The Singapore Free Press, 27 November 1947

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    23 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA f M i i ii >. IT.OCI SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947" IICE 10 CENTS
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    UNOFFICIALS FIGHT TAX NOW
    433 1 UNOFFICIALS FIGHT TAX NOW 'Should be left for new Council Free Press Staff Reporter OPPOSITION to the immediate introduction of income tax was expressed m the Singapore Advith^fi T nC «J h ls f mormn ff b >' Mr. E. M. F. Fergusson, the first unofficial speaker on the Government
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    Creech Jones on the rice ration
    139 1 LONDON, Wednesday, rued about the rice position m 1 am doing all I can to get supsaid Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary for m a reply m the House of Commons Walter Fletcher (Cons.), who had asked initiation of the "disproportionate" allocbetween Malaya and Japan.
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    LABOUR M.P. PLEADS NOT GUILTY'
    110 1 LABOUR M.P. PLEADS NOT GUILTY' MR. Arthur William John Lewis, 30. Labour M.P. for Upton and an official of the National Union of General and MunicipaJ Workers. Jamos Andrew Lewis. 37 his brother; 23 other men and five women were again remanded on bail at Bow Street Police Court m
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    CANADA BANS UP CARS
    25 1 A Canadian trade spokesman m London yesterday confirmed that, .since Nov. 18 Canada has "closed her doors to British cars."— A.P.
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    TWO FEARED DEAD IN TRAIN SMASH
    142 1 TWO FEARED DEAD IN TRAIN SMASH FARNBOROUGH, Wed. THE crack "Bournemouth Belle' and another Southern Railway passenger train collided tonight near this Hampshire towr and early reports said a number oj passengers were injured. Foui coaches ot one train are reported Ito have been derailed. Unofficial I reports said that
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    MOSCOW SAID INVOLVED IN CEYLON PLOT
    138 1 COLOMBO. Wednesday CEYLON'S Prime Minister. Mr D. s. Senanyake, said during a debate on the Governors address m the House cf Representatives today t*ipl documents disclosing sec) aeKotiations between Ceyion political grouus and a foreign power had be rt n discovered and would be
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    DALTON IS GIVEN LASKI'S JOB
    64 1 D ALTON IS GIVEN LASKI'S JOB PROF. Harold Laski has vacated the chairmanship of the BritLsh Labour Party's International j sub-committee and Mr. Hugh Dalton, who resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer. has been named to replace him. Prof. La.ski has bivn chairman •iinc May of the group, whose 1
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    6,000-MILE DRIVE
    23 1 Five young bachelors set on ivom Leicester yesterday to flrive 5,000 miles to South 'Africa m a converted Army lorry. Reuter
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    CHIANG FOR PEIPING
    33 1 I Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek left Nanking by air yesterday for Peiping to confer with military leaders m North China on the latest developments m the grave military situation there.- Reuter
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    PALESTINE : MORE OPPOSE PARTITION
    236 1 PALESTINE MORE OPPOSE PARTITION NEW YORK, Wednesday final vote by the United Nations Assembly on the Soviet- American proposal to partition Pales tine will be postponed until Friday, it was disclosed toaay. Meanwhile, prospects of a two-thirds maioritv which is necessary for approval of the partition proposal, are dimming. lv
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    Big Four break agenda deadlock
    210 1 LONDON, Wednesday. •yHE Big Four Foreign Ministers today broke their x deadlock on Austria and agreed to place her peace treaty first on their agenda after M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, h*d a greet! to a French compromise plan. In turn, the Western powers acceded
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    STATEMENT ON MALAYA SOON
    75 1 A BRITISH Government statement about the Federation of Malaya is expected to be made shortly. When Major Bruce (Labour) asked m the House of Commons yesterday what progress was being: made to implement the Federation of Malaya, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Arthur
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    BOAC JAPAN SERVICE
    38 1 British Overseas Airways Corporation officials, v/ho arrived back m Hong Kong from Tokio yesterday, said t<he BOAC now awaited a licence from SCAP to start a route from Hong Kong to Iwakiuii, near Hiroshima— Reuter
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    TRUMAN'S AID PUNS READY FOR CONGRESS
    178 1 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. ORtSIDENT Truman is expect- ccl to submit a message to Congress next week on the State Department's plan for the first 15 months of the long-range European recovery programme and its plans for the three succeeding years of the programme, it was
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    GIF! PARCELS FOR U.K.
    20 1 Nearly 1,000 000 gift parcels md 1,300,000 bottles of wino from Australia have reached. Plymouth. Reuter
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    INCOME TAX WOULD RAISE $25,000,000
    452 1 INCOME TAX WOULD RAISE $25, 000, 000 Financial Secretary says Free Press Staff Reporter 'THE Singapore Government's Income Tax Bill was x introduced m the Advisory Council this morning by the Financial Secretary, Mr. J. D. M. Smith, who moved the first reading. The bill would tax individual incomes at
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    31 1 Sir Robert Robinson, Oxford professor and one* of Britain's greatest chemists, chiefly noted for his work on the structure and synthesis of natural products, has be i awarded a Nobel Priie.
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    ARMED ROBBERY
    29 1 Three men armed with pistols robbed the Chinese inmates of a house m Tanjong Pagar Road at 7.30 o'clock list night of $930 m cash and valuables.
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      14 1 k $P£C/Ai/rr 3 More people than ever are saying <L ft I MADE IN
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  • FEATURES...
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      NEW MATERIAL
      821 2 A Malayan Bookshelf AS a change from rea(l i n about Dooks that have already been published, I thought you might like to hear a little about some of the books that English publishers will be putting on the market next month. Some of those will make excellent
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      395 2 gOUTHS ls a difficult har.d to bid. B* I t «tr hi« rtunigh to bid too DO-tnmp, nor long ctvu^h m spades to jump-r.iLv. Trt two spades i be a d- elded underbid. n two clubs and two diamonds (neither of which suit^ South wanted lo play ai
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      MONKEY-MENACE IN INDIA
      372 2 MONKEY-MENACE IN INDIA BED- faced nionkeys, wild elephants, prowling beats and poisonous snakes winch kill more than 1,000,000 Indians annually haw at last Invited the attention of tho Central and Provincial governments of India. The m< nk. \v wh;cii invade tlu- Hindu pilgrim Benares ana Srirangain and bit« }>ioUi ruin
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      Art on the wrong tack?
      138 2  - Art on the wrong tack? Pierre Jeanneral By CHIPS ;,nd the sea lo *J so large m the and history of the Bri people that it cornea something of a find marine art holding a secondary place m the British school of painting. None of the grea painters derated und
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      16 2 Lindu hristian. f(»rmer assistant to a plxstic surgeon, no\s r\ ploits her beauty m HolivwutHl films.
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      70 2 i ci\ < Mot f* Yes I persuj Jed him to i proudly. "Now wo IT* have their m,ikton, 3 h: imj tomorrow. What a rt I m the house Igi h I safe a/id pure, while rcali FULL CREAM MILK POWD» a,,,. COW Ac _.l KS<l.\ firTCCnT'^'sinla™" j I
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      52 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR ut !or 0* J i i nata- r.»! You art M 10 Mi deal with a .Hide nee and push when it comes to :ter wh.." net the typr li.ituMliy a hird .md nev v >a haw Kttk patience In «ill j vwth am--ho are will* ir
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      Claimants to £1,000 millions
      144 3 Claimants to £1, 000 millions ma ra Ln m v^- a Ty i responsible for I the newspaper "Espolr de Nice A fm months igo 06 Uscowtd of v 9 Reparatc Church Tlaade E B I led 12 list of •on- might never have exited if cUude 'her. m 1820.
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      PIRATES OFF H.K.
      10 3 \LL *een i and West F Reuter
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      MAJOR'S BATMAN HAD 16-HOUR DAY
      64 3 Afrtl\AlL soku«r told a oxjrt- martial that he had worked a da vr batman ar.d that hi* Job ending to the officer's wife, v is baby datitfruer and the r :d. His dutie-, he >a.d. i table, %-aleting, ar.d dea g 1 I >- hou
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      INDIA-HYDERABAD AGREEMENT
      40 3 I between the f In 1. dele-wn-ich has been i t C :iS dOWI I S\ Am .r c to H N per pic are H.oi iiid of the .-.jus been Indian OovernnK ..^e the of prn--* Reuter
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      HE BIT EAR OF HER FATHER
      84 3 JONES. 22-year-old West Bromwich hawker, bit off th.« top of his sweet hearts father's ri^ht ear. It cost him a £2 fine at Wednesbury. Staffordshire for assault and causing bodily harm. The father. Bernard John Jackson, of Wednesbury. said he objected to Jones keeping
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      MINER SETS UP OUTPUT RECORD
      67 3 r Interaa- C:\:.ery Blaeogarw, Glazn r. Greer.slade Of Albi r:aci P mmer ?r:ke tfcc BriUslj rd output by a- least Sa^ Mr. Willimm liason, nanager of *Jie ••Greer.^lacte ii r self. His only m .al aid T -he 120 Uyr.s he cue oil 87 jn
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      BBC"s UNCLE MAC IN COURT ACTION
      67 3 IB I 2 It and vaa r«?--l the Children s B L\. Mac The fi:nr. r. puffed fee i pi carmd Oh." 1 n love IfcC aUocta tha: Im suffered fr r v- a Ml physical d Inability He had or.ly one eye z^d
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      BUT ENTIRELY GEARED FOR WAR'
      398 3 Soviet industry lags behind U.S. X Mr MkmaSV JFf* tOr War to ism ia unavoidable, tnat this friction may at any time tm. '"SualLm." "ft WI diSapi ar Rl V tKe^eU of Russia now has the second largest industry m the world and is aim
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      Dying, he hope from a death cell
      175 3 Dying, he hope from a death cell HOPE has ccme to a Dunkirk veteran In Engi&nd, dying or a iw* d^ea^e. It hAJ come from a German dec tor im a condemned cell m Nuremberg, found guilty >f Crimea again* humanity. William Postlethwaite, 34 year* oW. 0* Brougham-street, Sunderiand. heard
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      110s. FOR A MINK
      38 3 ii*:l:. ninki have tnerea nv i -.nee the war, when many minxj Now they are N Hrwejrian lakes fanners are offered 10s aboi j i price fc killed. Sixty ttina ko to a 'Hit.
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      10,000 IN GRAVE
      34 3 Th« '.Vars .1 commission for the investigation of nan war crimei hai started the 1 of a mais irave ot sun. 00 Soviet *-ap prisoners jl* Siedict?. ea^r of tw A.P.
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      'OUR GREATEST HARROVIAN'
      88 3 'OUR GREATEST HARROVIAN' MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL paid hIM v irlj 1 id il. Harrow to hear nmc sun? when was a boy there nearly 60 ftmn 73 on N 30. Mr R. w. m »re, the head as "our ireat it Hin -r i boys, Mr C i orchil] said.
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      2,000,000 RADIO SETS
      25 3 Mart than 2.000.000 radio sets were fcwodaced m America durin? October, breaking: all industry record! Included w^re 2369.: clevis ion. receivers A.P.
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      Alive despite 15 mins.' immersion
      190 3 l^i\ ij muiuws aiwr the wa^ swept overboard a fisherman y was held by ropes fathoms deep m the s«a off the South Irish oast. \et th€ man. Patrick Hayes, who was without air for so long, is alive saved by artificial respiration weighted lobster
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      Judge:'Be kind to this woman'
      126 3 Judge: 'Be kind to this woman' MR JUSTICE STABLE appealed i' Chester AnlKi fox the sympathy of neighbours of a wo* j&e n;ne-year-old son i i baby sirl. "I only wai express the hope." he said. wffl do all m power to behave as detent C!l pie to this boy's
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      FISH OIL FOR COPRA
      29 3 The US Agriculture Departaent has allocated to the Pbilipur.os 3.000 000 Ib. of flsh oil m ex•ha^r.ge for an Bonivmlflnt an Ity of copra.- A.P.
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY,NOVEMBER 27, 1947. The Prolem Of Safer Roads
      592 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1947. The Prolem Of Safer Roads tic 1 1 1 1 3 n n- in- rceij 1 ■.out to rospect of this In S:npore a' mont A I limit ll by n i m a coun ictslng an a I r iui- trained
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      SOUTH INDIANS ARE CALM
      1264 4 SOUTH INDIANS ARE CALM I WHEN I was m ff South India last month I was interested t<> try and ascertain the effects of the terrible communal conflict which had been raging m the northwest m India. But IHe political effects seemed to have been almost negligible. Indeed the Madias
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      IT SEEMS TO ME...
      833 4  -  Politico by 117 H V should Sir f» Edward Gent have chosen just this moment for a head-on collision with his Advisory Council? Evidently Sir Edward is determined io yvt income tax Legislation on the statute books before the end of the year. But while the
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      What The French Have Achieved
      320 4 r,v STANLEY SWINTON A. P. Correspondent CHANCE'S Far Eastern forces, m their little publicised offensive to reconquer Northern Indo china which bejran m October and still is continuing, are believed m qualified foreign circles m Hanoi to have badly batten l the Vietnamese nationalists without
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      4 4 on the Malabar Coast
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      FAITH
      26 4 Brine confident of this \»r> tiling, th.it he which hath beKiin a good work i» fom will porf«»rm it until the day of Jesus Christ
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
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      30,000 CHINESE LABOURES FOR BORNEO
      386 5 30,000 CHINESE LABOURES FOR BORNEO Nanking approves recruitment Free Press Chinese Correspondent JHIRTY thousand Chinese l&bourera are being recruited, mainly from th« KwtiKgtung and Fukien province-,, to go British North Borneo to assist m the expjonation of natural resources there, according to dispatches from the On'rul News, official Chinese Ire
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      25 5 1:y Major-General DAL Indian Sappers and Miners' ■il view of the parade is teeri Wade talks to a Sapper during hi* insthe troops.— Orient pictures.
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      SUB-TENANTS GET RENT REDUCTION
      233 5 1 Ptvss Staff Reporter I a Bencoofen Street lodging house who the Rent Conciliation Board yesterday to ted vsere told by the President, Major to pay their rents to the princi]>al tenant lodging-hoiiM book, ad thi ir rents reduced as from May 1 made m the
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      Business was bad, says chief tenant
      199 5 Free Press Staff Reporter AT the Singapore Rent Conciliation Board yesterday, m a case concerning a house at 44 China Street. Mr. Wee Joo Siong, principal tenant, heard the President, Major H.R.S. Zchnder, tell his sub-tenant to pay him $60 rent from Nov. 1,
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      ELECTORAL CLERKS
      50 5 The Supervisor of Elections m Singapore has appointed the following to be Clerks to Registering Officers for the Electoral Districts: Mr. A. E. Tilly, Municipality North Eaat; Mr. A. Thiyagarajah. Municipality South Wfst; Mr. Lav Foofc Seng, Rural j Board West Mr. F. X. Nadarajan, Rural Board East.
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      25 5 oto picture. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Keelan, who were married yesterday at the Singapore Registry Office. The reception was held at the Cockpit.- Mobile
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      Robbers took $1,000 cash, fired lorry
      138 5 Free Press StafY Correspondent JOHORE BAHRU. I ryni. Johore police have unc 1 I an important clue durtheir investigations into the Rang robbery on Monday at Senai villa- c. 15 miles from Johore Bahru, and expect to make an arrest very soon. In the
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      Enticement of neighbours wife alleged
      100 5 Enticement of neighbours wife alleged K. I*. Sinnathaanbi of Malacca, m the Second Police Court Singapore yesterday. identified Majid bin Bobjan. 3»>-x<*ar-old Indian Muslim, as the man who had used his name to borrow $400 from a neighbour, had taken jewellery from his house and run away with his wife.
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      BOOM WARNING
      32 5 A bootn defence vessel, vuth divers, will be working off Godown 44, Keppel Harbour, from today. The Singapore Mastor Attendant warns that this vessel should be given a wide berth.
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      FILL MOON DAY
      39 5 Full moon day, which falls today, will be celebrated at the Sinhalese Buddhist Temple. 96. Outram Road by Mr. A. G. De Alwis. All are invited. 6.00 p.m. Illumination, 7.00 p.m. Buddha Puja. 7.30 p.m. Sermon.
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      NURSING SISTERS FOR MALAYA
      131 5 Free Press London Correspondent RECENT appointments to Malaya include those of Miss Catherine Lee an,i Miss F. J. O'Kane as Nursing Sis.ers. Miss Lee, Sunderland-born, was trained at the General Hospital, Sunderland, where she was subsequently employed as a stafT nurse. She has also held ap-
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      Open verdict by coroner
      253 5 AIK HOE STRIKE DEATH THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. \V. G. Porter, yesterday record--1 ed an open finding into the death oi Goh Teow Yong, a worker at the Aik Hoe Rubber Factory m Kirn huan Road, Singapore, who was fatally injured m a strike incident at
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      Sampan capsized, motor boat driver charged
      134 5 Sampan capsized, motor boat driver charged AN accident m the Kallang River, m which the wash from a Qanlas-owned motor boat was allegedly responsible for the capsizing of a motor sampan with six Chinese on board was recalled In the Singapore Marine Court yesterday. The sampan was at the time
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      Cresson condemns 'go slow' labour
      303 5 Cresson condemns 'go slow' labour •yHK Internationa] Labour 1 Organisation preparatory conference at New Delhi gave Malayan workers the chance of realising that "their complex of suspicion and antagonism towards employers has been unfounded, and that their tfo slow campaign has been detrimental to themselves," said Mr. L. A. Cresson
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      SUCCESSFUL POPPY DAY
      98 5 AT the final meeting of the 1947 Poppy Day Committee, held on Tuesday, the chairman, Mrs. J. Ec:erton, announced that the collection this year from the I Colony of Singapore had reached the total of $51,230. This figure includes the collections from the three Services. Figures for
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      75 5 I Just Received I I QUALITY TENNIS POSTS I an Ntli f TENNIS POSTS "NE PLUS ULTRA Made of Cold Drawn Steel, Rustless, I fitted with Patent "Ladye" winder. PR.CE $17 5.00 SET TENNIS NETS DOUBLE NETTING TOPS, j Price $50 00 "~^WATERFAil ;r *MARREM~I I B *ticrc»i lor v
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      'NATION OPEN TO ATTACK'
      478 6 'NATION OPEN TO ATTACK' Japan's major problems WASHINGTON, Wednesday. J FCONOMIC rehabilitation is the major problem before Li Japan and the Pacific war Allies m the opinion of Lieut.Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Commander of the United States Eighth Army m Japan. The General, who ifl about to return to Tokio
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      55 6 ■1 AiuiiJiJ 1 m t mi 1■; In Ihe vine centre of Giarre. Sicily, w hat of pinning currency Jiotes m the bride's dress by her f ather as a "token dowry" to be \pent by the neu ly-weds on their ymooH, Picture iJUmm a bride with "honeymoon expinned on
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      £5,000,000 PAY OFFER TO P.O. EMPLOYEES
      117 6 WAGE btrr— icw to co-t £5.000,000 a year hare been offered to postmen, sorters, telegraphists, telephonists, and other Past OfTice workers. A vote will be taken at a conference of the P.O. workers' union at Blackpool today. The < xtcutive recommend a%ccpiatice. [ncreasea range
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      ODD INCH THAT COSTS MILLIONS
      58 6 THE British wool industry has been giving away 7,000,000 yards of cloth every year an inch or so at a time. It has been the custom for manufacturers to add these odd inches to customers' orders. From now that will stop, and for every yard
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      ANTI-BARTER WARNING
      85 6 POSTER warning that "the uttCCTI of the law will be ruthlessly applied" to any Briton found bartering goods with the Germans has been distributed m the British Zone. In letters two Inches high the poster recalled that the barter of goodl for money or .services was Illegal and
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      NO RELIEF FOR N.I. FORCES
      70 6 The Commander-in-chief of the 1 Netherlands East Indies forces, Lieut-G< n. Simon H. Sp<; said In Batavta yesterday that niicf arrangement* for Dutch troops would be delayed because of recent developments m Java and Sumatra. n. Spoor said that not only must all posts and
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      BIRTHDAY GIFT
      37 6 The Prague Communist newspaper Rude Pravo announces that more than 20.000 new memben Of the Communist Party have been recruited as the 51st birthday pift to the Czech Prime Minister, Mr. Xl« nient Gottwald. U.P.
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      A 'LARK' THAT ENDED IN TRAGEDY
      148 6 tokio. Wednesday. DUBLIC Information Officer of the U.S. First Cuvulrv Division said that an American Private is awaitinu' court-martial on a charge of first degree manslaugb tor of a young Japanese gill who was drowned after being thrown into a canal from a downtown
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      JP, 80, SAYS: 'I'LL STILL DRIVE'
      74 6 THE H^n. Mrs. Emily Marry Pordham, 80-year-old J P. of Steeple Morden. Cambridgeshire, wus advised by the Roystoo maBtotratea to give up driving when she waa lined 810. with .C 4 3l COStl \<>r driving without due care and attention. She tald later: "I
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      CHURCHILL AS A WITNESS
      74 6 CHURCHILL AS A WITNESS MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL and Lord Templewood are among the witnesses called by the fence m the trial of Count Dino Grand Mussolini's Ambassador In London, for alleged Fascist activities, just opened m Rome. Both British and American witnesses will be asked to go to Rome to
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      Story of 'starving, brawling PoWs'
      239 6 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE U.S. Navy has made pubiic the long secret re«>rd of 1 the court-martial trial and acquittal of a Navy officer charged with being involved m the torture deaths off two tellow Americans pri*«>ners m a Japanese prison camp and of maltreating other**.
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      They Sometimes Admit Fault
      48 6 F^4C£D with the prospect of a broken marriage, worm n are more likely to admit, "V perhaps I uas mistaken," I their bu^bands, who often to have "the Quality of pigh edness" says Dr. J ratary of a neir marriagi ancc cou7icil m v
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      Babies have first claim to woollies
      20 6 nL a crjfl H B 9 1 I I d m "Increased fl I
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      RIOTS IN 5. ITALY
      32 6 Police reinforcement* have boon (\\iird out m the southern Italian province of Calabria to cope wltl political disturbances. A general strike call for_the wholr province is expected:- Reuter
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      41 6 >^>V TO-DAY fiCAIPT^I V PHONE BfyffsMnlf^BM fuliiscn f Greatest Pta4wHM T //0 O M/r\ GENE TIERNEY- DON AMECHE CHARLES COBURN I Iloyal Wrdditi? Pictures SAT. AT M NITE Alexander Kordft'l TrrJinirf>lor Spc<t;irlc! "THE DRUM" tarrtnc SABU And A Cast Of 3.000
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      61 6 JA^ N E Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press iv Malaya ...-HIF I MAYBE HAUOW£D\ OLoA 1/^MISS JANE AND MR^ U^HAW'^SORRY f\ /dARLIMG'— I Ll_A TO HINTRUDE^LUD, I 1 THE BLA2ES DO [MALTRAVERS7 HERIC BE'AVED WITH MISJUDGED )l NEVER DOURT 1 IKUIH IN VISCOUNI GAMMONS U/Mll P uitLinco t^i>y» i
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      Scots Are Out Of Soccer Championship
      58 7 Scots Are Out Of Soccer Championship I,, mm. h i>e if .mr II"' 'iK-rnalional 1 i Kng W"..»jn »nd > I with "SnK I "Sland .Mil ts»i"» are um> pom fl fr March 10, ..md on jAlerMtfonal taMe now r»* p v I) I. Pts. 110 3 r JJ 110
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      E.BEDSER TAKES UP FAST BOWLING
      46 7 E.BEDSER TAKES UP FAST BOWLING En?bowllng :nU?ht and n w» brother might ret c boilers I >r thpr •m for and his He was i P jrrey. t y > r .-poeil l <ar. a ho' I I{M7 ler. VbOM i is fast I rmrr Surrey." 8»."
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      YOUNGSTERS WIN
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      KING'S JOCKEY LEAVES FOR CALCUTTA
      50 7 WH. Carr. the KrngV fOdUf, a< mpan:.-d by h s irifc nnd child left Lordon airport today for Calcutta, wheri h»> will rid.- for Mr. nald Fostor during the winter flat racing season. He is dua \x\rk m England at the md of Ftbruary. Reuter
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      LA SALLE SOCCER XI
      75 7 THE La Sail*.- Sports Club will play a friendly game of soccer against the Chinese Hurricanes Soccerlads on Sunday at the Jalan Besar Stadium at 5.15 p.m The team will be selected from the following: Bee Cheow. I Henry Chone. Pit Chong, James Tan. Hent? Fook.
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      R.S.G.C ASSOCIATES
      68 7 The annual general meeting of as- ■OClatM of the Royal Sinprapore Golf Club was held m the Club House on Monday. Nov. 24. and the following were elected office-bearers for 1947--1948: Captain, Mrs. E. A. Elder; vicecaptain, Mrs. A. T. Aird; non. sec-' rrtary, Miss M. Hadley, Committee.
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      Woodcock Plans For New Year Comeback
      79 7 I EUROPEAN b hi champion Broea Woodcock, fully recovered jfroni clv i\> ir>jury. will go to Eire lurv. kg a -chopping to propure for his return to the ring oarly n*xt year. Bt ch-j6e Eir.' bhcauße eggrs and m.-at c-re far m<»r.- pl.i>tiful than
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      PENALTY HELPS LIEN HWA TO DHAW
      319 7 learn Weakened By Inhi/rip* I N soccer th i Pa X ffiE* Visitin Hwa strength owing to Injj? ho w f re not at share six goals with thi i« Il cky y es terday to at Hong Kong The X,. loc!l1 rnited Services
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      DULEEP PICKS INDIA TEST XI
      237 7 From K. S. Duleepsinghi. QN present form the Indian team to meet Australian In the first Test boßlnninp: at Brisbane tomorrow, should do Amarnath. Hazaro. M;inkad 6ar- wate, Adhikari. Kishenchand. Gul and Snt Phadkar> Sohor>i, Nayudu I would leave out Amir Elahl ac he has
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      S'pore Malays Reach Final
      73 7 pLAYING m their best form. X the Singapore Malays beat the Se'angor Malays by five goals to one at Prince's Road. Kuala Lumpur, yesterday to enter the final of the Sultans' Gold Cup soccer competition. The crowd of 5.000 which watched the game was treated to
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      Connors Faces Corbett On Saturday
      130 7 Connors Faces Corbett On Saturday AN all-star wrestling card has been arranged for Saturday at the Great/ World covered arena, starting at 8.45 p.m. I Curly Connors, the iatest Australiiun hcav>-^eight arrival Irom Leicliardt St-adium, who scored ,a ktitx-kout victory over Hardit Singh last Saturday, h*s been' I nicely- matcho^
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      S. AFRICAN GETS TITLE FIGHT v WOODCOCK
      53 7 rpiiE British Bojaiig Board of Control will recognise a match between Bruce Woodcock ;md Johnny Ralph, South Afnoaji heavyweight champion. U f< i ttM British Empire heavyweight ■rdlng to a letter from tin I recgired yesterday by the Transva.il Boitrd of Control for
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      POSTALS WIN 6-1
      68 7 ■J^ PO6IAI and Telecommunications side beat a R.A.F. side by six goals to mm In a game of hockey played at Seletar yesterday. Carnegie scored two goals for Postal* m the first half when the R.A.F. were unable to reply. On resumption of play, Wright aud Ponniah,
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      TABLE TENNIS TEAM
      74 7 Auam vi siv_n .ingles will by sciected from kIM following players to NpHMM the Engineers 1 Branch o! the Singapore Municipal Services Union against tiic C.V.M.A. (Church of the Sacred H. art -Tank Road) ki a friendly table tennis match m Tank Road torn orr <i W
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      RUGBY UNION RESULTS
      30 7 YESTERDAY'S U.K. Kutfbv UnionI results fire: County cliampionship. Middlesex 10, Surrey 18; Bcrkshife 28, Hampshire 0. Other match: Oxford Univ. Greyhounds 36, St. Barts Hospital 0. Reuter
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      FUSILIERS BEAT SCC 2nd XV IN PADANG GAME
      318 7 Fusiliers Bpts BCC 2nd spts. WITH all the tries being scored m the second half, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers left the field winners m their rugger fixture against the S.C.C. second XV on the Padang yesterday by 8 points (a goal and
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      Tourists In S'hai
      7 7 i Peh, at Shanghai.
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      10 MAN S.C.C. TEAM BEATEN FOUR-NIL
      509 7 1 0 MAN S.C.C. TEAM BEATEN FOUR-NIL 4 S.C.C 0 THEpadang rivals, the S.R.C. and the BJCJ& met' in rv L^r*?*!^ ffame Of hocke y yesterday and, though the Cricket Club went down to a strong S.R.C. eleven by four goals to nil, they gave a creditable display, considering that
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      F.A. XI EASILY BEAT ARMY
      155 7 fllE Engl^h Football Association XI defeated the Army by four goals to nil at Brighton yesterday. After the first 15 minutes Rowley opened for the PA. by easily netting when a shot by Morris rebounded the poalkeeper. j Bower mLsstd a good chance to equa>lwc
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      RAFFLES COLLEGE XV
      71 7 J«HE Railn-s College Rugger XV to I meet the Medical College today at! Bilk a Tlmah for the Galloway Cup will be selected from the following: B. K. Sen: Daud b. Haahim. Hussein. Saad b. Mancuki, G. M. Thomasz; Saad b. Walad, J. E. HenryThong Saw Pak,
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      CHANGI RAF WIN ROBUST RUGBY GAME
      450 7 R^.F. Chan R i 6 pts. S. Police 0 TN a fast, thrilling and perhaps X one of the most robust games of rugger player this season on the Police Training School ground, Thomson Road. the RAF Cha-gi defea e^ the Singapore Police by
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      LOUIS SAYS HE IS AT HIS FITTEST
      108 7 i JOE LOUIS, who defend! hig world heavyweight championship for the 24th time when he meets Joe Walcott at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 5. said he is prepared to go the full 15 rounds if necessary. Alter six rounds of preparation at
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      95 7 IHE TAVERN (European Residential Hotel) (Open to Non-Residents) %g immediately after the liberation. by BM A. Officials and service Person r. 'ri.jaaly furnish^-d Excellent Cuiame. Bigk Via (I Liquors. l rice tiirin every Sunday. arrv powder is spatially prepared. opposite Nassfm Road Telephone No. 4«*48. D 'd you use MACLEANS
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      165 7 Today's Sporfs Events RLGBY: Rtflkg College vs Medical (oUefe, Raffles ground, 5.15 HOCKEY. S.C.B.C. v.. Postal Bockey XI at S.C. B.C. ground, 5.15 pm.; Ceylon S.C. vs. Johore C C. at Police Depot, 5.15 p.m. Free Press Crossword No. 24s CLUES ACROSS 1. Coarse hnen for towels (5). 4, Nine
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      39 8 I* If r The great herd of 700 cattle, now grazing on the flumC .m m newly seeded bombing range m Bagshot Park. iprisc aniwal< from farms throughout Staffordshire and is thought to be the largest herd m Britain
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      Tax: Financial Secretary's speech
      684 8 Continued from Paiu> 1 i irmi that the deficit must i be met by any other type «>f l g. Nor should ih< the i. which would bo Ived by n of any l of the i re•f sufficient to I would reduce t r to
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      STUDENTS UNION IN LONDON
      77 8 ST UDENTS UNION IN LONDON 11HE Malayan Student! Union is organising iniormal monthly meetings lor Malayans s'udyn.n m London It Is proposed that ;us mnny as it can arrange to do so, hould meet for luncheon on the third Saturday of each month to xihaDße news and views The Union
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      4 SURVIVORS FOUND ON BROKEN SHIP
      105 8 4 SURVIVORS FOUND ON BROKEN SHIP KetchikAO Alaska Wed. POUR shocked, chilled survivors and the bodies of three other members were found at the hed bow section of the shat- U S Army Transport Cla Victory today. Tiv lid be thought the i 44 membera of the crew drowned when
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      LIFE TERMS FOR TWO JEWISH TERRORISTS
      48 8 A m Jt-ru.s '•relay pas* I f v.<» Jewish terrorist! convicted k on three capital i!. v Including the wrecking oJ the Cairo-Haifa T.iin on Au«. 9 this r. They were Yeruc hum Krub '.ruk and hli 16-year old m r Reuter
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      KASHMIR PLEBISCITE UNDER UNO URGED
      257 8 i -'VIK High Commissioner for Pakistan, Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, told a London press conference yesterday that it would bo better if both India und Pakistan decided to put the a hole ma't'r of Kashmir before h > United Nations. "We hoy uki v Tor an
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      19 RUSSIANS Are EXPELLED FROM FRANCE
      252 8 19 RUSSIANS Are EXPELLED FROM FRANCE Govt. servants, police may strike PARIS, Wednesday. NINETEEN Soviet Russians were expelled from France 11 for "interfering m French affairs" during the strike-bound nations crisis, the Minister of the Interior M Jules Moch, announced today. National security police inspectors swooped down on the homes
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      WEATHER Partly cloudy
      59 8 WEATHER Partly cloudy WEATHER report for the next 24 hoars compiled by tin KAF: Partly cloudy with stiowers likely during the a/ternaon and evening. Wind: light, northerly. Trmprrature*: maximum 81 deg. V minimum 72 d*g. V. Rainfall IffMti H.J.Un.- humidities: at 7.30 am. yrvtrrdiiy !>|. jU 1.30 pm 79. a4
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      £200 MILLION CUT IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
      232 8 £200 MILLION CUT IN CAPITAL EXPENDITURE London, v lay. The Bntioh Goferanu plan to slash 200.000,000 from I annual rate oi capital mv. stm< til projects M a BM asure of deflation is now ready f->r presenta-U-n and li expected to bo publi.shed early n« xt «n The plan is
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      MUTUAL AID PACT
      27 8 A Yugoslav-Bulgarian treaty Of "collaboration, triendohip and mutal aid" i.^ being signed In Bulgaria tod.sy. it was Officially ;,t nunrod m Sot m yesterday
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      MIK OLAJCZYK IN U.S.
      23 8 Mr. Btaniilaw Mlkolajctyk, exi-i led Polish opposition Peasant' Party leader, arrived m New York by nir from London yesterday
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      SIAM GOVT HUNTS DOWN 'FREE THAIS'
      483 8 BANUKOK. Wtdnosday. yyini the dismissal today of Prince Suphasawat TT Suwatiwat as Slam's delegate to the United Nations and ol N;u Sanguan Tularak as Ambassador to China. the new Siamese Government continued its round-up all over the country of former members of the wartime
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      N.Y. stocks
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      TINS IN NEW ADVANCE
      427 8 TINS IN NEW ADVANCE London S^TfcSJ; TODAYS session brought some SSSi ?u dl 1 1 Funds says Renters Xi ?il ;r P to BritiA of (onsol and Treasury Jm t P dent In a loss of over 1 point, both 'T S res "'t« laneous Industrials were <N M< at
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      'Our grateful thanks' from Royal Couple
      252 8 LONDON. Wednesday ORINCESS Elizabeth and Prince Philr wlio returned to London today from Romsey and Left again tonight for Birkhall m Scotland to continue tneir honeymoon, issued the following loint statement from Buckinuham Palace. 'Before we leave for Scotland tonight, we want to say
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      6 MEN TO RUN U.K. RAILWAYS
      64 8 S~IX nifii will run Britain's railvayi for the Government a n they are na 1 Lonalised us from Jan. l n> xt. The n»-w officials, ;ill of ti high executives m leading railway companies, will each conti >n ut the country's 52.000 miles ol
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      OLD COIN FOUND
      20 8 A ;fvld f>.^ C€ oi tbe of Charles I has bwn aneai m :i RimwHim IU.K.) warden
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      PHILIP & FRIEND
      13 8 PHILIP FRIEND On the ere of hit marr > d ttKfta camera, Lieut. Mo
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      RUBBER PRICE!
      109 8 A<Pt< Ml viarkei conn* ont dyes the prim o! ml* 11 tm today as follows' Buyers. Still Cti Ck pc rlb *r I No R.S.V Spot 41 tit I X.5 S M I"* 11 U^ 181 f(* hi. 41 «li N i;^ rot m b.ilr> I),-, nurket Quirt
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