The Singapore Free Press, 24 November 1947

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    18 1 The Singapore Free Press ARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA &L- SINGAPORE, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1947 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • Article
    New allowances for Unofficials
    78 1 Krrv r.tss Staff Correspondent KUALA LIMPIR, Sunday. of travelling and subsistence allowances it tending meetings of the Malayan ncil will cost $10,300. These new ommended at a conference of rs of the Council on July 14 this andhivebten approved by the Government. t tnent of he
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    MANY WEEK-END ROAD ACCIDENTS
    126 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THIRTY-NINE week-end acci- den*s have been reported to the Traffic Police. But no -one was killed and only five were tnjured. There wire 18 accidents on Saturday. 16 on Sunday, and live this morning up to ten o'clock. In the 34 accidents
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    COUNCIL DEMAND FOR ECONOMY
    491 1 Income tax plan assailed Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Monday, f H A ROES that the Malayan Union Government is trying to prevent proper enquiry into accusations of extravagance and inefficiency were made when the income tax debate opened m the Union Advisory Council this
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    Russians may quit German control
    239 1 Russians may quit German control LONDON, Sunday. WHE Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers prepared tonight for the crucial meeting on Germany m a pessimistic atmosphere charged with a political crisis m France and the now familiar East-West exchanges of bitter charges. Mr. Molotov, who arrived this evening, had long
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    'Don'tweaken on Hyderabad' call in India
    217 1 NEW DELHI, Sunday. INDIA and Hyderabad .start final conferences this week on the future of the princely state, m the face of Nationalist demands that the Indian Government should not make further concessions to bring Hyderabad into the Indian Union. All Nationalist newspapers today
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    MARSHALL'S HQ HAD RED CELL
    88 1 A CHINESE Communist ring unrt covered m Peiping last September was working under cover of the Peipiiig Executive Headquarters, an organisation set up by G«n. George Marshall for carrying out mediation between the Government and the Communists, according to a spokesman of th^ Ministry of
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    BAIL EXTENDED IN GOLD CASE
    77 1 Free Pres6 Staff Reporter Israel H. Kinstler appeared m tho Second Polioe Court this morning charged with conspiracy m connection with alleged goldrunning m Western Australia. Mr. A. R. McEwan, A.S.P. prosecuting asked that the case be deferred pending the expected arrival from Australia of
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    WEEKEND GALES AND FLOODS IN BRITAIN
    138 1 LONDON, Sunday. /COASTGUARDS were called to bad weather watch y on many stretches of Britain's coastline tonight as gale warnings followed m the wake of floods m many parts after a weekend of rain and storm. Landslides and mountain torrent* pouring across slushy roads
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    TROOPS GUARD PARIS AS STRIKES GROW
    318 1 TROOPS GUARD PARIS AS STRIKES GRO W PARIS, Monday. STEEL helmeted troops and mobile guards m full battle kit patrolled strategic points m Paris as M. Robert Schuman announced early this morning the completion of his crisis Cabinet. It is composed of six members of the Popular Republican Movement (M.R.P.),
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    JOHORE GANG TAKES $1000
    64 1 Free Press Staff Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. Today. TOHORE robbers struck again «l this morning at Senai village, 15 miles from Johore Bahru. Four armed Chinese broke through the back door of a sundry goods shop, right m the heart of the village, at 12.15 a.m. They
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    HK SIGNS WITH CHINA
    28 1 The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Alexander Grantham. has signed a China-Hong Kong financial agreement during his recent visit to Nanking, it is reported.
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    U.S. WARSHIPS TO SAIL TOMORROW
    84 1 THE Uiiited States naval task force now m Singapore harbour will leave tomorrow morning for Manila and will arrive back at its China bases about Dec. 15. In an interview, the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces m the Western Pacific. Adm. Charles M. Cook,
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    LARGEST PLANE
    32 1 The 400-passenger military transport X.C.99, world's largest land plane, took to the air for the first time on Sunday and remainod aloft one hour, circling over San Diego, California. A.P.
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    ONE GRAVE FOR 41
    28 1 Forty-one persons killed m the fire at the department store m. Christcliureh, New Zealand last Tuesday were buried) m a common grave yovsterdj-ay.— Reuter
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    38 1 The former Miss Janet Attlee, eldest of the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee's three daughters, with her husband, Mr. Harold Shipton. an electronics engineer, after their wedding at Ellesborough Parish Church, (Bucks), near the Premier's country home. Chequers.
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    'PROGRESS' IN N.I.PEACE TALKS
    97 1 BATAVIA, Sunday. THE U.S. Navy transport Renville, placed at the disposal of the United Nations "Good OiFices" Committee for discussions to settle the IndonesianDutch dispute, is due to arrive m Java waters about Dec. 2. M. Paul van Zeeland, Belgian member of the "Good Offices" Committee
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    INDIAN GANG ROBS DRIVER
    50 1 Three Indians, one armed with a pistol and two with knives, drove away with a taxi m Reformatory Road at 12.15 o'clock this morning. They also took $20 and a $45 watch from the Javanese driver. Bukit Timah police recovered the taxi a few hours later.
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    NEW KLM FLIGHT
    51 1 KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines have added another weekly flight to their Amsterdam -Bata via route, bringing the service to seven flights weekly m each direction. The majority of KLM's Far Eastern services will shortly be operated by Lockheed Constellation aircraft instead of by DougUui Skymaster machines.—
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  • FEATURES
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      GOSPEL AS THRILLER
      548 2 1 Htj BISHOP OF CHELMSFORD looks at a new book "people will fird diftic ult to put down" the work of a FoW paike A GREAT many n well-known and even famous books were written m prison. Sir Walter Raleigh's "History of the World," Bunyan's "PHgrinTs Progress,"
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      326 2 fpHE lo« on Ihll kind of dm] (i(<rs Rt the conclu I n M play Ea.-'-W-M leort only 100 points. Brit th»« nr. lsible looaci the valur c>f th»- plu.~ •>• .-..nir (and perhaps the rubber)— can chanß. a wtnntef ttmkm '< losing one. If you look oil,.
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      On christening planes
      305 2 On christening planes TN deciding to nmme four Constellations after Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Rosa Smith and Charlc s Kingsfnrd Smith. Qantas Empire Airways perpetuatea the memory of Australian aviation pioneers. E.ich ol tiu.v men so honoured (<»nmouu-d largely loward.s progress m ihe sir Lawrence H.a^rave. born m England m
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      Radio Talks To Schools
      159 2 Monday. 11 !o— 11 HutMTf Khvrues I sau Three II ::>— 11.40 Intersil Music, 1 1. 10 1.3.00 Literature. Stdv 4 -v 'Booh for the Holi»J;i^^> John Halifax Gentleman.' irrSD.W jioo H.IJ Literature. Standard 2 Story from ,\<*-M»p s l-abl-s'. 11.15 11. Interval Music. 1 1
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      FRENCH MALA ti
      390 2 By MARY MORRIS T T was a boiling hot m i d-afternoon when Marie Rousseau, young Canadian medical student, took me to \isil Hospital des Enfants Malades, Paris' largest children's hospital, where she is v sitting in post-graduate lectures. 1 had accused Mario ol exaggerating si )ries
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      STREET ON STIITT
      27 2 NEW York bitious ph. its Oo'den Jul b.U r oi Tom< bit ion. I I J air i :tv> rai to chur P.: I
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      YOUR LUCKY STAR
      128 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR people born today B» »K\ tod*} m v lUfl rved ami n.ituii I'oi M'ris of ju>ii(f and brlievp in judging .1 prrv-n h hiv hh t than h> hN m* You tomider e.nh indhidiul, i, master M h> iU n **J and nCNer will sue llthough m
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      34 2 COMMON SENSE TREATMENT^ 3 lmpurit.es In th€ food -!W|y and common skin disorder Mgfi Blood Mlxtur. relia^ s/sM A^i and assists In rest, Hill »°™««;< ißiootn^ In liqwJ and loMct form ol df c^e P*"
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      23 2 lrldnCirdkG Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Q FORCOfJW)£--THCM/SS/WO SEEN A LOT, BUT NOT THIS ONE~I AND IN A RMQU MOUNTA!H~]
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      862 2 RADIO PROGRAMME AUSTRALIA 00 p in 19 ll.lf p m \l.\b 10.74 tnctrrs >Q nngaryrlr>; (DO p m tc 1. 11 p m SI. IIB i:{ 89 mrtrrs hi BJMgteyclcs; hOO p m to 11 II p m Sl<ilo li 51 mrtr^s 11 76 megacyvle*. < 30 p m to
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  • NEWS
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      SLUMP HITS PAWNSHOPS
      62 3 A WAVE of austerity is hitting casinos, hotels, and luxury trades on the French Riviera. But the worst sufferers so far are the municipal pawn-shops. The usual customers inveterate gamblers or other pleasureseekers are getting .scarce. The situation of official municipal pawnshops is critical, and it has
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      LABOUR LOST
      55 3 Shakespeare would be directed to "useful work" under the Governments new powers to compel certain workers to enter essential industries, Qulntin Hogg declared m the House of Commons, expressing his personal belief m an angry speech that it was the duty of the people to refuse to register
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      G. 8.5.: 'LET THE ARABS AND JEWS FIGHT IT OUT'
      122 3 PEORGE BERNARD SHAW m an interview with the U London Evening Standard proposes that th c Palestine problem be solved by letting the Arabs and Jews fight it He admitted that, apart from a drive through Palestine and a bath
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      'Price must be paid'
      106 3 "But when civilisation reaches a certain point, its foreign rulers are confronted with the human passion for self-government, which is elemental and irrational and finally cannot be resisted. "Its repression involves civil war, as it did m the United States, m Russia and m Scotland and
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      34 3 Alter beinq in collision with an automobile at Gary, Indiana, this truck-trailer turned turtle and ended up in a grotesque position next to a "no parking" sign. Four persons were injured in the accident.
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      'Stop chasing my wife' appeal
      241 3 AN elderly husband's letter appealing to a young single dector to stop pursuing his youthful wife was read at Sheffield Divorce Court when Mr. Commissioner K. C. Easemhigh granted a decree nisi with costs to 60-year-old George Henry Hunt ley, retired consulting engineer, on the
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      CHILDREN MYSTERY
      47 3 Gorman Catholic bishops, m a public protest against what they called the "kidnapping" of men, women, and children from the Russian zone of Germany declared that church officials had reports of the seizure of at least 2.000 children, who co foto ?oc complete mystery.- Reuter
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      Trade Minister orders inquiry into film trade
      133 3 MR. Harold Wilson. President of the Board of Trade, has ordered a full report from his experts on the state of the British film industry. He wants to study it before receiving a deputation from the studio unions demandIng a new deal for
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      RELIEF CHIEF DIES
      24 3 Sir Arthur Stanley, chairman of British Red Cross Society until 1943. has died at Eastbourne two weeks before his 78th birthclay.
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      'ALLIES SHOT HOSTAGES' ALLEGATION
      112 3 THE American tribunal at Nuremberg hearing a case against I former German generals, accused of shooting civilian hostages, has ordered enquiries to be made Of US Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and France's Gen. Leclerr as to whether American and Frencn tj-oops were authorised to shoot. hostages. Dr
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      'Save me from Lords4 plea
      108 3 'Save me from Lords 4 plea IMIK Hon. Quintin Hork. Conservative M.P. for Oxford, who as the son of Lord Hailsham will one day sit m the House of Lords. ippealed to the Government to abolish the hereditary principle kndS ?or%w"t^arsl^ f av"sufT,red under a sense of persona. iniusticT b*cauV
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      AUSTINS BUY UP AUSTRALIAN MOTOR FIRM
      107 3 IN order to break dow.n a bottleneck which has be» n holding up Austim Motor exports to Australia, chairman Leonard P. Lord announce* that Ms c i0.g00.000 company has bought a controlinterest m Raskin Motor Bodies, of Melbourne. Australia, with a*n eye on the
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      NEW U.B. ARMY STAFF CHIEF
      81 3 PRESIDENT Truman has named Mr. Carl R. Gray, vicepresident of the Chicago and North-western Railway Association to be Veterans' Administrator m place of Gen. Omar Bradley who is to bo Army Chief-of-Staff. Gen. Bradley will succeed Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who is retiring as Chief-of-Staff. to
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      Japs keeping aloof from Christianity
      141 3 FEW Japanese have been attracted to Christianity since the end of the war, according to the Tokio newspaper, Sekai Nippo. A survey by the RcUkicus Affairs Section of the Japanese Education Ministry reveals that Christians m Ja-pan last February totalled slightly more than 300.--000. It
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      QUICKER RELEASE FOR INFANTRY
      136 3 QUICKER RELEASE FOR INFANTRY IN reply to a Parliamentary question tvs to whether he w;ts aware of fissattsf action felt by men m the Royal SignaLs, REME and RASC at the slow rate of release compared With the infancy an j non-technical corps troops. War Secretary Emmanuel Shinwell said the
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      'JAPANESE ARE OUR FRIENDS'
      98 3 JAPAN is "a great reservoir of potential friends to act as a deterrent and perhaps even to put off the day when our lads will march again," Lt.-Gen. Robert Eichelberger. who commanded the United S'-atos Eighth Army of Occupation m Japan said m *n address at
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      BREAKING UP CHINA INTO MORE PROVINCES
      319 3 BREAKING UP CHINA INTO MORE PROVINCES Gen. Chang Chun announces netv reform THE Chinese Prime Minister, Gen. Chang Chun, told the semi-official Central Daily News that the first major political reform to be instituted by the new Constitutional Government, after the national elections, will be to break up the country
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      PRESSED DEATH SPOT IN NECK
      121 3 PRESSED DEA TH SPOT IN NECK I. H t hands on the neck of his nagging wife unforttUuUc ihame touched a spot where ise instantaaeoui death. The wif c died, and of her murder, was jailed for three s M-rditt of namlaughttr. Rollinaon, 43. of Windsor-terrace, J m tit dock
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      POLICE SPIED THROUGH A PERISCOPE
      111 3 POLICE SPIED THROUGH A PERISCOPE a DENTIST is within his rights i\ m seeing if a woman patient's clothing is tight when she has to have gas. a woman doctor told Wellington. New Zealand. Supreme Court. She was giving evidence m defence of Gordon McCallum, leading city dentist, who denies
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      LONDONERS TRY PORPOISE STEAK
      67 3 A FEW porpoises swam up the Thames River last week m one of their rare appearances m English waters, and now for the first time porpoise steaks are on sale m London at half-a-crown a pound. Butchers say that the steaks taste more like roast beef
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      Trade ties grow between Spain and Philippines
      72 3 aU Of COlll::dUs of >c .shipped In the cro- Fhilippineheduled to according tc rce Saturnino ition will be :es of the t. an ht*d In purpose of trade rePhilippines r country. od that the .lion will be with the anpakn, ol vicec^uirino. samples
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      MOVE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
      50 3 MOVE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY A JTARY move to th penalty m m »'xperitrs has i House of Uj M«*mand ono a motion callndment to the Bill. i: rtod :or the ij.co it innee the probably permit KOR HI SSI A tern whaling Vladivostok ->ut eesstul int 609 'or.s of
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      NAMES FOR NEW S.H. ENGINES
      52 3 AMONG the nanus to be given to forty new Southern Railway engines now being built are Sir Frederick Pile." Sir Archibald Sinclair," 'Anti-Aircraft Command. 1 and "Royal Observer Corps." During tho Battle of Britain, Sir Frederick was GOC-in-C AntiAircratt Command and Sir Archibald Sinclair was
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      PATCH DISMISSED
      32 3 Patch, a pet dog which Mr. and Mrs Frederick Harrison took to Australia when they migrated from London by air, is to die by order of the Australian health authorities.
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      52 3 FOR YOUR RELAXATION COME TO THE TAVERN (EUROPEAN RESIDENTIAL HOTEL) Our Bar Stocks only High Class Liquors NO OTHER WHISKY BUT SCOTCH. NO OTHER CIN BUT ENGLISH. COOL AND QUIET LOCALITY Curry Rice Tiffin Every Sunday Our curry powder is specially prepared 7/17, TANGLIN ROAD (Opposite NASSIM ROAD.) Cables "TAVERN"
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  • LEADER
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      The Singapre Free Press
      562 4 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1947 Australia and the Malay Seamen THE Australian Government Iff Mid d<> well to reconsider its decision to deport 14 Mala\ >• I men, who, while servinc m Australian waters during the war, married Australian women and have since raised families •and made
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      THE BREAK -OFF
      1048 4  -  Frank Owen GOOD MORNING.... By THE Honeymoon is over. I mean the one between the n "alist Government and the Middle Class. The Middle Class, with their decisive, casting "middle vote," put the Socialist Government m last time. And may well put them out next time. Mr.
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      NO JITTERS FROM THE JETS
      639 4 NO JITTERS FROM THE JETS By Courtenay Edwards DATS and turbo-jet engines haven 9 a lot m common, yet both cropped up m a chat I had with Dr. Donald Thompson. Dr. Thompson has bean medical officer to the n«* Havilland Aircraft Co.. for the past seven years And much
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      FAITH
      35 4 And 1 saj alas unto Ihee That thou art Peter, and up this rock I will bul.l BIJ church, atul \hv |atea < i l lil shall not prrvail afainsi l St. Matthew l(i. 18.
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      MRS. TRUMAN WOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT
      13 4 MRS. TRUMAN WOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT MTrumai I i -he v this or.
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      NO RICE FROM INDO-CHINA
      323 4 NO RICE FROM INDO-CHINA J*y Stanley Swinton, A. P. Correspondent Saigon, Indochina. FRENCH Indochina t is worried about the problem of feeding itself and has no plans 8 for rice exports to Other areas of hungri Asia m t] the immediate future, n according to French i'"<><l J experts here.
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      THREE ALIENS NATURALISED
      65 5 I*hhee alien* have been granted Certiflc Naturalisation by the Governor of Singapore with approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies under the British Nationality and Status ot Alieni Act. 1914. Their Oaths of Allegiance have been resistered m the Colonial Secretary's Oflßce. They are Louis
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      JAP TRADE EARNS $sd FOR EMPIRE
      202 5 JAPAN will now accept Sterling for goods exported to Singapore. Under an interim agreement between the British I Government and General Mac Art bur's occupation administration, all such sterling payments will bo deposited m two accounts maintained m London. ountfi which will be established
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      PAY FOR PASSIVE DEFENCE MEN
      132 5 PAYMENTS to following membefl Of Passive Defence Services will be made at Volunteer Forces Record Office. Beach Road, between the hours of 09.00-12.30 and 2.00-4.00 daily: M nday. Nov. 24 —MAS Naval Ba.s t MAS. College of Medicine, (numbers not now m the College <»■
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      CHECK ON SOCIETIES NEXT YEAR
      225 5 THERE are now 1.155 societies m Singapore. Ol these 132 are newly registered. 153 newly exempted. The numben of societies of long standing are moo registered and 170 exempted respectively. Many societies, though they have notified the Government of their existence, have not been registered
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      FREE NEI TRADE LIKELY: CONSUL
      365 5 FREE NEI TRADE LIKEL Y: CONSUL "TAR. Hubertus Van Mook, acting Governor-General of the 'J N.E.1., has expressed sympathy with Chinese traders' proposals and it is hoped that a suitable solution may be found to restore normal trading facilities between Singapore and Sumatra," said Mr. Tsiang Chia tung,«Chinese ConsulGeneral at
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      RESIGNATION OF ADC
      23 5 The Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson. has accepted the resignation of Capt. R. G. Gloag. The Seaforth Highlanders, as Honorary Aide-de-Camp.
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      'Siam coup will not affect ice
      100 5 N«> rice shipments have been due m Singapore from Siam since the establishment of new government there, said a spokesman of the Special Commissioner's office on Saturday, commenting on a report that Siam would fulfil her obligations for the rest of the year. There
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      Police to report on arrests of Chinese
      235 5 Police to report on arrests of Chinese Free Press Chinese Correspondent SINGAPORE police authors 0 ties have undertaken to report all cases of detention or arrests of Chinese national! to Dr. Wu Paak-shinjr the Chinese Consul-General. ThU is m accordance with th t > provision of a S'no-British treaty concluded
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      More Municipal infant clinics
      70 5 il m Press Staff Reporter Municipal infant welfare clinic* m Singapore, i«»iai of |tS3+* to establish, will be ft*r, Dr. N. A. Canton. Municipal I rec Prew, Bahm and Balcstier areM will I Dr. Canton. Arrangements third clinic m the Adam Road he said. eon- 9
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      S'pore not told of 'death railway' compensation
      129 5 S'pore not told of 'death railway' compensation THE Singapore Government 1 knows nothing officially of the proposal that the Malayan rnments should jointly re- ceive '.656.400 approx $0.G00.--000 > _>m the proceeds of the sale ol that part of the Siam- Burma 'death railway" built by Allied prisoncrs-of-war with ma-
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      HIGHER PROPERTY RATES NEXT YEAR
      568 5 HIGHER PROPERTY RATES NEXT YEAR Assessor zvill use his new powers Free Press Staff Reporter UKiIIER assessments m some cases three times or more above those charged for the current year will be paid by several owners of properties m the Singapore Municipality next year as a result of the
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      Selangor tin mine
      41 5 Selangor tin mine Tin miners m the Malayan Union are making great efforts to rehabilitate their mines. This picture of a tin mine m Selangor shows the decrepit remnants of the old workings overlooking a newly erected site.- -Free Press picture.
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      Untitled
      29 5 Miss Lv Kit -Una, 8.A.. a young Chinese artist now exhibiting her work* at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, ttudiet one of her scroll paintingt. tree Press picture
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      GRAIN FOR INDIA
      50 5 FA'- shlpi carrying about 327.000 torus of food grain from abroad, are expected to arrive In different porti m India during November. The mum *x porting countries are the us., Australia and Argentina. Besides food gram, two .shirks car: ***** tons of sugar ar exp from Cuba.
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      'Mercy plane' owner delayed by Dutch
      182 5 'Mercy plane' owner delayed by Dutch MR. B PATNAIK, the Indian Industrialist wn< flew Sutan Sjahnr through the Dutch air blockade alter the stan ol Dutch "police action", was detained at Batavia airfield la.si week while en route to Jogjakarta. The Duuh authorities .said he might be held up tor
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      26 5 f PL ACE YOU MUST NOT MISS I parties there en.oy 'lass restaurant-by-the-sea dine wine even swim at the LIDO Telephone ***** cp ASIR PANJANG, SINGAPORE-
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      77 5 just m time for CHRISTMAS I I U A li f* V t ian v V I for SIX persons with TEAPOT 22 pieces 25 a 00 PER SET PLAIN BONE CHINA TEA SETS I for SIX persons J with TEAPOT 22 pieces 3 s'oo PER SET li PLAIN BONE
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  • NEWS
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      SLUMP IN COLONY IS GAINING
      527 6 Flight of Hong Kong money to Canton THE Hons Kong stock market is virtually stagnant, with the trend, if :uiy. downward; prices of luxury mods are less than half of 12 months ago, nh\ the money market is tight. These are some the si- us
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      Russian trade with America
      103 6 RUSSIA .sold to the United States nearly thn <• times af much as she bought m September. A Department of Commerce oflioial explained that the liKures show that trade between the two countries has returned to a commercial basis. Russia sold to the United States $14
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      DEWEY'S CHARGE
      53 6 Oov. nor Tbonu E Dewey of Now York, winding up a two day to New England, charged the Truman Administration with "seemingly abandoning" the Chm- to Communist conquest Aid i" the Chinese government ".should or part oi the long-range programme and given top consideration v.Mh the situation m
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      MORSE USED IN CINEMA HOLD-UP
      284 6 AS :>OO people ut-re watching the film .Murder m Thornton Square at the Plaza Cinema. PlumXead High Street. London, a man rapped on the pay-box door. He rapped out the signal used by the manager Mr. Frederick HufT the letters "F.F. m Morse. Mrs. Nellie
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      RUSSIA AIDS CHINA REDS
      166 6 IMIi: Ne« *<>rk Mirror, m an editorial, charges, 'Russia has maintained th<- < nil war m China since l'J'o and has supported the Chinese Communist army wfefeh fought the Central Government farces, even during thr w.ir with Japan." "Wr h:»vc rut ofT :ill exports of munitions
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      VALUE OF A GOOD WIFE'
      117 6 DAMAGES of t: '2.1)00 w. re awarded against a co-reapon- dent by Mr Commissioner Lawson Campbell, at Cambridge, < England i He .sad he had to assess the value to the husband of a wife whom he had lost, from the point i Of view
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      The lovelorn postman defied Court
      164 6 The lovelorn postman defied Court A LOVELORN postman Richard Harrison's languished m Birmingham jail after refusing to forsake his "love from afar" of a peer's daughter. The little bespectacled postman had earlier violated a Court order forbidding him from wandering on the estate of Lord Norton, to feet a glimpse
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      Shinwell says 'no controversy in the forces'
      181 6 THE reason for the withdn 1 from circulation m the F. ni Affairs booklet No. 34 the Common* by War Secretary Emmanuel BhinweU Replying to questions by I T Scotland 'Labour. Renfrew '.'>• I I and COl. A. Gommc- Duncan vc, Perth), he
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      THE GIRL POSTED HERSELF IN BOX
      77 6 RUTH VVLASEK. 23 a Rumanian Kin. was released from a box 3ft. 6in by lft. 7in. by 2ft. sin. aboard a LJ S. military train bound from Germany for Vienna. There were no air-holes m the box. and the Kill was suffocating When her
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      MORE BIKES IN U.S.
      50 6 /jnencan manufacturers expect to pioduce more than 2,000, 000 bicycles this year, the Bicycle Institute of America said. This compares with 1,750.000 produced In 1941, and 1.650.000 In 1946. The Institute estimated that use of bicycle. 0 increased 75 per cent, above pre-war levels.— A. P.
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      ENGLISH HORSES ON TOP AGAIN
      435 7 ENGLISH HORSES ON TOP AGAIN fine Record In Spore Classics By CALL BOY" df the superiority of the English l^'Lfhbreii *hen it comes to the major races lis provided at Bukit Timah on Saturday dIN of the Singapore meeting, when Grand ,j v calibration Cup and Kashmiri Song won I*
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      Teams For Today's Hockey Trial
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      NELSONS WIN TWO-ONE
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      SATURDAY'S RAGING
      69 7 Grand Prix II Alawi* striding home an easy winner m the Celebratum Cun race at Bnkit Txmah on Saturday. distinction backs away as the tapes go uv at the start of the third race at Bukit Timah on Saturday. Double Aries, fourth from the ails m blinkers, ivas
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      ECLIPSE PLAYERS WIN TWO DOUBLES TIES
      370 7  -  COURTCRAFT \|KS Too Tiang Seng (Eclipse 8.P.) stole the honours m yesterday*i ties m the Singapore badminton championships held at the Clerical Union. Agile and deadly with her smashes, she ibly supported her partner, Cheong Hock Leng, io defeml Yap C'iiin Tec and Miss
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      BOXER SUSPENDED
      82 7 JAKE Lamotta. the Bronx mid-dle-welght, was suspended Indefinitely by the New York Stale Athletic Commission for hi.s failure to notify examining phy ins of an Internal injury before la-st Friday nights fight with Billy Fox o! Phildelphia. In addition the Commission notified the 20th Cer.tury SportClub to withhold
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      KATONG EURASIANS WIN
      63 7 IN a fast and exciting game Ol soccer voUrdav at St. Patrick's School ground, the Katong Eurasians Spor'.s Club beat a scratch tf am ol the Hongkong Shanghai Bank Sports Club by three goals to ml. The Bankers were man short throughout Th Bcoren were AN. de
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      F. P. TIPSTERS SUCCESSES
      76 7 CALL B«»n. the I re<- l"r« ss Bsrsii Reporter Inetaded 13 out nl a possible !1 winners m his selections for the ihree days ncing m the Singapore re-opening Sleeting at ltukit Tiniah Six of these winners were direct and seven indirect, while another '10 »>f
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      Wales Beaten In R.L. International
      132 7 AFTER leading by 13 points to seven at halltime. Wales lost to Prance by 29 points to 21 m an rugby league internatior.al at Bordeaux yesterday beforr more than 26.000 .spectators. The Welsh team who played a polished game, particularly m the first half, were
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      Non-League Soccer Clubs To Start New Competition?
      311 7 YON -LEAGUE English soccer clubs Third D. visions, comprising Northern are Mil persisting m their cf- Midlands and the Southern lectloni. foits t<> b<- admitted to the Football Non-league clubs would be Included In Lrnmie but are meeting with little these sections and
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      STIRRING STRUGGLES
      549 7 WHILE Australia were defeating Scotland m the season's first international match at Murrayfield on Saturday many stirring forward struggles were taking place on other rugby union grounds, on which rain had had its effect. Oxford and Cambridge played their last match before the varsity encounter at Twickenham next
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      Lien Hwa 13th Time Unlucky
      499 7 PLAYING their 13th game since they were organised ana the 11th since they left Singapore at the end of October, the Lien Hwa soccer team of Malaya suffered their first defeat m Shanghai yesterday when they were beaten by four goals to two by the
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      Today's Sports Events
      45 7 IKK'KLV. A I S O B.A. vs. SRC, padang. 1.18 p.m GHQ FARKI.F vs. Cable and Wireless, Tanglin. 515 pm.; CS.C "A" vs. 11. M. Naval Dockyard, St. George's Road. 5 15 p.m.; M.CU. vs. S.H.B. Police. M CM., 5.15 p m.
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      Curtis Gup Golf To Be Resumed
      204 7 > T EXT May Groat Britain's WOI men golten will have a I chance of doing something which eluded the men. both amateur and professional, this year beat America m their resumed International Curtis Cup contest. The Curtis Cup was presented by the sisters,
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      FRANCE BEAT PORTUGAL
      31 7 nOKTUGAL. playing m their first soccer international .since being beaten 10-0 by England last May. were b-i.ten by France by four goals to two at Lisbon yesterday.— Reuter
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      78 7 /^£/.Dy TOMORROW STRASTS TIMES PICTURES 1947 d on irt paper m black and white and coloured to Nfn of pictures showing Mahyan person- ntt during 1947. Camera studies of Malayan "d country and m industry. A delightful record for Malayans and their friends at Home uluding packing pottage io any
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      296 7 Free Press Crossword Wo. 247 12. 13 I K 15 I je I 13 i4ni^/?Tn" 9E I CLUBS ac uoss 1 and 4. Down. What Organisation's motto is "Blood and Fire' .9 4>. 7. Freshwater tortoise (8). 10. Hot springs or baths <7>. 11 Sec 13 Across. 12, Poisonous American
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      War Minister gets most votes
      295 8 CHINA ELECTIONS SHANGHAI, Sunday. I>Ol 1 IN(. m China's first nation-wide democratic elections ended today as tamely as it started three days ago without the last-minute rush although every possible means was utilised by the candidates, including offers of free transport. Although official counting is
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      HOME...
      19 8 I r Malayans Bukit China. Malacca, one of the largest and best knncn of Chinese cemeteries m Malaya.
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      WEATHER Bright periods
      61 8 WEATHER Bright periods WEATOUI r»i">rl for the next ?l hours compiled by the RAI- Itrifht priods with scattered riMWCn m the afternoon and evening Itnuht tomorrow nv>rnrenpcfStures: maximum xs d*t t Minimum 73 de< t Relative humiditi«-> vr>irr<Lkv &t 7 T,O a tn 9">. at 1 10 p m 6?.
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      TSINGTAO IS NOT TO HE U.S. BASE
      164 8 TSINGTAO IS NOT TO HE U.S. BASE NANKING. Sunday. A UNITED Statei Bmbauj spokesman tonight denied a Washington report that Tsingtao k> to become the United States number one naval ba.se m the Fir East. Hf also denied that negotiatiOEJ were m progress for such a transfer, adding that the
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      SOLDIER'NURSES1 IN MENTAL HOME
      63 8 SOLDIER 'NURSES 1 IN MENTAL HOME Free Press Staff Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR. Monday, min-. Regimental Institute of the X Queen's Own Cann-ron High--1 has h-rn presented with by the Malayan Union Govis as a mark oi appreciafor the iol officers and I who carried out the dutlesol 1 ling and
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      BULGARS HOLD TRUK
      30 8 Ulan military mano< uvrcs ing held on the Turkish One ol two Turkish I vho accidentally crossed I rrontler on Nov. 15 was seized d; Bulgarians.- Router
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      AUSTRIA TREATY PLEA
      27 8 n v workers m Austria 1 v r iiv»- minutes toorning m lupport ofl i i to the Foroign tot lair A'Ktriun r. A.P
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      STORE TIDLS
      21 8 H.T. 7 52 p m. 7 ft. 4 ins L T 1 04 p m 3 ft. 5 in*
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      WORLD-TRADE CHARTER UNDER FIRE
      126 8 WORLD-TRADE CHARTER UNDER FIRE WASHINGTON, Sunday. MR. Harold Knutson, Chairman of the House of Repress ntativra Ways and Means Committee. charged that the proposed International Trade Organization Charter would lay American economic policies open to dictation by foreign competitors. He said that Congress should "ponder deeply" before approving any agreement!
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      GANG'S DEMANDS HALT CANTON RIVER SHIPPING
      105 8 GANG'S DEMANDS HALT CANTON RIVER SHIPPING HONG KONG, Sunday. RIVER communications betwi < n Hong KonK and Canton have b< en disrupted by a decision of all Chinese shipping companies to suspend their operation! between the two ports following receipt of threatening letters demanding compliance with "requests for sums between
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      Siam ex-food chief's arrest is requested
      151 8 Siam ex-food chief's arrest is requested BANGKOK. Sunday. SIAM'S new Finance Minister ha^ requested the arrest of I)r Thor.splaew Cholophum. former chief of the government's food organisation, which was wound up m ar atmosphere of scandal and corruption. Two prominent police officials are involved m investigation which the new regime
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      DEPOT CHIEF FOR MALAY REGT
      106 8 From Our Staff Correspondent A KUALA LUMPUR. Monday DEPOT commander for the Malay Regiment has beer appointed, says the report of theFinance Sub-Committee of the Malayan Union Government. Other expenditure far the Malay Regiment, which has been authorised, is. The purchase ol ammunition costing $150,207
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      CHINA REDS RESUME BIG OFFENSIVES
      180 8 Three Communist coluiru s are converging on Hankow but are meeting with stiir resistance from Government forces. The most serious threat comes from the centro column whirh has captured Blnchow, 35 miles east of Hankow, and is now pressing lorward at a rapid rate. Hankow,
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      NEW CLASHES IN DELHI CITY
      61 8 A DUSK-TO-DAWN ourl. w to "°P^wt€ for three nights has boun tapoted m Old Delhi following communal stabbing, which occur red when news was spread of a clash between Hindu refugees attempting to take possession of a vacant Muslim house and local Muslim residents. Five
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      POPE BROADCASTS THANKS TO U.S.
      182 8 CASTEL GANDOLFO, Sunday. pOPE PIUS, m a special radio address to the people of the United States, thanked them tonight for the "Christian charity" of their winter programme of aid for Europe, which, he said will prevent death for many. He praised the American response
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      POR ASIA'
      410 8 Economic talks open m PI today BAGUIO, P.1., Sunday. OCANT possibility of a Marshall plan for Asia emerging from the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia (ECAFE) Conference, opening here tomorrow, is foreseen by Dr. T. F. Tsiang, China's delegate to the Security Council, who will preside as
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      CONGRESS BODY ASKED TO QUIT
      118 8 A RESOLUTION calling on the execut Ive of the Sinu ip< re Elegional Indian Congress to resign w;u> pa nt d at an Indian community meeting at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday. The meeting wa*» part of the memorial celebration! m honour Ol the Tamil
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      FREE-FOR-ALL IN JAP DIET
      70 8 ALL parties In Japan's House of Representatives, after three days or flying lists, agreed yesterday that Hnther deliberation* should be conducted wiUi "extreme self-contain-ment." Tho last three sessions have produced .some rousing fights, mainly between the predominant Sociali.st? and the opposition Liberals. Tvo liberals were thrown
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      £2,000 million lottery plan
      135 8 rriih London newspaper The People, whose circulation L exceeds 4.500.000 copies, today featured Tl main front page story a report that a scheme was to be put before the British Government to float the biggest lottery the world has ever know to raise nearly £1,000.000.000 m
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      19 8 t,'a party hrld at St. Jan on she: I CMi and engraved glass and 1 of -toman, ft* Nj
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      NEW PRIMATE» AUSTRALIA
      5 8 NEW PRIMATE AUSTRALIA he *rat
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      SIAMESE TWINS
      33 8 Siamese twins, both girls, were born m the Municipal hospital of" OfTenburtf. near Baden, m the French zone of Germany yesterday. They died shortly "afterwards. The mother 1« r»i-.-»rr»-«oi;»,~ satisfactorily.— Reuter
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      RUHR PRODUCTION
      30 8 Advances m the Ruhr's coal steel production last month to new post-war highs have Impr prospects for substantial industrial revival m the British- American zones of Germany.— A.P.
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      RUBBER PRICES
      99 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent sives the prices of rubber at 11 a.m. today as follows: Buyers Seller* Cts. Cts. per Ib. per Ib So. 1 B.S.S. Spot kx>s« U X No. 1 R.S.S. rob m bales Dec 42 No. 2 B.S.S. fot> m bales Dec. 41 S No
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      CROWDS SEE ROYAL COUPLE AT CHURCH
      270 8 CROWDS SEE ROYAL COUPLE A T CHURCH ROMSEY (Hants), Sunday. L]IGHT-hundred-year-old Romsoy Abbey was packed with "a congregation of 1,200 when Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, making their first public appearance since their marriage, attended morning service today. The Princess, wearing her "love-in-the-mist" going away hat and
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