The Singapore Free Press, 6 January 1948

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    Masthead
    19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA No. 17.053. SINGAPORE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    22 1 a Jan' < choman cabiaue of r of ■ach -ring a 2C -ar crimes teas i marks by m? ion cow at Bar.
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  • Article
    Pakistan seeks postponement
    132 1 IMIR DISPUTE AT U.N. LAKE SUCCESS, Monday, formally asked the I nited Nations to postpone the Security Council debate because it had not had the -reasonable lor a proper consideration of the layi m text i the '..a communi- x'reKhan, W proposed thai Sir I Zafrullah Khan.
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    240 ELECTIONS JOBS OFFERED
    300 1 Spore plans for polling lrirk Free Press Staff Reporter pVO hundred and forty presiding officers, clerks and interpreters are required to staff the various polling stations when Singapore goes to the polls m ihe first elections for the Legislative Council around March 20. Vacancies for these
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    63 1 A token party of 100 men representing the two last battalions of the Br\tinh Army to ne stationed m Delhi the Ist Bn.. The Royal Scots Fusiliers, and 2nd Bn.. The East Lancashire Regiment held a farewell parade m the forecourt of Government Hou*c last month. They were inspected by
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    Mountbatten not to stay on
    132 1 NEW DELHI. Monday A UTHORITATIVE quarters stated tonight that Earl Mountbatten. Governor-Ge-neral of India, would return to Britain sometime between April and June this year. Official quarters said that no proposal that he stay on m India for a further year had boon made, as
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    RUBBER FIRE
    21 1 Unotiicial sources estimated that 2.000 tons of rubber were destroyed m the great fire at the docks at Saigon
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    ARMED MEN ROB BUTCHER OF $5,000
    107 1 ARMED MEN ROB BUTCHER OF $5,000 Free Press .StalT Reporter TX)UR masked Chinese gunF men seized $5,275 m cash, jewellery and K<xxis 'rcni x Chinese butcher's snop m 1 North Bridge Road at 1 o'clock this morning. Three Chinese gunmen took a Chinese woman's savings of $100 m cash and
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    HEROINE'S N.I. ROMANCE
    100 1 Miss Nancy Redhead- Red Cross nurse heroine ol t 1945 shipwreck oil the Nicobar Islands was married at Hampton < Middlesex > yesterday to Major Murray Band, M.C., whom she first met win n he was organising refugee camps m Java. When a 9 000-ton transport full
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    S'pore January rainfall may top record
    82 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE^ raintall this, month is likely to be heavier than for any January m thr past 30 years. Rainfall for the first six days of the month has already tied a total of 72 m. Inst the 9.7 m. average
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    BETTER SIAM RICE FOR MALAYA
    147 1 BETTER SI AM RICE FOR MALAYA BANGKOK, Monday. •THE Siamese Government has abolished the Govern--1 ment Rice Purchasing Bureau and transferred itf functions to the Government-operated Thai R'ce Company, whoso aim will be to protect Siam'rf, rica trade generally and prevent low-quality rice being j shipped abroad a complaint recently
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    $33,000 FOR COUNCIL CHAMBERS
    154 1 Free Press Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malayan Union Government has approved the expenditure of $33,000 on new buildings, structural altera- 1 tions to old buildings and the| purchase of furniture and other fittings for Council Chambers for the new constitution. Structural alterations to the present
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    Truman seeks urgent action
    279 1 WASHINGTON, Monday. THE White House announced today that President x Truman's "State of the Union" message to Congress would be "of extreme importance" and would be delivered m person on Wednesday. The message calls for urgent action on the Marshall Plan and domestic inflation. Meanwhile, the
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    Attlee sees first signs of U.K. recovery
    171 1 LONDON, Monday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Cle- ment Attlee, said m his New Years message to the Labour movement today that the first signs of national recovery are apparent. "The unsettled political and economic situation m the world which made 1947 a hard
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    N. Y. police find more weapons
    102 1 NEW YORK, Monday. T>OLJCE today found mine detectors. Walkie-talkie sots and several hand trucks loaded with blocks of metal described by officials as of a type easily melted down to make bullets, m tho warehouse from which the 65,000 pounds of TNT, discovered on
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    PRICES SHOOT UP IN SHAI
    36 1 ALL prices soared as commodity stock markets reopened after the five-day New Year holidays, with the retail price of rice hitting a new high at C.N.$ 1,400.000 for a jicuL U.P.
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    Free market in tin 'not possible yet'
    228 1 Free market in tin 'not possible yet' LONDON, Monday. '■WERE is no possibility of a free tin market at prt> sent, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Supply today, commenting on Stock Exchange rumours of the re-opening of the London metal market to allow free trading m tin and
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    ARABS TO OPEN NEW FRONTS
    162 1 ARABS TO OPEN NEW FRONTS JERUSALEM, Monday. A RAB League plans to send volunteer forces simultaneously into north, east and south Palestine and make a concerted attack upon Jewish cities and settlements are near completion, according to reports from Damascus (Syria). Volunteer units training m Syria are to open the
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    ALASKAN RESCUE
    33 1 Eight persons, including two women and a small boy, were rescued yesterday from the ioe-sheathed pohit of the Alaskan peninsular, where they had been marooned m a heavy gale.- A. P.
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    UNION TO PAY SULTANS BILL
    69 1 ]t/|EDICAL expenses incurl?i red by the Sultan of Johore during his stay m Enuland during 1946 and 1947 are to be paid by the Malayan Union Government. The bill, amounting to $7,420, however, is to be met from savings made m respect of maintenance of
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    STRANGE DISEASE
    19 1 Seven schoolchildren m Midland. Texas, have died from and 107 are ill with an unidentified chest disease.
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  • FEATURES...
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      RUNNERS OF THE FUTURE
      819 2  -  Roy Moor By former British International track runner WHILE the general standard of track running m Britaii. has shown considerable improvement over the last 15 yeais, m no event has such progress been made as m the 400 metres. Formerly, runners who could race the one
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      Man-Made 'Quakes
      561 2  -  FRANK CAREY B> A. P. Correspondent •THE Carnegie In^titu--1 tion of Washington, with U.S. Navy co-opera-tion, has launched a project designed to probe secret! of the earth's depths with man-made —but controlled earthquakes, produced by explosives. The objective is to enliance present "scanty knowledge" of the .strufture of
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      Bridge Problem
      246 2 SOME tune bqO tins nand was published elsewhere as a triumph of good defence uhich V waa. Wrst lr<l the. lack and Ea.n won with the are Recounting the need to kill dummy'i entry \n the turning h^;«r( EaM shifted t<. tho spade jack. himmy'a queen won and
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      39 2 Young and old like to visit the circus. This is what the inside of Mill's circus at Olvmnia looks like when the horses start performing. Coco the Clown. Who v ih nut t Llama aluoya xuccmsfully makes them laugh.
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      Blood Clots Make You Old
      309 2  - Blood Clots Make You Old THOMAS R. HENRY By OITHERTO unrecog- nized phenomenon m a great variety of human and animal diseases which may be a basic factor m growing old— has just been reported In Washington. It is "blood sludging, 1 a tendency of red blood corpuscles to stick
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      Coming in on Two Wings & A Voice
      545 2  - Coming in on Two Wings A Voice COURTENAY EDWARDS C.GHT young women, nioetly ex-Waafs, are helping airline pilots beat the bogy of bad weather at London Airport. They form pait of the Civil Aviation Ministry's G.C.A. crews who, using radar, bring the flying men safely down on to runways they
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      12 2 picture. Aunc Jcjjrcy*. uko ot-siar* m -Return oj the i a R.K.O.
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      143 2 frOH CAN SOON BE RANISHEt) IF YOU ALWAYS HAVE RENNIES WITH YOU No spoon, no *otc *"/JK *<eonif> ore o'«*ar» 'eoor It foutt *u^icci io «cnlitT ocver be vuhoul Rcfimct *rrv «hem m your poctti-i ji hdn Ihcv rt simrlf to takr <jun> m iiiior* Sutfc cvwo. on* «ttcr <he
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      45 2 Mandrake Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya Ln^l^.J 0 LEAVf NARDA AT H I WISH MANDRAKE COME QUICK Uh- SOMETHING -SHINING I HOPE MANDRAKE AND LOTHAR T^J GET LOTMAR? UT MU^ T wA S0 OARK/ ENO AFRAID -ALL ON HILL. FKfJ-AND MORE J
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      602 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today BORN today, you have an excessively alert and intuitive mind. You are highly inspirational and must be allowed to work out your destiny independent of restrictions and conventions. You may appear impulsive to those who do not know you well. Hence,
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  • NEWS...
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      POLICE HUNT FOR ROME DOPE RING
      426 3 Drug smuggling by parachute |I|OST of the police forces of Europe and America *l are on the track of a narcotics gang which appears to have made its headquarters m Rome. But instead of cocaine, heroin, opium and other drugs being brought to Italy
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      $5 million plar for Palestine textile mill
      74 3 $5 million plar for Palestine textile mill A J u(b i.. n nun j s t^. sed for Pa: he projected cxH La.d^s T. it was anV ;rk. President of <i Palestine n announc:nderway to In Haifa, Tel ya. or. of a Ln obstacle i a rayon •i to be
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      12 3 Hibbard, tiro i then n to then >n bf Prnncultural So- Planet
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      UK STEELCOST MAY RISE
      44 3 R I <>i the recent la--19 n the price of coal i un to 'on mon-. Ac- Iron ••■ration. I »aid: Tor years paged to cushion to tocreiiS ,by Increased 1 the time has rh n ,v thr -V C^n->-sany
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      BRITISH ENVOY GETS NEW POST
      15 3 S MACK, Briln Vienna I '111(1 'IM i TBS Reuter
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      Britain wants skeletons
      71 3 IN a land plagued by shortages of almost everything from potatoes to tin tacks. British medical schools are harrassed by a scarcity of bones. Before the war. the schools' main sources were France. Germany and Spain. Now the import of skeletons Is almost stopped because of exchange
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      MACAP EXPLOSION
      32 3 Ten persons were killed or injured m a motor launch explosion which damaged another launch and two gasoline and kerosene loaded barges m a five-hour fire at Macao A P.
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      'Friendship smokes' for Europe
      162 3 'Friendship smokes' for Europe THE U.S. tobacco industry has a plan to devalue Europe's favourite currency. the black market cigarette, by all the t.bacco Britain did not buy m Virginia this year into free smokes for Europe. These cigarettes would be called Amities (friendships) m France. Amids m Italy. Freundschafts
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      Britain did 'the right thing'
      99 3 BRITAIN has granted independence to Burma not because she has to. but because she considers it is the right thing to do." said British Ambassador Sir Ralph Steven- n when speaking at dinner given m Nanking m honour of the Union of Burma's independence. "There
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      9.000 CHINESE REPATRIATED
      65 3 NEARLY 9,000 overseas Chin- esc were repatriated through the Fukienese port of Amoy to Malaya. Singapore. Burma, the Netherlands East Indies. Borneo, Saigon and Siam m the past year, according to statistics issued by the Oversets Chinese Affairs Bureau. During the same period. 33,626 overseas Chinese returning
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      CEYLON 'REGION OF PEACE'
      112 3 \IR. Herbert Bryant, who has recently retired from the position of Rotary Internut i-inal Secretary for the Middle East and South East Asia, has arrived m Ceylon to down m Kandy. "Coming to Ceylon is likr being transported to a region of peace." he said. 'Wherever
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      PI bid to exclude Chinese traders
      218 3 Pl OBTB of the Philippine Government and Manila authorities to exclude alien Chinese stall-holders from Manila's profitable market-places are due to reach climax on VVedne^lay, when the Philippine Sureme Court rules on an injunction sought by the Chinese Stall-holders Association. If granted, the Injunction
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      U. S. savings at pre-war level
      78 3 THE proportion ol personal incomes m America placed I m savings funds returned to a pre-war level last year, Mr. I George L. Bliss, president of the Railroad Federal Savings Association, announced. Mr. Bliss estimated thai the average American placed $3.65 per $100 of
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      Federal plan for Empire?
      159 3 THE New York newspaperj PM m an unsigned special dispatch from London tells secret plan, fathered by Earl Mountbatten, to enable the Union of India to be associated with the British Commonwealth without remain a Dominion. The dispatch said basically Earl Mountbatten's propbsals amount to a
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      81 3 pictures. A.i t-Army mechan \i Mr. c. R. Uoroan or Collier's Wood. S. W. London, has made his own "cyclecar' out of duralumin. He built it during his spare tune. m a week. It weigh* 52 lbs. and is equipped with 3-stivcd gear. Independent tpringing, electric Hqhtinq, and a horn
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      S'hai dance halls to be closed
      95 3 S'hai dance halls to be closed HAIjF the nuinoer ol commercial dance halls and cabarets m Shanghai will close down by drawing lots before the end of March, and commercial ballrooms and cabarets will entirely disappear by the end of September. The Shanghai Commissioner of Internal Affairs. Mr. Wu Tai-hsin.
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      HEAD TO RESIGN
      26 3 Mr. Percy Hugh Brvertey Lyon, M.C., M A. f headmaster of Rugby School since 1931, has told the Governors he wishes to resign.
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      U.S., Vatican denounced as 'biggest warmongers'
      174 3 IHE leader of the Italian Communist Party, Palmiro. Togliatti, denounced the United States and the Vatican as the world's biggest warmongers today, m a six-hour speech at the opening session m Milan of sixth Communist Congress, attended by delegates representing Italy's 2,250,000 Communists and
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      LAST WHIRLING DERVISH DIES
      65 3 fPHE death occurred at Istan- L bul or. Sunday of Selahadjdin Ozel, last surviving om- ciator of the Mevlevi sect and thus the last whirling dervish at the age of 70. He was formerly chief of the i sect at Salonika, and after the abolition of
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      MARRIED BY SIGNS
      24 3 Sign "language" was used, whem Mr. Frederick Bew and Miss Botty Bur jrows, both doaf mutes, wore married at. Burton-ooi-I Trent.
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      Britain: 'The land of the bis; money'
      244 3 Britain: 'The land of the bis; money' ALONG the toast of West Africa and m the VVost Indies these words have flashed like wildfire m recent months: England. Plenty work. Money. No colourbar. As a result, more than 1,000 disillusioned West Africans and Jamaicans, including many who endured great hardships
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      Australians paid more in taxes last year
      94 3 AUSTRALIAN people paid £54-l£s.-12d. a head m taxation during the financial year 1946-47. I Out of the total of £414,--000.000 collected by all forms of taxation during the year, the states eventually received £67.800.000. and the Commonwealth Government took the rest. Collections greatly
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      GANG SINGS FOR VICTIMS BABY
      71 3 GANG SINGS FOR VICTIMS BABY npEN men, carrying Samurai A swords and clubs, burst into the home of a prosperous Tokio farmer night so loudly that they woke a four-year-old girl. One member of the gang took her on his lap and sang lullabyes while the rest of the gang
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      JAP BRIDE IN U.S.
      48 3 Mr. Wesley Hooper, a six-foot-six Texas citizen, went through the Customs at Seattle on Sunday with his tiny 23-year-old Japanese bride. Hooper and the former Urabe Miyoko met while he was serving m the U.S. occupation forces m Japan. She waa a telephone operator.
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      Chinese fortunes overseas
      158 3 Chinese fortunes overseas ASSETS m the Unitou States privately held by Chinese individuals or corporations amount to between U*****,000,000 and $1,000,000,000. according to the Hong Kong Far Eastern Economic Review. In addition, resources m America owned by or at the disposal of the Chinese Government amount to U. 5.5427,000.000. the
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      New A.O.C. for East Africa
      138 3 AN Air Ministry news letter announces Uio appointmean ol Air Commo<iore Alan George Bishop, Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters. Italy, Btooe Last March, as Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters, East A:rica. During the war he served m the Far East before being taken prisoner by
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      SOVIET ENVOY ACCREDITED
      39 3 IVf KYRIL NOVIKOV. SO/tCt Ambassador to India, has presented his credentials to the Governor-General Earl Mountbatten. M. Novikov who arrived m New Delhi before Christmas. was Soviet representative on the Four-Power Austrian treaty commission m Vienna*
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      'LITTLE ASSEMBLY' GOES AHEAD WITHOUT RUSSIA
      322 6 Soviet satellites confirm boycott rrilE I'nited Nations yesterday began its first major attempt to do business without Russia when the disputed "Little Assembly,*' originated by the United States, convened for a year-round debate of world political issues, reports U.P. from Lake Success. The Soviet
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      BRITAIN RAISES COCOA PRICE
      65 6 BRITAIN RAISES COCOA PRICE THE Ministry of Food increased the selling price of raw cocoa m the United Kingdom, offective Jan. 4 from U S $23 80 a hundredwelght to U. 5.545.10.. 545. 10. One of London's biggest chain restaurants announced increase would mean a jump of about 50 per
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      NOW EMBASSIES
      23 6 Radio Moscow said last that Bulgaria and la raised their respective location? to embassy rank Iheir envoys to ambas- adon U.P.
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      Record beef output in Queensland
      157 6 QUEENSLAND had a record beef output of more than 102 000 tons m 1947. Production included 88.000 tons of export beef more than double the figure for 1946. About 85 per cent of Australia's export beef m 1947 was from Queensland. Mr. E. F. Sunners.
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      PARIS PROTEST ON FILM PACT
      98 6 OOLICE Charged a crowd of several thousands him stars and technicians who were blocking traffic m the Rue de La Republique m Paris lon Sunday. Several people i were injury and nearly ai dozen arrested. The crowd was demonstrating against the Franco- American film importation
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      125 6 Britain* latest telegraph ship "Monarch," Just comvletcd for the Postmaster-General, is the largest cable lavina and cable repair ship m the world. Her length is 475 ft overfill, and her gross tonnage is 8,050. She is oil fired and has a Wed of 14\ knots, and when on cable lavina
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      US films hard hit in tar East
      288 6 A MERICAN film** ar* due* to experience MOM lean t\ years throughout the Far East, a travelling executive for one of the largest Hollywood studio*, told United Press m Hong Kong. In almost every country m the Far East, American films are being
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      Paid to visit Britain
      77 6 GRANTS to enable foreign workers to pay short visits to Britain are being made by the British < own. il. This VI 3,000.000 a year organisation set up m 1934 to tell the world about the British way of life says m its annual report that
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      Argentine demands to Britain
      99 6 WASHINGTON sources say that Argentina has given Britain the choice of shipping more coal, iron and manufactured products at prices considerably lower than at present or of paying m U.S dollars for United Kir.gdom purchases of Argentine food. Should Britain reject both courses, Argentina would demand
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      Ship sails with Britain's hopes
      281 6 SOME time thus month a ship will leave a port m Britain on a voyage which is regarded m Jx>ndon as symbolic of Britain's progress to industrial recovery, reports Retiter. No well-dressed men and women will crowd her rails as she steams out bound for
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      RETURN To H'KONG
      49 6 RETURN To H' KONG i n ng Pao China's influential daily newspaper is l to be published m Hong Kong i again. Originally published m Tientsin, the paper was moved to Hong Kong when the SinoJapanese war broke out, and later to Kwelin when Hong K.ong was occupied A.P.
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      South African flag planted in Antarctic
      101 6 rw\HE Cape Times reports that A the Union of South Africa flag has been planted on Princ<> Edward Island m the Antarctic and that an Australian flag party has occupied Heard Island. The rrport said the Union frigate Transvaal sailed south from Cape Town
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      VICAR DOES PENANCE
      72 6 CANON Christopher Turner, Vicar of Hinckley. Leicestershire, who is doing an act of penance for the thief who took parcels intended for poor children m Europe from a Christmas tree outside his Church, refuses to disclose the nature of the penance. Asked about the possibility of his
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      'Incurables have a right to death'
      261 6 TNCURABLE patients who wished to die sh 1 legally entitled to ask their doctors to to death, Dr. H. C. Colville, a member of v l L** Council of the British Medical Association i an interview m Sydney. Dr. Colville was commenting on a
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      POPULAR SCHEME
      33 6 The British Army's short service bounty scheme has proved so popular that over 20 000 ex-soldiers have reenlisted for short service engagements m the regular army, states the War Office.— Reuter
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      UK FOOD TALKS
      37 6 DANES. Including i ativei of Industr agriculture, arrived don yesterday for ing of the Anglo-Dai conference today, a man said th»- Dai "confident of succ< regotiatioas tor tl Danish foodstutl.N and purchase from 1
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      BOAC girls told: 'No perfume'
      92 6 BOAC girls told: 'No perfume' TWENTY-FIVE BOAC girls at London are to pr->; perfume" order notice-board. The girls, i v see that passeng* right planes, read: You must not us< fume on duty. You RlUfi r. lined non-un You must n > make-up. You must without unil >rm at work
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      79 3 TAi^ZAN New danger By Edgar Rfce Burroughs Ltf.Ui," i." 1 "ThANK HEAVEN YOU ESCAPED DEATH, B "I THOU3HT WE HAD WON OUR. "//V THAT CASE!" PERRY OAVID'' CRIED PERRY 'THE* T OtD ME \>M S FREEDOM," SAID iNNES/'iT 'S SAID, ''COME WITH AAE I'LL -v i~{ j '^X/ »VOt/tC K/LLED
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948 Malaya Needs the Old Spirit
      514 4 The Singapore Free Press TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948 Malaya Needs the Old Spirit fIViL Ci iwrnor-Geiieral. Mr. J. Malcolm Mac Donald. has mack the keynote of his -V ar broadcast a ivly plea for the restoratu>n oi the later-racial friendship and co-opera-tion, which before the war Vert a m o
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      The Choice Before Young Nations
      1195 4  -  MANUEL A. TAVAREZ By ETCAFB was the voice of the indusv trially undeveloped nations Becking to express their own deHtm m the midst of an atmosphere oi two different worlds speaking different languages m the sans room. It was an Asiatic confervnee which was influenced
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      IRGUN IS ON THE WARPATH
      466 4  - IRGUN IS ON THE WARPATH CARTER DAVIDSON «>• A. P. Correspondent THE Jewish terror #a*g Irgun Zvai T^eumi has gone to war, aggressively and ruthlessly, against the Arabs but keeps one pistol cocked for our British enemiep," it is learned. The band which killed British by hundreds during a five-year
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      TELEPHONIC ALARMS
      65 4 mil I>ok London's Sentinel Burglar Alarm Co. about a l?u r^° Derfec t the machine, jmch works m conjunction lUl an ordinary telephone. suit-caso. and i s a combination of some of the best alarm ideas perfected m the past. This device is protected by circuit wiring at
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      FIGHT OVER THE PLAN
      651 4  -  JAMES MARLOW By A. P. Correspondent YOU may know what the Marshall Plan is now. But a few months from now it may look different. President T r v m a n turned tho plan a> he and his experts think it should be over to
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      The 'All Seeing' Electronic Eye
      57 4 RADIO Ami haw d»". \o\ sensitive t scope that can chocolate br.r myriad threads and ir. of rubber t\ The only hitdi instrument is the scarcity of electron scopiita to put the electron "eye" to full The en. searchers to study particles whldl fied up
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      Under The Red Ensign
      781 4  -  C. HOPE JOHNSTON By In Travel Association A TRIP to Britain starts not from the time the visitor disembarks at a British port, but from the moment he sets foot on board a British ship. A> the visitor steps aboard a liner under tho Red Ensign,
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      Co-ops plan film circle in S'pore
      125 5 Co-ops plan film circle in S'pore formation In ia the Co-op About 300 i eh paying besl.so and $2 a needed, and as K'Ven, v to each lircle will veen 40 and 70 :he I Circle to Singmp >re res society I Membership eamn tot U rou will Mr. Tan
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      40-ACRE FARM FOR PRISONERS
      410 5 40-ACRE FARM FOR PRISONERS Growing own vegetables Free Press Staff Report ci A SCHEME under which good-conduct prir soners m Changi Jail will be given the opportunity of growing vegetables on :]5 to 40 acres of the vacant land surrounding the prison will be put into operation as soon as
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      27 5 picture. Mr. and Mis. Lee Swee Choo after their wedding at Singapore Registry on Jan. 3. The bride wan formerly Miss Olivia Tan Vim Studio de Luxe
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      UMNO to send girls abroad for education
      110 5 Free Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE Malay women will be granted scholarsnips by UMNO for higher education either m Malaya or abroad. This decision was taken at the eighth conference of the United Malays Nrmnal Organisation convened m Kuala L ;mpur recently. The Singapore
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      57 5 pictures. A ceremonial service, marking the opening of the first Singapore Assizes of the year was held at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday morning. These pictures show the Assize Court in session and Mr. Justice Jobling and Mr. Justice Brown just before they inspected the Police auard of honour at the
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      NINE SAW MILLS SUSPEND WORK
      230 5 NINE SA W MILLS SUSPEND WORK Free Press Chine** Correspondent FACED with timber shortage and high ci>sts, four more sawmills have suspended operations m Sinjrapore, following the flat refiksal of their workers to agree to a cut m wages. The numbor of workers thrown out of employment, including those employed
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      MR. MACDONALD
      25 5 The Governor-General of Malaya, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, is >cavinß for the United Kingdom by air from Kallang airport tomorrow i g at 9.30.
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      Police praised for exemplary conduct
      266 5 THE Singapore Coroner, Mr. W. G, Porter, complimented an Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr. G. C. Ripley, attached to the Singapore CID, at an inquiry yesterday into the death of a Chinese gunman. Mr. Ripley had a narrow escape from death during a police ambush
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      Direct S'pore to Hong Kong BOAC services
      153 5 I TILE BO AC announces a change m its Singaporej Hong Kon£ services. Instead of the present services via Bangkok, BOAC Plymouth llying-boats will fly direct between the two ports on this route. The direct service each way will begin with the departure
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      NEW CHAIR AT RAFFLES
      67 5 BAFFLES College has esta- blished a chair of geography the first new chair since 1948. The college is now m line with the leading British colleges and becomes the only college of South-East Asia with a professor whose work is primarily to extend the knowledge of
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      Methodist work among Sakais
      121 5 ry\2lE worn en's section of A the Malayan annual conference of the Methodist Cliurch met and received reports from all the women's sections of the various Methodist churches m Malaya. Among the projects of the section for 1948 us an extensive medical and Christian work among
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      More turning to Christian education
      369 5 More turning to Christian education Free Press Staff Reporter INCREASING recognition m Malaya of the fact that a chi!d is better cared for m his general development m a Christian school than m any other constitutes "a definfte challenge* 1 o every Christian leader m Malar* Rev. P. L. Peach,
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      QUESTION OF PRICE MAY BE RE-OPENED
      503 5 GENT'S TIN STATEMENT IN the Malayan Union Advisory Council at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, the Governor of the Malayan Union, Sir Edward Gent, said he had received an a>asurance that if experience showed that the tin price of £500 per ton was insufficient to secure
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      MALAY SHOWS
      49 5 The lAUay Womi fare Association la two plays a, the Vie Theatre ■'*py»rc6d Marr; 'Kawin di-paksa> on Ja- >, and "Evils of Di- rce" I nya orcr.g ber-chirai) on Jan. 10 boh at 830 pm Tlie plays ar^ m aid ot the Muslim Girl?' Xi School building lir.Ad.
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      31 6 I A KIP C JAAIXC Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya «kv« suit Sb/v cJdd- WFB. I wb^\m a> now Vft Ufrl tte V excuse me- Vvou're rang on.
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  • SPORTS...
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      LEAGUE SOCCER AGAIN IN MARCH
      779 7 LEAGUE SOCCER AGAIN IN MARCH S.A.F.A. Faces New Problems By The Sports Editor pHE Singapore Amateur Football Association has already issued a notice inviting affiliation from affiliated and non -affiliated clubs and before the end of next month or by th e first week in March the latest the first
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      Samuel Beats George Lewis: Durai Loses
      151 7 Samuel Beats George Lewis: Durai Loses M\l \> VS badminton inumverate returned Bombay yesterday after ;\<> d:iy exhibition m r»ur. Outstan4inf results m rica of matches were .umier» second vic•fCf (weorjjp Lewis m ./it sets and the de- r( Durai, All-India npion, by Davidenr m ;i!so m straight Iho results
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      KL Table Tennis Team To Play In Singapore
      65 7 KL Table Tennis Team To Play In Singapore ID b of 1 pur will play matcl.es I randay against i-rarr.s 1 I 1 repreAthleti- Club on TVursd Rf (Cbj Lam X .AM d Chan Sum I Association V ■>_.» \g Four.g Chua Kirn Loll Kuin k Kee, Teh Kum Hong.
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      Pestana May Not Play In Final
      12 7 Pestana May Not Play In Final T H ottrhom- < ;.!vrr| i I
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      BRISTOL WIN 3-0
      23 7 IJ.R-ISTOI,. playing a'Aay. b<?at I- iSUkOi uni Newlyn ihreenlj m a Ruffby Union game played y«wierday, rtpOrti Rnifer from I-ondon.
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      32 7 (^APTAIN Jack Ai«tin'.s greenpoim Polo team from Australia, was drfeatod r ?ht to zoro on Sunday at San Mateo, CaHfomia. by a tmm lod by Eric Pedley of San Francjsco.- A. P.
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      SCOTTISH SOCCER
      10 7 SCOTTISH league football re solus yesterday uvro- Reuter
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      BEN HOGAN LEADS IN BIG U.S. GOLF
      229 7 ?«z K?^x^r- tor m saws* However. Hogan received a determined challenge from Ellsworth Vines, Los Angeles and Bobby fi South Africa, both of whom had brilliant^urTrrir rounds, and from Ed Fur K ol, Pontiac M ohfgan wh o 'he 2 P n r
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      1948 MAY BE BOOM YEAR FOR BOXING
      372 7 1 948 MAY BE BOOM YEAR FOR BOXING IyiTII the prospect of bi^ boxing reluming to the Olympia, London. 1948 might well go down m the annals of the fistic world as a boom year. Fight dates at the Ofcympia have already been arranged and Londoners may have the opportunity
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      N.Z. TOURISTS LOSE
      25 7 >TEW Zealand's Rugby I League touring side lo«t to tno Pyrcnees-Banguedoc comDinatlon m Poulouse yesterday Dy 15 points to zero.— F Reuter
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      U.K. LEAGUE FOOT BALL FIXTURES
      192 7 THE following are UK. 1 Football League fixtures for Saturday: First and Second Division (earns are participating m the third round of the F.A. cup. THIRD DIV. (Southern) Aldershot v Ipswich Town; Brighton and Hove v Southend Utd; Crystal Palace v Bristol City; Northampton v
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      45 7 rinn?™ gJteßrt'Pse B.P. dinner m honour of the Codrxngton B.P. of Penang and the Lake Hwa B P of Kuala Lumpur held at the Happy World last Friday In the foreground, wearing a coat, is the President of the Eclipse B.P. Mr. Chcong Hock Chye.
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      Inter-Party Badminton
      68 7 The Codrinoton B.P. of Penang which drew with the Eclipse B.P of Singapore three-all last week. Back row (left to right): Cfuxmg Ewe Leong, Ctioong Ewe Jin Tan Teck Lim. Miss Amy Choong (all Codringtons) Mrs Tea TiangSeng Cheoag Hock Leng. Chia Chfii Soon and Wee Chyc Kon
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      South Were Rushed Into Defeat
      571 7 Badminton Notes By COURTCRAFT ■PHE overwhelming defeat of the South when they played their first annual match against the North la<?t week is still a sore point among local badminton fans. Out of the five singles played, South won three, and of the five doubles
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      WALLABIES HAD FOOD POISONING
      81 7 MINE of the 15 Australian IJ rugby players who defeated England at Twickenham on Saturday had mild food poisoning. They reported sick on Friday night after arriving from Eastbourne. Stomach powders were ordered Just before the match they took m ore powders. Ninety-five minutes later, after
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      Trapped On Bad Wicket
      363 7 Indians Beaten WAPPED on a sticky wicket for the third suoces- sive match m the series, India were skittled out m the second innings for 125 under two hours and Australia won the third cricket Test by 233 runs. Bradman declared Australia's innings closed at the
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      JOLLILADS SOCCER XI
      92 7 Tin? team to play football for the Jollilads Athletic Union's first team against the CM. P. XI tram at Gilman Barracks tomorrow at 5.15 pm. will be chosen from the following: Sithambram. Rasak, Muthu. Ghani Haniff. Kayambu. K. R. Muthiah.' Salahudin. Murugasu Munivandi Arumukjam. Nadarajah. M. Krishnan,
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      Scoreboard
      123 7 Australia first innings 394 India iirst innings 291 for nin. diTi.i ,j Australia sivond inninm 255 for four d.« land INDIA— 2ND INNINGS Mankad b Bill Johnston 13 SM.rv.nU b Bill Johnston 1 Gnl Mohanud c Morris b lan Johnsun >^ Hazarr c I.urn. < b Miller To Amwnath
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      67 7 Sports Diary TODAY y-VL v«. CSC. Ponce Mepot, Thomson Road. 5 n m G.H.Q frARFLF wn. Y.MCA.. "Ulin 5 15 p.m.; TABLF-IENNIS: S.M.S.U. v». Chines? Yoath Service 27 Tjrrwhitt Road. 7 30 p m TOMORROW HOCKFY: S C R.C. v«. S.R.C., '•M. Pid..n« sis pra ru<;by: sec. -An 711 Army
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      Britain rejects Soviet proposal
      186 8 Britain rejects Soviet proposal JAP PEACE TACT LONDON, Monday. pHITAIN today rejected 13 renewed Russian demands for a Four-Power Foreign Ministers meeting to prepare a Japanese peace treaty and reaffirmed her view that the settlement should be dratted first by the 11--nation Far Eastern Commission. A British Foreign Office spokesman
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      RIOTING IN CALCUTTA
      84 8 CALCUTTA. Monday. twelve persona were injur- ed and 24 arrested today In disturbances arising from call for a davlons: general d by the Communlst dominated B'-nnal Provincial Trade Union ConI Acid and bottles were thrown at office workers on r way to work m some parts of
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      GRENADE DEATH
      19 8 mt-n tried to force men a hand- grenade with a torch. Threo wen nd two iniu*-od U.P.
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      STORES STORMED IN BARGAIN SALES
      224 8 LONDON, Monday. gPURNING the "now look' (longer skirts). cnousanas of London women stormed the West h^L B^? {o&d J' "K^Mnt and srabbins at outdated clothes offered m some of the first clearance bargain sales since before the war Bhriekinx and shouting, aging their punes, .shopping
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      MARINES FOR MED.
      26 8 An undetermined number 01 U.S. Marines boarded two *hips yesterday with orders to clear Morehead City port for duty m the Mediterranean A.P.
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      H'KONG CHINESE JOIN THE ARMY
      224 8 HONG KONG. Monday. THE Headquarters of the British Land Forces are now recruiting British-born Chinese m Hong Kong into the British Army. These m<>n will fill vacancies Which have occurred m some of ihe Administrative Units at present stationed m Hong Kong, but they will
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      HOME
      21 8 "A real old city, an ancient capital m miniature" Bristol, Britain's gateway to the ivest, doton the ivooded Avon Gorge.
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      Kuomintang to be 'purged'
      310 8 SHANGHAI, Monday. is Chinese Communist forces made a surprise move to cross the Yangtse River above Hankow with the object of carrying the civil war to South China, disrupt the vital Canton-Hankow railway and at the same time cut off West China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek today
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      SOCIALISM FOR BURMA
      127 8 RANOOON, Monday. rE BurmeM President, Sao Shwe Thaik. said today that the policy of the new Union ol Burma would tx- the establishment of state s<>cialUrn and the elimination of capitalism. In his first stuument of policy, the President said that Burma would nourish fchfe friendship of
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      Arms ship to sail for China
      82 8 OWNERS of the Canadian freighter Islandsido said m Halifax (Nova Scotia > yesj terday that the Islandside sails for China on Friday with .six Mosquito aircraft and 650 I tons of ammunition for the Chinese Government. The owners said the sailing date was set
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      ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL NIZAM
      97 8 THE trial of persona accused of being involved m the attempt to kill the Nizam of Hyderabad on Dec. 4 be^an at Hyderabad yesterday, when two men. whose names were as Narayan Rao and Gundiah, appeared before the chief magistrate. The accused, it was alleged,
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      FRENCH GOVT VICTORY OVER THE REDS
      435 8 Gains votes of confidence PARIS, Monday. TiHE six-week-old coalition Government of Premier Robert Schuman emerged victorious tonight m its struggle with the Communists and the extreme right over the Cabinet's demand for approval of the "Save-the-Franc Bill" designed to raise 125,000,000,000 francs by a
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      FRANCE WARNS FOREIGNERS
      76 8 FR ANCE WARNS FOREIGNERS PARIS, Monday. The French Government tonisfct warned all foreignems living m Prance that expulsion would bo the penalty if they participated m labour demonstrations A Ministry of Interior communique entitled 'advice to foreigners" said: "During recent demonstrations a bis proportion of foreigners were among the people
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      BOAC REPORTS £8 MILLION LOSS
      286 8 BO AC REPORTS £8 MILLION LOSS LONDON, Monday. THE British Overseas Airways Corporation lost 1 £8,076.844 during the year ending March 31, 1947. it was announced here today. The loss will be 4 'a considerable burden for the taxpayer.*' according to the annual report of the Corporation, one of Britain's
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      CHURCHILL: 'I'M MUCH BETTER'
      52 8 MX Winston Churchill commenting on the reason why ho called his personal physician Lord Moran out to Marrakesh, Morocco, where he is holidaying, said: "At my age. everyone has to be careful." Mr. Churchill added: "I am 1 much better, and the sunshine will do me
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      Confessed to 240 thefts
      58 8 LONDON, Monday. f\HARLES JONES broke a \j British penal record ivhen he pleaded guilty m Wigan Court today. Admitting three cases of housebr caking, he askea the court to rule also on 240 other robberies to which he confessed. He estimated his total loot at almost
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      Democrats will fight to end Nanking rule
      134 8 HONG KONG. Monday. THE Chinese Democratic League, outlawed by the Chinese Government, held its third plenary session m Hong Kong today and issued a statement declaring that it "would light to bring about I destruction of the Nanking regime." which, it charged, was
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      ROYAL SCOTS WELCOMED
      89 8 EDINBURGH yesterday gave a civic welcome to 300 men of the Ist. Br.. of the Royal Scots who arrived from India at the close of a chapter m their history which extends for nearly 150 yq is. The Black Watch If the last British regiment still m
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      COMMUNISTS ATTACK ATTLEE GOVT.
      177 8 COMMUNISTS ATTACK ATTLEE GOVT. LONDON, Monday. pOMMUNISTS m Britain Kj launched a verbal attack on the Labour Government today m the wake of Mr. Clement Attlee's denunciation of Communism as a new form of 'imperialism" threatening the rest of Europe. The Daily Worker spearheaded the attack with a front-page editorial
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      Michael to speak today
      139 8 LAUSANNE. Monday. CX-KING MICHAEL of Ru- mania, who arrived here* tonight with his mother and his retinue, will issue an official statement on his abdication and future plans tomorrow. The ex-King's private secretary said Michael's reasons for abdication were purely political, adding: 'He has brought very
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      CHOLERA IN PUNJAB
      34 8 Delhi newspaper! yesterday published reports of outbreaks of cholera and smallpox at 32 places m the Punjab, with "heavy" loss of life and an outbreak at Trichinopolv m South India.- A.P.
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      TODAY'S RUBBER PRICES
      127 8 A SPECIAL Market correspondent pives the prices of ruhi#?r at 11 a.m. today as follows: SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association's prices at noon yesterday: eir Se ,"«r per Ib. per Ih No. I R.S.S. Spot loose .44 ii No. 1 R.S.S.
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      TIN SHARES ADVANCE
      502 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Monday. I TNCERTAINTY ruled the London Stock Exchaaf today, keeping the trading volume down to a bar minimum, says Keuter*s financial correspond This made for an easier tendency among Indus! several leading shares being: marked down Tin I advanced. In the Gilt-edged section,
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      Pakistan's Governor
      30 8 Pakistan's Governor A new photograph of the Governor -General of Pah Mohammed AH Jinnah, with his sister, Fatima, the lavms of Government House at Karachi on hi birthday last month.
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      52 8 WEATHERMore rain I; lUK ATIIKK r i- port for th P n.\' 2\ h»uis Mimpilid by tli< RAF: < loudy »ir.! lone periods of r;nn Wind: North. o 10 m.p h. Tompcralurfs: Max 84 deg: 'nin. 72 d«'jj. SINOAPORt TIDES H T 73« niulit 8 5 it. 1 T 110
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