The Singapore Free Press, 8 January 1948

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    18 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA !:.o:>:> SINGAPORE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS
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    NEW BOMB OUTRAGES BY JEWS
    313 1 Martial law expected JERUSALEM, Wednesday. A FTER Jewish terrorists today followed up the Semiramis Hotel bombing with two more bomb attacks in Jerusalem causing heavy casualties the Palestine Government tonight announced that "new security measures 9 would be imposed. This is generally believed to mean
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    19 1 woman career bi posted ■n Plan," is Yugoslavia p her Foreign merit in Bel--23, >he may one BrUtok envoy.
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    60 1 All through the night of Dec. 31. workmen erected an advertising hoarding at Ludgate Circus so that Prime Minister Attlee's New Year Message could be seen Jicxt morning. The message called for greater effort to raise production the ten per cent needed to turn the tide of Britain's fortune. Photo
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    No mail trains before Saturday
    127 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Res between Singapore and Kuala r will be suspended at least until Saturday mil damage to the line in Johore. The Assistant Tratlic Superintendent, Singapore, Mr M. G. (irilliths. told the Free Press this morning hat there was "no hope of
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    £28,000 GIFT FOR MALAYA
    107 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON. Wednesday. THE Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, has sent a letter to the former Lord Mayor of London, Sir George Broadbridge, expressing thanks for the gift from the Empire Air Raid Distress Fund of £50.000 for Far
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    INDIAN PMs MEET
    35 1 Earl Mountbalten, Gov-ernor-General of India, yesterday presided over a meeting of Prime Ministers and representatives of 20 Indian States, at which the setting up of the Rulers' Privileges Committee was discussed.— Reuter
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    Cripps gloomy on 'gap' battle
    237 1 LONDON, Wednesday. T»HE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford x Cripps, said tonight that Britain will be in a grave position unless the U.S. Congress approves the European recovery programme. "The sooner aid comes the better," he told a press conference. But even with U.S.
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    Ban on luxury buildings
    95 1 Free Press Staff Reporter TiE construction of nonessential and luxury buildings in Singapore, except with the approval of the Governor-in-Couneil, is prohibited with the passing of the Control of Buildings Ordinance in the Advisory Council this morning. The tynt-6 of builumgs involved include theatres, cinemas, dance
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    21 TRAITORS CONDEMNED
    40 1 21 TRAITORS CONDEMNED ONE 01 I trial vson. d to demt h by martial at Ant- They were' "t the S S. trom an idquaru-rs and d ot killers" r many deaths "•nan ocrupa--14 of the n dto life Reuter
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    MILLION $ DINNER
    27 1 MILLION DINNER The Shanghai City Government has raised the restaurant menu ceilinc Drice from C.N.51.2 million to $1 8 million lor a "table" of 10 diners- U.P.
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    17 KILLED, 9 HURT IN PLANE CRASH
    104 1 17 KILLED, 9 HURT IN PLANE CRASH SAVANNAH (Georgia), Wednesday A CHARTERED twin-engin-ed passenger plane crashed into a Savannah river marsh today and burned, killing 17 of the 26 persons aboard. The nine survivors were injured. The passengers were Puerto Ricans returning home from New York. A Savannah pilot who
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    TREATY REVISION
    33 1 The Prime Minister of Iraq Sayid Sails Jabur. last night had his first lalk with the British Foreign Minister. Mr. Ernest Bevin, on the revision of the 1930 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. Reuter
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    UK SPEEDING TIN PLANT DELIVERY
    194 1 Free Press Correspondent LONDON, Wednesday. THE speeding up of supplies and equipment for the J Malayan tin mining industry is expected this year as a result of improved priorities for steel to be given to dollar-earning countries, I was told by a Ministry of Supply
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    JOGJA'S YES' TO FEDERAL TALKS
    212 1 BATAVIA. Wednesday. rpHE Indonesian Premier, Dr. i A Amir Sjarifuddin, today confirmed reports that the Jogjakarta Go\ernment was prepared to take part in the proposed formation of a democratic and sovereign "United States of Indonesia." The Republican Govern- ment's statement was in reply to the
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    TYRE PRICES UP
    24 1 The Goodrich factory at Akron has confirmed that the price of motor-car tyres has been increased about five Der cent. A.P.
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    BID TO SAVE 780 IN SOVIET SHIP
    134 1 BID TO SAVE 780 IN SOVIET SHIP TOKIO, Wednesday. UIGH seas and screaming winds threaten to hamper American-directed efforts to rescue the 780 passengers aboard the Soviet "mystery ship' Dvina, earlier reported sinking 50 miles ott the Hokkaido coast. A rescue plane radioed that the vessel, which was still afloat
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    AKMKD THEFTS
    62 1 THREE men armed with pistols surprised two Chinese who was in a Kam- pong Bugis house last night, and seized cash, good6 and i jewellery valued at $542. Five armed Chinese climb- ed the back wall of a house in Telok Blanga Road at 2.45 j o'clock this
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    UK RAIL STRIKE
    37 1 The first strike on Britain's newly-nationalised railways was declared by 30 boilermen at a Glasgow locomotive works yesterday over a piecework grievance. The strike, which is unofficial, has made I 300 blacksmiths idle. Reuter
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    US HONOURS NEGRO
    30 1 A special United States three-cent postage stamp has been issued to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of the Negro scientist, Dr. George Washington Carver. Reuter
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    120,000 men massed for Kashmir war
    368 1 120,000 men massed for Kashmir war NEW DELHI, Wednesday. INDIA Army units in Kashmir, including Gurkhas, "are ready" for the now imminent major drive by 20,000 Muslim tribesmen concentrated inside the Kashmir frontier. These invaders are supported by an estimated 100,000 North-West Frontier tribesmen massed menacingly on the Pakistan side
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    U.K. BEGINS TO EXPORT COAL
    44 1 DRITAINS first commercial u cargo of coal for France since 1940. a consignment of 2 400 tons, is being loaded in Cardiff aboard a freighter ri^ n plans to export 11,000.000 trm« rt f p n «i year.- A.P.
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    JAP KILLER TO DIE
    37 1 Hisakichi TokudA. a socalled doctor, convicted by a U.S. Bth Army Commission of killing four prisoners of war. including three Britons, by injecting a soya bean solution, has been sentenced to death. A.P.
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    UNITY PLEA BY MALAYS WELCOMED
    219 1 Today's Council Free Press Staff Reporter THE peoples of Malaya must strive to remedy their grievances without bitterness, said Mr. Thdo Chan Bee in the Singapore Advisory Council this morning, welcoming the New Year assurance by Dato Onn, Mentrl Besar of Johore and leader of
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  • FEATURES...
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      REASON FOR READING
      798 2 REASON FOR READING A Malayan Bookshelf TT was with great joy that I came across a copy of Miss Q. D. Leavis' "Fiction And The Reading Public In a Singapore book shop the other day. In case you do not know it I should explain it thif is an enquiry
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      28 2 P**™* Jl a fashton. in black velvet icith sequins, inspired by the headdress of a Tibrtan Lama, is one of the latest models da>:gned by Jean Pascal Lorriaux.
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      Baits Settle in Australia
      500 2 Baits Settle in Australia By GORDON TAIT, A.P. Correspondent EIGHT HUNDRED ard thirty-nine sun-tan-ned, flaxen-haired Baits— widely acclaimed as the best-looking batch of postwar immigrants- are learning how to be Australians in big. modern, Boncgilla Army Camp, on the Victorian-New South Wales border. The immigrants, who originally came from Latvia
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      Tubes into 'lungs'
      83 2 Tubes into 'lungs A MODERN version of the "swords into plow- 1 shan s" operation Is reported in Germany. In an attempt to cope with the current epidemic of in- j fantile paralysis, th»« former' German navy yard 'Deut- sche Werl i' of Hamburg Is busy convert nm torpedo tubes
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      Scenario For Success
      272 2 'pVO young film salesmen once decided to make a feature film. They tapj>ed friends, including the late C M Woo'f("Th<> Woolf of Warduur-strect •> and a m< La] merchant, Oscar Deutsch, for money. Having ral*ed atxrat C3O--000. they kegan t aim catted 'Woman to Woman." wi'h Jaok
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      Bridge Problem
      353 2 AI. J HOUGH duplicate is largely a game or skill, there is an clement of luck in what the opponents do on hands th.y play apamst you where your own efforts ar.> of no avail. Thus one particular East West got "fixed" on this hand where rm*t North-South
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      PRUSSIAN BLUE FOR DANGER
      345 2  - PRUSSIAN BLUE FOR DANGER Pierre Jeannerat By THE public are flocking to the Van Gogh Exhibition at the Tate Gallery. So much sunshine in paint cannot be ignored during a British winter. During the first 13 days of the exhibition 40,000 went through the Millbank turnstiles; 7,720 on one Saturday
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      22 2 A havw lass aboard the "Happy Lass" Anne Crawford spends quite a lot of her scanty spare time on her uncle's yacht.
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      41 2 Attention Travellers WHEN VISITING SINGAPORE STAY THE TAVERN European Residential Hotel The first hotel operating immediately after the lib, r., tion. Spacious rooms, luxuriously furnished, room has its own bath to itself. Cool and quiet locality? cables: -Tavern". lelephone No. 404X.
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      12 2 Mandrake k«*«ji* e njn^ r< free PreM j/o/aya l^^^g IraaK^q pSg^;-| fesra
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      159 2 gbfjjghj SINGAPORE Blue Network ni th. nirdium wave band A 7.22 tnrt&cycJei per arroad m the 41 WHri- baud. C.Ot— U.M p.m. ISS metres n th« medium wave band 4.826 mroryrles per wond in thr «»l Mtai band except from 7 15 —9 29 p.m. when the transmitter is rarrvint
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      214 2 lian Women's Newsletter"; 9. 10 Dance Bands George Trevare; 930 Ar: tl P< rfV.rm HymaD Lenzrr and Marjori« Hmm; 9.45 Talk: 10 p.m. World News; 10 10 Pet«r Dawson Sings: 10.15 Talk; 10.25 p m. Interlude— Orcho.tral S.E.A.C. RADIO SEAC broad, .stinj from Colombo; CVylcn, on the follow in* wave
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      196 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR Fortune forecast for people born today DORN today, you are on of those who is horn the realization that lif< a very serious luin which should be lived «iii t striit nlan. and a fit that too much rr makes a very dull p r You haYc
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      50 STATES INTEGRATED INTO INDIA
      555 3 Sardar Pa tel 's week-end roundup I WHILE indecisive fighting continues in Kashmir, and the question of Hyderabad's future I has been postponed for a year under a standstill agreement, some fifty smaller Indian States have conceded a quiet walk-over to the Indian Dominion, reports
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      29 3 The Chinese Air Force has purchased 150 surplus Dakota Commando transport planes from the War Assets Administration and will have them overhauled and flown across the Pacific. A. P.
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      Lifeboat rescues 31 in gale
      145 3 Lifeboat rescues 31 in gale RISKING their lives even' minute, a Walmer <Kent) lifeboat crew rescued the master. 28 men and two German stowaways from the 2.327 ion Italian steamer Sivio Onorato stranded on the Goodwin MUU&i They saved also the ship's pet, a 7-month-old Alsatian pup. The Walmer men
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      China airways' Japan link abandoned
      126 3 China airways' Japan link abandoned i |>LANS for the establishi 1 ment of an air service linking Shanghai, Okinawa and Japan by the China National Aviation Corporation have been temporarily shelved following SCAP's refusal to furnish ground facilities for the airfcne at Japanese airports. Negotiation for the Japan route for
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      31,250 BRITONS USE TELEVISION
      58 3 31,250 BRITONS USE TELEVISION BRITAIN'S television audience has iiioreased by 66 per cent in the last six months, the British Post Office which issues radio and tel< vision licenses, reported yesterday. The total now is 31,250, the report said. Television reception is limited to a circle around London in which
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      T.T. nation? not likely, says G.B.S.
      143 3 T.T. nation? not likely, says G.B.S. lIOTAL and refeianaa Bernard sinw t n« m. h thin* „t to totallers m in a letter to Men?, puht Irish l.icensrid in replj to us .ihout drink in I u.i» iNked if M ration of rs, would enhance e aMMI| the nahml Shan
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      'Aid for Britain is aid for United States'
      72 3 'Aid for Britain is aid for United States' ired i«>r the I Sta Foreign Po- irej that rtant to i strategic I rid. d by Mr tn .i Bpeclaltish Common->-d concern -f Britain inned forces tndonlng her inker for the ible, it said. ncd the r :ture ItI under a
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      Negro tells of 13 murders
      35 3 |AKI bird, conyicted N< lerer. is >nlng by fflciali at n). who his confei I r i the the last 20 Patrick oma to theconI was tenchair for tnnth,r U.P.
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      Call-up hoax was 'good joke'
      94 3 aiid Wiltshire. It Ls unlikely that any action will be taken by the military authorities Sir lan said. "CaptaLn Ftonytfc Forrest ha.s told mo about it and that he is sorry, I do not hold it against him and I am inclined to share the
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      'Brutal attack' by American MPs alleged
      134 3 IN a note to the American Embassy in Warsaw the Polish Government has protested against what newspaper* have termed a "brutal attack'" by American Military Police at Karlsruhe on Mrs. Maria Ferkowcz. a Polish diplomatic courier. The note alleged that Mrs. Ferkowicz, while on
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      P.I. takes over U.S. airport
      82 3 'TRANSFER of Nicholas Field A on the outskirts of Manila to the Philippine Government's international airport project has been effected. Under the agreement signed by the two governments, the United States retains four small areas pending removal of important supplies. The United States Embassy also
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      SIR B. JACKSON
      39 3 Sir Barry Jackson, who is 68. retires from the position as director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Stratford-on-Avon when its 1948 season ends on Oct. 2. it was announced. No successor has yet been nominated. Reuter
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      'HELPED HITLER TO MARE WAR'
      299 3 "WITHOUT the help of these 21 men" who face trial here today, Hitler and Goering would have been unable to prepare and carry out their aggressive war," Gen. Telford Taylor, chief U.S prosecutor declared in opening the case against Freiherr (Baron) Ernst von Weizsaecker, ex-State
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      Near East boycott warning to U.S.
      267 3 pARTITION of Palestine may result in a temporary 1 boycott of U.S. goods in a number of Near East countries, New York exporters were warned recently by Mr. Leslie Larson of the Hitchcock Publishing Company. Mr. Larson, reporting on a recent tour he made
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      KILLED IN CRASH
      26 3 Twenty were killed instantly and 30 injured whrr a fully-loaded electric stre t car overturned at a attar] tur n at Nagoya (Japan;.
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      They cut the worlds hair
      71 3 r£ world's hairdressers are buying more of their clippers than ever from Britain. The rise in exports 7?iakes a success story in itself. Eighty-seven per cent, of the output of Burman and Sons, Ltd., Ryland Road, Birmingham, one of the only four factories in the
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      WITHOUT COMMENT
      25 3 The Russian press reported without comment the advent of Burmese independence but in a headline put quotations around the word. "Independence".— A. P.
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      AIH ASSIGNMENT
      24 3 The United States Air Force has announced the assignment to Par East headquartors in Tokio oi Bri-gadier-General John M. Weikert. A. P.
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      Red tape is obstacle to air traffic
      371 3 Red tape is obstacle to air traffic A PLAN to eliminate the adverse tlfzcta c\ bureaucracy in the running: of the world s airlines is expected to be presented in Washington sron by a special advisory committee appointed by President Truman to study this and related air traffic problems. Red
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      Hong Kong tightens up on exports
      129 3 rE Hong Kong Government has announced new export restrictions Resigned to decrease smuggling from China and also to help China safeguard foreign exchange proceeds. In future, all exports of wolfram, antimony, oil, tin, tea. bristles and cotton yarn which originate in China must be
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      GRAIN SHORT IN PAKISTAN
      80 3 DAKISTAN faces a shortage of grain this year and has askc-d the International Emergency Food Council for 30.000 tons oi ric\ Pirzada Aba us Satta. the dominion's new Minister 'of Food. Agriculture and Health told a press conlerence. Pakistan would co-operate with the Indian Dominion regarding
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      EXPENSIVE SPUDS
      21 3 Hot house grown potatoes are on sale in some London shops at ten shillings and sixpence per pound. U.P.
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      GHOST FLEET SAILS NORTH CHINA COAST
      382 6 GHOST FLEET SAILS NORTH CHINA COAST Secret cargoes from Soviet-held ports A "GHOST fleet" sails night after night between Russian-held ports in Manchuria and isolated spots on the North China coast between Chefoo and Tientsin, carrying cargoes in a two-way shuttle service, authoritative sources in Shanghai told United Press. The
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      Roll call at the Zoo
      48 6 Roll call at the Zoo Not, as it may seem, a check against visits from Christmas turkey-rustlers but merely the annual stocktaking at London Zoo, which has started with the flamingos. Keeper Jones makes his aristocratic charges parade as he makes certain every bird is "present and correct."
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      'Spies'willwatch for dockyard smugglers
      116 6 'Spies will watch for dockyard smugglers OECRET investigators will mingle with 20,000 »J Devonport (Playmouth) dockyard workers as part of a new all-out drive, to break the smiwling ring believed to operate there., It is estimated that .smuggling from the dock already oost s tn e British revenue £50,000 a
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      'Oriental cultures ignored
      147 6 'Oriental cultures ignored MR. HUSSAIN, adviser to the Indian delegation to UNESCO, declared in London that little notice was taken at UNESCO of the ancient cultures of China. India and the Middle East. Mr. Hussain. who had just arrived from Mexico accompanied by Professor P. N. Kirpal, secretary and counsellor
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      ANGLO-DANISH TRADE TALKS
      65 6 THE Anglo-Danish trade talks, which broke down lost September over price, resumed at the British Treasury on Tuesday. After the conference failed last September. Denmark made agreements with several European countries to supply them with the butter, bacon and dairy products she normally sold to Britain. These
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      DIED IN FIRE AMID FLOODS
      52 6 «i I 5 n B *Ptiste Aragnet. aged 70 was burned to death at Aurorre. 20 miles soir-h of Dijon 'France) when his hoi^e caught /Ire Rescuers were unable to rwach him in Ump because the house was surrounded by the flood waiers of the
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      Typhoons hit P.I. rice production
      175 6 MR. Jose S. Camus, Under 111 Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, fears that the Philippines will face a rice shortage this year as the result of enormous crop losses irom the four typhoons that swept the Islands in October and November. He estimates total
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      40 6 picture. The commg-of-age show of the "Schoolboys' Own Exhibition has opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall Here a small boy, ivith a toy motor on a string, gazes wistfully at Reg. Farnell's E.R.A. racer while others inspect it thoroughly.- Planet
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      BRAZIL WANTS JAP WORKERS
      86 6 T H v N T< ki newspaper Yomluri saij Brazil^ Slate autlkMlUei would' like Uie immigration of youne Japanese couples for work in Amazon rubber plantations. The JU.>wsj>aper quotixi Turban Kamit^ika. president of Amazonia Industrial Company L n Tokio a.s saying f£™ l Y!i d w
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      LOVE PRISONER' SHOT HER CAPTOR
      109 6 COR killing her wealthy lover, John Lester Mee, on 1 board his yacht, Patricia Schmidt, a twenty-two-year-old nigrht club queen known as Satira, was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment by a Havana (Cuba) court. She was also ordered to pay U 1.250 to Mee's next-of-kin.
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      DRUG DOCTOR BOUND OVER
      96 6 DR. Nuel 11. M. Monro, aged 43, of Sloane avrnue. Chelsea, was bound over for 12 months at West London Magistrate's Court in a case described by a doctor as the worst example of morphine addiction he had encountered. Or. Munro. who pleaded Kuilty to four
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      ELECTION FRAUDS DEATH PENALTY
      54 6 The deauh penalty or imprisonment of 20 to' 30 years for persons convicted of election frauds and other irretuiiarieies, as well as elimination of blark-voting and taking of the new electoral census lor 1949 elections, are proposed in a Bill nied in the Philippines Senate bv
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      ONLY LABELS & MODELS LEFT
      69 6 ONLY LABELS MODELS LEFT THE litter of "drastic reduc--1 tion" labels and groups of named dummy models were all that remain. ed on Tuesday at some of London's big department stores after the rush for bargains in the first bip January clearance sales since before the war. Early yesterday, a
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      MISSIONARY DIES
      25 6 Dr Robert Ernest Hume, Amwican Congregational missionary to India and an utno rity on world religions, has died in New York, aged Reuter
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      And then there were four....
      85 6 'TWERE were six passengers in an Air France Dakota which took off for Paris from London Airport. The plane returned to the airport with one of the two engines out of action. One of the passengers decided to go by another airline. The plane took
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      Imprisoned for 55 yeart freed at 80
      361 6 Imprisoned for 55 yeart freed at 80 pONDEMNED to life imprisonment m V-'. century ago for the murder of <«j,| was 25 years old when the prison gates' him has been pardoned by decree of Pri de Nicola of Italy. Now, at th e age of Xn again. It was
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      AMBASSADOR TO RESIGN?
      77 6 DIPLOMATIC circles in Romp are discussing a rumour that the French Ambassador to the Holy See, If Jacques Ma ri tain, is about to resign his post. Authoritative diploma Us stressed the belief that he will be succeeded by M Franc lsque Gay of the French Popular
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      V.S.interest in Indian film trade
      108 6 V.S.interest in Indian film trade MR Eric 111 dent 01 u ture Asso Spokane JV. |fly to India an conferences with leaders on film ii pects in the tw i m He said that on h.. will have talk a Stairord Cripp r K r Bconom the 75 per cent
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      The head bo becomes a headmaster
      109 6 A SOLICITOR v.-! n boy and mml school XI is to b> master 01 Rugby is annour.ci'd I Ffordc. 47. ha invitation to succeed B. Wron. who retin of July. Sir Arthur w.ts at School from 1914 to L9 later went to Trinity Oxford.
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      Nine feet from freedoir,
      66 6 A ?s^L man v nd l^° childr^ bailed by Bine fed t t^rv tS? Hrfv° m Y "i°-? lavi a the Trieste In acce'leTJteH Zl f the lorry in which thp > r l^" 1111 bSandrfJnv /nT neaF the Y «K«Slav front nuo Diock and drove
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  • LEADER...
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      The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JAN. 8. 1948. Mr. Laycock's Manifesto
      666 4 The Singapore Free Press THURSDAY. JAN. 8. 1948. Mr. Laycock's Manifesto THINGS are moving on Singapore's election front. We have now had the first manifesto from a candidate Mr. John Layek, the vice-president of the Progressive Party, which is so far the only organization to declare that it will contest
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      DON IDDON'S DIARY
      939 4 DON IDDON'S DIARY NEW YORK JHE New World's New Year resolutions are to shun vodka, "go steady with the faithful and reliable Britannia, and reduce its own inflated waistline. The first tw 0 resolutions will probably be carried out with few lapses, because the Russian drink produces such prodigious hangovers
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      Europe's Royal Families
      931 4 Europe 's Royal Families By TOM WILLIAMS A. P. Correspondent EUROPE'S Royalty, which went back stage during the war, took a curtain call lust year. With pomp and pride, Britain put on the greatest show of its kind in modern times for the marriage of Princess Ehzabeth t o Prince
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      'SCIENCE SANS RELIGION IS NOTHING'
      557 4 'SCIENCE SANS RELIGION IS NOTHING' TGOR Sikorsky, one of 1 America's outstanding aeronautical scientiats. advances the view in his new book "The Invisible Encounter" that advances of science mean nothing to mankind unless religious idealism is revived throughout the world and science is employed by "The spiritually living." In this
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      'AN EYE FOR AN EYE.'
      607 4  - 'AN EYE FOR AN EYE.' EDWARD CURTIS Palestine Round Up By A.P. Correspondent DALESTINE now lives in a virtual state of anarchy with the supreme law being an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." For the people in this biblical land the Jews, Arabs, British and others
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      Malays to use stage for education
      129 5 Malays to use stage for education ■l SUfl Hfporter fj Malay y. t^>id "We w at ot m OCI it fe rallf I e much to fa m; th br K with her rt s no «t unh. but to c m taken m M Ali wl tb Ot&ct p$
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      SINGER SAFE
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      REMOTE CONTROL BY UK MUST END'
      472 5 REMOTE CONTROL BY UK MUST END' New'Progressive attack on Govt. Free Press Staff Reporter pHE remote control of Singapore by Whitehall must cease forthwith, and the Colony must insist on being represented by local unofficials at international conferences affecting Malayan economy, Mr. N. A. Mallal, a Progressive Party candidate (City
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      8,000 ROAD ACCIDENTS IN 1947
      332 5 8,000 ROAD ACCIDENTS IN 1947 Q IN GA £9RE'S biggest •^traffic problem today is the appalling number of street accidents, said Mr. 7 J m Bem broke, Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of the Traffic Branch, in a broadcast from Radio Malaya. During 1947 there had been 8,000 accidents,
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      'Jobs reserved for Europeans'
      387 5 Teachers Complain T- >\!MENTING on statem nti made In the AlaiaUi.ijn Advisory Council on Monday, abou:. iha quaUflcaJoDg of teachers, the Malayan Teachers' Union, in a ptatemen; to the Press, p-Mnr.c out thm "there is a danger that some quar.ers n.re makiii<; a shibboleth of honours
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      MALAY REGT.
      21 5 ALOR STAR, Wednesday.— A selection board will arrive here on Jan. 23 to interview candidates for the Malay Regiment.
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      Hanged himself to go to Heaven
      111 5 DOLICE Inspector V. N. Re:nasingam told the Singapore Coroner yesterday that a labourer hansed himself on Christmas Day "In order to gain e?sy admit ance to Heaven." He snid that the period from I p.m. on Dec. 24 to 6 a.m. tiv next day
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      REPRIMANDED
      55 5 A lawyer's clerk was reprimanded by Mr. F. B. Oehlers, he Singapore Third Police Court Magistrate, yesterday when he addressed the court. The lawyer was absent. Saying that he would not tolerate In? absence of lawyers from his court without [written explanation. Mr. jOchlrrs fixed a date for the
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      API chief gets two years' jail
      205 5 poi'XD guilty of assisting in the management of the A.P.I. (Angkataj* Permuda Insaf), an unlawful society, Ahmad Baiki bin Suib was sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment in the District Court yesterday. The prosecution officer. A.S.P. Boyle, said that the accused was president of
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      $15,000 FROM FOOD FINES
      90 5 Free Press Staff Reporter TINES imposed for otfencs under the Food Control regulations during December amounted to $32,451, of which $15,601 was collected. During the month 101 cases were d«.alt wi'h. There were 81 convictions, 20 acquittals and four easc-s resulted In prison sentences. A warrant
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      Did not report arms offence: Malay jailed
      104 5 A MALAY, Minggal bin Sarabin, was yesterday sentenced to eight months' rigorous imprisonment at the Singapore Assizes for failing to report to the Police knowledge of an offence of carrying arms. The Deputy Public Prosecutor, Mr. L. Rayner said that on the night
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      SIAMESE GOVT 'VERY CO-OPERATIVE'
      241 5 Tin companies report •pHE chairman of Katu Tin Dredging Ltd., Mr. E. J. Valentine, at the annual meeting of the company held in, Kuala Lumpur yesterday spoke of the "helpful cooperation" of the Siamese Goverrmemt. who had advanced to the company 471.294 Ucals for rehabilitation work.
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      WAR CRIMES TO DISBAND SOON
      266 5 Free Press Staff Reporter r2 South -East Asia, war crimes organisation will soon be disbanded. Investigations into cases of atrocities committed by Japanese during the war have now ceased, and there has been a gradual depletion of Mail", a spokesman of FARELF GHQ told the
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      60 5 picture. The Governor, Sir Frank' lin Gimson, bidding goodbye to the Governor-General, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at Kallang airport yesterday. Mr. MacDonald left for the United Kingdom, from which he will later proceed to Canada. On the way he will stop over at Rangoon and New Delhi. While in London, Mr.
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      DUTCH MAY REOPEN PORTS IN SUMATRA
      112 5 Free Press Chinese Correspondent ■pHE Dutch Government 1 has agreed to reopen to trade certain ports in Sumatra Indonesian areas now under blockade by the Dutch, in an effort to restore trading between Malaya and Sumatra, according to Chinese importers in Singapore. The decision
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      CHINA REMITTANCES
      19 5 Family remittances to China during December were: from Singapore $1,243,108, and from the Malayan Union $365 973
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      SINGAPORE INVITED TO CHINA TRIALS
      371 7 Preparations For Olympics HE Singapore Chinese Amateur Sports Federation has received an official invitation from the China National Amateur Athletic Federation to participate in the trials for the selection of the China contingent for the World Olympics to be held in London in July. Besides
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      British F.A. Closes Ground
      47 7 British F.A. Closes Ground IH hall A.ssdlepptaf down md unruly \rst«*rday lound lor i.ilion said f the inisthe Winsford P County) for two i «.m. 12. ni \r h. a r. is J 11 d;»ys ft* I f t i I Dfaci- rr- WinsPort Vale 5 A.P.
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      MALAYAN CHINESE F.A. TO BE REVIVED
      171 7 MALAYAN CHINESE F.A. TO BE REVIVED tiportflßMn are fighting against he nearness of the Chinese lay, and the World Olympics in k\\ as would be expect ei, is the otbftfl Association which is to be Ttei i i week or two from now. tary of the M.C.F.A., Mr. Sim j£
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      34 U.K. SOCCER COACHES ABROAD
      149 7 A world-wide demand which >\ cannot be met for former British soccer players as couches is emphasised by the latest list of the 'whereabouts of old players" who have landed jobs on the continent, Egypt. Central and South America. This list, issued by the English
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      JOYFUL JUNIORS
      60 7 Tii« half-yearly Ktnoral mectiiiK of the Joyful Juniors S{x>rts Club will bo held on Sundav M 10.30 a.m. at th-- desidencfl of Mr. Chan Wah Kcp, 203-2 Bilat Road, to elect offlo bearwi for th«- half year ending June 30. M<mb< rs are requested to as■emblc at th.-
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      CALL-UP MAY BE SUSPENDED
      102 7 BRITAIN'S -possibles" for the Olympic Games are to have their rail-up for national service suspended, if necessary, so that they can compete in the Games. Ministry of Labour official said yesterday that the suspension would cover an athlete until the final selection for the British team
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      U.K. RUGBY UNION
      21 7 Union r. -ulu y*Rh impionahip match0, Burtarn Oountiaa 3. < KIJ Hospital 11 It a: Air Furco 4. Reuter
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      STTA Request Discussed
      193 7 fUngapuw Cheese Amateur Sports Federation, the con- •rolling body of Chines sports clubs and associations »n the Colony, u-iU accept as ordinary 1 members only purely Chinese j sports organisations. When the S.C.A.S.F. council met Jast night to consider the application of the Singapore fable Tennis Association
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      ENTRIES FOR SELANGOR RACES
      349 7 TOTAL of 133 entries have been received for the Selan«or Turf Club's New Year Meetirtg to b* held on Jan. 17, 21 and 24. Th* n ill be eight races on ♦aeh day. HORSES CLASS 1 First run, 5J furs; s^ccnd run. 6 furs: Counsel 11.
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      38 7 You I ;< t competitors In the pairs tkating section i7i the British amateur cJiampionships at Wembley were John and Jennifer Nicks, 17 and 16-year-old brother and suster from Brighton. Here they are shown on the ice at Wembley.
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      DRAW AT THE DEN
      17 7 ward, in the uamc at the Den which ended in a scoreless draw.
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      DARA SINGH AWAITS BOUT v KING KONG
      317 7 I\ARA Singh, 6ft lOin Sikh heavyweight wrestler, is 1/ still anxious to meet giant Hungarian King Kong ;in a challenge match in aid of the Anti-T. B. Fund. j Last week Dara Singh accepted an open challenge thrown out by King Kong, but
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      RAIN DISRUPTS SHA LEAGUE FIXTURES
      438 7 By FORWARD VyiTH the Singapore Hockey Association's league games being constantly postponed either due to bad ground conditions or the weather Mr. Raymond Minjoot, energetic secretary of the S.H.A., is at a loss as how to complete his fixtures early enough so as not clash
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      'LOUIS WILL WUX RETURN'
      372 7 'LOUIS WILL WUX RETURN' U.S. Poll Verdict JOE Louis will defeat Jersey Joe Walcott next Junr, v probably by a knockout, in the opinion of over 80 per cent of American sports editors from coast to coast who participated in a poll conducted by the Associated Press. Although the bout
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      CHELSEA BUY NEWCASTLE FORWARD
      146 7 CHELSEA BUY NEWCASTLE FORWARD /CHELSEA, the London soccer V^ club near the foot of the table of the First Division of the English Football League, and Newcastle United, second in the Second Division League standings, agreed yesterday on terms for the transfer of Roy Bentley, Newcastle insideright. Only the player's
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      S.C.F.A LEAGUE
      61 7 rpHE first game in the SingaX pore Chinese Fotiiuaii Associa Lions inter district league will be played at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday kick-oii at 5 p.m. Before the game starts a group photograph will be taken ol all team* participating in the league, and all players are
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      U.S. CITIES BID FOR 1956 OLYMPICS
      45 7 WORKING on the assumption that the 1956 Olympic Games will be awarded to the United States, the American Olympic Committee asked for bids and has received applications to stage the Olympics from Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. Reuter
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      S.C.C. JUNIOR EVENTS
      57 7 T IIK «minf cvonfs I for juniors will be held at thji Bingapore Swimming Club on Sundav. Btari ng at 10.30 a m 1- Boys und.-r 16— one In froe style; 2. Oiria under 16— one length— five style; 3 Bovs ander 13 one breadth free style;
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      71 7 Sports Diary Great World, 8 p.m. SOCCER: Jollilads 2nd XI v«. RoclUites, c. Y. M. A. KTOund. 5.15 p.m. Chung Chenr Hi&h School XI tb. Chinese High School Old Boys, JaUn Behar, 5.15 p m. Meeting of S HA. umpires, S.R.C. 630 p.m. TOMORROW: HOCKEY: GHQ FABELF m. Ist Malay
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      155 7 F. P. Crossword No. 282 !^v^K|t Spi^^S Jt^^e^mJ y\ T] Pn 1 r-^ ■1555 *fl^C te^ftfeij CLUES ACROSS 2, Deeply affecting (9j. 7, Learned (4). 9, Fish eggs (3). 1Q Show (6). 12, Talk wildly (4). 13. Animal (5). 14. Commands (6). vL\ C^P *****0 (8). 20, Eternal (8). 21.
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      Hands Off foreign politics' -Nanking
      232 8 Hands Off foreign politics' -Nanking OVERSEAS CHINESE RANGOON, Wed. A WARNING to overseas Chinese not to meddle in the internal affairs of countries to which they have migrated is seen in a statement made today by the Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister, Dr. George Yeh, who is returning to Nanking tomorrow. Dr.
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      'Michael was forced to abdicate'
      191 8 'Michael was forced to abdicate' GLxNEVA, Wedneday. TX-KING MICHAEL of Rumania had either "to bow to force or be taken prisoner," the Journal de Geneva declared today, quoting a 'sure source" for a dramatic account of the methods said to have been used to secure his abdication. This account was
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      PoWs:TOJO BLAMES COMMANDERS
      237 8 rp HP fnrrrwM T TOKIO, Wednesday. T todavTf, fn PaneS f Premier G Hideki Tojo, sincMW9« 9 ?t e witness stand he has occupied ?e?terftPH ?Hof ter a bnef examination in which he reiterated that responsibility for treatment nf prisoners of war rested on Army and S
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      RUSSIAN GRAIN OIS WAY TO UK
      49 8 k British source in Moscow n said yesterday that the first cargoes of coarse grain from this years Russian harvest are now being loaded in ships at three Black Sea ports. British farmers should get their first allotment frr»m these shipments soon A.P.
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      Cold reception for Truman
      295 8 Cold reception for Truman WASHINGTON, Wednesday. j OTONY silence ffreeted President Truman while he I read his "State of the Union" address to a crowded session of Congress here today. This unprecedented cold reception was relieved only by protracted hand-" clapping as he entered and left the Chamber. Mr. Truman
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      32 8 JERUSALEM An Arab, in the right bottom corner of the picture, wearing a garb that has altered little through the ages, drives his laden donkey past the barricaded Jerusalem Police Headquartert building.
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      ENVOY TO PARIS
      20 8 Britain's new Ambassador to Franco. Sir Oliver Harvey, leaves London for Paris t-nriav to assume office.- A.P.
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      U. K. WARNS TWO BALKAN STATES
      200 8 LONDON, Wednesday. BRITAIN warned Yugoslavia and Bulgaria after consultations with the United States that the consequences or their recognition of General Markos' Free Greek Government"—which is in arm°d rebellion against the Athens government would be "grave" the Foreign Office announced today. A spokesman said
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      MORE RICE PROSPECTS 'No VERY GOOD'
      587 8 Malayan padi output jumps VEN if the allocations for the first half of this year are more closely allied to ren«onable expectations than they were in 1947, the prospects of an early increase in the rice ration in Malaya are not particularly good, the
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      U.K. disbands atomic energy committee
      102 8 U.K. disbands atomic energy committee LONDON. Wednesday. THE Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, announc- ed tonight the end of the AdI visory Committee on Atomic Energy set up in August 1945 ,to study the industrial and military potentialities of atomic energy. The committee was con- sidered no longer needed bej
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      LOOTING IN KARACHI
      88 8 IN Karachi, capital of Pakistan, looting broke out again yesterday during a two-hour ak J n a curfew imposed after Tuesday's massacre of 64 Sikh evacuees in a blazing temple by a Muslim mob The oity-wide curfew, due to be lifted yesterday. will be continued for another
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      NEW GAINS BY GILT-EDGEDS
      439 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Wednesday FIRMNESS of Gilt-edged stocks w;ts ihe. cheerful item in todays markets on the Lot* Stock Exchange, says Reuter's financial corre^ dent. This section recorded widespread while the new transport stock closed f at 98. Throughout all other sections the torn dull
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      RED ATTACKS END MANCHURIAN LULL
      182 8 RED A TTACKS END MANCHURIAN LULL mHF SHANGHAI, Wednesday. T H 4L?tfr g IUU n the Man <*hurian front was shattered today with a two-pronged Communist drive on the strategic railway city of SinmiS 3' miles north-west of Mukden, and savage attacks on WhPth^'t>, near the J^ol-ManchuSLS border Whether these
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      UK LAUNCHES RELIEF FUND FOR INDIA
      143 8 UK LAUNCHES RELIEF FUND FOR INDIA LONDON, Wednesday. THE British Government has given £20,000 to help relieve the suffering caused by the disturbances in India and Pakistan which followed the .transfer of power by Britain. Announcing this at a dinner given by the Lord Mayor of London at the Mansion
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      Joint U.K.-U.S. German Zone
      129 8 FRANKFURT Wed. GEN. Lucius D. Clay, Governor of the U.S. Zone today announced that military government organizations of the American and British zones will be merged into a single unit as part of the reorganization establishing a central government of western Germany. Gen. Clay has arrived
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      Envoy held by Rome Reds
      114 8 ROME, Wednesday. ITALIAN police occupied the Rumanian Ministry to the Vatican tonight when the recently resigned Charge d'Affaires. M Theodore Solacolo, asked for help because "two Communist agents" were holding him prisoner inside. Two carabinieri were sent to break a padlocked chain closing the Ministry
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      SWISS & SIAM
      18 8 SWISS SI AM The first de facto recognition of Siam's present government has been extended bv Switzerland Reuter
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      SOVIET 'NO' ON JAP ARMS
      190 8 TOKIO. Wednesdav RUSSIA has refused to give the Allied Council in Japan any information on the disposition of Japanese arms in Manchuria, which the Kwanßtung Army surrendered to the Soviet forces at the end of the war, and which now were reported to be in
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      N.Y. stocks
      63 8 ON the New fort Stock \M change yesterday Prara Truman's message pi reaction, with prices coctfefl to fluctuate narrowly time levels. Late impnvw j enabled the murk^t tr> flnW. 1 i stead)* with a predorr.irar.> gains eo*-erlng one p. Nearly 820.000 shares wen i Zh| Dow: Jones Averages*
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      Rubber price
      107 8 A SPECIAL Market c<r pondent Rives thfpn-4 of rubber at 11 a.m. todr follows: SINGAPORE CHAMBER COMMEKC'E The Singapore Chamto J Commerce Rubber A««» tion's prices at noon fo\ daj: No. 1 R.S.S. aSpo< loose 4.i\ No. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales Jan. 44 No. 2 R.S.S. fob
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      N.Y. rubber
      33 8 NEW YORK cruel, rubber closed 30 to 50 pomtsjti? yesterday. Sai<« contracts. Pric**> 22.80 cents (US' bid: W~ bid; July 21 04: No. 1 ribbed ?m k. cherts «^B nominal.— A.P.
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      57 8 WEA THER— Showers 117EATHEK report for the i*-»i If S4 hoar* compiled bv th« RAF: Partly k>ud\ with scaittered showers ocourrln* afternoon and evening. Fair overniriit and tomorrow morning Wind: Northerly, licht W moderate. Sunset 6.18 pm. S«nrHe 6.4« a.m. TctnT>erjttures for the oast 24 hoars: maximum d-t F: intnituiiin
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