The Singapore Free Press, 2 January 1948

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1 8 The Singapore Free Press
  • 17 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA SINGAPORE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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  • 410 1 FMS chamber not misled Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Thursday. THE Colonial Office did not misrepresent the views of the Malayan Chamber of Mines m its cable to the F.M.S. Chamber of Mines on the rise m the price of tin to £500 a ton, I
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  • 79 1 V > G AL IMMIGRANTS JERI SALEM, Thursday. troops of the Sixth Airborne Division rounded up ~00 Jcuish illegal immigrants ded from a 300-ton schooner at Naha-Palestine-Lebanese border. They round the landing area and returned Ui th< siiip. w d to- :-nce ...:mJews, who
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  • 200 1 COPENHAGEN, Thursday. I pRINCESS Anne of Bourbon-Parma said here today that King Michael's abdication from the throne of Rumania came as a surprise to her but that she was ready to go "anywhere m the world" with him. She said their engagement was still unofficial. Princess
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  • 210 1 LONDON. Thursday. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripiy;. warned the people of Britain today that rising prices and rising wages were threatening the country's whole economy. 'Already many of our exports are m jeopardy because of their high prices," he said
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  • 73 1 JJEW legislation to eliminate out -dated practices m Parliamentary and Municipal election! throughout Britain was recommended yesterday by a special committee which has been investigating the need for electoral reform since 1944. The committee found the "clearest need for modernisa- j tion ar.d consolidation" and pointed
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  • 54 1 A landlord m the little Swedish town of Vastervik gave a tenant notice to quit j because of hLs terrible snor- I ing. The rent control board of the town overruled the COtlcc but ordered the tenant to use insulating material to j deaden the sound of
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  • 28 1 Mr. Winston Churchill, who is on holiday at Marrakesh (Morocco) did not celebrate New Year's Eve. He retired to his hotel apartment shortly after dinner.— A.P.
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  • 81 1 CECRET tests of United States atomic weapons are taking place at Eniwetok Atoll shortly. The 30 000 square mile area surrounding the proving grounds has been declared "dangerous"' to trespassers of any nation after Deo. 31. The United States Atomic Envrgy Commission served that "Dancer Keep
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  • 182 1 MALAYS 'BENT ON CREATING NEW NATION' Free Press Staff Correspondent MALACCA. Thursday. I If x\ to the Malays to bi t.^ernnt and to the tr communities to cooperate vtiij the Malaya the new Federation of Malaya was made by the President uf UMNO, Dato Onn bin Jafaar. Mentri B«\sar of
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  • 64 1 EIGHTEEN policemen and 23 students were injured m disturbances m Bombay's mill district on Wednesday when 1,200 delegates of the All-India Students Conference defied a Government ban against assembly. After firing one volley of 19 shots into the milling students m Bombay's mill area, police charged
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    49 1 picture. Major-Gen. C. L. Chennault, American war -time com.' .mander of the "Flying Tigers' m China, and Miss Anna Chan, a reporter of the Central News Arjency, are shoum after they were married m Shanghai. Gen. Chennault is head of the Air Transport Corps of the. CSRRA.— A. P.
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  • 32 1 Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg wrote himself out of the Republican presidential race by formally requesting Michigan Republicans not to propose him for nomination. Michigan is his home State. A.P.
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  • 164 1 ATHENS, Thursday. THE defeat of Greek guerrillas at Kanitza, key town of rectnt fifth ting on the Albanian frontier, has turned into a rout, according to the latest despatches reaching the War Ministry m Athens tonight. The guerrillas are everywhere withdrawing hurriedly, abandoning stubbornly -held
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  • 269 1 NEW DELHI, Thursday. rIE British-owned newspaper, The Statesman, said today that withdrawal of all British officers from the armies of India and Pakistan, together with the Governor-General Lord Mountbatten's "premature departure* m April, would presage open fighting between India and Pakistan. New Delhi sources,
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  • 219 1 NEW MALAYAN.E.I. TRADE A GREEMENT I LONDON, Thursday. 'PHE British and Dutch Governments have reached x a provisional agreement on trade and financial relations between Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies, a British Colonial Office spokesman stated I tonight. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, has asked the Governments
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  • 108 1 H'Kong raises Govt salaries HONG KONG, Friday. INCREASES m the salaries of Government servants, varying from 200 j>er cent. >v basic salaries of \ikt .owest grade*, to 30 per eem on salaries of about $1,000 monthly, a*nd 20 per cent on salaries af about $1,500 •Monthly have been &u»rholised by
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  • 25 1 Gen. Clifton B. Cates has assumed command of the U.S. Marine Corps, m succession to Gen. A. A. Vandegrift, who has retired.— A.P.
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  • 37 1 Swedish movie actress Vera Strelekskei. 29. of Stockholm, was injured severely shortly after midnight yesterday while riding m a car m Home driven by an Argentiniac Adolfo Cruz. 24, ol Buenos Aires.— l U.P.
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  • 68 1 ris doubtful whether Dr Louis Beel, Dutch Prime Minisler. car. accept Ausra Ua'« invitation to visit. Sydney when he leaves Indom.-i; probably next Tuesday Dutch spokesman said ie Bat a via yesterday. Dr. Beels absence from Holland on his "routine visit" to i he
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  • 29 1 Four Chinese gunmen seized $2,700 m cash and jewellery from the Chinese occupants of house m Out ram Road m the early hours a Wednesday morning.
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  • 22 1 A Chinese snatched a $10 wristwatch from a womar pedestrian walking In Konr Siak Street shortly after mid night today.
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  • 27 1 AUSTRALIA were all out for 394 In the third Test against India which was resumed at Melbourne today. Full first day details m Page Seven.
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  • FEATURES...
    • 869 2 A Malayan Bookshelf By A Special Correspondent THE first of the factors mentioned by Clifton Fadiman as likely to cause a book to sell, was the author's reputation. Mr. Fadiman docs not specially mention the fact trial by "reputation" he does not necessarily mean literary reputation, but
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    • 444 2  -  JOAN CASTLE COOKING COLUMN By IF you are due for a spell of kitchen duty and your family, •like most, are harsh culinary critics, you will soon find your most faithful ally is white sauce useful In its original hasic form and a perfect boon m all
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    • 277 2  -  JOY A BEGG TWELVE year uld mannequins paraded nursery fashions recently with a poise most grown-up mannequins Would envy. To have a successful Mureer before your teens you must look even younger than your age and learn dancing for p»»ise. These little girls told me
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    • Article, Illustration
      46 2 Film celebrities do not always hug the limelight m their leisure time. Many have interesting and skilful hobbies and make profitable use of their free moments. Holly-wood-star Jeanne Cram is one of these and is shown here engaged m her favourite hobby, sketching; she's pretty skilful.
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      278 2 JT is a link- difficult to )u North's free raise t<> two but it certainly worked out \u f>>r. whether or not South into his four-spade contract, I West could have made four tv arts. West led I trump. F.aM wa at a hurry U< -.■> t i:.
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    • 411 2  -  A. I. GOLDBERG By CCHOOL teacher, under ground fighter during the German occupation, and economist, Czechoslovakia's first woman cabinet minister says she never has regretted combining a business career with that of housewife, but she can't furnish the recipe to others. Mrs. Ludmila Jankovcova, 50-year-old wid^w whose Professor
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      53 2 Agents from ISS oversea* fashioJis lion n^w collection of dress and furnishing fabr by Halle's (Overseas) Ltd. Tf-e new shoic, non m London includes designs and colouring something of the exotic Eastern atmosphe ceptionally beautiful colour combination d of heraldic crests on plain grounds forms an GLORY" bcarf for the
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    • 95 2 Fresh ROCK OYSTERS m the SHELLS (not frczen> Fresh STRAWBERRIES and Delicious DAIRY C^EAM arrive frequently from Sydney by QANTAS CONSTELLATION and LANCASTRIAN Planes. These ;uid many other Table Delicacies are always available. .AIRPORT HOTEI PHOHE 3351 FOR XMAS RESERVATIONS A SOLID FAVOURITE fl FANS RFCT ru >. /^^J HW
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    • 19 2 Mdndfdke Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya DOCTOR IN Tuc L I tckj vc a H^^^^^^^^b. K.
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    • 676 2 Lucky Star BOUN toda>. >ou are one who can accept responsibitily for what you do .is urll as what others under your direction do. You never slio out from under criticism and pass on the blame. If deserved. >«>u vrill make a correction. If undeserved, you will fight to Drove
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  • NEWS...
    • 407 3 LABOUR MOVES NEARER TARGET State begins to take over transport WESTERDAY, Britain's Labour Government began the 1 biggest step so far m the country's bloodless Socialist revolution the taking over by the State of the nations £1,000 million inland transport system of railways, canals and road haulage services. Nearly 1,000,000
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    • 137 3 THUR RANK, itm film millionaire, whose film production empire has K>st more than £2.000,000 ha told all his producers that they lUsteritjT pictures. feature films scheduled by n f«>r thll year will cost between 000 each. Of the mammoth Droducloni of the oast two years.
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    • Article, Illustration
      30 3 iiichire. -call to arms" m Palestine, tux> it m ffistration forms jor the J of Tel Aviv. Altliough embert of the semi-official Haganah. 'igsters eager to sign up. A. P.
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    • 144 3 The City of London's MPs to go? BRITAIN'S Labour Gov- ernment has decided to abolish the historic City of London FVrliamen«tory constituency, it is believed m London political circles. The- square-mile centre of the world's finance, with its tiny number of voters, has had the privilege of sending two M
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    • 19 3 Rat intrudes on Melbourne concert V. at Kraut, back ol I pie m rlngly, and at urvent un. i
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    • 10 3 tias to the I i send to ex
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    • 77 3 iiLVA trcacxiCK wm.anvs, rt crap dealer, was at Cardiff sentenced to six be 1 .m pr Lsonmant for and 18 months for reIflg stolen property, the a to riui concurrent- bed as a dniK addict. Williams was stated to have ATittcn :o the brother of
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    • 63 3 Her brothers forced him to wed SKING for a divorce m Los v US CK-rald F. ilway worker, said he was forced into marrying hla wife m November, 1946. The bride and her stepbrothers, be declan d, wi\ him with vioe and thore was "no other reason" for the ceremony.
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    • 99 3 M. JULES MOCH. French Minister of the Interior, told the National Assembly, amid shouts of "liar" and "Fascist." that he had suspended the Communist Party's 1 allowance because members of the Party "pilfered" petrol m factories and w trkshops during the recent strike
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    • 56 3 'VARIETY' IS PESSIMISTIC EBTHIATIB published by Variety, nrwspaper o< America's tertainmem Id thow that British Qlmi In America will not net anything liko the £2,500.000 m dollars which the Rank interests predicted year. Variety's "generous?* guess kg <c 1,000.000. Roa-sorus: A clci-lii.e m quality, high COSta of promotion, and inability
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    • 29 3 A boy of 16, said to have thrown a knife at a Hanipstead woman whose house he broke into, was sent to BorBtal for three years.
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    • 58 3 THE LEGITIMACY OF TEST TU BE BABIES BECAUSE there are now nearly 10,000 test-tube babies m tho US obstetricians led by Dr Stuart Abe. ")f Chicago, hive opered a rampnicjn for tho law courts to give a clear-cut ruling on their legitimacy. Said Dr Abel: "It. la modern procedure, rind
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    • 125 3 r>ANOIT JAWAHARLAI. I NEHRXTB 'Tash deed, m ij^ndin.; soldiers into Kashmir, lias developed into a military crisis for the hi Dominion according to a loader published m the Daily Express. Britain's most [y read morning paper. I "But the trouble really began when the foolish
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      52 3 icture. Dede La Coulange. notorious French underworld charcter, recently released after serving a term for forging banknotes has been rearrested on charges of forging millions of false bredd ration tickets. Here French economic police are inspecting the printing press m Paris, where the tickets are alleged to have been made
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    • 129 3 •THERE armed men tried bo enter the offices ,of "On 1 Guard" an nnti-Fnscist newspaper m the Bayswater-road. West Ix^ndon, late at night. Mr. GcofTrey Bernard, of IlillsborouKh-court. N.W.. told reporters that the three men. carrying suns, were admitted when they rang the bell. "One
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    • 20 3 Vice-Admiral A. E. Taylor, 71 -year-old Tory M.P. for S. Paddinston. will not contest the next election.
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    • 282 3 fi mm Shinwell "APPROPRIATE action" is being taken m the case *»of the military authorities at Preston Barracks, Brighton, who told a soldier's wife she had committed an offence by seeing her Member of Parliament. This was stated by Emmanuel Shinwell, Secretary for
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    • 107 3 BISHOP Fred Pierce Corson, resident head of the Methodist Church m the Philadelphia urea, says evidences of disregard for moral law are to be found m American communities just as they are found m Europe and Asia. Bishop Corson recently returned from a three-month
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    • 45 3 AMERICA is "making faces at Russia without the military forces to back it up." says Brigadier-General E. A. Evans, commander of the Reserve Co.rps. In an emergency, he says, the U.S. could not muster more than 200.000 poorly equipped troops.
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    • 38 3 Four-year-old Julie Allboro, of New York, who used pennies m her "piRKy-bank" (money-box) to send a turkey to Princess Efizabth as a wedding gift, has now received the wishbone from the Princess.
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    • 40 3 Lieut -General Curtis Le May, Chief of line U.S. Army Air Forco m Europe, will fly to Bertne to hand the Swiss Government a cheque for .£250.000 m payment *or services to Allied flyers interned m Switzerland,
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    • 273 3 •JIIEY fell m love at Dresden auburn haired Marianne Brooke, who was at a finishing school and German officer Lieutenant von Tempelhof. And because of that a German officer's English bride was destined to become the keeper of Marshal Rommel's private papers when the
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    • 47 3 I A NUMBER of new electricity projects, including extensions at Battersea, have been postponed by the Cen- tral Electricity Board. This is the result of the j Government's decision under its capital investment proeramme. to limit new outnut capacity to 1,500,000 kilowatts a year.
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    • 199 3 Challenge to Congress Supremacy THE first big organised challenge to Congress supremacy since Indian independence is expected m Bombay m February, when more than 1.000.000 voters nearly a third of Bombay's population will go to the polls to choose 116 members of the Municipal Corporation. The elections for the first
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    • 99 3 THE Ceylon Cabinet had not yet considered the question of a national flaff for the country, declared the Prime Minister, Mr. D. S. Senanayake answering a question m the House of Representatives recently. Mr. Pieter Keuneman (Communist) had asked whether m view of the new status
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    • 398 6 BUDGET LEAK IN A 'SINGLE SENTENCE' i 1 Mr. Dalton acted m good faith PIE report of the inquiry by a Select Committee of the House of Commons into the disclosure of Budget information by Mr. Hugh Dalton reveals that Mr. Dalton gave "m a single sentence" the details of
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      30 6 picture. Tiro de-coynmissioncd U.S. battleship?, the Idaho (left) and the Wyoming (right) lie alongside a pier at Newark {New Jersey), where they arc to be broken up for scrap. AP
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    • 124 6 THE comet discovered on Nov. 14 by Minoru Honda. Jananesc astronomer, and glimpsed only briefly by observers m other parts of the world, probably never will be si en aqrain. Calculations by Hideo Hi- rose, a Tokio astronomer, t show that the Honda
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    • 22 6 A farm labourer was jailed for three month! for slashing a girl's feet and shoes m an -r cinema.
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    • 243 6 •fMK impression is gaining ground among Chinese 1 consumers m Shanghai that pocst-vvar United fetates products are declining m quality, Chinese trade (sources told the United Tfes-n. They said that muny cases have been cited In [which the standard of tho goods from American 'factories
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    • 55 6 LYS OL SALE BAN The Public Health Committee of the Shanghai City mdl has banned the sale of lysol by pharmacies and hospitals except to persons and inlsations possessing the I necessary permit. This mea- sure follows the unusually large number of suicides dh the city recently from taking 1
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    • 29 6 Two policemen were killed and a third, injured when their pollen car crashed into a tree outside the Woodford t F^ se x polic e sta tion
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    • 80 6 A "SEA MONSTKK", 45 feet long with an eellikr head." has been reported by the captain of a ship off the North Carolina coast. The Coast Guard said a mrssaue from the Master of the Santa Clara reported that the ship struck the "monster" and either
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    • 193 6 OVER a thousand Chinese stallholders m public marketi m Manila wiH protest to President Roxa^ against their eviction under terms of a Manila City ordinance limiting the right to hold stalls t o citizen* of the Philippines Republic, it la reported. The eviction was due
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    • 107 6 D. K. Smith. 22-year-old ckrk m a stock-broking nrm. has staggerrd six profeuon of Stellenbosrh University with his mental arithmetic. In a lew seconds he solved problems that took on< of the profejsora lour times as long to work <>M f on ;i:i adding machine. In
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    • 196 6 Doctor attacks U.K. hospitals DR. S. LEFF, WUieaden (London) Medical Officer of Health, attacked provincial hospitals at the Kings Hall Community Centre. "It's not a very nice prospect for people to have to go Into hospital m this country to-day," he told the meeting, to which the Press had been
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    • 131 6 Trade asks: off its feet skirts BRITISH clothing manufacturers have asked the Board of Traae to make it j illegal for makers tfl produce dresses and coats with the longer skirt. "We have suggested the Board should re-impose style restrictions of the kind enforced during the war," a member of
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      37 6 picture. Capt. H. S. Collier, commander of the four-masted 3,200 tons barque Pamir which recently reached London after a 13, 000-mile voyage from Wellington (New Zealand) icith 64 cases of Christmas gifts for the British people. A.P.
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    • 99 6 ENGLAND'S wonun banisters at the Old Bailey had three cases of champagne to celebrate the 25th anniversary of t»he calling of women to uhe Bar. The champagne was brought from Paris by a small party o' French women lawyers, headed by Maitre Suzet-te Grin berg,
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    • 56 6 THE BBC. announce that Mr. Pat Hillyard has been appointed to take chance of all television light entertainment, and Mrs. Mary Adams of all television talks and talks features. Mr. Hillyard was appointed the first television presentation director last June. Mrs. I Adams became senior producer at
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    • 74 6 THE police are searching for vandals who desecrated the graves of Cecil Rhodes, Empire builder and founder of Rhodesia, and of Sir Charles Coghlan. first Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, m the lonely Matope Hills. 30 miles outside Bulawayo. The Royal Family visited those graves during their
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    • 100 6 GEORGE BERNARD SHAW said he never travels ml out a bible. He made this admission m repl>m. Etiemie Dupuch of the Nassau Tribune m the Baham who wrote that Shaw was "bound to catch hell" l auctioning off an old bible which belonged to Mrs.
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    • 239 6 Woman jailed for sake of G.I. MARGARET Goo* iT 41-year-old En woman from borough, Northan serving six months m Goochland, because of her love Negro G.I. The Negro T Johnson, an odd m Groochland, was ed m England 3m war. But Margarets I genuine, is liuuiml the prosecuting atl Johnson
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    • 85 6 AFTER 100 am Yorkshire moors. families oi the 1 Va..' v village ar by a road With tb .d. The dec Won I road at a cost of I been taken by Nor County Council and th as, owners of following a complaint m :he
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  • LEADER...
    • The Singapore Free Press
      • 365 4 One reason why Malaya nas the lowest ration of rice m the world was because Brai 1 I tiled last year to bon her obligation under the I i.e.f.c. allocation*, Brazil is now back In the I E.F.C.. and it has been agreed thai the 57.000 ions
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      • 495 4 UNO Kashmir It is not clear what the Government of India exp from ita action in placing the Kashmir issue before the Security Council ol United Nations. 1 imably it seeks the Coun- I s support for the policy ■et out when the Maharajah ot Kashmir proposed his state's accession
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    • 847 4  - THE JAPS WANT TO BE FREE Denis Warner By REUTER A. A. P. CORRESPONDENT pHE first snow winds from Fuji m the third and almost certainly the last occupation winter have blown the autumn leaves from the trees around the Imperial Moat. The Diet has closed after its first cession
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    • 208 4 ON Jan. 1 the new Inu-r--territorfta] Organisation uoktl Africa came h opera*, ion. II cvi.. ntorics. i d Tanganyika will be adnv. i by ii Governors, a Centra] Assembly With repr- of three territories, and executive body. The Or; rtfl unl minister commo Just
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    • 354 4 A FEW hundred Burial Mongols huddled together m thenfelt tents over a sooty coal pile m vacant lot m Kalgan are almost all that is left of" a hegira of 10,000 men, women and children which began a flight from the Russian Bolshevik terror 27
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    • 213 4 German 's Angle MOVEMENT foi a European l nion, prorogated by various organizations m pre-Hitler Germany, has been revived with tendencies indicating a strong orietation toward the west. N >ting tiiat the revived movement was gaining some following, an American miiitarv government surrey agency used it ai a device to
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      24 4 Men m a herring drifter out m the North Sea dray m their nets with another to help ease the food situation m Britain.
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    • 569 4 People in Singapore Make News QNE of the three to represent Y. W. C. A. work m Mala y a at the Y. W. C. A. woi> rt Council Meeting held m Hanchow, China, recently, was Mrs. GOH KOK KEE, wife of a well-known doctor m Singapore. Commenting: on the
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    • 16 4 LINKS in4*> HARNESS P, H. HENDRT 7 IJ J ewe lien 78, North Bridge Road, Spore.
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    • 22 4 FAITH I am He that hlotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins. Isaiah 43. 23.
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  • LOCAL NEWS...
    • 305 5 FREE MEDICINE, LEAVE PAY FOR T B MEN New Municipal staff scheme Free Press Staff Reporter PROVISION for free medical treatment and leave and pay benefits for Municipal employees nilFeriiig from tuberculosis has been by Singapore Commissioners. New stall regulations, which have been passed, an employee iuffering from tuberculosis promsis
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    • 228 5 A POST-WAR boom of considerable proportions is A going on m Hong Kong with both import and export figures for the first ten months of 19 17 exceeding the totals for the entire year of 194fi, says an Associated Tress review. imports for 194>> were
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    • 216 5 FREE TRADE IN COAL SEEN Free Press Staff Reporter IT is the intention of the Singapore (iovernment that the importation of coal should revert to the normal commercial channe's as soon as the world coal situation makes this possible, the Free Press is officially informed. An announcement will be made
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    • 89 5 WHETHER Australian Wlttr side workers will ban I he loading of arms m Australia for the Chin- ilist Government, will oc coi^sidcrtd by the Waterside Ft deration as soon a.s it tcfull Information aoou r the Canadian move. This wij stated In by the S Federation.
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    • 252 5 4 NEW set of prices for rubber delivered at the Rubber Commissioners Stores m Colombo has tome into operation. The new prices are: No. 1, 55 cents a pound; No. 2, 54 cents; No. 3, it| cents; No. 4, 48 cents, and No. 5, l."> cents.
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    • 5 5 pictures. Australian offical
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    • 79 5 NEXT Tuesday afternoon, the Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, will present a plaque to the Automobile Association of Malaya. The plaque has come from the British Ministry of Aircraft Production m England m recognition of the pift of £5,000 donated through the Straits Settlements War Fund for
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    • 163 5 VET another instance— the fifth oi large-scale smug- oi lice from China t<: va iia.s just been brought ;o light by a cable by Mr. Aw Boon H.iw from China to the tapore Chinese Chamber Commi r report said that about 500 tons ot white
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    • 66 5 THE Sin^ao>ore Municipality has accepted tenders lor tiie supply of motor vehicles, including two ambulances for infectious cases, at a total cost ot $282,340. The two a mbu Lances cost $16,070. The otJicr vehicles to be purchased are 35 "Karricr" low Loading chassis machines for nightsoil collection,
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    • 219 5 A spokesman for the Kub- ber Manufacturers' Association m New York says that the addition of colour and style to footwear and clothes has had a strong Influence on consumer buying and accordins to the manuiacturers. more foam rubber would be produced m 1948 than m
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    • 384 5 NURSES DO WELL IN AUSTRALIA On AIF scholarship By MARGARET LAWRENCE *pHE two Chinese Malayan nurses, studying m A Australia under the A.I.F. Malayan nursing scholarship, have completed their four months' course m infant welfare, and recently passed the examination conducted by the Victorian Nurses' Registration Board. Their marks were
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    • 92 5 THE Australian Depart- nient of Commerce has issued a warning to Australian exporters that they must protect developing export markets by scrupulously fair dealing with overseas customers. The Department emphasizes that a few traders guilty of malpractice damaged the standing of all others. Reports from Trade Commissioners overseas
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    • 95 5 CO that she could be married I** at the church where j she was christened and I where her mother and father were wed, Miss Gwendoline Elizabeth Weitzel of Venezuela, travelled 6 000 miles by land, sea *nd air for htr w tiding a: Si. John's Church
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    • 30 5 The Army Journal I Daily reported -ha.. Mr. Wong Wen-hao, chairman of the National Resources C sion. may replace Mr. Wei Tao-ming aa the Governor of Taiwan.- U.P.
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 118 5 3 dr HAPPY I ffr^^^^ N£W YEAR V^^ 5^ "Z-S to our ninny patrons V^ i 0 1"" future t v I J* for 1948 iabi iVsM I your hands "S^Y I HOW YOU'IL LOOK V S/ I WHAT YOU'LL WEAR1 WHAT YOU'LL HAVE j\ N I AND ALWAYS JUST
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    • 213 6 L.rrylxiy Has A Secret Liff, But Oh!. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty!! jr. «fc- tnl»rfo/nmt«l «2i Xmy "Kik— V -Walter Mltty m ttil* -'^"sV *r SAMUEL 60L0WYN 1 DANNY KAYE fl VIRGINIA MAYO f i-\ Jt" dm eOLOWYN fi(Rls 1 IN TECHNICOIOI J^> 3; 30RIS KARIOF^ X F^.Y BAINTER
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    • 50 6 WISHING ALL OUR PATRONS A HAPPY NEW YEAR Today Four Shows HAW 1 1 Iri |k. 1.3^.6,80.9 80 p.m T^Tone bqo? "N Stemrt -Wfe m Robert Riskins "MAGIC TOWN wtfc KENT SMITH NED SPARKS WALLACE FORO REGIS !00M(i Special Morning Shows Tomorrow Sunday 11 H,nrv Fonda m "MY DARUNG CLEMENTS
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    • 75 6 JAINC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya .AND MOW LOOK WHATSN KwHIPHNG Al ON(j\/ < VOW 7N .A?/^ S/Ys dOU>n s^'' VF "HAD* IT, TOMY/-^ HAPPENED Tb TMAT INGOT THE ROLLERS AT IT I ,^e^C^L affPnte/r' OT THOUGHT I OOULD SIMC£ PASSING THROUOH 2OH.P.H! \AjUh\PEDH R« STICK THIS
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  • SPORTS...
    • 369 7 BURNLEY SUFFER HEAVY DEFEAT Surprises In U. K. Soccer rpORRENTIAL rain and darkened skies formed the x sitting for much of the New Year's Day U.K. league football. Results, therefore, were surprising m many cases. Six first division games yielded four away wins, a draw and the heaviest beating usually
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    • 303 7 Great Win By Conrtenay c irtss Racing Correspondent brilliant all-rounder, Courtenay, scored Ifreal win m the second running of the -Generals Challenge Cup m Penang lie third day of the Penan* race nore luck, Mr. S. C. Wong would iireat cup double. Liberty Biz lengths at the start and mt
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    • 66 7 nmtTHN wo The Thistle $7, \lph.» ST. j_RO(K LADY $10 1 SS Farlv Bird S9, h"iqne lIS. -SIR KEITH 533 Irish Son; $7- Goodvrill HL I RED TFH Sl4 S7. MUrtetlfl Hli Amvika IIATSTFR S4B Counsel II Sl4. DIKTENW S4O >11. Double Aries SB. DIAMOND EPIC i
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    • 193 7 C V fc K\K (Mil hanui 0. THE Chinese Athletic XI trounced the R. A F. Changi by six goali U nil In the New Year soccer match at Jalan Besar. The pround was covered with pools of wat» r and thick mud. particularly m the poal
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    • 39 7 Australian Crlcfcrt Board of Control have decided to permit Australian Te.-,t player*' wives bimc m Bri'ain ncr.X rammer whin the Australians will be touring. The •Aivfs. however, will not be allowed to travel with the team- Reuter
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    • 40 7 SINGAPORE Police scored I clear-cut \ictorv over St. Andrew's School Old Boys a rugcer came played at Thorns-":! Road on New Year's Eve. the Police winning by 22 points to nil. V haif rime they led 11).2
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    • 50 7 THE rugby match between Nee Soon Garrison and the S.C C. >n the Pada«K on W< dnesday re- ulted m a 3-3 draw, each side .<-corin? an unconverted try. Bad /.eaiJ-er coniJitions made handiine difficult, but the run of ulav wa.s fairly even.
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    • 26 7 T«-d Schrueder of Glendale, California, won the annual -near bowl tennis singles rhamDionehip, drft-atir.^ Richard GonnVs of Roliinv C <l<ye, 7-5, 6-2. J-6 and 6-2.- U.P.
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    • 513 7 Playing wiui ii mn it* the major portion of the i and yet dominating the rield throughout the final haJf. the Combined Royal Air Force were unfortunate to have gone down to ihe Army by nine points (three trie.s) to three points ia
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    • 109 7 AI SIR ALlA—lst Inns Barnes b Munkad 12 Morris b Amarnath 45 Brad man Ibw b Phadkar 132 Hassetl Iliw b Mankad 80 Miller ibw b Mankad... 29 Hammence st. Sen b Amarnath 23 Undivall b Amarnath... 2o Tallon c Mankad b Amarnath 2 Dooland not out 2 Johns.m
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    • 159 7 DLAYINO on a pit-ch made' 1 treacherous by persistent rain. Ir- md beat i-^rance In r i match ol the Rugby Union international champ.orii,:.iy at Colombco Bta-I I aium. Paris, yesterday by two la and one try 1 13 pointa i two trit^s <6 poin'st. P.
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    • 113 7 NEW Soutt) Wall i ■it VI Iceta In their Sheffield Shield match which cndcxl m ir e on Wednesday. Enten>risln* battinc by the allowed Victoria to make a pood fight aftor t> in^ cd. At the the third day's Dlav they wer<- 43
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    • 37 7 The United States figure skatinp toam for the winter Olympics at St. Moritz on Jan. 30-Fi-b. 8. will be fomploted After trials m Chicago thus \> rvk. One .^pot needs to be fried by a woman skater. A.P.
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      24 7 iweea/,, we Lsnmsoy guulke^per saves from Robin n Charli n centre-forward, m the game at the Valley which Grun.sby icon three-two.
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    • 532 7 i FTEK Don Bradman, with a chanceless innings of 132, and Lindsay Hassett, with 80, had laid the foundation for a big score with a third wicket stand of 169 m two hours, Australia collapsed against India's bowling and were 355 for eight when
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    • 377 7 ABOUT three hundred people witnessed North Malaya defeat The Rest of Singapore m their tabletennis tournament at the Great World yesterday by six matches to one. Ln view of the fact that the NortJh Malaya team was involved m a car accident j which resulted
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    • 452 7 TWO HORSES TO WIN A GAIN Final Day Of Penang Races Free Press Racing: Correspondent QOLDEN GROVE and Sylvan Lass, two easy winners last week, are fancied to win again al Penan.gr tomorrow, the last day of the Penang Turf Club's Xmas-New Year meeting. Lackey and Vanguard should take some
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    • 87 7 second wicket partnership of 138 In as many minutes by w Morris and G. Cook, after the 'first wicket had fallen for eipht gave Queensland a good start m their Sheffield Shield match with New South Wales yesterday Queensland had scored 160 for three when rain
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    • 127 7 YESTERDAY S U.K. Rueby CTnfc D and Rugby League results were: ICL'GBY UNION Birkenluad Park 18, Waterloo 3: Enclish Public Schools, 11, Scottish Public Schools 3; Sale 15, Manchester 5; Edinburgh A. D. Stewarts former Pupils 0; Gala 11. Royal Hlu-h School Fonmr Pupils 3: Hawick 6.
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    • 90 7 fiLE JoUiiads Athletic Union will meet the Ist Battalion I Seaforth Highlanders at soccer at Oilman Barracks at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow. A cup. donated by Mr X Hametti, will t>e presented to the winners, while the losers will re- ceive a smaller trophy. The Jc'.li!ads
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    • 205 7 Happy World Wrestling TOMORROW AT 9 P. M. SAT. 3rd JAN J^ SEE THE WORLD'S TALLEST TERROR CHAMPION IN ACTION DARA SINGH S The 250 Lbs. Muscular Brutality) VERSUS FLASHY LOUIS (The 200 Lbs. British Army Star) BOSCA BOA i"\< TIGER Me CUE JAGINDAR ioxs R'House Peters N> BANTA i«
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 254 7 J.P. Crossword No. 277 CLUES ACROSS I. Medieval regulation for extin < lion of fires at fixed hour m evening (6). 8, Viscous substance obtained m refining sugar (7). 9, A liqueur made from wine and wormwood (7). 10. Part of horse's foot from fetlock to hoof (7). 11, Hard
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  • NEWS, LATE CITY...
    • 317 8 UK's railways nationalised LONDON, Thursday Treasury tonight completed the nationalisan of the British trans|H>rt system with an offer created British transi>ort stock to the 0 holders of shares m Britain's four main mailer railways, the canal system and other Inland transport. The General Secretary of the British Railway S Union,
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    • 114 8 SHREYF.NPORT, Thursday. r EARLY liv persons wvre *N tolled by tornado** m d ton h-wettera ma last night. m were struvr; c than 200 ipmv ed I ::c t toll Tfca.s txikeci 'utton Valley, a Mnall oil Iwav town, north of n
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    • 88 8 The Governor of Singapore has appointed the following he F Mr. Thio Chan B<p. Mr Andrew Tun, Major C. B. Webb. n bin Abu,il MB.E Mr. RaUlal Sukhlal hama. Rev. DD Che Mr Vj P Mr W. M Mr. 11 II Mr. VI. Evan Won.?.
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    • 106 8 A BRIDE of two mon'hs Left a Now War's Eve dance held near a police station at Tunbridge Weils :t>. just after midnight telling her f:i mis that would visit a local hotel return to the dance later. I A tiuck driver found her tngled and
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    • 38 8 BRITAIN sold £25.400.000 worth of hrr gold reserves m December, £23,000,00u le&e tth<an m the previous month. She lias sold V 128.000.000 worth of *<>£} since she began drawing" on her reservr m September U. P.
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    • 179 8 NANKING, Thursday. QENERALISSIMO Chiang: Kai-shek announced today that the '•encirclement of Mukden by Communists has been frustrated and Nationalist troops have cleared lar^e sections of the PeipimrHankow railway." He added, however, that "the Government cannot hope for complete suppression of the Communist rebellion this year."
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    • 49 8 Mr. Anthony Edcci. accompanied by liis son David arrived at Teheran (Persia)' by air yesterday and went immediately to tlio British Embassy with the British Ambassador. He is to leave tomorrow for the oil producing areas of Persian KhuzlsUn, and tor a visit to Abadan Reuter
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    • 146 8 'TOP SECRET' PLANE: FBI INQUIRY WASHING TON. Thursday. THE U.S. Air Force revealed today that the Federal Bureau ol Investigation was investigating publication of a recent magazine article stating that a United States rocket plane had flown faster than sound. The Air Force had classified as a top secret' the
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    • 55 8 ELEVEN people were killed when a train collided with another train m a snowstorm near Sedalia. 'Missouri) Tuesday and smashed the other train's two rear coaches. Rescue crews rushing from Sedalia with, acetylene torches to cut away debris were hampered by snow-covered roads and
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    • 253 8 TWO former South-East Asia 1 Commanders-in-Chief are honoured m the New Years Honours list. General Sir Montagu Stopford S?^* th £i. G C 3 a* l General Sir Philip Christison the G.B.E. The following awards to membera of the A.iiiy n FARELF hav e also been
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    • 800 8 Malayans m Honours List MALAYA'S first Indian knight is Sir Hussein Hasanally Abdoolcader of Penang, who has been honoured with a knighthood by the King m the New Year's honours list. An old boy of the Penang Free School, Sir Hussein studied law at Christ's College,
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    • 291 8 U.K. Coal Board chief becomes a viscount B LONDON. Thursday. ARON Hyndley, chairman of the National Coal Board with a viscountcy heads the New Yearns Honours List Marshal of the Koyal Air Force h ho Dou X 1 a> s Commander in-Chief and Military Governor Oermany, f r .>m 1946
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    • 208 8 DOCTORS FIGHT GO VT. SCHEME LONDON, Thursday. WllE British Medical Journal today called on all medical consultants and general practitioners m Britain to refuse to shift their ground on the new State health service over which they deadlocked with the Government two weeks ago. All doctors, the journal said, must
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    • 461 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Thurscl. rpHE London Stock Exchange was quiet today x dealers awaiting the announcement tonlgl the terms of the new British transport stock Reuter's financial correspondent. After Initial ness, the markets developed irregularity Rub and Tins were higher. This Initial firmness was thp result
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    • 45 8 picture iv/ten the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, Bukit Timah Boys' Home on New Year's Ev< a tree to commemorate his visit. Here the Oover inspecting the boys, accompanied by Mr. C F W Assistant Secretary (Youth Welfare Social Department. Free Press
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    • 140 8 WASHINGTON, Thursday. MR. Charles Eaton, chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, predicted today tihat Congressional action on the Marshall plan might be delayed two months beyond the Government's April 1 deadline. Mr. Eaton said he could not set any dale for
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    • 123 8 Only 24 hours left for U Saw to appeal RANGOON. Thursday. BURMA Government officials said yesterday that unless the former Premier, U Saw, appeals within the next 24 hours, he will be hanged without further legalities for abetting the slaying on July 19 of U Aung San, head of the
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    • 67 8 SOME 1.700 dock workers at Southampton went on strike yesterday because of a half penny increase m the price of the morninsr mug of tea. The unofficial walk-out which the men later called off, caused a one- hour delay m the sailing of the liner
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    • 36 8 The Moscow Radio yesterday warned Soviet citizens not to wish each other good luck on the coming year because, the announcer indicated. Russians do not know what the future holds m store.- U.P.
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    • 14 8 Postal censorship m the British Zone of Germany will end on March 1. 1948.
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    • 58 8 UK STAY -DOWN STRIKE OVER THE stay-dowu strik miners at Maii:dy m Rhondda Valley Wales > which beg yesterday m protest. the National Coal B cadsion to close the pit last night 13 hours Utl The men were Inform* the decision to close I had not yet been dtak&i and
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    • 45 8 THE Turkish Nat] sembly yesterday the €111,500.000 bur 1948 by an overwhelm Jority. A third of the new I Is devoted to national fence. It provides for build modern str roads under United Bta supervision and of two wireless stations.- Reuter
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    • 15 8 Specially trained d<^ helping the Nankin? Pol detect opium dens ers.— A.P.
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    • 54 8 A special Market pond. Mit Kives the of rubVer at 11 a.m. tc follow. s: < t Na 1 R.S.S. Spot I loose No. 1 R.S.S. fob m bales .lan. 13 No. 2 R.S.s. fob m h.il*^ J;m No. 3 RSs, fob m bales lan 1
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    • 31 8 EDWARDS On Ist. 1948. at No. 9 Tronol. Sincapore. Wllham C Edwards. 60 years. Fur Bidadari Ometerv 5 pm Inserted by his sisters Wi Enid. Bullish and I: Dlease copy.
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 96 8 TUITION GOVERNMENT EV F CLASSES RAFFLES IN TION. The classes will on Monday. Jan. r i will be stark writ in*. Bookkeeping s EnglLsh. and Electrical F: in* Practice, provided i applicants are foi the a few vacancie; for students D islnu some know!. subject exist m th«- classes: —Electrical
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 52 8 WE A THER— Light rain WEATHER report for the next 21 hours compiled by the RAP: Cloudy with light rain In afternoon and at nigiht. Some fair periods. Probably cloudy with run to-morrow. Wind: North, 5 to 10 m p h. Temperature*: !Hax. 79 deic; mln 1 3 &*x Raiftfall:
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