The Singapore Free Press, 18 October 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA W\if SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    SURMA HAS GOOD FRIEND' POLICY
    733 1 SURMA HAS GOOD FRIEND' POLICY New republic to be socialist LONDON, Friday. THE severing of Burma's political bond with the British Commonwealth paradoxically would bring: Burma nearer to Britain, said Thakin Nu, Premier of lUirma, to the people of Britain tonight in a broadcast over the B.C.C. network. Thakin Nu
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    Empire tariffs to be cut by 25 p.c?
    173 1 Empire tariffs to be cut by 25 p.c? WASHINGTON, Friday. ■l Aaflo- American trade pact is authoritatively unMjnJoot] 'i approved by the British Cabinet Kiiboui to be i i '.S. State Department ■seal. i\ return i >r immediate I".K. tariff number of British commodities," i understood to have agreed ■Spffcent
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    308 CHOLERA DEATHS
    33 1 Cholera casualties in Egypt rday were 308 dead and 733 ■sent to hospital, bringing the cholera death toll since the start of the epidemic 3 weeks aijo to 1.574.- U.P.
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    RUSSIA SEES UNO BREAK-UP AHEAD
    204 1 NEW YORK, Friday. RUSSIA today bluntly announced that it would accept no compromise on the American plan for a yearround Little Assembly and virtually served notice of Soviet < boycott of the proposed new agency. Opposing all similar suggestions, -he Russian spokesman Andrei Gromyko said:
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    MARTIAL LAW ON PERSIANUSSR BORDER
    221 1 TEHERAN, Friday. MARTIAL law at two points near the Soviet frontier and "defensive" Persian troop moves were reported here today on the •*ve of an important statement on Russian oil. which Quavam-es-Sultaneh. Persian Prime Minister. is expected to make this week-end to the Majlis (Persian
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    DIVINES URGE JINNAH 'SAVE MUSLIM HONOUR
    151 1 DIVINES URGE JINNAH 'SAVE MUSLIM HONOUR KARACHI. Friday. MR. Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Gover-nor-General of Pakistan has agreed to "give his most careful consideration" to "certain suggestions" including compulsory military service, made to him bv a deputation of I\rs < Muslim divines) who "prayed for their Immediate implementation'' said an otlicial
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    LONE 4-MONTH TRIP
    37 1 Joan Gau. 45-year-old Frerrchborn New York dishwasher, has arrived in Marseilles after a solitary voyage of nearly four months across the Atlantic in a threemasted schooner, which he built in his spare time.- Reuter
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    72 1 The whole of the wedding service of Princess Elizabeth (9ee* above in a new portrait) and Lieut. Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey on Thursday, Nov. 20. will be broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation to the Commonwealth and the United States. The commentator inside the Abbey will describe various parts
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    'Don't aid Jews' call to UNO
    306 1 LAKE SUCCESS, Friday. THE Lebanon, a memoer of the Arab League, urged in a resolution submitted to the United Nations Palestine Committee today that all United Nations should prohibit their nationals from giving any assistance to Jews attempting illegally to emigrate to Palestine. The
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    SIR J. ANDERSON 'BROKE' IN SPAIN
    76 1 THE man who once handled millions when he supervised the British Treasury ran out of money in Spain. He was the former Chancellor of the Exechequer, Sir John Anderson, who went to Spain for the wedding of the Duchess of Montero last Sunday. Under
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    TAXI ROBBERY
    54 1 TWO Chinese, one armed, boarded a taxi outside the Happy World at 11.30 p.m. yesterday and drove to Telok Kurau Road where they held up the Chinese driver and robbed him of $20 cash, a wristwatch valued at $25 and the taxi. The car bearing number ***** has
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    HARTAL: 'STAY INDOORS, 'SAYS AMCJA CHIEF
    431 1 HARTAL: 'STA Y INDOORS, 'SA YS AMCJA CHIEF Free Press Staff Reporter 4 T a Press conference in Malacca yesterday, Mr. Tan Cheng Lock, president of the All-Malaya Council of Joint Action, appealed to those wishing to take part in the hartal scheduled for Monday as a protest against the
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    'STALIN DOESN'T WANT WAR'
    77 1 EIGHT Labour members of the British Parliament touring Europe declared in Warsaw yesterday that Premier Stalin had told them in Russia that he had no thought oi making war and wanted to settle political and economic issues with the United States. The Britons, headed by Mr.
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    YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
    93 1 THE President of the Board of Trade, Mr. James Harold Wilson, hustling 31-year-old cco7io7nlst, who is the youngest British Minister since Pitt, paid a fine of £2 yesterday for going too fOi>t in his car ivhen his hurry was not connected with the export drive.
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  • FEATURES...
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      11 2 Hazel Court as she appears in the Gainsborough production "Holiday Camp."
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      STARTING THE ROT
      309 2 I OUIS B. Mayer may L be sorry he ever hired George Brent. The actor is giving other MGM stars, particularly Clark Gable, the wanderlust. Brent has been saying that he will retire to Tahiti after his current picture. To other actors, harassed by taxes and other
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      'SPIVS' AT WORK
      1073 2 in Britain's Spivdotn' By A Special Correspondent A LOT has been heard about the "Spiv." In Britain at present he is being hounded with unceasing warfare by Lord Pakenham; Mr. Attlee promised all action that is open M against* him; but the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      81 2 P FADES are truing. South leads. North and South are to win all seven tricks against any defence. South leads heart queen and North makes two heart tricks; then lends diamond ace. If East discards. South throws a club, cashes the club ace. leads to Norths club king
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      MORE BABIES
      53 2 |7H3R the first time in 25 F years Britain's tr.rth r has passed the Affur* nec< to maintain :he population the next generation, said Mr. An<?urin Bovan, Minister of Health. He added: "The death for babies in the first yew of life is tlv lowest ever recorded In
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      ATOM BOMB CITY Mapped
      59 2 ATOM BOMB CITY Mapped K bomb C i*'- e®h Back »n 194J vea pon o»t ta uraniunT^o oJ dll had bceT?. *<k 1 before ntin t U P to now i^ a war C a?n accord^ Amencan city™,* 2 Place was oonceShi general publ^ ur." I atomic I Jir^pped on
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      NEW STYLE IN WEDDING MUSIC
      93 2 NEW STYLE IN WEDDING MUSIC A brio. Bir H. I 1872 and 1878 Replac cess* selection i It uas liam Neil, i minster Abbey sin Dr. O H PeMROOd sub-cress. will shar P or. wedding day from lon e liSms of w sui'.able to the occaa»« vd by the orj
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      76 2 GROWING CHILDREN NEED THE VITAL HEALTH-GIVING ELEMENTS SO ABUNDANT IN QUAKER OATS Wholcgrain oatmeai-Quakcr Oars- N*'*' leads all other cereals in elements F^ woN p«i tein, food energy, Vitamin Bi fO oD promote strength and nourishment i^ crowth and energy. Children e >> creamy Quaker Oats with sugar and m^
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      1191 2 Some Useful Stations SLKVICL Hill FAB EASTfcRN SLRVICE Frequencies Wavi'length* B B.C. 15.14 mc/| 19.82 m frequencies Waveiengthf 1175 25.53 17.79 dim 16.86 m 21.75 13.91 17.70 16.95 21.47 13 97 21.64 13 86 17 81 16 84 17 73 16 92 AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTIVG RADIO S.E.A.C. COMMISSION Frequencies .ivrlcngth» Krequt
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      209 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DOKN today, your excellent memory and the capacity for hard, unremitting work are two characteristics which will carry you far on the road to success. You appear to have a gTeat deal of physical endurance, but this is because of nervous
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  • CHINA NEWS...
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      'Don't fear Japanese Competition'
      64 3 'Don't fear Japanese Competition' felt over I*s* Mr K ,Shangl.-n. said at the opening f l National <^ and We,'.- Con- no way ent is spinMayor a has Pjdtr. o i the tf for to 'ted. nment the imed he ited ss to ■his n .-char., chairman with I out
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      TRADE MISSION TO JAPAN
      89 3 ■jH[ traders I I nese I .at arcI I <i both 9 I s economic I hat of the first I do I -ill be I rn I I** jßlnotatves o: rr.erI I r:n »M 'xi nese for I 9i 9 IB PS? niust rI ch
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      REPORT 0N S'HAI TO CHIANG
      13 3 I i. has duf new n the s
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      83 3 photo. Bao Dai. former Emperor of Annam. is trying to bring about peace between the Viet Nam people and the French. He is said to be one of the tew important figures of Indo-China who might be acceptable to the French, Photo shows the Ex-Emperor and Empros Nam Phuong at
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      'Reds will win in 6 months'
      436 3 HONG KONG, Friday. MR. Li Clu-sen, former non-Communist general, flayed Chiang Kai-shek and his Government and predicted Manchuria would fall to Communists completely "within six months." Li, formerly Marsha! in the Chinese Army who took refuge in Honjy Kong last March when newi of
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      OFFICIAL ACQUITTED
      36 3 Applying the Government's amnesty law. a District Court judge acquitted Tong Chao Tze. former head of ihe General AiTairs D« partment. who was arraigned for illegally taking possession of property of Jap collaborator.- U.P.
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      Democratic League leader executed
      160 3 Democratic League leader executed NANKING, Friday. rE Chinese Government spokesman, Mr. Hollington Tong, told a news conference today that Democratic League leader, Tu Pin-chen, was tried by a military court and executed at Sian, not because of participation in a liberal political group, but because he organised a "salvation army"
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      SPECIAL COURTS FOR HOARDERS
      39 3 qhanghais garrison nead•3 quarters is organising joint peoples -officials couits to di-al with speculators and hoarders. The new courts are aimed at cutting away '-unnecessary legal procedur:" to deal swiltly with hoarding and price-manipulating cases.
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      VISITING TOKIO
      44 3 The Chinese mission to SCAP to Tokio said th>: Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-c'hieh, is due in, Tokio on Oct. 23 for a short- stay on his way home to China from the United Nations session in New York. A. P.
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      U.S. MUST AID AGAINST THE REDS'
      415 3 U.S. MUST AID AGAINST THE REDS' Wedemeyer says China has to reform JffiUT.-GEN Albert C. Wedemeyef S aS\Lf"unless drasUc reforms, particularly in the economic field, are implemented soon, China will be drawn into the Soviet orbit m spite of the assistance that we Americans must extend/' tJ*".®, Ar t- indicat
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      CHINA SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH BRITAIN
      229 3 LONDON. Friday. MR. Wu Shang Ying, Secretary General of the Legislative Yuan and head of Chimse mission flatting Britain, was received last night by the BriiUh Premier, Mr. Ckment Attkc. He was accompanied by the Chinese Ambassador, Cheng Lien Hsi and two other members
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      CURFEW IMPOSED IN HAINAN
      35 3 HAINAN dispatches reported a night-long curfew has been Imposed In Hoihow port on north coast of the island, to prevent infiltration by Communists who have been increasingly active throughout the island.
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      77 3 Advanced students of the Chinese naval training centre on the deck of training ship as they prepared to leave on routine training manoeuvres from Tsingtao. This is one of the many activities at the Chinese training centre. The school established in the Fall of 1945 is supervised by members of
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      SLAPPED OPERA STAR'S SUICIDE
      133 3 AN estimated 30.000 persons fil'd past the popular Chinese opera star S^ia Tan-kwei, "Little Cassia." whb took her own life in Shanghai due to her "miserable life" as a threatre proprietor's concubine. Police precautions, plus husband's announcement that all her CN.52.000.000.000 < about U.S. 525.000) would
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      SALVAGE OFF FORMOSA
      71 3 pAPTAIN J. G. McFarlano. vy CNRRA water transport port captain, said that operations to salvage 33.000 bags of UNRRA fertilizer and deck cargo of farm tractors from the crippled landing ship Wan Chang which grounded on Oct. 2 in a typhoon off the southern tip of Formosa
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      WANTS MacA TO ADVISE ON CHINA
      115 3 WASHINGTON. Friday. PRESIDENT Truman should call Gen. MacArthur home immediately to advise on an American policy for the Orient. Representative Auchincloss said here. The Now Jersey Republican Congressman, told a reporter the United States is so engrossed in fighting Communism in Europe that it
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      CHINESE STUDY U.K. CULTURE
      87 3 CLOSER cultural relations are even more important in the further understanding between two nations than trade and commerce, said Lord Ammon. leader of the British Parliamentary delegation to China, in a brief address in Pelplng when opening the National Library's exhibition of works published by British
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      CLAIMS FACTORY FROM JAPS
      56 3 THE Governor of Kwangtung, Mr. T. V. Soong. has sent a representative to Tokio to see Gen. MacArthur for the recovery of the machinery of a paper factory taken by the Japanese to Hokkaido. The mill was owned by the Kwangtung Provincial Government and capable of
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      2 3 TjgC ROAD,
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947. The Hartal
      714 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947. The Hartal QN Monday, the people of Malaya have brcn invited to take part In a one- day hartal by a diangely assorted group o: organizations, ran^is from the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce on the right to the All-Maluya Council of
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      THE SCOURGE OF LEPROSY
      1009 4  -  Rupert Butler by IEPRGu f 1 ts scour- ged the world from the earliest historical times. It was know T n in the delta and the valley of the Nile perhaps as early as 1500 B.C. Egypt, indeed, has been called the cradle of leprosy, and
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      THE POSSIBILITIES OF ELECTRONS
      755 4  -  J. W. Taylor by tthe three-month <\ 1 hibition of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society, recently opened a| the Science Museum. Kensington, illustrates how thu application of the electron to Industry and sclenci has brought to the fore the imm use possibilities arising
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      10 4 with anuuul* Li ASS! fifEi time by blowing a dandinon.
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      5 4 THE OTHff* DIRECTION Of LABOUR
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      IS CHINA BETTER DIVIDED ?
      561 4  - IS CHINA BETTER DIVIDED T. H. TAN As A Chinese SeeslT" By CEVERAL factions are so active in China today as to give the impression that the political split in that country is likely to take more concrete form before There are the Communists who, according to one report, now
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      $2½ MILLION SPENT ON LAND
      313 5 1 00 property deals in Aug. Free Press Staff Reporter MORE than $2,500,000 changed hands in Singapore m in approximately 100 transactions of property and houses during August. The biggest deal recorded for that period was the purchase of four houses in Jiak Kim Street,
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      $1½ MILLION DEFICIT IN MUNICIPAL BUDGET
      287 5 free Press staff Reporter f\^ Singapore Municipal budget shows estimated expenditure at 531, 128,953 against an li-jied revenue of $29,5554*43— t deficit of !r mo. i ha> to come befor e the Municipal at a special meeting parly next I compared with that for
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      TO STUDY BOMB PROBLEMS
      11 5 by a I.inI roblema fct iroup Rafpro
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      PASSIVE DEFENCE MEN COMMENDED
      515 5 AT a ceremony held at Batu Pahat, the Resident Commis■krner, Jobore, presented Cards of Commendation to 10 members of the Passive Defence Srevicea as a token of appreciation for their devotion to duty during the battle of Malaya. At U) ceremony the following *ions were read:
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      ELIZABETH CHAIR SUGGESTED
      185 5 Free Press Staff Reporter STK Han TToe Lini. a senior member Of the Singapore Advisory (ouruil, proposed yesterday that a useful way .of commemorating the wedding of Princess Elizabeth was to collect funds and found a n Elizabeth chair of tuberculosis in the future University of Malaya.
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      Not British Subjects
      57 5 AN oflidul statement issued in Singapore ye>>terday s iid that legal opinion ha* been re. cived through the Colonial Office regaiding the status of subjects el the Rulers of Indian States. The subjects of States which have acceded to the new Dominions of India and Pakistan have
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      FOR PRINCESS
      77 5 iali, rnembers of the Singapore ens at Kallang Airport yestern'turn of the Governor, Sir Franklin Public Relations pictures show the f honour on his arrival, and n. L.H. Cox, GOC, Singapore District. The Malayan Union wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth arrived in Singapore by truck on Thursday evening
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      H.K. MAY PRINT READER'S DIGEST
      152 5 HONGKONG may be .selected by Uie Reader's Digest as f printing ar.d du-.t ribu f n centre of the Chinese edition of the magazine. Mr. Dennis McEvoy, luunciex of the Digest's Japanese edition. la now in Hotir Kong investiga:ing tJie possibility of having a Chinese
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      TWO ACQUITTED
      31 5 Two British soldiers. G. McCulloch and C. Howell. were acquitted by Mr. Justice Btown at the Singapore Assizes, yesterday on a charge ot having raped a 14-year-old Chinese girl.
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      One Of The Few
      126 5 ONE of the lew men who can claim the completion of a successful career before th?i r 21st birthday is Captain Michael 11. Young. When he attends his coming-of-age party with his parents at Redditch, Worcestershire, on Dec 5, he will be celebrating the end of
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      Special road control next Wednesday
      224 5 Special road control next Wednesday SPECIAL regulations will b c enforced to relieve congestion and facilitate traffic on the occasion of the Kiu Ong Yah festival. The regulations will take effect from 4 p.m. on Oct. 22 to 2 a.m. on Oct. 23. Under these regulations, in Upper Serangoon Road
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      PASSIVE DEFENCE PAYMENTS
      60 5 Payments to Passive Defence Service units will be mado at Volunteer Forces Record Office, Beach Road, between the^ hours of 0900—1230 and 1400—1600 as follows Monday M.A.S. Balmoral Road Goodwood House Depots; Tuesday M.A.S. Telok Ayer Depot: Wednesday M.A.S. Middle Road Doh Jin) Depot; Thursday and Friday
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      67 5 Major General L.H. Cox. GOC Singapore District, was at the. wharves to bid farewell on behalf of the British Army to the 7/1 Pun jabs, who left by the Georgic. Shaking hands with the OC Punjabs, Lieut. Col. Budu Singh is Major OH. de T. Reade, a cousin of Gen.
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      Work for unity, troops are told
      205 5 Work for unity troops are told IN a farewell message, broadcast over the ship's public address system, Mr. John Thivy, representative of the Government of India told officers and men of the 7th battalion Ist Punjabs, who left Singapore yesterday by the Georgic: '"Soon after you land on the shores
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      'WE WERE ONLY JOKING'-JAILED
      132 5 THE Singapore Fourth Magibtrata Mr. R. J. C. Wait, yesterday sentenced two Chinese, Tan Ch_nj Yong and Ot\\ Ken Beng. who allt :t-d that they were joking, wera sentenced to one days simple imprisonment. Tney were charged with behaving in a disordeily manner by fighting in
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  • NEWS...
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      APPEAL TO STALIN ADVOCATED
      463 6 APPEAL TO STALIN ADVOCATED Byrnes warns of anti-Red league OOMEONE should go directly t o Marshal Stalin, in an effort «3 to ease the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, in the opinion of Mr. James F. Byrnes, former American Secretary of State. "It is always best
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      43 6 Princtss Oneida La Tona, daughter of Chief Flying Cloud of the Cherokee Indians, photographed in a 8.8.C. television studio in Londjon. She is in England with the U.S. roller skating team which is taking part in the European skating championship at Harringay Arena.
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      KOREANS PREFER SOVIET RULE
      101 6 KOREANS PREFER SOVIET RULE LONDON. Frid.ty. MOSCOW RADIO said that South Korean prisons are ■'literally packet" with *MemoermUc leaden ot)n^^tl^•r^'U undesirable by the Americans.** The article was written by Anna Louise Strong, an American who has lived in Russia for 20 fsars. She said that on a trip to Northern
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      Exodus to Red Zone
      79 6 She North K< r»a has th<* eight-hoar day. equal pay for women, special rights foe workers in d:inq< rows* trades, and 85 rest homes accommodating 25 000 workers, She 1.500 people a mf>ntli migrated from the southern to the north'-rn sone last year, adding: "Many of
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      S.E. ASIA LEADS IN PUNISHING JAPS
      101 6 1 rriHE result! of war crime trials JL conducted by four nations in 'he Far East for 340 defendant*. summarised by SCAP's legal we ion. shows that 44 death sentences have been niven. of which 16 were In British South Bast Asia courts. 15
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      STORES IN KENYA
      44 6 Ti.e British lajicliiig craft, Evan Gibb, completed unloading at Mombasa, Kenya, 5,000 tons of road-making machinery .or the Royal Engineer^ in preparation lor the delivery to Ke*iya o! a vast qunntitv of military stofM innn Hie Middle Ea-st and India Reuter
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      Germans take 'pay' in kind
      104 6 Germans take pay' in kind A K OLI llO>fA RV change has come over the German t«Jf r a^ et With WOTk r* <**'*** their waires not in money, but In th« products of the works where they are employed. This payment-in-kind is then bartered for food, clothing and fuel.
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      Jap eulogy on tenacity of Britons
      211 6 TOKIO, Friday. AN attempt by defendant Marquis Koichi Kldo. wartime Keeper of the Privy Seal, to deliver an eulogy on the courage of Mr. Winston Churchill and the tenacity of the British nation with Its back to the wall In 1941 was cut short
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      'PLUMP' EUROPEANS
      38 6 Mr. John Tabtr; head of the us n«iisr of Representatives Appropriations Committee; which must approve aid to Europe, sa:d he "had found European^ meniera^ly plump. Ti: y a r^ not wurkkng MM hard as they should."
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      'Emperor guilty, should abdicate'
      230 6 "WE have not only spued tike head, around which all these forces found their focal point and from which they derived their strength namely Emperor Hirohito bur, also united with the Japanese to strengthen his position," declares the New York Times in a n editorial on
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      65 6 An aerial view of the 21 £00 ton Rotterdam- Lloyd passenger liner Willem Ruys in the fitting out yard at Flushing. Construction of the vessel ioas begun before the war but was halted to avoid the liner falling into German hands. The vessel is named after the late Mr. Willem
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      Death of former Bishop of Tokio
      130 6 THE Right Rev. Samuel Heaslett, 1 assistant Bishop of Sheffield, and. lonncr Bishop of Tokio. died on Thursday nipht of a heart afllirtion. Despite the sufferings inflicted on him in internment after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. Bishop Heaslett never lost faith in
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      RAIL ANNIVERSARY
      16 6 Teheran, Persia's capital, yesterday oelebraVed the 20th anniversary of the £28,000,000 trans-Persian railway.- Reuter
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      Warning to press on race hatred
      266 6 rVHE South London Press, which recently niihiu*. calling for the hanging of Jewish m LrVf^S? has been warned by Scotland Yard S rrom lan P* The paper has been informed that rmw seditious libel will be taken by tne Pub he ProSS newspapers publishing
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      MONTY BELIEVES WAR UNLIKELY
      57 6 MONTY BELIEVES WAR UN LIKELY THE Australian Army Mr. Cyril Chamber the House of Repn Canberra on Thursday I Marshal Lord Montgomery of the Imperial General had told the Australian Government he believed the not face another war some years. Mr. Chambers d Lord Montgomery had s**d 1 Russia's industrial
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      KING & ENVOY HAVE A LAUGH
      28 6 KING ENVOY HAVE A LAUGH 1 iiJtS Don Napolm £> in d lid i Mid ■v. to h mit i They liucaatfa 4 li I ST€ "A) a U.P.
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      FICTITIOUS TWINS GOT HER JAIL
      29 6 Wr'RED EL i ..ccd to si r il of tfce r ius twins. Sbc for makin? t name wrong address. She 'JH"! coupons.- Reuter
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      US TRANSFERS 93 SHIPS TO FRANCE
      12 6 THE US. Government «JJ J IP.
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      ITS DAYS ABE OVER
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      161 6 CAPITOL Air-Conditfened Phone 5159 LAST DAY U ».m.. 2, 4.15, 6. n0 9.15 p.m. r TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT FIRST 7 ACTION JAMMED EPISODES! "DESERT AGENT" ro-MORjrbw SANDERS OF THE RIVER 1L 1.4$ /I 1 Til i V Phcr. 41 W* 3 m now showing; OH i% (n^ U. V VM
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      24 6 today tour )iio*s 1.30 4 6.30 9.30 p.m. sk. svftfn Jar i m V Children's Matinee Tomorrow 11 a.m. "NIGHT IN PARAWSE" i* VoJourl
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      40 6 f« f :.,;U; :A 6.30 4MS IT U PUI A SMILfc ih rouß er I U foetid AND A SONG 'mtiSP 4 I IN YOUR K£ ART' '±*&Jk >^ V tw^ fifl To«isrroSo!«o*^ Also srra-iAi. i :A J "king of cmto^
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      110 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava -~*O OEOROIE^S; YtS^ AHD ~THATSs\ V^DOHT WORRY, MISsXI B I3*S AW EMIOV Kdo YouTkiM* I A/aT WitiMT All" ADVISED YOU «CT WHY HE WANTS To >/ LANGUISH 'hti'S CHALET Td COOLD -M^rli«-Y^T^^A^Tr^ TO PAY TMF SFF MF rA-U/fiMT- Di is/cn oi/-lj-t
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      LATE GOAL TAKES SCFA TO FINAL
      560 7 LATE GOAL TAKES SCFA TO FINAL P rv Our Soccer Reporter R.A.F. Changi 1 r ft S* niol> jn [he early stages, as if they would swamp ;^R^ kin irnun tbe* Chinese Seniors had to be thank--1 uoal to beat their opponents twona U of the S.A.F.A. Cup competition at
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      RAIN FOLLOWS INDIAN TEAM
      16 7 F-go K S nulef-D^in^hi I I the and Indian :o be Reuter
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      POLICE HOCKEY XI WIN 5-1
      279 7 THE Singapore Police beat the Y MCA. by five goals to one in a game of hockey played at Thomson Road yesterday. The Singapore Police, who did most of the attacking, scored their first goal after 12 minutes play when S.K. Sundram made a brllliant
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      OLD VICTORIANS WIN
      130 7 QI AY ING at the Victoria Icho -1 Hall the Old Victorians' Association dethe Oid Raffles' Association in 'minton friendly of five singles ;\\o doubles bv four games to R ults (O.V.A. players ment: Sins-le^: S. Ahmad Mattar boat Gnh Tlf l r >-6. 15-1: Qu. k
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      GOALKEEPERS COULD NOT BE BEATEN
      317 7 By r orward S.C.R.C 0 Colleges 0 IN one of the most thrilling exhibitions of hockey see n this season, the Combined Colleges XI held th e S.C.R.C. to a scoreless draw at Hong Lim Green yesterday. Both sides showed a superior defence but mo*t
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      England v Wales Soccer Today
      294 7 QOCCER stars of world-wide repute and newcomers anxious •3 <o win their spurs will be on view before a capacity crowd of 50,000 at Ninian Park, Cardiff, today when Wales and England clash in the second match of th^ international tournament. Stanley Matthews, making his
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      Annual Hockey At Medical College
      141 7 THE following have been selected to represent the Anatomists, in their Annual Mixed Hookey Match aeainst the Biologists on the M.C.U. ground at 5.15 p.m. on Monday: Scan Cheng Bbuif: Mm Lilv Thong BM Ijczi. J. S. Mahadevan: MLss N. Sundraledchimy, S. C Navarednam, MLss
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      S'PORE GUN CLUB WEEKLY SHOOT RESULTS
      57 7 S' PORE GUN CLUB WEEKLY SHOOT RESULTS I THE follow im: are results of the weekly comDeUUoo held bv the Singapore Gun Club. Conditions wrrp 20 single birds from different angles. Scores five points each bird. (Highest -possible score 100). Winner. Mr. Tan Choon Lee (70>: Second. Mr. Lim Joo
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      SAFA & Shanghai Soccer Teams
      30 7 SAFA Shanghai Soccer Teams picture. The Singapore A.F.A. and Shanghai Chinese football teams photographed before their game at Jalan Besar on Thursday which ended in a scoreless draw.- Free Press
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      Collapses After Winning Heat In Swim Titles
      381 7 f>A TSY McDonnell, Singapore Swimming Club representative, collapsed immediately after she had won her heat in the 50 -metre freestyle for women in the heat of the Singapore Ar nteur Swimming Association championships at the Singapore Swimming Club pool ve Irdav. Miss McDonnell
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      Harrisons & Crosfield Badminton
      105 7 Harrisons Crosfield Badminton *pHE following players have been selected to represent the Harrisons Crosfleld Sports Club against the Pelandok badminton team In a friendly match consisting of five singles and Oiree doubles at the Happy World Stadium tomorrow at 10 a.m. sharp: Teo Gek Swee. Ong Fns Bee, Kan Kwee
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      PARAMOUNT S.C.
      113 7 PARAMOUNT Sports Club will meet I the Singapore Rangers Sports Club In a friendly game of soccer tomorrow at Telok Kurau English Schoc 1 Ground, kick-off at 4.45 p.m. sharp. The team to represent Paramount Sports Club will be selected from the following players: Wai Mun, Siew Wing,
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      Selangor State XV Plays First Game Today
      565 7 Selangor State XV Plays First Game Today Free Press Staff Correspondent SELANGOR'S rugby side will play its first state game today with strong hopes of winning. The side picked to meet Negri Sembilanat Seremban is the strongest combination available at present, including as it does the best talent in the
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      ARSENAL MAY LOSE TODAY
      161 7 From James K. Chambers TODAY'S International soccer match. England versus Wales, will weaken a number of English. League clubs who have star players chosen for the big game, and the day's League programme is likely to produce Arsenal's first defeat of the season and a new
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      RAF SELETAR WIN 8-5
      162 7 RAF SELETAR WIN 8-5 IN a game of rugger played at Seletar on Wednesday, the R.A.F. Seletar beat R.A.F. Ba.se Headquarters by eight; points 'goal and try) to five (a goal* Base Hq. opened well, and were pressing strongly in t«he Seletar 25 when a knock-on sent t^em back. In
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      SPITFIRE B.P.
      31 7 A SPECIAL general meeting of the Spitfire B.P. will be held at La Pftloma Bar and Restaurant. Katong. at j 10.30 a.m. tomorrow. All member^ are requested to attend.
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      136 7 ROTTERDAM LLOYD BOY 11, 1)1 T( II MAIL «v"WILLEM RUYS" ns MUDF.N TRIP: ithamptoo Dec. 22—1947 mpton Jan 5-1948 WTh'Y SUCCESSOR OF 4 'DEM»»O If AND "BALOERAIT mXAfIONAU CBEDU r-JN ■IWIIIII IiIBJUIiIWO U ROTTERDAM^ n Koad Ist Floor L: TIJNG HAPPY WORLD fON.'CHT AT 8.45 P.M. A -bombep. W; x
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      107 7 Today's Sports Events SWIMMING: S.A.S.A. championships, S.S.C.. 2.30 p.m. RIGGER: Non-Europeans vs. R.A.F.. Jalan Besar; R.E. Ru*r«r Club vs. GHQ. FARELF. Thomson Rd.; S.C.C. vs. GHQ FARELF. Padan*. 5.15 p.m. HOCKEY: M.C.U. vs. Johore C.C.. JcAiore BaJiru. 5.15 p m*. Singapore Rangers vs. R.N. Police, Naval Base; Hong Kong Bank
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      272 7 Free Press Crossword Mo. 7 5 i z i 3 i 4 I pn [6 it 9 9 I m^ mm^ m^ -L 1 1 CLUtS ACROSS 1, Flavour (5). 5, Clarified fat o* pigs used in pharmacy (4). 9, Hotch* potch (4). 11, The treasury of a college or
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      26 8 H jftiE A landmark °f orcat renown in Hampstcad. London, It the "Old Bull and Bush", haunt of Cockneys and the subject of Marie Lloyd's songs.
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      CEYLGNESE MPs CHARGED WITH SHOOTING
      179 8 CEYLGNESE MPs CHARGED WITH SHOOTING FIVE guards of the Ceylon Corps of Military Police were produced in the Singapore Fourth Police Court and subsequently in the Seventh Police Court yesterday on .charges of abetting th e commission of housebreaking and theft of 31 bales of canvas and causing hurt, by
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      U.S. sees early rubber surplus
      533 8 AKUON (Ohio), Friday. THE I'niled States rubber and tyre industry, catching up with civilian demand for the products, will use approxiiruiMv 1,000,000 tons this year and already is disturbed over the probability of an early world surplus according to spokesmen for the rubber industry. They
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      P&O FAR EAST SERVICE
      38 8 THE sea passenger service between Britain and the Far East, suspended throughout the war, was reopened yesterday when the refitted Peninsular and Oriental liner Canton left Southampton for Hor« Kong with 544 passengers. Reuter
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      1942 QUIT RENT WAIVED
      133 8 1 942 QUIT RENT WAIVED 'piIE Singapore Government 1 has stopped collecting 1942 quit rent for its properties in response to a complaint by the Singapore Ratepayers' Association. The Association had informed tjio Colonial Secretary that the Collector of Land Revenue was Tempting to collect th whole of quit rent
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      SUBSTITUTE FOR FUEL IN U.K.
      104 8 LONDON, Friday JIK Ernest Smith, chairman 01 the Industrial Coal Consumes <;<>^"'l. said t()day hQ Jf«W<l atomic tnor^y would betfin to influence Britain's fuel and power situation within rtve lo 10 ytars and might bo m KeiMrml use in 20 years. He spoke at i
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      SOVIET COLONIAL PROPOSALS FAIL
      186 8 .NEW "ORK Fridftv T^!i G t e H° k UI sse mbl y's Economic Committee' today HS fiKPi* Commission's membership b> including the Middle Eastern countries was also rejected by 24 votes to seven. India's Samarendranath Sen who voted against enlarging the Commission, criticised Franc and
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      N.I. SEEKS MORE U.S. TRADE
      54 8 N.I. SEEKS MORE U.S. TRADE DR. van Hoogstraten, director of the N.E.I. Economic Allairs Department, is leaving lor the United States shortly to discuss the extension of trade between the United States and Indonesia Dr. Hoogstraten is attend ns talks at high level at The Hague on economic problems affecting
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      'USAW PLOTTED TO SEIZ THE GOVT.'
      455 8 'USAW PLOTTED TO SEIZ THE GOVT.' Ex-henchman gives his story RANGOON, Friday. A 29- YEAR-OLD BURMAN, Ba Nyun, who turned King's evidence after he had been arrested with U Saw, Burma ex-Premier, and eight others on charges of assassinating U Aung San and his six Cabinet colleagues last July, told
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      ARAB GUNMAY'S £32,000 HAUL
      59 8 A LONE ARAB armod with a revolver hold up the cashier of a Haifa Arab tubacco firm yesterday and atcaped with £32,000. The police detained the driver of a car in which the cashU r and another employe^ of the company were riding at the time
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      UK making big food deal with Australia
      184 8 UK making big food deal with Australia LONDON, Friday. A BIG long-term Augio-AiLstraii- an food agreement ultimately involving many millions of pounds in sterling annually was slated to be virtually certain to follow the announcement of the Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, that experts of both countries had agreed, in
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      U.S. ASKS KOREA ELECTIONS UNDER UNO
      174 8 LAKE SUCCESS Friday THE United States today tabled a resolution calling for elections in the respective Soviet and American zones of Korea, under United Nations supervision, not later than March 31, 1948, and the establisliment of a national government of Korea. The resolution asked
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      28 8 This Indian family, whir* munal fighting in the I- y ma^ me^r tngdon Airport. New D>i h: U j zone at Gujranwalg.- flown out 0 r «IM Planet
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      PRICES UP AS BEARS COVER
      432 8 PRICES UP AS BEARS COVER London Jj^k Excha^ THE London Stock Exchange loday t!^ I**1 1 appearance but most of the ln^ a bears covering prior to th« opening of p Hr says Reuters financial correspondent ntnex t* was Uic ■tragtfc „f Oil shares whirh res,'! Z^ of hithct American
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      N. V. rubber
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      CHINESE ENVOY CORRECTS A P.M.
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      INDONESIAN CONFLIC
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      330 8 SITIWTKiN V\( ANT STRAITS TIMES D rltOCed printer i Lumpur. v to Straits Times. Oli Mar' Souar^ Kuala Lumpur. AC( OMMOOATIOM WWIFI). •t.ish COUPLE require NDI furnished house or Hat on Island oc Johore Bahru about Ifa rU 1943 uhil occupants are on horn leave Would tn.ke creat < are
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      48 8 WE A THEH Cloudy iy» \ii,r-u report for ih, ne,t 24 hours compiled by the 8.A.F.: <loudy with thundery ahowr. durlnr aftrmoon and Partly cloudy tomorrow morninr U.nd soulhrrlv. Hrht to roodrr--316 M.Kmrisr: 10 19 am, mo.^ f. 16 p.m. Trir peratu res: Max. »i> de» min ucjf
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      8 8 SINGAPORE TIDES Today 12.31 p.m. Sunday 12.59 p.m.
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      109 8 RUBBER PRICE \SPECLU Market cormn rnt civrs the priw of nt at 11 am today .iv follows: Buyfrj y| Cti a per ib per No 1 R < < Spot miiul- Ms S .No. 1 i; in V. H v K < fob in hal<^. N No 3 K S.8
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