The Singapore Free Press, 15 November 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA ll SINGAPORE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1947 FKICE 10 CENTS
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    TERROR WAVE TOLL NOW 44
    392 1 Fmr i^o/y Land again JERUSALEM, Friday. P\\ O more British soldiers and two policemen were killed today, bringing the toll of three days' terror to eleven dead and H wounded. The policemen were killed near Mustapha police station, Jerusalem, while the soldiers were slain in
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    30,000 KILLED BY INVADERS OF KASHMIR
    172 1 SRINAOAR. Kashmir, Friday. AN Indian military spokesman quoted unconfirmed reports today that 30.000 persons had been killed when the garrisons left towns in Jammu State, before the invasion from Pakistan. He said the Rawalakot and Bagh Town garrisons had lied from their positions close
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    CHINA AIRWAYS
    67 1 Plans for Inaugurating two new overseas air routes, one linking Shanghai with Singapore, and the other Shanghai with Australia, are now under way by the China National Aviation Corporation, one of China's two leading air lines. The CNAC is said to have entered into negotiations with the British
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    S'PORE BASE FUTURE NOT SET SETTLED
    17 1 0-; ivy tule loin the and i .(•00. aid *.he P.
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    Siam won't break rice bargain
    41 1 Siam won 't break rice bargain 1 BANGKOK, Friday. nment will accept all the old government's nmitments, particularly its obligations under I Premier Abhaiwong, in a statement to t the >iood r the r t I tptlng TO- U.P. Reuter and
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    DEATH FOR RICE SMUGGLING?
    98 1 RANGOON, Friday. THE Government of Burma is "seriously considering" the imposition of the death penalty on people convicted of rice smuggling to Malaya. the Minister of Agriculture, said today. He said that at i.OOO to 70.000 tons of Burmese rice had been smuggled out of the
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    FILM SET INSTALLED IN THE ABBEY
    276 1 LONDON, Friday. A FILM set has been installed in Westminster Abbey to film the royal wedding ceremony— in the form of a Gothic cubicle, designed at Gainsborough studios to conceal newsreel men who will be filming the event. The cubicle has been designed to
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    THE BLUES IN FULL DRESS
    45 1 THE BLUES IN FULL DRESS picture. The Royal Horse Guards "The Blues I'—on1 on parade at Knightsbridge Barracks in London dressed in thtir ceremonial uniform—sword, cuirass, plumed helmet— which they will near ichen they ride in the Royal wedding procession on Nov. 20. A. P.
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    Scientists die in rocket explosion
    193 1 LONDON, Friday. DR. Johannes, Schmidt, head of a team of German rocket experts, and a British scientist, were killed in an explosion in Britain's top-secret rocket research station at West colt, near Aylesbury, today. Villages for miles around were rocked by the explosion, which took
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    U.S. AIR FORCE STRENGTHENED
    103 1 WASHINGTON. Friday. THE United States Air Force .is taking G5O warplanes out of storage to build its combat lleet up to more than 4.000 aircraft. "Today's air fleet would be sufficient to wage wir for only a few days." said the Air Secretary, Mr. W. Stuart
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    GET TOGETHER CALL TO EMPIRE
    90 1 SIR Ronald Cross, former British High Commissioner to Australia, said in Liverpool yesterday that the British Empire should draw closer together "so that Britain's voice could rank equally with those of the United States and of Russia in the councils of the nations." Sir Ronald,
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    ATOM ENERGY SECRECY
    29 1 British, American and Canadian atomic energy representatives conferred in Washington yesterday on what atomic data shared among the three countries may U.P. safely be made public.
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    10,000 CROWD EXPECTED AT BUKIT TIMAH
    276 1 Free Tress Staff Reporter A RECORD crowd of 10,000 members is expected at Bukii Timah racecourse this afternoon for the revival of racing at the headquarters of the Malayan Turf after a break of exactly six yeais. To mark the occasion the Turf Club
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    BOAC EVACUATES 33,500 REFUGEES
    48 1 SO far 33,500 Indian and Pakistan refugees have been flown to safety by British Overseas Airways Corporation and British air charter planes, in the greatest civilian air evacuation ever known, according to figures from the two dominions announced in London Reuter by the Corporation.
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    PETROL FOR THOSE ON LEAVE IN UK
    117 1 PETROL FOR THOSE ON LEAVE IN UK Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Friday. BRITISH servicemen and civilians who return to Britain on leave with their cars will get a petrol ration on the same basis as foreign tourists. Mr. Hugh Galtskell. Minister of Fuel, told the House of Commons today.
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    ARRESTED MEN RELEASED
    85 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. THE throe men detained by the police on suspicion of having been concerned in the fatal shooting of a Chinese detective, Chong Ngit Cheng, at Balestier Road yesterday, have been released. Chong Ngit Cheng was shot in the head by three gunmen while
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    50 1 Free Press Staff Reporter. A gang of five Chinese, three of whom Nvere armed, broke into a hotel in Albert Street at 9.55 p.m. yesterday and took $60 cash from a lodger. The gang made a hurried getaway when the alarm was raised by lodgers in another room.
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  • FEATURES
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      19 2 J.ol!<> Bruid.i. of Rome. p« s. v ,ift» r her election as "Miss Konu in a Milan Rciuty Contest.
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      26 2 Bandits Beware! Behind armed sentries, stands the wielder of a M pound Arab club, studded with nails, and a doe to protect the Seaforth's Regimental heirlooms.
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      TRADITIONAL EVENTS
      624 2  - TRADITIONAL EVENTS D. H. de T. Reade By THERE are very few men in Singapore today who did not see some kind of service during the late war. All of those who came direct from civilian life will remember the first AV hours as a sailor, soldier, airman or ARP
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      THE HOME OF BRIDGE
      201 2 READER of the "Times of India," in a letter to the Editor, claims that contract bridge, one of world's most popular indoor games, was invented in Poona, India, in 1912. It was Introduced In America a few years later and became popular in Britain in 1930.
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      Some Useful Stations
      147 2 BBC. SERVICE FAR EASTERN SERVICE Frequencies .Wavelengths 8.8.C 15.14 mc/i 19.82 m I requ n, les Wavelengths 11.75 25.53 17.79 me/s 16.86 m 21.75 13.92 17.70 16.95 21.47 13.97 11.61 13.86 17.81 16.84 17.73 16.82 AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING K \mo S.EA.t COMMISSION Frequencies Wavelengths Frequencies Wavelengths 3. 395
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      Last of The Rin Tin Tin
      53 2 Last of The Rin Tin Tin 1 r at l -<wll 1 f lni "u* film «J\li» m>nth-old dev. ndam th o^« i red in C 1 R.UeUh. unlike his '> J f ni nevn |3 >h and fl 1BI( tf| 1 cJ thk-Uns in thf nexl-ZHai IS r Mr
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      Not sex, not Reds, but taxes
      442 2 Not sex, not Reds, but taxes —What Hollywood is talking about /K>NTRARY to opinion v in some quarters, the most common conversational topic in Hollywood is neither sex, Communism nor the weather. It is taxes. The number one economic problem for film stars is not to make money, but to
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      142 2 SPADES are trun.: \x of the seven tr,. t defense. :th makm the club ki:. If V spad' N and then, if West kadi th< queen, the trick Ls won I king; North leads the diam and if East rufTs. South overrufls leads the heart nme f»r North
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      895 2 CTWr'llOr^PP 1 "Ftao t>«* 9t 1935 .11 Dm News 5 -30 "Australia's Amateur Hour"— from Sunday's Papers; 10. A=> Son« %o oiriVjJ\rWn.Ei Summary. Malav Prosramme: 12 noon <<>mpnre<i by Dick Fait; 620 "Master Remember: 11 am. Weekend MacaBlue Network I l r«r»mn-.c Summary. \2 05 Av-t Laut Musicians Planirt "WaltT
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      241 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune torecast for people born today DOKN today, you have a niag- nctie personality and .ire able to influence others to fallow > our lead. liow far this influence will spread, depends entirely upon >our poison aI ambitions. If you v*iih, you may widen your spher e
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  • CHINA NEWS
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      49 3 Gen. Tsai Ting-kai in civilian clothes. Gen. Tsai sprang into international pro?ninence for his heroic defence of the Woosvng forts and Shanghai during the Japanese invasion in 1937. He then left the Chinese Army and retired to South China, and l§ now reported to be commanding a rebel army.
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      MPs take gifts to Princess
      53 3 MPs take gifts to Princess British I'^'iareturna early nl lhe) uill lune dinner service the lidding .Princess EUBMb President n e Chiang Kaie has famous town of -hern gnute for j, and handed r was ted The •c h of the n the ntre 'the la also or In the
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      CONTROL ON SHIP CARGO MOVEMENTS
      20 3 CONTROL ON SHIP CARGO MOVEMENTS Chinese at accordtit In il d as :ently K has tO bo ...nd dis- Reuter
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      FISHING FLEET TO BE SOLD
      20 3 B 150--sold CNRRA in UnttA d inbe rebe stjld rporam in based nro- I A.P.
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      SHANGHAI WAR HERO LEADING REBEL ARMY
      315 3 South China Reds gain new adherents T, WIJ f v NANKING, Friday. |Hh former Kwangtung warlord and bitter personal t i rZ" ei 2l f Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Marshal U Chi Shen, and the hero of the Sino-Chinese undeclared war at Shanghai in 1932,
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      NEW COUNSELLOR
      34 3 Dr. Seymour C. Y. Cheng has taken up his appointment as Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in London. Previously, he \v:is a technical expert at the Ministry for Foreign AlTairs in Nanking.
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      'Russia helping China Reds'
      259 3 'Russia helping China Reds' Wedemeyer aide says C IIIVVQ r SEATTLE, Friday. lIINAS Communist in that country's civil war have been receiving various kinds of indirect aid from Russia, Rear. Adm. C.A. Trexel, member of President Truman's Uedemeyer fact-findinc: commission t<» the orient told }>res.smon here. China staggering after ten
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      ATTITUDE TO JAP PEACE UNCHANGED
      125 3 NANKING. Friday. CHINA is unlikely to revise her attitude towards the Japanese peace conference. This was made clear here today by a Chinese Foreign Office spokesman, commenting on the report that London diplomatic observers were wondering wheher China's support of the Soviet vpoint on the
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      'ELECT US AGAIN' SAY YUAN MEMBERS
      70 3 H7HILE rumours persist that China's first nationwide general elections late next month will probably be postponed Again the Legislative Yuan has adopted a resolution calling on all political parties to nominate and support incumbent Legislative Yuan members in the election. Among reasons given for
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      MOTOR RICKSHAW FOR HONG KONG
      52 3 AMOTORISED and streamlined version of the rickshaw is to replace Hong Kong's 500-odd vehicles within three years. In the "'rik- mobile" the "driver"' has the front seat, with his two passengers in the rear. Costing $400, these will run 70 miles on a gallon of
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      150 collaborators to die
      63 3 COURTS throughout China have handled a total of 68.000 collaboration cases, since V-J Day, it has been announced in Shanghai. Forty-two thousand have ended and 15,000 are pending, while 14.000 suspects are still at large. So far, 150 persons have been sentenced to death, 280 to
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      WALLACE ATTACKS NANKING REGIME
      203 3 THE former vico-President of the United States, Mr. Henry Wallace, in a speech to an audience of 4,000 at Cleveland, attacked U.S. Administration proposals for aid to China, Charging that the "dictatorship" of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is "utterly corrupt," Ho said sending money to China would
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      TRADE PROBLEMS IN SHANGHAI
      131 3 \N import company with otT\ces in Shanghai and Hong Kong rues the day it routed a shipment of medical cabinets into China via Shanghai, instead of via Britishcontrolled Hong Kong. The company obtained its own foreign exchange to pay for the cargo which came from Miami
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      GREETINGS
      57 3 THE following telegram was dis- patched by the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Etiward Gent, to tlie Chinese ConsulGeneral in Singapore on Oct. 10. "I have much pleasure in sending on the occasion of the birthday of t(he Founder of the Chinese, Republic greetings and good wishes from
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      45 million gallons of petrol this year
      334 3 pHINA expects to produce this year 12,000,000 gallons of crude oil, 18,000,000 gallons of gasoline, 15,000,000 gallons of kerosene, and 180,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas according to the National Resoi^ces Commission. China's petroleum industry is now entirely under the management of the
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      China Reds control 100 million
      123 3 China Reds control 100 million THE Shanghai newspaper China Press says in an editorial that the grant asked from the United States Congress by the Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, amounts only to a "gesture ofi goodwill at that and little else The paper says: "Today China is holding
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      CHIANG KAI-SHEK HAS NO CAREER
      80 3 (JENERALISSIMO Chiang Kal- shek heads the list of approximately 1 000 Kuomintang candidates for the National Assembly now filed with the Elections Offlco, but his name— unlike others— was unaccompanied by an endorsement noting hi s profession, career and qualifications. Residents of hi s native
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      72 3 HAP PY WO R L D BRITISH MOTOR CAR MOTOR CYCLE EXHIBITION Bl v, Wk<M <y- TB bLIZABETI W A. 4 fl phii ip SEE THE FIRST COMBINED MOTOR .rIGW TUESDAY, 18th NOV. TO SUNDAY, 30th NOV. OPENING BY H. E. THE GOVERNOR, SIR FRANKLIN GIMSON, AT 7 **fl P
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1947. Machinery to Earn Dollars
      665 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1947. Machinery to Earn Dollars mHERE will be disappointment in X Malaya at the answers which have been given this week to a series of Parliamentary questions on the reasons for continued delay in the delivery of machinery to the tin industry, which,
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      TOP JAPS COME DOWN to EARTH
      1790 4  -  Denis Warner By ACROSS the stone bridge that ipans the chocolate waters of the Imperial Moat and separates the broad Plaza from the Imperial Palace a number of motor cars of overmature vintage, and notable for the clouds of dense white smoke emitted from
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      NAAFFS AID TO MEN IN MALAYA
      402 4  - NAAFFS AID TO MEN IN MALAYA HALL ROMNEY Bv CEKVICE in Malaya would be a rather dull business without Naafi, urn* of those post-war organisations so far as the Malayan Peninsula is concerned whose existence is probably very much more welcome than o*hor organisations which have come into existence since
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      96 4 With a befitting farewell ceremony which included a tea party, 51 members of the Japanese Royal Family became commoners under the new constitution which stipulates that only the Emperor, his wife and immediate family may hold Royal station. The others were quite unhappy about the whole thing: in as much
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      FAITH
      23 4 We are troubled on I I side, yet not distress «1 w« are perplexed, but n<»t > n despair. II Corinthians I, S
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      RIDING To KILL FOXES
      258 4 by Montague Smitli COX-HUNTI N I r (which began the beginning of this month) has been a recorded English sport since IG6O, when the known pack of hounds were let loose by a count Lowther. And the tradition mains unbroken, triur antly surviving th e v%
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Plane takes message to princess
      31 5 Plane takes message to princess di an |V- ime t oi Win 1 .ill be a In. n.em- a- »>f 1)1 r oeof ttw by ..oir vJTTII nppines>s hv Mr Central
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      AUSSIES TO HAVE MANUS BASE
      37 5 Of pre- \m Ml esta&l i: Ml similar ioreigjii gjM T .mutable r :he men carrier to m Navy > J une .iiaz\ 11 begin They tuties re- ind win nf v- istralia.
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      CHINA SHIPS CLOTH TO NEI
      31 5 i bioese <»ne-»pondent lir. 'be Butavia El. by the disln the 18 .ided ShanjiB tavl ''d to '•ward the month. sine. 1 the Bata- > he disan
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      TRADE OFFICE
      10 5 nt has visit tations on i I ties.
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      Singapore Wedding
      18 5 Mn. Maude Williams andtZstm,'. < th r.™at™\ot honour was ration heu ar s I^ZMZ!fc l ™?j;L yf9i»".^..»«
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      FRESH PROTEST ON BACK PAY
      208 5 THE Singapore Government Servants' Back Pay Council 1 last night adopted thre* resolutions protesting against the refusal off the Secretary of SUt e for the ColonL To reconsider the terms of the back pay award to Asiatic Government servants. A second resolution criticised 'the perpetuation
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      Japs for trial in Hong Kong
      103 5 JAPANESE susp.cted of committing atrocities against Australian and Allied solders are to be tried by an Austral Lan Militnrv Court in Hon^ Kong. In M**lW»urne yesU-ixii.y. Army Headquarters annouiicexl that Uie trials would begin next week. The majority of tfie suspected war crimmiiLs has
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      DETECTIVE SHOT DEAD IN S'PORE
      144 5 A SINGAPORE gunman in broad daylight yesterday fatally shot a young Chinese detective drinking cotfee at a stall in Balestier Road. The detectives companion an ex-deu?ctiv<\ is in hospii << with a bullet wound. The detective was Chong Ngit Chmg. 38 years old. married of
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      JOURNALIST ON WAY TO TOKIO
      68 5 MR. William Courtenay, former Pacific War correspondent of the London Sunday Times, Daily Graphic and Kemitey newspapers, has arrived in Singapore from England on his way to Japan. He has brought with him a historic colour film which he took of the first landings in
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      ESTATE OUTPUTS
      64 5 Estate outputs during October are reported by Turquand. Youngs, McAuliffe Co.. as follows: Alor Gftjah Rubber Estate Ltd., 32.500 ■>... Ayer Panas Rubber Estate Ltd 100,000 lb Glenealy Plantations Limited 71.500 lb.. Kluang Rubber Company Limited CG.OOO lb., Pajam Limited 195,000 lb., Tambaiafc Rubber Estates Ltd., 32.105 lb
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      IMMIGRANTS LAND
      41 5 Chiiuise immigrants who did 14 days in quarantine lolkwuig tlie di.scover>- of a case ol smallpox when they landed at St. Jotixfs I&kiiKi an Oct. 31 were discharsed on Tuesday. There was no further case of smallpox during quarantine.
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      RAF FLY-PAST ON NOV. 20
      1125 5 RAF FLY-PAST ON NOV. 20 Full celebration programme AT 4.45 p.m., on Nov. 20, the day of the Royal wedding, Singapore will see an R.A.F.* fly-past, includingSunderlands from Nos. 2 and 9 Squadrons, Dakotas from No. 110 Squadron, Spitfires from Nos. 28 ami 60 Squadrons, followed by formation aerobatics and
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      MALAY CONCERT ON NOV. 20
      83 5 TX)R the first time since the V liberation, the women's seelion of the Singapore Malay Union will be t*ftg*rg a concert at ;he Victoria Memorial Hall on Nov. 20 in iloiLMiX >1 Princess Elizabeth's wedding day from 3 to 5 p.m. The concert is tree
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      GOVTBUREAU TO REOPEN
      73 5 GOVT BUREAU TO REOPEN rfUIE Government Publications X Bureau will be re-opened for the sale of Government publications as from Monday morning. It is situated just inside the entrance to the General Post Office. Current Government publications, together with pre-war publications, will be on saJe. It is intended, that, when
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      78 5 picture. Picture shows the selection of some rare and beautiful orchids that will leave Singapore today as a wedding present by the Botanic Gardens and t^n Gem Nursery in Singapore to Princess Elizabeth. There are altogether 60 stalks and they are packed in a special bamboß crate encased by cloth.
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      NEI wants bigger Malavan trade
      227 5 NEI wants bigger Malavan trade Free Press Staff Reporter IN Singapore t<Klay is the president of th e Slate Bank of Indonesia, Mr. R. M. Margono Joyohadikusumo, and a number of Republican officials from Jogjarkuiia. who are exploring the possibilities of improving trade between Indonesia and Singapore. Mr. Margnno will
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      SHOWS IN AID OF WEDDING FUND
      126 5 MORE tluin 2.500 children Irom Chinese schools parked the Cnpitol Theatre and Cathay Cinema yeserday morning, and brought $535.80 for the Piincess Wedding Celebration Fund, when special shows were arranged far them by the Public Relations and Edura.i^n Department, through the courtesy of the
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      ASSAULTED PC, INDIAN IS JAILED
      135 5 ASSAULTED PC, INDIAN IS JAILED 171OUND guilty of using criminal JT force on a police constable, Samoo Adailalam. a 20-year-old Indian, was sentenced to one week's rigorous imprisonment; and nned $25, in default another two weeks' imprisonment, by the Third Police Court Magistrate, Mr. F. Bernard Oehlers, yesterday. Samoo pleaded
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      BAIL ALLOWED TO UNION CHIEFS
      53 5 BAIL of $500 each was extended to the president of the Singapore Harbour Board Labour Union. Amuthulinggam; the treasurer. P. Govindasamy. and three committee members, Veeransenan. Somoo and Barthapan, who were charged before the Fourth Police Court Magistrate, Mr. E. S. de Banzie, yesterday with,
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  • NEWS
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      Ceylon faces big new expenditure
      264 6 INCREASED i>olitical status for Ceylon is bringing in its 1 wake the inevitabi r headaches Increased bills of expenditure. An immediate consequence of "near dominion" status has meant that the treasury has to find the means for double the number of ministries -each with Its
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      'U.K. neglecting West Indies'
      101 6 Mr. Alexander w. Bustaments, Chief Minister ol the Jamaican Cabinet, has complained that Britain was spending hundreds of millions of pounds yearly on lormer enemy coun*nd yei could not find a lew millions to help the development of tho West Indies. Mr. Bustamente was speaking in
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      BIG BURMA TAX ON U.S. FILMS
      87 6 BIG BURMA TAX ON U.S. FILMS riMiE Government of Burma has L decided to impose a tax of 80 pef cent, on the BTOBI box office takingi of United States films shown in Burma. Education and travel l\lms aro exempted from the nex tax The measure, which becomes effective on
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      MR CHURCHILL
      23 6 Mr. Winston CSMirchill Ls visiting Manchester in^xt month to receive t|io tivodom ot tno citv conferred on him in 1943 Reuter
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      UKRAINE GETS COUNCIL SEAT
      167 6 AFTER India had withdrawn from the contest, the Ukraine was elected by the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to fill the final seat in the United Nations Security Council, ending the deadlock which had resulted from 11 inconclusive ballots. Argentina and Canada have already been
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      RUSSIA STILL SAYS 'NO'
      113 6 RUSSIANS Andrei Y. Vishinsky on Thursday assailed the majority-approved plan of the U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. George Marshall, for a year-round sitting Ol the United Nations Council as "scandalous." Ho announced again that Russia would boycott it. This meant th*> so-calk-d Little mbly would have
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      A.F.L. TO COMBAT RED PROPAGANDA
      106 6 MA. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labour, has announced ir. Washington that the A.F.L. is undertaking a campaign" to combat Moscow propaganda which misrepresent! and seeks to destroy the I Marshall plan." The campaign would firstly call a conference of labour representa-
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      EIRE TO HAVE AUSTERITY
      53 6 THE Prime Minister ol Eire. Mr. Eamon dc Valera announced hi the Dail (Parliament) tn Dublin a series of new dollar cuts including restrictions in petrol consumption suspension of tobacco purchases, but no curtailment of home supplies for the present. and British coal to replace United
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      BRITAIN CAN AFFORD MIGRATION
      397 6 BRITAIN CAN AFFORD MIGRATION Commonwealth food production vital picture. I ORD Addison, Lord Privy Seal, said in the House of Lords 1 that the Government is not going to take a short-sit] ed view of Empire migration. "If 20,000 people succeed m xt year in going: to Australia out of
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      Lucky sweep at the royal wedding
      21 6 Lucky sweep at the royal wedding VUEHK h 1 lit and. tL D l ace «i Invttm Pto hUoTI I cap-
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      BRITAIN'S COAL OUTPUT SOARS
      40 6 BRITAIN'S COAL OUTPUT SOARS ANOTHER record v- R fi lha S bn)ue h within 32,*****0 ton? original target for 7? -t month. «i]] be'^ ded as there are ?o and v. t wed haw hewn 167.998.ttK "3 000 tons Reuter
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      39 6 J/^^SJE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava am i a^?^^ mrJr i& "t/^^%. ri tw9m^m^mSaawm\ k, J^ J *^H I^^.^Vl 9/& JH I m^J^/^^^^mam mWtl^L J^^^^"^^^""^ /f^^^^ 1 ill I Wm^^aamS^^^ Mar ft^r^^S *^*m w^M M f
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      GOING LIKELY TO BE YIELDING
      576 7 GOING LIKELY TO BE YIELDING Liberty Man As Cup Certainty By "CALL BOY" rut, going is likely to be yielding at Bukit Timah this l^l B hl Sh UM l rn out fhe There were some very interesting final workout* when raunana s iv.asnmirl Song (with Flannery up), moved very
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      Epsom Jeep's jap. Airmail
      109 7 Epsom Jeep's ja p. Airmail 5" .~ini-r>t I .nnrs on the f*'* form 5S taken oat for n mix mm i.2 h w by Wml| y "•"»«< "«»»nf by Tim my nap IV 50 M imam >n the ■*> never be«n i[ 'Zmim* stron Üble U^7 *TT»hilr thrr. »u ft
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      London parks aid Olympics
      44 7 London parks aid Olympics faciuuei i charge i] parks thl< :es, it k a to i e rerect. The he Scotrtbetn ri for lor ttM lies many I ol LnciaJ •r at "The be sist* i the and we rised the ..rttaiiities I; Reuter
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      USEFUL B.P. WIN
      46 7 ir uwn courts P. b'-at the! B P mcs o re i 'Usefirst): Chen beat Billy 15-4, ai John Boon Eng 15-11; Chua due :o Misi Rose i Lee, Tian Chye in Loh 7. \b-l\ Chek fi*?. K&: H and jUrshall 2, 13
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      Indians Lost Chances Of Big Score
      480 7 I Amaruatb, India's cricket captain Li marked his return to lead the team fcgataltf a ttr ag Australian XI at Sydv >•-'•• >•• winning the toss and decidni-: t. l)t ,t When stumps w re urawn India had stored 292 for nine v. ickets.
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      LAWTON TRANSFER
      49 7 Although the official figure Is not disclosed it is now reliably r< ported that Chelsea received .£20.000 in cash for the transfer of England centre lorward. Tommy Lawton, to Notis County plus William Dickson. Notts County halfback, whose transfer value ia .^aid to be about £3,500. Reuter
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      Scoreboard
      83 7 INDIA— IST INNINGS Mankad c Miller b Johnston 3 Sarwate e Saggers b Miller 32 Gul Mrthamed c Saggers b Loxton 85 Hazare run out 38 Adikharl e Saggers b Johnston 4 Amarnath b Loxton Rangnekar b Loxton Kishcnehand not out < Sohoni ran oat Nayudu e Hamencc b
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      ALL THE FINAL SELECTIONS
      96 7 CALL <>r "BPSOM JEEP" -TRESPASSER" "POINTER- Moat Favored ■ACE 1 K?*_I MAS SS!5_! TMAS 1 CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS Itadinnt Rhythm HerSe. Sk-treak Kin,,,, p Jon. V.il Kin— ra Affable RACE PriSe"^?" _ST, C A« OUN f^F-V MONT RLOT PRINCE COLIN RACE J P-rSI? EH?" RENDOVA eTJrEM RENDOVA
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      Strong Defence Brings MCU Win
      313 7 mcu 2 rxmj, 0 POSSESSING a strong defence, made stronger by the fine 1 exhibition of S. D. Williams in the pivotal position tfu» Medical College scored a two-nil victory oWr ItaSta SileS at hockey last evening on the padang. Williams wa* everywhere, and in
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      OXFORD UNLUCKY vs WALLABIES
      60 7 QXFORD University gave the v Australian Rugby side, the Wallabies, one of the hardest games ot their tour on Thursday, losing by a goal 5 points to three points (a penalty). Oxford's forwards were magnificent and a little more understanding and finishing power by the backs
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      TODAY'S CARD
      871 7 Race One— 2.oo p.m. Horses Class 2, Div. 4—6 Furs. Value $2,000 3* 300 ™?ES EN I 5-8 tSUUiVan> Jeffe 3 2 SS SSS_ C flame I fcfi JSsKT "TBS 8 M qnvivßOV 2n? (Van Breukelen) J. Donnelly 6. -00 SONNIBOY 4 807 (Fo x) Wadsworth 7. JUNE
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      LIBERTY B. P. WIN
      133 7 TN a friendly return badminton match x played on Saturday, the Liberty B.P. beat the Social B.P. by four games to three on the latter's court. The results are as follows (Liberty B.P. player^ mentioned firsts K. S. Din lo^t to Pan* Kia Seng 13—15. 13—15;
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      MAYBLOSSOM B.P. PICNIC
      49 7 The Mayblossom B.P. mi ill hold a picnic party at the residence of Mr. Ahmad bin Haji Mohd Salleh. 543, Bouna Vista JR>.rad, off Paslr Panjang, Singapore tomorrow. Members are requo >ted to assemble ot No. 4, Loronc 27, Geylang Road, at 9 a.m. for transP^rt-
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      LIEN HWA IN S'HAI
      27 7 The Malayan Chinese Lien Hwa football team arrived in Shanghai by plane on Thursday and will play the Shanghai Railway Workers today U.P.
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      SCHROEDER WILL REMAIN AMATEUR
      78 7 'pHERE is no danger that Ted X Schroeder, American Davis A Cup player will follow in the foot-{ steps of Jack Kramar, who haa turned pruiessional The U.S. Davis Cup team captain. Alnck Man, said that f Schroeder can definitely be count- 1 ed on to
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      SOCIAL A.P. SOCCER XI
      60 7 The following will repretsenfl 314 M.U. (R.A.F. seletar) S a friendly soccer match on iie Mental Hospital ground at 3 p.m. tomorrow Bah Chee, Soon San, Sueo Hock, Im Peng, Chwee Cnua, Chwee I.eng, Ah Bee, Koon Leong Lian Sin, Mein Chong, Ching Meng, Teng Quee,
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      Today's Sports Events
      70 7 BUGBY: SC C. Ist. XV v». Non-Europeans, padang, 5.15 p.m.: Singapore District XV ts. Nee Sooi OarriM>n XV, Nee Soon, spm ATHLKTKS. Muslim New Year sports, Jalan Besar Stadium, 2 30 p.m. HOCKEY: Singapore Clarke Rangers vs. Singapore District, Tannin, 5.15 p.m.; C'.S.C. vs. 1. A.. Ihomson
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      320 7 Free Press Crossword No. 239 H9WH a CLUES ACROSS c 1 an T d 7 Pown, Uner recently launched by Princess Margaret at Belfast (9 6)< J/w, Headquarters rf the Koy^ Y ac nt Squadron (s>. 8. One hour— prohibits members of U.S. House of Representatives speaking more than Ur
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      23 8 HOME "ICTURE FOR CEYLOSESE. The Royal Lake, at Kandy. Which is lull of sacred turtles and overlooked by the Temple oj the Tooth.
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      Dalton: MPs press for full inquiry
      436 8 LONDON, Friday. It'll KN the House of Commons met today, members pressed for the appointment of an all-party select committee to inquire into the budget leak which led dramatically to the resignation of the Chancellor of the Kxi hequer, Mr. Hugh Daiton. late last
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      KOREA TO GET FREEDOM UNDER UNO SUPERVISION
      93 8 NEW YORK. Friday. The United Nations Oenerml Assembly todaj v«-d the blishment of a United Nai n to iupervi* in.' ot ind«-p«-ndi n< i K. r which had demand* d the Irawal I H .--.An and Ui r tn K> ft iai i
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      U.S. MISSION TO GREECE GROWS
      83 8 rpHE United Slates Government J. is enlaralng Its advii>f»ry mUitary mlssi* n in Greece at the request ol the Greek Government, it was announced in Washington rday. The present stall of 40 officers and men will be Increased to about 9u officers and M men.
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      EGYPT CHOLERA TOLL
      21 8 [n the last M hours G5 people from cholera in Egypt and i new cases w< re reported.
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      SERVICES SAVE
      35 8 Men and women in the British armed forces at home and overseas have saved over 17.750,000 in the last two years. Altogether savings in the services since April 1940 total 42 72.000.000.- Reuter
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      FOOD TACTICS FOR TROOPS
      80 8 WASHLVGTOX. Friday. rr\HE United States Army apJL pealed to officers and men today to »ave is rn til ion loaves of breal and 15 mill ion pounds of meat in the neit six months to meet Europe'M critical food needs. "If the free government* of Europe
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      BRITISH COAL MINERS TO GET INCREASED PAY
      157 8 LONDON, Friday. REPRESENTATIVES of the National C«»al B'nird. which runs Britain's nationaltsrd mines, and min'-rs' leaders agn>od today on a If wage inrrca.se of 15 shilllnca for underground workers and 10 shillings for gwfaee workers. This will rxUe the minimum of tin- nation's
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      BURMA FREEDOM
      31 8 Th»- Bill granting Burma freedom pa tied through n.s Onml Adlng in the House of Commons y»st»'rday. No ■erioui opposition in thr Housr of Lorda is x- j*M-rrd A.P.
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      CEYLON GETS FULL DOMINION STATUS
      194 8 A GOVERNMENT White Paper issued today Said: "After 145 years of British rule, Ceylon has reached a state in! iier constitutional development where it is ready to assume the status oi a fully self-governing member of the British i By agreements signed on Nov. 11
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      CHIANG SEES VICTORY IN NEW DRIVE
      508 8 Nanking, leaders attack U.S. PRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek assured a full meeting of Siate Councillors in Nanking yesterday that the sixth Communist offensive has ended and Government forces have now gained the upper hand. The President declared that the main combat forces of the Communists
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      29 8 toola, wife uf the Pakistan Higl I rival at the Autumn Fair held in I R (Ex- Sere I 'lub Fund. A nui I stalls at the Fair. I
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      GILT-EDGEDS TUMBLE
      462 8 London Stock Exchange I 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent ig LONDON, Fridar /^ILT-EDGEDS slumped today on ihe London st.Kk Ex- H change. Market experts explain this slump mainly u ll the workings of short-term speculation, to (in the words olffi the News Chronicle financial editor) operations of market
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      12 8 0. I 'I I I The I -I cv,mncv A.P.
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      RUBBER PRICES
      110 8 A SPECIAL Market correspond ent cives the prices of H at 11 am tod a* as follows Buyers Seixa Cts. CU per lb. per* .NO 1 K 8 S Spot loo* w i:i No i I I 1 fob in tales D« N i: s v in tales
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      PEACE PARLEY AT JOGJAKARATA
      47 8 THE lir.st, movt< to briny about a "cea.se fire" in Indonesia v.n& made yesterday at Jogjakarta, tihe Indonesian capital with ft conference between tho Republican and Dutch "CWMB fin.-" committees under the auspices of tl<e United Nations Security Council's Gtxxi Offices Commit Ue.
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      BRITISH FORCES WILL STAY IN GERMANY
      44 8 The British Minister m charge j of German affairs. Lord Pakenham. said that British occupation troops will not leave Berlin even if the London conference of the Big Four Ministers ends in failure, i Hamburg Radio reported. Reuter
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      Soviet 'plan' to overrun all Europe
      286 8 Soviet 'plan' to overrun all Europe WASHINGTON. Friday. RUSSIA ct.uld capture all fiwropo by force in two weeks if she decided to abandon attempts to subjugate European count rirs by constitutional moans. Mr. John Davus Lod^e. (Republican of Connecticut > declared to the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee
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      'FLYING WING' IN TRIAL FLIGHT
      55 8 BRITAIN'S secret Jet-propelled "flying wing" made its first night on Thursday, the Ministry oi Supply disclosed yesterday. No details of the performance were given. "It should be regarded as a research aircraft which will provide a lot of useful Information for our scientific research workers."
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      CONGRESS CRISIS
      29 8 Acharya Kripalani. President of the Indian Congress Party, may resign, reports the U.P.. because he feels that Nehru has not consulted the Congress sufficiently on Government policy.
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      BOMBAY EXPLOSION
      24 8 One person was killed and three injured by an explosive which burst in the central part of Bom- bay yesterday. I Reuter
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      STRIKES PARALYSE MARSEILLES PORT
      176 8 PARIS, Friday. STRIKES tonight almost paralysed Marseilles. France's second city, with 100.000 u»rkers idle and a general strike appearing inevitable. French Cabinet decisions to meet the situation included sanctions against civil servants who "failed in their duty' of preventing violence and more major arrests in Marseilles.
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      9 8 STORE HIGH TIDES Today 11.31 am. Sunday 11.59 a.m.
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      51 8 WEA THER Bright periods Wl Mini: report for the next 21 hours compiled b> the R.A.F.: Bright periods today. Squally showers o\(Tnig'ht f^iir tomorrow morning Wind west to south-westrrly. S to 12 m.p h. Ciust s to over 20 m p h in showers. Temperatures; Max. 89 dec; min. 71
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