The Singapore Free Press, 8 November 1947

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA tfij* SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1947 PRICE 10 CENT
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    ITALAIN MINISTER IN BRITAIN
    6 1 ITALAIN MINISTER IN BRITAIN rife:lea A.P. >-
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    TANKS SMASH KASHMIR INVADERS
    407 1 New battle at Srinagar gates UEAA fighting this morning only five miks from Srinagar was reported by Reuters' correspondent m the Kashmir capital. Indian troops defending the city u>ed tanks to break through the tribesmen, who occupied dug-in positions across the road to Baramula. The tribesmen
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    Extra UK petrol only for foreigners
    106 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. CMiiiisler of Kuel aiul Power, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, urn of Commons today it had been bW that s petrol allowances, which had been mjfd to Servicemen and British civilians on leave m the Bed Kingdom. !>c discontinued. The
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    AMMO FOUND
    32 1 Singapore detectives, checking a second-hand dealer's store m Weld Road yesterday, f )und 254 round* of serviceable revolver ammunition among a big sack of spent bullets. A Chinese was arrested.
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    FOG BRINGS LONDON SHOP THIEVES OUT
    217 1 LONDON, Friday. I ONDON'S thickest fog m 15 years last night brought Vj audacious smash and grab raids on Oxford Street and Bond Street shops, while m traffic crashes rive persons were killed and 80 injured. All today London remained blanketed by pea-soup fog.
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    DRASTIC CUTS IN PACIFIC FLEET
    96 1 HONGKONG, Friday. NAVAL sovirces here di.selose ihai the British Paciric Fleet, which is at present bigger than the entire Home Fleet, will be drastically reduced within a month. All heavy units at present m Hong Kong, the Pacific Fleet Headquarters, will return to the United
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    NO CHOLERA CASKS
    18 1 Not a single cholera case has be<:n reported among the British troops m Egypt.— Reuter
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    MARGARET MAY WED COMMONER
    78 1 KU:g George will not permit pretty 17-year-old Princess Margaret Rose to be engaged or married for at l2ast three years, Buckingham Palace souroes told the U. p. yesterday, commenting on 'inevitable" reports linking her with eligible Europeans. An authoritative souroe, asked by the U.P., who would
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    97 KILLED IN VIETNAM AMBUSHES
    152 1 SAIGON, Friday. NINETY-seven p. raons have been killed and 5G wounded m ambushes by Vietnam troops, part of their counter to French elloris to seal oft the Chinese border, reports Stan Swinton, special A. P. correspondent. French .survivors of the ambushing of a motor convoy
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    ESCORTS FOR PAY ROLLS URGED
    147 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent JOHORE 3AHKU, Today. rE Chitf Police Qfflptr. Xohore, Mr. L. F. Knight, this morning urged planter! m Johore to have police escorts with them whenever they take pay rolls to estates. He was commenting on the snzure of an $8,500 pay
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    REPORT ON UNIVERSITY
    86 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. (lOPlfcS of the Higher Kducaj tion Commission's report are now en route to the Governors of the Malayan In ion and Singapore. The Commission headed by Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, arrived m
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    TRUMAN'S GIFT TO PRINCESS
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    'Breath-taking' gown is ready
    325 1 'Breath-taking gown is ready LONDON, Friday. ORINCESS Elizabeth's wedding dress is finished and ready for final fitting after 300 girls at Norwan Hartnells, the Queen's dressmaker, had worked on H for two weeks. Sketches of the breath-taking gown, and of the bridesmaids' dresses, were previewed at a secret press showing
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    FORMER PENANG AUDITOR DIES
    30 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. Friday. The death took place at Musbury near Axminster (England) last Saturday of Mr. Thomas Stephen Evans, former Government Auditor, Penang.
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    Rubber: London ignores US denial
    290 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. r pKE London rubber market A has ignored the Dow Jones report that no real concession on rubber is provided under the AngloAmerican trade agreement negotiated at Geneva, says the City Editor of The Times. Yesterday, the rubber price
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    TEC OPENS FIRE AT SUSPECT
    57 1 A SINGAPORE detective fired a revolver shot at a Chinese, who started running away when questioned at 1.30 o'clock this morning m Nanking Street. The shot missed the Chinese, who escaped m the darkness. The detective arrested the man's companion a Chinese who had a
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      10 1 ■/r Hl l f mi For Smokers who prefer a
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      46 1 M FLINT£.R S GRINBcRG. WheJesait Retail Dealers IB DIAMONDS JEWELLERY Now available Gold Cigarette Cases ol 18 H carats Telepbonr .1)23 67. Stamford Koad. Cv Court Bide Singapore hl#lßlHE£^Bpߧ^9£mßA '.i I) '»c x3Kwsiißß^^-^>J -j' >^^^^H h, f r tn^ sv \HEEi9 ■fe'^n 7 WA^\Bti2B TIGER BALM
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  • FEATURES
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      Group Players
      262 2 ATTRACTING atten- tion on their first /It to London from the Eagli3h provinces are the Theatre Workshop Players —a brilliant experimental group of actors, writers and technicians whose rea'istic contribution to the living stage has been arousing keen controversy. This vital and accomplished troupe is making important experiments
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      YOUR LUCKY
      134 2 Fortune rorecast for people born today BORN today, you will need a full quota of perseverance and patience if you are to reach the ultimate heights to which you may aspire. The stars have given you talents m abundance, hut you lack the push and drive which is
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      RAFFLES' CONCERT
      91 2 (\S Sunday at 9.15 p.m. Raffles Hotel. Singapore i. holding an orchestral concert under the patronage of Sir Franklin Gimson m aid of the Poppy Day Fund. An orchestra of 20 musician* d .ected by Joe Sp*M>lman w.ll play compositions by British composers Tlbor Kunstler is the leading
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      STORE'S YOUNG MUSICIANS
      917 2 STORE'S YOUNG MUSICIANS BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT COME weeks ago an item of news appeared to the effect that The British Council had made a present of a large amount of orchestral music to the Singapore Children's Orchestra. What followed was even more interesting. The Conductor of the Orchestra, choosing
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      150 2 SPADES arr trumps. South lends. North and South arr to Win seven of the right tricks awNunst any defense, (ThU li an adaptation of a well known pn-blem.) Touth leads the diamond king, then the heart queen which North ruffs. North makes the d'amond jnek. South discarding: a
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      'Calorie Chasers'
      293 2 f PHE Germans have A discovered their own spivs. They call them, "Bummelern."' They're a species new to normally hard-working Germany, and they're waxing fat on the maladjustments of the post-war period. Theres the 'easy money" type. These are young p^opie drifting wherever there are opportunities to pick
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      TALENTED TWINS
      195 2 TALENTED TWINS S"*KLM and KleUiia Jewell, 9year-oJdtwin-diancersofXew Maiden, Surrey, wee norn within the sound or :i gramophone.* 1 u That is the °Pmion of their mother, Mrs. Joan Jewell, 30. who runs he dancing school m which the twins had their first dancing lesson-at the age U P r^>^i- es
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      84 2 CJ Start his .(j d^ jj>i The o*^ /y )l r t■/ I PEP AND ENERGY >J, ARE VITAL XI I n FOR SUCCESS Q 1 There is no better way to S supply extra stamina than Q Vl by healthful breakfast ot u^^^^^dF natures energy totxl m^ V*r^ Quaker
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      244 2 ■AtA•l* B i m 3 4b dm mPf™ M X_^fc l/ n i Tj^Mß SINGAPORE Blue Network p a -415 Kietre* In the toediam wave band A 7 22 megacycle* per second In the 41 metre band. II.H om 1«S m«tre* m the median «M*e band A 4 Bt6 megtcyele*
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      608 2 n m 'Soot Th<» Winner' 930 News; conduct.* dby Sir Adrian Bovilt. 4 pm 945 Talking of Book^ 10 nm. Pco- Dinner Misic" Alfred Van Dam <V Die's Palace. 11 d m News Summary John Scott Trottrr Sc their Orchcs- Malay Programme 12 noon Programm > jtras; 430p m. Austra'ian
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      182 2 SI'NDAY Bam Music on thr Air. 8 30 World and Home Newt; 8 45 Morning Star. 9 am. Here We Are Again. 9 30 Programme Announcements; 940 Interlude; 945 Shipmates Ashore; 10 i 5 Mu*ic tor Sally; 10 30 News and Item* from Sundays Papers; 10 45 Song to Remember.
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  • NEWS
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      REDS TAKE OFFENSIVE ON MANY FRONTS
      472 3 Chinese civil war spreading NANKING, Friday. 150,000 Communists are poised for a massive onslaught upon the Manchurian capital, Changchun, and fighting for the Kirin bastion is increasing m ferocity, the focal point of China's civil war has temporarily moved southward across the Great Wall
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      CHINESE 'MATA HARI' TRIAI
      94 3 It took half an hour to bring Chin Pi-hui (Yoshiko Kawashimat m a closed sedan across the garden of the Hopei High Court to the pavilion where her trial wan held. The car bogged doun m a sta of more than 3.000 people, who had gathered
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      MR CHANGED IUSSIE OUTLOOK
      38 3 LfIDLN future Uj, I and .n D. 't u of i talk Club. jax busifutun Far ild like as had imRivm n<>w .r m r P« ti this prf a' irds the predictwhole port
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      TRADE MISSION TO JAPAN
      44 3 SHANGHAI. Friday. rE first post-war Chinese trade delegation to Japan, comprising five members from various businesses, is expected to leave here by air. The ?roup represents the first applicants of visas to Japan approved by the Chinese Govern- ment. Reuter
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      JAP TALKS 'UNLIKELY THIS YEAR'
      263 3 JAP TALKS 'UNLIKELY THIS YEAR' LAKE SUCCESS. Friday. 4 TOP Chinese diplomatic i\ official said he saw virtually n<> chance of a preliminary Japanese peace conference talcing place this year. This expert on Japanese matters said it was extremely unlikely the United States, Russia and China could resolve their conflicting
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      36 3 A dispatch from Taiwan said the authorities had ordered all Chinese women who married Japanese during the island's long occupation, t<> obtain Chinese citizenship prior to December or they may be deported to Japan A P
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      TO WITHDRAW FILMS
      11 3 utors r.i-d to S^.ang i oi men maiTV—
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      DOES HER OWN HOUSEWORK AT 71
      31 3 ?erf *t Health -UUMnce has 40 Having I *-.V roung •O; irace own b (ore •nc r in--ilthv clean dnevs >v re i s land.
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      BETTER JUDICIAL SYSTEM NEEDED
      126 3 NANKING. Friday. GENERALISSIMO Chiang Kai- shek. addressing a judicial administration conference, asked the nation to do its utmost to improve the judicial system. He pointed out that, m the past, foreign powers delayed China's attempt to eliminate extraterritoriality on the grounds that China's judicial system and
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      AIR MAIL RATES UP
      40 3 The Postal Administration ha« announced increases ranging from 400 to 700 per cent m air mail rates to foreign countries. The minimum charge for an air mail letter from Nanking to Britain Is now CNs24.ooo.— Reuler.
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      FORMER GENERAL ARRESTED
      69 3 PEIPING, Friday. PEIPING police yesterday arrested Sun Tou-ching, until recently a lieutenant-general m the Nationalist Army, on suspicion of opium smoking, a crime punishable with death. When the police appeared at Yds house to search for opium smoking paraphernalia. Sun cut a brass button from his coat
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      PAPERS OBJECT TO TAIWAN PLEBISCITE
      125 3 NANKING. Friday. TWO Formo&an daily newspapers took exception to the reported Philippines proposals that a plebiscite should be held to determine the Formosa accession, and expressed misgivings regarding the sincerity of the Philippines approaches for friendly relations with China, according to press reports reaching Nanking.
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      71 3 picture. Two boxes of a cargo of five tons of cholera vaccine, a gift from the Chinese Government to epidemic-plagued peoples of Egypt and Arabia, are loaded on a four-motored US Army C-54, before its take-off for Cairo. In this picture are top (left to riant) Capt. Joe E. Humphrey,
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      U.S. BLAMED FOR BAN ON LEAGUE
      147 3 U.S. BLAMED FOR BAN ON LEAGUE SHANGHAI, Friday. rpHE Communist Radio claimed 1 today that the suppression of the Democratic League was carried out "with the approval and participation of the United States imperialists." The broadcast was devoted entirely to a communique on the League. It said the dissolution shows
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      BOMBERS BOUGHT FROM CANADA
      115 3 BOMBERS BOUGHT FROM CANADA negotiations lor the purchase Of about 150 surplus Canadian Mosquito tighter- bombers by the Chinese government haw been completed, the Canadian press reports. It reported* that China probubly would pay between $10,000,--000 and $12,000,000, on the whole deal m the following manner; 1. Tl:c Chinese governmccu
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      Japs deny 1937 sack of Nanking
      366 3 TOKIO WAR TRIALS TOKIO, Friday. A PARADE of former Japanese officers, including two Lieutenant-Generals, who participated m the capture of Nanking m December 1937, today denied, before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, ever seeing any of the wholesale slaughter, rape and
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      13 3 i 1 "AS/ GQ2ENG 1 UHT-TAFEL N/£D NOODLES IT RESTAURAMT J_NORTHBfur, GE ro.
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      122 3 BILL BAILEY'S COCONUT GROVE 55 Cuppage Road, Singapore. "A NICE PLACE FOR NICE PEOPLE" AMD THE BEST DRINKS IN TOWN Dancing to "Johnny Kleinman's Rhythmakers" READY END NOVEMBER STRAITS TIMES PICTURES 1947 Lavishly produced on art paper m black and white and coloured covet. Sixty-eight pages of pictures showing Malayan
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      45 3 Y^|J2AN Wetl don€ By E(lgar Rice Boroughs JjmSt Wi&7 JjMKm a r E w MINUTES LATER TARZAN DELIV- REGRETFULLY DEANE AND AS THE PARTY STARTED Hff J^ffi fJ /JShESR EREO HIS PRISONER TD THE AUTHORISES. RANDY TOOK LEAVE OF FOR THE PLANE TARZAN "l/fl)]h^\ |WN
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  • LEADER
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      SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1947. Money for New Housing
      630 4 SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1947. Money for New Housing IT :.s wtry welcome news that m spite of the reduced financial resources of the Colony, the Government has decided to recommend a vote of $5,000,000 n next year's budget for tne Singapore Improvement Trust, :or this should make passible a worthwhile
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      FAR EAST LOOKS
      1611 4  -  Lachie McDonald by AT BRITAIN Who has just completed a tour of the Eastern half of the world. DRITOXS at home would be surprised, sometimes shocked, to learn at first hand what so many millions of people on the great arc from Hokkaido and Korea m the
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      AS A CHINESE SEES 1T...
      1027 4  - AS A CHINESE SEES 1T... T.H. Tan by 0 R D AMMON, leader of the- British Parliamentary goodwill mission, m a speech at Tientsin, said: v China must take the lead m Saving Asia and the Far East from chaos, and China can do it.'* That one sentence reflects the
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      FAITH
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Wagons arrive for railways
      169 5 •HI h* Wt*M>l ordered from United Kingdom for I^ rehabilitation <>f Malaya's railways are already arrivritv of Ihrm are not expected before the Uaibtta P«» uXI year. Meanwhile, to meet (he pijrnumd |„r vragOOK, the railways are pressing forward Ifcutain «>f existing stock. vehicles were brought
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      31 5 picture 1 Andren v Cathedral grounds lies the Garden of can be placed. Donations received the Poppy Day Fund. Miss E. Barker 1'-*^ .p, r Mtei in the Garden Free Press
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      NEW WATER CHARGES NEXT YEAR
      265 5 NEW WATER CHARGES NEXT YEAR FROM next January, rnarses for water will be increased lo provide additional revenue to offset the deficit of nearly $1,500,000 m the Municipal budtThe main incrraarn are Per 1000 X .tllons For water supplied to premiers iiferfie Municipal limits of thr shophouse class solrly ivwd
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      CHINA REMITTANCES
      22 5 The figures lor family remittances to China during October are as follows. From Stefapore $1,300,745. and' from Malayan Union $394,713.
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      1948 BUDGET PRACTICALLY
      686 5 Singapore Municipal Finances Urgen t projects 'ru th lessly cv t Free Press Staff Reporter pIE Municipal Commissioners yesterday adopted a "practically balanced" budget for 1048, showing an estimated expenditure of $31,128,95] against an estimated revenue of $29,957,202— a deficit of $1,171,751. Revisions made at the meeting
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      36 5 picture. China's No. 1 Actress. Muss Li-U Hxoa (centre) is photographed on her arrival recently in Hong Kong. The other girls are the stewardesses of CNAC. Miss Diane Cheng (left) and Miss Nora Wong. A .P.
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      39 5 pictures. The sale of popuies began in Singapore yesterday. Above Mrs G.L. Williams in seen receiving donations from a boy and a Sikh outside the General Post Ofjice and below is another Povny Day helper at work.- Free Press
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      RAF PLANE RADIO AIDS FOR SI AM
      185 5 Free Tttm taff Reporter po^AL An Force radio mechanic! from Singapore have recently completed and handed over to the Siamese authorities equipment for aircraft communication and navigational aids. The egi'iomer t includes ,wo receiving sta i .i\< one at Do:: Muang. the main
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      RATES CUT WILL BE REFUNDED
      181 5 RATES CUT WILL BE REFUNDED JKE deduction of 24 per cent from compensation paid by Claims and Hirings Department m resp?ct of rates for 1945 will J2 refunded, as a result of representations made by the Singapore Ratepayers' Association. Owners of premises should apply to Claims an.l Hirings for the
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      Siam League to defy Nanking
      122 5 FIVE thousand China Democratic League members m I Siam are ignoring efforts of the> Chinese National Government to. curb the activities of the League' overseas, Mr. Low Ching Tsi\ Bangkok branch spokesman? stated yesterday. Mr. Low, who is the aditor of. the Leagues weekly paper,
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      RADIO TALK ON CHINESE CO-OPS
      59 5 A tatk by Dr Welthy Hon sir#§er Fisher, overseas repre sentative of the International Committee for Chinese Industrial Co-Operatives, will be broadcast irom Radio Malaya tonight at 9.45 p m Dr Fisher spent many months working with the Chinese Industrial Ca-operativcs and recorded this talk
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      TO BE REGISTRAR
      29 5 Mr Tan Thoon Lip. who was recently admitted to the Colonial Legal Service has been appointed to act as tbe Registrar of the Sujtfeme Court. Singapore,
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      132 PICULS RICE SEIZED
      76 5 lUST over 132 piculs ol rice was confiscated by the Food Control Inspectorate during Crtober. At controlled prices, the value of the rice was $3,223.73. Last month. ti;* Inspec.orate> dealt 138 casos. and obtained 154 convictions. Total tines imposed wen 1 $25,250. ol which $15,400 was
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      PASSIVE DEFENCE PAYMENTS
      68 5 PASSIVE DEFENCE PAYMENTS PAYMENTS to members of Passivf Defence will be made at Volunteer Forces Record Office. Beach Road, bei'veen he hours of 0900-1200 and noo-ieoo da^iy as follows. Monday M.A.S. General Hospital: Wednesday MAS. Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Salvation Army; Thursday Auxiliary Fire Service: Friday A.R.P. Singapore Cold
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      OFFICIAL PRICE GUIDE
      158 5 rE Food Control Department. will shortly issue, through the Public Relations Department, a list "Take this with you when you go shopping." This is in- tended as a price guide. The list contains about 300 items of foodstuffs and other articles which are not controlled m price,
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      UNION LEADERS CHARGED
      130 5 THE President of the Singapore Harbour Board Labour Uhion, Mr. Amuthulirggam, U^iTreasurer Mr. p. Govindasamy. and three committee members Messrs Veerasenan. Somoo and EartnaDan were produced b fore the Fourth Police Cour: Magistrate, Mr. R j. c Wai: yesterday, and charged with nouse-breaking and theft. It was
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      FIVE YEARS «AIL FOR REVOLVER
      107 5 -IK Singapore Assize Court yesA terdaj sentenced an 18--year-old Chinese. Hew Ah Chai to five years' rigorous imprisonment, when he was found c being m unlawful possession ol a revolver and five rounds oJ ammunition Hew was arrested m ciiangi Road on the afternoon ol
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      179 5 TRAVEL I GOODS I! We hold the Largest Selection i\ II WARDROBE TRUNKS HI II Built on selected plywood. covered and bound with HI 111 Vulcanised Fibre. StronK biassed iron nttinKs. Interior 111 SB I lined strong cotton material. Nickel hanger fitment l|| 111 and drawer pulls. 40 inch size
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  • NEWS
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      Ships Fight Pier Fire
      57 6 Ships Fight Pier Fire Fire boats and coastguard cutters fighting a fire on the Maine State pier at Portland, Maine, which caused damage estimated .-at (U.S.) %700.000. Fires in the United States this year have caused more than $500 million worth of damage. 23 per cent more than in the
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      RED BOGEY IS PANTCKING U.S
      314 6 4MKKKAS campaign against "Communists'* has reached a point of "near hysteria*' and is now threatening the civil rights of the people. A report sto President Truman, issued by the White House, says so. And Moscow is being told about it. All Vnited States official foreign
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      STALIN SOUGHT PEACE IN 1943'
      420 6 STALIN SOUGHT PEACE IN 1943' American writer charges Soviet Russia SECRET peace talks were m progress between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany "intermittently from January 1943 to May 1944" and included a Hitler plan for an "unannounced armistice." President Roosevelt was "well informed about the peace feelers, and persons then
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      Bevin defends 'spy' arrested by Poles
      260 6 Bevin defends 'spy' arrested by Poles THE ca*e of Charles Whitehead 1 and Mias Jane Walker, 70--y«u-oki BrHlah spy, took M P.s back on T*mrsda> to the stormy days of 1940 and Oerr^m occupation of Warsaw, when Mr Bevin, the F\>reign Minister, told the House of Commons that Wrvtfebead, a
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      FORMER U.K. ENVOY GETS DIVORCE
      161 6 FORMER U.K. ENVOY GETS DIVORCE UR. Victor Cavendish-Bent-m inck, former British Ambassador to Poland, was granted a divorce decree nisi, on the grounds of his wife's adultery, m the Court of Appeal on Thursday. The case arose from an appeal i>y Cto,ve*idisii -Bent i*i ck against judicial separation granted to
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      BOMBAY BLAST
      23 6 Twenty eijrht persons were injured. 14 .seriously. Waen an exPlosiv e burst In the Bombay Fort nrra or>. T:ui-sdnv ricrht U.P.
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      U.S. BUYS TOBACCO
      19 6 i U.S. Government is to buy i the tobacco which Britain will not take this yrar
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      SIAM WANTS FREE LAOS, CAMBODIA
      62 6 FOLLOWING yesterdays an--1 nouncemrnt that Slam rejected the Conciliation Commission's recommendation. the Siaine.se Premier Thamrone declared Uiat biam was prepared to waive completely and permanently all claims to the disputed provinces if Laos and Cambodia were eiven independence. France had earlier aereed to the recommendations,
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      $s FOR MAGAZINES
      38 6 A total of 4.900.000 U.S. dollars •about AJ 1.225.000) have brrn spent m the last twelve months on the import of newspapera magazines and periodicals from the U.S.. Mr. Dalton states m a writton reply.
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      Possessive women 'wreak havoc'
      55 6 O? M L,i s h km n ca wreak havoc with thc *>' J^nJ^^ "possess." says the "British Medical tlu. TllLi^r 111 6^ r? 1 3 «fc« "i* 8 aw oommotily persuaded of f i J o "»"nal if su«h a woman eurr««ponded to the ancient
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      Grain exports blamed for price increase
      94 6 Grain exports blamed for price increase AMERICAS three largest grain 71 exchanges, already UTider investigation by the AttorneyGeneral aftrr a presidential charge of "gambling/ 1 have asked for a Ccmgreasional Investigation. Senator Robert A. Taft, joint chairman of the Commit tr, said he haj received the request and would "recommend
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      S.A. dispute may go to World Court
      207 6 WHEN the United Nations Political Committee Ukes up the question of South Africa's alleged discrimination ™h I V? lans J, P° ssibl y late next week, the United States ?o£rr V ?i} e Kin^ om "M insist that the matter bo nn ™hot^°
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      TURLEY'S HORSES AGAINST THE CLOCK
      570 7 TURLEY'S HORSES AGAINST THE CLOCK Official Spore Training Starts By "CALL BOY" JRAINER C. W. Turleys horses were the only ones sent Donnell Abu (Morsillo* and Mont Blot (Haie) returned the best time, clocking 37 3/5 sec for tru three furlongs. Both were on tight reins at the finish. Eulogism
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      Weekend Sports Events
      64 7 -pV. combined BT* ,»H H-M-'S. Mala*.. rl, ..round. k s c. U ?Z pm: lhorc uP* lvU (i-rcal V**m hall. si p" 1 if w r- Royal Sincaporr Golf «7 .•onunitle* J^lmon. 4 II pm.. JZ£™ fs -^Unror, j *r* \»v»i Police s P 01 SSTctitSl vSm
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      INDIANS GIVE POOR DISPLAY
      131 7 INDIANS GIVE POOR DISPLAY Ne« South dis- k od^ lour batsmen for Iopr Arthur Morris made A a r.-.'weonu-r Mot -ney. Of 96. 1 ai=T I nips writes up tro- EOntkiutily changed v men chafing ran have :ng ■uiy changed. test p iced the ri elders m too ivlm and
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      F. & N. SPORTS CLUB
      79 7 F. N. SPORTS CLUB THE blowing will represent the Fraser Si Neave Sports Club at badminton against the Straits Chinese Methodist Church.. Kamponp Kapor. at the Clerical Union Hall at 7 pm on Monday Poh Kirn Yam, Teo Heok Kwanfl Cheong Soon Tuan, Chou Siu Kint; Ngin Eng Ming. Choo
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      SERVICES HELD IN TANGLIN HOCKEY TRIAL
      448 7 SERVICES HELD IN TANGLIN HOCKEY TRIAL DLAYING a more determired game the Rest held the Combined Ser vices to a two-all draw m a hockey tnai at Tanirhn Barracks yesterday r^Kfof^ 1 fii i ence at tJ start cost the Combined side a goal m the tenth minute and another
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      GOALKEEPER SHINES IN S.C.R.C. VICTORY
      244 7 GOALKEEPER SHINES IN S.C.R.C. VICTORY HIGHLIGHT of the hockey game at Hong Lira Green yesterday m which Singapore Chinese Recreation Club be*t V.M.C.A. by three goals to one was the brilliant performance of the Chinese goalkeeper, Lee Ah Chio, whose beautifully- timed clearances were a treat tc watch. The Chlr.^e
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      Hockey On The Padans
      27 7 Incident m the S.R.C.-R.C.U. match on the padang yesterday R Barker is seen trying to get past the College defended Marks and Sen.
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      Big Sport For This Weekend
      660 7 jTfOR the first time m many years two representative Selangor teams will play m Singapore this weekend when the Selangor All Blues meet the Singapore All Blues on the S.C.C. padang m the first game m the competition this season and the Selangor soccer team
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      Collegians Lose By Odd Goal
      296 7 S R.C. Club XI 2. R C.l. 1. JN an excitir.g encounter m which the fast exchanges kept the issue always m doubt. Singapore Recreation Club XI defeated Raffles College Union hockey team by the odd goal m three Roland Barker opened accounts for -the
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      NELSON SPORTS CLUB SOCCER
      66 7 Th* follo*»ne DiAftra have been selected :o pi <v football for the Nelson Sports CHsb against the Royal E:gineers en the Alexandra Road ground tomorrow at 5.15 p.m Tcnv. Talib. Amin. Hamid. Huniff. Sulorg. Doll. Hassan. Gopal. Nadarajah. John Chua. Keng Fak. Jaffrr. Th? Nelson Sports
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      Baltazar Was A Guerrilla Capt
      585 7 DABY Baltazar and Emilio Ibanez, the two Filipino boxers V who spent nearly three months fighting here, said goodbye to Singapore early this morning when they left by the s.s. Manchuria, bound for home, writes Ralph Modder, Free Press Staff Reporter. Perhaps not one of
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      Som Pong Unable To Sail Today
      188 7 Free Press Staff Reporter fHE Siamese boxer. Nai Som Pong-, and his manager. Mr. Kow Kirn Lin. wvre unable to sail to Manila thia memine to fulfil engagements there lccause permission for them to enter the Philippines had not been received; from tiie P.I.
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      BIRD STOPS SIMA
      74 7 THE Eurasian middleweight. Jimmy 1 Bird, scored a fourth -round knockout over Battling sima at the Lucky WurU Park. Kuala Lumpur last night m a scheduled 10- round bout Bird carried the fight to his opponent from the first round and hurt the Filipino with a te
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      BANKA S.C. SOCCER XI
      133 7 A team from the following will represent the Banka Sports Club m a friendly soccer match against the BOD. (Civilian Section i at BOD. ground on Monday. Boon Yoon Sang. Boon Yoon Cheone. Boon Mock Sang. Boon Kin Kioen, Boon Soon San. Boon Soon Hian, Bong
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      70 7 ur money II UN L E Y~& C 0., ROAD, SINGAPORE. OpPOStte Ade^P h «otel> TONIGHT w 8 R f. s Vi NG GREAT WORLD K w 1 BIG FIGHTS ALL NEWI! 4 I HARDIT SINGH io.s BANTA 1 -i» 230 Mm Terror i *n^|| o f v^^^^Bb I ?LW
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      254 7 Free Press Crossword No. 2)3 I 2 I I 3 I h I I s i& CLUES ACROSS 1. Motor-car devices for releasing gas rapidly (3, 4). 7. Seat of US. Naval Academy <9>. 9. Evade payment (4>. 10, Monetary unit of Luxemburg (5). n, A libertine (8). 13. The
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      Soviet marshal's war warning
      299 8 MOSCOW, Friday. [MUZZLING rain and hail today washed out Moscow's main celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution after the greatest parade of Soviet military strength yet seen m Red Square had splashed through mud and slush from an overnight snowfall Alter completing his
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      JEW PLAN TO RAISE 100,000 VOLUNTEERS
      123 8 JEW PLAN TO RAISE 100,000 VOLUNTEERS PARIS, Friday. A PLAN to form an army ol 100. > Jewish luntetr troops from all pans of the world to replace British troops In Palestine was described here today by Mr. Samut-1 WsfcMT, lormer British Army officer and now chairman of the Hebrew
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      BURMA PM TO RETIRE SOON
      125 8 RANGOOK. Friday. THE Burmese Prime Minister. Thakln Nu. w*io narrowly escaped assassin a tion yesterday announced here today that ho would rtmam m office only six months after the proclamation of Burma s independence m January Thakin Ku. who became Prr mier after the assassination
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      THE POORER SEX
      42 8 Ronald James of PemturxAe (Enpla,nd) face.s trial on charges of firi«ig a Shotgun a^ his wife for smoking "on the s\y" while »he couLd not afford the price of a packet of cigarettes— three sniiunqs and four pence. U.P.
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      M.P. FOR 27 YEARS
      24 8 Mr. Tom Cape. Labour M.P for Workingtom. Cumberland lrom 1918 to 1045, died vestcrdav at trie age of 79.- Reuter
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      22 8 HOME A burollHQ broofc > an olli stone bridge, a footpath going round the hill and the view s ifotedfltc Beck. Wastdale, Cumberland.
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      'GET TOUGH WITH RUSSIA' ADVICE
      89 8 BiUIAIN ami the United States should "got tough" With Russia, Lieut. -Gen Sir GilTard Martel, head of the Britsh Military Mi^i^t. to Russia m 1043-44, told a Ro'ary meeting *t Bukiwayo (S. Rhodesia) yesterday. If Ra&sia were told "got out of i \H»o rnmuwwd European
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      HONOUR FOR MAYOR
      39 8 Sir Bracewell Smith, who re- I tires next week after a year's term as Lord Mayor of London will receive a baronetcy of the from King George VI, it was an- nounced on Friday night. A.P.
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      S'PORE HIGH TIDES
      14 8 Today 7.45a m; 7.02 p. m SartAay 8.32 a.m.: 8.21 p.m.
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      WOMAN RED IN RUMANIAN CABINET
      160 8 WOMAN RED IN RUMANIAN CABINET BUCHAREST, Friday. RUMANIA'S fort-most WUBIB Communist leader. Mrs. Anna PauJur. wm appointed Rumanian Foreign Minister today. She was one of two Communists, one Socialist and a member of Premier P«'tm Cirojea's Plowmen's Front Party named to succeed four Minister! from the dlssidient National Liberal Party
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      LESS CHOLERA
      47 8 Egypt's cholera epidemic claimed 1,687 lives m the first week of November, but there arc now siirn* that the epidemic, which reached tho highest peak on Oct. 21. with 561 deaths, is steadily declining. Figures for the past week averaged 35 fewer deaths daily Reuter
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      I.L.0. plans bigger Asian production
      209 8 I.L.0. plans bigger Asian production NEW DELHI, Friday. THE extension of agricultural and industrial product inn must be regarded as the primary objective m economic policy m Asian countries, taji a resolvUon embodying a 27-p(-int programme of economic dcvclrtpment on lab<iur and welfare adopted today by the Asutn Regional Conference
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      GUNMEN RAID CONSULATE
      59 8 PIVE nKii. lx.luved to tx Sj>aiiir ards, armed with sub-mach-Lnejnirw, en U red the Spa.*ush Consulate Gone ral m Paris yest*r:lay unnoticed. They felled the policeman a:i duty, bound and gashed four members of the .stafT, ctit telephone lines cf.i<l made off with 250.000 irancs m cash
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      DEATH PENALTY FOR USING ARMS
      402 8 A BILL, which will be introduced In the Singapore Advisory Council soon, lays down that anybody using or attempting to use a serviceable arm to commit an ofTonce or to resist or prevent arrest will be punished with death or penal servitude for life. T\*e
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      US SHIP FOR NI PEACE TALKS
      114 8 BATAVIA, Friday. OOTH parties to the Indonesian dispute have agreed to hold "substantial" discussions aboard a ship which the U.S. Government has been asked to provide, the United Nations Committee of Good Offices m Indonesia announced today. At a discussion today between the Committee
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      'MORE IMPORTANT THACK U.S. HELP'
      468 8 'MORE IMPORTANT THACK U.S. HELP' Dr Wang on war m Manchuria NANKING, Friday. T'HE Chinese Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, to!d A a secret session of the People's Political Council today that the Manchurian situation was more important to China at present than American aid, Keuter learns. Declaring that the
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      9 8 better finish of bat >■ 6/20t. i/ e is -MUM
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      EX-OFFICER BOUND OVER
      124 8 R. a. nicol. a 31-year-old Anglo-Indian. was bound over In the sum of $500 to be of good behaviour for six months by the Second Police Court Magistrate, Mr. L. C. Goh, yesterday, for attempting to cheat the Command Pay Office. He was also charged With wearing
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      BUDGET NEWS IS AWAITED
      463 8 BUDGET NEWS IS AWAITED ifOnd©^ Stock ExcSSj] JODAY m the quietest oi th, week on .YIT F^x bchangc with prieea indinJ heLond »»Sh absem-e of interest. s.,v S KniteTLlT'W'ii This was entirely due to desire V^'i f corre «o presentation of the interim MmSSLKS^ prices were fractionally easier 'ul- 7
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      RESERVOIR
      16 8 X GEORGE afieom [tan Water Board at M the war ttei That d»wfl •J J
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      RUBBER PRICES
      104 8 A SKOAI Market cor** at 11 a.m. today as foDowj: Bnjtrs Sell Cts. ft IKS.S.Spo, rl 'nominal i c >•' 1 R >v fub m hale* (ob m bftltl No\ 41 L&J f,. e B m bales Nov. jj Tone of mirkrt: Verj 6 S IN(,\PORE (iunßlß 0
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      43 8 WE A i HER Mainly cloudy Wr \IHMt report for the ntxt 24 hours row piled by the 8.A.F.: Mainly < loudy with scattered showf-rs this r\»*nin^ and during mrly morning I Wind liffUit vMiilt -wcsterlv Temper turrn: Max. 88 dec nwii 71 dry
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