The Singapore Free Press, 16 October 1947
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Title Section18 1947-10-16 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA f»* SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS18 words
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Article, Illustration651 1947-10-16 1 ARABS CLOSE BORDERS TO JEWS Tension mounts in Jerusalem JERUSALEM, Wednesday. INCREASING activity by the Arab underground was reported by Palestinian police officials today, as news came from Beirut of the Arab I>ea£ue*s decision to close the frontier of all Arab countries to Jews. London newspapers said today that oneReuter; A.P.; U.P. - 651 words
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25 1947-10-16 1 RIVAL GANGS IN BOTTLE FIGHT ON PIER S3"DR£I at nine vtfock this ing*> nd ->Lher r it nd two d at I the into lice25 words
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Article22 1947-10-16 1 h LONDON. j ay :ne- 2*Z- *o be :naSLr'' Pre- [I Dsorthe poscome ndus- based on ReuterReuter - 22 words
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Article249 1947-10-16 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A SPECIAL aircraft It waiting on the tarmac of a Singapore airfield, ready t o fly the final report of the United Nation* Consular Commission on Indonesia on the second leg of its journey to Lake Success. The report will249 words
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124 1947-10-16 1 FRENCH ADMIT SERIOUS TONKIN FIGHTING HANOI. Wednesday. WHILE denying large-scale operations, the French admit that serious lighting is going on between French troops and VietMinh Indo-Chinese nationalists near Laichau in Tonkin near the Yunnan (China) frontier, and 310 miles north-west of Hanoi. The French communique said that French troops hadReuter; A.P. - 124 words
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Article68 1947-10-16 1 rpHE Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Li A Tieh Tsing, has officially notified the Siamese Foreign Office that plans for local Chinese participation in the Chinese national elections have been dropped. The Siamese Government had opposed sach participation. Meanwhile, the Chinese Con-sulate-General spokesman in Bangkok revealed that68 words
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Article48 1947-10-16 1 THREE more areas of Bombay were placed under curfew yesterday in Government moves to stamp out the new wave of communal attacks which began in the city three days ago. One person was stabbed to death and six others wounded in stabbing incidents in the city48 words
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Article42 1947-10-16 1 President and Mrs. Truman have cancelled the usual State dinners at the White House this s« ason "because of the urgent necewlty for the conservation of lood In order that our country may help to relieve hunger abroad,"- A.P.A.P. - 42 words
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242 1947-10-16 1 LONDON, Wednesday. OTRONG police reinforcements will in future be drafted into London's East End to deal with what is described as the "rising tide of Fascism" there, i( was authoritatively learned today. Businessmen there have resorted to erecting window-guards on their shops during week-ends, declaringReuter - 242 words
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214 1947-10-16 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE final design of the establishment in Malaya of a fully- expanded and modernised set-up for broadcasting 8.8.C. services to the Far East will largely depend on the reports of two 8.8.C. officers now paying a fortnight's visit to214 words
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149 1947-10-16 1 NEW YORK. Wednesday. DELEGATES of the Russian satellite states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia today strongly attacked in the United Nations General Assembly the United States proposal lor a continuous year-round sitting of the 57 member nations as a so-called "Little Assembly." Five more countriesU.P.; Reuter; A.P. - 149 words
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Article, Illustration441 1947-10-16 1 COLLAPSE OF EUROPE NEAR -MARSHALL NEW YORK, Wednesday. IN an oblique move to help France, President Truman today sanctioned the purchase by the American army ol $50,000,000 worth of francs, as Secretary of Staie Marshall, speaking at Boston, warned that Europe's T;Iil conlzou' < Americans with "the danger of theA.P.; U.P.; Reuter - 441 words
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Article61 1947-10-16 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. TIM Export-Import Bank officials at a meeting today approved credits totalling U.S. $32,000,0000 for 60 Italian medium-sized industries, including rubber, metallurgical, elec-tro-mechanical factories. There is a f*i> .her amount of U.S. $100,000,000 credit earmarked by the Bank for Italy. Next week credits for theU.P. - 61 words
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Advertisement11 1947-10-16 1 fir Idedd/tifl k $p£C/Ai/rrM More people than ever are saying I11 words
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Article306 1947-10-16 2 JACK PERCIVAL - JAP'S LOOT FOR S' PORE JACK PERCIVAL Bv AN the representations U of Britsh Government searchers in Tokio, Emperor Hirohito has been ordered to send back to Raffles Museum, Singapore, 185 stuffed birds looted by the Japanese Army and sent to him from thenoccupied Malaya as a present. For more306 words
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Article218 1947-10-16 2 IN the infancy of railways the WOTdi "book-Tng-office" and 'guard' really meant what they said. Tickets were issued as if for ♦v e J coa ch journeys and though guaranteeing a seat for every passenger, the various companies wanted to know not only destination, day and time of trains,218 words
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Article, Illustration246 1947-10-16 2 'pHE odditk-s of this deal riiromPMMd more than West's psychic opemnir bid. North doubled to sm<>k«out the psychic, expecting to complete Liif revelation by bidding diamonds on hLs next turn. But when Souths fn bid of two spades was doubled. North had no reason to run West opened246 words
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Article309 1947-10-16 2 Cooking Hint i^LEAN rabbit well and soak in cold salted water for an hour, changing the water twice. Rinse and dry. Stuff the rabbit with a herb and crumb stuffing just as for chichen. Truss it neatly and pot roast slowly so that it is beautifully brownA.P. - 309 words
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Article, Illustration39 1947-10-16 2 THIS two-seater seaplane can do everything except fly. For pleasure purposes only it can taxi along at six knots. Its inventor, Mr. Douglas Devil is seen here giving his "Skylark" seaplane a try-out with an extra load of femininity.39 words
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Article81 1947-10-16 2 'tpHE Greeks have a word X for It." So have the Chinese l-or some 300 brawny Missouri mule s who hav P recently arrived in China to augment the meagre transport facilities in her north-west provinces. Those pack animals, veterans of Pacific campaigns during which they wt-r o accustomed81 words
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Article184 1947-10-16 2 THE Ht-ndjye < France) local oi ine smugglers' Union (Syndicate do.s contrebandler*) ha* font °n strike. Reporting this, (to licwspapcr Sud-Oeste of Bordeaux explains that the strike is "a general offensive against the CUStOUU giuwrds. w'hom they aocusi of laxity, because they had txm permitting local residents to184 words
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Article643 1947-10-16 2 5 BARREN YEARS OF ART A Malayan BooSj s j, e:j BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT the best of times the demand for really well written books is not great. The majority of readers read merely for information, for entertainment or in order to indulge in a succession of pleasant643 words
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Miscellaneous253 1947-10-16 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, you are capable and have a great deal of originality and ingenuity. You like trying out new things and you crave excitement. Don't let thks carry you too far. Be moderate. You have a real taient for music which253 words
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Miscellaneous567 1947-10-16 2 RADIO PROGRAMME SINGAPORE Evenine Programme. 'Dinner Music" World and Homo News; 805 Rlllft v ;r A lU>I :Uul r ir ir »^»t Theatre Melodies Are Bweet; 845 Rhvthm m KlUe .Network Orch .do Grott. Violin: 4.30 Austra- the Sun; 8.58 Programme v -ioune< U oft-2 00 p m 4K5 metre*567 words
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Article247 1947-10-16 3 HOARDERS TO GET DEATH PENALTY I shanghai leaders fight black market SHANGHAI, Wednesday. yo prevent a state of anarchy, the Garrison Commander of Shanghai, Lieut.-Gen. Hsuan Tieh-wu, has announced e Wlll mvoke the death penalty against food hoarders and deal severely with black market manipulators. He told newsmen that Shanghai'sA.P. - 247 words
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Article, Illustration25 1947-10-16 3 werwerwerwe It Economic Affairs, is teen a reception held by the High the occasion of the MahatGandhi in the background iras living in Britain.- ReuterReuter - 25 words
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Article34 1947-10-16 3 Memory hoax lasted 4 years in whose question "Who am I a score of countries, has adl ll he has been hoaxing the He is Joachim Ernest I ise 38 years ago and hot34 words
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Article71 1947-10-16 3 \DI UPTION of modern songs as hrowail" is given in the Lonirnal 77u II U j popular vi. to be large!}/ irinot iti or crooners bc- becomes it declurliar songs are mildic, !u wht as ti rati m had a i forward api of a r :rt ofReuter - 71 words
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262 1947-10-16 3 I>EIENIION of British control in North Africa would 11 saf( guard a lifeline of the British Empire, General Sir Thomas Blarney, former Commander-in-Chief of the alian Army, said in an interview in Melbourne. Summing up the future of th i Gen. Blamev said I :.aUReuter - 262 words
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Article94 1947-10-16 3 THE bo! ten Statei will have a lurger Stockpile of gold than before In history by the middle I January at the latest if gold continues to flow i.: iu present rate. Thus week the LV.it- d States £zold holdings totalled $22.0vJ.000-0-000 or onlyU.P. - 94 words
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Article53 1947-10-16 3 FOOD IN EXCHANGE FOR IMMIGRANTS MR. ARTHUR CALWELL. Australian Minister f<>r Imn > ed that Bj .Id help build up Australia's p pulation in return lor food and rials she received. He urged that 100.000 immlntS, should leave Britain for Australia eacb year. Including i and unskilled workers as UReuter - 53 words
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Article74 1947-10-16 3 WALKING into a bar in Nice (Southern France) a nineteen-year-old youth embraced his sweetheart of seventeen, who rose to meet him. There was an explosion. The *irl fell to the floor dead. Two other people were hurt. Under his shirt the youth. Andre de Maurizi. had74 words
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154 1947-10-16 3 MADAME CHIANG: WORLD NEEDS 'MORAL LEADER' MADAME Chiang Kai-shek tolci ITI delegates to the World Council of Y.W.C.A. in Hanchow that "apathy invites totalitarianism and an apathoMc population supT>li« s Uie ground for dictatorship." Arriving by special plane from Nankins, she welcomed at a oreconference Catherine delegates from 20 differentA.P. - 154 words
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Article157 1947-10-16 3 The [nl Criminal Po- 1 lice Commission, revived iMtj year with contineiVui h .ui quart- ers in Paris, hopes eventually *o link up throughout w>rld by wireless. From Pans the re are J already radio facilities to every country on continent. "The organisation |j still in157 words
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Article93 1947-10-16 3 THE United Nations Assembly's Committee on Economics approved the principles of the Marshall plan for European economy on Tuesday hi a .series ot votes which left the Slav nations standing alone on the basic issues The United States Senate Appropriations Committee will meet prominent members ofA.P.; Reuter - 93 words
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Article, Illustration49 1947-10-16 3 Miss Alex Kilroy, principal adviser to the Board of Trade on clothing coupons. Miss Kilroy is recognised in the clothing industry as one of the bestinformed experts at the Board of Trade. In private life, she is Lady Meynell, wife of Sir Francis Meynell, poet and publisher. Barratt picture.Barratt - 49 words
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Article101 1947-10-16 3 THE output of styrene <used ir. .synthetic rubber production) in the United Stales has dropped from 38.179.621 lb. In January of this year to 18.845.273 lb. in July. a drop of over 19.300.000 lb. The dc line in .styrene production i.s largely due to theReuter - 101 words
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Article44 1947-10-16 3 At least 14 persons were killed and eipht injured when a bus roiiided en Tuesday with a passenger train at a railway crontng six miles south ol Karlstad. In central Sweden. The bus was practically cut into two. A.P.A.P. - 44 words
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Article108 1947-10-16 3 A LAWSUIT involving the question whether or not two rrd vttts tan talk has r.;i od a point new to American law. i lie dors, J»«ft £7.5*t in a will. w«rr "cross-examined" l» their lawyer. who maintained that their answers were intelligible. His opponent said108 words
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Article275 1947-10-16 3 'WALL STREET PROMOTING NEI WAR' T»HE International Bank for Reconstruction and Development "is promoting the war in Indonesia" between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic, charged the Soviet delegate, Mr. A. A. Arutinian, before the United Nations Economic and Social Committee on Monday, reprrts Associated Press from Lake Success. TheA.P. - 275 words
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Article73 1947-10-16 3 f ANNON J. H. t truer 43-year-oM v Church 01 England missionary irom :.i. lixtowe, Suffolk, is r^d to have shot himself accifclly through the lip on bleak Mo flat t Island. 1,700 miles away in the An tic. His Wife Joan is alone with him.73 words
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176 1947-10-16 3 Brain operation with pliers and tweezers USING carpenters pliers and other improvised instrui ments, a youn e British doctor performed a delicate brain operation at sea to save th e life of an American seaman The Nestor, on which Dr. J. A. Peirce is serving, received an urgent mercy callReuter - 176 words
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Article52 1947-10-16 3 i Bn'airfs Crown Jewels, worth < million, were returned tx> the Tow.r or London on Tuesday. j:we:s were taKen from their traditional home on the outbreak of war in 193&. Five armed deIvea rod? with Uxe Crown Jt?w« Is and five more In a followingReuter - 52 words
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Article39 1947-10-16 3 OIX R. A. F. bombers undor tho O command of Air Vice Mar- Stratford arrived at Ar.kar.i irom Cairo on Monday on a three day good will visit to the 1 Turki.-h Air Force.- A. P.A.P. - 39 words
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Miscellaneous37 1947-10-16 3 <?ZAN Captain warned By Edgar Rice Burroughs Dfc I 3rJB T CARGO, LAV HIDPEN IN A LIFE- Q| I Rftel^^ 4 CAPTAIN WANDERED TO THE BOAT AWAITING PEVELOPMENTS.' W 1 Wfl9^^ X WING OP THE B^IPGE SUPPENL>37 words
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783 1947-10-16 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1947. Priorities for the Tin Industry JN the course of their new drive to increase Britain's exnorts and strengthen her capacity to earn hard currency, it is to be hoped that the Minister f>r Economic Affairs. Sir Stafford Crippt, and his team of783 words
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Article957 1947-10-16 4 NOEL MONKS - NOEL MONKS by THREE more members of the British Imperial family have set their feet on the magic carpet of self-govern-ment Burma, Ceylon, and Malta. In a matter of months the first two might selfgovern themselves clean out of the family, as India may yet. do.957 words
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Article531 1947-10-16 4 By Howard W. Blakvslw. THE g] latest achievoment yet In man made gems, perfect synthetic star rubies, and siar sapphires, the rarest of all natural (ewel stones, have been exhibited for the first time at the American Museum of Natural History. They were made by the LindeA.P. - 531 words
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Article149 1947-10-16 4 rpHE return of ancient liteJL rary works and treasures seized, stolen or purchased by the Japanese as far back r8 the first Sino-Japane&e war of 1894 is beim? demanded by Chinese scholars as compensation for what is described as the "immeasurable los s of Chinese149 words
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Article1103 1947-10-16 4 POLITICO - IT SEEMS TO ME. POLITICO By we are waiting patiently for Lieut.-General Percivai's despatches on the Malayan campaign, Mr. John Winant, former American Ambassador in London, has been throwing a little light on what happened in Whitehall in December 1941. According to extracts Which the Daily Telegraph prints from his1,103 words
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Article, Illustration34 1947-10-16 4 The Parents' Association of Orpington, Kent, have provided miniature but fully representati ve system of roads laid out in the Warren Road School where child ren can receive real practical training in road safety.34 words
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Article153 1947-10-16 4 John Fisher - Squall a the State Kashmir J ohn Fisher By THREE 1 Moslem against their b£ Lahore. Kashmir rrom India in 1931 Amanullah. w°afe <£"* frontier fo r a J°** t^rono. British S A P r -d outbreak or«2 burmna flared up ir A third wave v.hen Brit; would quit IT153 words
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Article137 1947-10-16 5 Fre? Press Staff Reporter n t e« raduatcs "so that the weight of their opinion !d he felt in the management of the Univerl«farc being taken to form a Pan-Malayan 'tion of Raffles College graduates. V viissed at a meeting of representagduate bodies to137 words
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Article26 1947-10-16 5 E. P. Shan of ilting Japanese I linese, who Birgre of i P- -10 or i d 535 hich r M. dur-26 words
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Article444 1947-10-16 5 &BATAVIA. Wednesday. VERSEAS Chinese In the Netherlands East Indies are voicing increasing bitterness over what they call "Nanking's disinterest" in the suffering of Chinese in the DutchIndonesian conflict. Sin Po, the influential Chinese daily, charged that news of the death of thousands of Chinese and theA.P. - 444 words
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96 1947-10-16 5 MALAYAN TO HELP IN BORNEO RICE SCHEME I rt-< I'ress Staff orrer>p<>iident JOHORE BAHRU. Wednesday. AS pan oi the plan to lulp ex. P^ind the acreage under padi cultivation In North Borneo, thv Malayan Union Government is lend! N h Borneo the services P. McNee, state Irrigation ine r, Johore,96 words
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Article, Illustration128 1947-10-16 5 On Jan. 2S. ISI9. six ships of the East India Company weighed anchor outside Singapore. Two Europeans and a party of four sepoys came ashore. One of the Europeans UHU later tobecome the first governor of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles. That UHU the firs: occasion on which Indian128 words
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Article94 1947-10-16 5 rpHE Chung Cheni High School in A Blngaporc li to build special department to enable students to study music Funds tor the building will be provided from a recital on Oct. 19 under tn <* patronage of the Chines* 1 Consul-General, Dr. Wu Paak-.^hing. Th94 words
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Article306 1947-10-16 5 From the waterfront Fre e Press Staff Reporter THE Dominion of PakLstan is one of the many countries in the world which have appealed to the United States for financial assistance, according to an American Congressman who arrived in Singapore yesterday i n the course306 words
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Article635 1947-10-16 5 DOCTORS URGE TB CAMP CLINIC Alumni Assn inquiry report Free Press Staff Reporter A SMALL settlement for sufferers from tuberculosis, built away from the town, and a clinic to diagnose and treat early cases should be established at once with the funds now available in order to give an immediate635 words
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Article49 1947-10-16 5 Free Press Chines? Correspondent THE registration of overseai 1 Chinese will star t on Nov. l at Chinese consulates in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Penang. Applicants may also apply 10: registration at, various centres appointed by t-he Chinese consulate in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Pen an g.49 words
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Article104 1947-10-16 5 YESTERDAY, the Singapore Third Police Magistrate. Mr. F. B. Oehlers, fined N* Chenjr Wah Sl5O or three months' rigorous imprisonment, and W«c Jin Sen? and Koh Joi Chai each $75 or six weeks for cruelty to ducks. Inspector D. F. Meyer found the ducks in104 words
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132 1947-10-16 5 A CHINESE youth Tan Ah Kow; who escaped from th e Salvation Army Boys' Home because the food there was "not sufficient" bur, wanted to go back to the Home because he had since learned th P food there "had boen increased" was yesterday132 words
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Article100 1947-10-16 5 THE international meeting ot rubber research workers ii being held at Deln, in Holland Ten British and six French delegates are taking part in the me:ting which is also attended by various Dutch research workers Including a representative of the Netherlands Indies Institute for Rubber ResearchReuter - 100 words
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570 1947-10-16 6 Greece is battleground for East and West FVERY day the guerrilla fighting continues the Greek peasant pays with the lives of his kidnapped sons and daughters, burned homes and stolen crops, writes an A.P. correspondent from Salonika. The Greek "democratic army", led by General Markos, existsA.P. - 570 words
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187 1947-10-16 6 'Jap Reds are fomenting labour chaos' JAPANESE communists arc tryinp J to promote new strikes and labour troubles In Japan. Mr James S. Killen. American Federation of Labour advisor to General MacArthur. told the American Federation of Labour national convention in San Francisco. Mr. KilJen reported that !n "recent weeksA.P. - 187 words
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Article70 1947-10-16 6 T>atang. north Luzon. I* irly lav x i i> re the a typhoc n, stricken bv mnliKnan: malaria In i orm, according to reporti to President Island'j governor, habitant rken by sickIn i xscd by tbOttftandft" the Government .s^id, with their conditl in aggraYated by of clothingA.P. - 70 words
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35 1947-10-16 6 The Egyptian Government is to sp"nd up to C 5,000.000 in a campaign to stamp out the cholera epidemic, which has caused nearly 1.000 deaths in three works ReuterReuter - 35 words
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Article30 1947-10-16 6 The U.S. State Depaitment has d« med a rumour that the United States is tpoDfl >rin^ a merger of the Gn ek ard Turkish General Stalls- U.P.U.P. - 30 words
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Article185 1947-10-16 6 BRITAIN'S biggest-, ver radio show opened with the first Radiolympia" since 1939. So many thousands crowded the 80 000 square feet of stand space i to study the latest products of 190 exhlbiton <20 more than before! the wan that the exhibition is expected to185 words
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117 1947-10-16 6 JEWELS SEIZED BY AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS I A SERIES of raids or. ships n t;adin K from the East lor lomrabaiif] culminated when Au. trahai. custonLs men confi.sCaL v d packages oi u n cut diamonds, rubies and sapphires m the British freifhtei Ohyebassa in Melbourne. The Rcms. wrapped in envelop-Reuter; A.P. - 117 words
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Article279 1947-10-16 6 wxnrornnx^ NEW Y ORK. Wednesday. pwKbinENT Franklin D. Roosevelt was disillusioned over Russia's attitude toward postwar co-operation, and, only an hour before he died, sent a message advising Mr Winston Churchill that "we must be firm," Mr. James P. Byrnes discloses in his newly-published memoirs.A.P. - 279 words
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Article55 1947-10-16 6 MORE than two billion yen worth of crops were de.stroy- in the recent fl^>od of Kanto plain, surrounding Tokio. the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry reported to the Diet on Monday. According to Ministry .statistics. 227.000 acres of riceland ,wrre destroyed an f i thousands of 'otherA.P. - 55 words
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Article30 1947-10-16 6 Appeal is being made to t|M Canadian Government ■galrist the Briti.sJi Columbia ban on "Black Nari'Lssii.s." a British film with a convent in India as a background.30 words
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Article72 1947-10-16 6 U.S. Army ordnance scientists have disclosed that they have a n«'\v 16-lnch telescope that can follow and photograph V-2 rockets travellin 000 m.p.h. to altlabove the •>. They also said that United States experimenters liav*- sur- i us in i. n--search and are uU.P. - 72 words
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Article145 1947-10-16 6 •ntRSISTENT re**n t public I>m b I Information, Mr. II,!i,; < world pres« China is getting f < Government siffns of dis] Shanghai amonj; correspond n considering some form of cei n d The Foreign Co: tu call a special meeting I semi-official actions by GA.P. - 145 words
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Article, Illustration59 1947-10-16 6 Britain's old soldiers hand over trophies Britain's oldest "old soldiers," the Chelsea Pensioners, in traditional scarlet coats and threecornered hats, parade with trophies captured from the French, Germans and Americans duriny battles in the nineteenth century. The trophies were being handded back to the regiments who captured them, after being59 words
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Miscellaneous57 1947-10-16 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava -BUT JANE BE HELPO> NOWh\ 1/wAAT MAPDPUPn^ I r~^====^ s musTmt win it.'- 1 Your cheer leaders I I fi S.J: APPBUtD f fi/N THERE'S SOME STARTED T^E^AUSE KN. k^A^^^f^W^A (OREAT GREMLINS Ml vM.STAKEj-V AND THE CAMPERS L> S< S?^r<7 kSS2M57 words
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Article, Illustration212 1947-10-16 7 fourists Will Face Strong Defence By Our Soccer Reporter I(S S the Shanghai Chinese football tourists are Hi to speed up their game and show us a n«r tricks, they are likely to suffer their first K-J today when they meet the strong Singapore Football212 words
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384 1947-10-16 7 RC.U 7 Forw ar«l lM Hot-key XI were beaten 1 Ba T' the Cable alld Wi^fading Mght jJsTbJtre the* enT g 1 in UteSS^S w"re J re^1 b rr h thC side 1 victor G M Th f great cxtent for thclr worker wMeßofjlnsen'fn^.384 words
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204 1947-10-16 7 INDIA* PE Wednesday [NDIAS cricketers were elated t>w daV Wlth the "ews that i their captain. Amarnath had l^ n P^f^ted with a son Tues 2St i?• he receiv ed manv congratulations when the news wi\ f announced here. Pin. warm weather prevailed forReuter - 204 words
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Article152 1947-10-16 7 St. Josephs Institution beat Recreation Club bv thro* to one ir. a hockov matcii played on the S R C. pa.i an ■av Founded in the middle of last year, the Orion B.P. are on e of the youngest parties in Sinaapore. The Party has shown consistent152 words
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Article57 1947-10-16 7 JN a game of rugger played at Bhtkan Mati y.-sterday R.A. Blakan Mati beat G.H Q Signal Repiment bv 21 points (thron ponis and two trie?) to three Scorers for Blakan Mati were: Lt Dove (two tries). Lt. Chapman (one), Lt Slnpt-r (one) and Lt Howe (onc|.57 words
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555 1947-10-16 7 SCRC PUT UP GOOD SHOW IN PADANG RUGBY SCC "A" 18 pta SCRC 11 pts. IN a fast and interesting game of rugger plaved on the Padanc rday. th° SCC "A" XV boat the oineanore Chinese Recreation Club bv 18 Doirts (six tries) to 11 points <a goal and two555 words
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Article299 1947-10-16 7 ■JLC. I. s.C.C. 0 piELDINcJ tram which completely outclassed their opponents iniummi every department of the fame the SnKapore Recreation Club defeated the Singapore Cricket Club bv four Boan to ml in a i;.imc of hockey played the S.CC. padanf yesterday But to the299 words
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109 1947-10-16 7 TilE Australian Davis Cup captain, Roy Cowling said In San Francisco that "everv nvmbor nulled his share of the weight. in the Aussies 1 unsuccessi ful pflort to defeat the United States. Cowline was tiip or.lv one of three members of the Australian delegation still109 words
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Article502 1947-10-16 7 STRONG SINGAPORE TEAM SELECTED Badminton Notes....By Courtcrafi resent that Ong Poh Urn is a better Sin-' Klea player than either Durai or Chin Tee, the S.B.A. selection committee have, in my opinion rnade a wise decision in keeping ni in the doubles with Chung Tee. They make a very strong502 words
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377 1947-10-16 7 Cesarewitch Winner Hit Bookies Hard f APT. Dermot Fitzgerald's Whifcway, in scoring one of SSSSSiSftESS' haVe had to face -Sr%S N °t only is he doubled up with nis stable companion, Tite Street who, like Whiteway, ran pro-^ minently in the St. Leger, but with Mighty Maharatta, the Cambridgeshire favourite,Reuter - 377 words
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148 1947-10-16 7 Non-European XV To Meet RAF Combined Jiik loiiowuie win repcmut the Nonat 5 p.m mi WdSS fitl? Y ,?v' Vlene <SCRO; N. M li.s°""r1 i .5°"" r 1 M Ma w»rs w™ lice). Chia Hong Chin <MCU). ti^T* 1 c lan^ have been made from n tIS aT"«T 11 b148 words
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Article111 1947-10-16 7 A BID by Walter Neusel, 33-year-old former German heavye w fa^ ed when he was knocked out by the present champion. Hein ren Hoff m the seventh round of a 12 rounds title contest at Hamburg last nisht. Neusel had the better of the fir.jtReuter - 111 words
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Advertisement69 1947-10-16 7 '°TTERDAM LLOYD ROYAL DUTCH MAIL ""WILLEM RUYS" tons BUUItN TRIP: Dec. 22-1947 '>ItT~EN HANDELS-VEREtMGING "ROTTERDAM" **i*m Knad-lst Floor S^^ >l ISTtI 5073 Vionin j" 1 j Travellers.!: ISIT^G SINGAPORE STAY AT pean Residential Hoteh 3Nt l 9 V "*SSf irr? 1^ *"er the liberation. Spa--7 f ;"«i^d. Every room has69 words
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Miscellaneous91 1947-10-16 7 Free Press Crossword No. las [1 i k |3 I4- IS |6 |7 |6 "I I 1 4> I ■I r^^ pC^i WL I fi B I fl II II I II 111 CLUES ACROSS (4) 20, Wooded eminence (5). 22, Member of rel 'ious^ mUitarv 25, Course of action91 words
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Article, Illustration26 1947-10-16 8 UftMr View of St. Paul's Cathedral from the south-east, which to to be preserved in the II UHrlEl recomrnended lay-out of blitzed sites surrounding St. Paul*.26 words
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Article255 1947-10-16 8 CHIFLEY OK PLAN FOR STATE BANKS CANBERRA. V. MR. Joseph Chilley, Austra.. Prime Minister, introdu I the House of Representatives today the bill for the nationalisation of private banks In Australia. State banks and savings banks would not be aifected bv the bill. he said. "It will be the CommonwealthReuter; A.P. - 255 words
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Article333 1947-10-16 8 LAKE SUCCESS, Wednesday. 4 N Indian resolution making the (ieneral Assembly to request the Vnited Nations members responsible for the Administration of non-self-governing territories to submit trusteeship agreement for all or some ot such territories not yet ready for immediate self-government was carried by the tru«>U'eshipReuter - 333 words
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Article81 1947-10-16 8 rE 60 anniversary of the opening of St. Andrews House in Singapore is to be celebrated tonight by old boys, including an original member-resident of tht House. Mr. FJ. Smith. Major H. R.S. Zehnder. an early member, will also be present. The nrst St. Andrew's81 words
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151 1947-10-16 8 PERSIANS CROSS AFGHAN BORDER, DESTROY DAM TEHERAN. Wednesday. ¥>^R SIAN tribesmen crossffi I 1 Into Afghan territory and destroyed the Mankoni Dam. which tl.'-y believed diverted the waters <>t the Hirmand River from r la, the newspaper Mihan re-' pom. The Hirmand. which rises In Afghanistan. tlow> into the PersianReuter - 151 words
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Article34 1947-10-16 8 Exhibition halls and libraries, a theatre, a dance hall and several bars, will all be within the precincts of the ik'w University College, London, rebuilding plans for winch are now announced..- ReuterReuter - 34 words
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Article210 1947-10-16 8 NANKING, Wednesday. rpHE Nanking Government military spokesman, Lieut.--1 Gen. Teng Wen-yi told a news conference today the Communists were beaten in what was said to be their Manchurian offensive, but there was some doubt if they would renew their attacks on the outer defences of Mukden.Reuter; A.P.; U.P. - 210 words
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Article459 1947-10-16 8 Food supplies are near exhaustion THERE is no more food in India today than during the A 1943 Bengal famine, and the Indian Government is taking enereetic steps to avert the threat of famine in view of the Punjab disturbances and repeated crop failures, says459 words
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131 1947-10-16 8 CAIRO. Wednesday. r\viE cholera epidemic, which Is 1 tpreadtnf, In Egypt's northcactcrn delta province of Dakahliya. was today described as extremely grave. Communications with west Egypt are cut off. \ll available serum is being rushed from Alexandria to the .nee. where hospitals are crowdedReuter - 131 words
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Article146 1947-10-16 8 Free Press SlalY orrespoudent KUALA LUMPUR. Wednesday. Bt- CAUSE Ol the shortage of generating plant at the power station. Malacca, like most other towni in Malaya, has been experiencing a degree of black-out every nteht fnr some months past. The Electrical Engineer has stated that sine Oct.Reuter - 146 words
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Article56 1947-10-16 8 PARTY FOR U.S. NEW YORK, Wednesday. rE Coastguard weather ship Bibb, which rescued all the 69 passengers and crew members of the flyingboat Bermuda Sky Queen In mid-Atlantic, is now bound for Boston with the rescued party, all of whom are reported to be "quite well but seasick"U.P. - 56 words
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Article241 1947-10-16 8 RANOOON, Wednesday. THE Rangoon Police Commissioner, U Aung Chein, giving evidence at the trial of ex-Premier U Saw and several others on charges of murder, said for several days before the assassination of U Aung San and his Cabinet colleagues, the police had beenA.P. - 241 words
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Article, Illustration33 1947-10-16 8 Makalma Gandhi, while takinu a walk in th* nrrW House. New Delhi, lean, for 7" J and Dr. Sushila Nayyar (right tnuPiSl attendants during his recent Uln ■^'iZ^^H H.S. Suhrawardy, furv :a! Prc^,*33 words
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Article349 1947-10-16 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday. THE start of the new Account on the London Stock h- change today brought nothing but a few speculLUm, says Keuter's financial correspondent. Bear selling restarted among Industrials despite the encouragement o! the latest coal figures. The Heavy Industry issues vat markedA.P. - 349 words
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Miscellaneous52 1947-10-16 8 WEA THEK 1 Showers WEATHER report for th« next 24 hours compiled by the R.A.F.: Cloudy with showers tfiiis afternoon, dyinjc out tonight. Bisk of further showers early tomorrow. Wind southerly, l»rht to moderate. Sunset: 6 23; Sunrise 6.18. Moonrise: 7.25 a.m moonset 7.52 p.m. Temperatures: Max. 89 de«: nun.52 words
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