The Singapore Free Press, 4 December 1947

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA \lW' SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947 PKH't- HI CENTS
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    40 1 The Queen chatting uitli screen star Bob Hope after the Royal Command film performance at the Odeon Theatre. Leicester Square, London. With the King in the Royal party were Princess Margaret, the Queen of Denmark, and King Michael of Rumania
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    AUSTRALIA WIN FIRST TEST BY INNINGS
    158 1 AUSTRALIA WIN FIRST TEST BY INNINGS Front A > BRISBANE. Today. it India by an {i and .26 runs in the UTw; today India being dlsjgfd.'or 96 runs in their second ■tap which before the tact interval. HtM-tolM rightly and play or*! on ttmc but the wicket Mprjbably vorae than
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    WIKM MASS MtCEN.LECLERC
    48 1 fc« Press staff Reporter il was present m high xMass! Cathedral of Shepherd Singapore, for J«u:ppe Leclerc de Hauteg. famous French wartime f ho was killed in an air n North Africa ndanee included the Cunaul-General. members ncn community, repreSm Singapore OovSSrbody SprvirPS and tne
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    RUBBER DOWN
    13 1 I. Singa--nts per pound n«for both Spot Loose bald See Page
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    INDIA TO SEEK FAMOUS JEWEL
    46 1 The authoritative Hindustan Times predict* that the Dominion of India will demand the return of the Koh-i-nor diamond, now in Queen Elizabeth a crown. The diamond, now 106 carats, was passed from the East India Company to Queen Victoria in U.P.
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    USE OF LATEX UNLIMITED
    59 1 Unlimited use of natural rubber latex is now authorized by the U.S. Government in the manufacture of all products except certain sizes of foam rubber seat cushions reports A. P. The Office o( Materials Distribution said that the easing of control restrictions would encourage imports and
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    GOVTS TO IMPOSE INCOME TAX
    969 1 Introduction at 'early date JNCOME tax is to be imposed in Singapore and the Malayan Union at "an early date." This decision of the two Governors was announced in separate statements issued at noon today. Modifications to the draft legislation are under consideration. The statement
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    23 1 SIR JOHN BOYD ORR. head of UNO's Food and Agricultural Organization, which has issued a new warning about the food crisis in Asia.
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    Appeal to UNO not likely
    205 1 Appeal to UNO not likely MALAYS WN AUSTRALIA Free Press Correspondent MELBOURNE, Wednesday. IN a written reply to Mr. Jack Lang, former New South 1 Wales Premier and a member of the Federal Parliament, the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chittey, said the Government "has no reason to believe that
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    WHITEHALL ON IMPORTS FROM U.S.
    136 1 i LONDON. Wednesday. ASKED what his policy was for importing consumer goods Into j Malaya from the United States, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. A. Creech Jones, said 4n the House of Commons today that the policy in Malaya was the same
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    ARREST OF MAN WITH PISTOL
    58 1 A Singapore detective on rounds in Dorset Road yesterday at 6.45 p.m. arrested a Chinese, who had a 32 pistol and six rounds of ammunition. The Chinese was one of a group of four people, who broke up when they saw the detective. The detective
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    AMMO IN TIN
    48 1 SINGAPORE police yesterday morning recovered 1.986 rounds of 9 mm ammunition in I a tin lying by the roadside In Havelock Road. A police spokesman said this morning that a Chinese, who made a report to Police when he saw the tin, ha.» been rewarded.
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    RUBBER: 'WE ARE BEING HAD FOR MUGS'
    100 1 RUBBER: 'WE ARE BEING HAD FOR MUGS' SIR HERBERT Williams, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, told a meeting of Conservatives in London last night: "We are selling rubber from Malaya to the United States at the prewar rate, but when we buy tobacco from the United States
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    MOLOTOV'S SURPRISE MOVE REJECTED
    184 1 LONDON, Wednesday. fHE Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. M. Molotov, today A proposed that each of the Big Four powers should prepare their own drafts of a German peace treaty and submit them to the Foreign Ministers Council In two months time. He did not press
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    All day battle in Tel Aviv
    571 1 JERUSALEM, Wednesday. ROOFTOP snipping broke »ut between Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem tonight, after British troops had driven back Arabs who attempted to break oat of the «id city to attack the Jewish quarter. in lei Aviv, aayiong AraD-jewisn ciasnes nave naa au the
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    CHINESE GANG ROBS SHOP
    70 1 A GANG ot five Chinese, one of whom was armed with a pistol entered a Chinese shop at 6Vfe mile. Thomson Road yesterday at 3. 30 a.m. and got away with $100 cash. $190 jewellery, a carton of cigarettes, and a bicycle. Two armed Chinese entered
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    Far East food position critical
    246 1 Far East food position critical WASHINGTON, Wednesday. IN a still critical world food situation, the situation is "most serious" in the Far East, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation warned toaay. ''Serious deterioration can be prevented only by "very heavy imports", the organisation said. The organisation pointed out that
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    ECAFE AND LORD KILLEARN
    72 1 BAGUIO. Wednesday. ritHE Economic Commission ior X Asia and the Far East vou-d u*cay to enter into working ni lations with the British Special j Commissioner for South East Asia. whose Singapore organisation haa a major responsibility for fo*H* problems. The Philippines and Russia op posed,
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      22 1 f^^ HI At CAMQI THIATIK Houses of Parliament J* 1 1 1 1 fff /J ■j'*'\ JjS^wjJl W^ a i 1 < i
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  • FEATURES...
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      GOOD TRANSLATION
      880 2 A Malayan Bookshelf T^OT so many veai a ago no one in Europe could claim to i well-read unless he had at Ka-i a good grounding in the Classics, that is to say in Greek and Latin, a good knowledge of the literature of his own country, and
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      THE UNDER AGE WIFE
      89 2 BECAUSE his wile was under 16 when she married, George Harry Ma.son, aged 28, of Tenter -drive. Worcestershire, was at Birmingham granted a decree of nullity. The suit was undefended. The husband, it was stated, married Ethel Lidget on January 8, 1941. believing that she was
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      BRIDGE PROBLEM
      318 2 INHERE is no doubt that sound preemptive bidding ran make things very tough for the opponents. Whether or not his side could make four heart*. North's jump to that contract was a good bid. It put EaM on a highly uncomfortable spot. If he passed he might be
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      ART CLASS POE TR Y IN PAINT
      492 2  - ART CLASS POE TR Y IN PAINT PIERRE JEANNERAT by "nEALERS cannot aflord t(» !>• collectors," one of the richest of art dealers once told me. He explained that if wealthy clients heard that he hlmaell anvus^-d personal treasures with which ho declined to part, they would conclude that the
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      26 2 Salvador Dali's "Portrait o/ Pa Wo Picasso in the Centum" m lust one of Dali's efforts on exhibition Uut month at tht ißianou Gallery, New York.
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      LUCKY TRIPS
      102 2 THE lucky pftswnger who hails EJclward Runilti toxicab u\ Chicauo i;eu in than a ride for his mo: Hamilton ofTors his fai choice of Chl<jago r.ou. i free cigars, cigarettes, match) safety pin»s. c^kansinc: UftaMie and. if they Mk for It, hot coflee. Juvenile riden I sweets. The
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      She stop? the show
      25 2 She s top th e show I gw behin viC Uli V Kirl w;th fair emerged one of t^ company of 50 I i ber
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      146 2 BP_XINj3 Arranged by S. A. B- A. <" V o/ ROTARY T. B. CLINIC FUND HAPPY WORLD STADIUM Friday, Dec. sth at 9.00 p. 12 First Class Contests Between Champions frU England, Burma, Bengal Tickets $5.00. $3.00, $^W i^ rwf TAVERN Space kindly donated bx in* Did you use MACLEANS
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      605 2 RADIO PROGRAMME medium wave band M 4 826 megacycles Tauber. 7 "The all .star *aio* 740 per second In tbe 61 metre band except "Melody on the Move" —Freddy Martin, from 7.45 9.30 dm. when the trans- Sammy Kaye <fe Orch's. 8 pm. Inmltter la carrytnf the BED NET- cognito"—
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      190 2 YOUR I LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today D<»RN l4>duy >t»u appear to have solved most «»f the problems of temperament and are confident of your litie^. In fart, you may ia: little about the serious. M BCfllikc aspects of life. Thi> huuivcr, may be due tit the
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      ALARM IN BRITAIN OVER FOOD SHORTAGE
      204 3 AL ARM IN BRITAIN OVER FOOD SHORTAGE Industrial drive mav be hamho/rpA |^«.™^o LONDON, Wednesday. ORITONS are increasingly worried over the possibility that they may become victims of malnutrition before next summer s food crops are gathered. Doctors, clergymen and newspapers express fears that the food shortage mav bring on
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      57 3 One hundred times Artist Cowan Dobson has painted the portrait of his wife Phyllis his favourite model. Her calm face with the large blue eyes, he declares, is "impossible for any artist to fla ter." Picture shows the artist and his 'model" Wife, who n tires of posing and whose
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      TRADE MISSION
      44 3 1 Indonesian and Chinese traders in Jogjakarta are planning to send a joint trade commission to China very shortly. A conference for this purpose is to be held at the beginning of next month under the sponsorship of the Indonesian Seamen's Association.
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      STORY OF PLOT TO KILL STALIN
      255 3 rpHE defence counsel sharply protested against a War Crimes Tribunal judge questioning defendant Hiroshi Oshima, ex-Ambassador to Germany, regarding his knowledge of espionage and sabotage activities directed at Russia from Germany in the 1930s on the ground tha,t "it i« common knowledge that Soviet
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      CHIANG SPIKES FEARS OF NEW WARLIKE JAPAN
      196 3 PRESIDENT Chiang Kai-shek refuted the view held by many people in China that the United States was supporting the rebuilding of an aggressive Japan when he addressed University professors in Peiping An account of the President's speech— one of his rare public statements
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      AMERICAN AID POLICY IN ASIA
      286 3 BAGt'IO (PI), Wednesday Mates delegation at the United Nations .unmission for Asia and the Far Fast onetiffi of deliberations with the introduct on ensive five-point programme which asks earh (ins: aid to undertake a detailed studv of its own economy to see how much it
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      Pakistan and India both criticised
      127 3 Tin the world r the period of ides, as high a al security and i& India, but few Americans will > the American A"oert A. Smith. York Saturday Why India I former chief of the i DiTisloo of the Information. the boundary tend to sharpen
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      PROMOTIONS IN U.S.ARMY
      33 3 PROMOTIONS IN U.S.ARMY Albert C. Wede- <hief ol U.S. Army 1 and(l and Lieut.--e commander of s forces in Korea. generals reArmy to Pre- romotion. The Omar Bradley £LU > be Chief of Staff.
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      67 3 'am Christmas nuts l.Too tons worth nearly £1, 000,000 were auctioned by the Ministry of Food at the London Fruit Ex* change in the big vegetable and fruit market of Spitalfields, in ne tost End. Pictures show (top) the auctioneer lifting his ga?e/ as he takes a bid from a
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      RECRUITMENT IN PAKISTAN
      50 3 COMPULSORY military training in universities and colleges was unanimously recommend^ by the Pakistan educational conference in Karachi convened by Pakistan's Ministry of Education. At the same time, Pakistan army headquarters have officially announced the recruitment ot emergency commissioned officers and otiier ranks for short services —A P.
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      LESSON OF WAR TRIALS CRIMES
      130 3 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. THE United States Supremo A Court Justice, Mr. Robert M. Jackson, said here that, as a result of precedents established at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, "it has become as dangerous to start a war as to start a riot.*' Mr. Jackson told
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      DEATH LEAPS OF ILL-FATED DIAMOND'S OWNERS
      101 3 V 4 Du tm S Wednesday. > >F^LOFF. formDCC« who once iry Orloff Black tier death on princess who i formerly owned the stone. Galit- zen-Baria-Tinecky. leaped to her, death from the fifth floor of a Rome boarding house last month. I The ill-fated
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      U.S. CAR PROSPECTS
      31 3 Motor industry quarters in Detroit forecast higher production costs. Increased retail prices heavier output and greater de- < mand for automobiles in Amort I ca next year.- A. P.
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      Is earth slowly getting warmer?
      240 3 A THEORY that the earth is slowly getting warmer will be tested on Heard Island by the chief geologist of tlie Australian Antarctic Expedition. Mr. A. J. Lambeth. He will do this by examining glacial deposits and makini; a geological survey of the island. Already
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      P.I. RESERVATION
      25 3 The Philippine Government has declared the war- famous Corregidor Island, in Manila Bav. I and other nearby small islands a military reservation. U.P.
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      'Foolish to say Russia is not making A-bomb'
      175 3 'Foolish to say Russia is not making A-bomb' THE Chancellor of the University of Chicago, Prof. Robert Hutchings, says tr.e secrt-t of t.atomic bomb no longer exists, and it would be foolish to a:sume that Russia is not making t lem. Prof. Hutchings painis a bright picture of the world
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      'U.S. Navy must keep prepared'
      190 6 'U.S. Navy must keep prepared PEARL If AKROI R, Wednesday. fI^HE IS. N;ivy policy in the months to come will be to keep its Air and Sea forces in a state of preparedness, Adm. Louis E. Denfeld. said at IVarl Harbour on the eve of his departure for Washington to
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      HARAKIRI OFFER
      49 6 JAPANS oldest parliamentarian. 89-year-old Yukio Ozaki. laid that he would not mind commiting harakiri if it would halt disorderly conduct on the House of Representatives floor." Ozakj. who seldom attends the Diet because of old age. said that Diet morals have sunk to a new iow U.P.
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      137 6 The bla:ing wreck of an RAF. York aircraft which burst into flames as soon as it landed at the R.A.F. airfield at Dishforth, Yorkshire. The crew of the aircraft managed to jump clear. Miner Abraham. Thomasson, of Farnuorth. Lancashire, who has mst told nearly his entire collection of 5.000 books
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      'U.S. BACKS PEACE USE OF ATOMIC ENERGY'
      109 6 PRESIDENT Truman, in a message on the nfth anniver- sary of the atomic bomb, said the United States is barking every effort to use atomic enerpy for peaceful purposes. In a message to a group of noted scientists gathered in Chicago to observe
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      CHINA REDS SAY CHIANG SOLD 12 BASES TO U.S.
      94 6 CHINA REDS SAY CHIANG SOLD 1 2 BASES TO U.S. I THE Chinese Communist radio in a broadcast called Lieut. Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer a "butcher" and charged that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently secretly sold out to United States imperialism. It said that Gen. Chiang sold to the United States
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      VOICE OF AMERICA
      30 6 The U.S. Slate Department's 4 "\K>k* of America" Yvns begun a new 30 minute Russian language broadcast to Vladivostok and Soviet Maritime Provinces of Eastern Siberia.- U.P.
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      A FALCONER IS ENGAGED BY THE R. A. F.
      136 6 I^HE R.A.F. has appointed a falconer and recruited falcons to rid airfields in Britain of small birds whioh laat year caused i020,--000 damage to aircraft First "aircraftman falconer" in the Service L» Terence O'Reilly 21. of Slough. Bucks, but "if the
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      U.S.STUDIES AID FOR S.-E. ASIA
      383 6 U.S.STUDIES AID FOR S.-E. ASIA Regional basis as condition JNITED STATES Government officials are stud>in£ u the possibility of American aid to South-Ea^t Asia on a regional basis, United Press learns in Washington. The informant emphasised that nothing definite yet has materialised, but said the possibility of such a programme
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      WANT COLD AS LAY-OFF PAY
      65 6 11/ORKKKS of l€ uo dsin.th f? shops in Shanghai bave gone on a hunger sin ce. demanding that they be fjiven six to seven ounees of gold as Uv off pay. Shanghai goldsmith sha M h.iv. been f*»r; »U to dism-s >0 per rent, of
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      US pacttalks with India and Pakistan
      32 6 US pacttalks with India an d Pakistan I' 1 l wiea States On 1 hM opened preli? Vern^nt cu.ssions with Inri^ mu af y dis SJSpa rress learns i a Si's U.P.
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      THE STRAY CAT WON 2 PRIZES
      6 6 THE STRAY CAT WON 2 PRIZES >
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      ITALIAN REDS' WAR OF NERVES'
      81 6 ROME. Wednesday. ITALY'S Communist Party today called Premier do Gasperis Christian Democrat Party a dictatorship "seeking to enslave Italy to the foreigner" and appealed for a nationwide labour front to fight It A lengthy communique Issued after a two-day meeting made it clear the Leftists
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      U.S. NEWSMEN BARRED
      13 6 Transjordan hai ..ntinK passport visas I new cnu- A. P.
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      39 3 ARZAN Rescue and despair By Edgar Rice Burroughs >::.-> eves ijfiH\ vi= NU6E BL/Lk lhaEß 'WwmPmxiH CN E a^waw w«o. ASP r 1 i^ INSTINCTIVELY KETUKHEO „-^-p 7 7 f j TIJi, *y THE EXWAUSTEP $(/<?- >«^' \ffi^s\!%A ,T0 The SCENES opmis
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      The Singapore Free Pres THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1947 The RCA. and the Rubber 'Bargain'
      627 4 The Singapore Free Pres THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1947 The RCA. and the Rubber 'Bargain' THE rubber provisions of the Anglo-American tariff agreement, which have been a source of great disappointment to British producers because they fail to provide for the entry of more natural rubber Into the United States, have
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      WILL THE ARABS FIGHT?
      969 4  - WILL THE ARABS FIGHT? Edwin Barrett By UOW serious is the Arab threat of war to defeat the partition of Palestine? If the Arabs march, will the United Nations leave the Jews to fight for Zion as best they can, or will Russian, American and British troops defend the frontiers
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      MENACED BY SNAILS
      122 4 C^IANT Japanese snails— f the Japanese army's equivalent of the US. Army's pork-and-beans which the Mikado'* forces took along when they invaded South Pacific islands and territories, now are threatening to destroy completely Europeanowned plantations and the native's vegetable patches. The huge, fast-multiplying snails were transported to
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      FAITH
      40 4 So .li.Nhu.i took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all thr land of (ioshfn. and the valley, and thr plain, and the mountain of Israel, and thr valley of the same. Jobhua. 11. 16.
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      DAWN OVER CAIRO
      756 4 T.H. Tan, a Free Press Special Correspondent, left Singapore on the proving flight for Qantas Km pi re Airway's new Constellation service on the AustraliaBritain route. This is the fourth of a series of articles giving his experience on the flight and a description of what he
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      IT SEEMS TO ME....
      926 4  -  Politico by IN his report on income tax Mr. Heasman exhibited with regard to the possibilities of evasion an innocence which has been widely commented on. Sir George Maxwell and the late Sir Frank Swettenharn, both of whom savoured a somewhat richer experience of Malayan attains
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      'STOP EXTRAVAGANCE' CALL TO GOVT.
      526 5 'STOP EXTRAVAGANCE' CALL TO GOVT. Councillors urge closer control Free Press Staff Reporter gTOP the experiment on broadcasting to schools, uv u Z T* h undred s of thousands of dollars establish a Standing Committee to control Pan-Malayan expenditure, and use the many empty wards in the General Hospital before
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      65 5 F. Lee. ivife of the Bishop of the Method\ya, cutting the 'i at the opening of the Sale of hand- the Fair field Girls Lacy Gtmto*, wife of Sir the Governor cS:uc:r re, is seen behind Mrs. ye. Mr Neilson. Director -9. Cox, wife of L. H. Cox. G.O.C. rict,
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      Saxophone and footballs theft, three jailed
      100 5 Saxophone and footballs theft, three jailed IBRD Ifalayi who were ad by a police patrol in a y hours of the ith iaxaphone, a and jerseys, and were each sen- i ear's rigorous imh€ Second District Webbs, yesterA.: bin Mohamed, Rodi bin bin Tambi breaking In!>:ub on Aug. 30 th
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      WISE FOR MALAYA
      15 5 Potter, of Auch- "'■shire, has been Colonial Service llj^smg Sister in Malaya.
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      Cocoa survey for Malayan Union
      343 5 ■ments request. Union at the GovernProfossoTc^ee^em "n Wh .^cH^ h r Id n d We here said The world cocoa crop is today 50,000 tons below the normal demand, with the procpect that the gap will increase, Professor Cheeseman added. British cocoa rims are takin<*
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      PATNAIK PLANE REACHESJOGJA
      91 5 PATNAIK PLANE REACHES JOGJA Free Press Staff Reporter. THE Dakota aircraft in which Mr. B. Patnaik. Indian air line operator, left Singapore early on Saturday and which had been held up by the Dutch authorities at Batavia, reached Jogjakarta yesterday, the Free Press is reliably informed. It is now believed
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      CHINESE YMCA
      67 5 THE Board of Directors of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., Selegie Road, have elected the following office bearers: President: Dr. Chen Su Lan; Vice-President Mr. Cheng Hui Ming; Secretaries: Mr. Chew Peng Yan (English) and Rev. Hang Sing Hock (Chinese» Treasurer: Mr. jee Ah Chian; Assistant-Treasurer: Rev. Kiao Chee En
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      Scouts recommended for Defence Medal
      156 5 ALL scouts who served in the civil defence services during n the battle of Singapore ar e being recommended for the Defence medal, the Assistant District Commissioner for the Scout Movement, Mr. L. A. Woodford said vesterdav me approximate number of Singapore scouts eligible for
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      XMAS TREAT FOR EURASIAN CHILDREN
      141 5 Free Press Staff Reporter *7OliR hundred Eurasian children are to be provided with a bumper Christmas treat on Dec. 27 at St. Patrick's School, East Coast Road. They will be given .1' e drinks, cakes and swoets. and meet Fathrr Christmas in person, while those
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      HIT BY BULLET. SAMPAN MAN SAYS
      407 5 Claim for damaaes A'Tf™ ,hat Mr R M MacLoish, „f (he SheU Co., f.red fr. a i ho< wh,,e he <he complainant, was sailing in the Jfc_^2 between Pulau Bukom and P„| au Bukom Recall on the afternoon of Nov. 12 last year, which
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      Missing man was dead in a bush
      108 5 MYSTERY surrounds the circum--111 stances of the death of a Chinese fish vendor, Lee Tang, whose body was found Ln a bush some distance from his house at the 17th mile, Jurong, on Nov. 28 five days after he was reported missing from
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      NEW TELECOMS MAN
      33 5 Mr. R. H. Fifleld, of Malvern Worcestershire, has been ap^ pointed to the Colonial Postal Service as an Assistant Control 1 e r, Telecommunications Wireless) in the Malayan Telecommunications Department.
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      ECAFE ADMITS S'PORE, UNION
      53 5 THE territories comprising Singapore, the Malayan Inion, North Borneo and Sarawak have been admitted to associate membership of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, which is now in session at Raguio. i n the Philippines. Other territories now admitted are Burma, Ceylon and
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      71 5 Md. A.V. INGLIS. art director of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation who passed through Singapore yesterday on his nay to Fiji, where he will work on the film "Blue Lagoon", in which Jean Simmons in starring. Mr. Inglis has had a long career in films. Among the recent productions he
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      REGULATIONS TIGHTENED
      125 5 THIRTEEN passengers who ar- r i^ ed j n D arwin by flying boat on Monday were temporarily placed in quarantine because they did not have certificates of inoculation against cholera. After satisfying health authorities that they had in fact been inoculated, they were allowed to continue their
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      Malay women to stage a show
      82 5 The Malay Women's Welfare Association is to stage a theatrical performance on Dec. 8 and 9 at Yem's Gra«d Nooran Opera Hall, in th e New World amusement park. Gross proceeds will g0 to the Association's Benovolont Fund for charitable a.nd welfare work among
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      FILM SHOW FOR CHILDREN
      72 5 A charity cinema show will b^ n held at the Capitol Theativ on Saturday at 9am proceed.; of which will go to the Roary Club's Christmas Treat for chilciren, which will be at the New World on Dec. 19. TJie film for screening on tVturday will
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      FOURTH CHINESE MASS WEDDING
      50 5 A Chinese ma.ss wedding tne fourth in SiD«ra^<MT f u held at the Victoria Memorial Hall at neon on buucay, -fc o> 1948. sporsored by the Ifayiair Musical and Dramatic Association. The Chinese Consul-General, Pr. Wu Paak-shing, is to be in-vit-ed to officiate at the ceremonies.
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      71 5 SINGAPORE PACKING CO. Special i m t s The Packing of All Types of Goods <M)t;itions given without obligation. >nly skilled packers employed. forwarding and Clearing to any destination. Furniture Removals e your packing in competent hands Charges Reaonable 38 6548 Telegrams BAGSTRANSAG' SINGAPORE. rhe a/7 90 to LIDO because
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      170 5 JUMBLE SALE A large number of unworn evening frocks, wraps and shoes' a*id some underclothing, from a dress shop, will be offered at the St. Andrews Cathedral Jumble Sale at the C.E.Z.M. School. I Sophia Road, on Saturday at 3 00 Ideal GIFTS for I CIIR I S 7)/ S
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      147 6 TO-DAY 11 a.m.. 2. 4.15. 6.30 9.15 Treat Your Eyes To A Technieolor Eyeful of WONNt: in I ni verbal International'* Mightiest! mnrM mw*nmn *•«■•> fa**? G*w AflnPADin DDCUT tKHiAmU dHWI jS^ fjJSSxi ttraiKi ci6tfNi ititr wun QJ^OM^Mi ua turn i utn m«i 2^ HTMt IttlCKl Cltl EnHCT A UMVUTCAI
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      48 6 Last four Shows 130-4 -6.30- 9.30 p.m. •otirr I ITiUn I InmltKT QEtIIGC SANDCRS LUCILE WATSON OSCAR HOMOLKA TOMORROW Another Rank Picture And Remember It's From Britain f MUM H«»l« i k, i l>7 UlllDl MUM (ft t*ft^ [JANE I°* USotaT WELL, HAVE rtspFvifp II you cor a
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      72 6 THE DRUMS OF FU MANCHU ARE BEATING LOUDER cV LOUDEH DAILY AT THE jM^^ THE CONCLUDING CHAPS. WILL TBLL AIL Hr N. t> ALtXANDKR I fffljflf KORDAS |nC W-« BWI thru i is<; jßfe. m^ mji sp K ota<..>: PRUri v|ll "l. ...W H/5 A/OST GLORIOUS I FINAL **iwr city
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      56 6 Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava I/not YteT-Bur iVe\ could offer vbu a^ |I /W Kims arenV comTj^olled FILLED OP ALL THE PERMANENT DOMESTiC>fcrr>L YET— AND EVEN IF IGO INTO FORKS AKD I HOPE POSI YOU KNOW.O^^^'iJSA A FACTDJTV THERE *S ALWAYS U^^EM^^RK T^ urilO t^>^tNMAL WORK/ H
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  • SPORT...
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      S.L.T.A. TO HOLD OPEN TOURNEY
      543 7 S.L.T.A. TO HOLD OPEN TOURNEY jit Happy World This Month tt Prcflf Staff Reporter ggtflSeathu *ta in Singapore are making headway with ck*e on the heels of the successful tennis the Happy World stadium two nights n MCA Tennis Pavilion Fund, a proposal to tournament this month or early in
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      Seletar RAF Score 42 Points
      178 7 first fifteen J RELF in a one H' r at Seletar 8 goals < f >d superld day. ring with an the game nly a few 5< letar threes Flash" Gorton 3 d Corr and r a 30-yard ted. turn to I with 20 yards
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      WRICT WORKSHOPS IN H SOCCER DRAW
      18 7 I witnessed Singapore District met 47 British ind drew one■COffftd in the
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      BUSMEN WIN 3-2
      21 7 fraction Comttnlon soccer Trafalgar Young- to a game of at th<j Mental an Tuesday. S.T.C. w*re Fattah and
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      Goal On Time Saves S.C.C.
      277 7 S.C.C. 1 Spore Hornets 1. A LAST-MINUTE goal by Pearcey saved the S.C.C. from defeat in a thrilling, evenly-contest-ed game of hockey on the Padang yesterday when they held the Singapore Hornets to a one-all draw. Playing on a sodden ground, the defenders of both
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      HOCKEY LEAGUE FIXTURES
      67 7 |7*OLLOWING are the Singapore -T Hockey league fixtures for the next four week-ends: Dec. 6: Police vs. S.C.R.C., Police ground; S.R.C. vs. 1. A., S.R.C. ground. Dec. 13: Police vs. 1.A., Police ground; C.S.C. vs. S.C.R.C., S.R.C. ground. Dec. 27: Army vs. 1. A., Police ground; S.R.C.
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      WEIGH IN FOR AMATEUR BOXERS TODAY
      49 7 ALL amateur boxers who are participating in the boxing tournament in aid of the Anti T.B. Fund at the Happy World Stadium tomorrow night, are requested to attend the weigh-in and medical examination at the Happy World Stadium at 5 30 p.m. today.
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      TANGLIN HOCKEY
      40 7 THE Hockey match between G.H.Q. Faielf "A" vs the Singapore Colts, to have been played at Tanglin yesterday was cancelled The G.H.Q. Parelf "A" played against the Indian Pioneer Company 1936 at Tanglin yesterday and defeatrd them one-nil.
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      Seletar 2nd XV Win On Padang
      267 7 Seletar A" 11 pis. S.C.C. 2nd 6 pts. DRIBBLING and slithering In the mud. the S.C.C. second team were defeated by R.A.F. Seletar "A" in a scrappy game of rugger on the Padang yesterday, the Airmen emerging winners by 11 points (one goal, a
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      AUSTRALIANS WIN AT MURRAYFIELD
      46 7 An Australian forward is caught in possession of the ball by D.P. Hepburn and I. C. Henderson (Scotland} during the International Rugby Match at Murray field, Scotland, in which tlie touring Australian team beat Scotland by 16 points to seven points. aJ
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      Australian Team Unchanged
      147 7 rE Australian selectors have not made any change in the team to meet India in the second Test at Sydney, beginning on Dec. 12. The 12th man has not been announced, but it seems certain that it will be R. A. Hammencc again, as all the team
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      Second Lien Hwa Win In Manila
      125 7 THE Lien Hwa footballers of Malaya defeated an All-Manila team by three goals to one in the second game of their series at the Rizal Memorial football field, Manila, yesterday. Manila opened the scoring 13 minutes after the kick-oIT. but Lien Hwa equalised one
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      C.S.C HOCKEY TEAM
      67 7 THE Ceylon Sports Club hockey team to meet RAF. Seletar at Seletar on Saturday is: V. N. Pillai; V. Ramalingam. A. Ponnampalam; V. John. E. Doraisamy, A. C. Sheßaram; C. Navaratnam, KulasinKham, A. Thillaßaratnam. V. Dass. C. Thuraisingham. Reserves: S. Yojrarajah. M. K Sundram. W. Ponnampalam. Umpire:
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      N.S. AND SINGAPORE MEET IN CUP ON SATURDAY
      349 7 N.S. AND SINGAPORE MEET IN CUP ON SATURDAY Free Press Staff Correspondent THE N.S. Asiatics will play their first big game of the season when tiiey meet the Singapore Asiatics in the All Blues competition ..t "Scremban on Saturday. The week following the Negrl All Blues will travel to Singapore
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      40 7 Jimmy Archer of the Eos Club, who mill meet L S Gallagher of H.M.S. Terror in a special bantamweight contest at the Happy World Arena tomorrow night, in an aviateur boxing programme in aid of the Anti T.B. Fund. r
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      CLASS THREE HORSE RETURNS BEST TIME
      349 7 CLASS THREE HORSE RETURNS BEST TIME Today's Track Notes Free Press Racing Correspondent f\S a heavy track at Ipoh this morning the newcomer Rustle did an oustanding gallop when he covered the three furlongs in 38 4 5 sec. in a fully-extended run with Duke San. It was a notable
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      Louies Plans To From 1st Gong
      554 7 Louies Plans To From 1st Gong TPHIRTY-THKEE-YEAR-OLD Joe Louis, for 10 years the x heavyweight champion of the world, is an 8-1 on favourite to win his 24th fight in defence of his title at Madison Square Garden tomorrow against "Jersey" Joe Walcott, a six-foot Negro v. ith only a
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      138 7 The World's Greatest SKIN REMEDY /^^J^^Soof/ies, Purifies, Heals J^Hv Zam-Buk herbal ointment is r >^Wi" known the world over as tho Ijr^Q^/ y^Bfe»-^^^^^Y-*-*7 most successful treatment and j4l I antiscpric healer of skin >6^^ injuries and diseases. A illhi^ DC rcftncd ncroal oiis m Zam '/W jZ/f^h Buk arc ttsftY
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      272 7 Free Press Crossword No. 255 Warlike people inhabiting the Punjab (5), 4, counterfoil in cheque boo* Vi J' d Chancellor's Court, a division of the High Court (8) 9 Cause of the Titanic disaster (7). 11. Stake (4). 12. Ruinous substance used f?r caulking <5K 13 King of Lord Tennyson's
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      Creech Jones on the Federation
      476 8 LONDON, Wednesday. PIIE new federal constitution for Malaya will, it is hoped, come into existence on Jan. 1 next year, the Secretary of State for Colonies. Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, informed the House of Commons today. He added: "In any event, it will be brought
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      22 8 H*)t*i,- Picturr Tat Canadians A recent immigrant to Ontario Quickly settles down and makes himself useful performing odd jobs on the farm.
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      TARA SINGH PREDICTS WAR IN INDIA
      123 8 TARA SINGH PREDICTS WAR IN INDIA NSW DKLJiI. Wednesdaj. MASTER Tara Singh, leader of the A kai: tilth*, today predicted that India and Pakistan would be at war within six months or a year. lie urged a threat of war with Pakistan "unless It ceded hundreds of thousands of acres
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      FRANCE IS CALLING UP 40,000 MORE TROOPS
      606 8 FRANCE IS CALLING UP 40,000 MORE TROOPS bresh sabotage and rioting PARIS, Wednesday. rtESPITE Communist obstruction, the French National Assembly today passed the first half of the anti-strike j bill providing for the calling up of 40,000 more reservists for the security service to reinforce the 200,000 reserve 1 troops
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      KENYA NKW BASE FOR ARMY STORES
      84 8 i nRITISU mikkary ttjulpsu*m I D from the Middle East and the Indian Oc**an sxeas Ls to be Transferred to Bast Africa where a big military store dfpot i« planned «5 miles north -west of Mombasa (Kenya*. Mr. Emanue! Bblnweil. Minister of War. stated
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      IMMEDIATE U.S. AID TO FORESTALL REDS
      276 8 WASHINGTON, Wednesday. IN a report urging prompt action on Its emergency foreign J aid programme for western Europe, the US. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee says that Russia is trying both to prevent American aid to Europe and Asia, and to make such
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      36 8 7^<* f^«7/i Commissioner fw P Ml I ingham Palace last n I 0^ the -fijg Four- Foreign v fa f/ie picture mbove Bo j Cftvin? Mr. Pkßip Noel- Bo Affair*, at a reception q U I
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      MICHAEL SAYS 'NO ENGAGEMENT
      50 8 KINO MICHAEL of Rumania at Lausanne Switzerland) yesterday denied Copenhagen reports of big imminent engagement to 24-yeax-oJd Princes* Annr of BourbcnPanM. Is absolutely nothing in it." the King told an interviewer. "I h«*r this ttory everywhere, and ereryfeodj knows more about it than I da-- A.P.
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      TKUMAN TAKES A HOLIDAY
      69 8 PRESIDENT TRUMAN flew I from Washington yesterday to take a brief hoftday at Key west. Florida, before returning to tfie i White House for what is expected to be his busiest period since be assumed tbe Presidency. The President will be away fox only live days
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      U SAW DENIES CONSPIRACY & MURDER
      254 8 U SAW DENIES CONSPIRACY MURDER RANGOON. Wednesday. H SAW. former Burmese Premier, who Is the principal ac- en&rd in the state assassination trial here, today dented a charge of eoncptraey to overthrow the CBtabßabed goiverovi^«K and abetment in the murder at U Atrag San. Pr«»mler. and members i>/ his Cabinet
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      GILT-EDGEDS DECLINE
      454 8 London Stock Exchsn e I 'rTHF.RK was scarcely Mffidtnl lnifcs?3Lu2i' A Kxchan B e today to stimulaW a,,v „ner R JfJ financial correspondent. Thr t<mr th™« 'I sections was d.H with riM -.1,,,! Z^Z t'XZl were dull and Tins irresul.-ir. w&itft| Movements among industr 1 1 were irregufatr.
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      RUBBER PRICES
      106 8 ml ;ivfs ibf drifts of rahfcf at II t m fodar m ftltowr ru i"u So K > > >*>i 18', ■<*» Nn i it s s f«» in halrv Or<- 9S N., K S fob in b«»rs Dr. I I N« i MAP m im tmir* t>rr
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      CHINESS LEADS U.N. COMMISSION
      7 8 CHINESS LEADS U.N. COMMISSION MWSStfS 20 Reuter
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      68 8 WEA THER Thunder, rain WKATIIUi repott far tbc arxt 2t b«an nijMri by Ike K.\» MainJr rkxidy with attffM rain M firU. Orraiiaaal thmrndtrj ib»«in Uir tbia ifttflll and r*eolnc farther rxtm arabajbia to-aiarnw. Wlad: Laxhl MT«Mrty. Tlajpnatarca: Mmx. t7 4*x Mkim. Zi d«c. Baiafafl: 13 7S KdaiiTa hamtdity perc«ata«cs
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