The Singapore Free Press, 11 November 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA »J2!_ SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    48 1 A wreath-laying party pauses m salute at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Singapore Cenotaph this morning. From left: Mr. Justice Jobling, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. McKerron; the Secretary-General to the Governor-General. Sir Ralph Hone; the President of Municipal Commissioners. Mr. L. Rayman; and Sir Han Hoe Lim.
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    DS AGREES WITH SOVIET PLAN FOR PALESTINE
    114 1 NEW STORK, Monday. and Russia i Soviet plan lor ->.;orcement -.roposed partiUoo of I i n imme* ..:> AS- .-.sidernproposals lor 8 tof the d Jewish I i m plan calls lor of th* British Man- 1 next withdraw*] tnd for proEfl'ion c
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    NEW GOVT. FOR VICTORIA
    27 1 NEW GOVT. FOR VICTORIA -TON DUOAN, the toria yesu-r- T. Holiof Liberal vernment, to Labour Government Saturday 3** goven.inent will be a -i^- 1 and Co^try Reuter
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    S'pore honours dead of two wars
    267 1 Fre« Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE this morning celebrated Remembrance Day with a simple non-religious wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph at 7.15 a.m. m honour of the dead of both world wars. Government, Service, ex-Service, and community leaders formed a square flanked by guards of
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    MOUNTBATTEN CARRIES GIFTS
    106 1 KARACHI. Monday. LORD Mountbatten. GovernorCreneral of India, left by air for London today to attend the wedding of Process Elizabeth. 'He was carrying the Dominion of India s wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth a priceless necklace— and a small statue of Sfiiva for Lieut. Mountbatten. The Dominion
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    ATTLEES ATTACK ON RUSSIA
    506 1 ATTLEES ATTACK ON RUSSIA 'Stream of abuse from Red Bloc' LONDON, Monday. THE British Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, protested tonight against Russia's "constant stream of abuse" of the British people and Government "as imperialists and even warmongers and traitors." Mr. Attlee was speaking al the traditional Lord Mayor's banquet.
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    PAKISTAN FILES PROTEST
    64 1 The Pakistan Government has lodged a protest against India's taking over £he administration of Junagadh state. The protest demands the withdrawal of Indian troops Regarding the suggestion for an inter-dominion conference m the issue, the Pakistan Government expressed the view that nothing could be gained by holding
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    HINDUS OBSERVE DEEPAVALI
    64 1 Free Press Staff Reporter HEEPAVALI. Festival of Lights and most important of all Hindu festivals. Is being celebrated m Singapore today. Hrrdus began oelebrations this morning with an oil bath, and this will be followed by feasts, which friends have been Invited. The majority of Hindu shops
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    SIAM'S EX-PREMIER IN HIDING
    20 1 SIAM'S EX-PREMIER IN HIDING PRIDI PHANOMYONG, former Siamese Premier and resistance leader, who has disappeared following Marshal Phibun's coup d'etat.
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    200 DIE IN FLOODS
    46 1 Over 200 people have been drowned and more than 1,500 are already homeless m floods which, h^ive swept tfie Ackana area of Anatolia Province, Turkey. Waters, causcxi by 60 hours ol rain, are now t/hreatening Adana Reuter itself, a city of 100,000.-
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    'GILDA' GETS DIVOROE
    19 1 Miss Rita Hayworth. the Hollywood screen star, was yesterday granted a divorce from Orson Reuter Welles.
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    GUNMEN TAKE $2,500
    175 1 Free Press Staff Reporter rpHREE Cantonese-speaking Chinese, two of whom had pistol and one of whom was masked, spent one-and-a-half hours yesterday from 11.30 a.m. onwards ransacking the house of a Chinese woman m Seng Poh Road, getting away with $2,310 m jewellery and $200 m cash.
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    U.S. PROMISES DEFINITE AID FOR NANKING
    451 1 U.S. PROMISES DEFINITE AID FOR NANKING WASHINGTON, Monday. A NNOUNCING that a definite economic aid proposal for China is being prepared for early submission to Congress, Secretary of State George Marshall asked Congress today to provide $597 million for emergency aid m Europe until March 31. Mr. Marshall told a
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    Siam will probe rice smuggling
    229 1 BANGKOK, Monday. A PROBE into rice smuggling will be one of the first acts of the new Siamese Government, said Lieut-General Phin Chunhawan, Deputy Supreme Commander, who announced this evening the composition of the new Cabinet. As expected, Marshal Phibun, leader of Sunday's coup, has
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    NO PRIORITY FOR TIH MACHINERY
    106 1 A NSWERING m Parliament yesJ\ terday questions on the delay m supplying machinery for Malayan tin mines, Mr. George Strauss, Minister of Supply, said that of fifty per cent, undelivered, by far the larger part is not yet due for delivery under contracts. Except for
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    ONE POTATO PER DAY FOR BRITONS
    95 1 fT\HE Food Minister, Mr. John J. Strachey, told the House of Commons yesterday that rationing of potatoes at the rate of 3 pounds a person weekly about one potato daily should reduce the British diet by about 70 calories a day. He said this
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      200 1 rilitUfl BRAND. CHiLOrfEftS FidMS BOYS Poplin cotton Siz"«? It to 2S at if.it ea. GIRLS Printed Pop iin Sntr, IS to '2 From $2 SO •o S6 00 TELLY CO., 377. North Bridge Rd., Singapore. /o Iteueme taut Effectively without upsetting the stomach The Double Action Tablet stands m a
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  • FEATURES
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      4 ABIDE WITH ME' IS 100-YEARS OLD
      677 2 4 ABIDE WITH ME' IS 100- YEARS OLD rßy A Special Corresr>or:!°nt THE world's most famous hymn. "Nbidc With Me." will be 100 yea is old this month* and the occasion is to be marked with special celebrations. The man who wrote the hymn. Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, died on
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      ELECTRIC EYES FOR THE NEXT OLYMPIAD
      191 2 T>ESEARCH workers, surveyors, electrical, radio and telegraph engineers m Britain are hard at work preparing for the Olympic Games to be held m London next summer. Britain intends to have the most modern equipment possible for every one of the .nany varied events Included
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      389 2 IT is a mistake to value your hand on sight and fail to revise that valuation as the bidding Drogresses. The probable value of any hand changes as the progress of the bidding reveals the manner m which the high cards and thr suits are distributed around the
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      In Lamb's Corner
      362 2 IN April, 1833, Charles Lamb and his tragic sister Mary, moved from Enfield to Edmonton into a small house called Bay Cottage. In April 1947. Mr. and Mrs? J J. Potter and their two little daughters. Jean and Diana, also left Enfuld. and moved into the same
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      LUCKY
      227 2 Fortune forecast for people born today DORN today, you have a great deal of wisdom and intuitive judgment. Your ideals are high and your sense of justice unerring. You can be trusted to meet justice squarely and honestly at all times. There is considerable of the genius m your
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      Marshall Plan's Strong Stimulant
      379 2  -  John M. Hightower By A.P. Correspondent THE prospect 0 a fresh flow of American dollars into Europe's weakened economy is regarded m Washington as a strongstimulant also to Secretary of State Marshall's diplomatic offensive against Russia, both m and out of the United Nations. That 155
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      37 2 A tinted cream to smooth on before po*c* Coty 'Sub-Tint veils your tace with a delicate film of beautifying COtourHke giving you a clear, velvet-smooth. fl^'« new skin! Hides littlt blemishes, frec^ Holds powder. Never looks ■■m*eV-
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      404 2 RADIO PROGRAMME SINGAPORE Blue Network 12 00— 2 00 p.m.— 485 metres tn the medium wave band A 7.22 megacycles j per second In the 41 metre band. 6 00— 11.00 p.m. 185 metres id Urn medium ware band 4 826 megacycles per second In the 61 metre band except
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      353 2 Hess: 4.45 Radio Au>:ralia Hit Parade"; 5 15 'Soar tine Diary"; 5.30 "Forces Requests"; 6 Dm. "Concerto Half Hour I—Saint-Sacas:1 Saint-Sacas: 6.30 Australian N^ws: 6 45 Star Dance Bands" —Ray Noble: 7 p.m. Australian Artists 1 Perform. John Amadio and Laurie Kennedy: 7.15 Records Seldom Heard; 7 30 The Screen
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      56 2 WEDNESDAY Morning 8 am. Music cm the Air; 830 World and Home News; 8.45 Morning Star; 9 am. Light Orchestral; 9.30 I*9>>gramme Announcements; 9.40 Interlude; 9.45 Dance Band Production; 10.30 News and Items from Wednesdays' Papers; 10.45 Spotlight on the Stars: 11 a.m. Forces Educational Broadcast; 11.30 In lighter Vein;
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  • NES
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      WARNING OF SOVIET WAR WITH WEST
      380 3 Germans aiding Russia m arms research crMANS md Russians arc "actively collaborating" mi n G^veloping and manufacturing arms m Russia and m Isoviet1 soviet 7om -of Germany. This is asserted by the Interf a ional t nnuttee for the Study of European Problems, Iia
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      Elizabeth's advice to designers
      111 3 Elizabeth's advice to designers th, addressing f v of Arts m d istriftl designers >t beauty is The Prt.«.-« w is presiding at ♦he'open::. °f tn e So- 7ty of is president ma' was mtog the chair occupied b er ;t -grandfather, when he per-i-eremony a ago ihat British Irifnas
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      MILLIONAIRE IS SENT TO JAIL
      50 3 FRANCE'S second richest man, 87-year-old Pierre Marie Duran was imprisoned on Sunday on charges of illegal money dealings. He was accused of having illegally transferred vast sums of money to Switzerland, mostly through Intermediaries. Paris newspapers estimated the sum m volved as 80,000,000 francs.— U.P.
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      BANNED LEAGUE
      45 3 THE Chinese Ministry of Interior has issued instructions that members of the former Democratic League should be allowed freedom as prescribed by law. Any violations, however, will be punishable. It was also announced that Democratic League members do not have to register U.P.
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      THE GONDOLIERS
      23 3 Five hundred gondoliers protested that speedboats on the Grand Canal destroy the gondola's prestige and are a danger to touri.sts.- U.P.
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      6,0011 NURSES STRIKE
      20 3 and other I m Bueno6 A: „ive struck i >rking connties have ■'■.it to punish gh'ghj U.P.
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      M.P. advocates trade with Soviet bloc
      152 3 M.P. advocates trade with Soviet bloc UR. Konnl Zialliacas, left-wing Labour M.P., m a speech at Dundee (Scotland) that Britain must co-operate with eastern Europe or face dictation by the United States Congress after 1948 He told a meeting of the Sco:tish USSR Society that "The temper of Congress is
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      TRIALCONDUCTED BY GENERAL
      73 3 »THE Vice -Minister of National Defence, General CThin Tehciieng, has arrived m Shanghai to conduct the trial of 55 alleged Communist agents rounded up In Shanghai and elsewhere following discovery of a large Communist underground supply organisation. Gemeral Chin will head a special military court now being
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      FRENCH LABOUR ACCUSE REDS
      84 3 AN open split developed m the French Labour movement on Sunday when about 200 leaders of the Communist-dominated General Workers' Federation denounced the alleged Communist use of the Trade Union Organisation for political purposes and gave their approval to the Marshall aid Europe plan and decided
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      UPRISING QUELLED
      32 3 Aa attempted armed uprising In Quito Ecuador by a band of unidentified armed persons, who attacked barracks m the centre 01 tihe capital on Saturday night, has been crushed U.P.
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      U.S. FARM HANDS EARN MORE
      59 3 PRM wage rates m the United States stood at record levels m October, and seven per cent above a year ago, the Agriculture Department reported. Highest monthly rates were found m west coast states. The department. estimated that about 11,700,000 persons family workers and hired
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      Hindu army to liberate' Hyderabad
      165 3 THE Bombay Free Press Bulletin reports that an army of 10,000 Hindus is being recruited for "direct action" next month m an effort to bring the rich Pripcely State of Hyderabad into the Dominion of India. Hyderabad, the most populous of the Indian states and
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      RAF pilot sacked for low flying
      222 3 QS the eve of his promotion a talented young R.A.F y* officer-pHot swooped down to 300 ft. near his parents' home m Palmers Green, North London, and appeared to do a "stunt" turn. It was a Sunday afternoon, and an ex-R.A.F. instructor who was
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      CABMEN PLAN S.O.S. SIREN
      68 3 EXPLKTS arc considering a Pl»n to fit SO S sirens m London's 5,000 taxis to foil bandits. Taxi chiefs have visited Brussels, where cab drivers have been victims of vicious attacks. A Belgian inventor produced an electric horn connected to the driver's arm. If a driver
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      DRIFTERS RETURN TO PORT
      78 3 DRIFTERS RETURN TO PORT picture. After many weeks of anxiety and loss, the herring famine which laid idle the East Anglian ports of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, has now ended with the return to port of the fleet of drifters loith welcome news of a "good catch". The busy quayside scene
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      London twins set court a puzzle
      211 3 WAS Philip Goldberg, 21-year-old Londoner, at a meeting of the British League of Ex-Servicemen on a certain day m October or was it his twin brother Joseph? This problem will be reopened at London Sessions as a result of a remarkable coincidence discovered after
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      AMERICANS LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE
      463 3 AMERICANS LEARN HOW TO BEHA VE JWTERED m a unique school, under the direction of a former U.S. Army Air Force's general, 300 young American men and women this year are studying how to think and act m a manner pleasing to people of other countries among whom they plan
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      Yacht flees, outspeeds Irish corvette
      126 3 Yacht flees, outspeeds Irish corvette AN Irish naval corvette chased the 23-ton yacht Grave Blue f« s lt^? ras he ading for the Atlantic. The yacht outpaced the corvette until it passed beyond Irish territorial waters. On board the yacht was the skipper, W. Nicholson, an Englishman, and his bride,
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      15 Ceylonese Senators
      152 3 1 5 Ceylonese Senators THE names of fifteen Senators were announced by the Governor of Ceylon. Sir Henry MonkMason Moore m the course of last Besides Sir Oliver Goonetilleke. Home Minister and Dr. L. A Rajapakse, Mir.ister of Justice the list comprises: Mr. C. Coomaraswamy, Miss Cissie Cooray O B
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      JAPANESE WAR CASUALTIES
      77 3 A CCORDING to official Japanese fL military figures. 55 000 th^ir n w ar i my nd navy men los t their lives m transports either torpedoed, or bombed by allied, submarines and aircraft OOhers may have found tthei r way to lonely or unojuhabited Islands Total
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      THIRTY DIE AT FUNERAL FEAST
      72 3 •PHIRTY people died from food 1 poisoning after sitting down to a funeral feast m a village m>a r Poona. Nearly a hundred ot«hera were very ill, but recovered. The poisoning was said to be due to the use of flou r made from wheat
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      88 3 JUST SUCK TWO RENNIES.THEY'RE WRAPPEO TO CARRY IN YOUR POCKET Ywdon't new woter w spoon-Rcnnies m rtrt/ when you need them. &»y Rcwu« about with you m £dS °l bt aRd y°« can correct ?doIS t0 suck couple— 55^,^ oth «-and your acidity "jwtast b« Rennic* contain »^aoce d combination
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      77 3 P€% A /Ct ACIFK WVEBSEAS /%IRLIHti \9IAM/ LTD BAVE COMMENCED SCHEDULE AMD CHARTER SERVICES AS UNDER LUXURY DAKOTA AMD SKYMASTER SERVICES STOBB BANGKOK HONGKONG LOS ANGELES an ITi^r™ ONTARIO CAI* SHANGHAI MANILA (VIA GUAM WAKE IBL NEXT DEPARTURES FOR BANGKOK WOO Wednesday. 12Ch November. •*an r ko4 oonneeUom v follow?
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      47 3 TARZAN Forest fire By Edgar Rice Burroughs PANNED B> TMB BREEZE IN FIKrHT I \TITM~ I f-'-TO TWf POOT Of- Twf TREE J KRIR^^ THE CIGARETTES ALMOST- 6XTMMCT /ff h£ (T LAV S^^LC?9CJNG AMONG Ky^\tMn^«3l»SK "~^3HMta^^ A^ C Wl M KAuCOuS CK> &AReTT^ S AR^LBSSLV TOSSED Ow
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  • LEADER
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      Th3e Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1947. Return of a Dictator
      624 4 Th3e Singapore Free Press TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1947. Return of a Dictator PIAM is tougher tha.r. she looks. She escaped the 19th century fate or her neighbours, she sides ceppeu invasion m 1941 by aliening herself with Japan and then, when Japan WftJ defeated, she skilfully came to terms with
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      DON IDDON'S DIARY
      1142 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY NEW YORK. UOLLYWOOD star- dust is bewildering the Soviet representatives here, and unless Mr. Vishinsky sends for the Ballet Russe at onoe he will have to oncede the diplomatic duel. He can out-shout and out -abuse the Americans, but when it comes to putting on a show,
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      FAITH
      17 4 God is my strength and power: and He maketh my way perfect. —II Samuel 22. 33.
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      29 4 Champion and Reserve Sealyhams at the Sealyham Terrier Cham?Tm^H D Sh ?.7, l nd ns Royal HortirultuJal Hall? iijhl "C?h Gimside Sea Pilot of Leckington" and, left, 'Ventmoor Cossack."
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      GAS FROM MINES BY FIRE
      1135 4  - GAS FROM MINES BY FIRE Walter Fan by gRITISH experts are soing to the Bois la Dame colliery near Liege to watch Belgian scientists begin their first attempt at underground gasilicartion of coal. The Belgians are going to set fire to a seam of coal 300 ft. below the surface
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      7 4 SPAM THE CUN AND SPOIL THE CHILD!-?
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      THE RIGHT 'HOOK' in Europe
      238 4 T H E RIGHT 'HOOK' in Europe T HE •■««> of the pc st a two-party general Commuffi ?tl(l votos arc thw^aii 0^! of politics ir students aiaa 1 ed by the ptrtJSr^J* But only m France has thw. bee:. U al decline m? absolute Leftwino S v" Britain and
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      NDIA INCREASING EXPORTS TO MALAYA
      412 5 NDIA INCREASING EXPORTS TO MALAYA Minister explains new trade policy INDIA aims at gaining a footing m markets vacated by Japan and Germany, especially m Malaya and other countries m South-East Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South America and East Africa. As an aid to the expansion and improvement of
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      36 5 ■picture. SEfl/: C r ie^. 0/ the BOA loading the box containing the el casket— btngapores gift to Princess Elizabeth— in the strong room of the BO AC plane which leH for UK yesterday. Free Press
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      Export Potentialities
      81 5 Dealing with "the potentialities of our existing export commodities." Mr. Bhabha said that although war has considerably altered the pattern of India's export trade, the predominant position held by half a dozen commodities suoh a.> raw jute. ju*e manufactures, raw and waste cotton, tea. oilseeds, hides and skins,
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      JAIL FOR EXTORTION
      34 5 For attempted extortion of $3,000 from a Chinese shopkeeper on threat of death, a 16-year-old Hokien. Yap Ec Seng, was yesterday sent to four years" rigorous imprisonment by Mr. Justice Thorogood.
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      Siam to elp fight audits
      9 5 Siam to elp fight audits I: upe- ded upon
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      EEP 'WON'T EEFECT' TIN PENSATION
      22 5 EEP 'WON'T EEFECT' TIN PENSATION if. i fc»flfl 0.000 raises vas expressed of offer p m I m Sm' Brif l^ we©
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      FOOD SHIPMENT
      5 5 FOOD SHIPMENT >hip ■pore l
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      21 5 A larae number of people attended the dance at the SVC Hall on Saturday night. Picture r ranee/ ance Progress. PR.
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      South India is stable, friendly
      520 5 HAYING a tribute to south India, Mr. Lan Morrison. The Times correspondent m the Far East speaking from the Singapore station of Radio Malaya la^t night, said he found >outh India not only a very beautiful part of the world "but ab*> a very sane
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      256 BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIPS
      219 5 256 BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIPS /COUNTRIES m Asia are strongly vy represented among 256 graduates or others of similar academic standing who have been awarded scholarships for 1947-48 by the British Council. Many come from China and Hong Kong, but the list also includes Burmese and Siamese and candidates from Singapore
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      E.S.A.M. DANCE TONIGHT
      63 5 The Singapore branch of the Ex -Service Association of Malaya is holding a supper dance at the Victoria Memorial Hall tonight. The Governor, Lady Gimson and their daughters, Gen. and Mrs. Cox, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Egerton, Mr. P. A. B. McKerron, Sir Ralph and Lady Hone,
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      INDIAN 'FREEDOM' STAMPS
      217 5 THE Government of India has decided to issue special commemorative stamps to mark the grant of independence to India. Three stamps of the denominations of lMz annas for internal circulation. 3 2 annas for international postage and a 12-anna airmail stamp for foreign airmail service are to
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      69 5 The icedding took place on Saturday at St. Andreiv's Cathedral of Mr. I. v. CarreV and Miss Susan Maclver. Bestman icas Sq. Ldr. D. Carlson, bridesmaid was Miss Nancy Elwes, and Miss Anne Winterborn and Muss Angela MainPrice acted as attendants. After the church ceremony, a reception was held at
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      JAIL, ROTAN FOR ARMED ROBBERS
      199 5 pVO Chinese concerned m different cas<js of armed robbery 1 were each sentenced to ei^ht years' rigorous imprisonment and 12 strokes of the rrom by Mr. Justice JobHitg m the Singapore High Court yesterday. Ang Kam Wai, a middle-aged Hockchew. was found guilty of armed
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      Briton faces charge of gold running
      200 5 Briton faces charge of gold running ISRAEL Hersz Kinstkr, a A 43-year-old Britisher was charged m the Second Police Court yesterday with being, concerned m a conspiracy m connection with gold running m Western Australia. The Investigating officer, Mr. A. R. McEwan of the Singapore C.I.D. told the court that
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      SCHOOL CONCERT
      28 5 The concert by the Singapore schoolchildrejv's orchestra and combined schools' choir m the Victoria Memorial Hall will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 19, and notJ tomorrow
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  • NEWS
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      NO FRESH DELAY': CHIANG
      283 6 Chinese election apathy AN official order that there can be no further postponement of the general elections has been communicated to high officials of the Kuomintang and presidents of the five Yuans by President Chiang Kai-shek. Though the Chinese first National Democratic elections are only two
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      MIAMI AIR STOP
      38 6 British South American Airways have applied to the United States Aeronautics Board lor landing rights at Miami, m Florida. If permission is given, Miami will serve as a stop for aircraft from Britain and Trinidad.
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      Judge 'pillories' thieves before their wives
      95 6 Judge 'pillories' thieves before their wives UAULSTKATE Arthur McFurlai.d handed down an unusual sentence m Liverpool police court <»n six men accused of It rating food and clothing. He ordered the convioted men held for three hours while their wives and mothers were summoned to the courtroom. When they arrived
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      WARNING TO PACIFIC SHIPS
      57 6 PACIFIC. shipping was warned of floating Japanese mines off the northwest coast of America on Sunday as two more were washed ashore on Oregon beaches and a third was sighted 25 miles off shore. Ten mines have grounded or been sighted on the coastal areas of
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      'CARRY ON' ORDER TO WHISKY FIRM
      53 6 PRESIDENT Truman's Citizens' Food Committee haa no authority to halt the production <>f whisky to save grain for Europe, ruled Judge Scott Mille He ordered a group of distilleries, shut down for 60 days to reopen to fulfil a contract. "Con- tracts are sacred,"
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      Lord Ashfield is sorry to leave L.P.T.B.
      135 6 Lord Ashfield is sorry to leave L.P.T.B. J^ORD ASHPIELD. who m 40 years built London Transport Boar v from a group of competing companies into the worlds largest urban transport concern, has announced his resignation from the £12.500-a-year chairmanship of the Board. 'The Chairman." as he is known to the
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      63 6 Bobbie, the black buck mascot of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment now stationed m Palestine, marches proudly m step at the head of the regimental band along King George Avenue. Jerusalem. Before "joining up" with the British Army, Bobbie was an inmate of the Cairo Zoo. His air of importance t%
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      MORE RUSSIANS LEAVE CHINA
      78 6 MORE tliu^ 700 Soviet citizens IU sailed from Shanghai for their homeland on Monday aboard the Russian repatriation vessel 'Gogol," making the fourh batch of repatriate^ to take advantage of Moscow's oifer to ail Soviet citizens m China to return to the Soviet Union. Flag-waving ard
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      She Had Sold His Rina
      80 6 A 23-YEAR-OLD Fleet Air Arm petty officer, who broke off his engagement to a 17-year-old girl and married another within two months, lost his claim against his first love at the Ply!2r? 10s f r the return of an "»Ka««"»^nt *ins. or J l^* E
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      S'hai speculates on increased U.S. aid
      201 6 yyHILE the economic outlook m Shanghai, China's greatest city, continues unchanged, political quarters nave begun to speculate on rumours that the United States would soon grant financial aid to China, reports Associated Press. i These reports, which have recurred often during the past 12
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      THE LUNAR ROUTINE
      79 6 EVERY month 65-year-old Miss Frame is riven an option by Peebles (Scotland) magistrates pay a fine or go to jail for opening her cafe before 12.30 p.m on Sundays. She chooses jail. She is driven to Saughton Prison, Edinburgh, m a police car. But a telrgraohed money
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      HUNGARIAN 'ARMY' MYSTERY
      104 6 A fully armed Hungarian miniature "army" of 85 men and one officer who were reported on Saturday to have fled from Hungary into Soviet-occupied Austria became a "lost legion" yesterday when Austrian sources denied knowledge of their wherei abouts. An Austrian official said no i attempt had
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      Jap polititian plan reviva
      212 6 gt'SY and influential Japanese politicians haw 13 out two divergent foreign oolicies m «i hope will be Japln's re-em Kil a Whl petent sources m Tokio told Associated S^' They are significant, at this time wheVi denied foreign intercourse, because the two S strumental m formulating
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      PRIVATE LO TO AID JA MANUFACTURE
      75 6 PRIVATE LO TO AID JA MANUFACTURE i 1 j •J 1 r raw material pun±i 1 Herald Tsr under tlie propose I the Expand the Supreme •'.nder, "6 1 I financing would v p xpoq Trade balance "The proceeds :rom ports will be nnd d» bt to the bant reducing
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      53 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya 'WHY, THATis T*4e\/SHUT UPf-\ C^ I b^BUT «f\/^OH. %^ELt"lT\f -f-" li^MAWf HAWf-6O RIGHtY" I LOW COMEDIAN THEY'LL I _J HE'S THE V VO(j WIWL VjUxAII #II AbfcftD' I RAWTHEfI WHO HANDED ME iHEAR YOl^/ I MOUt>AV I I#LL MAVe TO Jig
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      BERTY MAN,KING ARTHUR IMPRESS
      784 7 BERTY MAN,KING ARTHUR IMPRESS j}jg Turn-out for Fast Work > \\y CALL BOY" 0 M van Broukelen's Remembrance Cup candiivrtv Man and Kin? Arthur, did the best gallop i' 3 'mill this p':>rniiiff when nearly 100 of the 125 1 ,p Yd for < insanore Turf Club's re-opening o^> isl
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      IC Forwards Steal Show against Recs
      180 7 I I ;n 'MfereaUMi Club on tfit« I gm^:. .-.me bt-fure I enL oge fm^ tbt Padang un Frid |w;: scored a c< nvincing oals to on R.C.U. two■i-.;• riday. K| .cular and ■biec MC U iorw ar d sB^: halves not only r
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      CHAMPION YEAR-OLD
      3 7 CHAMPION YEAR-OLD cfnhg
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      MEN WIN 6-0
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      Today's Sports Events
      34 7 HOCKEY:— S.C.R.C. v. Naval Police, Hong Urn Green, Combined Services v. Civilians, Padaug. SOCCER C.V.M. A. (Church of St. Joseph) President's XI v. Vice-President's XI, St. Josephs Institution ground. 5.30 p.m.
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      RICHARDS BREAKS HIS OWN RECORD
      220 7 |^HAMPION jockey Gordon Vj Richards yesterday rode his 260 th winner of the season to break his own record of 259 when when he won the last race of the day here on the Irish-bred Twenty-twenty, which started 2-1 favourite, to the accompaniment of loud
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      S. AUSTRALIA GAIN THE LEAD
      122 7 SOUTH AUSTRALIA secured a first innings lead in their Sheffield Shield match against Victoria yesterday, which has only one day remaining, when they carried their total to 536 in reply to Victoria's 440 Phil Ridings scored 151 in 193 minutes but included only eight fours
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      CLAYTON WINS ON TKO
      64 7 OONNIE CLAYTON of England. European featherweight champion. defeated Italian champion Enze Correeifioli by a technical knockout m the eijrhth round of a ten-round bout on Friday ni«ht at Manchester. c Clayton weighed 126 1b Coire«ioli 133— AP. In snowy weather, the Russian soccer team, Moscow Dynamo,
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      CHINESE HURRICANES SC
      68 7 The Chinese Hurricanes Soorts Club office-bearers for the year 1947 •re: Patron. Mr. Chan Kirn Lian«: president. Mr. Tan Kirn Kee: vice-presi-dent. Mr. Chnsr King Hoe; hon •ecretarv. Mr. Chens: Hon Pong; hon sports secretary. Mr Koh Kirn Seng: hon treasurer. Mr. Koh Yoke Choon; hon auditor.
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      INDIANS FACE INNINGS DEFEAT
      388 7 THE Indians face an innings defeat at Sydney at the hands of New South Wales. having scored 298 and 157 for 7 at close of play yesterday In reply to the NSW first innings total of 561 for 8 declared. Hazare. leading the team m the
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      INTERNATIONAL CHESS
      43 7 »pHE British champion, H. Goldmark, won his third game m the international chess tournament on Friday at Leeuwarden, Holland, defeating Scholtend of Holland. The Belgian player, Grellv de Galway beat Boven of Holland and Devor of Belgium drew with van der
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      Seiangor All Blues
      23 7 picture The Selangor All-Blues' Rugby XV who beat Singapore All Blues six-three on the Singapore padana on Saturday. Free Press
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      SELETAR R.A.F. SHOW THEIR BEST FORM
      397 7 R.A.F. Seletar 27, R.N.A.S. Sembawang 3. 1> A.F. Base Seletar Ist XV yesterday defeated R.N.A.S. Sembawang by 27 points (three goals, a penalty goal, three tries) to 3 points (a try) m a fast game played at Seletar. Fletcher returned to the Seletar side
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      Tunney Thinks Woodcock Is Finished
      62 7 Tunney Thinks Woodcock Is Finished GENE TUNNEY, former world heavyweight boxing champion, believes that British heavyweight boxing champion Bruce Woodcock is finished. Tunney told reporters at Port of Spain, Trinidad, yesterday: "Woodcock did not have enough experience and they tried to get him to the top too fast. It will
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      Ship Team Beat Keppel Busmen
      135 7 IN a fast a^id exciting game of soccer played yesterday at West Coast Road, the Koppel Bus XI, a team formed only recently, lost to the s.s. Stemtor by a single goal scored by Sutherland just before the interval. Both teams settled down quickly and
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      'Man Mountain' vs 'Beer Barrel'
      104 7 COkMER World Heavyweight 1 boxing champion Primo Camera of Italy and former contender Tony Galento, the 'human beer barrel," who once almost knocked out Joe Louis, wrestled 30 minutes to a draw at Newark (N.J.) on Saturday before a capacity audience who bellowed for a
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      CHAMPIONS CLASH IN ELIMINATOR
      82 7 SIX thousand fans m Amsterdam saw the Dutch middleweight champion, Luc van Dam, gain a clear points decision over the Italian middleweight champion, Biovanni Mance, m a ten rounds elimination bout for a crack at Marcel Cerdan's European middleweight title. Van Dam took the fourth, fifth,
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      Malayan Olympic Plan Discussed
      491 7 Free Press Staff Reporter T'HE Singapore Olympic and Sports Council took another x step nearer to its goal that of sending a Malayan delegation to the 1952 World Olympics when it was decided last night to sponsor an inter-territorial Malayan "Olympics" m Singapore m 1949. Invitations
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      U.K. RUGBY RESULTS
      25 7 Yesterday's Rugby Union results m Britain were as follows: United Hospitals n Edinburgh Univ. 17 Oxford Univ. 23 Edinburgh Academicals 3 Reuter.
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      SCC "B" XV BEAT BO
      329 7 S.C.C. B" 9 8.0.D.3 CHOWING better combination v between forwards and threes, the S.C.C. "B" rugger XV yesterday easily defeated the 223 BOD. on the padang by nine points <a penalty goal and two tries) to three poi.nts (a try). It BTfe an exciting garnet
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      232 7 Free Press Crossword No, 23$ ■M^ta|^AMaawiM4^^^^^^ J^_^i^_ I 1 I I I J I I ill I CLUES ACROSS 1. Hog or ox roasted whole (3). 7, The cerebrum is part of it <5). 8. On which ground did Denis Compton score his 3,816 th run? (4) 10 Undulating sandy
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      HIGHER INCOME TAX ON FIRMS RECOMMENDED
      4524 8 Joint Cjmmittee's Report Free Press Staff Reporter JNCREASE m the rates of income tax on companies* from 20 per cent, as suggested m the Heasman report to 30 per cent; a tax of 30 per cent, on incomes m excess of $50,000, and a
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      REDS FORCE WAY INTO YULIN
      188 8 PEIPING. Monday. FERCE street fighting is raging m Yulin. Nationalist bastion m North Shensi where the Communists, after besieging the city for 15 days, today succeeded m forcing their way m after breaching the city walls. If Yulin falls. the way is paved for a
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      COMMODITY SHARES FIRM
      408 8 London Stock ExchanJ JOE nearness of the Badret wlwhwin'^ 1 Wednesday next, made for «trem<?v dt^ the London Stock Exchanje todaySs R uLTS 1 correspondent. Gilt-edjeds showed little chan f n^ while industrials sh,,wo,i small 1,,^,s v^ were firm. Kanirs were wrnout any hard' and last tendency
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      11 MPs DEi ABOLITION HOUSE OF ON
      110 8 1 1 MPs DEi ABOLITION HOUSE OF ON LONDON. Max ELEVEN Labour Members of LDd ihe atn nantiyCow aaeik published only a few hours I I :C mi iX today on th B which a:ms at hi House nf Lords' two-ja C r.mons-in The I>ou:v Prink HerU Mti reading It
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      TELEVISION RECORD
      15 8 For the first tin* Q prograifUM t ,adca* ll V* Mfii-1 riifire.- Reuter
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      42 8 WEATHER Some showers WEATHES report for the 24 hours compiled by the R Fair today. Rain HKely late tonieht or early tomorrow. Wind south -easUrlv. very lißhi. Temperatures: Max. 83.8 a«"« mJn. 73 2 dec. STORE HIGH TIDES 9.14 a.m.: n Pl
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