTIST PARTIES IN RUMANIA TO MERGE THE Rumanian Socialist ha t days after the wauH ment of the r^w Combum Inu-rnatiunal. has deciW a m» rge with the Communal Pim. The merger was urged bjfc Minister of Education, Sirti Viclech, and the Minister i the Socialist Party. Ibtj the fusidnU.P. - 107 words
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Article109 1947-10-13 6 WORLD nee production :or 1947-48 season ii eH 6.050 million bush-. Ur.iud States Department* Agriculture in its latest m survey nji thii figure reached if present fawwj factors of increased acrea«« helpful weather prospect* disturbed. The estimate is seven per below the prr-wir level W»A.P. - 109 words
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Article45 1947-10-13 6 TWO youthful CbinMjajJ have mterod the KofW^ piral in Hong Kpng ftrjjgi of shark-bitten leg& w rwi from thi-irsampaw^-jp m rning noar &h f:J^i3» Territories). thejjg^J Offish. MrfftfJlH proct'Udre. threw su cb mite into the water tßW.jp intothpsettocollectw^i Sharks in the v.cim-45 words
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Article16 1947-10-13 6 The Order rTo at Kmdsor na J| plans to eeleW i pa 'an: A.P.A.P. - 16 words
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Advertisement141 1947-10-13 6 AIR-CONDITIONED CAPITOL PHONE 5159 Now Showing 11 am. t pan. 445 p.m. R3O p.m 1 5 p.m. 0.,,. Arthur V»4« MERRICK SPACE BOR6 NEXT BIG smash: A 'JNiVERS'I -INTERNATIONAL PttTURE /S^^V TODAY I (QiDtrio^DgTMyi^Ti DRAMA... FAR OUT OF THE ORDINARY!.. STRANGI AND SINISTER I .araine DAY* Brian AMtKNt RobtMITCHUM-GeneRAYMONI Coming141 words
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Advertisement28 1947-10-13 6 Last rour~ij'i»otts 1.30 4 6.30 9.30 p.m. ELLA RAINES ROD CAMERON "THE RUNAROUND" •A \Jv... Ltin TOMORROW Hunt StTomberg HE D Y O'KEEFE LODER W»'t*%ed thru un.t.j »fti>tt28 words
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Miscellaneous59 1947-10-13 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava THIS BEAUTY o*±£zr'fi^ NO EKID OF A LIFT 1 TY HAW.'HAW'A; WAY FOR THE )-lfT CONTEST! X-^ l S 1 SO WHEN NO. 16 Iff 1 «AWThER CARE V SEAU7V PARADE? X-f^? IT -V VV TU/KTS MER-WAfKSON] J$ A FOR TKAT59 words
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Article548 1947-10-13 7 0 To Draw By S'bore Chinese .he forwards had a share. Boon Leong swung in a shot from the left and the goalkeeper was beaten by the bounce ball, which entered a corner of the net. Thereafter, Shanghai had the better of the exchanges,548 words
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Article107 1947-10-13 7 A. P. PHILIPPINE boxing is booming as never before. Not since the liberation in 1945 has there been such an invasion of fighting men as is now taking place Harold Dade. former world bantam champion, has started training for his Oct. 18 fight in the Kizal StadiumA.P. - 107 words
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Article525 1947-10-13 7 CRO WD RECORD BROKEN AGAIN U.K. Soccer Review FOOTBALL enthusiasm throughout Britain reached a new hiffh level on Saturday when over 1,122,000 fans watched the 44 English League games. This easily beat the season s previous best of 1,080,000 of a fortnight ago. The best gate of the day wasReuter - 525 words
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Article45 1947-10-13 7 I'HE Singapore Malaya Cup Veterans Football Club will hold a practice at McNair Road ground today in preparation for forthcoming friendly games. All members and other exMalaya Cup players an* asked to attend. The practice will start at 5.15 p.m.45 words
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79 1947-10-13 7 JEAN Borotra, 49-year-old tennis veteran, pulled the International Club of Prance to an eight-four victory over the International Club of Britain In the Queen's Club covered courts contested on Saturday. Borotra virtually assured Prance of victory by beating the hard-hitting Australian, Jack Harper,A.P. - 79 words
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Article41 1947-10-13 7 THE Singapore Police woo their third successive rugger fixture of the season when they beat the 223 BOD. 2nd XV by 19 points (two goals,, a try, and two penalty goals) to three points; (a try) at Thomson Road on Saturday.41 words
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Article835 1947-10-13 7 Motherwell 6 5 0 1 16 8 10 T. Lanark 6 4 0 2 14 12 8 Rangers 3 3 0 0 8 2 6 Dundee 6 3 0 2 13 7 6 St. Mirren 6 2 2 2 12 8 6 Queen of 8. 6835 words
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Article, Illustration90 1947-10-13 7 THESE Free Press pictures of week-end soccer at Jalan Besar Stadium show (top), Chee Seng, the S.C.F^A. goalkeeper, misfielding a shot from Karri Sun. As soon as as the ball dropped Lan Hai got his boot to it and it was rolling over the goal-line but90 words
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Article415 1947-10-13 7 FAVOURITE MAY WIN CES' WITCH From Vernon Morgan OP all races in the British turf calendar none lends Itself better to an attempted coup than the Cesarewitch long distance handicap run at Newmarket, which this year takes place on a Wednesday. The distance of two and a quarter miles rulesReuter - 415 words
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Article72 1947-10-13 7 M. HENRI LeCLERES RIGOLO w*on the Grand Critenum, the most important two-year-old event of the French racing season, run over one mile at Longchamp yesterday. Ridden by J. Doyasbere, Rigolo beat Drakkar by three quarters of a length, with Periscope .II a length further away, third otReuter - 72 words
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Article73 1947-10-13 7 BRITISH riders scored spectacular successes on Sunday in the England-Czechoslovakia motor cycle races at the Masaryk Stadium Prague with Bill Kitchen leading the way after virtually wheeling his cycle off a plane from England and roaring on to the track. Kitchen won the feature eventA.P. - 73 words
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693 1947-10-13 7 Kashmiri Song Did Not Get Clear Run straight to beat Lena Dear whc appeared to have the race well in hand half a furlong out, Red Ted, the favourite, never looked p threat. How the others won: HURON: Handy, came through on the outside a furlong out and just beat693 words
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Article165 1947-10-13 7 AUSSIES WIN BUT DON'T IMPRESS THE Australian Rugby Unioo touring side beat the South of Scotland by one goal, one dropped goal and two penalty goals (.15 points) to two penalty goais (6 points) at Melrose on Saturday. The South put up a grand fight until the last 20 minutes,,Reuter - 165 words
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Article37 1947-10-13 7 A French girl, Rollaande Danise. 20--vear-old tvDist set ud what is claimed to be a woman's world hour cycling record at Arcachen. Prance, when she covered 37,090 kilometres, approximately just over 23 miles.— ReuterReuter - 37 words
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Miscellaneous238 1947-10-13 7 Free Press Crossword No. 210 *PPII P P P 16" it" TBT CLUES ACROSS 1, Medicine to reduce fever; cooling drink (9). 8, Mixture of a metal, with mercury (7). 10, Oid -fashioned Keyed instrument like the harpsichord (6). 11, Musical term meaning "repeat" (2). 12, Constituent of the blood238 words
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Article337 1947-10-13 8 Free Press Staff Correspondent vr KUALA LUMPUR, Sunday. Nfc no r a f ter a Chinese contractor on Utan Simpang f /^u e abou^ 25 miles from Kuala Lumpur, was robbed of $700 by armed gangsters on Friday, Rawang police made three arrests and recovered337 words
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Article49 1947-10-13 8 WEA THER Cloudy IL F liir.K report for the nest W 24 hours compiled by the RAF. Mainly rloody with occasional khowcrv Some bright lnU-n»l, y^ afternoon Hind: l. U ht South^sirrly Moonrtee CU Moonwi 5- 17 p.m. Trmperatur..*: M» x S9 dc*rce» r «»*n. 75 8 decree* F.49 words
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Article55 1947-10-13 8 BURMESE Government geological survey party is to leave Rangoon today to search forged deposits reported to have been Victoria Point at the sou-hern tip of Burma. Be.v idcs gold lhe uninnabited island, eight square mllea in area Is reported to be rich in wolfram' cas^'terite.Reuter - 55 words
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Article116 1947-10-13 8 NEW YORK. Sunday. DESPITE opposition by Colonial Powers supported by the United States, a Soviet proposal asking that countries administer^ ing non-self-governing territories should transmit information on the participation of local populations in the work of local organs was endorsed by the United Nations Trusteeship CommitteeReuter - 116 words
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Article106 1947-10-13 8 FLOOD waters covered many o Parts of southern Florida (U.S.A.) yesterday after a freakish tropical hurricane bringing torrential rain had swept across th e already hardnit waUr-laden area during the ™F h .w Tne storm moved out I ?}S th Z AU nt *c north of106 words
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Article, Illustration33 1947-10-13 8 What could be more expressive of the Lake District in U.K. than Coniaton Water on which. a short while avo, Sir Malcolm Campbell tried out his record breaking jet propelled speed boat.33 words
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Article138 1947-10-13 8 GALLIPOLI COMMANDER DIES AT 94 LONDON, Sunday. GEN. Sir lan Hamilton, veteran of campaigns in India, Burma, Egypt and South Africa and commander of the ill-fated Galiipoli expedition of 1915, died in London today a«ed 94. Sir lan became the centre of one of the great controversies that grew outReuter - 138 words
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Article56 1947-10-13 8 THE Maharaja and Maharani of State of Jaipur, in Rajputana, were weighed against silver presented by their subjects on lire 25fih anniversary of the Maharaja's succession to rulership. The silver will be given to public charities. The state has an area of 15,--610 square milesReuter - 56 words
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Article200 1947-10-13 8 B___ ATV LONDON, Sunday. KITAIN S Communist Party voted approval today of the new nine-nation Belgrade "Cominform" and said that li W U L d c °-°P era te by intensifying "a campaign to rally tne Labour movement and public opinion for a reorganisation ofU.P. - 200 words
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Article96 1947-10-13 8 KARACHI wdll be on the air in March." Mr. Z. A. Bokhari, Controller of Broadcasting in Pakistan, told Router. Mr. Bokhari stated that the i "Voice of Pakistan" will be heard from March onwards over 100-KW short wave transmitter and a flve!KW medium wave transmitted from96 words
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Article25 1947-10-13 8 The Argentine State merchant fleet has ordored three 8 700--ton British ships at a cost of £2.600,000. A.P. A. P. ReuterA.P.; Reuter - 25 words
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276 1947-10-13 8 LONDON. Sunday. THE Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Moiotov, has sent a note to Washington, charging that the United States seeks to "hinder the solution of the Korean problem," according to Moscow Radio, which today broadcast the text of a Soviet note delivered on Oct. 9A.P. - 276 words
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278 1947-10-13 8 WEST SEVILLA, SPAIN. Sunday. A BOUT 20,000 persons broke through a police cordon today and entered the cathedral as the Duchess of Montoro. 21-year-old daughter of the Duke of Alba and Berwick. descendant of England's Stuart kings, and Luis Martinez Irugo Y. Artazcoz,A.P. - 278 words
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Article103 1947-10-13 8 A spider weaving a worldwide web to be handed over to American monopoly" and a "friend of Fascism' were the descriptions applied to Pope Pius XII in one of the strongest articles on the Pope that the Soviet press has printed. Boris Kandidov, in aReuter - 103 words
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Article39 1947-10-13 8 Pope Pius. In a radio address last night to the U.S. National Catholic Charities Conference In New Orleans, said that charities were needed now to demonstrate once more the vitality of the faith. The Pope spoke In English.— A.P.A.P. - 39 words
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Article151 1947-10-13 8 LONDON, Sunday. I "DRIVERLBBS' train mshing n through the English countryside at nearly 100 miles an hour automatically obeyed a normal warning signal today; applied its own brakes and halted safely in 1,500 yards. It was making a test run between Reading and London to demonstrateReuter - 151 words
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Article456 1947-10-13 8 RUSSIA MENACES FRANCE -DE GAULLE New attack on Red domination ALGIERS, Sunday. r<EN. Charles de Gaulle, speaking to a Municipal election XM rally here today, accused Russia of "exploiting" warweakened European nations and charged the Russians with taking advantage of the joint Allied war effort to establish "domination" over two-thirdsU.P.; Reuter - 456 words
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Article, Illustration32 1947-10-13 8 picture Mr J. W. Belcher deft), Parliamentary t. of Trade, is seen "clocking m" on the f ec J etar V t*c JU, trie "international" time-recoranamac* :d AS a don.- viymitiifc A.P.A.P. - 32 words
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Article56 1947-10-13 8 A 15.000 cubdc feet capacity) n petrol tank exploded at the Standard Oil Company's refinery »ft Buffalo New York early yesterday. The flre was brought under control after four hours. More than 100,000 people flocked to the scene of the blaze. T.h number of personsA.P. - 56 words
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Article63 1947-10-13 8 S' HAI PANIC OVER DOLLAR FALL fOMMODITY prices in Shanghai v reached dizzy heights in a spectaoular spurt yesterday. Rice soared to over CN$BOO,OOO for one picul (170 lb.). Moct imported foodstuffs have risen beyond the reach of the average salary earner. There was a wild scrumble for foreign shares63 words
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Article17 1947-10-13 8 The freedom of Brecon (Wales) will be bestowed on the South Wales Borderers Reeiment next June.. ReuterReuter - 17 words
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Article301 1947-10-13 8 20,000 Reds attack Mukden T WENTY thousand €mmmmJ^SSS!i^i x Mongolian brigades, have been hammering wit n! Nationalist garrison at Mukden for more than 48 i without being able to make much headway, according Government dispatches. The Nationalists' are dimfa every inch of ground, realizing that the loss of tin^ would301 words
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Article74 1947-10-13 8 THE British Empire's top Gov eminent scientists and mir tary strategists will meet in London next month to di« deft nee science problems" Ministry of Defence in Lcndon announced yesterday Sir Henry Tizard." chairman ol .the defence research policy com mittee, will be chairman of th°A.P. - 74 words
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Article33 1947-10-13 8 The Crown jewels worth £20.000.000 will be returned to the Tower of London for public display, beginning Oct. 20. They have been keDt in a Bank of England vault.- A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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Advertisement45 1947-10-13 8 RUBBER PBB St. 1 K 1.1 s P°' m, letfer .nomiiuf No. 1 R SS. t* In bain Oct. No. 2 R (eb JJ*. in b»i« Oct. No. I B-S.S g| CREEK GOjxf of the yr.-JS^: NOTICE THE HONGKONG Print* To 6 9. North Hridt^^45 words
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Miscellaneous12 1947-10-13 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Hi^h 9.55 *.m.; 9.35. pjn. Low 3.15 p.m.. 4.11 a.m.12 words
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