The Singapore Free Press, 12 January 1948
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Title Section19 1948-01-12 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE Mi MALAYA 8,,. \-.m SINGAPORE, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1948 PRICE 10 CENTS19 words
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128 1948-01-12 1 FLOOD WATERS SUBSIDE: NO TRAINS YET ■Tr., Vi> sn stafT Reporter ■>< I v waters were be "rapidly j^V morning but A 'ies m StngaP0 c no indication m 'hrough train services to V i Lumpur would be reW culvert m the w laa been repairstill a 32-mile W of128 words
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Article11 1948-01-12 1 3attendln« Mr. Bald jresteretj; --r U.S. Navy unconscious condition."11 words
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Article245 1948-01-12 1 Free Press Stall Correspondent LONDON, Sunday. ON the UniUd States synthe4ic rubber outlook, The Economist suggests that the Administration is now determined presumably on the advice of Defence Departments spokesmen to maintain output at the higher levels determined by present legislation and by the245 words
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Article76 1948-01-12 1 THE death roll m the firedamp explosion at the Vuilleniin pit of the Petite Rosselle mines near Forbach m eastern France on Saturday rose to nine yesterday when i one of the 39 injured died of burns, says Reuter. Special gas masks and asbrbtos treated suits76 words
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Article62 1948-01-12 1 One of the Remington Rand plants at Bridgeport, Connecticut, is being shipped to Glasgow to manufacture typewriters and electric razors. One purpose oi the project, which has the Approval of the Board of Trade, is to make products lor which Britain will not have to payA.P. - 62 words
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Article19 1948-01-12 1 Twelve-year-old King Feisal of Iraq broke his left leg while skiing alono at Villars, Switzerland, yesterday.19 words
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Article, Illustration357 1948-01-12 1 Terror grows m Palestine JERUSALEM, Sunday. A BIG land, sea and air exodus from Palestine is under way the people fleeing from the expected "blood bath" being foreign women and children, mainly British army wives, and wealthy Jews and Arabs as the British Administration357 words
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111 1948-01-12 1 RECORD U.S. MOTOR TYRE PRODUCTION AKRON <Ohio>, Sunday. TYRE manufacture m 1947 1 set a new all-time record for the second successive year, said Mr. P. W. Lichfleld. Chairman of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. He said production of motor-car tyres would approximate 78.000,000 m 1947 compared with 66,466.314A.P. - 111 words
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Article249 1948-01-12 1 H-ee Press Staff Reporter SINGAPORE'S two-and-a-half-day dock strike ended this morning with the i return to work or nearly j 5,000 wharf hands and steve- dores shortly before 7 a.m. The berthing of vessels at the wharves is gradually returning to normal and the249 words
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Article, Illustration29 1948-01-12 1 Sir Maung Gyee, Burmese Ambassador Designate, is seen speaking during the ceremony m London on Jan. 4 ic?iich marked the inauguration of the independence of the Union of Burma.29 words
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Article67 1948-01-12 1 SINGAPORE'S C.I.D. is anxious to contact a Chinese who was held up by a gang m High Street last night, but disappeared when the police arrived. Detectives saw the robbery m progress, but when they intervened all dispersed except a man who was found with a67 words
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Article38 1948-01-12 1 President Peron of the Argentine has received 1.400 bottles of the best Spanish wine as a New Year's gift from Generalissimo Franco of Spain. Some of the cognac was more than 100 years' old- A.P.A.P. - 38 words
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Article206 1948-01-12 1 'KASHMIR ONE OF MANY PROBLEMS S LONDON, Sunday. IR Mohamed Zafruliah Khan, Pakistan Foreign Minister, told Reuter here tonight that the Kashmir problem was "only one facet of the differences between the two dominions." Sir Mohamed broke his journey m London on his way to New York for the UnitedReuter - 206 words
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Article136 1948-01-12 1 JOHANNESBURG. Sunday. COUTH Africa has been asked by British and Dominion authorities to co- 1 operate m efforts to combat an almost world-wide racket m postage stamps -organised to defeat exchange control arrangements. The biggest trade is said to be between South Afiica and theA.P. - 136 words
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Article240 1948-01-12 1 BATAVIA, Sunday. AS four top Republican leaders left here today for Jogjakarta for vital Cabinet discussions on the latest cea«e-fire propo*>als of the Security Council's "Good Offices" Commission, the Republican news agency Antara reported that Jogjakarta "was mobilised for any eventuality" should negotiations collapse. The240 words
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Article75 1948-01-12 1 The joint India-Pakistan Defence Council, which met at New Delhi yesterday under the chairmanship of Lord Mountbatten, Governor-Gen-eral of India, deoided to proclaim a general amnesty for aIJ military personnel of the two dominions between Aug. 15 last year (Independence Day) and Jan. 10. 1948. TheReuter - 75 words
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Article71 1948-01-12 1 THE Seychelles Islands, British colony m the Indian Ocean, have offered Britain an interest-free loan of Rs. 300,000 m addition to the loan of £15,000 accepted by Britain last November, Mr. F. B. Jakeway, Secretary to the Seychelles Government, announced yesterday. This offer, withReuter - 71 words
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Article210 1948-01-12 1 GANGSTERS ATTACKED BY VICTIMS Free Press Staff Reporter A SINGAPORE Chinese businessman and three friends attacked two Chinese, who held them up at the point of a revolver m a house m Emerald Hill Road on Saturday night. The two intruders were subsequently arrested by the police. The men visited210 words
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70 1948-01-12 1 General strike moves nearer in Italy ROME, Sunday. ITALY was today moving nearer to a general strike of the six million members of the Communist-led General Confederation of Labour. Italian tax collectors will strike tomorrow m support of the bank clerks whose 12-day stoppage has crippled the nations business. Italy'sU.P.; A.P. - 70 words
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Article82 1948-01-12 1 rT\HE British weather ship L Recorder rescued all the crew, eight officers and 20 ratings, from the sinking Norwegian steamer Veni (2.982 tons), 30 miles west of the Scottish island of Colonsay Argyllshire, early yesterday. The Venl was bound from Leith, Scotland, to Sf ax. NorthReuter - 82 words
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Article30 1948-01-12 1 Eight persons were killed and several others injured m Bargeddie. Scotland, on Saturday night when a bus crashed into shoppers waiting for a tram car.— A.PA.P - 30 words
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Article32 1948-01-12 1 The fifth pair of twins a boy and a girl have been born to Mrs. Mary Kelly, a dock labourer's wife of Warren Point. County Down. Northern Ireland.— ReuterReuter - 32 words
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Advertisement56 1948-01-12 1 M'Wf'^v/c/t^f* MULBERRY HARBODR VICTORIA MEMORIAL HALL Well Worth a Visit THE MODEL IS ILLUMINATED BY? WHOSE CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THIS WORLD FAMOUS HARBOUR INCLUDED:— WITTON KRAMER MAGNETIC BRAKES FRASER CHALMERS SHERWEN ELECTRO-MAGNETIC VIBRATING CONCRETE MOULD TABLES TONS OF STEELWORK SPECIAL LIGHTING TO FITTINGS ENABLING CONSTRUCTION UNDER BLACKOUT Advt. of the General56 words
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Article, Illustration700 1948-01-12 2 Hall Romney - MERANTI FOR UK's MEMORIAL Hall Romney LONDON LETTER By WHO can say what the New Year will bring to Malaya? Those Of us who still have an affection for Malaya hope it will bring freedom from political discord more settled condtiond, a return to the old harmony and friendships b'tween700 words
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Article297 1948-01-12 2 gOUTH changed his tactics m the play of this deal. First he trU-d to keep West from giving East a ruff. Then, m oitier to make his contract, declarer himself had to give the ruff be had tried to prevent. West opened his fourth best rlub and. when297 words
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Article, Illustration1089 1948-01-12 2 CHINA 'S AIR FORCE IN numerical strength the Chinese Air Force today probably is not much greater than it was m 1936 when it boasted about 50) planes of Italian, German, American and British makes. But since the war, its organization benefited through a unity and dispersion that have served1,089 words
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Article460 1948-01-12 2 UOWEVER t h c anti-nationalists may scream that a flap: is mereiy a rag, no sailor will agree with them. For. unless a ship has the right to run a flag to her masthead she is no better off than a pirate and is, m fact, classified as460 words
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Miscellaneous34 1948-01-12 2 ttflandrakß Baelmilm to the Singapore Free Press m Malaya fgfdgdfgdf NO LIGHTS-ALL THERE DARK—LOOKS w* SHOULD DESERTED- J BE A LIGHT SOUND LIKE TWt PLAC£ WAS NOBODY 1 FUIL,A HALFMOME/ r^ HOUft AGO/ j34 words
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Miscellaneous18 1948-01-12 2 CHAIN ON THEY CAN'T BET OUTSIDE OF I LEFT NARDA DOOR. ALL HERE/ WWERE G0NE JTw^wa IS SH6>918 words
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Miscellaneous332 1948-01-12 2 I RADIO LISTENING SINGAPORE Blue Network From 12.04 noon to £.00 p.m. 526 metres m the medium wave band and 7 20 meraryrles m the 41 metre band. From 6 00 p.m. to 7 45 p.m: from 9.30 p.m. to 1 1 00 p.m.: S2C meirrs m the raediwm wavr332 words
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Miscellaneous417 1948-01-12 2 YOUR^ LUCKY STAI Foi pie bom gOKN today, th«*2 Which \«>u mak«i» your creative will determine noss of your n Y r ou arc t t >our when tivini others—and at \oun f when following the ifr given to \(>u! You uoulci tail mism as a "yes -tr, an ria«]417 words
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Article, Illustration311 1948-01-12 3 Volunteers for neurology trials BREAD ILLNESS' TESTS ARE No.1 PRIORITY IV^EN and women m Britain have volunteered to test a theory that a chemical m bread is the cause of many nervous illnesses and that it may have some connection with duodenal ulcers, cases of split mind, and diseases like311 words
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Article275 1948-01-12 3 TB of Japan's merchant fleet will depend on terms of (he peace treaty but if the recomniade by General Mac Arthur's headtallowed there will be no limit placed on tin Knnaue Japan may build, providing the ships are not designed by class or speed for aggressiveU.P. - 275 words
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135 1948-01-12 3 THE development of atomic energy is becoming a major post-war project m Australia, according to the Commonwealth Department of Information's Facts and Figures bulletin The research programme is divided into two sections: The search for raw materials; and laboratory and experimental work. Uranium fields mReuter - 135 words
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Article34 1948-01-12 3 The United States consulate m Shanghai has disclosed that .new American Oansul-General. John M Cabot, is expected to arrive m Shanghai on Jan. 15. to replace recatted Monett B Davis.— U .P.U.P. - 34 words
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136 1948-01-12 3 UK makes new proposal in film tax dispute C Henry French, Director J neral vi the British Film Producer! Association, has oilered to let American American proItisb films if they sending American m. Pi nch he understood that the British was willing to is this proposal with ■an product rsU.P. - 136 words
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Article23 1948-01-12 3 ulnr Lo T d °n home of Pro- Laski. at dd Place West taßton. W.. has been oroKen into by thieves.23 words
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Article45 1948-01-12 3 CiIX young people repre- ser.ftaig BTiflain— e boy and girl from England, a pirl from Ulster, a boy from Wales, and a boy and girl from Scotland fly to New York on Ja.n 28 as the first British "school ambassa--1 dors."45 words
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Article69 1948-01-12 3 riE Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force m Japan, Lieut.-Gen. H. C. H. Robertson, left Japan by air on Saturday to visit Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, Gen. Robertson will confer with the Australian Government and Service heads who are now responsible for theReuter - 69 words
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Article16 1948-01-12 3 Machinery and equipment for a self-contained penicillin factory have arrived m Jugoslavia from Canada.16 words
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Article108 1948-01-12 3 IER R.A.A.P. WingCommander R. H. GibD.5.0.. DF.C. and Bar, Sydney m December m a W»f Auster plane to begin an service for New 5 established several trading posts along the Senik River and will lly m goods such as peroxide, torches face powder, tobacco andReuter - 108 words
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Article35 1948-01-12 3 The French colton industry is hi a perilous position, and unless fitnergency supplies are received within two months, it might have to close down completely, a Govern mend spokesman said.35 words
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211 1948-01-12 3 •THIRTY million Indian children between the ages of I 6 and eleven dp not go to school because of the grave lack of trained teachers, reports Associated 1 Press. To remedy this "deplorable situation, which no civilised government can tolerate". Education Minister Maulana Abul211 words
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Article, Illustration109 1948-01-12 3 picture. Armed tribesmen from the North-West Frontier Province and others raided Baramula, a toum 32 miles west of Srinagar. The raiders looted the toion. bn r nt buildings, killed many inhabitants and abducted women. This photograph, taken after the town had been recaptured by the Indian Army, shows the extentA. P. - 109 words
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142 1948-01-12 3 GRAIN exports by the United States for the present crup year will nearly equal exports from all other countries combined, the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates. This will be a somewhat smaller percentage than last year, when the United States exported more grain than142 words
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Article95 1948-01-12 3 THE Australian Prime Minister. Mr. Joseph B. Chifley, told a press conference m Sydney that there was no significance m the South African landing on Prince Edward Island, 1.400 miles southeast of South Africa, the same day that an Australian expedition landed on Heard Island on95 words
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Article73 1948-01-12 3 UNDER the recent plan for speedier releases from the British forces the total number to be released and discharged m the second quarter this year will be 144,560 138,560 men and 6,000 women the Labour and National Service Ministry announced on Saturday. This will makeReuter - 73 words
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Article86 1948-01-12 3 TWO gunmen held up a big department store run by the Harvard Co-operative Society dn Massachusetts and escaped with from U.S. $30,000 to $40,000, throwing smoke bombs to cover their getaway. Working with split-second timing, the gunmen grabbed the caih as it was delivered from a86 words
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Article30 1948-01-12 3 A collection of works by Robert Burns has been published In Moscow m a new translation. The volume includes poems, songs, and fragments from the "Jolly Beggars."30 words
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Article98 1948-01-12 3 THE Manchester Chamber oi Commerce has called on the British Government to formulate a "clearly defined policy on the industrial development to be permitted m Japan." In its annual report, the Chamber said: "Memories of the economic stranglehold secured by Japan m the Far EastReuter - 98 words
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Article279 1948-01-12 3 TM) make the Philippines self-sufficient m rice A production rice being the main staple food of Filipinos President Manuel Roxas has mapped out a five-year rice production project which, it is understood, will be launched shortly, reports Reuter. The launching of the ambitious programme279 words
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Article60 1948-01-12 3 THERE is a "boom" m 1 stenographers m Bombay's expanding: business world. The Employment Exchange recently reported a shortage of "stemogs". The average stenotypist seems better paid than the graduate office clerk. And women are more m demand than men. A Stenographers' Charter of Rights for60 words
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Article194 1948-01-12 3 AMERICA SHARES OUT HER RICE THE U.S. Agriculture Department has allocated 4,022,100 hundredpound bags of rice for ex)ort during the first half of 1948. This is approximately the same as the quantity allocated for shipment during the corresponding period last year. These allocations bring the total for the July, 1947A.P. - 194 words
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Article207 1948-01-12 3 "My husband agreed with me that she should be asked to leave, booause we didn t think it right for a single girl to have a man m her room at that time of night. "I think the tribunal's decision very unfair, and I rruty appeal207 words
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Article37 1948-01-12 3 A trade union badge was added- to the saddle, sombrero and si»-giin which every Texas cowboy needs when, m Amarillo, they formed a Cowboys' Protective Association to fight for more pay.37 words
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136 1948-01-12 6 THE Philippines is seeking approximately (US)$l6O,--000.000 from the World Bank to begin its long-range industrialisation plan, an informed Government source said m Manila. With the money, the Republic hopes not only to return the 20 islands' moat important industries and services to pre-warA.P. - 136 words
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Article, Illustration270 1948-01-12 6 ZAIBATSU PLOT TO SABOTAGE OCCUPATION Attempt to regain power m Japan OENEWED reports of alleged sabotage of Japan's economic recovery by Japanese officials and big business men are being circulated m the United States. It is alleged that militarists and officials of Japan's post-surrender Government are implicated along with businessMirror - 270 words
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Article133 1948-01-12 6 Politics Profits "The Zaibatsu," states World Report, "obtained the biggest share of the spoils. Much of the loot is gone for good, but other stocks are being recovered by police searches." "Politics as well as proflU may be involved," the magazine said. "There Is evidence that Japans ultra-Conser-vatives have filledA P. - 133 words
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Article29 1948-01-12 6 The Bill giving the US. State Department permanent authority for the "Voice of America" broadcasts lias been approved by the Sanate FY>rei#n Relsutions Committee.- A. P.A.P. - 29 words
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161 1948-01-12 6 A GIRL and a man were lashed to the mast tO S av^ their lives b y the owner of a yacht which was swamped by heavy seas off the Welsh coast. 1 Mr. Peter Spence-Spence. of Bridlington, was taking his yacht, a161 words
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Article234 1948-01-12 6 BECAUSE Freddy, a^ed 11, wrote a letter— backed up by younjr brother Len, 10, and Skipper, nine an entire Acton, (London) family is going off to Texas to be cowboys. Mum and Dad Mr. Fred Payne, 34-year-old lorry driver, and Mrs. Payne, 32 a234 words
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Article59 1948-01-12 6 ICENCES to import thou- sands of tons of new potatoes from North Africa and the Mediterranean area are expected by the trade to be issued by the British Food Ministry. But they are not expected to be on sale m the shops until the end of59 words
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Article37 1948-01-12 6 The China mission, headed by Mr. Tsu Yee-pei. former Governor of the Central Bank of China, will depart for the United States to discuss American aid, on Wednesday, the Nanking Foreign Office states. ReuterReuter - 37 words
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133 1948-01-12 6 Inquiry into Kina sinking ordered THE Danish Consul m Manila, Gustav Halberg said that the Consulate is holding an inquiry into the Kina sinking, which cost 35 lives on Christmas night. He said that the investigation will be conducted from all angles to determine the cause and said that theU.P. - 133 words
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Article52 1948-01-12 6 THE monsoon failure has affected about 20 million people of Madras Province "with an acute food crisis," a food official said. Several districts have been virtually placed under famine conditions. he added, and there Is a total shortage of 1.500.000 tons of rice and millet thisA.P. - 52 words
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Article25 1948-01-12 6 A spokesman o.' tan Ministry of M Affairs denied reportij Russia had apprd| Pakistan with proDOsalsli treaty of friendshiD &m liance.- ReuterReuter - 25 words
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Article63 1948-01-12 6 OENTENCES ranging from 25 o years to two years imprisonment were passed by a Madrid military court last week on 16 Spanish socialists. j including four women, accused of attempting to incite a revolution The defendants were charged with clandestinely attempting to reorganise the 1 Sp. nish SocialistReuter - 63 words
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Article20 1948-01-12 6 Egypjt is to buy €2.000,000 worth of military equipment which will be left behind by the British.20 words
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Article208 1948-01-12 6 year for shipbuilding FINAL figures show that British builcw produced more than 1,000 000 t merchant shipping and, if all goes well Tw certain to be exceeded m 1948. ka New Year estimates show that Briti orders for nearly 3,500,000 tons n-urew^J value of £275,000,000. Thirty per208 words
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136 1948-01-12 6 IF a husband allowed his wife to walk out of x home for no apparent reason and eouie backu "just as she felt inclined," he was either a fool? saint, Commissioner O. Temple Morris X C sai; Swansea (Wales) Divorce Court. He could136 words
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Article63 1948-01-12 6 TO capture export markets, British cars are coming: out soon gay with "the new look." Paint makers have produced finishes, hard m texture and new m colour, which will be used this year. The Morris "8" and M IO M are appearing with tuo new colours63 words
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Article55 1948-01-12 6 mHE Minister for War. Mr. I L Emmanuel Sh4n<*Vll Jis I visiting the British Army of the Rhine this week. He left for Holland, on Saturday and started the tour, which will include Hamburg. Dusseldorf, Dortmund, Berlin and 8.A.0 R Headquarters. He will be m GermanyReuter - 55 words
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Article82 1948-01-12 6 T ORD KLMSLL y was Jorbidden-a «a wh^CK, not yet gj Commenting <■ Commission on the itf; said: '"There Is muchS the result of thisConinS about the free, press. Th,.. because I Britain's 1,53 ly newspaper the press is m d "Never was thei tortionReuter - 82 words
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Article26 1948-01-12 6 Major-General Sir VDobbie has relim; post of Colonel I ant. Royal Engineers. Gen. Dobbie wai fa* G.0.C.. Malaya, and w' time defender ol M26 words
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Article130 1948-01-12 6 TANKS made largely of plas- tic and light enough to oe flown from one front to another will play a decisive role LVS 6 e \f. nt of another war, ii iS w lll^, 11 f XDert Predicted m Washington. Maj-Gen. James M. GavinU.P. - 130 words
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Article13 1948-01-12 6 Seven aluminium bungalows wore erected m 24 hours at Baldock, Hertfordshire.13 words
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Advertisement48 1948-01-12 3 KALANAZOO F Loose Leaf Books Strip Indexes Visible Equipment STOCK SYSTEMS SUNDRY DEBTORS PLANT MACHINERY RECORDS EMPLOYEES' HISTORY. ETC. W. McMULLAN «c CO. Al4. Union Building. Spore— Tel ***** n f> LA/t UIV UTbflK CLUB 1 \?^l^A FOR A SPAR KLIN 6 OR INK L Sun Sun^ c48 words
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Miscellaneous30 1948-01-12 3 TARZAN To LuthO By Edgar Rice Burroughs '///wCA UNMOLESTED. THEY MOVED *Wm£S£ BOUND. PQlEND.' 'TX£ *TH£ BUNOtES ARE r I'S/4 W TMROU6M THE 8U5V CROWD 5A3OTH DEMANDED LARGE PREND" fjfTf^m~30 words
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633 1948-01-12 4 The Singapore Free Press MONDAY. JANUARY 11. 1948, Crime and the Citizen ONE of the most heartening features of the past year's campaign against widespread crime has been si ;wly growing evidence of public co-operation with the police, following the results that have been achieved by strengthened forces, backed by633 words
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Article, Illustration928 1948-01-12 4 THE great game of Russian poker has begun. The audience is 193 millions. The gamblers are five. Stalin holds the rule book. Sixty-nine, mentaJly fatigued, physically troubled, Russia's dictator is watch >*ng his country prepare for the day when Stalin is but a name m the history books.928 words
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Article110 1948-01-12 4 ANEW British substitute wood made from wood waste and synthetic resin- is known as Pllmber and is made by British Plimbtr Ltd of London. The new material is described as a plastic composition board consisting largvlv of wood fibres chemically treated and bonded with synthetic resin. The110 words
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Article402 1948-01-12 4 Percy Izzard - SWEET ARE THE ROOTS Percy Izzard by f AST month marked the 200 th anniversary of the first extraction of sugar from the sugar beet by a German chemist, Andreas Marggraf. Today there would be a siitfar famine m Britain but for the produce of its 18 beet-sugar factories. Between402 words
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Article567 1948-01-12 4 Frank Owen - GOOD MORNING A CONFESSION Frank Owen By IVifOVING around the country I meet people who defiantly proclaim themselves Tory, Liberal, Socialist. They are all very firm about it too. When I ask em WHY, the fun .starts. You show me an intelligent, patriotic Tory; take me, then, to a Liberal567 words
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Article22 1948-01-12 4 For God give th to a man that is rood m His sight wisdom, and knowledge and joy. —Ecdesiastes 2, 26.22 words
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Article789 1948-01-12 4 MONEY POURS INTO HONG KONG Last Year's Success Story WILLIAM TEELING who visited China with the recent Parliamentary delegation, wrote this article about Britain's most flourishing colony m the Evening Standard. WE remember Hong Kong during the war, the sudden attack by Japan, the fighting over the hills, the destruction789 words
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Article118 1948-01-12 4 BRITAIN'S decision to hold a Festival of the Arts and two national exhibitions m 1951 (instead of a great international exhibition) is largely dictated by the need to curtail all but indispensable capital expenditure. In accordance with this policy the country's investment programme has been revised, so that,118 words
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Article264 1948-01-12 4 URANIUM can be crumbled into seventy different kinds of elements including iron, gold and lead, by one smash of cyclotron, according to Dr. Glenn Seaborg, University of California nuclear chemist. Seaborg made the statement at a meeting of America Physical Society. Another scientist working on cures for atomicU.P. - 264 words
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Advertisement5 1948-01-12 4 {^t^UJT £FFtCt£MCY TRANSPORT AGENCY I?5 words
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Advertisement47 1948-01-12 4 Attention Travellers WHEN VISITING SINGAPORE STAi THE TAVERN European Residential Hotel The first hotel operating immediately after tl i** tion. Spacious rooms, luxuriously furnished room has its own bath to itself. Cool and quiet locality* M 7 Tanplin Road. A opposit- NMdfl H^ cables: Telephone No. 4!»4*47 words
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Article, Illustration213 1948-01-12 5 Million business in week M Staff Reporter VvVFK million dollars (J hands during k of business lucl dby the Chinese luce Exchange which rted activities of six years. of the ExX Tteng. told The work Od trad- whole of L c orders are .rope. Ame- Some times deals go tFree Press - 213 words
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Article110 1948-01-12 5 Free Press Staff Reporter extensive programme for this year meed by Che Zaharah binte Noor Mohammed. the Malay Women's Welfare Association of at the opening ni«ht of the Associations Victoria Theatre, are free medical treatthe poorer members of the Malay community and a home for110 words
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Article71 1948-01-12 5 THE Singapore Government has decided to include two represent* ives of graduates of Raffles College on the Cjllege Council. th« Colonial Secretary, Mr. P. A B. McKerron, has advised the Stamford Club, the college graduate body. The Raffles College Ordinance will be amended to •How71 words
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Article, Illustration384 1948-01-12 5 Free Press Correspondent BANGKOK, Sunday. A total of 8,555,600 acres of land is estimated by Prince Sithiporn Kridakorn, Siamese Minister of AjjricuMure, to have been under rice cultivation m Siam m 1947. producing a yield of 2,919,598 tons of rice. Prince Sithiporn stated that despite384 words
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Article116 1948-01-12 5 TX^DAY. a club for working X girls will be opened at the Havelock Rood ChiW Feeding Centre, which the Social Welfare Department has placed at the disposal of the club In the eveming. The formation of the club is due to the efforts of the116 words
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Article, Illustration563 1948-01-12 5 'Detain homeless children Free Press Staff Reporter JUVENILE crime- m Singapore may be reduced if the police, while on their rounds, could take into custody any juvenile who may be homeless, without any visible means of subsistence or found begging, says the magistrate of the563 words
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Article101 1948-01-12 5 SINGAPORE is not the only country complaining: about the quality of its imported rice. Several strong- complaints were recently laid before the committee of the North Borneo Chamber of Commerce m regard to the "most unsatisfactory" quality standard of recent ration rice Issues, and "the101 words
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Article, Illustration117 1948-01-12 5 TiE British are setting up new industries m Australia and. as a result, a rapid and impressive industrial expansion is now taking plac.p there. About 80 firms from Britain, India and Canada are either setting up new factories there or extending existing plants. Some ofFree Press - 117 words
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Article89 1948-01-12 5 GRANTS to orphanages, normally made on the basis of $2 per head a month, amounted m 1947 to just over $46,000. Full details of allowances and contributions made by the Singapore Government through the Social Welfare Department are: Orphanages: Ramakrishrna Mission $2,398, Convent of the Hory89 words
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Article163 1948-01-12 5 rr\HE following official apJL point merits have been gazetted m Singapore: Mr. Nebil Sureyya Akcer as Consul-General of Turkey \n Singapore. His office is In London. Mr. Cheng Chia Hua as Consul of China at Singapore. Monsieur P. Mijraarends, Consul of the Netherlands at Singapore, as Dutch Consul163 words
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Article224 1948-01-12 5 A USTRALIA'S immigration policy, which has been *A undisturbed since the Federation, will not be altered by the Minister for Immigration, Mr. A. A. Calwell, to permit entry of Asians to Australia. Mr. Calwell has stated that adoption of a quota system for introduction of224 words
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Article252 1948-01-12 5 THE annual report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, just published m the United Kingdom, says trading conditions m Malaya "have been reasonably stable, and the flow of goods has been m many ways remarkable." Special attention is drawn m the report to Hong Kong where252 words
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Article33 1948-01-12 5 This afternoon, the Sir.gxipore Chinese FoodstuiYs Importers' Association is presenting a special flag to the Van Heutsz on board the steamer, thus replacing the 1 flag lost during the war.33 words
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Advertisement23 1948-01-12 5 I "SHANKS" NEW BRITISHER MOWERS I PRICE $70 00 EACH I II Strong Durable, Easy Running jl! and Reliable Throughout Hi l|j|y 123 words
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Miscellaneous67 1948-01-12 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malava "^^Zf^S You roS I l'/^ GOOn '-^Nfif Nv^RS I/the men and -tmeX I /heigh -ho'- its a good^ AHFDFOBV^.^ 7 E MACHINES- WLadL f JANE.'— THEY UVI f THERE ARE SOMt PEOPLE OsTmwnB^lit NOW I'D LIKE j^^TT^ STEEL HERE FROM WiTM67 words
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Article70 1948-01-12 7 J. TOMKINSON PALMER, captain of the British Olympics skiing tram, won the Duke of Kent cud m the ski race down Mount Laubcrhord, |n We^enk. Switzerland, yesterday. Second was Mioufcsat of Paris I and third Hcrtur of Borne. The race was restricted to "townsmen skiiersA.P. - 70 words
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Article28 1948-01-12 7 Three liundxed British servicemen m Germany have been invited by the Czechoslovak football association to watch the international soccer between Czechoslovakia and England m Prague next May- A.P.A.P. - 28 words
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Article54 1948-01-12 7 I^ondon University Club won the five miles cross country race against the Pans University Club by gaining the first bix plates m Versailles \«>t?rday. The race was held n tne historical grounds of the farm of the Chateau In Versailles, around the Lake of theA.P. - 54 words
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Article23 1948-01-12 7 The Lyons Centre Team defeated the New Zealand Kiwis 20 to 10 m Lyon.s yesterday m a 13-a-s de Rugby match.— A. P.A.P. - 23 words
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Article169 1948-01-12 7 MEW South Wales finished the second day's play m their Sheffield STnieid Match against South Australia on Saturday with an advantage as they took their first Innings to 374 and thm claimed six wiclrats- for 222 when South Australia batted New South Wales added 69 iuiisReuter - 169 words
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Article, Illustration29 1948-01-12 7 hrnJhtSVH an C< 2 l £r"£. cd Services rugger teams photographed before the H.M.S. Malaya competition final at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday which Penang won six-nil29 words
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Article125 1948-01-12 7 Chinese Offer To Back Zbisko A GROUP of Chinese sportsmen have offered to put up a side-stake on behalf of George Zbisko. Polish heavyweight champion wrestler, for a third fight with Hungarian King Ron?. On Saturday night King Kong and Zbisko, meeting m a return fight, drew over six rounds.125 words
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Article14 1948-01-12 7 JMDWQ Herb Me ■J*ma:ca cap-WO-ymrt J.r.ita- oirja rarJß l|Mt« m thJ A.P.A.P. - 14 words
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Article18 1948-01-12 7 Lfai Zealand I Cup player rof^inod hi< fellow Davis bSOO, 7-5, 6-2 n'« final In ReuterReuter - 18 words
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Article825 1948-01-12 7 gPORTS reviewers of 1947 remember July f or a wrnSSr^flf 811 11 001 *****^* all Critics and S33S. ih entire boxing world when Olle l mfUSs^5 f i" 16 8^ 1 heav yweight champion, outpointed Joe Baksi, the American conqueror of Bruce Woodcock. This was825 words
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Article1025 1948-01-12 7 1947 SAW SPORT REGAIN ITS FEET Revival Was World-wide By A Special Correspondent rpHE year 1948, containing above all else the Olympic Games, is one of paramount importance. The attention of the whole world is being drawn almost without exception to sport m its every sphere. But what of 1947?1,025 words
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516 1948-01-12 7 'THE highlight, not only of November, but of the whole year as far as Singapore was concerned was the resuscitation of racing m Singapore after six years. The return bout between Som Pong and Baby Baltazaar was also staged this month at the Happy516 words
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Article199 1948-01-12 7 'THE coloured players, A Taylor (106 not out), G. Carew (46) and C. Walcott (45 not out), gave a glorious display of batting m Bridgetown on Saturday when Barbados, facing the M.C.C. first innings total of 334, scored 200 for one wicket. The Englishmen, particularlyReuter - 199 words
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Article319 1948-01-12 7 THE lure of the F.A. Cup infected British football fans on Saturday, when the 32 Uiind-rcutid ties were played. Even remember kn« tlhe failure of some of the most famous clubs. Including the mighty Arsenal, a survey of the results lindicates thait the honours must be319 words
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Article222 1948-01-12 7 who had beaten Ireland and t to Wales n f. internationals h their line to produce iu r accuracy r movements m against c decisively 1 tla and a try two penalty M s had the er mck. rubied too X en ihey occa- ed toReuter - 222 words
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Article33 1948-01-12 7 JOEY MAXIM BEATS TANDBERG V pirturc VM I 1 by the M^dbon r Saturday Olle Tandberi? and F tiip American won S-A-ede W Ing but M \im was! b-it his piincho«i GFHFGHGFH A.P.A.P. - 33 words
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Article31 1948-01-12 7 il :he 6ea- dei Meond > b v to r,ne In a m h play«d at day. "ng m the .d? M vandi, Mu»hu. Qdl ;ipa.:i r* for the Sc31 words
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Advertisement73 1948-01-12 7 ■MPUPITIES IN THE BLCOID j biuod are common jtl IJ '»»d M.xture.. blood IU "">•"•- «..-.li,. lllt cleanse the .vstrm ,^^X l! "»W restore norma! health %MRMt '-■-nded i. the ireatment of Rheu «nd Pain, Stifl and Painful JS^S r rrvggw^ Jomti B,,iu, j VtHK^fJ^^ Pimple« and ot ne «"^SS^g-^|73 words
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Miscellaneous219 1948-01-12 7 F. P. Crossword No. 284 CLUES ACROSS 1, Politician (12). 7. Checks' s). 9. Desire (6). 13. German •on« (4). 15, Stone (5). 16, Kiln (4). 17, Rest (9). 21. Book (9). 23, Equipment (4). 25, County (5). 28, Lake (4). 30, Singers (6)^ 32. Machine parts (5). 33, Depot219 words
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Article215 1948-01-12 8 Albania accused by UNO Mission ATHENS, Sunday. AN allegation that Albania is interfering m Greek affairs and playing an active part m guerrilla activities m Greece is made by the United N a tions Balkans Commission m its December report, published today. The report, read at a press conference atReuter; U.P.; A.P. - 215 words
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Article156 1948-01-12 8 Continued from Page 1 Jacob's Daughter" across the Jordan River tonight and cut one of the potential invasion routes between Palestine and Syria. Simultaneously with the explosion, a battle started between Arabs and Jews on opposite sides of the river. The Haganah (illegal Jewish defence organisation) reports various border156 words
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Article68 1948-01-12 8 BERKELEY (Calif. Sun. SCIENTISTS of the University of California are toying with the idea of sending rocket ships to neighbouring planets as soon as a few mechanical details are ironed out. The first ship presumably would be unmanned and radarcontrolled. Prof. Samuel Herrick, associate Professor of68 words
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Article86 1948-01-12 8 A Conference to seek a peaceful settlement m IndoChina will be proposed by M Emile Bollaert. French High Commissioner for IndoChina, to Bao Dai, ex-Emperor of Annam. with whom he has been negotiating m Geneva last week. The French news agency said M. Bollaert would submit86 words
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Article188 1948-01-12 8 U. S. ARMSBOUGHT FOR PALESTINE HE Jewish Agency, m a statement today admits having "made dollar credits available" for the purchase of the high explosives found last Thursday m Asbury Park, New Jersey, and claimed: 'To the best of our knowledge, the explosives were legally procured to await shioment ThisA.P.; Reuter - 188 words
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Article, Illustration38 1948-01-12 8 /?/m %nmn I R°Z/ i T nen T P aying a hose on to a section of the rubber tmokehouie Kirn Oman Road, Papa Lebar, which caucjht fire yesterday. The total damaae It 'Sumatra at $200,000. Free PressFree Press - 38 words
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Article16 1948-01-12 8 Poland has appointed Mr. Jan Drutto. an agricultural rn!?ineer\ as first post-war Ambassador to Turkey.- A.P.A.P. - 16 words
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Article320 1948-01-12 8 NANKING, Sunday. REPORTS from Mukden said Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, who arrived there m a surprise visit, conferred with Nationalist generals m Manchuria on new strategy to be adopted against the Reds, as pro-Government newspapers m Nanking and elsewhere placed, under bold headlines, what they called320 words
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Article, Illustration497 1948-01-12 8 House wants world plan WASHINGTON, Sunday. r THE U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. George Marshall, 1 will tomorrow begin afresh th« task of persuading Congress to provide him with a European recovery programme, unmarked by serious financial reductions or other crippling amendments, when he leads offFree Press - 497 words
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Article32 1948-01-12 8 The Soviet Union completed its post war elections to all organs of State authority yesterday, with elections to the Soviets of the Byelo-Russia, Kazakh, Georgia. Azerbaijan and Kirghizsov Republics. Reuter.32 words
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Article56 1948-01-12 8 WEA THER Showers WEATHER report for the ncti 24 hoars compiled by the RAF: Local showers with brieht i nler v.i Is Mils afternoon. Fair to nich; and bright to-morrow morning Wind: I i«ht. northerly. Sunset 6.51 p.m. Sunrise 6 42 a.m. Temperatures yesterday Maximum 88 tier F: minimum 7056 words
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Article153 1948-01-12 8 CALCUTTA, Sunday. A MYSTERIOUS trove of military equipment reported to be United States Army supplies, was discovered m North Calcutta yesterday and today is being guarded by squads of armed police. Detectives seized the supplies, which are said to be a "huge" quantity, from aU.P - 153 words
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245 1948-01-12 8 RUSSIA may incorporate her sector <>f Berlin into:' eastern occupation zone as a count tT-mea>uit the British and United States plan to strengthen 1 administration of the combined western zones, sou* close to the Soviet military administration said night. This might lead to theA P. - 245 words
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Article50 1948-01-12 8 A SPECIAL Market I* pondent fires thtf of rubber at 11 i n m follows: wm I No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose No. 1 R.S.S. fob In bales Jai. l No. 2 R.S.S. fob m bales Jan. No. 3 R.S.S. fob m bales Jan TVne of market firm.50 words
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Article19 1948-01-12 8 An Italian military plane crashed near Florence on Saturday, killing Its four occudants. A.P.A.P. - 19 words
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Article, Illustration65 1948-01-12 8 picture. Kota Tinggi Fire Station during the recent floods. During the worst stage of last week's floods, the water almost completely submerged the Fire Station. Round the fire station and the centre of the town, people continued to live m the top storeys of their houses. Some 2,400 people mFree Press - 65 words
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Article104 1948-01-12 8 LUXEMBOURG, Sunday EX-KING Michael of Rumania, now m Switzerland, and Princess Anne of Bour-bon-Parma, m Luxembourg, will meet shortly m France, the Princess said tonight at the country castle of the Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, her aunt, where she arrived over the week-end from Copenhagen.U.P - 104 words
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Article14 1948-01-12 8 II T. Irt 'lam: midnight I I 5 19 am; 5.59 afternoon14 words
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Article21 1948-01-12 8 Anglo-Inddan wives of Briish Servicemen are to be taught British cooking methods at a camp near Hull. ReuterReuter - 21 words
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Advertisement491 1948-01-12 8 SITUATIONS VACANT EUROPEAN Lady Assistant reouired for accounts, correspondence and confidential office work. Apply m writing to Bpx 523. P.P. SITUATION WANTED TWO Qualified European Hairdressers reauire positions Box 525. P.P DUTCH Engineer seeks employment more than 20 years experience m mechanical. diesel. electrical and refrUreratlnjr engineering good testimonials. Box491 words
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Advertisement40 1948-01-12 8 change of Telephone Number... t(\s from 12tl\ January, V the Telephone Number ol BRINKMANN LIMITED is; 3774 ■with Rxtensioiu to MOTOR DEPT. PARTS DEPARTMENT NATIONAL CASH REGISTER SERVICE Iff l KELVIKATQR SALES SERVICE Of BRINKMANN LIMITED 15, GRANGE ROAD, SINGAPO^40 words
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